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11 of the most uncomfortable interviews of all time! (with videos)
December 24, 2018 Dom Kureen Leave a comment
Many dream of one day being able to mingle with the stars… But what about those times when it all goes horribly wrong? Dom Kureen takes a look at eleven of the most uncomfortable interviews of all time!
*WARNING: MOST VIDEOS CONTAIN STRONG LANGUAGE!
1. Michael Parkinson creeps out Meg Ryan
Parky’s usually affable nature seemed to desert him when he interviewed Meg Ryan on his show in 2006, with a patronising, banal line of inquisition replacing the usual charm.
Ryan seemed perplexed at what the veteran broadcaster was trying to achieve, later referring to him as a ‘nut’ and labelling it the most difficult interview she’d ever suffered.
2. Bill Grundy riles up the Sex Pistols
Visibly under the influence of several ethanol based beverages, English television presenter Bill Grundy could barely mask his contempt for ‘The Sex Pistols’ and their entourage during a segment for the ‘Today Show.’
Winding up the punk rockers from the get-go, the interview descended into two minutes of cuss words and provocation.
3. ‘Dr. D’ David Schulz slaps John Stossel around the chops
Taking exception to what he felt was a disrespectful line of questioning, WWF wrestler David Schulz open hand slapped interviewer John Stossel twice, knocking him over with the force of the second blow.
Schulz later stated that the federation’s promoter, Vince McMahon, had sent him out with clear instructions to rough up the smug journalist, a claim refuted by the company.
4. Harry Redknapp ain’t no wheeler dealer!
Having witnessed his Tottenham Hotspur side lose to Wigan Athletic, Harry Redknapp was left fuming when Sky’s Rob Palmer labelled him a ‘wheeler dealer’ in the post-match interview, a reference to his transfer market acumen.
Redknapp didn’t see it that way and fired off a couple of f-bombs, before being persuaded to come back and conclude the conversation with the shaken interviewer in a more civilised manner.
5. Crispin Glover goes loco on Letterman
Most famous for his role in ‘Back To The Future’, Crispin Glover appeared on ‘The Letterman Show’ to promote ‘River’s Edge,’ his upcoming release.
Ludicrous scenes soon ensued, with the live audience and host not sure what to make of it all. Some speculated that the actor was tripping on a psychedelic drug of some sort… In actual fact he was promoting a character from another of his films – A fact that a miffed David Letterman hadn’t been made of aware of beforehand.
6. James Brown gurns and sings his way through CNN interview
Having been released on bail following serious spouse abuse charges, James Brown did an interview with Sonya Friedman for CNN’s ‘Sonya Live.’
Rapidly plummeting into a screeching, singing, slurred attempt to promote his upcoming tour, nobody was quite sure WHAT ‘Mr Dynamite’ had ingested pre-show, but he was clearly high on more than life.
7. The Bee Gees walk off Clive Anderson Talks Back
Taking umbrage to a couple of barbs from host Clive Anderson, eldest Bee Gee, Barry Gibb, became progressively more bothered throughout the interview.
The main bones of contention were probably Anderson insinuating that the band were ‘(s)hit makers,’ and making fun of their previous moniker, ‘Les Tosseurs’.
In one final awkward twist, Maurice was unable to detach his lapel mic’ and stood there tugging at his top long after his siblings had exited.
8. BBC News interviews the wrong ‘Guy’
In May, 2006, ‘BBC News’ scheduled a live interview with internet guru Guy Kewney. When air time arrived however, they astonishingly called a completely different man, also named Guy, into the studio.
Guy Goma, a graduate from the Congo, had been waiting for a job interview when a BBC Executive mistook him for I.T buff Kewney, An uncomfortable few minutes unfolded live for the nation.
9. Mark Wahlberg gets sozzled on the Graham Norton Show
Hollywood A-lister and former boy band affiliate, Mark Wahlberg, appeared on the Graham Norton Show in early 2013, seemingly three sheets to the wind from the get-go.
Relatively composed at the start, he gradually became less coherent and seemed to have irritated fellow guest Sarah Silverman by the time the credits rolled.
10. Mike Tyson gets vulgar for no reason
Speaking to CNN’s Russ Salzberg prior to a fight against Francois Botha, ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson didn’t appear to be his cheery self, responding to mild inquisition with a string of profanities.
Tyson went on to win the bout without too many problems, but behind the scenes (not for the first time) things were falling apart at the seams.
11. David Blaine mesmerises Eamonn Holmes
Widely considered the world’s greatest illusionist, David Blaine appeared on GMTV for an interview with irritating tub of lard Eamonn Holmes.
What unfolded over the next several minutes was widely reported at the time to be Blaine under the influence of alcohol and severe sleep deprivation.
It later emerged that the trickster may have been messing with the media, a stunt that he’d been known to pull previously.
There are numerous other interviews that warrant honourable mentions, including Andy Kaufmann and Jerry Lawler’s (staged) appearance on the Letterman Show – let us know in the comments below some that you think we should have included!
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Dom Kureen takes a look at the rapidly unravelling reality we’re faced with, as Rolf Harris becomes the latest high profile individual accused of sexual abuse.
Rolf Harris CBE is the latest in a protracted chain of distinguished dignitaries to be hauled before judge and jury for alleged acts of sexual abuse, with many victims purportedly shy of legal consenting age when molested.
The 84-year old has long been depicted as an adopted English national treasure, with his art, TV programmes and light-hearted musical compositions providing easily consumable, tongue-in-cheek entertainment for the gratification of the throngs who have adored him for aeons.
For an esteemed icon to be ostensibly duplicitous with a generational circle of high profile deviants is profoundly unsettling – not least with regards to the superficial subject of heroes: sick revelations shift paradigms and shake perceptions. Individuals once veiled in prestige are suddenly exposed as nefarious reprobates.
The essence of Jimmy Saville’s cumulative obituary immediately in the wake of his death cut an epitaph to a selfless, wholehearted entertainer and charitable soul, whose unrelenting generosity raised several millions of pounds and enhanced a host of otherwise negatively afflicted individual existences.
A sympathetic portrait of a kind soul, despite the fact that hundreds of people were aware of deceit.
There was no mention of the free reign Saville’s position afforded him; blind eyes were turned and suspicions purposefully disregarded in order not to jeopardise the late DJ’s awareness spreading affiliation with various organisations.
To have known the horror that Saville was capable of and remain mute makes all of those observers who protected his legacy for their own prosperity complicit in sheltering a paedophile, and guilty of allowing hundreds of naïve, innocent children to suffer trauma.
While Saville was never brought to task during his lifetime, his unmasking did at least prove the catalyst for a multitude of subsequent convictions.
Inevitably this is merely the tip of the iceberg. ‘Operation Ore’ took place from 2002 until 2003, locating over 10,000 people guilty of paying to view images of child pornography online, many of whom were/are household names.
Pete Townshend (with guitar): Came under scrutiny during ‘Operation Ore’
For legal reasons, kureen.co.uk cannot name any of the MPs, academics, musicians or other celebrities linked with the case (if you look in the right places you can find the information for yourself), but something serendipitous transpired just as the faeces were threatening to hit the fan.
With the ‘Sunday Times’ newspaper preparing to print a list of names connected to the investigation, an eleventh-hour D-Notice was passed in the House of Commons, prohibiting the article from making first editions. Speculation suggested that then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, felt the timing of the piece was inappropriate, with British troops set to be sent to war in Iraq.
There were a couple of high profile individuals who did become exposed during the case: ‘The Who’ guitarist Pete Townshend, who cracked wise with police under interrogation, and comedian John Thompson, most notable for his jazz club skits on ‘The Fast Show’ just over a decade ago.
Both admitted to having paid to access child pornography websites – Townshend claiming he was doing research for a book and Thompson asserting that he had suffered abuse as a teenager and felt that this would aid his rehabilitation. Both remain in the public eye today and there is very little mention of their links with Operation Ore anywhere online.
The point of referencing this case is not to expose any specific individual; it is simply to highlight the fact that as a species we too often readily accept information that is filtered into our psyche subliminally by deliberate design.
Tragically as a society we have become conditioned to put more stock in social networks and emulating celebrity than querying the stream of data discharged from biased barrels.
The truth is out there for the inquisitive mind, it’s just buried deep beneath the superficial, and while it would be comforting to assume that the unravelling Illusion of a clutch of disturbed creatures, brought to justice in their twilight years, provides a glimpse of a shiny, progressive brand of informative media, it’s a notion fraught with nativity.
Politicians do not represent the masses; they spout half-truths and hyperbolic claims in different coloured ties. Their goal is not to unite a nation, it is to placate a restless society who are seeking revolution and ominously threatening to rebel against a shallow, stagnant order.
This is a tempestuous generation, albeit one currently under stoic hex. Around 35% of eligible voters didn’t enter the polling stations for the 2010 General Elections as a result of growing apathy or in some cases protest. Those who did place a cross in a box couldn’t decide upon a conclusive candidate, necessitating the farcical coalition that saddled the country with the most mis-matched double act since Pete Doherty and Elton John traumatised the ‘Live 8’ audience in the summer of 2005.
“Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.” Atifete Jahjaga.
Do heroes still exist, or will observers continually be left nauseated by those they once revered?
The truth is… Maybe we can’t handle the truth after so many years of watered down reality. What we don’t know is unquestionably far scarier than the titbits that we do.
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Home Entertainment MOVIES Coming up: The Storm to storm world movie market
Coming up: The Storm to storm world movie market
Ernest Kanjo / Saturday, 13 July 2013 13:20
It is now an undeniable fact that Cameroon�s film industry is one of the fastest growing sectors in the country. It grows in quantity and quality. This growth is thanks to the people making the films and the movies themselves. The Storm and its producer Kenneth Ngamne are the latest in the line of this evolution. Shot recently in Maryland, the movie mobilized some of the most ingenuous young Africans filmmakers and artists in the United States of America.
�It�s a serious project, reason why we decided to bring in serious people,� producer Ngamne who is based in Minnesota told African Cocktail, a show hosted on Afrikka Radio by Ernest Kanjo.
According to the producer, The Storm is a carefully written story which is carefully crafted cinematographically to meet the required standard of a good movie. �And this is so because we care about the taste of the potential viewers,� Ngamne insisted.
Written by Ngamne-Ken-Shally-Monnette who doubles as actor in the movie, The Storm was shot for a couple of days on locations in Maryland with Obed Joe (D.G.N) as director and Nigerian-born Christopher Chinedu Okonkwo as Director of Photography assisted by Ejike.
Revolving around Jerry, Mike, Kelly and Alice, the story questions whether money buy love? According to the author, we keep searching for love, but sometimes do that the very wrong way and for wrong purpose. Man has probably become very self-centered and selfish in their quest for love. Would you afford not to reciprocate, especially when you were offered love with no strings? The answers to these questions are embedded in the must-watch movie coming up soon, the producers tell us.
With Zonetak Productions Inc. as executive producer, The Storm is currently undergoing post-production in the USA. �We are planning a couple of premieres for the movie and we provide details when the time comes,� the producer told TIPTOPSTARS
Starring in the movie are Mairo Sanda, Serafine Fon, Nathalie Bih, Fon Mat A Atugon, Gladion Diamong, Fleur Di, Charlotte La Classe from Cameroon � Best Davis, Obi Bright Daniel, Bessey aka American Mama, Paula, from Nigeria � Arnelle Wilson, Lischen Toloe from Liberia � Fatty Keita from Guinea � Nattu from Sierra Leone. The stars were made and dressed up by Yomene Nathalie.
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From "Vacelet, Manuel" <manuel.vace...@enalean.com>
Subject Re: [users@httpd] Last-Modified header overridden
Date Fri, 01 Jul 2016 14:53:04 GMT
On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Luca Toscano <toscano.luca@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2016-06-29 9:38 GMT+02:00 Luca Toscano <toscano.luca@gmail.com>:
>> 2016-06-28 18:32 GMT+02:00 Luca Toscano <toscano.luca@gmail.com>:
>>> 2016-06-27 14:52 GMT+02:00 Vacelet, Manuel <manuel.vacelet@enalean.com>:
>>>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Luca Toscano <toscano.luca@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 2016-06-27 13:17 GMT+02:00 Vacelet, Manuel <manuel.vacelet@enalean.com
>>>>> >:
>>>>>> On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Luca Toscano <
>>>>>> toscano.luca@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> 2016-06-24 17:26 GMT+02:00 Vacelet, Manuel <
>>>>>>> manuel.vacelet@enalean.com>:
>>>>>>>> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Luca Toscano <
>>>>>>>> toscano.luca@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 2016-06-08 16:14 GMT+02:00 Vacelet, Manuel <
>>>>>>>>> manuel.vacelet@enalean.com>:
>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Luca Toscano <
>>>>>>>>>> toscano.luca@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> 2016-06-07 10:55 GMT+02:00 Vacelet, Manuel <
>>>>>>>>>>> manuel.vacelet@enalean.com>:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 5:32 PM, Vacelet,
Manuel <
>>>>>>>>>>>> manuel.vacelet@enalean.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> dOn Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Vacelet,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> manuel.vacelet@enalean.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Luca
Toscano <
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> toscano.luca@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I was able to repro building
httpd from 2.4.x branch and
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> following your configuration
files on github. I am almost sure that
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> somewhere httpd sets the Last-Modified
header translating "foo" to the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> first Jan 1970 date. I realized
though that I didn't recall the real issue,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> since passing value not following
the RFC can lead to inconsistencies, so I
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> went back and checked the correspondence.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Actually I wrote this snippet
to highlight the behaviour
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (the original code sent the date
in iso8601 instead of rfc1123) because it
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> was more obvious.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> During my tests (this is extracted
from an automated test
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> suite), even after having converted
dates to rfc1123, I continued to get
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some sparse errors. What I got
is that the value I sent was sometimes
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> slightly modified (a second or
2) depending on the machine load."
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> So my understanding is that you
would like to know why a
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Last-Modified header with a legitimate
date/time set by a PHP app gets
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "delayed" by a couple of seconds
from httpd, right?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yes for sure, this is the primary
issue.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> However, the (undocumented) difference
of behavior from one
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> version to another (2.2 -> 2.4
and more surprisingly from between two 2.4
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> versions) is also in question here.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Even more strange, 2.4 built for
other distrib doesn't
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> highlight the behaviour !
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I made another series of test and it
seems to be linked to
>>>>>>>>>>>>> fastcgi.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I took the stock apache (2.4.6 plus tons
of patches) &
>>>>>>>>>>>>> php-fpm (5.4.16 + tons of patches) from
RHEL7 and I get the exact same
>>>>>>>>>>>>> behaviour (headers rewritten to EPOCH)
>>>>>>>>>>>>> However, if I server the very same php
script from mod_php
>>>>>>>>>>>>> (instead of fcgi) it "works" (the headers
are not modified).
>>>>>>>>>>>> For the record, I also have the same behaviour
(headers
>>>>>>>>>>>> rewritten when using php-fpm + fastcgi) on
alpine linux 3.4 that
>>>>>>>>>>>> ships apache2-2.4.20.
>>>>>>>>>>>> So AFAICT, it doesn't seem distro specific.
>>>>>>>>>>>> On the root of the problem, from my point
of view:
>>>>>>>>>>>> - the difference between mod_php vs. php-fpm
+ fcgi is
>>>>>>>>>>>> understandable (even if not desired and not
documented).
>>>>>>>>>>>> - the fact that fcgi handler parse &
rewrite headers seems to
>>>>>>>>>>>> lead to inconsistencies (I'll try to build
a test case for that).
>>>>>>>>>>>> - however, even if the headers are wrong,
I think apache
>>>>>>>>>>>> default (use EPOCH) is wrong as it leads
to very inconsistent behaviour
>>>>>>>>>>>> (the resource will never expire). I would
prefer either:
>>>>>>>>>>>> -- do not touch the header
>>>>>>>>>>>> -- raise a warning and discard the header
>>>>>>>>>>>> What do you think ?
>>>>>>>>>>> From my tests the following snippet of code should
>>>>>>>>>>> responsible for the switch from 'foo' to unix
>>>>>>>>>>> *https://github.com/apache/httpd/blob/2.4.x/server/util_script.c#L663
>>>>>>>>>>> <https://github.com/apache/httpd/blob/2.4.x/server/util_script.c#L663>*
>>>>>>>>>>> The function that contains the code,
>>>>>>>>>>> ap_scan_script_header_err_core_ex, is wrapped
by a lot of other functions
>>>>>>>>>>> eventually called by modules like mod-proxy-fcgi.
A more verbose
>>>>>>>>>>> description of the function in:
>>>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/httpd/blob/2.4.x/include/util_script.h#L200
>>>>>>>>>>> Not sure what would be the best thing to do,
but probably we
>>>>>>>>>>> could follow up in a official apache bugzilla
task?
>>>>>>>>>>> https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Apache%20httpd-2
>>>>>>>>>> Wow, thanks for the investigation !
>>>>>>>>> Sorry for the delay! I submitted a patch for trunk with
a possible
>>>>>>>>> fix, namely dropping (and logging at trace1 level) any
non compliant
>>>>>>>>> date/time set in a Last-Modified header returned by a
FCGI/CGI script:
>>>>>>>>> http://svn.apache.org/r1748379
>>>>>>>> Cool :)
>>>>>>>>> The fix is also in the list of proposal for backport
to the 2.4.x
>>>>>>>>> branch, we'll see what other people think about this
>>>>>>>>> We should also do a follow up for the other main issue,
namely the
>>>>>>>>> fact that you see a different/delayed Last-Modified header
sometimes among
>>>>>>>>> your FCGI/httpd responses. Can you give me an example
of Last-Modified
>>>>>>>>> header value before/after the "delay" and a way to repro
>>>>>>>> I wrote a test case in the "time" branch:
>>>>>>>> https://github.com/vaceletm/bug-httpd24/tree/time
>>>>>>>> In my own tests, I get:
>>>>>>>> --------------------->8---------------------
>>>>>>>> < Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 15:21:46 GMT
>>>>>>>> < Server: Apache/2.4.18 (Red Hat)
>>>>>>>> < X-Powered-By: PHP/5.6.5
>>>>>>>> < Last-Modified: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 15:21:48 GMT
>>>>>>>> < Transfer-Encoding: chunked
>>>>>>>> < Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
>>>>>>>> <
>>>>>>>> { [data not shown]
>>>>>>>> 0 44 0 44 0 0 21 0 --:--:-- 0:00:02
>>>>>>>> --:--:-- 21* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
>>>>>>>> * Closing connection #0
>>>>>>>> sent value: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 17:21:46 +0200
>>>>>>>> The value sent doesn't respect RFC1123 (+0200 instead of
GMT as
>>>>>>>> time zone) but the result is weird as you can see:
>>>>>>>> - I sent "Fri, 24 Jun 2016 17:21:46 +0200"
>>>>>>>> - but apache decided to send "Fri, 24 Jun 2016 15:21:48 GMT"
>>>>>>>> Notice the 2 seconds ?
>>>>>>>> I put a "sleep(2)" in my php script...
>>>>>>>> I don't know if your fix also take this into account
>>>>>>> Thanks a lot for the precise test! The same code snippet that
>>>>>>> modified is responsible for the behavior that you mentioned.
Httpd modifies
>>>>>>> the Last-Modified header with the request's modification time
if the value
>>>>>>> sent from FCGI appears to be in the future (since the HTTP RFC
states "An
>>>>>>> origin server with a clock MUST NOT send a Last-Modified date
that is later
>>>>>>> than the server's time of message origination (Date).").
>>>>>>> I modified your PHP code snippet (http://apaste.info/EEz) trying
>>>>>>> compare a GMT date vs a "Europe/Paris" one, already formatted
for RFC1123,
>>>>>>> and PHP seems to agree with httpd in recognizing the "Europe/Paris"
date as
>>>>>>> more recent. Moreover, if you generate a GMT date and format
it for RFC1123
>>>>>>> the header is not modified with the extra two seconds.
>>>>>>> So from what I can see httpd does the correct thing, I don't
see a
>>>>>>> bug like in the previous case. What do you think? I am far from
a PHP
>>>>>>> expert so I might have missed something important :)
>>>>>> Mmm I don't think it' the right way to compare the dates here as
>>>>>> are really comparing the format strings here.
>>>>>> I propose a new version of the snippet: http://apaste.info/Aox
>>>>>> Clearly, just changing the timezone doesn't impact the time
>>>>>> comparison (and it's the expected behaviour).
>>>>> Correct, in general the best way should be the one that you proposed,
>>>>> but in this case we are talking about RFC1123 specific date/times, so
>>>>> format string comparison should be relevant imho. A efficient RFC 822/1123
>>>>> parser would probably assume the GMT timezone and care only about what
>>>>> comes before, this is why Europe/Paris is seen as more recent than GMT.
>>>>> super strict and correct parse would also check the GMT bit and return
>>>>> error if missing, but it may be a bit overkill.
>>>>>> To me there is a wrong attempt to comply with RFC in apache here.
>>>>>> Either the parser is able to:
>>>>>> 1. correctly read the header input
>>>>>> 2. normalize to GMT
>>>>>> 3. ensure the resulting date is not > to server time (+ probably
>>>>>> somthing to help developers to understand things)
>>>>>> or there should be a warning and the header is dropped (like if it's
>>>>>> not a date).
>>>>>> Here I thing either step 1 ou 2 are no done properly in apache.
>>>>> I am seeing things in a different way, namely only point 3
>>>>> should/could be implemented. AFAIU RFC1123 (and related) assume a GMT
>>>>> date/time and since the HTTP RFC requires this format for the Last-Modified
>>>>> header, I don't believe that httpd should be required to be able to convert
>>>>> multiple formats/timezones to RFC1123. This seems to be backed up by
>>>>> comments of the function used by httpd to convert the Last-Modified header
>>>>> value:
>>>> Ok but current behaviour is not correct either.
>>> From https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-14.29
>>> An origin server MUST NOT send a Last-Modified date which is later
>>> than the server's time of message origination. In such cases, where
>>> the resource's last modification would indicate some time in the
>>> future, the server MUST replace that date with the message
>>> origination date.
>>> It also states that Last-Modified needs to be compliant with RFC
>>> 882/1123.
>>>> If I understood well assume that apache receives a RFC1123 value so it
>>>> compares with current server time (and eventually sends the later).
>>>> In my example, the date is not a valid RFC1123 value (because it sends
>>>> +0200 or Europe/Paris). Here, the most sensible default would be to trash
>>>> with value.
>>>> It's as invalid as "foo" in my initial example so from my point of view
>>>> the behaviour of apache should be the same: discard the header (thanks to
>>>> your patch) and raise a warning.
>>> We could patch httpd/apr to be super strict but I am not sure if it is
>>> worth it. In the meantime, I tried to improve logging, would you mind to
>>> tell me what you think about http://apaste.info/JlZ ?
>> This one should be clearer: http://apaste.info/8pa
>> I will also follow up with the dev@ mailing list to get other opinions
>> about this bug report.
> Committed logging in trunk and updated 2.4.x backport proposal:
> http://svn.apache.org/r1750883
> The logging message should look like:
> [Fri Jul 01 06:12:35.639343 2016] [proxy_fcgi:trace1] [pid 3542:tid
> 140561097561856] util_script.c(688): [client ::1:52261] The Last-Modified
> header value 'Fri, 01 Jul 2016 08:12:33 GMT' (parsed as RFC882/RFC1123
> datetime, that assumes the GMT timezone) has been replaced with: 'Fri, 01
> Jul 2016 06:12:35 GMT'. An origin server with a clock must not send a
> Last-Modified date that is later than the server's time of message
> origination.
> Thanks a lot for the bug report!
Thanks for fixing it !
However it's RFC822 and not 882 (882 is for domain names:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc882)
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Tennis legend Margaret Court in Gay controversy
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Post by newcastle » Fri Jun 02, 2017 3:49 pm
Lesbian conspiracies and transgender 'devil children': How tennis legends Martina Navratilova and Margaret Court went to war over 'racist and homophobic' insults sparked by two female players having a baby together.
Tennis legends Martina Navratilova and Margaret Court are in a war of words. It comes after Court made a string of 'racist and homophobic' remarks.
The controversy started when Court drew fire for saying she will avoid Australian airline Qantas over its gay chief executive Alan Joyce's pro-gay marriage stance.
She later criticized lesbian tennis player Casey Dellacqua and her partner.
Navratilova slammed Court's 'sick and dangerous' comments on gays in tennis.
Court's statements have been criticised in the tennis world by several players .
Her comments prompted calls to rename Melbourne's Margaret Court Arena.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z4ir5QSdCg
I've long been a supporter of LGBT rights. I'm also a supporter of free speech.....which comes with the expectation of a degree (to say the least!) of approbrium if your remarks are deemed racist or homophobic.
Ms Court said she doesn't dislike Martina Navratilova personally, or any other female players and ensured listeners she doesn't take issue with gay people.
'I've got them in the church. I've also got over a hundred Africans in my church and they know I love them.'
Bit of an own goal there Margaret!
Re: Tennis legend Margaret Court in Gay controversy
Post by Horus » Fri Jun 02, 2017 8:41 pm
Good grief! she looks like a Bulldog chewing a wasp
Post by newcastle » Fri Jun 02, 2017 10:17 pm
Horus wrote: Good grief! she looks like a Bulldog chewing a wasp
Pretty fearsome eh! I can't imagine she got many 'offers' in the locker room
I swear I didn't search for the most unflattering image.....I took it straight from the linked article.
Post by Hafiz » Fri Jun 02, 2017 10:45 pm
This has been coming for a long time.
She is a ‘pastor’ at some low rent revivalist church somewhere in the bush in Western Australia and has been pouring out similar vomit for a few years.
Why this has blown up now– rather than a few years ago – I don’t know.
The question facing the tennis establishment is whether she has brought the sport into disrepute such that her name should be removed from the second court at the venue of the Australian Open. Sponsors are applying pressure and public opinion is near universally ....no universally against her.
If she shuts up now – no hope she’s a ranter – she might escape with the thin shreds of a much diminished reputation.
The problem for the establishment is that she has a claim to high status – she won more grand slams than any other woman in the amateur period.
It is possible that she suffers from a mental disease or has dementia.
The photograph captures perfectly her hateful attitude to the world. She disagrees with most of what goes on in the world.
This has been going for a while and she is now widely regarded as a hateful nutter – and even with conservative people as lacking taste and discretion.
Extreme religious/moral views are one thing but hate and abuse are something else entirely.
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A load of rubbish, just because your a lesbian does not mean that you haven't got the balls to reach International standards, as is in this case.
Life is your's to do with as you wish- do not let other's try to control it for you. Count Dusak- 1345.
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賴世展教授
高雄醫學大學 醫學技術學系 學士 (專長：醫學檢驗學)
國立陽明大學 寄生蟲學研究所 碩士 (專長：人體寄生蟲學)
國立中興大學 昆蟲學研究所 博士 (專長：蟲媒傳染病學)
現任：中山醫學大學 醫學系 寄生蟲學科 主任 2009/8/1~
中山醫學大學 醫學系 寄生蟲學科 教授 2009/8/1~
曾任：中山醫學大學 醫學系 寄生蟲學科 副教授 2005/8/1~2009/7/31
中山醫學大學 醫學系 寄生蟲學科 助理教授 2002/8/1~2005/7/31
獲獎：斐陶斐研究論文獎 (2001)
研究主題
本研究室之研究主軸分為兩大方向：(一) 本土性人畜共通寄生蟲病之致病機轉及治療。(二) 伺機性感染之寄生蟲病研究。研究內容以蛋白分解酵素系統(proteolytic enzyme system)為作用中心，探討下游酵素系統與寄生蟲引起之中樞神經系統異常(例如腦膜炎、腦膜腦炎、浦金氏細胞喪失、神經脫髓鞘)及臟器肉芽腫性纖維化之關係，並探討上游活化此酵素系統之訊息傳遞路徑，藉由瞭解這些寄生蟲病之致病機轉，進一步找到預防及治療的方法。
參與之研究計劃
1. 基質金屬蛋白酶在弓蟲性腦炎之變化(Changes of matrix metalloproteinases in encephalitis caused by Toxoplasma gondii) (國科會三年計畫；主持人；2008/8/1-2011/7/31)
2. 檢測基質金屬蛋白酶-12及彈性蛋白在感染弓蟲的分娩孕婦血清之表現 (Detection of matrix metalloproteinase-12 and elastin in serum of confinement pregnant women with Toxoplasma gondii infection) (中山醫學大學院際專題研究計畫:合作醫院-彰化基督教醫院；主持人；2009/8/1-2010/7/31)
3. 鼷鼠感染廣東住血線蟲造成神經脫髓鞘之致病機轉 (Pathogenesis of demyelination in mice caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis) (國科會；主持人；2007/8/1-2008/7/31)
4. 大白鼠感染廣東住血線蟲所引發之基質分解與血纖維蛋白酶原活化因子及基質金屬蛋白酶之關係 (Matrix degradation associated with plasminogen activators and matrix metalloproteinases during pulmonary fibrosis of rat infected with Angiostrongylus cantonensis) (衛生署署立醫院聯合系統；共同主持人；2007/1/1-2008/12/31)
5. PAs/MMP-9 酵素系統在小白鼠感染犬蛔蟲造成肺臟發炎反應及肉芽腫形成之致病機轉 (The pathogenesis of PAs/MMP-9 enzymatic system in mice with lung inflammation and granuloma formation caused by Toxocara canis) (衛生署署立醫院聯合系統；共同主持人；2007/1/1-2008/12/31)
6. Albendazole-banlangen混合治療對廣東住血線蟲引起嗜伊紅性腦膜炎之小白鼠細胞激素、訊息傳遞蛋白及血纖維蛋白酶原活化因子之影響 (Changes of cytokines, signal proteins and plasminogen activators on co-therapy with albendazole-banlangen against eosinophilic meningitis of mice caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis) (國科會；共同主持人；2006/8/1-2007/7/31)
7. 出血性登革出血熱誘發血纖維蛋白酶原活化因子/基質金屬蛋白酶酵素系統之研究 (Induction of plasminogen activators/matrix metalloproteinases enzymatic system by dengue hemorrhagic fever) (衛生署署立醫院聯合系統；共同主持人；2006/1/1-2006/12/31)
8. 評估albendazole-thalidomide混合治療廣東住血線蟲感染BALB/c小白鼠所誘發訊息傳遞蛋白之效果(Efficacy of albendazole–thalidomide co-therapy against signal proteins induced by Angiostrongylus cantonensis eosinophilic meningitis in BALB/c mice) (衛生署署立醫院聯合系統；共同主持人；2006/1/1-2006/12/31)
9. PAs/MMP-9 酵素系統在小白鼠感染廣東住血線蟲造成嗜伊紅性腦膜炎之致病機轉及治療(The pathogenesis and treatment of PAs/MMP-9 enzymatic system in mice with eosinophilic meningitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis) (國科會；主持人；2005/8/1-2007/7/31)
10. 評估albendazole及安宮牛黃丸混合治療廣東住血線蟲感染BALB/c小白鼠所引發嗜伊紅性腦膜炎之效果(Efficacy of albendazole–Angong Niuhuang Pill co-therapy against Angiostrongylus cantonensis induced eosinophilic meningitis in BALB/c mice) (國科會；共同主持人；2005/8/1-2006/7/31)
11. 小白鼠感染廣東住血線蟲引起嗜伊紅性白血球增多症之訊息傳遞及治療 (The signal transduction and treatment in eosinophila of mice caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis) (衛生署署立醫院聯合系統；共同主持人；2005/1/1-2005/12/31)
12. 評估thalidomide及albendazole混合治療廣東住血線蟲感染BALB/c小白鼠所引發腦膜炎之效果(Efficacy of thalidomide–albendazole co-therapy against Angiostrongylus cantonensis induced parasitic meningitis in BALB/c mice) (國科會；主持人；2004/8/1-2005/7/31)
13. 評估板藍根及albendazole混合治療廣東住血線蟲感染BALB/c小白鼠所引發腦膜炎之效果(Efficacy of Banlangen–albendazole co-therapy against Angiostrongylus cantonensis induced parasitic meningitis in BALB/c mice) (國科會；共同主持人；2004/8/1-2005/7/31)
14. 廣東住血線蟲間質蛋白分解酵素9之分子選殖及此酵素在幼蟲移行過程所扮演之角色(Molecular cloning of matrix metalloproteinase-9 and its role in larvae migration of Angiostrongylus cantonensis) (國科會；主持人；2003/8/1- 2004/7/31)
15. 比較自然及注射感染縮小包膜條蟲之美洲蟑螂與寄生蟲之關係(Comparative study on host-parasite relationship of natural and inoculated infection to the cockroach, Periplaneta americana, infected with Hymenolepis diminuta) (國科會；主持人；2003/1/1-2003/7/31)
論文著述目錄
學術期刊論文(Referred paper)
1. Lin, K. Y. and Lai, S. C.* 2009. Induction of 2', 3'-cyclic nucleotide 3'-phosphodiesterase in demyelination of BALB/c mice caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Journal of comparative pathology 141, 248-353. (SCI)
2. Lan, K. P. Lai, S. C.* 2009. Differences of proteolytic enzymes and pathological changes in permissive and non-permissive animal hosts for Angiostrongylus cantonensis infection. Veterinary Parasitology 165, 265-272. (SCI)
3. Chen, K. M., Lee, H. H., Lai, S. C., Hsu, L. S., Wang, C. J. and Liu, J. Y. 2008. Apoptosis in meningoencephalitis of Angiostrongylus cantonensis-infected mice. Experimental Parasitology 119, 385-390. (SCI)
4. Lan, K. P. andLai, S. C.* * 2008.Angiostrongylus cantonensis: Induction of urokinase-type PA and degradation of type IV collagen in rat lung granulomatous fibrosis. Experimental Parasitology 118, 472-477. (SCI)
5. Lai, S. C., Chen, K. M., Chang, Y. H. and Lee, H. H. 2008.Comparative efficacies of albendazole and the Chinese herbal medicine long-dan-xie-gan-tan, used alone or in combination, in the treatment of experimental eosinophilic meningitisinducedby Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Annal Tropical and Medicine and Parasitology 102, 143-150. (SCI) 102, 143-150.
6. Lai, S. C., Chen, K. M. andLee, H. H. 2007. Albendazole-banlangen co-therapy against Angiostrongylus cantonensis-induced eosinophilic meningitis. The Chung-Shan Medical Journal 18, 57-67.
7. Hsu, C. C.andLai, S. C.** 2007. Matrix metalloproteinase-2, -9, and -13 are involved in fibronectin degradation of rat lung granulomatous fibrosis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis. International Journal of Experimental Pathology 88, 437-448. (SCI)
8. Lai, S. C.* and Chen, K. M. 2007. Changes to plasminogen activators and matrix metalloproteinase-9 in dogs with toxocarosis. Veterinary Parasitology 150, 122-127. (SCI)
9. Tu, W. C., Chen, H. C.,Chen, K. M., Tang, L. C.andLai, S. C.* 2007. Intestinal myiasis caused by larvae of Telmatoscopus albipunctatus in a Taiwanese man. Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology 41, 400-402. (SCI)
10. Shih, P. C. Lee, H. H. Lai, S. C. Chen, K. M. Jiang, S. T. Chen, Y. F. Shiow, S. J. 2007. Efficacy of curcumin therapy against Angiostrongylus cantonensis-induced eosinophilic meningitis. Journal of Helminthology 81, 1-5. (SCI)
11. Chen, K. M. andLai, S. C.** 2007. Biochemical and pathological evaluation of albendazole/thalidomide co-therapy against eosinophilic meningitis or meningoencephalitisinduced by Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 59, 264-276 (SCI)
12. Chen, K. M., Wang, C. P. and Lai, S. C.* 2006. Albendazole and Long-Dan-Cao co-therapy against Angiostrongylus cantonensis-induced matrix metalloproteinase-9 and eosinophilic meningitis. The Chung-Shan Medical Journal 17, 63-70.
13. Lai, S. C.*2006. Chinese herbal medicine Yin-Chen-Extract as an adjunct to anthelmintic albendazole used against Angiostrongylus cantonensis-induced eosinophilic meningitis or meningoencephalitis. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 75, 556-562. (SCI)
14. Tu, W. C. and Lai, S. C.*2006. Induction of tumor necrosis factor, interleukin-1β and matrix metalloproteinases in pulmonary fibrosis of rat infected with Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Journal of Helminthology 80, 305-311. (SCI)
15. Tu, W. C. and Lai, S. C.*2006.Induction of cysteine proteinase in the encapsulation of Hymenolepis diminuta eggs in the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana. The Journal of Invertebrate Pathology92, 73-78. (SCI)
16. Tu, W. C. and Lai, S. C.* 2006. Angiostrongylus cantonensis: Efficacy of albendazole-dexamethasone co-therapy against infection-induced plasminogen activators and eosinophilic meningitis. Experimental Parasitology 113, 8-15. (SCI)
17. Chen, K. M., Liu, J. Y., Lai, S. C., Hsu, L. S. and Lee, H. H. 2006. Association of plasminogen activators and matrix metalloproteinase-9 proteolytic cascade with blood-CNS barrier damage of angiostrongyliasis International Journal of Experimental Pathology 87, 113-119. (SCI)
18. Yang, Y. J., Liag, T. H., Lin, S. H., Chen, H. C. and Lai, S. C.* 2006. Case Report: Human Thelaziasis Occurrence in Taiwan. Clinical and Experimental Optometry 89: 40-44. (SCI)
19. Chen, K. M., Lai, S. C., Lai, C. Y., Jiang, S. T. and Lee, H. H. 2005. Efficacy of N-acetylcysteine or GM6001 therapy against Angiostrongylus cantonensis-induced eosinophilic meningitis. The Chung-Shan Medical Journal 16: 285-294.
20. Lai, S. C., Jiang, S. T., Chen, K. M. and Lee, H. H. 2005. Matrix metalloproteinases activity demonstrated in the infective stage of the nematodes, Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Parasitology Research 97: 466-471. (NSC-90-2320-B040-021) 97: 466-471. (NSC-90-2320-B040-021) (SCI)
21. Chen, K. M., Lee, H. H., Chou, H. L., Liu, J. Y., Tsai, B. C. and Lai, S. C.* 2005. Upregulation of MMP-9/TIMP-1 enzymatic system in eosinophilic meningitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis. International Journal of Experimental Pathology 86: 81-89 (SCI)
22. Lai, S. C., Chen, K. M., Chen, H. C. and Lee, H. H. 2005. Induction of matrix metalloproteinase- 9 in mice during Toxocara canis larvae migration. Parasitology Research 95: 193-200. (SCI)
23. Lai, S. C., Jiang, S. T., Chen, K. M., Hsu, J. D., Shyu, L. Y., and Lee, H. H. 2005. Efficacy of albendazole–GM6001 co-therapy against Angiostrongylus cantonensis induced parasitic meningitis in BALB/c mice. Acta Tropica 93: 267-273. (NSC-90-2320-B-040-015) (SCI)
24. Hsu, L. S., Lee, H. H., Chen, K. M., Chou, H. L. and Lai, S. C.* 2005. Matrix metalloproteinase-2, and -9 in granulomatous fibrosis of rat infected with Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Annal Tropical and Medicine and Parasitology 99: 61-70. (SCI)
25. Chen, K. M., Lee, H. H., Tsai, B. C., Kung, C. C. and Lai, S. C.*2004. Association of matrix metalloproteinases with blood-brain barrier damage of angiostrongyliasis. The Chung-Shan Medical Journal 15: 195-204.
26. Tseng, Y. K., Tu, W. C., Lee, H. H., Chen, K. M., Chou, H. L. and Lai, S. C.* 2004. Ultrastructural localization of matrix metalloproteinase-9 in CSF eosinophils of mice with eosinophilic meningitis. Annal Tropical and Medicine and Parasitology. 98: 831-841. (SCI)
27. Lan, K. P., Wang, C. J., Hsu, J. D., Chen, K. M., Lai, S. C.and Lee, H. H. 2004. Induced eosinophilia and proliferation in Angiostrongylus cantonensis-infected mouse brain are associated with the induction of JAK/STAT1, IAP/NF-κB and MEKK1/JNK signals. Journal of Helminthology 78: 311-317. (SCI)
28. Hou, R. F., Tu, W. C., Lee, H. H., Chen, K. M., Chou, H. L. and Lai, S. C.* 2004. Elevation of plasminogen activators in cerebrospinal fluid of mice with eosinophilic meningitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis. International Journal for Parasitology 34: 1355-1364. (SCI)
29. Lee, H. H., Chou, H. L., Chen, K. M. and Lai, S. C.* 2004.Association of matrix-metalloproteinase-9 in eosinophilic meningitis of BALB/c mice caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Parasitology Research 94: 321-328. (SCI)
30. Lai, S. C., Twu, J. J., Jiang, S. T., Hsu, J. D., Chen, K. M., Chiaing, H. C., Wang, C. J. and Lee, H. H. 2004. Induction of matrix-metalloproteinase-9 in the pathogenesis of eosinophilic meningitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Annal Tropical and Medicine and Parasitology 98: 715-724. (SCI)
31. Chen, K. M., Lee, H. H., Lu, K. H., Tseng, Y. K., Hsu, L. S., Chou, H. L. and Lai, S. C.*2004. Association of matrix metalloproteinase-9 and Purkinje cell degeneration in mouse cerebellum caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis. International Journal for Parasitology 34: 1147-1156. (SCI)
32. Lan, K. P., Wang, C. J., Lai, S. C.Chen, K. M., Lee, S. S., Hsu, J. D. and Lee, H. H. 2004. The efficacy of therapy with albendazole in mice with parasitic meningitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis.Parasitology Research 93: 311-317. (SCI)
33. Lai, S. C.,Chen, K. M., Yang, J. P., Liu, J. P., Hsu, C. C., Lee, Y. H., Jen, S. Y., Huang, J. W. and Lee, H. H. 2003. Induction of MMP-9 in mouse cerebellum with Purkinje cell loss caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis. The Chung-Shan Medical Journal 14: 485-493.
34. Lai, S. C., Chen, C. C. and Hou., R. F. 2002. Immunolocalization of prophenoloxidase in the process of wound healing in the mosquito, Armigeres subalbatus. Journal of Medical Entomology 39：226-274. (NSC 89-2313-B005-324) (SCI)
35. Lai, S. C., Chen, C. C. and Hou., R. F. 2001. Electron microscopic observations on wound healing in larvae of the mosquito, Armigeres subalbatus. Journal of Medical Entomology 38: 836-843. (NSC 89-2313-B005-062) (SCI)
學術研討會論文(Conference paper)
1. Chen, K. M.,Chiu, P. S. and Lai, S. C.* 2008. Comparative efficacy of albendazole and Chinese herbal medicine Long-dan-xie-gan-tan for the treatment of experimental Angiostrongylus cantonensis induced eosinophilic meningitidis. The 23rd Joint Annual Conference of Biomedical Sciences, Taipei. P. 62.
2. Chen, K. M.,Lu, C. Y. and Lai, S. C.* 2008. Changes to plasminogen activators and matrix metalloproteinase-9 in dogs with toxocarosis. The 23rd Joint Annual Conference of Biomedical Sciences, Taipei. P. 464.
3. Lai, S. C.* 2008. Fibronectin proteolysis in meningitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis. The 22th Joint Annual Conference of Parasitology, Taipei. P. 10-13.
4. Chen, K. M. and Lai, S. C.* 2007. Chinese herbal medicine Yin-Chen-Extract as an adjunct to anthelmintic albendazole used against Angiostrongylus cantonensis-induced meningitis. The 22th Joint Annual Conference of Biomedical Sciences, Taipei. P. 247.
5. Lai, S. C.* 2006. Studies on proteolytic enzymes in meningitis. Summer Conference of Parasitology. Taichung. P. 19-22.
6. Chen, K. M. and Lai, S. C.* 2006. Study on pulmonary fibrosis of rat infected with Angiostrongylus cantonensis: Extracellular matrix degradation associated with urokinase-type plasminogen activator and matrix metalloproteinase-13.The 21th Joint Annual Conference of Biomedical Sciences, Taipei. P. 232.
7. Lee, C. Y., Lee, H. H., Tsai, Y. C. and Lai, S. C.* 2005. Case Report: Human Thelaziasis Occurrence in Taiwan. The Twentieth Joint Annual Conference of Parasitology, Kaohsiung. P. 25.
8. Chang, S. F., Chen, K. M., Chiu, P. S., Lu, C. Y. and Lai, S. C.* 2005. Association of plasminogen activators and matrix metalloproteinase-9 proteolytic enzymes with blood-CNS barrier damage in angiostrongyliasis. The Twentieth Joint Annual Conference of Parasitology, Kaohsiung. P. 26.
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10. Kuan, I. T., Lee, H. H., Chou, Y. H. and Lai, S. C.* 2005. Extracellular matrix degradation associated with urokinase-type plasminogen activator and matrix metalloproteinase-13 during pulmonary fibrosis of rat infected with Angiostrongylus cantonensis. The Twentieth Joint Annual Conference of Parasitology, Kaohsiung. P. 31.
11. Chen, K. M., Kuan, I. T. and Lai, S. C.* 2005. The roles of matrix metalloproteinase-2, and -9 in granulomatous fibrosis of rat infected with Angiostrongylus cantonensis.The Twentieth Joint Annual Conference of Biomedical Sciences, Taipei. P. 333.
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13. Liu, J. P., Chen, K. M., Lee, H. H., Huang, J. W. and Lai, S. C.* 2004. Efficacy of albendazole-dexamethasone co-therapy against Angiostrongylus cantonensis induced parasitic meningitis in BALB/c mice. The Eighth Asian-Pacific Congress for Parasitic Zoonoses (8th APCPZ), Taiwan. P. 41.
14. Tsai, B. C., Chen, K. M., Lee, H. H., Wu, C. H. and Lai, S. C.* 2004. Induction of plasminogen activators in mice with eosinophilic meningitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis. The Eighth Asian-Pacific Congress for Parasitic Zoonoses (8th APCPZ), Taiwan. P. 42.The Eighth Asian-Pacific Congress for Parasitic Zoonoses (8 APCPZ), Taiwan. P. 42.
15. Cheng, W. C., Lai, S. C. and Lee, H. H. 2004. The study of maggot therapy in problem wounds. Symposium of the University Faculty’s Research Projects on Special Topics. Chung Shan Medical University Commemoration of the 44th Anniversary. Taiwan. P. 19.
16. Liu, J. P., Lee, H. H., Chen, K. M., Kuan, I. T. and Lai, S. C.* 2004. Efficacy of albendazole-dexamethasone co-therapy against Angiostrongylus cantonensis induced parasitic meningitis in BALB/c mice. The Nineteenth Joint Annual Conference of Parasitology, Taichung. P. 25.
17. Tsai, B. C., Lee, H. H., Chen, K. M., Wu, C. H. and Lai, S. C.* 2004. Elevation of plasminogen activators in cerebrospinal fluid of mice with eosinophilic meningitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis The Nineteenth Joint Annual Conference of Parasitology, Taichung. P. 26.
18. Chang,Y. H., Lai, S. C., Chen, K. M., Hsu, Y. L. and Lee, H. H. 2004. Efficacy of albendazole and Long-dan-xie-gan-tan co-therapy against Angiostrongylus cantonensis induced parasitic meningitis in BALB/c mice. The Nineteenth Joint Annual Conference of Parasitology, Taichung. P. 40.
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20. Huang, J. W., Lee, H. H., Chen, K. M., Hsu, C. C. and Lai, S. C.* 2004 Ultrastructural localization of matrix metalloproteinase-9 in CSF eosinophils of mice with eosinophilic meningitis. The Nineteenth Joint Annual Conference of Parasitology, Taichung. P. 42.
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Big Ten highlight reel of the 1952 season. Narrated by Jack Drees. Introduction by Kenneth L. "Tug" Wilson, Big Ten Conference commisioner. NU coach during the 1952 season: Bob Voigts
2. Big Ten Football. Northwestern Football Highlight Reel, 1960 (48:33)
Big Ten highlight reel of the 1960 season. Narrated by Bill Flemming. Highlights from games against the University of Iowa, the University of Michigan, the University of Notre Dame, Indiana Univers...
3. Big Ten, Big Time, 1971 (25:43)
Big Ten highlight reel of the 1971 season. Narrated by Bill Flemming. Music by the Purdue University "All-American" Band. Conducted by Al G. Wright and William D. Kisinger. NU Coach during the 1971...
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This film dates from 1942 and depicts a formal but brief Captain's inspection that took place at Abbott Hall on the University's Chicago Campus. The film was shot by Herbert H. Sadler, father of V-...
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Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Marching Band
This video features the Northwestern University Marching Band performing during the following football games: NU vs Miami of Ohio, pre-game, 1995-09-16; NU vs Air Force, Band Day, 1995-09-23; NU vs...
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Hosted by Asher Golden, Geoff Goldman. Remote reporting by Marc Schreiber. Engineered by Bob Grabko, Josh Yetman.
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Chick Lit?
I recently watched Anthony Russo's 2006 movie "You, Me and Dupree" which stars Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson, and Matt Dillon. In the film, Wilson's character - Dillon's loveable but messy, reckless, fly- by-the-seat-of-his-pants best friend and best man - loses his job and moves in with newlyweds Hudson and Dillon only to introduce all manner of potty-humor and relationship chaos into the young lovers' household. Not exactly an art film. The narrative then follows Wilson's gradual reformation into a person of some refinement and charater and Dillon's corresponding descent into disorder, jealousy, and paranoia. Defending Wilson's improvements one night to her husband, Hudson reveals that Wilson has, in fact, been writing poetry - a revelation that Dillon reacts to by calling Wilson "a fag."
Dillon's reaction is part of a long and familiar Anglo-American history of associating poetry - which is presumably in touch with all the gooey emotional and sentimental sides of human existence - with effeminacy and homosexuality. Dino Franco Felluga's 2005 SUNY study "The Perversity of Poetry: Romantic Ideology and the Popular Male Poet of Genius" traces how discourses of poetry, melancholia, genius, and sexual pathology (including masturbation) converged in the nineteenth century. (In "You, Me and Dupree, in fact, poet-to-be Wilson is caught "in the act" one night by Hudson as she goes downstairs for a drink, suggesting the link between poetry and onanism is not entirely a thing of the past.) In "A Retrospect" from 1918, Ezra Pound states his desire to produce a new, masculine poetry that is "harder and saner," "nearer the bone," and "free from [the] emotional slither" that, in his estimation, characterized the effeminate verse of the genteel nineteenth century.
In post-Cold War America, perhaps no figure has dramatized the stereotypical synchronicity between gayness and poetry more humorously than Percy Dovetonsils, one of the most remembered characters created by t.v. comedian Ernie Kovacs. Kovacs's Dovetonsils appeared as a "poet laureate" who spoke with a lisp, wore a zebra-patterned smoking jacket and coke-bottle glasses, and sipped a drink which had a daisy for a swizzle stick. Not able to abide the homosexual resonances of this long history on Wilson's poetry writing, "You, Me and Dupree" eventually clarifies Wilson's heterosexuality by informing us that he was, in fact, writing love poetry in order to win back the affections of a girl he lost earlier in the film.
Despite this history of effeminacy, "real men" actually did read poetry for much of the twentieth century, and that poetry - which decorated the pin-up posters stuck on the walls of their basements and garages - was intended (or thought to be) a clear demonstration of their masculinity. Poetry was a regular part of girly pictures, appearing on postcards, arcade cards, playing cards, ink-blotters, matchbooks and, most famously, the Vargas-girl Esquire centerfold pull-outs and pin-ups. A fair amount of attention has been paid to the visual aspects of these idealized female images, but most commentators focus purely on the airbrushed visuals and the problematic images of the girl next door without investigating the constant presence of the poetry that accompanied those visuals and that, by association, must have had an impact on shaping American masculinity. Some of these poems, such as this one from an ink blotter picturing a busty showgirl in feathers and short skirt -
Showgirls have a philosophy
Expressed in the lines of this verse:
"To let a fool kiss you is stupid,
To let a kiss fool you is worse."
- are clever, epigrammatic rhymes wherein the mastery over the language seems to figure the masculine desire for mastery over the female. Other poems, such as this one from a platinum-blonde, head-and-shoulders, Vargas pull-out pin-up from the May 1942 issue of Esquire, are longer and more elaborate:
Song for a Lost Spring
That was another Spring when we were gay ...
And I remember everything so well ...
The purpled dusk ... the streets that lost their way ...
The lazy hours that held us in their spell;
The songs we sang were lovelier than before,
The violins were sweet against the night ...
And yet the shadows on the tavern floor
Foretold a time of panic and of flight;
And so when lightning raced along the sky
I knew that vows and pleadings would be vain,
You were not meant to watch enchantment die
Nor hear the soft and treacherous hiss of rain;
That was another Spring that we two shared ...
And One was wise ... and there was One who cared!
This sonnet (!) was written by poet laureate of pin-ups, Phil Stack, and no doubt the elaborate verse form and nostalgic tone added a sense of dignity that worked to save the picture from being "just" a girly picture - especially within the context of Esquire's literary and cultural aspirations. Esquire regularly ran such poems alongside their pin-ups and published pin-up calendars with poems on them. To assess the impact of Esquire and the pin-up without accounting in some way for the poetry is an incomplete accounting at best.
It is a curious thing that in the middle of the 1950s "pink scare," Stack should end his first line on the word "gay." For while pin-up poetry, and the act of posting the pin-up on one's wall, worked as a performance of one's masculinity, it was largely a performance of eroticism put on for (and participated in by) other men, and one can't help but think about the homoerotics of two men, or three men, or four men, ogling a pin-up girl. Indeed, when one begins reading this poetry widely, there is a variety among the poems that troubles the heteronormative boy-girl relationship we typically assume that the pictures play to. Sometimes, the verse is spoken by an outside commentator, such as that in the quatrain quoted above. Other times, it's clear that that the woman is speaking the lines. Still other times - as in Stack's sonnet - we're not sure who is speaking the poem or who SHOULD be speaking the poem (the man? the woman? both?) - an ambiguity only enhanced by the verse's use of the first person and played up twice in the last line by the intentionally gender-neutral pronoun "One." Am I the only one to sense that this ambiguity significantly queers the reader's sexual subject position?
Take into consideration the following quatrain from a postcard showing a cartoon redhead whose skirt - a la the famous pic of Marilyn Monroe - is blown up above a steam grate to reveal her stockings and garters:
At last I got around to that line
I said I'd drop
So keep yer shirt on buddy,
ya' needn't blow yer top!
Who is the "I" in this poem supposed to be? Is it a postcard that a woman would send to a man, or a postcard that a man would send to a man, and what are the various subject positions offered to the card's holder - sender or recipient, male or female - by that poem? That is to ask, how does the poem change the erotic relationship depending on whose mouth it is in and who is "speaking" as the sender finally dropping a line? There's certainly a sort of titillating masquerade or poetic drag/burlesque show going on here that is totally worth examining more closely - one not entirely unlike the Renaissance stage where boy actors dressed up like girls and then kissed other men on stage. This vertigo only increases, I think, by knowing that the author of many of these poems is a male - Phil Stack - essentially speaking, like Cyrano, words of love to other men through the mouth of a surrogate, here (in "Song for a Lost Spring") a woman.
I don't have any answers at the moment except to say that pin-up poetry is much more diverse and complex a social and cultural phenomenon than one would be inclined think. Part of American culture for years and especially during the sexually confusing 1950s, it undoubtedly played a role in shaping men's sense of their sexuality, both in relation to the women pictured, and to the men who would read it as it was posted on walls for everyone to see. What sort of sexual identities are being negotiated in this poetry? Does this dynamic change over the course of the twentieth century? How do the various media - from postcard to fold-out pin-up - shape the poetic and (homo)erotic encounter of these images?
For several essays on the Vargas girl pin-ups, written for a 2001 exhibition of Esquire illustrations at the University of Kansas - check out http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/collection/print/vargas/.
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Labels: Ernie Kovacs, Esquire, Ezra Pound, mike chasar, Percy Dovetonsils, Phil Stack, pin up, poetry and popular culture, Vargas, You Me and Dupree
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has stirred up the Harry Potter fandom, so Minerva decided to look back at their favorite moments, big and small, from the Harry Potter series.
I have such a soft spot for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. It’s the only book in the series that doesn’t have some big battle with Voldemort at the end. The main villain, the dastardly Sirius Black, winds up providing Harry with a connection to his family and the life he could’ve–well, should’ve–had. The scene where Sirius asks Harry to live with him once he goes free is one of the simplest and most beautiful scenes I’ve ever read. It’s not flashy or filled with promises of mass riches and extravagance. It’s a scene where two people who have lost everything are able to find some semblance of family with each other. Out of destruction and heartbreak, there’s hope for something better.
–Jessica Thelander
There is so much I could talk about, but I want to focus on one really small, weird element that never gets brought up again. The battle at the Ministry at the end of book five is one of my favorite things of all time. The most confusing part of that? The tank full of brains. What are those for? Seriously. It’s one of the most jarring moments and it’s never explained. I might love the brain thing solely because I’ve always had a soft spot for Ron and he features in that heavily. I was completely on board with the fan theory that Ron would have some after effects in book six from his brain encounter. Residual memories that weren’t his, maybe. Some dark hint of what those brains were about and a chance to give Ron a little more to do. Although none of that panned out, that mystery remains more stuck in my head than even the veil. Why the brains and what might have happened if Rowling had explored the possibility of other people’s minds leaving marks on you? What other series would inspire so much speculation over so small a thing?
–Gabs Roman
There are so many wonderfully powerful, loud, vibrant, and magically extraordinary scenes in the Harry Potter series: mythical creatures, epic battles between the powers of good and evil, and death-defying adventures. By comparison, my favorite moment in the series seems almost underwhelming: when Harry steps into The Burrow for the first time at the beginning of Chamber of Secrets. I love this scene simply because it is so quiet, so normal and homey and safe. There aren’t any battles, powerful spells, or villainous deeds. It’s Harry’s first taste of regular, everyday magic, in a lopsided house where the dishes wash themselves, there are gnomes in the garden and a ghoul in the attic, and cookbooks like Charm Your Own Cheese and Enchantments in Baking sit stacked on the mantlepiece. It’s a reminder of all Harry would have had if his parents had survived, and indicates an intimacy with magic that Harry was never given growing up. It’s also the kind of magic that, were I a witch, I would love, the simple, quietly charming, everyday spells that make daily life just a bit more magical.
–Olivia Woods
It’s really hard to choose my favorite moment or element from Harry Potter, but I think the scene that best illustrates that is in The Deathly Hallows when Ron returns to save Harry and destroys the locket. Ron gets a lot of flak for leaving the group, but in retrospect, this needed to happen to show just how important Ron was to the Golden Trio. Sure, Harry and Hermione have a great working partnership, but they just don’t have the same morale without Ron around. He’s the glue that holds the group together, and he’s so, so underappreciated. The great thing about those chapters where he is missing is that I was just as heartbroken about it as Harry and Hermione were. And because I love a good dose of angst, when Ron is forced to confront his faults and fears (and Harry and Hermione snogging naked, like woah), that gave me chills. Because who hasn’t worried about being worthless? Who hasn’t tried to make people laugh to cover up their insecurities? That moment was so raw and so real, but it also shows just how ridiculous the concept of a Golden Trio without Ron would be (take that, Steve Kloves).
–Katy Mastrocola
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix catches a lot of criticism from Potter fans who think Harry is being overly emotional, but I contend it’s the most underrated Potter book. Its twenty-third chapter, “Christmas on the Closed Ward” is easily my favorite in the entire series. In OotP, Harry is feeling his orphan-ness more acutely than ever. He’s starting to realize that his father wasn’t the man that he had always imagined, and his relationship with Sirius is becoming strained. In “Christmas on the Closed Ward,” Harry blames himself for the perilous situation that Arthur Weasley, his other surrogate father, is in, and then on top of that, he sees firsthand what Bellatrix Lestrange did to Neville’s parents and realizes that just having parents would not solve his problems. The chapter is a tense and poignant reminder of the fragility of family and it guts me every single time I read it.
–Erin E Rand
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It’s not that I don’t have anything to say about the craft of comics this week–it’s that I’m too busy writing them to get my thoughts together, so thanks for your patience as I try to wrap up scripting THE UNKNOWN. In place of my usual weekly lecture, I will instead refer you to the most invaluable... more
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The Incredibles #1 came out yesterday. Artist Marcio Takara made me look good. As usual. And I’m pleased that it seems well-received. I mention this not to plug my own work (though nothing makes Ross happier), but to brag about how I am roiling with only a little bit of bitter jealousy that The... more
The Watchmen/Eureka Connection
BOOM! co-founder and creator of the TV series EUREKA (comics on sale monthly from BOOM!) points out to me that there were no fewer than eight (!) EUREKA actors in WATCHMEN. Three were non-speaking roles (Mike Carpenter and Clint Carlton, both stunt doubles on EUREKA, played Nite Owl I and Young... more
On the whole, I’m very pleased with WATCHMEN the movie. It reminded me a lot of BRAZIL–not because of the 1985 connection or because it was just as long, but because WATCHMEN was a wholly immersive experience. We made a BOOM! outing of it and everyone went, so if you weren’t at our offices today... more
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Some totally random catchup items as we continue to wait for the podcasts to be edited, DAFNA. (“Dafna” is either [1] “Dafna Pleban,” our editorial assistant, or [2] the acronym of a sophisticated Kryptonian missile defense system. Your choice.) * 2009 New York Comicon this weekend. Unfortunately,... more
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On 15th November 2019 15th November 2019 By peterlongden
An East Sussex man is starting a long prison sentence for a series of sexual offences against two young girls.
Craig McAndrew, 34, previously from Newhaven but subsequently of no fixed address and living in the Watford area, was sentenced to 14 years and three months when he appeared at Lewes Crown Court on Friday (8 November) having been found guilty after a trial in September of six offences of sexual assault on multiple occasions against two girls known to him, both aged under 13 between 2016 and 2018 in Newhaven.
Four of the offences were committed against one of the girls, for which he was given ten years, and two were committed against the other girl, for which he was given three years, both sentences to run consecutively.
In addition to those sentences he will also serve a further one year on extended licence, and was given a further three months, also to run consecutively, for absconding from court during his trial in September. The court issued a warrant for him and following publicity he handed himself in at Watford Police Station on 21 September.
The trial continued and he was found guilty, in his absence, on Monday 16 September.
McAndrew will also be a registered sex offender for life and was given a sexual Harm prevention order (SHPO) to last indefinitely, severely restricting his access to anyone under 18.
Detective Constable Julie Nightingale of the East Sussex Safeguarding Investigations Unit said; “McAndrew systematically preyed on these two vulnerable girls for his own sexual gratification and the abuse only came to light last year when the first girl spoke about it to a family member.
“Both bravely supported our investigation throughout and gave evidence against McAndrew at the trial via videolink.
“If you or anyone you know is being abused in this way, do not suffer in silence. Contact us online or by calling 101, and we will arrange for you to talk to experienced investigators who can also help you to access further sources of advice and support.”
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By Popular Demand Vail Resorts Season Ski Pass Sales are Extended to November 21, 2010
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The Epic 7-Pack™ New this season the Epic 7-Pack features a total of seven days of unrestricted skiing and riding at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Arapahoe Basin and Heavenly at $479 for adults and $239 for children. The Epic 7-Pack can now be used at Northstar-at-Tahoe and Sierra-at-Tahoe for the 2010-2011 ski season as well. For more information or to purchase the Epic-7 Pack visit www.epicpass.com
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It is no coincidence that former Labor leader Paul Keating has been giving Kevin Rudd the benefit of his wisdom on ways the PM can defeat Tony Abbott.
The Gillard era was marked by an unwillingness to listen to advice from anyone outside a tiny circle of out-of-touch advisers, and it failed.
Rudd is back as leader, and Labor is competitive again.
But for people in the Labor Party with a long view, a seat-saving election is simply not enough. Abbott must be defeated.
Watching from the sidelines for three years, Rudd, the great imitator, has cherry-picked policies from the Coalition, much in the same way as he did with John Howard in the lead-up to the 2007 election.
But Keating and other old hands like him are afraid that allowing Tony Abbott a narrow victory will be a catastrophe.
They fear an Abbott victory for reasons they could not ever admit to — the possibility that, should he be successful at the coming poll, Abbott might end up being a good prime minister in the Hawke/Howard mould, leading the kind of government Labor should have been over the past five years.
Since his return to the prime ministership Kevin Rudd has repeatedly accused Abbott of being an “extreme” and reactionary politician. In fact, according to Mr Rudd, Abbott is “the most conservative politician to become Liberal leader in its history”.
It is an absurd claim.
Abbott is neither ultra-conservative nor an extremist and, as his socially conservative supporters would attest, some of his policies, such as generous paid maternity leave for professional working women at the expense of women who choose to stay at home to look after their children, have been a bitter disappointment.
But Abbott remains a lightning rod for outrageous criticism from the left-wing commentariat.
Waleed Aly, writing a profile, “Inside Tony Abbott’s Mind” (The Monthly, no. 91, July 2013), summed up the reasons for the visceral hatred coming from Abbott’s critics thus: “To them, Abbott is the hyper-Catholic, overly aggressive, climate change-denying, homophobic, sexist populist who wants to impose his idiosyncratic religious views on an unwilling public.”
Part of the reason for Abbott’s unpopularity can be attributed to his agile approach to the policy debate. He goes in for the kill if his political opponents contradict themselves, but is able to use contorted arguments to talk his way out of his own previous positions with impunity.
Abbott’s pragmatism combined with a lethal political instinct infuriates his opponents.
Elsewhere in his essay, Aly writes: “They (Abbott’s critics) find his moral commitments so dubious, his prejudices so rank, his style so aggressive, that they simply cannot believe him to be anything other than determinedly retrograde.”
In other words, Abbott’s supposed private worldview is so dangerous that, no matter what he says now, it will resurface in government, and he therefore must be stopped from becoming prime minister.
While there is little justification for this picture of Abbott, Julia Gillard, just before her downfall, did her best to reinforce those views by predicting that an Abbott government would “banish women’s voices from our political life” and make abortion “the plaything of men who think they know better”.
And therein lies the crux of another element of the hatred toward Abbott — his views on abortion.
Abbott is not alone as a national leader who is on the pro-life side of politics. Kim Beazley and Paul Keating himself held similar positions.
Abbott’s stated position is that there are far too many abortions in Australia, but that he has no intention of federally intervening in abortion laws, which are state responsibilities anyway.
In reality, Abbott’s views on abortion are so nuanced and muted that he would be lucky to qualify as a Republican candidate in many parts of the United States.
In Australia, however, Abbott’s views are enough to disqualify him for office, according to Gillard.
Other commentators from the left, such as David Marr in his piece, “Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott” (Quarterly Essay, no. 47, September 2012), described Abbott as an unreconstructed DLP man. “He won’t abandon his old DLP principles, but he won’t be a martyr to them either,” Marr patronisingly wrote in his essay.
After so many years in the Liberal Party and as a minister in the Howard Cabinet, Abbott’s politics bear no resemblance to the DLP.
Labor’s real reason for despising Abbott is that they fear what he would do to the party.
The fact is that Abbott understands the Labor Party’s flaws and vulnerabilities better than any Liberal leader before him.
There is the potential that Abbott will be an effective and successful leader in the style of “old Labor” — a prime minister with nationalist and even interventionist inclinations, who at the same time would be prepared to dismantle the radical elements of the union movement that underpin “new Labor’s” machinery.
Abbott’s alleged “conservatism” would be more likely to consist of an absence of grandiosity and short-termism that have characterised the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd governments.
A steady-as-she goes, sensible government would be Labor’s worst nightmare.
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In People v Brown (2009 NY Slip Op 03334 4th Dept 4/24/09) the Court held that a single failure, specifically the "defense counsel's failure to object to the admission in evidence of the victim's medical records, which contained information concerning prior allegations of sexual abuse against defendant" constituted ineffective assistance of counsel requiring reversal of a conviction for sexual abuse in the first degree and endangering the welfare of a child.
The Court explained that under the circumstances of this case, that failure alone constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel because it was "so egregious and prejudicial' as to deprive [the] defendant of his constitutional right" to a fair trial (People v Turner, 5 NY3d 476, 480)."
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If At First You Don't Succeed
What are the purposes of pre-trial identification procedures? Is it only to have the witnesses identify a suspect or should they also be used to determine the witnesses' reliability? The Fourth Department confronted this issue in People v White (2009 NY Slip Op 03290 4th Dept 4/24/09).
Identification testimony is powerful evidence of guilt. Yet, misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful conviction. So what should the police do when they discover that the person whom the witness stated he was 70 percent sure committed the crime could not have done so? Does that cast questions about the reliability of that witness generally? Does it require the police to take additional measure in conducting future procedures with that witness to insure that whoever is picked actually is guilty?
In White the Fourth Department ruled that under these circumstances the police had no duty to include the wrongfully identified person's photograph in future photo array, "since the police are not required to include a photograph of a person who has been ruled out as a suspect."
How confident should we be that the second time was a charm?
Rape in the First Degree an Inclusory Concurrent Count of Predatory Sexual Assault
In People v Scott (2009 NY Slip Op 03229 4th Dept 4/24/09) the Court reversed and dismissed the part of the judgment convicting defendant of rape in the first degree because it is an of predatory sexual assault against a child. The Court explained that pursuant to CPL 300.30 (4), concurrent counts are inclusory when the offense charged in one is greater than that charged in the other and when the latter is a lesser offense included within the greater.
Here, the predatory sexual assault count charged rape in the first degree as one of its elements and, as charged in the indictment, the elements of the predatory sexual assault with respect to rape in the first degree are precisely those required for rape in the first degree under Penal Law § 130.35 (4). Thus, it was impossible for defendant to commit predatory sexual assault against a child without, by the same conduct, committing rape in the first degree, thereby rendering rape in the first degree an inclusory concurrent count of predatory sexual assault against a child.
Ever wonder what it takes to get a conviction reversed because of prosecutorial misconduct? How about for unobjected to prosecutorial misconduct> The Appellate Division, Fourth Department, provided an answer in People v Morrice (2009 NY Slip Op 03282 4th Dept 4/24/09).
In Morrice the Court reversed a conviction for burglary and grand larceny because the District Attorney committed the following eight acts of misconduct, only some of which were objected to by trial counsel:
1. When in response to the prosecutor's question, the main prosecution witness falsely testified that she had received no benefit for he testimony, the prosecutor did not correct this "misstatement" as required (see People v Novoa, 70 NY2d 490, 496-498; People v Hendricks, 2 AD3d 1450, 1451, lv denied 2 NY3d 762; People v Potter, 254 AD2d 831, 832).
2. The prosecutor then "compounded his misconduct in failing to correct the misstatement by telling the jury during summation that the witness was 'getting nothing out of having testified in this case.'"
3. The prosecutor twice elicited police testimony with respect to defendant's invocation of the right to counsel.
4. The prosecutor commented on defendant's invocation of the right to counsel during summation
5. The prosecutor questioned defendant on cross-examination concerning his discussion of the case with his attorney during a recess.
6. The prosecutor twice improperly asked a defense witness on cross-examination whether she had ever been arrested for a crime.
7. The prosecutor questioned a defense witness as to whether her boyfriend was currently incarcerated,
8. In summation the prosecutor characterized defendant as a liar and told the jury that defendant "just concocted a story now to try to deceive you."
Critically, the Court explained that in measuring whether misconduct has caused the defendant substantial prejudice "'one must look at the severity and frequency of the conduct, whether the court took appropriate action to dilute the effect of that conduct, and whether review of the evidence indicates that without the conduct the same result would undoubtedly have been reached' (People v Mott, 94 AD2d 415, 419)."
Congratulations to Gary Muldoon for winning this reversal. Jeffrey Taylor was the Assistant District Attorney who prosecuted the case.
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Edward Tenner By Edward Tenner Illustration by Edward Kinsella III December 3, 2015
In May of 1924, the city of Chicago was shocked by a brutal murder. Two precocious University of Chicago graduate students, Nathan…By Edward Tenner
In May of 1924, the city of Chicago was shocked by a brutal murder. Two precocious University of Chicago graduate students, Nathan Leopold, 19, and Richard Loeb, 18,1 lured, abducted, and murdered Loeb’s 14-year-old cousin Bobby Franks by clubbing and asphyxiation. The duo fancied themselves as master criminals beyond the law—they planned to play a ransom game with the victim’s family, savor the newspaper reportage, and get away with murder. But the body was discovered before the ransom could be collected, and because Leopold lost his rare fashionable glasses at the crime scene, the police traced the two young men in no time.
The Leopold and Loeb case, thoroughly analyzed by the criminology professor and historian Simon Baatz in his recent book For the Thrill of It, was unique in the annals of 1920s violence. The widespread eugenic thinking of the time was that crimes were committed by individuals of low hereditary intelligence. Reformers, on the other hand, saw gangsters as the products of environmental factors like working class poverty and urban tenements. In either case, criminals killed over money, territory, and credibility, their actions a rational business of meeting the demand for illegal goods and services. There was no clinical mystery to their behavior.
But Leopold and Loeb were different and their case had explosive consequences. It put the very idea of free will and responsibility on trial. People weren’t to blame for their crimes because they were at the mercy of their individual biology. Science said so. Echoes and issues of the spectacular case persist in forensic medicine to this day.
Loeb and Leopold grew up in two of Chicago’s wealthiest and most prominent families. Loeb’s father was a multimillionaire vice president of Sears Roebuck, and Leopold’s owned manufacturing companies and the largest shipping line in the Great Lakes region. Loeb was pursuing postgraduate studies in history and Leopold was already a published ornithologist. The young men were enigmas, their crime an inexplicable whydunnit.
Criminal Minds: Richard Loeb (right) and Nathan Leopold, two wealthy and successful students of the University of Chicago, had no reason beyond curiosity for abducting and murdering Loeb’s 14-year-old cousin Bobby Franks.Wikimedia Commons
The duo’s attorney, Clarence Darrow, knew the jury wouldn’t accept an insanity defense. Not only did the young men know right from wrong, they had consciously followed the wrong, influenced by Leopold’s reading of Friedrich Nietzsche’s idea of the superman. They freely confessed their careful planning to the police, regarding themselves as amoral criminal masterminds.1 Most scandalously, they showed no remorse. Plus, in the public eye, their erotic king-slave relationship (the sallow Leopold was the self-described powerful slave to the handsome and outgoing Loeb) played against them even in the sexually candid ’20s. The prosecutor, Robert Crowe, was calling for the death penalty. So instead of claiming insanity, Darrow appealed to a new medical specialty to justify his clients’ deed: endocrinology, the science of glands and their secretions.
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At the time, medical knowledge was exploding, and the field of endocrinology was extremely powerful among medical elites as well as the laity—it appeared to hold the keys to human health, vitality, and actions. As historian of science Michael Pettit observed in a recent article in the American Historical Review, endocrinology was part of a movement to identify and manage the hereditary and biological foundations of human behavior. At the time, hormones were the building blocks of the new science. The endocrinologist Louis Berman, author of the 1921 bestseller The Glands Regulating Personality, claimed that crimes were linked to hormonal excesses and deficiencies created by adrenal, thyroid, thymus, or pituitary glands, the gonads, or some combination thereof. Some doctors transplanted monkey testes into rich aging patients to restore their youth.2 Others were trying to treat mental illness with extracts from animal glands. Darrow shared a common optimism of the 1920s that the newly discovered role of internal secretions could, in conjunction with psychoanalysis, explain and treat psychopathology. He believed his clients’ glandular abnormality would make the strongest case for leniency.
People weren’t to blame for their crimes because they were at the mercy of their biology. Science said so.
Darrow’s principal expert witnesses, the psychiatrists Howard Hulbert and Karl Bowman, examined the defendants exhaustively and took their detailed psychological histories. Hulbert testified that Nathan Leopold’s pineal gland had calcified prematurely. There were also signs he had suffered from thyroid abnormalities and a disorder of the adrenal medulla. His unusual skull conformation may have crowded his pituitary, and his sex glands indicated an abnormal drive.3 Hulbert argued that while Leopold’s condition did not induce him to plan the murder, it did “remove the ordinary restraint which individuals impose on themselves because of their consciousness of their duties… to society,” and made him unrepentant. While Loeb’s examination had shown no glandular disorders, the “motives… in his subconscious mind” had weakened his self-restraint, making his judgment “childish and uncritical,” Hubert wrote.
In Prison and Remorseless: Nathan Leopold, spared from the death penalty, in Stateville Penitentiary in 1931.Wikimedia Commons
The courtroom became a battlefield of experts trying to undermine each other. Determined to send the pair to death row, Crowe called medical experts of his own who testified there was nothing wrong with the defendants neurologically. Rather than attack Hulbert’s glandular findings directly, Crowe browbeat him by revealing his ignorance of the technical details of the X-ray devices that produced the images he interpreted. In turn, the defense tried to discredit Crowe’s psychiatrist witness by showing that the textbook he had written warranted a diagnosis of paranoia for Leopold and schizophrenia for Loeb. In his closing statement, Crowe accused Darrow of trying to undermine all personal responsibility in the name of false science. At the end, Judge John Caverly didn’t buy the gland defense. He dismissed mental illness, including endocrine abnormalities, as a mitigating factor, but spared the duo from the death penalty, sentencing each to 99 years for kidnapping and life imprisonment for murder.4
The big bang of forensic endocrinology had fizzled. But Darrow’s conviction that biological and environmental determinants shape human behavior has never vanished from legal debate. (In 1925, Darrow famously defended the teaching of human evolution in the Scopes Monkey Trial.) The Loeb and Leopold case gave science a foothold in the courtroom and introduced a new type of criminal—the individual psychopath. In 1927, three years after the trial, prominent psychiatrists testified before the New York Crime Commission that the public might be surrounded by individuals capable of wrongdoings for profit and pleasure, who crave attention for their crimes. By the 1930s, Berman was advocating the perfectibility of humanity through universal hormone replacement therapy.
Explaining psychopaths’ actions by biological factors beyond their control—abnormal secretions of malfunctioning glands—launched medico-legal reasoning. As the legal scholar Susan R. Schmeiser recently wrote, “the psychopath became just such a figure—a subject whose essential pathology was precisely his ungovernability and hence his insusceptibility to legal regulation.” Society recognized that some anti-social people could not be deterred by criminal law, so instead of being executed or serving a determinate sentence, they might need to be detained and treated indefinitely. As the French philosopher Michel Foucault, quoted by Schmeiser, put it, “The sordid business of punishing is thus converted into the fine profession of curing.”
Today the role of frontier science in jurisprudence continues, although not without skeptics. As the psychologists John Monterosso and Barry Schwartz recently noted in The New York Times, the United States Supreme Court’s decision of 2005 against the death penalty for minors was based on neurological evidence. The judges ruled that expert evidence had shown that parts of the brain involved in behavior control continue to mature through late adolescence. Monterosso and Schwartz warned about a new tendency—supported by the successor to the X-rays of the 1920s, functional nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (fNMR)—to find abnormalities preventing or impeding self-control. Critics call this excuse “My brain made me do it.” Another psychologist they cite, Edward B. Royzman, has observed that the public is much more willing to credit neuroscientific than psychological explanations for behavior.
More recently, a 21st-century counterpart of endocrinology, the study of the body’s bacteria, which far outnumber our own cells, suggests new avenues of diminished responsibility. “Maybe the microbiome is our puppet-master,” Carl Zimmer, a science correspondent with The New York Times, has suggested. Like the endocrinologists of the 1920s, today’s students of the body’s ecology hope for a new generation of far-reaching therapies. Meanwhile this latest scientific big bang gives a new twist to the forensic questions of Clarence Darrow’s age: Do our bugs make us do it?
Edward Tenner, a visiting researcher at Princeton and Rutgers universities, is the author of Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences, and Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity. He is finishing a book on positive unintended consequences.
This article was originally published in our “Big Bangs” issue in September, 2014.
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As originally published, the first names of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were switched. They are correct now.
They also committed a string of other, less serious thrill crimes, including petty burglary and arson, that had not even been reported.
Before the Franks murder, the Chicago Tribune had reported a case of alleged kidnapping of an adult male and forcible gland removal by a rogue surgeon. At one point prosecutors wondered if Loeb and Leopold had been involved in that case as well, but the incident remained unsolved.
Both defendants openly smiled at this bill of sickness.
In a way, Caverly’s decision was prescient. He had intuitively supplied the neuroscientific insights that the 1924 defense had lacked.
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New Jersey travel agency accused of Hajj fraud
NEWARK – The Attorney General’s Office and the Division of Consumer Affairs have filed a Consumer Fraud Act suit against a Woodbridge travel agency that sold travel packages for religious pilgrimages to Mecca in Saudi Arabia that were never provided.
The state’s four-count complaint was filed in State Superior Court in Middlesex County against Shama Hajj Ziyarat Tours, L.L.C., also doing business as Karwan-E-Iman-E-Sajjad (USA), and its owner, Molana Syed Alihaider Abidi. The travel agency is located at 104 Second Street in Woodbridge.
Throughout 2006, the defendants advertised and sold the Hajj Travel Package, which was represented to include round-trip airfare from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Saudi Arabia as well as hotel accommodations and transportation within Saudi Arabia. More than 50 consumers each paid in excess of $4,500 for the trip, with some consumers paying an additional $1,000 for purportedly upgraded hotel accommodations.
The consumers were to depart from JFK Airport on December 20, 2006 and return from Saudi Arabia on January 4, 2007. Upon arriving at JFK Airport for their departure flight, consumers learned that there were no airline tickets purchased for them. During the period of December 22 to 24, 2006, defendants told consumers that the trip was cancelled.
“We are seeking restitution for consumers who suffered both financially and emotionally,’‘ Attorney General Anne Milgram said. “These last minute cancellations without explanation cost consumers thousands of dollars and prevented them from making a pilgrimage to Mecca.’‘
As part of the division’s action, the court has granted a request for a temporary restraining order to prohibit the defendants from advertising and selling travel packages to Mecca; from disposing of any assets, including monies paid by consumers for travel packages to Mecca; and from disposing of books and records. The state is seeking to make the order permanent.
“We are aware that this travel agency is advertising and selling a December 2007 travel package to Mecca. Given the company’s cancellation of the 2006 trip and failure to provide refunds, we are seeking to stop the advertisement and sale of the 2007 trip,†said Acting Consumer Affairs Director Larry DeMarzo.
The state’s complaint alleges that the defendants violated the Consumer Fraud Act and General Advertising Regulations by the following:
a.. Increasing the price of the 2006 Hajj Travel Package without explanation;
b.. Accepting payment for the 2006 Hajj Travel Package and then failing to provide consumers with the trip to Mecca;
c.. Upon cancellation of the 2006 Hajj Travel Package, leading consumers to believe that alternative travel arrangements were being made;
d.. Failing to provide consumers with advance notice that the 2006 Hajj Travel Package had been cancelled, to permit consumers to make their own alternative arrangements for the trip to Mecca;
e.. Promising, then failing to provide consumers with complete refunds following cancellation of the 2006 Hajj Travel Package; and
f.. Failing to disclose to consumers that the purchase price would not be refunded if the 2006 Hajj Travel Package was cancelled.
By its complaint, the state seeks restitution for affected consumers, maximum civil penalties, reimbursement of its attorneys’ fees and costs and compliance with the Consumer Fraud Act.
The Consumer Fraud Act provides for a civil penalty of up to $10,000 for the initial violation and up to $20,000 for each subsequent violation.
Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Koziar is representing the state in this matter.
Muslim inmate sues Missouri jail
SPRINGFIELD, MO–A Muslim inmate is suing a southwest Missouri jail, claiming the facility’s administrators violated his religious rights by feeding him sandwiches with a pork product concealed in them.
Odell M. Edwards, as a Muslim, is prohibited from eating pork. Jail officials maintain that the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches did not contain pork, just fruit pectin extracted from plants. Pectin is a natural substance that thickens jams and jellies.
But Edwards said the jelly in the sandwiches contained gelatin, which is often extracted from pig tissue. He appears to be seeking $250,000 per day for the period in which he was served the jelly.
Edwards, a federal prisoner, is awaiting trial in Springfield on drug charges. He’s been an inmate since April 2006.
First Iftar dinner held at University of Nevada
LAS VEGAS–The Muslims Students Association at University of Nevada organized its first ever Iftar dinner and it turned out to be a big success.
Members from the St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Newman Center, where the event was held, students from the Latter Day Saints Institute of Religion Center, professors and local members of the Muslim community were among the nearly 100 attendants at the event, reports the student newspaper.
Azam Bir, a sophomore in the management information systems department from Bangladesh and the outreach coordinator of the MSA, noted that while his father has experienced prejudice and discrimination in other parts of the country, he has found Las Vegas and specifically UNLV to be an extremely open and peaceful place to be a Muslim.
After a call to prayer and the evening prayer, non-Muslim dinner guests joined Muslims who broke their fast and were invited to ask questions and openly discuss Islam.
In turn, Muslim attendants also learned more about the other religious-based groups on campus, with students asking about similarities in prayers and traditions, along with the more secular conversations addressing experiences at UNLV and areas of study.
Dr. Zafeer Ahmed, appointed VP, Manufacturing of Bradmer Pharma
TORONTO–Bradmer Pharmaceuticals Inc., a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development and commercialization of cancer therapies, today announced that it has appointed Zafeer Ahmad, Ph.D, to the position of Vice President, Manufacturing Operations, and that it has accepted the resignation of Kerry M. Barnhart, Ph.D, as President and Chief Scientific Officer effective November 1, 2007. Chief Executive Officer Alan M. Ezrin, Ph.D. will assume the additional role of President.
“Dr. Ahmad brings a wealth of knowledge in late-stage drug development. As we prepare to submit our proposed multi-center Phase III trial protocol and manufacturing data for Neuradiab to the FDA, Dr. Ahmad’s experience in working with contract research and contract manufacturing organizations will be indispensable to Bradmer. Zafeer will also be a strong addition to our team as we complete the validation and transfer of drug production from Duke University to a commercial manufacturer,†said Dr. Ezrin, Chief Executive Officer of Bradmer. “Dr. Barnhart made a significant contribution to Bradmer
at an early stage and we wish him our best as he pursues other opportunities. His decision to leave at this stage, after we’ve recruited a team with broad experience in preparation for initiating the Phase III trial, will allow us to make a seamless transition in the roles and responsibilities of the existing management team.â€
Dr. Ahmad most recently held the position of Vice President, Process Development and Manufacturing at NeoPharm, Inc. Prior to his work with NeoPharm, Dr. Ahmad held senior positions at GlaxoSmithKline plc and Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. He has more than 19 years of industry experience in drug development, aseptic manufacturing operations, facility design and validation, batch record and SOP preparation, outsourcing, tech transfer, process validation and regulatory submission of drugs. Based on this experience, Dr. Ahmad has a strong working knowledge of cGMP and CMC documentation for IND and BLA preparation. From an academic perspective, Dr. Ahmad held the position of Senior Scientist/Assistant Professor at Indiana University, and was a Visiting Fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. He received his Ph.D in Biochemistry from Aligarh Muslim University in India. He has published numerous peer reviewed articles including nine papers in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Oak Lawn school district adds Ramadan to its calendar
OAK LAWN, IL–The Oak Lawn school district has decided to include Ramadan as well as Christmas on its calendar.
The school board, which serves the west end of Oak Lawn and parts of Bridgeview, agreed to add to the school calendar observances of the Muslim religious holiday of Ramadan and to continue traditional observances of Christmas. Halloween celebrations also will continue.
The board’s action followed an evening of public comment last week during which residents protested earlier administrative decisions to “tone down†all holiday celebrations in response to complaints from a Muslim mother that her religion’s traditions were being neglected. The mother also complained about the inclusion of Jell-O on the menus in school cafeterias. Jell-O includes pork products, Muslims do not eat.
Muslims now comprise one-third of the school enrollment.
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Why Humans Respond to Music and Monkeys Don't
TUESDAY, June 11, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- If your loved one's crooning is music to your ears, the reason appears to rest with part of brain that is super-sensitive to pitch.
That's the upshot of a new study offering a fresh look into what makes us human.
For the research, which aimed to understand the role of music in health, researchers compared how human brains and monkey brains respond to speech and music. Key finding: People have a far keener sensitivity to pitch than our evolutionary cousins, macaque monkeys.
"This finding suggests that speech and music may have fundamentally changed the way our brain processes pitch," said lead author Bevil Conway, of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. "It may also help explain why it has been so hard for scientists to train monkeys to perform auditory tasks that humans find relatively effortless."
In the study, researchers played a series of harmonic sounds, or tones, to healthy volunteers and monkeys, and used imaging to see how their brains responded. They also monitored brain activity in response to toneless sounds.
Though the brains of monkeys and humans had similar hot spots in response to high frequency sounds, a brain area called the auditory cortex was far more sensitive to tones among the humans.
"It's when we added tonal structure to the sounds that some of these same regions of the human brain became more responsive," Conway said in an NIH news release. "[So] these results suggest the macaque monkey may experience music and other sounds differently."
And this "ear up" on other primates could be key to understanding how the human brain evolved.
Conway said the results suggest that over time the ability to speak and craft music may have somehow fundamentally altered the way the human brain interprets pitch.
"It makes one wonder what kind of sounds our evolutionary ancestors experienced," he said.
In contrast, the macaque's experience of the visual world is probably similar to humans', Conway added.
The findings appear in the June 10 issue of Nature Neuroscience.
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association offers more about how we hear.
SOURCE: U.S. National Institutes of Health, news release, June 10, 2019
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BEST HOTELS WEST COAST
The Best in the West: 12 Hotels in the Western U.S. Bucking the Standard
by Sarah Z. Wexler June 12, 2015
Californian summers may call to mind stretches of sand and palm trees, but these 12 hotels prove that the western U.S. has way more to offer than standard beach crashpads and stuffy Hollywood hotels.
The Mansion at Casa Madrona in Sausalito, California – 3 of 12 (Best Hotels West Coast)
This 1885 historic Victorian mansion has 11 newly rooms with a clean, simple aesthetic, all with Instagram-ready views of the San Francisco skyline, Golden Gate Bridge, and Richardson Bay. True ballers can stay in the mansion’s 5,000-square-foot Alexandrite suite, which comes with a private chef and a personal trainer, and a wine fridge stocked with local bottles; the hotel can arrange a sunset sail or sailing lessons in the Bay.
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About Casa Madrona Hotel & Spa
A Luxury Hotel With More Than A Century Of History The essence of Casa Madrona lies equally in its storied heritage and in its inspired approach to modern-day hospitality. Perched hillside overlooking a breathtaking seaside bay-view in the charming city of Sausalito, Casa Madrona provides a transformative and serene retreat for travelers from around the world. More than 125 years after its inception, the timeless and beloved icon continues to express an innate sense of style, seamlessly blending innovation with tradition and offering a genuine luxury escape just minutes from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. In 2014, the property underwent a multimillion-dollar renovation that brought a renewed energy to the guest rooms, cottages, meeting space and the extraordinary 11-room Mansion, including the property’s signature 5,000 square-foot master residence, The Alexandrite Suite. – See more at: http://casamadrona.com/#sthash.p9t2rq1Q.dpuf
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SIETSE NABBEN NAMED AREA GENERAL MANAGER FOR TWO OF METWEST TERRA HOSPITALITY’S BAY AREA COLLECTION OF PROPERTIES
PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Nabben to Oversee Operations at Casa Madrona Hotel & Spa and The Lodge at Tiburon
SAUSALITO, Calif. (June 5, 2014) – MetWest Terra Hospitality is pleased to announce the promotion of Sietse Nabben to area general manager, with direct oversight of Casa Madrona Hotel & Spa and The Lodge at Tiburon. With his most recent position as general manager of The Lodge at Tiburon, Nabben takes on his new role with more than 17 years of hospitality experience.
“I am confident that Sietse’s broad industry experience, as well as his dedication to exemplary guest service will lead to success in his new assignment,” said Gary Gutierrez, president, MetWest Terra Hospitality. “With the recent launch of the Mansion at Casa Madrona and additions to the culinary team at The Lodge at Tiburon, we’re thrilled to have Sietse at the forefront to lead these exciting initiatives.”
Prior to joining the MetWest Terra Hospitality team, the Netherlands native came to the United States after his work with Marriot International led him to additional Marriot properties in Chicago, Munich and Boston. Furthermore, Nabben was the director of operations at Affinia Chicago Hotel, general manager of Acqua Hotel and The Laurel Inn Hotel of Joie de Vivre Hospitality in San Francisco. Prior to his new position, Nabben joined MetWest Terra Hospitality in 2012 as general manager of The Lodge at Tiburon. In his role, Nabben oversaw a multi-million dollar renovation and repositioning of both the hotel and restaurant.
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ABOUT CASA MADRONA HOTEL & SPA:
Casa Madrona Hotel & Spa is poised on a lush hillside overlooking Richardson Bay. Located on the waterfront in downtown Sausalito, a picturesque and upscale Bay Area community north of San Francisco, the property is located just across the Golden Gate Bridge and in close proximity to Napa and Sonoma wine countries, downtown San Francisco and National Park scenery. In May 2014, a highly-anticipated unveiling showcased a number of notable highlights including the complete renovation of the hotel’s historic Mansion built in 1885, the restructuring and redesign of the Mansion’s eleven guest rooms including the new, standout 5,000-square-foot Alexandrite Suite and the 1,700-square-foot Junto meeting and event space, plus the renovation of its seven upper hillside cottages. All of which have been updated and perfected by a world-renowned design team, and seamlessly paired with leading, cutting-edge technology and the finest amenities. This intimate, Northern California hotel perfectly blends the amenities of a full-service hotel with the charm of a historic inn. Casa Madrona Hotel & Spa is managed by MetWest Terra Hospitality, whose other San Francisco Bay Area collection properties include: The Lodge at Tiburon, Toll House Hotel (Los Gatos) and Hotel Abri (Union Square). For reservations and additional information, please visit http://www.casamadrona.com/or call 800.288.0502. To follow more of Casa Madrona’s promotions join us on Twitter: @CasaMadrona or Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CasaMadronaHotel.
ABOUT THE LODGE AT TIBURON:
Across the spectacular San Francisco Bay, The Lodge at Tiburon is a sublime escape from the bustle of the city. Only steps away from the Bay docks, The Lodge is a quaint retreat nestled among the cafés, boutiques and galleries of Tiburon and is adorned with relaxing décor and an inviting ambiance. Premium guest experience is delivered through exceptional guest services and amenities that The Lodge has to offer. Amenities such as the fully functional business center, poolside fire pit and newly re-concepted Tiburon Tavern allow guests to enjoy their stay whether it’s for business or pleasure. This hidden retreat offers quintessential Northern California experience at its best. The Lodge at Tiburon is managed by MetWest Terra Hospitality, whose other Bay Area Collection properties include: Toll House Hotel, Hotel Abri, and Casa Madrona Hotel and Spa. For reservations and additional information, please visit http://lodgeattiburon.com/ or call 800.762.7770. To follow more of The Lodge at Tiburon’s promotions join us on Twitter: @LodgeAtTiburon1 or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LodgeatTiburon
ABOUT METWEST TERRA HOSPITALITY:
MetWest Terra Hospitality is comprised of a diverse group of capital managers, real estate professionals, and lifetime hotel operators. The team is led by Chairman Richard S. Hollander who calls on nearly three decades of the successful founding and management of institutional investment strategies, which combined for total assets under management of $80.0 billion. MetWest Terra Hospitality operates Topnotch Resort in Stowe, The Inn at Jackson Hole in Jackson Hole, Hotel Abri in San Francisco, Casa Madrona Hotel & Spa in Sausalito, The Lodge at Tiburon in Tiburon, Toll House Hotel in Los Gatos. For more information please visit Metwestterra.com.
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Over the past decade, Michigan cable companies have invested more than $5 billion in private investment in the state to offer cutting-edge services, including broadband access to more than 90 percent of Michigan families. Cable broadband provides service at the highest speeds generally available to residential and small business users – well over the speed of DSL service offered by most traditional phone companies. Cable companies have spent their own capital to build out lines across Michigan, and often serve local governments and schools at special rates.
Overall, according to Connect Michigan, commissioned by the MPSC to map where broadband is available in Michigan, 96.79 percent of households have access to fixed broadband service. When you include mobile broadband service, 99.7 percent of households have service.
It is clear, the vast majority of Michigan families have broadband service in one form or another thanks to private investment, particularly by cable companies. For government to pay subsidies to create additional providers is not a wise use of tax dollars.
Allowing investment in future innovation: Cable companies have been leaders in rolling out new high speed broadband technologies.
PEG fees
Public, education and government (PEG) channels are channels set aside by cable providers and operated by local public, education and government entities.Michigan cable companies pay an effective tax rate (PEG and franchise fees) of 6.25 percent – or more than $70 million a year.
Currently, however, satellite companies pay nothing to local units of government. The MCTA supports competition on a level playing field for all television service providers – and that doesn’t exist today.
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Microflix Film Festival 2019
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2020 Microflix Writers Award – Submissions
Selected 2020 Microlit Texts
Regulations Microflix Film Award
Sponsors/ Partners
Microflix Special Screenings Night
By Bridgette Sulicich
With its elegant and unique architecture, Green Square Library was the perfect setting to capture the theme of the evening: a celebration of innovation. Not only were the UTS students’ Microflix films shown for the incredible pieces of artwork that they are, they were deconstructed and built upon by a myriad of installations that showcased both the filmmakers’ talents and highlighted the microfiction that they were based upon.
Guests were invited to explore three levels of the library tower, where they would experience three different explorations of select Microflix films.
The Anything Room
On the top floor, the Anything Room hosted the Page to Screen Adaptation session, run by Deb Szapiro, where she invited the filmmakers to discuss their inspiration, motivation and the process of creating their shorts. Each film was shown twice – sandwiching the discussion so that viewers were able to first experience the raw emotion of the pieces and draw their own conclusions. The second viewing was then coloured by the filmmakers’ aspirations and intentions.
Some filmmakers were also lucky enough to have their microfiction author in the audience, allowing the writers to share their feedback about how they thought their piece would translate to the screen and what it’s like to see new interpretations of their writing.
“I loved hearing students discuss the process of making the films, and the thought that went into their decisions. They were so articulate and the films were top-notch.” – Shady Cosgrove (Author of ‘Self Medication’ and University of Wollongong teacher of Creative Writing
Still From ‘Die Like A Kelly’, adapted from Dorothy Simmons ‘On The Hour’
Here, we were treated to Sound in Microflix which showcased some incredible sound improvisation by Stephen Adams and Will Hansen. A projection of eight Microflix films ran continuously, showing each piece twice in a row. The first play was accompanied by an array of piano, bass and percussive soundscapes designed on the spot by the two performers, which was then contrasted by the short’s intended soundtrack on the second play through. Experiencing the almost overwhelmingly intense life given to each film by the live music was, in the most literal sense of the word, awesome. To hear how the Music and Sound Design students had envisioned the films’ soundtracks brought new light to the limitless interpretations that are possible in an event like this.
“The musicians improvising their own soundscapes were innovative and just as the films reinterpreted the source stories, these new sounds created a fresh interpretation of the images in the microflix.” – Brenda Proudfoot (Newcastle author of ‘Down The Rabbit Hole’, whose story was the basis of the Diversity Award.
The Computer Lab
Our last installation was Frame by Frame Microflix, conducted by George Catsi. Here, two films were played through and the audience was given the opportunity to shout out ‘STOP!’ at any point. Wherever the film paused would lead to a discussion from the filmmakers about their specific vision for that frame or scene. This room gave us an opportunity to understand the creative and technical processes that go into making a Microflix film, and really delve in to the minds of the creators. John Carey, whose work ‘Aurora Australis’ was adapted into the microflix film ‘Sweet Dreams’, stopped by to lend us his thoughts when writing the piece. Kezia Suryaputra was the filmmaker for ‘Sweet Dreams’.
“I was impressed by the talent on offer and by the efforts of everyone involved” – John Carey (Author of ‘Aurora Australias’ and ‘Left Out’, which was performed during the Multi-media Performance)
Still from ‘Rabbit Hole’, adapted from Brenda Proudfoot’s ‘Down The Rabbit Hole’
Each floor’s session ran through twice, giving guests the opportunity to explore all that the night had to offer. After the second session had wrapped up, everyone was invited down to the Main Auditorium for refreshments and a multi-media performance that gave a new perspective to some of the films we had already seen throughout the night, as well as some new pieces. Actors Grace Naoum and James Thomasson gave voice to an array of incredible microfiction before a backdrop of a still taken from each piece’s film adaptation. Some performances were accompanied by pre-recorded soundscapes that transported you into the heart of the story. We also had readings from three authors, Alana Hicks, Debra Le Nepveu and John Carey, who captivated the audience and breathed life into the words they had so expertly written.
“What a lovely experience, to be handed your work back in another form, interpreted creatively by people who are working in another medium!” – Christine Howe (Author of ‘Sea Womb’ and University of Wollongong teacher of Creative Writing)
Still from ‘On the Hour’, adapted from Debra Le Nepveu’s ‘End of Days’
Being a part of a night that celebrated such an amazing array of talent was an experience I am not likely to forget in this lifetime, and it could only have been designed by the visionary that is Bronwyn Mehan. Her impeccable eye for exciting approaches to presenting short stories could only have been realised with the help of Debra Szapiro, George Catsi, and James Hazel, whose video, audio and emceeing expertise made the night flow so smoothly.
Microflix Film Festival in review
What a fantastic three days of Microflix Festival at Green Square Library . . .
The Roo Shooter
To our 2019 Microflix authors and filmmakers, a huge thank you for being a part of the second annual Microflix Festival! It was a really fantastic series of events; from Thursday’s behind-the-scenes Special Screening Night, to the amazing outdoor awards night on Friday and the fantastic hand-on mobile filmmaking workshop on Saturday afternoon. What a marvellous way to showcase the work of Australian authors, to provide a platform for talented emerging film and sound producers and to encourage anyone to pick up their phone and start creating.
We are so proud of all those who took part and extremely pleased to see so many people rocking along to the events. Thanks to our partners, City of Sydney Library Programs for hosting all three events and to the Australia Council of the Arts and City of Sydney Matching Grants Program without whose support we could not have staged this year’s extravaganza. Special thanks to Sydney Mechanics School of Arts for donating prize money and to Northern Territory Writers Centre, Queensland Writers Centre and Writers Victoria for their support. A very special thanks to UTS animation and sound production staff and students.
We are thrilled to announce this year’s award winners, but would also like to congratulate all of our submitters and finalists.
And the nominees and winners are…
Best Direction $200
Nominations were BIRDING and SCREENED.
Winner was SCREENED directed by Sarah Monaghan, Jacob Sadler, Arti Oza and Shaz Kazi, based on ‘Movements’ by Alana Hicks.
Above: Screened
Best Sound $200
Nominations were WORK ENERGY, BARRAGE, LUCKY BUTCHERY, SCREENED and BIRDING.
Winner was BIRDING based on ‘Birding’ by Brenda Saunders and the sound designers were Henry Lamshed and Lewis Nisbet.
Above: Birding
Best Adaptation $1000
Nominations were BARRAGE, LUCKY BUTCHERY, BIRDING and SCREENED, DIE LIKE A KELLY.
Winner was LUCKY BUTCHERY by Wendy Lu, Yean Chong, Allan Noh and Madelaine Habi, based on ‘Safe and Sound’ by Danielle Baldock.
Above: Lucky Butchery
Best Writing $500
Nominations were ‘Birding’ by Brenda Saunders, ‘Barrage’ by Jude Bridge, ‘Johnny Cakes’ by Alexandra Geneve adapted as LOQUAT, ‘On The Hour’ by Dorothy Simmons adapted into DIE LIKE A KELLY.
Winner was Dorothy Simmons.
Above: Die Like A Kelly
Diversity Award $1000
The Diversity Award was won by the filmmaking group, ‘Major Arcana’ which included Kiara Rodriguez-Hextell, John Li, Allen Wang, Rubaiya Nur Hasan. Their film DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE was based on ‘Down The Rabbit Hole’ by Brenda Proudfoot.
The award was presented by Anne Devrell from the Board of the Sydney Mechanics School of the Arts who have kindly sponsored this $1000 prize.
We’ll be announcing the theme for 2020 Microflix on Dec 1.
2019 Microflix Festival – Green Square Library, Sydney
We are delighted to be partnering with the City of Sydney Library Programs to present the second annual Microflix Awards and Festival at the Green Square Library, September 24-26, 2019.
Whether you’re a film buff, a lover of literature or a budding filmmaker, come and experience this exciting showcase of contemporary Australian storytelling through film. Enjoy free film screenings, the awards ceremony and a mobile filmmaking workshop over three days.
Special screening event: 7.30–9pm, Thursday 24 October
Get a taste of the entries in this year’s competition with a special preview of selected films. Discover the stories the films are based on with some behind-the-scenes insights into how they were made. Reserve ticket
Microflix awards ceremony: 7.30–9pm, Friday 25 October
Join our esteemed judges, Fenella Kernebone, Stephanie King and Will Simon for the screening of finalist films, followed by the awards ceremony. Categories include Best Adaptation, Best film and Best direction. Reserve ticket
Shawn Spina, Filmmaker from CuriousWorks and Screenability
Mobile filmmaking workshop: 12pm–3.30pm, Saturday 26 October
Get hands-on experience in this free workshop for new and emerging filmmakers with Microflix Festival and short story publishing house, Spineless Wonders. With a focus on story-to-film adaptation, you’ll explore smartphone filmmaking including how to adapt micro-stories for the screen. Presented by Shawn Spina whose short film ‘Prone To The Drone’ had its premiere screening at the 66th Sydney Film Festival. Reserve ticket
Screenshot from Prone To The Drone film (by Shawn Spina)
No prior knowledge of filmmaking is required to attend the workshop. While the workshop is suitable for ages 16 years and over, parental guidance is advised for the screening and awards night due to adult themes in the films screened.
All sessions are free, however bookings are recommended as places are limited.
Presented with City of Sydney Library
Progress Diaries with UTS Animation students No.2
Hi there!! Hope everyone’s had a good week working hard on their adaptations for Microflix 2019! Just like this group of UTS second year animation students whose short film ‘Prune’ is adapted from “Self Medication” by Shady Cosgrove…
Do you guys have experience in adaptations? If so what were they?
As second year students this was actually the first film we’ve ever created, so adaptation from text to film was new to us with this project
What were key elements within the texts you were looking for as a potential text to adapt?
I think a key aspect we were looking for in our texts was a strong central message relatable to us in particular; we wanted something related to us as young people.
How and why did your group decide your text?
We actually had a shortlist of films, but we ended up settling on self medication because we saw the potential to explore different ways of conveying the core theme of the story.
Did you decide a budget before beginning the project?
There was no budget for this project! As it was a student film all of the resources were created by us and our sound team.
What was involved in the initial stages of your adaptation process?
Initially we spent 3 to 4 weeks exploring different metaphors for the obsessive escapism at the core of the story, writing up plot outlines, storyboarding image sequences to see how it would look and designing the characters and environments before we moved forward to production.
Can you please explain a brief timeline of the rest of your progress:
Once we hit production, we had a two month pipeline which we split evenly among all four of us: we each were allocated different scenes for rough animation, line, colour, lighting and compositing etc. Line and colour were further broken up into character and background, and this pipeline worked well for us as we weren’t stuck in a bottleneck waiting for a previous step to be completed and always had something to do.
How have you so far collaborated with UTS Sound Design students on your adaptation?
With the sound students, our process was mostly keeping then up to date on the project and our animation milestones and providing detailed feedback with every iteration of sound we received in order to reach the final product. We mostly discussed online and shared our work through google drive.
What were key challenges or issues you have faced during your progress?
Time management and learning new skills were some main challenges; this was the first time we had undertaken a project of this scale, and working in such close quarters with a team where communication was so important to making sure everything hit deadlines and looked good.
How did you overcome these?
Keeping communication up with our team definitely helped; we relied a lot on each other for feedback and in case of emergencies having a team which were all passionate was great. With time management, we all worked really hard because there was really no other way to avoid it with our other projects. In the end though we’re really pleased with how it went!
What have been some positive highlights of the process?
Seeing people react to our film and genuinely enjoy it was by far the best part of the process, as well as having such a dedicated and understanding team who were all dedicated to making the film the best it could be.
What have you enjoyed about adaptation?
I enjoyed seeing how the transition from one form of media to another allowed you to take so many liberties, but still maintain the core of the story that makes it recognisable. Adaptation can breathe new life into a story or allow you to see it from a different perspective, which I think is the most interesting thing about it.
How do you feel about the concept of the Microflix Festival, like the combining of literature and film?
I think it’s great to see this combining of creatives, especially bringing light to Australian talent and storytellers. It allows us to showcase more than one facet of Australian art and I think that’s really special to see how we inspire and build off of each others work.
Anastazija (Taj) Luksic is a student at University of Technology Sydney, where in 2017 she completed her Media Arts and Production degree, and is currently finishing off her Creative Intelligence and Innovation bachelors. During her degree she worked on personal documentary projects, with one screened at the Focus On Ability Film Festival 2017. She also volunteered on a number of sets ranging from a commercial for Batyr, to ‘The Horizon’ web series.
How To Submit?
Hello fellow filmmakers and writers!
Our submission deadline is coming up on the 30th of June, nearly a month to go! Good luck to those who are already busy working on their projects, and a warm welcome to the Microflix community for those who have recently decided they will enter!
With the submission deadline around the corner, todays blog will give you a step-by-step instruction on how to submit for the festival!
Step 1: Head to our Microflix Film Awards page
Step 2: Scroll and click on Browse 2019 SOUND text excerpts
Step 3: Read through this page of excerpts:
OR: Click on a title to download the full text.
Step 4: Read carefully, select a text and begin your production!
Feel free to read our blog if you get stuck and need some inspiration, or would like tips on making films on smartphones!
Once your film is ready to submit…
Step 5: Head back to the Microflix Film Awards page and scroll to click on Register & Submit your Film
Here you will be redirected to the Spineless Wonders registration page.
Step 6: Create an account with Spineless Wonders
Once you are signed in…
Step 7: Select Submit on either
If you are a student…
If you are not a student..
Step 8: Follow the prompts and upload your film!
Don’t forget to write a small bio for yourself and pay the fee before you submit!
Step 9: Celebrate and wait to hear from us!
Hello filmmakers and future Microflix submitters! Today’s blog post will be a short interview with one of the UTS Animation student groups who are currently creating a short adaptation for Microflix 2019! The students Tak Stapleton, Indigo Krix, Winston Liu, William Savage are adapting ‘Barrage’ by Jude Bridge, one of the microlit texts I gave some tips for in a blog post a couple weeks ago! A great microlit text, which you can read on the Microflix website under 2019 SOUND Texts!
And on with the interview…
Progress screenshot
We looked for a text that brought visuals to mind when reading. I think an important part of adaptation is finding a source that you can resonate with, something that gets you engaged right from the first time you read it.
Our group were all drawn to the playfulness of ‘Barrage’. We liked that the text looked at some heavy concepts through a comical eye. We had a large number of ideas pretty earlier on with how it could be adapted into animation due to the rhythm and morphing visuals in the text.
It’s been fantastic getting to work with so many different creatives! I’ve enjoyed getting to learn off my peers and bounce ideas around as we worked on molding the microlit into our own interpretation. We all really engaged with the story from day dot so it wasn’t long before we had visions of where we wanted to take it. Each group member had their own set of skills and I think we all benefited from watching how one another do things and learning from that process.
Final year animation students Tak Stapleton, Indigo Krix, Winston Liu and William Savage hard at work!
That completes the progress interview for the week! Will be back next week with more!
Page to Screen Adaptation: Fidelity or Liberty?
Guest blogger, Jaimee Cachia
Why is it that written texts adapted for the silver screen so often fall short of the expectations set by the magic of the page?
The most basic answer can be found in the understanding that film, which shows things, and literature, which tells them, ultimately speak different languages. Where a written tale conveys its meaning internally, a film must do so externally. Therein lies the letdown: this difference in transmission techniques can lead to difficulties in communicating certain aspects of a story—perhaps those that occur inside a character’s head—and often results in the omission of those sublime details that can only take place in that liminal space between the page and the reader’s own imagination.
First-person narration, for instance, can pose significant challenges for any adaptation; losing that immediate channel between reader and writer could strip a film of the unique voice that pervaded the original work. It is therefore unsurprising that so many successful adaptations of iconic literary works turn to the narrative voiceover, whether it be in small portions at crucial moments (e.g. Stand By Me) or as an extensive framing device (The Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club). In order to pull this off, these filmmakers do not simply employ the narration as a convenient expositionary device, but rather rely on its contingency with the fictional world in which they are working. The narration in The Shawshank Redemption is so successful because Morgan Freeman’s solemn diction of Stephen King’s words simply feels true to the time. Edward Norton’s wry narration as the unnamed narrator in Fight Club melds naturally into the comic cruelty of the universe David Fincher built from Chuck Palahniuk’s genius.
Fight Club 1999
But are such verbal cues always necessary to convey a story meaningfully? Perhaps not; one could argue that the purpose of an adaptation is not to dictate the original written word, but to interpret it – albeit in a very different art form.
Communicating something visually needn’t cost the piece its essence, even without a disembodied voice to provide consistent guidance. Stand By Me, Rob Reiner’s wildly popular adaptation of Stephen King’s lesser-known novella The Body, indeed features occasional narrative commentary from grown-up Gordie – though it is strikingly sparse considering the primacy of his first-person narration in the original text. The success of this choice proves that it is wholly possible for a film to embody a specific tone first embedded on the page, even if it does stray structurally from its source material. The film’s soundtrack of Buddy Holly and the Chordettes coupled with the nostalgic set design offer meticulous period detail, creating a mood faithful to the novella. The original text stood as a character study of the four 12-year-old boys; though the film differs from the original in that it revolves around the progression of Gordie alone, it retains King’s essential purpose: to examine the journey from childhood towards adolescence, and how the erosion of innocence that this entails can erode one’s friendships.
Stand By Me 1986
Literature and cinema, as two different forms of media, have different rules and expectations. The fidelity of an adaptation to its original text therefore needn’t be the measure of its artistic merit – as such filmmakers as David Fincher and Rob Reiner have shown us, it is entirely possible to insert one’s own creative vision into an existing story, to replicate an essential message without word-for-word literalism.
Jaimee Cachia
‘Jaimee Cachia is a Sydney-based writer of proses both critical and creative. She is currently undertaking her Honours year in Creative Writing at the University of Technology Sydney, whose premier publication Vertigo Magazine has routinely been host to her non-fiction work. Throughout her degree in both Creative Writing and Social & Political Sciences, she has written zealously in the interests of social justice and has previously sub-edited the academic journal NEW: Emerging Scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies.’
Taj’s Top Tips No.2
Hello filmmakers and writers!! Are we excited for todays blog, Shuffle Adaptations: Part Two?!
As we are all preparing for Microflix’s submission deadline, the 30th of June, a little spark of inspiration can be what you need to push that idea out of your mind and onto a camera!
Today I’ll be talking about three microlit texts from the anthology Shuffle, ‘Driving With Gurrumul’ by Andy Kissane, ‘Aftermath’ by Shady Cosgrove, and ‘Barrage’ by Jude Bridge. Each of these texts showcase a variety of approaches to adaptation, and how to adapt a text that may seem too expensive to achieve for a low-budget/ no-budget film.
Continue reading “Taj’s Top Tips No.2”
Making Films on Smartphones – Hot Tips
Helloooo writers and filmmakers!
While we’re all mulling over the options of microlit texts we could choose from for all our Microflix submissions, I’ve gathered some ready helpful tips for shooting on a smartphone. One of the categories in our 2019 Microflix Festival is ‘Best Film Made on Smartphone’, so if you’re a potential submitter, but are unable to locate a camera and have a smartphone, this is your opportunity to get creative!
When Apples iPhone 6 was released, advertisements began popping up that involved stunning landscapes, close up animals and bright coloured photographs or footage, with text that said, ‘shot on iPhone 6’. It really made you think, was it really shot on an iPhone? Since then short films, feature films, advertisements and web series, have all been shot on a smartphone of sorts.
‘Unsane’ 2018 Director Steven Soderbergh
What filming on an iPhone 7 looks like! (See above)
‘Tangerine’ 2015 Director Sean Baker
What filming on an iPhone 5s looks like! (See above).
In 2010, Apple of My Eye was released which has since been widely credited as the first film to be made on an iPhone 4, shooting and editing. Then in 2011 the first full-length feature film made entirely on a smartphone- the Nokia N8, was released entitled ‘Olive’. The film was made by adapting the Nokia N8 and crafting a 35mm lens adapter onto the smartphone in order to achieve a shallow depth of field. The N8 is also taped to a motorbike and a remote-controlled helicopter for overhead shots in other scenes. More recently in 2018 ‘Unsane’ was filmed entirely on an iPhone 7, whereas Sundance winner ‘Tangerine’ was shot entirely on an iPhone 5s but used an iPhone filming app called Filmic Pro. Some other great examples include ‘Night Fishing’ (2011) by South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook, ‘And Uneasy Lies The Mind’ by director Ricky Fosheim, and ‘Snow Steam Iron’ by Zack Snyder.
Full length feature films will be able to spend their “spare” money on extras for their smartphone filming, such as apps, lens adapters, drones. But I have listed some examples that don’t use any. I also recommend checking out some of these films above if you’re still in need of some inspiration.
Some tips that I’ve collected surrounding filming on smartphones do include extra costs but depending on your adaption you may not need to include any of those. majority of these tips are free!
How to keep your smartphone steady?
The newest iPhones have built-in optical image stabilization, which makes shooting decent handheld footage fairly easy.
You can try resting the phone on a t-shirt or something soft while you hold it on a table top, the ground or any solid surface.
You can even try resting your elbows on a nearby object
Holding your breath during shots can also help minimize shakiness if you are hand-holding the phone on a solid surface.
You can also keep the phone close to your body
Don’t forget to use your body to absorb bounces and shakes
Try not to use digital zoom as it makes the shots look more grainy and camera movement are noticed much more
If your budget does allow for it, miniature tripods are available to purchase at any tech store
How to fix the lighting?
The use of natural lighting can save so many shots on an iPhone! Get outside or open a window if you’re shooting inside, just be careful of shadows!
But also whilst shooting inside, more light the better, experiment with your different household lighting, bulbs, lamps, fairy lights, the options can be endless!
Keep in mind iPhone has an automatic focus and exposure lock. This can be a great function for quick photos, but when you’re shooting a video of one person talking to the camera, it can really complicate things. The iPhone tends to keep adjusting and refocusing, which can lead to jittery-looking footage. That’s why I recommend using the exposure focus lock. This will help to keep the focus and exposure constant throughout your shot.
How do I get the sound right?
Have your subject as close to the phone as possible. So when shooting on an iPhone it’s best to position a second iPhone directly above the subject’s head to record clean audio
Otherwise you can invest in external microphones.
Also can be a good habit to get into when shooting with smartphones, clap once at the beginning of each take to create a reference point for syncing the good sound from the voice memo with the bad sound from the video recording.
How to make use of smartphones built in features?
Don’t forget the great time-lapse feature of the iPhone, as they are a cool way to showcase a bustling work environment or event.
There’s also iPhone built-in slo-mo that’s a cool way to showcase a bustling work environment or event.
I hope some of these tips were helpful and can be applied to your next smartphone filmmaking attempt!
Helloo fellow filmmakers, writers, and storytelling enthusiasts! Looking for some inspiration for your entry to this year’s Microflix Award? Our resourceful intern, Taj, has some top tips on adapting microlit to film to get you started… plus an exclusive deal on Shuffle, the sound-themed anthology.
How great are adaptations?! Isn’t it amazing to see how the literary detail and imperfect and perfect features of characters we love are communicated onto screen? Growing up I felt like the luckiest person alive during the Harry Potter era. Reading those books then being able to watch them come to life was an experience like no other. And so my love for storytelling began, where now I am a UTS Media Arts and Production graduate, and filmmaking is my forte. Throughout my degree I hadn’t considered adapting a text for an assignment or personal project since I was focusing on other forms of filmmaking. However, now with the emergence of Microflix and the use of microlit texts as part of the festival being brought to my attention, adaptation is definitely something I will be, and every filmmaker should be, experimenting with now!
Entries close June 30. This year’s theme is SOUND. See entry details here.
In the meantime, I will be examining some of the microlit texts, and how they could be adapted onto the screen. Today I will look at three texts from the anthology Shuffle: ‘Thin Wall’ by Mark O’Flynn, ‘Da Doof’ by Luke Evans, and ‘Stovepipes’ by Elizabeth Tyson-Doneley.
Thin Wall
‘Thin Wall’ is a sorrowful but heartfelt story which immerses the reader into a world of loneliness using very simple, but highly effective imagery. Much of the imagery in ‘Thin Wall’ can easily be translated onto the screen without your production becoming excessive in detail. The narrator overhearing his neighbour’s conversation rather being in the conversation could allow for minimal use of actors and setting changes. This depends on your interpretation of the story, or how detailed you want your three minutes or under film to be. A simple approach however, could be to simply use no actors, one room, voice recordings, shadows and a POV camera angle. Imagine a POV (multiple shots or one single shot) of the narrator showing us the empty, plain space he is in, with shadows from bars darkening the space, meanwhile a muffled sad-toned phone conversation is occurring next door. These techniques would simply convey the sorrowful, loneliness tone of the text, as well as the prison context of the narrator and his neighbour. Each of these techniques could be extended or removed in your adaptation, which depends on your brilliant interpretation!
Da Doof
I found ‘Da Doof’ a funny take on today’s music scene, highlighting an individual’s perception of different environments where we hear music, and the type of music that is admired. ‘Da Doof’ holds a strong opinionated tone throughout, where the narrator does not like hearing music in nightclubs, and clearly likes listening to music in pubs. They have no interest in following a DJ, but will make an effort to continuously see bands they like. The contrast between the music scenes and the narrator’s selectivity in their music choices has potential for screen adaptation. Rather than following the narrator’s chronological opinions in ‘Da Doof’, an adaptation could continuously switch between the two music scenes. For example, beginning with a short montage of nightclubbing, potentially through photos changing to the time of “doof-doof” music, then the same short montage for live music in pubs. Then using a highly processed, disjointed song choice with footage and/or photography which captures aspects of techno music scene that the narrator is unimpressed by, compared to an instrumental calming song with images that capture a feel good atmosphere, would emphasise the narrator’s tone throughout the text.
The last microlit text I will be exploring is ‘Stovepipes’, an endearing and simple love story where the narrator reminisces about the beginnings of their relationship. ‘Stovepipes’ is told in three parts, firstly describing the couple’s first meeting and kiss, then the week after this meeting, and the present day when the couple are now living together. An adaptation could also communicate the story in these three parts, using chapter titles such as ‘When We First Met’ ‘One Week Later’ and ‘His/Her Birthday.’ The ‘When We First Met’ sequence could cut between two people sitting alone, then to the pair sitting closer together, eventually the last cut shows the couple sharing a kiss. Music, laughter, and muffled dialogue could fill the sequence too. ‘One Week Later’ could show a series of close up shots to the items the narrator describes to be in the space, such as a TV, noodle cups, clothes scattered around. Meanwhile music is playing and the couples laughter builds and builds and builds. Then we follow into ‘His/Her Birthday’ sequence, where we see the narrator just finished getting dressed, and as we hear a door unlock, his or her face lights up and heavy breathing and footsteps sound effects begin and become louder until they reach the narrator.
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These adaptation descriptions I have made are just suggestions! They may or may not resonate with you as you read them yourself! And that’s the beauty of interpretation, so register for Microflix, read the texts for yourself and resolve your own vision of the microlit texts provided as part of the festival! Or find your own sound-theme text to work on.
As a special deal until the closing date, you can grab yourself a pdf of the Shuffle anthology for just $5 where you will find over 40 microlit texts on the theme of sound. To grab this bargain use this link and use the discount code: TAJ
Taj on location
By Bridgette Sulicich With its elegant and unique architecture, Green Square Library was the perfect setting to capture the theme of the evening: a celebration of innovation. Not only were the UTS students’ Microflix films shown for the incredible pieces of artwork that they are, they were deconstructed and built upon by a myriad of installations …
Continue reading “Microflix Special Screenings Night”
What a fantastic three days of Microflix Festival at Green Square Library . . . To our 2019 Microflix authors and filmmakers, a huge thank you for being a part of the second annual Microflix Festival! It was a really fantastic series of events; from Thursday’s behind-the-scenes Special Screening Night, to the amazing outdoor awards …
Continue reading “Microflix Film Festival in review”
We are delighted to be partnering with the City of Sydney Library Programs to present the second annual Microflix Awards and Festival at the Green Square Library, September 24-26, 2019. Whether you’re a film buff, a lover of literature or a budding filmmaker, come and experience this exciting showcase of contemporary Australian storytelling through film. …
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Hi there!! Hope everyone’s had a good week working hard on their adaptations for Microflix 2019! Just like this group of UTS second year animation students whose short film ‘Prune’ is adapted from “Self Medication” by Shady Cosgrove… Do you guys have experience in adaptations? If so what were they? As second year students this …
Continue reading “Progress Diaries with UTS Animation students No.2”
Hello fellow filmmakers and writers! Our submission deadline is coming up on the 30th of June, nearly a month to go! Good luck to those who are already busy working on their projects, and a warm welcome to the Microflix community for those who have recently decided they will enter! With the submission deadline around …
Continue reading “How To Submit?”
Hello filmmakers and future Microflix submitters! Today’s blog post will be a short interview with one of the UTS Animation student groups who are currently creating a short adaptation for Microflix 2019! The students Tak Stapleton, Indigo Krix, Winston Liu, William Savage are adapting ‘Barrage’ by Jude Bridge, one of the microlit texts I gave …
Guest blogger, Jaimee Cachia Why is it that written texts adapted for the silver screen so often fall short of the expectations set by the magic of the page? The most basic answer can be found in the understanding that film, which shows things, and literature, which tells them, ultimately speak different languages. Where a …
Continue reading “Page to Screen Adaptation: Fidelity or Liberty?”
Hello filmmakers and writers!! Are we excited for todays blog, Shuffle Adaptations: Part Two?! As we are all preparing for Microflix’s submission deadline, the 30th of June, a little spark of inspiration can be what you need to push that idea out of your mind and onto a camera! Today I’ll be talking about three …
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Temel Eğitim Bölümleri
Sınıf Öğretmenliği ABD
EF - TEB - SÖ Makale Kolesiyonu
Adaptation of scientific reasoning scale into Turkish and examination of its psychometric properties
Kaygısız, Gülfem Muşlu
Gürkan, Burcu
Akbaş, Ufuk
Muslu, K. G., Gürkan, B., & Akbas, U. (January 01, 2018). Adaptation of Scientific Reasoning Scale into Turkish and Examination of Its Psychometric Properties. Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 18, 3, 737-757.
In this study, it is aimed to adapt the Scientific Reasoning Scale (SRS) into Turkish. The translated form has been provided to the students enrolled at different levels together with a form in which they were requested to present what they have understood and the reason of their responses. It was seen that the explanations of students to one item were inconsistent or insufficient, and an alternative item was added to the test. Investigations based on PCA and CFA revealed that the psychometric properties of the test containing the alternative item were better. Moderate and positive correlations were found between the SRS scores and the CCTDI and LCTSR scores. The applications carried out before and after the course on scientific research methods carried out during a term at the undergraduate level revealed that a significant increase in the SRS scores was achieved. It was seen that there was significant difference between the scores of the students enrolled at undergraduate and graduate levels. Average item difficulty was .40 and discrimination indices was .50 and over. As result, it is seen that SRS could be used for measuring the scientific reasoning ability of the undergraduate students.
https://doi.org/10.12738/estp.2018.3.0175
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You are here: HomeNewsLooking in the Mirror
Looking in the Mirror
Headline - Press release
Posted by Frederik Hautain on Sep 22, 2005
In a fantasy-land of opposing kingdoms, a 15 year old girl must find the fabled MIRRORMASK in order to save the kingdom and get home.
MIRRORMASK, the highly anticipated movie hitting select theaters on September 30, is a groundbreaking effort from director Dave McKean with a screenplay by Neil Gaiman. Teaming up with The Jim Henson Company, they combine live action with digital animation in a spectacular concoction that will dazzle audiences across the board.
MIRRORMASK tells the story of Helena (Leonidas), a fifteen-year-old girl working for her family circus, who wishes-quite ironically-that she could run away from the circus and join real life. But such is not to be the case, as she finds herself on a strange journey into the Dark Lands, a fantastic landscape filled with giants, monkeybirds and dangerous sphinxes. On her quest to return home, Helena searches for the Mirrormask, an object of enormous power, which is her only hope of escaping the Dark Lands.
A dark fantasy with elements of THE DARK CRYSTAL and LABYRINTH, MIRRORMASK is a thrilling new chapter in the celebrated careers of Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman. Filled with imagination and unforgettable imagery, and fully realized with the help of CGI, MIRRORMASK is a visual and psychological menagerie of dreamscapes, nightmares and otherworldly creatures.
Dave McKean on directing Mirrormask
“I don’t know where to start, every day was a steep learning experience…
I would say I have learned most about my own strengths and weaknesses. I have a tendency to fall in love with the purity of a formal solution to a problem, and then I just become blind to its possible flaws, and any little changes made feel like they are watering down the idea. I think this caused several difficulties on the film, and I think I'll be conscious of that tunnel vision from now on.
Editing is always a wondrous experience, an alchemical experience. But on this film, working with an editor really for the first time, and noticing his approach, continually 'on the story', was a big lesson. Any block of dialogue in the script longer than three lines looked suspiciously like fat needing to be trimmed. We cut our penultimate edit, which didn't have any scenes or large chunks to shed, down by ten minutes just by trimming frames, and the odd shot. I have no idea where all that fat came from, but it really helped.
I have also learned that you don't start up a new computer-rendering studio during production. The little blighters need at least three months to get to know each other before an animator goes anywhere near them. And finally, I learned that computers are as human as the rest of us. Our technical director named all the machines after different bands. The four Macs in the edit suite were named after the Beatles; fair enough, I was John. But then we needed a fifth so he named it Yoko, and they all stopped talking to each other.”
- Dave McKean
Mirrormask's production
Helena’s journey is an incredible story. But how could it be otherwise when its creators are Neil Gaiman, the award-winning author of Sandman, American Gods and Neverwhere, and director/designer and multimedia artist, David McKean. In addition to this potent collaboration, the setting where MIRRORMASK’s story was first conceived is just as inspiring. As Neil Gaiman tells it: “Dave and I created the story and script for MIRRORMASK in the Henson family home in London, surrounded by memorabilia and artifacts from Jim Henson’s astonishing career in television and fantasy filmmaking. It was a true challenge and inspiration to try to make something today that would be as visually rich, creative, funny and as moving as Jim Henson’s original works.”
MIRRORMASK combines live action with digital animation, set in a spectacular computer generated landscape. A “visually rich” and “creative” environment, indeed— and an achievement that is all the more dazzling given the limits imposed by their independent film budget. Working with Producer Simon Moorhead and Executive Producers Martin G. Baker, Lisa Henson and Michael Polis, Gaiman and McKean had to create a production process that mixed new technology, off-the-shelf hardware and just plain unorthodox thinking.
After shooting on location in London and Brighton for two weeks, followed by four weeks in a blue screen studio, the film entered its arduous post-production phase. McKean researched different computer animation studios who could build the world of MIRRORMASK, but instead chose to form his own team of animators. And so, for just over a year, seventeen animators (many of them recent Computer Animation graduates from Bournemouth University in England) worked at PC stations in a single quiet room in Islington as McKean personally supervised every frame of the film, thus ensuring that his and Gaiman’s original artistic tone would be completely realized.
MIRRORMASK is a groundbreaking effort to take the stunning authorship and artistry of Gaiman and McKean off the pages of the graphic novel for the first time and put that vision on the screen. The result is a visually and emotionally compelling story that is sweeping and powerful, yet with the intimate, handcrafted feel of an independent film.
For more on Mirrormask, go to www.mirrormask.com.
A trailer of the movie can be viewed here.
Valentine: JASON BARRY
Morris Campbell/Prime Minister: ROB BRYDON
Helena/Anti-Helena: STEPHANIE LEONIDAS
Joanne/Queen of Light/Queen of Shadows: GINA MCKEE
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Lisa Henson, Michael Polis, Martin G. Baker
PRODUCED BY: Simon Moorhead
DESIGNED & DIRECTED BY: Dave McKean
SCREENPLAY BY: Neil Gaiman
STORY BY: Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean
MUSIC BY: Iain Ballamy
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Antony Shearn
EDITOR: Nicolas Gaster
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Hitting the Highway - written by Frederik Hautain on May 1, 2006
APC Signs Abiding Perdition - written by Frederik Hautain on Apr 6, 2005
Red Sonja Film Rights Sold - written by Frederik Hautain on May 2, 2006
Dragonlance Chronicles Get Adapted - written by Frederik Hautain on Jun 20, 2005
Through the Mirror - written by Eric Lindberg on Oct 2, 2005
The Temple of Gaiman - Part One - written by Sam Moyerman on Feb 3, 2006
The Temple of Gaiman - Part Two - written by Sam Moyerman on Feb 4, 2006
Van Lente's Big Three - Part II - written by Frederik Hautain on Mar 1, 2005
Crossing Borders: Creators and their ... First Time? - written by Bart Croonenborghs on Dec 1, 2008
The Eternals #1 - written by Dexter K Flowers on Jun 26, 2006
Eternals #3 - written by Aaron Stueve on Aug 26, 2006
The Sandman: The Dream Hunters #1 - written by Steve Kanaras on Nov 11, 2008
Batman #686 - written by Kris Bather on Feb 13, 2009
Hey, Mr. Sandman - written by Mark Steensland on Sep 22, 2005
The Final Ultimatum? - written by William Gatevackes on Nov 3, 2008
Re-upping at the Academy. - written by William Gatevackes on Nov 24, 2008
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Comfort Trades - written by willow on Oct 12, 2009
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11-Days Excursion to Eastern Pamir, visit to Wakhan valley & Remote Bartang valley
Special Tour 11 days
This 11 Days Kyrgystan and Tajikstan trip is one of the serious road trip, travelling along the famous Parmir Highway, the second highest highway in the world running between Osh in Kyrgyzstan to Khorog in Tajikistan and winding its way through the Parmir Mountains, their 7,000m peaks earning this artery the title ‘roof of the world’. As we travel through remote communities scattered along the Highway and beyond, we stay in welcoming home stays, immerse ourselves in a cacophony of cultures, with each village speaking in a unique dialect.
We drive up to explore, Eastern Pamir part and visiting to Ethnic Kyrgyz nomadic Jailoo (summer pastures camp) and try hike up the Bel Airyk pass (4835m) which is a migration route of Marco Polo sheep, starts from the foot of the mountain. Ascending up the pass in four/five hours walk you can see the majestic northern wall of Afghanistan Hindikush and fantastic Zor Kul Lake.
We continue down alongside the Afghan border on the Wakhan Corridor, before swinging north through Khorog to Dushanbe. There will be ample time to explore on foot and meet many of the diverse people who call these harsh lands their home.
Itinerary Program:
Day 1: Osh to Murghab (420 km 8/9hours)
Meeting at your hotel and we leave from Osh to Murghab. En route we cross the Taldyk Pass (3554m) and enjoy some beautiful views – if we’re lucky we may even catch a glimpse of Peak Lenin, at 7134m the second highest mountain in Central Asia.
Countinue our trip will see us enjoying some of the most dramatic scenery of the trip, with the lunar-like landscapes and bright blue lakes providing plenty of opportunities to take our breath away. We cross Kyzyl Art Pass (4282 meters), which essentially forms the border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Border formalities take place shortly after crossing the pass, with 20kms of ‘no man’s land’ to cross. Be warned, even in August we could see sub-zero temperatures through the border areas, so make sure you have some extra layers to hand in case we are delayed by formalities. We descend to Karakul Lake, the highest lake in Central Asia, and at 3915 meters, too high to support any aquatic life.
We will cross a high-altitude pass Ak-Baital Pass (4655 meters) which is the highest section of road in the former Soviet Union. This is the Pamir Highway we have anticipated, with the route between Osh to Khorog completed in 1931 across a Tibetan-plateau style high altitude terrain. With a total of 240kms to cover today, we anticipate arriving in Murghab early evening. Arrival Murghab, Murghab (3670 m) itself has few attractions, but it will serve as our base for a couple of nights as we explore the area a little. The 7546 m – high Chinese peak of Mustag Ata is visible to the northeast of town. The Eastern Pamirs have been populated by nomadic ethnic Kyrgyz since the 17th century.
Overnight at Home stay
Meals: (1 Lunch and Dinner)
Day 2: Murghab to Keng Shiber (125 km, 5/6 hours altitude 4115mh)
Today we get a chance to explore the amazing landscape of this area. We drive up to Keng Shiber. This is the Pamir Highway we have anticipated, with the route between Khorog and Osh completed in 1931 across a Tibetan-plateau style high altitude terrain. Arrival to Keng Shiber jailoo (herders summer camp in yurts). The inhabitants have rarely seen Europeans and are friendly and hospitable. Walking on this area an excellent and adventures trip is hike up the Bel Airyk pass (4835m) which is a migration route of Marco Polo sheep, starts from the foot of the mountain. Ascending up the pass in four/five hours walk you can see the majestic northern wall of Afghanistan Hindikush and fantastic Zor Kul Lake.
Along the western half of the Zor kul Lake runs Afghan – Tajik border. The lake’s eastern half lied in Tajiksitan. In 1842, Lieutenant Woods of the British India Navy Explored the Pyanj and Pamir rivers as far as the latter’s source in Zor kul. Zor kul itself is 20 km long – the road runs along its northern shore.Wildlife observation will be undertaken during the trek. The famous and endangered Marco Polo sheep (ovis ammon poli) world’s largest-horned argali sheep, Snow leopard endangered and fully protected species, ibexes, marmot and Brown bear, fox, hare are not full list of representatives of wild life of the area. From birds one can find the mountain goose (ular) pigeons, eagles, vulture, and etc. Good eyes and a sporting scope or more powerful binoculars are essential tools and a field guide for wildlife viewing. These areas are all unique in their own way, and trips to these places are always fascinating.
Overnight in yurt camp. Meals: (1 Breakfast, 1 Lunch, 1 Dinner)
Day 3: Keng Shiber to Langar Wakhan valley (230 km, 6/7 hours altitude 2882mh)
Today we will drive at Langar via the Kargushi Pass (4344 meters). On this journey we leave behind the lush valleys of the M41 and enter to Wakhan Valley landscape that is rocky, mostly barren but nevertheless dramatic.
Overnight in Home stay
Meals: (1 Breakfast, 1 Lunch and Dinner
Day 4: Langar to Ishkashim Wakhan valley (110 km, 6/7 hours altitude 2665 mh)
Driving along wakhan valley and visit detour to the nearby village of Namadguti to visit the Khahkha Fortress. This impressive structure rises from a naturally formed platform of rock and dates back to the Kushan era of the 3rd Century. number of stops will be made throughout the day. Drive to Vrang a stroll through the village will bring you to a number of caves dug by Buddhists who inhabited the area at one time. In addition there the remains of a number of fire – worshipping platforms and Buddha stuper. At Yamg, visit a quirky museum of Sufi Muborak-Kadam, a local Sufi scholar. After short driving you will be to see the Kakhka kala Fortress which dates from the 3rd C. Yamchun fortress or Zulkumor Fort is located on ridge overlooking the valley and river below. Further up the hillside there are the hot springs at Bibi Fatima. The water at Bibi Fatima is crystal clear. It is possible to take a natural stream bath in a rocky cave.
Your next stop will be at the Abrashim Fortress. It was built to guard this branch of the Silk Road from Chinese and Afghan Invaders. Afternoon you will arrive to Ishkashim the center of Wakhan valley, which stands at the mouth of wakhan River valley. This is where the 19th C Great Game ended; When Britan and Russian signed a treaty adding a strip of the Wakhan valley to Afghanistan to create a neutral buffer zone between their two empires. As you enter the Wakhan, there are amazing views of the Pamirs to the right and the Hindu Kush to the left.Driving along wakhan valley and visit detour to the nearby village of Namadguti to visit the Khahkha Fortress. This impressive structure rises from a naturally formed platform of rock and dates back to the Kushan era of the 3rd Century.
Overnight in Guest House
Meals: (1 Breakfast, 1 Lunch and Dinner)
Day 5: Ishkashim to Khorog (130 km, 6/7 hours altitude 2780 mh)
After breakfast we will drive via Wakhan valley to Khorog, along the road to our next stop at Garmchasma hot springs for an (optional) dip in the waters. After exploring or taking a shower we will have a lunch than transfer to Khorog. Khorog The capital of Gorno-Badakshan Autonomous Oblast, Khorog is a small town that at various times has been under the control of the Russia, the Emirate of Bukhara and Afghanistan. The Russians built a fort here in the Soviet era, with Khorog being in a highly strategic location on the border with Afghanistan, but today it languishes and is one of the least developed parts of the country, with the Aga Khan Foundation contributing to the bulk of the local economy. It holds the distinction of being home the second highest botanical garden in the world, at 3900m.
Meals: (1 Breakfast, 1 Lunch, 1 Dinner)
Day 6: Khorog to Bartang valley Gizev village (9/10km trekking 120km driving, altitude 2412mh)
Today our adventure trip to Bartang Valley. The cultural identity and lifestyle of the population, In Bartang is well preserved: their music is very attractive,dialect, way of life. There is a mountain lake Sarez . From tourists who visited in Pamir and especially Bartang which is one of the remotest areas, you can often hear stories of fabulous hospitality of the locals. This hospitality and welcoming culture is preserved in Bartang and other remot areas in Pamir.
Arrival in Baghoo village in Bartang valley. We will cross the river by the small bridge.
Our trek begins on the river Bartang just beyond Bhagoo village. The hike is mostly gently uphill, for about 8km to the upper of three lakes. The first house in Geisev are reached after about 5km. The abundant vegetation, the gnarled trees, the lakes and the ever-changing river – sometimes frothing with energy, sometimes limpid and blue – create a very special peaceful atmosphere, ideal for a short break without too much physical effort. This rout passing lakes, and the rivers traversing some of the most magnificent scenery in the Pamirs. We will stay in local Home stay in this remote place.
Please note: Transportation can’t drive till the village, this night your transport with driver will stay other side of the river.
Overnight in Home stay.
Meals: (1 Breakfast, 1 Picnic, 1 Dinner)
Day 7: Gizev village to Basid Bartang valley (2/3hours walking, altitude 2540mh)
After the local Bartang’s breakfast we will walk back till the river Bartang and ceoss the bridge, Our driver of Jeep will meet with you and continue your adventure tour in Bartang valley to Basid village.
House will meet again us, the locals ‘Chid’ call and its diverse Symbolik has emerged over the centuries. In it combines elements of Zoroastrian origin and performances of the pamirischen Ismailis. After the Imam Ismail ibn Djafar is called a relatively small, temperate in their interpretation of the Koran religion of Islamic-Shia denomination that has taken root in the East of modern Tajikistan (Tadjikistan) a long time ago. Convinced the Pamiris according to a House to recreate the universe. Five pillars are usually the wooden ceiling of the main room – according to the five prophets of Ismaili Islam. At the same time, the houses are places of daily prayer there until today no mosques in GBAO. Arrive to Basid sightseeing in the village, seeing amazing holy trees, the Ismail prayer house and explore local life, tentatively light trekking to upper village.
Meals: (1 Breakfast, 1 Snack, 1 Dinner)
Day 8: Bardara to Rushan (98km, 4/5 hours altitude 2340 mh.)
Today we leave Bartang valley, driving back through the Bartnag River we will ariive to Rushan.
Rushan in the Eastern part of Tajikistan, the administrative center of Rushan district of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous region. The village is located in the Pamirs, on the right Bank of the Panj river at the confluence Woman are river, on the border with Afghanistan
Overnight in Guest House.
Day 9: Rushan to Kalaikhumb ( 206 km, 5/6 hours altitude 1345 mh.)
Day 10: Kalikhumb to Dushanbe (360 km, 6/7 hours)
After breakfast drive to Dushanbe the capital of Tajikistan. We will cross the Shurabad Pass (2200m high) On the road we will visit to the ancient fortress Hulbuk dated by VIII century recently restored under the decree of the president. The local guide will talk interesting stories about the life in the fortress, shows outlines of the bases of rooms, halls and harems of the local governor’s palace. In front of the fortress there is a big square where concerts are held on the occasion of holidays and visits of distinguished guests. Guide in Khulbuk fortress Across the road from the fortress yiu can see the museum of local lore where, to speak frankly, because of restoration we will be show only one big banner on the wall. It was a map of all historical places and sights of Tajikistan.
Overnight at the hotel “Atlas or similar”.
Dushanbe city
Dushanbe is a relatively modern town that rose to prominence during the Soviet era, when it was made the capital of the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and named Stalinabad. Its name means ‘Monday in the Tajik language, arising from the fact that this was the day that the market was held when Dushanbe was still a small and fairly insignificant village. The ousted Emir of Bukhara, fleeing from the Bolsheviks, stayed in Dushanbe and cooperated with Enver Pasha’s Basmachis until he had to leave the region. From Dushanbe, he fled to Afghanistan in 1921, the year the town was freed from the Basmachis as well.
Day: 11 Departure
Transfer to airport and departure
All accommodation on twin share basis (Hotels 2,Guest houses 3, home stays 4,Yurt stay 1 )
Meals as listed: 9 Breakfasts, 10 Lunches, 10 Dinners
All transfers according the program (price includes driver’s per diem, road and parking fees, all necessary permissions fuel and taxes;)
Experienced and basic English speaking drivers, type of cars: (A/C Toyota Land Cruiser, Mitsubishi Pajero or Nissan Patrol)
Ticket for Tajik National park and permition
Mineral water (1/2L per day per person)
English speaking guide service for whole tour USD 483
_ PS Important – early arrival is not included
Some sightseeing places and excavations might be closed / not possible to visit due to local changes, reconstruction, roads condition, and security reasons. We do not guarantee all advised places will be covered, but we will try to do our best to cover them
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Los Angeles Radiation Oncology
Radiation Oncology Centers — What to Look For, What to Expect
Everyone in our team at the Pasadena CyberKnife radiation oncology center understands that a diagnosis of cancer can be a heartrending one for a patient, their family, friends and everyone close to them. We also understand the generally held perceptions about treatments for cancer as being invasive, toxic and debilitating. For these reasons the kind of radiation oncology treatment that we offer is non -invasive and backed up clinically with a history of successful outcomes , causing little distress and discomfort to our patients.
Our center for radiation oncology in Los Angeles offers conventional radiation therapy systems such as intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), image guided radiation therapy (IGRT), Rapid-Arc treatments as well as HDR-LDR Brachytherapy, and more recently, CyberKnife robotic radiosurgery treatments. Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) or Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) is the most advanced form of radiation treatment available. Our radiation oncology team in Los Angeles, headed by Dr. Albert Mak, explains treatment options and modalities to the patient based on a detailed case study to recommend the most effective course of treatment for each individual.
What Is Radiation Oncology — An Overview
Our radiation oncologists treat a range of cancerous and non-cancerous tumors anywhere in the body, including
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The best type of oncology radiation treatment will be recommended by the team at our center after consultations and a detailed analysis of medical factors, health considerations, and patient histories. Our team will consider the whole range of treatment options including IMRT, IGRT, 3D conformal, VMAT, HDR and LDR Brachytherapy and how to incorporate CyberKnife technology before deciding on the optimal treatment. CyberKnife treats with the most advanced form of Radiation Therapy called Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) (1 treatment), or Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) 2-5 treatments.
Consultation With a Radiation Oncologist
What is a radiation oncologist? These are cancer specialists who use specialized radiation treatments to treat tumors and cancerous conditions. A radiological oncologist offers primary treatment for cancers and also an alternative to patients that are unwilling to undergo surgery. In some cases radiation could be the only option if the cancer site is considered inoperable. Before a consultation with an oncology radiation physician you may be asked to fill in certain patient forms that will need you to fill in your personal details, physician details, history of past surgeries, illness or conditions, medications, allergies, social factors and symptoms in detail. Our physicians, radiotherapy and oncology specialists will work together, often in conjunction with a surgeon, to formulate a treatment plan that will best target the tumor, without damaging the healthy surrounding tissue.
CyberKnife Is the Evolution of Radiation Oncology
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A high resolution CT, PET, or MRI scan will examine the tumor in detail, to determine the size, shape, and exact location. Our Radiation Oncology physicians will then create a customized treatment plan specific to your cancer or tumor.
CyberKnife has improved and augmented traditional radiation oncology treatments is that radiation can be delivered with sub-millimeter pinpoint accuracy. The imaging is digitally transferred to the CyberKnife System’s workstation, where the treatment planning begins. The type and complexity of scans and tests required will vary as per the type of cancer, the location of the tumor, its size, and spread.
CyberKnife was developed with a combination of advanced image guidance and intelligent tumor tracking. CyberKnife has overcome the obstacles of all other radiation treatment technologies.
Some unique features of CyberKnife:
CyberKnife utilizes a combination of tumor tracking software with advanced real-time imaging and a robotic design.
CyberKnife is the only technology that can track and adapt to real time movement (such as patient breathing or other normal movement) and correct for any sudden movements throughout treatment to maintain sub-millimeter accuracy.
CyberKnife has done away with the need for painful head frames that are bolted into the skull, or any kind of body frames or breath holds to keep a patient still.
CyberKnife’s unique robotic design can approach a tumor from virtually any angle.
CyberKnife technology provides you with the assurance that we are treating the tumor and sparing the healthy tissue or surrounding organs and critical structures.
With very high ablative doses, Cyberknife destroys the tumor in one to five short treatments.
Patients can continue on with their normal, daily life, even on days of treatments with only minimal side effects, like slight fatigue.
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With CyberKnife, our radiation oncology doctors are able to deliver beams of high-dose radiation from a wide variety of angles using a robotic arm with extreme accuracy to any part of the body including difficult to reach tumors. Tumors of the pancreas and the brain, spine tumors wrapped around the spinal cord or lung tumors situated close to the heart or the spine; even prostate tumors located too close to the bowel or abdomen may be difficult, if not impossible, to operate upon. In such cases CyberKnife’s targeted precision can prove invaluable.
The CyberKnife Robotic Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) System used by our oncologist in the Los Angeles treatment center is revolutionary in that it is not only highly targeted and effective but also a non-invasive treatment that is delivered over just two to five days. Stereotactic Radiosurgery treatment uses just 1 large accurate dose to ablate tumors in a single session. Though the word ‘knife’ features in the terminology, there is actually no surgery or cutting (it is an incision-less procedure) or even needles required to be used here. This is an outpatient procedure that requires neither anesthesia nor any overnight hospital stay. Whereas conventional or standard radiation therapy (IMRT, IGRT, 3D conformal) typically could require 25 to 45 sessions of radiation, delivered over six to eight weeks, the CyberKnife procedures need only one to five short sessions of therapy, completed within a week.
What Patients Say About Our Radiation Oncology Center
Our patient stories say more than we ever could about the safety and efficacy of our treatments:
Warren’s cancer chronicle and his victorious battle against prostate cancer
Kay’s lung cancer journey
Peter’s experiences with the CyberKnife treatment protocol
Suzanne’s brain tumor battle
Joan’s lung cancer story
Read these and other heartening stories about our patients successfully battling their cancers.
Get In Touch With Our Radiation Oncology Centers
Our radiation oncology Los Angeles treatment center would like to be a part of your team; the team of people who care, your well-wishers who are rooting for you; the team that will ultimately help you beat and survive your cancer, emerging healthy and whole.
Contact us via phone at 626.768.1021 for a consultation, visit us at Pasadena CyberKinfe Center, 630 S. Raymond Ave., Suite 104, Pasadena, CA 91105, or drop us a line via email at info@pasadenacyberknife.com. Our friendly staff is standing by to offer you the information you need and the reassurance you require to take that first all-important step in your treatment.
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Expert says Saudi oil may have peaked
Aljazeera.Net
By Adam Porter
Sunday 20 February 2005, 10:58 Makka Time, 7:58 GMT
As oil stubbornly refuses to fall below $45 a barrel, a major market mover has cast a worrying future prediction.
Energy investment banker Matthew Simmons, of Simmons & Co International, has been outspoken in his warnings about peak oil before. His new statement is his strongest yet, "we may have already passed peak oil".
The subject of peak oil, the point at which the world's finite supply of oil begins to decline, is a hot topic in the industry.
Arguments are commonplace over whether it will happen at all, when it will happen or whether it has already happened. Simmons, a Republican adviser to the Bush-Cheney energy plan, believes it "is the world's number one problem, far more serious than global warming".
Saudi oil peaking?
Speaking exclusively to Aljazeera, Simmons came out with a statement that, if proven true over time, could herald by far the biggest energy crisis mankind has known.
"If Saudi Arabia have damaged their fields, accidentally or not, by overproducing them, then we may have already passed peak oil. Iran has certainly peaked, there is no way on Earth they can ever get back to their production of six million barrels per day (mbpd)."
Simmons believes Iran's oilproduction has also peaked
The technical term for damaging an oilfield by overproduction is rate sensitivity. In other words, if the oil is pulled out of the ground too fast, it damages the fragile geological structure of the field. This can make as much as 80% of the oil within the field unextractable. Of course, at the moment, virtually every producer is at full tilt. The most important among them is Saudi Arabia; their Gharwar field is the world's biggest.
One of the first hints that Simmons got over possible Saudi Arabian overproduction was from researching an obscure US Senate committee meeting in 1974.
Field damage
"A whistleblower in Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia's oil company, was first reported in The Washington Post. He had claimed that Aramco had been overproducing the giant Gharwar field and that if they did not slow down, they would damage the reservoirs.
"The committee, which swore witnesses in under oath, produced over 1400 pages of documentation on the subject, it included some specialist advice which advised cutting Saudi production to 4mbpd to maintain production levels."
Currently, at near maximum production, Saudi Arabia is producing about 9mbpd, though recently they claimed they could potentially produce 12mbpd or even as much as 20mbpd. A claim Simmons called "pie in the sky".
"The faster you pull a reservoir, the faster you pull out all of the easy-to-produce oil," explains Simmons. "What happens is that you lose massive amounts of what the oil industry calls oil-left-behind still inside the field. These issues, as you can see, have been known about for years."
Overproduction
"If you look at what Iran is doing, they are actually going to inject natural gas to the tune of 2bcf (billion cubic feet), through a 72in pipe into their Aghajari oilfield. It is a $2bn project. This is in order just to boost production from 200,000bpd to 300,000bpd. In the 1970s Aghajari was producing 1mbpd. It has been overproduced."
In 2004 Shell said it had lost 20% of its reserves Simmons also says the same thing happened with the oil company El Paso last year.
"At the same time as the Shell write-off, El Paso realised they had been producing their fields too hard. As a result they had to write off 41% of their reserves." In 2004 Shell first announced it had lost about 20% of its oil reserves.
Another clue came as Simmons discovered a ferocious debate that had been going on inside Saudi Aramco about overproduction.
"The company claimed in the early 1970s that it would be able to produce 20 to 25 mbpd, then by 1978 it was 12mbpd. Now it looks like 9.8mbpd is the maximum," he says.
Precious resource
"Luckily for them, demand quietened down in the 1980s. People thought when they cut production that they were simply trying to drive up oil prices, but in fact they were resting their fields to limit the damage.
"But then came the first Gulf war and they were forced to crank production up again and they have been fighting the problem ever since.
"In 1981 in their own book, Aramco and its World, something they give out to new employees and such, they openly talked about how maximising production would permanently harm their fields and that maximum production could not continue. They thought demand would fall and the fields would be sustained. Unfortunately that has not been the case."
The reasons for maximising production are not always obvious, they can be technical, but also geo-political.
"There is always a balance for producers. Do you want to conserve your fields and produce slowly? Or do you want to be a statesman? Would you rather be a market leader with all that brings, or a smaller, less powerful producer?"
The idea that Saudi Arabia could force its production up to 12mbpd or higher is met with scorn by Simmons.
"This is dangerous stuff," warns Simmons. "If we say they have not peaked and then they choose to further increase production, they will only hasten their field decline, and waste huge amounts of valuable oil into the bargain. And oil, as we are only now coming to realise, is the world's most precious resource."
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Astronaut Buzz Aldrin rolls out the red carpet for Mars (Update)
Forty-eight years after he landed on the moon, Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin on Saturday rolled out a red carpet for the red planet at a star-studded gala at the Kennedy Space Center.
Self-fueling boat sets off from Paris on 6-year world trip
A boat that fuels itself is setting off around the world from Paris on a six-year journey that its designers hope will serves as a model for emissions-free energy networks of the future.
Students search John Brown's NY farm site for artifacts
Students at a New York college are searching John Brown's Adirondack farm for artifacts linked to the 19th-century abolitionist.
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Rapper Akon to buy 50% of African music download service
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Fossil site shows impact of early Jurassic's low oxygen oceans
Using a combination of fossils and chemical markers, scientists have tracked how a period of globally low ocean-oxygen turned an Early Jurassic marine ecosystem into a stressed community inhabited by only a few species.
Maths 'genius' Maryam Mirzakhani dies, aged 40
Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian-born mathematician who was the first woman to win the coveted Fields Medal, died Saturday in a US hospital after a battle with cancer. She was 40.
For moratorium on sending commands to Mars, blame the Sun
This month, movements of the planets will put Mars almost directly behind the sun, from Earth's perspective, causing curtailed communications between Earth and Mars.
Indonesia limits access to Telegram app, readies total ban
Indonesia says it's blocking web versions of the encrypted Telegram instant messaging app and will block the app completely if it continues to be a forum for radical propaganda and violent militants.
Toxins in water under Tennessee power plant causing alarm
Memphis residents are as proud of their sweet-tasting water as their barbecue and blues. The water—drawn from the Memphis Sand aquifer beneath this Tennessee city—is so revered that a city utility called it a "community ...
Researchers know about some deadly storms early with system
Researchers running highly detailed simulations using satellite images, radar and ground-based weather stations were able to predict a specific violent storm 90 minutes before it hit a western Oklahoma town and killed a man ...
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Kobe Woods- Making History
By MASON PLUMMER
Penn star wrestler Kobe Woods is on his way to making school history here at Penn High School.
Boasting a win streak that is now over 75 straight entering the semistate, Woods is one of the best wrestlers in Penn’s legendary history. Last season, he won a state title at 220 pounds. He is one of only five wrestlers in Penn history to be a 3-time regional champion.
Pretty astounding, but Kobe is everything but content with what he has accomplished so far, saying “I want to Penn’s first back-to-back state-champion, and that is motivation for me to keep working hard and pushing myself.”
Kobe is very proud to be the school’s first individual state champion in over 40 years, along with his former teammate Chase Osborn. He accomplished this last year.
Kobe is very much a team-centered kind of guy. He spoke about how big it was for Penn to win the team state championship last year, the first in school history.
“For the team, it’s huge. We won state for the first time last year with our senior leadership, and I think I can help lead us to another one this year.”
Kobe Woods has really put a face on Penn’s wrestling program, making it not just a state powerhouse, but a contender for best in the nation. No one can be their best without a great coach, as any athlete knows, and Woods gives a lot of credit to Penn High School wrestling coach, Brad Harper. “Coach Harper has really made me a good wrestler, but has made me an even better person. He cares about winning, but he cares much more about making us into young men. Coach brings a speaker in each and every Friday to give us life talks.” This really shows Harper’s commitment to making his boys good, all-around people.
Now here are some questions from my interview with star-wrestler Kobe Woods:
Q: “How does it feel to have such a big winning streak? Does it add pressure?
A: “It feels amazing, a real dream come true. Hard work pays off. Yes, there is added pressure, but I try to take it one match at a time.
Q: “Do you have a pre-match meal?”
A: “Subway!”
Q: “Were you a natural wrestler, or did it take a lot of time and work to be where you are now?”
A: “It took a lot of work. Nothing comes easy in life, but the harder you work, the luckier you get.”
Q: “Most people know that football is also a big part of your life as you play here at Penn, did you receive offers to play in college?”
A: “Yes, but I chose Purdue because I have the opportunity to play both football and wrestling. But I’m not sure whether I’m going to or not.”
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Hearing Aid Reviews: What's New and Improved
Hearing is not only a very personalized sense but it's also complex. Hearing technology therefore has a near impossible job, because it has to provide comfort, increase sound, decrease background noise and a hundred other small details that make your hearing unique to you. Fortunately, hearing aid manufacturers are up to the task and some of the new and improved advances in hearing aids are creating a lot of interest.
Personalized Hearing
What one person considers loud may not be loud enough for another. That's why manufacturers are developed new and improved ways of uncovering how to make hearing aids specific for each individual. As Professor Ray Meddis—who is developing customizing software for hearing aids, points out on Gizmag, “Our work has shown that, when it comes to hearing impairment, no two people are alike. That's why two people with apparently similar hearing thresholds often react very differently to their hearing aids."
Today's hearing aid technology has taken this personalized hearing into account. Not only are they programmable for a user's preference, but --and this is a little creepy, they listen and learn. According to the Hearing Aid Insider, "Input sounds are analyzed and classified before they get amplified. Sounds that don’t meet the manufacturer’s criteria to be classified as speech don’t get amplified as much as those sounds that do meet the speech criteria classification." As amazing as that bit of technology is, companies like Phonak and Widex have gone a step further in creating the ultimate in personal hearing experience. One of Widex's latest hearing aids, Inteo, has pushed the limits of hearing technology. According to Widex, "The core of Inteo is the Dynamic Integrator, which operates with the single goal: to create personally tailored sound that satisfies the individual user’s needs in any specific listening situation." Inteo accomplishes this personally tailored experience by being programmed with the user's preferences and needs at the first session and growing and adapting around those preferences. But the drive to "create personally tailored sound" doesn't stop there.
Hearing What You Want
The first job of hearing aid was to amplify sound, but that can be annoying on a windy day or startling when someone unexpectedly drops something near you. It can also cause interference when you are trying to listen to the person at your dinner table and there is background noise in a restaurant. Your ears and brain automatically tune out background noise and wind. And now hearing aids have adapted to try and do the same thing. Today's hearing aids, as Phonak says of their latest hearing aids like the Bolero Q, "... can do more than amplify a sound: A tiny processor works inside the hearing aid to optimize the sounds you just heard." In fact, the hearing aid can digest and amplify sounds that a person wants to hear and needs to hear, like speech, and can tell them apart from those sound that should be diminished, like the crashing sound of dishes being dropped. And this leap forward in technology comes atop similar advances in the past, so that today's hearing aids are even better at dealing with background noise. In addition, today's new and improved hearing aids are adapting to more than just noise, they are being designed to work with the many different ways people move.
Hearing Aids That Match Your Lifestyle
The majority of hearing aid users report they are happy with their hearing aids, but manufacturers continue to try and improve their product. One of the new ways hearing aids are adapting is anticipating individual lifestyles. Whether it's swimming, jogging, or hiking people want to be able to depend on their hearing aids. That's why companies like Widex developed hearing aids like the Bravissimo. High sound quality, flexibility, durability, dust resistance, and water proof features are all ways hearing aid manufacture's are improving today's hearing technology. According to the Better Hearing Institute, "From packaging that makes battery swaps as simple as slide and click to hearing aids that adapt to your listening preferences without you having to think about it, to hearing aids that stand up to everything from a round of golf to laps in the pool, hearing aid technology will only get better and better."
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If you would like more information about the PUCC or would like to join this organzation, please contact Conrad Bombardier at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
About the PUCC: Current Members
Conrad Bombardier, President
I write this opening paragraph as the PUCC president, which I was blessed to have been nominated by my peers in early 2010, before I accepted this position I was the secretary for the group. My background in the industry started in 2000, as a recent college graduate, top of my class in communications I was trained from field work to design, I started to work for Expertech (division of Bell Canada) as a fiber optic splicer in Toronto, Ontario. In August of 2001, I accepted a position in Minneapolis with our American Division. I was then a contractor for Qwest, helping with the big High Speed Internet push dedicating copper pairs for homeowners, then I moved to Denver to continue this great experience with Qwest. In 2002, I moved back to Minnesota to start a family and entered into the coax (Cable) field. I was a contractor for Charter Communications working for 2 major cable construction companies where in 2005 I accepted a position with Charter Communications in Southern Minnesota. I was approached by Keven Maxa while working in the field in Austin, MN. Keven talked to me about the PUCC group which Charter Communications sponsored also as a member and invited me to the meetings. I quickly grew a passion for this group and for the people who were involved. Where can you as a utility help make a safer environment not only for our co worker, our family, but for all of you. The great thing about the PUCC and the Damage Prevention meetings is that no matter that we are competitors in certain fields, we come together as a group and agree that safety is a HUGE part of our daily practices.
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Glenna Rae Foutch, 74, of Reinbeck, former longtime resident of Holland and Hudson, passed away on Sunday, November 10th at UnityPoint Health-Allen Memorial Hospital in Waterloo, while under the care of Cedar Valley Hospice. Glenna’s family will hold a private family Celebration of Life at a later time. Inurnment will also be private. Memorials may be directed to the Cedar Bend Humane Society, 1166 W. Airline Highway, Waterloo, IA 50703 (Please note Glenna’s name in the check memo), a charity dear to Glenna’s heart. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.abelsfuneralhomes.com Glenna was born on December 28, 1944, to her parents Benjamin & Viola (Stahl) Groote in Grundy Center, Iowa. One of three siblings, she grew up in Holland where she attended school, later graduating from Grundy Center High School in 1963. After high school, Glenna went on to obtain her Certified Nurses Aide license. While working as a CNA, Glenna was blessed with 5 children. She spent the majority of her career at the Harmony House in Waterloo, retiring after 30 + years. In addition to the Harmony House, she worked at various other healthcare institutions. She resided most of her life in Holland, later moving to Hudson. She most recently relocated to Reinbeck, where she remained until her passing. Glenna was a member of the local Presbyterian Church in Grundy Center. Being a busy working mom, Glenna didn’t have a lot of time to spend on hobbies but when she did, reading was a huge part of her past time. Her family says she could finish a 1000-page book in only a few days! Her other love in life was her family and close friends. She loved spending time with her family, especially with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was also a very loyal friend to her 2, very best girlfriends, Millie and Phyllis. Glenna will be very much missed by those she leaves behind. She is survived by her children Edwyn (Penni) Groote of Pocatello, ID, Sonya (Marc Niebuhr) Henningsen of Holland, IA, Keith (Melissa) Hall of LaPorte City, IA, Julie (Brian) Harder of Sioux City, IA and Richard (Jennifer) Foutch of Platte City, MO; grandchildren Lori (Brandon Wessendorf) Harder of Sioux City, Chelsea (Aaron) Bellendier of Independence, IA, Abigail Niebuhr of Grundy Center, Kevin (Manda) Foutch of Sioux City, Alexander (Allison) Henningsen of Portland, OR, Raven Dominguez of Platte City, MO, Kailey (Kenny Garcia) Bryant of Sioux City, Roxanne (Jacob) Stubblefield of Fort Riley, KS, Samantha Bryant of Waterloo, Gracie Hall of LaPorte City, Frederick Harder of Sioux City and Emma Hall of LaPorte City; great-grandchildren Thyan, Dayton, Halle, Adrian, Rayden, Elijah, Caden James, Leonard, Devin, Ainsley, Rayne, Teagan and RayLynn; siblings Donna (Dennis) Haines of Independence, MO and Marvin (Adele) Groote of Branson, MO. In Heaven, Glenna rejoins her parents; 2 great-grandsons Edgar & Emmitt Earhart and great-granddaughter Taylen Wessendorf.
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Blasius Amon
B. Amon
Blasius Amon (c.1560 - 15/08/1590), an Austrian composer and singer (born in Imst, Hall (Tirol), died in Vienna).
Author: Theo Willemze
Source: Componistenlexicon
Amon Blasius was an Austrian composer. He was born in Hall in Tirol, Austria. Amon Blasius was from about 1568 a chorister at the archducal court of Ferdinand II at Innsbruck until 1577, when he went to study in Venice. At that time the Netherlander Alexander Utendal (c.1540-1581) served from 1564 in Innsbruck and was from 1572 appointed deputy Chapel Master �Vice Kapellmeister� in succeeding Jacques/Jakob Regnart (1540-1599). So was another Netherlander Guillaume Bruneau (c.1519-1584) from 1564 Chapel-master in Innsbruck. Utendal and Bruneau instructed the choristers in the court chapel and Utendal held this position until his death in 1581. Blasius had to be among the choristers. It is evident Blasius was instructed by the Netherlands musicians available at the archducal court of Ferdinand II in Innsbruck. Blasius returned from Italy later on and joined the Franciscan Order. In 1585 he was cantor at the Franciscan monastery of �Heiligenkreuz�, moving to Vienna in 1587. His four volumes of published church music (some posthumous) in 1582, 1588, 1590 and 1593 show a strong influence of Venice, and he may have been the first German-speaking composer with Jacobus Gallus (1550-1591) to use the plurichoral style (for instance �Confitemini� a 8 vocibus and the splendid �Cantate Domino� a 8) and other Venetian elements, in his motets. Most of his Church compositions � and that�s interesting - are written in accordance on a church occasion or a church day celebration. He passed away the 15th of August 1590.
Author: Wim Goossens
Period: High Renaissance
Duration: 22'
Label(s): TLMF CD 091
Missa pro defunctis is for four voices. It is part of Missae quatuor vocum quibus unica [�] pro fidelibus defunctis est adiecta.
It contains:
- Introitus: Requiem aeternam 2'06
- Kyrie Christe Kyrie 2'55
- Graduale: Requiem aeternam 2'00
- Offertorium: Domine Jesu Christe 5'00
- Sanctus 2'06
- Benedictus 1'25
- Agnus Dei I, II, III 4'38
- Responsorium Tractus: Absolve Domine 2'41
Source: http://www.musikland-tirol.at/html/musikedition/komponisten/amon/opusmissae/amon_frame.html
Contributor: Pentti Ruokonen
Missa pro Defunctis was in 1588 published with four other Masses by Blasius in Vienna in Missae quatuor, vocibus quaternis in divino Dei cultu decantandae, quibus unica quatuor etiam vocum pro fidelibus defunctis est adiecta Wien: Michael Apffl 1588. The Requiem is written for four voices (CATB) and has in all parts a very modest imitative polyphonic style. Blasius sometimes uses homophone phrases and starts the Gregorian versions with Plainchant which is normal. From the homophone phrases I mention �Et lux perpetua� in the Gradual. The parts in this Mass of the Dead, Missa pro Defunctis � with exclusion of the Offertorium - are not very long, perhaps due to the fact this Mass has been used for the Services in the Franciscan monastery. The Offertorium consists out of 111 bars and the �Quam olim Abramhae� (bars 55-70)and is an interesting part of this Requiem. In the rich Sanctus Blasius has chosen for two variations of the �Osanna�. The chosen Responsorium/Responsorial at the end is interesting.
I found an �Absolve Domine� not a part of the usual Tractus in the Liber Usualis page 1809 but a text from a separate old Respond with belonging Vresicle.
This used �Absolve Domine� is an old Responsorium, Respond. There are about 138 Responsoria de Officium Defunctorum, Responds from Office of the Dead known and used during centuries in the Office of the Dead. They are all well ordered, this is number 138. The second part, pars secunda of this motet is �Requiem aeternam� the Versicle following and belonging to this Respond. The Versicle �Requiem aeternam� number 198 is used in the Office of the Dead. It is known, the use of Responds and Versicles of The Office of the Dead vary per region all over Europe. In general this Respond and Versicle is far as known used what we call now in the Western part of Europe (Low Countries) so among others used in Abbey of St. Bavon of Gand in the diocese of Tournai and the Respond �Absolve me� is estimated as a typical Responsories/Respond of that region and used in the first nocturne. This version is further found in Verdun, Li�ge, Brussels, Lille, St. Omer, St. Vedast, the Haegue, Deventer and Utrecht and is sung in the first nocturne. In this sense it is interesting or Blasius or the Franciscan order has been influenced by the chosen text by Netherlands musicians. See we for instance the Missa pro Defunctis written by his contemporaries Jacobus de Kerle (c.1531-1592) Prague the used text of the Tractus is �Ti ambulem�.
In this particular case I mention the chosen Latin text in my comment, with the remark Blasius uses �respirent� instead of �merantur�.
R. Absolve Domine, animas eorum ab omni vinculo delictorum, ut in resurrectionis gloria inter sanctos tuos resuscitari merantur (respirent). V. Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei. R. ut in resurrectionis gloria inter sanctos tuos resuscitari merantur (respirent).
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Silent Legions – My Full Review
Mark May 31, 2015 4
I always knew I was going to want to review this game from the moment I added my pledge to the Kickstarter. I have always wanted to play a pure horror game like Call of the Cthulhu or something similar and have owned that game in various versions over my gaming career. Problem is I never could get a game together with my friends being more pulp fantasy or sci-fi oriented. Now, with the advent of the awesomeness of high speed internet and the assistance of places like Google+ I can get games like this up and running and it was time to finally realise a true horror game built with my own hands with Kevin Crawford guiding me.
The Book and Art
I have a load of PDF’s but I find that I still miss holding a book, especially those that I have high hopes for and so I bought the hardcover version of Silent Legions from DrivethruRPG (affiliate links are provided throughout this post), and downloaded the PDF. I read up until the point where it talks about making your own world with the PDF and then decided to wait for the slow mail crawl from wherever it gets printed to Tasmania to hold it in my hands and do the rolls. I am glad I did.
Just recently I heard from someone that they just could not bring themselves to read the book because the cover is atrocious. This is really disappointing to me because a) I like the cover and b) it is a marvelous game. I will grant the person that made the comment that there is something not quite right about the cover in much the same way that I watch a computer generated human in a game or animated movie and can tell that there is something wrong. I think though that might have been part of the reason that this is the cover. In what other game is the focus on material that is not quite right? It works, and the fact that they seem to be rushing to do a ritual to save the world (or at least their own hides) seems appropriate.
I think another thing to consider here, inclusive of the black and white art that fills the book, is that this game is an Old School Renaissance (OSR) styled game. It seeks to connect the reader to what it was like playing games in the late 70’s and through the early to mid eighties. The cover is in fact superb compared to those times and if you received this cover then there would be people going mad about it. In the days of today though where glossy, fully professional covers like Pathfinder and D&D hold sway this instead seems to make it stand out for criticism. Not from me though. One of the very cool things too is that Kevin Crawford made sure that he paid for all the art so others can use it royalty free anywhere! Now that is awesome and it is something unheard of in this day and age. You can get the images from DriveThru also for FREE!
Strange aliens abound
I do really like the style of the art inside this book a lot. It really does touch my love of the OSR perfectly and when I look at it I do get the feeling that I had when I used to flick through the games I used to play as a kid thoroughly like Super Squadron, James Bond RPG, MegaTraveller and Maelstrom. This combined with the well printed and presented book made me extremely happy to have bought the hardcover copy. It is well bound, has very crisp, clear text and is very easy to read. The font is a generous size and was not shrunken down to a tiny setting to save on pages (of which it has 184).
Rules and a Read Through
I finished the book last night as I lay in bed. It has taken me a while to get through the book in its entirety but it is not because it was a hard book to read. Quite the contrary, it is because I wanted to soak it all in and the past month and a half have been super busy for me professionally. The book is split into three sections. The first covers Character Generation and the Rules. The second section looks at the creation of a mythos and establishing a sandbox game for your players to play in and the final section are bonuses and extras that were part of the Kickstarter rewards for some of the backers and add some ideas on how to implement some ideas into the game. By far and large the major section of the book is the one that relates to the making of the Sandbox and while the rules section comes first I think I will start by talking about the creation of the sandbox.
Dark Things Rise
Creating the Sandbox
A massive amount of this book really relates to helping the GM in running the game and playing the game in a Sandbox. What is a sandbox is described in one of my older posts here. Kevin Crawford is very well known for his sandbox game implementations. Probably the most famous of his games being the sandbox science fiction game Stars Without Number. I have read that game and I really liked the sandbox that he provided but I did not like a class based system for a science fiction game so I never ran it. I have many friends that love it.
Silent Legions reads very like Stars Without Number in supporting a sandbox. It creates the sandbox that the players will be involved in via a very top down approach, building one thing at a time. It tends to be mostly created with a bunch of randomized charts that the GM rolls and then collates the randomness into their own take on how it all fits together. It is very well thought out and makes the GM think about connections as they go. From each of these connections builds up a believable, deep setting that has richness and a life apart from the GM. It truly creates a world of possibility.
Part of the cleverness in these rules are the suggestions that the GM uses areas that they are familiar with and have visited to build their mythos. The game that I ran used such places and because I was using those settings I gave it more colour naturally from my own knowledge. I had actually been planning to do this myself before I even got to the sections on the locations and was pleasantly surprised to find that Kevin had the same kind of thoughts.
The Sandbox section takes you from the Gods of the Mythos inclusive of perhaps the pantheons they inhabit and unpronounceable alien names! Then you move into the strange and alien races that serve the gods, or against them, that the players will likely encounter. Like the Deep Ones of Cthulhu you will find ways to create completely insane, weird life forms to drive your characters insane with. Beyond that they give you the rules for location building and the building of cults and Kelipah (other planar places) that fully fill your world with intrigue, plot and danger.
Among this material are the directions on how to create an “Adventure Template”. I found this slightly strange in the book as they talk about the adventure template, and while they did I followed on and created the template that I used for the game I ran. Once they were finished describing how to use it though they then gave a whole heap of random tables to create the template and they suggested you have a few generic ones on hand that could be applied to any of the locations. I am not sure why they described it twice in this instance.
Alien meets human
The other issue that I have with the Sandbox section is there is a section that is designed to show progression in the world. I have no problem that this exists, plots go on even if players do not investigate them and so they may have to deal with the consequences, the issue I have with it is the section is overly complex and confusing. It is in Stars Without Number as well and while the one in Silent Legions is a lot better than SWN it still lacks for want of examples. I would love to see a developed plan here to show me scope, usage, development and results of a downtime development session. It really needs it. I find myself way too confused as to what I should apply where and why some of the arbitrary rules in it are, well, so arbitrary. For me, I will just develop the world by eye and GM judgement because I do not understand the rules written here or their application.
Rules and Character Creation
This is actually a moderately small portion of the entire book. There are only four character classes (Investigator, Scholar, Socialite and Tough) who are represented in a class/level system that actually fits this game as it allows for good levels of skill differentiation and individualising of each character. The character rules are pretty close to what they were in the Red Box version of Dungeons and Dragons and hence will be well understood by most players who have ever played a game of the same ilk. Characters are simple rather than complicated and it works to allow the player to fill the character with their own ideas rather than a convoluted layering of game mechanics to make them individual.
Skills are the driving force in the game. The check system is very simple and described in only a couple of pages completely as is combat. In fact all of the rules, complete with art and flowery text all fit into a ten page space. No real confusion to them. They are functional and quick. In fact, when I ran my game I had forgotten much of them because of the time between reading them and running the game so I did a quick skim and then used the one page Quick Reference sheet on page 31 to run the entire nights gaming with no confusion. In fact there were no rules questions and everyone pretty well understood what the go was in around 4 minutes of discussion that powered us through the rest of the night.
There is a sorcery section that I did not use in that game. It is also pretty easy to use. Familiarity with the spells may be an issue in game as it is with many games. That said though it is likely that a game which includes the sorcery spells in this book will focus on only one or two spells a night and thus a bit of research will go a long way. They do offer the ability to port other spells in from other systems too.
The Extra Material
There are a swag of extra little bits from random tables to create Old One names through to societies that have been requested by Kickstarter backers. There are also some guides on how to move the material from Silent Legions into other game systems including Stars Without Number and the likes of them.
Surprise house guest
I found each of these sections interesting but I am unlikely to ever use any of them based on how well the sandbox that I made turned out. None of these others really fit the setting and so it would be just too much work to re fix them into it. That siad it was interesting to take a look at some of the other ideas that people had and even more cool when I realised one of the contributors was Jason Blalock, one of my favourite people on G+.
I am going to label the creature section under the Extras largely because it does not fit perfectly anywhere else. This bestiary was really well done. There are a smattering of weird critters here and some undead but the real focus is the chart that they provide you that allows you to build any creature you want quickly. A page for the chart offers up all sorts of cool opportunities and there is a good guide that goes along with it also showing how you can mix and match your way to precisely what you want. It is such a smarter way of approaching the creature creation rather than an extensive section that would more than likely not be what each individual campaign calls for.
In Play
Now, I have already produced a post on what running a game of this was like and if you missed it you can find it here. What I am comfortable reiterating here are a few points. The first of those is that the system is so invisible in this game. Truly there is just so little to know when you are actually in the game. It feels like a narrative game like FATE without the awkwardness of having to ask “Can I use this aspect for this?” or “What does a scene aspect do again?”. Instead it just drives the story forward and I can only remember one rule mention when one of the players used the socialites special ability to get one of the guests at the party talking.
Secondly, it delivers on the theme in abundance. We had great fun role playing things up and laughter was had but when they were confronted with scenes that would probably garner an R rating at a cinema I heard the change. I felt the mood at the game turn serious and darker as they heard the images I was presenting and they were trying to rationalise it in character. This can be a very hard thing to achieve in the game and the system does not necessarily support it (apart from through madness attribute) but the direction in building that sandbox focuses on garnering this result from the very first random ideal to the last.
That said, this is a very particular brand of horror. I am not so certain how a general ghost story or the like would fare but for a horror of uncertainty and suspense there is nothing quite like this game. I am sure you could do a simple ghost story but for most of the talk of spirits in the book they talk more about possessing ghosts and poltergeists which is not really what I see as a good ghost story.
Finally, the adventure template idea worked very well in play. After building my template for the one shot that I ran I heard the players discussing some of the hints I put in about other mysteries that were part of my locations. Inclusive of this was n unexpected trip that they took to another one of the locations, so strong was the hint. If this game were to continue the story would most certainly have been a case of following the players direction of investigation and no need to have them start in a bar with a mysterious stranger giving them hooks. They would already have them based on other investigations.
I am not sure that terribly many of you would expect me to say any different but this is one stunning game. The delivery of a simple narrative game that promises horror and a greatly detailed sandbox styled system is a winner. kevin Crawford knows how to take advantage of his particular building systems and applying them to appropriate themes. I can see why people quickly become Kevin Crawford fans. I know I certainly am. I am even questioning if my decision to not run Stars Without Number was the right thing to do.
I do still believe that the sections that look at running plots etc. in downtime are the weakest part of his system. They are confusing, look time consuming and really would benefit from a detailed explanation to show precisely what he means. This does not break the game though. As with everything else that is in the book it is a modular addition that you can use or not. I am an experienced GM so I could just as easily use my own judgement as to what happens in between the play sessions, how things change and what it changes for the players.
Regardless of my minor problems with that portion of the system I do think that this really should be the book that people think of when they think horror. In comparison to others it is sleek, modular and allows for freedom of the GM to build pretty much whatever they want regardless of the historic notions already in place. This is the game that H.P. Lovecraft would be playing because he wanted people to use his stories to build on or come up with new material and it is that creative, new idea that really excited H.P. Lovecraft. So do yourself a favour and get this game. Don’t just grab it and say you will play it one day, grab it and play it. Get a game ready for Halloween or for a Friday the 13th and see what your regular gamers or just people that want to give it a go have to say about it. Keep rolling!
All art included in this review has come from the actual art of the book and is made from the creative hands of Nikola Avramovic, David L. Johnson, Luigi Castellani, Joyce Maureira, Earl Geir or Miguel Santos.
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Michael Prescott
Appreciate the review.
I think the deal with the cover is that the characters’ poses are very strange and stiff, particularly their arms. I’d be willing to bet money that the artist used Poser 3D figures (or something like it) as reference images.
Sean Robert Meaney
I love the giant alien beholder…it reminds me of a dnd artefact: The eye of Humbaba which grafting itself to the victim made them cyclopean and gave them true sight…frankly this form seems the better choice than a Cyclops. Playing with artefacts of the immortals should come at a terrible price.
I never looked at it that way and now I can’t unsee it – nice work Sean. It is an awesome game and filled with cool art like that.
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Zombies Ahead!
We Believe In...Oh Never Mind
Williamson Apologizes
Actor Comes Out...As Pro-Life!
Chastity vs. Virginity?
Channeling Bishop Burke
Eight Responses to Pro-Choicers
If You Want A Laugh
This Keeps Me Up At Night
I Don't Hate the New President
Media Downplays Obama's Abortion Order
SSPX: Triumph and Tribulation
Amy's All Over the SSPX
God Has Call Waiting?
Papist Thinks Pelosi's Left in the Cold
How Many Marched for Life?
Jimmy Carter: Trust Hamas
Who Will Chair the RNC?
Rick Schroder Isn't Into Hopenchange
Saints! Who Needs 'Em?
No Name Calling, You Homophobes!
Absurd, Borderline Blasphemous
When 95% Isn't Enough
K-Lo At March for Life
Chris Matthews: Is Sarah Palin Illiterate?
See How Fatima Looked in 1917
Can We Abort More? Yes We Can!
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A Question for Dems for Life
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News Anchor Cried at Inauguration
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The Post-Barackalyptic Wasteland
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Controversial Archbishop Dies
Bow to Culture of Death
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From NARAL To Pro-Life Speaker
Get Back Up!
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Worst Political Movies in Past 50 Years
The Unpopular Fr. Richtsteig
Redemptive Diapering on Deus Caritas Est
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Tell Tom Hanks To Shut Up!
Obama Snubs Palin?
Hilarious But Creepy Media Bias
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This is just funny. Go check out the pictures at Ace of Spades HQ:
Transportation officials in Texas are scrambling to prevent hackers from changing messages on digital road signs after one sign in Austin was altered to read, "Zombies Ahead."
Posted by matthew archbold at 1/31/2009 02:48:00 PM 1 comments
LarryD over at Acts of The Apostasy has the latest installment of "The Death of Religion Through Political Correctness:"
Political correctness continues to run amok in [insert emotion here] [insert age descriptor here] England (I didn't want to say "merry ol' England" because I don't want to offend sad young people).
From the Daily Mail: Silenced Christian Soldiers: Chaplain Bans Creed 'so services won't offend minority religions'
Sandhurst military academy has dropped the Church of England Creed from services over fears that it may offend religious minorities.
From Rorate Caeli
To His Eminence Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos
Your Eminence
Amidst this tremendous media storm stirred up by imprudent remarks of mine on Swedish television, I beg of you to accept, only as is properly respectful, my sincere regrets for having caused to yourself and to the Holy Father so much unnecessary distress and problems.
Continue Reading >>>>
Posted by Patrick Archbold at 1/30/2009 11:07:00 AM 1 comments
Big Hollywood is off to a heck of a start. Actor Gary Graham -you'd know his face-writes about his journey from pro-choice to pro-life. It's got some language but it's really powerful:
I’m not a person filled with hate. I don’t brew strong stomach acids when I hear/see things I think horrendously idiotic or unjust in the news or on the street. Initially, my reaction is to laugh. The irony is simply too much, and I crack up. Generally, it’s either laugh…or cry. And who wants to spend the day in tears? For I would, were I to give in to that option of dealing with the utter, naked insanity in our midst on a daily basis. I’m not just talking about something that ‘isn’t quite right’ or… ‘is just a tad out of whack’…I’m talking about the United States of America in this year of 2009 being completely off its moorings and slipping into the abyss.
Posted by matthew archbold at 1/30/2009 08:23:00 AM 1 comments
From Dawn Eden
Last week, one of my professors (not at Dominican House of Studies, but at another school where I am taking a class) referred to the evangelical counsels—poverty, chastity, and obedience—as "poverty, virginity, and obedience."
I raised my hand and asked if he was using "virginity" to mean unmarried chastity. He said virginity was a more appropriate word than chastity because virginity implies a "complete self-gift" to God
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Posted by Patrick Archbold at 1/29/2009 09:45:00 PM 0 comments
Bishop Hermann of St. Louis
In our Supreme Court and in our Congress, we have a plethora of so-called Catholics who are failing to live their Catholic identity. Over 50 percent of our electorate voted for a president who is one of the most pro-culture-of-death candidates from a major party to run for the highest office of the land.
Yes, we can thank one-half of our Catholics for bailing out on their faith!
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David Alexander asks "Wazzup With WTF?"
Yo, dude. We got the total DL on the latest buzz with that whole pro-life thing. Ed Morrissey of Hot Air says wazzup...
Jen F. writes a really well thought out article at Inside Catholic on responding to pro-choicers about abortion:
I once said that I'd die to keep abortion legal and easily accessible, and I meant it. I was vehemently pro-choice, as were most of the women in my social circles. We believed abortion was a critical right for women and could not imagine how anyone could be pro-life. We were products of a culture in which human sexuality had been severed from its inherent connection to the creation of human life. Our generation had been taught in our public school sex-ed classes not that sex creates babies, but that unprotected sex creates babies. We were assured that the creation of new human life was tangential to sexual activity, something that was not only optional but completely controllable. In fact, babies were considered downright antithetical to sex.
The Curt Jester at his best. He brings this hilarious piece called "If Rodney Dangerfield had been Catholic" from out of nowhere. I wonder how long he's been working on it. It's so good:
It's not easy being me let me tell you. I went to a silent retreat. Turns out it was a regular retreat, just nobody wanted to talk to me. I can't get no respect.
When I was a child I was possessed by a Demon. When my bed lifted up in the air my mother told to Demon to hold it up there while she got the dust mop. I didn't even spew pea soup, more like Cambell's Chicken Noodle. Turned out I was possessed by a very minor Demon who couldn't even get his Latin declensions right and ran at the site of Holy Water. No respect I tell you.
When I received Confirmation the Bishop slapped me. I asked him "I thought we didn't do that anymore?" He told me in my case he made an exception.
You want to know what keeps me up at night? The fear of having to fight a lion. (Go for the eyes!) But you know what else keeps me up at night? This post by Patrick Madrid which essentially details the demise of The West in a clear and rational way. Thanks Patrick Madrid! Thanks a lot! Well at least I won't be having the lion nightmare for a while:
Global aging, combined with plummeting birth rates, is a catastrophically dangerous menace that only a few people seem to be waking up to. You may not be familiar with terms like “global aging” and “demographic winter,” but you will be soon.
Fr Dwight Longenecker doesn't hate the new President but he sure doesn't like what he sees so far:
The have been accused in the comments box of 'hating' our new President. I don't think I hate him as a person. Indeed, I'm proud that our country has elected a black man, and that so many of my countrymen have hope for the future, and are optimistic, and I hope he succeeds in making our country a better place. I don't hate him. However, I do dislike a trait he evidences which is a symptom of the philosophy he holds, and that he (like most ideologues) is stubborn.
Newsbusters compares the press reaction of Obama's order to fund the abortion industry overseas with the way the press treated Bush for cutting it off:
Catching up on an item from Friday night, the three broadcast evening newscasts aired virtually nothing on January 23 about President Obama’s executive order permitting federal funding of abortions, overturning orders signed by President Bush in his first week in office back in 2001. Both CBS and NBC’s White House reporters squeezed in a single sentence about Obama’s action during stories about the economic stimulus bill, while ABC’s World News said nothing about the orders on Friday.
But on Sunday’s World News, ABC’s Dan Harris highlighted conservative criticism of Obama’s abortion decision, arguing that it showed how “despite his desire to reach out to people who disagree with him, the new President may find that on some issues, it may be impossible to find common ground.”...
Christopher A. Ferrara, Remnant Columnist, has said everything I could or would say about the lifting of the excommunications. A wonderfully joyous and momentous day marred by the actions of one.
I consider it a must read for anyone interested in the SSPX.
If this whole issue with the SSPX is interesting to you, you should go over and read Amy Welborn's blog. She's really making some strong points and explaining it so that even idiots like me can understand:
I want to highlight this:
“The key issue with the lifting of the excommunications is to take all possible measures to prevent these prelates from conferring the episcopacy on a new generation of Lefebvrites. No new bishops and the thing dies.”
I don’t think Benedict wants the “thing” to die” in terms of the spirituality and devotion of people associated with SSPX, but he certainly wants them reintegrated into the Church. But the more I think about it, it seems as if lifting the excommunications is, looking at things politically, a means of actually getting more control over the SSPX, just for the reason - as well as the ordination of priests - that this commenter expresses.
Dawn Eden has a homily which is quite good from Fr. Sean Raftis, S.J. about us answering our calls from God:
When we get phone calls, we all react differently, depending on who is calling and what the phone call is about. Sometimes we are excited to get a call and sometimes we might be nervous. Sometimes we want to answer the phone and sometimes we don’t. What would we do if God called us? Well, he does call us.
In today’s Gospel, Our Lord called some members of the Apostolic College. The Latin word for “calling” is “vocare." Just as Jesus called the disciples, he calls all of us, and we all have a vocation, no matter who we are, no matter what age we are. Also, it is never, ever too late to answer God’s call. God has eternal call-waiting...
American Papist has the latest in the Pelosi contraception saga. And I bet you'll be surprised:
Quite a development:
House Democrats are likely to jettison family planning funds for the low-income from an $825 billion economic stimulus bill, officials said late Monday, following a personal appeal from President Barack Obama at a time the administration is courting Republican critics of the legislation
So the media added a million or so to the Inauguration's attendance numbers. Try to guess what they did to the March for Life numbers. Apoloblogology has the numbers:
Having looked at several sources, I've come up with quite a few different numbers of how many marchers peacefully employed their first amendment rights this past week in Washington on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. So far the only consistent number I have that day when it comes to protesters is the one nutjob who smashed his SUV into a Minnesota Planned Parenthood, effectively giving the media an excuse to focus on an extremist exception and ignore the rule. So far, here are the numbers I've found:
Appearing on Monday's "Today" show former President Jimmy Carter offered his advice to President Barack Obama on the Mideast peace process and to her credit "Today" co-host Meredith Vieira actually expressed skepticism about Carter's faith in Hamas in those negotiations. Vieira repeatedly questioned Carter about the trustworthiness of Hamas as she queried Carter, "But do you believe Hamas that Hamas can be trusted?" and pointed out to the 39th President, "Hamas has said that its goal is to destroy Israel. How can you involve them in a peace process when they've said their goal is to destroy Israel? They don't recognize Israel." ...
The RNC Chair race will have long term consequences for many of the issues we care about most: Red State has some interesting news on the race:
There are two men at the top of list for RNC Chairman: Mike Duncan and Katon Dawson. One of them will be the next chairman.
I’m not saying this because I want them, though truth be told I’d be happy with either. I’m saying this because I’ve been surveying RNC members and people on the outside. It seems very clear this is where we stand.
In third place would be Saul Anuzis with Michael Steele nipping at his heels. Publicly, Steele has more endorsements, but Anuzis has stronger support among undecideds.
Well, that's it. Rick Schroder's career is over:
Actor and childhood star Richard “Ricky” Schroder, Jr., told CNSNews.com that the election of Barack Obama did not change his life and Obama should not raise taxes on Americans.
The election of Obama, “It hasn’t changed my life,” Schroder told CNSNews.com on the red carpet at the Declare Yourself Inaugural Ball
The Anchoress writes of the disconnect between Catholics and other Christians over saints:
I’ve written before about the Communion of Saints and what it is like to pray with the cloud of witnesses St. Paul tells us are always around us. Christians profess the Communion of Saints in the Apostles Creed, but aside from the Catholics and Orthodox, we don’t actually talk about engaging them in prayer - asking them to pray to and for us. Anglicans recognise the saints, too, but are - I think - a little less pally with them, and the Evangelicals don’t think about them at all. That’s partly because, although there is growing friendship and understanding between Catholics and Evangelicals, there is a tremendous disconnect between them on this issue. Some Evangelicals swear we “worship” the saints instead of God and engage in idolatry, and we Catholics and Orthodox don’t do a very good job of explaining that our engagements with the saints are the farthest things from “worship” but are in fact, fast friendships wherein we pray together.
From Karen Hall
From the "When Will This End?" Files...
No, actually, this would be more accurately placed in the "No Sense of Irony" files. At any rate, now hear this:
You've got to see this one to believe it. This is what passes for objective media today:
In yet another example of the absurd, even borderline blasphemous depictions of Barack Obama as if he were a religious figure, the L.A. Times foisted upon its customers an amazing specimen as a wrap around over its newsstand copies of the paper leading up to inaugural day last week.
Freeper "puffer" was so amazed at the audacity of this L.A. Times imagery, he had to scan the sheet and display it on FreeRepublic.com. The photograph is reminiscent of one of the most famous and iconic depictions of God in western art, the Sistine Chapel painting of God reaching out to Adam. But, instead of God, we have The Obammessiah reaching across the page as if straining to touch each of us with his healing hand. It's quite disgusting, really, the way the Old Media has propagandized for Obama by replicating religious imagery or communist propaganda and this over-the-top image is a perfect example.
Please say a quick prayer for Domenico and his family:
It’s been quite a roller coaster day for us here. No, it has nothing to do with the inauguration (although I’m waiting for so-called pro-life Obama supporters to explain his moves on that front), but something much closer to home.
Melanie had gone in to see an endocrinologist recently because of something her ob-gyn had seen in her recent tests. (For those of you just catching up, she’s about 14 weeks pregnant.) She got the call back today that she has “nodules” on her thyroid gland and they’re going to have to do a biopsy by sticking a big needle through her neck. The doctor assured her that in 95% of cases, the nodules are completely benign...
Kathryn Lopez writes about the March for Life in National Review:
On the 36th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in the United States, I stood, for a while, just about exactly where I stood during the so-called March for Women’s Lives the “pro-choice” crowd had in April 2004. That was back in the Bush years, and it was an election year to boot; their rally was a bit of a pre-Democratic convention, since the Democrats then as now are in the pocket of the abortion industry. (The late Governor Bob Casey remains an exception, and an inspiring model. Today, President Barack Obama even has a former EMILY’s List leader as his spokeswoman.)...
You want to hear the crazy truth. As sick and twisted and bias as Chris Matthews is, he isn't even the most sick and twisted and bias on his own network. he may not be in the top three. That's not to say he's not a lunatic as evidenced by this priceless clip from Newsbusters:
Good old Chris "Tingle" Matthews. We can always look to him to lower his own credibility just one more notch with each and every broadcast, can't we? This time Ol' Chris Tingle has debased himself by telling the four or five viewers he has that he thinks Governor Sarah Palin can't read or write. Apparently Matthews doesn't think that Palin has the capacity to write the book she is reportedly shopping around.
Patrick Madrid has up a video with pictures from Fatima in 1917. I've never seen it before and it's really quite interesting.
Some truly alarming abortion statistics from Gateway Pundit. But obviously, President Obama doesn't feel they're alarming enough:
Because 42 million global abortions each year are not nearly enough, Barack Obama will use taxpayer dollars to pay for more. He signed the legislation today... One day after the anniversary of Roe v Wade.
The Guttmacher Institute reported:
Bishop Fellay defends the SSPX and puts distance between Williamson's opinions and the Society. I wonder if Williamson see the bus coming his way?
See His Letter Here >>>>
One of the things nobody ever talks about in the recent Democratic surge at the ballot box is how so many Democrats are veering to the right on issues like life and guns to woo conservatives. But this raises a question: Are the Democrats for Life an honest-to-goodness pro-life organization commited to remaking their party or simply a wedge to unseat pro-life Republicans. Jay Anderson wonders:
A commenter at this InsideCatholic article on shifting the pro-life strategy poses an excellent question:
I have not kept up perfectly with dems for life who hold office. I wish them well in changing their party. But I have to admit to a negative opinion overall. Let's start with Bob Casey Jr. D-Pa. He is a dem for life. He won partly because his dad was the honorable Bob Casey Sr., who was ostracized by the DNC for suggesting a prolife platform. Jr. also won due to the media negativity of the Iraq War. This was focused on a courageous prolife republican, Rick Santorum. Santorum is a devout catholic who constantly fought for the unborn. He deserved that seat more than Casey. It was a cheap dirty victory in that one prolifer was run by dems against the more dedicated prolifer: Santorum. Santorum lost. Net pro life victory zero. But at least Casey will typically vote party line.
The AP said the March for Life was only three blocks long.
Michael Novak watched the march this afternoon. It was broadcast on EWTN and will be rebroadcast later. Michael said he watched for nearly three hours as the march just kept streaming up the street, often as many as fifteen abreast.
George Stephanopoulos cried during the Inauguration and yet we're supposed to believe that he's objective. I'm not sure I can get there unless he cried when Clarence Thomas was sworn onto the Supreme Court:
"We watched everything and George was still doing all the anchoring for ABC and as soon Beyonce said 'At Last...' George called me at home and he went, 'Honey?' and I said 'I know!' and we both started crying."
You've just got to watch the video at Hot Air. Obama gets asked a substantive question (I think for the first time in over a year) and he gets pretty peeved. Just for laughs watch the adoring faces of the journalists:
“Annoyed” is a relative term when it comes to Cool Hand Luke but the irritation was palpable enough to squeeze a story out of Politico. What, pray tell, did they do to irk the un-irkable? Why, the one thing that could be counted on to get a rise out of him throughout his interminable campaign: They asked him a question.
From Mrs. Dyspepsia
While he's said "This ain't Oprah," I've spilled my guts here, and this is another one of those times.
Tomorrow my beloved husband goes under the knife for Lap-Band surgery. To those who noticed his comment somewhere about the "pre-surgical liquid diet," that's why.
by Robert P. George
Thirty-six years ago tomorrow, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down its infamous decision in Roe v. Wade and its companion case Doe v. Bolton. In the name of a generalized “right to privacy” allegedly implicit in the Due Process Clause of the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment, seven justices created a license to kill the unborn.
These men probably had no idea that they were unleashing a struggle for the soul of the nation.
Ed Morrisey of Hot Air will be interviewing the director of 22 Weeks, the pro-life movie, and he'll be talking about the March for Life as well. I'm sure it'll be interesting:
Today, the Left celebrates the 36th anniversary of Roe v Wade, while the pro-life movement mourns the deaths of over 44 million aborted babies. In Washington DC, March for Life will protest the Roe decision as well as the widely-expected Freedom of Choice Act that Barack Obama promised to push through Congress. The Anchoress also anticipates that Barack Obama will end the Mexico City policy by executive order as early as today and restore American funding of abortions overseas.
Today, I’ll interview Angel Manuel Soto, the director of a new film, 22 Weeks, about a true story of an abortion and what happened when the child survived. Joining us will be the mother, Angele, to give her perspective on Roe and the abortion industry. The film is now playing in selected theaters throughout the country, but can also be purchased on DVD now. The website has a lot more information, and a trailer:
Ed Whelan in The Corner writes an excellent piece on the comparison between the Supreme Court's ruling in Dred Scott to Roe:
On this 36th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s dreadful decision in Roe v. Wade, permit me to quote from my Senate Judiciary Committee testimony in 2005:
Roe v. Wade marks the second time in American history that the Supreme Court has invoked "substantive due process" to deny American citizens the authority to protect the basic rights of an entire class of human beings. The first time, of course, was the Court’s infamous 1857 decision in the Dred Scott case (Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857)). There, the Court held that the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which prohibited slavery in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territories, could not constitutionally be applied to persons who brought their slaves into free territory...
I'm not sure I understand the expectation that we're all supposed to support the President as if he's coming in as a bipedal tabula rasa who we won't know what to expect from until he does it. Anyone who's paying attention knows enough to wish him failure in many respects. Warner Todd Huston (who may be the busiest blogger in the world) has a few things to say about it over at Stop The ACLU:
An extremely liberal co-worker of mine — he’s in the past said that the “rich” should be killed, for instance — asked me a serious question by which he felt he could gauge whether or not I was a “real” American in his eyes during the rise of the age of Obama. He wondered whether I wish success for Barack Obama as our president. After a few seconds of reflection I had to honestly give a qualified “no” in answer to his query. Naturally this fellow went off about how it was unAmerican to wish the president to fail and how it would damage the country. But, after he briefly calmed down, and brief calm is usually all we can expect from him, I gave him a fuller explanation.
One of the most outrageous and dishonest campaign websites this year was Obama's mock "Pro-Life" website paid for by George Soros.
In reality Obama was the most radical pro-abortion and infanticide candidate in the last 35 years. Barack Obama even voted 4 times to support infanticide.
After his victory his advisors announced that one of his first moves would be to lift a ban that would swell the number abortions both here and abroad.
They weren't kidding.
Yesterday we were not giving money to organizations overseas that provided abortions, today we are - Change.
Yesterday before noon the official White House site did not promote abortion, now it does - Change.
Yesterday we had a President that did not consider that the question of human life was above his paygrade, now we do - Change
Jammie Wearing Fool has video of Washington D.C. after the inauguration. It truly does look like a post-apocylptic wasteland. And these are the people who love the environment?
The Obamatons trash DC in the greenest, most glorious inaugural ever!
What was it Obama said, something about taking responsibility? Sure.
How about picking up after yourselves, you slobs?
Amy Welborn is a tad uncomfortable with the coronation...I mean...inauguration of the Obamessiah.
Long-time readers will recognize this post as yet another long, rambling, unfocused attempt to focus my own thoughts.
As I usually do, before going to the actual effort of articulating my own views, I hunt around, trying to find someone who says it better, so I won’t have to bother. I found three. But I’ll still bother.
First, I agree with a bit of this post at the Volokh Conspiracy critiquing the inaugural gestalt that seems more in common with a monarchy than a republic founded, in part, out of a desire for limited government. This is not an Obama issue. It’s an issue related to the increasingly vexing matter of the role of the president in American government and life. I say “increasingly vexing” because I do believe the confusion and pressure is getting worse as government grows. I thought about this often during the campaign, particularly during the debates. Think about it - these candidates are put up there in the debate context, not allowed to use any notes or references, and are expected to be comfortably expert on any and every aspect of domestic and foreign policy that might affect a nation of 300 million people as evidenced by their ability to speak extemporaneously and unaided.
A hero of "progressive-minded" Catholics passed away today:
With family and friends near him, Archbishop Jean Jadot died peacefully at his residence in Brussels Jan. 21. He had received communion and the last rites a couple days before his death. Archbishop Karl-Josef Rauber, the Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium, had come to his bedside with a special papal blessing from Pope Benedict XVI.
He had been Apostolic Delegate to the United States from 1973 to 1980 and at the direction of Pope Paul VI transformed the U.S. Episcopal leadership by appointing pastorally-minded bishops.
The Anchoress questions Obama's bow to Moloch concerning paying for abortions overseas:
As I mentioned yesterday, today Barack Obama’s first act as president will be precisely what Bill Clinton’s “first act” as President was: he will make a token offering to Moloch by freeing up US funds (they come from your pocket, remember) to pay for overseas abortions.
Juan Williams in the Wall Street Journal writes an impressive column on how the media by building Obama up could be setting him up for failure.
With the noon sun high over the U.S. Capitol, Barack Obama yesterday took the oath of office to become president of the United States. On one level, it was a simple matter of political process -- the symbolic transfer of power. Yet words alone cannot convey its meaning.
The calloused hands of slaves, the voices of abolitionists, the hearts of generations who trusted in the naïve promise that any child can become president, will find some reward in a moment that was hard to imagine last year, much less 50 years ago. Our history, so marred by the sin of slavery, has come to the day when a man that an old segregationist would have described as "tea-colored" -- the child of a white woman and an African immigrant, who identifies as a member of the long oppressed and despised black minority -- was chosen by a mostly white nation as the personification of America's best sense of self as a nation of power and virtue...
The media plays it's continuing game of "nothing to see here. Move along" at the Inauguration:
The Associated Press noticed liberal Rev. Joseph Lowery's prayer raised eyebrows when he prayed for that day in the hazy future when "white will embrace what is right." That divisive note drew this headline: "Lowery gives sole inaugural note of racial caution." The entire dispatch was brief:
Journalism of the objective variety is dead. Red State performs the autopsy:
We’ve seen the evidence mounting over the last several years of professional journalism’s slide from respectable fourth estate to irrelevant outlet for liberal activism. We’ve seen Dan Rather’s “fake but accurate” forged-document-based assassination attempt on George W. Bush, and Chris Matthews’s tingly-legged assertion that his job as an objective journalist, while formerly being centered on bringing down the Bush administration, is now to ensure that Barack Obama’s tenure in the White House is a “success,” regardless of the facts or the cost.
Ten years ago Karen Shablin was a "card-carrying member of NARAL"; she is now a pro-life speaker for Feminists for Life. A health policy expert and former state Medicaid agency head, Ms. Shablin is speaking for FFL on campus because, she says, "I can’t undo my mistakes over the years—having an abortion, advocating abortion, but I can help others to learn from my mistakes. Every life counts..."
You feeling like you've got it rough? Overwhelmed? There's a pretty amazing video over at Faith and Family Live that'll straighten you right out:
Feeling discouraged? This video will cure you of that. Nick Vujicic is one of the most inspiring speakers I’ve heard in a long time.
Maybe it's just Winter but an awful lot of people aren't buying the whole global warming thing.
He won an Oscar and a Nobel Peace Prize, but a recent poll suggests the Global Warmingist-in-Chief Al Gore is losing his propaganda war to convince Americans carbon dioxide is destroying the planet.
In fact, the number of people who believe that long-term planetary trends are responsible for the relatively small increase in temperatures in recent decades rose ten percent since last April while those viewing it as a man-made problem have decreased by six percent.
HotAir is compiling the list of the worst political movies of the past 50 years. There's some doozies I even forgot about. Go have some fun.
As promised, I have reviewed the hundreds of comments and suggestions in yesterday’s thread to compile a list of the worst political movies of the past 50 years. Remember, we’re looking for bad movies, not necessarily movies with which we disagree on political direction. That can be a fine distinction, as a really offensive political message can ruin a movie, so I’ll leave that judgment to Hot Air readers.
Criticize Obama and pay the price. Even Fr. Eric Richtsteig has now learned his lesson, not that I think it will influence his actions even a little. (It may actually make him even more fun to read)
Anyway, the Salt Lake Tribune religion editor called earlier in the week and asked me to make a comment on the incoming presidency. (I think she wanted a divergent opinion.) Here is what I said.
This new blog has one of the greatest names of Catholic blogs I've seen in a while: Redemptive Diapering. Brigid is ambitiously starting a weekly discussion forum on Deus Caritas Est. Seems interesting:
Like a good theology prof, Pope Benedict is starting at the very beginning. Who and what is God? Who and what am I? To understand these things, we need to understand what love is, and strip away some of the false ideas that are popular about love, man, and God, particularly “[i]n a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance or even a duty of hatred and violence.”
As much as CMR has made it clear we disagree with Barack Obama on...let's just say lots and lots, we do find that this is very good news. Can it change? Sure. But for now, it's good news.
More than two-thirds of African-Americans believe Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision for race relations has been fulfilled, a CNN poll found -- a figure up sharply from a survey in early 2008.
The CNN-Opinion Research Corp. survey was released Monday, a federal holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader and a day before Barack Obama is to be sworn in as the first black U.S. president.
Mollie from GetReligion.org highlights a hilarious media angle on the recent plane crash in the Hudson. Clearly, the media doesn't think we should be praying while a plane is going down. Hey, if not then, when?
How awesome is Chesley B. Sullenberger, the heroic pilot who saved everyone’s life in his daring landing in the Hudson? I just can’t read enough about the perfect landing and the brilliant rescue operation. Of course, I’m one of those people who can’t drive across a bridge without contemplating what I’d do if, say, the bridge suddenly collapsed and I ended up in the middle of the icy Potomac.
Curt Jester's pet peeve is mine also.
Headlines like Applause for Biden interrupts Catholic church service
Another article gives more details.
Biden and his wife attended mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown. At one point, when newcomers and visitors were welcomed, congregants laughed and started applauding until Biden stood up. Then everyone stood up for sustained applause.
This adds to my list of why I hate Pastors asking about visitors.
From Sheila Liaugminas:
President George W. Bush has declared Sunday, January 18th, National Sanctity of Human Life Day.
It was one of his last acts as president, two days after declaring Friday National Religious Freedom Day.
His proclamation recognizes…
All human life is a gift from our Creator that is sacred, unique, and worthy of protection.
I really want to like Tom Hanks. I didn't even blame him for the DaVinci Code thing. But it's getting harder and harder to like this guy. According to Michelle Malkin, Hanks has called me and anyone who thinks marriage should be between a man and a woman - un-American:
We were considered fascists for questioning theirs, but it’s patriotic for them to question ours.
Per Hot Air headlines, Hollywood lib Tom Hanks tars Prop. 8 supporters as “un-American.” As opposed to all of those patriots gathering black lists and compiling maps of people who exercised their right to vote and dared to express political opinions in opposition to Tinseltown orthodoxy…
HotAir has a whole theory on why Sarah Palin has not been invited to the Inaugural even though McCain is:
Her spokesman claims he doesn’t know if she was or not, but come on.
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, his controversial running-mate, will not attend the dinner, Bill McAllister, a Palin spokesman tells Mother Jones…
Was she even invited? “I don’t know if she was invited,” McCallister says. Don’t know? How could that be? It’s hard to miss an invitation from a presidential inauguration committee. For its part, Obama’s inaugural committee has declined to say whether an invitation was sent to Palin. Repeated phone calls to its press office produced no answer to this simple question…
CBS's Harry Smith has obviously long been willing to show his liberal bias but his "feelings" for Obama really come to the forefront here in an embarrasing third grade crush kind of way here including this precious line: "Wow...Yeah. Has a good smile, too, right? There you go. Peter, thank you so much...Really, really like it." Check out the whole thing at Newsbusters:
Near the end of Thursday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith unveiled the latest painting by artist Peter Max, a mural of 44 portraits of Barack Obama. Max has created numerous paintings for the Early Show set and Smith praised the artist’s latest work: "Okay, wow. That is really, really, really cool...Wow. Well, that is pretty impressive. I hope somebody in the President-elect's transition office is taking a look at this. That is really amazing. Wow..."
OK. I'll admit it. I think the strange lights in the sky story is pretty cool but I'm the kind of guy who clicks on anything that has Bigfoot in the title. But if a guy as smart as Patrick Madrid writes about strange lights in the sky then it must be ok. And the pictures are really cool, too.
This story is linked to prominently today on the Drudge Report, so perhaps you've already seen these pictures of unusual and inexplicable columns of colored lights in the European night sky. But I just want to add that this phenomenon of strange lights in the sky is unsettlingly reminiscent of what the Blessed Virgin Mary promised to the three children at Fatima in 1917...
I can't believe I'm linking to something Chuck Norris wrote...but it's really good. Thanks to Matt Swaim for clueing me into it.
Barack Obama emphatically promised more than a year ago, "The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act." Will he keep his word?
The Freedom of Choice Act is a sweeping bill that would abolish all pro-life regulations across the nation, from parental notification laws to bans on federal funding of abortions. The Office of the General Counsel for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops identified 13 categories of pro-life laws that would be stampeded and nullified by FOCA. As far-reaching as the decision of Roe v. Wade is into the states' jurisdictions and our lives, even it, for example, showed certain respect for state laws and limits on infringing regulations in the medical field. FOCA shows no such restraints; it nails shut the coffin on pro-life choices and safeguards...
The Anchoress utters the most dangerous words you could utter: Thank You President Bush.
Not that he didn’t make his share of mistakes - all presidents make mistakes and wartime presidents make more - but it always seemed to me that when the Arab Springtime was poised to flourish, and President Bush’s approval ratings seemed like they wouldn’t sink, when it became clear that Bush meant what he said about freedom and the human spirit, he had to be taken down. And that was accomplished; it was a group effort. It’s difficult to find a positive word written about him or his policies in any news report after that. Seriously. Go look.
Dawn Eden details this awful story that's going on right now. Pray.
The abortionclinicdays blog currently features a story by abortionist "Nell" about a woman with the African-American name of DaShay, a psychologically abusive mother who phoned to inquire about having the child of her mentally disabled 17-year-old daughter, Alia, killed in the womb...
Once you become a euphemist, all the other sins come just a little easier:
Most abortionists are euphemists. By which I mean merely, to quote Chesterton, “that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable of translating the one into the other, however obviously they mean the same thing.”
If, for instance, you say to an abortionist, “The excessive burden upon the mother, particularly in light of the rights to autonomy, privacy and reproductive freedom, of an unplanned pregnancy precludes any ethical objections to surgically removing the products of pregnancy post-viability, but prior to completion of delivery,” a gentle, indeed a radiant smile will cross his face, and he will dose off as if to a lullaby.
Say, on the other hand, in a forceful, straight-forward way, “Crush the skulls and suck out the brains of your children!” and he will leap from his seat, startled and full of objections.
But the two sentences mean precisely the same thing.
Nice find by Sheila Liaugminas of Inforum Blog. Good to see the current first lady is supportive of Catholic education. I shudder to think of how the incoming administration views it - probably as an impediment to indoctrination:
First Lady Laura Bush visited the Little Flower School in Betheseda, Maryland today to acknowledge their outstanding achievement in quality education. You probably won’t see this in any of the big media.
But I received a transcript from the White House Press Office, so here’s some of what she said:
Patrick Madrid's new blog is off to a good start. Lots of good stuff already. He's posting every day unlike lazy Erin Manning who was laying around a hospital bed for two days doing absolutely no blogging whatsoever. But Patrick Madrid has a really good clip I'd never heard before of Margaret Sanger chatting about "the negro problem" and how abortion is the answer:
About the 5-minute mark is where she talks about her eugenics solution to the “negro problem.” But watch the whole thing to get the full effect. Please share this far and wide, especially with young women, who are the vulnerable targets of the nefarious organization.
So the media uncovered a quote from Obama saying he outright supports gay marriage. Man! What bad luck that they found it after the election, huh? I guess the press was in Wasilla so they couldn't get out there to Chicago to check this out until after they found out if Sarah Palin had returned all of her library books in elementary school:
Yeah, so he lied about it while he was running for president. Hey, they all lie, right?
So the man has zero core convictions and will do anything and say anything to get elected. What's the big deal? It's all about hopenchange, baby!
I guess the media's tired of comparing Obama with Jesus so they're changing it up a little:
CNN.com may have tired of the idea of Barack Obama as a political Messiah, so they’re switching it up. On Monday night, it posted a report from rural Mississippi headlined "Grandson of slaves: Obama is our Moses." Senior producer Wayne Drash told the story of poor James "Little Man" Presley, who still picks cotton on the land his ancestors worked as slaves:
He's lived a raw-knuckled life where hope moved at a molasses-slow pace. The last time he had hope for a better future was four decades ago -- first with President John F. Kennedy and then with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
So, I’ve been working for three days now on another post, but I read this in the paper this morning and I wanted to post it. Basically, the ACLU is suing Health and Human Services over the US Conference of Catholic Bishops because when they help victims of trafficking, they won’t allow money to go to services and items which are in conflict with Catholic teaching. Here’s the crux of it:
The governors of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, one of London's leading Catholic comprehensives, are embroiled in a furious row with the Diocese of Westminster, which they accuse of forcing it to discriminate against practising Catholic parents.
What did you expect of the un-Christian clergyman?
Bishop Robinson said he had been reading inaugural prayers through history and was "horrified" at how “specifically and aggressively Christian they were.”
"I am very clear," he said, "that this will not be a Christian prayer, and I won't be quoting Scripture or anything like that. The texts that I hold as sacred are not sacred texts for all Americans, and I want all people to feel that this is their prayer."
This is a great post from Larry D at Acts of the Apostasy. But if you're in schism and wish to lead others away from the Church this might be the job for you:
Times are rough - national unemployment is at 7.2% and it's about 40 times higher here in Michigan. Jobs are hard to come by, so I'm going to do something about it. This can't wait for Obama to take office.
Continuing the tradition of announcing employment openings at AoftheA, here is the most recent career opportunity...
A young woman is selling her virginity online. No surprise that she's a Woman Studies major, I bet. The media seems to be interested in the story because of the new technology angle. But it's simply a new avenue for the world's oldest profession. Anyway, Red State has a well written piece on this depressing story.
A woman with a peculiarly mercenary streak is auctioning off her virginity for a considerable sum of money: $3.7 million, according to this Telegraph report. It’s one way to beat the recession, I suppose. The idea of enterprising degradation came to her, it is further reported, because her sister was able to pay for “her own degree after working as a prostitute for three weeks.” Ain’t that nice?
Don’t miss the remarkable statement that concludes that Telegraph report: “It’s shocking that men will pay so much for someone’s virginity, which isn’t even prized so highly anymore.”
Mark Shea wrote a great piece on a priest in his parish. Please go read it. It's exceptionally moving and profound.
Yesterday, we went to Noon Mass at Blessed Sacrament. It was being celebrated by our visiting priest, but after he processed up to the altar, we were astonished to see that Fr. Tom Kraft had taken a seat beside him.
Fr. Tom is one of the sweetest and holiest men I have ever known. A thoroughly priestly man with a profound sense of his vocation, a deep love for the poor, a beautiful humility and just a sheer radiant goodness that shines out of him.
He is also dying. We've been praying for him for months, but God has made it clear that he picks the fruit when it is ripe. So Fr. Tom ended his chemo-therapy some weeks back, went to Spokane to say goodbye to his loved ones, and returned to us at Blessed Sacrament to spend his last days surrounded by brother priests in the rectory, cared for by Jesson Mata, our valiant liturgy guy--and to say goodbye to all of us.
David Brody of CBN details the ever twisting world of Obama's which religious figures to invite. It's actually pretty funny when you see the list:
And now the latest installment in “As Obama’s Faith World Turns”
President-Elect Barack Obama has chosen a controversial gay bishop to give the invocation this Sunday at the big inaugural event at the Lincoln Memorial. Obama will be in attendance.
More from the Politico below and then get my analysis.
The recently reconverted Francis Beckwith from Southern Appeal received a note from the recently departed Fr. Richard Neuhaus upon his very public conversion. Thanks to Francis Beckwith for sharing it:
Soon after my return to the Catholic Church became public in early May, 2007, I found in my email inbox a message from Fr. Richard John Neuhaus. Dated 7 May 2007, it reads:
Dear Frank Beckwith,
As you will appreciate, the metaphor is inescapable: Welcome back home...
It's funny because when this race started I thought Michael Steele was a lock for the job. But there were a few unsettling things in Steele's history that veered me away from him including his appearance on Meet The Press where he said he was against overturning Roe V. Wade.
RedState endorses Ken Blackwell for Chairman of the Republican National Committee.
While RedState’s endorsement in the race for Chairman of the Republican National Committee does not set us apart from many of our colleagues in the online right movement, our second choice does. Nonetheless, we absolutely are committed to this fact: if the 168 members of the RNC cannot agree to choose Ken Blackwell for RNC Chairman, they should then keep Mike Duncan in place.
We make no secret that we are conservatives before we are Republicans. Ken Blackwell is a conservative. He is not just a conservative, but of all the men in the race, Ken Blackwell has run and won elected office on his own.
Fr. Ray Blake from Saint Mary Magdalen has some concerns over moving the Sign of Peace:
The American bishops have informed the CDW that they would like the Sign of Peace placed at the Offertory of the Mass, presumably so it is in line with the verse "When you bring you gift to the altar ... go and be reconciled... then bring your gift". Personally I have always understood the bringing of the gift really applied to mutual exchange of gifts at Holy Communion: we give ourselves to Christ, he gives himself us.
Personally I hate tinkering with the liturgy but if changes are to be made they should be done with understanding.
Go see Jeff Miller's funny "Liberal Catholic Google" over at The Curt Jester. Very funny stuff.
Recently a new way for Catholics to use Google came out www.catholicgoogle.com. This is from their about page.
Catholic search engine powered by Google striving to provide an easy to use resource to anyone wanting to learn more about Catholicism and provide a safer way for good Catholics to surf the web.
American Papist is like reading Western Civilization's diary of its suicide. But well written. This one asks the question about failed experiments in creating cancer free babies:
Keep track of stories like these, and how they describe with other names what is actually eugenics:
The first child in Britain known to have been screened as an embryo to ensure she did not carry a cancer gene was born Friday, a spokesman for University College London told CNN.
Her embryo was screened in a lab days after conception to check for the BRCA-1 gene, linked to breast and ovarian cancer.
HotAir has the video of Obama's Press guy promising in emphatic terms to kill "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." One interesting thing at the bottom of the story is the number of enlisted folks who say they will leave the armed services if that goes into effect:
From Change.gov. The One himself promised this during the campaign, then stepped back a bit after the election, and now is stepping back up, no doubt due to the unpleasantness over Rick Warren. No timetable as to when — the Wash Times piece I linked suggests 2010 — but he needs to throw the left a bone and this is an easy one to throw. Skip ahead to 4:15 of the clip.
Born in New York and a resident of Moorestown, N.J., his (Dr. John P. Pryor) funeral was held in the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia because of the great number of extended family, friends, uniformed members of the military and medical colleagues who wished to attend.
Father Damian McElroy, pastor of Pryor’s home parish, Our Lady of Good Counsel in Moorestown, and principal celebrant of the funeral Mass, spoke eloquently of Pryor’s spirit of sacrifice. He told how, after the tragedy of 9/11, he dropped everything and rushed to New York and Ground Zero where he worked through the night assisting the injured. He told how four years ago Pryor joined the Army Reserves because he knew the surgical skills honed by treating victims of violence in Philadelphia were needed there.
I saw a link for this at The Anchoress and thought it disturbing enough to share. Now, personally I wouldn't offer my trimmed fingernails to attend Barack Obama's Inaugural ball but this woman seems pretty intense about going.
An ovary for a ball: Fair trade, no? A 27-year-old Cleveland lawyer and Barack Obama enthusiast thinks so. On Tuesday, Lisa F. posted a Craigslist ad offering her ovary—and that of a friend—in exchange for two tickets to an inaugural ball. “We’ve exhausted all my legitimate means of finding a ticket by begging our campaign staffer friends, so we thought we would try this,” says Lisa. “Also, neither of us are currently using an ovary.”
CRAZED Media STILL Investigating Birth of Palin's Son
If you think the media has lost its sanity over Sarah Palin, you have to read this from Gateway Pundit. The Editor of the Anchorage Daily News explains that he believes the rumors around Trig's birth are so ridiculous and hateful that they must be investigated. I'm not kidding.:
And then there's this Really Unbelievable News...
McClatchy Watch reported that the The Anchorage Daily News still has a reporter investigating the wild conspiracy that Trig is not Sarah Palin's son-- That Trig is her daughter's son... even though her daughter just gave birth last week.
From Pro Ecclesia
"Tasteless. Unbecoming. Insensitive. Not to mention utterly false and nonsensical."
Read the Entire Piece >>>>
Did you know Jesus was Jewish? Well, the Guardian in the UK doesn't believe you do? He thinks Christians have forgotten Jesus was Jewish or we pretend not to know. The writer says Judaism is Christianity's guilty secret. Now, of course, the guy is trying to drum up a little controversy so people watch his show on Jesus in the UK. But this is truly an insulting article.
Jesus was a Jew. Everyone knows that, don't they? Well, it would seem that they do and they don't. It is certainly not the view of most Christians, nor is it common knowledge among atheists or even Jews, that Jesus was to the brim a Jew, not incidentally or as a matter of temporal accident a Jew, not, in Jonathan Miller's joke, Jewish, but a Jew by faith, by temperament and by spiritual ambition; a Jew in his relentless ethicising, in his love of quibbling and legalistics, in his fondness - frankly, to the point of tiresomeness sometimes - for extended metaphors and sermons wrapped in parables, and in the apocalyptic urgency of his teaching. A Jew, in other words, on unambiguously Jewish business.
I saw this segment earlier on CNN and wondered at the time how easily this could have been faked. Pretty darned easily, as LGF discovered, and the questions start where the fakery seems most obvious.
The story was supposedly that a freelance journalist in Gaza returned home to find his younger brother dead, the victim of a missile attack on a residential rooftop from an unmanned IDF drone. The video shows the supposed scene of the attack, and follows the Gaza family from the hospital to the burial, after a heroic attempt by doctors to revive the young child.
Jay Anderson at Pro Ecclesia is shocked that Cardinal Martino compared the Jews of Israel to Nazis. I've got to admit that I was stunned by the analogy:
Rich Leonardi thinks that: [t]he time has come for Pope Benedict to summon Cardinal Martino to the papal apartments, thank him for his service to Mother Church, and reward him with a quiet parish in the Italian countryside.
At the very least, an apology by Cardinal Martino is warranted...
Our great, good friend is gone.
Fr. Richard John Neuhaus slipped away today, January 8, shortly before 10 o’clock, at the age of seventy-two. He never recovered from the weakness that sent him to the hospital the day after Christmas, caused by a series of side effects from the cancer he was suffering. He lost consciousness Tuesday evening after a collapse in his heart rate, and soon after, in the company of friends, he died.
Divorces usually bring out the worst in people, but usually they take the Shakespearean “pound of flesh” more figuratively than Dr. Richard Batista of Long Island. Not only does he want his personal possessions back, he wants the kidney he donated to his wife returned as well. Not to worry, though — he’ll settle for $1.5 million in compensation if she won’t surrender it:
The Madoff financial scandal has caused a number of "reproductive rights" organizations to take a bad financial hit. I found this on Mark Shea and he says succinctly, "Golly My Heart Just Bleeds." The Salon piece which mentions this takes the point of view that this is a tragedy for women. Here it is:
For all the ink that's been spilled on the Madoff investment scandal, I've read nothing about its impact on funding for progressive women's causes -- which is considerable. Simply put, only a small pool of foundations are funding litigation and advocacy work related to criminal justice or constitutional rights; the pool that supports related programs targeted to women is smaller still. With the recent shuttering of two of Madoff's clients, the Picower Foundation and the JEHT Foundation, that pool has shrunk to a puddle.
Picower was one of a handful of foundations willing to stick their necks out and significantly fund the three organizations that handle virtually all major reproductive rights-related litigation and legal advocacy in the United States. Now the Center for Reproductive Rights needs to make up a $600,000 shortage in 2009; Planned Parenthood is out $484,000; the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project is off $200,000.
Please pray for Fr. Neuhaus,a truly great and good man of our time:
His friends and family are keeping vigil and he was administered last rites shortly after midnight. Fr. George Rutler, who gave him the Catholic Sacrament, says that “he is not expected to live long” and suggests “that it is appropriate that prayers be offered for a holy death.”
Fr. Neuhaus has come close to this moment before and been back. If it’s his time: Go in peace. He's a man who has loved and served His Lord. When he leaves this world, his vast intellectual and spiritual body of work will have a long life here.
If you've got a big family you may have shopped for clothes at thrift stores. But the nanny state strikes again because it's essentially forcing small thrift stores to destroy used clothes. Kat's pretty upset about this and rightly so.
Barring a reprieve, regulations set to take effect next month could force thousands of clothing retailers and thrift stores to throw away trunkloads of children's clothing. The law, aimed at keeping lead-filled merchandise away from children, mandates that all products sold for those age 12 and younger -- including clothing -- be tested for lead (which apparently costs between $20,000-$50,000) and phthalates. Those that haven't been tested will be considered hazardous, regardless of whether they actually contain lead.
I'll be honest. There's no way I could get through writing about this without slipping in about ten double entendres. And it wouldn't be pretty. So I'm just linking up the story by Newsbusters about how the porn industry has fallen on hard times, I guess. And they're seeking relief from the government. That's right a bailout for the porn industry:
Larry Flynt, the publisher of Hustler magazine, and Joe Francis, the CEO of Girls Gone Wild, are asking Congress for a bailout of the adult entertainment industry.
According to them, during bad economic times "Americans turn to entertainment for relief." Since "Congress seems willing to help shore up our nation's most important businesses, we feel we deserve the same consideration."
Instapundit has an interesting thought on Obama's transition team and how the media views it:
Under fire over Panetta. “The Panetta uproar starts Obama off on the wrong foot with the committee and intelligence professionals and was the latest glitch in what has largely been an unusually smooth and carefully choreographed transition.” How many “glitches” do you need before it’s no longer “unusually smooth and carefully choreographed?”
From Mark Shea
If I use a modern weapon to indiscriminately blow up a whole group of people, some of whom I know are innocent and some of whom are terrorists, the deaths of the innocents are not an accident. I killed them on purpose, precisely because they got in the way, and the technical capabilities of my weapon did not allow me to kill the terrorists without killing the civilians.
Read the whole piece >>>>
When I grow up I want to write like this guy from American Thinker:
Seventy-five years ago this month, one of the most insidious laws in human history came into effect in Nazi Germany. The innocent sounding name was The Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseased Offspring. It was the ghastly pinnacle of an unholy theory of human eugenics. Darwinism -- not the Theory of Evolution, per se, but the sinister notion that natural selection made God superfluous -- liberated man from his obligation to treat fellow men as special creatures in a divinely ordered universe.
OK. There's no getting ready for this story. It's just too bizarre. I'm sitting here trying to think up a clever way to introduce it but whatever I say, the story itself is better. So go to Jammie Wearing Fool and read this one:
Just when you think you have seen, heard or read it all along comes a story like this.
"Suspected" terrorist Ehsanul Islam Sadequee is claiming that interogators used mind control tactics to coerce a guilty plea out of him and is now asking for an exorcist to cast out the demons.
Subvet over at Blowing San #1 doesn't play nicey nice. He tells you what he thinks. And usually it's got some four letter words mixed in there for emphasis. So if you like some good Catholic thinking and don't mind a few expletives go check him out:
Fighting in the courts won't do it. We have to start loudly asserting our beliefs and pushing the proof of them into the public eye. We have to truly live our ideals and let everyone know we're doing it. Once the general public shares our values we'll have a culture of life. Again I'll say, placing our main focus on court battles is a waste of time. This is NOT to say fighting on the legal front should be abandoned, but we definetly place too much emphasis on it.
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What's Up With Spiritual Dry Spells?
We've all experienced spiritual dry spells. Come on. Admit it. There's nothing to be ashamed of. Jen F at Conversion Diary has a fine post on a reason for it.
What you are experiencing is what is known to mystical theologians as the passive purification of the senses. God deprives us of the consolations we used to obtain in prayer because ultimately he wants us to strive after him for His own sake and not for the joys we obtain from it. The passive purification of the senses is the entry point to the illuminative way from the way of beginners. Many beginners experience this but many give up at this point and continue to live lives of spiritual mediocrity instead of entering the illuminative way...
Where are the Cinema Heroes of Today?
Big Hollywood is a new site for those who think Hollywood has gone off the rails and no longer caters to normal Americans. This piece by Orson Bean is a good start.
The movies saved my life. I grew up in the great depression, the only child of a pair of star crossed lovers. My father lost his job. My mother drank. They fought. The movies were my escape. Of course, this was true of everyone back in the thirties. Forgetting for an hour or two cost a dime. But the movies represented a lot more than escape to me. They represented moral guidance. What I learned at home was despair and hopelessness. What I learned at the pictures was don’t give up the ship, we have only begun to fight, it’s always darkest before the dawn.
Edgy Colleen Is Buying Some Pants
Colleen over at The Best Thing wants to be cool. She's thinking pants will do the trick.
This is hard to write. It's embarrassing enough in itself, this story. But when I think of the fits of convulsive laughter that will be had by my mother when she reads this, it's almost too much to bear. But out of a desire to share laughter with others, even at my own stupid expense, I shall prostrate myself on the altar of comedy. I couldn't make this up if I tried.
I have two cool new friends, Jen and Alyssa. Alyssa is originally from California and Jen is originally from Long Island but is not very familiar with Pennsylvania. They came over to hang out with us one evening and asked me a self-image-shattering question-- if I were an Amish Escapee.
And they weren't kidding.
Thoughts on Dom Hugh
Fr. Ray Blake on the prospect for Westminster.
I am not too sure I believe the rumour about Dom Hugh Gilbert, Abbot of Pluscarden being offered then turning down or delaying taking the diocese of Westminster, because of problems in the monastery.
If the story has a basis in truth then the implications are pretty radical.
How the Puritans Stole Christmas!
Jay Anderson wrote this brilliant Seussian poem about Christmas. It is nothing short of brilliant.
How the Puritans Stole Christmas
Every High-Church Anglican and Catholic
Living in Jolly Olde England
Liked Christmas a lot...
But the Puritans,
Who were infected with Calvinism,
Did NOT!
The Puritans hated Christmas!
The whole Christmas season!
Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be that their round heads weren't screwed on just right.
It could be, perhaps, their predestinarian arses were too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
Was a distaste for mince pies - shaped like a manger-bed in a stall.
Whatever the reason,
Mince pies or their arses,
The Puritans saw the yuletide celebrations as farces...
Seven Quick Takes from Ebeth
This is a very good Seven Quick Takes from Ebeth. They're very clever and fun:
If you move the scale around the bathroom, you will get a different reading within five pounds every time you step on it. None of them is good. I'm sure there's some great cosmic truth in this observation but I'm not going to spend any time trying to figure it out.
New family rule: If you haven't offered to help, don't criticize.
Amy's Wasting Her Time
Hey, if you're looking to kill some time why don't you go over to Amy Welborn's site and read about how she kills her time. It's actually an interesting insight into the twisted mind of one of the best Catholic bloggers...evah.:
Everyone has their own way of killing time on the Internet. Mine is related to that ’satiable curiosity. It’s absurd. I don’t do games or timewasters and while I’ve done my share of watching laughing babies on YouTube, I don’t find multimedia such a temptation.
What gets me is just..well..have a look. A typical blog-post-writing session. Post is below.
First, there’s all the searches for hyperlinks on the Birmingham Museum of Art website and beyond, looking for information about the artists, suspecting there might be a Catholic sensibility in Viola’s work and wondering what his sense of spirituality might be, and researching that and finding various articles and reviews on that score and so o9n.
Germany - Russia’s Facilitator
Apparently, I am not the only one who thinks so. From Redstate:
...these days when you try to wrap your brain around Russia, you end up noticing an elephant standing in the corner - Germany.
Senora Kennedy Is Make Very Good Senator
This is the funniest thing you'll read today. Iowa Hawk channels Caroline Kennedy's maid who endorses her for Senate:
Buenos dias! I am Rosa. I twelve years work for Senora Caroline Kennedy and her family so I am write for you today to tell you why Senora Kennedy is make very very good senator for Nueva York. Senora Kennedy is very busy now with party menus so she tell me to write this when I am finish with floors and make the bed for guest wing. I am now finish so I write this.
Senora Kennedy is very very sad that television man say he no think she is make a good senator in Washington. This is not right for you to think this too because Senora Kennedy is make very good senator! Here is the reasons:
Senora Kennedy she is from famous senator family. Senora Kennedy father was El Presidente. She have tio who is senator. She have many cousin who also is senator, even all the ones with the drug problems. Why she is only one who no is senator? This is no fair to her. In my old country was the law that all family of el Presidente is also Senator or Minister until the revolucion.
Film Critic: USA is Nazi Germany
Well the media only has a few days left before America transforms itself from the modern day equivalent of Nazi Germany to a shining Utopia so I guess the press is using up every Nazi cliche they can before Inauguration day.
How would you like to wake up New Year's day to read an opinion piece in your paper's entertainment section equating the United States of America to Nazi Germany and depicting Iraqi insurgents as being akin to a little known group of Polish Jews who rescued over a thousand people from Hitler's concentration camps?
That's a great way to start the New Year, dontcha think?
Well, the good folks at the Kansas City Star seemed to miss the inappropriateness in such sentiments during the holidays when they published "Is WWII In Movies Really Iraq?"
Grief for the Flying Priest
CMR takes a lot of shots at the press' handling of religion and religious figures. But every once in a while they do a great job. This story from the LoudounExtra.com is about the grief of a community over a priest who recently died. It's quite well done.
Michael C. Kelly, the pastor at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Purcellville, had a number of techniques for bringing people into the flock.
There was his disarming sense of humor, reflected in the signs he put on the doors of the confessional booths, which read, "Your Name Here." There was his knack for attracting attention, such as when he'd ride his homemade airplane-style bicycles through town, earning him the nickname "the flying priest." And there were his everyday actions, parishioners said, which exemplified the message of giving and self-sacrifice ubiquitous in his sermons.
Kelly, 53, died this week doing one final good deed. While driving to the funeral of another priest, Kelly pulled over in the Hamilton area about 9 a.m. Wednesday during a fierce wind storm to remove a fallen tree from the road so no one would get hurt. That was when he was struck and killed by another falling tree, authorities said.
Theologians! Rrrgghghggh...
Patrick Madrid sums up this whole nasty story concerning how a group of Catholic theologians convinced the Kennedy's and countless others that one could be both Catholic and pro-choice. I linked to the source article earlier but Madrid's comments are right on so I'm linking it as well. You want to know how fired up Patrick Madrid is over this? He called his post "Sons of Perdition." Yeah. He's fired up.
The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating and deeply saddening article exploring the reasons behind the Kennedy Family's staunch pro-abortion position. Believe it or not, Ted Kennedy used to be pro-life. So how did he and all the other prominent Kennedys swing so far in the opposite direction? For that matter, what about some of the other Catholic pro-abortion zealots in (or recently in) high public office, such as Nancy Pelosi, Mario Cuomo, and Tom Daschle? What happened to them?
It's Funny. That's All.
Sometimes funny has no deeper meaning. Sometimes funny is just funny. Like the picture and caption over at American Papist. Go check it out if you're in the mood for a laugh. Click for the pic here.
The Isolationism of Our Founding Fathers
The Cranky Conservative is...well...cranky today. He's upset because people believe discussing history is lifting a few quotes out of context and pretending it is history. Today he takes on the belief that our Founding Fathers were isolationists and what that says about our current alliance with Israel.
Historical illiteracy is bad enough, but even more infuriating is encountering someone who thinks they have a good grasp on history but who in fact really knows nothing more than a few good quotes that they’ve heard mentioned somewhere else. Like biblical fundamentalists picking out pieces of scriptures divorced from all context, these would-be professors can recite bits and pieces of speeches and writings that they think bolsters their argument, but instead prove nothing more than that they can ape what others have said.
How Abortion Became Kennedy Dogma
This is a devestating column in the Wall Street Journal detailing the Kennedy's Catholicism and their support of abortion.
For faithful Roman Catholics, the thought of yet another pro-choice Kennedy positioned to campaign for the unlimited right to abortion is discouraging. Yet if Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of Catholics John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, is appointed to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Clinton, abortion-rights advocates will have just such a champion.
Ms. Kennedy was so concerned to assure pro-abortion leaders in New York, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported on Dec. 18, that on the same day Ms. Kennedy telephoned New York Gov. David Patterson to declare interest in the Senate seat, "one of her first calls was to an abortion rights group, indicating she will be strongly pro-choice."
Hamas Leader's Son Converts
The son of a Hamas leader converted to Christianity. And he's not exactly an optimist on the Islamic world accepting Israel. Worth a read:
Via Fox:JONATHAN HUNT: Why, after 25 years, did you change?
MOSAB HASSAN YOUSEF: I believe that all those walls that Islam built for the last 1,400 years are not existing (sic) anymore. They don’t recognize this. They built those walls and made people ignorant because they’re afraid. They didn’t want people to discuss anything about the reality of Islam, about the big questions of Islam and they asked their followers, the Muslims, ‘Don’t ask about those certain questions.’
But now, people have media. If the father closes the door for his daughter not to leave the house, she’s going to go behind her computer and travel the world. So people easily can get information, knowledge, searching (sic) engines, so it’s very, very available for everybody to study about Islam, about other religions. Not from the Islam point of view, but from other points of view.
Jen F. Converts to Nerdy Cavewoman
First Jen F. converted from atheism to Catholicism but now she's converted from Catholic to CRAZED CAVEWOMAN STALKING HER PREY! Seriously, she runs a great blog and every Friday she does her Seven Quick Takes.
Speaking of Christmas presents, this was the first time I ever succumbed to Christmas Present Derangement Syndrome. The Monday before Christmas I decided that the perfect present for my two-year-old daughter would be a rocking horse. My mom and I missed getting the last one at our local Toys R Us by five minutes.
We went to three more stores. Nobody had one. Called four more. All sold out. At some point in this process I morphed from "Christian mommy just doing some shopping while firmly remembering the real reason for the season" to "CRAZED CAVEWOMAN STALKING HER PREY."
Grumpy Geezers and Loud Babies
From Domenico Bettinelli, Jr.
This is what I’d like to say to the primarily elderly folks who complain— within earshot! — about crying children at Mass:
Just who do you think is going to be sitting in these pews in 20 or 30 years when you’re dead and gone?
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1914 B11 Lieutenant Holbrook took the HMS B-11 up the Dardanelles, probably the most heavily defended waterway in the world at the time. B-11 was, even by the standards of the First World War, a small (300 ton), under-powered (225hp electric motor) and obsolete boat dating back to 1905 and the early days of submarine development. The compass was actually mounted outside the hull and viewed through a small glass in the conning tower.
Despite the treacherous current in the Straits, Holbrook successfully got through a minefield to torpedo the Turkish battleship Messudiyeh. He then managed to return safely down the Dardanelles, despite coming under fire from shore batteries and enemy torpedo boats. B-11 had been submerged for no less than nine hours - a remarkable achievement in such a primitive craft. Holbrook was awarded the Submarine Services first Victoria Cross.
1939 Salmon (N65) HMS Salmon torpedoes & damages cruisers Leipzig & Nuremburg as they cover a destroyer minelaying operation off the River Tyne
1939 Seahorse (S98) HMS Seahorse (Lt. D.S. Massy-Dawson, RN) departed Blyth for her 5th war patrol. She was ordered to patrol off the British east coast.
1940 Truant (N68) HMS Truant torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Sebastiano Bianchi south of Calabria, Italy.
1941 Upright (N89) HMS Upright torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchants Fabio Filzi and Carlo del Greco about 15 nautical miles south of Cape San Vito.
1942 WWII The U-boat Enigma cipher has been cracked.
Shark had baffled the codebreakers from the beginning of this year because of the additional rotor, which it uses. Now the Admiralty's submarine tracking room will once more be able to route convoys round the Wolfpacks
1942 Umbra (P35) HMS Umbra torpedoes and damages the German troop transport Macedonia about 5 nautical miles north of Sousse, Tunisia.
1942 Rorqual (N74) HMS Rorqual lays 11 mines off Isola d'Ischia near Naples, Italy.
1943 Unruly (P49) HMS Unruly fires two torpedoes agaist the German auxiliary minelayer Drache off Samos, Greece. Both missed.
1943 Statesman (P246) Completed
1944 Votary (P29) Completed
Turbulent (N98)
Build Group: T Group 2
Fate: Presumed mined off Sardinia 14 March 1943
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At the Edge of the World in Big Sur | California, USA
By Charlotte Boates
As we drive through Big Sur, the roads teeter on the edge of cliffs. Below, the ocean is a deep cerulean blue, tones dropping into fluorescent teals and icy blues. On the other side of the two-lane highway are hills, blanketed in dusty chaparral and windswept grasses. The landscape is encased in layers of fog and mist. Driving through Big Sur feels like driving through a dream — the light is soft, the air is misty, the landscape otherworldly.
We had driven down along Highway 1 from San Francisco — a 238-kilometre journey characterized by a gradual decrease in intensity; whisking away from Silicon Valley and its glass towers and beginning to wind through California’s many national parks. We make slow progress, as every few minutes we pull over at vistas and overlooks dotted along the road. Every inch of the coastline feels worthy and deserving of our attention, a stop, a photo.
We slept in a tent on a bed of grass. Bunking in one of only two campsites in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, we awoke to a quiet campground at the top of a cliff and sheltered by shady trees. Standing above and looking below, the waves and currents swirl between the rocks underneath us, creating bubbly foamy seas. Just down the coast, puffins bob peacefully along calmer waters. The main thing to do in Big Sur is simply to be in nature — to stand among towering redwoods, gaze at the sea, or if you’re lucky enough, spot migrating whales from the shore.
The heart of Big Sur and its most photographed destination is McWay Falls. Water from Big Sur’s creek rushes through the parks and ends at this 24m waterfall where it topples effortlessly into a delicate beach below. The waterfall is beautiful yet inaccessible, with restrictions in place to protect the land. Yet, each day when we looked over the edge of the cliff, we’d see sets of footsteps dotting the otherwise pristine beach. Big Sur’s national parks are also the setting for a constant struggle between rangers and overbearing tourists, who venture off-grounds to capture new angles.
Big Sur has almost 1,000 full-time residents, though millions pass through the area during the summer months. The community expands and contracts seasonally, but has been a home to artists, writers and solitude-seekers for decades. Quiet, majestic, and often isolated by frequent road closures from windy storms, it takes a certain dedication to call this place home. One of the community’s most revered former residents was writer Henry Miller, and it was here that he wrote Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch — a memoir of the beauty of living on this rugged coast, a treatise on old age, a snapshot from the august years of a life of a legendary writer.
After Miller’s passing in 1981, his friend Emil White established what today is the Henry Miller Library in memory as a local centre for the arts. And, if Big Sur was to have any centre of town, this would be it — community gatherings, concerts and film screenings regularly take place beneath a redwood grove and the stars just next door. The library itself is a de-facto memorial to Henry Miller, it’s walls lined with photographs and paraphernalia, its shelves stocked with Miller’s own books and those that inspired him.
In Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, Miller wrote, “The ideal community, in a sense, would be the loose, fluid aggregation of individuals who elected to be alone and detached in order to be at one with themselves and all that lives and breathes.” And indeed, many of Big Sur’s residents chose to move here intentionally, drawn in by the landscape and ethereal beauty of what is an otherwise uninhabitable stretch of coastal California.
This dedication is everywhere in Big Sur, but especially in an easy-to-miss wooden building right along Highway 1 — Big Sur Bakery. Co-founded by Mike Gilson, Michelle Rizzolo, and Philip Wojtowicz, each of whom were drawn to this remote stretch of coastline from the big cities of LA and New York.
The bakery is housed in a 1930s farmhouse surrounded by a garden of a staggering variety of succulents and cacti towering high above and blanketing the ground below. A line runs out the door each morning for ham and cheese croissants, ginger scones, and homemade sourdough baked in their wood-fired oven. In the evening, the former living room of the farmhouse is converted into a restaurant. Sitting in the modestly-lit, dreamy, cozy dining room on a windy and foggy evening, it feels as if you could spend hours leisurely sampling food, chatting with your neighbour or server, or simply drifting through thought.
On our last night, I’m again standing high above, looking below at the ocean. The wind catches the layer of tanoaks and madrone trees above me, softly ruffling. Around me sit bushes of nettle and maidenhair ferns, sheltered by the shade. A patch of honey-coloured mushrooms grow vertically alongside a tree trunk. I often find myself with a surplus of words when traveling somewhere new, yet here silence feels most natural. Nothing needs to be spoken, and all feels as it should be. In Big Sur, it feels easiest to simply stand and watch, transfixed in reverie.
All photographs by Charlotte Boates expect cover photo by Denys Nevozhai via Unsplash.
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Charlotte is a San Francisco-based freelance social media strategist, writer, and translator. Passionate about language, travel, food and the ocean, Charlotte has also lived in Vancouver and New Zealand, before moving to California. She speaks French, and a smattering of Spanish, Italian and Japanese.
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This was a really lovely, evocative read! We are headed to California for the first time this year, and a coastal drive through big Sur is now on the itinerary 🙂 Thanks!
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The Remember Me Project, France & Belgium 2018 Continued.
April 14, 2018 10:34 am , 4 Comments , Liz
The One We Missed
Day one of The Remember Me Project in France saw us visit eleven cemeteries over a couple of hundred miles. We also popped into a twelfth cemetery on behalf of my lovely neighbour Molly. Her uncle had been killed very close to the end of the war and is buried at Anneux British Cemetery. We popped into the roadside cemetery to pay our respects and lay a poppy for Sgt Arthur Walter Rich who died on 28th September 1918 aged 20years.
Driving towards our accommodation for the night there was the awful realisation that I had missed out one of the cemeteries, oops! Though over an hours drive away and adding to the already long journey to Switzerland Andy offered to retrace our footsteps in the morning. We spent the night in a place called Cagnoncles and then ventured out early the following morning to head to the missed out cemetery, Villers Bretonneux Military Cemetery. We arrived there so early I had to climb over a low gate to lay my poppy for Pte Thomas Richardson. He was serving with 2nd/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment when he was killed in action on 31st March 1918. The cemetery is impressive as it also “houses” the Australian National Memorial. The cemetery and memorial is set on a hill with far reaching views over the French countryside. The cemetery and memorial were designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and incorporates some impressive entrance buildings. The cemetery and memorial were created after the Armistice when graves were brought in from small burial grounds and from the battlefields. The cemetery itself is planted with symmetrically aligned trees and a beech hedge, it felt very peaceful and the views astounding. Over 2,000 servicemen are laid to rest here including two New Zealand pilots from WW2. A new museum, The Sir John Monash Centre is due to open here very shortly.
Unfortunately we didn’t have time to visit the impressive Australian Memorial. It commemorates nearly 11,000 Australian servicemen with no known grave, their names being inscribed on walls surrounding the tower. The tower can be climbed, although in windy weather entry to the tower is restricted. On 25th April each year an Anzac Day dawn service takes place by the memorial.
We then re-tracked back to our pre-planned course and headed back towards St Quentin to visit Grand-Seraucourt British Cemetery. We were here to visit the grave of Pte Henry George Harmer who served with 6th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. He died aged 19yrs on 21st March 1918. Originally he had been buried elsewhere but was laid to rest (identified by his identification disc) at Grand Seraucourt British Cemetery. The cemetery was set up from a country lane in view of fields and a large hay barn. Henry’s grave was planted with succulents and herbaceous plants, lots of colour to look forward to. At the entrance to the cemetery there was an impressive bank of deep pink heather.
We then journeyed for nearly 2 hours to La Ferte-sous-Jouarre 66km from Paris. We were here to visit the memorial in the town which commemorates 3,740 Officers and men who served with the British Expeditionary Force. These were men who died (many dying at the Battle of Mons) between August and October 1914 with no known grave. Sgt Charles Blair Godwin had a very short war. He left England with the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers as part of 4th Division on August 22nd 1914 and was dead by 26th August 1914. The report of his death states Sgt Godwin’s Coy (B Coy) was heavily engaged in the Battle of Le Cateau on August 26th covering the retirement of other troops. Orders to retire themselves never reached them, and by the evening they were closely surrounded by enemy. An attempt to break through with the bayonet was made, and Godwin fell fighting in this charge. Charles Godwin lived in Frenchay with his family in a large house called Woodfield. According to the 1901 census the family employed four live in servants. Now partitioned into two homes, one of them is Lake House. Our daughter and now son in law were lucky enough to be offered the garden for their wedding reception by friends who live there now. In the 1901 census Charles is 16 and an army Student. He attended Marlborough College from 1898-1900 and the college holds much information and photographs on the ex-pupils who served and died for their country.
The La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial is impressive and under extensive restoration.It was designed by George Hartley Goldsmith who was initially assistant draughtsman to Sir Edwin Lutyens before going on to be an architect in his own right. He designed 67 cemeteries including the co-design of Villers Brettoneux Military Cemetery & Memorial. Thankfully, I was able to find Sgt Godwin’s name and took photographs through the barrier. A poppy cross was left by the War Stone in his honour.
The cemetery dash was over this side of the trip. Switzerland and beyond!
Our journey home saw us visit the very last of our Whiteshill Memorial WW1 names, (at least the ones in France and Belgium). Before departing for the Euro Tunnel we headed to Ypres. We needed to find Edward Lewis’s name in amongst the 55,000 inscriptions on the Menin Gate. William (Edward) was born on 20th December 1895 in Winterbourne. In the 1911 census Edward is 15yrs and an assistant gardener. He is living with his mother Annie and stepfather Edwin together with six siblings/step siblings. A mere 4 years later Edward has been killed whilst serving with the North Somerset Yeomanry. We found his name high up on a panel on the memorial. He was watching down on the cobbled road which cars now rattle through. It is likely that Edward would have marched the same road out onto the battlefields. It is an incredibly moving monument and one evidently well visited. Poppy wreath’s covered steps and staircases. Wreaths from schools, universities, regiments, countries, industries and individuals each regaling how these servicemen will never be forgotten.
Between October 1914 and September 1918 hundreds of thousands of troops marched through the Menin Gate and the town of Ypres to the battlefields of Flanders. The Menin Gate Memorial is one of four memorials to the missing in Flanders. It was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and based on a concept of Triumphal Arch and central hall. It was built between 1923-27 and includes the inscription written by Rudyard Kipling “To the Armies of the British Empire who stood here from 1914-1918 and to those of their dead who have no known grave”
After placing a poppy for Edward at the bottom of the panel (Bay 5 Stone L) where he is commemorated I had a little stroll in Ypres. It is difficult to comprehend that most of the town is less than 100 years old. It was completely destroyed in WW1 and much thought was given to leave the town as it was to signify the destruction of war and act as a poignant memorial. However in the event it was decided to completely rebuild the town exactly as it was. Therefore the Cathedral, Cloth Hall and other important buildings were built to look identical to their shelled predecessors. Cobbled roads and railway tracks were relaid. A place of pilgrimage from the earliest post war days, Ypres is buzzy and offers cafe’s, places to stay, shops and historic tours. I definitely would love to return to Ypres and I want to be there to hear the Last Post which is bugled every evening at 8pm at the Menin Gate. The Last Post has been sounded there since 1928 and only in WW2 was this nightly ceremony interrupted. For the duration The Last Post was played at Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey. Ypres was occupied by the Germans from 20th May 1940 until 6th September 1944 and the evening the Allies took back the city was the night that The Last Post sounded again despite heavy fighting outside the city boundaries.
So, with Pte Edward Lewis’s poppy finally laid, my pilgrimage to France and Belgium was complete. 38 poppies laid in/at 32 cemeteries/memorials over approximately 5 days. It has been an amazing privilege to pay homage to these local heroes, many of them teenagers. I have been in awe of the beauty and individuality of the cemeteries and memorials I visited. They each had a very special unique feel and most enjoyed the beauty of life going on outside the boundaries of cemetery walls and hedges. I particularly loved the cemeteries with working farms, allotments and busy little towns going on around them. Without exception the cemeteries were beautifully kept with thoughtful seasonal planting, trees and with a nod to nature. I will always remember the New Zealanders’ lament at Hooge and the noisy cockerel at Ribecourt.
Special thanks must go to Andy for driving hundreds of miles to facilitate this project. Sometimes the atmosphere was fraught with wrong turns, mud, traffic, an inaccurate sat’-nav’ and even more inaccurate and perfectly hopeless navigator! I really appreciate you helping me with this journey, and I know for a fact you’d rather be following your team around Europe rather than following WW1 ghosts. Thank you from the bottom of my rusty old heart! Thanks too to Real Live Rocking Dog for being Sooo patient. PS. I just daren’t bring up the subject of all those WW2 names on the memorial.
So. The big question now is what to do with all this information, research, photographs etc.. I am keen to do something really meaningful for the community with it. We will indeed Remember Them.
As the weekend stretches out in front of us I am thinking of servicemen and women who are currently serving for our country in somewhat uncertain times.
Thanks for getting to the end of this rather long post.
Liz aka Rocking Dog x
Australian Memorial
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Poppy For Henry
La Ferte sous Jouarre
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54,000 Names
8pm Invite
Life Continues, Ypres
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Snow, Cake, Siena & Unexpected DNA!
March 5, 2018 7:45 am , 2 Comments , Liz
Gilded Siena
Sorry it’s been so long since Rocking Dog signed on. A week of coughing and the lack of sleep that came with that didn’t really make me feel much like talking either verbally or in the form of written words. At one point I looked across at Real Live Rocking Dog and thought “boy, your breathing’s a bit laboured” however after a while I realised it was indeed me that was the one breathing heavily!
Before Cough (BC) Andyman together with youngest daughter headed out to Umbria for a very cheeky little break. Though cold, the valley was embellished with the dazzling spectacle that is Mimosa. Birds were busily enjoying the olives that had escaped the olive oil bottle and the countryside as ever looked verdantly beautiful. The following morning Liv’ and I planned to head to Rome. We awoke to snow and the hills looked as if they had been magically dusted with icing sugar. It really was quite surreal seeing olive trees with a cloak of snow, especially with robins in residence!
Alas our train to Rome was cancelled so we decided to take the next available bus or train to destination unknown. We ended up on a bus heading to the beautiful city of Siena. The warm bus wiggled through snow covered medieval hilltop towns and past vineyards, ploughed fields and olive groves. In just over an hour we arrived at the bottom of the city. In years gone by these Italian hilltop towns would have needed an arduous and lengthy walk to reach their summits. Recently most cities have become inventive with their transport plans and there are lifts, escalators, funiculars and the like. On this occasion we used a series of steep escalators to reach the architectural delights of Siena. We had a really gorgeous time simply wandering. The Palio where the famous bareback horse races takes place annually (July 2nd and Aug 16th 2018) was joyfully devoid of the throb of summer tourists. If you are in Siena at any point the Complex of Santa Maria della Scala is worth a visit. It houses several museums and is the site of one of Europe’s first hospitals. The frescoes were wonderful and I loved the thought that patients had such amazing art to gaze at from their beds. I particularly loved the starry ceiling in the First Aid Room.
Cake, delicious wine, pasta, wood fired pizza and friendly folk made this whistle-stop trip to Umbria and Tuscany very pleasurable.
After Cough (AC)- it’s been difficult trying to shake off this irritable ailment. Real Live Rocking Dog has not been loving the snow so like me has been enjoying curling up beside the wood-burner. Trying to do something slightly constructive I baked a cake using new season Rhubarb from the garden, delicious! There have been bathroom planning decisions to be made, and cupboards to de-hoard. I have been contemplating cutting the fabric for my new summer coat… maybe this week. Pattern matching, I can’t decide whether it’s a pleasurable challenge or acutely sadistically stressful!
There have also been soldiers to research ready for our return to the Commonwealth War Cemeteries in France later this month. This week there will be poppy crosses to collect and route planning to organise. Eighteen soldiers graves/memorials will be visited in fifteen different cemeteries over the course of two days. Our travels will take us to Dieppe and Rouen before heading up to a cluster of cemeteries on the Somme. There is a solitary cemetery to visit just East of Paris where we will pay our respects to a soldier whose family lived in a house where really good friends of ours now live. On our route home we will head to the Menin Gate Memorial at Ypres where we will lay our last poppy cross in France. Together with the cemeteries we are hoping to visit some manmade caves under a church at Bouzincourt. During a Time Team episode in 2010 some WW1 graffiti was discovered. One name belongs to a soldier, Alfred Flux who lived in our village. Alfred wrote his name and details onto into the stone in 1916. Serving with the Royal Field Artillery he was to later die in March 1918. Having no known grave he is commemorated at Pozieres. On our return home there will be the lengthy job of collating all the information and archiving photographs.
Now for the DNA news. As you may already know my girls thoughtfully bought me an Ancestry DNA kit for Christmas. In January I sent off my phial of spit and waited patiently. I received an e.mail whilst in the supermarket on Wednesday telling me my results were in. Mother in Law promptly posted home with her bags of cakes, drive home done, bags dropped on the kitchen table, computer turned on…let the show begin! The results were given in the form of a wheel of cheese and imagine my surprise that the largest percentage of my DNA is Scandinavian! Not a whiff of the French Huegenots that I expected. Roughly a quarter of the cheese wheel was Northern English and another quarter paid homage to my Celtic roots (Irish/Welsh Scottish). I always suspected I had red and white gingham running through my veins! The only slightly sad bit of this is that because my Mum and Dad are both dead I can’t ascertain easily who was the Viking in the family. Was it my Dad who was Scottish or my Mums long line Yorkshire family? Anyway I am loving being Scandi’ and there’s even an 8% wedge of Iberian Peninsula in there for good measure!
Anyway I must away now I have got to put the Elk Casserole on and get fitted for my Scandinavian traditional costume!
Have a great week and I hope the big thaw is well underway wherever you are. Stay cosy!
Before The Snow
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System Reset? Study Suggests Pro-Inflammatory / Autoimmune Reset Occurred in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
epigenetics, HLA, hypomethylation, immunoglobulins, inflammation, Klimas, neuroinflammation
Epigenetics research holds the fascinating possibility of figuring out what shifted at the very beginning of chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). For many with ME/CFS a sudden change occurred – some sort of biological reset quickly happened – which never relinquished itself.
Something triggered ME/CFS. Could it have been an epigenetic reset?
Finding out what “reset” occurred is what epigenetics is all about. Epigenetics identifies changes in the expression of our genes that occur after we meetup with biological stressors such as pathogens, drug, toxin or even foods.
Most of our genes that produce proinflammatory cytokines, for instance, have a kind of a lock on them. Removing that lock leaves them free to express themselves and leaves us open to poor health.
Epigenetics explores how the biological challenges we encounter in life can remove those locks (or add to them) resulting in an entirely new genetic landscape – one that could perhaps cause something like ME/CFS.
Many people’s ME/CFS/FM starts with an infection, and viruses can exert major epigenetic changes to our genome. Herpes simplex virus (the virus Dr. Pridgen is targeting in fibromyalgia) engineers changes to our genome which help the virus avoid destruction and enhance its replication. Those changes include a suppression of our immune system, which can result in an increased risk of cancer.
What goes around comes around, though. Epigenetic News recently reported that an epigenetic modifying cancer drug was able to return the parts of the immune system that the herpes simplex virus had disturbed to normal. The drug was able to effectively fill in the immune hole created by the herpes virus by boosting a number of immune factors (IFN-a, IL-8, IL-6, transcription factors, stress response factors). Mouse studies revealed that the drug also reduced reactivation of the virus.
That suggests that some similar drugs now in clinical trials could help in the fight against herpes and other viruses or could perhaps simply return to normal epigenetically modified genes that have suppressed immune functioning.
“A new class of antivirals based on this study might be useful for patients who are resistant to existing antivirals like acyclovir and ganciclovir….. (or in) viral infections for which there aren’t pharmaceuticals to boost an individual’s immune response.” Dr Kristie
If epigenetics turns out to play the major role in ME/CFS that it does in cancer and other diseases, a cancer drug could someday be in store for ME/CFS treatment.
Epigenetics Study Highlights Immune Alterations in ME/CFS
The epigenetics story begins with gene transcription – the first step in the process of translating our genes into proteins. Gene expression gets enabled by the removal of methyl groups that block transcription and/or by the addition of methyl groups that stop genes from being expressed.
Malay Trivedi and Lubov Nathanson at Dr. Klimas’s Institute of Neuroimmune Research at Nova Southeastern University recently published the most comprehensive study yet on epigenetics in chronic fatigue syndrome .
Just a few epigenetic studies have been done in ME/CFS and none like this one. For one, the group took advantage of a new breakthrough in genetic testing (an advanced Illumina array) to almost double the number of testing sites (from 450,000 to 850,000 sites). For another, the larger sample size (64 participants from two geographically distant locations) ensured a more comprehensive look at the epigenetic changes in ME/CFS. This allowed the group to produce what they called “consensus hypomethylated sites” they believe could be used in future studies.
The general findings of the study agreed with those from past ME/CFS epigenetic studies. Hypomethylation – the deletion of methyl groups, which make it easier for the genes to be expressed – was the theme, with 98% of differentially methylated sites in ME/CFS hypomethylated compared to controls. (Only 2% were hypermethylated compared to controls.) The hypomethylation was most prominent in genes associated with immune cell regulation.
The high degree of hypomethylation was intriguing for several reasons. For one, Epstein-Barr Virus – presumably a common trigger in ME/CFS – overwhelmingly triggers hypomethylation and almost no hypermethylation of genes. Hypomethylation is also associated with pro-inflammatory gene expression in autoimmune diseases as well as in cancer promotion.
Multiple Sclerosis Breakthrough
A “global” hypomethylation, for instance, is also found in lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. The hypomethylation of a promoter gene for IL-6 in rheumatoid arthritis causes an overexpression of pro-inflammatory cytokines and other immune factors which ultimately results in joint damage.
Epigenetic changes to the HLA genes may have triggered MS. (HLA Gene Expression – by ZionLion77 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_leukocyte_antigen#/media/File:MHC_expression.svg)
The recently uncovered hypomethylation of an HLA gene in multiple sclerosis (MS) prompted researchers to state that epigenetic changes may even be “caus(ing) the disease”. That bold statement reflected the findings of a recent large study, which indicated that epigenetic changes were directly causing the largest risk factor found yet for MS.
That finding may have implications that go far beyond MS and could conceivably reach ME/CFS/FM. Since the HLA region of the genome is associated with almost all autoimmune diseases, the authors believe their finding will impact other autoimmune diseases.
(Several years ago Ron Davis pegged the HLA region as a potential study area for ME/CFS. His Stanford Genome Lab has developed new methods of assessing this complex region of our genome, and he and Mike Snyder at Stanford are doing an intensive analysis of that HLA region in ME/CFS.)
Back to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
The highest degree of hypomethylation in a genetic region in ME/CFS occurred in gene promoters associated with natural killer cell functioning, no less – the most consistent finding in ME/CFS. That suggested that some sort of epigenetic reset – perhaps triggered by an infection – occurred in the NK cells of ME/CFS patients.
With regard to single genes, the authors highlighted the hypomethylation of genes associated with muscle hypotonia (low muscle tone) and cognitive impairment (MED13L), problems with protein synthesis (metabolism), and glucocorticoids (SGK3 gene – inflammation).
It was the immune genes, though, where the hypomethylation really came to the fore. Immune genes that regulate the adaptive immune response (T & B cells) and the production of immunoglobulins were hypomethylated. The authors asserted that those findings were in sync with reports of improvement from Rituximab.
Promoters (MMP14, MAP4K4, MAPK12 and CREB5), which may be activating tumor necrosis factor signaling pathways and thus contributing to the pro-inflammatory problems believed present in ME/CFS, were hypomethylated as well.
A gene (miRNA-148a) that impairs the innate immune response was also hypomethylated. Several of the hypomethylated genes were also found in prior ME/CFS studies.
Then there’s the IL21R gene. The hypomethylation of the IL21R gene promoter in ME/CFS could promote inflammation, autoimmunity, thyroid disease, intestinal inflammation, and others. IL-21 also plays a critical role in triggering spontaneous experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis – an animal model of brain inflammation.
Unleashing the IL2R gene could contribute to inflammation (including neuroinflammation), thyroid disease and autoimmunity
Epigenetics is a relatively new science which is already proving to be a boon to the study of autoimmunity and cancer. Larger studies will be needed in ME/CFS for epigenetics to reach its potential, but the study from Dr. Klimas’s group suggested that, just as in some autoimmune diseases, enhanced hypomethylation may be increasing the expression of genes which promote inflammation and autoimmunity in ME/CFS.
The most encouraging thing about epigenetics is the possibility of reversing the epigenetic changes a pathogen, toxin or drug has caused. Much more study is needed to isolate any epigenetic culprits in ME/CFS, but epigenetic altering drugs are being developed for other diseases. One intriguing drug seeks to reverse the epigenetic changes caused by herpes simplex virus – thus returning the immune system to normal. Another breakthrough suggests that epigenetic changes may be major drivers of multiple sclerosis.
This is clearly a field to keep an eye on.
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Sole Purpose's drama is far more effective and powerful than any awareness session we have delivered. The capacity of good theatre to engage people in a story and to empathise with victims is tremendous and we were very pleased with the outcome of the performances.
Niamh Wilson, Domestic Violence Advocacy Service
The fact that performances have been provided without financial remuneration has enabled the college to use an excellent and very effective resource for learning. I have found it beneficial to have developed relationships with Sole Purpose and this is made much easier by the very professional and organised approach which I have experienced in my partnership with the company
John McQuaide, Co-ordinator of Health and Social Care, North West Regional College.
I found the play very moving and thought provoking. People coming out of it were very touched by it. Congratulations on a drama that raises such an important issue and deals with it in a very subtle but powerful way.
Hilary Sidwell, Equality and Human Rights Manager, Western Health and Social Care Trust
Sole Purpose should be commended for bringing what are often challenging and topical issues to the stage.
Gilly Campbell, Arts Council of Northern Ireland
The work of Sole Purpose has had a great effect in communicating, through theatre, issues of great importance across our community, I was most impressed by the production of Don't Say A Word which I attended, and which proved to be the catalyst for very important dialogue on the issue of domestic violence.
Baroness Nuala O Loan, DBE
Don't Say A Word demands a virtuoso performance from Patricia Byrne. The narrative is skillfully paced. It is an act of testimony, a narrative of survival, a source of hope.
Dr Bill McDonnell, Social Impact Study of UK Theatre.
A valuable, thought provoking play which both captivates and inspires. A useful addition into the school programme which engenders creative thinking about climate change.
Liz Wallace, Assistant Advisory Officer, Western Education and Library Board.
This project would never have come about without the professional and perfectionist attitude of the artistic manager of Sole Purpose Productions and the producer of this play, Patricia Byrne. Patricia worked on every little details as for inviting me and making the best of my visit and producing the play. I shall treasure it for a very long time.
Orna Akad, writer of Clouds on a Mountain Road
This production was very professionally run. There was a committed cast and team. It was exceptionally empowering for all concerned. Really challenging and ultimately successful.
David McCartney, Foyle Centre Rainbow Project
Using drama to raise issues relating to teenagers is so important. This wasn't teachers banging on about drinking. The play removed the authority label, brought it down to everyone's level, raised the issues and the workshops were absolutely vital to drive the message home in a relaxed way. Absolutely fabulous.
Judith Norris, Head of Drama, Lisneal College.
An outstanding performance which was thoroughly enjoyed by all in the audience. The script and performance struck home with the children in a way that was entertaining, educational and above all believable. Schools need more work of this quality.
Damien Clarke, St Patricks College, Maghera.
A fantastic production that deals professionally and sensitively with serious social issues. Well done!
Mary-Claire McDaid, St Ciaran's College, Ballygawley
We're hoping that the drama made them think and the workshops made them think further – If this stops one child from abusing themselves with alcohol then; 'job well done'
Judith Norris, Drama, Lisneal College (AWT)
The play was such a hard hitting performance and was very relevant to the every day lives of so many young people in Northern Ireland today.
Leona McGee, Fermanagh Community Safety Partnership
It was very well suited to the age range. Its message was clear. The acting was totally believable and it allowed young people to hear that the issues raised are ones which concern all of us who are involved in looking after them.
John Harkin, Vice Principal, Oakgrove Integrated College
Once again Sole Purpose has brought to a young audience a piece of theatre to make them think. This production imparts a message without preaching and communicates through a medium which the audience enjoys. In an age of digital technology, it is a rare treat to have such a live performance brought to your school hall.
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Cashman rappels building, gets fan message on Cole
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By WILLIAM S. PAXTON
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) While Brian Cashman was descending the outside of a building Friday, the New York Yankees’ general manager came across a message taped to a 10th-floor window from a fan: Please sign Gerrit Cole.
Cashman, whose rappelling adventure has become a holiday tradition, confirmed he met with Cole in California on Tuesday and spoke with free-agent pitcher Stephen Strasburg the following day.
“It was a great opportunity, clearly it was very public, that we met with Gerrit Cole and Strasburg while I was on the West Coast,” Cashman said. “At least, that’s who you all are aware of so far. Who knows who I met with?
Cole and Strasburg are the top pitchers on the free-agent market. The Yankees would like to add an ace to a rotation that already includes Luis Severino, Masahiro Tanaka, James Paxton and J.A. Happ.
Along with Cashman, assistant general manager Mike Fischman, manager Aaron Boone, new Yankees pitching coach Matt Blake and former Yankee pitcher Andy Pettitte made the trip to speak with both pitchers, who are represented by Scott Boras.
Cashman offered little about possibly signing either player, declining to discuss how much the Yankees might spend.
“I think it was an important part of the process for them,” Cashman said. “It sounds like they have met with many teams, and obviously I can’t predict the future or the timing of their futures, only really they control that.”
Cole was 20-5 with an AL-best 2.50 ERA and a big league-high 326 strikeouts this year for the AL champion Houston Astros. He was drafted by the Yankees 28th overall in 2008 but declined to sign and headed to college at UCLA.
Strasburg was the MVP of the World Series for the Washington Nationals and was the organization’s first overall pick in the 2009 draft.
Cashman will return to California for the baseball’s winter meetings, which begin Monday. First, he’ll attend Sunday’s Heights and Lights, where he will dress as an elf and again descend the Landmark Building.
“Obviously, I’ll be flying back out after this event and in the meantime staying engaged,” said Cashman, who declined to say if another meeting with either pitcher was planned.
“I’m open to do clearly whatever, as always, is important for the Yankees. If there are certain steps that need to be taken, or conversations on the phone, like any club we are fully prepared to do what’s necessary.”
More AP MLB coverage: https://apnews.com/MLB
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Longtime St. John’s member Ruth Lucas and the late Arnold Newalu completed a labor of love in 1999 in the publication of The Genesis of St. John’s by the Sea: A Mini-History, 1931–1997. This document includes a thirty-one-page history, and lists of vicars and confirmations over the thirty-six year period, as well sixteen pages of archival photographs.
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THE BIG NARSTIE SHOW REVIEW
July 3, 2018 by Natalie Golding
Chances are you have no idea who or what Big Narstie is, why he spells his name that way, and what he’s done to earn a spot on Channel 4’s Friday night schedule (unless you’ve seen one of his priceless guest appearances on shows like Celebrity Crystal Maze).
The short answer is: he’s a grime MC and unlikely (social) media sensation.
Within the first 30 seconds, Narstie proves why this new show is a dollop of madness tinged with genius as he starts, by laying in to his C4 benefactors for being daft enough to give him his own show when he’s not even a TV presenter.
From then on, anyone over the age of 21 residing outside Lambeth will probably struggle to understand more than 30% of what he says. Luckily, Channel 4 have foreseen this slight hiccup and signed up a co-presenter - the coleslaw to Narstie’s Nando’s - in the shape of stand up comedian Mo Gilligan. Mo ends up doing most of the heavy lifting, taking on the role of interpreter and minder, keeping everything on track as Narstie freestyles his way through the show.
Having labelled themselves the black Ant and Dec - they’ve even got a L’il Narstie and a L’il Mo! - the rapid fire banter hit draws attention to an awkward truth about the spectacularly unrepresentative range of talk show hosts and guests on the major broadcast channels.
Perhaps uniquely, The Big Narstie Show offers a view of the world rarely glimpsed on TV, in which clean cut pop icon Ed Sheeran is unlikely besties with grime artist Narstie (godfather to the rapper’s daughter, no less).
But forget bog standard box ticking - Narstie’s five guests range from global superstar Sheeran to Sherrie Silver, the Rwandan South London choreographer behind the afrocentric dance moves in Childish Gambino’s viral hit, ‘This is America’.
Digging beneath the generic ‘black urban’ culture, the Big Narstie show both celebrates and mocks Nigerian, Rwandan and Jamaican heritage - casually highlighting each of these vibrant cultures with an ease that would elude most shows.
The format is actually pretty standard for a studio talk show - a sofa full of guests, some musical performances and pre-taped segments. The end product is uneven, but not terrible - just a little rough around the edges. Narstie in particular apparently forgets that he is presenting. He may be the only person who truly knows what he’s talking about 100% of the time, but it’s almost impossible to resist being carried along by his buoyant personality.
The show works best when it goes off script (comedian Mo being the only one who seems comfortable with the concept of a script and a teleprompter), the pre-taped segments proving more awkward than amusing. A mixed bag then, but with more tricks than treats, a long line of decent guests, warm (if incomprehensible) hosting from the titular rapper and slick co-hosting from the blithely comical Mo. The Big Narstie show might yet turn into a deliciously bonkers Friday night treat.
- Watched on C4. 29/06/2018
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For three weeks, The Chevin recorded and mixed their debut album Borderland with producer Noah Shain. The band gets their name from The Chevin , a ridge overlooking their home town of Otley , West Yorkshire. Retrieved from ” https: Fleur East Sax [Live]. All four band members met in school while growing up in the small West Yorkshire town of Otley. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
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This Webseries Takes a Hard Look at What It's Like Growing Up LGBT in Africa
africa July 07, 2015
African LGBT Digital Media Organization None On Record's video interview series, 'Growing up LGBT in Africa' takes a look at what it is like to grow up as a queer person in Africa and the diaspora. This series was produced as part of 2015's International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.
None on Record: Stories of Queer Africa collects and archives the stories of, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Africans from around the world. None on Record was created after FannyAnn Eddy, an LGBT activist from Sierra Leone was murdered in the offices of the Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association.
Check out the stories below.
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Tango League & World Cup
Ice on the streets. Fire in the cage. No Tango, no party.
The adidas Tango League is an international, global football tournament that can be won through a combination of football prowess and social clout. In a weekend of colossal finales, adidas brought a dramatic close to their Tango League tournament on the eve of the 2018 World Cup Final in Moscow. A fierce flow of fast-paced football took over a disused Moscow warehouse as adidas hosted the very best of the capital’s urban football scene.
To build hype for this, I was tasked to art direct the journey to the Tango League final. Naturally, the platform for this was social channels. I created storyboards to shape the creative, showcasing the key highlights from the individual Tango League tournament events. To keep the social feel to it, native platform tools were dotted into the execution. This was brought to life with motion design across Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Culminating in an Instagram story along with social cut-downs.
World Cup 2018 Giphy sticker pack.
To make sure adidas was at the forefront of social conversation during the World Cup, they wanted to create an official sticker pack on the ever-popular Giphy platform. On a limited budget, using footage from previous campaigns only, the art direction had to be simple and delightful. The outcome was a series of gifs, using well-known adidas ambassadors, tailored for different in-game scenarios. This gave users shareable content, which they could bolt on to their social stories and posts.
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Unang Dalawang Tula: Para Kay Ericson Acosta
Ni RICHARD R. GAPPI
Paano tumukoy ng taong labas?
Una,… kung may dala siyang
notebook o laptop habang nasa bundok.
Pangalawa, hindi siya bihasa
magsalita sa dila ng mga taga-roon.
Pangatlo, lansihin ang madla
at sabihing mag-isa siyang nahuli
at may hawak na granada
(gayong kasama niya ang isang
opisyal ng barangay at mananaliksik siya
tungkol sa paglabag sa mga karapatang pantao).
Heralds of the failing state
THEY’RE known as “public service programs” and have been in Philippine radio for decades, particularly after 1986, when the laws restricting the media were lifted. But they have proliferated in recent years, and every radio station includes at least one example in its programming, although that one may run several hours, in addition to the regular news and commentary programs.
The template is straightforward. The program host accepts complaints from listeners through phone calls and text messages as well as personal visits to the station, puts his phone conversations on the air, reads text messages and interviews complainants.
The grievances could include being duped in a private transaction that went sour, fired by an abusive employer, ignored or given the run around in a government office, and wronged by an abusive policeman. Once armed with the details of the complaint, the host either calls the government office involved, or makes arrangements to confront the wrong doer and even to cause his arrest, during which he’s usually present, and which is duly recorded in sound and video.
In one episode of a popular program that runs for several hours in the afternoon, the host interviewed a construction worker who had lost his job, and for P4,000, pawned his motorcycle to a neighbor, who, he complained, lent the motorcycle to someone who in turn “pawned” it to someone else. The worker’s neighbor was demanding P60,000 to return the motorcycle, which was still in the hands of the last person to whom it had been pawned. The complainant named all three people involved. The host instructed an assistant to call the police and to arrange for the arrest of the man holding the motorcycle, during which both he and the complainant would be present. The arrest would of course be recorded.
The host interviewed next a taxi driver who said he’d been pulled over by a policeman for ignoring a red light. He admitted the offense, but complained that the policeman, after confiscating his license, was angling for a bribe, which he said was obvious from the fact that he (the policeman) wanted him (the taxi driver) to get out of his cab and to talk to him in the shadows of a pedestrian underpass. When he did not comply, the policeman did not write him a traffic ticket, but refused to return his license.
The host managed to somehow call the policeman and to ask him if he was authorized to apprehend traffic law violators, since that task is primarily the responsibility of metro Manila traffic enforcers. At the same time, his assistant had managed to call the policeman’s immediate superior, a police captain. The host gave the policeman an ultimatum: return the cab driver’s license or else. The “or else” part was no idle threat: he proceeded to extract from the policeman’s superior a promise to discipline him unless he complied, at one point berating the captain for hesitating to order the policeman, while on the air, to return the license.
The two cases took all of one hour to air. Both were demonstrations not only of the appalling state of law enforcement, the desperate straits of the poor, and the absence of plain civility in much of Philippine society. It was also a display of media power.
To anyone whose radio was tuned in to the program, the host’s action in both the worker’s and taxi driver’s cases would be something to applaud, leading him or her to thank “the media” for helping curb the abuses so rampant in Philippine society and bringing its most abusive elements to account.
Public service programs over Philippine radio do serve what has become an urgent need to curb abuses so egregious they defy explanation. They also help justify the need for a free press. (Without the media, a listener observed, abusive officials would get away with it.) In addition, these programs either prod government agencies to provide the citizenry the service they’re entitled to but seldom get (e.g., being served promptly at the local office of the Social Security System), or provide the service themselves (e.g., getting the complainant taxi driver’s license back).
The downside of the media’s assuming roles government institutions are supposed to be playing in behalf of a sane, safe and orderly society is not only the encouragement of media arrogance and a sense of entitlement.
The media practitioners killed on November 23, 2009 assumed themselves immune from harm. Others presume they’re entitled to various perks, including the usual envelope and the deference of government officials and of the public as a whole. In addition there’s the tendency on the part of many media practitioners, especially the untrained, to take on such dubious roles as the entrapment of criminal suspects, and other functions way beyond their mandate of providing information and commentary.
But the proliferation and popularity of these programs speaks for itself. It is the direct result of the decline or outright failure of the institutions of Philippine governance, particularly of the police and judicial system — some would say of the entire justice system.
The killing of journalists, for example, has continued because of the culture of impunity — the police and judiciary failure to identify, investigate and prosecute the killers that’s based on the weaknesses of the justice system particularly at the community level. That failure has compelled private intervention in the form of journalist and media advocacy groups’ having to go on fact-finding missions and to hire private prosecutors, not only in the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan Massacre, but in numerous other cases as well.
What’s happening in the Philippine media echoes the privatization of functions that are the government’s responsibility but which it is unable to perform because of the failure of its institutions. That failure has been evident for decades in, for example, such private initiatives as the development of more and more gated communities in response to runaway criminality; the hiring of private garbage collecting companies; the institution of “the little divorce” and co-habitation without the benefit of either law or clergy, etc. Public service programs are part of the same environment of government failure. They are heralds of the failing state.
(BusinessWorld)
(Reprinted with permission from Mr. Luis Teodoro)
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Some in AFP, PNP like Roman soldiers: Brutal torturers
SOME members of the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines are like Roman soldiers subjecting people to the same Calvary—arrest and torture—that Christ went through two millennia ago.
Muhammadiya Hamja, a fisherman, has been languishing in jail since 2008, still suffering the effects of severe torture in the hands of elements of the PNP Criminal Investigation and Detention Group (CIDG). He often has a hard time sleeping. His urine is tinged with blood.
Patta Jahal Hoyo was quietly going about his work as tricycle driver when he was accosted, interrogated and thrown into jail, where he has been since last November..... MORE
Source: Vera Files
URL: http://verafiles.org/frontpage-sticky/some-in-afp-pnp-like-roman-soldiers-brutal-torturers/
EU-NAVFOR: Pirates seize ship with 15 Filipino seafarers
At least 15 Filipino seafarers were taken captive Thursday after pirates struck off Oman and seized a bulk carrier they were serving on.
The European Union Naval Force Somalia indicated the bulk carrier MV Rosalia D'Amato managed to inform coalition warships it had been boarded by pirates.
"The 74,500-tonne Italian-flagged and owned vessel was on its way to Bandar Imam Khomeini (Iran) from Paranagua (Brazil) when it was attacked by a single skiff. Coalition warships had communications with the vessel and were told: ‘pirates onboard stay away’. The MV ROSALIA D’AMATO has a crew of 21 (6 Italians, 15 Filipinos)," it said in its bulletin..... MORE
Source: Philippine News
URL: http://philippinenews.com/latest-news/1706-eu-navfor-pirates-seize-ship-with-15-filipino-seafarers.html
Priest tells RH bill supporters to leave Mass
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – A priest at the Baguio Cathedral drew flak from some Catholics after he ordered people supporting the reproductive health bill to leave the church and stop hearing Mass.
His remarks drew outrage from some parishioners, who walked out in consternation.
The priest, whose identity was withheld, used his sermon to mock supporters of the bill such as former Akbayan party-list Rep. Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel.... MORE
URL: http://philippinenews.com/latest-news/1704-priest-tells-rh-bill-supporters-to-leave-mass.html
Tropics in Decline as Natural Resources Exhausted at Alarming Rate
Gland, Switzerland – New analysis shows populations of tropical species are plummeting and humanity’s demands on natural resources are sky-rocketing to 50 per cent more than the earth can sustain, reveals the 2010 edition of WWF’s Living Planet Report – the leading survey of the planet’s health.
The biennial report, produced in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London and the Global Footprint Network, uses the global Living Planet Index as a measure of the health of almost 8,000 populations of more than 2,500 species. The global Index shows a decrease by 30 per cent since 1970, with the tropics hardest hit showing a 60 per cent decline in less than 40 years.
“There is an alarming rate of biodiversity loss in low-income, often tropical countries while the developed world is living in a false paradise, fuelled by excessive consumption and high carbon emissions,” said Jim Leape, Director General of WWF International.
While the report shows some promising recovery by species’ populations in temperate areas, thanks in part to greater conservation efforts and improvements in pollution and waste control, tracked populations of freshwater tropical species have fallen by nearly 70 per cent – greater than any species’ decline measured on land or in our oceans....MORE
Source: WWF-Philippines
URL: http://www.wwf.org.ph/newsfacts.php?pg=det&id=204
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Where is transparency here? EDITORIAL 06/19/2011
Where is transparency here?
Transparency was Noynoy’s litany when he was seeking the public’s vote for the presidency; a promise which now appears to be an ordeal as he, through his Palace mouthpieces, have rejected proposals in the House to probe those who are classified within the so-called KKKs (Kaibigan, Kaklase and Kabarilan), or presidential cronies, classmates and shooting range buddies.
The Palace’s rejection of course reverberated among the House of Representatives’ allies of Noynoy and the proposed probe, by all indications, will not likely prosper.
But why is his ally, Deputy Speaker Erin Tañada, already concluding that the President is the focus of the probe, when the probe has not even started. And why, if there is nothing to fear about their claimed “honest” and “transparent” President who they claim rules without fear and favor, are these Noynoy allies fearing such a probe, to the point of already covering up for him and his aides?
Noynoy, however, is making the same mistake that made the past administration one of the most unpopular ever..... MORE
Vindictiveness FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 06/19/2011
It certainly looks like the spirit of vindictiveness in Noynoy lives on and strongly.
The latest word on the Marcos burial issue is that Noynoy is not even bent on giving Marcos military honors, as Vice President Jojo Binay had recommended, after conducting an exhaustive survey among various sectors of society and coming up with what can be called a “win-win” solution: Burial in Ilocos, and military honors of Ferdinand Marcos.
But even the military honors will be denied Marcos, although instead of owning to the fact that it is Noynoy himself who does not want it at all, he is using as his excuse the so-called victims of martial law who oppose it. He also uses another excuse, which is that Marcos may have already been given military honors when his remains were brought home for his burial in a refrigirated crypt in Ilocos.
But definitely, it is still his and his family’s vindictiveness that has kept him from giving Marcos the military honors..... MORE
Franco’s remains stir debate in Spain, 35 years after death focus 06/19/2011
Franco’s remains stir debate in Spain, 35 years after death
MADRID — More than 35 years after the death of Francisco Franco, Spain’s government is mulling whether to move the dictator’s remains from the vast mausoleum he had built with forced labor.
The Valley of the Fallen, an underground tomb complex outside Madrid where he is buried, was constructed on Franco’s orders between 1940 and 1958.
As well as Franco’s own remains, historians estimate the mass graves contain those of between 40,000 and 60,000 of his supporters and the Republicans who opposed them in Spain’s 1936-39 Civil War, which ended with Franco in power.
But for many Spaniards, the memorial site — carved into the side of a mountain in part through the forced labor of thousands of political prisoners — is their country’s most divisive and potent reminder of the Franco era..... MORE
DILG — wake up! VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 06/19/2011
DILG — wake up!
Any person who participates in any illegal numbers game shall suffer the following penalties:
a) The penalty of imprisonment from 30 days to 90 days, if such a person acts as a bettor.
b) The penalty of imprisonment from six years and one day to eight years, if such a person acts as a personnel or staff of an illegal numbers game operation. The same penalty shall likewise be imposed to any person who allows his vehicle, house, building or land to be used in the operation of illegal numbers game.
c) The penalty of imprisonment for eight years and one day to 10 years, if such a person acts as a collector or agent.
d) The penalty of imprisonment from 10 years and one day to 12 years, if such a person acts as coordinator, controller or supervisor..... MORE
Syria opposition abroad seeks to form united front 06/19/2011
Syria opposition abroad seeks to form united front
LONDON — Syrian opposition figures living abroad are seeking to form a common front with activists inside the country to help put pressure on President Bashar al-Assad’s crisis-hit regime.
As Syrian security forces crack down with deadly force on anti-regime protests, opposition activists have met in Turkey and Brussels, shared a platform in London, will visit Moscow and plan a major conference in the US.
But the regime opponents abroad have a tough job ahead of them, both in linking up with anti-regime activists in Syria and in building their own unified resistance.
“It is unfair to expect us to have a unified opposition” following years of oppressive rule, says Najib Ghadbian, a Middle East expert at Arkansas University in the United States.... MORE
In China, professional mourners spice up funerals FEATURE 06/19/2011
In China, professional mourners spice up funerals
CHONGQING — Hu Xinglian kneels before the corpse of Liang Zhicai and, with one hand on his metal coffin, lets out a piercing wail. But Hu is not at all grief-stricken — she is a professional mourner.
In parts of China, where rural pre-burial rituals are still observed, mourners known as “kusangren” are hired to guarantee that a funeral is a spectacle in grief. And the 53-year-old Hu is up to the task.
She comes to work with a full sound-system, multi-colour spotlights and the six members of her band, “The Orchestra of the Star and River of Chongqing.”
Her job offers a study in contrasts between modern living and tradition in the southwestern province-sized municipality, home to more than 30 million people and a symbol of the rapid urbanization seen across China..... MORE
Being trusted and trustworthy TABLETS OF STONE Larry Faraon, OP 06/19/2011
Being trusted and trustworthy
Every administration has its own versions of “K.” Even the sainted Tita Cory had her “Kamag-anak Inc.” Anybody who gets nailed in Malacañang, especially to the highest post of the land would be the most insecure person in the world even if hundreds of PSG’s and the top intellectuals from UP, Harvard and corporate halls, all at a whispering distance would cordon him closely. He needs a coterie of trusted and loyal friends who would shoo away possible darts that may pinch deeply on himself in order to feign stability and complacency in his incumbency.
Sadly, the first presumption of these rah-rah cheerers is really similar to what they usually teach the applicant secretaries, namely, that their boss is so stupid and clueless that he depends entirely on his secretary for everything from documents, appointments, files to wardrobes, medication, toiletries, but most importantly their loyalty and confidentiality. Utmost fidelity to the person or being a “K” is the absolute qualification therefore..... MORE
Palace calls ‘troublemaker’ source of Ping-Noy rift story By Aytch S. de la Cruz 06/19/2011
CLAIMS DE JESUS MEMO TO TORRES DOES NOT EXIST
Palace calls ‘troublemaker’ source of Ping-Noy rift story
The Palace branded as a troublemaker the source of the recent expose of The Tribune who divulged that the resignation of former Transportation and Communications Secretary Jose “Ping” de Jesus was the result of a bitter argument between him and President Aquino over the fate of Land Transportation Office (LTO) chief and Aquino shooting buddy Virginia Torres who Aquino insisted on retaining.
Unnamed sources at the Department of Transportation and Communications (DoTC) speaking to media with respect to the lingering issues confronting the agency are just trying to cause some trouble for the government, deputy presidential spokesman Abigail Valte said.
Malacañang issued the statement yesterday as it said it remained clueless on a supposed memorandum written by De Jesus on April 6, asking Aquino to impose disciplinary actions on Torres..... MORE
Bongbong wants Rizal Day moved to June 19 06/19/2011
Bongbong wants Rizal Day moved to June 19
Sen. Ferdinand “Bong-bong” Marcos Jr. has renewed his proposal to change the date of the national holiday commemorating the life and works of Jose Rizal from Dec. 30 to June 19, his birth anniversary.
“It is fitting then that Filipinos commemorate Rizal Day on June 19 as a day of triumph of his nationalism and patriotic ideals,” he said, mindful that Dec. 30 is an official national holiday that commemorates a hero’s death.
“The birthday of our national hero should always be a day of celebration of his life and of his great contribution to the country’s independence from foreign domination,” he added..... MORE
NDRRMC alerts regional units for ‘Egay’ By Mario J. Mallari 06/19/2011
NDRRMC alerts regional units for ‘Egay’
The National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC) has alerted all its regional units throughout the country as part of the preparations for tropical depression “Egay” as it continues to aim for the ambitious “zero casualty” during such calamity.
NDRRMC executive director Undersecretary Benito Ramos’ directive to all regional DRRMCs from Regions I to XII, the National Capital Region (NCR), the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) and Caraga is to closely monitor situation in their respective jurisdiction.
“You are hereby directed to monitor the situation and undertake precautionary measures in your area of responsibility. Likewise, the public and the DRRMCs are advised to take appropriate actions,” Ramos said.
“Let us untiringly aim for zero casualty,” Ramos added..... MORE
EcoWaste lauds Rizal as ‘hero for environment’ 06/19/2011
EcoWaste lauds Rizal as ‘hero for environment’
An environmental network has lauded Dr. Jose Rizal as ‘hero for the environment” as the nation celebrates the 150th year of his birthday today.
In a statement, the EcoWaste Coalition, an environmental network of over 125 public interest groups, honored Rizal for his deep concern and love for Mother Earth and her people.
“We pay homage to our national hero Jose Rizal for his keen devotion to improving community health and environment long before the Constitution formally committed to promoting and protecting the health and environmental rights of the people,” said Roy Alvarez, EcoWaste Coalition president..... MORE
Caloocan City steps up campaign against drinking liquor in streets By Arlie O. Calalo 06/19/2011
Caloocan City steps up campaign against drinking liquor in streets
Local authorities in Caloocan City have intensified the campaign against vices that come along with smoking following the arrest of 20 persons who were caught drinking liquor either outside their houses or right in the streets.
On orders of the local government, city police chief Senior Supt. Jude Wilson Santos directed all police sub-stations and police community precincts (PCPs) to carry out Ordinance 0937, which was passed in 2005, by apprehending those who violate it.
During the initial salvo, police operations yielded more than 20 persons who were caught drinking either outside their residences or in the streets and sidewalks, Santos said..... MORE
‘Fish kill’ causes big loss to Navotas traders’ profits 06/19/2011
‘Fish kill’ causes big loss to Navotas traders’ profits
A large group of “fish brokers” in the coastal city of Navotas have sought the help of Camanava Press over their collapsing business in spite of the latest announcement of the Department of Agriculture that fish kill is over.
The members of the Navotas Fish Traders Association led by their vice president, Boy Charing, went to the office of the local media and sought their assistance to inform the public, including those fish traders who buy fish in large volume at the consignacion markets in the city which they sell in most markets in Metro Manila and nearby provinces like Bulacan..... MORE
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Free the Chief Justice Written by Herman Tiu Laurel Monday
Free the Chief Justice
Since the gates opened on the jockeying for the position of Philippine Supreme Court (SC) chief justice (CJ), the horses that have entered the race have reached ridiculous numbers.
That was the prevailing sentiment we got over lunch with some media men and politicos, where one top editor of a major daily even exclaimed, “How many are now in the race? Sixty? The noise in the jostling for the CJ post is now like a market place!”
It happened just a day after lawyers Bono Adaza and Alan Paguia, along with Jojo Borja and myself, filed a petition before the SC — at the height of last week’s rains — for it to issue a “Certiorari and Prohibition with a Prayer for a TRO, Writ of Preliminary versus President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III and the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC)” to stop the continuing malpractice of the presidential appointment of the chief magistrate, which debases and subjugates the highest judicial official of the land and the supposedly independent body he or she leads.
Sadly, there were no press or media people who covered the filing last Tuesday, partly due to the heavy rains and widespread flooding. The chief of reporters of Destiny Cable’s Global News Network (GNN), for instance, texted that his people were constrained from covering the event as they were assigned to various flood relief centers. And while the same must have been true for the other media outfits, we decided to bring the campaign to the media kapihans in order to better inform the public on the issues involved.
At the Friday Rembrandt media forum, both Adaza and Paguia presented the case while I distributed a press statement announcing the launching of the Movement for Chief Justice Independence (MCJI), a campaign to generate public awareness and support for freeing the Chief Justice from presidential influence and control through the current malpractice of presidential appointment.
While the petition was jumpstarted when a number of volunteers pitched in for the cost of its filing, the media support was even more impressive.
In all the forums we pitched this proposal to, we never failed to elicit the support of all those in attendance. On the legal question, Adaza and Paguia presented indisputable evidence by first citing the provisions of the Constitution and then asking any doubters to point to any statement assigning to the JBC the power to nominate and to the President the power to appoint the CJ.
As Paguia repeatedly stresses, since it is a question of fact, all the legal doubters need to do is point to any constitutional proviso that grants such powers — when, in fact, there is absolutely none.
Thus, Adaza writes, “The reason why other Presidents got away with violating the Constitution is due to the fact that no citizen had questioned their authority. Now, there are citizens who are concerned with the rape of the Constitution by public officials and the drift of the rule of law in this country, that there is need to stop this unconstitutional practice in the national interest.”
To this writer’s surprise, some newspapers carried the item last Friday suggesting that our petition was dismissed, with some even saying “one down, two to go,” referring to the three petitions questioning the current conduct of the nominations by the JBC. If that were true, it would only indicate uncharacteristic haste and, therefore, betray a fear of something in our petition — for how could it be dismissed in three days when the SC justices hardly have enough time to study the many petitions pending before them for close to six months?
Thankfully, a careful reading indicates that only the petition of a certain Famela Dulay, whose arguments do not coincide with ours, has been dismissed, which means that our fight goes on.
Ever since we aired our appeal for support, many more have come to our aid. In addition to all those we acknowledged in a previous column, our heartfelt thanks also go out to Mr. Poem Gratela, as well as a doctor and a rural banker who requested not to be named. We also thank this donor from Bicol who thoughtfully sent us delicacies from his native province. Rest assured that your being part of this movement fuels us to continue pursuing this case. And as we await official action, we will never be deterred by any attempt at misinformation or disinformation.
The logic of ending the malpractice of the President appointing the CJ must prevail if we are to uphold the independence of the Judiciary and the principles of “separation of powers” and “checks-and-balance.” Only then can we begin to enhance the dream of an authentic democracy for our nation.
Even so, there are other advocacies that we must take the cudgels for, such as the water issue.
Last Saturday, we heard the presentation of Gloria Dalida and Rodolfo Javellana Jr. of Water for All Refund Movement (Warm) on their petition vs Manny Pangilinan, the Consunji Group, and a long list of respondents on the scam in our privatized water services, which is as huge a scam as that in the power sector. Hopefully, we’ll have them on our GNN show in the coming days to link them up with all our fellow electricity advocates.
So as we jostle in the legal arena, there must be similar action in other fronts to make for a holistic and authentic democratic order. Our nation must unite against the exploitation and oppression of the local and global oligarchs, who conspire to squeeze the people into abject poverty and helpless prostration. We must not wait any longer.
(Watch Destiny Cable GNN’s HTL edition of Talk News TV, Saturdays, 8:15 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11:15 p.m., this week with senatorial candidate Joey de Venecia; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com)
(Reprinted with permission from Ka Mentong)
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/commentary/item/1287-free-the-chief-justice
Mining the miners
Written by Tribune Editorial
The still unseen Palace executive order (EO) on the mining industry is several things to different interests.
To mining companies, the EO is long-delayed that resulted in the stunting of growth in an industry that has the potential of earning for the country hundreds of billions of dollars.
To those opposed to harsh effects of big-scale mining, the time it took for Noynoy to finally come up with the EO is testament that it will be greatly watered down when it is finally unveiled to the public.
The EO fleshes out the policy of the administration of Noynoy for an industry that has long been a paradox for many past administrations.
The influence of the Roman Catholic Church on the crafting of any policy on mining is a given and interest groups, legitimate or otherwise, run to the prelates to have their voices heard by the government on issues related to mining operations.
Mining companies, which mostly have giant world prospectors as partners, believe that they are sitting on a literal trove of mineral riches that are unequaled in any part of the world..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/commentary/editorial/item/1291-mining-the-miners
Show of force: Syria conducts major drills amid Western pressure (VIDEO)
Syria`s military has launched a series of large-scale exercises starting with naval maneuvers in the Mediterranean Sea. The move is thought to be targeted at the West to demonstrate Syria`s capacity to defend its borders.
On Saturday Syria`s naval forces engaged in a military exercise whereby they repelled an aggressive attack at sea. The warships in tandem with launch vehicles fired several missiles, all of which hit their targets with high precision, the country`s SANA agency reports.
The exercise was attended by high profile military officials, including Syria`s Defense Minister Gen. Dawood Rajha.
Air and ground forces are also expected to join the exercise, which will continue over the next few days..... MORE
URL: http://www.rt.com/news/syria-major-military-exercise-674/
Russia and Iran must participate in Syria solution - Annan (w/ Video)
Russia and Iran must participate in Syria solution - Annan
Kofi Annan said on Saturday that despite Washington’s harsh rhetoric, there was ‘no alternative’ to Russia’s participation in a diplomatic solution to the Syrian crisis. He also said Iran was ‘an actor that cannot be ignored’.
In an interview with Le Monde on Saturday, UN special Syrian Envoy Kofi Annan said that the “evidence suggests his plans for peace had not yet succeeded”, and that there was “no guarantee” that negotiations would ever be successful.
He also, however, stressed that there was no other alternative besides cooperation on a peaceful and diplomatic solution to the crisis..... MORE
URL: http://www.rt.com/news/russia-iran-syria-annan-664/
Deadly mix at Smokey Mountain
Written by Jonathan de la Cruz
Instead of the promised multibillion-peso redevelopment of that sorry blot called Smokey Mountain after Edsa I, what we have is a monument to folly. Far from being transformed into a dynamic enclave of the empowered dis-possessed, it has turned for the worse. Instead of just hosting a “mountain of garbage,” it now also hosts a “coal mountain” as Agham party-list Rep. Angelo Palmones exposed recently.
Worse, the residents of the unfinished model community now have to contend with paying exorbitant fees for their basic utilities like power and water courtesy of the concessionaires which were only too happy to “re-connect” the families to the basics at the cost of an arm and a leg.
It appears that only the contractor/developer — the Reghis Romero Group of Companies — not the residents has its fortunes turn for the better. Such has been the sad turn of events that the Romero Group has been able to parlay that original contract into multibillion-peso other joint ventures with government including, by some magical arrangement, putting up a coal yard at its reclaimed Harbour Centre despite the existing Writ of Kalikasan issued by the Supreme Court on such undertakings within the Manila Bay influenced areas..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/commentary/item/1288-deadly-mix-at-smokey-mountain
Crying for justice Written by Charlie V. Manalo Tuesday, 10 July 2012
Crying for justice
Written by Charlie V. Manalo
Just when they thought they had finally claimed justice, compensated for the long years of work they had rendered the now defunct Pantranco, union members of the Pantanco Employees Association (PEA) and the Pantranco Retrenched Employees Association (PANREA) suffered another stab in the back, ironically coming from the very institution supposed to protect them: the government of the republic.
Last May 21, after almost three decades of trying to claim their separation pay from the defunct bus line, members of the PEA and the PANREA were finally able to dispose of Pantranco’s 489 expired bus franchises which they had acquired a payment for their claims from the company sequestered by the government during the term of President Noynoy Aquino’s late mother, Cory Aquino, to several bus companies, owned by the Hernandez family.
However, as the sale of the expired franchises had time and again, since 1993, been denied by the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB), the latest of which was in Jan. 5 this year, the sale had been questioned, prompting Transportation and Communications Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas to enter the picture and blocked the sale.
Reportedly, Roxas blocked the sale of the expired bus franchises based on the provisions of the law prohibiting the trade of franchises commercially. Again, legal minds are one in saying franchise is merely a privilege and not a commodity..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/commentary/item/1338-crying-for-justice
Watering down the Milk Code
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
Davao Today
DAVAO CITY — The phrase “breast milk is still best for babies” has become a byword in commercials and labels on infant formula milk thanks to the Milk Code which mandates this marking on the packaging of formula milk.
The Milk Code, known as Executive Order 51, is now on its 25th year. The Code encourages the practice of breastfeeding for infants. A study shows that four of 10 mothers provide their infants breast milk, a practice that health experts cite to have reduced infant mortality and increased protection from illnesses. The Code also limits marketing and commercials of formula milk to children aged three and up.
But these labels might soon be erased as House Bill 3396 seeks among others to amend restrictions in the Code and allow aggressive marketing of infant formula milk catering to infants as young as six months.
The amendments have breastfeeding advocates in Davao fighting to stop the bill. Mommy Sense, a Davao-based breastfeeding support group gathered last June 16 to point out that the bill may erode the gains in the advocacy on breastfeeding and add burden to Filipino families to put up with the cost of formula milk.
The draft bill, “An Act Promoting Comprehensive Program on Breastfeeding Practices and Regulating the Trade, Marketing and Promotions of Certain foods for Infants and Children,” has the following amendments:
• removing marketing restrictions on formula milk products
• removing the mandated labels on milk products that promote breast milk and cite the dangers of formula feeding
• disentitle working mothers in which their salaries will be deducted due to lactation breaks of 40 minutes per day
• allow direct advertising or giving of samples or supplies in hospitals and other health institutions, or mother-baby events.
Alexandria Hao and Lyn Tan, co-founders of Mommy Sense, said these amendments undermine the benefits of breast milk which are far and wide..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/07/06/watering-down-the-milk-code/
Arman: caring brother, conscientious activist, defender of the oppressed
Ka Arman: caring brother, conscientious activist, defender of the oppressed
Arman Albarillo dedicated his life to caring for his family, but the extrajudicial killing of his parents by soldiers led to his political awakening, which made him embrace an extended family: the oppressed.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
MANILA – Nanay Pacing, a petite woman in her 50s, broke into tears as though she lost a son.
“It is difficult to accept that we have lost him,” the old woman said at the wake of Arman Albarillo, former secretary-general of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-Southern Tagalog (Bayan-ST) and in 2009, a New People’s Army (NPA) guerrilla who died in an encounter last June 30 in San Andres, Quezon, south of Manila.
“It is because of him that we still have a roof above our heads,” Nanay Pacing, one of the residents of sitio Kabute in Real, Calamba, Laguna, said during the tribute for Arman in a church in Quezon City.
She narrated how they met. It was during the early part of January 2008 when the houses of some 100 families were demolished. They sought temporary shelter at the nearby covered court. “Not one among the barangay or municipal officials offered us help. One day, while we were at the City Hall, Ka Arman saw some of us crying. He went to us, inquired about our situation and started organizing us,”
Nanay Pacing related. At that time, Arman was secretary general of Bayan-ST.
“Four years passed by and despite the harassment by soldiers encamped inside our community, we stayed put because of what Ka Arman taught us –that we have rights, too,” Nanay Pacing said.
It is not surprising how Arman was able to win the hearts of the poor. He knew poverty like the palm of his hands.
A caring brother
Before becoming an activist, Arman was an ordinary worker. Born from a peasant family in San Teodoro, Mindoro Oriental, Arman had helped augment the family income since he was 17. Together with his eldest brother, Arman worked as a construction worker in Makati.
“He would go home only during special occasions,” Bonsai, one of Arman’s four sisters, said. He has three brothers.
Like a typical big brother, Bonsai said, Arman was “quite strict” especially with the way his sisters dress. “He was so conservative; he did not want us to wear sleeveless, short skirts or any of that kind. We were only able to put lipstick when he was not around,” Bonsai said, smiling.
“Whenever we had problems and we turned to him, he would not mince words to warn us against making wrong decisions,” Bonsai said. “Yet, after scolding us, he would also make us laugh.”
Bonsai said she would not forget what her kuya (older brother) did on her wedding day. She was crying so hard minutes before the ceremony because the hair stylist cut her hair short. “Kuya Arman went to me and said, ‘Ne, stop crying. It’s okay’ and he carried me on his arms until I stopped crying,” Bonsai recalled. She was 24..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/07/08/ka-arman-caring-brother-conscientious-activist-defender-of-the-oppressed/
Aquino allies revive Cha-cha
Written by Angie M. Rosales
NO EFFORT TO AMEND CONSTITUTION WITHOUT NOY BACKING — JOKER
Efforts to tinker with the Constitution have been resurrected and a meeting between Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and Speaker Feliciano Belmonte has been scheduled to discuss possible changes that can be introduced in the 1987 Charter, Sen. Joker Arroyo said.
Arroyo added the move is gaining ground in the Senate, with him acceding to proposals to introduce changes in Constitution.
Arroyo also perceives Malacañang as being behind the revived discussions on the possibility of initiating moves for Charter change (Cha-cha) to take off when Congress reopens its third regular session this month.
The senator, however, appeared amenable in revisiting not only the economic provisions but also the present structure of government “where the President is more powerful now than (under) the previous constitutions.”
“For 25 years, this 1987 Constitution, we have not touched it. By every reasoning, we should change it. The Constitution (was amended) in 1986 (because) it was in response to the difficulties we had during the martial law,” Arroyo said..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/headlines/item/1322-aquino-allies-revive-cha-cha
Groups blast mining EO as rehash of old policies
Written by Fernan J. Angeles
Tribune photo
Even before the Palace releases today the details of the Executive Order (EO) on mining signed by President Aquino last Thursday, various groups assailed it as being no different from previous policies that do not address the root of the conflict between mining operations and the communities where the projects are located.
Instead, the new mining policy could make conflict caused by the industry even worse, Sorsogon Bishop Arturo Bastes said, adding the new EO on mining is no different from other past policies.
Bastes said the new EO is expected to create more division between the local stakeholders and the government.
According to Aquino’s deputy spokesman Abigail Valte, small-scale mining operations and revenue sharing between the national and local governments will be the highlights of the signed EO that is seen to define the national policy in an industry from where the government gets significant part of its total annual revenue.
Valte described the new mining EO as a product of consultations with stakeholders of the mining sector. She added that the EO has had a number of revisions during the period in which it was being drafted by the environment cluster created by the President to solicit inputs from various sectors which have something to do with the mining industry, whether they be pro or against it..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/headlines/item/1320-groups-blast-mining-eo-as-rehash-of-old-policies
Palace imposes news blackout on China row
Malacañang is keeping its lips sealed tightly over the details of the executive session President Aquino called last Thursday that included the entire Cabinet and two top senators to supposedly formulate plans to address the deadlock between China and the Philippines over territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
For now, we’re taking it under wraps, Aquino’s deputy spokesman Abigail Valte said on media queries about the result of the top-level meeting.
Valte said that the public can deduce what transpired at the meeting through the moves that the Aquino administration will now take to address the dispute.
“Well, people will always speculate. But it is best if we just wait until concrete steps are being taken. That I suppose will be the time that we can talk about it,” Valte said.
“What we’re saying is that the public would eventually see what transpired at the executive session and learn of the government decision on the China conflict. Of course, that will be talked about. But as of the moment, everything is under wraps,” Valte reiterated.
A Palace critic in the Senate supported the virtual news blackout and President Aquino’s order for his underlings to refrain from making statements that may aggravate the country’s territorial dispute with China, adding that the Executive should instead use quiet diplomacy to resolve the tension.
“It’s good that President Aquino zipped up the lips of his officials. Everybody is talkative. Everybody is an expert in diplomacy. Matters like this, require quiet diplomacy, restraint,” Sen. Joker Arroyo said...... MORE
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/headlines/item/1319-palace-imposes-news-blackout-on-china-row
RP airports on alert vs mystery Cambodian disease
Written by AFP and PNA
The Philippines has stepped up screening of airport arrivals to prevent the entry of a mysterious disease that has killed 60 children in Cambodia since April, Health Secretary Enrique Ona said on Saturday.
“We are more vigilant in screening passengers at the country’s international airports because of this latest news and there will be no let-up until this has been contained,” Ona told reporters.
He stressed that there were no travel restrictions to Cambodia despite the alert.
The unidentified disease has killed 60 young children in Cambodia in three months, the World Health Organization (WHO) said earlier this week as it raced to identify the cause.
The symptoms include high fever and severe chest disease symptoms with some children showing signs of “neurological involvement,” the WHO said..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/nation/item/1313-rp-airports-on-alert-vs-mystery-cambodian-disease
Two million eel fingerlings bound for HK seized at NAIA
Written by Conrado Ching
The Bureau of Customs (BoC) and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) confiscated some two million eel fingerlings bound for Hong Kong at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
BFAR Director Asis Perez said the shipment of 46 boxes containing the elvers was brought to the Miascor Cargo early Sunday morning for shipment to Hong Kong on board a Cathay Pacific flight.
The cargo forwarders, identified as Expertrans Philippines Inc., abandoned the shipment at the warehouse after receiving reports that they lacked import permits.
Customs examiners got suspicious about the cargoes, which were all labelled as “perishable items-foodstuff,” forcing them to inspect the contents..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/metro-section/item/1277-two-million-eel-fingerlings-bound-for-hk-seized-at-naia
QC gov’t regulates use of plastic bags all over city
Written by Arlie O. Calalo
The administration of Quezon City Mayor Herbert “Bistek” Bautista has stepped up the no-nonsense implementation of an ordinance that calls for the regulation on the use of plastic bags all over the city.
Determined to inculcate in the minds of the residents the need to follow the measure to the letter, city officials led by Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte hosted last Friday a forum aimed primarily at informing the public of how to reduce the city’s production of plastic waste.
“This is Quezon City’s commitment in building a truly green and sustainable city,” said the vice mayor who was accompanied by key city officials in welcoming the forum participants at the QC Hall Bulwagan.
Compared to other cities adopting a total ban on plastic use, Belmonte said the city government has just favored to regulate the use of plastics to give residents ample time to integrate the system in their behavior or attitude.
“Going green must not only be lip service. There has to be attitude and behavioral change,” Belmonte said.
Councilor Dorothy Delarmente, author of ordinances SP-2140, otherwise known as the “QC Plastic Bag Reduction Ordinance” and SP-2103, and the city’s task force on plastic bag reduction have joined efforts to mount the forum which highlights the local government’s determined effort to regulate the use of plastic bags in the city, especially in QC-based business establishments..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/metro-section/item/1279-qc-gov%E2%80%99t-regulates-use-of-plastic-bags-all-over-city
NPC head lambasts order evicting two press corps from DoJ building
The National Press Club (NPC) has condemned the decision of the Department of Justice (DoJ) to evict from its building premises the two recognized press corps based on an alleged report by the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) that members of the press have become a “security threat” to its officials.
“We find the DoJ’s action suspicious; this is a ‘cloaked censorship’ aimed at restraining the media from gathering information, especially from officials and personalities who are connected with the office of Justice Secretary Leila de Lima,” NPC president Benny Antiporda said.
He noted the two press corps at the DoJ main building, Jucra (Justice and Court Reporters Association) and Juror (Justice Reporters Organization), have been staying on the same floor where the office of De Lima is located so they can immediately gather news on important issues that need the immediate reaction of the justice secretary.
The Jucra has been holding office at the DoJ since 1977 while the Juror has also been given accommodation by the department since the 1980s, during the time of President Corazon Aquino..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/metro-section/item/1276-npc-head-lambasts-order-evicting-two-press-corps-from-doj-building
Another suspect in assassination try on Tribune’s reporter falls in Pasig
Written by Tribune
Another gunman behind the slay try on the Daily Tribune reporter Fernan Angeles last March was arrested but not by the task force created to go after the newsman’s assailants but by the lowly cops assigned to the community precinct.
Junior Ambor, also known as Junior Buang and Junior Praning, was arrested with several other individuals following a call complaining against a group of armed men along Baltazar Street in Pinagbuhatan, Pasig City bullying residents, extorting money from people and poking guns at those who refused to give.
Angeles, who has resumed writing for the Tribune since May, was advised by community precinct commander Senior Insp. Cesario Tubog to come to the police station to identify one of the suspects they arrested. As it turned out, one of their hauls was positively identified as the one who fired the second shot that hit Angeles in the back.
Tubog personally led the team that went to arrest Ambor and his gang. Seized from Ambor was a short firearm of unknown caliber..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/metro-section/item/1275-another-suspect-in-assassination-try-on-tribune%E2%80%99s-reporter-falls-in-pasig
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Ana Vujović and Danijela Pivašević-Tenner
October 19th – November 4th
The title of the exhibition and text intentionally borrows the definition of the phrase “by the book”, and in an ironic way criticizes things created by blindly following predefined rules and templates.
The exhibition By the book presents the works by Ana Vujović and Danijela Pivašević-Tenner, who had mutually recognised connecting points in their artistic approaches towards phenomena that occupy their artistic practice. Both artists examine the relationship between tradition and contemporary life which invites a close investigation into constituted canons and systems of value, as well as the ever so faster changes which we as a society are exposed to.
Every change in paradigm evokes an opposition to innovation and the ‘rehabilitation’ of a cliché which in time positioned itself as a “true value”. Today, we often see “approved values” nested in tradition, while tradition is then primarily seen as identity permeating nationality. It is this dimension of the traditional that Ana Vujović and Danijela Pivašević-Tenner directly attach to their work, through the topics and the media that they employ. On one hand, we encounter depictions of Pirot rugs in the drawings, objects and installations of Ana Vujović; while the prints, objects and spatial installations of Danijela Pivašević-Tenner are characterized by the use of elements and forms taken from porcelain products. Pirot tapestry is widely recognized as an autochthon Serbian craft, whereas the first European production of porcelain originates from Saxony. The works featured in the exhibition widely rely on these two traditional manufacturing techniques – the usage of the loom for weaving on one hand and casting ceramic objects on the other, whereas the selected procedures contort the particular methods that produce these objects. Along these lines, daily life is implicitly included into the concept of the exhibition as applied arts and crafts, to which the artists refer to, and consequently, the industrial manufacturing of commodities, profoundly frame the micro-narratives of our lives.
In late Capitalism, from the point of the view of the individual, the present may appear as an intersection of two contexts – the past (reconstruction) and the future (anticipation). Here, the subject-individual shifts into a hub inside of a constantly evolving, but unstable net which connects entities from the past and potentials from the future. In this way, the present appears as the cut of two rather asymmetrical constructs of constantly processing the past and minimally anticipating the future filled with anxiety and uncertainty. In the work by Danijela Pivašević-Tenner which features photos of upside-down plates that show stamps of factories that once manufactured porcelain, but that no longer exist – the artist leaves traces of an upside-down cup after drinking coffee, much alike the domicile ritual of fortune telling.
Text: Maida Gruden
Translation: Isidora Krstić
Photo: Milan Kralj
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Tree Daddy Music
TRUE THAT
Allison Hawkins
Ted Mentry
Paul Marr
John Platero
Brian Robinson
Tree Daddy Sound
Home Ted Mentry
Guitarist~Vocalist~Composer
Ted Mentry and his band released two albums in the early eighties to high critical acclaim, (Illustrated Victims in 1981 and Artful Dodger in 1984) and quickly became the darlings of the Rocky Mountain music scene. After constant touring and a relentless live schedule, Ted Mentry, who had opened for everyone from Firefall to Lynyrd Skynyrd, abruptly disbanded the group in pursuit of a family and other interests.
Ted Mentry is back and better than ever and what transpired during this extended hiatus seems clearly documented in Get A Life , the incredible new CD which was released with a Laser show and reception at the Fiske Planetarium on the CU campus on December 10th, 2000 to a standing ovation and rave reviews.
Ted Mentry is a dynamic singer, songwriter and extraordinary guitarist who blends electronic samples and programs with conventional instrumentation to create classic compositions with passionate, unforgettable musical and lyrical integrity.
Get A Life is 12 songs and 65 minutes that encompass a unique blend of modern and conventional accompaniment which showcases beautifully crafted melodies that epitomize musicianship, production, songwriting and arrangement capabilities with unsurpassed passion and vision.
It Is What It Is was released to a standing room only, sellout house at Nissi’s Showcase Cabaret in Lafayette, CO on July 26th, 2006 and is a continuation of that craft and passion for music but, this time, with an interesting twist; the captivating and dynamic singer, Allison Hawkins handling 90% of the vocal chores!
Ted Mentry released another personal CD with Allison Hawkins titled “EP“ and, in the interim, filled the guitar chair in the rock opera, “Magdalene, Woman Of Light“ staged at the Denver Civic Theater in October, 2008 and monopolized much of the musical score in the full length, feature film, “The Highway Home.”
Ted Mentry has played with and/or opened for Firefall, Boz Skaggs, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Shawn Phillips, Pat Travers, Chris Hillman, Y&T, Foghat, Winger, Carl Verheyen, Marshall Tucker, Wynona Judd and countless other “name” acts across the country and still has dates booked this summer with Patty Smyth and Brad Paisley.
Ted Mentry has Produced over 30 different projects including 10 albums of his own.
He now lives in Los Angeles, California with Helen Allison Hawkins and is the Tour Manager and guitar tech for Supertramp’s Carl Verheyen. He also owns and operates Tree Daddy Sound, the premier sound reinforcement company in the Los Angeles Metro area.
And if that isn’t enough, he also constantly gigs and records with national recording artist, Shannon Rae . Tree Daddy Music and Ted Mentry also sponsor the R&B outfit, True That! with dates to be announced for the summer of 2019 and beyond. Stay tuned!!
Struttin 5:00
Blues For Korina 3:56
Blues In E Minor 4:28
Cupid's Last Duet Blues Planet Project 2:22
Eurothrash 4:08
Ascending Blues 4:41
Life Goes On 3:06
Do Not Judge Blues Planet Project 9:06
MoMo's Blues 5:40
Night City 6:07
Is It You Blues Planet Project 5:59
OKINAWA TED MENTRY 5:00
Schoolin 2:19
Speechless 3:16
Sub Zero Blues 3:51
Prelude to Say Blues Planet Project 1:50
Teddy's Got the Blues Blues Planet Project 6:08
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ASL Interpretation for Vines Art Festival events
Video by Ladan Sahraei who is doing ASL interpretation, with information on two event dates that will include August 8th 2018, and August 18th 2018.
WEDNESDAY, AUG 8 | GRANVILLE ISLAND (1404 Anderson St)
Sen̓áḵw (Squamish) | sən̓áqʷ (Henqiminem)
with ASL Interpretation
Rafał Czachor – The Bench Project
1 – 4 PM
The bench project is an interactive and mobile experience. It seeks to make the familiar unfamiliar; to provide a safe space to feel and explore what it means to live on stolen land. One participant at a time will join me and my backpack bench as we walk around Granville Island. There is no route. No destination. This project is about listening to ourselves, our bodies, and learning from each other. By engaging with all our senses, silent walking, and pop-up conversations on the bench, we will enter into our bodies and notice where, and how, we are.
SUREANDO
1 – 1:45 PM
A latin band whose repertoire is made of Vernacula music (music that talks about costumes and traditions from the hispanic nations.) Norman Enrique G Villamizar (Percusion); Joaquin Ernesto Gonzalez Cardona (Guitarra/Voz)
All Bodies Dance – Sanctuary
All Bodies Dance explores how to hold and transform space in the body and how that transformation changes the distance between moving bodies and the moving body of city spaces. Harmanie and Rianne examine sanctuary in relationship to self, to one another, and to the people that inhabit public spaces.
Choreographed and performed by Harmanie Taylor and Rianne Svelnis
www.allbodiesdance.ca
An emotional and conscious, curated set of spoken-word poetry to challenge comfortable folks, comfort folks facing challenges, and encourage us all to consider our place in the world and what we can do about it. The works displayed here give evidence of humour and soft love, while showcasing the values of curiosity, nuance, and empathy.
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Poetry with Q is intimate, challenging and vulnerable. Expect to examine deeply-held assumptions about crip status, the ways in which aesthetics of beauty versus ugly fail us, and the liberation of those who sit down for our rights.Come bitter or curious, with love or judgment, come as you are, come open-hearted or tight-fisted. This is a space to be pushed and held. https://quineli.wixsite.com/qjusttheletter
I’d like to acknowledge the global disability community, and in particular Tai Trewhella as the creator of Cripple Punk, and the crip, disabled, & ill elders who’ve taken time to educate me on our history and ongoing resistance.
Tom Catyr Todd – Venus and Moon
3:30 – 4 PM
Venus and Moon is a play about two planets that explores our relationship to femininity throughout history and what it looks like today. The play centres on queer characters and queer experience through absurdism and intimacy.
ART INSTALLATIONS & WORKSHOP – WATER IS LIFE (1 – 4 PM)
We will be growing our art installations with you! Come join us and create your own sea creature to take home with you! Led by Marcey Amaya
Marta Robertson Smyth
Transforming Granville Island into a vivid depiction of Ocean Life with images supplied by Marta Robertson-Smyth. These images will be attached to the pipes on the periphery of the workshop area and will serve as an attraction to draw participants and to serve as inspiration and reference for people participating in the workshop.
Dalia Levy – Connective (T)issue
Inspired by women’s Arpilleras of Pinochet’s Chile, this knit/embroidery piece protests the Pacific garbage patch and extractive economies like bitumen on our coast. As the same criminal mentality of supremacy exhibited under a dictatorship disappears our earth and our humanity, the piece simultaneously highlights the powerful sources of life embedded into all of us. Representative of the underground connective channels that create the webs of mycellium our entire planetary eco-system grows from, the netting gives further conceptual insights of life woven into all DNA. With women’s traditional textile knowledge as a means to subvert and survive, the piece protests the plunder blanketing earth and the interwoven convergence of issues in an era of global crises.
Christian Vistan – Papag
A papag is a wooden bed, made with bamboo and other local materials, used to sit, sleep, eat, and gossip on in the Philippines. The papag’s quotidian use and construction is characteristic of life in rural towns. In Vines, Christian Vistan’s Papag is an infrastructure for sitting and togetherness. Harnessing its potential for conviviality and conversation, Papag hopes to function as a platform for local words, thoughts, and interactions to be generated, collected, and stored – Papag as a propositional publication.
SATURDAY, AUG 18 | TROUT LAKE PARK
Blue Cedar
Born in North Benin, Africa and chief’s son of the Waama people, this multi-instrumentalist singer- songwriter learned the art of storytelling and drumming from his family as they traveled the region sharing their cultural traditions. Now in Canada, Yoro is in great demand as a performer, having mastered the donga (talking drum), kokomba (congas), and djembe. On stage, both solo and with his band, he is a dynamic and mesmerizing performer, drawing you in to the sights, sounds, and rhythms of West Africa.
What influences the individual? What mobilizes a whole community? What does it take to generate change?
Using ensemble improvisation as a medium, “tipping point” is an exploration of how change happens in a system. Inspired by the urgency to create positive change in socio-economic and environmental contexts, this piece reflects on individual, group and community actions and reactions that push status quo to the edges of change, as well as, those who experience resistance. Moving through responses that are both temporary and permanent, subtle and obvious, change is a profound process that is inevitable.
Sonja Janousek (lead), Jocelyn Cameron (musician) Polymer Dancers (co-creators)
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Resilient Roots artist who has been mentored by Ronnie Dean Harris for creating a new piece for this year’s Vines Festival. Crystal Smith is Tsimshian, Haisla and has been adopted into the Heiltsuk nation. She is a single mother of two beautiful children and is raising them to be proud Tsimshian and Haisla beings. She writes to bring awareness to the devastation colonialism is having on Indigenous peoples but more importantly the resilience and power of Indigenous peoples to engage and uplift each other. She recently achieved her Masters in Educational Administration and Leadership with a focus on Indigenous leadership at UBC.
Serisa Fits James, Mutia Juristika, and Emily Glass
Three Artists from Vines inaugural youth program.
Ariel Martz-Oberlander – On Behalf of My Body
On behalf of my body explores living in the body after sexual trauma and touches on the intersectionality of sexual violence, ptsd and dissociation. What does it mean to be part of a diaspora – separated from the land, history and the self?
Creators: Ariel Martz-Oberlander and Sasha Duranseaud
IG: @arielbeforethemermaid and @sdurandseaud
Cree/Sioux Dancer and Musician Jessica McMann will be presenting a unique outdoor work that merges new compositions with traditional hoop dance. I invite you to come witness a dance that honours the beings that fly, walk, burrow, swim and rooted beings that are all part of this great circle of life. This piece is family friendly.
Heather Lamoureux – Welcome
I would like to dedicate my piece to the fire and water as well
www.uschitala.com
Resilient Roots artist who has been mentored by Rosemary Georgeson for creating a new piece for this year’s Vines Festival. Valeen Jules, also known as Kā’ ānni, is a determined young Indigenous warrior from the Nuu-chah-nulth and Kwakwaka’wakw Nations. A former foster kid, homeless youth and 1st-yr college dropout, she is now known as a political organizer, motivational speaker, youth outreach worker, spoken word artist, black snake killer and ”overeducated extremist” across Turtle Island. She released her first chapbook ʔiiḥmisicin July 2016 which has been used in the curriculum of a Humanities course at Emily Carr University.
@soulshinehealingmovement
Resilient Roots artist who has been mentored by Musician Edzi’u for creating a new piece for this year’s Vines Festival. jaye simpson is a Oji-Cree Anishinaabe Two Spirit warrior whose roots hail from the Sapotaweyak Cree Nation. jaye is a libra sun, sagittarius rising, scorpio moon but delusionally identifies as a scorpio since it’s all over their birth chart. jaye holds firm their rage about being a former youth in care, as well as a queer Indigenous person and weaves it into poetry and prose. jaye explores the magic, intimacy and vulnerability they encounter as a healing creature amongst other healing beings. you can find them being awfully cliché in cafes on Commercial Drive and East Vancouver, where they are in fact NOT writing screenplays, but sending important emails and trying to meet deliverables for several contracts. jaye held KPU’s Slamapalooza 2017 Champion and is now on Vancouver Slam Poetry’s Team 2018 heading to Guelph in the fall. they have competed across the country and have been nationally recognized, as well as published in Poetry is Dead’s issue Coven. jaye is a displaced Indigenous person living, creating and occupying on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-waututh), and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) First Nations territories.
Marisa Gold and Janelle Reid
We are moving in circles and breaking new ground – spiraling endlessly toward our greatest good – returning to ourselves to find deeper truths. Experience new perspectives and discover the infinite dimensions of self reflected in our environment and within those around us. Kindred spirits, one powerful unconditional love. Thank you to Heather and the Vines team
Instagram: @marathegold @janellereid46
Resilient Roots artist who has been mentored by Sandy Scofield for creating a new piece for this year’s Vines Festival. Jaz is an anti-professional, working as a street musician, slam poet and overall bad ass artist with a focus on decolonization and indigenous autonomy. they are a defender of the sacred and use their craft as a tool to decolonization and land sovereignty. they reside as a guest on unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-waututh), and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) First Nation peoples, otherwise and colonially known as Vancouver. they and their fire are from the Secwepemc nation of the south central interior.
Resilient Roots artist who has been mentored by Jonina Kirton for creating a new piece for this year’s Vines Festival. mitcholos aka Łapḥsp̓at̓unakʔi Łim̓aqsti, is a nuučan̓uɫ poet living on stolen Coast Salish Territory, of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh & səl̓ilwətaɁɬ first nations. as a guest for 3 years and running, they believe ʔuusaḥiniš tiič č̓aʔak, they believe hishukish tsawaak, and they believe in iisaak. and thusly, stand in solidarity with tsleil-watuuth first nations against kinder morgan pipeline. mitcholos was a Poet of Honor Rising Voice of Canadian Festival of Spoken Word 2017. and is now a Vancouver Poetry Slam team member representing vanslam for 2018-19.
Alex Taylor-McCallum
Resilient Roots artist who has been mentored by Nikki Ermineskin for creating a new piece for this year’s Vines Festival. My name is Dzi-Kis-A-Way’ee. My Colonial English name is Alex Taylor-McCallum. I am Kwakwaka’wakw (Mamtagila, Namgis, Musgamagw Dzawadeneaux) and Nuu-Cha-Nulth (Heshquait and Mowachat). I am a writer, artist, singer and aspiring filmmaker. I have been deeply impacted by working with my Late Uncle Beau Dick (Walusgwayum), for making short films and carrying on my traditions as a Bakwam / Indigenous person. I want to create work that will bring together our people from many cultures to create films around the different ways in which we are displaced, decolonization, solidarity and so much more.
Old Soul Rebel is the musical musings of Chelsea DE Johnson and Lola Whyte, a raw blend of soul and rock n roll.
http://oldsoulrebel.squarespace.com/@oldsoulrebelmusic
ROAMING AND INTERACTIVE:
New (to) Town Collective –Parade
12:30 – 1:30 PM
N(t)TC is an emerging theatre collective that is aspiring to provide accessible, experimental training workshops and creating new interdisciplinary works together. We are interested in collaborating and cross pollinating our practices and ideas with collaborators from across all artistic disciplines through our Training Jams. As a Collective, we bring together a unique blend of practices including: Grotowski, devising, clowning, visual arts, contemporary dance, playwriting, dramaturgy, directing and more!
Barbara Adler– Koiker
2:30 PM, 3:40 PM & 4:40 PM
Inspired equally by the history of Dutch duck hunting and Millennial Pink, Koiker rafts together three stories and a set of evocative objects in an intimate site-specific performance. A continuation of Decoy (2018), which introduced Lorne, his son Jason, and 70 antique duck decoys, Koiker delves further into themes of morality, intimacy and longing for the natural world. Created and performed by Barbara Adler. 15 minutes. Not suggested for very young children. Follow the pink ducks to find the show…
Thank you to Kyla Gardiner, James Meger and to Ten Thousand Wolves.
Lily Cryan – Sirens
3 – 3:30 PM & 5 – 5:30 PM
“Sirens” is a wandering flock of bird people, get too close and they just might bite. Get entranced by their gaze and you may find yourself surprised. Follow them for an intimate and unique look at the places we live.
Thank you: ArtStarts in Schools & Lea Sanchez Milde
Created in collaboration with the Performers: Tin Gamboa, Jenna Kraychy, Chris Reed, Madisen Steele, Katherine Vincent
Monica’s roving clown is interactive and improv based, emphasizing connection both with groups and individual members of the crowd. Both on stage or in an open public space, her clown pokes fun at taboo topics of social convention. Her body is flexible and versatile and her movements enhance her ability to take on an extraordinarily playful form. The infectiousness of her warm and whimsical nature open the spectator up to delight, abandoning the confines of rigid social roles, closing the gaps in humanity…bringing lightness.
Textile artists Anne Montgomery and Dawn Livera invite you to come and share in the creation of a Cast Off Crazy Quilt. In the same manner of traditional sewing bees, we encourage people to collect cast off items in the park and then hand stitch them onto a repurposed piece of fabric.
So called trash once had a purpose, although often a short-lived one. By creating an art quilt from what is essentially garbage, we hope to encourage waste reduction and recycling, and inspire people to see the beauty in what otherwise would be considered cast off items.
FB page https://www.facebook.com/AbieDesigns/.
Swallow has been an editor, writer and teacher for decades. Art is her favorite hobby. She enjoys all kinds of arts and crafts, practicing oil painting, making dream catchers, twisting balloon and doing face painting for kids and all kinds of festivals. What’s more she is good at Chinese teaching that she has been teaching a number of non-Chinese origin kids Chinese poems and singing. Her honest attitude with good personality and patience are highly welcome by kids. For the VINES festival she will do both face painting and balloon for you. She would be very happy to tutor on how to make them on the spot. Welcome ( 欢迎光临) to her table.
Imagination Station! Young and young at heart come to play with creativity!! Build a sculpture made of recycled/found materials and take it home.
INSTALLATIONS (ALL DAY)
Matthew Tomkinson –Big Clear Plastic Ear
Big Clear Plastic Ear (BCPE) is an interactive sound sculpture made of 100% post-consumer waste. Alongside the official City of Vancouver collection bins, the BCPE functions as a recycling container. At the bottom of the ear is a small speaker, which emits pre-recorded sound. As the container fills up throughout the day with litter, this sound becomes altered by public “contributions.” In another sense, however, it’s the space of the ear itself that is being altered – hence its “plasticity.” The BCPE is an overt statement on noise pollution, hearing loss, and our listening relationship to the environment. The piece was made in collaboration with Elissa Hanson.
Ben Wylie –Wind Chimes
A collection of hanging wind chimes made with materials gathered from the dumpsters, beaches, alleys, and parks around the city. Natural and manufactured detritus is suspended in the air and allowed to sound together, reflecting the disharmony between our human endeavors and the natural world. Viewers will be invited to interact with the installation and hear the different sounds produced by the collected materials.
www.benwyliemusic.com
Charlotte Priest –58 Oceans Project
Inspired by the #GoWildForSalmon and the #KMchallenge and the desire to connect more deeply with the ocean, artists Anna Kraulis and Charlotte Priest investigate how an individual challenge can connect us to larger environmental issues. Committing to going in the ocean for 29 consecutive days, they document a personal inquiry into their unique relationships to the life-giving Pacific Ocean that surrounds them, while drawing awareness to issues on the coast. The practice will be documented in photographs and words. A photo will be taken each day from the Strawberry Moon (June) to the Buck Moon (July), for a total of 58 photographs with poetic ruminations, turned into an engaging display.
Insta: @58oceansproject
Fb: 58 Oceans Project
we were inspired by: https://www.facebook.com/fishfarmsgetout/
Art is Land Network –Relic
Embark on a voyage of discovery .
Moored beside Trout Lake a woven skeletal vessel form of local willow branches awaits intervention.
Nicole Dextras, Fae Logie and Robin Ripley, three members of AILN (Art is land Network) continue the network’s tradition of working with natural and repurposed materials to engage with the landscape.
AILN will collaborate with the festivals participants to activate the landlocked “Relic”
https://artislandnetwork.com
A papag is a wooden bed, made with bamboo and other local materials, used to sit, sleep, eat, and gossip on in the Philippines. The papag’s quotidian use and construction is characteristic of life in rural towns. In Vines, Christian Vistan’s Papagis an infrastructure for sitting and togetherness. Harnessing its potential for conviviality and conversation, Papaghopes to function as a platform for local words, thoughts, and interactions to be generated, collected, and stored – Papagas a propositional publication
Leona Brown Salve Making Workshops
Beloved: Flower Crown Workshop at the Pandora Park Fieldhouse
Mural Magic in Pandora Park
Sign Up for Typing Pool with The Only Animal!
Paper Boat Workshop with Mildred Grace German
Kimit Sekhon Hosts Free Workshop!
Tarot Workshop!
2019 Art & Artist Lineup!
Resilient Roots in Lil’Wat and St’at’imc
Open Mic Night + BBQ
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Welcome to TERii
A PARIVAR
Technology Education and Research Integrated Institution, commonly known as TERii is one of the best Engineering/B.tech college and Management College, Polytechnic/Diploma college and a School in Kurukshetra, Haryana. Situated in the land of learning, Kurukshetra and is affiliated to Kurukshetra University, TERii loves to follow the culture of a Parivaar (Family).
At TERii, the relationship among the students and the faculty is no less than a family which makes the students comfortable enough to train themselves and climb the ladders of success.
ABOUT TERii
Technology Education and Research Integrated Institutions, commonly known as TERii was founded under the aegis of “GyanKund Trust To Educate and To Serve” in the year 2007. The trust has a clear motto “To Educate and To Serve”. TERii as an institution was established with a fortune mission of working for the development of the society by spreading education and delivering highly qualified engineers, entrepreneurs and managers to the society. TERii is amongest the top engineering/b.tech colleges in kurukshetra, Haryana. Situated at the Kaithal Road in Kurukshetra, TERii campus is spread in a lavishing 20+ acres of green land which symbolizes peace, prosperity and optimism. TERii offers several courses which include Engineering/B.tech in different streams, MBA, BBA, Polytechnic/Diploma. Terii stands distinguished among all Polytechnic colleges & Engineering colleges in Kurukshetra, Haryana because of its placements and quality of eductaion. The campus includes state of the art infrastructure, laboratories and workshops equipped with modern equipments, library, cafeteria, hostels and much more.
Every educational institution requires a set of standards and protocols which must be followed. The students also must have a look at the accreditations and recognitions of a college in order to determine whether a college meets or exceeds the minimum quality standards or not?
TERii has been recognized and accredited by a number of national as well as international associations. Some of these associations are:
Awarded as Engineering College of The Year 2019
AICTE: All India Council for Technical Education
Ministry of Human Resources and Development
NAAC A+ Kurukshetra University (Autonomous Status)
Remote Centre of IIT Bombay
Nodal Centre of Virtual Lab, IIT Delhi
Local Chapter of NPTEL, IIT Madras
Accredited by International Accreditation Organization (IAO), USA
Internships in 126 countries through AIESEC
Awarded for best Teaching Practices
For Query
TERii is amongst the top engineering/b.tech, management and polytechnic colleges especially in Kurukshetra, Haryana and India. Its campus is situated at the 9th Milestone, Kaithal Road in Kurukshetra. Spread within 20+ acres of land, TERii’s campus includes College for Engineering and Management students, Polytechnic college for Diploma courses, Senior Secondary Resident School and a Skill Development Centre. The campus even includes a Charitable Dispensary with a resident doctor taking care of the people living nearby.
TERii campus inculcates the best of the practical labs, classrooms facilitated with the state of the art infrastructure, library with books from all around the publishers of the world and much more. Separate hostels are available for boys and girls with wardens available all the time for the students. Transport facility is available for the students and faculty nearby. More than 20 buses have been deployed for the comfortability of the students and faculty.
TERii belives that “Education is imparted at its best when combined with Entertainment and Innovation; TERii organizes a lot of events and even take part in the events of other institutions and organization aiming for the overall development of our students.
The students at TERii are very much encouraged to take part in the internal as well as the external events happening in the country throughout the year. Students actively take part in the competitions and brought laurels to the institute.
The campus is famous for organizing events on large scale in which a number of schools and colleges from pan India take part. Some of these events celebrated in TERii are:
Utkarsh
Techsenze
Where knowledge is
constructed by doing
A concept is the best understood while practically doing. The students are encouraged to focus more on practical knowledge and spend more time in the labs and workshops! This enables the students to understand a concept rather than experimenting on the already established results. For the same reason TERii has been ranked among best engineering/b.tech & polytechnic colleges in kurukshetra, Haryana.
We focus on the following parameters for the overall development of our students:
Our Key Faculty
The foundation of any educational institution lies within the framework of the institution’s faculty. At TERii, we feel immense proud to have such intensified and talented faculty who have guided us throughout and let us feel proud!
DR. M.P. GUPTA
DR. SAGAR GULATI
I have visited TERii Exhibition today and found the display very educative as ‘Best Practices’ Sharing Model. Besides, the information being imparted through teachers is wonderful. My best wishes and gratitude for the excellent display.
Sumedha Kataria, IAS, DC Kurukshetra
The Convocation was well managed. Wish a very fast growth for TERii.
Dr. Alok Prakash Mittal, Member Secretary AICTE New Delhi
I visited TERii Family for their 12th Annual Day. Had overwhelming experience. Amazing ambience, highly disciplined students & caring management. God Bless this temple of education!
Prof. (Dr.) M.P. Poonia, Vice-Chairman, AICTE
Every visit to TERii gives me a new insight to the hidden potential of this incredible institute. Each visit is an eye opener. The commitment of faculty is beyond words.
Vimal S. Mehta, Film Maker, Photographer and President FIPA
I felt very good after coming here. I can feel the energy of this Pollution-free, lush-green campus.
Anju Jain, Acclaimed Hindi Poet
It was a wonderful experience being among TERii members and students. The recognition by NASA of this institute is commendable. Feeling honoured to be a part of TERii Talks.
Shivani Gupta, UPSC 2017 – AIR 121
It was heartening to deliver Parvachan on Gita in TERII for highly disciplined and curious students. The concept of a ‘Family’ in an Educational Campus is a concept of its kind which should be precedent for other institutes
Geeta Manishi Mahamandleshwar Swami Gyananand Ji
The best part I could excellent discipline among the students. All the best.
Ramesh Aggarwal, Chairman, Agarwal Packers and Movers
It is the first Convocation, so abundance of congratulations.
Prof. Ganeshi Lal, His Excellency, the Governor of Odisha
12 Jan: Celebrating 14 years of success- TERii 14th Foundation Day
Celebrating 14 years of success- TERii 14th Foundation Day Opportunities- they just don’t happen on their own, rather you create…
27 Oct: Diwali – Hindu festival of lights at TERii Campus
Diwali – Hindu festival of lights at TERii Campus – Diwali or Deepawali is the Hindu festival of lights, typically…
20 Oct: 35th National Convention of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers Jointly hosted in association with Institute of Engineers (India), Haryana State Centre
35th National Convention of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers Jointly hosted in association with Institute of Engineers (India), Haryana State Centre…
06 Sep: JOINT CAMPUS DRIVE in association with HUGHES SYSTIQUE PVT LTD
JOINT CAMPUS DRIVE in association with HUGHES SYSTIQUE PVT LTD A joint campus placement drive was organised by TERii for…
Grievance Form TERii
Where Knowledge is Constructed by Doing
Q.1 In which year TERii was established ?
TERii, pollution free huge beautiful Campus spread in 20 Acres was established in 2007 by professionally qualified and experienced trustees.
Q.2 Which courses are offered in TERii Campus?
TERii Campus offers B.Tech programme in CSE(Computer Science Engineering), EEE(Electrical & Electronics Engineering), Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering; Diploma in Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering, BBA, MBA and a CBSE affiliated, co-educational school from Pre-Nursery to 12th standard.
Q.3 Are the courses approved ?
Yes, BTech, MBA, BBA, and Polytechnic courses are approved by AICTE, School is approved by CBSE.
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It’s an amazing college with a lush green and secure campus, good placements and good infrastructure. The faculty in the college is good and the hostels are well furnished. The teaching staff is very helpful and give guidance to the students.
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davejonesears
Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
So when we go to the polls once again the question asked of you will be.
Do you want a strong and stable leader like Jeremy Corbyn.
A coalition of chaos featuring the Tories and DUP.
That's the message which sweeps Jeremy into Downing Street.
yep - you can fool all of the people some of the time.
Location: WV4 and WL4
I think Deano should stand, ard vote fer im
Thank you very much for Stevie Bull. Thank you very much, thank you very, very, very much.
gladbachwolf
Location: Swindon, Wiltshire
I am going to use my retirement as an Independent politician, without the two party shite etc.
I will call my party the Gladbach Independent Members Party..
Somehow though G.I.M.P does not sit well for some reason..
Vote GIMP.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.
gladbachwolf wrote:
I will vote GIMP, providing you wear an all-in-one leather number, with the arse missing.
Embers wrote:
You had to spoil it didn't you Embers...there was me trying to introduce a new political party and the topic gets side stepped into murky sexual undertones...
I only do it for Moscow's benefit
I will vote GIMP, providing you wear an all-in-one leather number, with the arse missing.[/quote]
You had to spoil it didn't you Embers...there was me trying to introduce a new political party and the topic gets side stepped into murky sexual undertones... [/quote]
I only do it for Moscow's benefit [/quote]
Got out of jail..free...
But faced with the now realistic prospect of Corbyn as PM, the Tories who abandoned May will flock back: the Tories are only 9 seats short of a majority, Labour a whopping 64.
Of course, May will not be allowed to lead another election in any case.
Jezza profited from being up against the worst campaign from any incumbent in living history. And even with that, he is 64 seats short of the target.
There is no way the Tories would repeat the same cock-ups again. Their next manifesto will be one long love letter to the elderly and a spoonful of sugary tax cuts all round (even if they never implement these).
Another election so soon most likely means a Tory majority, with the second outcome being another hung parliament. Labour needs to take the long-term view, let the Tories hang themselves with this shambles term in office, wobbly leader, in fighting, Brexit will be an utter mess and lead at least in the short term to financial stagnation (at best)/utter downturn at worst.
Labour can watch from the sidelines - not our mess. Get proper people back on board and in the critical positions (no Diane Abbott home secretary ffs), and take power in 2021/2.
I think your badly misjudging where the Labour party goes from this point, which is a reflection of the old media viewpoint.
Labour are up to 45% and growing, gaining a higher voice through all forms of media.
Just on a couple of topics.
Scotland.
Scotland will flock back to Labour because they can now see a probable change in the UK government, and they like Corbyn, he speaks their language.
What you had in Scotland was the SNP beaten by timing.
They had mapped out a strategy based on the outcome of the Brexit negotiations. Tories trumped them on that.
Corbyn can replace Dugdale in Scotland who was actively asking voters to vote Conservative to avoid a second referendum.
Ruth Davidson is weak, gets flustered under pressure and wont be a threat to a resurgent Labour.
Back to England, the Blairites who hold the purse strings badly underfunded all the marginals on purpose hoping to be rid of Corbyn post election.
They wanted their little darling Yvonne Cooper installed.
Corbyns new strength will see Cooper join his ranks and major funding given to these marginals.
The other factor is there are people within the UK who just like to side with the winner, and thats Corbyn in more and more minds.
Deano's Golden Boots
Location: Wolverhampton
Good Lord. Theresa May's "reshuffle" of her cabinet has been designed to "reach out" to her MPs. I don't know who is advising her now, perhaps it's the Downing Street cat. I would have thought she should be reaching out to the electorate first and foremost; the ones she patently ignored in her clueless manifesto and subsequent presidential-style campaign.
Just do what Corbyn did - promise everybody the earth. Trouble is though she is in government and is being held to account. Old Jezza ain't gotta deliver shag all. Easy when you ain't responsible ain't it. Bring back the racist old bindt Abbott to even things up again.
My son - Wolves through and through. The best part of my life is going to the match with him.
Nothing to do with old/new media. It's an acknowledgement that Britain is inherently a conservative country, and has a hefty population of over 50s.
This time, thinking themselves infallible, the Tory manifesto opted to dump on its core voters because, well, they always vote Tory anyway.
Next time it will be totally different. Theresa May will never lead another election campaign, there will be no more robotic strong and stable guff, whoever it is that leads the campaign.
Their manifesto will follow Corbyn's model of promising the earth to make sure they kill him off once and for all (no opposition leader has failed to take power in two consequent elections and still remained).
Also Labour will come under far greater scrutiny - not meaning more lazy personal attacks on Corbyn - but a greater examination of their sums, which frankly rely on wildly optimistic tax revenue increases.
That is why Labour are better placed playing a longer game and letting the Tories totally hang themselves, but that needs several more years of thrashing around with the issues facing them, rather than entering into another election in 6 months. In 6 months, the goalposts will not have changed significantly enough for Corbyn to take 64 more seats - this is the phony Brexit phase still.
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A sound post. The personal attacks on Corbyn will/should never end. Put yourself forward for the pedestal and that's what you get in a democracy. With him even more important to peel back the shell as what lirs beneath is not pleasant.
We as a country are stuck with May for longer than some may think. Even her biggest detractors know they need time to go forward with Brexit and expose the popularist Labour policies for what they are. Another PM would signal and perhaps quite rightly calls for anothet election sooner rather than later. As understandable as those calls may be, it would be a disaster for this country at rhis moment in tine.
The last election had it's victories for May no matter what the left will tell you. Scottish referendums ? Buried. Victory over Corbyn by an incompetent PM standing on unpopular policies achieved. Wait a while, slowly replace May with a popular and decisive figurehead, expose the Marxist math and then see what happens. Jeez she is an arrogant cold wonan and she STILL WON..
By the way. The DUP were called and still are in many circles by their founding name The Conservative Democratic Unionists. ....... They were formed on high church values epitomised by the Rev Ian Paisley. Laterly a partner in peace, who actially worked with PIRA to achieve it. The leader of the Lib Dems claims similar Christian values. His criticism of the DUPs stance on gay rights is hypocritical in the extreme; but still not quite as bad as JC who would be chased out of any meeting chaired by Ulstermen who have long memories.
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This time, thinking themselves infallible, the Tory manifesto opted to dump on its core voters because, well, they always vote for us anyway.
Next time it will be totally different. Theresa May will never lead another election campaign, there will be no more robotic strong and stable guff, whoever it is.
Their manifesto will follow Corbyn's model of promising the earth to make sure they kill him off once (no opposition leader has failed to take power in 2 consequent elections and still remained).
Also Labour will come under far greater scrutiny - not meaning more lazy personal attacks on Corbyn - but a greater examination of their sums, which frankly really on wildly optimistic tax revenue increases.
That is why Labour are better placed playing a longer game and letting the Tories totally hang themselves, but that needs several more years of thrashing around with the issues facing them, than holding an election in 6 months. In 6 months, the goalposts will not changed significantly enough for Corbyn to take 64 more seats - this is the phony Brexit phase still.[/quote]
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According to @LordAshcroft poll 35-44s voted LAB 50%-CON 30%. That’s not kids, thats mortgages, car owning, kids at school, mid-career.
Picking through the bones of the Election, I noted these points :
Corbyn and his policy promises got through to the young and middle aged.
The UKIP vote, redundant since Brexit , went mostly to Labour and not the Tories, as had been anticipated.
The Tories had no manifesto or plan, they just expected to turn up and win with just nasty paper headlines denigrating Corbyn, the voters saw through that.
The Young, disenfranchised by the shock of the Brexit vote, realised that only by turning up and voting, can you help to change things for you and your generation. Record numbers of young people voted in this election, very noteworthy.
SNP, have become fatally wounded and there will not be a second Scottish Referendum.
Social Media had a tremendous influence in this election, more than ever before, it is not to be underestimated.
The collapse of the UKIP vote led to both the Tories and Labour getting a bigger share of the votes..May got more than Thatcher's last go and Corbyn got more than Blair's last election..
Overall a very interesting and surprising Election..things seem to have changed forever after this one. We will see what happens in the next few months and hope that the country does not overly suffer but I have my doubts.
After such an awful Conservative manifesto and failed campaign I am pleasantly surprised Labour didn't romp home with enough seats to form a government. I can't imagine them being allowed to get as close again. People are fed up with austerity (a result of the country being left bankrupt by the Labour shower in 2010) and the Conservatives have got to reach out and offer all walks of life some hope. If they don't they won't survive.They will never get away with clobbering the old or not offering the young a positive future. It is not enough for a wooden prime minister to say "trust me" and offer no details as to why people should. Put some meat on the bones and put it out there for people to see.
All Ashcroft's polls are purely politically motivated and hence usually way off the reality.
That same age group would be very concerned at the possibility of losing those houses they are currently paying for as a result of the "dementia tax" when they grow older. They would also have been unhappy with the prospect of losing the triple lock on the pensions they are saving for. The Tories surely will not make the same mistakes next time round.
Owd Theresa has apparently played a blinder at the 1922 Committee meeting. The air seems out of any immediate leadership challenge.
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Spot on. Also, today's 20-year-olds are likely to have to wait until they are 75 until they can retire or pick up a state pension. Under Labour's fiscal policy they would probably have no jobs but, if they did have, would never be able to afford to retire.
Just looking at the Tory cabinet reshuffle and thinking who could then possibly step up to a short list of possible leader.
Damian Green and David Lidington seem capable and creditable options, while I'm also surprised Dominic Raab hasn't been given higher opportunities.
One I know very little about Gavin Williamson, whats the inside track on him?
Why no Dominic Raab, hmm
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-12296269
What surprised me during the previous decade when Blair was in power is that he didn't oversee a change.balance to the political presenter.
The Tories have a monopoly within the BBC as an example with Laura Kuenssberg, Nick Robinson and Andrew Marr hardly bovering to cover up their bias.
While Jo Coburn, well what can you say.
If they wish to stay relevant especially with the younger voter do they need to strike a balance?
Britain: The End of a Fantasy
To understand the sensational outcome of the British election, one must ask a basic question. What happens when phony populism collides with the real thing?
Last year’s triumph for Brexit has often been paired with the rise of Donald Trump as evidence of a populist surge. But most of those joining in with the ecstasies of English nationalist self-assertion were imposters. Brexit is an elite project dressed up in rough attire. When its Oxbridge-educated champions coined the appealing slogan “Take back control,” they cleverly neglected to add that they really meant control by and for the elite. The problem is that, as the elections showed, too many voters thought the control should belong to themselves.
Theresa May is a classic phony Brexiter. She didn’t support it in last year’s referendum and there is no reason to think that, in private, she has ever changed her mind. But she saw that the path to power led toward the cliff edge, from which Britain will take its leap into an unknown future entirely outside the European Union. Her strategy was one of appeasement—of the nationalist zealots in her own party, of the voters who had backed the hard-right UK Independence Party (UKIP), and of the hysterically jingoistic Tory press, especially The Daily Mail.
The actual result of the referendum last year was narrow and ambiguous. Fifty-two percent of voters backed Brexit but we know that many of them did so because they were reassured by Boris Johnson’s promise that, when it came to Europe, Britain could “have its cake and eat it.” It could both leave the EU and continue to enjoy all the benefits of membership. Britons could still trade freely with the EU and would be free to live, work, and study in any EU country just as before. This is, of course, a childish fantasy, and it is unlikely that Johnson himself really believed a word of it. It was just part of the game, a smart line that might win a debate at the Oxford Union.
But what do you do when your crowd-pleasing applause lines have to become public policy? The twenty-seven remaining member states of the EU have to try to extract a rational outcome from an essentially irrational process. They have to ask the simple question: What do you Brits actually want? And the answer is that the Brits want what they can’t possibly have. They want everything to change and everything to go as before. They want an end to immigration—except for all the immigrants they need to run their economy and health service. They want it to be 1900, when Britain was a superpower and didn’t have to make messy compromises with foreigners.
To take power, May had to pretend that she, too, dreams these impossible dreams. And that led her to embrace a phony populism in which the narrow and ambiguous majority who voted for Brexit under false pretences are be reimagined as “the people.”
This is not conservatism—it is pure Rousseau. The popular will had been established on that sacred referendum day. And it must not be defied or questioned. Hence, Theresa May’s allies in The Daily Mail using the language of the French revolutionary terror, characterizing recalcitrant judges and parliamentarians as “enemies of the people” and “saboteurs.”
This is why May called an election. Her decision to do so—when she had a working majority in parliament—has been seen by some as pure vanity. But it was the inevitable result of the volkish rhetoric she had adopted. A working majority was not enough—the unified people must have a unified parliament and a single, uncontested leader: one people, one parliament, one Queen Theresa to stand on the cliffs of Dover and shake her spear of sovereignty at the damn continentals.
And the funny thing is that this seemed possible. As recently as late April, with the Labour Party in disarray and its leftist leader Jeremy Corbyn deemed unelectable, the polls were putting the Tories twenty points ahead and telling May that her coronation was inevitable. All she had to do was repeat the words “strong and stable” over and over and Labour would be crushed forever. The opposition would be reduced to a token smattering of old socialist cranks and self-evidently traitorous Scots. Britain would become in effect a one-party Tory state. An overawed Europe would bow before this display of British staunchness and concede a Brexit deal in which supplies of cake would be infinitely renewed.
There were three problems. Firstly, May demanded her enormous majority so that she could ride out into the Brexit battle without having to worry about mutterings in the ranks behind her. But she has no clue what the battle is supposed to be for. Because May doesn’t actually believe in Brexit, she’s improvising a way forward very roughly sketched out by other people. She’s a terrible actor mouthing a script in which there is no plot and no credible ending that is not an anti-climax. Brexit is a back-of-the-envelope proposition. Strip away the post-imperial make-believe and the Little England nostalgia, and there’s almost nothing there, no clear sense of how a middling European country with little native industry can hope to thrive by cutting itself off from its biggest trading partner and most important political alliance.
May demanded a mandate to negotiate—but negotiate what exactly? She literally could not say. All she could articulate were two slogans: “Brexit means Brexit” and “No deal is better than a bad deal.” The first collapses ideology into tautology. The second is a patent absurdity: with “no deal” there is no trade, the planes won’t fly and all the supply chains snap. To win an election, you need a convincing narrative but May herself doesn’t know what the Brexit story is.
Secondly, if you’re going to try the uno duce, una voce trick, you need a charismatic leader with a strong voice. The Tories tried to build a personality cult around a woman who doesn’t have much of a personality. May is a common or garden Home Counties conservative politician. Her stock in trade is prudence, caution, and stubbornness. The vicar’s daughter was woefully miscast as the Robespierre of the Brexit revolution, the embodiment of the British popular will sending saboteurs to the guillotine. She is awkward, wooden, and, as it turned out, prone to panic and indecision under pressure.
But to be fair to May, her wavering embodied a much deeper set of contradictions. Those words she repeated so robotically, “strong and stable,” would ring just as hollow in the mouth of any other Conservative politician. This is a party that has plunged its country into an existential crisis because it was too weak to stand up to a minority of nationalist zealots and tabloid press barons. It is as strong as a jellyfish and as stable as a flea.
Thirdly, the idea of a single British people united by the Brexit vote is ludicrous. Not only do Scotland, Northern Ireland, and London have large anti-Brexit majorities, but many of those who did vote for Brexit are deeply unhappy about the effects of the Conservative government’s austerity policies on healthcare, education, and other public services. (One of these services is policing, and May’s direct responsibility for a reduction in police numbers neutralized any potential swing toward the Conservatives as a result of the terrorist attacks in Manchester and London.)
This unrest found a voice in Corbyn’s unabashedly left-wing Labour manifesto, with its clear promises to end austerity and fund better public services by taxing corporations and the very wealthy. May’s appeal to “the people” as a mystic entity came up against Corbyn’s appeal to real people in their daily lives, longing not for a date with national destiny but for a good school, a functioning National Health Service, and decent public transport. Phony populism came up against a more genuine brand of anti-establishment radicalism that convinced the young and the marginalized that they had something to come out and vote for.
In electoral terms, of course, the two forces have pretty much canceled each other out. May will form a government with the support of the Protestant fundamentalist Democratic Unionist Party from Northern Ireland. That government will be weak and unstable and it will have no real authority to negotiate a potentially momentous agreement with the European Union. Brexit is thus far from being a done deal: it can’t be done without a reliable partner for the EU to negotiate with. There isn’t one now and there may not be one for quite some time—at least until after another election, but quite probably not even then. The reliance on a spurious notion of the “popular will” has left Britain with no clear notion of who “the people” are and what they really want.
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/06/10 ... a-fantasy/
A very interesting piece that. Food for thought.
Gavin Williamson = Strong & Stable.
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Conservative Unionist Negotiating Team/s.
Rather unfortunate......spotty frog/S.
Yeah. It was Shrops I think who spotted that a few days ago.
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What concerns me is why so many couldn't see this scenario about Brexit before the referendum. It was blatantly obvious, so those who are now moaning who voted for it have only themselves to blame.
As I said many times before the vote, Brexit was like jumping out of a plane without a parachute. I've had my ear burned a fair few Brexiteers both before and after the referendum but they've shut their gobs of late as they've come to understand the reality of the current situation.
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Laying Down the (Keith) Law on Bowden
July 30, 2007 Charlie Management 3 comments
So they went ahead and did it, they singed Dmitri Young to an extension. It seems foolish to do this right now, the trade deadline hasn’t even ended, and yet they have given up on getting young talent for this veteran. What’s upsetting to me that they didn’t get ANYTHING for him, and they won’t be selling a guy who is clearly as hot as he is going to get.
Keith Law of ESPN.com, former Toronto Blue Jays scout and Baseball Prospectus writer has some very harsh words about the Young (and Belliard) signing. Basically, he says that this team shouldn’t be getting older it should be getting younger, that these players are worthless and that the Nats are overpaying. I figured rather than just giving you an assessment of what happened, I’d dissect his professional analysis of the situation and explain that it’s not as bad as he thinks, although it’s not that great, either. Here are some of my favorite quotes, along with summaries (by me):
“Young and Belliard were nice pickups, but both are in their 30s and both are having obvious peak seasons; Young’s on pace to set a career high in OBP and post his second-best slugging percentage. Bowden fell in love with these guys, and it’s going to burn his team.”
(they are never hitting this well again)
“Defense matters. Belliard is a below-average second baseman with a bad body. Young is a horrific defensive first baseman with a terrible body. The idea that the Nationals are going to put Young in left field next year if and when Nick Johnson is healthy enough to play first is an insult to the game of baseball. Their nice offensive numbers aside — and really, Belliard isn’t having that great of a season — their defense negates a lot of that offensive production.”
(they are not good at catching baseballs)
“Age matters. Those bad bodies on younger players wouldn’t be such a concern, but Young will turn 34 in October while Belliard will turn 33 right after Opening Day in 2008. Signing unathletic players to multi-year deals into their mid-30s is a terrible operating philosophy.”
(they may soon be dead)
He also talks about the other mistakes Bowden has made, including signing Guzman, Johnson, and Schneider to multi-year deals. I can’t argue with him that Bowden has yet to prove himself with this team, and has signed too many old players for too long of a time. But I really think Keith is being a bit harsh on the results of these deals.
What the Nats DID do
They got two players who can hit better than most of the rest of the team. At this point, the offense is atrocious, and nobody seems to be promising to live up to their potential. Sure Zimmerman is good and young and will hopefully get better, but counting on offense from Church, Lopez, and Kearns has SO FAR proven unwise. That will hopefully change, but who knows. Young and Belliard do improve the offense, and even though it may not be as much next year as it was in the past. In terms of defense, Law is correct, neither of these overweight 30+ year olds are great with the glove. I think his assessment of Young is pretty good, but Belliard isn’t quite that bad. Additionally, in terms of Belliard being the starting 2B, that’s probably only happening if people get hurt next season, like this year, so try not to panic too much. Belliard will probably start a few games a week and be a top player off the bench, which isn’t a bad role for him at all. Also, Law does not factor in at all what affect these players have on the Nationals clubhouse. While I cannot vouch for it, there is alot of talk that both players have been phenomenal in the clubhouse, working very well with the young players these team is filled with. And remember, these 2 players don’t make this team old, it just brings the average age up to around legal drinking age. Finally, I have a disagreement major disagreement with Law’s assessment. He falsely alludes to the fact that these players have tied Washington’s purse strings, as if this has decided what their 2008/9 starting lineup will be, and this isn’t necessarily true. It raises the payroll from the low $30 m range to the high $30 m range, and this team can really afford twice that. They aren’t going to come up short on free agent bids because of these signings, these players aren’t going to block young talent from being discovered, and they aren’t going to decompose out on the field, so in that regards, it’s really not as bad as Law claims.
What the Nats DIDN’T do
What they missed out on with these signings, and what Law doesn’t really talk about, is what hurts the most. Regardless of what level of talent the Nationals could have gotten in a trade, they could have gotten something, especially with how well Young is hitting. Anything would have been better if they had made a trade, because they most likely could have signed deals with both of these players in the offseason. Young might have been a bit more difficult to sign next season, as AL teams may have pictured him in a DH-type role, but it isn’t even that likely. So basically they passed on what may have been their best scenario, assuming you believe both of these players should stay, which is getting young talent and then getting these players next season. Also, since the Nats are going to have money, they certainly could have afforded to compete with other teams for at least one of these players in November, while stealing a minor leaguer in a trade right now. That is where the fans should really throw up their hands, that is where management truly screwed up, that is where the Nats missed out on doing something great for the team.
Finally Law says this:
“Someone in the upper management of the Nationals needs to wake up and take the steering wheel back from Bowden, whose contract is up after this year but isn’t hesitating to make commitments through 2009. This franchise needs to concentrate on getting younger, not older, and on staying flexible, not committing money to mediocre players who are having fluke years.”
That, I agree with a bit more. Not the flexibility or money part, as I mentioned, the combined salaries of Belliard and Young should matter little to this team. Hell, they could probably go out and sign 6 more guys at $5 m a year and still be in the black. But other than the Kearns/Lopez/Wagner trade (and maybe give him credit for allowing Belliard and Young to come to spring training?) Bowden has done little of note, and the Nationals have depending solely on their farm system for help. He hasn’t done enough to make the team younger and if he doesn’t do something soon, there is no reason to sign him any longer. They could go with a fresh face who has little experience but strong credentials or a more experienced former GM who has a track record of success, but Bowden really doesn’t fit in either of these categories. He has been uninspiring as a GM, and maybe they need some look towards someone new.
A final note
I’m really sick of hearing how injury-riddled Nick Johnson has been. In this article, Law acknowledges that the Johnson deal was so-so because he can hit but “he has a long history of injuries and couldn’t even finish the first season of his three-year deal without sustaining a major injury, one that has cost him the entire 2007 season to date.” That kind of throwaway line is irresponsible reporting at best. Everyone who looks at Nick and thinks “he’s hurt all the time, so missing ’07 isn’t surprising” has no clue what they are talking about. That collision with Kearns was NOT a fragile player tweaking his weak knee. That was a freak occurrence that nobody could have predicted. GMs may have predicted a risk of injury, but nobody predicted that kind of terrible collision. I remember, and there was no Aaron Rowand-type discussion about how Nick plays so hard so he may shatter his leg. I don’t buy it. He showed in ’05 and ’06 he can play 120+ games a year, and when he’s back, I am willing to bet that a hammy or a knee isn’t going to flare up and keep him out half a season.
3 thoughts on “Laying Down the (Keith) Law on Bowden”
Dave July 30, 2007 at 4:00 pm - Reply
Nick Johnson is never coming back.
bdrube July 31, 2007 at 12:23 am - Reply
I disagree that Bowden has been unispiring as a GM. MLB left him virtually nothing to work with in 2005. The minor leagues were utterly bereft of talent and the active roster wasn’t much better.
Bowden deserves credit for picking up many useful players off the scrap heap (Dmitri, Belliard, Bowie, Colome, Redding, Bacsik, Carrasco the first time), drafting well (Zimmerman, Lannon, Marrero) and snagging Flores from the Mets in Rule 5. Without a canny GM, the Nats would probably now be staring at a 3rd straight 100 loss season.
Have all his moves worked? Of course not, but who among those he has shipped out of town would you really want back (other than maybe Brendan Harris, who the Reds whiffed on too)?
cfliegel July 31, 2007 at 12:38 am - Reply
One thing I didn’t give Bowden credit for is the good drafts that the Nationals have had in the last few years, but that is because I don’t know how much credit should go to him and not others in the organization. But he certainly deserves some, and it should be noted that this team did have the worst farm system in baseball a year ago and now has some legitimate prospects.
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The Joker and the Thief
By Slade Ham
In 2005 I got a phone call to come to Shreveport and kill a dragon.Dragon slaying is a metaphor I adopted long ago – the origins of which are probably best saved for another story.Still, this was a mission.My friend Rachel ran the comedy club there at the time and thought I should come in for a particular weekend to “help her solve a problem”.She had called me more than a few times about it, actually, but that was all the information she would give me.
“So, can you do that week?” she asked me.
It didn’t make sense for her to be so determined about a specific date.I was already scheduled to be there in a few months as it was. “Why are you so insistent about this?” I asked.
She paused.“I need you to feature for Dustin Diamond,” she finally said.
Dustin is best known as the child actor that played Screech on Saved by the Bell, and by best known, I mean only known.“He’s going to be here that week and he’s horrible.I need him to sell the tickets and then I need you to make the people not sorry that they bought them.”It was sort of flattering I suppose.“He’s going to suck, and maybe if you’re funny in front of him people won’t feel so ripped off.”
Before this begins to look like I am blowing my own little air horn as a comedian, you need to understand this:Screech is the worst comedian you’ve ever seen.Ever.Take bad comedy, cube it, and then double that.The Holocaust was funnier.What compounded the problem was that, aside from being a brutally bad performer, Dustin was also known for being a notorious joke thief.In the world of stand up, originality is everything.It’s the sacred code.Take nothing, from anyone.Our jokes are our children. That little fact automatically made him my enemy.
Still, Shreveport was my backyard.Screech may be a headache to deal with, I told myself, but my shows will be good.“I guess I’ll see you in two weeks then,” I told Rachel.
I arrived at the club for the first show of the week to find Dustin secluded in a corner.I walked over to say hello while he proceeded to ignore me and play with his cell phone.“Look, bro,” he said dismissively. “I’m not your friend, I’m not going to be your friend.Sorry.My wife Jennifer handles everything.Go talk to her.”
“What do you mean, talk to your wife?I didn’t even want to talk to you.I was trying to be polite,” I said, and then walked off.We were working Wednesday through Sunday, so I had five days worth of this to look forward to.Apparently though, I was going to get to talk to his wife whether I wanted to or not.
For anyone that recalls Dustin’s character from the early 90’s, anyone that remembers seeing the nerdy little kid with the hiked up pants and the goofy grin, anyone that ever thought to themselves, “That poor boy will never grow up and marry a hot chick” – you were all correct.
Her name was Jennifer. I feel a bit bad passing judgment, but she was hideous.She was built like the bottom half of an hour glass and her face was all mashed up, like she did a 100 yard dash in a gym that wasn’t quite 100 yards long.And her personality made her even uglier.
She wasted no time in explaining to me exactly how things were going to be, and she spoke every word with the saliva-filled lisp of a cartoon elephant.
“So what kind of material do you do?” she spit.
“Umm, I tell jokes.”I wasn’t sure what she was getting at.
“What kind of jokes?”
“The kind that make people laugh.”
“Like what?” she pressed.
“Like, I start with a set up, and then once I’ve put that out there, I generally toss in a punch line of some sort,” I said.“I have no idea what you’re asking me.”
“Well, here’s the thing,” she explained with the most elitist smirk a human being could possibly ever wear on their face.“Other comics have a tendency to watch Dustin’s act on the first night and then go up and do his jokes in front of him the rest of the week, and I hate to have those people fired.”
Guinness shot out of my nose. Did she just – ?No.There’s no way.“Wait a second,” I said.“Are you… insinuating that I might steal one of HIS jokes?”
“It happens,” she hissed.
The hypocrisy was almost obtrusive.Her calling me joke thief on Screech’s behalf was somewhat akin to Richard Simmons calling someone a cocksucker.It was a black fly in your chardonnay or some other Alanis Morissette lyric.It was the pot and the kettle and the dish and the spoon all packaged into one nice neat little fruit rollup of irony, and it kind of pissed me off.Technically it wasn’t an accusation yet as nothing had really happened, but it was a great indicator that a storm was probably on the horizon.
The first show went as expected.I did a half-hour in front of him, and then about a third of the way through his set, people started walking out.“You are so much funnier than him!” they would say as they filed past me.
In all honesty, I hardly knew anything about comedy five years ago.I was okay, but nothing more.I wasn’t that good; he was just that bad.To put it in perspective, if you went to a nice restaurant and they brought you a ham sandwich out as an appetizer, you might not be too impressed.But, if they brought out your entrée and it was a big Bucket of Shit, then you would probably check to see if they could bring you another one of those suddenly delicious sandwiches.That’s what happened with us.
When I walked off stage the second night, Rachel met me in the Green Room.“You’re not going to believe this,” she said.She gave me a look that indicated that she knew I might overreact to whatever she was about to tell me. “Are you ready?” she asked, and then took a deep breath.
“What was wrong with that?” I asked.“I did okay, right?”
“Jennifer said you did one of Screech’s jokes and they want me to fire you.”
I laughed at what had to be a joke. “Shut up.”
“I’m serious,” she replied.“Don’t worry, you’re finishing the week obviously.I just wanted you to know.”People continued to leave in droves as we talked.
On Friday night we were scheduled for two performances.Jennifer lumbered toward me before the first show with a hateful look on her face.“So you’re still here?” she asked.I just smiled.“That’s okay.You won’t be by the end of the night,” she said, and waddled off.
For the third time that week, I finished my set and hung out in the lobby for the inevitable exodus of audience members.The people fled the disaster, this time going so far as to try to warn the crowd waiting for the second show as they left.Dustin stormed to the back room after his failed set.
I could hear the conversation growing heated in the office as the staff began seating the second crowd.I walked in intending to watch from the perimeter, and instead found myself at the center of the argument.“Fire him or we’re leaving,” Jennifer slurred as she pointed at me.She sounded like she had a wet dishtowel in her mouth.
“He hasn’t done anything wrong,” Rachel said, defending me.
“He’s doing Dustin’s jokes,” Jennifer fired back.
“Dustin’s not even doing Dustin’s jokes!” I interjected.I couldn’t keep quiet anymore. “He’s doing Keith Alberstadt and Kinison and… do you want me to keep going?”
“Look,” Rachel said.“Nobody is getting fired.He’s not stealing any jokes, believe me.We’ll just have to work this out some other way.”
“Then we’re done here,” Jennifer said.“C’mon Dustin.”And with that, Screech stood up and followed her out the door like a puppy.She literally took his balls and went home.He left 250 fans of his sitting in the showroom ten minutes before show time, people who had chosen to spend both their night and their money to see him perform.It was a horrible thing to do, especially considering that there were no other comedians in Shreveport to cover his time.
“Oh my God,” Rachel said, stunned.“They really left.What are we going to do?”
“Start the show I guess?I’ll do as much time as I can. Don’t worry.It’ll be fine,” I said as reassuringly as I could.“And hey.Thanks for sticking up for me.”
We started the show on time.The only other act on the bill was the Master of Ceremonies, a hip-hop radio DJ named Flow, with long dreadlocks and no jokes.If it was my job to provide the comedy, it was his task to prepare the audience for the absence of their celebrity headliner.He failed miserably.
“Yo yo yo, check it out,” he said quickly from the stage.“Screech got sick as hell and had to go home, but you’re gonna love this next guy.Give it up for Slade Ham.”That was my entire intro.
The room became a roaring waterfall of conversation, everyone suddenly wondering what was going to happen.“Did we hear that right?Screech isn’t here? Wait, what?”It was incessant, even as I walked to the stage.
You learn early as a comedian that you have to capture the audience instantly.As I grabbed the microphone, my only thought was to get my first joke out immediately.Win them over quickly, no matter what.My words, however, were lost in the cacophony, just another inaudible buzz in a room full of confused voices.I desperately needed to change tactics.
I flagged down a waitress and ordered a round – a beer and a shot of James – and then I sat down on the barstool on stage and gazed out at the chaos.My drinks arrived and still I sat there, unmoving.Eventually the spectators grew curious, ending their conversations and slowly staring back at me.At least they’re paying attention now, I thought to myself.I shot my whiskey and stood up.
“So, you’re probably wondering what’s going on,” I told them.“I’m guessing you’ve figured out that Screech isn’t going to make it tonight.I’m sorry.That’s the bad news.The good news is that you’re much better off without him.You would only have been disappointed.
“I know Flow told you he got sick but that’s not entirely true, and I think you guys deserve the truth.He walked out on you.He knew you were here and he chose to run off.He’s a dick.”
“Why’d he leave?” a voice yelled out of the darkness.
“Honestly?He was doing that badly.He got embarrassed and he quit,” I replied.
A different voice arose from the back.“You’re lying!”
“Um, no.I’m not.He really did get embarrassed and that’s why he left.”
“You’re making that up!” the man repeated.
“Why would you say that?That’s exactly what happened,” I said back, and the response that came back was one of the funniest things I’d ever heard in my life.
“Because if ten years on Saved by the Bell didn’t embarrass that motherfucker, I doubt Shreveport could do it!”
It was met with uproarious laughter.“Fuck Screech!” he said. “Tell us some jokes, Funny Man!”
And on that note, the crowd and I bonded.I made it through the show unscathed, and no one left upset.It was a far longer show than I was capable of at the time, but we got through it.I haven’t crossed paths with Screech again since then, but I have occasionally run into a comic who has.“God, he’s such an asshole,” they’ll say.“Have you ever worked with him?”
“Let me tell you a story,” I always reply, “about this one time in Shreveport.”
TAGS: Dustin Diamond, Saved by the Bell, Screech, Shreveport, slade ham, stand up comedy
SLADE HAM is a stand up comedian. He has performed in 52 countries on six continents, a journey that can be followed in his book, Until All the Dragons Are Dead. One day he hopes to host a travel show and continue to trick the world into paying him to do the things he loves to do. Slade is also an Editor for The Nervous Breakdown's Arts and Culture section. He keeps a very expensive storage unit in Houston, TX.
242 responses to “The Joker and the Thief”
Richard Cox says:
The first thing I think of when I think of Dustin Diamond is the film Made. “Did you just let SCREECH in the fucking club?”
Now, when I think of Dustin Diamond I’ll think of a joke-stealing quitter. That’s a great story, dude. Fucking Shreveport. Hahahahaha.
Slade Ham says:
I’ve never actually seen “Made”. Hmmm. That’s a great line.
I seem to leave Shreveport with a story every single time. What is it about this little four state area that seems to produce so many unusual stories for me. TX, LA, AR, and OK…
Oh, dude. You have to see it. Vince Vaughn is genius in that. And when you’re done, watch the outtakes. “What sort of pattern do you see? The per diem. The per diem. No one gets their hands on that but me.” Hahaha. It doesn’t make sense now, but it will.
It must be tough to be on the road so much. What do you do in the different places you stay? How often do you go back to Houston?
I’m on it. I need a new movie anyway.
The road would be a much harder thing to handle if I worked more often. As it is, I’m only out maybe two weeks a month, and even then it’s for five days at the most. I get to spend most of my time here in Houston.
As for what I do, I’m a total adventurer. I would go crazy staying in the same city forever. As is, I feel like I’ve tricked people into paying me to go exploring. And in the places where there’s nothing exciting to do, I seek out the little mom and pop restaurants that have wi-fi and kill a day that way.
While I’d much rather be rock climbing, worst case, I can write anywhere.
Tawni says:
I’ve got to recommend Made with Richard. It’s one of my favorite movies. The outtakes are hilarious.
It’s something of a spiritual sequel to Swingers – maybe an older cousin? And it’s fucking brilliant.
Damn. I am convinced. I may go find it tonight, since I have no plans to leave the house. That may be exactly what i need.
Did you rent it yet??
No, I haven’t. I leave for a five day trip on Sunday though, and I am determined to watch it before then. I want to discuss it before this post fades into oblivion.
Joe Daly says:
Good Lord, this rocked! I had forgotten about Screech until seeing him on Celebrity Fit Club, where he used his super-douche powers to annoy even the most grizzled and despairing of D-listers.
Big ups to you for your recovery technique. If someone tried to pull something like that on me, I don’t know if I would have the restraint that you showed. Well done.
Oh, and the Richard Simmons metaphor is pure genius!
Didn’t he quit Celebrity Fit Club too? I saw that episode. What a douche.
I never watched it. Couldn’t do it. Made me have flashbacks, hahaha. He probably did walk out though. It’s his M.O.
It took everything I had not to punch him. This was all pre-Celebrity Fit Club etc… before he tried to sell T-shirts to save his house and before his sex tape…
I didn’t know anything about him except that he was doing my friends’ jokes. If I’d known just how awful of a person he really was, I really might have hit him. It ended better than it could have.
There’s a sex tape? Ewwwwwww. Who would want to see that? He must be like one of the tone deaf people that try out for American Idol. God, some people are idiots!
He leaked the tape himself, for publicity. I would feel bad for how far he’s fallen if he didn’t absolutely deserve it.
Okay, TMI! Stop feeding me useless information that I never need to use. My brain can’t handle this.
Oh, and I have Redemption on my iPod. I love the Screech story and the Women are Wild Animals, and etc., etc…… One of these days maybe I’ll get to see you live with new jokes.
If all goes as planned, the new CD will be recorded this weekend. Should be an hour of stuff you haven’t heard. Redemption seems so old now.
Jason Black says:
Hey dont you have to be some body before you can say you have fallen?
Im just sayen. . .
I forgot about his sex tape “scandal.” Sounds about as sexy as a hidden camera tape of Kathy Griffin balancing her checkbook.
I wonder if his wife is still handling his affairs. Speaking for myself, if I were forced to sell t-shirts of myself and leak a sex tape, just to make the mortgage, I would take a long, hard look at the person handling my business dealings.
I can’t say it’s impossible to find the best line in that piece but damned if I can pull a Sophie’s Choice here. I laughed my ass off throughout. Well done, sir.
I’m glad there were a few laughs in there. To be fair though, I’ve told this story more than once, just never in print really, outside of a blurb somewhere years ago.
It is little risk to my anonymity to confess that I have never met nor heard you so it was news to me. Damned funny news. If he ever runs up to my car in an effort to wash my windshield for a buck (I’m assuming that’s his next professional stop), I’ll punch him in the face on your behalf.
You shouldn’t have heard of me. The story is only infamous in comic circles, and unless you heard it on XM (which no one has) you couldn’t know, hahaha.
Amongst comics though, it’s different. I’ve had it retold to me in a green room actually, sans my names of course. It was one of those, “I heard some guy made him quit in some city” blah blah blah, complete with details that both did and didn’t happen. Good stuff.
Anon – Here is the stand up version. http://popup.lala.com/popup/2810527694037731961
Thanks, Lorna (though I think I’ll wait until I get home to play it :D).
Wow. I don’t ever listen to myself, so that was weird to hear. That was literally recorded two weeks after it happened. I’ve grown up a bit in the last five years, most notably in the area of humility, hahaha.
What’s weird is having comedy mixed in with my music on my ipod. Honestly, I sometimes skip it and go on the next song. But what’s funny is that your AA bit always seems to follow songs about whiskey….. like Whiskey River. 🙂
um your bit about your DUI. whatever. 🙁
Ya know… here’s what’s funny about who I was then vs who I am now, on stage anyway. Back then, I happily told jokes that weren’t always true. That DWI story was based on a friend of mine, and we sort of wrote it together. I despise telling any stories that aren’t true now though. not for years…
Let the record show that I have never had a drunk driving arrest 🙂
Sometimes I just need to keep my mouth closed. ;x
I made myself a new lightsaber….. only the gravatar cuts it off so it can fit my big head.
I have heard it more then once but its funny every time. Thank god for ipods though so I dont have to try and tell it.
Yeah Slade I have spread the funny that is you in over 9 states at about 300′ and your a hit hey its the least I can do. Plus laughter makes the work go down. To hell with Poppins and her teeth rotting suger and who really wants to whistle while they work!
James D. Irwin says:
Fantastic story man.
I love quality heckles.
In my incredibly brief stand up ‘career’ I was heckled mercilessly the second time. Just my brother, shouting ‘you suck’ over and over.
To be fair I did. It was the day after I got back from Amsterdam. In the afternoon before we left my friend and I decided to try marijuana for the first time. Our plane was delayed and I got back at 4am and woke up at 7 to do the slot at lunch time. Tired and unrehearsed. It was hardly comedy gold to begin with.
I was only doing it to pad out the line up too. A favour for a friend.
Screech sounds like Bania from Seinfeld, but worse.
I thought I remembered reading somewhere on here that you did comedy. You don’t anymore? I’ve been entertaining doing a piece on hecklers and crowd interaction, from the performers stand point. It’s 3/4 written actually, but I haven’t been able to talk myself into finishing it.
Going on stage tired and fuzzy-headed is hard. I hardly even let myself drink anymore before a show. Sometimes it’s you versus them, and you need every tool in the bag to be sharp and ready. Amsterdam has killed quite a few brain cells for me as well though. You’re forgiven, only because you can hardly come back from that glorious city well rested and focused with a clear conscience.
Have you seen the Jamie Kennedy documentary about Hecklers? Absolutely brilliant…
Yes. Absolutely. Joe Rogan and Bobby Slayton are two of the best, and they’re featured in it. The crowning moment is when Kenny Moore crack that guy with his guitar. Hahahahaha. That’s a great film. Probably the only thing Jamie Kennedy has done that I’ve ever liked actually…
I wrote at least one post on it.
The thing is after weeks of writing and practicing the first time I got on stage I knew it wasn’t for me. I didn’t do all that badly first time funnily enough. All my jokes got at least a slight laugh.
I wasn’t going to do it again, but two of my friends had organized this show that a load of people had dropped out of…
There’s a good heckler on Patton Oswalt’s Werewolves and Lollipops… or at least a good reaction to a heckler…
I won a lollipop tonight, but then I also had to pay £2.80 for a Jameson.
You know, I really think you do know the first time. For me, it was instantly addictive. I have seen some that walked off saying, “Well, I tried it. Never again.”
The first time is always better than the second time. You can rarely recreate that first set. It’s even harder when your friends stop showing up to support you and then it’s you talking to strangers.
Oswalt makes me laugh. He does really well in TX. He recorded that CD in Austin if I’m not mistaken
I read from many sources as I was preparing for my first show that you tend to know as soon as you get on stage. There are, apparently, a ton of comedians who bombed first time but knew it was what they wanted to do and kept going back…
It did surprise me though that I didn’t have the confidence/personality for it. I have occasionally been tempted to give it another crack just to see how I feel about it…
I thought it was Athens, Georgia? I know it’s somewhere south. I might be thinking of Brian Posehn’s album…
That’s the problem with the stage, once you’ve been up, it will keep calling you. It’s a tempting little siren song. If you do go back up, let me know.
And it appears we were both right. The bonus DVD was shot in Athens:
According to Wikipedia
ah, that’s right… I haven’t listened to it or watched the dvd for a while. I watched the dvd just before I went to Savannah…
I’ve been toying recently with ideas for comic stage shows… less straight up stand up and something more like a one man show…
Actually, my first stand up attempt was at a school talent show. I found the jokes the other day and they weren’t too bad for a 13 year old…
Megan DiLullo says:
People are freaks, man. Good save. Good stuff.
Think of it as growth spurt.
It actually was really formative. I gt to stretch my legs waaay past my comfort zone. I don’t think I’ve ever been that “not ready” for a show. I still wanna fuck Screech up though, haha. He is such a fucking douche.
Oh, this is brilliant. Great work, Slade.
I read a review recently of Diamond’s new tell-all Saved by the Bell autobiography. According to the reviewer, it’s basically just a categorical list of who was fucking who backstage, as well as anecdote after anecdote about how he’s used his fleeting fame as Screech to get laid. And apparently appears to have been typed out by a chimpanzee. A half-blind chimpanzee, at that.
I still find it odd that he’s the brother Beastie Boy Mike D(iamond). How did one end up so cool, and the other an utter douche?
I didn’t know about the joke thievery, though. Is he as bad (and as blatant) about it as Carlos Mendoza?
Whoa. Wait. What?
Mike D?
Shut up. Hang on, lemme process this… I’ll be back to respond to the rest in a second. How the hell did I miss that?
Wait, wait, I think I’m wrong on that. I just checked. Can’t find any corroborating evidence.
Okay. I can breathe again. Hahaha, you scared me.
As for Carlos Mencia, he is a special kind of thief. I applaud Joe Rogan for every single time he ripped into Carlos. Screech takes from lesser known acts. Mencia stole from Cosby. Fucking COSBY. From the Himself special. The greatest recorded hour of stand up ever. He took from THAT.
Aside from the flagrant thievery though, at least Carlos is a nice guy.
Thanks, Slade!
I really needed a good funny story right about now!
You’re always welcome, Irene. And, as always, thanks for reading.
Riley Fox says:
I love that story. “…like she did a 100 yard dash in a gym that wasn’t quite 100 yards long,” is one of my all-time favorite similes.
I once had a Dick Cheney joke that involved comparing him to Punxsutawney Phil, the official Groundhog Day groundhog, in that while he was in office, he appeared in the public eye so infrequently that the media started treating his appearances like the groundhog on Groundhog Day. (“Vice President Cheney stepped outside and saw his shadow, which means it will be another six weeks…”) I give you that painfully long and unfunny description of the bit because one night I did that joke, and a woman in the front row said, quite emphatically, “You’re wrong about Dick Cheney.”
I knew Tennessee was a traditionally red state, but I cautiously asked, “What was wrong with that comparison?”
Then she smiled and said, “Dick Cheney doesn’t HAVE a shadow.”
Oh, and kudos on the Keith Alberstadt mention. He’s one of the OGs of Nashville comedy. 🙂
Bahahahahahahahaha. Isn’t it great in the rare instances that the shot from the crowd is an asset? I’ve had a few moments where I’ve literally had to stop the show and catch my breath. It’s such a beautiful thing when it happens. Rare, but beautiful.
As for Keith, though he and I have never met I do know the joke in question, and Keith is a funny, funny guy.
Ha. I was just about to send you a link to this…
Quenby Moone says:
Was that before or after the unfortunate Screech/porn incident? Jesus, that guy could make anyone screech in frustration. And Macbeth’s wife; is there ever a place where she doesn’t make life just a tiny bit brighter?
I love this story–because it’s great, but also because it’s fabulous to see schmucks hoisted on their own petard. It’s a rare sort of victory.
It really did feel good, especially at the time when I was still pretty much a rookie. And yes, this predated the porn release. I haven’t seen it, though I’ve heard that there are two girls in it with him. I cannot imagine the psychological trauma that comes from being thrown out to the world as the girl from the Screech Porn.
*shivers*
Seriously. That should be considered crimes against humanity for so many reasons.
It actually violates the Geneva Convention.
Screech makes Bob Saget tolerable. That’s his function in the the world maybe.
No! Saget is hilarious. Filthy, filthy, hilarious. Did you see his part on The Aristocrats?
I love The Aristocrats! Doug Stanhope killed it!
Will Entrekin says:
I hated The Aristocrats, but I think that may be because I’ve never tried to be funny onstage.
Well. I mean, there was one time, with Mo Collins, in North Hollywood, but I was only joining Mo. Who is way hot.
Are you saying he’s done something better than “America’s Funniest Videos?”
Yes. Yes, I am. That’s what’s always killed me about AFV and Full House… you could not have picked a more opposite personality to play those roles. If you haven’t seen his part in that movie, you have to. It’s the dirtiest thing you’ve ever heard.
Half-Baked. In which he makes better use of his few seconds of screen time than Dame Judi Dench managed in Shakespeare in Love (for which she won an Oscar).
“I used to suck dick for coke.”
“I seen him!”
That was probably the first time the public saw him be himself.
Precisely, man.
He had a page-long profile in, like, Esquire or GQ or some shit, and it was the raunchiest, most hysterical page I’ve ever read.
I’ll have to check it out. I used to watch AFV with the sound turned down because I hated his quips that much. He probably didn’t write them. Or he was pandering to his audience. It was awful.
Yeah, that’s the result of family friendly writers. He just cashed the checks. The upside is that you don;t need volume to laugh at a guy getting kicked in the balls.
Yeah I saw him on The Aristocrats but he doesn’t make me laugh. Got dragged to one of his stand-up shows years ago and it sucked salty balls. I did love him on Huff though.
That’s disappointing to hear. I think a lot of stuff is funny that isn’t though, so maybe this is the trade off.
Dougie is such a beast. I actually got to see it with Penn and Provenza on the big screen at Just For Laughs in Montreal when it debuted. Seeing it in a room full of comedians, including Doug, was fucking sick. It probably made it way funnier than it was.
I had a short film in the festival that year that was coincidentally edited by the same guy that edited The Aristocrats. Watching that movie though made me want to hang up my hat when it came to film. It was so brilliantly done, and so full of amazing talent. It deserved way more attention than it got.
I’m secretly in love with Doug Stanhope. I inactively stalk him. I’m convinced he is my soul mate.
Seeing the Aristocrats in that setting would be brilliant. Now, I’m not-so-secretly lightsaber green with envy.
They should make lightsabers out of the same stuff as mood rings.
I have mixed emotions on Doug as a comic. As person. he’s an absolute drunken sweetheart. As a comedian, he is either tyhe greatest thing that has ever picked up a microphone, or the absolute most embarrassing. It depends on which one shows up for the night.
He came in for me for a weekend when I owned my comedy club. Out of four shows he took two standing ovations and walked two complete crowds. Everything he’s ever recorded is fucking genius though.
Yeah. It can be pretty hit or miss with him. Though he does know that.
Now onto the lightsaber mood rings… Jedi marketing for the next generation. Maybe even Scientologists, lord know, they got the dough.
He’s fully aware. That’s what makes me mad. okay, enough Doug, hahaha.
Aren’t Scientologists and Jedi incredibly similar? The whole midichlorian count, etc? If I could find a way to dupe Scientology into giving me a truckload of money… maybe balance would be restored. They’ve certainly taken enough from people.
We have our first Jedi Mission!
Did someone mention scamming money…?
Between Pussy Stardust practice and our new Mood-Detecting-Lightsaber-Business/Way-to Screw-Over-Scientologists, how are we ever going to get it all done.
Now I want to sell Blacklight Sabers. So it looks really cool when you kill things that are white or neon.
Slade – are you joining Pussy Stardust too?
I don’t know about that Blacklightsabre thing. You’d better lay in a pretty hefty supply of Dagobachips with all the stoner Jedis you’ll attract. “These are not the munchies you’re looking for.”
The Blacklightsaber is a cool idea. We can moonlight as Crime Scene Investigating Jedis. Ya know, until the Scientology thing takes off.
You haven’t heard, Z? Megan invited me. I’m your new drummer.
And Anon, I’m counting on the stoner market. Plus, potheads are way easier to Jedi mind trick.
@ Megs – Can you imagine bringing one of those into a hotel room? Yecch. I’ll wait for the Scientologists.
“I find your lack of weed… disturbing….” – Darth Vader, Lord of the Spleef.
Ya know, Slade. Every time I walk in a hotel room I HAVE to say in a totally obnoxious voice “OH MY GOD! There’s semen EVERYWHERE!”
It’s almost to the point of compulsion. The bell hops at The Four Seasons in Vegas HATE me. I like watching them squirm.
I don’t know… the stoner market is composed of a paranoid bunch. I hope your plan isn’t too R2see-through.
Hahahahahahaha. That’s fucking awesome. Hahahaha.
Guinness shot out of your nose?? That’s never been in this story before! That’s criminal. 🙂
Screech was just here playing the comedy club at the beach. He was crazy rude to the staff and completely drunk. I didn’t witness it myself but heard a lot about it from a bartender who works there.
I am yet to hear one story that paints him in a good light. I feel bad for the club staff. They always get the brunt end of celebrity ego. It’s unfair.
Yeah, he tried to get one of the waitresses fired. I think this was following an unsuccessful attempt to grope her. ::gag::
You need to change your status to hiding again, ninja. 🙂
The United States Post Office is going to love me. I just wish I could be there to see your face…you’re going to need A LOT of AAA batteries.
Your Gravatar may be the first time that dress and a matching lightsaber have ever been photographed together.
Alice in Alderaan.
..what can I say? I like matching accessories. ::sly smile::
@Slade- Nice!!! I don’t think anyone else realizes that it’s an Alice costume. It’s too bad it crops so much. The whole effect is lost!! I may have to go change my FB pic.
Maggie Bridges says:
I miss you Slade Ham!!! Very funny stuff btw… I am going to try to come to your show Friday….hopefully! I wish comedy, tx was still here in town so I could come see you anytime….I guess I should’ve taken advantage of it when I had the chance. I miss ya ol’ neighbor and I am so proud of your success.
Heya stranger. Thanks for finding me here. Please come out Friday. Email me and I’ll put you on the guest list. I have another piece I plan on posting in the next week or two that deals with the old apartment complex. The entire tree house saga, specifically. You’ll enjoy it.
It’s really good to hear from you 🙂
Dude. I want to shake your hand and buy you a shot of Johnnie Black. Fuck, dude.
Well done. On the post and the evening. Fuckin’-A.
Oh, also? Fuck Screech.
Haha, many thanks Will. One day, I’m gonna square up on all my drinks. I’m gonna be very, very drunk, but around some very, very cool people.
Phat B says:
Oh. My. God. Dustin Diamond used to open the Improv in Brea when I was working nextdoor. His entire shtick was that his dad stole all his money, then his dad came up on stage and said “yeah I stole all his money.” Hilarity. Turns out we had the same drug dealer, and Screech wasn’t even the funniest guy in a circle full of stoned college kids. I don’t think the Improv even paid him to MC, he was just hoping to get discovered again.
I have such an issue with former TV celebs trying break into stand up. They do sell tickets, but they have no idea what they’re doing. It’s hard to get up there for an hour and do well. Michael Richards was another example of the crash and burn that happens when they try to cross over.
It’s much easier to go from stand up to TV than the other way around.
It’s sad when you can’t do well in Brea. I love that club.
“Turns out we had the same drug dealer, and Screech wasn’t even the funniest guy in a circle full of stoned college kids.” hahaha!
In Dustin’s defense, it was his high priced Hollywood lawyer who would later get that dealer off on a technicality.
That is the first positive thing I have ever read about him, even if it was his lawyers doing.
This story was so funny that I ran and got my husband from another room so he could read it too. Thanks for sharing the funny, Slade.
Fuck Screech. His grody sex tape is playing on a continuous loop in hell. Starship’s We Built This City is the background music. I’m sure of it.
Aw, thanks Tawni.
Starship, or Susan Vega’s Tom’s Diner. That has to be the stickiest song ever. It gets in your head and won’t ever leave. Both would be on Hell, The Soundtrack. I can probably think of a few others.
HA. Hell, The Soundtrack is a genius idea, Slade. Somebody needs to organize that. It would sell based on funny factor alone. The “so bad it circles back around to good” quality.
apparently ‘Tom’s Diner’ is about the same diner used in the exterior shots in Seinfeld…
one of the waiter’s there looks just like the soup nazi…
Really? i didn’t know that. All I do know is that it gets lodged in your head in the most uncomfortable way.
Do do do do , do do do do, do do do do do do do do
@ Tawni – God, there are so many. You can put Elvis’s Blue Christmas on that list as far as I’m concerned. Ugh.
I’ve never heard the song. I don’t intend to change this fact.
You’ve NEVER heard? Tom’s Diner? You must fix that:
Click It, James. You Know You Want To…
That was awful.
I had apple pie in that diner. It was pretty good.
This song just ruined that memory.
Welcome to my hell…
Knee deep in the hoopla? Sinking in your fight? No?
Come on, Tawni. That’s rock-n-roll gold.
I have lyrical rage issues, Richard. The words “knee deep in the hoopla” make me want to punch Bernie Taupin square in the shitty song-writing mug.
I just listened to some Bernie Taupin lyrics…
I think I’m going to kill myself…
“Knee deep in the hoopla” is the worst line in rock history. And didn’t they even name the album after that line? Terrible.
But come on, what about this verse? Bernie has his genius moments, right?
If someone else is suffering enough to write it down
When every single word makes sense
Then it’s easier to have those songs around
The kick inside is in the line that finally gets to you
And it feels so good to hurt so bad
And suffer just enough to sing the blues
Is that even English?
He’s responsible for Levon, too, I believe, which Brad covered recently. He’s a bad, bad man. I like all the melodies, I just hate his lyrics.
Oh no. I hope someone saved Irwin’s life tonight… Sugar Bear.
As I listened to my mom’s Elton John albums as a kid, I remember wondering, Why is he singing about the cartoon bear from the cereal commercials? And who told him Sugar Bear rhymes with “didn’t you, dear?”
The fact that his vocal melody lines are so hooky makes it even worse. As Brad mentioned in the recent post about Levon, you find yourself compelled to sing the catchy song, even though the lyrics make no sense.
Grrrrrrr. I’m gonna git you, Bernie Taupin. *shakes fist*
Gloria Harrison says:
And now I have to go home, or I would ramble on about how very much I love this whole post.
The title is effin’ genius. And now I will be singing Dylan in my head for the rest of the night.
I think Screech and Andy Dick should do a reality show together. There is one trainwreck I would actually watch.
I keep forgetting to mention how cool I think the title is.
As much as I love Dylan I always associate the song with Hendrix…
I, too, think of Jimi. Even though Dylan wrote it, it will always be a Hendrix song to me.
The second Dylan version is pretty awesome (the original is awful though. Generally I like Dylan’s voice, but on that song… not a good fit…)
It’s pretty rare to see a song much more associated with a cover version…
The only other example I can think of is I Love Rock and Roll, because Joan Jett’s version is much better known than The Arrows original.
Of course that in turn was hi-jacked by Britney Spears…
I had it stuck in my head the other day (the Jett version) and I was singing it to myself.
A girl overheard me. ”I didn’t know you like Britney Spears” she said…
Quiet Riot’s cover of Slade’s Cum On Feel the Noize is another one, and Manfred Mann’s Blinded By the Light… which was, believe it or not, a Springsteen song.
Being British the Slade version is still the better known over here… Don Powell, the drummer, used to visit my mum’s hardware store quite often…
I’ve never heard the Springsteen version… just giving it a go…
think I might prefer it…
is it wrong to like Springsteen?
I hate Born in the USA though.
No, Manfred Mann’s is better… the chorus is more epic… but I do like the original…
It’s two totally different songs. I love the Springsteen version, personally. Nobody seems to know that it was his song though. He did 10,000 Maniac’s Because the Night, too I think. I know he wrote it, but I don’t remember if there was a recorded version or not.
I’m always quite proud of the fact that I know it was originally a Springsteen song… I’m sure there’s another pretty famous song that he wrote for someone else (but never recorded himself…)
There’s another song which his manager insisted he record himself too… I can’t remember which one though… it’s 2.30am and I’ve been drinking guinness and jameson all night at prices I can’t really afford to pay…
Funny, I’m sitting at home in an attempt to not do the very same thing you’re doing, with the exact same two vices. I have one Guinness in the fridge right now, and I’m fight the urge…
I’m blanking on the songs, too.
Before tonight I hadn’t had a class of Jameson Irish Whiskey since I finished my bottle over Xmas… which really is far too long…
I’m looking forward to St. Patricks Day… An entire day where my two favourite alcoholic beverages are on special offer… one bar is doing pints of Guinness for £2 and measure of Jameson at £1.50…
I had an illegal pint in Ireland a few years ago. In England there is a law where a 16 year old can have a drink with a meal. I was on holiday with my family and at this restaurant we asked if the same law applied.
”That’s a good question. I don’t know. Probably…” was our answer.
They happily gave me a Guinness.
A bar here in Houston does $2 James on Mondays. I wonder sometimes if they know…
Normally St. Patty’s Day is a big one for me. This year though, I’ll be out in the middle of nowhere. It falls smack in the middle of a week long canyon canoe trip I have planned through Big Bend.
I’m bringing a bottle with me though. Out of respect.
this year is my first chance to do it properly…
I was all set last year, but I dropped out of university on March 6th and found myself back at gome on the 17th having a quiet night in with a solitary can of Guinness and miles from all of my friends…
It falls on a pretty good day for me. The 17th and 18th are my two days off during the week…
Eh, it’s best celebrated away from the masses. It always seems like amateur night for the drinkers. I love watching rookies order Guinness and then regret it. Glad ya get to enjoy this one.
I am a bit worried about that… luckily it falls on a wednesday, so most of the students in this town will be at the club night the union puts on on wednesdays. (Our student bar is awful. the only bar i’ve ever been to that doesn’t have Guinness on tap…)
haha, watching people try Guinness for the first time is always a sight. I’ve converted a few people to it, but most of the time people pull this face like someone just smeared shit on their face or something…
I did the same thing the first time I tried it. I was doing one of those Around the Wor4ld Tours at some restaurant in my hometown. Bennigans I think? Anyway, the goal is to drink one of every one of the 100 beers they served. Over the course of a few months, I did.
I remember choking down the first half of the Guinness, and by the end of it, I was in love. The second one was delicious.
I haaaaaaaaaaaaaate Andy Dick. If you could get them both in one place, I would throw the hand grenade. And thanks to you and James for digging the title. It was originally Not Quite Saved by the Bell, and then that popped into my head.
Joker and the Thief is also a Wolfmother song that I really liked when I first got their album. My friend Dave lives in Australia and got me into them before their album came out over here. In fact I bought an import copy months and months before it was released.
Then it was used in The Hangover/countless other films and trailers and now it’s fucking everywhere….
It is actually. I saw them before they broke out several years back, and then kind of quit listening once they went mainstream. Their most recent record hasn’t gotten nearly as much attention though. It’s a really good listen if you haven’t checked it out yet.
I heard one song on the radio a few weeks ago. I liked it. It’s almost an entirely different band, because the frontman kicked the other two out and replaced them.
Thing is I hate to download and new albums cost between £10-16.
The same thing happened with Jet. They weren’t a great band, but they produced some pretty decent 70s style rock. Then one of their songs got used in an advert and suddenly that was everywhere.
Have you heard of Airbourne? Total AC/DC rip off, but a pretty high quality one.
They are a different band now, for sure. I thought they put on a hell of a live show when I saw them, especially as a three piece. The new record is good though.
Jet was fun. Get Free was the break out song. 2002-03 or so? I remember it because I used to play it at the end of shows at my old comedy club.
And I have Airborne’s Runnin’ Wild album. AC/DC knock off or not, they’re fucking fun.
I remember the album was Get Born (taken from Subtaranean Homesick Blues). That came out in 2003 (bought it while I was doing work experience). And I know US and UK releases tend to differ track wise.
For some reason I have a Clash album that has the US track listing and not the UK release (this does mean though that I have White Man (in Hammersmith Palais)).
Anyway. Jet’s big song in the UK was ‘Are You Going to Be My Girl.’ My personal favourite was ‘Cold Hard Bitch.’
Airbourne were streaming their new album on their website earlier in the week… it’s pretty much more of the same… but hell, it worked for AC/DC… They are fucking brilliant. I heard the album around the same time AC/DC brought out Black Ice. Airbourne sounded more like AC/DC than AC/DC…
That was the Jet single. I was thinking of The Vines. I have no idea why I thought that was Jet.
Airbourne sounded more like AC/DC than AC/DC
Hahaha, that is so very true. The new A/DC is not as good as Airborne, that’s for sure.
I think The Vines came to prominence at the same sort of time. I think they’re also Australian too…
Yep. Vines are Australian. As are Jet, Airbourne, and Wolfmother. We were all very proud of ourselves.
According to fairly solid urban legend, the guitar player from Jet stopped carrying cash as soon as they hit the big time. Leading to the Melbourne music press to dub him ‘Captain Economy’.
Since we’re giving credit where it’s due… Australia is also responsible for Powderfinger, who I happen to LOVE LOVE LOVE.
And of course Silverchair. You guys sure import some talent, Simon.
Jesus, an American who has heard of Powderfinger? Madre de Dos!
It’s true. It’s not so much a case of importing talent as much as that as soon as an Australian sees the opportunity to hit the States, their immediate reaction is ‘Pfffft. Fuck this place. Have you seen the goddamn spiders here?’
Powderfinger and Silverchair were on the mix tape my aussie friend sent me, along with Wolfmother…
I don’t carry cash any more, although mostly because I haven’t got any.
Then again, I’m yet to hit the big time…
Funny, I’m trying to get TO Australia…
Not only do I know of Powderfinger, I am borderline obsessed. I have literally everything they’ve ever done, live tracks and B-sides included.
A friend of mine went to Australia somewhere around ’94. He brought back little souvenirs for all his friends. I got some kangaroo jerkey, a CD from Spiderbait, and Powderfinger’s Double Allergic. Now I’m strung out on Golden Rule
Slade: Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Yep. I’ve been talking about submitting for next year. I’ve missed the boat on 2010. It happen in a week or two, no?
If we’re talking about Australian acts we can’t leave out The Dirty Three. “Indian Love Song” is one of my favorite post rock songs ever.
See Simon, we have another recruit for our U.S.-Australian exchange program. Have many U.S.-bound friends do you have?
Slade: sure does. And it’s a lot of fun. Australian audiences aren’t as vitriolic as UK audiences, but we do expect to be entertained for our money.
RC: I can think of five people at the drop of a hat who would cross their own mother to get to the States.
I, of course, would cross my own mother fastest.
Yeah… I’m going to have to make that happen. And there should be an exchange program. The grass is always greener on the other side of the Pacific.
There really should be. We’re so much smarter than our respective governments.
Be careful, though. We’ve pretty much adopted Arj Barker. The same thing could happen to YOU.
Arj is a huge stoner. You sure he didn’t just get lost over there? I’ll put myself up for adoption. Let’s see what happens when I get there.
It’s entirely possible. Seriously, we love Arj Barker. He appears on TV shows as a guest just about every time he’s over here. Forget Seinfeld, Hicks, Cross, Cook, Cable Guy (I wish I could forget the Cable Guy) – Barker is the favourite US comedian over here.
I am so intrigued by the concept of doing comedy not in America. I do it a lot, but I remain curios as to why certain comics really hit it overseas. Arj is one. My friend Tom Rhodes is another. He’s HUGE everywhere else. I’m a bit envious…
English comics traditionally tend to do well over here. There’s a very big difference (as well as some points of similarity) between the two, I don’t know, schools? of humour (as well as the spelling).
It’s changing – slowly – but a lot of the entrenched culture in Australia is pretty English, still. Ross Noble does well here (he’d do well anywhere, I guess), as does Eddie Izzard, Daniel Kitson, Dylan Moran.
I think we tend to respond a bit more to the kind of humour that’s based on a negative outlook of the world and self as opposed to a somewhat more positive one, which can be typical of American humour. A lot of the American approach seems to be ‘This is bullshit, it shouldn’t be, let’s comment on the difference’, whereas the UK version seems to be ‘This is bullshit, but we kind of figured it would be, let’s all be unsurprised by that.’
I don’t know. I’m spitballing here, and it’s been a while since I’ve had coffee. This is all very a priori and theoretical, and hugely general and opinionated.
There’s a huge difference, and you kind of nailed it. Eddie Izzard is genius, here or in England. American comics though tend to bring a lot of ego and attitude with them when they go elsewhere. It doesn’t always translate. It comes across as arrogance I think. I can’t say I haven’t been guilty of it.
The entire comedy discussion is sooo subjective, but one I enjoy very much. Dylan Moran I don’t know, btw. Gonna go look him up.
The translation barrier between cultures is something that fascinates me. Zara and I have had a lot of conversations about this; there are some very distinct differences between where we come from in terms of outlook and where Americans come from – and yep, absolutely, depending on how you interpret that, there can be trouble and judgment involved.
Man, I hear you on both the subjectivity and the enjoyment of the discussion. One of eye-opening experiences was hearing David Cross for the first time. I couldn’t stop laughing.
Moran’s great. He’s Irish, dour, and spits venom in every direction. In a lovable kind of way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoLIU2NI66w
The first time I ever saw David Cross it was like: Wow, someone out there actually gets it!
One of my biggest fears is I would meet David Cross and he wouldn’t find me cool. I think I would kill myself. His Shut You Fucking Baby has to be one of the best comedy albums ever.
“If Gabriel wants to rollerblade, Gabriel rollerblades. So fuck you, Mr. Osama bin Jerkhead or whatever your name is.”
Shut up, even.
Oh my God! Oh my God! I feel exactly the same way. I heard Shut You Fucking Baby (heh) and it all just fucking clicked.
And yes! I’ve been terrified that David Cross would meet me and I’d somehow fuck it up and he’d tear me a new one.
Ohhh… I really like this guy.
@ Richard – I didn’t like David originally. I gave him another shot though after Arrested Development, and now I totally agree with you. I read his book over the course of several airport layovers and really have grown to dig his sense of humor.
Glad to be of service, Slade.
this is awesome and, as always, totally hilarious. i remember him being such an asshole on celebrity fit club.
once i was heckled by a fellow audience member when i left a show early. it was gay/lesbian night, and i left right after my friend went, and someone yelled after me, “gee, are the jokes making you uncomfortable!” or something like that, and i was like, but i’m the fag hag! I’M THE FAG HAG! it was quite upsetting.
I forget sometimes just how uncomfortable it is to be in a crowd like that. I find it amusing sometimes that certain people will sit quietly through my show and then take a shot at another audience member. I normally jump to the victim’s defense. It’s one of those “pick on someone your own size” things.
I would have had your back, that’s all I’m saying 🙂
Should’ve shouted back, “No – horny!” Who’s gonna heckle wanting to get laid?
slade, aw thanks! the emcee did defend me, though she was so batty, she didn’t really know who the audience member was heckling.
anon, that’s so funny because i was indeed leaving for a booty call! 😀
Hahaha. Excellent!
Christine W. says:
I can’t stand that disgusting freak of a human being. I saw little bits of him on reality tv…what a douche. I knew this was going to be good as soon as I saw his name. Just thinking about him and his little weeble wife makes me kinda nauseated.
I’m happy I didn’t disappoint. He’s just not a good person.
Brilliant story. I never really watched Saved by the Bell, but I remember Screech. Who could forget a face like that. I couldn’t have told you his real name, though…
That’s what’s the worst about it. There probably aren’t too many people that DON’T know who he is. Well, Screech anyway. And instead of doing anything positive, he’s done this. It’s such a waste.
Whoa Whoa Whoa!
Slade Ham on fire
This was hot.
This guy right here’s
teaching TNB how it’s done.
If only, J.M.
That’s incredibly flattering. I am glad it was an entertaining read though. I’ve really been wanting to do this story justice for a while.
AXS says:
I know he was a cunt. Is it wrong the whole thing still makes me feel kinda sad though? Seems hard not to feel that way.
It makes me a bit sad too, but then I remember that he has a choice. Had he been a decent guy I would have happily helped him with his material. Whatever the cause, he continues to be a dick by choice… and I can’t always feel sympathy for that.
It kind of makes me sad, too. He must be such a miserable human being. What makes someone that way? The emasculating shrew of a wife probably didn’t help, but it sounds like he’s capable of these horrors when she’s nowhere near. He’s a sad, troubled man. And an asshole.
I’m sure a lot of it stems from being a child star and all the attention that comes with it. Not having a normal childhood, etc. Still, those things aren’t excuses. I’m also a lot more forgiving when I don’t have to deal a person’s asshole tendencies face to face.
Know what else makes me sad, Slade? That everyone else appears to have fucking lightsaber Gravatars but me. Yeah, that makes me good and sad…and mad.
Ummm… we can fix that, ya know? Rich and I own a lightsaber shop.
Which Rich? Ferguson? If so, then you and his Bond Girl butt need to get on this and hook a girl up. I live in a really fucking tough neighborhood.
No, Cox. But… I can fix ya up.
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster by your side…
Good one and W I C K E D B U R N.
“…and she spoke every word with the saliva-filled lisp of a cartoon elephant.”
I had a vivid image of her doing this. So amusingly articulate, my hat goes off to you, Sir!
Well done on upstaging Dustin the Douche! Bravo! Bravo!
Thanks, Simone. I’m not even sure that I can think of a lisping cartoon elephant, but it certainly did seem to say what I was trying to.
Greg Olear says:
Was this before or after his ill-fated run in the boxing ring? Because he could have gotten all Axl Rose on you and demanded you get in the ring, you know?
Great story, and well told. The title is perfect.
There is at least one “comic” worse than Diamond, though…although he’s not a professional. But that’s a story for another day, and best told in person. I wish you were there to witness it, though. I’ve never seen someone bomb like that. We were expecting him to be awful, but he took it to a whole new level. Pin-drop silence.
D.R. Haney says:
Was this possibly at a TNBLE event, Greg?
Regarding this post, Slade, I feel like a guy who’s been seeing long lines outside a theater for a few weeks, and for some reason I haven’t been able to get inside the theater to see why there are such long lines, and now I have and I totally get it. It’s my favorite thing you’ve yet posted. I’m jealous. I hate you. And now I’m going to waddle off — “waddled off” being the bit that most made me laugh. There are two overweight characters in my novel who do quite a bit of waddling, though I’m not sure that I used that word. Do you see what I’m doing? I’m trying to make this all about me because I’m jealous and I hate you. Which is really a huge compliment, in case you didn’t already catch that, as I’m sure you did. And now I really am going to waddle the fuck off.
To be fair, most of the attention this post has received is all centered around lightsabers and Australian music, hardly something I can take credit for. I happily embrace your “hate” by the way. That’s probably the biggest compliment you could pay me – one I understand based on how many times I’ve read your writing with that exact same emotion.
There’s love in our hate 🙂
I think the way fat people move is almost art. It’s poetic. It deserves the right word. There is so much effort in what they do that it seems disrespectful to simply call it walking. I haven’t yet read Banned, though I’ve sworn to myself that I will. As soon as the next payment arrives in my PayPal account from wherever payments arrive from, I intend to snag it.
So I can hate you back again.
And if you didn’t already catch it, I am always thrilled when I see your name attached to a notification in my Inbox. Thanks, Duke.
The thrill is returned, I promise, especially when you say that you aim to read my book. And now that you do, I wonder, with a feeling of guilt, if I was unconsciously hinting in that direction, though, I can’t help but want to add, I think you’ll definitely find something of interest in it, since:
* It’s about music, and I’ve recently learned that you have 25,000 songs in your iPod (or is that “on” your iPod?), and you fancy yourself a master of rock & roll trivia, as do I, except that I’m not a master of classic-rock trivia, and there are holes in my mastery even in my area of expertise.
* It’s about a twisted love affair in which no one is stabbed, though it’s earnestly suggested to the narrator at one point that he should “get a gun and shoot that lying bitch.”
* The narrator pays the bills by screenwriting, and if you haven’t already completed a screenplay, I know you intend to complete one, and undoubtedly will.
* The narrator drinks Jameson.
As for the discussion about lightsabers and Australian music, well, it’s those digressions that rack up the comment count, as I know only too well. As if that were the point! But it is an agreeable dividend. Also, I learned that through the commentary here that Richard Cox is aware of the Dirty Three, as I should’ve guessed, since I could tell from a list of his favorite music on my self-interview board that the Dirty Three is in his line, but I stupidly included a Dirty Three song on the CD mix I mailed to Tulsa yesterday. Ah, well. Now let’s see if his saber-lit vision detects this comment, and I’ll retreat to my pathetic corner where I’m soberly holding forth on the very unentertaining subject of Faulkner.
You are free to feel guilty about it if you’d like, but I intended to pick it up long before this dialogue. You had me with the Jameson, though I really have been waiting on CD Baby to send me a payment so I can have some online play money.
I did finish a first draft of a screenplay, though it is the product of two drunken comic minds, and hardly the kind of thing that will ever leave my hard drive. Good practice though, since I’d never written one before. I had to teach myself Final Draft somehow though.
As for trivia, you would take me to school in certain genres. I know more about music I hate than I care to. It’s weird actually.
Richard may or may not catch this conversation. I would, but that’s because privately my ego is attuned to anything mentioning me, especially in the sidebar. I’m a bit ashamed to admit that, but there it is.
I’m attempting to catch up on everyone else’s posts today. I feel quite behind. Yours I am saving, mainly because it has plenty of attention at the moment, but also because I have not read a lot of Faulkner (embarrassingly) and am hesitant to add to what is most certainly a well educated conversation.
I did catch this conversation, and I’m happy to say your trade for the CD is on its way as well. Sorry for the delay, Mr. Haney, but you will soon be the proud owner of one (1) copy of an earnest-but-flawed first novel.
And I wouldn’t call it “stupidly included a Dirty Three track” but rather an accurate guess based on my stated musical preferences. Well played, sir. And thank you.
Slade: Final Draft is completely unnecessary, but Final Draft has managed to brainwash the world into thinking otherwise. I hate those fuckers. I want to fight them with nunchuks. And I’m sure we all look for mention of ourselves in the sidebar, which wasn’t necessary at 2.0, since we could view all comments in their entirety on the dashboard. There are still a number of kinks to be worked out at 3.0, and I hope they’re worked out sooner than later.
RC: I will indeed by a proud owner of one (1) copy of a novel by RC, and after seeing this comment from you yesterday, I went back and listened to my RC playlist, trying to guess at your reaction to it. But I should shut up, since this is making me sound like I’m sitting on the edge of my seat or something. So shut up I will.
I can see where your animosity toward Final Draft comes from. It took a lot of the “work” out of it for me, considering I literally had zero idea about how to write a screenplay. I researched as much as I could, and then let the program limp me through. It was definitely the easy route, though I have a much firmer grasp of things than I did 92 pages ago.
But… I still don’t know what I’m doing.
I am sincerely thinking of trying to reinvent myself as a screenwriting coach. Maybe, if you think you need help, I can use you as a guinea pig at some point. I have to figure out how to convert what I know instinctively into a method of some kind that can be applied by others.
Oh, I’m certain I need help. I have to wrestle down one of these stray ideas though and commit to writing it.
The first one was ridiculously fun to do, but not something that was written with any intention of ever being made or sold. There’s a reason no one other than myself and another few comedians have seen it, hahaha. If it ever made it off my hard drive, I’m afraid I’d never be taken seriously as a writer again.
A glass of James one day, and I’ll tell you about it. There’s a bit of a common thread that I was unaware of until recently.
Get in the ring motherfucker, and I’ll kick your bitchy little ass…
I love that song. This was after that. For a while after that week, I vowed to get famous for no other reason than to be able to fight him on Celebrity Death Match. I mean, he beat up Horshack. I like my chances.
And you have piqued my curiosity for sure re: the comic. In person it shall be though. Nother reason to find my way north…
He did kick Horshack’s ass. Must have been the pent-up anger.
I’m not trying to be coy about the “comic.” This took place at the Funniest Man on Campus contest at Georgetown my sophomore year, so it wasn’t the big time — although we had some people who went pro. And I have to do the impression for the story to be funny. If that makes sense. It’s the Worst Stand-up Joke Ever. But anything to hasten your trek East.
Are you jealous cuz your dad’s getting more pussy than you? Fuck you. Suck my fucking dick.
No, no. Save the story for a face to face meeting. I look very forward to it. Death on stage is about all I laugh at anymore, hahaha.
You wanna antagonize me? Antagonize me motherfucker!
Tweet says:
this reminds me of my favorite kate nash song 🙂
Which one? Unless I missed the obvious, in which case feel free to point out my obliviousness this morning.
you failed the mind reading portion of the exam 🙂 its ‘dickhead’
Of course. n my defense, I only have Made of Bricks. I scrolled through the track listing, but alas…
track four of that very album. a jedi really should work on his mind reading and defense tactics
Wow. Double fault. I even looked again after you posted the title just to make sure I hadn’t overlooked it.
It’s there though. In all it’s glory. Mocking my lack of observation.
Slade’s been using Jedi mind tricks on himself again.
I’m the only one they seem to work on actually…
Ha! you’re a great salesman. i don’t need a light saber 🙂
I have never heard anything positive about Dustin Diamond. In my life. Everything I’ve seen from him in his adult years seems to indicate that he is the worst type of jaded, spoiled, inappropriately boastful and big-headed pseudo-celebrities there is. He was on some reality show–I can’t remember which–and I wanted to reach through the TV and kick him in the balls.
I mean, he gives me serious, “I’ve never met you, but I’m absolutely sure I fucking hate you” feelings.
I hate Dustin Diamond like some people hate Glenn Beck.
I’m not even kidding. I look at him, and I see evil. On every front. I can’t describe it. Everything he does is perfectly wretched.
Now I am upset. Thanks alot, Slade.
You’re upset… try spending three days with him. He’s as horrible as you think he is.
In Glenn Beck’s defense, for however much people hate him, he is wildly entertaining to me. I don’t give anything he says merit but I can hardly take my eyes off his show. It’s like watching a car crash. He’s so melodramatic…
As for all this negativity that I’ve handed you on a Wednesday morning, I can only apologize. I hope whoever ends up on the brunt end of it deserves it though, hahaha.
I hate Glenn Beck so much because of the sort of willful damage he inflicts upon society in the name of profit. I don’t think he really believes all that shit he says. He was on KZFM in Corpus back in the day, and this bozo doesn’t care about us or politics as much as he cares about himself. He’s a monkey. A windup doll.
But I understand why you like to watch him. I used to read Stephanie Farris’ blog on MySpace for no reason except it annoyed me so much. Reading her inane bullshit was scab picking of the highest order. But at least Stephanie’s reach was limited. Beck has convinced half the nation he’s serious.
And don’t get me started on Nancy Grace.
Goddamit, I should never have mentioned Glenn Beck. Yes, yes, yes, everyone hates Glenn Beck. Evil, crazy, mouth diarrhea, etc. etc. blah blah and so on.
This is not about you and your crazy commie politics Richard Cox.
This is about ME. Can’t you see I’m hurting right now? Can’t you see how upset I am, sitting here, thinking about the existence of Dustin Diamond?!?!?!
Dustin DIAMOND, RICHARD!!!!
*throw plate*
Corey Haim is dead, Becky. Think about that for a minute.
There can be only one Corey!!!!1
That was creepy. I posted MY Corey Haim comment below at the same time you posted yours.
It is tragic. It makes me feel bad. I was rootin’ for him.
Nancy FUCKING Grace. I want to fight her with nunchuks. She makes my skin literally crawl off my body. I despise people that exploit tragedy for money, and she is their Queen.
Wow, Becky, that is creepy. I guess the other Corey is watching over us somewhere now.
I hate Glenn Beck because people keep him famous by carrying on about him. He’s like a child with behavioral problems. I should have never said a goddamn thing.
Next person to say Glenn Beck gets the gravy boat.
Sorry. I think I’m just a little emotional over this Corey Haim thing.
Corey Haim is dead and we still have Dustin Diamond and Glenn Beck. Something’s wrong.
I said Glenn Beck again.
Sorry :/
I agree with you though.
My buddy and I have a two-man golf league (we didn’t update the site in a while, but still). You can at least see we picked the correct Corey.
C.S. Feldman Cup
Damn. You almost had to redo the website. You almost picked the wrong Lost Boy.
Yeah, but if you had picked the other one, it could have been the C.I. Haim Memorial Cup, which is way more important sounding.
Good point, Becky.
Uche Ogbuji says:
Wow, I’ve scrolled quickly through the 2XX comment list (sorry, no time to read those ATM) to get to the posting form, and it seems to me that TNB has been taken over by terrestrial Jedi. What can I say but “excellent”, and I hope you all claim the Sith set, like you’re supposed to.
I don’t thunk I’ve ever watched Saved by the Bell (probably one of those Uche-in-Nigeria cultural lacunae), but I got the gist of this one guy’s character from your piece, and man, I guess the scars worked him over good. I’m surprised reputation doesn’t seem to spread quickly among stand-up comedy audiences (as opposed to the comedians, considering you knew his rep). Kinda scary that someone so awful would still be a successful headliner.
I’m honored to have gotten even Uche’s attention 🙂 We have gone Jedi it would seem.
Saved by the Bell is the epitome of 90’s American culture. I count you among the lucky ones that weren’t subjected to it.
Stand up audiences are, for the most part, very uninformed. Everyone has their favorites of course, but they know very little outside of what Comedy Central or HBO feeds them. In most clubs people just show up to see whoever happens to be there. They would never do that with a musical group, yet they somehow tend to put all comics in one big group.
Club owners only care that you sell tickets. They will happily apologize, after they have your money. It’s unfortunate.
Thanks for stopping by, Uche.
Good Lord! I seem to have somehow gained the reputation of Lewis Carroll’s Snark right here on TNB. Actually I seem to have gained the reputation of a Boojum.
No fair, I call! No fair! I love the gang of misfit superheroes we’ve assembled here, and I only wish I had more time to spend hanging out. I usually sneak in an hour here and there when I absolutely need a break from all-consuming work, and so I read what I can, but I’m aware that the action moves so quickly here that I miss a lot of great stuff. But it’s certainly not for lack of interest. And I really am ashamed that I haven’t written a proper entry in so long.
Now that I’m set up for TNB NYC, and we have TNB Denver set up, I’m looking forward to meeting more of you guys.
Aw-shucks-ly,
Then I shall charm you with smiles and soap.
I am unfortunately as guilty as you of not staying caught up. I’m glad this post caught your eye as it passed though. I look forward to your next one soon.
I also look forward to eventually making a TNB live event.
Yvonne de la Vega says:
I was ready to hate you. Vengeance through smart literature, I’ve done it before, sometimes you gotta because it’s the only medicine. Well, whether that was it or not, you’re a funny dude. Screech – all the way to the bank I guess. You, I’d follow. Thanks.
I’m glad you decided not to hate me. Thanks for the compliment, Yvonne. I’ll try to remain entertaining. I like the title of Funny Dude.
Ducky Wilson says:
What a putz. I hope I run into him one day just so I can torture him about the show I “attended” in Shreveport. I’ll totally talk you up.
What I would give to have that happen… He would be less than thrilled. Sorry for the late reply btw. Just getting back to the real world.
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Thanks for tweeting me this!!!! I’ve seen you twice Slade and would pick you over Screech any fucking day!!! Cannot stand that guy, he makes me vomit in my mouth a little everytime I see him on TV!!!! Thanks for sharing 🙂
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Habitat fragmentation – what does it mean for biodiversity?
Posted October 24, 2019 October 29, 2019 Sam Thompson
Deforestation in Sumatra, where huge areas of forest have been lost in the last few decades to make way for forestry and agriculture.
In almost all ecosystems, human activities are causing areas of pristine habitat to be broken into smaller, isolated fragments, causing both habitat loss and habitat fragmentation. Many studies have made it obvious that habitat loss is generally bad for biodiversity, causing a reduction in biodiversity and eventually species extinctions 1–4. However, the impact of habitat fragmentation, when equalising for habitat loss, is less obvious. Recently there have been multiple papers addressing the long-standing assumption that large singular tracts of habitat are better than singular, smaller tracts 5–15.
Despite this discussion, there remains much debate as to whether the general ecological response to habitat fragmentation is positive or negative. Perhaps when areas of protected habitat are more distributed, a greater variety of environments is preserved and so more species are prevented from going extinct? Yet this does not seem to be the case, particularly for larger species such as Indian Elephant, which require huge areas of habitat in order to find enough food.
Indian elephants are endangered, largely as a result of habitat loss. During the dry season, herds sometimes require hundreds of square kilometres of habitat to provide enough food.
How can we find an answer to this problem? A common solution is to study different ecosystems that have experienced habitat fragmentation and then compare the effect on biodiversity. However, this approach is limited as systems are never exactly equal and different studies have many different approaches to measuring both habitat fragmentation and the corresponding effect on biodiversity 7.
An alternative method of exploring the outcome of biodiversity following habitat fragmentation is by using computer models. One branch of model that can be used are spatially explicit neutral models which can account for landscapes with different levels of fragmentation. This approach was used for our recent paper in Ecology Letters 16 with Ryan Chisholm (National University of Singapore) and James Rosindell (Imperial College London). See Ryan’s blog post accompanying the publication here. Our models simulated many different landscapes and then measured the species richness that emerged from the neutral models. Depending on the landscape structure and the amount of habitat loss, some landscapes can generate higher biodiversity than others (Fig. 1). Notice that a small number of extinctions occur immediately with the habitat loss and a much larger number occur gradually over time as an extinction debt is repaid.
Figure 1. Species richness in neutral landscapes decreases over time following habitat loss and fragmentation. Only a small proportion of extinctions occur immediately, with the majority happening over many generations following the habitat destruction.
From exploring many different scenarios of habitat loss, we were able to derive mathematical formulas describing the species richness in spatially explicit neutral models. The formulas depend on a metric we call “effective dispersal”, which determines how far individuals travel across the fragmented landscape over many generations and in our mind is a much better measure of fragmentation than traditional fragmentation metrics. Under our metric, landscapes which may visually appear to have very high levels of fragmentation because of large numbers of distinct fragments, might actually quite well-connected as the fragments are close enough together to allow dispersal. This may partly explain why some studies which measure fragmentation simply in terms of the number of habitat fragments observe such varying outcomes for biodiversity.
Building on this idea, the current impasse in the fragmentation-diversity debate may be partly attributable to inconsistency in how habitat loss and fragmentation are measured, particularly when considering the surrounding area as well as the study region (Fig. 2). Moreover, the impact of time on extinction cannot be ignored, as even neutral models have a significant time lag between habitat loss and species loss (e.g. Fig. 1).
Figure 2. Definitions of habitat fragmentation may change depending on the local and regional habitat structure.
To understand how habitat fragmentation affects ecosystems, we must develop much more sophisticated models that can accommodate the intricacies of biological mechanisms and how they differ between taxa and locations. Our paper is just one step towards this goal, but already demonstrates the value in such an approach. Read our paper here, check out the code used for the simulations, the data used for figures and analyses or check out the package used to run these models.
Tilman, D., May, R. M., Lehman, C. L. & Nowak, M. A. Habitat destruction and the extinction debt. Nature vol. 371 65–66 (1994).
Tilman, D. et al. Future threats to biodiversity and pathways to their prevention. Nature vol. 546 73–81 (2017).
Dirzo, R. et al. Defaunation in the Anthropocene. Science vol. 345 401–406 (2014).
Ceballos, G., Ehrlich, P. R. & Dirzo, R. Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences vol. 114 E6089–E6096 (2017).
Fahrig, L. Effect of habitat fragmentation on the extinction threshold : a synthesis. Ecological Applications vol. 12 346–353 (2002).
Fahrig, L. Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Biodiversity. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics vol. 34 487–515 (2003).
Fahrig, L. Ecological Responses to Habitat Fragmentation Per Se. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics vol. 48 annurev–ecolsys–110316–022612 (2017).
Fahrig, L. Habitat fragmentation: A long and tangled tale. Global Ecology and Biogeography vol. 28 33–41 (2019).
Ewers, R. M. & Didham, R. K. Habitat fragmentation: panchreston or paradigm? Trends in Ecology and Evolution vol. 22 511 (2007).
Krauss, J. et al. Habitat fragmentation causes immediate and time-delayed biodiversity loss at different trophic levels. Ecology Letters vol. 13 597–605 (2010).
Haddad, N. M. et al. Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems. Science Advances vol. 1 e1500052–e1500052 (2015).
Wilson, M. C. et al. Habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation: key findings and future challenges. Landscape Ecology vol. 31 219–227 (2016).
Fletcher, R. J. et al. Is habitat fragmentation good for biodiversity? Biological Conservation vol. 226 9–15 (2018).
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Our new paper on habitat fragmentation and extinction debt is now published online. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ele.13398 Check out my accompanying blog post for a brief overview https://thompsonsed.co.uk/habitat-fragmentation-what-does-it-mean-for-biodiversity #ecology #fragmentation
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Death toll in Italy migrant boat wreck rises to 94, hundreds more missing
Rescued migrants arrive onboard a coastguard vessel at the harbour of Lampedusa October 3, 2013. An estimated 500 passengers on a boat that sank off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa on Thursday were all believed to be Eritreans coming from Libya, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration said. [Photo/Agencies]
ROME - The death toll from the wreck of a fishing boat carrying about 500 African migrants near the Italian island of Lampedusa has risen to 94, with about 250 still missing, according to local reports Thursday.
According to the survivors, the boat was from Libya and ran aground, and then it caught fire and capsized when the migrants set fire to a blanket to attract the attention of the islanders.
"We decided to light a fire to get us notice. But the bridge was contaminated with oils, and in a few moments the boat was engulfed in flames," one of the migrants was quoted as saying by Corriere della Sera newspaper.
"Many of us plunged into the sea among the screams as the boat turned upside down," he added.
Rescue teams have recovered the corpses of 94 people, including some women and four children, who drowned as they tried to swim to shore. But the victims, mainly from Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia according to media reports, could be a lot more.
Over 150 migrants have been rescued up to now by the coast guard, which received an alarm from two fishing boats in the area, and was still searching for more victims. Some of the migrants said other ships were transiting near them but did not stop.
ANSA news agency said that Italian police have detained one Tunisian national suspected of being "human trafficker," who was among the survivors.
Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta described the accident as a "huge tragedy." He rushed to the scene with Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Angelino Alfano.
President Giorgio Napolitano said that what he called "journeys of despair and death" by asylum should be better controlled by the whole Europe.
There is the "the absolute necessity of decisions and action by the international community, and the European Union in the first place," he said commenting on the tragedy.
Thousands of African migrants try the hazardous Mediterranean crossing to Italy every year. A recent study found some 6,200 migrants had died in southern Italian waters since 1994.
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allmediascotland...Your key to the media > Media Releases > Education Secretary formally launches Stow College Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning
Education Secretary formally launches Stow College Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning
By susanchristie in · March 1, 2013 · Comments Off
STOW College’s Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, launched last night by Education Secretary, Michael Russell, has been established to build links between education, enterprise and business.
The Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning seeks to encourage local businesses to become involved and work with Stow College to help deliver and support a new generation of enterprising students who will help re-energise Glasgow’s economic prosperity.
Speaking at the launch, Keith McKellar, Chair, Stow College Board of Management, said: “Our Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning illustrates what we do best – building networks between enterprise and creativity through a cross-fertilisation of the private and education sectors.
“We believe that our new Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, through its membership of the Gazelle Colleges group and links with the Peter Jones Academy, can be a catalyst for the wider colleges sector throughout Scotland.”
Robert McGrory, Chief Executive and Principal of Stow College, said: “As a member of the Gazelle Colleges group, Stow College views entrepreneurship as an important driver for strategic change in Further Education.
“With a government strategy focusing on the importance of a more forward thinking and entrepreneurial workforce for economic recovery and the need for college graduates to be equipped with the skills required to enter the labour market, the need for transformational change is more important than ever.”
Stow College has already started transforming the learner experience and enhancing the entrepreneurial culture within the college through the introduction of national enterprise competitions and projects as well as the establishment of Scotland’s first Peter Jones Enterprise Academy.
Stow College is the only Scottish member of The Gazelle Colleges Group, an alliance of 19 colleges committed to transforming the curriculum to encourage an entrepreneurial mindset in their students, and the launch of its Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning also marks the Scottish launch of Gazelle Local, an organisation committed to combining the exceptional experience of entrepreneurs who have succeeded in business with leaders in the further education and wider public sector.
‘Gazelles’ are dynamic, fast-growth young businesses, making the greatest impact on growth, wealth creation and employment opportunities in Britain.
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Police in F Division (Interior Locations) are currently probing the death of a 26-year-old miner, who died after a chunk of mud fell on his head.Dead is Neville Rodrigues, a miner of Karasabai Village, South Pakaraimas, Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni).The incident occurred at about 09:00h at Apanda Mines, Kamarang, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni).According to reports, Rodrigues was working in a pit at the Apanda Mines along with other workers when a chunk of hard mud referred to as “catch cow” reportedly fell on his head. As a result of injuries sustained, the 26-year-old was rushed to the Jawalla Health Post in a serious condition.However, the young man subsequently died at the health centre while receiving treatment. His body is at the Kamarang Mortuary awaiting a post-mortem examination.In the meanwhile, investigations are ongoing. read more
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Cognitive Automation is the Immediate Future of… Google has not slowed down with its service offering. In September, Google announced an application program interface (API) for its Google Sites technology, effectively providing users with a way to import and export apps from Microsoft SharePoint sites. Google Wave is a collaboration platform. It has received mixed reviews; its effectiveness in the enterprise still too soon to tell.Google and many others see in Microsoft a giant that can be slow and at times uneasy in how it steps through the market. With each step, they face a community network of micro-sized businesses that are proving formidable with their best-in-breed technologies.It’s a big week for Microsoft. Sharepoint is at a juncture. With Google in such an aggressive mode, Microsoft will have to move faster with its own product development and convince its customers that what it provides is still the best choice for the enterprise. The campaign is now running across the globe. With the launch, Google released a montage video. We find this interesting. If nothing else, YouTube offers Google a great way to promote its own products. Related Posts Tags:#enterprise#Products#saas#Trends alex williams 3 Areas of Your Business that Need Tech Now On the eve of Microsoft’s Sharepoint conference in Las Vegas, Google is launching the international phase of an advertising campaign that is the largest ever for its push into the enterprise and one of the most extensive in the company’s history.The “Gone Google” campaign is significant in a number of ways.Sharepoint is one of Microsoft’s crown jewels. It’s a huge business. The technology generates a cool $1 billion in revenues. The technology is at the heart of Microsoft’s strategy to remain king of the enterprise. Steve Ballmer says Sharepoint will surpass 1 million developers in the next year.Steve Ballmer is banking on customers making major investments in Sharepoint 2010. With the upgrade, customers face a host of new IT expenses.For example, Sharepoint 2010 requires upgrading from 32-bit to 64-bit technology on all servers. Office 2007 will run on Sharepoint 2010 but Microsoft is recommending investments in Office 2010 for richer integration. Office 2003 users will need to upgrade to Office 2007 to even run Sharepoint 2010.Google App services require no IT environment to manage, no expensive software upgrades and no new server purchases. That’s enticing for any sized business.The Google campaign highlights why the Microsoft model may be slipping a bit. Companies are questioning if they need to make such major investments in Microsoft technology. For its part, Google has more than 2 million businesses on Google Apps, representing 20 million users. Google is expanding its Google Apps service to the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Japan, Australia and Singapore. Clients include Motorola, New York Life and Konica Minolta.The “Gone Google” campaign is a continuation of the roll-out that Google did over the summer. It features changing messages from businesses that have switched to Google Apps, Google Search Appliance and services such as Google Postini, their hosted security and archiving service. IT + Project Management: A Love Affair Massive Non-Desk Workforce is an Opportunity fo… read more
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7 Tips for Working With Animals on Set
Animals are fickle, unpredictable, and difficult to capture on camera correctly. Here are a few tips to help you better manage critters on set.Top image via Shutterstock1. Prepare for a Longer Shooting SchedulePatience is widely stated as the most critical aspect of animal photography. Getting even the simplest of shots can take hours, so prepare your batteries, memory cards, and shooting schedule for a long day.2. Focus on the EyesImage via ShutterstockAnother important rule in animal photography or cinematography is to always set the focus on the subject’s eyes.This rule should never be broken if the animal’s face is visible in the shot. A high f-stop lens can make this easier by providing a little wiggle room via deep focus.3. Start SimpleThe best way to amass as much footage as possible is by starting with the easy shots before moving toward the more difficult, specific ones. Wider angles locked down on a tripod are more forgiving to the uncooperative nature of most animals. Once you have the basics locked down, you can move on to narrower lenses and more camera movement with your remaining time.4. Capture MovementImage via ShutterstockGetting your animal still enough to capture is difficult enough in its own right, but accurately depicting motion can be an absolute nightmare. For starters, you’ll usually want to shoot with a high shutter speed, as it will prevent excess motion blur. Beyond this, you can create the illusion of specific actions by splicing close-up shots of legs or a paw in between other footage.This is an old technique, and it can easily look extremely cheesy and unrealistic, so err on the side of caution when applying it. You can also cheat certain effects by simulating a POV shot from the perspective of your subject animal.5. Keep the Camera RollingYou never know when your subject animal might do something interesting or relevant, so it doesn’t hurt to keep recording as much as possible on the off chance that you accidentally catch the exact action you need.6. Keep Your Animals Happy and FocusedImage via ShutterstockKeeping your subject critters happy is not only good for your conscience, but is also a way to make them better cooperate. Positive reinforcement such as treats will encourage the animal to keep up the good behavior and even improve upon it.It’s also a good idea to frequently take small breaks and play with them to wear them out. This will keep their energy level low and keep them still in front of the camera — especially helpful when there are multiple animals distracting each other. Also do your best to minimize their relocation. Any time you can, relocate the camera before relocating your animal(s). Having a professional trainer on set is obviously preferable, but it doesn’t hurt to know how to appease and work with pets yourself.7. Use Natural LightImage via ShutterstockMany animals, especially horses, are extremely sensitive to bright or flashing lights — and will panic or become anxious as a result of it. For this reason, it’s best to use natural light as much as possible. If artificial light is absolutely necessary, try to use soft lighting instead of something direct or harsh.Clearly, you can’t expect the same level of cooperation from any animal on set as you might out of a human, but with these tips, hopefully you’ll be able to capture them a bit easier.What tricks do you use with animals? Let us know in the comments below. read more
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Army operations will clear the decks for political processes: J&K commander
Army operations in Kashmir are heading to a point where other processes, especially political ones, can take over so that soldiers can return to the borders, General Officer Commanding (GOC) of strategic 15 Corps, Lieutenant General Anil Kumar Bhatt, told The Hindu in an exclusive interview in Srinagar. “The results of operations are never seen in the short term but we are making headway. The Army can always create conditions of peace and tranquillity for other processes. Presently, we are reaching there. In the long-term strategy, any Army would prefer to do its primary role of protecting the borders,” said Lt. Gen. Bhatt. He said the launching pads in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) saw a dip during elections in Pakistan. “It has increased since then, as 250 to 300 terrorists are waiting to infiltrate. What they (Pakistan) speak publicly has not changed anything on the ground,” he said. On the killing of 37 militants in November, the most for any month in the ongoing offensive, the Army officer said the change in tactics was yielding results. “One, there is cooperation from people. Two, we shortened operations and finished them in the night. The idea is not to get involved in crowd control. We have slowly learnt our lessons. It’s equally important for us to avoid civilian casualties.” He said the swelling of militant ranks with local boys joining them, even two years after Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani’s killing, was an area of concern. “There is a bench strength terrorists maintain and fill it with people who are on the sidelines waiting to get recruited. The social media has been a challenge to us on this. Youths are radicalised by online propaganda. Photos of youth posing with guns posted online is done as part of a strategy, so that the door for return is shut.” He said Pakistan succeeded in exploiting the “situation of alienation in south Kashmir” to fill militant ranks with emotionally vulnerable youths. “The trend has waned considerably in the past two months. It had reached 24 recruits a month in June-July,” said the Army commander. “What is also turning the tide against the terrorists is that a lot of people have been at the receiving end of the terrorist atrocities of the worst kind and are refusing to provide shelter to them,” he added. He said targeting policemen or security forces personnel at home or during leave “was a new low on the part of terror groups.” “There is an attempt by the terrorists to compensate their loss of capabilities by targeting innocents and unarmed personnel, and adopt the methods of ISIS and Al-Qaeda for infusing fear,” said Lt. Gen. Bhatt. However, the Army will abide by its rule not to go after “terrorists’ families or unarmed civilians”, he said. Approximately 300 terrorists are still operating in the Valley, he said, with 175-180 in South Kashmir, while 57 surrendered or were apprehended this year. The IS, the officer said, has attraction to the extent of its glamour. “It is a matter of great concern for the separatists’ Joint Resistance Leadership. Its strength remains in single digit,” he said. Lt. Gen. Bhatt said there was no case where the soldiers violated Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) during operations this year, even in the incidents of Kulgam and Shopian, which left seven civilians dead. “There was no crossing of line. The casualties have been a result of cross-firing or where the crowd posed a danger to the life of soldiers or in cases of grave provocations. Houses are destroyed as a last measure. During the operations in November, only in 30% cases houses were damaged,” he said. read more
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40 injured in J&K stoning incidents
More than 140 incidents of stone pelting have been reported in the Kashmir Valley in the past one week and 40 paramilitary personnel were injured, according to government data available with The Hindu.The Valley has been under lockdown since August 5 after Home Minister Amit Shah moved two Bills in the Rajya Sabha to annul Article 370 and downgrade and bifurcate the State of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories.The most incidents of stone throwing (45) were reported on August 6, a day after the legislation was cleared by the Rajya Sabha. As many as 21 central armed police force personnel received injuries the same day.Senior Home Ministry and officials of the J&K police have asserted that barring localised incidents the law and order situation in the Valley has remained peaceful.On Tuesday, a senior government official said the ongoing restrictions in Kashmir Valley was a “trade-off between inconvenience and loss of lives.” He said that when the entire northeast was redrawn in the past, there was violence but the situation is normal now. “People have short memories,” he said.All communication lines including Internet and landline phones continue to be suspended. “These decisions are not simple, they are taken at local and district levels. The situation varies from place to place, the assessment is done by the State administration, they will decide,” said the official, when asked when the restrictions would be eased in the Valley.“Some people are trying to instigate and provoke. We have to choose between allowing free run to such elements or leave it to the judgment of the local administration,” he said.He said this was not the first time such restrictions had been imposed in the Valley and when the Hurriyat called a strike, it remained shut for months.“Post-2016 violence (after Hizbul commander Burhan Wani was killed), restrictions continued for months together. This time we have taken preventive measures. The entire objective is to minimise violence and prevent loss of lives,” the official said.The Home Ministry confirmed on Tuesday that “miscreants mingled with people returning home after prayers at a local mosque” in Soura on August 9 and “they resorted to unprovoked stone pelting against law enforcement forces to cause widespread unrest.” Earlier when BBC and Reuters had carried reports and posted videos of the protests, the claim was contested by the government.The Home Ministry spokesperson said on Twitter on Tuesday, “law enforcement authorities showed restraint and tried to maintain law & order situation. It is reiterated that no bullets have been fired in #JammuAndKashmir since the development related to #Article370.” read more
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Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra are the originals, I’m fake: Aamir Khan
Aamir KhanAamir Khan is famous for turning any potentially embarrassing situation into a publicity opportunity, so he was in full flow at a press conference he addressed on July 4, 2011 with artists Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra, who had claimed the copyright to the expression Bose DK, used liberally in the film Delhi Belly. It did not matter to the actor, who’s the producer of Delhi Belly and has done an item number for it, that the Delhi High Court had refused to take up the petition moved by the two against the film’s charttopping song, Bhag DK Bose. The Gurgaon- based artists, who’re known to thrive on controversy, also played along.”I was taken aback when I got a legal notice a week ago,” Khan said. His declaration was at variance with his publicist’s earlier statement to Mail Today that the actor had no knowledge of the matter. “But my wife Kiran, who is well-versed with the world of art, and my neighbours, the wellknown artist couple Jitish and Reena Kallat, informed me about Thukral and Tagra,” Khan continued.”They (Thukral and Tagra) spoke to me over the phone and sounded upset. I called them to Mumbai to talk about the issue. They came and we spent almost an entire day talking to each other. That’s when I understood the whole thing and realised they were not trying to arm-twist me in any way,” the actor said.It is the contention of Thukral and Tagra, which is how the artist duo is known in the art world, that they had not only held exhibitions titled BoseDK, but even registered the name as a trade mark under their name in 2005. BoseDK is a clever piece of anglicisation of an expletive used widely in the Hindi heartland. Khan acknowledged the fact and said that though the expression used in the song was not BoseDK but DK Bose, it was merely a technical issue.”Creative people can end up thinking on similar lines but what is important is that something that had begun on a note of anger, fear and suspicion, has ended amicably for all of us,” he said, even as news photographers and television cameramen fell over each other to get the ‘ best shot’. Revelling in the media attention, Khan said: “Often, people fight on such issues but only lawyers have a great time. I am here to acknowledge BoseDK is their creation and we are not making any claims to it being ours. They are the originals, I’m the fake, even if they are BoseDK and I’m DK Bose.” Thukral and Tagra had to face some uncomfortable questions because of their action of going to court just two days before the film’s release.”The song had been out for a while but we were travelling on work,” Tagra said in their defence. “We realised we had created this trademark using our creative licence, but now, after it is out in the public domain because of the film, it could be used by other artistes who may not be aware of our work. That’s why we went to court only to give the credit where it is due.” The artists said Imran Khan sports a T- shirt in the film with BoseDK emblazoned on it below Thukral’s face. It harks back, they said, to the duo’s now-controversial art series, first created in 2003 and put up in exhibitions in 2005 and 2007 at the city’s Nature Morte gallery.One of the works from the series is being exhibited at the ongoing Venice Biennale and another, a dinosaur installation with pink plastic bottles, will be shown in San Francisco very soon. With the minor brouhaha ending, like an old Hindi movie, on a happy note, the question that lingers is why Aamir Khan, the owner of DK Bose, chose to respond to the creators of BoseDK – a favour not extended even by the Delhi High Court.advertisement read more
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TALES OF THE FOXWOOD B&B
_by Van © 2008 _
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The next couple of weeks passed quickly. The building inspection took a few days, but Hannah only required Alice's technical assistance for the first two. After that, a great deal of crawling through the foundations and up into attic spaces was involved. Foxwood's new Resident Artisan was pleased to discover nothing she could call a problem. The foundations were deep, solid, and dry, the tile roof wouldn't need replacement for at least another twenty years, and the plumbing didn't show any signs of trouble.
As far as detail work was concerned, the only thing that cried for Hannah's immediate attention was the replacement of several wooden, louvered covers over the heating vents in several of the guest rooms. Artifacts of the recently renovated heating system, they were stock items from a building center, and they didn't match the existing paneling in stain color or finish. Hannah fabricated a prototype replacement in the workshop with the appropriate joinery and hand-tooled appearance that matched the Keep's existing style. With a little experimentation she found the appropriate stain, then, with Jillian's blessing, established a replacement schedule.
The Keep's electrical service was more than adequate. In fact, all the wiring ran in either galvanized or PVC conduit, exceeding code requirement. Also, the installation of Alice's alternative energy enhancements had been equally professional, and all the various modern elements of the wind, water, and solar systems were either cunningly concealed or camouflaged as medieval technology.
A case in point was the infamous "Wench-Winch" exercise machine. Located in a half-basement built into the side of the Mill House, it was like a giant hamster wheel constructed from seasoned timber. The treads of the interior track, between the massive, wagon wheel-like outer spokes, were each about eight feet long and a foot wide, and were covered with braided microfiber mats for added traction. Standing on the track, a person of Hannah's height had to lean forward to keep the central hub from bumping the back of their head. The wheel turned on stainless steel bearings and mounts, but they were completely hidden behind wooden collars and the entire apparatus looked authentically weathered and rustic.
In addition to the wheel itself, a massive, complex, wooden gear train, with interlocking hardwood pegs as teeth, linked the Wench-Winch to the main shaft of the Mill's waterwheel. Again, all the gears turned on hidden, stainless steel bearings and mounts. The two large shafts could be disengaged completely, or a lever could be thrown, causing the waterwheel to make the Wench-Winch turn. A system of chainfalls, hanging counterweights, lever arms, and friction brakes acted as governors.
Despite the Wench-Winch's apparent complexity, its operation was quite simple.
A chain attached to a heavy wooden lever arm disengaged the treadmill and waterwheel when a counterweight reached a certain point, but this mechanism would only advance if the treadmill was turning at a faster rate than the waterwheel. In other words, the counterweight's gears would engage only if a person walked the track with sufficient effort. Then, gradually, link-by-link, the weight would fall, and eventually the shafts would disengage. But, if the person chose not to walk, the waterwheel gears would turn the track under their feet and the counterweight mechanism's gears would slip. Duration was handled by adjusting the initial position of the main counterweight, and a friction brake with a variety of settings controlled the force required to make the treadmill turn.
Trudging on the Wench-Winch was either voluntary or was enforced by manacles and shackles linked by chains to large rings that slipped on the treadmill's central hub as it turned. Motivation to continue walking was threefold:
The desire to burn calories and transfer the energy (however trivial the amount) to Foxwood's storage batteries.
To avoid tripping on the track as it turned under your feet.
To prevent the optional nipple-clamp and crotch-belt chains from being repeatedly tugged, vibrated, and then released by an eccentric gear linked to the waterwheel shaft.
Hannah was only forced to experience the Wench-Winch once, as part of her continuing indoctrination. Naked, in shackles, her wrists manacled behind her back, a chain linking her restraints to her collar, and a hardwood bit-gag tied between her teeth, she clinked and clattered in place for one hour, with Sydney "supervising". The time passed with the "Evil Baroness" comfortably reclined on a stack of grain sacks, strumming a small lute and singing to herself, smiling her irritatingly smug (and beautiful) smile, and being Sydney.
It had been humiliating, but only mildly arduous. With the main friction brake on its first setting, the Wench-Winch was adequate exercise, but running on Foxwood's trails was better. Anyway, it was clear the main purpose of the device was, in fact, humiliation, to make the captive feel like a beast of burden, and it worked. At least Hannah's red-haired instructor/tormentor had foregone the motivational nipple clamps and crotch chain.
This was the only session of Hannah's "special indoctrination" Jillian scheduled during this period. The remaining ordeals hung over Hannah's head like a collection of Damoclesian swords, since the others wouldn't tell her exactly what was waiting for her on "The List".
Also during this period, there was a party of special guests, but Hannah wasn't involved in whatever happened during their brief visit, and it was Foxwood Protocol not to gossip about guest activities. Hannah kept to her work and continued to settle in.
Regarding the initial room-by-room inspection of the Keep, Hannah was mildly surprised (and maybe a little relieved) to learn that her guide, Sydney, had exercised a great deal of poetic license in her description of the unvisited chambers of the Stone Tower. It wasn't really a small-scale prison with facilities for the incarceration and "entertainment" of dozens of distressed damsels. Most of the "special" chambers weren't "special" at all. Every room in the Tower was "authentic" (and not in need of "medievalization"), but there was not a large inventory of Diabolical Torture Devices awaiting Hannah or anyone else unfortunate enough to need "indoctrination". Most of the spaces were being used as storerooms. The lower dungeons did include the "Horse" Sydney had shown her, of course, as well as a bondage chair called "The Throne of Woe" and a rather nasty "Spanish Rack", but that was it. Sydney had been exaggerating, for Hannah's "benefit".
And what about Sydney?
The red-haired Sword and Rope Mistress still didn't exactly warm to Hannah, but they settled into a relationship that was not hostile. Jillian's attempted matchmaking remained a barrier between them and was not discussed; but they came to enjoy each other's company.
During weapons practice Sydney revealed herself to be a patient teacher, imparting the fundamentals of theatrical fencing, ax wielding, and archery in just a few sessions.
Hannah learned to parry and thrust a sword without being dangerous to herself or her adversary, but while maintaining a martial appearance. She started with a broadsword, then was introduced to the more rapier-like longsword. Sydney promised to teach Hannah to "fight" with two blades at once, sword and dagger, but only after she was deemed ready.
Archery was actually fun, and Hannah began practicing on her own. She became adept at plunking most of her "clothyard shafts" in the bull's-eye in just a few days. Field archery was another matter. Judging range and deflection in the forest was not something one picked up immediately. In any case, at Foxwood, Robin Hood tournaments might be elements of some of Scholar Connie's scenarios, but arrows were never loosed in "combat". In fact, after teaching Hannah the proper technique of the Mediterranean or English release, she spent an equal amount of time teaching her a false release, how to draw the bow while keeping the arrow's nock free of the bowstring.
The ax was different. Sydney taught Hannah how to swing and flourish both a hand ax and a long-handled bearded ax; but they never sparred, not ax-against-ax, or sword-against-ax. It was simply too dangerous for a beginner. She did teach Hannah the "housecarl's weave", the technique of keeping the ax swinging in a continuous, full-force, unpredictable pattern of circles and figure-eights. It was a highly effective tactic, making it nearly impossible for a swordsman, with or without a shield, to thrust or slash without exposing an arm or shoulder. It was also very tiring, which was why the Danes and Saxons had used it only in groups. They would step from behind the shield wall of their comrades, engage the foe, then step back and let another take their place when they needed to rest. In any case, the solo weave made for a good show, so she learned the drill.
Hannah started getting good as a theatrical warrior, and her relationship with Sydney slowly changed from polite tolerance to mutual respect―but intimate friendship remained out of the question. Sydney had her pride, and Hannah wasn't about to start fawning after anybody (no matter how strong and attractive they might be).
--- Tales of the Foxwood B&B: HHH Chapter 9
Several days after the conclusion of Hannah's building inspection, Jillian called a meeting to discuss the finishing of the "oubliette", the two-tiered space under the Stone Tower's patio. The Resident Artisan and the Engineer were officially invited, but the Scholar insisted on attending as well. Apparently, there was an ongoing argument about what to do with the place―or at least what to call it.
"Words have meanings," Constance insisted. "The only access to an 'oubliette' is through a trapdoor in the ceiling, or it isn't an oubliette." She was dressed in her usual granny-glasses, gown, and robe; the Mistress of the Keep and her cousin were in their usual gowns; and Hannah was in her Artisan/Thrall costume of leather boots, kilt, bra-top, collar, and blond braids.
"Oubliette, boobliette," Alice said with a dismissive wave of the hand. "A nasty new dungeon is what we want, and it doesn't matter what we call it."
"Words have meanings," Constance reiterated.
"How 'bout 'The Pit of Horror'?" Alice suggested.
"It isn't a pit," Constance responded. "Are you as careless with your calculations as you are with semantics?"
Hannah and Jillian exchanged an amused glance over the rims of their coffee mugs.
"Well," Jillian said, "I've always liked the idea of Foxwood having an 'oubliette', even if we have to stretch the definition to have one."
Hannah frowned in thought as she refilled her mug from a stoneware carafe. "Is there any reason we have to use that particular space?" She refilled Jillian's mug as well, then offered the carafe to the others and was politely declined. "We aren't exactly strapped for dungeon space. Can the finishing of the patio foundations wait?"
"What do you have in mind?" Jillian asked.
"The elevator shaft," Hannah responded.
"What?" Alice asked.
"Brilliant!" Constance enthused.
"Wait, the elevator shaft?" Alice demanded. "How can we use the elevator shaft?" The Keep had a service elevator to move furniture and the like from floor to floor, but its doors were either camouflaged behind sliding panels or were in service areas not visited by guests.
Hannah flipped to the appropriate sheet of the Keep's plans, and pointed to a void between the Stone Tower and the main guest wing.
"Oh, the guest elevator shaft," Alice nodded. "It's walled off, isn't it?"
"I never liked the idea of an elevator for guests," Jillian said, "and having it operate with 'Elven magic' stretched suspension-of-disbelief beyond the breaking point. That's why, once we added the guest rooms on the ground floor and could legally do so, I had it decommissioned. In fact, I had the entire elevator mechanism―car, rails, counterweights, and motor―removed and sold for scrap. But to answer your question," she told Alice, "it's not walled off. The elevator doors on the guest wing side are simply hidden behind the paneling, and on the tower side they're behind false dungeon doors. It was cheaper and easier than actually walling up the entrances... and now I'm glad we didn't."
"I still don't get it," Alice sighed. "It's so tiny... nothing like the size of the oubliette―I mean the patio foundations," she added quickly, preempting yet another correction from the scholar.
Jillian smiled. "To use a pair of clichés slightly out of context, 'it's the thought that counts', and 'size doesn't matter'."
"The space for the elevator car is..." Hannah leaned over the plans. "...about six-by-eight; but the run for the counterweight and space for the equipment at the bottom of the shaft add another five."
"So..." Constance said, leaning close as well, "after we face the walls with stone, it would be... something like eight-by-eleven?"
"Depending on how we do it," Hannah nodded. "Probably a little smaller." She shifted her gaze to Jillian. "We could use tumbled blocks with interlocking keyways, matching the dry-fit look of the rest of the Stone Tower. I'm pretty sure I can find some landscaping blocks that would work. We could flag the floor, or leave it as packed dirt―your call―and go up two stories from the sub-basement."
"Meaning the oubliette's floor would be on the same level as the torture chambers?" Alice asked.
Hannah nodded. "With the access two stories above." She pointed to the disguised entrance to the elevator on the main floor of the Tower. "We make the fake dungeon door real, face the concrete walls, lay a set of timber joists and planks for the floor, and put in a trapdoor for access."
"A real oubliette!" Constance squealed. "It would be like being at the bottom of a large, deep well! No way out at all!"
"Sounds like a lot of work," Alice objected.
"No more than facing the walls and ceiling of the entire patio foundations," Jillian said, then focused on Hannah. "Good idea, Artisan! How would we handle getting the prisoners in and out?"
"Rope, pulley, and windlass," Alice answered, "or I could design a sliding ladder." The diminutive engineer was warming to the idea. "Hmm... eventually, I could come up with a platform then lowered into the cell, then retracted and became the bottom of the trapdoor. I'll think about it, and consult by books on medieval engineering... but we'd start with a rope or ladder."
"Excellent!" Jillian beamed. "What next?"
"I conduct a detailed survey of the space," Hannah responded, "to make sure there aren't any problems, like brackets or beams that'll have to be cut away or factored in. Also, I'll start looking on the internet for the appropriate concrete blocks. Then, we draw up the final plans and go to work."
"Time frame?" Jillian asked.
"If you want this done immediately," Hannah answered, "oh... a couple of weeks for the planning and maybe as much as a month for the prep, depending on what it looks like in there. Once the blocks are delivered... maybe three months? It all turns on the final plan, how many hands are available, and whether the guest schedule gets in the way."
Jillian nodded. "We'll proceed with deliberate speed. There's no need to rush, and I do want it all done without any disruption for our guests. Above all, I want it done right."
Everyone nodded. "Agreed," Hannah said, and they all clinked coffee mugs. Hannah smiled at Constance. "Satisfied?"
"Very!" Constance grinned, then patted Alice's hand. "Disappointed you won't be getting a Royal Apartment under the patio, Princess?"
Alice smiled at Constance. "Not in the least. I'm thinking about what a wonderful place the new oubliette will be for dumping know-it-all pests."
"Or for getting rid of spoiled, self-important Royal Brats," Connie agreed.
Hannah and Jillian smiled. As Jillian was well aware and Hannah had come to learn, the diminutive brunette and redhead "bickered" like this constantly, but were the best of friends.
Several days later...
Hannah woke, performed her morning toilet, and dressed in her "uniform": boots, leather kilt, leather bra-top, collar, and Saxon braids. Technically, she didn't need to "dress" in her collar, of course, as it had remained locked around her throat since her first official indoctrination session with Sydney. She was now quite used to the thing, and hardly noticed it was there. She'd also become quite adept at braiding her own hair, although she was more than happy to let one of the others do it for her... especially while they relaxed in the Roman Bath... naked and reclined on the stone benches... simmering in the hot tub... or baking in the sauna.
The basics of her costume were unchanged, but these were not the "loaner" boots, kilt, and top she had first worn. Her custom-fitted outfits had begun to arrive, and while her new boots more or less matched the originals in style, they fit her feet like the proverbial gloves and had steel toe-caps. In fact, they were OSHA approved work boots, despite their medieval appearance. Her kilt, one of several now hanging in her closet, had subtle, Saxon-style tooling around the hem and belt loops, and the belt buckle was an authentic Saxon replica. Finally, her top was decidedly more elaborate in its workmanship than the original. Rather than a simple bra of pieced together rawhide scraps, it was more a combination harness and bandeau. It closed in the front by means of a short, vertical run of rawhide lacing. The breast cups were dark, very thin suede, with darts stitched with narrow, thread-like thongs to hold the required shape, and the top's shoulder and torso straps were wide, flat ribbons of elaborately braided leather. Leather bracers on her wrists and the ring of keys dangling from her belt completed the outfit. Her "authentic" tool box, full of either replica or modern hand tools cleverly "medievalized" and rusticated, waited in the Keep.
Hannah climbed the Forest Path to Foxwood, enjoying the dawn. She passed through the gate, and was surprised to find its lantern glowing amber, designating a "special day". She continued up the trail until the Keep came into view, and found the rust-orange banner flying from the Main Tower. She'd checked Foxwood's intranet calendar before leaving the Outer Mews, and no guests were scheduled for the rest of the week.
The Mistress of the Keep, Baroness Sydney, Princess Alice, and Scholar Constance were already in the Common Room when the Resident Artisan made her entrance.
"Good morrow to all," Hannah said, and the others returned her greeting. "Why the special banner?" she asked Jillian as she pulled out a chair and accepted a mug of coffee from Alice.
"Sydney's request," Jillian answered, smiling at her sister.
Sydney, locked eyes with Hannah. "Nothing pressing on your schedule, according to what you told Her Ladyship last night, correct?"
Hannah nodded. "Nothing that can't wait. Why?"
Sydney's smile turned somewhat sinister. "Meet me at the North Trailhead an hour after breakfast."
The trailhead in question was the start of most of the hiking and jogging trails that led into the valley below and up the hill. "Why?" Hannah asked, again. She wasn't nervous. (Well, maybe a little.)
"Your introduction to alfresco bondage," Sydney explained.
"Another indoctrination milestone," Jillian clarified.
Hannah focused on Constance. "Should I be worried?" she asked.
"Oh, you know the Baroness," Alice giggled, preempting an answer from the scholar. "She'll drag you out into the wilderness, tie you to a tree, and leave you for the bears. No worries."
Constance frowned at the princess, then smiled at Hannah. "I'm sure that whatever The Baroness has in mind will be horrible beyond words," she said with mock seriousness. "You can tell us all the juicy details tonight."
"Just in case any bears do show up," Sydney said to Jillian, "you may recover our remains at the Summit Clearing."
The Summit Clearing was not quite at the actual summit of Mount Foxwood, the forested hill that sheltered the Keep. Its only improvement was a rustic fire pit, but it offered a magnificent view of the valley and made a terrific picnic site. Hannah had been through the clearing before, as the trail up and back made for a challenging run, but she'd never lingered. Apparently, today she would get her chance.
At the appointed time...
A reassuring Kayley-Kiss still wet on her lips, Hannah exited the Kitchen and made her way to the North Trailhead. She'd left her keys on a peg, and the only other change in her costume (ordered by Sydney) was the replacement of her "medieval work boots" with her "medieval trail-runners". More gifts from Jillian, the running shoes in question were, in fact, modern running shoes, with athletic arch supports and treaded soles, but the uppers resembled dark suede slipper-boots. They closed with velcro straps, then flaps covered the modern elements and were secured with leather thongs.
Sydney was waiting, resplendent in her Evil Baroness costume of olive tights, rust-brown shirt, and leather jerkin. A sheathed broadsword rode her hip, the strap of a leather satchel was over her right shoulder, and a coil of faux-hemp, microfiber rope was in her left hand. "It's about time," she growled, even though Hannah was not actually late. "Hands together in front."
"Hello to you, too," Hannah said, with a wry smile, and offered her hands, as ordered.
Sydney dropped the satchel from her shoulder, and began tying Hannah's wrists. "Watch my technique," she said, as she cinched the initial half-dozen bands, then tied a square knot away from Hannah's hands and between her wrists. "There's no way you can reach that knot."
"Agreed," Hannah said.
"And note how I take the short free end and pull it through the cinch," Sydney continued. "Now you can't even twist the knot out of shape." She pulled a turn of rope around Hannah's waist, then took a hitch in the rope and tightened it over her wrist bonds, pinning her hands at the level of her navel. She then threaded the remaining two or three yards of rope through the ring in the front of Hannah's collar, and took a similar hitch around the base of the ring. "And now you can't reach the knot with your teeth."
Sydney leaned close as she made a show of checking Hannah's bonds. "Don't look now," she whispered, "but the 'Bobbsey Twins' are watching us from around the base of the Stone Tower."
Hannah chuckled as Sydney tugged on her wrist ropes. "They were whispering together all during breakfast. I assume we're going to have an audience."
"That may be their plan," Sydney muttered, "but I have something very different in mind." She shouldered the satchel and took the end of Hannah's rope in her right hand. "That should hold you, thrall!" she said, in a loud voice, then continued in a whisper. "The Princess helped Cricket clean up after breakfast, something she never does, unless it's her turn to wear Kayley's collar."
"Clearing the deck for a morning of skulking and leering?" Hannah suggested.
"Exactly," Sydney agreed, then tugged on Hannah's leash. "No talking!" she barked, "or I'll gag you with your own loincloth!" She then led Hannah towards the start of the trail to the summit.
As soon as the Keep was hidden by the trees, Sydney began untying Hannah's bonds. "Keep walking," she ordered, "but watch your feet so you don't trip."
"Turn ahead," Hannah noted, and Sydney suspended her efforts while they rounded a switchback. In short order, Hannah was completely free.
"Coil this for me and take the satchel, would you?" Sydney asked, then handed Hannah the tangle of rope and unshouldered the satchel. As they continued walking, Sydney unbuckled her sword belt, made adjustments that lengthened its straps, then slung the sword behind her back with the hilt at her right shoulder. She tightened the main buckle, then reached for the satchel.
Meanwhile, Hannah had coiled and slung the rope over her left shoulder and was settling the satchel's strap over her right. "I got it," she said, waving away Sydney's hand. "What now?"
"Now, we run," Sydney answered. "We want to get to the clearing waaay ahead of the Twins."
And run they did. Both were in excellent shape, of course, and the satchel wasn't much of a burden.
Several strenuous minutes later, the Summit Clearing was only a hundred yards ahead. Sydney pointed to a minor side-trail as they jogged past. "They'll go that way," she huffed. "It leads down the back of the hill, but right at the start it has a turn that overlooks the main clearing. They'll hide in the trees to watch, but... surprise, surprise."
"We won't be in the clearing," Hannah suggested.
Sydney grinned. "We'll be in the trees above their overly curious little heads. You see, today's lesson isn't about being captured in the woods. It's about doing the capturing."
Hannah grinned back. "And here I thought this was going to be a bad day."
"Just follow my lead," Sydney chuckled, "and be ready with the rope."
Alice and Cricket crept to the side of a switchback in the side-trail and towards the edge of a downslope. The Summit Clearing was near, no more than fifteen or twenty yards below.
"Be quiet," Alice whispered.
"Oh, thanks for the advice," Cricket whispered back. "I was about to jog back to the Keep for a pair of cymbals."
"I mean," Alice continued, "Syd may be tying Hannah to one of the trees on this side of the clearing, so be quiet."
"Yes, Your Worshipfulness," Cricket giggled.
Alice was in one of her Boy-Who-Never-Grew-Up/Princess-of-Thieves costumes: pointed slipper boots, leaf-green tights, a faded brown linen shirt, and a saddle-brown leather jerkin. A pointed cap, green felt with a brown feather, was perched on her head at a jaunty angle. Her copper-red curls were plaited in a French braid ponytail and trailed down her back. Finally, she wore the added accessory of a light, hooded cloak. It was a patchwork of rough-woven, linen squares of several different sizes and dyed in various earth tones. Its wear was not necessitated by the decidedly clement weather, but it was excellent forest camouflage.
The Cricket was in a variant of her basic thrall's costume: sandals, cross-laced to her knees, faux-burlap knee pants and short tunic, rope belt, and iron collar. She was also cloaked, but it was a very fine cloak, completely at odds with the her rough, servile costume. It was also totally different in style from her companion's. Its fabric was woven in a swirl of leaf and branch-like shapes, half Celtic knot pattern, and half Art Nouveau presentation of a tangled thicket. The colors were natural, and it was excellent camouflage. On close inspection, one noticed cute little hand-embroidered (actually machine embroidered) details, like ladybugs and lacewings crawling on the leaves, and the faces of strikingly realistic birds and small animals peering through the foliage. It was fully-functional as a garment and as camouflage, and was an exquisite work of art. In other words, it was Elven.
"I can see Sydney's satchel," Alice whispered, as they peered around the base of a cedar at the clearing below, "but I don't see them."
"Nope," Cricket agreed. "Let's get closer."
"We can't get any closer," Alice objected. "I don't think they're there."
Suddenly, two figures dropped from the tree, behind their backs. The skulkers were seized and held close as they scrambled to their feet. Their arms were pinned to their sides, under their cloaks, and at the same time, hands clamped tightly over their mouths. Their captors were Hannah and Sydney, of course. The Saxon Maiden had her fellow thrall in a tight embrace, and Sydney was easily controlling the squirming efforts of Alice to escape.
"There and gone, dear cousin," Sydney said as she stuffed a rag of soft cloth into Alice's mouth, "with more than enough time to sneak up here and set an ambush." She forced Alice first to her knees, then onto her stomach, then settled her weight on her back. With the cloak and her captor's knees pinning her arms, Alice was helpless to resist as Sydney tied a narrow bandage over the wadding, giving the prisoner a tight cleave-gag. Sydney then reversed position, pulled Alice's hands from under her cloak, and bound her wrists behind her back. Next, she dragged Alice to her feet and took a grip on her now tousled hair. Alice's cap had fallen in the dirt during her capture, and Sydney stooped, picked it up, and planted it on her own head. "Quit squirming," she ordered, tightening her handful of red curls, then focused on her fellow attacker.
Hannah and Cricket had watched the process of Alice being bound and gagged with rapt attention. Cricket squirmed and struggled and whimpered through Hannah's hand-gag, but she wasn't really trying to escape. Hannah held her tight, nonetheless.
"That's how it's done," Sydney said, with a gloating smile. "Note how I gagged her first. This increases the level of difficulty, but several of the scholar's outdoor scenarios involve capturing the damsel without alerting nearby guards or companions, so it's necessary. Care to give it a try?"
"Seems easy enough," Hannah chuckled, released her hand-gag and reached for the rags tucked in the belt of her kilt.
"Help!!" Cricket wailed. "Let me go-rrrf!"
"Ha!" Sydney laughed. "Not so easy, is it?"
Hannah had the wadding in Cricket's mouth, and was securing the cleaving bandage. She could tell Cricket's "distress" was entirely theatrical, although the little pixie now seemed to be doing her very best to squirm free. Following Sydney's example, Hannah forced her "victim" to the ground and tied her wrists. "Without these cloaks, this might have been more of a fight," she muttered as she tied the final knot.
"Yes, it was nice of them to wear them for us," Sydney chuckled. "Now, back to the clearing."
Peeling the already bound and gagged prisoners out of their clothing was a laborious task, as they continued the resistance expected of any diligent distressed damsel, but the issue was never in question. Eventually, the diminutive pair were lying on their sides, bound hand and foot, tightly gagged, and completely naked.
Hannah and Sydney bundled the captives' costumes in their cloaks, then turned to gaze at the helpless, wide-eyed captives.
"So..." Sydney said, "I suppose I could just teach you the proper technique for binding the elbows, knees, fingers, and toes. Then, we could put them in tight hogties and leave them under some bushes for either Jillian, Kayley, or the fairies to find..." Her smile turned evil. "Or, we could have some fun."
"How much fun?" Hannah demanded, with a wry smile. "Fun for all, or for just you?"
"Oh, for all," Sydney responded, "I promise." She picked up Alice, slung her over her left shoulder in a fireman's carry, then walked towards a stand of young alders at the edge of the clearing. The naked captive squirmed weakly and mewled halfhearted complaints through her gag. "C'mon. I'll teach you the proper way to tie a damsel to a tree or upright post," she told Hannah, then indicated Cricket with a wave of her free hand. "But keep an eye on the little elf. Make sure she doesn't wiggle free while you're watching me."
Hannah grinned down at the "little elf" in question (who winked at her), then strode after her instructor.
Alice's shoulders and spine were placed against the trunk of a sapling, and Sydney hitched a rope around her throat and the slender trunk. She then freed the captive's wrists, pulled them behind the tree, and tied them again. Next, she untied her ankles, splayed them to either side of the base of the trunk, and lashed them in place. She pulled more rope from the satchel and set to work, binding her cousin in place from the shoulders down. "Note how I'm careful to place the knots where she can't possibly reach them," she lectured, "and by anchoring the rope around the tree at the top and bottom, all the hitched bands stay exactly where I place them, no matter how she struggles."
In short order, a neat, symmetrical web of single strands criss-crossed and dimpled Alice's flesh from ankles to shoulders. The little redhead could barely squirm.
Sydney motioned for Hannah to join her behind Alice's tree. "This is very important," she said, gently pressing Alice's right thumbnail. "There, you see? The quick goes pale when I press, then the color returns when I release. Her circulation is normal. Very important. Too tight and the hands go numb. You can even cause nerve damage." She touched the side of her own wrist. "You can pinch the brachial nerve."
Hannah nodded. "Better too loose than too tight."
"And by positioning the ropes so they pin her arms and lock her elbows," Sydney continued, "she can't twist her wrists more than a few degrees. As long as the ropes aren't too loose and her fingers can't reach any knots..." she stepped back to the front and locked eyes with her cousin, "...she'll be against that tree for as long as I decide to leave her there... for hours... or even days." She spun on her heels and walked towards Cricket.
Hannah gave Alice a sympathetic smile, then hurried after Sydney. "We aren't really going to leave her like that for hours, are we?"
"What you mean 'we', Saxon thrall?" Sydney laughed. "Remember your place."
"Allow me to rephrase," Hannah responded. She grabbed Sydney's arm as they stood over Cricket's prostrate, helpless form. "We're not going to leave Alice like that, not for hours."
Sydney gave Hannah an appraising look. "Well," she said, after several seconds, "that's another passing grade for your report card. This is role-playing, Hannah. Dire, gloating threats are expected from the villainess, but we're not sadists." She glanced down at Cricket. "Isn't that right?" she asked, and Cricket nodded, her eyes smiling above her gag.
Hannah shook her head. "Okay," she said, "but I'm confused. Is this part of one of the scholar's scenarios, or what?"
Sydney laughed. "A little drama, a little instruction, and an excuse to put a pair of giggling snoops in their place." She nudged Cricket's side with her right boot. "You think you'd like to try a box-tie on this one?" she asked Hannah.
Hannah smiled. "Sure, why not."
"Don't worry," Sydney purred. "I'll walk you through it.'
Several minutes later, Crickets arms were folded behind her back with neat, symmetrical strands of rope pinning her arms to her sides and yoking her shoulders.
"Good job," Sydney said. "Now, get the remaining rope, pick her up, and follow me."
Hannah pulled the last coil of rope from the satchel, slung it over her shoulder, then knelt over Cricket. "You okay?" she asked, quietly.
Cricket nodded. The irrepressible little pixie's eyes were still smiling.
"You're incorrigible," Hannah muttered, and was answered with a snorting, gag-muffled giggle as she heaved Cricket over her left shoulder and followed Sydney to Alice's tree.
"Face-to-face and tit-to-tit," Sydney ordered, pointing at the helpless Alice.
"Yes, M'Lady." Hannah heaved Cricket off her shoulder, planted her feet with her toes touching the base of the tree and between Alice's spread feet, then pushed the bound prisoners' bodies together.
"Perfect," Sydney nodded. "Just like that, nipple-to-nipple and boobies squashed." She pulled the coil of rope off Hannah's shoulders, shook it out, and threaded one free end through ropes knotted at the nape of Cricket's neck. "Would this be a good place for the first key knot?" she asked Hannah.
"Seems like it to me," Hannah answered.
Sydney nodded, then tied a knot and began taking tight loops around the tree and both naked captives, pausing to thread the rope through their existing bonds as she worked her way down to their ankles. "Pretty as a picture," she purred, as she tied the final key knot through Cricket's ankle bonds. She stood and took a step back. "Squirm for us, you two, so we can verify the tightness."
Cricket giggled and complied, but Alice simply locked eyes with her cousin and glared.
"Hannah," Sydney said with a chuckle, "find a hazelnut or hawthorn with some thin, straight shoots and cut me a switch, would you please? About a yard long. I think they need encouragement."
"You can't really get at much of the Princess with them tied like that," Hannah noted.
"No," Sydney agreed, "but the Cricket's rump, thighs, and calves are very vulnerable."
Alice sighed through her gag, and began struggling against her bonds.
Hannah watched as Alice's pale, freckled skin and Cricket's tan, smooth skin slipped and slid under the ropes and against each other. A thrill rippled through her sex and up her spine at the erotic spectacle.
Sydney stepped forward and released the knot of Cricket's cleave-gag, leaving only a single cinch. She then did the same for Alice. The helpless pair started tossing their heads and working their jaws, trying to loosen the cleaving bandages even further and expel the stuffing from their mouths. "C'mon," Sydney said to Hannah, and started back across the clearing.
Hannah smiled at the squirming, grimacing captives. "Ladies," she said with a bow, then followed Sydney.
Meanwhile, Sydney had shouldered the now empty satchel and was picking up Alice's bundled clothing. She pointed at Cricket's rolled cloak, and Hannah picked it up. "Let's get back to the Keep," she suggested. "There are some flagons of ale with our names on them."
"Good idea," Hannah agreed.
"We'll wait an hour," Sydney continued in a whisper, "than hike back up here, untie Cricket's wrists, and split. By the time they squirm out of the rest of the ropes, we'll be long gone."
"And they get to walk back to the Keep naked and barefoot," Hannah whispered back.
Alice had finally succeeded in spitting out her gag. "I'll get you for this, you little twerp!" she shouted.
"Oh, I very much doubt that!" Sydney shouted back.
Cricket succeeded in spitting out her gag. "It's a fair cop," she giggled. "We were caught spying. Kiss me."
"That's your answer to everything, isn't it?" Alice huffed. "Mwff!"
Hannah and Sydney watched as Cricket thrust her tongue into Alice's mouth. After a few seconds of futile resistance, Alice began returning the kiss with gusto. There was also a great deal of squirming, writhing, and attempted hip-grinding, but Hannah and Sydney's tight ropes were putting a serious cramp in their style.
Hannah glanced at Sydney. The redhead's attention was still on the action across the clearing. Her blue-green eyes were shining, and the gloating smile curling her lips was... Beautiful, as always, Hannah thought, then made a decision. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. "You know," she said, quietly, "I think I know a good way for us to get back at Jillian for trying to fix us up."
Sydney turned to glare at Hannah. She started to say something, then her frown faded. "What?" she asked, quietly.
"We pretend it worked," Hannah continued.
Sydney snorted in derision. "We pretend."
Hannah dropped Cricket's bundled clothing, pulled the startled Sydney into a tight embrace, and kissed her lips.
Sydney's eyes popped wide... then she dropped Alice's clothing and returned the embrace and the kiss.
Their lips puckered and their tongues wrapped as they kissed. Several seconds later, they came up for air.
"We have an audience," Sydney whispered.
"That's the idea," Hannah whispered back, and the kiss resumed. She opened her eyes, looked to the side, and could see Alice and Cricket staring at them, wide-eyed, from their tree.
"We are pretending, right?" Sydney mumbled into Hannah's mouth.
"Of course," Hannah mumbled back. "We're pretending."
They kissed for several more seconds, then Sydney stepped back. "As long as we're pretending," she said, with apparent gravity. "C'mon, let's get that ale." She picked up the bundle at her feet, and started towards the trail back to the Keep.
Hannah grabbed her bundle and followed. "We can pretend some more, later," she suggested in a whisper, "just for practice."
"Don't push your luck, thrall," Sydney muttered.
Alice and Cricket watched their captors disappear down the trail and into the forest.
"Well, watcha know," Cricket giggled. "The Ice Queen has thawed. You think Hannah knows what she's in for?"
"Not in a million years," Alice sighed. "Now," she growled, "shut up and get back to work."
They kissed again, and for some time to come.
Tales of the Foxwood B&B:
HELPFUL HARDWARE HANNAH
◄ Chapter 8
VAN's FiCTiON HOME
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Poggio al Vento Riserva 2007
Published 26. February 2016 by Vidar Kenneth Johansen
A recent tasting of Brunello and Rosso di Montalcino showed a great variety of styles, from the classic wines of Banfi, the structured Fonterenzas, the “wild” Il Paradiso di Manfredo, some top end, and some old…
This was one of the best, but definitely not the most expensive. Located by the Sant’Angelo hill in the extreme south of Montalcino, Col d’Orcia has delivered good value organic wines on the fruity side for many years now. This is a special reserve that originates in a special vineyard in a (as the name suggests) “windy ridge” overlooking the river Orcia.
Grapes from the different parts were kept separate, the alcoholic fermentation was carried out in stainless steel and the malolactic in concrete. Then followed four years in big oak barrels.
Poggio al Vento Riserva 2007 (Col d’Orcia)
Dark, deep colour with hints of development. Fruity, quite cool with cherries and morello, some spice and balsamic notes. Full, lots of soft tannins, a matching acidity, and a long and lightly spicy aftertaste. Delicious now and, for me, the next 5 years or so. Good airing recommended.
Price: High (not for a brunello riserva, but generally speaking)
Food: Wild boar and a lot more
Fair notes on Rioja
A while ago I was invited to speak about Rioja at a Norwegian fair. Originally the speech should have been done by one of the big Rioja companies, and it was already sold out. After some hesitation I said that if I should speak about Rioja it would be my way, presenting my opinions, and the wines from the company the participants had submitted to would not be present.
I love Rioja, the food and the culture and the scenic landscapes, the shifting soils and the many well-managed vineyards, many of them really old. But I also think that Rioja is in serious trouble, and hopelessly out of fashion, at least out of sync with the discriminating wine lover. I am aware that I am in danger of getting myself some new enemies by saying this, and I beg for understanding. And it’s not my intention to be snobbish either, in fact I am also speaking against many wine nerds in my own country. Leonard Cohen sang “I like handsome men, but for you I will make an exception”. Many people accept Rioja as “something different”, and let the the Rioja “industry” get away with a lot of characteristics you wouldn’t have accepted from another region that claim greatness: Too much oak, that one is well known, nearly identical wines (especially in the crianza and reserva categories) in spite of coming with different labels and from different companies, the domination of cooperatives (including huge bodegas that act as such), blending of grapes from all over to make millions of liters of the same wine. The list could go on.
Time to move on!
No surprise that something like the “Artadi case” should come up, it was just a question of when. In this case the ‘death’ was ‘foretold’, and it’s difficult to see that the conflict couldn’t be solved. We ought to take a closer look at this case later, but in short it’s about Juan Carlos López de Lacalle leaving the DOC Rioja because of regulations don’t accept mention of specific vineyards nor villages on the label, and the back label only promoting the word Rioja as a brand name. It’s easy to agree with his opinions. On the other hand there are people who don’t agree with the way he acted in the process, and “who was he to do this”, after all Artadi is also a quite big company that has sold wines to supermarket brands (more specificly the Valdepomares label to Marks & Spencer). Then comes the geographical-political side of it: Many fear, and the Consejo Regulador (the wine authorities) really should, that Artadi will label their wines as Vino de Álava (or the Basque name: Araba), and that many others will follow. Then the old question will come back: Why are villages like Ábalos and San Vicente part of La Rioja, not the Araba province? Many travelers from Haro on their way to Laguardia have wondered why they’re driving in and out of that province while staying on the same road. And if I haven’t mentioned it before, the only official distinction in Rioja Alta, Baja and Alavesa… Well, it’s nothing but useless. For those not familiar with the Artadi case, here is an article where the decision to leave is announced. And for a brief introduction in English, where the Consejo also is allowed to hold the microphone for a while, look here.
Now to the tasting. In Norway one can chose among some 400 available Rioja wines, of which I have tasted most of them. Still I only managed to come up with less than 10 that fit my few and simple specifications: The viticulture should be organic, and the yeasts should be natural. One should be able to trace the wine back to a specific place, and the wine should have no disturbing trace of oak. Other than that it should only be good drinking. It’s possible that I am ignorant about wines that could have met my specifications. But the Rioja regulations and labelling doesn’t help much either, when many of them says “viña” or “pago” (words for vineyard), and it’s not. Readers of this blog will have noticed that I am no fan of huge, oaky, overextracted wines, so many of the big names were disqualified, with the result that my selection was less than half the price of the organizers’ budget. There is a group of modern growers that call themselves Rioja’n’Roll. At times in this process I felt that I could have belonged to it, and somehow I was eager to see whether I were booed out or not.
These were the wines:
Ad Libitum 2013 (Juan Carlos Sancha) – The only white wine in the selection, made from white tempranillo, a variety that was officially recognized in 2007 and that is genetically speaking 97% same as the red. Sancha owns 5 hectars in Baños de Tío Tobia in the Najerilla valley. This is among the coldest parts of the whole DOC; high-lying, southfacing vineyards (around 600 meters) on low-yielding calcareous soils.
Straw yellow. Typical aromas of gooseberries and fennel, along with some white flowers, and a slight hint of apricot. Quite full, mellow, but good fruitiness all the way.
Navarrsotillo Tempranillo 2013 – Best Buys Organic Series (Navarrsotillo) – Andosilla is in the region of Navarra, and the vineyards are in a radius of 10 kilometers from the bodega – in Andosilla, San Adrián and Calahorra (the last two over in La Rioja). The Serrano Arriezu brothers call this the “Rioja Mediterranea”). Here are cold winters, mild and wet springs and autumns, and warm and dry summers. The soil is calcareous, but also with sand, clay and stone, that gives wines with soft tannins, but can also give a freshness to the wines. This one is especially made for their Norwegian importer. Only tempranillo, spontaneously fermented and matured in inox.
Bright red. Earthy, mature fruit, herbs. Not very concentrated, but enough to reflect its origin.
LZ 2013 (Telmo Rodríguez) – From Lanciego/Lantziego, towards the east of the Alavesa road, past Laguardia, a cool zone with predominantly clay and calcareous soils. Telmo claims that Lanciego reflects the contrasting influences between the Atlantic (that is closest) and the Mediterranean (whose influence is brough up by the Ebro river). The wine is made from tempranillo, graciano and garnacha, grown “en vaso” (bush wines). For this wine there is to a lesser extent a collaboration with local growers, carrying out traditional viticulture (pre-conventional), and all the grapes were picked by hand and fermented in cement with natural yeast and aged 4-6 months in cement.
Quite dark with a violet hue. Dark berries, fennel, with notes of licorice and some balsamic, a bit earthy. Medium body, good tannin grip and a nice acidity.
Ad Libitum Maturana Tinta 2011 (Juan Carlos Sancha) – While his white wine was all tempranillo this hasn’t a drop of that grape, but in-stead the variety mentioned in the wine name, maturana tinta that originates from Rioja. Sancha is a professor of enology at the University of La Rioja. He and his collegues were instrumental in the rescue operation of this grape and others in the region (like trousseau, bastardo and red verdejo).
Dark red. Balasamic notes combined with red berry fruit. Just the right amount of tannins for good drinking now, and matching acidity.
Rayos Uva Vendimia Seleccionada 2014 (Olivier Rivière) – Rivière, from Cognac, was a consultant for Telmo Rodriguez from 2004. By then he had started to buy vineyards. He works organically, ploughs regularly, uses a minimal amount of treatments (organic too). Altitude is important for him, for freshness in the wines. This wine is made from tempranillo and graciano in equal parts (some times he puts in some garnacha) grown around 6-700 meters over sea level in the hills over Aldeanueva de Ebro. The wine was only gently macerated in inox before fermentation. He likes to ferment with stalks to achieve a wine that has a fresh feeling to it, but is nevertheless not light. After a 10 months ageing on lees, and only slightly sulphured, it was brought down to Aldeanueva to be bottled by Bodegas Lacus, where Rivière has also consulted.
Dark red. Dark fruits, blackberries, lightly balsamic (menthol). Soft tannins, a juicy, luscious feel, and just that right touch of inspiring acidity.
Predicador 2011 (Benjamín Romeo) – OK, I admit it, I decided to give something to the people who had come for a “Rioja” tasting. Predicador 2011 was made of Benjamín Romeo, formerly at Cosecheros Alaveses (eventually known as Artadi), but left for his own “garage” project in his native San Vicente de la Sonsierra, altogether 7 hectar of vines in alluvial soils, calcareaous clay and sand. When I visited him some 10 years ago it was under very humble circumstances, but with ideal storage in 800 years old underground caves. I think he was going to build a new bodega, but I don’t know if it’s done. It didn’t seem to me that impressive bodega houses are among Benjamín’s focal points. But he is a true cosechero, he makes the wines he believes in, and he has many followers these days. His Predicador white was tested, and left out, but the red (from 89% tempranillo, 10% garnacha and 1% viura) passed the test. I don’t dare to think what disaster could have happened to this wine without that 1 decisive per cent of viura…
Dark red colour. Red berries, blackberries, a touch of vanilla. A smooth velvet texture, quite full and concentrated.
6 very nice, serioius, and quaffable wines. There could have been a few more, but honestly there ought to have been many, many, many more to chose from.
Malvasija, spelled the Slovenian way
Here is a really lovely orange wine, and it’s not produced in one of the countries that we would call “classic”. But not far away either, because both sides of the Italian-Slovenian border share many winemaking principles, such as the “classic” ones of organic cultivation, prolonged skin contact for white wines, and maturing in clay vessels.
This wine has been a favourite for several years, and when I met Vasja Čotar at RAWfair a couple of years ago I took the opportunity to taste through most of the range, wines made from vitovska, friulano, teran, and some merlot, cabernet and such – and a very interesting passito from refosco too. The Čotar family has been in the forefront of organic winemaking in Slovenia since they started in 1974, in the small town of Gorjansko in the hills of the Karst region, close to the border against Friuli. All of them express the limestone ground with its red, iron-rich topsoil, where the cool winds from the coast some 5 kilometers away have a temperating effect on the climate. There are also quite harsh winter winds struggling to have an impact on the wines.
Vasja Čotar at RAWfair, London
The 2006 from malvasija istriana underwent an 8 days fermentation with skins in open vats, matured in big wooden vessels (2000 liters). Needless to say, no added yeast, enzyme, sulphites…
The whites bear Vasja’s fingerprints
Malvazija 2006 (Čotar)
Deep yellow, towards orange. Aroma of mature apple, citrus, dried apricots, and a hint of sweet spices. Full on the palate, grapey and quite smooth, but with a touch of tannin, and with a saline farewell.
Els Bassots, a Catalunya chenin with character
There is a huge clay vessel at the entrance of the Escoda-Sanahuja winery in Conca de Barberà, that gives us a hint of what to expect. I have reported on Joan Ramón Escoda and his wines several times, so I will make this short. Let me just say that I simply love this wine. Made from all chenin blanc, fermented spontaneously, matured in 720 liters amphorae, un-fined and un-sulphured. Light and full of taste at the same time, delicious on its own or with almost any food. It’s one of those wines that I really feel have a story to tell, but where the plot is somehow hidden in some mysterious cloud too, one of the wines that make me want to quote long passages from some favourite novel, and where title of the so far un-written tale The bearable lightness of being is especially apt.
I would have called it an orange wine, as it smells like “long skin contact”, but the colour is quite light; yellow, just on the verge of going over to orange. Smells of red berries, flowers, yellow tomatoes… Concentrated yet light, grapey, long and dry, with a hint of salty minerality.
Food: Delicious on its own, for meditation… But try it to almost any kind of food, from the shells of the sea to the partridge of the forest, or the thrush that bathes in the puddle (that I believe is the translation of bassot)….
A varietal graciano from Rioja
Positive news from Rioja: Another terroir-oriented company, this time David Sampedro and DSJ Vineyards, a man and a company with projects in several Spanish DO’s such as Rioja, Navarra, Valencia and Rías Baixas. Common for these wines are indigenous varieties, organic farming, little intervention along the way and wines that express their terroir.
This one is a 100% graciano from the high Elvillar area in Rioja Alavesa. In this project he is now working to get a biodynamic certification. The company is also called Bodegas Bhilar, from the Basque word for Elvillar. The Lágrimas is the only varietal in the portfolio, made with purchased grapes.
Lágrimas de Graciano 2014 (Bodegas Bhilar/ DSG Vineyards)
Dark red with a violet tinge. Fruity with aromas of red berries, some blackcurrant, aromatic herbs, a hint of lickorice too. Luscious with a slight tannin grip.
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JGA’s HeroesWeekend ClassicThe Jamaica Golf Association’s (JGA) Heroes Weekend Classic will be held on October 17 and 18 at Sandals Golf and Country Club.Sandals Ocho Rios will be offering a special rate of US$300 per couple per night for golfers who are entered in the JGA event. The entry fee is $8,000 for members and $9,000 for non-members. One day fee is $5,000 while the fee for juniors is $4,000.The cost for shared cart and caddy is US$27.50 per day. For walkers, the caddy fee is US$20.Antigua’s Joseph among winnersEDMONTON, Canada (CMC):Teenaged Antiguan jockey Kwame Joseph was among the winners as Caribbean riders continued to dominate at Northlands Park at midweek.The 17-year-old Joseph, in his first stint on the international circuit, won the final race of the eight-race card with 15-1 outsider Kaitlans Song.He was joined on the winners’ list by four-time defending champion, Barbadian Rico Walcott, who captured race three with favourite Wild Romeo, and Jamaican Trevor Simpson, who won race one with 4-1 bet Im Hott Ur Nott.Veteran Barbadian rider Desmond Bryan took race five with 4-1 choice Montana Skies, while fellow national Damario Bynoe scored an upset in race six with rank 60-1 outsider Gold Kiss.With just over two weeks left in the Northlands Park season, Walcott is coasting towards his fifth consecutive title with 127 wins, with Scott Williams sitting second on 68.Jamaican Tony Maragh is third on 48 but just narrowly ahead of Shannon Beauregard on 46.Switzerland qualify for Euro 2016LONDON (AP):Switzerland will return for the European Championship for the first time since co-hosting the tournament eight years ago after thrashing San Marino 7-0 yesterday with seven different scorers.As the Swiss secured second place, Group E leaders England made it nine wins out of nine in qualifying, with Theo Walcott and Raheem Sterling scoring in a 2-0 win over Estonia.With one qualifier remaining, Switzerland have an unassailable five-point advantage over Slovenia, who were held 1-1 by Lithuania.England are the only team with a 100 per cent record in qualifying for next year’s finals and should be top-seeded in the draw.Spain on a cruiseLOGRONO, Spain (AP):Santi Cazorla and Paco Alcacer scored two goals each to help Spain beat Luxembourg 4-0 yesterday and secure a spot for the holders in next year’s European Championship.Cazorla scored in the 42nd and 85th minutes, while Alcacer netted in the 67th and 80th to give Spain 24 points in Group C, five more than Slovakia and Ukraine. Slovakia lost 1-0 at home to Belarus, while Ukraine defeated Macedonia 2-0.In the final round, Ukraine host Spain who will be looking for a third consecutive European title in France next year, and Slovakia play at Luxembourg.The top two teams from the nine groups qualify automatically. The best third-place team also advances, while the other eight meet in a playoff. read more
SASOD launches LGBT health training project in Linden
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By Utamu BelleThe Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) has partnered with the Linden Care Foundation (LCF), For the Children Sake Foundation (FCSF) and Peace Corps, to launch the Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Sexual Health Training project.From left: SASOD Managing Director Joel Simpson, LCF Prevention Coordinator Yanick Copeland, FCSF Executive Director Vernon Todd, LM&TC Social Development Committee Chairman Keeran Williams and Peace Corps Guyana Health Volunteer Caitlin SullivanThe project was launched in Linden on Friday during a simple ceremony held at the Linden Enterprise Network (LEN). It aims at empowering and providing capacity building for LGBT persons in the community, while promoting positive mental and sexual health practices. Also, the project provides the opportunity for promoting basic human rights, as it relates to non- discrimination, and reduction of internal stigma among LGBT people living within the community. Another objective of the project is to identify a support network of LGBT and ally persons to establish a sustainable and ongoing linkage of local support, after the project has concluded. It is set to include a 16-night sex positive HIV prevention training, utilising the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVC)/Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV (PANCAP) workshop manual, entitled “Sex positive model for HIV prevention and promotion of sexual health”.During the course of the project, members of the LGBT community will also be provided with HIV testing in a safe, stigma-free environment. The project is expected to serve as the official registration for the sex positive HIV prevention training, with network opportunity for Linden LGBT and community allies (civil society).SASOD Managing Director Joel Simpson, during his address, said the need to work with communities outside of Georgetown was realised about a year ago, with the organisation’s 2020 vision serving as a guide within the next four years. In reaching out, he said it was intended that beneficiaries of the project were empowered to become advocates in their communities, as well as take better care of their mental and sexual health.“Often times, the approach to sexual health tends to be just about giving people information… without looking at some of the underlying issues that prevent the vulnerable population, vulnerable groups in particular, from attaining a higher level of sexual health. One of the issues that prevent those groups from attaining the best sexual health is the discrimination they face,” he outlined.Simpson said while SASOD was a national organisation, owing to limited resources, its work was focused on policy which targeted Government and Parliament to change laws regarding same-sex communities and cross dressing, as well as to protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, through the Discrimination Act of 1997.“Through constitutional reform, we’d also like to see sexual orientation and gender identity included,” Simpson said.Homophobic communitySimpson further related that based on data from independent organisation Caribbean Development Research Services (CADRES), homophobia was said to be more pronounced in Linden when compared to other towns across the country. The reasons for the findings, he suggested, may be limited access to broadcast information, high levels of unemployment, limited access to tertiary education and a direct link between poverty and discrimination.As a result, he said it was discovered that the Linden LGBT community had become more comfortable socialising in Georgetown.“In our work, we found that…of the towns that we have in Guyana, homophobia is probably most pronounced in Linden, of all of those towns…There’s a direct relationship between levels of education, poverty, homophobia and discrimination…because of the socio- economic circumstances of Linden that we find homophobia is more pronounced. With that said, we recognise the dire need to work in Linden.”He added that it was also discovered that a number of suicide cases over the years in the community may be linked to cases regarding sexuality. Circumstances such as these have led to the organisation’s establishment of a physical presence in the community as he stressed the importance of partnership with civil society.In his remarks, LCF Prevention Coordinator Yanick Copeland stated that the organisation supported the work of SASOD. He also outlined the need for LGBT support, increased access to HIV testing, capacity building and improved cohesion to meet psycho-social and sexual health needs, in addition to human rights promotion in a stigma and discrimination free environment.Meanwhile, FCSF Executive Director Vernon Todd related that his organisation has recently begun work with LGBT youths in the community through its “Youths seeking answers programme”. Through the programme, he said, it was realised that young people have many issues and many organisations were not talking about issues affecting the LGBT community.Todd emphasised also that it was important that we treat each other as human beings, noting that his organisation also provided HIV testing for the LGBT community.Linden Mayor and Town Council (LM&TC) Social Development Committee Chairman Keeran Williams also stated during his address that the Council was committed to addressing social issues and creating a stigma-free environment. It was noted that a similar project was launched in Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) last month. read more
‘Wrapped’ minibuses still on Police radar – acting Traffic Chief
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Weeks after over 30 ‘wrapped’ minibuses were pulled in by officers of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) as part of a campaign to tackle buses that breach the traffic laws, it has been revealed that the exercise was still ongoing as part of standard Police procedures.Some of the buses that were pulled over by Police ranks during the campaignSpeaking with Guyana Times, acting Traffic Chief Ramesh Ashram noted that Police ranks would be on the lookout for these minibuses.“The Police [are] working normal as usual, but when we catch people with these wraps and things, we take the necessary actions,” Ashram stated.As per standard procedures, owners of the vehicles will be given a certain period of time to have their buses rectified. The colours of the buses will also be checked to verify whether they correspond with the information on the respective registration forms. Ashram stated that these requirements would determine the span of time that the bus owners are given to make the necessary changes.In an earlier interview, Ashram explained that the ‘wrap’ is a common trend that was somewhat similar to the process of tinting the vehicles and it was very difficult to remove. A machine applies the design in the form of a ‘wrap’.A campaign was implemented in March under which buses were pulled over along their routes and upon inspection, the defaulting vehicles were taken to the Brickdam Police Station. The acting Traffic Chief had estimated that over 30 minibuses were breaching the traffic regulations by possessing these ‘wraps’.Meanwhile, the drivers who were pulled over by the Police Officers have related that this affected their livelihood as they would lose money when their vehicles could not work. Citizens who use the buses as a means of transportation also expressed their concern, noting that when the minibuses were not functioning, it was difficult to get from one place to another.However, the acting Traffic Chief noted that this could be avoided if the traffic rules and regulations are followed. Checks will be made countrywide and drivers will face the necessary consequences if their vehicles are ‘wrapped’ instead of spray-painted.Following the initial protest by minibus owners/drivers, A Division (Georgetown-East Bank Demerara) Commander, Assistant Commissioner Leslie James had announced that the GPF was easing the clampdown on these buses. read more
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Arellano’s U.S.-born 8-year-old son, Saul, is a U.S. citizen. He flew to Mexico on Friday to be reunited with his mother, and plans to stay here indefinitely, although he was expected to return briefly to the United States this month to participate in an immigrant rights march. Mexico has yet to receive an answer from U.S. officials, Espinosa said at a news conference Tuesday. “The government in the receiving country has to authorize diplomatic posts. It has to grant the visa,” Espinosa said. “It is not something that is within the power of the Mexican government alone.” A U.S. embassy spokeswoman in Mexico who was not authorized to give her name said she could not confirm whether the talks had taken place. She noted that privacy laws bar embassy officials from discussing specific cases. Arellano said she would not back down from her request and was angered that Mexico was seeking a U.S. visa, adding that the Mexican government should not have to ask permission to send her north of the border. MEXICO CITY – The Mexican government said Tuesday it is talking with U.S. officials about whether a deported illegal migrant and activist could return to the United States. The migrant, Elvira Arellano, was arrested and sent back to her native Mexico last month after taking refuge in a Chicago church for a year to avoid a deportation order. Mexican Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa said she approached U.S. authorities on Arellano’s behalf after the 32-year-old activist asked Mexican President Felipe Calderon to help her return to the United States legally as a “peace and justice” ambassador. Espinosa did not say whether Mexico planned to give Arellano the diplomatic post, but said officials were trying to determine if there was any way she could go back to Chicago. “I’m not asking for any visa,” she said. “I want a diplomatic post as ambassador of peace and justice, and I won’t accept anything less.”160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You’re all set! read more
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AD Quality Auto 360p 720p 1080p Top articles1/5READ MOREGame Center: Chargers at Kansas City Chiefs, Sunday, 10 a.m.In Simi Valley, 1,100 customers were powerless, as well as 780 in Oxnard, 535 in Thousand Oaks, 250 in Camarillo 240 in Ventura and 235 in Moorpark. In Orange County, electrical service was disrupted in Garden Grove, Brea, Santa Ana, Orange, Fullerton, Yorba Linda and Villa Park, according to SCE officials. Outages also were reported in SCE service areas in Ojai, Oxnard, Simi Valley, Santa Clarita, Thousand Oaks, Lake Arrowhead, Rialto, Fontana, San Bernardino, Rancho Cucamonga, Mira Loma, Hesperia, Corona, Bloomington, Calimesa and Rubidoux. Residents who see a downed power line should not try to move or touch the line. Instead, contact SCE officials at (800) 611-1191. About 3,250 customers in the city of Los Angeles were without service as of 1 p.m. due to wind-related outages, according to DWP spokeswoman Gale Harris. Wildfires and high winds are being blamed for power outages affecting about 24,000 Southern California Edison customers in Los Angeles, Orange and other counties, the utility reported today. Power has been restored to most of the customers in SCE’s 50,000-square-mile territory, but 23,660 customers remain without electrical service as of 3:15 p.m., according to the utility. Some could be without electricity for as long as 24 hours. In Malibu, where a brush fire scorched more than 2,400 acres and destroyed at least five houses and a church, 380 customers were without power. In Santa Clarita and Saugus, where fires had burned 27,500 acres as of this afternoon, about 900 households were without power. In the Harbor Gateway area, 1,300 customers lost power just before 12:30 p.m., and in Sylmar, 1,200 customers were without electricity. Another 216 customers in North Hills and 300 in Tujunga were without power. DWP crews worked to restore service, but it was unclear when the repairs would be completed. 160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You’re all set! read more
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Villaraigosa ultimately will be judged a success or failure based on his willingness to be open and accessible to residents, and on his ability to fix the things that can be fixed. Right now, that means putting the finishing touch on police reform and LAX expansion. It means providing greater funding and power for neighborhood councils, pouring more resources into services for the homeless, and promoting greater economic development in South L.A., which is still the city’s most under-served community. It means making substantial and visible improvements in neighborhood services, and implementing better traffic control in the city. These are doable goals. Villaraigosa would be well-served to spend his time and still considerable political currency trying to attain them. If he makes any headway in tackling these problems, he’ll have something tangible to boast about in his next State of the City speech. That beats making big promises any day. Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a political analyst and social issues commentator, as well as a frequent contributor to the Daily News.160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You’re all set! MAYOR Antonio Villaraigosa must have a red S underneath his suit. In his first State of the City address Tuesday, he promised to bend heaven and earth to remake Los Angeles. Villaraigosa said he would hire the hundreds of new cops that former Mayors James Hahn and Richard Riordan promised but never could quite deliver. He’ll get the money to do it by raising user fees on residential trash collection. Never mind that Hahn tried to squeeze money from taxpayers to hire more police, and got nowhere, or that Riordan didn’t even bother. Taxpayers have mightily resisted higher taxes whether in the form of a property tax or user fee hike. But somehow, Villaraigosa is convinced that he can pull it off. At the same time he’s arm-twisting residents to pony up more cash for cops, Villaraigosa promises to unlock the gridlock that’s made L.A. streets and freeways into parking lots. But traffic is not a city problem, it’s a regional problem, and there is absolutely no political will on the part of the L.A. County supervisors and the dozens of charter cities in L.A. County to sit down with city officials and pound out a comprehensive regional plan. Yet somehow, Antonio believes he can make it happen. Putting more police on the streets and solving the city’s transportation woes takes money. But the city has a projected budget shortfall of more than a quarter-billion dollars. No matter – Villaraigosa says he’ll order city departments to tighten their belts. Presumably that means less spending and less hiring. But most city agencies have been paring back for some time anyway. That hasn’t done much to slice the deficit. Villaraigosa specifically fingered about $60 million in savings he says he’ll make by cutting waste. But even that’s only a small fraction of the savings needed to crack the debt wall. AD Quality Auto 360p 720p 1080p Top articles1/5READ MOREOregon Ducks football players get stuck on Disney ride during Rose Bowl eventNo concern. Antonio is sure he can do it. And he isn’t stopping there. On top of these Herculean tasks, he’s got his eye firmly fixed on the biggest prize of all – the Los Angeles Unified School District. Villaraigosa plans to forge ahead with his plan to take over the LAUSD. In his Tuesday night speech, he fleshed out some of the details. He’ll give the more than two dozen charter cities that feed into the LAUSD more voice in running the district’s affairs through something called a “council of mayors,” and he’ll rope the Legislature into approving the necessary legislation. He’ll also increase the number of charter schools and bolster the power of teachers and principals. The drive to overhaul the LAUSD, of course, is hardly new. But that doesn’t seem to faze Antonio. There is no sign that the ample honeymoon period that L.A. voters have given Villaraigosa is anywhere near ending. The mayor’s trademark charisma, charm and political acumen, as well as his willingness to go anywhere and everywhere to meet with community groups, are still his strengths. But those qualities alone don’t make great mayors, and neither does a penchant for making big promises that are difficult, if not impossible, to keep. read more
IT’S PRESIDENT HIGGINS AS MICHAEL D TOPS FIRST COUNT NATIONALLY
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LABOUR’S Michael D Higgins will be the next President of Ireland after topping the first count tonight.The other candidates have already accepted the result and congratulated the veteran politician on winning the race to the Aras.The first count result was as follows: Higgins 39.6% (701,101), Gallagher 28.5% (504,964); McGuinness 13.7% (243,030); Mitchell 6.4% (113,321); Norris 6.2% (109,469); Scallon 2.9% (51,220); Davis 2.7% (48,657). Mr Higgins said afterwards: “I want to pay tribute to all the other candidates and I promise to be a President for all of the people.”Dana and Mary Davis have now been eliminated and their votes are now being re-distributed.But no-one can catch Higgins who is expected to pick up transfers from all the other parties.Sean Gallagher still managed to bag more than half a million votes, with evidence of widespread support from the Fianna Fail grassroots. And Sinn Fein are said to be delighted with a quarter of a million first preference votes.But it was a poor election result for Fine Gael, with Gay Mitchell finishing the first count in fourth place – 130,000 behind Martin McGuinness, and just slightly ahead of David Norris.The count will continue into the night.IT’S PRESIDENT HIGGINS AS MICHAEL D TOPS FIRST COUNT NATIONALLY was last modified: October 29th, 2011 by BrendaShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Tags:MICHAEL D HIGGINSnew president read more
ANGLER JOE LANDS ANOTHER MONSTER FISH!
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JOE NASH WITH HIS 14llb SPURDOGBy all accounts – including those about the ones that got away – retired fishing tackle dealer Joe Nash has something of a reputation for landing big fish.So it was no surprise to his friends when the Kilmacrennan man added to his long tally of saltwater fish records again last week when he landed a cracking 14 lbs Spurdog.He was on board the “Bonito” skippered by Trevor Ryder from Downings. The fish is a dogfish shark – the biggest ever caught in Ireland was off Kenmare in 1998, weighing in at 21lbs.Apparently they’re a favourite dish for the Spanish and French, who fry them in garlic butter! ANGLER JOE LANDS ANOTHER MONSTER FISH! was last modified: July 25th, 2012 by BrendaShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Tags:ANGLER JOE LANDS ANOTHER MONSTER FISH! read more
Humboldt State men’s basketball team’s season ends with loss to UC San Diego in CCAA tourney
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A season that started with hopes of competing for a conference title and getting into the West Regionals for the second straight year came to an end Tuesday night.The Humboldt State men’s basketball team fell victim to UC San Diego’s red-hot first-half 3-point shooting for the second time within the last two weeks and the No. 8 seed Jacks’ comeback bid fell just short against the top-seeded Tritons in a 78-72 loss in the first round of the California Collegiate Athletic Association Postseason … read more
Grammy for Black Mambazo
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14 February 2005In a career spanning 40 years they’ve entertained audiences across the globe, sold over six million albums, performed for the likes of Nelson Mandela and the Queen of England, and collaborated with some of the biggest names in music. Now traditional Zulu musicians Ladysmith Black Mambazo have added a second Grammy award to their collection.The 10-member group scooped the traditional world music album award – for their 2004 album “Raise Your Spirit Higher” – at the 47th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night,The album’s release, coinciding with South Africa’s 10 years of freedom celebrations, held the number one spot on Billboard’s world music chart for several months.Their first Grammy came in 1987, for the album “Shaka Zulu” in the category of best traditional folk recording.“The Grammy Award that has been so spectacularly won by the isicaphamiya group Ladysmith Black Mambazo makes us all proud to be South Africans”, President Thabo Mbeki said in a statement on Monday.“This is the epitome of success for a group which had entertained our country and millions abroad for more than four decades”, Mbeki said.“Each time we have been so honoured, my heart fills with such pride for my country and people”, the group’s leader, Joseph Shabalala, said in a message on their website. “This recognition by the Grammy organisation is very important for our people and country.”Shabalala formed the group in 1964 after hearing a harmony in a dream. For many years he had been trying to form a group, but always felt that something was not quite right.This time he recruited members of his family, his brothers Headman and Jockey, and cousins Albert and Abednego Mazibuko.The group entered the local singing competitions that are a part of South African cultural life and soon won every one – each time walking away with the goat that was the traditional prize. It wasn’t long before the group was banned from entering the competitions – although they were welcome to provide entertainment!Their name reflects their success in these competitions. Ladysmith is Joseph’s hometown, “Black” was the colour of the prize goat, and “mambazo” is isiZulu for “axe” – a reference to the way the group would “chop down” the opposition.Ladysmith Black Mambazo now consists of 10 members: Joseph Shabalala, Msizi Shabalala, Russel Mthembu, Albert Mazibuko, Jabulani Dubazana, Thulani Shabalala, Thamsanqa Shabalala, Sibongiseni Shabalala, Jockey Shabalala, and Abednego Mazibuko.The group performs in a traditional isicathamiya style similar to a cappela. Their first recording contract was awarded in 1970, after a radio broadcast.Ladysmith Black Mambazo first received international acclaim in 1986 with the release of Paul Simon’s “Graceland”. Mambazo were contacted by Simon after a DJ friend passed on a cassette of their music. With their first international release, 1987’s “Shaka Zulu”, the group won a Grammy.The group have recorded more than 40 albums and have fans around the world. They have collaborated with many of the biggest names in music, including Stevie Wonder, Dolly Parton, The Wynans, George Clinton, and Ben Harper.The group have also contributed to the soundtracks of films such as “The Lion King Part II”, “A Dry White Season” and “Cry, The Beloved Country”.Apart from their Grammy awards, the group has been honoured with Tony awards and have contributed to Clio award-winning adverts.Ladysmith Black Mamabazo have performed at numerous international events, including South Africa’s own presidential inaugurations as well as two Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies.“Over 40 years ago I decided to promote my tradition and country with our singing, and to this day we continue this journey”, says Shabalala. “It is quite a dream for a Zulu South African to dream.”SAinfo reporterWould you like to use this article in your publication or on your website? See: Using SAinfo material read more
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Interview with BBC World News on Twitter
I sat (and skateboarded) for the British Broadcasting Company at my house in San Francisco. We talked about Odeo, Twitter, my company DollarApp, and our community iOSDevCamp.
See a brief excerpt here:
“I discovered that you can be a new type of writer in this tiny space.”
See the interview in full at BBC News.
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One Response to Interview with BBC World News on Twitter
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Hi Dom, Brilliant attitude to innovating. You were forced to reinvent yourself when the user base was not growing and thereby stumbled on an improvement. The same happened to our business in 2007 and it has been an evolution since then. Feel free to visit the site or contact us directly.
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BEST OF 2017- PART 12: TOP 30 ALBUMS OF 2017 (JULY – DECEMBER)
January 14, 2018 Jonathan Andre Leave a comment
If you can remember back about 6 months or so, I had the pleasure of unveiling my favourite 25 albums of January – June of 2017. And while I myself still haven’t reviewed everything that I wanted to in the year of 2017, I have since come to the conclusion, that 2017 was and is one of my favourite years in terms of music. And thus here we are in January 2018, as I am unveiling my favourite 30 albums of the back half of 2017. I have incorporated quotes/descriptions of my favourite 15 albums of July-December and the remaining 15 without quotes (because frankly, it could take too long for a reader to check out, and thus, the post could seem daunting and overwhelming to read), totaling 30 albums in the back half of the year that have stood out for me personally. And so without further ado, here below are my favourite albums of 2017 (second half). I will also do a post showing my favourite albums of 2017, period (thereby incorporating my favourite albums of the first half and second half of 2017 in one post. What are your favourite albums of 2017. Read on to check out mine!
Top Albums of July – December 2017 (1 – 15 with descriptions/quotes)
Matthew West- All In
Matthew West’s new album is pack-full of heartfelt moments and lyrical and musical backdrops that Matthew hasn’t really ventured into…until now. His promotional singles in ‘All In’, ‘Mercy is a Song’, ‘Amen’, ‘Broken Things’ and ‘Jesus & You’ delivered a variety of styles prior to album release date on the 22nd September, and songs like ‘Never Ever Give Up’, ‘The Beautiful Things We Miss’ and ‘You are Known’ expounded on the ability of Matthew in delving into a sonic landscape that CCM artists haven’t really done before. The album is a unique experience musically, and while most times it is different compared to Matthew’s previous music, All In brings a sense of uniqueness and power, making this new offering by Matthew my favourite album since Into the Light.
Kristine DiMarco- Where His Light Was
Where The Light Was isn’t your usual worship album, as it contains plenty of musical genres within this 11 song tracklist, and that’s what makes it musically unique, fresh, reinvograting and diverse. An album that will deifnitley be on my rotation on iTunes for a long while yet, there’s nothing much more to say. Than to listen to “Take Courage”, “I Am No Victim”, “Hope Is Alive”, “Jesus Is Willing”, “Your Love Stands Alone”, “I Just Wanna Worship”, and more. Actually, I reckon you should listen to the whole album. You’ll be pleasantly surprised at how much Kristene changes your perception as to how worship music should sound like.
Nichole Nordeman- Every Mile Mattered
Nichole is a lyrical genius, and it is a great to hear what she has to offer this year. Without fail, this new album is a masterpiece. Period. It isn’t necessarily a bad thing to embrace the reality that every circumstance, and I really mean ‘every’, will be used by the Lord, because honestly, when we’re in the thick of it, we can get bogged down and sometimes not believe this truth- we may not see that God can use whatever mess we’re in and turn it around for His glory. But He can. And He does. And He will…With around a 10 year wait for a new full length album from Nichole (The Unmaking was an EP), this is certainly and definitely worth the wait, from an artist that’s certain to leave a wonderful and much-respected mark on not only the CCM industry but on the music industry as a whole whenever she does move onto another area if God calls her to do so. The Unmaking is a journey of the soul from start to finish, and songs like the title track, ‘The Sound of Surviving’, ‘Dear Me’ and the radio single ‘You’re Here’ anchor the album musically and thematically.
Matt Maher- Echoes
Releasing on the same day as Matt Redman’s latest studio worship album Glory Song, Matt Maher’s latest musical offering is sure to attract listeners of his music as well as fans of other similar contemporary/worship artists like Chris Tomlin, Audrey Assad and Kristian Stanfill. While listeners could potentially be hesitant in listening to his music because of his Catholic faith background, Matt continues to bridge the gap between Protestants and Catholics (alongside Audrey Assad) to always provide us heartfelt songs that can be sung by both these diverse denominations alike. Matt’s heart for the presence of God is very much evident throughout Echoes and in particular, ‘Your Love Defends Me’. The album as a whole is one that has made be become excited for Matt’s music, and has inspired me to listen to an album that I myself have overlooked these last few years- yes, you are right, I didn’t really listen to Saints and Sinners as much as I could’ve or even should’ve, yet hearing Echoes and the life, encouragement and enthusiastic motivation flowing through it, has given me the courage to take the plunge and to listen to what I reckon was one of the most underrated albums of 2015.
Cimorelli- Sad Girls Club
Musically unique, and subject matter hopeful, encouraging, and sometimes raw, emotive, dark, and moody, we are given a glimpse into a concept and notion, that it is ok to show our feelings, even the sad and scary ones, especially during a time in society when we have been taught that good feelings can be expressed and bad ones either have to be bottled up or just ignored completely. While this album is not at all about championing or even glorifying sadness and moody moments over moments of joy, elation and happiness, Sad Girls Club is nevertheless a constant reminder to express ourselves no matter what, be it in a sad, happy, frustrating, hopeful, kind, or crying way. This is an album that takes us on a journey where we as listeners can also feel the things that these sisters have felt throughout their lives on this planet. While technically not a Christian album (their last album Alive was very much a Christian/CCM/worship album), Sad Girls Club I believe can still be of impact, and God can still use such an album as this to remind us all about the parts of ourselves that we may want to hide, while also finding things about the Lord God Himself in the process!
Third Day- Revival
Fans of the band will enjoy the album. Newer fans will also love this album. And I’m sure fans of music that may not necessarily be within the same genre or style as Third Day may also appreciate this album. Dare I say that Revival is in the running as being nominated for the Rock/Contemporary album of 2017/18 at next year’s Dove Awards? I will say it, because it has a great chance- alongside albums in 2017 like Jeremy Camp’s The Answer and Seventh Day Slumber’s Found. Formed long ago with the assembly of kids from Atlanta, Georgia, Third Day show no signs of slowing down as they release some of their most lyrically profound and enjoyable songs I’ve heard since their 2010 album MOVE. One of my favourite bands ever (alongside Newsboys and Delirious?), Third Day still have more years in the tank with their music ministry, and Revival is a testament to that.
Cody Carnes- The Darker the Night, The Brighter the Morning
There you have it- The Darker the Night The Brighter the Morning from Cody Carnes, that released September 15th 2017. While some of the music on some of the songs can seem a little too EDM for my own liking, and others not as musically engaging compared to the publicised few, this debut label offering from Kari’s husband is still bound to be enjoyed by anyone who loves worship music, period. Spending his time leading worship with Gateway Worship as well as being on the road touring with wife Kari Jobe, Cody is starting to become an artist himself, with this new album being a collection of some of the most musically unique and out-of-the-box songs I’ve heard in a while, Cody’s career is certain to be as long as it will be impacting and inspiring for those who hear his music.
Philippa Hanna- Come Back Fighting
Philippa’s new album and a great follow up to what I reckon was one of the most underrated album releases, of any genre, in 2016; Come Back Fighting is a journey full of lyrical and stylistic ingeniousness, as Philippa brings to listeners songs of comfort and confrontation, hopeful moments of clarity and songs where questions are just asked. All within the umbrella of a country music style. Which is vastly different compared to music of her past, but that’s ok. And while she’s still not as publicised or even as popular as one would hope she’d be, her presence on both British Christian and mainstream radio is growing. Come Back Fighting is a quick turnaround from Speed of Light, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the album is anything less poignant or encouraging. Because it is.
Carrollton- Everything or Nothing
Carrollton’s Centricity Records’ full-length debut is something to savour, and is a great alternative if you’re looking for something with a bit more edge in your worship. With a bright future ahead of them, this album is a must for fans of southern gospel, country, rock, and worship, or all four! Perhaps you’ll find a new favourite song or a new favourite genre! There’s nothing much more to say for me to try to convince you to check out the album…so, let’s take the plunge! Are you with me?
Vertical Worship- Vertical Worship
While we all may be familiar with, and know and love all of the 10 tracks present on Vertical Worship, and while we may have wanted the band to record new material, these studio arrangements comprise truly one of the best worship albums this year; this magical offering from Essential Worship deserves to be picked up on iTunes! Though the blend of different worship styles are contrasting in this studio recording from Vertical Worship and their live recordings; the band’s entire discography has proven that vibrancy and uniqueness is indeed a wonderful breath of fresh air! It’s something different, that stands out, and that’s definitely a good thing!
Stephen Christian- Wildfires
Stephen’s journey from rock band front man to worship leader, worship pastor and solo artist, is quite remarkable, and could only be described as God working and being faithful and keeping His promises. As a debut album, Stephen Christian’s Wildfires is quite remarkable, and is worth the listen. For Anberlin lovers and non-Anberlin lovers alike. Or for people like me, who hadn’t for one reason or another, listened to Anberlin. Maybe I will in the future. That’s not the point though. The point is that Stephen now has a platform to spread the gospel now, now that his rock band days are over (or over in the sense that Anberlin will never reform again). So what Stephen does with his solo career is up to him. But one thing is for sure- he will continue to make Jesus’ name renown if Wildfires is anything to go by.
Finding Favour- Farewell Fear
As like the debut EP and the debut full length album, TobyMac has got it right once again- Finding Favour is a band to watch out for, judging from “It Is Well” and “It Is Well” alone. And now with Farewell Fear already out for a few days already, the debate is now settled- Blake’s vocals are sublime, and it’s plain to see that the rest of the band feed off the enthusiasm and positive energy of each other. Gotee Records, the home of Hollyn, Capital Kings and Ryan Stevenson, definitely signed a keeper. The band will definitely be big in the next few years, and I will keep my eyes and ears open to hear what they’ve got next in the pipeline.
Brandon Heath- Faith Hope Love Repeat
Faith Hope Love, Repeat, an album of mixed results. There are some songs that are great, and others that aren’t as so. Still, Brandon’s heart is in the right space, even with this album, and while some songs don’t resonate to me as much compared to others, the album overall is a solid 4, as I see that Brandon’s musical experimentation for the most part has paid off. Fans of artists like Josh Wilson, Tauren Wells, OBB, Mat Kearney would love Brandon’s music, as well as Faith, Hope, Love Repeat, one of the most musically unique albums of the year thus far.
Matt Hammitt- Matt Hammitt
Matt Hammitt’s self-titled album, though not perfect, is nonetheless still poignant, and worth a few listens, as we are reminded that God isn’t done with Matt just yet, in terms of music, and in terms of everything else- the podcasts and the conferences and events he is a part of. Though I may not know what Matt will do in the future, this album, though maybe a one-off, is one of the most inspiring and encouraging I have heard all year and doesn’t contain a song that I want to skip (yeah even the last two tracks!). Well done Matt for such a poetic and powerful new album, praying that God blesses you heaps in the future!
Jeremy Camp- The Answer
Jeremy Camp has come a long way since recording Stay 15 years ago. But for those of you who are not fans of his music anymore because of the gradual but nevertheless evident move away from his original genre, let me remind you all that The Answer should at least whet your appetite for something more rockier in the future. Yet what if Jeremy decides that ‘full on rock songs’ aren’t for him anymore? What then? My point is (and I’m guilty of this as well!) that we crucify artists as much as we praise them, when they seem to make a mistake, when they do not reach the standards we make for them, when it’s really something else entirely, when the ‘mistake’ is in fact intentional. So before I sign and let you all debate about Jeremy’s musical direction, and lament about other artists whom you feel are ‘selling out’ like The Afters, Hawk Nelson, Sanctus Real and Kutless; let me ask you this? If Jeremy does decide to do worship or CCM full time and never go back to rock, are you going to demand that he must return to his roots, even if he feels God moving him elsewhere musically? Maybe we should all listen to (and maybe re-listen to) The Answer before we make a quick judgement!
Top Albums of July – December 2017 (16 – 30 without descriptions/quotes)
My Utmost For His Highest
Julie Elias- A Girl Like Me
Natasha Owens- We Will Rise
Anthem Lights- Painted Skies
Jamie Grace- 91
John Ellis- Growing Silent
Veritas- Hope Survives
Rachel Platten- Waves
Lecrae- All Things Work Together
Christy Nockels- Be Held
Manic Drive- Into the Wild
The Walls Group- The Other Side
Matt Redman- Glory Song
Kutless- Alpha Omega
Seventh Day Slumber- Found
There you have it. Our favourite 30 albums of 2017 (from July – December). Any album stand out to you? Any albums we have missed that have impacted you (and that you think we have to check out in the upcoming months)? What are your favourites? Sound off in the comments. Til next time!
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[PDF] ↠ Bless Me, Ultima Author Rudolfo Anaya – 9tvuk.us
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Antonio Marez Is Six Years Old When Ultima Enters His Life She Is A Curandera, One Who Heals With Herbs And Magic We Cannot Let Her Live Her Last Days In Loneliness, Says Antonio S Mother It Is Not The Way Of Our People, Agrees His Father And So Ultima Comes To Live With Antonio S Family In New Mexico Soon Tony Will Journey To The Threshold Of Manhood Always, Ultima Watches Over Him She Graces Him With The Courage To Face Childhood Bigotry, Diabolical Possession, The Moral Collapse Of His Brother, And Too Many Violent Deaths Under Her Wise Guidance, Tony Will Probe The Family Ties That Bind Him, And He Will Find In Himself The Magical Secrets Of The Pagan Past A Mythic Legacy Equally As Palpable As The Catholicism Of Latin America In Which He Has Been Schooled At Each Turn In His Life There Is Ultima Who Will Nurture The Birth Of His Soul
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LARRY LARRY says:
As posted in As a Hispanic, I cannot believe that I hadn t read Bless Me, Ultima earlier Once I started reading this book, I could not put it down Anaya is a superb storyteller As it is in the Hispanic culture, elders are supposed to be taken care of whether or not they are family So, in comes Ultima, an elderly curandera A curandera is a faith healer, not a witch However, some people may not see the difference between the two The proper and respectful term to Ul As posted in As a Hispanic, I cannot believe that I hadn t read Bless Me, Ultima earlier Once I started reading this book, I could not put it down Anaya is a superb storyteller As it is in the Hispanic culture, elders are supposed to be taken care of whether or not they are family So, in comes Ultima, an elderly curandera A curandera is a faith healer, not a witch However, some people may not see the difference between the two The proper and respectful term to Ultima is Grande, meaning wise one Antonio is the youngest boy in this particular family who has taken in Ultima He is fascinated with everything related to Ultima When he greets her for the first time, he calls her Ultima He is scolded by his mother but Ultima intercepts He s the only one who calls her Ultima throughout the book Ultima seems to have taken a fascination with Antonio She selects him to accompany her to collect herbs and whatnots for her practices Also, when some people are curses with spells by the witches, Ultima takes Antonio with her to help break spells There are many things happening in this book One thing that happened was that one of Antonio s uncles was afflicted with a spell that nearly cost him his life When Ultima and Antonio break a spell, a local man and his 3 witch daughters vow revenge One by one, Ultima encounters and breaks a spell, increasing Antonio s respect and curiosity of Ultima s powers When a spell is broken, something terrible happens to the witch daughters, which increases their father s hatred for Ultima You just have to read the book There is a lot of symbolisms in the book The symbols are not subtle You ll be reading but pondering over the symbols in your mind Overall, Anaya tells this story wonderfully There is no boring or slow parts in this book Something is always happening which keeps you alert
S S says:
Being a native of New Mexico, I always heard references to this book growing up I saw it in libraries, on recommended reading lists but never picked it up I finally decided to read it after being transplanted to CA and was a little homesick and wanted to read something that would bring me closer to home This is one of the books I reread every now and then because it brings my own childhood closer to me and reminds me of the sense of self in a small community like the one in Bless Me Ultima.I Being a native of New Mexico, I always heard references to this book growing up I saw it in libraries, on recommended reading lists but never picked it up I finally decided to read it after being transplanted to CA and was a little homesick and wanted to read something that would bring me closer to home This is one of the books I reread every now and then because it brings my own childhood closer to me and reminds me of the sense of self in a small community like the one in Bless Me Ultima.I think the unique relationship between Antonio and Ultima was the most endearing to me and made me think of my own grandmothers There is a different pace to growing up in a rural community and the ties that Antonio had to family and traditions is something that I found familiar The beauty of the landscape and its people are beautifully written by Anaya I thought it would be a quaint book about life in New Mexico but it is a poignant coming of age story that discusses the familiar themes of the battle between good and evil, young and old, traditions and modernity I was sad when the story ended
Actual rating 2.5 stars.This is a hard review to write I read Bless Me, Ultima because it is frequently challenged, often banned, sometimes even burned I read it because it has been banished from Tucson classrooms and school libraries I read it because I live in a majority Mexican American community in a part of Arizona that until relatively recently was still part of the state of Sonora, Mexico And I read it because many readers have praised it.Anaya wrote his novel in 1972 Copies were co Actual rating 2.5 stars.This is a hard review to write I read Bless Me, Ultima because it is frequently challenged, often banned, sometimes even burned I read it because it has been banished from Tucson classrooms and school libraries I read it because I live in a majority Mexican American community in a part of Arizona that until relatively recently was still part of the state of Sonora, Mexico And I read it because many readers have praised it.Anaya wrote his novel in 1972 Copies were confiscated and burned at a New Mexico school less than a year later Burning, it turned out, was not to be a one time aberration Bless Me, Ultima has fed the flames again and again the most recent incident happened in Norwood, Colorado, in 2005.My awareness of what is sometimes called Chicano pride literature began in January 2012, when Tucson Unified School District administrators cancelled Mexican American Studies classes in mid session, pulling novels and textbooks from students and teachers hands and packing them in boxes labeled banned books, a story that resulted in international outrage and made Arizona a laughingstock Bless Me, Ultima was one of TUSD s targets Why do non hispanics hate this novel The most often cited reason is that it contains profanity, violence, and sexuality It is true that the novel contains two instances of the word fuck More if you translate the word chingada, which appears so many times that if you were to eliminate all the other words, you d still have 20 pages of chingada Also, the kids in the story call each other cabr n a lot And there is violence But if there s any sex I must have missed it.Other challenges spell out what I consider to belikely objections the story is irreverent toward Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular, full of pagan mysticism, and frankly pro magic in that Ultima is a practicing medicine woman who uses her arts to stymie and even kill witches Which is all true, but neither here nor there in a society that respects the separation of church and state don t we all wish.Arizona State Schools Superintendent Tom Horne dared speak what I believe to be the real reasons behind white antipathy toward Bless Me, Ultima In interviews leading up to the infamous TUSD book bannings he characterized Mexican American studies and the books used in those classes as civilizational war and stated that in his view the histories of Mexican Americans and Native Americans are not based on Greco Roman knowledge and thus not part of Western civilization Oh, yes, he really did say that.So there you have the reasons Anaya s novel generates so much hate Now I come to the hard part, explaining why I didn t get much out of reading it I ll refer back to the 20 pages of chingadas and cabr ns, and a host of other Spanish and Indian words sprinkled throughout the narrative yes, it s worth it to note that Mexican Americans living near the US Mexico border use many Spanish and Indian words in everyday speech, but after a while I began to feel somewhat put upon by all this multiculturalism.Antonio keeps telling us Ultima is not a witch, but she has an owl as a familiar and she casts counter spells against three known brujas witches , killing two of them before she herself is killed not directly, but by the father of the witches, who kills the owl and thus Ultima So she s a witch C mon.Apart from Antonio and Ultima, the other characters are paper cutouts, acting and speaking in predictable ways It was interesting to see Antonio begin to question the teachings of the church and to embrace the paganism of Ultima and the mysterious golden carp, but that was all the excitement the novel offered, and Antonio s doubts grew tiresome after much repetition.It s an okay story I question how relevant it is to today s readers, but as a cornerstone of Mexican American literature it is undoubtedly important I m glad I read it, but having read it, I remain farinterested in the reasons white people hate it than I am in the novel itself
Rose Rose says:
How do I begin writing a review for this book I guess I ll start with a story of how I came to read Bless Me Ultima and why I ended up reading it again in recent considerations 2013.I read Bless Me Ultima for the first time in my AP Literature and Composition class My teacher at the time had a list of books we could choose to do reports on and this was one of the choices that jumped out at me It also surprised me that it was banned from many curriculum in different schools and distric How do I begin writing a review for this book I guess I ll start with a story of how I came to read Bless Me Ultima and why I ended up reading it again in recent considerations 2013.I read Bless Me Ultima for the first time in my AP Literature and Composition class My teacher at the time had a list of books we could choose to do reports on and this was one of the choices that jumped out at me It also surprised me that it was banned from many curriculum in different schools and districts wasn t banned in my area, but it surprised me to know that this was banned in certain parts of my state at the time I think the ban has been lifted since for those areas, but I m not entirely sure In any case, Bless Me Ultima really impressed me when I read it as a high school senior, and I wrote about it on my AP exam too and did pretty well for my efforts I re read Bless Me Ultima this year as kind of a way to get me out of a prolonged reading slump and also in honor of Banned Books week I figure some of you have perhaps heard about the whole Goodreads censorship debacle that happened around that I m not going to go into too much detail with my sentiments or a recap of that, but I am going to say a few things about censorship, bullying, the experience of pain, and having to come to terms with difficult, contentious situations Having the platform to speak openly and honestly allows us to see the differences in the spheres of thought, ideals, and perceptions that we have in this life, no matter where it may originate We may not always agree on things, but in getting different viewpoints on an issue of contention, even when the nature of that discussion may be controversial, it gives us a different lens to look through and level of understanding why a person s ideals may be the way they are, or even from where those ideals originate Censorship is the worst measure for contributing to learning, understanding, and the promotion of ideals It is the worst measure acting against enlightenment and coming to terms Sometimes, talking about something of controversy, especially when it comes against long held, strongly held ideals can hurt and it often does but being able to transcend that hurt, learn and understand things for what they are, and being able to move forward with that education brings new light and life to the person who bears witness to or is a part of it I don t know if that makes sense, but that s the best way I can phrase it at this time If we re discussing the Goodreads controversy so much of those contentions come from the misconceptions people have about bullying, about the nature of offense and what it means to be hurt by something, about what it means to give criticism and the nature of those criticisms, about professionalism and about the nature of the writing industry as a whole and what situations can be avoided versus those that are unavoidable I m frequently frustrated at what people call bullying in the writing industry, because by some erroneous definitions saying things that may hurt or things that are termed as mean with no distinctions on what or the severity of mean entails is bullying And I have to step up to the plate and say that s false, because as someone who used to be berated on aspects of my person such as my weight, my skin color, my height, my demeanor, among other things, for a prolonged period of time from people who didn t understand me and didn t want to understand me, who deliberately wanted to hurt and exert power over me over parts that they saw where I was weak or vulnerableI beg to differ I truly beg to differ There were times that I went to bed feeling so numb from the commentary my experience was primarily verbal bullying that I could not cry The numbness was probably from a sea of conflicting emotions It wasn t just sadness, it was frustration, it was wanting to say so many things, it was knowing what I knew to be right wrong and the nature of my own experience and person and wanting to tell the people who said those things where they were wrong and why, but they didn t see that They wouldn t talk, they wouldn t be open to talk, it was a power play, a domination That the aspects of my person made me lesser, not of worth, that whatever I said, did, contributed, aimed for was meaningless It was bullying And even now, sometimes I ask myself how I survived any of that, and was still able to do the things that I wanted to do with my life back then I would say it was a number of factors that aided me, even enlightened me, and I consider myself fortunate, though my experience doesn t speak for what others may endure or have endured But I will say that bullying isthan just feeling pain in a singular dimension, and we can t afford reduce the term down to where it encompasses anyone who may act in a way we say is mean or is contentious Bullying entails so muchthan that That said, I don t personally put one s experiences of pain or hardship on a scale to rank or juxtapose against others, but rather I recognize the situations themselves, the origin, their impact on said person s , and how to translate them I had a professor in my undergrad uni, in my Gender, Health and Illness class that said something along the lines of We may understand the clinical origins of one who suffers, and delineate terms in which to define it, but if we ignore the experiences of pain as voiced from the people who suffer within it and what factors may be exacerbating that pain, then we can never truly understand it So it s not that I lack understanding pain myself, or what it means to be hurt by something Nor is it that I lack understanding that people have different degrees or experiences in that measure, but we have to know the difference not just in the matter of enlightening others, but enlightening ourselves in how to deal with it, and recognize where contention may be present and why And that can t be done by just hearing one dimension or part of a situation, or stifling dialogue that can help bring discrepancies or agents matters of harm or contention to light So what does this have to do with Bless Me Ultima And you may at this point be saying Go figure, Rose This is not a book for everyone It s a coming of age story told in a magical realism realm that gives a very heavy examination of religious bargaining and critique If you are deeply religious, and especially if you are Catholic, this book might offend you I think some groups attempted to justify the banning of this particular book because of those critiques contrasts of religion and the matters in which young Antonio Tony has to come to terms with in this novel, alongside some of the mystical elements, but I honestly thought this was a wonderful story showing a boy who becomesmature from the questions he asks, from the contradictions he sees in his life, the experiences he has, and ultimately what he learns from the wisdom of the wise, elder Ultima Tony is a young boy who sounds wiser than his years, but unlike many special snowflake characters that one may see in YA books, Tony has his share of vulnerabilities Granted, he s six years old when the narrative starts, but we watch him grow as he goes through school, goes to church, learns what is expected of him, but also learns of the hardships, prejudices, and experiences he faces head on His curiosity to understand the life and the actions of people around him is both a blessing and a curse He meets Ultima when she comes to live with his family He thinks that he knows what his route in life will be and casts judgments against those he knows deviate from what he believes is a clear line of right and wrong But at the same time, when events transpire beyond his control, when questions he has are left unanswered from the sources that are supposed to give him understanding whether it s his family, his friends, his faith, among other things he starts to question and his questions have due weight in the root of his experiences and relationships I m not going to say that Anaya s narrative does this perfectly, especially with some overt pushes of ideology that don t settle well along the way, but I would say it does a very good job of getting into Antonio Tony s experiences I would also say that when the rolling action conflict comes into play when it comes to matters that put him and the people he loves in danger, especially in the root of assumptions and prejudices, it is a very well developed story I ll admit the ending still makes me misty eyed for what occurs, but I understood that this was the point where Antonio Tony realizes he s changed grown, and there are layers of depth in thinking back through every experience and relationship he s had, even as he debates his faith and will in consideration of what occurs to him and around him That I think makes this narrative worth reading, and even taking a step back from to consider the way we each view the world and what we know versus the things in life that never go the way we expect them to In any case, again, I know other people may not care for this narrative and I would say it has some flaws in turns of presentation, but I did very much enjoy this story for what it offered, and include it among my favorite stories I give it an extra half star for Robert Ramirez s well presented narration of it in the audio version Overall score 4.5 5 stars
Adam Adam says:
Post listen reviewIf you like really poetic and flowery language to describe the most mundane of details then this is the book for you This book has murder, revenge, redemption, witchcraft and school bullies in it yet it was able to pretty much bore me the entire time.Now I know that some people really enjoy a poetic book and I think that in some stories it works very well but in my opinion this is not one of them The story centers around a boy named Antonio who is struggling with faith and fa Post listen reviewIf you like really poetic and flowery language to describe the most mundane of details then this is the book for you This book has murder, revenge, redemption, witchcraft and school bullies in it yet it was able to pretty much bore me the entire time.Now I know that some people really enjoy a poetic book and I think that in some stories it works very well but in my opinion this is not one of them The story centers around a boy named Antonio who is struggling with faith and family expectations as he grows up He has lots of choices open to him but seems to be destined to be a priest or a wandereror less.His grandmother is a healer that is seen as a witch in his community This is Ultima who blesses people and makes them better.The plot itself never bothered me and the events described were all fine What bothered me were things like the following Antonio as he narrates says, The sun of the east rose above our heads Very poetic of course, but I just think, the sun only rises in the east so did we get a second sun or something Why couldn t he just say it was dawn Another example was the description when Antonio talks about the night and says, Fatigue found us, followed by his brother sleep In this case I just think, overpersonification But again it is poetic If you like that then it s great but if you don t have patience for it, like I didn t, then it gets tedious.Now I want to be fair to this book though It is a good book for people who are into poetic language and all kinds of religious debate and strange imagery That is just not me I will tell you that I would rather read this than Cormac McCarthy s The Road any day of the week Still, I am not going to recommend it to anyone nor am I going to find it in print to read to myself.Pre Listen guess I have seen this book around No idea if it is any good but the last book I was listening to recommended this one so I hope it will be good
Terri Terri says:
Bless Me, Ultima is set in a small village on the edge of the plains the llano of New Mexico during the 1940s It is a coming of age novel from the Hispanic perspective Six year old Antonio must grapple with many conflicts as he strives to grow into a man in a multi faith, multi cultural setting.Antonio has been born into a Catholic family and looks forward to his first Communion, but he has many questions about his natal faith Paganism is native to this area of the Southwest and Antonio fin Bless Me, Ultima is set in a small village on the edge of the plains the llano of New Mexico during the 1940s It is a coming of age novel from the Hispanic perspective Six year old Antonio must grapple with many conflicts as he strives to grow into a man in a multi faith, multi cultural setting.Antonio has been born into a Catholic family and looks forward to his first Communion, but he has many questions about his natal faith Paganism is native to this area of the Southwest and Antonio finds much to admire in this belief system Antonio has a keen eye and mind that is open to many ideas as he searches for what is true Both world views are present within his home His mother is a strong Catholic while his elderly aunt Ultima La Grande is a curandera healer who aligns with apagan world view with its focus on the natural world.Being in the Southwest, Antonio must also live in two cultures simultaneously His native tongue is Spanish When we first encounter Antonio, he speaks no English He learns the English language and Anglo culture at school and is such a quick learner that he is promoted directly from first to third grade after his first year at school He has a naturally inquiring mind that works well in a scholarly environment.Antonio s mother is extremely proud of her little scholar since she has aspirations for him to become a priest and fill a role that has been missing for generations from her agrarian family Antonio s maternal grandfather and uncles are the Lunas They are peaceful farmers connected to the land and the flowing of seasons Mama wants her Antonito to grow into a gentle and quiet man who fits into the Luna family mold Antonio s father hopes for his son to become, like all Marez men, a plainsman of the llano This group are a free spirited and wild bunch who prefer the wide open spaces and nomadic life Alongside this parental struggle to bestow identity upon their son, is Ultima who teaches Antonio the healing arts and encourages him to listen to his own mind and heart Ultima tells him that he must decide for himself what kind of man he will become.Antonio experiences change as a palpable thing that affects him deeply as he searches for identity and embarks on his journey to manhood I was transported back to that youthful hypersensitivity to change as Antonio tells his brother I don t know sometimes I get the feeling that I will come home, and it will all be changed It won t be the same any I could not tell him that I wanted the castle of giants to stand forever, that I wanted the goat path and the hill to be for always But I had misgivings, I was beginning to learn that things wouldn t always be the same.Bless Me, Ultima is a poignant novel that engaged my emotions while it wrapped me in beautiful prose that made it hard to put down each night I was drawn into the story I felt sadness and terror and confusion I also felt happiness and peace and hopefulness Anaya s descriptions of the natural world were absolutely stunning and, at times, brought me to tears I will not soon forget this book
Rusty Rusty says:
This is a delightful story written by a Mexican American who is widely read, Rudolfo Anaya The book won the Premio Quinto Sol, national Chicano literary award It is the story of six year old Antonio Marez who bonds with Ultima, a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic Under the guidance of this wise woman, Antonio examines family ties that bind him and tear him apart and discovers himself in the magical past Antonio is strongly influenced by the church, a curandera named Ultima, witch This is a delightful story written by a Mexican American who is widely read, Rudolfo Anaya The book won the Premio Quinto Sol, national Chicano literary award It is the story of six year old Antonio Marez who bonds with Ultima, a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic Under the guidance of this wise woman, Antonio examines family ties that bind him and tear him apart and discovers himself in the magical past Antonio is strongly influenced by the church, a curandera named Ultima, witches, and ghosts It s fascinating to see how these concepts affect Antonio, his family, community and friends While my college Spanish is rusty, I have plowed through the book and delighted in the childish dreams and fantasies expressed by Antonio At times I think that Antonio uses vocabulary that is beyond his years but that does not detract from the story The book is a good in depth look at life in a Spanish family in the 1940s While this is quite different from much of the historical fiction I have read I found it a fine read
Ed Pattison Ed Pattison says:
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here Reaction I thought that was a wonderfully creative novel Also, I felt like I got lucky when I picked this from the A.P God s reading list, beacuse it was a very moving book Usually when I read a novel I tend to not finish them on account of a schedule filled with numerous other things As for this book, I actually was engaged and determined to finish As a whole the book was a rather quick one to finish and easy on the brain in terms of comprehension for following the stroy, plot, etc earne Reaction I thought that was a wonderfully creative novel Also, I felt like I got lucky when I picked this from the A.P God s reading list, beacuse it was a very moving book Usually when I read a novel I tend to not finish them on account of a schedule filled with numerous other things As for this book, I actually was engaged and determined to finish As a whole the book was a rather quick one to finish and easy on the brain in terms of comprehension for following the stroy, plot, etc earned 4 out of 5 stars and was an exciting novel to read.Theme,Plot, etc The basis for this novel is faith It is based on the life of a little mexican boy named Antonio, who is surrounded by a strict Spanish Catholic family and lifestyle But things begin to change in Antnio s life when an old family friend, Ultima the curandera or healer, comes to stay with him and his family Basically, Antonio has only seen life through the Catholic eye, but then Ultima who is seen as a witch and evil spirit, shows Antonio a different perspective on life In a way she lays a grandmother figure role to him and uses her wisdom and knowledge to guide him Also, when Antonio is going through bad times and violent things around him, Ultima shows him the light to find his way Overall, the basis of the novel moved me as a reader and inspired me
Joseph Joseph says:
An encounter with a good book is occasionally as mystical as the story within it As I prepared to move to New Mexico, several people told me I had to read Bless Me, Ultima I had never heard of it.Then, during the Great Yard Sale, it happened I spread my books out over several tables and crates, saying goodbye to hundreds of comrades who had been with me for so long And there, on the top of a box that I could have sworn were all cookbooks I was letting go of, I saw Rudolfo Anaya s novel.What An encounter with a good book is occasionally as mystical as the story within it As I prepared to move to New Mexico, several people told me I had to read Bless Me, Ultima I had never heard of it.Then, during the Great Yard Sale, it happened I spread my books out over several tables and crates, saying goodbye to hundreds of comrades who had been with me for so long And there, on the top of a box that I could have sworn were all cookbooks I was letting go of, I saw Rudolfo Anaya s novel.What can I say What can I add to the river of ink that has poured out this story s and this writer s praise What insight can I add to the banks of book reports written by students forced to read this by wise teachers What revelation can I share that won t simply be lost in the flood None but this this book that insisted on being read, lived up to and beyond the amazing nature of my encounter with it
L.h. L.h. says:
From my mother I had learned that man is of the earth, that his clay feet are part of the ground that nourishes him, and that this is the inextricable mixture that gives man his measure of safety and security Because man plants in the earth he believes in the miracle of birth, and he provides a home for his family, and he builds a church to preserve his faith and the soul that is bound to his flesh, his clay But from my father and Ultima I had learned that the greater immortality is in the fr From my mother I had learned that man is of the earth, that his clay feet are part of the ground that nourishes him, and that this is the inextricable mixture that gives man his measure of safety and security Because man plants in the earth he believes in the miracle of birth, and he provides a home for his family, and he builds a church to preserve his faith and the soul that is bound to his flesh, his clay But from my father and Ultima I had learned that the greater immortality is in the freedom of man, and that freedom is best nourished by the noble experience of land and air and pure, white sky Unlike most fiction I ve read, Anaya is very didactic and clear in his revelations thus is thus and it is good But the message he writes is good, I think, and follows the environmentalist ethics surprisingly closely As demonstrated by the above quotation, Anaya s approach to the earth is as an inclusive, ecosystem based approach, with emphasis on the inclusion of humanity as natural element However, Anaya clearly believes in the value of wilderness, separate from and perhaps above civilized communion with the land through farming and religion Wilderness, the noble expanse, is what fuels imagination, and sparks spirituality outside the confines of the eternally hovering threat of personal damnation This wild inspiration, it seems, is what allows humans to look outside of their own selfish lives and share true communion with the world around them, as Ultima does Both civilization and wilderness are necessary, each supporting and enriching the other, the way both the Lunas and the Marez are necessary to come together to create and raise Antonio, the culminating element and hero of the novel
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3 Resources to Reclaim the American Dream
By Corey Murray
Free tools provide community college leaders with resources for driving change on campus.
When the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) unveiled this site to its members at its 94th Annual Convention in Washington, D.C., back in April, its goal was simple: create a destination where community college leaders could return to share ideas, learn about promising practices and draw inspiration as they continued the hard work of driving 21st-century reforms on their campuses.
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AOG Bibliography
Scritto da Fabio
Ideas and knowledge are two aspects of humanity that I don't consider totally futile, grotesque, and horrible.
For centuries we have transmitted ideas and knowledge with writing and books.
We have printed a lot of shit... but someone even managed to create, discover, disseminate something that has improved the lives of many.
I wanted to create this section in hopes of sharing with you, players, developers, crazy creative people (or just crazy), the best publications dealing with the theme of “games and human knowledge (History, Art, Literature, Math...) that can be applied in the games”.
At first, in this bibliography I'll add the most important books that were “useful” to me in the creation of my little games and of this website, so it will be very incomplete.
Games helped and are helping me to face "reality" in the midst of this mess we call "life".
I'll try to be as scientific as possible, properly citing authors, works, and publishers, but this bibliography is to be considered imperfect and constantly under development.
Please, if you have the time and will, inform me of any error and help me build this section in the best way.
Balestracci, Duccio. La Festa in Armi. Giostre, tornei e giochi del Medioevo. Bari, Laterza, 2003.
Barber, Richard. Tournaments. Woodbridge, Boydell press, 1989.
Bloch, Marc. La società feudale, Torino, Einaudi, 1987.
Cardini, Franco. Quell’antica festa crudele, Guerra e cultura della guerra dal medioevo alla rivoluzione francese, Milano, Mondadori, 1995.
Campbell Joseph, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. New World Library, 2008.
Castronova, Edward. Exodus to the Virtual World. Palgrave Macmillian, 2007
Costikyan, Greg. I Have No Words & I Must Design.
(online article: http://www.costik.com/nowords2002.pdf )
Crawford Chris. The Art of Computer Game Design, It was originally published in Berkeley, California by McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media in 1984. The original edition is now out-of-print but from 1997 became available as a free download from a site maintained by Washington State University, Pullman. In 2011 the free download was removed and the text is currently available as a Kindle e-book (from wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Game_Design ).
Crawford, Chris. Balance of Power. Microsoft Press, 1986.
Despain, Wendy (edited by). Writing for Video Game Genres. AK Peters, 2009.
Despain, Wendy (edited by). Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing. AK Peters, 2008.
Dille, Flint and Zuur Platten John. The ultimate guide to Videogame writing and design. Lone Eagle Publishing Company, 2007.
Dodsworth, Clark Jr. Digital Illusion. ACM Press-SIGGRAPH Series, 1998.
Forte, Franco. Il Prontuario dello Scrittore, 6 ed. Delos Books, 2009.
Fullerton, Tracy. Game Design Workshop, second edition. Morgan Kaufmann, 2008.
Gee, James Paul. Why Videogames Are Good For Your Soul. Common Ground Publishing, 2005.
Glassner, Andrew. Interactive Storytelling: Techniques for 21st Century Fiction. AK Peters, 2004.
Gold, Rich. The Plenitude: Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff. MIT Press, 2007.
Huizinga, Johan. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture. Beacon Press, 1955.
Ince, Steve. Writing for videogames. A&C, 2006
Iuppa, Nick, Terry Borst. Story and Simulations for Serious Games. Focal Press, 2007.
Lullo, Raimondo, Il Libro dell’ordine della Cavalleria. Carmagnola, Arktos, 1983.
Kafai, Yasmin B. Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming. MIT Press, 2008.
Kent, Stephen L. The Ultimate History of Video Games. Prima Publishing, 2001.
Kim, AmyJo. Community Building on the Web. Peachpit Press, 2000.
Koster, Raph. A Theory of Fun for Game Design. Paraglyph Press, 2000.
McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics. Kitchen Sink Press, 1994.
McCloud, Scott. Reinventing Comics. Harper Collins, 2000.
McGonigal, Jane. Reality is Broken. Penguin Books. 2011.
McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media. MIT Press, 1998.
Moore, Alan. Writing for Comics. Avatar, 2010.
Newman, James and Iain Simons. Difficult Questions about Videogames. PublicBeta, 2004.
Perla, Peter. The Art of Wargaming. Naval Institute Press, 1990.
Rabin, Steve. Introduction to Game Development. Charles River Media, 2005.
Rouse, Richard III. Game Design Theory & Practice, 2n edition. Wordware Publishing, 2005.
Rogers, Scott. Level Up! The guide to great video game desig. John Wiley&Sons, 2010.
Salen, Katie and Eric Zimmerman. Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals. MIT Press, 2003.
Schell, Jesse. The Art of Game Design, Burlington (Usa). Morgan Kaufmann, 2008.
Visit the Website to buy this great book and its “Deck of Lenses”: http://artofgamedesign.com/
Sheldon, Lee. Character Development and Storytelling for Games. Course Technology, 2004.
Strunk, William and E.B. White. The Elements of Style. Macmillan Publishing, 1959; reprint 4th Ed. Allyn and Bacon, 2000.
Suits, Bernard. The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia. Broadview Press, 2005.
Tinsman, Brian. The Game Inventor's Guidebook. Krause Publications, 2002.
Vogler, Christopher. The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, 3rd Edition. Michael Wiese Productions, 2007.
Vorderer Peter and Jennings Bryant (eds). Playing Video Games: Motives Responses, and Consequences. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006.
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A gifted fundraising consultant seeks to move into full-time copywriting: What do I recommend?
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“Can I succeed as a copywriter?” she asked. My opinion and some book recommendations follow…
I’ve admired Tina Cincotti’s talents for a long time. That’s her in the photo, grassing with her best pal, Penny.
Recently Tina emailed me, excited and doubtful, her hopes spinning like a pinwheel:
“Can I do it, do you think? I’ve worked successfully as a fundraising consultant for 10 years. But do you really, really, REALLY think I can make my living as a fundraising copywriter? Because that’s the part I like the best!”
My answer to her, after looking through her impressive portfolio of direct mail, annual reports, case statements, newsletters:
Dah-ling!!!!!
You ARE a terrific writer. For example: this outbound renewal appeal envelope you created, with designer Wendy Brovold?
It’s smart. It’s fast. It’s involving. It dramatizes the stakes. It’s enviable (wish I’d thought of that!).
Most important (since, let’s get practical, we’re all in the FUNDRAISING business): it drew a strong response, pulling in a much-higher-than-average gift, from a far-above-normal percentage of renewing donors.
So, what’s not to like? Bravo!
YES! Of COURSE you can do fundraising copywriting … at a high level.
In fact, the market eagerly awaits
In my keyhole view? The fundraising world NEEDS you ASAP.
Pretty much every competent (and not too shy to promote themselves) fundraising creator I know (writer, designer, agency) is OVER-booked and turning away good clients.
Look: in the end, as we both know, it’s not magic nor your natural-born gifts that make you a success in this trade. It’s training, experience, perseverance and opportunity. (A balance of guts and neuroses, maybe? I’m not a psychologist, but I can dress like one….)
So, yeah, come on in. The water’s warm and welcoming.
Knowing when you’re ready to become a writer
I own (and have sort-of read) 500+ how-to books.
Some of the most useful, though, are NOT from the nonprofit world.
My modest back story: In 1990, I opened with two partners a small marketing agency. Our clients were mostly commercial: yachts, roof membranes, adult ed, a Top 10 zoo, disability insurance, 401(k)s. We did direct response stuff. Advertising. Public relations. Sales. Employee communications. And we kept the lights on, repeatedly winning major awards for complex projects and great results. We beat out Boeing one year. We beat out Disney another time. We studied our trade.
Looking back now, I realize….
Some of my BEST fundraising dance-floor moves were learned from experts outside the charity world.
“Tina, if you can only afford 6 books….” Assembling a basic copywriter’s tool box, including experts from OUTSIDE fundraising…
If I had just one urgent minute to throw an essential copywriter’s library into a box, here are 6 books I’d consider….
1. I’d start maybe with Joseph Sugarman…
Why? Because, what is fundraising at its root? Sales, by another name.
Sugarman made a fortune selling goods via direct response advertising. There is serious money to be made in the commercial world. Own-your-own-jet money. Palatial-houses-in-multiple-locations money. Sugarman in his prime I’m sure avoided the trauma of economy air travel.
If you wish to learn how to flat-out sell, devoid of niceties and romance, read this book.
2. Then move on to Murray…
Donald M. Murray (1924-2006) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for a major daily.
Murray’s big contribution to my career is Writing to Deadline. In this ultra-pragmatic book, Murray, a journalist with deadlines as pitiless as the guillotine, lays out every trick he’s learned of how to tell a fresh, captivating story. Pirates bury their treasure. Ethical and education-minded journalists like Mr. Murray tell you HOW to do what they did, to find fresh angles and satisfy enraptured audiences.
Sample entries from Mr. Murray’s table of contents:
Asking the Reader’s Five Questions
The Qualities of a Good Story
How to Write Without Writing
Tricks of the Writing Trade
3. Then Jerry Weissman, for case advice…
I found Jerry W. at a desperate moment in my career.
I was entangled in a half-billion-dollar fundraising campaign, a scale I’d never attempted. I needed to know what big-league success looked like.
Thank you, Amazon: you led me to Jerry.
He isn’t from deep inside the nonprofit world. He isn’t a hardcore direct-marketing guy. He’s Hollywood. He was a screenwriter. That’s his training: telling stories that sell tickets. Silicon Valley venture capitalists who take start-ups public recruited him to help improve their Wall Street pitches. Which he very lucratively did.
Jerry Weissman has likely never written a nonprofit case for support. Yet he is the best I know at figuring out how to complete that task … demi-god-ish, at a level with Jerry Panas.
4. And Tina? Seek out synthesizers like Mal…
If I could take just ONE book to a desert island, I’d toss into my salt-stained backpack Mal Warwick’s How to Write Successful Fundraising Appeals.
Berkeley (CA)-based Mal Warwick is one of Mother Earth’s most successful fundraisers, on a par with other pioneers like Jerry Huntsinger and Roger Craver. Mal’s book became an industry classic the day it was published. And it’s updated regularly.
Mal’s a seminal synthesizer. He wanders up all sorts of strange but relevant alleys.
No other book I know can teach a greenhorn fundraiser essential nuts-and-bolts techniques better. It’s one of the BEST, step-by-step how-to books I have ever encountered. And it now includes “best practices” for digital as well as print … with critical research from evergreen experts like Munich’s Dr. Siegfried Vögele.
5. For inspiring career advice, there’s Seth…
Seth Godin is my #1 guru. His wisdom bobs through my presentations like channel markers: GO THIS WAY.
The admirable Mr. Godin’s insights tend to be surprising, dead on, profound, life-changing and money-making. (Watch Amy Eisenstein’s riveting video interview of Seth from the recent AFP international conference in Baltimore, where he keynoted.)
The subtitle of The Icarus Deception says it all: “How high will you fly?” He wants all professionals to think of themselves as artists. No argument here.
6. For understanding the water we all swim in…
This may be the most illuminating, big-picture book I’ve read in 10 years: The Attention Merchants, by Tim Wu.
Tim Wu is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Harvard has named him one of its 100 most influential graduates. The National Law Review has named him among America’s 100 most influential lawyers. He’s a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. Fun fact: he coined the term “net neutrality,” as a specialist in that hotly debated issue.
The Attention Merchants never refers to nonprofits especially; they’re not the focus. This book is about the rise and permutations of commercial mass media, from the birth of newspapers on: through radio, television, cable, the internet, social media, blogs and whatever comes next.
This is the world nonprofit communications have to survive and thrive in. See that world for what it is.
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What changed in a decade? Me. Stuff. Everything. Not so much.
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ASBC President Mr. Anas Alotaiba arrived to the venue of the ASBC Asian Schoolboys Boxing Championships to Kuwait City
The President of the Asian Boxing Confederation and AIBA Vice-President Mr. Anas Alotaiba arrived to the venue of the ASBC Asian Confederation Schoolboys Championships to Kuwait City and received warm welcome from the Kuwait Boxing Federation. ASBC Executive Director Mr. Ali Salameh also arrived to the venue of the Asian event before the start of the official programs.
The upcoming ASBC Asian Confederation Schoolboys Boxing Championships is the main highlight of the month of August in our continent. ASBC PR & Communication Director Mr. Tibor Kincses, ASBC Sports Director Mr. Omar Saleh Al-Jaberi and ASBC Administrative Director Mr. Bassam Ghanem are also in the venue of the event to support the success of the historical competition.
More than 20 participating teams arrived to the venue of the ASBC Asian Confederation Schoolboys Boxing Championships to Kuwait City where the venue is waiting for the boxers, coaches and all officials. The finals are scheduled to be held on August 8 when the first 14 young male champions will be crowned in Kuwait City.
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Six boxers were selected to the ASBC Asian Schoolboys Boxing Championships following the Syrian Schoolboys Nationals
Mrs. Karina Picson led the Technical Meeting of the ASBC Asian Confederation Schoolboys Boxing Championships
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Berkley Trilene TransOptic was praised at the recent 2009 ICAST show in Orlando and walked away with the Best Line Award during the show. Now anglers have a chance to try a free sample of TransOptic. A spool is provided at no charge with the purchase of the August issue of FLW OUTDOORS, on newsstands now, "Through our marketing partnership with FLW, we have been able to give FLW OUTDOORS readers an opportunity to sample our new color–changing Trilene TransOptic co–polymer nylon line, which is poly–bagged with the August issue," said Clay Norris, Berkley Trilene Product Manager. "Especially gratifying is the fact the FLW editors think so highly of the line from their own rigorous testing. We think the readers will come to a similar conclusion after testing the sample themselves."Transoptic has been in the making for four years. Boasting to be the first color–changing nylon monofilament, Transoptic captures UV rays to physically change the line's color, making the line a hi–vis gold above the water and transparent below the surface where the UV rays are filtered out. The color–changing line benefits anglers that spend their days watching their line for the subtlest of bites. Anglers see the line, fish don't.With superior knot strength, tough abrasion resistance and extra shock resistance, Trilene TransOptic is perfect for flipping, pitching, jigging and any application that calls for a hard hook set. Being a monofilament, the line is easily managed for a wide variety of baits and techniques."Over four years ago we saw the need for a nylon fishing line that anglers could see above water, but the fish couldn't see below, said Norris. "Now we have it with new Trilene TransOptic. It has taken all of four years, and lots of research, to figure out how to accomplish this in a co–polymer nylon line. Realizing it would be the "line watcher's line", we also engineered it to have great shock and knot strength to hold strong under powerful reaction strikes."Available in pound tests ranging from 4 to 25 pounds on 220–yard spools, Berkley Trilene TransOptic has an MSRP of $8.95 to $10.95. 2000–yard service spools are also available from 6 to 25–pound test.
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Calder House was set up in 1995 by Sandra and Colin Agombar and we have been helping children achieve their potential ever since.
Sandra and Colin founded their first school for children with specific learning difficulties in Battersea in London in 1987. The school was a great success and, building on their experience, they set up Calder House near Bath. The sister schools continue to support each other.
Calder House is registered with the Council for the Registration of Schools teaching Dyslexics (CReSTeD). We are also members of the British Dyslexia Association and of the Dyspraxia Foundation.
The many recommendations and endorsements we have received from parents has secured Calder House a place in the Good Schools Guide.
Calder House School is a proprietorial school owned by Calder House Limited. It is registered in England and Wales. Registration number 4049248.
It is wonderful to see and feel part of a truly unique school and a culture that puts the interest of its pupils to the very front.
Former pupil’s parent
Your understanding of Greg and of how to help him allowed him to believe in himself.
My GCSE's - yes, I am very proud of my results! But I must stress that if it wasn't for Calder House I would never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever in the entire world have been able to get such high grades and I would just like to thank you.
Former pupil
Pupils from Calder House have fitted in very well and it has been clear they have built sound foundations at Calder House.
Downside School
I do not believe there is another school in this country which could have helped Nathaniel to flourish as well as Calder House.
Lex had become afraid to try to read for fear of failing, now he attempts his reading with such enthusiasm and literally bounces into school.
You have turned Ralph into a happy, confident little boy again and there hasn't been a day that he hasn't wanted to come to school. Calder House has restored his love of school and learning.
We are very grateful for all you have done for Sam. You rescued all three of us in our hour of need.
Your understanding of Max and of how to help him, immediately relieved him of the agony of mainstream school.
Having seen for myself the excellent teaching at the school, I can understand why my grandson improves daily.
Former pupil’s grandparent
It must be almost four years ago that I last put on my blue jumper but Calder House is still the best school I've ever been to!
The methods you use certainly work, and are most certainly something Rosie will remember, and thank you for, all her life.
We are delighted with Alex's progress and the way his confidence and self esteem have flourished. Calder House has given him so many happy positive memories of school life replacing those of his earlier failures.
We can never thank you enough for changing our lives.
The relief to find a school where Amy would belong, would thrive, be happy and succeed again.
George has been given back his self confidence and dignity.
We had been told our son was of low ability and intelligence. Yet he left Calder House a confident, bright and very happy child. We could not have imagined he would progress so far in such a short time.
We have had a long association with Calder House and we believe it prepares pupils for the challenges of senior school extremely well.
Stonar School
I doubt I would be writing such a long letter to you now or participating in the school plays, if it weren't for the time I spent at Calder House. I expect many kids feel the same. You're doing a great job.
As a result of the excellent teaching at Calder House both our sons have made significant progress and achieved level 4's at KS2. We are delighted that they are now coping extremely well in a mainstream secondary.
Calder House offered us a lifeline at a very traumatic time. They undertook a comprehensive assessment of our two sons. After that one initial visit they had greater insight into our sons’ abilities and weaknesses than professionals involved with the boys over years.
I am writing to say thank you all for all you have done to teach me and help me. I have come along way since I began at Calder House.
Calder House’s magnificent teaching methods have completely transformed our son in so many positive areas.
His almost complete lack of progress was rapidly transformed by Calder House. Their brilliant methodology and an outstanding team of teachers who were able to ‘open up’ our young son to the world of learning.
Calder House has transformed Nathaniel into a positive and active boy with huge gains for him in terms of his self-esteem levels and his ability to take his place within society generally.
Our daughter went on to Bath Royal High School where due to her excellent foundation at Calder House she has not needed extra provision. Indeed she got 93% in a recent biology exam and 70% in English.
With the enthusiasm and competence of the Calder House staff she changed from being an unconfident child and started to believe in herself and her capabilities. She started to read quite quickly. Indeed she can now read three books in a day!
His self-esteem grew tremendously during his two years at Calder House. He was then able to rejoin his peers at a secondary school in Bath.
All the staff at Calder House were very caring and considerate towards our son while maintaining firm boundaries and high expectations of him and his behaviour.
This specialist school for dyslexic or dyspraxic children is outstanding. As parents of two children who have attended the school we cannot praise it enough
"Calder House is unique: it quite literally rescues children, getting them back on track academically and holistically, ready to re-join mainstream education." To read the review by the Good School Guide in full, click here>>
"You are to be congratulated on a wonderful school and the excellent job being done on a daily basis."
Maria Pond of the Council for the Registraton of Schools Teaching Dyslexic Pupils.
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A Guide for Newcomers to the Wonderful World of Marketing and Business who thought that they only needed English to get by..
(C) Rod Jones - All Rights Reserved
- with added Art Pretentiousness, Menu Twaddle and PR speak
Have issues
Use of the word "issues" has been a compulsory part of Management Speak since the early nineties.
"This is not an issue", "This is a major issue" are typical examples of usage.
An issue is a topic for consideration which requires some Management action or a decision. When this action or decision is taken the issue is always said to be "addressed". (But they never stick a stamp on it.)
Very useful for veiled slanders such as "She has underwear retention issues" or he has "competency issues". This is usually said with a wise "Nuff said" nod and a quick change of subject. Sadly, many managers have likeability issues.
Also very useful for comical understatements such as "The Titanic had buoyancy issues" or "Oliver Reed had sobriety issues"
Having issues is not to be confused with having tissues which relates to an entirely different activity. Having "tissue issues" is of course related to having "wrist management issues" and is one of the veiled slanders referred to above.
Not to be confused with HRT (hormone replacement therapy)
HR is a lovely jargony way of saying "personnel" and it stands for human resources.
It is specially effective when used with "issues" as in "We have some very pressing HR issues to address" . or "We are all about HR empowerment"
It also stands for "Holiday Route"....
I Hear What You Say
A favourite of managers who can't bring themselves to say "No".
Literal meaning: "I hear what you say but (fingers in ears) Ner-Ner-Ner I'm not listening"
Included here because many people for whom English is not their first language are fooled by it and believe that they are dealing with an earnestly intentioned manager instead of someone who hasn't got the bottle to say "I disagree because..."
Just Add Water.
A favourite 1950's advertising slogan, this expression means that a scheme has been well thought through and all that is required is that it should be launched.
Key performance indicator. The notches in the Management Bedpost, these are agreed indicators as to whether an organisation is doing well.
The length of NHS waiting lists is a KPI. Hospital hygiene may not be. Reduction of waiting lists by death is definitely not (yet ) a KPI despite the pioneering work by Dr Shipman in the UK
Incredibly exciting replacement for the clapped-out "State of the Art."
To be fair, it does imply a greater technical leadership than State of the Art which simply suggests that something is up to date but not as "out there" as it would be if it was "Leading Edge".
Be careful how you use this, however.
Some analysts see Leading Edge as synonymous with Bleeding Edge - i.e. expensive to develop and prone to failure.
The very latest phrase. Projects yielding the greatest reward for the least effort/cost.
Not to be confused with "low hung fruit" which are well endowed gay males.
One of my nephews has pointed out that low hanging fruit are the fruit that dogs cock their legs on
Hmmm... he should go far.
But will it be far enough? Or soon enough?
Artspeak. When talking about a painting, one risks displaying a woeful ignorance of the subject if one refers to brushstrokes or lines or blobs.
After all, what you have identified as a "brushstroke" might actually be a blob!
Safer by far to knowingly refer to all manifestations of an artist's work as "marks".
Exciting new Management Word meaning "means of measuring something" - usually performance in the workplace.
Don't believe what they say..Metrics really do matter.
Usage:"I'm afraid we don't have a metric for that" = "How do I know what our paperclip consumption was last year?"
"Have Issues" to "Metrics"
"Mindset" to "NIH"
This simply means the way that a person thinks and is likely to behave.
It has no relation to trainset (ownership of which also gives a clue to the way that a person thinks and is likely to behave.)
A useful marketing shorthand for different Mindsets is to refer to a persons' likely newspaper reading tastes:
Sun reader = person of low intelligence
Star reader = person of low intelligence who can actually be prevented from reading by Sellotaping his lips together so that they can't move.
Guardian reader = bleeding-heart liberal
Telegraph reader = Diehard Tory
Mail / Express reader = Diehard Tory with brains removed )
Mens Health reader = Sufferer from short-term memory loss who keeps buying the magazine without realising that every issue features an article on how to improve/get a 6-pack, an article on 60 (count-em) ways to to get her gagging for more and how to lose ten pounds of ugly fat (decapitation could be a feasible option.)
FHM reader = Male with strong wrists, differently exercised.
Want to impress your colleagues?
Use some space programme jargon to show that you are playing with the big boys.
If something is "Mission critical" it means that failure to provide it or produce it or do it (whatever it is ) will bring the entire project or programme to its knees.
Not to be confused with Missionary Critical which is a cannibal food writer's rant against excessive use of balsamic vinegar in the preparation of eveque à l'orange.
(Cannibal foodspeak for Bishop with orange sauce - a dish never to be found in Northern Ireland)
This is the statement which is supposed to focus everybody on the key goals of the Company and these used to be prominently displayed in Reception Areas of many Companies.
However, most people have the wit to realise that the true mission statement of any red-blooded plc worth investing in would read:
"To make as much money for the Board and the Shareholders as possible with the least investment and as few people as possible".
For this reason, they tend to see right through the anodyne guff about "Empowering Employees", and "Working in Partnership" - particularly in those cases where empowerment has passed to new partners in the Far East at a fraction of the cost of the fully empowered domestic variety.
As a result, the Mission Statement has been replaced in most world-class companies by ISO 9001:2000 accreditation which is altogether more meaningful.
These are the key players in a team or a marketplace or a company.
Their moving and shaking makes itself felt while ordinary folk can only stand back in admiration and envy.
Even envisioneers are awestruck...
This killer phrase is the development team's death blow to the key features that the product manager wanted for the new software.
The development manager is up against the deadline for the product launch and is looking for features to throw out.
"Nice to have" means "It's just the Product Manager's fancy and we can kill it without it being a showstopper (qv)
Unfortunately, all too often such features are are those things that are completely novel and would actually create some space between the product and its competitors.
The justification for giving "Nice to have" features the elbow is that "We won't lose any sales by not having it". This is not unlike " I never had an iPod when I was a boy" or " "Heating in cars? They'll be wanting electric windows next! What the customer wants is good British engineering"
Two years later when the competitors all have the "Nice to have" feature, everyone says "Why didn't we think of that?"
.... If he's not careful, the product manager will take the blame.
Not invented here.
Applies to products bought in from outside the organisation or procedures devised by consultants or managers without sufficient consultation of the people involved.
The term is used to explain an attitude where full co-operation is seen to be lacking.
"No Blame Culture" to "Resource"
No blame culture
In the bad old days, a lot of executives' time was spent looking for someone to blame.
Now expressions like " I just want to understand how we can avoid this scenario in the future" are used.
Once the understanding is complete, the culprit can be fired.
If some conclusion is a "no brainer", it means that it is so obvious that it did not require the use of any brain power to arrive at it.
In other words it was not "rocket science"
Not trivial
It just sounds more in control than saying "Its really jolly difficult" (which is something no can-do Manager wants to be heard saying.)
Outside this meeting.
Everyone is staring at you for bringing up a tricky subject which is not trivial so you clear your throat, rustle your papers and say "We'll take it off line" and everybody heaves a sigh of relief.
Oven-ready
Used in relation to contractors and consultants, this means "Ready to go with no training and the minimum of briefing."
There is no intention to suggest that consultants are turkeys...
Piece, Across the
It used to be "across the board" but now UK Government Ministers like to talk about things being "across the piece".
This is a little puzzling to my friend Jeff.
According to him, a board is, like, the whole thing while a piece, like, if you are talking about Chess is just, like, one 64th of a board innit?
So, are we actually talking about 1/64th of a board here?
My friend Jeff suggests that maybe people,like, gave up talking about "Across the Board" when everybody, like, started displaying these stickers "Baby on Board" in the backs of their SUVs. So, like, you can't get across the board anymore for all these babies, right?
Seems perfectly plausible to me, Jeff.
(I do wish he wouldn't keep saying "like". I'm getting really fed up of it.)
This could be the new "State of the Art" couldn't it? After all here we are at "Today" and post modern will be er later er....won't it? Except that a lot of things that are claimed to be post-modern date back to the 1930s. I'm confused. And I am not alone...
Here, according to Wikipedia is what Dick Hebdige in his "Hiding in the Light" says about postmodernity:
"When it becomes possible for a people to describe as 'postmodern' the décor of a room, the design of a building, the diegesis of a film, the construction of a record, or a 'scratch' video, a television commercial, or an arts documentary, or the 'intertextual' relations between them, the layout of a page in a fashion magazine or critical journal, an anti-teleological tendency within epistemology, the attack on the 'metaphysics of presence' a general attenuation of feeling, the collective chagrin and morbid projections of a post-War generation of baby boomers confronting disillusioned middle-age, the 'predicament of reflexitivity, a group of rhetorical tropes, a proliferation of surfaces, a new phase in commodity fetishism, a fascination for images, codes and styles, a process of cultural, political or existential fragmentation and/or crisis, the 'de-centring' of the subject, an 'incredulity towards metanarratives', the replacement of unitary power axes by a plurality of power/discourse formations, the 'implosion of meaning', the collapse of cultural hierarchies, the dread engendered by the threat of nuclear self-destruction, the decline of the university, the functioning and effects of the new miniaturised technologies, broad societal and economic shifts into a 'media', 'consumer' or 'multinational' phase, a sense (depending on who you read) of 'placelessness' or the abandonment of 'placelessness' (critical regionalism) or (even) a generalised substitution of spatial for temporal coordinates: when it becomes possible to describe all these things as 'postmodern' (or more simply using a current abbreviation as 'post' or 'very post') then it's clear we are in the presence of a buzzword."
Nuff said. Once I have worked out how to use words like "Antiteleological" and "Epistemology", not to mention "Metanarratives", I'll come up with a better definition of "Postmodern".
It won't be soon.
This has got nothing to do with the eternal collections for people who are leaving, getting married or having a baby. It is pushing the boundaries of perceived possibilities to a higher level. e.g. "We have really pushed the envelope on this one", meaning "It actually works!"
Every so often a failing product is saved by "repositioning".
This simply means that it's appeal is moved to a different market sector by a change in the emphasis of the advertising or the placement of the advertising.
Sometimes this repositioning is accidental as exemplified by the adoption of the famous Burberry check by chavs, a nightmare scenario for Burberry which peaked with a Vauxhall car with a Burberry check paint job, known as the "Chavalier" being offered for sale on eBay.
Burberry are now re-repositioning their product line by reducing its check content from 20% to 5%.
Term used by managers with severely limited people skills.
"Resource" is actually people. However, unlike "people" it is not quantified in units but is something like manure or coal. You just shovel a little more on and the job is magically done.
The most common usage is "We have insufficient resource".
By using the term "resource" instead of "people", managers believe that they can admit to not having enough people without stirring up the overworked "resource" in question or coming under fire from senior management for criticising employment and recruitment policies.
The cure for limited resource is to ask the HR Manager (qv) to procure the necessary "shortfall" (Another good codeword for "people")
Both "Resource" and "shortfall" are particularly irritating to the actual resource in question when it is a single unit who is performing the work of 4.7 units, 3.7 of which will not be replaced any time soon.
Page Top "About" to "Business Model"
"Call Centre" to "CRM"
"Drizzled" to "Hard Wired"
"No Blame" to "Resource"
"Revisit" to "State of the Art"
"Synergies" to "World Class"
Empower your paradigms to the next level with The Jargonometer
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Andres Kudacki is a photographer, born in Argentina. He is based in Stockholm since 2019 after living in New York, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, and the United Kingdom, and began working with the Associated Press in 2008. His work has appeared in many world-renowned publications such as New York Magazine, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Corriere della Sera, Global and Mail, The Wall Street Journal, Paris Match Financial Times, The Telegraph, Politiken and Le Monde, among others.
In 2014, Picture of the Year International (POYI) awarded him third place for an Issue Reporting Picture Story for his work on Spain’s housing crisis. He was also given an Istanbul Photo Award second place for a News Story, First Finalist of Luis Valtuena award, four Atlanta Seminar awards for a second place in Features and a third place for Sport Story in 2014 and first place for Sport story and Honorable mention in Features story in 2015, an Honorable mention in NPPA’s Best Of Photojournalism Awards 2014, a Pictorical Second place in st Of Photojournalism Awards 2016, a Second place for Economic Story in the China International Press Photo Contest 2016 (CHIPP), finalist of the National Association of Iconographers awards, First Place at ANI National Association of Iconographers Pixpalace Award, ANIGP “Enrique Meneses” Award News Story First Prize and Spanish National Photojournalism Award 2015, Second prize, a third place for Road to Office story and honorable mention for Road to Office singles in NPPA’s Best Of Photojournalism Awards 2017. In 2018, Istanbul Photo Awards awarded him second place on Nature & Environment category for his work on Puerto Rico and and NPPA’s Best Of Photojournalism Awards awarded him with a Third place in the News Picture Story category in the US, Third Place on International Features and an Honorable Mention on News category for US.
.In 2017 Picture of the Year Latam (POYLatam) awarded him as a top three Photographers of the Year at Pictures of the Year POY LATAM contest and receiving 4 awards: Photographer of the year Third Place, First place and Honorable mention in Traditions and Religion stories and Honorable Mention at News stories.
.“This portfolio was a great surprise. I value the author’s capacity to be in public and private spaces and his refined irony always with respect and dignity helping us to understand and to question what we see. These amazing black and white, is one of my favorites”
Silvia Omedes Comité d´Impúls del Plà Nacional per la Fotografía del Govern de la Generalitat de Catalunya
“His visual signature is recognizable, very recognizable, no just recognizable but he also plays with the contents using his way and he got this irony, this hidden smile that appears visually. he sails very comfortable in between complex public spaces and private spaces and he delivers in the same way. He is someone who got the capacity to link to others and to know where to place himself and generate a very solid informal visual structure. For me is 1 or 2.”
Roberto Huarcaya (Photographer)
“There is a lot of ideas and lot of thoughts of in his photos.
He has humor in different circumstances …there are not many photographers who got sense of humor and he is one of them. He understand what he photograph and got humor.”
Sylvie Rebbot (Former director at Geo)
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Fide Chess Candidates R11: Carlsen Leads, Kramnik Half-Point Behind
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013
In Thursday's 11th round of the FIDE World Chess Candidates' Tournament Vladimir Kramnik moved to second place. Russia's number one beat Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan), while Levon Aronian (Armenia) lost to Peter Svidler (Russia). Drawing his black game with Alexander Grischuk (Russia), Magnus Carlsen (Norway) kept his half point lead in London with three rounds to go. Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine) and Boris Gelfand (Israel) played a very quick draw.
Designed by world-renowned Pentagram Design, the playing zone in the IET’s Lecture Theatre has a lower middle area and a higher area at the back. It is there where the arbiters stay and where the players are getting their food and drinks during the game. As became clear at the start of the 11th round, chess players aren’t really used to such a split-level room. Vassily Ivanchuk slipped and almost fell down, hurt is left ankle and had to treat it with some ice. (Now he’s fine.) At the press conference his opponent, Boris Gelfand, said that he too almost fell down in one of the previous rounds, plunged in thought about his position!
The encounter between Ivanchuk and Gelfand was in fact the shortest game of the tournament so far. In a Grünfeld, the two started repeating moves right after the opening, and agreed to a draw at move 17. It was a bit of a theoretical duel, as Ivanchuk repeated his Bf4 system which he adopted against Carlsen in the fifth round, Gelfand deviated on move seven and then the players followed the game Fridman-Kramnik, Dortmund 2012 until move 11. “It’s not easy to play if you don’t know it because it’s a very sharp position and both pawns are hanging. I think Vassily found a good solution to be safe,” said Gelfand. Ivanchuk: “I remember that Fridman played 12.Qb3 but I didn’t analyse it.”
Gelfand showed a few variations on the laptop in the press room, and said about the final position: “White can never be worse here. I think as a player who played Catalan all my career, I like generally White’s possibilities with this bishop on the big diagonal.” Asked about the historical importance of this Candidates’ Tournament, Gelfand said: “Tournaments like these are a milestone. Unfortunately recently I feel that the respect to the players is dropping, maybe because of computers. People think ‘OK, he didn’t see this move, the computer shows 0.65’, and they tend to respect players less. But of course such a tournament is fantastic. It’s wonderful to play here.”
After an original start in another Grünfeld, Alexander Grischuk and tournament leader Magnus Carlsen also agreed to a draw relatively quickly. In this game Grischuk went for the amazing 5.h4!?, a coffeehouse move that was recently put to the test by his ever-creative compatriot Alexander Morozevich. Carlsen’s thoughts at this point: “I just thought that in general 5…c6 shouldn’t lose. I also looked a little bit at some sharper alternatives but I couldn’t remember them so it made no sense for me to do that.”
Indeed Black’s position was OK until he went for the active but dubious 12…e5. Carlsen: “This was completely unnecessary. After 12…a6 or 12…Qe7 Black is absolutely fine.” Then White definitely had something, but Grischuk just couldn't find a way to profit. With only thirteen minutes left on the clock, the Russian started repeating moves. Carlsen didn’t see a reason to continue playing either: “At the end I simply have no way of saving the d-pawn and playing on. If there was I would because in general, in the long run I have more useful moves. But the d-pawn is falling so there’s nothing I can do.”
Vladimir Kramnik beat Teimour Radjabov, who was under pressure right from the start and then fell for a nice trick on move 28. The opening was a rare variation of the Symmetrical English. “It was not really a case of preparation, more a case of memory,” said Kramnik. The Russian was happy about the first phase of the game: “The outcome of the opening was great. One hour on the clock, nice pressure… It couldn’t be better. It’s not much but Black has to play very accurately.” Radjabov: “I forgot the theory somehow. [At move 15] I couldn’t really find out what was the move.”
He hasn’t been too satisfied about his luck thus far in the tournament, but by now Kramnik really seems to have Caissa on his side. At move 28 he set a trap, and Radjabov fell for it. Kramnik: “I saw it, it’s a very nice trap, easy to fall for in time trouble. It was quite a nice combination.” The former World Champion, who spotted his trick as early as move 26, explained his good form as follows: “As I said at the start of the tournament, I just need to keep a good level of play and then the points will come. I will have to do the same for the rest of the tournament: I have to play well and not blunder anything.”
Having a very up and down tournament himself, Peter Svidler played an important role for the tournament standings on Thursday. The grandmaster from St Petersburg won against Levon Aronian, who more or less blew up his position as he missed some crucial tactics – it was quite a similar scenario as his round 9 loss against Gelfand.
“Finally my refutation of the Nimzo, which people have been dodging so far, was revealed!” joked Svidler, who explained the game in length at the press conference. Visibly upset, Aronian remained quiet for most of the time. “After 22.c5 we come to the one big position in the game,” said Svidler. “After I saw 22…g5 I thought this was kind of uncalled for. After this Black’s position just collapses. The game was really decided in this one moment. I can definitely say I was a bit lucky today.”
“I just blundered 23.c6. Otherwise there’s nothing wrong with 22…g5. Like in the game with Gelfand I made a tactical blunder,” explained Aronian, who didn’t want to draw any conclusions yet. Replying to a journalist who wondered whether Carlsen and Kramnik were adopting a better strategy, the Armenian replied: “I think it would be better if I answered this after the end of the tournament. Perhaps we’ll see some strategy winning over another, but I don’t think the tournament has finished already.”
After eleven rounds, with 7.5 points Carlsen is still leading but now it’s Kramnik who is trailing by half a point. Aronian is clear third with 6.5 and Svidler clear fourth with 5.5 points. Grischuk and Gelfand are tied for fifth place with 5, Ivanchuk is 7th with 4 and Radjabov is last with 3.5 points. On Friday, March 29th at 14:00 GMT the twelfth round will be played: Carlsen-Ivanchuk, Gelfand-Svidler, Aronian-Kramnik and Radjabov-Grischuk.
-Report by Peter Doggers/Pictures by Anastasiya Karlovich
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By XU WEI in Chengdu | China Daily | Updated: 2019-12-26 00:52
Countries can work together on aging, modern services, Li tells Japanese PM
Beijing and Tokyo have agreed to expand cooperation in coping with aging societies and other issues as they seek to foster new areas of bilateral economic and trade cooperation.
The consensus was made between Premier Li Keqiang and his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, on Wednesday. The two leaders had talks in a hotel at the foot of Mount Qingcheng, a Taoist holy site and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, about one-hour drive from Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province.
The two leaders, together with Republic of Korea President Moon Jae-in, convened in the city for the eighth China-Japan-ROK leaders' meeting on Tuesday.
Li said China's ongoing efforts to further open up its services sector will provide more opportunities for both countries to expand win-win cooperation. There is broad space for greater bilateral cooperation in coping with aging societies and achieving mutual benefits, he said.
Both countries also face challenges of rapidly aging societies. New births in Japan have fallen below 900,000 per year for the first time on record, while births in China dropped for two consecutive years despite a universal two-child policy being adopted.
He highlighted the modern services — including securities, life insurance and healthcare — as sectors where the two countries can work together further.
"We can select some pilot areas where there will be greater opening-up so as to foster new highlights for bilateral cooperation. Chengdu could be a good option," Li said.
He also urged more cooperative measures in investment, innovation and tapping into third-party markets, as well as higher level people-to-people exchanges.
Abe echoed Li's proposal, saying that there is broad space for bilateral economic and trade cooperation.
He said Japan appreciates China's efforts to further open up its services sector, and it is willing to actively take part in the process.
During the meeting, Li also called upon both sides to stay committed to the principles set out in four political documents that are fundamental to Sino-Japanese relations, carefully handle sensitive issues and enable continuous new progress.
Abe said the two countries must conduct closer high-level exchanges, enhance communication and dialogue and jointly open a new era for bilateral relations.
After the meeting, Li accompanied Abe on a visit to the Dujiangyan irrigation system, another UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Bilateral trade between China and Japan reached more than $327 billion in 2018, up 8.1 percent over the previous year. Since 2007, China has been Japan's largest trade partner.
Relations between China and Japan were long clouded by issues including wartime history and territorial disputes. But they have come back on track since Li's visit to Japan in May 2018. Five months later, Abe visited Beijing.
When President Xi Jinping and Abe met in June on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Xi agreed in principle to accept Abe's invitation to make a state visit to Japan next spring.
Ahead of his trip to Chengdu, Abe met Xi in Beijing on Monday.
Zhou Yongsheng, deputy director of China Foreign Affairs University's Japanese Studies Center, said Japan has much expertise to share with China in its services sector.
"Both economies now face downward pressure and require vitality from outside to shore up growth," Zhou said, adding that closer bilateral trade relations and investment cooperation will offer the two countries more leeway amid the sluggish global economy.
Xu Liping, a researcher at the National Institute of International Strategy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said greater political mutual trust is needed for the two countries to elevate bilateral relations.
"It is important for the two countries to see each other as cooperative partners rather than opponents," he said, adding that more must be done to promote understanding between the two peoples.
State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi also met with Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi in Beijing on Wednesday.
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Violating Shabbat to Care for a Woman After Childbirth
The Shulhan Aruch (Orah Haim 330:4) establishes that for three days after a woman delivers a baby, she is presumed to be in a potentially life-threatening condition, and thus caring for her overrides all the Shabbat prohibitions. This means that if the woman during this period needs food cooked, water heated, or a light turned on or off � this may all be done on her behalf, even if it is Shabbat. Even if the woman says she does not require this care, it is assumed that she is unaware of what her body needs after childbirth, and so everything which people deem necessary for her wellbeing may be done, even at the expense of the Shabbat prohibitions, without any hesitation.
The Mishna Berura (Rav Yisrael Meir Kagan of Radin, 1839-1933) brings two opinions as to how this three-day period is determined. According to one view, this period spans three Halachic days, as determined by sunrise and sunset. Thus, for example, if a woman delivered a baby before sundown on Wednesday, the three-day period consists only of the rest of the Wednesday, and then Thursday and Friday. On Shabbat, she would not be considered in a presumed condition of potential risk. However, the Mishna Berura then brings many other Halachic authorities (including the Ritva, the Eliyahu Rabba, the Issur Ve�heter, and the Bet Efrayim) who maintain that this period spans 72 hours. And therefore, if the delivery occurred before sundown on Wednesday afternoon, the three-day period continues until that time of day on Shabbat afternoon. Until that time, anything needed for the sake of caring for the woman may be done, even at the expense of the Shabbat prohibitions, and even if the woman says she does not need this care. This is the view accepted by Hacham Ovadia Yosef, in several contexts (Yabia Omer, vol. 7, Orah Haim 53; Leviyat Hen, 95; and Hazon Ovadia � Shabbat, vol. 3, p. 333).
After this 72-hour period, but within a week of childbirth, Shabbat may not be violated for needs which the woman says she does not require. Since the level of danger at this point is lower, one may not violate Shabbat for something which the woman says is not necessary. From the Shulhan Aruch�s formulation of this Halacha it appears that it applies only if the woman specifically says she does not need something done for her, but if she says nothing, then Shabbat may be violated. The Ben Ish Hai (Rav Yosef Haim of Baghdad, 1833-1909) ruled more stringently, and maintained that in between the third and seventh days after childbirth, Shabbat may be violated only for the sake of needs which the woman specifically requests. However, Hacham Ovadia, following the straightforward implication of the Shulhan Aruch, disagrees, and allows violating Shabbat during this period to care for the woman unless she specifically expresses that she does not require that form of care.
One example would be if the woman needs a nurse to help her use the restroom on Shabbat within a week after childbirth. In such a case, the Poskim allow the woman to press the button � though in an unusual manner � in order to call the nurse so she receives the help she needs.
Summary: During the first 72 hours after childbirth, anything deemed necessary for the woman�s wellbeing may be done, even if this requires desecrating Shabbat, due to the potential risk that exists. After 72 hours, until the end of seven days after childbirth, Shabbat is not violated to care for the woman in a manner which she says is unnecessary, but otherwise, Shabbat may be violated even during this period for the sake of caring for the woman.
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USA Today—of all places—has a surprisingly solid piece on creationism:
[B]y attempting to marshal empirical evidence in support of their beliefs, [creationists] enter the debate on the scientists’ terms — terms that cannot possibly work in favor of a literal reading of the Bible. By playing in this arena, haven’t the creationists already lost the argument?
… This unwise raising of the stakes is vividly demonstrated by the soon-to-open Creation Museum in Florence, Ky., which is assembling a collection of dinosaur models, fossils, minerals and other material to “demonstrate that the Scriptural accounts of the Creation, Noah’s flood, and other major events of biblical history can be trusted,” as organizers describe the project in a news release.
… In comments published last fall by the Baptist Press news service, a consultant to the Creation Museum implies that the very foundation of Christian belief will crumble if believers don’t disprove the scientific consensus that humans evolved into existence tens of thousands of years ago. The consultant is one Kurt Wise, a Harvard-educated Ph.D. and director of the Center for Theology and Science at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Says Wise: “If humans really date back that far, and Adam lived far enough in the past to be their ancestor, then the genealogical record of Genesis 5 is wrong, and thus the Bible and its author, God, are wrong.”
… But here’s the rub: Wise acknowledges that nothing can convince him that Earth is older than five or six thousand years. Why? Because the Bible is his ultimate authority. “The most important thing,” he says, “is that you ought to be able to trust your God and the claims the Bible makes.”
… Why, then, are [creationists] bothering with fossils and geology and quasi-
scientific exhibitions that purport to prove that the Bible “can be trusted,” as the organizers of the Creation Museum phrase it? No doubt, concern for the public credibility of their faith has a lot to do with it. They appear to have accepted that we live in a rational age, one that will not abide propositions that lack objective evidence to back them.
How ironic, then, that by dabbling in science to promote their beliefs, anti-science creationists are more likely eroding the very credibility they aim to bolster.
Granted, the new museum in Kentucky, like the creationist book at the Grand Canyon, may shore up the already-believers. But if winning new converts to Christianity is the aim, the strategy can only backfire.
How many Americans are ready to accept the proposition that science has made a colossal error interpreting the fossil and geological record and — more radical still — that the validity of Christianity depends on proving it? If anything, a stance like this repels those wavering between faith and disbelief and gives skeptics one more reason to reject religion.
The article also lists some of the little, uh, scientific challenges facing creationism:
When it comes to conflicts between the scientific/rational mindset and the beliefs of Bible literalists, there’s no book quite like Genesis. From the origins of the world and humankind to the cause of the snake’s ground-hugging posture, the two worldviews are light years apart. Here are some assertions in Genesis that clash with the scientific conception of reality:
God created the world in six days (and rested on the seventh). By tracing the genealogies laid out in Genesis, young-Earth creations conclude that this divine act occurred about 6,000 years ago. Mainstream science, by contrast, holds that Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old and that the surface we recognize as “the world” is not the product of a sudden divine act, but of eons of gradual change.
During this flurry of creation, after producing the creatures of the air, water and land, God created the first man. Seeing that Adam had “no suitable helper,” he created the first woman, Eve, from Adam’s rib. According to mainstream science, anatomically modern humans first appeared on the scene at least 130,000 years ago, having evolved from more primitive forms.
Speaking of those genealogies, people in Genesis had very, very long lives. Adam lived 930 years; Seth, 912 years; Enosh, 905 years; and so on. The longest documented human life in history (that of a Frenchwoman named Jeanne Calment) is 122 years. Science’s understanding of aging is incomplete, and it cannot definitely prove that significantly longer life spans were not possible long ago. Nevertheless, the great age achieved by Adam, Enosh and others in Genesis obliterates the credulity of all but the most ardent fundamentalists.
As punishment for tempting Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, God cursed the serpent and consigned it to crawl on its belly and “eat dust” for all its days — to become a snake, in other words. Science holds that snakes, like all creatures, evolved into their present form in response to environmental challenges and opportunities. As such, their peculiar shape and posture are not a curse, but a gradually acquired asset that lets them burrow and fit through spaces too small for most animals.
Before God’s intervention at the Tower of Babel, Genesis asserts, all humans spoke one tongue. As punishment for human presumption, God confused their language such that they could no longer understand one another — turned one language into many, essentially, thus beginning the development of the thousands of languages known today. You probably won’t find many university scientists who will vouch for this version of events, but there is no scientific consensus on how human languages evolved, nor the degree to which they share a common root or roots.
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Ein deutscher Traum – part II of Cycle I from synthetic fragments
for ensemble
Instrumentation: flute, clarinet (Bb and Bass), percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello
Premiere: Mars 27, 2019 – Norrbotten Neo in Luleå, Sweden
Duration: approximately 10 minutes
Commissioned by: Norrbottensmusiken
Score: Buy score at BabelScores!
Ein deutscher Traum (A German dream) takes its title from the second part of Hans-Jürgen Sybergergs mega-film “Hitler – ein Film aus Deutschland” (1977).The film has no clear plot or chronology, instead, each part explores one particular topic with the second part focusing on the pre-Nazi German cultural, spiritual and national heritage that the Nazi propaganda related to.
Rather than devise a spectacle in the past tense, by attempting to simulate unrepeatable reality or showing a photographic document, this is a sort of spectacle in the present tense – “adventures in the head”. Reality can only be grasped indirectly – seen reflected in a mirror, staged in the theater of the mind. A fiction without being a narrative and a document without claiming objectivity for it: a hybrid form without respectable parentage? But in contrast to the lavish DeMille-like décors that Wagner projected for his tetralogy, Syberberg’s film is a cheap fantasy.
The music should however not be misinterpreted as crudely illustrative, some (more or less) musical (symbolic) references are made; like beginning and closing all parts with a silent lonely child, an ironic mock of the complexity of the subject presented as something simple and also evoking symbolism of melancholy which musically is referred to by the, seemingly simple, beginning and ending on “one” note. Maybe this music could be viewed upon as “abstract storytelling”, having no real “plot” but constantly shifting its focus with different gestures, states, and reflections and so on.
Ein deutscher Traum is the second part in cycle I (from the large work “synthetic fragments”) consisting of 4 parts named after Syberbergs film; I – Der Gral, II – Ein deutscher Traum, III – Das Ende eines Wintermärchens, IV – Wir Kinder der Hölle;
A grail, a dream, a tale.
for trombone and percussion
Instrumentation: trombone, percussion (xylophone, crotales, 3 skin instruments, prepared tenordrum, pedal bass drum, 7 metal objects, seed pod chimes, sleigh bells (or similar e.g. Kagura suzu 神楽鈴), 3 temple blocks, prepared log drum, sandblock and 3 pair of resonant instruments e.g. glass bowls, gongs, cow bells, etc.)
Premiere: 15 September 2019, Gothenburg; Ivo Nilsson-trombone, Jonny Axelsson-percussion
Duration: approx. 25 minutes
Review (DN, in Swedish): Click to read review on DN
The Latin title has a dual meaning: uncertain (art)work and a term for a Roman masonry where the wall consists of irregularly placed stones of different sizes and materials.
The piece can be divided into 9 “blocks” of material placed next to each other. Parts of these blocks are clearly linear and through the progress of the piece gradually reveal an underlying acceleration. Others are more sublime, fragmentary, atomized, grumbling, private and uncertain: intensely focusing on details.
The different blocks may also be heard as different types of time: “now-time” which is divided ad infinitum into something that has just happened and something that will happen, constantly flying in both directions simultaneously; “cyclic time”, filled with states and movements of objects; “material-bound time”, the temporality of the concrete figure. Sudden changes in structure, perspective and direction.
The work as a transition between solely imperfections.
The fragment attracts and promises something else.
Layers are laid over layers, “strata super strata”.
Zwischen der kürzeste Schatten
for solo violin or violin and spatialised electroacoustic sound
Instrumentation: violin and optional electronics
fluchtlinien-E
for flute, spatialised electroacoustic sound and live electronics
Instrumentation: flute (with B foot), electronics
Premiere: 8 July 2018, Tokyo; Kazuko Ihara-flute, Denerin-electronics
Duration: approx. 8 minutes
Recording: Recording available at BabelScores. Use link above!
fluchtlinien – With this concept Deleuze and Guattari points at possible alternatives to the dominating approach. One example is how the music sends out lines of flight (fluchtlinien) when it multiplies and spreads like a diverse weed of sound. Fluchtlininen thus indicates the potential for something different to take shape, for example, the opportunity of re-thinking.
Every form of life – a body, a social group, an organism or even a concept – consists of links and connections. Genes come together to form cells; cells are collected to form tribes. The term ‘human being’ is an example of such an interconnection of reason, a certain type of body (white, male), speech, and so on. But every connection also allows a fluchtlinie; there is always the potential for genetic mutation. The definition of man as rational also enables a dispute about what constitutes humanity: e.g., is it rational to put up a stock of nuclear weapons? Thus, every definition wears, every territorialisationtorium or body, the opportunities that opens up for a fluchtlinie that could turn it into something else.
In fluchtlinien-E the piece gets another dimension by setting the extremely thoroughly notated flute material with a semi-improvisation part for electronics that just has to obey some simple rules. The electronic part is in many ways also an extension of the percussion part from fluchtlinien-D.
denkbilder
Instrumentation: alto flute/piccolo, Bb/bass clarinet, oboe/eng. horn, piano, percussion, violin, viola, cello
Premiere: 30 april 2017, Brussels; Odysseia Ensemble
Commissioned by: Odysseia Ensemble
Score: Contact the composer
The thought-image (Denkbild)—a word used by Walter Benjamin as a kind of generic term for his own shorter text-pieces—can be seen as lying at the heart of his work on thinking-in-images (Bilddenken). His thought-images are dialectical images in written form, literally constellationsbecome-writing (Schrift-gewordene Konstellationen).The concept of images has nothing to do with the history of material images, nor with a ‘mental image’ but as a constellation of resemblances which is figured in a third, beyond a form-content relation.
Missing from the thought-image are the formal features of narrativization. One searches in vain for a central subject or a clearly defined plot development but rather it’s a constant flight from place to place to place.
for duo
Instrumentation: piccolo & oboe or piccolo & Eb clarinet
Premiere: (clarinet version)30 april 2017, Brussels; Katrien Gaelens, flute – Dries Tack, clarinet
Commissioned by: (clarinet version) Odysseia Ensemble
‘Whereas in the symbol destruction is idealized and the transfigured face of nature is fleetingly revealed in the light of redemption, in allegory the observer is confronted with the facies hippocratica (totenkopf) of history as a petrified primordial landscape. Everything about history that from the very beginning has been untimely, sorrowful, unsuccessful, is expressed in a face – or rather in a death’s head.’ (W. Benjamin)
This piece started off as what could perhaps be labelled a ‘transit piece’ in the context of the cycle einbahnstraße. This is even (somewhat naively) represented in the work by the transitions in register in the 2 instruments: the piccolo beginning with its very lowest note and always aiming upwards; and the other instrument’s opposite route. But this allegorical transit is constantly unsuccessful; other material breaking through and piling themselves up and what could be simple becomes complex and fragmented.
totenkopf exists in 2 versions: for piccolo and oboe or for piccolo and Eb clarinet.
Simulacrum
for chamber orchestra
Instrumentation: chamber orchestra (2222 1210 2 strings
Premiere: 19 february 2017, Basel; Kammerorchester Basel/Franck Ollu
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A simulacrum (from Latin: which means likeness, similarity) is a representation or imitation of a person or thing; copies that depict things that either had no original to begin with, or that no longer have an original. This piece largely deals with constant repetitions of ‘damaged’ materials and their potential expressiveness. The simulacrum is the content which affect or ‘modifies’ these repetitions; the system in which different relates to different by means of difference itself. ‘It is not the same which returns, it is not the similar which returns; rather, the same is the returning of that which returns, – in other words, of the Different.’ [G. Deleuze]
While it is a truism that music is an art of time, most of my pieces are concerned in some way with time and its perception which, in this piece, determines the formal principle of fragmentation in each case. Between each fragment is a simulacrum and the return of material affirms difference, dissemblance and disparateness, chance, multiplicity and becoming.
The original (virtual) material could be categorised as:
1. Texture (recognisable consistent quality field)
2. Gesture (semantically energized emotive signifier)
3. Figure (conglomerate of potentially independent formal markers)
border-states (time transformations): glissando, static texture, slowly changing texture, ‘coloured silence’, complete silence.
The piece ‘flirts’ with two types of time: the faster, highly figured material and; a ‘frozen’ sustained texture (border state). These border-states also create (in my perception) a “macro-rhythm” within the piece. But qualitatively perceived states can overlap, rather than being organized into a distinct succession as concepts; creating a (vision of) ‘confused multiplicity’. This is perhaps most apparent in the ‘insert’ of the percussion solo where figures occur against a timeless backdrop of ‘ethereal slow motion’.
A ‘concerto for ensemble’ Simulacrum is written for players often momentarily deployed in small chamber groups or, more rarely, as soloists. Although, because the wind section is populated with different register instruments (i.e. piccolo, flute / Bb clarinet, Bass clarinet / bassoon, contrabassoon) and the range of percussion is sizeable, my intention is that the piece’s colour-spectrum is richer still than the 23-strong ensemble suggests.
matheme
for double trio
Instrumentation: bass flute, bass clarinet, contrabass, violin, alto trombone, piano
Premiere: 24 october 2016, New York
The matheme indicates a relationship, where the relationship is problematic, unstable and continuously open to re-negotiation.
Two separated trios playing separate music. The ambiguity of where this music can meet seems to endorse the notion of a ‘transitive’ space – a matheme, creating an invisible third space perhaps.
for trio
Instrumentation: violin, alto trombone, piano
Duration: approx. 13,5 minutes
Meaning of No Meaning
Instrumentation: bass flute, bass clarinet, contrabass
Premiere: 9 october 2013, Brussels – Katrien Gaelens, Dries Tack, Jens Similox-Tohon
On a pure musical level this music is about contrasts.
Two ‘themes’; one melodic, looping restatements, obstacles and ornamented planes, tentative lattices of simultaneity, networks forming and diffusing with a fine tread running between the instruments;
the other like a broken machine, jolting and splattering. But also ‘themes’ against ‘no-theme’, or development against ‘staticness’ and so on… (Meaning against No Meaning).
Maybe what I am after with this music is what’s between these contrasts, leaving the music for itself, “being by itself”.
But in the moment that is created between these contrasts a new thought can be formed by the listener.
When you turn your attention to it, the meaningless meaning assumes a meaning that defeats its own purpose.
There is no more meaningless meaning.
Meaning now has some meaning. It points to something else.
But when we become meaning itself, we need not talk about meaning anymore.
Instrumentation: electronic music
Premiere: 23 september 2016, Mexico City
Duration: 7 minutes 10 seconds
(from Greek ἀρτηρία (artēria), meaning “windpipe, artery”) are blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart. In this electro-acoustic piece, which forms part IX of a larger piece for cello solo, electronics and visual performance, I have imagined this vessels, pulsating blood through the body. Formally the piece contains 2 “parts” building a sort of arch, or increase/decrease of blood pressure of you will. The first part is static in its character, with one sound with different microtonal changes in the 6 channels respectively. The second part, by contrast, is very varied with different information being sent through the ”arterias”, so to speak. All sounds are electronically produced and the whole sounds-scape is clearly electronic.
Recording: (stereomix)
O ew'ge Nacht
Instrumentation: piano, cello and electronics
Premiere: 28 June 2016, Santiago de Compostela; Vertixe Sonora (David Durán, Thomas Piel)
Commissioned by: Vertixe Sonora
When approach to participate in the project “Sound Correspondences” I was told that the concert was to be related to a collective exhibition of the CGAC. For me the artist involved is María Ruido who presented her work “La memoria interior” for me. While there may be certain connections between our works (construction of memory would be one), what immediately struck me was the very beginning where, in complete darkness, Nur Stille, Stille (from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte) is heard.
The title of my piece, O ew’ge nacht, is also taken from Die Zauberflöte where it is a short recitative; the topic being that of questions about the afterlife, eternal life, and love.
If the recitative is a Message from Beyond, this music struggles, through the performers (as some kind of deformed Papageno and Pamina figures), trying to ask a question. The effect of struggle is twofold, for while the music itself articulates a search through potential material, the player is faced with notation of great complexity from which a performance must be extrapolated. In this sense, the struggle is not only that of the extreme performance situation, but also one of creating a piece of music of any real significance.
It (tries to) offer a reflexive narrative of how it is to be in the world; it can never hope to be objective or to tell anyone anything new, but nevertheless holds out for the possibility that one might, in the telling, somehow stumble across something of note; musical composition (and, by extension, listening) as an attempt to bring order to a (fictionally) broken down remnant of… what? The distant past? The depths of the subconscious? (The inner Memory?)
When the chorus answers Tamino’s question “O eternal night, when will you disappear? they represent a calling from an afterlife, and they provide two answers: to the question of when he should find light, the dying Mozart receives the response “Soon, soon or never more,” and the syllabic singing of the name “Pa-mi-na” becomes an incantation…
Beyond the Quintessential Quincunx
Instrumentation: bass clarinet, violin, acoustic guitar, sound objects
Premiere: 31 Mars 2016, Århus; Curious Chamber Players (Dries Tack, Karin Hellqvist, Frederik Munk Larsen, Rei Munakata)
Duration: approximately 6 minutes
drifting – part 2 of Cycle IV from “synthetic fragments
Instrumentation: percussion, alto-flute, optional live electronics
Premiere: 26 February 2016, Barcelona; Duo Arà (A. Rombolá, N. Andorrà)+ Henrik Denerin
Duration: variable (12-15 minutes suggested)
monade (diskontinuierliche Endlichkeit)
Instrumentation: clarinet in A, cello, piano
Premiere: 10 january 2016, Paris; Ensemble Aleph (Dominique Clément, Christophe Roy, Sylvie Drouin)
Commissioned by: Ensemble Aleph
Monad (from Greek μονάς monas, “unit” in turn from μόνος monos, “alone”)
The monad, the word and the idea, belongs to the western philosophical tradition and has been used by various authors, most famously by Leibniz that designates the monad as metaphysical point (without extension) in which the entire universe is reflected.
Monads are manifest, they are everywhere, and there is no extension without monads. They are, then, the plenum, that is to say, the condition of an infinitely dense universe, but nevertheless they are unextended. However, this doesn’t mean that they lack of any function (as far as they project and reflect force), matter (since they come with it) or that they are extended (considering that they don’t interact with anything in the world).
The ‘intensive infinity’ within the monad is in excess of any concept. Monadic fullness is dizzying, ‘confused.’ The infinity within the monad is infinitely analyzable, which means that it cannot be captured by a finite consciousness, but is lost for intentionality. Nonetheless, this loss is not an abstract negation of knowledge, since the monad has all the complex determinacy of an intensive gathering of relations.
The ‘pregnant’ fullness of the monad intends no mythic re-enchantment of nature. On the contrary, it definitively secularizes temporality, and shows how the modern notion of progress reintroduces the Christian via recta into the representation of time.
Walter Benjamin’s monad is simultaneously packed with all of its predicates – past, present, and future. Benjamin describes the intensive infinity within the monad as its absorption of all of its ‘virtual history’ (both becoming and passing away) in a pre-stabilized essence. We become aware of the infinite complexity in our perceptions by intensifying our attention to what is already implicit in our representations.
monade (diskontinuierliche Endlichkeit) – Oscillation measures the failure of a limit to exist.
seals II – part 4 of Cycle III from synthetic fragments
for cello & soprano or cello solo
Instrumentation: cello & soprano (or cello solo)
Premiere: 2 mars 2017 (both versions), Brussels
Duration: approx. 1 minute
The title of this work, seals, comes from the Italian philosopher, mathematician, poet, Dominican friar and astrologer Giordano Bruno (1548 – 1600). Although not widely recognized he is celebrated for his cosmological theories, which went even further than the then-novel Copernican model. Bruno also correctly proposed that the Sun was just another star moving in space, and claimed as well that the universe contained an infinite number of inhabited worlds, identified as planets orbiting other stars. Because of his, at the time, radical thinking (including supporting Galileo Galilei) Bruno was forced to leave Italy in 1576, first to France and later to England and Germany. In 1591, in a time when the Inquisition seemed to be losing some of its impetus, and Venice seemed especially safe as it was the most liberal state in Italy; therefore Bruno was lulled into making the fatal mistake of returning to Italy. In 1592 he was arrested by the Venetian Inquisition, sent to Rome and charged of blasphemy and heresy. After 7 years of trial the Inquisition found him guilty, and in 1600 Bruno was burned at stake in Rome’s Campo de’ Fiori. Bruno’s case is still considered a landmark in the history of free thought and the future of the emerging sciences.
In addition to his cosmological writings, Bruno also wrote extensively on the art of memory, a loosely organized group of mnemonic techniques and principles and it is these writings that the title of my piece refer to. Early in 1583, soon after his arrival in England, Bruno published the massive volume on memory which is referred to as Seals, though it really consists of four items, as follows:
Ars reminiscendi
Triginta sigilli
Explanatio triginta sigillorum
Sigillus sigillorum
So, 30 seals (Triginta sigilli) and the seal of seals (Sigillus sigillorum). What then are these seals? The art of mnemonics tradition, e.g. Fra Agostino del Riccio’s work Arte delle memoria locale (unpublished, but the manuscript exists in the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence) uses the idea of presenting the principles and various techniques of the art through little symbolic pictures, with titles. This is exactly what the Seals are, statements of the principles and techniques of the art – but, magicised, complicated with Lullism and Cabbalism, blown up into inscrutable mysteries.
The seals are not confined to any one system. On the contrary Bruno states that he is trying every possible way; perhaps something for which he is not looking may emerge out of this, as alchemists who do not succeed in making gold sometimes hit on other important discoveries. In the later Seals he is trying variations of astrological arrangements, devices of a Lullist nature (or what he supposes to be Lullist), infiltrations of Cabalist magic in the unending search for a really operative organisation of the psyche. And the search always brings in the tricks of the memory trade, the old techniques of which can be recognised in Seal after Seal, though now presented as occult mysteries.
If we drop the word ‘magical’ and think of the efforts of an occult memory artist as directed towards drawing out of the psyhe combinations of ‘archetypal’ images we come within range of some major trends of modern psychological thought.
There is something, to my mind, profound in the Seals, as though in its inner moulding of significant memory statues, this drawing out of tremendous forms by subtraction of the inessential, Giordano Bruno, the memory artist, were introducing us to the core of the creative act, the inner act which precedes the outer expression.
The work seals II is one of eleven works for solo instruments which form cycle III of “synthetic fragments”.
astrocyte
Premiere: 26 Mars 2016, Tuscaloosa, USA
astrocyte (Astro from Greek astron = star and cyte from Greek “kyttaron” = cell) are characteristic star-shaped glial cells in the brain and spinal cord. Recent research (2015) has shown that these cells have a important role to help the brain to remember. They have also been showed to occilate.
In this electro-acoustic piece, which forms part III of the piece “Ontology of Becoming” for cello solo, electronics and visual performance, I have imagined this “cell – world”; how these cells sends information and how that may sound like.
Formally the piece contains 10 “phrases” of different lengths. (These different phrases; their lengths, construction etc. are connected to the piece in its whole and could be regarded as a way at looking into the brain and see, through the astrocytes, how it treats the memory (and pre-memory) of the piece… a kind of information flow of every part… but condensed).
astrocyte forms the 3rd part of a large scale work for cello, electronics and visual performance.
The visuals are by Thomas Marcusson.
Demo of visual performance (by T. Marcusson:
http://www.denerin.org/wp-content/uploads/Astrocyte-Demo-HD.mp4
fluchtlinien-D
for flute and percussion
Instrumentation: flute (with B foot), percussion
Premiere: 26 February 2016, Barcelona; Duo Arà (A. Rombolá, N. Andorrà)
fluchtlinien-D is fluchtlinien with a structured improvised percussion part.
score excerpt page 1-3
fluchtlinien
for flute
Instrumentation: flute (with B foot)
Premiere: 23 August 2015, Tokyo Opera City, Tokyo (Japan); Kazuko Ihara
With this concept Deleuze and Guattari points at possible alternatives to the dominating approach. One example is how the music sends out lines of flight (fluchtlinien) when it multiplies and spreads like a diverse weed of sound. Fluchtlininen thus indicates the potential for something different to take shape, for example, the opportunity of re-thinking.
verzeitlichung
Instrumentation: clarinet (Bb/bass), piano, violin, viola, cello
Premiere: 23 April 2015, Fabra i Coats, Barcelona (Spain); Ensemble Recherche
Commissioned by: Mixtur Festival for Ensemble Recherche
Perhaps it is first in the interpretation process that an artwork unfolds to what it is interpreted as. Interpretandum is thus not something instantly given but grows from esthetic experience and critical reflection – it is both the result of and the object of the study. Also in a temporal respect, mediation between production and interpretation is crucial: the artwork is produced not in its contemporary history (the past), but its time (the present) in the artwork. This temporalization (verzeitlichung) of the artwork during the process of composition transforms its interior into a “micro eon”. The interpretation crystallizes the work to a structure.
seals I – part 1 of Cycle III from synthetic fragments
for violin solo & ensemble
Instrumentation: violin solo, english horn, Eb clarinet, piano, soprano, cello
Premiere: 21 June 2015, Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel;
Veerle Houbraken – soloviolin & Odysseia Ensemble conducted by Bart Bouckaert
The work seals I is one of eleven works for solo instruments which form cycle III of “synthetic fragments”.
Rhizom
Instrumentation: flute (C/alto/piccolo), soprano saxophone, percussion, piano, cello
Premiere: 30 November 2014, La Caja, Vigo (Spain); Vertixe Sonora Ensemble
Commissioned by: Vertixe Sonora Ensemble
“A rhizome has no beginning or end; it is always in the middle, between things, interbeing, intermezzo. The tree is filiation, but the rhizome is alliance, uniquely alliance. The tree imposes the verb “to be,” but the fabric of the rhizome is the conjunction, “and. . . and.. . and. . .”
So far Deleuze. Subterranean passages of thought: that is what Deleuze and Guttari call a RHIZOME. It tests the intelligent capacity for finding beginnings. A labyrinth without beginning or end: “A non-hierarchic structure of concepts that propagates in all directions and invites to multiplicity.“
When I a few years ago read their book “A Thousand Plateaus” (“Mille plateaux”) I did it enthusiastically even though I may not have completely understood all of the ideas (some are even still quite difficult to understand). But at least some thought images have had a lasting impression. When I started this work I came to think about how their philosophical concept “Rhizome” has gradually become a way for me to think about structures in musical composition (form) and how these structures can communicate itself to listeners.
Rhizom is based on a “predefined book” of rhythmical structures, harmonic progressions and instrumental combinations. In order to try to adhere to the conception of Rhizome it is composed in a non-linear fashion.
score excerpt page 22
Recording of the premiere with Vertixe Sonora Ensemble
for cello solo
Instrumentation: cello
Premiere: 14 August 2014, Darmstadt; Alice Purton
breathing for prepared cello is the last section (section 10), but the first to be composed, from a much larger work for cello, electronic music and visual performance.
Performed as a solo piece, breathing does not utilize any electronics or video.
The music isn’t intended to illustrate any kind of breathing but to be in itself the “breathing”, in the large scale work as a re-wakening and as a solo piece, the enjoyment of life (breathing gives life!). Structurally the work as a whole and down to its very details is influenced by prime numbers. The reasons for this are manifold. They grow like weeds among the natural numbers, seeming to obey no other law than that of chance, and nobody can predict where the next one will sprout. The second fact is even more astonishing, for it states just the opposite: that the prime numbers exhibit stunning regularity, that there are laws governing their behavior, and that they obey these laws with almost military precision. The stability of the structure, its symmetry and beauty, is the way in which the understanding takes its perceptible form and communicates itself to the listener… to understand something about the material and how, conceptually, music communicates itself to the listener.
“the dichotomy between the very predictable world of mathematics and the almost whimsical nature of prime numbers”
score excerpt page 1
version for violin solo
Instrumentation: violin solo
Das Ende eines Wintermärchens – part III of Cycle I from synthetic fragments
Instrumentation: Bb clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola, ‘cello, contrabass
Premiere: April 13, 2014 – Ensemble Aleph in Fontevraud Abbey, France
Recording by Ensemble Aleph
Das Ende eines Wintermärchens (The End of a Winter’s Tale) takes its title from the third part of
Hans-Jürgen Sybergergs mega-film “ein Film aus Deutschland” (1977).The film that has no clear plot
or chronology , instead, each part explores one particular topic with the third part exploring the
holocaust and the ideology behind it.
Rather than devise a spectacle in the past tense, by attempting to simulate unrepeatable reality or
showing a photographic document, this is a sort of spectacle in the present tense – “adventures in
the head”. Reality can only be grasped indirectly – seen reflected in a mirror, staged in the theater of
the mind.
The music should however not be misinterpreted as crudely illustrative, some (more or less) musical
(symbolic) references are made; like beginning and closing all parts with a silent lonely child, an ironic
mock of the complexity of the subject presented as something simple and also evoking symbolism of
melancholy which musically is referred to by the, seemingly simple, beginning and ending on one
note (G and E respectively). This also acts as a dramatic form of the piece, building an arc from
simplicity – complexity – simplicity in its use of material.
Maybe this music could be viewed upon as “abstract storytelling”, having no real “plot” but
constantly shifting its focus with different gestures, states, and reflections and so on. As said above,
there is a certain dramatic form with a building of material starting with roughly-accented contrabass
harmonics, culminating with the strings + clarinet playing ordered, layered, almost mechanical music
(with each instrument “going through” the 24 quartertones of an octave in its own sequence and
with very exactly defined crescendos and diminuendos), eventually differentiating into more complex
and tangled textures. The music now tries to focus, with a decrease of the harmonic and melodic
material but is once again drawn to a scale using all 24 quartertones in the octave, but this time used
as harmonic material with crescendos, becoming ever shorter and louder. A shift of focus utilizing
multiple gestures and states (like looking at the material at different perspectives) the music finally
stabilize more and more until a single E in violin Is left… seemingly simple but constantly fluctuating
in its inner structure.
Das Ende eines Wintermärchens is the third part in cycle I from the work “synthetic fragments” where cycle I consists of 4 parts, all named after the parts
from Syberbergs film; I – Der gral, II – Ein deutcher traum, III – Das Ende eines Wintermärchens, IV – Wir Kinder der Hölle; A grail, a dream, a tail. Hell.
Dealing with the fascination of Nazism/Fascism, once again starting to grow in the western world, the work itself is truly an antithesis of a Nazi “artwork”; trying to be individual, complex, multidimensional and invite to reflection it would
probably be proscribed as “decadent art”. (“[…], it is the music of the born-again modalists that
wears the jackboots.” – R. Toop, On Complexity).
empty space – part 1 of Cycle IV from “synthetic fragments
texts and material examples for structured improvisation
Instrumentation: percussion, contrabass, (optional live electronics)
Premiere: May 5, 2014 – Núria Andorrà, Johannes Nästesjö
Duration: variable
Unhörbares hörbar machen – Part II - Hyōshiawazu (拍子不合)
for electronic music
Premiere: Mars 16, 2013 – @ Saravah in Tokyo
Duration: 6′ 13″
The whole underlying structure of this piece is drawn from various features found in Japanese Nō Theatre. There are three types of tempo in Nō (Hiranori, Chūnori and Ōnori) which is articulated by the tripartite structure of this piece, all having its own pace. These three parts are (approximately) divided in the proportions 4733 and 6647 which makes: A = 169 seconds, B = 119 seconds, C = 84,6 seconds.
On the more poetic side the piece is a sort of comment to an imagined Nō play drawing its form, intervals and rhythmic patterns from the Nō piece “Chū no mai” which, as it were, is acting like a sort of “cantus firmus” but only revealing itself the very last seconds.
Material used: Chū no mai (trad. Nō), recordings (wine glasses, scraping on string, knocking on wood), sound synthesis and recordings of works by H. Denerin (Alcheringa, Le theatre du temps, Rotations-Shadows).
Tools used in composition process: Max/MSP 6 (granulation, synthesis, stochastic sound mass, sound freeze and more, all programmed by H. Denerin), IannisX (fractal walk), Ircam’s SPAT (spatialization), Cubase (mixing).
Chart of formal outline with listing of sonic entities of the 21 layers in part 1:
WORK No.18
zeit-raum
for piano solo
Instrumentation: piano solo (with bells and optional electronics)
passage-plateau-with variation Premiere: 2013-10-16; Sibelius Academy Concert Hall, Helsinki, Finland, Mirka Viitala – piano
The time within Premiere: 2009-04-01; Acadamy of Music in Malmö, Sweden, Fredrick Haglund – piano
zeit-raum consists of two parts; the time within and passage-plateau-with variation. Preferably the
parts are performed consecutively. It’s also possible to perform each movement individually.
THE TIME WITHIN explores different relations between time (duration – horizontal) and sound complexes (vertical – group formations – chords). It is composed with the help of IRCAM’s open music. I made a set of rules for how the piece should be formed, variations of application of duration to n notes and a initial probability that certain phenomena should appear or not (e.g. how sound complexes should be formed… completely vertical or in group formations, ornaments etc.). I, so to speak, show the direction of the piece to the program whose function is to map out this direction. One thing that became interesting to me, except the result itself, was to observe how a computer went from being a recalcitrant tool (or maybe my reluctance against the computer) to “open up”.
passage – plateau – with variation
An initial musical object; passing through a sort of passage which continuously rotate and transform it. The path over which the approach is made are, in a sense , arbitrary; and could obviously be many, with passage suggesting a number of possibilities; but it tries to be mobile – always moving towards the centre and searching for a material that is both a flickering interplay of surface gestures and trying to sink below the surface. Arriving at a musical ‘plateau’ the focus has shifted; with the material becoming ‘static’, as it were, exploring time domains. Objects which are folded with memories, breaking time. As the time is speeded up, the material starting to rotate, we move towards the passage once again, with new suggestions, a passage variation, trying to move, successfully or not, from the centre towards outer space.
Recording of passage-plateau-with variation:
Recording of THE TIME WITHIN:
score excerpt page 1-3 of respectively The time within and passage-plateau-with variation
passage-plateau-with variation
SEE zeit-raum
The time within
Decorated Zither
for male voices
Instrumentation: Male Choir or Six male solovoices
Premiere: October 11, 2014 – Wrocławscy Kameraliści/Piotr Karpeta
The poem ‘Decorated Zither’ by Li Shangyin (813-858) acts like a sort of Cantus Firmus in this piece. The poem itself is a, quite intriguing, love poem, clearly written in a mystical Taoism manner.
The male choir (or six male voices) is divided into 3 groups, surrounding the audience. Group III, standing in front of the audience sings the poem and its tone material is clearly linked to the text as spoken in Chinese. The Bass sings the Cantus Firmus as mentioned above while the Tenor is constantly ‘commenting’ with a expanding and contracting canon. The other 2 groups has 2 clear functions; one being the exploration and representation of the of language or a voyage of language as it were. The second being the gradual transformation from noise to sound in group I and the opposite in group II.
Formally the piece can be divided into 8 different sections; all with different lengths, rhythmic speeds and dynamic envelopes, and so on, but still interlinked and derived from the text trying to draw an organic form.
锦瑟无瑟五十弦，
一弦一柱思华年。
庄生晓梦迷蝴蝶，
望帝春心托杜鹃。
沧海月明珠有泪，
蓝田日暖玉生烟。
此情可待成追忆，
只是当时已枉然。
(English translation by Qiu Xiaolong)
A decorated zither, for no reason, is made of fifty strings –
one string, one peg, each reminiscent of the youthful years. . .
Waking in the morning, Master Zhuang wonders whether he dreams of being a butterfly,
or a butterfly dreams of being Master Zhuang.
Wangdi, an ancient emperor, poured out his grief into the cuckoo cries in the spring.
A pearl holds its tears
against the bright moon on the blue ocean;
a jade-induced mist arises under the warm sun over Liantian field. . .
Oh, this feeling, to be recollected later in memories, is already confused.
score excerpt
Rotations-Shadows
Instrumentation: electronic music (for 8 speakers)(mix for 5.1 and a stereomix exists)
Premiere: 2009-03-23; Malmö Acadamy of Music, Sweden
Duration: 21′ 41″
ROTATIONS – The piece consists of 48 different voices whish all has its own shape, range, dynamic envelope, sound composition, tempo and rhythm. Every one of these voices rotates at different speeds around the room; the slowest taking 21 minutes for one rotation, the fastest 0.5 seconds. An unbelievable room-polyphony is created. Obviously not all 48 voices are heard all the time, but in the most dense part, at 15 minutes, they all come together.
SHADOWS – “As the ideas are the principal forms of things, according to which all is formed … so we should form in us the shadows of ideas … so that they may be adaptable to all possible formations. We form them in us, as in the revolution of wheels. If you know any other way, try it.” (Giordano Bruno: Shadows (De umbris idearum))
The different voices in ROTATIONS-SHADOWS where all created from one original melody with the use of IRCAM open music, mainly with different scale objects applied both vertically and horizontally. The sounds where created with Csound and the spatializing with IRCAM Spatialisateur.
Under Heaven is a cycle consisting of 7 parts, each for different kinds of ensembles. They are all composed of the same material and using similar ways of forming. This, however, does not mean that they don’t have a personality but only belong to different cultures – different ways of growing.
mnēmoneuein
Subtitle: Six Tones version
Instrumentation: trio (dan tranh, dan bau, dan ty ba)+ computer(live-electronics)
Premiere: 28 Mars 2009; Nybrokajen 11, Stockholm/SwedenSix Tones – Thanh Thuy, Ngo Tra My, Stefan Östersjö, Henrik Frisk
mnēmoneuein (prin khronisthēnai)
the act to remember (takes place when time has passed)
This piece is about memory. Memory as recollection, as trace; memory that reviews – memory that repeats. Two extreme forms of memory, each regarded in their pure state, but also as a transitory form, as a compound phenomenon that emanates from their amalgamation. A transition from the virtual to the actual.
But also about imagination and the border line between them. A concealed object that is brought forth by the act of remembering and by imagination.
Video below is from Atalante in Gothenburg/Sweden 2009-04-01
Recording from Babel in Malmö/Sweden 2009:
Scritto x1
Instrumentation: cl, pno, vln, vlc
Premiere: 2007-05-14; Acadamy of Music in Malmö, Sweden
Jonas Losciale – clarinet, Fredrick Haglund – piano,Alexandra Hjortswang – violin, Gustav Ölmedal – cello
Duration: ca 7′
This piece is mainly about perception, walking through three perceptive categories: the active – the medial – the passive. The path over which the approach is made could obviously be many and here I attempt to suggest a number of possibilities. In attempting to try to do something which could (platitudinously) be termed “clearly musical” one has to find a material that can both be a flickering interplay of surface gestures and sink below the surface. This web tries to be constantly mobile – always moving towards the center.
VINGT-CINQ
for viola
Instrumentation: viola with live electronics (4 channel)
Premiere: 2006-10-10; Jeriko, Mamlö/Sweden
Markus Falkbring – Viola, Henrik Denerin – live electronics
Tautology – The common tendency is obvious enough, but it is also a narrative in the sense that its language is directly related to states of consciousness of a first-person narrator. The text can be read as a metaphor for life: as a movement toward the unknown point of death. Another aspect reveals itself in the inescapable impression that the totality of the text is apprehended like fragments out of a context that cannot be reconstructed and for whose existence there is no evidence in what is literally said. Certain formulations arise that elicit unreachable memories, as it were, memories of contexts that cannot be reconstructed. So, content, a story after all? As little of this as of purely abstract composition. A little of both.
VINGT-CINQ is dedicated to Gertrud Heinerud and was written for her 25th birthday.
2006 – revised 2012
Alcheringa
Instrumentation: String orchestra (9 vln, 3 vla, 2 vlc, 1 cb)
Premiere: 2006-12-01; Concert Hall, Växjö/SwedenMusica Vitae/Michael Bartosch
Alcheringa is the term for the creation of the world as perceived by the Aborigines. This concept can be explained as an extra dimension of life, a dimension that has part in time, room and humans personality. Alcheringa is all that we in other religions denotes as divine. The form is a sort of mirror with two gestures spreading out through the piece. The gestures is composed as a micro-polyphony, and thus becomes both still and mobile at the same time. Small “alien objects” are inserted acting as pre-echoes to the rest of the cycle.
full score (2012 version)
© 2020: Henrik Denerin
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Tom Hulme former design director at global design firm IDEO and now general partner at Google Venture, is also the founder of OpenIDEO and OIEngine.
Design Director United Kingdom / London
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Tom Hulme is a general partner at Google Ventures. He previously held the position of design director at IDEO in London, an award-winning global design firm that takes a human-centred, design-based approach to helping organizations in the public and private sectors innovate and grow. Hulme is also the founder and managing director of OpenIDEO and OIEngine – IDEO’s open innovation enterprises.
A serial entrepreneur and angel investor, Hulme has first-hand experience in building successful enterprises.
Hulme founded OpenIDEO, IDEO’s open innovation platform that won a 2011 Webby Award in the Community Category and presently has over 58,000 users from more than 170 countries, 2007. The platform allows a global community of users to tackle big design challenges for social good, together.
The underlying technology, called OI Engine, is now being applied to clients to manage their own closed and open communities, including a global airline, oil and gas company, bank and most recently Knight Foundation for their NewsChallenge Platform.
Prior to attending college, Hulme spent a year teaching secondary school in Tanzania, contributing to his belief in the power of entrepreneurship for sustainable social good.
Hulme then earned a bachelor’s degree in physics (with honors) from the University of Bristol and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he received the Baker Scholar Award of high distinction.
He is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and was listed in WIRED UK’s top 100 “digital power brokers” in 2011 and 2012. In November 2012 he was included in the Evening Standard list of London’s 1000 most influential people. Hulme is also a member of the advisory board of the Tech City Investment Organisation of the UK government, supporting the startup community in East London.
Hulme regularly speaks on the topics of entrepreneurship, technology, design thinking, open innovation, and industry disruption.
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Money = privilege?
How’s this for a great – and true – quote?
‘There are those who have had the good fortune to never have felt anything other than the silkiness of privilege, their bubbles so perfect they cannot feel the gravel underneath.’
Rick Morton, (‘One Hundred Years of Dirt’, P 164)
Oh, so true!
As the divide between the haves and the have-nots widens, the fat cats are growing fatter day by day. The wealthiest 1%* are gathering up their billions - along with their privileges - and the ordinary person is forgotten.
The wealth gap is huge!
Australia’s politicians especially are out of touch with reality and normal everyday people.
Remember the Prime Minister (he’s gone now!) who, when asked about the problem concerning young people’s inability to afford a home of their own, suggested that the solution was for their parents to finance them! He honestly had no idea that most parents of young people were working two jobs in an effort to pay their own mortgage. (He’s also the one who tossed a spare million + dollars into his party to help along the election).
Out of touch?
But money rules!
Emphasising this, in last weekend’s newspapers, we read about a contender for a place in the Liberal Party of Australia.
What was so astounding about this ‘news’ was that it focussed on how much MONEY he (the candidate) would bring to the party. Not how much knowledge, wisdom or skill he had; it was how much money he could generate! And this was the focus of the NEWS!
In what sounded like paeans of praise, he was described as ‘the Million Dollar man for the Liberal party.
And here I quote (Sydney Morning Herald, 15/09/18):
Some of Sydney's wealthiest business leaders are lining up to throw money behind the new candidate for Wentworth, Dave Sharma…… [he] is expected to bring in huge donations from the business and Jewish communities……[his] ability to draw significant donations would be "eye-watering".
“Eye watering” amounts of money? So, this section of politics has now descended into simply embracing the POWER OF MONEY as the most important aspect of their ability to represent us, ‘the people’.
Money, it seems, is no longer needed just as funding to advertise broadly and powerfully when an election nears, but is to signify their entitlement to dominate.
Is it now the measure of wealth that decides who is worthy to represent the people?
But, what about policies?
The obligations?
Any?
How about strategies for services for the common man/woman?
The Economy?
Education?
Environment?
Refugees?
No, it seems that money is the arbiter.
Large companies (usually) only donate to political parties in order to influence policy in their favour, so what’s the go here?
Not hard to figure out, I suppose!
It is such a shame that ‘running the country’ has little to do with doing the best for the nation’s people. It is more like a popularity contest to see who has the most money.
I can only lament the demise of ‘The Lucky Country’.
It seems that money and privilege are how we are expected to measure value.
To again quote Rick Morton, from his book, ‘One Hundred Years of Dirt’:
* The top 1% in Australia now own more wealth that the bottom 70% combined!
What Disappointing Times
It’s all so disappointing!
The politicians are disgusting, the honey is not real, the strawberries are too small, and the music has died!
First of all, let me have a big whinge about Australian politicians: What a bloody shambles! One day we watched a LNP politician put his hand on the shoulder of the Prime Minister and state how he supported him totally and yet, hidden in his other hand he held the weapon with which he back stabbed him - the next day.
Dirty backroom deals ultimately resulted in an ‘et tu Brute’ moment with a PM being booted out and two of the most awful contenders vying for the ‘top job’. And, while we may have missed out on the worst of those aspirants, what do we have now? A supercilious self promoter increasing the divide between the general public and the RWNJs; an untrustworthy idiot pretending to be a strong ‘moderate’ conservative leader with a (dodgy) Christian touch! And he lies!
Great! What a disappointment.
Meanwhile, Aretha Franklin died and we were reminded that music has also died - and songs are no longer songs. Sure, Aretha’s music was not always filled with sweet, gentle tunes but we understood the words she sang and they were presented with genuine feeling and soul.
That music and singing has been replaced by something called rap. I can’t say ‘rap music’ because it isn’t music and I can’t use the word ‘songs’, because they are not songs. They are just noise and they (raps or tracks? I don’t know) all sound the same! Luckily the words can seldom be heard clearly, which is just as well as they ooze with death and destruction and bad sex! Music? No, disappointment!
John McCain died and we were reminded what a decent politician he was, no matter whose ‘camp’ he was in. He didn’t manage to hold the top job to which he aspired but remained a truly decent man. He showed the world that politicians CAN be decent - but no longer are.
What did the US – and, indeed the world - do to deserve the Trumpian monster who now resides in the White House? Disappointing indeed!
And now we are being told that the honey we buy is fake honey! What is it? Cooked and watered down honey? Just sugar syrup? Rice syrup? What??? Honey? Honey is fake?
Now, that’s what I call a disappointment!
Then a report comes to tell us that strawberry farmers have dumped hundreds of tons of strawberries because they are too small! Too small? That’s what the supermarkets have told them. What rubbish! Anyone knows that the small strawberries are the best and the sweetest and the ones with real strawberry flavour. Anyone who has ever grown strawberries will tell you that strawberries eaten straight after picking are the best. Home grown strawberries are small and soft and sweet and amazingly luscious. They are nothing like the huge, red-on-outside, white-in-centre, crunchy (crunchy? yes, crunchy!) strawberries we find in supermarkets.
So, all in all, disappointment reigns!
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Amount of Starch in Pie
Welcome to the nutritional starch content in 3 different types of pie, ranging from 16.95 g to 10.73 g per 100g. The basic type of pie is Pie, pecan, commercially prepared, where the amount of starch in 100g is 16.95 g.
For a typical serving size of 1 oz (or 28.35 g) the amount of Starch is 4.81 g.
Pie, pecan, commercially prepared - Nutritional Content and Chart
The full nutrition content, RDA percentages and levels for Pie, pecan, commercially prepared should be considered along with the starch content. This food profile is part of our list of food and drinks under the general group Baked Products.Other important and starch related nutrients are Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate. For this 100g serving in your diet, the amount of Calories is 407 kcal (20% RDA), the amount of Protein is 4.5 g (8% RDA), the amount of Fat is 16.69 g (26% RDA) and the amount of Carbohydrate is 59.61 g (46% RDA). The nutritional content and facts for 100g, which includes Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate is shown in the RDA chart below as percentages of the recommended daily allowance along with the starch levels in pie.
Our proprietary nutritional density score gives a nutritional value out of 100 based on 9 different vitamins, minerals and macro nutrients. Pie, pecan, commercially prepared has a nutritional value score of 14 out of 100.
Amount of starch per 100 Calories
100 calories of pie, pecan, commercially prepared is a serving size of 0.25 g, and the amount of Starch is 4.16 g. Other important and related nutrients and macronutrients such as Fat, in 100 Calories are as follows; Protein 1.11 g (1.97% RDA), Fat 4.1 g (6.39% RDA), Carbohydrate 14.65 g (11.3% RDA). This is shown in the starch RDA percentage chart below, based on 100 Calories, along with the other important nutrients and macro nutrients.
For the food Pie, pecan, commercially prepared the typical serving size is 1 oz (or 28.35 g) which contains 4.81 g of Starch. In terms of the gram weight and total content for this serving the Calories content is 115.38 kcal, the Protein content is 1.28 g, the Fat content is 4.73 g and the Carbohydrate content is 16.9 g. The percentages are shown below in the starch chart, for the typical serving of starch and the related and important nutritional values.
Macronutrients in Pie, pecan, commercially prepared
The amount of protein, fat and carbs from this food described above is measured in grams per 100g and grams in a typical serving size (in this case 1 oz or 28.35 g), although it is also useful to give the number of calories from protein, fat and carbohydrate which are the most important macronutrients. For this serving in your diet here are the macronutrient calories. From protein the number of calories is 5.1 (kcal).The number of calories from Fat is 42.6 (kcal).The total calories from carbohydrate is 67.6 (kcal).
Grams of starch in pie (per 100g)
This list of 3 types of pie, is brought to you by www.dietandfitnesstoday.com and ranges from Pie, pecan, commercially prepared through to Pie, pumpkin, commercially prepared where all food items are ranked by the content or amount per 100g. The nutritional starch content can be scaled by the amount in grams, oz or typical serving sizes. Simply click on a food item or beverage from the list at the bottom of the page to give a full dietary nutritional breakdown to answer the question how much starch in pie.
The list below gives the total starch content in the 3 items from the general description 'pie' each of which show the starch amount as well as Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate. Below, is the top 3 food items shown in the starch chart. This gives a quick and easy dietary comparison for the different items, where each item is listed at the bottom of the page with a nutritional summary.
The corresponding nutritional value for pie based on our density score out of 100 (ranked by the amount of starch per 100g) is shown in the below nutritional density chart.
The corresponding Calories for pie ranked by the amount of starch per 100g is shown below in the pie calories chart.
Average Content for pie
The average (or more correctly the arithmetic mean) amount of starch contained in 100g of pie, based on the list below of 3 different items under the general description of pie, is 14.36 g of starch. The averages for the different nutrients are as follows; the average amount of Calories is 313.33 kcal, the average amount of Protein is 3.52 g, the average amount of Fat is 12.65 g and the average amount of Carbohydrate is g.
The median value of Starch is found in Pie, Dutch Apple, Commercially Prepared which in 100g contains 15.4 g of Starch. For this serving the amount of Calories is 290 kcal, the amount of Protein is 2.17 g, the amount of Fat is 11.5 g and the amount of Carbohydrate is 44.54 g.
Highest starch Content per 100g
Using the list below for the 3 different pie nutrition entries in our database, the highest amount of starch is found in Pie, pecan, commercially prepared which contains 16.95 g of starch per 100g. The associated percentage of RDA is %. For this 100g serving the Calories content is 407 kcal, the Protein content is 4.5 g, the Fat content is 16.69 g, the Carbohydrate content is 59.61 g.
The lowest amount of starch in 100g is in Pie, pumpkin, commercially prepared which contains 10.73 g. This gives as percentage of the recommended daily allowance % of the RDA. For this 100g serving the amount of Calories is 243 kcal, the amount of Protein is 3.9 g, the amount of Fat is 9.75 g, the amount of Carbohydrate is 34.83 g.
The difference between the highest and lowest values gives a starch range of 6.22 g per 100g. The range for the other nutrients are as follows; 164 kcal for Calories, 0.6 g for Protein, 6.94 g for Fat, 0 g for Carbohydrate.
Highest Amount of starch per Serving
Please remember that the above gives an accurate value in 100g for high starch foods in your diet. For example 100g of Pie, pecan, commercially prepared contains 16.95 g of starch. However, there are other factors to consider when you are assessing your nutritional requirements. You should also take into account portion sizes when you are considering the starch nutritional content.
The food with the highest starch content per typical serving is Pie, Dutch Apple, Commercially Prepared which contains 20.17 g in .125 pie 1 pie (1/8 of 9 pie) (or 131 g). For this serving the Calories content is 379.9 kcal, the Protein content is 2.84 g, the Fat content is 15.07 g and the Carbohydrate content is 58.35 g.
From the list below you can find a full nutrition facts breakdown for all foods containing starch which can be scaled for different servings and quantities. We have also sorted our complete nutritional information and vitamin database of over 7000 foods, to give a list of starch in foods.
Pie List, starch Content per 100g
1. Pie, pecan, commercially prepared - Starch
16.95 g 407 kcal (20%) 59.61 g (46%) 16.69 g (26%) 4.5 g (8%)
4.81 g 115.38 kcal (6%) 16.9 g (13%) 4.73 g (7%) 1.28 g (2%)
Other serving sizes 1 slice (or 133g):
22.54 g 541.31 kcal (27%) 79.28 g (61%) 22.2 g (34%) 5.99 g (11%)
Other serving sizes 1 pie (or 833g):
141.19 g 3390.31 kcal (170%) 496.55 g (382%) 139.03 g (214%) 37.49 g (67%)
2. Pie, Dutch Apple, Commercially Prepared - Starch
Starch Calories Carbohydrate Fat Protein
15.4 g 290 kcal (15%) 44.54 g (34%) 11.5 g (18%) 2.17 g (4%)
Typical Serving size of .125 pie 1 pie (1/8 of 9 pie) (or 131g):
20.17 g 379.9 kcal (19%) 58.35 g (45%) 15.07 g (23%) 2.84 g (5%)
21.1 g 397.3 kcal (20%) 61.02 g (47%) 15.76 g (24%) 2.97 g (5%)
Other serving sizes 1 pie (or 1137g):
175.1 g 3297.3 kcal (165%) 506.42 g (390%) 130.76 g (201%) 24.67 g (44%)
Other serving sizes 1 oz (or 28.35g):
4.37 g 82.22 kcal (4%) 12.63 g (10%) 3.26 g (5%) 0.62 g (1%)
3. Pie, pumpkin, commercially prepared - Starch
10.73 g 243 kcal (12%) 34.83 g (27%) 9.75 g (15%) 3.9 g (7%)
3.04 g 68.89 kcal (3%) 9.87 g (8%) 2.76 g (4%) 1.11 g (2%)
14.27 g 323.19 kcal (16%) 46.32 g (36%) 12.97 g (20%) 5.19 g (9%)
starch and Nutritional Values - Top 221 Foods
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Amount of Vitamin A in Duck
Welcome to the nutritional vitamin a content in 7 different types of duck, ranging from 11984 mcg to 16 mcg per 100g. The basic type of duck is Duck, wild, meat and skin, raw, where the amount of vitamin a in 100g is 26 mcg.
26 mcg of vitamin a per 100g, from Duck, wild, meat and skin, raw corresponds to 1% of the vitamin a RDA. For a typical serving size of 1 unit (yield from 1 lb ready-to-cook duck) (or 239 g) the amount of Vitamin A is 62.14 mcg. This corresponds to an RDA percentage of 2%.
The percentage of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) for vitamin a is based on a 3000 mcg RDA level for a mature adult.
Top five duck products high in vitamin a
Below is a summary list for the top five duck items ranked by the amount or level of vitamin a in 100g.
1. Duck, domesticated, liver, raw : 11984mcg (399%RDA)
2. Duck, domesticated, meat and skin, cooked, roasted : 63mcg (2%RDA)
3. Duck, domesticated, meat and skin, raw : 50mcg (2%RDA)
4. Duck, wild, meat and skin, raw : 26mcg (1%RDA)
5. Duck, domesticated, meat only, raw : 24mcg (1%RDA)
Following on from the five top duck items or products containing vitamin a we have a more comprehensive break down of Duck, wild, meat and skin, raw, and the highest item containing vitamin a which is Duck, domesticated, liver, raw. We also give a comparison of average values, median values and lowest values along with a comparison with other food groups and assess the effects of storage and preparation on the 7 types of duck.
At the bottom of the page is the full list for the 7 different types of duck based on the content in different servings in grams and oz (and other serving sizes), providing a comprehensive analysis of the vitamin a content in duck.
Duck, wild, meat and skin, raw - Nutritional Content and Chart
The full nutrition content, RDA percentages and levels for Duck, wild, meat and skin, raw should be considered along with the vitamin a content. This food profile is part of our list of food and drinks under the general group Poultry Products.Other important and vitamin a related nutrients are Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate. For this 100g serving in your diet, the amount of Calories is 211 kcal (11% RDA), the amount of Protein is 17.42 g (31% RDA), the amount of Fat is 15.2 g (23% RDA) and the amount of Carbohydrate is 0 g. The nutritional content and facts for 100g, which includes Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate is shown in the RDA chart below as percentages of the recommended daily allowance along with the vitamin a levels in duck.
Our proprietary nutritional density score gives a nutritional value out of 100 based on 9 different vitamins, minerals and macro nutrients. Duck, wild, meat and skin, raw has a nutritional value score of 15 out of 100.Comparing the vitamin a content and the nutritional density in 100g for Duck, wild, meat and skin, raw; We class this as a medium to low vitamin a content item.In terms of overall nutritional value we class this as an item with a medium nutritional density value.
Amount of vitamin a per 100 Calories
100 calories of duck, wild, meat and skin, raw is a serving size of 0.47 g, and the amount of Vitamin A is 12.32 mcg (0.47% RDA). Other important and related nutrients and macronutrients such as Fat, in 100 Calories are as follows; Protein 8.26 g (14.69% RDA), Fat 7.2 g (10.9% RDA), Carbohydrate 0 g (0% RDA). This is shown in the vitamin a RDA percentage chart below, based on 100 Calories, along with the other important nutrients and macro nutrients.
Content per Typical Serving Size 1 unit (yield from 1 lb ready-to-cook duck) (or 239 g)
For the food Duck, wild, meat and skin, raw the typical serving size is 1 unit (yield from 1 lb ready-to-cook duck) (or 239 g) which contains 62.14 mcg of Vitamin A. The vitamin a percentage of the recommended daily value for this serving is 2 %.
To give 100% of the RDA, 50.0 servings of the typical serving size 1 unit (yield from 1 lb ready-to-cook duck) (or 239 g) give the complete RDA. In terms of the gram weight and total content for this serving the Calories content is 504.29 kcal, the Protein content is 41.63 g, the Fat content is 36.33 g and the Carbohydrate content is 0 g. The percentages are shown below in the vitamin a chart, for the typical serving of vitamin a and the related and important nutritional values.
Macronutrients in Duck, wild, meat and skin, raw
The amount of protein, fat and carbs from this food described above is measured in grams per 100g and grams in a typical serving size (in this case 1 unit (yield from 1 lb ready-to-cook duck) or 239 g), although it is also useful to give the number of calories from protein, fat and carbohydrate which are the most important macronutrients. For this serving in your diet here are the macronutrient calories. From protein the number of calories is 177.8 (kcal).The number of calories from Fat is 327.7 (kcal).The total calories from carbohydrate is 0.0 (kcal).
Mcg of vitamin a in duck (per 100g)
This list of 7 types of duck, is brought to you by www.dietandfitnesstoday.com and ranges from Duck, domesticated, liver, raw through to Duck, wild, breast, meat only, raw where all food items are ranked by the content or amount per 100g. The nutritional vitamin a content can be scaled by the amount in grams, oz or typical serving sizes. Simply click on a food item or beverage from the list at the bottom of the page to give a full dietary nutritional breakdown to answer the question how much vitamin a in duck.
The list below gives the total vitamin a content in the 7 items from the general description 'duck' each of which show the vitamin a amount as well as Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate. Below, is the top 7 food items shown in the vitamin a chart. This gives a quick and easy dietary comparison for the different items, where each item is listed at the bottom of the page with a nutritional summary.
The corresponding nutritional value for duck based on our density score out of 100 (ranked by the amount of vitamin a per 100g) is shown in the below nutritional density chart.
The corresponding Calories for duck ranked by the amount of vitamin a per 100g is shown below in the duck calories chart.
Effect of Preparation and Storage on vitamin a
The level of vitamin a can be affected by the method of storage for example canned or frozen and also by the method of preparation for example either raw, cooked or fried. The total food items which are raw is 5 items. The highest amount of vitamin a from the 5 raw items is in Duck, domesticated, liver, raw where the content is 11984 mcg per 100g. The number of food items which are cooked are 2 items. The highest amount of vitamin a from the 2 cooked items is in Duck, domesticated, meat and skin, cooked, roasted where the amount is 63 mcg per 100g. Comparing raw and cooked duck shows that cooking can change the levels of vitamin a by 11921 mcg in a 100g serving.
Average Content for duck
The average (or more correctly the arithmetic mean) amount of vitamin a contained in 100g of duck, based on the list below of 7 different items under the general description of duck, is 1740.86 mcg of vitamin a. This average value corresponds to 58.03 % of the recommended dietary allowance (or RDA) in your diet. The averages for the different nutrients are as follows; the average amount of Calories is 221.00 kcal, the average amount of Protein is 18.32 g, the average amount of Fat is 15.56 g and the average amount of Carbohydrate is g.
The median value of Vitamin A is found in Duck, wild, meat and skin, raw which in 100g contains 26 mcg of Vitamin A. This corresponds to 1 % of the recommended daily allowance. For this serving the amount of Calories is 211 kcal, the amount of Protein is 17.42 g, the amount of Fat is 15.2 g and the amount of Carbohydrate is 0 g.
Highest vitamin a Content per 100g
Using the list below for the 7 different duck nutrition entries in our database, the highest amount of vitamin a is found in Duck, domesticated, liver, raw which contains 11984 mcg of vitamin a per 100g. The associated percentage of RDA is 399 %. For this 100g serving the Calories content is 136 kcal, the Protein content is 18.74 g, the Fat content is 4.64 g, the Carbohydrate content is 3.53 g.
The lowest amount of vitamin a in 100g is in Duck, wild, breast, meat only, raw which contains 16 mcg. This gives as percentage of the recommended daily allowance 1 % of the RDA. For this 100g serving the amount of Calories is 123 kcal, the amount of Protein is 19.85 g, the amount of Fat is 4.25 g, the amount of Carbohydrate is 0 g.
The difference between the highest and lowest values gives a vitamin a range of 11968 mcg per 100g. The range for the other nutrients are as follows; 13 kcal for Calories, 1.11 g for Protein, 0.39 g for Fat, 0 g for Carbohydrate.
Highest Amount of vitamin a per Serving
Please remember that the above gives an accurate value in 100g for high vitamin a foods in your diet. For example 100g of Duck, wild, meat and skin, raw contains 26 mcg of vitamin a. However, there are other factors to consider when you are assessing your nutritional requirements. You should also take into account portion sizes when you are considering the vitamin a nutritional content.
The food with the highest vitamin a content per typical serving is Duck, domesticated, liver, raw which contains 5272.96 mcg in 1 liver (or 44 g). The percentage of the recommended daily value for this serving is 176 %. For this serving the Calories content is 59.84 kcal, the Protein content is 8.25 g, the Fat content is 2.04 g and the Carbohydrate content is 1.55 g.
From the list below you can find a full nutrition facts breakdown for all foods containing vitamin a which can be scaled for different servings and quantities. We have also sorted our complete nutritional information and vitamin database of over 7000 foods, to give a list of foods with vitamin a.
Duck List, vitamin a Content per 100g
1. Duck, domesticated, liver, raw - Vitamin A
Nutritional Value : 20 / 100 food group - Poultry Products
11984 mcg (399%) 136 kcal (7%) 3.53 g (3%) 4.64 g (7%) 18.74 g (33%)
Typical Serving size of 1 liver (or 44g):
5272.96 mcg (176%) 59.84 kcal (3%) 1.55 g (1%) 2.04 g (3%) 8.25 g (15%)
Other serving sizes 1 unit (yield from 1 lb ready-to-cook duck) (or 10g):
1198.4 mcg (40%) 13.6 kcal (1%) 0.35 g (0%) 0.46 g (1%) 1.87 g (3%)
2. Duck, domesticated, meat and skin, cooked, roasted - Vitamin A
Vitamin A Calories Carbohydrate Fat Protein
63 mcg (2%) 337 kcal (17%) 0 g (0%) 28.35 g (44%) 18.99 g (34%)
Typical Serving size of 1 cup and chopped or diced (or 140g):
88.2 mcg (3%) 471.8 kcal (24%) 0 g (0%) 39.69 g (61%) 26.59 g (47%)
Other serving sizes 1 unit (yield from 1 lb ready-to-cook duck) (or 173g):
108.99 mcg (4%) 583.01 kcal (29%) 0 g (0%) 49.05 g (75%) 32.85 g (59%)
Other serving sizes .5 duck (or 382g):
240.66 mcg (8%) 1287.34 kcal (64%) 0 g (0%) 108.3 g (167%) 72.54 g (130%)
3. Duck, domesticated, meat and skin, raw - Vitamin A
Typical Serving size of 1 unit (yield from 1 lb ready-to-cook duck) (or 287g):
143.5 mcg (5%) 1159.48 kcal (58%) 0 g (0%) 112.91 g (174%) 32.98 g (59%)
317 mcg (11%) 2561.36 kcal (128%) 0 g (0%) 249.42 g (384%) 72.85 g (130%)
4. Duck, wild, meat and skin, raw - Vitamin A
26 mcg (1%) 211 kcal (11%) 0 g (0%) 15.2 g (23%) 17.42 g (31%)
62.14 mcg (2%) 504.29 kcal (25%) 0 g (0%) 36.33 g (56%) 41.63 g (74%)
5. Duck, domesticated, meat only, raw - Vitamin A
24 mcg (1%) 135 kcal (7%) 0.94 g (1%) 5.95 g (9%) 18.28 g (33%)
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Graham: They Claimed to Have Briefed Before Torture, Did Not
May 15, 2009 /44 Comments/in Torture /by emptywheel
I’ve got to correct something I said yesterday about Bob Graham. I reported that Graham said that CIA had given him two erroneous dates for briefings. That was wrong (RawStory reported the number correctly, though). They gave erroneous dates for three briefings.
The difference is critical, because it means the CIA tried to claim it had briefed Graham on torture in April 2002, which would have put it in compliance with the National Security Act. But Graham, by consulting his trusty notebooks, proved that claim to be false.
Graham also notes that the CIA is obligated to tell the entire intelligence committees, not just the leadership.
You think maybe someone besides us here and MSNBC will start focusing on CIA’s failure to comply with the requirement that it brief Congress on its actions?
David Shuster: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the CIA misleads Congress all the time and has at least one big-name Democrat backing her up, Former Senator Bob Graham who chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee following the 9/11 attacks and he joins us live this morning. Senator Graham, House Speaker Pelosi said specifically when she was briefed in September 2002, she was told that waterboarding specifically was not being used. What were you told during that same time period, September 2002?
Graham: David, when I was briefed which was about three weeks after the Speaker, the subject of waterboarding did not come up. Nor did the treatment of Abu Zubaydah or any other specific detainee.
Shuster: And the reason that’s significant is because by the time of your briefing and the Speaker’s briefing, we now knew Zubaydah had been waterboarded some 83 times. So again, was there a requirement, was it incumbent upon the CIA, to tell you as the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee or Ranking Member, was there an obligation on them to tell you about it if it was going on?
Graham: Yes, they’re obligated to tell the full Intelligence Committee, not just the leadership. This was the same time within the same week, in fact, that the CIA was submitting its National Intelligence Estimate on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq which proves so erroneous that we went to war, have had thousands of persons killed and injured as a result of misinformation.
Shuster: So what were they telling you that fall in 2002 about what they were and were not doing with terror suspects that were in US custody?
Graham: Nothing very remarkable. They were discussing the fact that they had detainees and that they were interrogating detainees. But nothing such as that they were using these extreme torture techniques that would have made it a surprising briefing.
Shuster: Now, there are some who suggest that by either providing false information to Speaker Pelosi or actually withholding information from her, withholding information from you, that those CIA briefers broke the law. What’s your view on that?
Graham: That’s for some legal authority to decide. I can only state what I experienced.
Shuster: What do you make of this whole sort of kerfuffle, and that’s probably not the right word for it, between the Speaker and yourself and the CIA? What’s going on? Do you think the CIA was simply trying to, I don’t know, push things sort of under the rug or maybe that they were post dating or taking the documents and writing things in after the fact that hadn’t actually happened in these briefings? What do you make of all of this?
Graham: David, I think fundamentally, what’s happening is there’s an attempt underway to try to shift it, the discussion away from what’s really important, and that is did the United States use torture, was that within the law, who authorized it, and what were the consequences of that — those are the important issues. Whether the Speaker or anybody else knew about it is, frankly, sort of off on the edges.
Shuster: Now, a lot of people who are not familiar with you Senator Graham, might say ‘how could Bob Graham know what was going on, what was said to him, nearly seven years ago, September 27th, 2002?’ Explain the sort of notebooks that you keep and why they convinced you that in fact, the CIA had not told you certain information at that crucial briefing?
Graham: Well, the notebooks played another role in this. The CIA when I asked them, what were the dates these briefings took place, gave me four dates. And I went back to my spiral notebooks and a daily schedule that I keep and found, and the CIA concurred, that in three of those four dates, there was no briefing held. That raises some questions about the bookkeeping of the CIA. Under the rules of clandestine information, I was prohibited from keeping notes of what was actually said during that briefing other than a brief summation that it had to do with the interrogation of detainees.
Shuster: And finally, Senator Graham, do you believe there should be an investigation, either a special council or truth commission to find out exactly what was going on at the CIA at the time?
Graham: Yes, and more broadly than just what was going on at the CIA — who was directing the CIA. The CIA is not a rogue organization. It responds to directions from higher authorities — who were those authorities? What was the basis of their action and what was their motivation? Yes, I think there should be like the 9/11 commission a high level totally impartial group of Americans who will have the respect of the American people, review all those questions.
Shuster: Former Florida Senator Bob Graham. And Senator, thanks for joining us this morning.
Graham: Thank you, David.
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phred says:
Wow. Shuster did a great job with that interview, really really well done. Keep after ‘em EW, with you leading the way and MSNBC pushing it into the mainstream, the rest of the Village will not be able to continue to ignore and misconstrue this story.
dosido says:
Shuster did a great job this a.m. of putting a “political analyst” in his place when he asked him if he would support, like others in the GOP, investigations into the whole mess. The analyst tried to keep the topic on Pelosi’s credibility, and Shuster just firmly pointed out the bigger picture was that these interrogations were NOT designed to “keep America safe” but to create intelligence and justify invading Iraq. Isn’t that issue a higher priority than Pelosi’s political career? Bam!
Good for him! Glad to hear he put the analyst on the spot.
Yes, it was a case in point of the Graham quote Karnak highlights @15. The guy had a big canary eating grin until Shuster took care of him. He wasn’t smiling when they all signed off.
What I love about Shuster is he will keep his eye on the story itself, rather than assist with political optics like Joe the Schmoe.
Somedays I think I should watch more TV ; ) I would have enjoyed seeing the grin wiped off that guys face ; )
No don’t watch more TV. Come here and go to C&L for the best bits.
It was an awesome “so we look forward to you putting national security ahead of partisan politics” invitation/smackdown moment of clarity.
I had to turn away from Kelly O’Donnell and what’s her name Alex and their murder and mayhem and DC gossip stories. I always perk up and pay attn to DS. He da man!
foothillsmike says:
Had on MSNBC w/ Mrs Greenspan. That person can listen to a clip turn around and totally mangle what was said in the retelling.
Wasn’t Mitchell horrible? it was like listening to the crap I heard from O’Donnell/Lauer/Bond on the Today Show all over again, completely skewed around what Nancy knew and when did she know it rather than the silence of many Republicans who were fully briefed and assented without any complaint or concern.
It’s so friggin’ high school gossipy cliquey icky sometimes. It’s not analysis or news.
I’ve been on the Let’s Throw Mrs. Greenspan a Retirement Party for a while now. There is always a ten second delay in responding to guest comments too. Nice lady…let her host some fundraising events or something.
klynn says:
Thanks for the post EW. I know the date issues were a needed update, but the questions remain the same. Shuster must enjoy reading here!
(One little edit, sentence before the interview block quote should read, “..besides us here…”
Aw Jeebus, I had two big typos in that sentence.
If I typed as fast as you and was as prolific an in-depth investigative writer as yourself, two typos would be nothing! I would have dozens!
nothing such as that they were using these extreme torture techniques that would have made it a surprising briefing.
Uses the word “torture” and indicates that had he been apprised of torture, then he’d have had that “surprising” (shocking) kind of special memory of the event.
He is such a credible witness! He names the crimes as torture. “Extreme” torture. He points to what the important questions are.
It’s as if he’s tutoring the media: Here’s what to ask.
which would have put it in compliance with the National Security Act
I’m not meaning to pick nits and I think that they were trying to prime their position on the dates, but a breifing to Graham in 2002 would have only put them less out of compliance with the NSA, still not in compliance.
A few of the other things that would ahve been needed for compliance, even if they had briefed on their made up April dates, would be (i)an actual presidential finding or directive; (ii) generally contemporaneous briefing to the full gang of 8; (iii) statement from the president as to why the briefing was being limited to less than the full committee;(iv) reasonably prompt follow up of briefing to full committees; (v) briefings that actually briefed on all relevant information and aspects; and (vi)insuring that any non-covert activities were briefed to the full committees period – no Gang of 8 (or 4, or a few gang members plus staffers as seconds, or whatever)
I’ve probably missed a few, but there’s a few.
Here’s something else IMO that is very important and the crossovers (Judiciary and Intel committees) like Feingold and Whitehouse should push on it IMO.
Requesting and receiving issuance of DOJ legal opinions on the limits, or lack of limits, on CIA powers just isn’t a covert activity. No how, no way. They very much need to address the aspect of CIA being able to go to OLC and request opinions on actions that it thinks are likely enough to be in violation of US law that it wants an opinion, and then, instead of having them treated like OLC opinions that interpret law for reliance by the Exec branch and are made public, keep them secret and never notify anyone.
I gotta say, IMO, the request for and issuance of the opinions was an activity that required briefing and there was no “gang of 8″ out for that briefing IMO. If someone finds wiggle room out on that, then it needs to be clamped down on in any legislation that they may try to come up with to address the mess.
I thought it was illegal to lie to Congress, and illegal to use taxpayer funds to mount a disinformation campaign on Americans. Or does that, like interrogation standards, only apply to the military?
Or is it not a lie when you knowingly or recklessly give someone false information, but then tell them it’s not accurate – or that the recipient of information has to determine whether ANY of it is accurate.
Seems to me, reading Lewis Carroll is mandatory for this as well as the Bush administration. We’re still down that rabbit hole, Mr. Change We Won’t See.
Illegal, but we can’t prosecute anyone who has a piece of paper that says it is legal. Because Obama says so.
Amusing. The right hand at NBC does one thing — gives Cheney’s talking points uncontested airing on the Today Show — while the left hand at MSNBC does just the opposite.
Now if only they could get both sides of the story together in one place where the public could see the flaws in Cheney’s talking points.
To extract from Graham’s tutorial:
* Did the United States use torture?
* Was that within the law?
* Who authorized it?
* What were the consequences of that?
* Questions about the bookkeeping of the CIA.
* What was going on at the CIA?
* Who was directing the CIA?
* Who were those authorities?
* What was the basis of their action and what was their motivation?
Taken from his exact words above.
I was in “pre-agreement” with him – to many real questions not getting asked and answered. I do think some of those have to do with Congress, but not the ones that are being paraded out by the GOP and MSM.
The other weird thing is Rove is accusing Pelosi of being “an accomplice to torture”. OK, now it’s torture? and now it’s bad? It’s OK to prosecute this stuff if it brings Pelosi down?
I’m not trying to protect anyone – I think the truth should come out and let the chips fall where they may. Right now Pelosi has way more credibility than the CIA for goodness sake. She may be on shaky ground, but the CIA has absolutely no standing at all.
pmorlan says:
It was nice to see David Shuster on MSNBC today because unlike David Gregory, Shuster actually talks about Graham backing up Nancy Pelosi’s comments about the CIA not briefing on waterboarding.
Gregory appeared on Morning Joe this morning and as usual he distorted the issue. Ron Paul was also on Morning Joe and made some interesting remarks but then Scarborough changed the subject. Check it out.
pinson says:
Do we know whether there were any other senate folks attending the same briefings as Graham? Since Goss is out there attempting to impugn Pelosi’s veracity – and the idiots in the corporate press play right along – I wonder if we’re going to get Pat Roberts or someone else trying to call Graham a liar. Since Graham’s already got the CIA to admit they’re making shit up, seems like it’s going to be a tougher task than beating up on the Speaker.
Dalybean says:
Greg Sargent of the Washington Post got a carefully-worded statement from Senator Shelby, who was briefed with Senator Graham, which he is trying to get clarified:
http://theplumline.whorunsgov……ey-points/
Thanks Dalybean – hadn’t gotten to the Plumline yet this morning. Work’s kinda busy….
damagedone says:
So if Senator Shelby was “fully informed” then why did he not protest waterboarding? They are trying to say Pelosi should have protested. Why did Senator Shelby not protest? Does he condone torture? The Japenese were executed for waterboarding for in WWII. Just because he is a Republican does not mean he gets to argue both sides.
karnak12 says:
EW excellent post. Here’s the key I see:
Graham: David, I think fundamentally, what’s happening is there’s an attempt underway to try to shift it, the discussion away from what’s really important, and that is did the United States use torture, was that within the law, who authorized it, and what were the consequences of that — those are the important issues. Whether the Speaker or anybody else knew about it is, frankly, sort of off on the edges. (my bold
I’ll have to hand it to this guy Graham. He’s sharp
JohnJ says:
(snoopy dance)….go Bob, go Bob
They thought they silenced him by setting him up with those leaks. He’s one of those rare politicians that actually has integrity.
Expect some kinda smear to appear about him; he was a Florida pol which means he WILL have something embarrassing in his political past.
Good luck with all those notes he takes.
ooops! mod there is an open paren in the last comment by me. Preview is my friend.
greenbird4751 says:
for the first time in my adult life, i’m sorry i never served in the military. i’ve only had one child, but i know what childbirth and childrearing are; but i’ve never before been overwhelmed by the sense of guarding my country as i am now. i honestly am prepared to put my life on the line, for the life of the constitution, and against all enemies.
a great part of this i credit to your service, marcy, and your tenacity in presenting your thoughts.
BillyP says:
Why not dedicate yourself to your country by working for peace and not for the promotion of bloodshed. I’m sure Marcy would agree that is a better channeling of your enthusiasm.
As Milton said, “They also serve who only stand and wait.”
Being a fully informed citizen willing to be engaged in monitoring government and voting regularly is more than a majority of our citizens are willing to muster with frequency — and one such fully informed citizen could be enough to make the difference if an election is tight, or make a difference with a single phone call to a member of Congress.
RoyalOak says:
…and so Pelosi becomes the BRIGHT SHINY OBJECT…..
I’m already thinking ahead to the next family gathering where I will hear how awful Pelosi is. During our last gathering, a family member told me how “political” and “unreliable” the CIA is (per Cheney talking points and rocky history with this agency).
Now I anticipate that the CIA is the bedrock of integrity vs. the Evil Speaker of the House. Bwahaahaha!
Ann in AZ says:
The regularly scheduled Blue Texan post is up and ready on the front page: “Republicans Suddenly Find CIA Credible, Trustworthy”
gussmith says:
Sorry klynn, spell check for the pros too.
So … the rules are:
1) people were supposed to be informed;
2) if informed, they were supposed to object.
3) if someone was informed and they did not object then they are, according to no less an authority than Rove, ”complicit” in torture.
And the questions are:
1) who was informed?
2) when were they informed?
3) what did they do about it?
* in order to ”get” Pelosi, the R’s will say the CIA is unimpeachable, they were fully informed, Pelosi is lying, and Pelosi is a war criminal.
EXCEPT, there is just one itty bitty little problem …
If the R’s are going to claim they were informed and that is the ”proof” that Pelosi was informed ….
THEN we need to get rid of various R’s as well as Pelosi.
I’m cool with that.
Let’s see all the documents.
Let’s get answers to all the questions.
ABOUT EVERYBODY.
robspierre says:
CNN breaking that Panetta says ”not the policy of CIA to mislead.”
I’m sure you are on this EW, but wtf?
Is this just to calm the staff over at CIA?
And isn’t that stupid since it will be misused?
Or is this just already being used as a new talking point against Pelosi?
Palli says:
RE: Pannetta….perhaps this is a tool for the CIA house-cleaning
Chgo1945 says:
Why does Pelosi say she was briefed on water boarding just denying that she was told that it had actually occurred? Is Pelosi calling Graham an old liar?
The flap over Pelosi will be useful if it focuses the minds of Democratic politicians and makes them see that SOMEONE is going to be blamed and that, if they keep up with the constant bipartisan shuffle to the Right, then the Thugs are going to make that someone them.
I think Pelosi has more credibility than managers at the CIA, but that is saying very little. Even if one had only the reports from the MSM, by 2002 or 2003, wouldn’t any semi-sentient being have at least suspected that the Bush people were torturing captives? The signs were everywhere in the rhetoric and in the administration’s general conduct in the runup to Iraq. Yet the members of the Congress club continue to act like they were shocked! shocked to find that illegal acts were going on!
A Congressman needs to be either more conscientious/honest than that or more perceptive, in my opinion. Pelosi has still seriously sullied her reputation by letting this happen unchallenged.
GREYDOG says:
TORTURE IS A WAR CRIME. ANYONE AUTHORIZING IT, DOING IT OR REFUSING TO PROSECUTE IT IS A WAR CRIMINAL.
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Greedy King
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Please Sir, Can I have more Porridge?
Do the Due Diligence before you do the do.
Harry Redknapp and the link to 788-790 Finchley Road
Calling out the A.S. card as B.S.
Ever wondered how money can be moved through layers of companies, from retail to entertainment; from legal and financial companies through to small catering firms? Each have their own merits when it comes to an elaborate layering process for moving a vast amount of money.
Take Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, for example. It’s a picturesque town with a Cathedral, a weekly farmer’s market, and a good selection of shops and restaurants. It also has a brewery and a theatre. All sounds very promising, doesn’t it?
What’s really interesting, however, is the flow of money and influence connected to the Town. With it having a Cathedral, one would expect it to be a City, wouldn’t you? Nevertheless, a Town it is, but one with a very distinct and powerful Royal connection. If you stroll through the town you’ll come across the St. Edmunsbury Cathedral:
https://stedscathedral.org/
Just down the road to it is Saint Mary’s Church which looks a bit like a Cathedral in itself and has a tomb of Mary Tudor, Queen of France – the sister of Henry VIII.
25 June 1533 – The death of Mary Tudor, Queen of France
Then, just another few hundred yards from the Church brings you to the Greene King, or the “Greedy King” brewery as some people call it after its numerous acquisitions and swallowing up of small, independent breweries in its quest to become one of the biggest breweries in Britain. Interestingly, however, the company has agreed to be bought out itself by a Chinese conglomerate. How times have changed, eh? This will, no doubt, make the Directors of Greene King a lot of money in the process, one of which is connected to one of the Big 4 supermarket retail chains. More on that later:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49400232
Finally, directly opposite the brewery is the Theatre Royal:
https://www.theatreroyal.org/
What’s interesting about this theatre, however, is the list of donors and patrons connected to it.
https://www.theatreroyal.org/support-us/funders-supporters/
From Gyles Brandreth, to Christopher Biggins and Maureen Lipman and Sirs Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen there is an alumni of actors and thespians who are active supporters and contributors to the theatre.
Did you know that Maureen Diane Lipman CBE is connected to Women of the Year, a company with a correspondence address of Brewers Hall along with Dr. Floella Benjamin and others? How very modest of the ladies to give themselves such an unassuming company name, eh?
https://companycheck.co.uk/company/03524013/WOMEN-OF-THE-YEAR/companies-house-data
Of course, Brewers Hall is a Masonic Hall:
https://www.brewershall.co.uk/
If you scroll down the Members of Brewers Hall you will see Greene King there, among others:
Sticking with the brewery connection, one of the donors of the grand Theatre Royal with its very Masonic-hall-like chequered stage flooring is the Greene King brewery of course. You would only expect that to be the case, wouldn’t you, especially where the big chimneys and walls dominate the street opposite the theatre? One of the Non-Executive Directors connected to the brewery is non other than Michael Andrew Coupe, CEO of Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited.
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/00024511/officers
We also have Nick Mackenzie, Richard Smothers and Robert Oscar Rowley.
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/SOHS40KBTO-Jb6t-8MZvZ6zfICU/appointments
Rowley is connected to Camelot, the ones who run the National Lottery, and Smothers (who has over 120 companies under his belt) is connected to Peel Holdings based at the Intu Trafford Centre via his connections to Astley Business Park Management.
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/iih6m0KHMvshJZ4zOkKKE0Wv4KA/appointments
Neil Lees has over 650 companies, John Alexander Schofield has 200, and John Whittaker, living in tax haven the Isle of Man has over 400 companies connected to him. I’m sure that the people of Warrington would find this interesting given that Peel Holdings has got its sights on developing Warrington for its own Directors and Town Council Chiefs to make a mint out of.
Some of the other donors of the Theatre Royal are Churchgates 2000, Anglia Suspended Ceilings, Gross & Co Solicitors, Taylor Wimpey, Côte Brasserie, St. Edmundsbury Wealth Management Ltd, Premier Printers, Gibbs Denley, Tattersalls, Gough Hotels Thurlow Champness & Son jewellers, One Broker Limited, Criterion Ices, Sheridans, Whites Catering, Ashtons Legal, Lacy Scott & Knight LLP, Bury Physio, Bluesys, Suffolk Village Info, Suffolk Community Foundation, Thomas Ridley & Son, the St. Edmunds Trust, the St. Edmundsbury Borough Council Community Chest, the Bury St. Edmonds Town Council, the Rotary Club, the National Lottery, and, finally the Alfred William’s Charitable Trust…which with Jonathan Howard Penn takes us right back to Churchgates 2000 again with its connection to The Church.
The Churchgates one is rather interesting of itself because it connects Stephen Raymond West and Ormiston Families Enterprises, at 333 Felixstow Road, Ipswich IP3 9BU to Temple Secretaries and the infamous 788-790 Finchley Road in London.
Anglia Suspended Ceilings is connected to 41 Chalton Street, London.
Then, from Gross & Co Solicitors based at 83-84 Guildhall Street in Bury St. Edmonds we have a Graeme Donald Kirk, born August 1955. He is connected to Bury St Edmund’s Theatre Management Limited (The)(The) – company number 00842455, and yes, with two “THE”s to the Theatre Royal, of course. He is subsequently linked to Okapi Africa Limited (08310885) and Hanneli Moira Rupert:
From here we see the link to Johann Peter Rupert, Gaynor Allison Rupert, Joshua (also spelled Josua) Malherbe and John Stephen Loftie-Eaton and their connection to South Africa. This is where it gets really interesting.
Johann Peter Rupert is connected to Renshaw Bay (UK) Limited which is connected to 27 St. James’s Place in St.James’s Square in London and is directly connected to the Kingpin that is Lord Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, with a correspondence address of 14 St. James’s Place, just around the corner in St. James’s Square:
The construction firm Taylor Wimpey is also an interesting one here because it includes not only Gwyneth (“Gwyn”) Victoria Burr both to Sainsbury’s and Asda as she has had Directorships in both companies – remember the merger that they tried to push through the Merger and Monopolies Commision? Not only that but Angela Ann Knight is also connected to Coca-Cola, M&S, Dixons, and Arbuthnot Latham & Co. Ltd. This takes us to disgraced perjuror and former ex convict and ex Cabinet Minister Jonathan William Patrick Aitken.
Oh, the irony.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1000114/Shamed-Jonathan-Aitken-prison-chaplain-mp-Carol-Thatcher
Another company that sponsors the theatre is Côte Brasserie (Côtes Restaurants Group Limited) which is owned by the Scrimgeour family of Scotland, namely Alex Rupert Gauvain Scrimgeour and Angus Muir Edington Scrimgeour. Well, Scrimgeour is the surname of a wizarding family in the Harry Potter series of books and films.
Yet another interesting connection is St. Edmundsbury Wealth Management Ltd (OC411419) fronted by Russell Craig Green, Andrew Mark Speed and Gemma Kate Speed of GAR Holdings and Camouse Financial Management Limited (05662116) which takes us directly to Temple Secretaries and 788-790 Finchley Road.
44 Upper Belgrave Road in Clifton, Bristol is also an address that has been used by Mark Norman Denley of Gibbs Denley via the dissolved Elliot Financial Management Limited and the use of Hanover Directors and HCS Secretarial.
Which brings us to Tattersalls (company number 00791113), another patron company for the theatre. Here, we have Andrew Ian Henry Russell, the 15th Duke of Bedford, with a correspondence address of Woburn Abbey. It is the Theatre ROYAL after all.
The Tavistock Trust for Aphasia – 06988361- leads us then to the Dowager Duchess of Bedford, Henrietta Joan Russell.
The Bedford Estate is run by the Honourable Charles William Cayzer with a correspondence address of Brize Lodge, Leafield. OX7 3DD, and is connected to the Sloane Club which was formed by Swift and Instant Companies from 1 Mitchell Lane in Bristol:
Of course, the Theatre Royal is also sponsored by the Rothschild Foundation as well as Coutts, the Queen’s banker. Of course, The Queen is connected to the Rothschild Family by having shares in Rio Tinto, a company that is currently under Investigation for fraud and bribery owned by the Rothschilds and based at 6 St. James’s Square, just a stone’s throw away from Chatham House and No.3 where BP are based.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rio-tinto-sec/us-judge-says-rio-tinto-must-face-sec-fraud-case-idUSKCN1QZ1ZE
Here’s a little ditty about Queenie:
http://www.sxolsout.org.uk/zcase.html
Of course, Lord Sainsbury is pally pally with Lord Rothschild with the Butrint Foundation:
https://rothschildfoundation.org.uk/what-we-do/major-initiatives/butrint-foundation/
So, you see, there are plenty of people from a brewery, a supermarket (connected to Brewers Hall and also the Worshipful Company of Grocers), from the acting profession, from local businesses and from a couple of Dames and Lords, as well as some Dukes to keep the Theatre Royal in Bury St. Edmonds going in all its splendour.
Money doesn’t just talk, it makes itself heard inside an auditorium.
All the world’s a stage, and we are merely an audience watching people pretending to be real.
I shall leave you with this story about a Greedy King:
https://charterforcompassion.org/the-greedy-king
© 2020 Gordon Bowden
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Designed for small space, QPT-233, a reflective short throw projector, has a unique design that hides lamp under a lid with a mirror through which the image is projected out, unlike conventional projector whose lamp is exposed exteriorly. With 3000 lumens high brightness, it projects a 78-inch image within just 48.5cm, the best performance among similar products. Put away farther from audience, it spares them the heat and noise problems during presentation. Mounted on the ceiling, it can avoid shadow disruptions for an interruption-free presentation, perfect for business or education market.
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When this short-throw projector is not in use, the lens is protected from dust and other foreign bodies by closing the open-and-shut mirror section. This feature suggests that the main aim of the design was to create a product that doesn't have to be used in a fixed interior location but can be moved as necessary and operated on a desk or table. The design allows for rapid set-up and stress-free operation, with button-style controls that can be used without getting one's fingers in the way of the projected image.
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