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Jaushua Sotirio signs for Wellington
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Jaushua Sotirio has joined Wellington Phoenix from the Western Sydney Wanderers. Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images
Wellington Phoenix have clambered back up off the canvas with the signing of forward Jaushua Sotirio, from Western Sydney, on a one-year deal.
A day after talismanic captain Andrew Durante and striker David Williams announced their departures from the Kiwi club, Phoenix coach Ufuk Talay has responded by unveiling a fresh face for his attack.
Sydney-born right winger Sotirio scored 11 goals across 81 league appearances for the Wanderers but could not nail down a consistent starting role. That trend continued in 2018-19 when he started seven of his 13 appearances but failed to convince coach Markus Babbel -- even though he netted three times, including a spectacular strike against Melbourne City in January.
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Talay said former Olyroos and Young Socceroos attacker Sotirio will help to shape a new-look Wellington frontline.
"I'm looking to bring in players that work hard and aim to continually raise their game and Jaushua fits that bill," the rookie A-League head coach said.
The 23-year-old Sotirio hoped a trans-Tasman shift would revive his fortunes.
"I have spent most of my career in Sydney, so it was time for a change and a new challenge and Wellington represents the perfect opportunity to prove what I can do," he said.
"There's some really exciting young players at the club and I believe we can create something special in Wellington."
Sotirio is Wellington's third signing since the end of last season, after deals for New Zealand international goalkeeper Stefan Marinovic and Australian teenage left-back Walter Scott were confirmed recently.
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Data Guru Chris Steeves Joins Global
Atlantic fundraising data science guru Chris Steeves has been appointed Senior Consultant at Global Philanthropic Canada, effective immediately. Chris is based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
“Chris is a very important addition to both the Atlantic team and our overall national network,” said CEO Guy Mallabone. “He brings another dimension around using data and technology to drive donor engagement at a higher level. Chris will be a strong asset to our clients right across the country.”
Chris has over twelve years of professional fundraising and development experience working with both small and large teams. He understands the new challenges facing the charitable sector and is passionate about helping forward-thinking teams embrace new forms of relationship building using data-driven insights and technologies.
With a focus on effective communication and relationship building, Chris has a solid background in Development and Advancement. He led successful fundraising efforts and served as the Director of Advancement for the Halifax Grammar School for four years and seven years at Dalhousie University in the annual giving and major gift departments.
Recently, Chris served for five years as Vice President Development for Fundmetric, a firm focused on turning one-time donors into lifetime supporters. He is passionate about making it easier for the charitable sector to embrace and adopt data science technology.
Chris holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Dalhousie University in Marketing Management. He is active in AFP and is the Past President of the Nova Scotia Chapter. He was the recipient of the 2015 Outstanding Professional Fundraiser Award.
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The Government is Seriously Hurting Marijuana Businesses. See Why and How.
With the cannabis industry thriving and entrepreneurs trying to cash in on it, these marijuana businesses are being brought down by government big time.
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September 19, 2018 ~ Justin Sluss
The 2002 John Woo directed film “Windtalkers“ starring Nicolas Cage is getting a 2-Disc Ultimate Edition Blu-ray Disc release on November 6th via MVD Entertainment Group, on their MVD Marquee Collection label. The release will include both the original Theatrical Cut (134 minutes) and the Director’s Cut (153 minutes). Tech specs for the release include 1080p HD video in the 2.40:1 aspect ratio and DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio sound on both versions of the film. The release is available for PRE-ORDER over at Amazon. Bonus materials set to be included on the release are listed below.
Audio Commentary with Director John Woo and Producer Terence Chang
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The folks at MVD Entertainment Group have launched a couple of new labels that will be releasing titles on Blu-ray Disc. The new labels over at MVD are as follows below.
The MVD Marquee Collection label will include studio and indie films that aren’t quite “cult” classics but old enough to be considered ‘catalog” titles. The first releases coming to the label are listed below along with the release dates.
Walking Tall (2004) (Special Edition) – 8/14
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Autumn In New York – 8/28
Barbershop (Special Edition) – 9/11
Barbershop 2: Back In Business (Special Edition) – 9/11
Beauty Shop – 9/11
Out Of Time (Special Edition) – 10/9
Art School Confidential – 10/9
Windtalkers (2-Disc Ultimate Edition) – 10/23
Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction (Special Edition) – 11/13
Memories Of Me – 11/27
The MVD Classics label will deal with films that fall between the companies other labels and might be deemed a little “obscure” for some. Not all of these titles will be coming to Blu-ray either, as some don’t have HD masters, etc. The first releases coming to the label are listed below along with the release dates.
Diamonds Of Kilimanjaro – 9/11
Golden Temple Amazons – 9/11
More information regarding these releases and such will be added to this post later, such as cover art and pre-order listings over at Amazon. Stay tuned for updates.
Below, after the break, you’ll find some official statements from the distributor regarding these new labels – taken from the press release.
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Saturn conjunct eros-Eros Astrology Transit Guide
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We were made to be erotic creatures. For some people, their erotic nature seems to come naturally. For others, it is hard. Picture the proverbial librarian with her buttoned up black suit, buttoned to the top button. That would be an Eros which was unexpressed, probably due to fear.
Eros now moves through the sign of King conjumct Beasts! You are commenting using your Facebook account. Originally Posted by ElenaJ. Their sexual natures are rooted in the senses. I am Saturn and learning from him. Eros is changed by Pluto, their old shell breaks and they take on new philosophies. Read up a bit on Spica's symbolism to uplift your spirits! Saturn wants to learn, to reach that peak, to become Saturn conjunct eros authority.
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Saurn is a symbol of the power Saturn conjunct eros values and attraction and when it is touching Eros those powers can ignite into the manifestation of just what we want. You may have jealous feelings etc but you will be able to deal with them, without acting out in a negative and hurtful way. Communication is sexy to Saturn conjunct eros lovers. We want to achieve and accomplish something spectacular. At the same time, Eros may feel disappointed when Uranus seems distant and hard to reach, as Eros desires complete intimacy and erotic merging with the Uranus person. Email Address never made public. Maybe because guys find me attractive lots of times just my dimpled-smile could sway them off. The boundaries are broken, the doors unlocked. In Libra, we strived towards equality and fairness. The split also freed her up to fall in love with Adonis! Receiving food in the underworld is the same as receiving a lifetime pass. Saturn conjunct eros was given to Prometheus' brother Epimetheus as a punishment for the formers stealing the fire of Zeus and Military pinup it to humankind. Satyrn Mature. Capricorn Capricorn is the leader of the Earth signs, ruler of Saturn. This applies to both sexual and non-sexual passions.
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We were made to be erotic creatures.
Although instinct certainly plays a role, human sexuality is made complex by our intelligence and the role of society, as sexuality is primarily a social behavior. Reproduction is certainly a function of our sexuality, but humans do not engage in sexual behavior to reproduce alone. A major element of our sexuality comes under the domain of Mars.
The sign and house position of Mars in our natal charts, as well as the aspects Mars makes with other planets and points, gives us some insight into our personal sexual style.
However, Venus, the planet of love, romance, and pleasure, plays a role as well. The Moon, representing our emotional nature, affects our sexuality. In fact, as sexuality is a powerful motivator and is part of our identities, we can safely say that all of our planets and points have something to do with our sexuality in some way.
When exploring the astrology of sexuality, I keep in mind that the entire chart of an individual is involved, but there are some factors that tend to play a larger role than others. The sign position of the Asteroid, Eros, can reveal some of our erotic turn-ons, as well as the level of our erotic nature. We explore the sign positions of Mars and Venus in relation to sexual styles here , and Eros below:. The Asteroid Eros can shed some light on some of our erotic turn-ons.
He was considered irresistible. In Roman mythology, Eros was known as Cupid. Sometimes he carried a flower, but more commonly the silver bow and arrows, with which he shot darts of desire into the bosoms of gods and men. Eros overpowers the mind with love and sex. Eros represents sexual objectification, passion and desire, and creativity. Eros in Aries. Their sexual attractions are formed quickly and they get off on the sensations of the moment in an intense manner.
These lovers may seem a little erratic to others, simply because their passions rise and fall so quickly. They are not as giving and emotional in their sexual expression, but they are passionate while it lasts. Eros in Aries people are attached to the sensations of the moment and may see their partner as an object, or an extension of themselves. They often prefer to do the pursuing in relationships and may be addicted to the conquest. Eros in Taurus. Sexual possessiveness is often an issue with these lovers, and, unlike Eros in Aries, competition is not a turn-on.
These lovers can be somewhat primitive in their desires and not as attracted to too much sexual intricacy. Plenty of masturbation is likely, although these lovers tend to be most unhappy without a steady partner. Their sexual natures are rooted in the senses.
Eros in Gemini. They like to be knowledgeable in sexual matters, and often are turned on by the written and spoken word. They may write letters to their lover, or enjoy writing and reading erotica. Many Eros in Gemini individuals enjoy talking, and being talked to, during sex. Eros in Cancer. When the self-image is low, these lovers may use others as sexual objects, probably as a result of their fear of rejection. The breasts are a big turn-on, and many are orally fixated, and some may be attracted to a domination theme.
When the self-image is stronger, intimacy and warmth are powerful stimulants. Eros in Cancer lovers seek to achieve psychic and emotional renewal through sex.
They can be very intuitive bed partners. Sexual possessiveness is often an issue. These lovers often fall in love with their sexual partners. Eros in Leo. These lovers generally get off on what they believe their sex partner must be feeling about them. They can put a lot of time into autoerotic behavior, and are often given to much flirtation and many infatuations.
Nevertheless, they can be more loyal than most. Eros in Leo lives for love and attraction. They are threatened when passion settles down in their relationships. They feel the need to keep passion alive, and when it settles in a relationship, they can be addicted to flirting with other people in order to feel alive and potent.
Eros in Leo lovers have a big ego investment in their relationships. Eros in Virgo. These lovers are sensual, especially when they are not thinking too much. Vicarious enjoyment of sex is often highlighted with this placement.
A meeting of minds is important to Eros in Virgo. These are somewhat moody lovers who may have distinct phases between promiscuity and celibacy. Virgo is very connected with — and aware of — the body and its functioning, and Eros in Virgo often seeks renewal through sex, with an attitude that sex is healthy and good for you.
These are generally sensitive and tender lovers who do a lot to please their partners. Some awkwardness and shyness in terms of letting themselves go is often characteristic of this position. This should not be taken literally, although when Virgo is connected to the sexual nature, there is a sense of purity and independence. These lovers can be promiscuous at times, and quite kinky, but emerge from their experiences with a sense of purity nevertheless. Eros in Libra. Communication is sexy to these lovers.
Eros in Scorpio. These lovers can be addicted to the thrill of getting to know a person inside and out, and to the power of love and sex. Intensity is important to these lovers.
This position suggests very little fear in the area of sexual intimacy, and these lovers will pretty much do anything and everything with a willing partner. They are passionate, and the more intense the relationship is, the better. Animal magnetism is high, probably because these people think about sex and intimacy a whole lot, and others may sense their intensity. Eros in Sagittarius.
Sex is meant to be fun for Eros in Sagittarius, and some roughhousing and plenty of hearty laughs are turn-ons. Sexuality is sometimes viewed as if it were a sport by these people. They may surprise you with a very open and almost innocent attitude toward sex and intimacy. Sex is a bit of a game, and how this attitude is received will depend a lot on the audience!
There can be a bit of an addiction to the chase, and avoidance of intimacy when it feels restricting in any way. Tenderness and romance are not the kinds of expressions that come as easily to these lovers. Laughter and fun are aphrodisiacs for this position of Eros. Eros in Sagittarius can show up as passion for knowledge, hunger for new experiences, and a love of travel and exploring new lands and cultures.
Eros in Capricorn. The libido is strong, but controlled. Many Eros in Capricorn people channel much of their desire nature into accomplishing something significant. Eros in Aquarius. The detachment of Aquarius can mean finding sensuality in non-contact scenarios in addition to contact ones. Sexual creativity is one of the strengths of this position. Their open minds with regards to sex can stimulate creativity in their partner.
Eros in Pisces. They tend to be most comfortable and at ease when their partner is expressing him or herself confidently. This position also suggests a passion for Pisces-ruled subjects. Often, the individual oozes sexuality in some way. The mind is often focused on sex and infatuation. Famous people examples: Justin Timberlake has Venus conjunct Eros within a 2 degree orb in Capricorn and square to Pluto.
Simpson has Eros in Sagittarius opposite Mars. Marilyn Monroe had Eros in Capricorn square Venus. Prince has Eros in Pisces square Sun and Saturn.
Eros represents our awareness of our mortality. Because we know we are going to die, we continually recreate feelings confirmation, if you will of our own vitality. Eros love is very self-centered. The books referenced below contain ephemerides for Eros. You can also find the placement of Eros in a chart online:.
The position of Eros can also be approximated by using the ephemeris tables on our site this is best for those who are familiar with using ephemerides. See the monthly positions of Eros, Psyche, and Sappho by sign.
An ephemeris for Eros Asteroid is available through Astrodienst here. This ephemeris shows the position of Eros every 5 days, which is generally sufficient for finding the sign of your Eros.
Feeling Fearful. We want to achieve and accomplish something spectacular. Venus, Neptune, and Uranus sits at 1st house Venus cjt. The boundaries are broken, the doors unlocked. The desire to merge and transform combines with a restless urgency and indomitable will. When her sixth child was born, she handed Saturn a swaddled rock instead of the infant Zeus and gave him to the she goat Amaltheia to raise.
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However, this aspect between planets has common general themes. The following shows interpretations of Saturn conjunction Pluto in these various forms as well as in general.
With Saturn forming a conjunction to Pluto in the birth chart, you can have strong and even intense ambitions that you prefer to hold close to your chest. Some people with this aspect can reject this side of themselves because it feels too overwhelming or intense, although at some point would do well to explore and manage it. You are resourceful and brilliant at making the most of your situation and turning negative circumstances right around. Possible Key Traits of Saturn conjunct Pluto.
You will find some, many, or all of the following, depending on how strong this aspect is in the natal chart:. We want to achieve and accomplish something spectacular. We can be ruthless about getting rid of problem areas in the process. We should watch for abuse of power or living on fear, although moderate levels of fear can be useful to motivate us to make improvements and to strengthen certain vulnerable areas of our lives.
During this period, our fear of losing something or everything can be a powerful motivator, in fact, and the zodiac sign involved can be a clue to where we fear scarcity, chaos, or loss. We can be driven, in fact, to build or rebuild our lives. This period can involve renovation, destroying and rebuilding, and excavation in a particular area of our lives. Saturn attempts to clean up some of the excesses or obsessions of Pluto in Capricorn.
This transit may demand hard work at remodeling and renovating our careers and goals. When transiting Saturn conjuncts natal Pluto , you may be called to put in some hard work or to draw upon your self-discipline during the course of this transit. You can feel quite determined to get over an obstacle. Some people make a huge lifestyle change at this time.
Keep in mind that people born in your birth year and in surrounding birth years are going through the same transit, although this may not occur in the same house. Important now is being moderate rather than pushing too hard, as your fears can be triggered and these can lead you to extremes.
If you use your concerns as fuel for making improvements, great, but it can go too far and cause you undue stress. This period can be powerful for tapping into your determination, but again, if this is taken to extremes, it can amount to obsession. It can be a time of challenges related to parents or authority figures.
It might be a time of restoring and rebuilding an old foundation, and this can be a business, career, or another structure in your life. There can be increased responsibilities as weak links in your life seem to break. Possibly, it will do both.
The levels of compassion and wisdom that can be gained are in proportion to our willingness to experience both the erotic and the wound, seemingly as Chiron did. The transit of progressed Venus over Eros denotes a social time when we seek out the company of others and the stimulation of real human contact.
Mostly these times will result in warm feelings and a heightened awareness of values and desires. Sometimes they will coincide with a very strong urge to fulfill those desires and longings, no matter what the consequence. These two bodies conjunct along with Chiron on the th of December, 1 degree of Aquarius. Venus is a symbol of the power of values and attraction and when it is touching Eros those powers can ignite into the manifestation of just what we want.
The interesting thing to note, when this happens, is the response to that manifestation. Sometimes what we want fails to sustain or fascinate us once it is obtained. If contacting a personal planet or house cusp, these transits can help clarify cravings and bring to consciousness the nature of their value. As the saying goes, if we are advertising for Poets and keeps getting truck drivers , we best check the ad. This can be a good time to get in touch with personal values we hold esthetically important.
If no contradictory transits are in place at the at the same time, it can also have a festive feel encouraging celebration and socializing. If it is linked with other indicators and conjuncting an angle, node or vertex, it can mark the beginnings of a new intimate relationship.
The exact degree of conjunction is 9 Aquarius on the 9th of January, at the same time as the Eros-Saturn opposition! Asteroid Orpheus is an earth-crosser, meaning it orbits between Venus and Jupiter, crossing the orbital path of earth. It takes 1. The mythology of Orpheus is striking, especially when we understand the intensity of love that compels and transforms him, and his connection to Sappho.
The story is about the ascension of consciousness after an experience of love, death, transformation and death yet again. Orpheus is transformed! He can animate the earth, trees and animals that hear his songs. Orpheus, given a Lyre and taught to play by Apollo, was the greatest musician of his time, perhaps of all times.
According to the Ancient Greeks, his music and his singing voice would calm wild beasts. It saved the Argonauts form the deadly lure of the Sirens, and even evoked trees and rocks to uproot and dance.
At his wedding the couple were blessed but the oracle was not optimistic. Shortly after the ceremony, the shepherd Aristaeus was taken by the beauty of Eurydice and pursued her. She fled through a meadow and was bitten by a snake. It killed her instantly. Orpheus greave long, desperately and deep, so much so that he decided to go down into the underworld and retrieve her.
He used his songs to charm Cerberus, guardian of the threshold, and persuade Hades to let her return to the land of the living with him. Hades agreed but there was one stipulation. Eurydice was to follow him out of the underworld and he was not to look back at her until they cleared the entrance and gained the light of day. Sadly, he looked back just before they were free and he lost her all over again.
Virgil writes in the first century AD:. And now farewell: Girt with enormous night I am borne away, Outstretching toward thee, thine, alas! Now falling into an even deeper grief, he becomes a seer and a healer as well as a musician. He adds to his bardic tradition the skills or the oracle not unlike Chiron. His mourning was so profound that he was eventually dismembered by Maenads to silence his grief. His limbs were strewn everywhere and his head and Lyre float down river and into the sea.
Eventually, his head lands on the island of Lesbos where the magic of his voice and music is passed on, eventually, to Sappho. His Lyre is set amongst the stars as a constellation. We can ask, why did he look back? As Thanasis Maskaleris points out, what matters more is the experience Orpheus has, and the resultant transformation—his knowledge of the dark realm, his second loss of his beloved and how these encounters, more bitter than sweet, change his soul.
He ascends to become more than he was before, as musician and seer, and finally as healer. Some say that when he died, he was then reunited with Eurydice where he played for her endlessly in the underworld. With Orpheus conjunct Eros, especially for those who have planets or points around 9 degrees of the fixed signs , the experience may coincide with an exceptional transformation. What house this occupies my advise as to the area of life that provokes the change and the people that may participate.
They recall the experience of a world that is not to be mastered and controlled but to be liberated-- a freedom that will release the powers of Eros now bound in the repressed and petrified forms of man and nature.
These powers are conceived not as destruction but as peace, not as terror but as beauty… the Orphic Eros transforms being: he masters cruelty and death through liberation. His language is song, and his work is play. Anyone with fixed planets or points between 7 and 19 degrees of the fixed signs needs to watch this transit closely; Everyone can be alert to the 4 houses this configuration highlights! When Mars transits Eros meet, it is possible to have a powerful impact, especially if they stay within orb for long.
Mars wants action and according to the sign and house involved, he often gets just that. In the context of the Grand Cross, the libido intensifies giving the added zing to go out and get, say or do what needs to be done. The desire nature increases, boosting Jupiter, goading Saturn and honing Neptune. The grace or delicacy of the approach, however, is usually minimized.
If this aspect touches off natal points, we are likely to feel an insatiate desire for intimacy and erotic union. Depending on the situation, this could result in the initiation of a new affair or relationship or at least put us in touch with those longings if they lay repressed or dormant. It may also indicate an eruption or conflict in an ongoing relationship but usually that is the case only if there is stagnation or a backlog of unexpressed feelings. In this situation, the challenge of Mars, and even a resultant fray, can lead to deeper understanding as feelings express and the air clears.
Eros in square to Jupiter can increase the levels of optimism and desire bestowing a feeling of invincibility. Adventure, exploration and the pursuit of sexual encounters could be high on the list of royal priorities. Unfortunately, there are a few provisos. This transit can coincide with chance rendezvous that lead to opportunities for romantic, creative and enterprising pursuits. Because Eros awakens the enthusiasm and eagerness of the individual, they often present themselves in a way that generally gets a yes.
Jupiter aroused believes in himself to such a degree that the tendency is to 'go over the top'. One can overstep the boundaries of Saturn and the foggy regions of Neptune, making for some very mysterious encounters--including those of the shadow.
This transit can also synchronize with formal agreements such as new contracts for partnership, book and CD launches, art exhibitions, celebrations and sometimes weddings. It may be considered in an electional or horary chart as positive for these kinds of activities when not linked to the other outer planets. When transiting Eros and Saturn met, the desire to ground in the depths of a meaningful sexual union can become quite strong. It can also be terribly frightening.
The passions of Saturn are no less potent than mars or Jupiter, they just have trouble expressing themselves in overt and straightforward ways. An awakened Saturn means an awakened Shadow, and that can mean there is a serpent in paradise. It is important to honor the power Saturn has to manifest an image of our inner demon.
The tricky bit is that this inner demon may appear, at first, as a dream lover, a perfect match. The one it may be, but which one?
Usually it is the one that matches and awakens every little scrap of fear, inhibition, sense of defect, isolation, pain and loneliness a person can store. Why this feels so good initially is a complex mystery. Why it may spiral down into a stinking mire of unprocessed and unexpressed emotional turmoil makes much better sense. Eros and Saturn may indicate the deepening of a relationship into a more tangible form, with all the fears and potentials that coincide with such an event.
It can signify the awareness of a bond between two lovers that keeps them together in the face of aversion. It can also signify the separation of that bond if the aversion becomes too great. The longer lasting transits to Saturn will manifest according to the emotional maturity and experience of the individual. For those who have yet to experience their first Saturn return, it can seem like outer circumstances block every effort to merge, create and transform.
For those who have touched on their natal Saturn somewhat, it can coincide with commitment, deep attachment and even marriage. If Saturn is aspected to Eros in the natal chart, the opportunity to review those natal issues will arise. In this case, the chance for growth is accompanied by this transit, although it may feel more like pruning at the time. When the god of numinous spirit conjuncts the god of love, a quickening occurs. If this transit manifests at all in the conscious awareness, it immerses us in a sea of unity with the divine, taking us so far above the mundane matters of the world we can see only the immortal beloved.
If we project the experience back to 'waking life' we feel rather romantically incline, if not helplessly head over heals in love, with a person, project or land. What may be going on is a reminder call about the spiritual world, about the inner experience of the ineffable. This can rarely be processed in any rational or personal way but is readily scooped up into a projection of longing for the usually unobtainable other. Hopelessly impossible relationships dangle between people who have little or no chance of being with each other in any conventional sense of the word.
The mystery of it all is that this does not seem to matter. What matters are the feelings evoked. The awakening may seem based on tremendous sensual and sexual attraction yet the results can be a peak or religious experience. With this contact, the spirit leaves the body and travels a world impossible to comprehend. This is not an ordinary experience, this is communion with the goddess. Because this contact also activates Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, the range of experiences can be extensive. Those interested in exploring this further, please visit the new thread on the forum!
Eros conjunct Venus-Dec 1. Eros conjunct Chiron-Dec 1. Eros conjunct Neptune-Jan 20 Eros square Jupiter-Jan 20 Venus conjunct Orpheus-Jan 23 Venus Dec 25, '05 - Feb 03, ' Johannes Hevelius' Aquarius from Uranographia Somewhere along the way, we lose site of our aims. We forget the myths that guide us, and end up lost in the dark. This book is a light in that darkness, a guide to our own natural talents, aptitudes and potential. New York Lasik.
Eros in Synastry – Philosophy & Astrology
Or dive deep into Eros in astrology…. In art he was depicted as a beautiful winged youth, with eyes often covered, symbolising the blindness of love and passion. Not one of the gods was immune to the darts of Eros. Yet this is how symphonies are written, how cathedrals are built, and, how the greatest love stories are born. This creative passion is the urge to transform into something higher. To fully engage this energy requires great sacrifice — aka pain and tribulation. To Love.
Love is the fire that consumes. Love is the fire that destroys all. Love is the primogenator, the essential generative force. It cannot be denied. Nothing in all the cosmos is more compelling. The natal chart is incredibly complex and there are many factors that speak about an individuals sexuality not to mention upbringing, culture etc.
Read more about Venus, here. Intertwined with home and nurture, the moon can be important in the way we operate in relationships day to day. Read more about the Moon, here. Asteroid Eros is different in that it reveals something about our turn-ons, perhaps even the level and intensity of our erotic nature. While Venus and the moon are safe and comfortable, Eros and Mars are driven, and far more raw.
The purpose and motivation of Eros is seen as more pure and soulful than the lusty warrior planet, mighty Mars. These people are hotly passionate but sexual attraction can come and go quickly. These people work on instinct, and become intensely infatuated, finding it a turn-on living in the sensations of the moment.
They are not as giving and emotional as their star sign suggests, and may see their partner as an object, or an extension of themselves. These are highly sensual lovers who may seek to own their partners. Sexual possessiveness is often an issue, although competition is not a turn-on. These lovers can be somewhat primitive and plain in their desires — not fans of game-playing. These lovers tend to be unhappy without a steady partner.
Their sexual nature is rooted in the senses. These lovers are sexually curious and interested. They like to be knowledgeable in sexual matters, and often are turned on by the written and spoken word. They may write letters to their lover, or enjoy writing and reading erotica. Many Eros in Gemini individuals enjoy talking, and being talked to, during sex. There is a need to infuse emotional care and nurture into the sex act. When the self-image is low, these lovers may use others as sexual objects, probably as a result of their fear of rejection.
The breasts are a big turn-on, and many are orally fixated, and some may be attracted to a domination theme. When the self-image is stronger, intimacy and warmth are powerful stimulants. Eros in Cancer lovers seek to achieve psychic and emotional renewal through sex. They can be very intuitive bed partners. Sexual possessiveness is often an issue. These lovers often fall in love with their sexual partners. These lovers generally get off on what they believe their sex partner must be feeling about them.
They can put a lot of time into autoerotic behavior, and are often given to much flirtation and many infatuations. Nevertheless, they can be more loyal than most.
Eros in Leo lives for love and attraction. They are threatened when passion settles down in their relationships. They feel the need to keep passion alive, and when it settles in a relationship, they can be addicted to flirting with other people in order to feel alive and potent. Eros in Leo lovers have a big ego investment in their relationships. Earthiness and intellectuality combine in Eros in Virgo. These lovers are sensual, especially when they are not thinking too much.
Vicarious enjoyment of sex is often highlighted with this placement. A meeting of minds is important to Eros in Virgo. These are somewhat moody lovers who may have distinct phases between promiscuity and celibacy.
Virgo is very connected with—and aware of—the body and its functioning, and Eros in Virgo often seeks renewal through sex, with an attitude that sex is healthy and good for you. These are generally sensitive and tender lovers who do a lot to please their partners. Some awkwardness and shyness in terms of letting themselves go is often characteristic of this position. This should not be taken literally, although when Virgo is connected to the sexual nature, there is a sense of purity and independence.
These lovers can be promiscuous at times, and quite kinky, but emerge from their experiences with a sense of purity nevertheless. These lovers have an enthusiastic and exuberant appeal.
Sex is meant to be fun for Eros in Sagittarius, and some roughhousing and plenty of hearty laughs are turn-ons. Sexuality is sometimes viewed as if it were a sport by these people.
They may surprise you with a very open and almost innocent attitude toward sex and intimacy. Sex is a bit of a game, and how this attitude is received will depend a lot on the audience! There can be a bit of an addiction to the chase, and avoidance of intimacy when it feels restricting in any way. Tenderness and romance are not the kinds of expressions that come as easily to these lovers.
Laughter and fun are aphrodisiacs for this position of Eros. Sexual exploration and freedom are important, as well as a need for sexual honesty—sex without the frills and trappings that these lovers may find to be unnatural and even dishonest.
Eros in Sagittarius can show up as passion for knowledge, hunger for new experiences, and a love of travel and exploring new lands and cultures. These natives are sensual and earthy in their sexual desires. The libido is strong, but controlled. Saturn-ruled Capricorn is a sign that likes to be in control—not necessarily in control of others, but in control of themselves. Many Eros in Capricorn people channel much of their desire nature into accomplishing something significant.
These lovers are intrigued by the unusual, finding variety exciting. The detachment of Aquarius can mean finding sensuality in non-contact scenarios in addition to contact ones. Sexual creativity is one of the strengths of this position.
Their open minds with regards to sex can stimulate creativity in their partner. There is a chameleon in this position of Eros, as these lovers are very adaptable to their partner.
They tend to be most comfortable and at ease when their partner is expressing him or herself confidently. This position also suggests a passion for Pisces-ruled subjects. Insert , the number assigned to asteroid Eros.
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It is this that fuels the creative urge in Eros. Sexuality in the birth chart… The natal chart is incredibly complex and there are many factors that speak about an individuals sexuality not to mention upbringing, culture etc. Prince has his Eros in Pisces square Sun and Saturn. Eros in the zodiac signs… Eros in Aries These people are hotly passionate but sexual attraction can come and go quickly.
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New York Strong
Photo: NYC Halloween
New Yorkers marching in the traditional Halloween parade show that they won't be bowed or intimidated, following today's deadly, cowardly and despicable attack in Manhattan. New York strong.
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Labels: Halloween truck attack in New York City kills 8 and injures 11
Kelly's Descent Into Infamy
We've watched retired Gen. John Kelly's reputation as the "adult in the room" slide in the past 10 months. First, as neo-fascist Putin puppet Donald "Rump" Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security, where he eagerly supervised a callous and cruel round up of undocumented immigrants. Then, his turn as White (Supremacist) House Chief of Staff, where he not only declined to restrain Rump's sociopathic impulses, but participated in the demeaning of both a U.S. Congresswoman and a Gold Star widow, for which he's shamefully refused to apologize.
Last night, on the execrable Laura "Heil" Ingraham show, Kelly referred to Confederate traitor Robert E. Lee as an "honorable man" whose statues -- and those of other Confederates -- should remain in public places. If that wasn't enough to confirm him as a white supremacist, Kelly stated that the Civil War was caused "by a lack of ability to compromise," where "men an women of good faith on both sides" fought. Unless Kelly slept through American History courses, he should know that the designation of slaves as three-fifths human in the Constitution was a compromise with slave-holding southern states. The Union compromised repeatedly with southern slave states, including the Missouri Compromise allowing slavery south of the 36th parallel and the Compromise of 1850 allowing some western states to vote on whether to allow slavery. Despite those compromises, southern slave states rejected their country.
Kelly should have the basic understanding that the notion of "compromise" with an evil system was inexcusable in the first place: slavery is often called America's "original sin." He seems to suggest that if we'd only struck a bargain on slavery, the Civil War could have been avoided. And then what? An America divided to this day between slave and free? This man is no "adult in the room." His heart and mind are with those tiki torch marchers who brandish the Confederate and Nazi flags, whether he knows it or not.
BONUS: Wendell Pierce has a strong response to Kelly:
While they raped my Grandmother,lynched my Uncle,broke up my family to lost history, you find honor & compromise in that, you racist, prick? https://t.co/bOihrwd67N
— Wendell Pierce (@WendellPierce) October 31, 2017
BONUS II: Josh Marshall summarizes what we now can say about Kelly --
I take this performance as showing two things. One is what we saw in Kelly’s attack on Rep. Wilson. Kelly is not an adult in the room. He’s an example of what we might call Total Quality Trumpism, Trumpist ideology in a more disciplined, duty-focused, professional package. The core ideology and beliefs about reclamation and rectitude are the same. It’s not an accident that he ended up in the tightest circle of Trump’s orbit. The other is that, once again, Trump damages everything he touches.
But there’s something subtly different about Kelly compared to all the others who cozied up to Trump and saw their reputations and dignity destroyed through a deep inner weakness, desperation or lack of character – Christie, Pence, Tillerson, Priebus et al. Kelly’s eyes appear wide open. His tie to Trump seems to be based on a deep commonality of belief and a desire to sand away the rough edges of Trump to ensure the core goals of Trumpism succeed. (our emphasis)
Labels: John Kelly says Civil War was result of failure to "compromise", Republican racism
Cover Of The Day
Today's edition of the New York Daily News (click on image to enlarge):
Labels: cover of the day
The Party Of Trump On Display In One Lying Ad
The Party of Trump, ladies and gentlemen: authoritarians, sociopaths, nihilists, bigots, traitors, liars:
He's already "fixing" it, you cocksplats.
There's no dealing with the likes of these pathologically dishonest Trump- before- party- before- country shitheels. We need a cleansing tidal wave to sweep them from American political life.
Posted by W. Hackwhacker at 10:30 AM 2 comments: Links to this post
Labels: Republican lies, Republican National Committee, TrumpCare
Rump's Tweet Twofer: Pardon Me & George Who?
The lying Kremlin puppet's little fingers were busy rage tweeting this morning:
The Fake News is working overtime. As Paul Manaforts lawyer said, there was "no collusion" and events mentioned took place long before he...
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2017
....came to the campaign. Few people knew the young, low level volunteer named George, who has already proven to be a liar. Check the DEMS!
In the first tweet, he's sending an obstructionist signal to hostile foreign agent Paul Manafort that if he stonewalls the investigation, a Presidential pardon is in the future. In the second tweet, he attempts to downplay George Papadopoulos's role in the campaign ("low level volunteer named George"), and deflect to bogus conspiracies involving the Dems. The line about him being "proven to be a liar" is too rich for words, considering the source. Rump is reported to be seething at yesterday's indictments. His mental stability will be tested in the coming days and weeks as never before, to our peril as a country.
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Labels: Trump's reaction to indictments of campaign officials
Today's Tomorrow Cartoon
(Tom Tomorrow, via Daily Kos)
Labels: tom tomorrow
Pic Of The Day: George, We Hardly Knew Ya
Seated, on the left side of the table, third from the left, is George Papadopoulos, a national security advisor to the Trump Campaign, meeting with campaign advisor (and now Attorney General) Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (far left), and Russian loyalist Donald "Rump" Trump, at the far end of the table.
The indictment brought against Papadopoulos for lying to the FBI was unsealed today, as the White (Supremacist) House characterized Papadopoulos' role in the Rump campaign as a "volunteer" whose position was "unofficial." They can't stop lying and spinning.
BONUS: There's this, too:
Remember that on March 21, 2016 Trump praised George Papadopoulos when discussing his campaign's foreign policy team. pic.twitter.com/n4hSNIXjq0
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 30, 2017
Labels: George Papadopoulos pictured with Trump and Sessions, pic of the day
Today's Cartoons - News
(David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Daily Star)
(Jeff Darcy, Cleveland Plain Dealer)
(Stuart Carlson, Andrews McMeel Syndicate)
(Steve Benson, Arizona Republic)
Labels: David Fitzsimmons, Jeff Darcy, Steve Benson, Stuart Carlson
Trump Fluffer Fired From NBC/MSNBC
Beltway politics-as-horserace hack and Trump fluffer Mark "Handsy" Halperin was fired today by NBC and MSNBC, where he had served as a "both sides do it" yakker and reliable booster of Rethuglicans and pathological liar and sexual predator Donald "Rump" Trump. When news broke last week that Halperin had sexually harassed numerous women while he was employed by ABC, both organizations suspended him. He's also lost book contracts and other gigs following the multiple allegations, which he's admitted to.
The #MeToo movement has succeeded in outing sexual harassers and predators in recent weeks, and again focused on the women who have accused President P*ssygrabber of sexual assault, after his own admission on the Access Hollywood tape that he felt empowered to grab women sexually because of his celebrity. The White (Supremacist) House's propaganda unit denied all of the allegations just last week.
(photo: Turds of a feather stick together)
Labels: beltway pundits, Mark Halperin fired by NBC/MSNBC over sexual harassment claims, our broken media
Former Trump Advisor Pleads Guilty To Lying To FBI - Now Cooperating With Mueller
Drip, drip, drip, whoosh:
A foreign policy adviser to President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has pleaded guilty to a charge of lying to FBI agents.
George Papadopoulos, 30, pleaded guilty on Oct. 5, but the case wasn’t unsealed until Monday, when two other Trump associates were indicted by a federal grand jury. Papadopoulos reached a plea deal with prosecutors, and has since been cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Prosecutors’ statement of the offense alleges Papadopoulos “made material false statements and material omissions” during a Jan. 27 interview with the FBI. He was arrested July 27. Prosecutors agreed to recommend between no prison time to six months under the plea agreement.
Papadopoulos told the FBI an overseas professor had “told him about the Russians possessing ‘dirt’ on then-candidate Hillary Clinton in the form of ‘thousands of emails,’ but stated multiple times that he learned that information prior to joining the campaign,” according to court documents. In fact, Papadopoulos was contacted after he learned he’d be joining the campaign, and the professor only mentioned the “thousands of emails” after he’d been on the Trump campaign for more than a month.
The professor, the statement indicates, had “substantial connections to Russian government officials” even though Papadopoulos claimed the professor was “a nothing.” (our emphasis)
"... and has been cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller's probe..." You don't have to be a legal beagle to see that the timing of this statement on the day of the Manafort and Gates indictments is meant to pressure them other Trumpers ensnared in this Russian collusion to cooperate as well. Here's the PDF of the unsealed indictment against Papadopoulos.
Oh, and this is recent and ties directly to collusion with Russia, Trump TV Fox "News."
BONUS: Comment from one who knows a little about prosecutions --
Special Counsel Mueller appears to have a cooperating witness, George Papadopoulos. That is significant. Time will tell how significant.
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) October 30, 2017
Labels: George Papadopoulos, Trump-Russia scandal
Tweets Of The Day - Trump TV
Why are we not surprised --
This is FOX News currently... pic.twitter.com/4yInN7exr5
— Josh Sánchez (@jnsanchez) October 30, 2017
How the Manafort news is playing on Fox right now pic.twitter.com/vSYsVQ3oED
— Jonathan Cohn (@CitizenCohn) October 30, 2017
Fox News right now pic.twitter.com/DK8KyDpoW5
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) October 30, 2017
Ignoring the obvious isn't much of a strategy, but "Bullshit mountain" apparently needs a little time to decide how to spin/ deflect/ distract for their knuckle- dragging viewers. Sad!
Labels: Fox "News" doesn't cover Manafort indictment, Fox Network an arm of the Republican Party, Tweets of the Day
Trumpers Manafort And Gates Surrender To Feds (UPDATED)
The New York Times is reporting that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his junior partner Rick Gates have been told to surrender to Federal authorities, following their indictment on unspecified charges*. From the Times:
"(Gates') name appears on documents linked to companies that Mr. Manafort’s firm set up in Cyprus to receive payments from politicians and businesspeople in Eastern Europe....Mr. Manafort had been under investigation for violations of federal tax law, money laundering and whether he appropriately disclosed his foreign lobbying."
It's not clear whether others involved in the Russiagate scandal will be told to surrender today, but it's early and there's so much corruption (and even treason) left to deal with.
*UPDATE: Here's the 12 count indictment. In brief, it includes charges of conspiracy against the United States, including conspiracy to launder money, failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts, and making false and misleading statements regarding the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
UPDATE II: Manafort's lawyer Kevin Downing is sending a clear signal to Rump that his client isn't playing ball with Mueller ("... so can we please have a pardon... please?"). More reason to nail this shitheel's hide to the wall.
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Labels: Manafort and associate indicted by Feds
Across The Universe, Cont. - Galactic Structures
From NASA/ ESA, October 23, 2017: This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is chock-full of galaxies — each glowing speck is a different galaxy, bar the bright flash in the middle of the image which is actually a star lying within our own galaxy that just happened to be in the way. At the centre of the image lies something especially interesting, the centre of the massive galaxy cluster called WHL J24.3324-8.477, including the brightest galaxy of the cluster.
The Universe contains structures on various scales — planets collect around stars, stars collect into galaxies, galaxies collect into groups, and galaxy groups collect into clusters. Galaxy clusters contain hundreds to thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity. Dark matter and dark energy play key roles in the formation and evolution of these clusters, so studying massive galaxy clusters can help scientists to unravel the mysteries of these elusive phenomena.
This infrared image was taken by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide-Field Camera 3 as part of an observing programme called RELICS (Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey). RELICS imaged 41 massive galaxy clusters with the aim of finding the brightest distant galaxies for the forthcoming NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to study. Such research will tell us more about our cosmic origins.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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Labels: Hubble Space Telescope
Whitefish-y Contract With Puerto Rico Power Authority Cancelled
The corrupt (allegedly!) boondoggle is officially over:
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority is canceling its controversial $300 million contract with Whitefish Energy Holdings to restore the island’s power, officials announced Sunday.
Ricardo Ramos, executive director of PREPA, said he would honor Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rosselló’s request Sunday to terminate the business deal, which has raised questions from several lawmakers and government agencies.
Whitefish, a two-year-old firm based in Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s Montana hometown, had just two full-time employees when Hurricane Maria hit the island more than a month ago.
Language in the contract ― a full copy is here ― looked like it gave Whitefish a sweetheart deal as the people of Puerto Rico struggle to recover from the devastation of the hurricane.
For one, the contract, which Whitefish signed with the government-owned PREPA states that, “In no event shall [government bodies] have the right to audit or review the cost and profit elements.” That gave Whitefish wide of discretion and privacy over how it used $300 million in American taxpayer money.
So, does this mean any bribes payments made under the table consultation fees are returned? Will Whitefish investors demand that the contributions they made to the campaign of moron Donald "Rump" Trump be returned? What prison will be housing the people responsible for cutting this deal? Haha kidding.
Unfortunately, the corrupt bungling of this contract by all parties will inevitably mean further delays in getting power restored to roughly 70 percent of our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico. It's a complete outrage that this should be happening but, given the players, not at all surprising.
Labels: Donald Trump cabinet corruption, Puerto Rico cancels dubious $300 million contract, Puerto Rico in crisis after hurricanes pound island, Ryan Zinke
Today's Cartoon - Trick Or Treat
As we are about to observe the first Halloween of the Trump regime:
(Ellis Rosen, The New Yorker)
Labels: Ellis Rosen
Sunday Reflection - Right And Wrong
"To be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong." - Theodore Roosevelt, The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt, Vol. 8.
Just to be clear --
Labels: sunday reflection
Meltdown Much?
As we await the first indictment in the Russiagate scandal tomorrow, and consider former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's clues (post below) to look for from Putin loyalst Donald "Rump" Trump, Rump's nervous little fingers have already taken to Twitter to attempt to deflect attention from that major development and plead for help ("DO SOMETHING!"). His ridiculous and debunked Hillary-Uranium sale canard comes out of the far-right fever swamps, but his cultish base eats it up, with reinforcement from Fux "News", Breitbart and other propaganda outlets. Their desperate strategy is clearly aimed at discrediting whatever legal actions are taken by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Rump's lawyers are said to be flailing around in panic trying to determine who will get hit with the indictment, as the White (Supremacist) House's lie about the Mueller investigation winding down is demolished. Rump's mental stability is being tested, and many believe it's going to unravel quickly once the indictments start flying.
Sr GOP official says they are scrambling to keep Republican Members of Congress from talking about impeaching Trump on weekend shows. #AMJoy
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) October 28, 2017
The more Rump tweets, the more legal jeopardy he risks. As we said below, here's hoping that rage-tweeting Rump's adult day care staff calls in sick tomorrow.
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Labels: Trump said to be melting down about Mueller indictments
Quote Of The Day - What To Look For Monday
“I would watch and see if Donald Trump has a reaction and talks in away that could be used against him in the future. The second thing I would look at is if the president sends some kind of message to the potential defendant or at other witnesses. Is he sending a message of intimidation in some way through himself and his cohorts, suggesting that people should not be talking and should keep their mouths shut?” -- former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara on CNN's "State of the Union." For the sake of moving the process forward, let's hope Russian stooge Donald "Rump" Trump's adult day care calls in sick on Monday.
Labels: Preet Bharara, quote of the day, Trump-Russia scandal indictments
Today's Cartoon Threefer
(Jim Morin, Miami Herald)
(Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Labels: Jim Morin, Mike Luckovich, Stuart Carlson
Trump's Most Appropriate Memorial
As the cascading stories of sexual harassment and abuse of women by the predatory likes of, for example, producer Harvey Weinstein, hack Mark Halperin, director James Toback, and disgraced Bill O'Reilly, emerge, it's well to remember that as late as yesterday, the White (Supremacist) House was categorically denying the claims of 16 women who say that they were assaulted by President Crotchgrabber.
Good to see that the people at The Burbank Studios have commemorated the site of his infamous Access Hollywood tape (click to enlarge):
Alas, the memorial plaque was removed after a brief, but glorious life.
(h/t to Mock Paper Scissors)
Labels: plaque notes site of Access Hollywood tape of Trump's admitting sexual assaults
A Resignation and Questions
Almost lost in the news of the Mueller indictments last night was the simultaneous news of the abrupt and unexpected resignation of U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Dana Boente. Boente also serves as Acting Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division. Boente is expected to leave as soon as his designated replacement, John Demers, is confirmed and sworn in.
What makes Boente's resignation significant, as suggested by Rachel Maddow on last night's program, is that he is a likely witness to obstruction of justice by lawless demagogue Donald "Rump" Trump. When Rump met with former FBI Director James Comey to pressure him to drop the Russiagate investigation, Comey indicated in testimony before Congress that Boente was a witness to that pressure. Boente also served as Acting Attorney General after Sally Yates was fired for warning Rump about disgraced Putin plant Michael Flynn, and before Confederate Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was sworn in. Thus, he would have been privy to contemporary memos, meetings and discussions about Comey's pursuit of the investigation with Rump and other officials.
Stay tuned to see what role, if any, Boente will play in the unfolding saga.
Labels: U.S. Attorney Boente abruptly resigns as Mueller issues first indictments in Russiagate case
Trump-Russia Scandal Indictments & Arrests By Monday!
The "tell" was there for all to see: the furious attempts in the past week or so to regurgitate debunked, ludicrous and irrelevant "collusion" stories about Hillary Clinton and the DNC by treasonous moron Donald "Rump" Trump, his lickspittles (=cough= Sarah "Hucksterbee" Sanders =cough=), spineless pro- Trump co- conspirators in Congress, and the Republican propaganda machine. All in an ultimately futile attempt to take the spotlight away from something they knew was about to hit:
A federal grand jury in Washington on Friday approved the first charges in the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller, according to sources briefed on the matter.
The charges are still sealed under orders from a federal judge. Plans were prepared Friday for anyone charged to be taken into custody as soon as Monday, the sources said. It is unclear what the charges are.
As far as targets, most speculation revolves around former Rump campaign manager and unregistered foreign agent Paul Manafort and former National Security Advisor and unregistered foreign agent Michael Flynn. Those are just the first fish to be caught in Mueller's net. Expect things to start unraveling in Trumpworld more quickly now.
A few selected reactions:
Boy it’s almost as if some people knew this was coming so they tried to pour chum in the water to make it dank and murky https://t.co/kWRR8a9Mpc
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 28, 2017
"Republicans barfing up crazy shit about Hillary" is officially the best early-warning system for actual news about Mueller's investigation.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) October 28, 2017
Buckle up. We can expect Trump’s efforts to confuse and divide Americans against each other to shift into overdrive. Don’t fall for it.
— Evan McMullin (@Evan_McMullin) October 28, 2017
I think the press and Comey assumed Clinton would win and were screwed, but I think Trump people assumed he'd lose and are screwed more.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) October 28, 2017
And, if you're a betting person:
I thought I'd share my betting odds on the Mueller indictment(s)
Manafort 2:1
Flynn 4:1
Page 5:1
Kushner 9:1
Don jr. 10:1
Trump 50:1
— Impeach Donald Trump (@Impeach_D_Trump) October 28, 2017
Labels: Mueller filing charges soon, Trump-Russia scandal
What A Hero Looks Like
A month ago, world-famous chef José Andrés flew to Puerto Rico and organized a team of chefs, cooks, culinary students and others to help feed victims of Hurricane Maria. His "World Central Kitchen" organization has now served almost 2 million meals to residents of the ravaged island.
He set up a network of 18 kitchens around the island, feeding more American citizens than any other organization, including the American Red Cross. As grocery stores, food vendors and restaurants have started to open, Andrés is scaling back his operations so as not to undercut their businesses, and rather is going to refocus more on feeding people in more remote areas, the sick and the elderly.
Andrés made news in 2015 when he backed out of opening a restaurant in bigot Donald "Rump" Trump's new hotel in Washington, after Rump referred to Mexican immigrants as "rapists" and "criminals." Being the lowlife that he is, Rump sued, and the case was settled out of court.
José Andrés, hero.
(photo: Andrés plates food in Puerto Rico. World Central Kitchen photo)
Labels: Chef José Andrés served almost 2 million meals in Puerto Rico after hurricane disaster
Tweet Of The Day - #HimToo
Because he's such an honest gentleman and sterling fellow who's never been heard bragging about sexual assaults, you believe him, right? Not those 16 women.
All the women accusing Trump of sexual assault are liars, White House says https://t.co/SdiAIMqEwo
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 27, 2017
Said the graduate of Ouachita Baptist University ("The Fightin' Philistines"!).
Labels: Donald Trump unfit, Sarah Huckabee Sanders says all the women who accused Trump of sexual assault are liars, Tweet of the Day
Today's Cartoons
(Nick Anderson, Washington Post Writers Group)
(Darrin Bell, Washington Post Writers Group)
(Steve Sack, Minneapolis Star Tribune)
(Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press)
(Tom Toles, Washington Post)
Labels: Clay Bennett, Darrin Bell, Nick Anderson, Steve Sack, tom toles
Trump's Actions Drive Up Health Insurance Costs
If you think sociopathic con man Donald "Rump" Trump is toxic to our democracy and national security, he's just as bad when it comes to our health (and we're not even referring to his dangerous anti-environmental policies which are giving polluters new life).
Rump's ending of cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on October 12 has forced health insurance companies to offer so-called "silver plans" to low income customers at higher rates to make up for the loss of the subsidy. According to a report by the respected Kaiser Family Foundation:
"Premiums for silver plans have particular significance in the ACA marketplace not only because they are the only plans that offer reduced cost-sharing, but also because the second-lowest cost silver plan in each area is the benchmark for tax credits provided to subsidize premiums for low and moderate income enroll."
While insurance companies have some flexibility under the ACA for absorbing the Federal cuts, their planning for 2018 assumed some continuation of Federal cost-sharing for lower income people:
"For those insurers that report the impact on average across all plans – whether increases were actually applied to all plans or only to silver plans – the surcharge ranges from 0.1% to 27.2%....These results are generally consistent with a KFF estimate released in April projecting that silver marketplace premiums would have to increase by 19% on average to compensate for the loss of CSR payments, with the amount varying substantially by state." (emphasis added)
Depending on each state's approach to managing the loss of CSR payments, consumers with silver plans will have to pay the increasing costs, or purchase "bronze plans" which offer little health care value. Many will simply leave the market and use hospital emergency rooms for their health care.
Whatever the cost increase and damage to families dependent on the CSR payments for their health insurance, it's totally on Rump with his malicious and vindictive gutting of the ACA regardless of the impact. It's TrumpCare now (or, as fellow blogger Gene calls it, "Trump Don't Care").
Labels: Trump's cutting of cost-sharing reductions will hurt middle class and low income families
Weekend Song - R.I.P. Fats
The death of singer, pianist and songwriter Antoine "Fats" Domino on Tuesday at the age of 89 marked the passing of another rock 'n' roll "Founding Father." His performing career spanned from the pre- rock 'n' roll, rhythm and blues era of the late 1940's all the way into the 1990's, and included such classic hits as "Blueberry Hill," "Ain't That A Shame," "Blue Monday," "I'm Walkin'," "Walking to New Orleans," and "I Want To Walk You Home." All told, Domino sold more than 65 million records, more than any 1950's performer other than Elvis Presley. The talented but self- effacing Domino influenced such musicians as diverse as Presley, The Beatles, The Animals, Neil Young and Elton John. Here's his "I'm In Love Again," from 1956.
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Labels: Fats Domino
Morning Reading - Is Mueller About To Drop A Bomb On The Trump Regime?
While the White (Supremacist) House, it's despicable flunkies in Congress and the Republican propaganda network furiously flog irrelevant/ debunked distractions (who paid for the Steele pee- pee dossier? how about that Russian uranium deal, huh!?), it's important to keep the focus on the real action: the Trump campaign's collusion with Russia, the obstruction of justice, and (to paraphrase Rep. Pelosi) what do the Russians have on Trump?
So, what's going on with all the noise? To many, it appears to be a concerted effort to prepare for some kind of imminent shock to Trumpworld. Here are some perspectives (as always, please check out the entire articles at the links):
Jonathan Chait:
Having apparently decided that defending the Trump campaign against charges of collusion with Russian cyberattacks is an impossible task, the Republican Party has decided to go on offense. The House Intelligence Committee, putatively assigned to investigate collusion, is instead running a counter-investigation into Trump’s nemeses. Their argument, incredibly enough, is that the FBI and Robert Mueller are the real perpetrators of collusion with Russia. “No puppet, no puppet, you’re the puppet” has become the new Republican argument against Mueller.
Their case, which is being quickly spread by Republican officeholders and conservative media, centers on the role of Christopher Steele, a respected retired British intelligence officer turned private investigator, and Fusion GPS, the firm for which he worked. During the Republican primary, donors opposed to Trump’s candidacy hired Steele to conduct opposition research into Trump. After Trump won the primary, Democrats continued to finance his investigation. Steele compiled a now-famous dossier alleging a web of corrupt ties, including blackmail, between Trump, his inner circle, and the Kremlin. The FBI took at least some steps to investigate the allegations Steele made, a natural response given the serious possibility that the Kremlin had compromised a president-elect. The questions surrounding Trump’s collusion are in some sense an outgrowth of the larger question of his corrupt relationship with Russia.
The Los Angeles Times:
But it’s absurd to suggest that this new wrinkle vindicates Trump’s longstanding claim that the “Trump Russia story is a hoax.” If some of the allegations in the Steele dossier are accurate, it’s of small importance that they were turned up as part of an opposition research operation. And, of course, the Steele document isn’t the only source of suspicion about Russian meddling or about improper contacts between Russian operatives or intermediaries and people in the Trump orbit.
Not for the first time — remember the bogus scandal about the supposedly improper “unmasking” of Trump transition officials whose names appeared in intelligence intercepts? — the president and his allies are seizing on a sideshow to distract attention from the main event: Russian interference in last year’s election and allegations that the Trump campaign colluded in that interference — and that Trump tried to frustrate investigations of that conduct, including by firing former FBI Director James B. Comey. Neither the public nor federal investigators should be fooled into taking their eyes off the ball.
Former FBI double agent Naveed Jamili on MSNBC:
“I think that these people are worried and the best they can do is do a preemptive attack on whatever it is that’s coming,” Jamili explained. “The fact that these things are coming out now, when there’s no reason to rebut anything, is for lack of a better word, just ‘curious.’ I think it’s exactly what you’re leading towards, which is there is something coming, they know about this, and they’re preemptively trying to distract the American public from something fairly big that’s coming down the pike.”
Juliette Kayyem on Boston Public Radio:
National security expert Juliette Kayyem is predicting news from Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation will be announced within the next month.
“I think it is safe to say that before Thanksgiving ... something’s going to drop with Mueller,” she said on Boston Public Radio today. “The pace is too much right now. Every 12 hours we’re now dealing with a piece of this story at a pace we haven’t seen.”
Kayyem was prompted to make her prediction by the buzz surrounding a story about how Hillary Clinton’s campaign funded what would eventually become the famous “Trump-Russia Dossier” that surfaced in January.
It appears the Trump regime knows the house is coming down around their compromised heads, likely with indictments of former campaign manager Paul Manafort and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, which should reveal significant information about where Special Counsel Robert Mueller is headed in his investigation. No wonder they're suddenly trying to distract, deflect and derail.
BONUS: A panel on CNN debunked the Russian uranium sale faux scandal, identifying it as a smear campaign by Fox "News" and Republicans to take the focus off the Rump regime's Russia scandal.
BONUS II: Too late for inclusion above, Digby also has a good read about how these shitheels are promoting "the real Russian scandal."
Labels: Trump-Russia scandal
The Right: "No Principles... Just Enemies"
Seth Meyers takes "A Closer Look" at treasonous moron Donald "Rump" Trump, his fanboys at Fox "News," and their go- to shiny object to distract their loathing (and loathsome) base:
Labels: Donald Trump unfit, Fox "News", Hillary Clinton, Seth Meyers
It's An All-Out Pledge War!
Steve "Loose Cannon" Bannon's bud Danny Tarkanian, the far right Rethuglican candidate challenging "establishment" Nevada Rethug Sen. Dean Heller in 2018, has this challenge to Heller and his backer, turtle/human hybrid Sen. Mitch "Missy" McConnell:
I challenge @SenDeanHeller to sign McConnell Replacement Pledge. #NVSen pic.twitter.com/uMogZJed9p
— Danny Tarkanian (@DannyTarkanian) October 23, 2017
Well, Missy's Senate Leadership Fund PAC is having none of that bushwa! The empire "establishment" strikes back:
Here’s another pledge for @DannyTarkanian to sign backing Bannon over ex-wife charges. #NVSen pic.twitter.com/qIHE8SrAJL
— Senate Ldshp Fund (@Senate_Fund) October 25, 2017
Loving it. Please continue the merriment, but with heavier weapons, please!
(h/t: Tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors)
Labels: Internal Republican warfare, Senate Leadership taunts Bannon candidate in Nevada
(Dan Wasserman, Boston Globe)
(Tim Eagan, via gocomics.com)
(Stuart Carlson, via gocomics.com)
Labels: Dan Wasserman, Jim Morin, Mike Luckovich, Stuart Carlson, Tim Eagan
Tweets Of The Day - Showing Up
Here's bone spur sufferer and chronic moron Donald "Rump" Trump, tweeting off Republican Ed "Enron Ed" Gillespie's talking points:
Ed Gillespie will be a great Governor of Virginia. His opponent doesn't even show up to meetings/work, and will be VERY weak on crime!
And boom goes the dynamite in 3...2...1
While I was treating patients at the RAM clinic, Donald Trump was golfing in Sterling.
You tell me who doesn't show up for Virginians. pic.twitter.com/BOPxaveOUI
— Ralph Northam (@RalphNortham) October 26, 2017
I served 8 years in the Army, took care of sick kids, and am running to build a more inclusive Virginia. Don't talk to me about showing up. https://t.co/jzDx9bS6mh
Labels: Donald Trump tweets about Virginia gubernatorial election, Ralph Northam, Tweets of the Day
Quote And Vid Of The Day - Voting
What Digby says:
"We could easily suffer a catastrophe or be handed some big news from the office of special counsel Robert Mueller over the next few months. But the best way to sort this all out is at the ballot box. The only way to know whether Trump's election was a historical fluke, or whether a plurality of Americans really want to continue down this dark and dangerous path, is for the voters to make their wishes known.
"If the nearly 60 percent of Americans who disapprove of President Trump and his movement don't come out to vote after all this, then we probably deserve what we get."
We've got some elections coming up well before the 2018 mid- terms -- especially statewide elections on November 7 in Virginia and New Jersey, and a special election for U.S. Senator on December 12 in Alabama -- that will be dissected for signs of Trump's Republican Party sinking or surviving.
President Obama said it at a rally supporting Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam's gubernatorial bid in Virginia: "You can't sit this one out." That applies to every election, from local to state to national, from now on. Here's the clip:
Labels: 2017 gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey, 2018 mid term elections, Alabama senate race
The Sewer Of The Religious Right
Ever since bigoted theocrat Jerry "The Fallen" Falwell enlisted the evangelical, so-called "Moral Majority" community for the purpose of furthering the Southern Strategy of the Rethuglican / New Confederate Party, "Christian" evangelicals have been loyal, even rabid, foot soldiers for them. Polling suggests that these "moral" people support narcissistic sexual predator Donald "Rump" Trump by comfortable margins (his approval among evangelicals is 66%). His foul-mouthed, bullying, greed-driven persona has not cooled their ardor in the past two years, even as he demonstrates his clumsy cluelessness (two Corinthians, a little wine and cracker, mistaking the communion plate for the collection plate, etc.).
With church attendance falling, and America becoming more and more secular, some believe it's a bargain they made with the devil to hold on to whatever ground they can (school prayer, anti-choice, right-wing judges, etc.). For the cynical leaders of the evangelical movement, it's not even about religion, it's about political power, influence and, most of all, money -- lots of it. They've used religion as a cover for their political movement, not just to gain power but to fleece their members (religious nut and and conspiracy hound Pat Robertson perfected the talibangelist money-sucking model; also disgraced, lecherous talibangelist Jim Bakker, now selling end- of- times slop on his holy roller show).
As a sign of their devoted fanaticism to Rump, even after Rump's despicable response to the Charlottesville neo-Nazi marchers forced him to disband some "advisory" councils, his evangelical advisory board remained staunchly supportive. Proving that the rotten fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, Jerry Falwell, Jr. initially praised Rump's "bold truthful statement about Charlottesville" in a tweet, followed by loony religious bigot Robert Jeffress' racism-is-on-all-sides defense of Rump. The support is apparently mutual: after Jeffress' musing that Satan created Catholicism, White (Supremacist) House propagandist Sarah "Hucksterbee" Sanders dishonestly pleaded ignorance in a press conference on October 24. Ahh, those sulfurous fumes....
Labels: religious right, religious right support for Trump
Trump's October Poll Numbers Tanking
Two new polls show demagogue and pathological liar Donald "Rump" Trump slipping in approval, as an increasing number of Americans see him as reckless and dishonest. Politico's Morning Consult poll released yesterday, and conducted Oct. 19 to 23, show that 53% say Rump is untrustworthy, 56% say he's reckless, 51% say he's dishonest, and 54% say he's unstable. Moreover, 50% say he's not a strong leader, 50% say he's sexist, and 45% say he's racist, the latter two figures curiously low given his self-proclaimed sexual assaults against women and his blatant approval of white nationalists after the Charlottesville incident.
In a poll that's more likely to grab Rump's attention, Fux "News" also released a poll yesterday that shows his approval rating dropping to a new low of 38%, a 4-point drop in just one month, with 57% disapproving. Although Rump's numbers are generally holding among his rabid, cultish base, his approval numbers are falling among independents, with only 30% voicing approval. Rump's responses to Hurricane Maria, the California wildfires, North Korea and Iran, and to the Rethuglican tax plan all received negative ratings.
BONUS: There's more bad news for Republicans in the Fux poll as well, as Steve Benen points out--
A new Fox News poll, released late yesterday, offered a variety of results on taxes, but among the findings was evidence that 78% of Americans are "frustrated" that "the wealthy are paying too little in taxes." Another recent Fox News poll found that 59% disapprove of lowering taxes on corporations.
The entire Republican gambit is predicated on the polar opposite conclusions.
A CNN poll released last week, meanwhile, pointed in a similar direction: 52% of Americans oppose the Republican tax reform proposals touted by Donald Trump, while 34% support them.
Cutting taxes for the one percent and corporations is all they got, and that's likely to bite them bigly.
(photo: Rump's purportedly least favorite image of himself)
Labels: Trump's poll numbers tanking according to Politico and Fox polls
Republican Fluffer Mark Halperin Accused Of Sexual Harassment
Long- time Republican fluffer, politics- as- horserace "journalist," and wanker emeritus Mark Halperin, who in his political coverage infamously and continuously lowered the bar for his bud Donald "Rump" Trump (see here and here also), has apparently been following his master's example:
Veteran journalist Mark Halperin sexually harassed women while he was in a powerful position at ABC News, according to five women who shared their previously undisclosed accounts with CNN and others who did not experience the alleged harassment personally, but were aware of it. [snip]
...[W]women who spoke to CNN say he also had a dark side not made public until now. The stories of harassment shared with CNN range in nature from propositioning employees for sex to kissing and grabbing one's breasts against her will. Three of the women who spoke to CNN described Halperin as, without consent, pressing an erection against their bodies while he was clothed. Halperin denies grabbing a woman's breasts and pressing his genitals against the three women.
Halperin has been working for NBC and librul MSNBC as a senior political analyst (he's been suspended from on air duties for now), even though his brand of political "analysis" has been debunked time and time again. Now this, which frankly comes as little surprise to us. Well, when you lay with dogs, you get up with fleas.
Mark Halperin hailed reports that Donald Trump sexually harassed women because they bolstered "Donald Trump's brand" https://t.co/VVcgwwRlJf pic.twitter.com/v3jDvjiie6
— Brian Tashman (@briantashman) October 26, 2017
(Photo: Let's see those hands, boys.)
Labels: Mark Halperin, Mark Halperin accused of sexual harassment, Mark Halperin's a dick
Let's See How The Media Responds This Time
Republicans desperate to shift attention off of treasonous moron Donald "Rump" Trump's hourly demonstrations of his unfitness for office are suddenly pushing the stale stories of "who paid for the Russian dossier?" (publicly known since last October) and "the uranium sale to Russia!" (debunked last year here, here, and here). This involves the White (Supremacist) House, of course, and pro- Trump Republicans on several Congressional committees who've been feeling the heat generated by the right- wing wurlitzer to re- focus on conspiracy- generating right- wing bugaboo Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee. As for the wurlitzer, it's main pipe is already tooting accordingly:
Fox programming is now basically 24/7 about Hillary Clinton and Uranium. It's legit amazing.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 24, 2017
There are already those in the media who have been complicit in the past with Republican attempts to smear Hillary Clinton who are reacting to this shiny object, this "Trump whisperer" from the librul New York Times being the worst of the lot. She's at it again, freely using the "L" word she bans for all but Democrats and the Clintons:
Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year https://t.co/vXKRV1wRJc
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 24, 2017
After which she was reminded:
pic.twitter.com/EttEt9g5VJ
— Eric Schmeltzer (@JustSchmeltzer) October 25, 2017
Consistency and standards are for losers! #MAGA!
There are others who have the attention span and short- term memory of a fruit fly who may take this piece of warmed- over Republican agitprop and run with the herd. There are still others who may be eager to re- establish their favorite false equivalency narrative: "both sides do it!" But in this time of mortal danger to our Republic, and after being routinely snookered by Rump and his merry band of Republican nihilists, one would hope most in the "mainstream media" would have learned their lesson by now. "Hope."
So let's see how the "mainstream media" responds to this transparent attempt to make "the real Russian scandal" about Hillary Clinton and the DNC. Then we'll know if we'll ever have the luxury of "hope" again.
BONUS: Charles Pierce shares his concerns. Good read.
Labels: faux scandals pushed by Rethugs against Clinton, mainstream media peddling republican talking points, media-driven "scandals"
Today's Cartoon Twofer
Labels: Mike Luckovich, tom toles
Republicans Block You From Suing Banks And Credit Card Companies
While the continuing Trump sideshow distracts, the banks and credit card companies (including Wells Fargo and Equifax) are using their Republican pawns to screw us:
Senate Republicans struck down a rule that would have let Americans sue banks and credit card companies https://t.co/8b7qfnvDvA
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 25, 2017
Only a political party able to manipulate its supporters with bread & circuses could justify voting for this billhttps://t.co/60bSe9Xm8G
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) October 25, 2017
And, tellingly,
Just In -- the Senate, including brave truth-tellers Corker, Sasse, and Flake just gave banks a free pass to screw people again.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) October 25, 2017
John McCain, too.
Meanwhile, but her emails! but the pee- pee dossier!
BONUS: Charles Pierce on what the Republicans have done --
You know who’s going to get hosed now, Senator McCain? All those veterans and military families that you’re always so tender about. You know who’s going to take it in the ear, Senators Corker, Flake, and Sasse? All those middle-class people in all those little towns that you spend most of your time praising as the reservoir of Real American Values. None of those people mattered a damn to you Tuesday night, and it wasn’t the president* that forced you to make this vote. You did it with cold deliberation and calculated forethought.
That fits Republicans' core belief : "Afflict the afflicted, and comfort the comfortable."
Labels: Drain the Swamp, Republican extremism, Republicans block you from suing banks and credit card companies
Mid-Week Dream Song
Canadian indie rock band Alvvays formed in Toronto a few years ago, and released their new album "Antisocialites" last month. Here's the ethereal "Dreams Tonite" track from that album, featuring film cuts from the 1967 Montreal Worlds Fair. Enjoy.
Labels: Alvvays, Mid-Week Song
(Chris Britt, Illinois Times)
(Rob Rogers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
(Jeff Danziger, The Rutland Herald)
Labels: Chris Britt, Clay Bennett, Jeff Danziger, Rob Rogers, tom toles
Ah, The Smell Of Swamp Gas In The Morning!
There seems to be a swampy odor emanating simultaneously from Whitefish, MT, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico:
Puerto Rico has agreed to pay a reported $300 million for the restoration of its power grid to a tiny utility company that is primarily financed by a private-equity firm founded and run by a man who contributed large sums of money to President Trump, an investigation conducted by The Daily Beast has found.
Whitefish Energy Holdings, which had a reported staff of only two full-time employees when Hurricane Maria touched down, appears ill-equipped to handle the daunting task of restoring electricity to Puerto Rico’s more than 3 million residents.
Much larger utilities are more commonly used following natural disasters on the scale of Hurricane Maria, which devastated the island last month. (our emphasis)
Whew! The smell is getting stronger:
... On Monday, The Washington Post reported that Whitefish Chief Executive Officer Andy Techmanski is friends with Trump administration Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. Moreover, Whitefish is located in Zinke’s hometown of Whitefish, Montana. [snip]
Zinke isn’t the only member of the Trump administration with a connection to the Whitefish contract. In addition to the Colonnettas’ contributions to Trump’s presidential campaign, Kimberly Colonnetta’s Facebook page contains a photo of her with Ben Carson, Trump’s secretary of housing and urban development. Another photo appears to show Kimberly Colonnetta with Trump Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Both photos were posted the week of Trump’s inauguration. (our emphasis)
Those are a lot of powerful connections! Not to be confused with connecting Puerto Ricans to power.
No worries! We've located the cause of the smell:
Luis Vega-Ramos, member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, told The Daily Beast, “Whitefish’s most important expertise or assets seems to have been… having the U.S. secretary of the interior, Ryan Zinke, as their former congressman and current ally and having the wisdom to retain the services of key people close to the governor [of Puerto Rico].”
“Whitefish seems to be nothing more than a glorified middleman to get the real providers of the services, with which PREPA [the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority] could have contracted directly,” Vega-Ramos said. “It is a cozy sweetheart deal in which Whitefish gets a gratuity for subcontracting the actual providers.” (our emphasis)
The House Committee on Natural Resources is looking into this, apparently. At last glance, the House is Republican, so the Committee is run by Republicans, who have their swamp gas masks on. Move along, nothing to see here.
(Photo: Interior Secretary Ryan "Stinky" Zinke.)
Labels: Donald Trump cabinet corruption, Puerto Rico in crisis after hurricanes pound island, Ryan Zinke
As Senate Majority Leader and human/turtle hybrid Sen. Mitch "Missy" McConnell escorts sociopathic Putin loyalist Donald "Rump" Trump to a Senate Rethuglican get-together today, they are pelted with Russian flags by activist Ryan Clayton, who said the Senate Rethugs should be "talking about treason" not about tax cuts.
Well done, Ryan.
Labels: Protester throws Russian flags at Trump in Senate corridor
Sen. Flake Blasts "Dangerous" Trump And Republican Complicity (UPDATED)
Here's a portion of Sen. Jeff Flake's (R-AZ) stunning speech moments ago on the Senate floor, announcing that he won't run for re-election in 2018, and scorching moron authoritarian Donald "Rump" Trump and the Republican Party. Emotional, profound, historic:
BONUS: Mark Sumner on the Republican reaction which, in a sane party, would have been for more to break their silence...
But silence is what he got. What he will get. From Senate Leader Mitch McConnell meekly shuffling along at Trump’s side to House Speaker Paul Ryan willing to answer any question but the one he’s asked, what the Republicans have demonstrated is silence. Also known as cowardice.
Sen. Flake may have quoted from Abraham Lincoln in his speech, but he might better have quoted U. S. Grant: "There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots.”
And this was just another day where that became more clear.
UPDATE: Flake can't see using impeachment or the 25th Amendment to remove Rump. What was that about "enough?"
Labels: Sen. Jeff Flake, Sen. Jeff Flake to retire and blasts Trump
Cover Of The Week
The New Yorker's cover this week features a scary clown for Halloween:
Labels: New Yorker Magazine cover, The New Yorker
"In Over His Head" Trump Always "Has The Votes"
Seth Meyers covers the most recent signs of the dystopia we live in under the regime of asshat moron Donald "Rump" Trump, including his nitwit tweets, Republican cuts to Medicare and Medicare to fund tax cuts for the rich, and his and John Kelly's scandalous responses to the Gold Star widow and Rep. Wilson, etc.
Labels: Donald Trump unfit, Fox "News", Seth Meyers
Making Voter Suppression (And Russia's Job) Easier
By now, most are aware of the voter suppression commission that was launched after sociopathic liar Donald "Rump" Trump claimed falsely that some 3 million people voted illegally in the 2016 Presidential elections. To head the commission Rump chose none other than Kris "KKK" Kobach, the right-wing Secretary of State of Kansas who is the nation's leading proponent of election rigging through voter suppression. Kobach met with resistance across party lines when he attempted to gather voting data from secretaries of state, who initially declined to provide the information (the Rethuglican secretary for Mississippi famously told Kobach's commission that it could "go jump in the Gulf of Mexico" before he'd provide voter data).
The Kobach commission's computerized tool for managing his voter suppression initiative is something called the "Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program", and ProPublica is reporting that the system is so badly flawed that it cannot protect the sensitive voter data that it's collecting from hacking and manipulation:
"The voter-fraud-checking program championed by the head of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity suffers from data security flaws that could imperil the safety of millions of peoples’ records, according to experts. (snip) 'It blows my mind — this is complete operational security incompetence,' said Joe Hall, the chief technologist for the Center for Democracy & Technology, an organization that promotes internet freedom. 'You should consider all of that stuff in the hands of people who are clever enough to intercept someone’s email.'"
ProPublica's report is detailed, technical and compelling, and points to the casual sloppiness of Kobach's data security. Putting voting data in one flawed system highly vulnerable to intrusion is dangerous to our democracy, not to mention the commission's glaring attempts at voter suppression. Then again, given Russia's interest in our voter rolls and elections to help Rethuglicans, making it easy for them to hack that data may be Kobach's plan after all.
Labels: Kris Kobach, Voter suppression commission's data system vulnerable to hacking
You Can Scare Children AND Adults With This Hat!
It's no revelation that making money off suckers is a Trump (crime) family business model. The latest example is this Halloween- themed jack o' lantern hat, with Trump's ironically inane "Make America Great Again" slogan on the back, which can be yours for a mere $45. Here it is, shilled by daughter- in- law Lara Trump (wife of Eric/ Qusay):
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The Twitterverse had a few choice things to say, as you might expect (h/t HuffPo):
An orange pumpkin face, how appropriate. Looks just like the orange faced menace living in the white house.
— Chris K (@CKnighthawk) October 22, 2017
A pumpkin #MAGA hat for a pumpkin-headed president. https://t.co/C9vLGBqKez
— Rachael (@maryploppins613) October 23, 2017
You… made a Trump hat… featuring… an orange ghoul? 😂https://t.co/XRAfc0oW4Y
— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) October 23, 2017
And FTW:
Is it a jackass-o-lantern?
— elan gale (@theyearofelan) October 23, 2017
Labels: Lara Trump, Trump crime family, Trump family sells pumpkin hat
Says The Bully-In-Chief's Wife
When First Lady and abused third wife Melania Trump sallied forth yesterday in her chic designer outfit to a middle school in a suburb of Detroit, her message to the young students was "stop the bullying." It was yet another example of the corruption spread by her lying and bullying husband, Donald "Rump" Trump, who is known around the world to be its foremost cyber bully and lie spreader. The gross hypocrisy of her carrying that message to children when her own husband wallows in daily attacks on everyone from a Gold Star widow to the Mayor of San Juan is stunning, even for a member of the morally-diseased Rump family.
When opportunities arose for her in the past to chastise her husband publicly for his cyber bullying, she remained silent and even supportive of him. She deserves mockery for her laughable hypocrisy.
Labels: Melania Trump's cyber bullying campaign should begin at home
Tweets Of The Day - Democracy Dies In Whiteness*
... and overkill.
FINALLY, an article on white Trump voters in the Midwest. Finally! It had been at least 8 minutes. https://t.co/Y6BMbgCMOU
— Erik Loomis (@ErikLoomis) October 23, 2017
Flint still has no good water. PR has almost none and no power.
Thank god we have the NYT to check on what Real America is up to. Jeebus. https://t.co/KX1AgIY1es
"We're just trying to understand. Why, why don't they like us?" Part 254,986.
* With apologies to another serial offender, the Washington Post, and its slogan "Democracy Dies In Darkness."
BONUS: Charles Pierce has another, more egregious example of the New York Times' political analysts failing us. Librul media my ass.
BONUS II: We know who these people are even if the Times doesn't; Steve M. provides more evidence.
Labels: Donald Trump voters, mainstream media stories about Trump voters, New York Times runs umpteenth article on Trump voters, our broken media
Quote Of The Day: President Bone Spur
In an interview on C-SPAN yesterday, Sen. John McCain spoke about the legacy of the Vietnam war in very personal terms. When he spoke of the draft that was in place during the war, he said this, referring to cowardly narcissist Donald "Rump" Trump's infamous deferment:
“One aspect of the conflict, by the way, that I will never ever countenance is that we drafted the lowest income level of America and the highest income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur.” (emphasis added)
Rump has shown no understanding or appreciation of sacrifice for his country, either in a military or a civilian role. To him, it's all about serving himself and his needs only. No wonder he's on Twitter this morning attacking Gold Star widow Myeshia Johnson.
He's a vile, cowardly and soulless monster.
Labels: McCain notes Trump's Vietnam deferment for "bone spur", Trump attacks Gold Star widow Myeshia Johnson
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s Engagement on the Rocks – Drug Abuse To Blame
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By Renier On Oct 23, 2012
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s fairytale life might soon come to an end. No, we’re not referring to the end of the world; we’re referring to the cessation of their engagement and relationship. According to a new National Enquirer report, Angie is petrified that Brad’s drug and drinking issues might lead to him cheating on her and/or verbally abusing the children. We’re calling this a sham and asking, what the duck?
Insiders close to the couple revealed that Pitt finally snapped when Jolie insisted that he go to rehab. “Even though Brad denies up and down that he’s still using drugs, Angie is convinced that he’s secretly abusing pot and possibly other drugs behind her back. She’s also turned off by his excessive drinking,” a source revealed. Abusing pot? Oh no, Brad! Don’t abuse the gateway! Allegedly, Brad stormed out of their French chateau after a little altercation. Their fight was due to “quarreling over wedding plans.” Angie also demanded that Brad goes to rehab; otherwise she won’t walk down the aisle with him. It might just be our elephant memories, but didn’t the couple say they would only get married once gay marriage is legalized? There was never any reference to drugs, drinking, and violent behavior.
Brad jetted off to Los Angeles to promote his new documentary on America’s failed war on drugs, “The House I Live In.” It is here, in the city of angels and starlets, that Brad joked to shocked onlookers, “I’m Brad Pitt, and I am a drug addict.” He continued, “My drug days have long since passed, but it’s certainly true that I could land in any city and any state and get you whatever you wanted. Give me 24 hours or so, and I’ll know where to find it.” Okay, cool guy. Whatever, you say! This is not the first time in Brad Pitt’s 48-years that drug use became a thorn in his side. He blamed his drug use as one of the reasons why his first marriage to Jennifer Aniston failed. “I started to get sick of myself sitting on a couch, holding a joint, hiding out,” the Hollywood heartthrob admitted.
The drugs and drinking are not the only two components to Brangelina’s alleged shipwrecked relationship. According to the National Enquirer, Angelina is terrified that he might cheat on her, especially since his new television advertisement for Chanel No. 5 might have him paired up with “young, sexy model types.” Whilst we do not completely believe the drug use scandal, we do believe that Brad will always be tempted to cheat. He did it once before, so a second time won’t be any different. However, whether he will cheat on the most beautiful woman on the planet, is another question altogether. The source added fuel to the fire and said, “Her insecurity is nothing new, but her paranoia has ramped up lately because Brad has been somewhat distant. She’s always thinking he’s hiding something from her. She knows from first-hand experience that when Brad gets bored in a relationship, he looks for stimulation elsewhere.”
Who is to blame? Should Jolie take a chill pill and relax a bit? Should Pitt give her more attention? What is going on? Are these two headed for Splitsville? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
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Aksys Games Reveals Three New Titles for the PS Vita Summer Lineup!
8:49 PM March 21, 2018
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Just when you thought it was all over for Sony's handheld Aksys Games is out to remind you that it's still very much alive and kicking. The team plans to drop three new titles, Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly in April(27th), 7’scarlet in May(25th), and Psychedelica of the Ashen Hawk in June(29th).
Each game will include a collectible character card set inside the package, and fans who purchase all three titles can get an exclusive set of collector pins.
Only 1,000 sets of the enamel collector pins will be made, and are available on a first come, first served basis only to US residents by July 31, 2018. Customer must purchase either physical or digital copies of the three designated Summer of Mystery titles to qualify for the free bonus pin set. A small shipping and handling charge will be applied.
Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly, 7’scarlet, and Psychedelica of the Ashen Hawk are now available for pre-order for the PlayStation Vita.
Game Descriptions
In Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly, a girl wakes up in a mysterious mansion with no memory of who she is or how she got there, while in 7’scarlet, Ichiko visits a strange village to look for clues about her missing brother. The heroine of Psychedelica of the Ashen Hawk must find a treasure to bring peace to her town and unlock the mystery of her own past. A popular genre for young adults in Japan, otome (interactive fiction) games feature deep character development and engaging plots in which the player’s choices influence the storyline. Rich anime-style artwork and cinematics draw the reader further into the story as they create their own adventure each time they play the game.
More otome games for me?! Three of them!? Sign me right up!
They're all just around the corner too!
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About Rajasthan
With its vast expanses of sand sea and majestic forts and palaces that overlook shimmering lakes, Rajasthan is a land of regency, hospitality and breathtaking experiences. Formerly known as Rajputana, or the Land of Princes, it's historic landmarks and fortresses are reminiscent of the brave warriors who have earned this state its acclaim. Book your favourite from one of our several Rajasthan tour packages to experience the state's rich cultural heritage.
There is more to Rajasthan than the sun and sand let on – the Ranthambore jungle is known as the most reliable place in Asia to spot wild tigers, while the carved marble temples at Mt Abu are a sight for city-weary eyes. Rajasthan is best described as a land of stark contrasts, where extravagant luxury in the form of India’s best-known palace hotels is just as expected as the quaint villages and old world marketplaces. Our Rajasthan tour packages have been specifically designed to give you an insight into these contrasts.
The Lake City of Udaipur is a must visit, as is the majestic Aravali range, which is older than the Himalayas. The camel fair in Pushkar is an experience unlike any other, and sees more than 11,000 camels visit the area for about two weeks. Pushkar was built around a sacred lake, and is revered by locals as a sacred site. Another famous landmark is the blue city of Jodhpur, which is home to the best-preserved fort and largest palace in the country. The desert fort of Jaisalmer is the only fort in India to still be inhabited by villagers, while the exquisitely painted mansions or havelis of Shekhawati have led to this place being called India’s open air art gallery.
Don’t miss the small but impressive Keolado Ghana National Park, which has Asia’s largest variety of bird life. Shopping is one of Rajasthan’s most popular attractions as the state has a rich heritage of handicraft – developed over time owing to the indulgent patronage of the Rajput princes. Shop for an array of textiles, jewellery, art, rugs and pottery, available at a variety of price points, depending on where you look and how good your bargaining skills are.
However, Rajasthan’s most popular draw undeniably is being able to live like royalty, in the same premises that once housed eminent kings and queens. Many of the havelis and palaces have been transformed into luxury hotels and are still home to the aristocratic descendants of the properties’ former owners. Before you leave, make sure to capture all of Rajasthan in its old world splendour, on a hot air balloon ride that leads you over some of Rajasthan’s most imposing heritage sites.
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Rajasthan is a state that allows you to live like royalty, capture the romance of a bygone era and partake in a host of local activities. Whether you’re planning your honeymoon in Rajasthan or eager to set off on a bohemian holiday, make sure to first check out our range of Rajasthan tour packages to find an option that best suits your requirements.
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Rajasthan in photos
Culturally entrenched Rajasthanis have a swagger that is hard to miss. Colourful attires, vibrant streets, boastful moustaches, uncanny dances and elaborate crafts offer experiences that are unparalleled. Every corner of Rajasthan offers you a unique taste. Dal bati, laal maas, ker sangri, gatte ki khichdi, kachori, namkeen, mohanthaal, ghevar - the drool list is as long as the province itself.
Thar desert, Jaisalmer
Rajsthani mojari
Rajasthan's traditional thali
Jaswant Thada mausoleum, Jodhpur
Gadi Sagar lake, Jaisalmer
Best time to visit Rajasthan
Find out the best time to visit Rajasthan
The best time to visit Rajasthan is in the winter season, when the state experiences summer that is relatively less harsh. Considering the ease of travel for tourists, October to March is the time when most of the desert festivals are planned. However, if Mt. Abu is on your mind, then visiting between May and July provides rewarding views of green-dotted hills.
Do bear in mind that since Rajasthan is primarily a desert state, it experiences extreme climatic conditions. With hot days and cold nights, you’d have to prepare yourself for both the seasons.
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Air: Jaipur, Jodhpur and Udaipur feature airports that are linked to major Indian cities, including Delhi and Mumbai
Railway: Overnight trains such as the Shatabdi and the Rajdhani connect you from Delhi and Mumbai to Rajasthan’s major cities. Certain, more remote destinations like Jaisalmer will require a second train trip within the state. Else, you can travel like royalty – a week-long luxury train ride through Rajasthan, which lets you explore the best sites while ensconced in the splendour of a bygone era.
Road: The Indian metros of Delhi and Mumbai are connected to Rajasthan by way of the National Highway 8. Driving from Delhi to Jaipur is especially enjoyable as the roads are in excellent condition – the drive takes roughly four hours – and the sights are glorious.
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November 20, 2012 | By Lisa Terry
Tags: Air Cargo, Trucking, Expedited Shipping
Once cost-prohibitive for all but the most time-sensitive rush deliveries, today's expedited services help shippers balance their need for speed with cost-effective solutions.
Speeding Cell Phones to Market
Kencoil Counts on Next Flight Out
Celebrating Expediency
Delivery windows may vary, but expedited transportation providers serve a host of shippers whose need for speed renders regular, scheduled services inadequate. While the word expedited may bring to mind urgent, last-minute transportation, shippers often are turning to expedited service as part of their supply chain strategy, and not just because of their products' properties.
Expedited service is increasingly acting as a supply chain problem-solver. Its ability to deliver benefits such as lowering inventory carrying costs and adding flexibility to production planning can sometimes negate the higher cost. Logistics service providers are enabling this trend by creating a range of new options, from expedited ocean to two-driver ground services. "Any solution that cuts the transit time from origin to destination is an expedited business model," says Cameron Holzer, president of team-driver truckload carrier CRST Expedited, based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Traditionally, certain industries were established users of expedited services because they ship perishable items such as fresh fish, pharmaceuticals, and medical tissue samples. Critical documents and parts are also sometimes considered urgent.
Cell phone sales are all about the latest technology. Even when a particular model fails to catch on with the customers of major carriers such as AT&T and Verizon, distributors snatch up leftover lots from the manufacturer or carrier and sell the phones to others—typically smaller carriers serving rural regions. But before they can re-enter the market, the phones need new software, branding, and packaging.
That's where Conversa Solutions comes in. The four-year-old Auburn Hills, Mich., company performs those services on the distributor's behalf, then ships the phones directly to the distributor's customers, such as rural carriers. Time is of the essence. "Rural carriers are eager to get the latest Verizon technology, even if it is six months old," says Robert Reed, Conversa CEO and president.
Conversa plans its operations to perform much of the work early in the week, then turns shipments over to YRC Freight's Time-Critical Service. Because the service moves on weekends, it can pick up shipments on Friday, then deliver them on Monday to many of Conversa's customers.
For those farther away, Conversa aims to ship on Thursday for Monday delivery. "Our customers are often surprised when they receive shipments the next business day," Reed says. The cost is comparable to regular LTL service, and much less than the second-day air otherwise required to meet those parameters.
Because the shipments are high-value, Conversa works with YRC to meet customers' security requests, from palletizing and black shrink-wrapping, to dividing out trailers and locking down shipments until the customer breaks the seal.
Productivity takes a huge hit when machinery goes down. That's why industries such as electric power generation, petrochemical refining, and paper and pulp depend on Kencoil, Belle Chasse, La., to quickly manufacture custom electric motor coils that get equipment back in action. And that's why Kencoil relies on expedited shipping—typically air—to move those coils to customers as fast as possible.
"We run 24/7," says Derrick Gervais, Kencoil's materials supervisor. "If a shipment is ready at 3 a.m., we take it to the airport."
Kencoil, which serves manufacturing and repair facilities across the United States, as well as in Central and South America, includes in its fees the cost of shipping to the closest major airport, where customers either meet the flight or arrange courier service to their facilities. That makes it critical that customers have full visibility to their shipments; no one wants to wait at the airport for hours.
"Customer expectations about shipment tracking have increased," Gervais says. "They need to know their shipment status so they can line up a crew, even late at night."
Speed, reliability, and careful handling are also essential to deliver the heavy, but delicate, copper coils to their destinations. Kencoil typically relies on passenger airlines, primarily Southwest Airlines Cargo. To accommodate the carrier's 200-pound-per-carton weight limit, Kencoil breaks orders into multiple packages, and surrounds the coils with spray foam and tubes to protect them during transit.
That protective packaging makes shipment tracking all the more challenging. Because a single order may comprise as many as six cartons, a shipment could be divided among routes.
Gervais credits Southwest with adapting quickly to meet these types of shipping challenges. "Build relationships with the expedited carriers you use," he advises. "Know their processes and limitations. The more your carrier understands, the better it can meet your needs."
Creating excitement around its product line lies at the core of direct-seller Celebrating Home's business model. The company unveils a new catalog two to three times each year. When its 40,000 independent agents' sales events begin, it is critical to get products to customers as quickly as possible. The company promises to deliver products within nine days of ordering.
Each catalog issued by Marshall, Texas-based Celebrating Home features about 750 products, from small furniture to in-home décor items, sourced from a variety of suppliers throughout Asia. The company primarily ships full containerloads of new products to its 600,000-square-foot distribution center in Marshall two to three months before a new catalog launches. It then ships all products directly to customers.
As it was preparing for a recent sales rally in Dallas, Celebrating Home needed 10 samples of about 50 new products, coming from 15 to 20 different manufacturers in Asia. The company decided to try the new UPS Preferred LCL service.
"In the past, we were forced to ship these products via air freight to receive them in time," says Tom Walburgh, former director of supply chain management for Celebrating Home. "In this case, UPS Preferred LCL fit our needs because we were shipping smaller quantities, not full containers. Additionally, we were working under a tighter timeframe than usual—but not so tight that we needed to use air freight."
UPS collected the shipments directly from vendors, transported them to the port, and ultimately delivered them to Celebrating Home's corporate office. The items arrived in three weeks, versus the four it would have taken via standard service, at an estimated 50- to 75-percent savings over air freight.
"Going forward, we are examining the continual use of Preferred LCL for items that need to be expedited, but do not require the speed of air freight," Wallburgh says. "This could prove particularly useful for products that sell better than anticipated and require restocking in a hurry."
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Company name: Currencies Direct LTD
Service description: Bank to bank international money transfers.
Website address: www.currenciesdirect.com
Website Languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Chinese and Japanese.
Review Summary: Just 11 years after opening, Currencies Direct was given the accolade of being on the “London Sunday Times Fast Track 100” list, which showcases businesses that are on the cusp of becoming some of the biggest players in the field. A year after that, in 2006, the company was up for the National Business Award and reached the finals. Adding even more to its impressive resume, Currencies Direct partnered with national banks in Spain in 2012 to offer additional ease of opening accounts. Shortly after that, the World Economic Forum named it a “Global Growth Company” due to its expanse of 23 offices across the world.
Recommendation: An industry leader with a diverse offering. Recommended for transfers of all sizes, from and to anywhere in the world.
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Currencies Direct Fees:
What fees?! There are no fees when making an online transfer with Currencies Direct, no matter the country you need to send to. This benefit alone is one of the reasons why more and more people stop using banks for their money transfer needs.
Special cases might come up where there is a need for a transfer to be assisted by telephone, for example if the money needs to go to a very exotic country. Note that some countries have certain taxes that need to be paid to process the transfer. 90% of the transactions are free!
Let’s see how they compare with other firms:
UK to USA
USD 100,000.00
GBP 77,683.35
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USA to Europe
EUR 100,000.00
Europe to Australia
AUD 100,000.00
EUR 62,667.96
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Currencies Direct Supported Currencies:
The company offers fee-free transfers on over 60 currencies. If you can’t find the currency pairing of your choice online or if you would like more information about it, do not hesitate to contact them. Below we will show just a sample of the most used currencies they support.
AED – UAE Dirham
AUD – Australian Dollars
BHD – Bahraini Dinar
BWP – Botswanan Pula
DKK – Danish Krone
FJD – Fijian Dollar
HKD – Hong Kong Dollar
HRK – Croatian Kuna
ILS – Israeli New Sheqel
JPY – Japanese Yen
KES – Kenyan Shilling
KWD – Kuwaiti Dinar
LTL – Lithuanian Litas
MUR – Mauritian Rupee
MXN – Mexican Peso
NOK – Norwegian Krone
NZD – New Zealand Dollar
OMR – Omani Rial
PHP – Philippine Peso
PLN – Polish Zloty
QAR – Qatari Rial
RUB – Russian Rouble
SAR – Saudi Riyal
SGD – Singapore Dollar
THB – Thai Bhat
TND – Tunisian Dinar
USD – United States Dollars
ZAR – South African Rand
Currencies Direct is a prime contender in the domain of international money transfers. This is not yet another London-based FX firm, but a massive award-winning company which has Anthony Jenkins heading its board of directors (Anthony Jenkins was Barclay’s CEO, and he is currently serving as a member of Visa’s board). The company handles more than £5bn annually with tens of thousands of clients, both private clients, and small businesses.
Currencies Direct has one of the biggest and best distribution of local offices in the market. It has offices in the UK, Spain, Portugal, South Africa, India, China, Canada, and the USA. Having coverage on four continents gives the company the ability to satisfy the requirements of all its customers while being able to provide a great service worldwide.
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Currencies Direct abide by the FCA and HMRC guidelines and their code of ethics, so you can rest assured that your money will be safe and, if necessary, you can also keep your money in a segregated account. Here we will list all the regulatory information about the company in every country and state they provide services.
Currencies Direct Ltd, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AA, United Kingdom. Registered in England & Wales, No.: 03041197. Currencies Direct Ltd is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority as an Electronic Money Institution under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011. Our FCA Firm Reference number is 900669.
Currencies Direct ltd is authorised by the ACPR to provide cross-border services as a payment institution in France.
Currencies Direct is an authorised Financial Services Provider (FSP – 43493) regulated by the Financial Services Board (FSB) and a Primary Accountable Institution registered with the Financial Intelligence Centre Act, under reference number AI/120106/0000.
Currencies Direct Inc. is registered at federal level with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”), a bureau of the U.S. Department of Treasury, as a Money Services Business. In addition Currencies Direct, Inc. is licensed as a Money Transmitter in Florida by the Office of Financial Regulation, in Georgia by the Department of Banking and Finance and in North Carolina by the Office of the Commissioner of banks.
Currencies Direct (Canada) Inc/ Devices Directes (Canada) Inc is registered with the Financial Transactions and Report Centre of Canada (Registration No. M08690900) to operate a money services business in Canada. Currencies Direct (Canada) Inc./ Devices Directes (Canada) Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Currencies Direct Limited, a company authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom as a e-money service provider.
Currencies Direct Inc./ Devices Directes (Canada) Inc. is a New Brunswick corporation with its registered office located at 44 Chipman Hill, Suite 1020, Saint John, New Brunswick E2L 2A9.
Authorised by the Bank of Spain to operate as a Foreign Branch of an European Community Electronic Money Institution with registration number 6711.
USA licensing information
Florida – Money Transmitter License Number FT230000149.
Georgia – Sale of Check or Money Transmitter License ID 23367.
New Jersey – Money Transmitter License # L070530.
North Carolina – Money Transmitter License Number 161747.
Washington – Money Transmitter License #550-MT-117489.
Start doing your transactions with the help of the Currencies Direct mobile app for Android and iOS. Here are some of the features of the app:
Transferring money easy, secure, and with the touch of a button.
The ‘Rate Alerts’ option allows you to be notified when your currency reaches your desired exchange rate.
You can keep multiple balances in multiple currencies. Each currency has a defined wallet.
Touch ID for easy access and security.
Manage recipients and payments methods with ease.
Press and Awards:
Recognition is important to anyone but especially for those that provide a good service which you believe will really help the customer. The same mentality has allowed Currencies Direct to win big awards and earn appreciation from the biggest institutions in this sector.
National Business Awards Finalists, 2006
Fast Growth Business Awards Finalists, 2007
Highest Possible Credit Rating (level 1) from Dun & Bradstreet, 2010
2016 MoneyAge ‘Money transfer provider of the year’ award
2017 MoneyAge ‘Consumer Champion of the Year’ award
If you want to be kept updated, be sure to read their News section or their social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
The registration process with Currencies Direct consists of 3 easy steps. You will complete the online registration in no time, after which a Currencies Direct specialist will call you to finalize the process.
The first step will be to decide which type of account you want: Personal, Business or Online Seller. For this tutorial we will choose the Personal account.
Next window will ask for your email address and to create a password.
The next step will require you to fill in the personal details as with any other account on any given platform. Details such as: your full name, full address, date or birth and so on.
Here you will need to provide your phone number and insert the PIN received as a SMS.
The last step requires uploading ID and proof of address for the company to validate your account. You can start making transfers until you provide the required documents. After that, you are ready to go.
If you want to be updated with all the currency fluctuations and snatch a great deal on foreign currencies or if you are interested in investing and making a profit, be sure to check their News section. They publish articles multiple times per day.
You can also get this information in video form because they update their Youtube channel constantly, as you can see from the publishing dates in the picture below:
Currencies Direct – Executive Review Summary
Is Currencies Direct reliable? Is it safe? Should I be using or even bother giving it a try? The answer to that is a definite “yes”. Currencies Direct is one of the world’s most well-known money transfer companies with an extensive presence across the globe, which undergoes very strict regulation and has been moving billions of pounds every year. It is a friendly not-only-for-experts firm with a great online platform, easy registration funnel, and a comprehensive app. That, together with Currencies Direct’s money transfer staff, makes it a great choice for every purpose relating to transferring money abroad or receiving it from abroad.
Try Currencies Direct for Free!
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Home › News & Media › Business News › Optimism Key to Attracting FDI, Panel Hears
Optimism Key to Attracting FDI, Panel Hears
Ljubljana, 21 September (STA) - There is too much pessimism and too little cooperation in Slovenia, the participants of the FDI Summit 2012 panel dedicated to finding answers to global challenges emphasised on Friday. They pointed to stability, consistency and cooperation as key conditions for Slovenia's success in attracting foreign direct investment.
"We all know what needs to be done. But instead of looking for solutions to the problems Slovenia is facing, many in Slovenia rather invest their energies in finding reasons why something is not possible and why some ideas are wrong," parliament Speaker Gregor Virant told the panel.
He believes Slovenia's first priority should be to recover its image of being a reliable state. "To do that, we need political stability," he said, urging lawmakers to avoid re-opening ideological issues and question of the past. He urged prudence in what messages are sent to Slovenia's international partners.
He also pointed to Slovenia's efforts on fiscal consolidation. He believes that a constitutional-level fiscal rule may not be required as long as the state is devoted to financial discipline.
That pessimism can be the biggest problem was also underlined by Donald Plusquellic, mayor of City of Akron in Ohio, US. "We went thought a similar type of problem. We thought of ourselves of invincible in some way but suddenly the word changed and we had to reinvent ourselves," he said.
"Changing the attitude is one of the most important things," he stressed, adding that crucial decision must be spearheaded by smaller groups of people. "You can't wait for everyone," he stressed.
Turning to the interest of investors, Plusquellic said that the first thing the business community needs to see is consistency. "When they invest, they must know that just like other businesses...that they get the same result as everybody else does," he stressed. He also urged Slovenia to invest into the young generations.
Direct marketing company Studio Moderna CEO Sandi Češko stressed Slovenia's main advantages are the enthusiastic and competitive people and entrepreneurs in numbers of which Slovenia "for sure is in the top per capita".
But he warned that too many of Slovenians are socialised and educated into believing that "we are a small nation". This is something you rarely hear that from people in other countries, he pointed out, adding there is no reason for pessimism.
Challenged with an opportunity to become a prime minister for one day, Češko said he would invite representatives of successful Slovenian companies and simply listen. He added however that "what the companies can produce, the political parties can destroy even faster".
Jeremy Glenn, futurist and director of the Millennium Project, a US think-tank, meanwhile pointed to massive changes in the last 25 years, stressing that the changes are accelerating exponentially.
"We're moving into an era when intelligence is the moving force," he said, urging Slovenia to become the first country to implement a collective intelligence system as a national priority. He also presented other solutions offered by the Millennium Project.
Asked what his advice for Slovenia would be, Glenn told the panel to imagine a country which is a synthesis of the style of Italy and the management of Austria and Germany. "That would make a nice synthesis," he stressed, urging the country to also seek new synergies.
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Home › News & Media › Business News › Tušmobil Issues EUR 5M Bond
Tušmobil Issues EUR 5M Bond
Ljubljana, 09 July (STA) - Tušmobil, the telecommunications arm of the privately-held Tuš Holding, last week completed a EUR 5m issue of a two year-bond at a coupon rate of 6.5%, business daily Finance reported on Tuesday.
The money will be used to pay off debt to the biggest creditor, the telecoms incumbent Telekom Slovenije, which stems from interconnection fees.
The company's director Gregor Štampohar described the move as "a landmark" for Tušmobil, indicating that the bondholders have recognised the company has achieved a turnaround.
According to Finance, Tušmobil has so far been considered an albatross of the group, which derives the bulk of revenue from its retail arm, Tuš.
But the company has recently started growing , adding 30,000 subscribers in the year to June and increasing its market share of mobile telephony services by a percentage point to 11.3%.
The company, whose workforce dropped to 191 from 234 four years ago, posted sales of EUR 72.2m last year and earnings before income tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of EUR 9.2m. It did not disclose the net outcome.
Tušmobil plans to floats the newly issued bonds on the Ljubljana Stock Exchange, which will also require the secretive company to be more forthcoming about its disclosures.
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PGNiG Obrót Detaliczny orders Asseco Poland's Central Billing System
PGNiG Obrót Detaliczny has concluded an agreement with Asseco Poland for the development and implementation of the Central Billing System (CSB). The solution will improve the quality and shorten the time of service for...
Asseco strengthens its position in the power industry – Spanish Tecsisa joins the Group
Asseco has acquired a 51% stake in the Spanish company Tecsisa, which provides IT solutions for the power sector. It currently operates in Spain, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru and Argentina and has growth prospects in other...
Asseco will develop billing systems in the PGE Group
Asseco has signed an agreement with PGE Dystrybucja and PGE Systemy for the provision of maintenance and development services for the billing systems HandelMax and EnergOS. The total value of the contracts amounts to PLN...
Asseco and Oracle join forces in the power industry
Asseco Poland and Oracle Corporation have concluded an agreement under which Asseco's state-of-the-art applications for the utilities sector will be sold in the Oracle cloud. The solutions from the Asseco Utility...
The Asseco 3600 solutions for the power industry at „E-world Energy &Water”
At this year's „E-world Energy &Water” trade fair in Essen, the Asseco Group will present its latest solutions for the power sector. Asseco Poland's and Asseco BERIT's experts will present, among others, software for...
Asseco presented its new range of systems at the European Utility Week in Vienna
During the international trade fair European Utility Week in Vienna, which took place on November 6-8, 2018, Asseco's experts presented the latest solutions for the power sector from the AUMS and SAMO lines. The event...
Asseco will launch an information system on the power grid in Hamburg
Asseco will provide an integrated power grid information system (iNIS) for Stromnetz Hamburg - the second-largest operator of the municipal energy distribution network in Germany. The implementation will be based on the...
Asseco will implement AUMS Digital in the largest Serbian energy company
The quality of customer service is one of the key factors which determines the competitive advantage of companies, also from the energy sector. Creating positive experiences, taking care of details in contact with...
Asseco and velcom at the Water&Heat trade fair in Minsk
On April 3-6, 2018, Asseco Poland and telecom-operator velcom from the Austria Telekom Group will take part in the international Water&Heat trade fair, which will be held in Minsk, Belarus. The event is addressed to...
Asseco at the "E-world Energy & Water" trade fair in Germany
On February 6-8 2018, at the "E-world Energy & Water" trade fair in Essen, the Asseco Group will present its newest offer of IT solutions for the utility sector. Experts from Asseco Poland and Asseco BERIT will discuss...
Asseco strengthens its presence in Bydgoszcz
Asseco Poland, the largest Polish software producer, is strengthening its presence in Bydgoszcz. The Asseco's team will soon move to a larger office, which will be located in the modern Arkada Business Park complex at 2...
Development of Asseco Innovation Hub in Rzeszów underway
Artificial intelligence, telemedicine, electromobility, Internet of Things and control systems for drones are just some of the areas that will be developed in Asseco Innovation Hub. It is an innovative R&D centre of the...
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College Handbook » IX. Administrator Recruitment
Chair Recruitment
Search Committee Procedures for Chairs
Interviews of Chair Candidates
Chair Compensation and Workload
Search committees for college chairs and directors follow the university guidelines for academic appointments.
Generally, as with all searches for faculty positions at UNC Charlotte, the search for a department chair will be as broad as resources permit. Thus, the initial step on the occasion of a vacancy or impending vacancy will be for the dean of the college, in consultation with the department involved, to determine whether or not a position is available to permit an unrestricted search or whether the new chairperson is to be appointed from among those already holding appointments on the UNC Charlotte faculty.
In some circumstances, the Dean may recommend to the Provost and the Chancellor that an Acting or Interim Chairperson be appointed in order to provide opportunity for a thorough search. Such appointments ordinarily would be for a period of less than one year, but, in unusual cases, could be renewed.
Guidelines for the Initial Appointment of a Department Chair
Search Committee Fundamentals for Faculty Members
The appointment of department chairpersons is a shared responsibility of faculty and the University administration. In order to protect and preserve the interests and prerogatives of faculty and administration in the appointment of department chairpersons, the following procedures should be followed in all chairperson searches within the College of Arts and Sciences.
The initial responsibility of the department is to determine with the Dean whether the new chairperson is to be appointed from among those already holding appointments to the university faculty or whether an unrestricted search will be conducted.
Departmental Search and Screen Committees will be composed of five to seven members, with a majority appointed from the department faculty seeking the chairperson and at least two from outside the department. The Departmental faculty seeking the chairperson should provide the Dean with a sufficient number of names of faculty members, both inside and outside the department, to insure that the Committee will be appropriately represented. The Dean will appoint the Search and Screen Committee from those nominated by the department. In those cases for which this procedure is judged by the Dean to be inappropriate (as, for example, in the case of a very small department) the Dean of the College, the department faculty, and the Vice Chancellor for Academic affairs must agree to an alternate procedure.
The Chairperson of the Search and Screen Committee will be selected by the members of the Committee from its membership.
All work of the Committee, including its discussions, correspondence, and consultation with the departmental faculty will be considered confidential personnel matters and all rights of privacy will be respected. The Committee and departmental faculty, prior to the initiation of the search, will establish its procedures for monitoring appropriate confidentiality.
As a general rule, the operation of the search, typing letters, assembling records, circulating credentials, and arranging meetings will be conducted under the direction of the Chairperson of the Committee by staff within the Dean’s Office.
Following completion of its work, the Committee should submit to the Dean the names of two or three candidates for departmental chairperson, all of whom are qualified to meet the responsibility of the position and are acceptable to the faculty of the department. If the Committee deems it beneficial to the decision-making process, it may list acceptable candidates in order of priority, expressing the degree of preference.
If the Dean is in agreement with the Search Committee and departmental faculty as to the acceptability of the recommended candidates, the Dean will forward his/her recommendation to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and the Chancellor. If the Dean is not in agreement with the recommendation of the Committee and departmental faculty as to the acceptability of the candidates, he/she will request the Committee to provide additional candidates.
The Chancellor, on approval by the Board of Trustees, will appoint the department chairperson to three-year terms. Reappointment to subsequent terms does not require a search process. A recommendation for the reappointment of non-reappointment of a departmental chairperson will be submitted by the Dean to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs after consulting with departmental faculty and receiving a formal recommendation from them.
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COAS Search Committee Procedures for Chairs (Revised 1984) View
This process is a recruitment process. We are interested in attracting the best candidates to our campus. Consequently, Departments should not “air dirty laundry.” Candidates should be treated professionally at all times. Candidates should feel, at the end of the visit which the Department of XXXXX at UNC Charlotte would be the best place for them to do the work they want to do.
The visit should last two days, with the candidate arriving the night before the first day. Prior to the visit, the candidate should have received an itinerary or a draft itinerary of the visit. The finalized itinerary should be given to the candidate immediately on his/her arrival.
Departments should prepare a packet of information about the Department and send this information to the candidate prior to his/her visit. Departments should consult with the Dean about appropriate materials that should be included from the Dean’s Office and from the University.
The candidate should be met at the airport and escorted to the hotel. After that the candidate should be escorted from one meeting to the next. AT NO TIME SHOULD THE CANDIDATE BE EXPECTED TO FIND HER/HIS WAY FROM ONE MEETING TO ANOTHER. THIS IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT IF THE CANDIDATE NEEDS TO WALK FROM ONE BUILDING TO ANOTHER. This policy includes internal candidates.
Departments should be sure that the candidates meet all relevant university personnel, both within the Department and outside. This is especially important for faculty members who do interdisciplinary work.
One of the lunches will be a boxed lunch in the Dean’s Office for the chairs and directors in the College. The Dean’s Office staff will handle the logistics for this lunch.
At minimum, the candidate should be scheduled to meet with the following people:
Sitting Chair of the Department
Other Chairs and Directors (brown bag lunch in the Dean’s Office, see #6)
Dean’s Office executive staff and dean
At least one week prior to the visit, the Department should send to the Dean’s Office the job ad, the candidate’s application letter, the candidate’s cv, and the letters of recommendation. All these documents, except for the letters can be sent electronically. Please send them to the Dean’s administrative assistant, unless advised differently.
At the beginning of the two-day visit, a first meeting should be scheduled that will include the Dean’s Office executive staff. This meeting should last one and a half hours. The candidate should be provided an organization chart of the college (to be provided by the Dean’s Executive Assistant). At the end of the two-day interview, an exit interview of one hour should be scheduled with the dean.
The Provost (Please send the same materials to the Provost as has been sent to the Dean.)
Undergraduate and graduate students, as appropriate
Department faculty: in both small and large groups
Other university units: sponsored programs, international programs, etc., depending on the area.
Faculty or administrators from other units in the university who will be colleagues of the candidate (see #5)
Other experiences that might be included in the visit: Campus tour Tour of the city Meeting with a realtor Visits to local schools Community members Other?
Candidates should not be asked to pay for meals during the campus visit. Sometimes reimbursement for meals is qualified by the Travel Office, and resolving this kind of issue can be complicated. In any case, professional courtesy is better shown by covering the candidate’s expenses during his/her visit. (Travel and hotel receipts are ok for the candidate to submit.)
The candidate should give at least one public presentation for the Department and interested non-Departmental faculty. The presentation should address the qualifications the candidate brings to the position of Chair of the Department. There should be time for Q&A.
The Search Committee should get input from all constituencies and provide a final recommendation to the Dean. The search committee should also provide all the raw data to the Dean. Comments need not be signed, but everyone should be encouraged to do so.
Protocol for Campus Visits by Chair Candidates (Revised March 2012) View
Guidelines for the Establishment of Compensation and Workload for Department Chairs
The Dean and the Chair negotiate length of appointment, teaching responsibilities, and compensation at the time of appointment.
College recruitment of directors for college programs and centers generally follow the guidelines outlined for recruitment of department chairs.
The Dean and the Director negotiate length of appointment, teaching responsibilities, and compensation at the time of appointment.
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Home » HPC Hardware » Compute » ISC 2016 Keynote to Showcase Women’s Excellence in Computational Science
ISC 2016 Keynote to Showcase Women’s Excellence in Computational Science
Dr. Jacqueline H. Chen, Sandia
Today the ISC 2016 conference announced that their Tuesday keynote session will highlight contributions from female researchers and scientists in advancing the field of computational science. This ongoing commitment to recognize the importance of diversity in the HPC community will provide a platform for women to address computational challenges in HPC, science and engineering.
This year, Dr. Jacqueline H. Chen, a distinguished member of technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, has been invited to keynote on Tuesday, June 21, on the topic of advancing the science of turbulent combustion using petascale and exascale simulations. In addition to her position at Sandia, Dr. Chen is also the founding Director of the Center for Exascale Simulation of Combustion in Turbulence (ExaCT) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Combustion Institute. She has contributed broadly to research in petascale direct numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulent combustion focusing on fundamental turbulence-chemistry interactions.
In her keynote abstract, Dr. Chen reveals that high-fidelity combustion simulations are needed to provide the underlying science base required to develop more accurate predictive combustion models, which will be used to design more fuel-efficient, cleaner-burning vehicles, planes, and power plants. However, the most sophisticated combustion simulations can only be carried out on future exascale supercomputers, which, in the US, are being initially developed for large government agencies, like the Department of Energy (DOE). In her talk, Dr. Chen will review the current state of petascale turbulent combustion simulation, followed by a discussion of next-generation simulation for these exascale systems.
“With exascale computing, long-standing combustion science challenges related to advanced gas turbines and reciprocating engines can be addressed with high fidelity combustion simulation. The DOE Exascale Computing Program will enable the full spectrum of physics and latency-hiding asynchronous programming paradigms to be incorporated in combustion simulations optimized for multi-core hybrid architecture,” remarked Dr. Chen.
Last year, China’s rising star in HPC, Professor Dr. Yutong Lu, delivered a remarkable keynote about applications able to take advantage of top tier supercomputing systems. She discussed the key issues of application scalability for advanced HPC systems in the post-petascale era. Dr. Lu is the Director for System Software Laboratory at the School of Computer Science at the National University of Defense Technology, China, and was the Director Designer for the Tianhe-1A and Tianhe-2 systems.
We are always very excited about introducing HPC experts from diverse backgrounds to our conference, community and industry. Now with a prominent platform for women at our conference, we hope community members will come forward to suggest talented speakers to our program committee,” said ISC High Performance general co-chair, Martin Meuer.
ISC 2016 takes place June 19-23 in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Data Center Transformation: Why a Workload-Driven and Scalable Architecture Matters
In this whitepaper QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology) highlights Data Center Transformation: Why a Workload-Driven and Scalable Architecture Matters. The company is offering its QCT Platform on Demand (QCT POD) solution that empowers enterprises to kickstart their transformation journey. It combines advanced technology with a unique user experience to help enterprises reach better performance and gain more insights. With flexibility and scalability, QCT POD enables enterprises to address a broader range of HPC, Deep Learning, and Data Analytic demands that fulfill various applications.
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The Co-Founder of Anima on the Future of the Design to Developer Handoff
Anima is one of the most popular 3rd-party plugins available within Sketch. It allows designers to quickly generate responsive, interactive prototypes from Sketch art boards and then easily share with collaborators. As it stands, Anima can arguably replace other services like InVision and Zeplin from your current workflow. But what’s most exciting is that this is just the start of what’s to come.
We sat down with co-founder, Or Arbel, to discuss the long term vision for Anima and where he sees the roles of UX designers and developers shifting over time.
Can you explain what Anima is and who it is intended for?
Anima is a product for designers that wish they could express and communicate UX in a better way. Anima Toolkit is a Sketch plugin that enables designers to build high-fidelity prototypes. High-fidelity prototypes are responsive and interactive and are code-based. Low-fidelity prototypes, which are based on screenshots with hotspots, are great to convey user flows, but not so much for conveying amazing user experience. Designers create a whole experience in their mind but are limited in what they can deliver in terms of today’s tools. Anima aims to solve this by empowering designers to deliver their vision without being dependent on developers.
What is the long-term vision for Anima?
Our long-term vision is to automate front-end development. By empowering designers to express every aspect of their vision, we can then take that information and convert it into code. Today this code is for prototyping purposes, but in the future, we aim to make the process produce production-ready code. Specifically, our product will allow teams to build a design system with coded components in a streamlined way.
What motivated you to create Anima? Where did you see opportunity areas to refine the typical design workflow?
My co-founder and I have been working in and managing startup teams for 10 years. As engineers by trade, we’ve always had this problem of receiving design specs and converting them into code. The process today is very inefficient. Red-lines design specs miss a lot of information which leads to guesswork. We’ve discovered an opportunity to end the guesswork by enabling designers to be intentional and specify everything. Artifacts like micro-interactions and responsive layouts which up until now would be conveyed by waving hands could now be conveyed with code.
How do you see the responsibilities of the front-end developer evolving as Anima streamlines the design-to-code process? How about the responsibilities of the designer?
Front-end developers today are spending a lot of their time glaring at a picture, trying to understand what the designer meant, and then writing code for it. If you think about it, they essentially are translators. They translate instructions written in pixels into code. As an engineer that was doing that kind of work, I can tell you that this part of the job wasn’t the fun part. It’s basically grunt work. The movement of component-based development, led by React and adopted by Angular and Vue, has created a great opportunity for us. With Sketch innovations like Symbols and our enhancements like Stacks and Padding, designers build a design system, and as Anima evolves it will be able to generate code components in React/Angular/Vue or other formats. This will allow front-end developers to spend much less time on grunt work of translating pixels to code and instead become front-end architects who assemble the components into a system. Also, it will free up their time to work on complex interactions which automated software cannot generate.
The flip side of this is that designers now have way more responsibility. As Spider Man’s father said, “with great power, comes great responsibility”. Our goal is that UX designers will own user experience. That means that everything that is under the “User-Experience” umbrella is under the UX designer responsibility.
Accessibility is a critical objective when we work with our clients, especially within the healthcare industry. Can you expand a bit about how UX designers can create more accessible designs within Sketch using Anima?
Although we do not have this feature today, basic accessibility standards like adding alt tags and indicating skip links can and should be done within the designs themselves. Similar to what I was saying before, if we can eliminate all of the grunt work developers currently endure and have these determined prior to handoff, it will allow for the developers to focus on more complex interactions.
Effectively building and maintaining component-based design systems is a recurring challenge our clients are trying to conquer. How can Anima help?
Design systems are a great way to have a consistent, robust and scalable design-to-code process. Sketch introduced Symbols and Libraries, which have made designers start to think more like developers. Anima introduced Stacks and Padding which make symbols adapt to their content and become responsive. The secret behind Stacks is that they are an abstraction of the awesome CSS Flexbox concept. When you use Stacks in your symbols, we can take those symbols and convert them into a responsive code component. If you take that idea and apply it to other code concepts, you can start seeing how generating complete design systems becomes a reality.
For teams who have a design routine in place, what questions should they be asking themselves in terms of improving their workflow?
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When Everything Feels Like a Dream | Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder
Thanks to CuriosityStream for supporting this
episode! Go to CuriosityStream.com/Psych to learn more. [ ♪INTRO ] When you’re dreaming, things normally don’t
feel all that tangible. Like, you can pick up your phone or a trophy
or a puppy-sized elephant, and it won’t feel as solid as those things would in the
real world. But then, when you wake up and grab your phone
to turn off the alarm, everything goes back to normal. There’s nothing to suggest your phone isn’t
real, or that the hands you use to touch it don’t belong to you. That is… usually. Sometimes, even when we’re awake, our brains
decide it might be in our best interest for our environment, or even our bodies, to just…
not feel real for a while. And this isn’t a rare thing, either. It’s actually a super common experience. But when it sticks around for longer than
it should, it can merit its own diagnosis. This condition is called depersonalization-derealization
disorder, and it’s sometimes abbreviated as DDD. According to the DSM-5, which psychologists
use to diagnose disorders, the name of this condition is pretty descriptive. DDD is defined by persistent or frequent episodes
of depersonalization and/or derealization. Depersonalization is the feeling that your
body, thoughts, sensations, or actions aren’t your own, or aren’t even real — even though
you logically know they are. Derealization is a similar feeling, but it’s
about your surroundings and the things in them. Some people say that experiencing these things
is like having a glass wall between themselves and the world. For others, everything might feel far away
and dream-like, or it might feel like their head is stuffed with cotton. Regardless of what they feel like, though,
these symptoms aren’t actually uncommon. Experiences of depersonalization or derealization
are thought to be the third most common mental health symptom after anxiety and low mood,
and they occur equally in men and women. But when these experiences don’t go away,
that’s where DDD comes in. And that is much rarer: It’s estimated to
occur in only around 1-2% of people. Unfortunately, the factors that lead to its
development and trigger the symptoms are still fairly unknown. It’s often associated with cannabis usage,
but there are plenty of purely psychological causes, too. For example, some research has suggested that
childhood trauma could play a role in developing DDD later in life, especially when that trauma
involves emotional mistreatment. Anecdotally, many people have also reported
that their symptoms are related to periods of extreme stress or anxiety. That’s led some scientists to believe that
depersonalization and derealization are mechanisms the brain uses to protect the mind from potential
threats. But even if they can’t say what specifically
triggers these episodes, they are recognizing some general patterns. Research from 2018 in the journal Consciousness
and Cognition found that certain types of triggers were more likely to induce either
depersonalization or derealization. In the study, they tested 73 participants
who were prone to one of these things, trying to find out if their symptoms would kick in
in response to different kinds of threats. To do this, they performed something called
the Implied Body-Threat Illusion task, which was a simulated blood-test procedure. In it, the researchers don’t actually draw
blood, but they used fake needles and special effect blood to make it look like they did. Everything was pretty realistic, because the
point was to see how participants responded physiologically to threats. First, participants had this procedure done
to them alone. Then, they witnessed it being performed on
a person sitting next to them. The whole time, the researchers were measuring
their temperature and how their skin conducted electricity, also called skin conductance. That might sound like a weird thing to test,
but it’s partly because being threatened makes us sweat, and water is a good conductor. When the scientists looked at the data, they
found that those predisposed to depersonalization showed normal skin conductance when someone
else got a blood test, but decreased conductance when someone was about to perform a test on
them. That likely means that their brains were making
everything seem farther away and less real — and their dampened physiological response
showed it. On the flip side, in those prone to derealization,
their threat response was only dampened when they saw someone else experience the blood
test. Even though the threat wasn’t aimed at them,
it still existed, so it could have had psychological consequences. And to shield them from that fallout, their
brains chose to make their environment seem less real. These findings support what’s known as the
threshold model for these experiences. It suggests that when we detect a threat,
the regions in our brain responsible for emotional processing — called the frontolimbic regions
— may suppress our stress response to it. As a result, the stress is more dull, and
easier to handle. And in those that are prone to depersonalization
and derealization, the threshold for this response is thought to be way lower. So their brains might think things like talking
to a cashier are enough of a threat to cause those numb and unreal sensations. Sometimes, these symptoms can be managed with
psychotherapy. But in many cases, the usual treatments aren’t
actually effective, so scientists have been looking into other techniques. One promising method is called repeated transcranial
magnetic stimulation, or rTMS, and it uses powerful magnets to disrupt the electrical
activity of small brain areas. Specifically, using rTMS on a brain region
called the right temporoparietal junction seems to help symptoms — at least, it did
in a small study of 12 DDD patients. But the studies’ authors do admit that the
study is pretty underpowered, and that they still can’t rule out placebo effects. So other authors are using rTMS to target
different brain areas. Another promising candidate is an area involved
in the brain’s executive control system called the right ventrolateral prefrontal
cortex. A study from 2016 showed that using rTMS on
this area improved symptoms in six of seven patients after 20 sessions, with few side
effects reported. Scientists think that damping down its activity
bumps up that threat threshold we mentioned earlier, stopping symptoms from being triggered
so easily. But again, we don’t have larger studies
to back this up, so psychologists will need to keep working. Sometimes, it can feel frustrating when scientists
don’t totally understand a phenomenon or how to treat it — especially with something
like DDD. But the truth is, each small experiment does
get us closer to understanding what’s going on. Someday, maybe we’ll understand all of the
brain’s secrets. And if we do, it will be because of research
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Rien Jen says:
I'll tell you an easy and fast way to develop depersonalization/derealization–have a legal drug cause neurotoxicity. Have it damage the back region of your brain, causing your brain stem (aka your autonomic nervous system) to trigger your flight-or-fight response. For months. This will lower your stress threshold several times over and trigger DDD that will be constant as your brain tries to heal.
Dylan Romero says:
Last year When I started getting depersonslisation I felt like I had aphantasia, I don't know if it was brain fog. now I'm 16 and I have short term memory loss, is this normal?
Bernice Panders says:
Funny, MEDICAL CANNABIS has actually all but CURED ME of DDD & several other illnesses & symptoms that would otherwise leave me debilitated. Pushing the ancient crap of cannabis CAUSING lasting negative effects has been fairly disproven. Only harmful when kids under 18 used it chronically, or people who already have bipolar or schizophrenia could possibly get worse. It is more widely known to CURE & greatly treat hundreds of mental & physical health symptoms…
MaxoNumbaNine says:
im here to tell me i through the same thing starting from weed & listen to me its gonna be okay. you feel like life is a dream for a amount of time me personally , i went through it for 4 months & it was so scary bc its mentality not physically so no one can really help u but yourself ! sooo wht i tell is very simple & maybe hard but its dont think about it sooner or later its gonna wear off slowly just dont smoke thc & dont think about it if u smoke its gonna start all over again & no one wants that , so dont think about it & it will eventually ware off & remember everything is real TRUST ME.
but i do have a question can u still smoke weed if u wanted & get ur tolerance up & it wont happen?
Cindy B says:
Metronizidole / Flagyl will cause this, it's a horrible antibiotic that causes so many problems.
•Sympathetic Rose• says:
this is what is happening to me:
so i basically feel like im in a dream and i cant escape. i dont think im real. most of the times i think im dead or like a ghost. i also feel like that im dieing slowly. i also feel dizzy alot of the times and have black outs. i dunno who to tell .. i told one of my good friends buh he said jus dont think abt it and enjoy life why i can..should this happen to me? im only 10 buh i feel like im going crazy..i cant sleep well..
Jeevz2k1 says:
The two times when I've had this really bad was when strobe lighting did this to me at a halloween experience at a theme park which led to me to almost walk off to the other side of the park before being pulled back. The other time was after a mate put me in a sleeper hold for too long as a joke.
RWL de Bruijn says:
And the great paradox is: talking and thinking about it, makes it worse. So what the hell am I doing here. :-p
Oh, and for everyone struggling with DDD symptoms: L-Theanine (suntheanine) worked wonders for me.
Ken O says:
When someone experiences a horrific event, or learns of some horrible news, they may temporarily be somewhat detached from reality in a state of shock. That seems like a temporary form of the condition being discussed. Although being in shock might also block one's physical pain as well as emotional pain.
I had this feeling when I was in a car accident. Being a passenger in a car, the first at the intersection, waiting at a red light. After the light turned green, we drove forward, while I saw through the car door window, a car run a light that just turned red. Before it hit our car, watching this happened, the scene was surreal, and my memory of seeing this was like playing a video with a stagnant motion.
I was diagnosed w/ depersonalization && derealization 2 years ago && I can say w/ complete confidence I would never wish this on my worst enemy
Kaneesha Goyal says:
I sometimes dissociate when I'm nervous like when I talk in front of a lot of people and its nice to know that it is just a common symptom.
Boers says:
I had an atrocious panic attack which lead to this happening and it's been over 32 hours and I'm still experiencing it and I'm so uncomfortable and idk what to do
Samantha Wimberly says:
My best way of describing it is like in the movie inside out. I feel like one of the characters controlling my body but my brain doesn’t quite connect that I’m actually doing it. It’s scary because I see people as not being real (most of the time even myself) my interactions with people have dwindled because it makes me uncomfortable cause my brain instantly goes to that person isn’t real and we aren’t really having this conversation. I’m well aware that I’m thinking this way but I can’t seem to shake the feeling. I’m starting to look at family members and even question if they’re real and that scares me that I’m losing connection between people I’ve been around my whole life. I feel like I’m going crazy. Does anyone else feel this way?
Also a big trigger for ddd is whenever I go to malls. Idk it’s really random but I feel extra detached. Maybe it’s the lighting idk
Rebecca La Fazia says:
This explains why I sometimes dissociate right after a panic/anxiety attack if I can’t get myself out of it
zongoso says:
who here from juice wrld vlog
I’m not a Rapper says:
Okay, so I had this disorder, and I can assure you the best way to cure this is just forgetting about it, stop watching videos about it, and interact more, I had it for about 7 months
I'm not sure if I have this. For roughly 5-10 minutes I'll feel lost in reality, I'm not day-dreaming. I'm functioning normally. But then it occurs I'm still awake and it makes me slightly anxious.
Partido Liberal says:
It’s my third day with this thing, man that cannabis tea I made was LIT
Hamza Raja says:
I feel human beings including myself are robots or some puppets, I've lost the sense of a persona or aura a person has. Its tough to deal with DDD
1bookfisher says:
Can feeling sort of "disconnected" be considered a version of this?
Like maybe not frequent enough to be DDD, but as the common psychological occurrence?
Bc I had that like last week… I felt sort of disconnected and found it really had to produce genuine reactions to things. It was kind of like numbness, I guess? Like I didn't feel any emotion, just. Nothing. And I felt really disconnected, sort of like that glass wall feeling mentioned in this video
Does anyone know what I'm talking about?? |D
Celebs Spams says:
Therapists thought I was crazy when I. Tried to explain I had it from 11-13 now I’m cured
Lara Joy says:
Personally I’ve been feeling like this all the time for the past… well, since I can remember, really. I didn’t know it was an actual condition until about a year ago and when I did, I thought it might be linked to my marijuana usage but periods of trial and testing have shown me that that isn’t the case. I used the exact same analogy of a glass wall around me when trying to describe it to a friend of mine ahaha. It’s a pretty annoying state of consciousness to be in 24/7 because I pretty much feel emotionally numbed down a lot of the time as well. but heyyyy, it could be so much worse right?
Clarisa Gonzalez says:
I was like huh maybe I have this and then he mentioned the glass wall and then I thought okay MAYBE I do have this
Sanne van Dolder says:
This is the psychological view on these symptoms and they just called it ‘derealisation & depersonalization’ I went to many therapists to get rid of it but nothing works. I got more anxious every day, even only because the terms scared me, it felt like I had a disorder I’d never get rid of. Until I did more and more research and found out dpdr are actually symptoms of the so-called “fight or flight response” This response is activated by the amygdala in the brain (an almond shaped part of the brain which regulates emotions and works as an alarmsystem). Once you’re in a threatening situation, your amygdala will turn on and prepare your body for encountering this danger = the fight or flight response. After the danger is over, you should feel normal again. Only when your body is exposed to danger over and over again, your fight or flight response will be activated longterm, leaving you with all these symptoms:
– Tunnelvision = which makes your vision so weird
– Rapid breathing = you will feel dizzy and lightheaded
– muscle tension
– racing thoughts
– feelings of unreality
– shaking
– blurred vision/or super sharp
– worms in front of eyes
– uneasiness
All these symptoms are perfectly explainable through evolutionary perspectives. They are all present because of the body feels threatened and does as much as it can to protect itself.
You don’t have some weird disorder, you have general anxiety. Cognitive therapy won’t work for this.
You have to:
– excersise: to use up the overdose of oxygen you have due to rapid breathing
– do yoga: for muscle relaxation
– mindfulness
– positive thinking: negative thinking exhausts the brain and leads to brainfog > making you feel more anxious
– get enough sleep
– eat foods that are good for the brain
– cut out caffeine
Everything is gonna be okay, you’re okay.
Zigg says:
I feel as if nothing is real and that I'm in a dream on autopilot. When I'm "sleeping" I'm good at math and school and the like. But when I'm "awake", I lose the ability to these things and feel like I was dropped off in some random place without realizing it.
Banana Split Lady says:
I don't think I have this or DID, but I do dissociate sometimes. I think it's a symptom of anxiety for me.
It usually happens if I've been socializing for an extended period of time, which sucks because it means I just drift away and stop talking and stuff when I'm around other people and they probably get confused and think I'm being a jerk or something.
Master Adjuster says:
Oh come on, the marijuana use relieves the trauma…….
Wu Li says:
Americans have the worst social record in the developed world, one in five insists the sun revolves around the earth, and it is illegal to vote for Mickey Mouse making it safe to assume modern science knows absolutely nothing about psychology. Their own studies have shown people are organizing like chickens, but nobody wants to hear that anymore than they wanted to hear Freud's original theory that mental illness is caused by faulty childrearing. Physician Heal Thyself, kick your drug habit and learn how to share your words and play nice, or go to hell. The KKK led US government is now freaking out because the white population is declining faster than any other. Get a life, and learn what intimacy means, before attempting to comprehend depersonalization.
Sandy Lares says:
Im 14 and i struggle every day with this.I use to have reallybad anxiety and deppresion but my anxietys been getting better but this is still stuck.Sumtimes i dont even recognize myself in the mirror or my family and It scares me .when i zone out and cant come back i cry for so long and i try to explain to them but they dont understand what its like and it makes me feel worse like if im crazy
Nikki Griffin says:
I use to have frequent episodes of depersonalizations (at least what I think was depersonalizations) during a period of my live where my generalized anxiety disorder got really bad. And it have a odd and very specific trigger. It happened randomly when I would look in a mirror and my brain started with feels of insufficiency and my brain was convinced that I can’t exist. My brain would go through an infinite regress about how I could feel so bad if I’m not real, until my brain was basically filled with noise. I basically did a hard restart on my brain by stepping away from the mirror and finding a distraction.
Crabby Patty says:
i don’t know whats wrong with me but i think someone is watching me and it’s controlling what i do and say and i’m just like the eyes, ugh it’s so hard to explain but i just feel like this life is just my imagination
Nixin Victis says:
trans folx who experience dysphoric incongruence are 3x as likely to experience persistent dp/dr (ddd) if it goes untreated, and likelihood for further dissociative events may often appear correlary, but more studies need to be done
The Baz says:
The only way out of this guys is knowing our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. Not pretending to know him but really giving our lives to him. And it's not just about depersonalisation and derealisation . God wants you to be happy and live a fulfilled life full of your passions and desires. Find a good church that stick to the true word of God and not one that's legalistic / fake motivational / get rich churches and just seek him with all your heart and most importantly turn away from all sin. God bless !
Flowers In a vase says:
So how do you know when symptoms of the disorder become the actual disorder? How often do you have to have them? Someone educated answer me
maria christodoulou says:
So how do you get over this? I have anxiety so I think that's because I got ddd as well. Life is hard😐
M2K - LEARN ALL THE 2K TRICKS says:
You have to experience this because i don't think words can describe it.
1. I'm never present and even when i try to be i feel like a passenger in my body.
2. I don't know if the past really happened or if it was a dream.
3. Dreaming everyday make things worse because it feels like dream and reality are blended into one.
4. I'm almost 100% certain that a part of me died and what's left along with my consciousness resides in my body as an observer.
5. Life is just weird….
Landyn Schaffer says:
Feel like im dreaming rn
Daniel Dyman says:
I'd just want everyone who hasn't experienced this before, it's absolutely more horrifying than anything I've ever watched or experienced. Its almost like I've died and I'm watching those last few seconds before death.
Raghav Sharma says:
Guys listen to what this guy has said, hes hit the nail on he head. If you are suffering from this condition let me reassure you that IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE PERMANANT. I promise you. You have to realise that it is nothing more than a debilitating cycle of thoughts. You get anxious, then your mind dissociates (completely natural) but then you obsess too much over this state, which causes more anxiety which in turn causes you to dissociate further. and this vicious cycle goes on and on. Guys if you want your normal life back you have to train your self to ignore these thoughts and get on with life. whenever a thought pops in your head like 'i don't feel real' instead of overthinking it, think to yourself 'whatever' and get on with exactly what you're doing . don't give that thought attention and time which it doesn't deserve. it takes practise it takes persistence but I promise you CAN and WILL be normal again if you realise this. get on with your life and start NOW
Transition21 says:
"Your appearance now is what we call residual self-image. It is the mental projection of your digital self." – Matrix
Naturally, increasing use of electric communication leads to greater disembodiment, body-image displacement.
When you travel at the speed of light, you have no body, so virtual reality can trigger these effects also.
In float tanks, when the body disassociates mind, death anxiety kicks in, but you can train yourself that its okay.
In dreams, you don't use eyes, similarly, electricity is not hardware, it is post-rational; it uses the eye as an ear.
Katsune says:
KING DeDeDe
Jesse wru says:
Me right now, and looking for a video about it and then it ReAlly being there in the list of videos is another effing weird facet to my now. Whatever this messy feeling is. I hate this feeling like my world and relationships are dematerializing in creepy feeling ways.
Nittanyburg 20 says:
I don’t have the disorder but it’s happened to me a couple times. It only lasted for a day. The descriptions of feeling like a glass wall is between you and your surroundings, and about feeling like your head is filled with cotton are pretty accurate
AnonymousTV says:
sometimes, very rarely, it happens.
I remember once when i was walking down the street i suddenly felt like this:-
who am i? how am i alive?
how am i able to walk ?
what are these fingers?
how am i able to control this body?
it's a weird feeling and i have'nt experienced it in a long time. i wish i could experience again
Zenyiah’s Mind says:
okay so idk what i have but ima just say this in these comments so somebody can tell me what they think. so if i’m laying down, sitting in class or even walking down the street and i get deep enough into my thoughts i can go out of focus like nothing feels real and it’s not daydreaming because i also do that a lot too so i know the difference it’s like i’m conscious and i can see everything around me but it feels like i’m not really there like nothing feels real and i can do this on command it’s been like this since the 7th grade even though i could always kinda do this it’s never been this intense i get deep into questioning humanity and the situations i’m in and i cant wrap my head around if anything is really happening and it feels like it’s all a dream not even that i even question if it’s a dream the whole thing gets really deep and at that point i’m looking around like wtf is even going on. if you have anything understanding of this pls lmk i wanna get to the root of this
IN PEACE WITH REALITY says:
Guys, hi, i’m an ex sufferer, i had the most severe condition of dp dr for 3,5 years, i had no hope and was extremely suicidal. I am trying to support everyone who is struggling with this, as i am out and completely recovered. I made a youtube page, where i am sharing my experience, you are more then welcome to listen to my story and tips on my channel : “In Peace with Reality”. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjP_kJOFsjKkV6TNzW38y5w
I’m making my content for you!
Bernardo Danilo says:
I've been suffering from Derealization for 20 years now, 7days a week 24h/day and I'm sure it is a life time disease endless nightmare.
Crimson Asphalt says:
I feel this when unusual things happen
Sunburstie says:
If this has happened to you from cannabis, it will go away on its own soon. Its that your brain demands a change from you/ you have been lying to yourself about something or overstressing yourself constantly. Relax and it will slowly go away, go outside, do sports and youl be fine. If it continues after 3 months go to a psychiatrist and do cognitive behavioral therapy.
Thomas J says:
I have this situation since 2012. I really feel depressed before because I thought nobody can understand my feeling. I don't even know how to describe my feeling and what happend to me. Now I am still depressed but at least, knowing I am not alone made me feel better.
hey its Myles says:
I've had this for about 5 years now, i haven't been professionally diagnosed but i know what the symptoms are like and i know how i feel and i felt this way before i actually did any research on it and figured out the medical term and can i say it 100% sucks. it feels like i'm constantly in a dream ill never wake up out of, my memories don't feel like memories anymore, i can barely remember them, i mean i know they happened but i cant actually remember living them because dreams and reality seems the same and i don't know which is which. sometimes i have to physically remind myself that all that's going on is real, everyone's always talking about these amazing experience they've had but for me its different because even though i might have been there i still don't feel present, i don't feel connected to anything anymore and i just want to go back to normal, i don't even remember how i felt before this and now i'm wondering if i did "wake up" would i even know the difference.
Candice Milliner says:
I think I experienced this today.
Rickard Zingmark says:
Two identical black cats just walked by.
janice thammachat says:
i feel like my body is there but my brain is somewhere else. everyone around me and the surrounding environment seems dreamy but sharp and clear. i also feel echoed and everyone is talking so loudly and when some one talks to me i take a few seconds to realize they’re talking to me. i have it for everyday non stop but it’s worst at night. at night i feel like i had to wake up out of that dream. i felt like i wasn’t in the real world. i felt like my emotions weren’t affected as much as before. idk, it made me gain more confidence sometimes because it felt like i was in a dream and no one would actually care. it felt like, no matter what i would do or say no one would really care, it felt like the world just focused on my THOUGHTS.
hassan ali says:
Teack paxil the ddd stoop
ZebraCado says:
I first experienced Depersonalization when i was about 8-9 years old. (5 years after being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes) and have had it 24/7 ever since. at first it was just every 2 weeks or so for a few hours. but about a week later it was 24/7. At multiple points i thought i was actually dreaming, that i would wake up at any moment. when ever i brought it up to someone they instantly shut it down, and so I went to the internet. After alot of research i discovered what it was. In some ways what scares me most is that ive been living years thinking that it was just in my head, that i was just imagining the symptoms. But i think what scares me more is that I may never actually experience the rest of my life. And that only 9 years of it actualy felt real, my family dosent feel real, I dont feel real, and nothing feels real. Despite trying everything from meditation to exercise i still feel the same. I dont know what to do, but I still have faith that it will get better. i have experienced a near death experience once, and that was around the time i started feeling depersonalization. I also do alot of stressful things, could that have somthng to do with it? Whatever the reason for this, I still have hope that it will get better.
Rushil Akkal says:
Dude, i love your things
Markus JP says:
Could it feel more like being a character in a play? Not either the actor or the character in the moment, just sorta both going about preplanned actions and it doesnt feel like it matters in me or anyone else?
Victor Salerno says:
Abstinence from Xanax made me feel depersonalization a couple of times.
DeathbyPixels says:
I’ve only derealised once, and the only thing I remember from that day was that it felt like I never woke up. I think I got it after being panicked/anxious all-day-every-day for like a week. Considering how anxious I’ve been over the past week, I’m wondering if it’ll happen again soon…
Tochtli says:
Sometimes I feel this way, but when I think to myself, “Ah, I’m feeling like it’s just a dream again, but it’s real…” too many times, I feel dizzy and ill. I don’t know why, and it bothers me.
Aidan Singhurst says:
For me it feels like I’m just gonna wake up from the dream a feel like I’m having, even though I know It’s not a dream.
silenthillstrangler says:
I'm having a version of this that I haven't had since I was a child right now, I had to look it up again, it doesn't scare me as much as it used to as a teen though as a small child it didn't really scare me at all, what this version is is that I am tiny and everything is far away and huge, it's hard to explain but this is one of 2 versions I've had in my life. Cannibas definitely can trigger the other version of it in me but has happened happened without also and that version is horrendous, that version feels like I am not real, nothing is real and I am not really alive, nothing is alive, that this is all some strange projection and i am somewhere else remotely controlling this robotic illusion, like I nor anything I'm experiencing actually exists at all. It is terrifying especially when it's cannibas induced because it can last for hrs. I only smoked cannibas a few times in my life and it was canibbas that first triggered my severe anxiety disorders and pushed along my BPD, I should NEVER have touched any kind of mind altering drugs but I did and it was the beginning of the end, ruined and wasted my only life for a bong. How sad.
BellaBeanVlogz says:
I’ve had this before but it went away like a hour or a few minutes later but I smoked weed I had a panic attack then a few months later I’ve been in this for like a week, this time it’s worse, I’m taking CBD oil to see if that helps.
ggoodwin123 says:
I’ve been like this for a while and iam glad iam not the only one that feels like their sole is out of there body
Dae Dae says:
Me picking up my puppy-sized elephant : ….this doesn't quite feel like it usually does.
BookMilla says:
17 and havent been able to go outside for FOUR YEARS because of DPDR.
Hassan s says:
Mine started out of nowhere, no trauma or stress or anxiety, is mine serious
Perla F cf f says:
I’ve been going through this for months…. it’s honestly eating me alive. Anyone has any advice?
šøfțľý pşčýhø says:
I think this is what's wrong with me
Akash Rajput says:
I don't consider my experience to be scientific but my when I play games on my pc for extended periods (7 hours or so) I felt like I am still dreaming and so unrealistic just as the video suggest.
Seán Hanson says:
Sooo nice seeing this recognized and discussed. I wish I'd seen this video years ago.
ARTEMIS HAYDEN says:
It’s autopilot. Like everything is coming through a screen. It gets better and worse with anxiety but nothing has been the same for over a year.
MadMemeMan says:
derealization for me is like my brain interprets my surroundings in a very abstract way, and it's like i'm having a hyper-realistic lucid dream.
CALPURNIERS?! !?SREINRUPLAC says:
It’ll happened to me for like 5 seconds but in that time It feels like forever
I always thought I was just “zoning” out like I’ll be having a conversation and in a split second I’ll totally “zone” out and I just see my self in front of the person and then I’ll go back and it’s just…….
And I’ll be like taking a test and I’ll be saying stuff “in my head” but I don’t remember if i said it out loud or in my head
Or I’ll just stand in front of the mirror and it feels like the reflection starring back at me isn’t me
Lottie Meow says:
I have this when I’m on my period. It’s not normal pms. It’s fucked. When people talk to me I just hear slow motion “wop wop wop wop”
i was told this experience was part of dissociation with complex ptsd. is it also under the large ptsd umbrella?
Arun Prasath says:
It's 100% curable.
Trust me I suffered it for one year straight and then after starting accepting and not obsessing about it made me save my life..
MsCherade9 says:
I've had this for 25 years, along with Complex PTSD. Child abuse leaves you with such charming mental illnesses.
Reuben Jones says:
can't believe i've only just found a name for this… i have rare episodes of derealization, not depersonalization… but it's quite freaky when it happens… i'd say it lasts for about 10 seconds… it's usually when i'm out and about, all of a sudden i zone out, and the world in front of me is not real… it's like, i can see everything, but i'm not really there… i might as well be at home watching it on a screen! i've experienced it ever since i was a kid, but it's never really bothered me that much? like i say, after about 10 seconds, i snap out of it… but at the time it really feels like my eyes are there, but i've left my brain at home lol!
Tim van Dijk says:
Being John malkovich
yeehaw says:
i’m not diagnosed with this but i am curious if what i’m experiencing falls under this. i’ll be doing normals things like hanging out with friends or going for a walk and i’ll suddenly feel like i’m no longer attached to the world around me. like i know i’m there but it feels like i’m seeing everything from outside my body but through my body’s eyes?? idk how to explain it,, kinda like a video game i guess ??? but it just occurs randomly and lasts anywhere from 10 mins to a few days and it’s a really uncomfortable feeling ://
LegendMS says:
I hope everybody is doing well. If you've been through DDD and gotten through it let me know how please⬇️⬇️
Angelita Becerra says:
Much harder to do larger experiments when a disorder only effects a very small percentage of the population.
Makes sense to do a bunch of smaller experiments and then do a meta-analysis of said experiments.
This is not unlike when I disassociate with my PTSD. At times I question if I'm awake or dreaming. It it feels like someone else far away is controlling me and my life.
Charlie Angkor says:
i never had my body not being my own (its logically impossible) so i cannot know how it feels. instructions unclear.
olivia bettineski says:
i have this on trips, and days leading up to trips (vacations). I had it in Disneyland for most of the day, until i chilled out a little later. I also had it in Rome for the whole time. I'm scared I am going to have this for all of my future vacations, because I eventually want to travel the world, and I might not be able to do this because of it all feeling like a dream. It could be because of jetlag, but there is no time difference in some of the places i go where i still get it.
McQüeen says:
This is accurate to me.
I have, like these weird moments where i just look at somebody for example my mother, and i feel like i don't know who is she. It feels soo unreal, like i'm dreaming or something. My vision gets blurry and all this happens for a couple of seconds. Then i feel like a shame, guilt, i feel scared, i feel paranoid for a moment. This happens to me sometimes, it doesn't happen on daily basis. Let's just say once in a month or two.
I started to think i have schizophrenia, but then last night i found some videos on YT about this derealization thing, and i found something in common with all of the people. What i've learned about it is, that people who have insomnia and people who uses marijuana has those symptoms and they suffer from it (please correct me if i am wrong).
MVMT 266 says:
This disorder destroyed my life and took everything away from me
PuffyRainbowCloud says:
I sometimes experience these symptoms when otherwise in any of my various dissociative states or when I fail to dissociate and experience my traumas and such head on. It'll feel like I can't be real, or my experiences can't be real. Maybe my wife isn't real, or my body just can't be mine because it's so wrong (gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia). It's pretty trippy but depending on the situation it can relax me a little because part of what's causing me distress is no longer real so I don't need to be as distressed.
Leatrice_1120 says:
Sometimes I feel like I am sleep walking not I'm im dreaming 😬
Deanna W says:
I have trauma-triggered depersonalization and I came down to these comments to feel less alone
I mean, kind of
Ochen C says:
Oh. I that. Wow.
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Facebook taking augmented reality (AR) to the mass market.
At this years Facebook F8 conference in San Jose, California Zuckerberg (2017) announced the launch of a suite of new AR features and tools for the Facebook camera that are collectively branded the Camera Effects Platform. And this is good news if you’ve ever wanted turn your face into an animated character or fill your home with virtual Skittles or maybe play virtual chess on your dining table.
Facebook actually released the first Camera Effects April 2017 for iOS and Android which include several branded effects, masks and interactive filters. Some of these new features are available today and to the average consumer this will appear at first very similar to SnapChat’s own live filters. The difference is not only the greater user base with over 1.23 billion daily active users (DAUs) on Facebook but also the room scanning technology and most importantly Facebook’s commitment to create a medium for independent developers and artists
3D artists, developers and organisations who are members of the Facebook Developers program can apply today for a beta version of the AR Studio. This toolset will enable individuals and organisations to create exciting new AR experiences that take advantage of the Camera Effects Platform. The demonstrations highlight a sophisticated framework for constructing AR experiences including 3D object placement, animations and user interaction. There’s no details yet of how to construct the more advanced technologies announced during the F8 Keynote such as Simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) or object recognition. But it’s safe to assume that these technologies will be coming to the AR Studio toolset. It’s also not yet entirely clear how these experiences will reach the consumer audience. Presumably it will follow prior distribution concepts utilised by Facebook’s other platforms such as Pages and Apps. These platforms typically saw new content discovered via the News Feed either by direct advertisement or peer to peer sharing and required the user to opt-in.
One way or another consumers will soon find new filters alongside the launch filters available today. And this future state, soon to be reality, will allow artists to take AR experiences that explore the boundaries of AR technology to the mass market faster than ever before.
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Many people have written tips, guides and questions for aspiring entrepreneurs. Many of them are excellent, but I don’t think anyone has captured the essence of the stages a young entrepreneur goes through and specific advice for what they should do at each stage. As part of our efforts at GreenhornConnect.com, we want to create a central location that provides the information that an aspiring entrepreneur needs to go from starting out (Is this for me? What should I do?) to evaluating an idea (What goes into a business plan? How do I build a team?) to being a real business (Do I need investment? What tools should I use?).
In the coming weeks, I’ll be writing different sections of this guide in my blog, pulling from my experiences, what I’ve read and advice I’ve heard from others. If you read this and think something is missing or disagree with any of the advice, please comment; I want this to be the best guide possible and will gladly give you credit for your contribution. Thanks.
Thus far: See Part I: Starting from Scratch, Part II: Getting Out There, Part III: Building a Reputation, Network and a Following & Part IV: Working on Your Idea
Part V: Making it official
You’ve vetted the idea and have a small team, here’s what you do to get serious and launch your business.
1) Get a Name and Social Media set up:
It’s important to have a name for your business. It needs to be simple, memorable and relevant to your area of work. If it’s hard to spell, people won’t remember it. If they don’t see the connection to your business, it can also be forgettable. There are more tips for naming your business here. Make sure the URL for your name is available as a “dot com.” If it’s not, either negotiate to buy it (if it’s not in use) or for another name.
Once you have chosen your name, you need to secure it in social media. Go grab the name on Twitter, create a fan page on Facebook (you don’t have to publish it yet), and secure other social media usernames you think you might use (Youtube, Flickr, etc). If you’re finding that many of them aren’t available, you may want to consider looking for a different name. Dharmesh Shah and Brian Halligan’s book, Inbound Marketing has a great checklist for startups for this area. Start using them to build a buzz for your company before you launch. Get involved in the conversation and gather a following.
2) Choose Your Service Providers
When you get started, the first service provider you’re going to need is a lawyer. Ben Hron of VCReady Law wrote a great post about when it’s time to formalize your business. You definitely do not want to wait too long to do this. Incorporating or forming an LLC not only protects you from personal liability, but it forces you to put in writing your agreements with any partner you have. You can do online forms to get this done yourself , but as the saying goes, “you wouldn’t do your own surgery, so why would you do your own legal work?” Facebook started as a Florida LLC and had to have that undone when they moved to Silicon Valley. Do it right the first time and you’ll save yourself a lot of time and money later.
Once you’ve created your business as a legal entity, you’ll need to get a bank account opened and start keeping good financial records for your business. You can do these yourself, or there are always good bookkeepers and accountants out there to help as your business grows in complexity.
When you’re selecting your service providers, remember that they’re an extension of your business team; choose people you feel comfortable with and who share your vision. You should feel like they’re on your side and can help your business grow and develop. If you feel like your service provider doesn’t understand you or that you have to be on the defensive against them, you should keep looking. It’s worth a week or two delay to find the right one.
3) Get an Alpha Out There (aka – Find Customers)
The best way to prove your idea is to get out there and find customers. This can be a splash page for your website simply asking people to give you their email address if they’re interested in your product (have a few fake screenshots or other information explaining what you are). There’s a lot of great content out there about releasing your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) by Eric Ries and in Steve Blank’s Four Steps to the Epiphany. It’s a lot better to develop your product with your customers giving feedback than trying to prognosticate amongst your team in a bubble. You’ll also build buzz for your product this way.
In the end, any business is about finding people to pay for what you are providing. The incubator program, Y Combinator, emphasizes this best with their shirts they give to new entrants to their program: “Build Something People Want.” Once you find your first customers, you can adapt your product, remove the warts and account for their feedback. Be careful! Though you want to listen to your customers, you do not want to use them to create an infinite feature list. “Feature creep” can easily derail a product. Focus on being very good at a few things and deliver that to customers that are looking for those solutions. This is not easy…we struggle with this at Greenhorn Connect all of the time.
Coming Soon: Part VI: Other Tips for Along the Way
This is ongoing series to try to build a comprehensive, lasting guide for aspiring entrepreneurs. I would greatly appreciate any input in the comments below to make this the best it can be. Thanks!
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14. Grit by Angela Duckworth (7.15.17)
13. *Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff (6.23.17)
11. Team of Teams by Ret General Stanley McChrystal (5.31.17)
10. Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss (5.11.17)
9. *The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz (4.27.17)
8. Essentialism: the disciplined pursuit of less by Greg McKeown (4.12.17)
7. Play Bigger by Peterson, et al (4.1.17)
6. The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman (3.25.17)
5. The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up by Burlingham & Brodsky (3.19.17)
4. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (2.28.17)
3. The Advantage: Why Organizational Help Trumps Everything Else by Patrick Lencioni (2.20.17)
2. Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt (1.29.17)
1. *How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (1.21.17)
//// end 2016 -> 159 Total
15. Pre-suasion by Robert Cialdini (12.21.16)
14. Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff (11.15.16)
13. You can’t teach a kid to ride a bicycle at a seminar by David Sandler (10.8.16)
12. First, break all the rules: What the world’s best managers do differently by Gallup & Marcus Buckingham (9.17.16)
11. Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry (8.29.16)
10. Only the Paranoid Survive by Andy Grove (8.14.16)
9. Second Wind: Memoirs of an Opinionated Man by Bill Russell (7.31.16)
8. Impossible to Ignore by Carmen Simon (7.23.16)
7. Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton (6.17.16)
6. From Impossible to Inevitable by Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (5.19.16)
5. The Last Word on Power by Tracy Goss (4.29.16)
4. Lead from the Heart by Mark C Crowley (4.10.16)
3. Drive by Dan Pink (3.21.16)
2. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James (2.15.16)
1. The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Ries & Trout (1.5.16)
20. Selling to Big Companies by Jill Konrath (12.31.15)
19. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari (12.31.15)
18. Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by Ret. Capt. L. David Marquet (11.27.15)
17. Pitching Hacks by Venture Hacks (11.3.15)
16. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big By Scott Adams (10.30.15)
15. Principles by Ray Dalio (10.25.15)
14. The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million by Mark Roberge (9.26.15)
13. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist by Feld & Mendelson (9.16.15)
12. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Fisher & Ury (9.5.15)
11. A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life by Brian Grazer (8.25.15)
10. *The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership by Bill Walsh (8.14.15)
9. Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Googleby Laszlo Bock (7.19.15)
8. Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd by YoungMe Moon (7.4.15)
7. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C Maxwell (6.21.15)
6. It’s All About Who You Hire, How They Lead by Mort Mandel (5.24.15)
5. Good Strategy, Bad Strategyby Richard Rumelt (5.9.15)
4. How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (4.19.15)
3. Hacking Leadership by Mike Myatt (3.20.15)
2. The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation by Dixon & Adamson (2.20.15)
1. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks (1.16.15)
24. The No Asshole Rule by Robert Sutton (12.31.14)
23. Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of Salesforce.com by Marc Benioff (12.16.14)
22. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull (12.6.14)
21. High Output Management by Andy Grove (11.14.14)
20. To Sell Is Human by Dan Pink (10.19.14)
19. SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham (10.10.14)
18. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (9.27.14)
17. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel (9.22.14)
16. The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes (8.31.14)
15. The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism by Olivia Cabane (8.9.14)
14. Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger (7.11.14)
13. The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age by Hoffman, Yeh, & Casnocha (7.3.14)
12. The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker (6.14.14)
11. Own the Room: Business Presentations that Persuade, Engage, and Get Results by Booth, Shames, & Desberg (5.31.14)
10. The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz (5.18.14)
9. The Founder’s Dilemmas by Noam Wasserman (5.11.14)
8. The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months by Moran & Lennington (4.12.14)
7. Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica by Ana Smiljanic (3.30.14)
6. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (3.17.14)
5. The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking by Burger & Starbird (3.12.14)
4. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson (2.28.14)
2. So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport (2.8.14)
1. Tested Advertising Methods by Caples & Hahn (1.20.14)
25. Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind by Ries & Trout (12.27.13)
24. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nicholas Taleb (12.19.13)
23. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck (12.19.13)
22. Rework* by Jason Fried & DHH (11.17.13)
21. The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth by Clayton Christensen (11.12.13)
20. How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton Christensen (11.4.13)
19. Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore (10.13.13)
18. Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer by Freiberger & Swaine (10.5.13)
17. Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by Wallace & Erickson (9.8.13)
16. The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen (9.2.13)
15. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (8.18.13)
14. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (7.26.13)
13. Decoded by Jay-Z (7.26.13)
12. Bossypants by Tina Fey (6.10.13)
11. Lean Startup Marketing by Sean Ellis (5.29.13)
10. Who: The A Method for Hiring by Smart and Street (5.20.13)
9. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Pressfield & Coyne (5.7.13)
8. Predictable Revenue: The $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce by Ross & Tyler (4.30.13)
7. What Got You Here Won’t Get You Thereby Marshall Goldsmith (4.6.13)
6. Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds by Scott Berkun (4.3.13)
5. Sweet Potato Power by Tudor (3.18.13)
4. The Lean Entrepreneur by Brant Cooper & Patrick Vlaskovits (2.26.13)
3. Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott (2.8.13)
1. The 7 Deadly Sins of Style by Antonio Centeno (1.9.13)
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28. “Blue Ocean Strategy” by Kim & Mauborgne (12.21.12)
27. “Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind” by Shunryu Suzuki (12.8.12)
26. “The Happiness Hypothesis” Haidt (11.21.12)
25. “The Power of Full Engagement” by Loehr and Schwartz (11.2.12)
24. “Thinking in Systems: A Primer” by Donella Meadows (10.13.12)
23. “The Defining Decade” by Mel Jay (9.15.12)
22. “Main Message” by Stephen Young (9.14.12)
21. “The Creative Habit” by Twylah Tharp (8.23.12)
20. “The Non-Designers Design Book” by Robin Williams (7.26.12)
19. “Simple and Usable” by Giles Colborne (7.14.12)
18. “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership” by Bill Walsh (6.30.12)
17. “Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High” by Kerry Patterson (6.20.12)
16. “Buy This Book Before You Buy Facebook: A PandoDaily Expert Guide To The Internet’s Biggest IPO” by Pando Daily writers (5.26.12)
15. “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu (5.10.12)
14. “The Alchemist” by Paolo Coelho (5.1.12)
13. “Competing on Analytics” (4.29.12)
12. “Switch” by Chip & Dan Heath (4.14.12)
11. “Inspired” by Marty Cagan (3.31.12)
10. “The Art of Getting Money” by P.T. Barnum (3.25.12)
9. “How to Win at the Sport of Business” by Mark Cuban (3.19.12)
8. “How to Win Friends & Influence People” by Dale Carnegie (3.13.12)*
7. “Anything You Want” by Derek Sivers (3.11.12)
6. “The Starfish and the Spider” by Brafman & Beckstrom (2.29.12)
5. “Design of Every Day Things” by Donald Norman (2.21.12)
4. “The Thank You Economy” by Gary V. (2.7.12)
3. “Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion” by Robert Cialdini (1.28.12)
2. “Great by Choice” by John Collins (1.8.12)
1. “The Four Steps to the Epiphany”* by Steve Blank (1.4.12)
22. “The Flinch” by Julien Smith (12.26.11)
21. “A Way to Wealth” by Benjamin Franklin (12.25.11)
20. “The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development” by Cooper & Vlaskovits (12.24.11)*
19. “Tribal Leadership” by Logan, King & Fischer-Wright (12.22.11)
18. “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” (12.11.11)
17. “Iconoclasts” by Gregory Berns (11.23.11)
16. “The Lean Startup” By Eric Ries (11.9.11)
15. “Brainsteering” by Kevin & Shawn Coyne (10.23.11)
14. “How to win friends and influence people” by Dale Carnegie (9.23.11)
13. “Predictably Irrational” by Dan Ariely (9.9.11)
12. “The Paradox of Choice” by Barry Schwartz (8.19.11)
11. “PayPal Wars” by Eric Jackson (7.27.11)
10. “The Mating Mind” by Geoffrey Miller (6.29.11)
9. “Little Bets: How breakthrough ideas emerge from small discoveries” by Peter Sims (5.13.11)
8. “Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson (5.2.11)
7. “Enchantment” by Guy Kawasaki (4.18.11)
6. “The Master Switch” by Tim Wu (4.6.11)
5. “The Mesh” by Lisa Gansky (3.8.11)
4. “Practically Radical” by William C. Taylor (3.3.11)
3. “Never Eat Alone” by Keith Ferrazzi (2.11.11)
2. “Getting to Plan B” by Mullins & Komisar (1.24.11)
1. “What Every Body is Saying” by Joe Navarro (1.6.11)
25. “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” by Patrick Lencioni (12.24.10)
24. “How We Decide” by Jonah Lehrer (12.14.10)
23. “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” by John C Maxwell (11.27.10)
22. “Do More Faster” by many TechStars mentors & alums (11.10.10)
21. “Community Building on the Web” by Amy Jo Kim (10.29.10)
20. “The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development” by Cooper &; Vlaskovits (10.15.10)
19. “Startup Lessons Learned” by Eric Ries (10.12.10)
18. “The Cycle of Leadership: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win” by Tichy and Cardwell (9.13.10)
17. “The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey” (8.28.10)
16. “Made to Stick” by Chip & Dan Heath (8.14.10)
15. “The Art of the Start” by Guy Kawasaki (8.2.10)
14. “What Customers Want” by Anthony Ulwick (7.19.10)
13. “The Dip” by Seth Godin (6.23.10)
12. “Tipping Point” By Malcolm Gladwell (6.20.10)
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Acute HIV Infection Presenting With Painful Swallowing and Esophageal Ulcers
Linda Rabeneck, Mikulas Popovic, Suzanne Gartner, Donald M. McLean, W. Alastair McLeod, Elizabeth Read, Kathleen K. Wong, William J. Boyko
We describe an acute human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in 16 homosexual men who presented with painful swallowing (odynophagia). Eleven men had a maculopapular rash and 3 had palatal ulcers. At esophagogastroduodenoscopy (endoscopy), multiple discrete esophageal ulcers measuring 0.3 to 1.5 cm in diameter were observed. Electron microscopy of biopsy specimens taken from the ulcer margins in 8 men revealed viral particles 120 to 160 nm in diameter whose morphologic characteristics were those of retroviruses. Human immunodeficiency virus seroconversion was documented in 15 men by Western blot analysis. In 3 men, HIV-1 was isolated from peripheral blood mononuclear cells, in 2 men HIV-1 was isolated from peripheral blood monocytes, and in 1 man HIV-1 was isolated from tissue taken from the margins of the esophageal ulcers. These observations extend our knowledge of the clinical spectrum of acute HIV infection syndromes and suggest that cells in the esophagus are a target for HIV-1 infection.
Journal of the American Medical Association
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1990.03440170040033
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Rabeneck, L., Popovic, M., Gartner, S., McLean, D. M., McLeod, W. A., Read, E., ... Boyko, W. J. (1990). Acute HIV Infection Presenting With Painful Swallowing and Esophageal Ulcers. Journal of the American Medical Association, 263(17), 2318-2322. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1990.03440170040033
Acute HIV Infection Presenting With Painful Swallowing and Esophageal Ulcers. / Rabeneck, Linda; Popovic, Mikulas; Gartner, Suzanne; McLean, Donald M.; McLeod, W. Alastair; Read, Elizabeth; Wong, Kathleen K.; Boyko, William J.
In: Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 263, No. 17, 02.05.1990, p. 2318-2322.
Rabeneck, L, Popovic, M, Gartner, S, McLean, DM, McLeod, WA, Read, E, Wong, KK & Boyko, WJ 1990, 'Acute HIV Infection Presenting With Painful Swallowing and Esophageal Ulcers', Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 263, no. 17, pp. 2318-2322. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1990.03440170040033
Rabeneck L, Popovic M, Gartner S, McLean DM, McLeod WA, Read E et al. Acute HIV Infection Presenting With Painful Swallowing and Esophageal Ulcers. Journal of the American Medical Association. 1990 May 2;263(17):2318-2322. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1990.03440170040033
Rabeneck, Linda ; Popovic, Mikulas ; Gartner, Suzanne ; McLean, Donald M. ; McLeod, W. Alastair ; Read, Elizabeth ; Wong, Kathleen K. ; Boyko, William J. / Acute HIV Infection Presenting With Painful Swallowing and Esophageal Ulcers. In: Journal of the American Medical Association. 1990 ; Vol. 263, No. 17. pp. 2318-2322.
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Word(s) for the Year
I love the concept of a word for the year, a particular purpose from God. What do You want from me in 2020, Lord? I need a word from You.
He heard and He answered, not with one word but a word and a phrase: Overcome and From Darkness to Light. Even as I write them, my spirit sighs with longing.
A few years ago I wrote a blog post to explain my tagline, Timid Warrior (https://kathleenfriesen.weebly.com/grace-notes---blog/fearless-me). Now, almost three years later, I still struggle at times to get past the Timid part. But I want to. I desire courage and wisdom. I long to radiate God’s love and grace so brightly that through me, He will bring loved ones “out of darkness into His marvelous light” (1 Peter 2:9).
In September, my husband and I began renovating the house we bought about two years ago. It’s only twelve years old, but the design needed help and the décor was dismal. Picture the entire living area brown, the colour of hot chocolate without the sweetness of cream or marshmallows. The small kitchen had dark chocolate cabinets on three walls and a peninsula on the fourth. Add to that black appliances, a brown speckled counter top and curling brown laminate flooring—it was truly depressing. (And when I’m down, guess what I crave? Chocolate! But not on my walls.)
Long story short, the theme of our renovations has been “from darkness to light.” The living area walls are now a pale green, much brighter. While I (rather reluctantly) decided against the expense and hassle of painting the kitchen cabinets, we plan to add a white backsplash and marble-look counter tops.
When I traded the dark cabinet knobs for shiny brushed nickel replacements, the effect amazed me. Like pinpoints of light in a dark space, those small, new knobs make a big difference.
Like the light paint and shiny knobs, my desire for this year is to shine with God’s love, to bring light into the darkness around us, and to overcome evil with good. By God’s grace, 2020 is going to be a brilliant, amazing year.
Book Review: Collateral Damage
TITLE: Collateral Damage (Danger Never Sleeps #1)
PUBLISHER: Revell
Honorably discharged from the Army after an explosion nearly killed her, former military psychiatrist Brooke Adams has set up shop to help others--but her days of helping military personnel are over. She's got her own battles to fight from her time overseas, and she's not equipped to take on more. Former Army Special Ops Sergeant First Class Asher James could handle anything that war sent his way--terrorists, bombs, bullets. The only thing that scares him now is sleep. As the shadows close in, the nightmares begin.
Finally convinced that he needs help, Asher makes an appointment with a counselor. When he arrives at her office she isn't there--but a dead body is.
When it becomes clear that Brooke was the real target of the attack--and that her secrets go even deeper than his own--Asher vows to protect her no matter what.
Fast-paced Collateral Damage is a superb suspense novel, perfect for those who enjoy action, military-based ordeals, and romance. This is book one of a new series, so several characters were introduced in the beginning, making me thankful for a print copy—much easier to flip pages and check the identities when I became confused. It didn’t take long to recognize different personalities, evidence of skillful writing.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder plays a large role in this story, a reality too many deal with on a daily basis. I’d expected more evidence of faith in the struggle against its effects, but it was hardly mentioned. The other negative, on my part, is the horrific depravity revealed. I believe the author chose this subject matter out of courage and a desire to shed light, but it was more than I could handle.
Collateral Damage is truly well written, as I expected from Lynette Eason, and would have earned five stars if not for the reasons mentioned above. I award it four stars and recommend it for those with tougher psyches than mine. I received this book from the publisher.
Book Review: Aiming for Love
TITLE: Aiming for Love (Brides of Hope Mountain, Book 1)
AUTHOR: Mary Connealy
Growing up in Colorado, Josephine Madson has been fascinated by but has shied away from the outside world--one she's been raised to believe killed her parents. When Dave Warden, a rancher, shows up to their secret home with his wounded father, will Josephine and her sisters risk stepping into the world to help or remain separated but safe on Hope Mountain?
Imagine yourself a young woman living in the high mountains of Colorado in the 1800s with only your two sisters for company. Your parents disappeared years ago, and ever since, Grandmother made sure you and your sisters feared the outside world. Grandfather, however, brought back stories from town whenever he went for supplies, sparking your intrigue. Since they died, you three young women have survived, even thrived with the knowledge handed down and your own skills.
This is the setting for Aiming for Love, a unique tale of worlds colliding—the sequestered sisters, one fearful and the other two hesitantly excited, and ranchers from “outside.” Jo stars in this book, her story beginning when she’s caught by the rancher boss when her curiosity gets the better of her. Before Dave Warden can figure out who Jo is and why she’s alone on the mountain, his parents arrive on the scene, his father gravely wounded.
I loved this book. Each of the main characters comes alive on the pages, as does the setting itself. Ma Warden won my admiration from her first appearance, and the uneasy but growing attraction between Jo and Dave kept the story humming.
Highly recommended, Aiming for Love earns five stars. Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.
Book Review: Christmas in Winter Hill
TITLE: Christmas in Winter Hill
AUTHOR: Melody Carlson
Krista Galloway is not a fan of Christmas. After her rough childhood in multiple foster homes, the holiday season just brings too many bad memories to the surface. But when she accepts a job as a city manager in the mountain town of Winter Hill, Washington, Christmas is part of the deal. The small town is famous for its Christmasville celebration, something that the city manager . . . well, manages.
As she tries to make her tiny new apartment feel like home for her and her eight-year-old daughter, Emily, Krista begins to wonder if this move was a mistake. She doesn't always feel welcomed in the close-knit town, and Emily continually wonders, "Where's the snow?" Can a friendly stranger and his family help restore Krista's Christmas spirit before the big day?
If you love Christmas stories, Hallmark style, and a quick, sweet read, you’ll love Christmas in Winter Hill.
Krista and her young daughter Emily long for a place to belong, and those longings bring them from dry, sunny Arizona to the cool mountains of Washington. Emily can’t wait for Christmas—and especially snow, a wonder she’s never experienced. But Krista doubts her wisdom in making this particular move when she realizes Christmas, her least-favorite time of year, is a big deal in Winter Hill. And she’s in charge of the annual celebration.
Enter Connor Harris, the tall, handsome hero. From the time he shows up to help the Galloways move into their apartment, he is a steadying force and helpful friend—and maybe more.
I agree with other reviewers who stated they could envision this book as a Hallmark movie. When I read it, the fluffy sweetness was just what I needed, a Christmasy confection without calories. Christmas in Winter Hill earns four stars. Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.
A short time ago, I accepted a challenge for write a short (400 words) story based on "A Reason For _____." This is the story that whispered to my heart, and I hope it whispers to yours, too.
A REASON FOR BISCUITS
“And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones who is my disciple, truly I tell you, that person will certainly not lose their reward.” (Matthew 10:42)
The rumble of a moving truck caught Anna’s attention, and she shifted the curtain to watch it drive away. A young woman walked out of the other side of the duplex, pushing her dark, wavy hair off her forehead, leaving a smudge of dirt.
Poor thing looked exhausted.
The woman swiveled toward the open door. “Stay there, Tristan. I’m just moving the car.”
Anna’s hand went to her heart. A little boy! She opened the curtain a bit wider. A small child stood in the doorway, dark hair like his mother’s and shoulders slumped.
Moving was hard. In their 53 years of marriage, Anna and Sam had moved seven times, finally landing in this duplex. Anna loved the park right behind them and schools nearby. Children used to fill the area. She enjoyed the noise, the activity, the liveliness of the little ones. Now those kids were grown, and old people like her settled in.
The little boy next door, however, didn’t look lively at all. Moving was extra hard on kids. Anna wished she could help, but her recent hip replacement kept her mostly housebound lately. What could she possibly do to welcome her new neighbours?
“Make biscuits.”
“What? Why biscuits?” Anna tightened her grip on the curtain. She hadn’t baked anything since Sam had dropped his snow shovel and fell into the arms of Jesus eight months and fourteen days ago.
Plain old biscuits didn’t seem like a proper welcome gift. Cookies would be better. Or maybe a casserole. “Are you sure?”
“Make biscuits.” The familiar, silent voice repeated.
“Okay, Lord, biscuits it is.”
A few minutes later, Anna shifted a towel-covered basket on her arm and knocked on the door of the adjoining home. It opened, revealing stacks of boxes behind the bedraggled young woman.
Anna extended her free hand. “Hello, I’m your neighbour, Anna Simons.”
“Hi, Anna. I’m Shanna Boyer.”
Anna offered the basket. “I made some biscuits to welcome you.”
Shanna’s eyes widened and filled. “Biscuits? Really? Tristan! We got biscuits!”
The little boy ran to his mom, his eyes sparkling. “Oh boy!”
Back home later, Anna marveled. Her simple gift had answered Shanna’s prayer for a sign that God still cared. Biscuits had been Shanna's mother’s specialty, one they missed almost as much as they missed her. God knew. And cared.
Anna bowed her head and smiled. “Thank You, Lord, for biscuits.”
Book Review: Deadly Deceit
TITLE: Deadly Deceit (Harbored Secrets Book Two)
AUTHOR: Natalie Walters
Independent and tenacious journalist Vivian DeMarco is back in Walton, Georgia, for one reason: to do her job and get out. When her boss suddenly dies under suspicious circumstances, Vivian's only hope for finding the truth—and the next big story—is small-town law enforcement's lanky poster boy, Deputy Ryan Frost. But the deeper they dig, the more twisted the truth becomes. False leads, incriminating emails, and someone called the Watcher force Vivian to fight for answers—and her life.
Deadly Deceit is a story of presumptions, suspicions, and learning to trust. When Vivian’s boss and mentor dies in spite of her best efforts, she becomes tangled in a web of deceit and danger.
The last time she spent time in Walton (in the previous book, Living Lies which I read but didn’t remember), Ryan saw her tenacity but not her compassion. His distrust of her and attraction to her create their own tension even as they are forced to work together to find the Watcher before he strikes again.
I enjoyed getting to know Ryan and Vivian through this story, even though I couldn’t picture them clearly. Vivian is referred to as a brunette beauty; I wanted more details on her and Ryan’s appearances to make them real in my mind.
The twists and turns in the plot line kept me reading and guessing—the mark of good suspense writing. Faith plays a part in both Vivian’s and Ryan’s character arcs, which I always appreciate.
I received a copy of this book from Baker Publishing Group. Deadly Deceit earns four stars.
Book Review: Protecting Tanner Hollow
TITLE: Protecting Tanner Hollow
Lethal Homecoming
Nolan Tanner never got over Kallie Ainsworth's sudden, unexplained departure. Now when he comes to her rescue after an attempt on her life, all the old feelings come rushing back.
My take: I’d read this story previously and enjoyed reading it again. Family secrets abound and threaten in this well-written novella.
Homecomings should be sweet, right? Not for Kallie. Her abusive step-father was dead, so it should have been safe to return home, but she doesn’t even get to the lake house before an attempt is made to stop her permanently.
Nolan, the man Kallie loved and left, is now a detective in the small town of Tanner Hollow. He’s desperate to save Kallie, in spite of their past.
Plot twists and turns abound in this novella, making it a fast and anxious read. Five stars.
Lethal Conspiracy
When professional fundraiser Lillian Maloney sees her father's campaign manager commit murder, she goes on the run from the men he hires to kill her. A close call brings firefighter Jason Tanner to the rescue, but the killer is closing in . . .
My take: The back copy disappointed me (I’m glad I didn’t read it before diving into the story), because it included a bit of a spoiler. That said, I thoroughly enjoyed the thick tension and fast pace of this novella.
A suicide attempt—at least that’s how it appears—starts this story with a bang. In the brief moments at the fire, Jason connects strongly with the victim, Lilly. When he realizes she’s a target, not suicidal, he determines to help her. No matter what.
Great characters and some surprising twists make this another fantastic read. Five stars.
Lethal Secrets
Someone wants Honor McBride dead. When Eli Murphy helps her change a flat tire and discovers the danger Honor is in, he longs to help--but Eli has secrets of his own that could get them all killed.
My take: When Honor and her five (yes, five!) children drive into Tanner Hollow, danger follows them. Eli is a terrific hero: tall, strong and red-haired. The secrets Honor carries kept me turning the pages, anxious for a happily-ever-after for her and Eli. The five kids add an extra measure of sweetness, and the townspeople warmed my heart.
The only issue I have with this one is not the story itself, but the back copy. After reading the novella twice, I could find no mention of dangerous secrets in Eli’s life. Did I miss it? Twice? However, the threats against Honor were dire enough to carry the story with plenty of tension. A great story, well told. Five stars.
Lethal Agenda
When Detective Derek St. John rescues a woman he's met only once before--and has never been able to forget--he finds himself falling for her. But he'll have to keep Claire Montgomery alive if they're to have a future together.
My take: Derek visits his old friend in Tanner Hollow, Nolan Tanner (now sheriff), and immediately gets involved in a home invasion case. The victim? Claire, forensic supervisor and the woman he’d connected with month ago at a conference.
Levi, Claire’s autistic neighbor, won my heart right away with his stilted language and keen observations. His innocence relieved the tension, but only for a moment. The attacks on Claire continue, and they’re personal.
Another fast-paced, super-suspenseful story, Lethal Agenda wrapped up this four-novella series with a bang. Several bangs. A quick and at times breathless read, it also earns five stars.
Conclusion: Author Lynette Eason has mastered the art of suspenseful romances, with compelling characters, great settings, and plots the keep the pages flipping. And she does it without graphic violence, a trait I greatly appreciate. All four stories in Protecting Tanner Hollow are stellar examples of what a romantic suspense should be.
I received a copy of this book courtesy of the publisher.
Book Review: Stitches in Time
TITLE: Stitches in Time
AUTHOR: Suzanne Woods Fisher
Detachment had worked well as a life strategy for horse trainer Sam Schrock. Until he met Mollie Graber . . .
New to Stoney Ridge, schoolteacher Mollie has come to town for a fresh start. Aware of how fleeting and fragile life is, she wants to live it boldly and bravely. When Luke Schrock, new to his role as deacon, asks the church to take in foster girls from a group home, she's the first to raise her hand. The power of love, she believes, can pick up the dropped stitches in a child's heart and knit them back together.
Mollie envisions sleepovers and pillow fights. What the 11-year-old twins bring to her home is anything but. Visits from the sheriff at midnight. Phone calls from the school truancy officer. And then the most humiliating moment of all: the girls accuse Mollie of drug addiction.
There's only one thing that breaks through the girls' hard shell--an interest in horses. Reluctantly and skeptically, Sam Schrock gets drawn into Mollie's chaotic life. What he didn't expect was for love to knit together the dropped stitches in his own heart . . . just in time.
I loved this story! Stitches in Time begins with Luke Schrock, the recently reformed ne’er-do-well from Mending Fences, receiving an unwelcome assignment as deacon. His determination to prove himself worthy creates a steep learning curve and tension in his marriage to Izzy (also introduced in Mending Fences).
Izzy’s relationship with her sheep provides the central lessons in this sweet story—beautiful analogies of Jesus as our shepherd.
Newcomer Mollie, eager to live life to the fullest, and shy Sam need these lessons to heal their own pasts, and watching their hesitant relationship develop made me smile.
All four main characters, Mollie, Sam, Izzy and Luke, grow through this novel as they learn to follow the Good Shepherd.
Stitches in Time earns five stars and is recommended. Book was provided by Baker Publishing Group.
Oh, My Heart!
Have you ever seen an object that spoke to your soul? One that drew you closer, calling you to listen?
Let’s back up just a bit. For years, I’d harbored a deep desire to watch the art of glass blowing. I’d read about it and seen it in movies, but seeing it in person hovered near the top of my bucket list. The beauty of blown glass amazes me and makes me wonder: How is molten glass shaped into gorgeous and often useful pieces? How are colors added? What tools are used to perform what seems to me to be magic?
Last week, while enjoying a long-awaited holiday on Vancouver Island, I may have mentioned (more than once) that I’d love to visit the glass art shop just a couple of blocks from our rented cabin. My husband, my sister, and her husband graciously agreed to stop and check it out.
But it wasn’t just an art shop. As soon as we entered, I looked past the beautiful creations to the work area. Joy flooded me like the best kind of hot flash—they actually made the pieces right there! When the lady at the desk said the artist would begin his next project in a few minutes, I foresaw another dream coming true. We wandered through the small shop, exclaiming over the intricate details, graceful shapes and exquisite colors.
As promised, within minutes we were treated to a display of skill and artistry as the glass blower transformed a misshapen glob of molten glass into a lovely, multicolored vase. I was enthralled. I think we all were.
It was as wonderful as I’d hoped. Even better, though, was the glass art that spoke to me as I wandered through the enchanted shop. So much beauty! One could not rush, as each trinket and piece outshone the others. I thought I’d seen it all, when I glanced down. A basket on the floor held several glass hearts, swirls of color making them seem somehow alive.
As I gazed at them, my hand reached down and picked up one. It seems fanciful, I know, but it seemed as though it chose me. I knew immediately what it represented.
Within the thick, clear glass, this heart’s top portion is green, the color of life. The bottom part is a rich yet delicate pink, symbolizing love. Binding the two is a sparkling swirl of gold dust. Gold for grace, faith, and hope. And because it's glass, it's fragile and needs a gentle touch. "Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it" (Proverbs 4:23). How amazing is that?
How the artist achieved this stunning work of art is a mystery, and now I hold this mystery in my hands. It is my birthday gift from my wonderful husband, one I will always cherish.
I’m convinced the entire experience was orchestrated by my Lord Jesus Christ, not only to show His love, but to remind me of the glorious riches of the mystery of “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27).
Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift.
P.S. The photo doesn't do this precious heart justice, as reflections mar the image. May we always reflect the beauty of Christ, letting Him shine through us.
Book Review: Dark Ambitions
TITLE: Dark Ambitions (Code of Honor #3)
AUTHOR: Irene Hannon
Former Army Night Stalker Rick Jordan usually has his camp for foster children to himself during the winter months. But someone has visited recently--leaving a trail of blood. One of the two clues left behind tips Rick off to the identity of his visitor, who soon turns up dead. The police deem it an accident, but Rick isn't convinced. With the help of private investigator Heather Shields, he sets out to decipher the remaining clue. Except someone doesn't want them to succeed--and will stop at nothing to keep them from finding the truth.
After reading some Christian suspense novels whose violence disturbed me, I was ready to give up on that category of books. But Irene Hannon has never failed me with either sweet romances or page-flipping suspense, so I gave Dark Ambitions a chance. I’m glad I did. Suspense? Definitely. Romance? Oh, yeah. Toe-tingling, in fact.
Ms. Hannon’s first two Code of Honor books had primed me to enjoy Dark Ambitions, and reconnecting with the crew at Phoenix Inc. was a joy. Heather, the “new girl” in a tight-knit group, quickly gained my admiration with her determination to succeed tempered by fear of another failure.
Rick makes a perfect hero—impressive good looks, deeply caring, unyielding in his quest for justice, and yet troubled by his past, too.
The supporting cast of characters added much to the story, sometimes eliciting a smile. Even the villain evoked some sympathy, evidence of Ms. Hannon’s amazing talent. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this story and award it five stars. Recommended!
Disclaimer: I received a copy of Dark Ambitions courtesy of Graf-Martin Communications and Baker Publishing Group.
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Surrounded by his family, Gilbert "Gil" Manly Black, age 71, loving husband of 44 years to Margaret "Peggy" (Reid) Black, passed away peacefully on July 27, 2019 at the Saint John Regional Hospital.
Born on December 11, 1947 in Holtville, NB, he was the son of the late, Margaret Black (Walter Lyons).
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Are you spending enough time in Google Analytics?
July 10, 2016 Peter Baron
Let me pose this question — how many hours a week do you spend creating and posting content to your school’s front end website? I’m guessing it’s a sizeable chunk of time and for good reason.
Your site ranks among the most important marketing tools you have to attract new students and to teach them about the many benefits of your school.
But how do often do we check our analytics software, and it’s most likely you’re running Google Analytics, to gauge if the content and site design decisions we’re making are generating the right ROI?
While diving into Google Analytics (GA) may be on your to do weekly to-do checklist, it’s not uncommon for it to get pushed down the list as more and more tasks get stacked on your plate.
In episode 37 of Blackbaud K-12’s Get Connected Podcast, Daren Worcester, our resident digital marketing expert, joins me to talk about why it’s critical to spend more time in GA.
He’s here to help you focus your effort in Google Analytics, demystify reporting and give some advice on how GA can help schools who are prepping for a site redesign.
For a full breakdown of what we covered, make sure to check out the expanded episode notes/Q&A section below.
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Episode Notes/Q&A:
For folks who are new to website analytics, why do you recommend that they install Google analytics on their sites?
Daren Worcester (DW): Analytics are key to understanding how visitors are interacting with the site. It’s a lot more than seeing what pages are popular, and which ones aren’t—it’s about gaining insight to make informed decisions regarding the website’s navigation and content, as well as the school’s other online marketing efforts.
Why is it critical for schools to carve out time to spend with Google Analytics? While diving into GA may be on a communication office’s checklist, what are some of the reasons why it may fall down the list as time goes on?
DW: The key term there is “time.” I think a lot of people sign into Google Analytics for the first time, and they get a little overwhelmed by all of the reports and the numbers, they’re not sure what they should be taking away from the data, and therefore it all looks like work that they just don’t have time for.
I actually see it the other way around. I see Google Analytics as a potential time saver. Schools are already spending time managing their websites, from creating new pages to writing news stories—through analytics they can ensure that this is time well spent. For example, if you’re planning a content calendar for news stories, wouldn’t you want to know which news stories get read, and which ones don’t? And if you had that information, wouldn’t you want to spend your time writing stories that will get read?
Getting this information with Blackbaud School Website System™ (formerly onMessage®) site is easier than you might think. By going to the all pages report and filtering for news, you can see analytics on news stories. Once you know the type of news stories that are popular, you can plan new articles with similar topics.
For a school just starting to look at their web data, what advice would you offer them to help focus their attention and not get overwhelmed?
DW: I see three key ingredients to getting started with GA, and if I can throw in a quick plug, we offer a Google Analytics basics workshop to cover these essentials:
Make sure the school’s account is best configured so that the data being reviewed is “good” data for the school’s purposes. What I mean by this is that there are certain account configurations that can significantly alter how data displays. For example, by putting in a filter to ignore traffic from the school’s IP addresses, Google Analytics can be set only to display data from those outside of the school. This means that students and faculty who are on the site every day, many simply to log in, aren’t stacking the data deck in one direction. Of course, if you’re going to do this, it’s always important to keep a “clean” set of data that’s unfiltered, so there’s always something to compare the filtered information to.
Take a little time to understand the basics of how the reports function. This is basic stuff such as knowing how to adjust the reporting time period and compare it to another date period. For schools, a month to month comparison often isn’t valid because website data can change significantly from one month to another. Therefore, it’s often better to compare a month such as September against the previous year.
It’s also important to understand the terminology used in the reports. For example, a lot of people ask about the difference between sessions, users and page views. Sessions refer to “visits” on a site, “users” are the amount of people, and pageviews are the total amount of times a page has been viewed regardless of whether or not someone has already viewed the page.
Tip: if you aren’t sure what something in Google Analytics means…Google it.
It’s important for schools to understand the reports that are important to them. Google Analytics has a lot of advanced features for e-commerce sites that are studying click-through rates. You don’t need to feel like you’re using Google Analytics wrong if you aren’t utilizing these reports. Keep it simple by monitoring the reports that correspond with the school’s marketing efforts. More often than not, this is going to mean reviewing the traffic acquisition reports.
For example, a school spending a lot of time publishing on Facebook would want to look at social referrals to make sure the efforts are translating into website traffic. Take it one step further, and Landing Page traffic could be segmented to show landing pages from Facebook referrals. Now you’re seeing the top pages people came to from Facebook, which, similar to our news example before, provides insight into the types of Facebook posts that drive traffic to the website, and which ones don’t. Going forward, do more of what works, and less of what doesn’t.
You mention the importance of understanding the report concepts, and not too long ago we did a blog post on demystifying bounce rate—can you elaborate on that here?
DW: Bounce rate is an often misunderstood analytic that can inadvertently cause people to jump to conclusions.
Google search doesn’t review Google Analytics data, so they aren’t looking at bounce rate the same way we are in the GA reports. They care more about dwell time, which is a measurement of the amount of time someone stays on the site after being referred by Google search results.
We often see our schools having high bounce rates on their homepages, but this is usually due to parents continuously coming to the home page to then “leave” the site via the login link. By segmenting Google Analytics to show bounce rate by organic search traffic and new users, we’re able to get a better perspective for how the Google search team is interpreting the site’s usage.
If someone is new to Google Analytics, how do they know what a “good” bounce rate or time on page result is?
DW: There are some basic measuring sticks for each. For bounce rate:
26-40% — Excellent
41-55% — Average
55-70% — Above Average (not necessarily cause for concern)
> 70% — Concerning
Time on page:
< 30 seconds — Concerning
31 seconds to 2 minutes — Average
> 2 minutes — Outstanding
If a school’s considering a re-design, it’s important to make the commitment to understanding their site analytics. How can grabbing hold of the numbers help them make better decisions when it comes time to design the new site? Daren offers advice along with the following instructions on how to set up the Site Search/Search Terms report that’s under the Behavior reports. See it all below:
DW: Great question. For starters, Google Analytics can help a school make a business case for when the right time to redesign is. Historically, this has meant monitoring trends to see what the width of a website is compared to the user’s screen resolution. Today, measuring width is out the window because it’s all about mobile usage. A school looking to convince leadership and trustees that it’s time to redesign to a responsive website need only look at the traffic reports by a device. Some schools are seeing as much as 50% of traffic on mobile devices, but for most the average is likely in the mid-thirties. Also, since Google updated its mobile search algorithm in April of 2015, non-mobile websites could be losing search referral traffic, and Google Analytics can show whether this is happening.
On the flip side of the coin, schools that have redeveloped to a mobile-friendly site can monitor mobile search referrals to see if they are getting more traffic since the Google release.
The other aspect to redesign planning would be to do a navigation and content audit. Running a pageviews report will quickly show the pages that are the top performers, and those that aren’t. For everything in between, reviewing bounce rate with time on page will help show pages that are underperforming. This may be because a page really isn’t necessary on the site, or it could be because it needs a content makeover.
When I’m doing a content audit, one of my favorite reports is the Site Search/Search Terms report that’s under the Behavior reports. This report needs to be activated in the Admin > View Settings by turning on “Site Search Tracking” and then in Query parameter field enter the letter “Q” for Blackbaud School Website System. What this report does is it will show the search terms people are using when using the on-site search feature. This is invaluable info from a navigation and content perspective as it shows whether there’s info people are looking for that is either missing from the site or hard to find.
What are dashboards within GA? Why are they a helpful tool to keep school leaders in the loop when it comes to site growth?
DW: Dashboards are great because they rollup information from various reports into one location for a quick review. Think of it as one-stop shopping for the school’s website KPIs. Of course, Google makes it easy to create, customize, and share dashboards.
What sort of things should be on a dashboard for an admission director, head of school, communications director?
DW: There’s likely a lot of crossover between what the roles would be interested in seeing, but this can be a fun little exercise. Let’s start with Admission Directors; they’re probably concerned pageviews, especially those in the admissions section. One exercise I like to do with schools is to look at the amount of pageviews on the application process page, and then compare it to the actual number of applications received over a specific period. Most schools have a ratio of 8-11% of pageviews resulting in applications, so this number holds pretty steady. Once a school figures this out, then can then forecast what they’ll need in increased pageviews to meet future application goals. Knowing the goal then enables them to plan how they will make that number—whether it be through SEO, social media, traditional advertising, etc.
Sorry, that was a bit of a tangent…that leads us to the Head of School. If I were a head of school, I’d want to see a rollup of traffic acquisition data. Knowing the efforts the team is putting into things like organic search optimization, paid search campaigns, social media, e-mail campaigns, etc., I’d want to see on a monthly basis whether this work is paying off.
And if I were a communication’s director, I’d want to review that same info on a weekly basis to have time to digest and build upon it before sharing the results with the head of school. I’d also want a deeper roll up of the data then what the head of school would necessarily see. When we work with schools on Google Analytics, we typically help them set up a dashboard solely for Facebook. Here we will show the top landing pages on the site from Facebook referrals, which we talked about earlier, but we’ll also show basic counts of “new users” and “unique pageviews.” Remember, reporting doesn’t have to be overly complicated, and sometimes, the simpler, the better. Has the work we’ve done on Facebook this month earned us more or less “new user” traffic? Once you know the answer to that question, you can diagnose the “why.”
How can they add Google Analytics to a Blackbaud School Website System site?
DW: Within the Admin area, they need to go into the Property setting for .js Tracking Info and Tracking Code. On the Tracking Code screen, copy the embed code provided, and then go to Blackbaud School Website System > Site Settings > and paste the code into the Google Analytics box on the Settings page.
We have a Jing video showing how to do this here: http://screencast.com/t/90bEQsJGFIy
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Peter Baron is the Chief Member Relations Officer at the Enrollment Management Association. Prior to joining EMA, Peter served as a senior product marketing manager, for Blackbaud K-12. Peter is the founder of edSocialMedia, a community-driven site dedicated to exploring the role of social media in education. He regularly contributes to various online communities and education conferences like NAIS, CASE/NAIS & SSATB to explain the importance of providing modern, user-friendly experiences for school constituents. Peter also serves as a trustee for Wolfeboro, The Summer Boarding School and is an Executive Committee member of TABS’ North American Boarding School Initiative.
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GTA Online's New Modes Are More Creative Than You'd Expect
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Grand Theft Auto Online is always being updated. Every week new events and discounts go live, and many recent updates have also added new modes. Here’s a roundup of some of the modes added in the last few months. Many of these newer modes show GTA Online continuing to head into an interesting direction, including a mode that seems to be built specifically for fans of Cops ‘n’ Crooks from GTA IV.
Deluxo, Stromberg & Thruster Races
Added May 1, 2018
The Deluxo, a flying car that looks like a Delorean; The Stromberg, a submersible super car; and the Thruster, the long-awaited jetpack, were all added to GTA Online in the Doomsday Heist update back in December 2017. Five months later, Rockstar added 10 new stunt races featuring these over-the-top vehicles.
The submersible car races are my favorite. The Stromberg handles well both under the waves and on the track. The Stromberg races also balanced the underwater sections and the above water sections nicely. As cool as a submersible car is, after a few minutes the lack of speed and danger slows the race down, so Rockstar smartly limited how often you dive under the waves. The best use of the submersible car is during a giant vertical drop into the ocean. Timing when to switch the car into sub mode as you are falling 100+ mph and then crashing into the ocean is exciting.
Visually, The Deluxo flying car might have the coolest-looking race tracks. Drenched in neon and trippy tunnels, I felt like I was driving through an 80s nightclub. Flying around in The Deluxo isn’t easy at first, but once I got the hang of it I was even able to win a few races.
Of these 10 new special races the most disappointing were the jetpack races. The Thruster is a fun vehicle to mess around with, but it isn’t great as a racing vehicle. The community seems to agree, as I was able to find active lobbies of Deluxo races and Stromberg races but had to wait 10 minutes to find one other player who wanted to race jetpacks.
Added May 15, 2018
Trap Door is basically a team deathmatch mode played in large arenas filled with cover. What makes Trap Door different is that throughout the match areas of the map, colored red, will disappear. Players who fall through these “trap doors” will be unable to respawn. Kills aren’t the main focus of Trap Door; instead the mode is about positioning and pinning down players, forcing them into areas where their options for escape are limited while also avoiding the red danger areas yourself. Unfortunately, matches sometimes become too focused on camping and hiding.The arenas also aren’t super memorable or interesting to fight in.
The biggest flaw I ran into while trying to play Trap Door is the lobby before the shooting even begins. In Trap Door matches can start with only two or three players, which means if the host of the match isn’t paying attention, a match can start with 2 vs 1. This can happen even if the host has “balanced teams” on. Considering how not many fans continue playing older modes, this problem may only become worse as fewer players come back to Trap Door.
On foot combat focused modes in GTA Online can be very hit and miss. A lot of them feel less like new modes and more like slightly reskinned deathmatches. Trap Door feels different and at times tense, but a few problems keep it from being great.
The Vespucci Job
One of the most popular and beloved modes from GTA IV’s multiplayer was Cops ‘n’ Crooks. For years fans have wanted this mode brought back into GTA Online. Some information came out last year that seemed to imply that at one point Rockstar was actually planning to make a version of GTA Online that would have been heavily inspired by Cops ‘n’ Crooks, but that version was scrapped.
Now, all these years later, GTA Online has finally received a mode that is similar to Cops ‘n’ Crooks. As someone who loved the original mode in GTA IV, The Vespucci Job isn’t a perfect alternative, but it’s still a blast to play.
The basic idea is the same: A team of cops and a team of criminals face off against each other. The cops are trying to catch the crooks. But now instead of trying to escape, the criminals are trying to reach 15 checkpoints dotted around the map, which the police can’t see, in a limited amount of time. Unlike Cops ‘n’ Crooks, The Vespucci Job is played entirely in cars and players can’t use any weapons.
The lack of weapons is a plus, as it forces all players to focus on the vehicle pursuit instead of trying to nail a lucky headshot. Cops have to use their squad cars and the environment to slow down and stop the criminals.
If a criminal or cop gets stuck, they can respawn, but criminals lose 20 seconds for doing so. While I understand that letting criminals respawn keeps matches from feeling too frustrating, as a cop it was disappointing to use teamwork and skillful driving to catch a criminal in a tight alley, only for them to respawn away to safety. Maybe limiting criminals to one respawn or making the penalty for respawning greater would help.
Nearly every match I played had the criminals winning. The only time I won was when criminals would forget to respawn and would instead try to push their way through a blockade of police cruisers. Some rebalancing could help this mode been even better.
Weeny Issi Classic Races
Added June 19, 2018
The latest addition to GTA Online is a series of races featuring the Weeny Issi Classic, which is a car based on the real life Mini Cooper. The car is famously featured in the film The Italian Job, a movie which Rockstar has a connection to. Not only is the recently-added The Vespucci Job mode clearly inspired by the film, but Rockstar also published a game in the US in 2001 based on the original film.
The Weeny Issi is a hard-to-control small car that will almost always want to spin out around fast turns. Controlling the little beast can be tricky, but once I was able to get a handle on it, I had a great time racing around the new tracks.
One of my favorite tracks involves a giant soccer field that even has a soccer ball on it. The track weaves through the field a few times and forces players to dodge oncoming racers. It almost feels like a match of Rocket League, but with less rocket cars and more Mini Coopers. The new tracks aren’t as wild or hard as some previous tracks, but that’s probably for the better. A lot of the fun in these Weeny Issi races is driving in a full match filled with out of control Mini Coopers flying around tight turns and big jumps.
As I was heading through a colorful and floating neon tunnel in a flying car and then later fighting on top of a shrinking platform high above a lake, I did think about how different these newer races and modes feel from past GTA content. A lot of the new content added into GTA Online over the last year or so has felt like it could have fallen out of an unreleased Saints Row game.
That’s not a bad thing. I enjoy Rockstar experimenting more with their multiplayer modes. Not all of these new more experimental modes are winners, but I’m still happy that Rockstar is doing more with GTA Online beyond more street races and deathmatch variants. I really hope to see this type of experimentation continue, not just in future GTA Online updates, but in the upcoming Red Dead 2.
Zack Zwiezen is a a writer living in Kansas City, Missouri. He has written for Gamecritics, Killscreen and Entertainment Fuse.
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Kingerlee have had a busy few weeks reaping the success of a number of their projects.
Structural Awards – Archive Centre at Waddesdon was short listed against a very strong international field.
Aylesbury Vale Design awards- The new Arts block at Stowe school received a commendation and Waddesdon was announced as one of the winners.
Concrete Society Awards – The new Kendrew Quadrangle at St John’s College , Oxford received a commendation and features over four pages in their November journal.
Wood Awards – Waddesdon won the structural section along with the overall Gold Award.
RIBA Awards – Both Waddesdon and St John’s College won their sections and received plaques and certificates to mark their success. The awards ceremony took place at the RIBA headquarters in London.
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Digital and Print Publishing is a hands-on program—a one-year, three-term Diploma designed to provide a broad base of experience in electronic and print publishing.
In the production courses, students work to create a diverse range of work for their portfolios—including Pacific Rim Magazine, a full-color magazine distributed in the Globe and Mail, and LangaraPRM.com, a professional dynamic website they code from the ground up.
First Semester: Design Foundations, Software & Writing
The first semester equips students with the foundational software and design skills needed for subsequent semesters. Here, a full twelve credits are devoted to Adobe Creative Cloud—six for Photoshop, and three each for Illustrator and InDesign. This allows for the development of professional-level skills with industry-standard tools.
Tightly coupled with these software classes is the six-credit Graphic Design course. This integration of the courses is a fundamental aspect of the program: to have software skills these days is of course important, but those skills are infinitely more valuable when combined with design knowledge and ability.
In the two other first term classes—Writing for Publication and Publishing Issues and Practices—students learn how to pitch, research, and write stories that engage readers and how to manage the technical, practical, and legal demands of work in the creative industries.
Second Semester: The Print Publishing Process
Second semester courses such as Advanced Typography build on the skills developed in the first term while courses like Magazine & Offset Print Production I & II support the production of Pacific Rim Magazine while teaching real-world processes.
In addition to honing their print production skills, students in second term work in collaborative groups with their classmates and with students in the Professional Photography and Business programs. This is an opportunity to produce a significant large project—from concept through to attending the press check.
Third Semester: The Web
The primary focus of the final semester is electronic publishing: 12 of the summer term's 17 credits are devoted to web design and production.
In Web Design Fundamentals, student learn how to code HTML & CSS. Responsive design—building websites that adapt to phone, tablet, and desktop—is stressed from day one.
In Advanced Web Design, students learn how to design and code for Content Management Systems like WordPress, acquiring the ability to produce and manage sophisticated database-driven websites.
Finally, students build their portfolios in the Self-Promotion in the Publishing Industry course and learn job search strategies to gain employment upon graduation.
Program content and the order of courses may be subject to modification without notice, prior to the commencement of the program, although the main scope of the curriculum will be unchanged.
Diploma in Digital and Print Publishing
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PUBL 1115 Writing for Publication
Lecture Hours: 3.0 | Seminar: 1.0 | Lab: 0.0
This course examines how to write for publication in popular media. Most lessons concentrate on magazine writing, but advertising copywriting and writing for the Internet are also explored. Students generate and summarize story topics, and learn interviewing and research techniques. The focus is on gathering compelling content and writing with a tone that engages the audience.
Prerequisite(s): One of the following: a minimum of 80% in BC English 12, BC English Literature 12, BC English 12 First Peoples, or equivalent; IB English A1 (Higher Level) with a score of 5 or higher; AP English Composition or Literature with a score of 4 or higher; LET level 3 or higher; LPI with a minimum of 26 on the essay plus one of: 5 in English usage, 5 in sentence structure, or 10 in reading comprehension; IELTS with a minimum level 6.5 and a minimum of 6.0 in Reading and Writing; TOEFL (internet-based) score of 80 with a minimum of 18 in Listening, 18 in Speaking, 20 in Reading, and 20 in Writing; TOEFL (paper-based) with a minimum of 550 with TWE (essay) score of 4.0; CAEL with a minimum of 70 overall with a minimum of 70 on essay; successful completion of a post-secondary English or Communications course with a minimum "C-" grade for which Langara offers university-transferable credit; ENGL 1120 at Langara College with a minimum "C" grade.
PUBL 1120 Graphic Design
Students are introduced to the visual communication and graphic design profession within the publishing industry through exploration of design principles and the creative process. This project-oriented course will focus on building strong visual communication skills with an emphasis on portfolio development.
College credit will be given for only one of the following courses: PUBL 1120, 1118, and 1159.
Prerequisite(s): One of the following: a minimum of 80% in BC English 12, BC English Literature 12, BC English 12 First Peoples, or equivalent; IB English A1 (Higher Level) with a score of 5 or higher; AP English Composition or Literature with a score of 4 or higher; LET level 3 or higher; LPI with a minimum of 26 on the essay plus one of: 5 in English usage, 5 in sentence structure, or 10 in reading comprehension; IELTS with a minimum level 6.5 and a minimum of 6.0 in Reading and Writing; TOEFL (internet-based) score of 80 with a minimum of 18 in Listening, 18 in Speaking, 20 in Reading, and 20 in Writing; TOEFL (paper-based) with a minimum of 550 and a TWE (essay) score of 4.0; CAEL with a minimum of 70 overall and a minimum of 70 on essay; successful completion of a post-secondary English or Communications course with a minimum "C-" grade for which Langara offers university-transferable credit; ENGL 1120 at Langara College with a minimum "C" grade.
Corequisite(s): PUBL 1129 or equivalent.
PUBL 1124 Adobe Photoshop
This assignment-intensive, hands-on course will provide a broad understanding of current imaging techniques. The interface and tools of Adobe Photoshop will be explored in-depth with topics including raw file optimization, colour correction, colour management, selections, masks, paths, retouching, compositing, sharpening and leveraging a variety of colour spaces. Preparing images for reproduction in print and electronic display will be explored thoroughly. Students will also create Actions to automate workflows.
PUBL 1129 Page Layout Software
This course serves as a foundation to magazine design and production courses. The page layout software application used in the industry is taught, including its uses and applications as tools for graphic design and production artists, including integration with other graphics-related applications. Instruction, exercises and projects are designed to develop proficiency in using the application through mini-lesson demonstrations, in-class exercises, projects, and lab time. In addition to using the software as a creative tool, students are also introduced to preparing press-ready files for commercial printing.
College credit will be given for only one of PUBL 1129 and 1126.
PUBL 1131 Digital Illustration Tools and Software
In this hands-on, project-based course, students will learn to use illustration software currently used in the publishing and graphic design industries. Software applications feature precise drawing and transformation tools, layering, compound paths, colour and typographic tools. Students will create vector-based illustrative materials, such as logos, graphics, drawings and illustrations, and icons, in black-and-white, spot and full colour. The ability to combine illustration and photo-manipulation software is explored, while gaining familiarity with industry terms and press-ready file preparation. Students will also have an opportunity to use graphics tablets.
PUBL 1240 Publishing Issues and Practices
This course looks at publishing management practices and issues in magazine, book, corporate and Internet publishing. Topics will vary according to current publishing issues and may include circulation management, subscription fulfilment, book and magazine promotion, electronic rights, advertorials, e-books, print-on-demand, marketing to advertisers, the vanity press, split-run magazines, choice of publishing formats, stakeholder groups in corporate publishing, and government support for publications. A few classes will shift to a seminar format involving discussion of management practices pertinent to the publication of Pacific Rim Magazine.
PUBL 1155 Editing Theory and Techniques
Through work on Pacific Rim Magazine and other projects, students will engage in substantive editing, copy editing, and proofreading. Topics include content development, communication with authors, structure and organization of articles, fact checking, writing of titles and subtitles, copyright, libel, and tone and level of language. Students will create style guidelines for Pacific Rim Magazine and prepare copy with attention to matters of style, usage, grammar, and mechanics.
Prerequisite(s): A minimum "C" grade in PUBL 1115.
PUBL 1157 Advanced Typography
Students learn about typography at an advanced level through a combination of hands-on projects, research, and the evaluation of typography as a core element of publication design: books, magazines, and electronic media. This course explores the subtleties of type in relation to audience, page structure, and personal style.
Prerequisite(s): A minimum "C" grade in PUBL 1120 and PUBL 1129.
PUBL 1158 Magazine Design
Students will take a hands-on, project-based approach to magazine design with Pacific Rim Magazine as the main project. Topics include publication planning, developing appropriate magazine formats, design considerations, typography and page layout, photography and graphics considerations including stock photography and photo shoots, the make-up of a magazine, and designing advertising. The main software programs are those for print, taught in the previous semester.
Prerequisite(s): Minimum "C" grade in all previous term PUBL courses, or permission of the department.
PUBL 1161 Magazine and Offset Print Production I
Students build portfolio-driven colour publishing projects, with a focus on preparing materials for commercial printing. They continue to learn industry standards for providing print-ready digital files, including type, images, and illustrations to create a magazine. Magazine workflow, planning, and organization are explored, including prepress techniques and proofing methods required for high-quality printed publications, in preparation for producing Pacific Rim Magazine, the key project of the Digital and Print Publishing program. Digital printing and current trends in electronic publication production are also introduced. Industry tours to commercial printers, publishing houses, and other related businesses are typically scheduled in the early part of the semester.
PUBL 1164 Magazine and Offset Print Production II
In this lab-intensive course, students use skills learned in previous courses to produce the printed issue of Pacific Rim Magazine, the key project of the Digital and Print Publishing program. Students learn how to create colour proofs and assess contract proofs supplied by the commercial printer. This full-colour prepress process, one of the most sophisticated and widely-used forms of publishing, is a major focus of the Digital and Print Publishing program. Once the newsstand quality magazine is printed, it is distributed throughout the Vancouver area. Other topics include preflighting publication files, working to a magazine schedule, and tracking time.
Prerequisite(s): A minimum "C" grade in PUBL 1161 (may be taken concurrently).
PUBL 1220 Web Design Fundamentals
Students will learn to write standards-compliant HTML and CSS and author websites that "respond" to modern devices or browsers and degrade gracefully in older ones. Modern approaches to web typography and graphics will figure prominently.
Prerequisite(s): A minimum "C" grade in PUBL 1120 and PUBL 1124, or a minimum "C" grade in DSGN 1250 and DSGN 1255.
PUBL 1232 Advanced Web Design
Building upon PUBL 1220 - Web Design Fundamentals - this course will introduce students to a content management system (CMS) such as WordPress. In the production of their own portfolio sites, students will learn how to design, code, maintain, and secure CMS-driven websites.
Prerequisite(s): A minimum "C" grade in PUBL 1220 or permission of the department.
PUBL 1235 Web Production I
In this lab-intensive course, students will form development and production teams to create the current year's online version of Pacific Rim Magazine. The skills learned in Web Design Fundamentals (PUBL 1220) and the concurrent Advanced Web Design (PUBL 1232) will serve as the foundation for the production of langaraprm.com. A core outcome of this course will be to design and implement this database-driven site.
Prerequisite(s): A minimum 'C' grade in PUBL 1220 or permission of the department.
Corequisite(s): PUBL 1232.
PUBL 1241 Self-Promotion in the Publishing Industry
Students learn self-promotion techniques to increase their employability and to market their work as freelancers. They develop a portfolio that highlights their specialty in design, production or editing. Other topics include business practices, market research, client negotiations, and presentation skills.
Prerequisite(s): Minimum 'C' grade in all previous term PUBL courses, or permission of the department.
MARK 2400 Integrated Marketing Communications
This course builds on the essential marketing concepts by focusing on the promotional elements in marketing strategy known as Integrated Marketing Communications.
Topics include effective integration of advertising, social media, direct/internet marketing, sales promotion, public relations, event marketing and personal selling. Students will be comfortable evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of each element of the promotion mix and be able to recommend the appropriate mix for a given situation. In addition we will cover; the role of IMC, the IMC strategic planning process, budgeting, creative development, media strategy, execution and evaluation. The material will be taught using lectures, case studies, guest speakers and assignments.
Students will receive credit for only one of MARK 2323 and 2400.
Prerequisite(s): MARK 1115; and one of the following: a minimum 67% in BC English 12 or equivalent; a minimum 67% in BC English Literature 12; a minimum 67% in BC English First Peoples 12; a university-level English or Communications course for which Langara awards transfer credit; a minimum "C" grade in ENGL 1120; a minimum "C-" grade in ENGL 1121; a "S" grade in one of ENGL 1107, 1108, or 1110; a minimum Level 3 on the LET; LEAP 8; LPI with a minimum 26 on the essay and one of 5 in English usage, 5 in sentence structure, or 10 in reading comprehension; or PUBL 1115 and 1155.
Program Option Notes:
In order to graduate, students need a minimum "C" grade in all courses used towards the Digital and Print Publishing credential.
Thinking of applying?
Applications for Sept. 2020 are now being accepted. Apply now!
PRM in Print & Online
The 2019 issue of Pacific Rim Magazine launched in May. Check out the digital edition at issuu.com.
LangaraPRM.com launched its latest version in August. Designed and coded by the 2019 class, the site has nearly all of the articles that have appeared in the print magazine over the last twenty years.
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DoLE to probe foreign illegal workers
Lee Ann Ducusin
THE Department of Labor and Employment has expressed alarm on the significant number of illegal foreign nationals working in the country noting it only issued Alien Employment Permits to 115,000 foreigners.
Labor Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III said alarm bells rang after Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon claimed there are around 400,000 foreigners working in Metro Manila.
“DoLE is bothered by the report of increasing number of foreign workers in the country. Whether it is true or not, the only thing we are certain is that there are only around 115,000 foreign workers with Alien Employment Permit (AEP) issued by DoLE regional directors,” he said.
The labor chief said that DoLE is strengthening its AEP enforcement mechanism through inspections at workplace levels to check on the illegals, as well as validate the issuance of work permits to foreign workers.
“Maybe the other foreign nationals working might not have valid alien permits. DOLE checks on the illegals and further validates the issuance of AEPs to the foreign workers, to check the nature of their work, particularly if the field of expertise can be done by a Filipino,” he said.
Bello also clarified that DoLE is not the only permit-issuing agency that allows foreign nationals to work in the country.
Other agencies that issue working permits to foreign workers include the Department of Environment and Natural Resources for geoscience and mining industry; the Professional Regulation Commission for the practice of regulated professions; the Department of Justice for nationalized or partially nationalized industries; and the Bureau of Immigration, for the pre-arranged employment visa or 9G.
Based on the latest data of the Bureau of Local Employment, there are 115,652 foreign nationals that were issued with AEP, of which 51,980 are Chinese, 12, 177 Japanese and 11,780 Korean for a three-year period from 2015 to 2017.
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The Philippine Embassy Chancery on Bataan St. in Washington is an expression of the state of the Philippines Today. Old, decrepit and ailing like the Philippine economy propped up by the remittances of Filipino workers abroad. The ECPP NEWS elarned this from the Filipino writer Rodney Jaleco who said; “ blast from the past, the historic Philippine chancery finally reopens its doors in a few weeks. The old chancery stands opposite the present Philippine Embassy building along Massachusetts Ave. NW. It was purchased in the 1930s by Resident Commissioner (the Philippine representative to the US Congress) Joaquin Elizalde. It served as the seat of the Philippine government-in-exile during World War II.
Nationwide Protests Demanding Justice for Maguindanao Massacre Victims (tags)
On the International Human Rights Day, and the whole week before that the Filipino American community was on the protest mode. The Alliance Philippines strongly expressed its militant support to the people’s movement in the Philippines oppose to the declaration of martial law and demanded justice for Maguindanao massacre victims by holding protests in key cities all over the United States from December 5 to 10, 2009. - Last December 5, Ugnayan ng mga Anak ng Bayan New York/New Jersey Chapter held their 5th anniversary celebrations by honoring the victims of the Maguindanao Massacre. The event was held at the Renaissance Charter Schoo at Jackson Height , new York City from 10:00 Am to 5:00 PM. - On December 8, a Community Forum led by the AJLPP, ANSWER-LA and AFFIRM was held at the FACLA Social Hall, 1740 W. Temple St. Los Angeles, Ca 90026. A panel of speakers from different organizations condemning the massacre featured the event. A candle-light ceremony capped the tribute and honor to the 64 victims of untold cruelties. - On December 10, International Human Rights Day, scores of activists held a candle light vigil and a picket/rally at the Philippine Consulate at Wilshire Blvd. from 6:30 to 8:00 in the evening.
COMMUNITY FORUM AND MEMORIAL MEETING HELD , DEC 8 at FACLA (tags)
Scores of Filipino Americans and their American allies held a solemn memorial meeting to remember the 64 victims of the Maguindanao Massacre last November 23, 2009 last Tuesday night on December 8, 2009 at the Filipino American Community of Los Angeles (FACLA), 1740 W. Temple St. Los Angeles, CA 90026 In a candle light vigil, the 64 people who were killed in the most gruesome massacre in the most recent Philippine History last November 23, 2009 in Ampatuan, Maguindanao among them 31 media people were memorialized .
RALLY/VIGIL FOR JUSTICE, Dec 10 at Phil Consulate, 3600 Wilshire Blvd. LA (tags)
RALLY/VIGIL FOR JUSTICE, DISMANTLE THE WARLORDS AND PRIVATE ARMIES! NO TO US INTERVENTION IN THE PHILIPPINES! OUST THE US- ARROYO REGIME! THURSDAY, AT 6;30 PM DECEMBER 10, 2009 Philippine Consulate General, Los Angeles 3600 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90010
Los Angeles debut of Victory Day, in aid of human trafficking (tags)
Los Angeles debut of Victory Day, in aid of human trafficking
Protest for Justice for the Armenians (tags)
“Stop the Protocols” is rallying the entire community, and all youth in particular, to gather at the consulate Friday and express their disapproval of the Swiss government’s role in drafting a set of one-sided protocols that threaten Armenia and undermine the rights of all Armenians.
FILIPINO -AMERICANS HOLDS MEMORIAL MASSES/PRAYERS FOR PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT CORY (tags)
The Filipino American community held prayer meetings and memorial masses for President Cory Aquino on August 4 and 6 in Los Angeles. On Thursday, August 6, the memorial mass was held at the St.Columban Filipino Church in Historic Filipinotwn Los Angeles. It was led by the Echo Park Community Coalition. Veterans of the anti-martial law movement in the United States and in the Philippines were present at the mass. Fr, john Brannnigan, a friend of the Aquino family and Fr, Frisco Entines, a veteran rights advocate officiated the mass. The solemn mass songs in Filipino was sung by the Parish Generation Choir.
FILAM COMMUNITY HOLDS MEMORIAL MASS FOR PRESIDENT CORY AQUINO, AUG 6 (tags)
The Filipino American community led by the Parish Community of St. Columban Church will hold a memorial mass for President Cory Aquino on the feast of transfiguration on Thursday, 7:00PM - August 6, 2009 at the St. Columban Filipino Church at 125 S. Loma Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90026 in Historic Filipinotown. The endorsing organizations for the memorial mass are the Bangon Pilipino,Bangon Pilipinas, Confederation of Filipino American Organizations (CONFAA)-Carson, Council of Fil-Am Leaders of Southern California, Echo Park Community Coalition (EPCC), Filipino American Community of Los Angeles (FACLA), Justice for Filipino American Veterans (JFAV), Parish Generation Choir of St. Columban and Search to Involve the Pilipino Americans (SIPA).
US HAS A HAND ON PROPOSED CHARTER CHANGE (tags)
In a press conference held on Monday June 2, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said the U.S. military’s partnership with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) can be used as a model in fighting terrorism worldwide. Gates made the statement during his visit to Manila for a high level meeting with his Philippine counterpart - Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilbert Teodoro. Clearly this was a vote of confidence on the Arroyo regime's on-going war against legitimate people's movements in the Philippines from a key member of the Obama Team himself. Emboldened by Gate's statement and promise of continuing military assistance from the United States, on June 3, against the backdrop of worsening economic crisis, of intensifying political killings and forced disappearances and escalating military conflict in Southern Philippines - in a brazen act of indifference and cowardice - the Arroyo controlled congress passed House Resolution 1109 which turned the lower house into a constituent assembly. This will make it possible for the U.S.- Arroyo regime to tinker with the 1987 constitution to further tighten and continue their stranglehold on the country and its people.
The Hands Have It (tags)
Mexican-American War: Prelude to American Civil War (tags)
Spartacist League Black History Month Forum
JEWS SHUT DOWN LOS ANGELES ISRAELI CONSULATE! (tags)
JEWS SHUT DOWN ISRAELI CONSULATE! 10 JEWS CHAIN TOGETHER TO BLOCK DRIVEWAY AND ENTRANCE!
BREAKING NEWS: Jews Shut Down Israeli Counsulate in Protest of Attack on Gaza! (tags)
Concerned Jewish residents of Los Angeles have shut down the Israeli consulate for the first time ever in a historic protest against the policies of Israel. An ad-hoc, multi-generational group including members of the recently founded International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, will send a message to the Israeli government and its US supporters: "Not In Our Name! We will not be silent! Jews demand an end to the Israeli siege on Gaza and an end to Israeli apartheid." The demonstration will kick off a wave of demonstrations across the United States uniting Palestinians, Jewish people, and other Americans outraged by the siege.
PALAYAIN ANG PALESTINA! (tags)
Mas malalaking ang kilos masa ang magaganap na ipinatawag ng ANSWER-LA sa Sabado, Enero 10 sa Wislhire Westwood.Los Angeles sa harapan ng Federal building sa may 11000 Veteran and Wilshire sa ganap na 12:00 ng tanghali Kasabay ito ng malaking martsa-rali sa Washington DC sa Sabado, Enero 10. Dahil dito, nanawagan ang Kilusang Dekada 70 sa mga aktibistang Pilipino na sumama sa martsa-rali at lumahok para ipakita ang gating pakikipagkaisa sa mga mamamayang Palestino.
Ikinararangal ang Kilusang Dekada 70 (DK70) at ng Echo Park Community Coalition (EPCC) ang magigiting na nagprotesta kagabi Enero 6 ng libu-libong demonstrador sa harap ng konsulada ng Israel sa Wilshire Blvd. Buong tapang silang lumabas upang suportahan at ipakita ang kanilang pakikipaghkaisa sa mga Palestino na ngayonm ay inaatake ng Israel sa bayan ng Gaza. Isinigaw nila ang kanilang paninindigan na itigil ang atake sa Gaza at PALAYAIN ANG PALESTINA!
Jan. 10: Mass March & Rally in Los Angeles for Gaza (tags)
Take to the streets of Los Angeles for a mass march and rally at the Westwood Federal Building (11000 Wilshire Blvd.) on Saturday, Jan. 10. Everyone should build for this protest, which is a coordinated National Day of Action for Gaza. Bring all of your family, friends, coworkers, fellow students and everyone you know.
SPEAK OUT Against Police Brutality and Murder (tags)
Protestmeeting at Immanuel Presbyterian
Palestine Watch:1/2-1/3 Weekend of Worldwide Protests Against Israeli Attacks on Gaza! (tags)
Over 60 protest at coming weekend across U.S. and Europe!
12/30: Latest Lists of Protest Worldwide Against Israeli Attacks on Gaza! (tags)
Over 60 protests will be schedule at the U.S. and the World on Tuesday December 30 and the following week!
TUES 12/30: Two LA Prostests Against Gaza Massacre (tags)
Two Demonstrations Protesting the Israeli Siege & Bombing of Gaza Over 300 Palestinians Estimated Dead, 1400 Injured Both on Tuesday, December 30th WHERE: Westwood Federal Building WHEN: 3:00 to 5:30 PM *** WHERE: Israeli Consulate WHEN: 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM
3 Local Emergency Protests Against Gaza Massacre (tags)
Three local emergency protests are planned against massacre in Gaza. First one today (Sunday 12/28) in Anaheimat 2 PM. Two protests are planned for Tuesday (12/30) at Westwood Federal Building 3PM and another at 4:30 PM at Israeli Consulate. We must act now, to halt these brutal massacres! Over 200 people were killed in Gaza on Saturday, December 27 in a series of Israeli attacks - with US-made and paid for weaponry - upon the Palestinian people.
Sunday 8/10: Evening to Celebrate the Life of Don White (tags)
An Evening to Celebrate the Life of Our Compañero Don White PRESENTE! WHEN: Sunday, August 10th 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM WHERE: Immanuel Presbyterian Church 3300 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles 90010 (Corner of Berendo Street, 2 blocks west of Vermont Avenue)
MP3 Audio: Interviews with Indymac Customers (tags)
SANTA MONICA, July 16, 2008 – The run on Indymac Bank, continued into its third day today. The branch on Wilshire Blvd in Santa Monica has started issuing numbers to customers wanting to withdraw money from their accounts. Today, the doors to the bank were guarded by two security agents. Customers were only allowed entry when their number was called. On arrival this reporter saw ticket #516 issued to a woman from Marina Del Rey who wanted to close her account and move her savings to another bank. When leaving the scene the bank mangers were calling ticket number 209
Sun Aug 10: Celebrate the Life of Don White (tags)
An Evening to Celebrate the Life of Our Companero Don White Presente! WHEN: SUNDAY, AUGUST 10TH at 6:00 - 8:00 PM WHERE: Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 3300 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90010 (@Berendo Street, 2 blocks west of Vermont Ave.)
Mon 6/9 Jeremy Scahill Returns to LA, As So-Cal Continues to Battle Blackwater on Border (tags)
As So-Cal Battles Blackwater Training Facility on Cal-Mex Border, Jeremy Scahill is VISITING LOS ANGELES for talk, discussion, and book signing for the release of the fully updated paperback edition: WHEN: MONDAY, JUNE 9TH AT 7:00 PM WHERE: Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Westminster Chapel 3300 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90010 (@Berendo Street, 2 blocks west of Vermont Ave.)
Protest McCain in LA (tags)
There are three McCain events in LA
California Chemtrail Convergence - Sat May 17th! (tags)
LOOK UP IN THE SKIES PEOPLE! Contrails are normal. Chemtrails are NOT. Chemtrails are seen all over the world. Their impact on our health is considerable. Join us as experts speak out on the aerosol assault in Los Angeles.
FREE MUMIA NOW! (tags)
Updated leaflet (as of 17Apr08) for the united-front protest in Los Angeles initiated by the Partisan Defense Committee and Labor Black League for Social Defense. All out on Saturday, April 26, 1 PM at the Westwood Federal Building, 11000 Wilshire Blvd.
Press Release issued by the Partisan Defense Committee (PDC) on April 14 about the international campaign to free Mumia Abu-Jamal. In Los Angeles on April 26, join us at 1 pm at the Westwood Federal Building, 11000 Wilshire Blvd.
Bataan Day Protest April 10, 2008 in Los Angeles (tags)
“Money for the Filipino Veterans, Not for the War” With these slogans scores of veterans, community advocates, youth and students signified their protest in front of the monument for the veterans of the Spanish-American War at the Westwood National Cemetery near the federal building, 11000 Wilshire Blvd. and Veterans St. yesterday, April 10 at 5:00 PM “Today, after 66 years, the Justice for Filipino American Veterans (JFAV) commemorate the 66th Bataan Day with a protest rally for the passage of the equity bill in the U.S. Congress.. declared Arturo P. Garcia in an interview with the media. “ If the US Congress can pass a resolution with 415 vote for a free Tibet against China, why can they not do the same with Filipino veterans?” asked Garcia. “ The equity bill has been languishing in Congress for 15 years,” “ What is wrong with Congress? Is this not a case of racism against the Filipinos and a case of China-bashing?” the AJLPP and JFAV declared.
Bataan Day Protest in LA (tags)
“Remember Bataan!” This was the battle cry of American soldiers during the Second World War. The battle cry was a call to avenge the American defeat and the Death March that the Japanese Imperial Army perpetrated against American and Filipino Forces that surrendered in Bataan on April 9, 1942. Today, after 66 years, the Justice for Filipino American Veterans (JFAV), an alliance of Filipino veterans, student, youth and community advocates announced that they will commemorate the 65th Bataan Day with a protest rally at the Westwood Federal building 11000 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles on April 10, 2008 at 5:00 P.M.. “Money for the Filipino Veterans, Not for the War” will be the slogan of JFAV, AJLPP and Samahang Pilipino at UCLA who were spearheading the rally.
April 2008 Hollywood To The Docks (tags)
LA unions will be having a mass march from Hollywood to the LA docks to back workers who have contracts expiring this year.
"Encounter Point" film screening with Director Ronit Avni (tags)
Levantine Cultural Center and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Ethics, along with a dozen NGOs whose Southern California members work on peace and interfaith issues year-round, have joined forces to present a director's screening of ENCOUNTER POINT, featuring a Q & A with co-director Ronit Avni on April 3, 2008, 7 pm at Laemmle's Music Hall.
Vigil to Honor 4,000 U.S. Troops Killed (tags)
This Thursday, will will be holding a vigil to honor the now 4,000 U.S. Soldiers who have been killed in this illegal and immoral war. This event will be part of our weekly counter-recruitment protest that takes place in front of the U.S. Military recruitment center in Santa Monica. Join us to send the message, NOT ONE MORE DEAD. BRING THEM HOME!
West Coast Solidarity Meetings For "Freightliner Five" (tags)
There will be solidarity meetings for the fired UAW Freightliner N. Carolina workers in LA, SF, Portland and Seattle
Anti-immigrants SAVE OUR STATE to march in Westwood this Saturday the 17th (tags)
(Only two days to organize) (The march cuts through the heart of West LA’s Iranian immigrant community.)
Mearsheimer and Walt to Speak in Los Angeles tonight , Sept. 18 and in the SF Bay area tom (tags)
Mearsheimer and Walt to Speak in Los Angeles tonight , Sept. 18 and in the SF Bay area tomorrow and the night after (access the 'appearances' link at the top of www.israellobbybook.com)
RALLY AUG.30 at 6;00 PM at Phil Consulate General (tags)
CALL TO ACTION: In Los Angeles, join AJLPP for the emergency mobilization to demand the release of Jose Maria Sison and call for the resumption of the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations Thursday, 8/30/07, at 6:00 pm at the Philippine Consulate: 3600 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90010. If you have questions, please call (213) 241-0906.
U.S.-WIDE VIGIL FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF GABNET 3--U.S. CITIZENS / PERMANENT RESIDENT BANN (tags)
RALLY AND VIGIL IN SUPPORT OF THE GABNET 3
AJLPP Mass Actions Against PGMA SONA Held in U.S Major Cities (tags)
Progressive forces in the United States demonstrated their militant solidarity with the Filipino people by conducting coordinated mass actions against Philippine President Macapagal-Arroyo’s state of the nation address in three major cities of the United States from July 22- 30, 2007. - July 23 from 6;30 to 8;00 PM, scores of Filipino Americans and their allies led by the Alliance-Philippines (AJLPP)-USA held a vigil rally in front of the Philippine Consulate located in 3600 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles. The rally ended with a solemn candle lighting ceremony as a tribute to more than 890 victims of fascism.. During the in one and half hour mass action against US –GMA, AJLPP activists and allies shouted slogans, OUST GMA, RESUME PEACE TALKS, the group displayed banners and signs and lined-up the streets in front of the consulate. AJLPP groups like KmB (Pro People Youth) and Pesante-USA with allies like the ANSWER-LA PWC, YOUTH UNITE and AFW participated AJLPP Mass Actions Against PGMA SONA Held in U.S Major Cities
9/11 Hero William Rodriguez Live in L.A.! (tags)
9/11 HERO AND SURVIVOR WILLIAM RODRIGUEZ LIVE IN LOS ANGELES! THE LAST MAN OUT WORLD TOUR 7PM - FRIDAY AUGUST 17, 2007 Immanuel Presbyterian Church 3300 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles 90010
JOIN JULY 23 AJLPP PROTEST ACTION/VIGIL (tags)
JOIN JULY 23 AJLPP PROTEST ACTION/VIGIL AGAINST MARTIAL RULE IN THE PHILIPPINES Monday, July 23, 2007 at 6:30 PM Philippine Consulate General 3600 Wilshire Blvd. (Corner Kingsley St) Los Angeles, CA 90010
USLAW/UFPJ Sponsor Pro-Occupation Iraq Labor Speaker in LA (tags)
This month, US Labor Against the War, United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) and the American Friends Service Committee are sponsoring an "Iraq Labor Tour" to various U.S. cities. These speakers will be coming to Los Angeles this weekend, June, 8-10th. A couple of years ago a similar tour of Iraq labor leaders came to LA, who were very strongly opposed to the US Occupation. This time one of the featured speakers represents the Iraq Federation of Oil Workers , which spearheads opposition to privatization of Iraqi oil and demands immediate U.S. withdrawal. However, the tour also includes a representative of the General Federation of Iraqi Workers (GFIW). The GFIW (formerly IFTU) is sponsored by the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP) and former U.S.-installed Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. These parties not only oppose immediate U.S. withdrawal, but support Bush's "surge," and demand that the Iraqi puppet regime crush Iraqi resistance -- positions that are echoed by the GFIW.
Thousands Marched and Rallied to Take Back Macarthur Park (tags)
More than 25,000 immigrants and their advocates marched Thursday to take back Macarthur Park after more than two weeks of meetings, hearings, plannings and filing of class action suits against the LAPD. But the supposed to be an indignation rally against the ALPD was turned into a call for legalization for the nation's 12 million illegal immigrants. This came at the heels at the US Senate coming into a compromise for a supposed to be a “comprehensive immigration reform bill that will provide for a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants in the United States.
l.a. city news service wire betrays lapd/miwon lie (tags)
city news service wire announcement of council task force public hearing yesterday still contains original lapd version "demonstrators responded by throwing..."
Special Task Force Hold 1st Public Hearing Tonight on May Day Mini-Riots (tags)
If you oppose the LAPD extending its power over not just those human beings who do not qualify as citizens under the notion of the state, then this is the time to come out. Because if the police feel that they can brutalize geographically displaced human beings, reporters, the youth, and its progressive community then they will have no fear to come for those that remain. This is the time to act to protect your own self. LOS ANGELES, CA (CNS) -- A City Council task force charged with monitoring the police probe of the May Day melee at an immigration rally at MacArthur Park is scheduled to hold its first meeting today, Councilman Ed Reyes announced.
Our Voices Will Not Be Silenced! (tags)
Organizations including CARECEN, the MIWON network, LA Archdiocese Social Justice Committee, LA Federation of Labor, SEIU 1877, and the We Are America Coalition have announced a Procession and Vigil from Immanuel Presbyterian Church to MacArthur Park, on Thursday, May 17th at 5pm. Read on for Flyer and full info in Spanish and English.
COMMUNITY GROUPS CONFRONT LAPD AND CHIEF BRATTON ABOUT MAY DAY POLICE RIOT (tags)
“If the LAPD acts like this in broad daylight in front of cameras, what do they do at night?”
LAPD ATTACK PEACEFULL MAY DAY CROWD WITH RUBBER BULLETS AND TEARGAS (tags)
It looked like the cops were just running unnecessary drills; scare tactics to freak people out and intimidate them, but it wasn’t really working.
Help the Bus Riders Keep Fares Low (tags)
The BRU is protesting the proposed MTA fare hikes. We're in the middle of a war for oil, and they want to cut back, discourage, and raise fares. The working class economy sucks, and they want to suck the money from our purses. How about they do the right thing, and get rid of the SUV subsidy? Protest!
Progressive FilAm Organizations in Los Angeles Snubbed the March 26 PNP-AFP “Pulong Bayan (tags)
More than 20 Filipino American journalists attended the Philippine Consulate General’s “Pulong Bayan sa Konsulado” on Human Rights in the Philippines with deputy director General of the PNP, General Avelino Razon last Monday, March 26 at 3600 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles. But prominently absent were representatives from different Southern California Filipino American progressive organizations like the Alliance Philippines (AJLPP), Gabriela and other organizations who were also invited but who boycotted the affair.
Ban is "postponed" at LACC! An unfinished victory, we STILL was Det. Spelatz Fir (tags)
As of November 20th ( 6 days after receiving the suspension notice) the administration backed down from banning Julia Wallace, Arturo Velasquez and Ben Alvarez from suspension until " an independent investigation was completed". Because of the pressure from staff, students, faculty and pressuring "liberal" politicians to act the administration has backed down. Students still demand woman-hating detective Spelatz be fired.
PHOTOS: Pyeongtaek Solidarity Action (tags)
LOS ANGELES, September 21, 2006 – A demonstration for International Day of Peace and to express solidarity with the Korean farmers of Pyeongtaek was held today.
KPFK: 9/11 TRUTH MOVEMENT. (tags)
research and investigations raising serious questions concerning what the American people have been told about 911.
Brits Out Protest (tags)
Promote action for a united Ireland.
Peace Vigil: LA Jews for Peace! (tags)
Let us stand in solidarity with thousands of Israelis, Lebanese & Palestinians protesting the violence.
Ceasefire Now! LA Jews for Peace Wed 26th (tags)
Ceasefire Now! Join LA Jews for Peace Denomstration Wednesday, July 26th
EMERGENCY DEMO AT THE ISRAELI CONSULATE, Today, July 19th, 4-6 PM (tags)
EMERGENCY DEMO AT THE ISRAELI CONSULATE, Today, July 19th, 4-6 PM
South Central Farmers Parade Saturday, 1 p.m. (tags)
July 12 Trial To Contest Legality of Sale To Horowitz – Media To Cover Event South Central Farmers and Supporters Host Westside Parade This Saturday, 1 p.m.
Emergency LA Protest to Defend Palestine (tags)
Join a protest on Thurs, June 29, 4-6 pm to defend the Palestinian people against a brutal Israeli assault on Gaza. Stop the attack! No U.S. aid to Israel!
18 Days Left to Save The South Central Farm (tags)
There are only 18 days left to fundraise for the Purchase of the South Central Farm. If the money is not raised Horrowitz has already gotten the court order to begin eviction as soon as this purchase option fails. He has more interest in having fail because he stands to make up to 25 million dollars if he sells the land to other developers.
Video: May Day March down Wilshire (tags)
This march was so large it is hard to capture in video. But imagine over 4 miles of Wilshire Blvd packed with people shoulder to shoulder as far as the eye can see in both directions.
UCLA Students Demand sweatfree Collegiate Apparel (tags)
Students march to demand that the UCs adopt a program to ensure that collegiate apparel is made in sweatfree conditions.
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND SECURES OPPORTUNITY TO SAVE THE SOUTH CENTRAL FARM (tags)
After a contentious three-year land-use battle that made news around the world, the Trust for Public Land (TPL) has secured an opportunity to save the Farm.
Tax Deductible Donation to Save the South Central Farm (tags)
We are still under threat of eviction if we don't raise some of the money to help purchase the farm away from Horrorwitz.
Meet Tuesdays 6:30 PM to plan May 20 US Hands off Cuba/Venezuela (tags)
Join us to help build the May 20 Los Angeles demonstration against US intervention in Cuba and Venezuela. The meetings are every Tuesday until May 20. @ UCLA Downtown Labor Center, 675 S. Park View Street, Los Angeles (between 7th Street and Wilshire Blvd.). See Cuba Solidarity (cubasolidarity.com) for more information on the national mobilizations. On May 20 this year Mr. Bush will announce further attacks on Cuban sovereignty and everyone's right to travel and trade with Cuba.
Join California Safe Schools - Growing the Pesticide Movement (tags)
An interactive training on pesticide policy and advocacy.
Death Penalty (tags)
Death Penalty Protest Tonight, Tuesday Feb 21 at the Westwood Fed. Bldg. 11000 Wilshire 6:30pm.
New Year's Eve Sunset Peace Vigil (tags)
Free Mehmet Tarhan! Fri, Dec 9: International Day of Action (tags)
Mehmet Tarhan, 27, is a gay Kurdish man who is a “total” conscientious objector – against all wars and any alternative to forced military service. He was sentenced to four years by a Turkish military court for “refusing orders” and faces re-trial on Dec 15. People are taking action in his support in 22 cities and 13 countries on Fri, Dec 9. In LA, join a picket called by the Global Women's Strike/LA outside the Turkish consulate, 6300 Wilshire Blvd. (at Crescent Heights), from 11am to noon.
Dec 9th Protest for Mehmet Tarhan (tags)
Picket for the Release of Political Prisoner: Mehmet Tarhan Turkish consulate 6300 Wilshire Blvd. 11 am Friday, December 9
Thousands Walk out of L.A. highschools (tags)
High school students in L.A. were part of the marches in the 1990s against the anti-immigrant Proposition 187 and the East L.A. protests against the Vietnam War in the '60s. But Nov. 2 was on a whole different level. In response to the call from The World Can't Wait, thousands of youth--many from proletarian neighborhoods--left school to take political action and make their voices heard. At Los Angeles High School alone, more than 1,000 students--the majority of the school -- walked out, and more than 500 marched to Wilshire Blvd.
MON. 11/14: Robert Fisk to Speak at UCLA on The War for the Middle East (tags)
Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent for The Independent of London will speak on 'The War for the Middle East: History Unlearned' WHEN: Monday, November 14, at 7:00 p.m. WHERE: UCLA Ackerman Grand Ballroom
A Light in the Darkness: An Antiwar Vigil (tags)
A report from the Vigil for 2000 at Wilshire Blvd and Veteran Ave
WED 10/26: An Evening with Ilan Pappe Renowned Israeli Historian & Author (tags)
An Evening with Renowned Israeli Historian and Author Ilan Pappe Speaking on 'Israel and Palestine: The Peace Charade' and Book Signing WHEN: Wednesday, October 26, at 7:00 p.m. WHERE: Westwood United Methodist Church 10497 Wilshire Blvd. (at Warner, West of Beverly Glen) Los Angeles 90024
From Haiti to New Orleans, Yes to Justice and Relief, Not Death and Occupation (tags)
A protest against the US/UN occupation of Haiti and the massacre of Haitian people was held Sept. 30th outside the Brazilian Consulate in Beverly Hills. The LA event was part of an international day of outrage; actions took place in 40 cities in 15 countries.
George Galloway/Christopher Hitchens Debate Streaming Live on Wed. (tags)
Two years after the invasion of Iraq, British MP George Galloway and journalist Christopher Hitchens will debate the causes and consequences of the Iraq war at Baruch College in New York City. Moderated by Amy Goodman.
Stand Up and Be Counted: No War and Occupation: The George Galloway US Tour (tags)
September 13-24: Boston, New York, Toronto, Madison, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C.
Pastor (tags)
Jim Crow Mentality @ West LA VA Hospital
COMMUNITY OBJECTS TO L.A. ANTI-IMMIGRANT CONFERENCE (tags)
A crucial demo to stop the mainstreaming of the Minutemen on Friday, August 26 from 4:00-6:00 p.m. at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel at 9500 Wilshire Blvd in Beverly Hills.
K-Town 911 (tags)
K-Town 911 flyer
This Friday: Protest at Minutemen Conference (tags)
Activist Alert:
Emergency Protest: Donald Rumsfeld in LA - Tomorrow, Thurs, 8/4, 11 am (tags)
PROTEST WAR CRIMINAL DONALD RUMSFELD IN LA TOMORROW!
getting tested for mycoplasma and other infectious gulf war diseases (tags)
Darfur Vigil at Federal Bulding 7/21/05 (tags)
Join several LA grassroots organizations at a vigil in front of the Westwood federal building to show the US government that we will not stand by while thousands are being murdered each day in Darfur.
South Central Farmers injunction to save community garden is reversed by Court of Appeals- (tags)
On June 30, 2005, the Court of Appeal reversed the Superior Court’s order granting the preliminary injunction. The South Central Farmers Feeding Families have 40 days from June 30 to petition the California Supreme Court to review the Court of Appeal’s ruling. If the Supreme Court declines to hear the case, the urban garden will be demolished in about three months. Concerned supporters our community is devastated by this result and we need your support. In the same manner that the Zapatista in Chiapas are being attack so will we. The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank has already begun to dismantle our leadership through low intensity cointel-pro strategies. We need you all to call and write letters to the following people we have attached.....
THURS 7PM: CodePink Vigil for Peace at British Consulate in WLA (tags)
CODEPINK Women’s Peace Group Holds Vigil This Evening at British Consulate in Los Angeles WHEN: 7 PM on Thursday, July 7 WHERE: British Consulate-General, 1766 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 1200 (between Bundy and Barrington) West Los Angeles
Rally to Bring U.S. Troops Home Now!, Sat., 6/25/05 (tags)
Rally for: Troops Home Now! Downing Street Coverup! Impeach Bush!
May 25- Learn more about travel to Palestine (tags)
IWitness Palestine invites you to learn more about how you can travel to Palestine. Past participants with such groups as Christian Peacemakers Team, Project Hope, the International Solidarity Movement, Fellowship Of Reconcilliation, and others will discuss their experiences and plans for the summer.
Documentary on Argentine Factory Occupations Opens in Los Angeles (tags)
A new Canadian documentary on worker takeovers of idled factories in Argentina opens Friday in Los Angeles.
Thurs. 3/31: Pablo Paredes & Javier Couso Join Amy Goodman Live in LA (tags)
Javier Couso Joins Amy Goodman Live in LA Brother of Jose Couso, the Spanish cameraman killed when a US military tank fired on the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad nearly two years ago. Javier is in the United States to call for an independent investigation into the death of his brother and the prosecution of those responsible.
Thurs. 3/31 7pm: Brother of Slain Spanish Journalist Jose Couso Joins Amy Goodman in LA (tags)
An Evening with Amy Goodman, award-winning journalist, host of Democracy Now! and author of the best-selling book, The Exception to the Rulers. Joined by Javier Cosou, brother of Spanish Journalist killed at the Palestine Hotel in Iraq
Urgent Haiti Action (tags)
Joined by community-based activists to mark the one year anniversary of the US backed coup and occupation of Haiti, Congresswoman Maxine Waters spoke at a Press Conference to express her concerns and outrage at the continued human rights abuses in Haiti and to demand the return of democracy to Haiti.
Join the Alhambra caravan of vehicles to the Westwood Inauguration Day Protest (tags)
San Gabriel Valley Neighbors for Peace and Justice invites you to join their caravan of vehicles to the Westwood Inauguration Day Protest on Jan. 20. from Alhambra
Protest Brazil Consulate in Los Angeles- Stop Attacks on Haitians! - Feb 18th, 2005 (tags)
Feb 18th, 2005- 10am-5pm Brazilian Consulate 8484 Wilshire Blvd. 711 Beverly Hills, CA 90211
From The Streets od L.A. = Terrorist's live next door! (tags)
Walter Tribe has some info U need 2 know! http://www.gangstalking.ca (GANG-STALKING) / http://www.eharrassment.ca (ELEC. PRISON) 12-14-04 SEE: http://www.wally1.com
Westwood Anti-Occupation Demonstration Pictures - Part 2 of 2 (tags)
Despite the one-day notice, about 400-500 people turned out to protest the day after the start of the second U.S. attack on the people of Fallujah. Mysteriously, two tanks arrived and were immediately surrounded by chanting demonstrators.
Marine Lance Cpl. Richard P. Slocum, 19, Saugus; Killed in Humvee Rollover
CANDLELIGHT VIGIL SANTA MONICA (tags)
This Santa Monica candlelight vigil was one of many held around the United States tonight to honor men and women, soldiers and civilians, who have lost their lives in the war in Iraq.
EMERGENCY PROTEST AGAINST ISRAELI WAR CRIMES IN GAZA (tags)
A Palestinian man carries an injured child after Israeli occupation forces fired missiles at a demonstration in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip. A dozen Palestinians were killed... most of them children, with up to 50 seriously wounded. The occupation troops also fired tank shells and machine guns at the unarmed protestors. (AP/Khalil Hamra)
Emergency Protest Sat. May 15th 12 noon @ Westwood Federal Building (tags)
Emergency Protest on Sat. May 15th, Armed Forces Day
MONDAY 11AM Picket Luncheon Honoring Arnold (tags)
Join a picket outside the Women of Los Angeles luncheon on Monday honoring Arnold Schwarzenegger with their Highlight Award. The picket will be in support of the dozens of women who have come forward with charges of sexually battery against the Governor and in support of the women, children, elderly. health care workers and college students that will become victims of Governor's proposed budget cuts if they are past.
500 at Westwood anti-war rally (tags)
In the photograph, artist Mark Vallen and an anonymous protestor hold Vallen's "Art For A Change" artworks (www.art-for-a-change.com). Photo by Bob Morris (www.polizeros.com)
April 22: Labor Notes Grocery Strike Forum (tags)
On April 22, Labor Notes -- an independent 25 ear-old magazine with news from a rank and file social movement perspective -- is hosting a forum on the Southern California grocery strike. Speakers include several workers active in the strike, and participants will include workers and labor activists from all over Southern California.
Amy Goodman book tour reaches LA (tags)
lifted from San Diego Amy Goodman's first book (written with her brother David), "The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers and the Media That Love Them" Amy Goodman, survivor of the Santa Cruz massacre in E. Timor will tour California, promoting her book.
WEDNES. 7 PM APRIL 21: Amy Goodman's 60 City Book Tour Hits LA (tags)
An Evening with Amy Goodman Host of Democracy Now! Presentations By Amy and her brother David Goodman with a Book Signing for their NEW Book The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them written by Amy Goodman acclaimed host of Pacifica Network’s Democracy Now! with David Goodman
Witness to Occupation: Iraq and Palestine (tags)
The current state of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, the links between Iraq and Palestine in the U.S.'s plans for a "new Middle East", and the resistance in Iraq and elsewhere.
Charles Lewis in LA Friday (tags)
Charles Lewis, author of "The Buying of the President 2004" and Executive Director of the Center for Public Integrity will speak with Arianna Huffington Friday March 5 in Los Angeles, to benefit KPFK radio.
civil disobedience is civil defense (tags)
Civil Disobedience Training at UCLA
Robert (Ruckus) Middaugh-Olivarria Trail to Begin (tags)
Robert (Ruckus) Middaugh-Olivarria Trail is to Begin on Jan. 20th 9:00 AM at United States District Courthouse 312 North Spring Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 in Hon. William Matthew Byrne, Jr. Court Room
Robert (Ruckus) Middaugh-Olivarria (tags)
Robert (Ruckus) Middaugh-Olivarria's trail is to begin Jan. 20 9:00 AM at United States Courthouse 312 North Spring Street Los Anageles, CA 90012 in Hon. William Matthew Byrne, Jr. Court Room.
The Unknown Soldier (tags)
PROTEST CHENEY AT THE BEVERLY HILTON HOTEL 9876 Wilshire Blvd, (near Santa Monica) 11 am, January 14th NOT ONE MORE DEAD! Protest at appearance of Dick Cheney this coming January 14th (11 am - Wed.) at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, 9876 Wilshire Blvd. near Santa Monica. Bring signs, banners, bells, flowers, white doves of peace, giant puppets, and friendly space aliens.
DICK CHENEY COMING TO L.A. JAN. 14th - PROTEST! (tags)
PROTEST CHENEY AT THE BEVERLY HILTON HOTEL 9876 Wilshire Blvd, (near Santa Monica) 11 am, January 14th
Protest Repression in Buenos Aires, Argentina! (tags)
On December 20, at a packed demonstration of 60,000 a bomb went off to stop the commemoration of the Argentine Peoples Rebellion. This bomb injured 23. We urge you to protest this atrocity today by sending an email to the Argentine Embassy and Consulates in the US.
Ahmed Shawki in LA tomorrow: Resisting Empire (tags)
The editor of International Socialist Review ( ISR ) will speak tomorrow at the UTLA building on resistance in the Middle and perspectives on the US occupation of Iraq.
Ahmed Shawki on Resisting Empire this weekend in LA (tags)
Editor of International Socialist Review (ISR) to speak this Saturday at UTLA building in Los Angeles on anti-imperialist resistance in the Middle East.
Ahmed Shawki on Resisting Empire this weekend (tags)
Editor of International Socialist Review will speak on resistance in the Middle East this Saturday in L.A.
Women Call Anti-Occupation Halloween Protest Against Bechtel (tags)
In a Halloween themed protest, women and men occupied the street outside the offices of the “truly scary” Bechtel Corporation at 707 Wilshire Blvd in downtown Los Angeles beginning at 5 pm on Tuesday, October 28. Protesters used music, costumes, spoken word and more to highlight Bechtel’s rap sheet of profiteering from weapons, war and water privatization.
Dennis Kucinich in LA today and tomorrow (tags)
Dennis Kucinich was interviewed by Larry Bensky in the KPFA studios for the "Sunday Salon" program, broadcast to all three California Pacifica stations. The interview runs for about 50 minutes and includes call-ins. These files are from the KFCF 24-hour archive. Each file is about 8.5 megs, 40kbit audio; calls were taken from both the LA and SF Bay Area
Sign Letter to Support a Political Prisoner (tags)
E-mail us for a copy of the letter.
Support Local Activist (tags)
Contact us for more info at cabin_fevered@yahoo.com
Court Solidarity for Rob Olivarria (aka Ruckus) (tags)
Please see full story.
Court Solidarity for Rob Middaugh-Olivarria (aka Ruckus) (tags)
Please see below for full story.
Court Solidarity for Rob Middaugh (Ruckus) (tags)
Court Solidarity for Rob Middaugh 8/18 (tags)
Read more for latest charges filed against political prisoner, Robert Middaugh.
Protest for Rob Middaugh (aka Ruckus) 8/18/03 (tags)
Read more for latest charges filed against political prisoner, Robert Middaugh. Show up at his court date to protest this injustice.
Support Political Prisoner Rob Middaugh 8/18/03 (tags)
Anti-racist activist charged with supposedly "assaulting" a federal police officer with soda...read on...
Support Political Prisoner Rob Middaugh 8/18 (tags)
Anti-racist activist charged with assaulting a federal police officer with soda...
Westwood Federal Building - Iranian March and Rally (tags)
July 8th 2003 Los Angeles CA -- Approximately 3000 marched down Wilshire Blvd through Westwood Village then rallied at the Federal Building The Event was held in solidarity with the Student Democracy Movement inside Iran. Huge support was displayed for George Bush and Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran’s son and heir to the throne.
Sirhan Atty. Among Speakers at LA Confab on RFK Killing, June 5-8 (tags)
The Committee on Political Assassinations [COPA] presents:RFK Assassination Conference - June 5-8 - Los Angeles, CA Radisson Hotel, 3515 Wilshire Blvd.
FOUR DAYS OF ACTION AGAINST BECHTEL (tags)
Plan an action at the LA office on June 5th!FOUR DAYS OF ACTION AGAINST BECHTEL AND THE CORPORATE INVASION OF IRAQ June 1 – June 5, 2003
LA to host conference on RFK Assassination (tags)
During this anniversary year of the major political assassinations of the last centuy, the Committee on Political Assassinations [COPA] is hosting conferences on the major assinations of the 1960's, including one re that of Robert F Kennedy, June 5-8 at the the Wilshire Radisson . June 5-8 - Los Angeles, CA Radisson Hotel, 3515 Wilshire Blvd. (near Alexandria)
FRIDAY: LA Jews & Palestinians Decry Israel’s Killings of Journalists, ISM, Palesti (tags)
On Friday at Noon, wearing day-glow vests similar to those worn by the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and journalists, who work in Gaza and the West Bank, members of Jewish & Palestinian peace organizations and their supporters will protest outside the Israeli Consulate.
EMERGENCY PROTEST AT THE ISRAELI CONSULATE (tags)
Protest Israel's *We have the right to kill you* visa for Gaza, and the brutal and illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine and call for an end to U.S. aid for Israel.
Argentina: Tension Builds Around Brukman Factory (tags)
An emergency appeal for international solidarity actions to defend the embattled clothing workers of the Brukman factory has been posted. See links below.
Kucinich to Propose Dept. of Peace (tags)
A report on Dennis J. Kucinich's speech at the Immanuel Presbyterian Church on April 5th, 2003.
I Got Spammed By Warmongers From LA- 2000 Miles Away! (tags)
2000 miles away from LA, I got spammed by the prowar crowd. This is indicative of desperation. Please Go down there and mock them for me.
Pro-War Rally Info (tags)
Just a heads-up that this is what those pro-war fucks are planning to do this Friday.
Americans supporting America Demo (tags)
Infiltrate with wacky "WAR IS GOOD" type signs
PHOTOS: ARRESTS IN WESTWOOD (tags)
Protestors were arrested after refusing to leave the street near the intersection of Wilshire Blvd. and Westwood Ave. All images Copyright 2003 Heidi Werntz.
Getting Arrested in LA (tags)
As a disability activist I decided to get arrested at the Westwood Federal Building demonstration on March 19 along with 33 others. This is the story of that arrest.
Health care volunteers and supplies needed for Gulf War II protests - Please Join Us! (tags)
Health care volunteers and supplies needed for Gulf War II protests - Please Join Us! Physicians For Social Responsibility - Los Angeles will be helping to coordinate health care professionals (MD's, DO's, NP's, RN's, PA's, EMT's, etc) and others volunteering to provide health care at the site of the large protests planned in various locations around Southern California after the beginning of Gulf War II.
3/19/03 Westwood Demonstration Pictures (tags)
Account with Pictures of Antiwar Demonstration at Westwood Federal Building March 19, 2003.
Family of Rachel Corrie to Attend Vigil in Front of Israeli Embassy (tags)
The family of the 23 year old peace activist who was deliberately crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer on Sunday in the Gaza Strip, will be attending a candlelight vigil in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C. this evening at 5:30 P.M. (EST).
DAY OF BOMBING ACTION INFO (tags)
George W. Bush has issued his ultimatum. War is imminent. Now more than ever are We the People compelled to come out and voice our opposition to this dangerous unilateral invasion. Please join one of the vigils below on the day the bombing starts - it won't be too late:
Physicians For Social Responsibility - LA will be helping to coordinate health care professionals (MD's, DO's, NP's, RN's, PA's, EMT's, etc) volunteering to provide health care at the site of the large protests planned in Southern California upon the beginning of Gulf War II. Health care providers who can donate their services and/or supplies may contact PSR-LA for further information. We look forward to hearing from you!
SUNDAY - L.A. Candlelight Vigils against Iraq War (tags)
Rain keep you from hitting the streets on Sat.? You can still protest on SUNDAY, MARCH 16th at a number of L.A. Candlelight Vigils
CALL 4 BLAC BLOCK IN OC & LA WHEN WAR BREAKS OUT (tags)
Raelian Women to humbly disrobe publicly in LOS ANGELES on March 8th (tags)
Raelian women To humbly disrobe publicly At US peace rallies in DC and LA
KEY EMBASSIES, UN MISSIONS, and CONSULATES CONTACT INFO (tags)
You can make a difference from your home! Take email/phone action now!
EMAIL/PHONE ACTION! Contact Consulates/Embassies! (tags)
THANK TURKEY ! (tags)
PLEASE take the time to THANK Turkey. contact info below:
Vive La Paix! Action at French Consulate Tomorrow (Thurs)at Noon (tags)
Bring flowers, tricouleurs, croissants, brie, mimes, dog eared copies of Les Miserables for a rally/ delegation at French Consulate Thurs. 2/20 12:15PM at 10990 Wishire Blvd(at Veteran.) Vive La Resistance! Vive Le Veto! Allons Enfants!
Looking for DNC/D2K Plaintiffs (tags)
NLG has a law-suit
STOP THE PATRIOT ACT! Protest @ Westwood Federal Building this Friday (tags)
PROTEST FOR RTF (tags)
Protest for raisethefist.com
Stop the FBI! Stop the PATRIOT ACT! This friday @ Westwood Federal Building! (tags)
STOP THE FBI! STOP THE PATRIOT ACT! Converge at Westwood Federal Building, Jan 24! (tags)
DAY OF RESISTANCE
STOP THE FBI! SUPPORT RAISE THE FIST, JAN 24 @ Westwood Federal Building! (correction) (tags)
STOP THE FBI! STOP THE CIA! STOP THE U.S PATRIOT ACT!
STOP THE FBI! SUPPORT RAISE THE FIST, JAN 24 @ Westwood Federal Building! (tags)
Protest @ Westwood Federal Building, Jan 24th, 03 - 1 year anniversary of FBI raid on RTF! (tags)
Mass rally. Tomorrow, Sat 21, 1 pm, Westwwod (tags)
Federal dragnet arrests hundreds of innocent immigrants. Activist coalition calls mass protest. Sat. Dec 21, 1:00 pm, Westwood Federal Bldg., LA CA
Oscar says, "Palestine is not a country" (tags)
Event In Westwood: Beyond War On Iraq / Scott Ritter and others / TODAY!! (tags)
Important gathering today. Here's the details
Beyond the Battlefield: The Real Cost of War (tags)
Former Iraq U.N. Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter Will Update Los Angeles Audience on Dec. 7, 2002 -One Day Prior to Release of Weapons Report
Scott Ritter to Speak in L.A. Prior to Release of U.N. Iraq Weapons Inspection Report (tags)
Just one day before the release of the U.N. Weapons Inspection Report from Iraq, Scott Ritter, former Chief U.N. Weapons Inspector, will address an L.A. audience at a conference titled "Beyond the Battlefield: The Real Costs of War" on December 7, 2002 at 10:30 am.
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF A NARCO-TERROR STATE (tags)
The most censored and ignored story of the last - and the next - five years must be: "Global Economy Caters to US Addictions." Half of the world's problems are caused by the US addictions to oil and all kinds of drugs. The illegal drug trade is the second largest sector of the global economy. Include all of the legal drugs that US citizens are addicted to and "Drugs" would be the largest sector by far.
Not the Answer (tags)
Picture from the L.A. Not in our Name demo - Oct. 6, 2002
Not In Our Name - Marchers on Wilshire Blvd. 2 (tags)
LA Not In Our Name - Taking It To The Streets On Wilshire Blvd.
Not In Our Name - Marchers on Wilshire Blvd. (tags)
LA Not In Our Name - The March Takes Off From The Federal Building Down Wilshire Blvd.
Anti-War Protestors Along Wilshire Blvd. (tags)
LA Not In Our Name - Protestors along Wilshire Blvd. in front of Federal Building
ANTI-IRAQ Group to Burn Flag (tags)
COUNTER DEMONSTRATE: A group calling itself the International Human Rights Organization has announced to the news media that it plans to burn the Iraq's flag and pass out posters of Sadam Hussein with a target on his face.
TODAY Peace at the SM Beach March, Rallly & Concert (tags)
In memory of the tragic events of September 11, 2001, there will be a Peace march, rally, and concert on Saturday, September 7, in downtown Santa Monica. Peace at the Beach will commence with a gathering at 3:00pm at 3rd Street and Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica. The gathering will begin a march to the Santa Monica Pier at 4:00pm. At 5:00pm, there will be a rally featuring speakers and live music at the end of the Pier.
BEVERLY HILLS S30 MASS CONVERGENCE (tags)
BEVERLY HILLS S30 MASS CONVERGENCE
Join Protest as Bush Visits Westwood to Raise $ For SImon - Sat Aug 24 / 7AM (tags)
BRUNCH WITH SHRUB! BRING PRETZELS AND BANANAS! pResident Bush will be at the Regency Club in Westwood Aug 24 at 7 AM, whoring for Simon. Come join us for Coffee with the Commander in Chimp [and Cereal with the Crook!] Make Waffles, Not War! Breakfast Not Bombs! Cherry scones for the smirking drone!
Brunch With Shrub LA Aug 24/7AM Bring Bananas and Pretzels! (tags)
pResident Bush will be at the Regency Club in Westwood Aug 24 at 7 AM, whoring for Simon. Come join us for Coffee with the Commander in Chimp [and Cereal with the Crook!] Make Waffles, Not War! Breakfast Not Bombs! Cherry scones for the smirking drone!
Protest Bush the Moron President (tags)
Bush in LA...details
BUSH IN LA (tags)
Bush will be on vacation in Los Angeles. Fundraising for Simon.
#1 LA Jews For A Just Peace Construct a "checkpoint" (tags)
7/25/02 Members of the Jewish community and supporters gather (6380 Wilshire Blvd) to protest the occupation in its 35th year and enact Israeli "checkpoints" to highlight a source of IDF abuse.
event 7/25/02 6380 Wilshire Blvd LAPD stops the "checkpoint street theatre from occurring in the intersection. A Lawyer's Guild representative acts as advocate for the Activists.
event 7/25/02 6380 Wilshire Blvd A counter demo. formed on the opposite side of the street. They came with bullhorns, signs and anger.
Peaceful Protest to Decries Bombing as Sharon Answer to Cease-Fire Offer (tags)
LA Jews to Construct "Checkpoint" Outside Israeli Consulate 4:30 PM on Thursday July 25th at 6380 Wilshire Blvd. Less than twenty-four hours after, the Hamas leaders made an unprecedented public call for a cease-fire with Israel, Prime Minister Sharon responded by sending an F-16 fighter plane on a bombing spree in Gaza, killing 15 including 9 children.
LA Jews to Construct "Checkpoint" Outside Israeli Consulate (tags)
LOS ANGELES-- A local Jewish group will construct a street theater check-point outside the Israeli consulate to "highlight one of the many injustices that Palestinian people face every day." WHEN: 4:30 PM Thursday, July 25, 2002 WHERE: The Israeli Consulate 6380 Wilshire Blvd (west of Crescent Heights) WHAT: Picket and Street Theater Checkpoint Outside Israeli Consulate
Town Hall and March on Welfare Reform (tags)
1,000 LA Low-Income Family Members and Supporters to Gather for Town Hall and March on Welfare Reform Legislation Pending in Congress
Sunday PROTEST against Benjamin Netanyahu (tags)
Former Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, who thinks Arial Sharon is not hard enough on the Palestinians, will be speaking in L.A., Sunday morning. People who believe in Peace and Justice will be there to greet him.
Los Angeles MARCH FOR VENEZUELA !!!!!!!!!!!! (tags)
RALLY & MARCH TO PROTEST U.S. BACKED COUP IN VENEZUELA!!! May 18th @ 12noon Federal Building [11000 Wilshire Blvd] Los Angeles BRING SIGNS, HORNS, INSTRUMENTS, SPEECHES, AND YOUR WALKING SHOES!
world week for lab animals (tags)
This year for WWAIL (World Week for Animals in Laboratories) there will be 3 days of events in Los Angeles organized by Foundation for Animal Liberation with Last Chance for Animals and Students for Animal Liberation, beginning at the UCLA campus on Thursday, April 25th.
SAT, APRIL 6, FIGHT STATE REPRESSION! PROTEST PATRIOT ACT! (tags)
FIGHT STATE REPRESSION! PROTEST PATRIOT ACT!
APRIL 6th - FIGHT STATE REPRESSION! PROTEST PATRIOT ACT! (tags)
FIGHT STATE REPRESSION! PROTEST USA PATRIOT ACT!
PROTEST TOMORROW TO STOP KILLING PALESTINIANS! @ Israeli Consulate Mon. March 25 (tags)
READ ON!!
Racists plan rally March 23rd in Los Angeles (tags)
The Southern Kalifornia Anarchist Alliance calls for militant action against racist groups CCIR and American Patrol.
STOP KILLING PALESTINIANS!! Protest at the Israeli Consulate Mon. March 25 (tags)
Racist groups plan rally in front of LA Federal Building March 23rd (tags)
PROTEST THE PATRIOT ACT! APRIL 6TH! (tags)
FIGHT STATE REPRESSION! NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST!
Anti-War Demo Mon. March 25 front of Iraeli Consulate.STOP KILLING PALESTINIANS! (tags)
STOP KILLING PALESTINIANS
FACTS Protest Against CA Three Strikes @ Westwood, CA (tags)
On March 9th, Families to Amend California's Three Strikes (F.A.C.T.S.) held a protest in Westwood, CA. Protesters marched through Westwood Village to the Federal Building on Wilshire Blvd where speakers and performers took the stage.
Protest the Three Strikes law tomorrow, Sat. March 9 (tags)
Rally and march through Westwood. Sat Mar 9, 11 AM. Protest the Three Strikes law. Excellent lineup of rally speakers and music.
3rd Annual Global Women's Strike- March 8! (tags)
Under the banner "Invest in Caring Not Killing: Welfare Not Warfare," women –- including welfare mothers,grandmothers, immigrant women,lesbian women, and women with disabilities, as well as men supporters -- will take to the streets with puppets, street theatre, music, and banners, highlighting all the demands of the Global Women’s Strike, in a march down Wilshire Boulevard, a major Los Angeles thoroughfare.
UNION BUSTING! In the Fund for Public Interest (tags)
One of the largest progressive non profits in the nation, is attempting to silence workers who tried to oganize a labor union!
Feb 3, Rally for Freedom Feb 3, Rally for Freedom (tags)
Feb. 3, Rally for Freedom at the Federal Building at 11000 Wilshire Blvd. Westwood Support H.R. 3616 a ban on space-based weapons, directed energy weapons, including extremely low frequency electromagnetic energy mind control waves.
ALERT!!! The L.A. Independant Media Center has been taken over by Americon (tags)
Americon purportedly bought out the IMC...
Counter Demonstrate Against Anti-Latino Racists On Jan 21st!! (tags)
Counter demostrate against the American Patrol racists! Noon to 2 PM - 5750 Wilshire Blvd
Sieze The Argentine Embassy! (FLYER) (tags)
In a show of solidarity for the Argentine uprising, we are planning to take action at the LA Argentine Embassy.
Sieze The Argentine Embassy Action In LA! (tags)
To show solidarity for the argentine people we must take action now!
Westwood, Peace March Arrives at the Federal Building (tags)
As cars honk in support, protesters congregate at the edge of the Federal Building and Wilshire Blvd.
LA Peace Calendar (tags)
September 27, 2001 Update
A listing of some peace related events in Southern California
United for Peace - L.A. demo./22nd (tags)
One of 400 protestors opposed to War in the Middle East.
PEACE PLEASE - L.A. anti-war Demo. (tags)
Protestors carrying signs reading, "PEACE PLEASE" and "NO MORE VICTIMS."
LA anti-War Demo/22nd. (tags)
A memorial to those victimized by Terrorism.
Town Hall Meeting on 9-11, tonight at 7pm (tags)
Come to tonight's town hall meeting at the Immanuel Presbytarian church at 3300 Wishire Blvd, in the Chi Chester Chapel, at 7pm.
sept 8th - G8 Solidarity Protest/March (tags)
On July the 20th activist Carlo Giuliani was murdered by Italian police who fired two gunshots into his head during the protests against the G 8 summit in Genoa. On July the 21st the ìDiazì public school, which gave shelter to activists, was also stormed by brutal police forces. Activists were brutally beaten and seriously injured. Some nearly died.
Sept 8th - G8 SOLIDARITY PROTEST/MARCH AT ITALIAN CONSULATE! (tags)
WHEN: Saturday, Sept 8th @ 1:00 p.m WHERE: 12400 Wilshire Blvd. 4 blocks west of Bundy
SEP 8TH - G8 SOLIDARITY PROTEST / MARCH (tags)
G8 SOLIDARITY PROTEST / MARCH! WHEN: Saturday, Sept 8th @ 1:00 p.m WHERE: 12400 Wilshire Blvd. 4 blocks west of Bundy.
PROTEST TOMORROW, AUGUST 20TH! URGENT G8 SOLIDARITY!! (tags)
08/20/01 - SOLIDARITY DEMONSTRATION AT ITALIAN CONSULATE IN LOS ANGELES! MONDAY, AUG 20, 12:00PM When: MONDAY, AUGUST 20th @ 12:00 p.m (NOON) Where: 12400 Wilshire Blvd. 4 blocks east of Bundy.
AUG 20TH - SOLIDARITY DEMONSTRATION AT ITALIAN CONSULATE IN LOS ANGELES! (tags)
AUG 20TH - SOLIDARITY DEMONSTRATION AT ITALIAN CONSULATE IN LOS ANGELES!
upcomming g8 solidarity demonstrations in los angeles ... (tags)
time has come for revolution ..
Sunday, 29th - Solidary protest at Italian Consulate in Los Angeles! (tags)
Solidary protest at Italian Consulate in Los Angeles!
SOLIDARITY PROTEST AT ITALIAN CONSULATE IN LOS ANGELES! JULY 23rd! (tags)
Solidary protest at Italian Consolate in Los Angeles! MONDAY, JULY 23 at 12:00 p.m. (noon) - Rally in front of the Italian Consulate to protest the murdering of our brother Carlos Giuliani by the fascist world capitalist forces, and to show solidarity with all G8 protesters. 12400 Wilshire Blvd. 3 blocks east of Bundy. Come show support. bring signs, flags, banners, drums, candles and most importantly, your voice.
community solidarity (tags)
Creative Arts Agency continuing racist action of denying black promoters access to white music acts.
Picket at Philippine Consulate!!! (tags)
JOIN US IN OUR CALL TO END CORRUPTION! ESTRADA RESIGN OR BE OUSTED! END U.S.-SUPPORT FOR ESTRADA!
Los Angeles Election Protest Satuday (tags)
Protest the Republican Coup d'Etat this Saturday, 1pm, at the Federal Building in Westwood.
FYI hotels of Gore and Delegations (tags)
Here are the hotels that Gore and each state's delegations are staying at. I hope this helps some folks.
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L.A Supports August 2nd International Gaza Protest Photoset 4 (tags)
Los Angeles Families Join The Chorus of the Outraged Over the latest Gazan Massacres. Photoset 4 of 4
Los Angeles Families Join The Chorus of the Outraged Over the latest Gazan Massacres. 4 photosets. one of Four.
The SF LGBT Pride Committee Has Nothing to Be Proud of Over Bradley Manning (tags)
Glenn Greenwald’s article in The Guardian titled “Bradley Manning is off limits at SF Gay Pride parade, but corporate sleaze is embraced” (4/27/13) has internationally publicized the cowardly decision of the San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Celebration Committee to rescind its election of political prisoner U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning as a Grand Marshal of the annual Gay Pride Parade. Manning is the gay service member charged with giving WikiLeaks thousands of classified documents exposing U.S. atrocities in Iraq, along with other materials.
War Is A Crime Preparation for Feb 7, 2012 Cal Primary (tags)
California will be part of Super Tuesday on February 7, 2012 when Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Montana Republican caucuses, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Utah have their presidential primaries. The two peace parties on the California ballot are Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party. Below is a partial list of the war crimes and human rights violations of the current Democrat in the White House.
U.S. Election 2012: Stewart Alexander Leans Far Left for White House Cabinet Picks (tags)
Labor Candidate Stewart Alexander has announced that he will seek the U.S. Presidential Nomination for the Socialist Party USA, the Peace and Freedom Party- California, and the Green Party USA. Alexander is also seeking support from the Freedom Socialist Party, the Liberty Union Party- Vermont and the support from working people from across the nation.
Voting for GrassrootsKPFK: It Matters (tags)
Another repost from TakeBackKPFK.org (a letter they received from a board member), this time on who to vote for and why. The website admits it's partisan, but there is some insight into what's at stake in these elections.
EMERGENCY SUMMIT-THE PEOPLE MUST ACT TO STOP THE OIL CATASTROPHE (tags)
The BP oil blowout is an environmental catastrophe, bringing great peril to marine and wildlife in the Gulf and threatening ecosystems of the planet. The spill is still out of control and spreading. It jeopardizes communities and livelihoods. The government and BP have proven unable and unwilling to stop the disaster, protect the Gulf, or even tell the truth. The people must come together now to stop this nightmare.
OCTOBER 5 DIRECT ACTION AT WHITE HOUSE (tags)
On October 5, the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance (NCNR), along with other national peace groups, will carry out direct action at the White House to end the war in Afghanistan and demand reparations for the people of Afghanistan.
Hundreds Protest Outside Obama Fundraiser in Beverly Hills (tags)
BEVERLY HILLS, May 27, 2009 – A wide range of groups turned out to protest Obama’s visit to Southern California this Wednesday at a Democratic Party fund raiser. Protests began around 3:00 pm with a contingent of primarily anti-war protesters, who are disappointed with the contradiction between what Obama said on the campaign trail and what he is saying and doing now as commander in chief.
BYE BYE BYBEE -STOP US TORTURE NOW! (tags)
Judge Jay Bybee, former head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, authored legal memos approving torture. As a judge on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals he has a lifetime appointment. His unethical and illegal torture memos were not revealed in his Senate confirmation hearings. He admits that waterboarding "constitutes the imminent threat of death" and still allowed its use. Any act complicit in torture is a felony under US law. He must be removed from the bench now!
Groups Picket Rick Warren's Saddelback Church (tags)
Diverse groups demonstrate to cite Church's homphobic policies
Antiwar Activists “Boot” Dubya Out the Door (tags)
A rally and march was held in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 19, 2009. It’s objective was to give President George W. Bush “the boot” as he exited an office that he has disgraced by his failure to uphold the law. David Swanson, cofounder of afterdowningstreet. org, was one of the speakers at the event. He underscored the importance of appointing a “Special Prosecutor” to look into and hold accountable the culpable members of the Bush-Cheney Gang.
DNC Protest, Split, and the Principled Stand of Cynthia McKinney (tags)
"As the United States activated Navy ships and the Air Force to begin an airlift of non-specified goods into the former Soviet state of Georgia, and military exercises began in the Persian Gulf near Iran, I received communications from certain individuals among the Colorado Greens who were organizing campaign support events there, suggesting that I not participate in an anti-war program being organized by other individuals in Colorado." -Cynthia McKinney In addition, the Green Party of Colorado has issued false statements to the press and all over the internet claiming that Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney will not be participating in the Recreate ’68 events. Here is one such statement from Dave Chandler, co-chair of the Colorado Green Party, Green Party candidate for U.S. Congress in the Seventh Congressional District, and supporter of a Denver ballot measure that would seize the vehicles of illegal immigrants: “Cynthia McKinney, Green Party candidate for President, and Rosa Clemente, Green Party candidate for Vice President are NOT participating in any Recreate ‘68 activities. Both candidates, and the Green Party of Colorado, are refuting this announcement and are stating that neither candidate, nor the Green Party of Colorado, are in any way associated with Recreate ’68, nor will any of their candidates be speaking at or attending any event, nor are they in any way associated with the group Recreate ’68.” This is a blatant lie. Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente will be speaking at the Recreate ’68 events.
Wishful Thinking and Deadly Self-Deception (tags)
A response to “Change We Can Believe In. An Open Letter to Barack Obama,” August 18 issue of The Nation magazine, online at thenation.com.
March 15: 10,000 Protest Iraq War in Los Angeles (tags)
People in Los Angeles Join Global Day of Action to Stop the War
ALL OUT: March 15 Mass Protest in LA (tags)
Join Thousands to Protest the War on its 5th Anniversary - Stop the War NOW!
Obama: The “Best Face” For Imperialism (tags)
Sullivan writes that a (ruling class) “consensus” agenda for endless war and increased repression will be in effect regardless of who is president. He challenges the reader to pick who could best implement all this in the face of global isolation and profound domestic alienation. And, in the process, he sheds light on the real role of elections in this society.
Hundreds Attend Anti-War Protest & Picket in Hollywood , January 31. (tags)
Shouting “: CLINTON ,OBAMA YOU WILL SEE, THE IRAQI PEOPLE WILL BE FREE!” Hundreds of activists ralled outside the Kodak Theatre 6801 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles last January 31,2008 Also shouting and holding banners that said: End the war and occupation now! All U.S. and foreign troops out of Iraq immediately! Money for jobs, housing, education, health care - not for racist war! the rallyist braved the cold weather and stayed up to 7:30 in the evening even after the debates..
Antiwar Groups to Protest Dem Debate in Hollywood (tags)
There Won’t Be A Candidate In That Theater Who Will Really End The War, But That’s What The People Want—And We Intend To Do It WHAT: Anti-War Protest and Picket WHEN: Thursday, January 31, 2008, 5-7 p.m. WHERE: Outside the Kodak Theater, 6801 Hollywood Blvd. (at Highland)
A Report from the Rose Parade Starting Point (tags)
An activist describes being at the start of the parade and the action immediately following it.
Cindy Sheehan Joins Activists Planning Impeachment/Pro-Peace Protest at Rose Parade (tags)
JOIN CINDY SHEEHAN AND THOUSANDS OF OTHER ACTIVISTS ON-SITE AT THE PASADENA 2008 ROSE PARADE NEW YEAR'S DAY! CALLING FOR AN END TO THE IRAQ WAR AND IMPEACHING CHENEY AND BUSH BEFORE THEY BOMB IRAN. UPHOLD YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS! JOIN OUR VISIBILITY AND OUTREACH ACTIONS.
LA and Nationwide: People Hit the Streets to Stop the War (tags)
The October 27 demonstrations represented another important step forward for the anti-war movement in the United States. Over 100,000 people took to the streets in coordinated regional and local protests to demand an immediate end to the war in Iraq, including well over 10,000 in Los Angeles.
A United Rally for Immigrant Rights and Elvira Arellano in Los Angeles August 25, 2007 (tags)
Despite the hot and humid weather and a lethargic start because of the sound system , thousands of immigrants, advocates and anti-war protestors brought out a united front for Elvira Arellano and immigrant rights. The protestors marched down the Olympic/Broadway road, snaked through 2nd street and Los Angeles street and ended at the intersection of Temple and Los Angeles Streets to protest the unjust deportation of Elvira Arellano and for full rights for all immigrants. The protestors massed early at the Olympic intersection as early as 10:00 AM and started late around 12;45 PM. The 4,000 to 5,000 strong march/rally was led by “We Are All Elvira and Saulito Coalition” led by the April 7 Coalition composed of Hermanidad Mexicana Nacional and the Latino Movement USA led by Juan Jose Gutierrez, Raul Murillo, Angelina Corona and the ANSWER-LA: the March 25 Coalition led by Javier Rodriguez; CHIRLA led by Angelica Salas and the CARACEN.
General Strike! 9/11/07! No Work! No School! No Commerce! (tags)
This September Eleventh: No Work, No School, No Commerce! Hit The Streets!
M20: Chicago Mobilizes Against the War (tags)
In January, representatives of over 90 antiwar and community organizations gathered to begin organizing the Chicago area's response to the 4th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq - a mass march on Michigan Ave. As the scene of the largest mass false arrest in Chicago history and an on-going free speech battle with the city, organizing for the right to march on Michigan Avenue was seen as a symbol of the ongoing battle to defend civil liberties in Chicago, and in the nation at large. This year's march will be preceded by walkouts and feeder marches from area high school and college campuses.
March 17 Protests: Massive Turnout in LA, Across the Country (tags)
Tens of Thousands March on the Pentagon 50,000 in Los Angeles, 40,000 in San Francisco
Cynthia McKinney at Peace conference in Malaysia (tags)
Cynthia McKinney, former congresswoman and one of the few principalled people in US congress attended a peace conference in Malaysia. In it she asks people to sign a petition www.petitiononline.com/Abstain/petition.html.
1,000s Expected at Antiwar Protests this Weekend (tags)
SAT 1/27: Thousands expected at Antiwar Protests this Weekend
ANSWER Anti-War Contingent at MLK Day Parade (tags)
Photos from the anti-war contingent at the MLK Day parade
Diverse Political Views Unite in Opposition to Bush Policies and Wars (tags)
Conservative Christian anti-NWO activist and radio talk show host , Alex Jones, Meets with World Can't Wait's Sunsara Taylor to DIscuss Taking Back America from the Bush Regime
Protesters outside White House demand troop pullout from Iraq - Thu Jan 11 (tags)
Anti-war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2007, as President Bush was making his address to the nation about his new policy dealing with the Iraq war. Bush said he will send 21,500 additional U.S. troops to Iraq to quell its near-anarchy and for the first time acknowledged he had erred by failing to order a military buildup last year.
Daniel Ellsberg: “Bush is Dangerous. He has to Go!” (tags)
Daniel Ellsberg of “Pentagon Papers” fame was one of the riveting speakers at an event at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C., held on Jan. 4, 2007. It was sponsored by the World Can’t Wait organization. Ellsberg said that President George W. Bush and V.P. Dick Cheney have to go. He labeled Bush “dangerous!” He urged activists to push for a two pronged Congressional strategy: First, to cut off all funding for the Iraqi War; and, secondly, to investigate the serial crimes of the Bush-Cheney Gang.
Drive Out the Bush Regime (tags)
Thursday's World Can't Wait march united immigrants, nurses, anti-war activists, opponents of torture, truth-seekers, and all those disaffected with the state of the union in a movement that burgeoned even as it walked down Broadway.
Great S.F. 10-5 photos, speakers! - Except for ZIONIST liberal RACIST Rabbi Michael Lerner (tags)
"The World Can't Wait: October 5th" great San Francisco march-rally protest photos, speakers! -- Except for ZIONIST liberal RACIST Rabbi Michael Lerner of Berkeley.
USA, ANTI-BUSH/WAR RALLY (tags)
Protesters March and Rally to speak out against President Bush and the war in Iraq, in Los Angeles, California, USA, on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006. This is part of over 230 protests nationwide organized by World Can't Wait-Drive Out the Bush Regime.
World Can't Wait Now in 234 locations (tags)
Bikes Not Bombs at the Oct. 5 Rally (tags)
Bring your Bikes to the October 5th World Can't Wait Rally. What better way to demonstrate against the Bush regime's war for oil and against it's deception on climate change and environmental issues, than on a bike?
Taking the 7 Talks to the Proletariat and Building for October5 (tags)
The recent correspondence on taking out Bob Avakian’s 7 Talks, especially into proletarian communities, was very important (see Revolution #60 and #61 for articles on this). One thing that comes through: there is nothing else speaking to the how-to-live-and-die questions that are on people’s minds....
Air Force Secretary Suggests Testing Weapons on the American Public (tags)
As if things could not get any scarier in Washington among members of the Bush regime and their plans to “make us safer”, the Associated Press reports that Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne stated Tuesday, September 12, that weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on Americans in crowd-control situations before being deployed on the battlefield. Such weapons are being designed to not only disable people, but also to disable tanks and other weapons by “zapping” and destroying their electronic gear.
FULL-PAGE AD IN NEW YORK TIMES CALLS FOR OCTOBER 5 PROTESTS TO DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME (tags)
Today, for the second time this month, World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime published a full-page ad in the New York Times calling for massive protests across the country on OCTOBER 5. The ad reads: 'ENDLESS WARS! TORTURE! KATRINA! THEOCRACY! BRING THIS TO A HALT! We must act now-- The world's future is in our hands."
World Can't Wait West Coast Mini Bus Tour Goes to Bakersfield (tags)
“WCW Activists Disrupt "In God We Trust" Celebration in Bakersfield, CA
Bakersfield rocked by World Can't Wait anti-theocracy demonstration! (tags)
"In God We Trust" anniversary celebration interrupted as protestors took to the stage with a massive banner, saying: "No to Women-Hating anti-gay Christian fascist theocracy!"
Fundamentalist Christianity Weds the Military (tags)
Fundamentalist Christianity weds the military and their offspring is ecclesiastically induced genocidal war from the command center of Fatherland Patriarchy [1]
THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT IS HOLDING GIANT YOUTH GATHERINGS CALLED BATTLECRY (tags)
This is an announcement and an essay which goes into detail about the Battlecry Youth gatherings. G.W. Bush is part of this maniacal cult that promotes wars against Muslim countries, with young "christian soldiers" doing the fighting, laws that take away women's rights to make decisions about their bodies, and other anti-sexual and homophobic ideas...
STUDENTS UP THE ANTE: Amnesty's the new agenda (tags)
Student protestors march on City Hall. "Compromise" is off the table--the word today was "Amnesty."
Open Letter to the anti-War Movement- WCW (tags)
Labor Rights Activists Picket in Garment District (tags)
LOS ANGELES, March 19, 2006 – The colorful Santee Alley in the downtown fashion district where small storeowners compete for business and shoppers hunt for bargains is always a lively scene on weekends. But, this weekend it got a little more lively as activists for workers rights picketed one of the small shops on Santee Alley.
THOUSANDS MARCH IN HOLLYWOOD AGAINST THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ (tags)
An estimated 4,000 protestors took to the streets of Hollywood to protest the war in Iraq. The demonstration, initiated By A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition-LA, brought out groups such as South Central Farmers, Veterans for Peace, the Korean Drummers, World Can’t Wait, and many others.
Join World Can't Wait! at this weekend's antiwar protests (tags)
A call for people to join the movement to Drive Out the Bush Regime at this weekend's antiwar protests. Featuring a statement from World Can't Wait on the 3rd anniversary of the murderous and utterly illegitamate war in Iraq.
Bush Regime's Terrorism Against America Continues (tags)
This fascist terrorist regime's crimes and treason against America continues
URGENT ACTION (tags)
Call to phone CSPAN and demand that they reverse last-minute decision to not broadcast Feb 4 protests.
No War for Oil - Ride a Bike (tags)
What better way to demonstrate against the Bush regime's war for oil and against it's deception on climate change and environmental issues, than on a bike?
Report on Bush Step Down in LA (tags)
Preliminary repost
Seattle Anti-Imperialist Committee Statement on "World Can't Wait" (tags)
The following is a statement from the Seattle Anti-Imperialist Committee on "World Can't Wait" (WCW), the organizers of tomorrow's "Bush Step Down" protests.
The QUICKTIME REPORT 31/1/06 - SEE GLOBALLY! (tags)
A review of news, opinion, and photography recorded, from the Indymedia Newswire. With times and freqs for tuning in anywhere you can, at your leisure. Free to rebroadcast. The world & recorded for the community archive!
1/31 6 PM -10 PM: Los Angeles State of Union Speech After Party!!! (tags)
(almost) everyone is invited to the state of the Union Speech After-Party with food, drinks, games and intelligent conversations.
World Can't Wait -- Tomas Olmos (tags)
Statement of Tomas Olmos, President of Mexican-American Bar Foundation
World Can't Wait -- Ed Begley, Jr. (tags)
Statement for January 26 press conference
World Can't Wait --Ed Begley, Jr. and Tomas Olmos speak out (tags)
Statements written for press conference on January 26, 2006
Gore Vidal: President Jonah (tags)
Gore Vidal on President Bush and Why people should join World Can't Wait-Drive Out the Bush Regime
Drown Out Bush! -TUESDAY, JANUARY 31 - 5:00 PM (tags)
5:00 PM - Gather at Hollywood & Highland 6:00 PM - Noise & March - Drown out Bush! 7:00 PM - Rally at CNN (Sunset & Cahuenga)
Racists Go Home (tags)
Save Our State and the Minutemen declared a showdown. Counterprotestors didn't see it that way but won the day anyway.
November Again Month of Many Demonstrations (tags)
Last month had a very diverse mixture of demonstrations from the ever growing military recruiting stations, to the annual protest for the closing of the School of the Americas where an estimated 20,000 held an all day rally.
World Can't Wait organizers put out call for documentation, stories of Nov. 2 protests (tags)
Call by WCW organizers for documentation and stories from participants in the November 2, 2005 demonstrations in Los Angeles.
World Can't Wait: Sonic Weapons (tags)
Breaking news. Police are using sonic weapons.
Meet Student Organizers outside of Belmont High School at 7:30am, Wednesday, November 2nd. (tags)
Attacks on H.S students roganizing for World Can't Wait.
URGENT! World Can't Wait--High School student suspended for organizing (tags)
High School students organizing to Drive Out Bush! at Reseda High suspended!
Two World Can't Wait! LA Organizers Ambush Horowitz at Reactionary "Liberty Film Fest (tags)
Two Los Angeles organizers for The World Can't Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime! took the stage against fascist David Horowitz at last Friday's reactionary "Liberty Film Festival" in West Hollywood, were jumped by right-wing thugs!!!
World Can't Wait White House Encampment and Countdown to Nov. 2nd (tags)
The World Can’t Wait, Drive Out the Bush Regime! says,“Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights.” oin us! We are here from 10 am- 7 pm EVERY DAY. And at NOON each day, we cross the street, on the sidewalk in front of the White House, and directly serve notice about the number of the days til the beginning of the end of the Bush Regime.
5 Arrested at Hunter Protest Against Torture (tags)
http://www.worldcantwait.org
A Message to the Anti-war Demonstrators (tags)
2005, posted at revcom.us
Guantanamo. . . “shock and awe”. . . “collateral damage”. . . Fallujah. . . Abu Ghraib. Behind the words stand the cities reduced to rubble, the bodies in the streets, the hooded prisoners, the kicked-down doors, and the children—crying in terror or silently watching the humiliation of their parents. All justified by outrageous lies.
The horror grinds on, every day.
Iraq cannot wait.
Iraq cannot wait for “pendulum swings.” Iraq cannot wait for possible resolutions to set “reasonable” deadlines for hypothetical timetables. Iraq cannot wait for the 2006 U.S. elections—especially (but not only) when the major Democrats all oppose withdrawal from Iraq, and some even support more troops being sent.
Nor will Bush be swayed simply by public opinion turning against him, or the war. Bush himself seems to believe he’s on a “mission from God” and the pack of neo-conservatives, Christian fascists and kluckers who surround him have demonstrated their intent to hold on to power. What do the 2000 elections tell us, after all, if not that?
Iraq—and the world—cannot wait. We cannot tolerate three more years of slaughter and lies and madness.
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Lame Adventure 470: The Highlight of the 53rd New York Film Festival
Posted on October 12, 2015 | 79 comments
Milton and I have spent much of the past two weeks at the New York Film Festival where we’ve seen quite a few low lights. Before attending a screening of Mountains May Depart, the latest film by the Chinese director and screenwriter, Jia Zhangke, we rubber necked the red carpet photo op. Here is Jia with his frequent leading lady, his wife, Zhao Tao.
Tao and Jia.
Mountains is a drama set in the past, present and future about a woman who is loved by two men, one rich and the other, poor. She marries the rich guy and has a son he names Dollar. Even though Jia insists that his film is about 21st Century capitalism and the discontent felt by those that have benefitted from it, we found it trite. To quote Milton:
Milton: I didn’t buy any of it.
He also hated the q&a and grumbled:
Milton: I can’t believe I’m giving up food for this.
What I will remember most from that film is how much it made me crave dumplings.
While Milton was in the bathroom, I noticed the filmmaker, Michel Gondry, in the lobby, following a screening of his latest, Microbe & Gasoline, a whimsical tale about two French teenage boys that build a vehicle and set out on a road trip.
Michel Gondry.
I found it entertaining fluff. Milton thought it had absolutely no business being in the festival and groused that that slot should have gone to Macbeth starring Michael Fassbinder and Marion Cotillard. I would have gladly argued that point with him, but I couldn’t. I was also disappointed that Macbeth wasn’t screened.
While I was busy at work, Milton emailed me that filmmaker Chantal Akerman had died in Paris on Monday, an apparent suicide. This was quite a shock. We had tickets to her latest film, No Home Movie, and we were looking forward to hearing her speak at the post-screening q&a. As news of her death spread, our screening became a very hot ticket. I raced straight from work in Long Island City to Alice Tully Hall. I was very surprised that the lobby was not busier and that I had arrived before Milton. As I waited for him, I noticed the filmmaker, Wes Anderson. I took this terrible gotcha shot and texted it to Milton.
Wes Anderson as a blur in brown shoes.
At about the same time, I realized that I was at the wrong theater. I rocketed to the theater I needed to be at about a block away. When I arrived, it was the mob scene I had anticipated. Fortunately, Milton had gotten there first and had secured seats. As for Akerman’s final film, an experimental documentary about her dying, elderly mother, an Auschwitz survivor, I found it painfully dull and slept through most of the first quarter. Upon leaving, we ran into my friend, Lola, who said that she liked it. Milton asked:
Milton: What did you like about it?
This film was another misfire with us. I told Milton that it made me think about my father at the end, a difficult time in his life I never considered recording on film. Milton said:
Milton: It made me think about wanting dinner.
Even though these movies were misfires, these were all films we had wanted to see, so we don’t regret going. But the film we wanted to see most delivered. That film was Carol, a lesbian May-December romance set in the 1950s, a time when homosexuality was considered a mental illness. Phyllis Nagy brilliantly adapted Patricia Highsmith’s novel, which was essentially a road movie, for the screen. Cate Blanchett, who has never looked more alluring, plays the title character, a gorgeous but troubled cool blonde straight out of Alfred Hitchcock’s gorgeous cool blonde playbook. Rooney Mara is Therese, the shop girl and aspiring photographer, who is instantly smitten with this glamorous, charismatic, sophisticated woman twice her age. Shining just as brightly as his two perfectly cast female leads, is filmmaker, Todd Haynes. He has skillfully directed a masterpiece that is superbly shot by cinematographer, Ed Lachman, and scored by composer, Carter Burwell. Even though I had read the novel that Highsmith had published under the pseudonym, Claire Morgan, when it was originally titled The Price of Salt, almost 25 years ago, I knew the story well, but I was so elated at the film’s ending, it gave me chills. Carol is filmmaking at its finest. It is a great lesbian love story that packs an emotional wallop. It opens in the US on November 20th.
Carol q&a (l to r), Cate Blanchett, producer Elizabeth Karlsen, Phyllis Nagy, Rooney Mara, Todd Haynes, moderator Amy Taubin
Posted in film, Humor, new york city
Tagged carol, cate blanchett, lesbian love story, lgbt, new york film festival, nyff, rooney mara, todd haynes
Lame Adventure 469: Opening Night at the 53rd New York Film Festival
Since I am a creature of habit, and I annually discuss the films I see at the New York Film Festival, which is like Christmas in October, here are observations from this year’s opening night festivities.
As usual, I was with my dear bud, Milton. We had not planned to attend the opening night film, The Walk, because it opens nationwide on October 9th. The Walk is based on the true story about Philippe Petit, a high-wire artist from France, who in 1974 walked the tightrope between the north and south towers of the World Trade Center. When that mind blowing event happened, we had plenty of dinner table conversation about it in my house. That took balls the size of cantaloupes, but if memory serves correct, that was not an exact quote at our dinner table, but my brother, Axel, could have said it afterward when we stepped out to walk the dog.
Tickets to the gala event screening at Alice Tully Hall cost a king’s ransom. Even more distressing was that it was not a tee shirt and sneaker-type screening. The idea of dressing formal to see a popcorn movie in 3D that is opening at every multiplex across the country in less than two weeks, rubs us wrong. Fortunately, a few days before the screening, the Film Society of Lincoln Center announced that there would be additional screenings on opening night in their more intimate surrounding theaters for the come-as-you-are types with stains on their shirts. Those tickets cost $20. Count us in!
Because the gala screening started at 6pm, while the screenings for slobs kicked off half an hour later, we realized that gave us ample time to rubberneck the red carpet ceremony outside Alice Tully Hall featuring the film’s stars. Unfortunately, a horde of autograph hounds had the same idea, creating a dense wall of humanity in front of us.
Autograph hounds making better doors than windows.
Autograph hounds are on a mission. Basically, they’re dragon air breathing descendants of paparazzi. Milton explained that they sell the autographs they collect on line. I asked him if any of these autograph hounds had tickets to see the film. He thought that was highly unlikely. Apparently, standing behind a police barricade for hours waiting for a celebrity to pass by for a split second to sign a paper thrust aggressively in their face is their typical day at the office.
As we were waiting, Milton spotted Kate Mulgrew, who is currently appearing as Red in the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. She is not in The Walk and she didn’t register on the autograph hounds radar, either. They stood slack jawed as Milton snapped this shot of her.
Kate Mulgrew wearing red scarf.
When the film’s director, Robert Zemeckis, appeared, the hounds sprang into action.
Crowd surge.
Robert Zemeckis is there somewhere!
Milton’s gotcha shot proving the new adage that two cameras are better than one.
They also pounced all over actor Steve Valentine.
Steve Valentine happy to oblige.
Steve Valentine working the horde.
But they went their most bat-shit crazy when Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who stars as Philippe Petit, approached.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt about to approach the lion’s den.
What was craziest was as he was being rushed inside the theater a voice among the hounds cried out:
Autograph Hound: Joseph, please come back!
And he did!
Joseph Gordon-Levitt being Mr. Nice Guy.
The film is a very entertaining story about a wildly ambitious young man with the tenacity to do something historical. Milton thought it was the best use of 3D he had ever seen in a film. At one point when Petit is learning how to walk the wire, he drops his balancing pole. Milton and I both ducked, fearing we were each about to lose an eye. Even though we knew the story well, the film packs a tremendous amount of tension and suspense. Often, I found myself squirming; I suffered so much such anxiety. Afterward, I asked Milton if he thought that Joseph Gordon-Levitt actually learned to walk a tightrope for this film.
Milton: Yes, but his wire was probably two inches off the ground and everything around him was superimposed.
Petit’s magical achievement was something that could only be accomplished in a bygone era when it was possible to plot something so audacious almost invisibly in plain sight. The film was also a wonderful tribute to the towers. Before Petit walked the tightrope between them, New Yorkers viewed them as primarily two ugly boxes, but afterward, they took on a degree of humanity and New Yorkers embraced them. The film is peppered throughout with Petit standing inside Lady Liberty’s torch, talking directly to the camera about his feat, a cheesy device that breaks the fourth wall. At first, we found that gimmick irritating, but by the very end, we realized it provided poignant punctuation.
The Walk was a perfect film to inaugurate this year’s New York Film Festival. Don’t miss seeing it in 3D when it plays the multiplex wherever you live.
Tagged autograph hounds, celebrity sightings, film society of lincoln center, joseph gordon-levitt, lincoln center, new york film festival, philippe petit, robert zemeckis, steve valentine, the walk
Lame Adventure 437: Back to the Birds
The New York Film Festival’s closing night feature hit another high note, Birdman or (the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), is a pitch black comedy directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Michael Keaton plays a Hollywood has-been best known as the comic book hero, Birdman, a character that brought him fame and fortune. He is determined to resurrect his sagging career and gain relevancy by adapting a Raymond Carver story for the Broadway stage, even though he is losing his mind to Birdman who has a stranglehold on his identity.
Milton and I doubt that Birdman will come anywhere near the crowd pleasing popularity of Gone Girl, which opened the festival, at the US box office. But Birdman is a beautifully shot and edited film with a great jazz drum score. Michael Keaton, whose own career hit its high mark when he started playing Batman twenty-five years ago (a role he quit before acting in the third film of the series), is terrific as a man who is losing his grip on reality as he directs and stars in a play that is hemorrhaging his life savings. It nails the New York theatrical community with falling props, insecure, egotistical actors and nasty, snobby critics. Adding to the authenticity, much of it is shot at the Saint James theater, where Milton and I have seen many Broadway plays through the years. It’s very entertaining with an ending that’s open to interpretation.
Birdman played eight times on closing night at the festival. Milton and I could not afford to pay the king’s ransom to attend the star-studded gala screening. Our screening at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade theater did not rate an appearance by any of the stars. It was a venue with first come, first serve seating so loitering outside the press tent was not an option. Therefore, the closest we got to rubbernecking the likes of Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Edward Norton, Naomi Watts or Zach Galifianakis was this guy vacuuming the red carpet in anticipation of their arrival.
Vacuum-man.
So, how does one follow up sixteen days of intensive film going in Lincoln Center? The first option is to enter withdrawal. The second it to head downtown, specifically to Greenwich Village to indulge in street theater.
Birdboy.
As a longtime fan of pigeons, I was very excited to read last week in The New Yorker, that Tina Trachtenburg, also known as Mother Pigeon, an animal activist and artist, was conducting a pigeon “flashflock outstallation” in Washington Square Park on Saturday with a rain date on Sunday. Milton and I had tickets to two screenings on Saturday, so I was elated to see rain.
I was even more elated to see Mother Pigeon’s acrylic felt flock on Sunday.
Mother Pigeon’s pigeon outstallation.
“Why aren’t we in MoMA, Mother Pigeon?”
Flock of feathered felt.
She creates these whimsical creatures and gives each unique markings. She explains on her web site, “I like to make them all different because all pigeons are different.” As someone who is quite familiar with the many pigeons in my own midst, that is very true.
Mother Pigeon with the pigeons in her midst.
Yes, she even created one pecking at a slice of felt pizza.
Mother Pigeon pigeon pecking at pizza.
As I was heading back uptown, I encountered life imitating art.
Mother Nature pigeon pecking at pizza crust.
Tagged birdman, mother pigeon, new york film festival, pigeons, street theater, urban wildlife
Lame Adventure 436: Notes from the New York Film Festival
Posted on October 6, 2014 | 63 comments
Milton and I are continuing to attend the New York Film Festival. It concludes next Sunday, October 12. Thus far, we’ve seen a dozen films. Some have impressed us immensely, but even those that did not, we don’t regret seeing.
The Wonders, the second film directed by Italian filmmaker, Alice Rohrwacher, won the Grand Prix earlier this year at the Cannes film festival. Here in New York, getting your film screened is the award.
Alice Rohrwacher mingling after her screening.
Even though I was well rested when we saw The Wonders, so little happens in this story about a family of rural beekeepers, I nodded out. When I woke, they had added a German boy to their family of four girls. I wondered how that happened? I had barely been comatose for a minute. Milton was fully conscious for the entirety of the film.
Me: Where did that German kid come from?
Milton: I have no idea.
Alice Rohrwacher had great enthusiasm during the q&a, but I agree with Milton:
Milton: I just hope that she’ll next make a film I like.
French film star Mathieu Amalric did a commendable job adapting a Georges Simenon novel, The Blue Room. It is a film noir that is a jigsaw puzzle of pieces but it’s major flaw is that we still were not entirely sure who did what at the end. But, it was entertaining and there was plenty of nudity. He gives spirited q&a.
Fully clothed Mathieu Amalric outside Alice Tully Hall.
We have seen several untraditional biopics at this year’s festival including Pasolini, written and directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Willem Dafoe, who Milton considered miscast, in the title role. Although the film was flawed, it was an imaginative telling about the final weeks in the life of the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini who was murdered under mysterious circumstances in 1975. I liked how Ferrara depicted Pasolini as a guy who was so alive and full of creative energy as he grew closer to his untimely death. I also liked that Ferrara created the film that Pasolini intended to shoot next. During the q&a Ferrara got embroiled in a heated debate with an audience member who claimed that Pasolini had been assassinated. Ferrara didn’t subscribe to that idea and casually stuck his foot in his mouth when he referred to Pasolini as “a fucking filmmaker” further incensing the audience member.
Q&A with Abel Ferrara (l) and Willem Dafoe (r).
Filmmaker Mike Leigh returned to the festival for the tenth time with his 149 minute biopic about the 19th Century British landscape painter J.M.W. Turner, Mr. Turner. Timothy Spall grunts his way through the title role. When he spoke, his British accent was often so garbled; I had no idea what he was saying. I told Milton that I found that film as interesting as watching paint dry. Milton said that there was not enough story to merit almost two and a half hours.
Sneaking a shot of Mike Leigh in-between press people.
Our favorite biopic was Bertrand Bonello’s Saint Laurent about the fashion visionary Yves Saint Laurent, featuring a superb Gaspard Ulliel in the title role and Helmet Berger as Saint Laurent at the end of his life. It focused on Saint Laurent’s most creative decade, 1967-1977, and his relationship with his business and life partner, Pierre Bergé. Its 146-minute length flew. The lush tale was full of hedonistic excess, passion, romance, gay sex, drugs, anxiety, torment, beautiful clothes, people and pets; a succession of French bulldogs always named Moujik. That film completely held my attention from start to finish.
Three other films that impressed us very much were thought provoking: Timbuktu by Abderrahmane Sissako, a true story beautifully filmed about the occupation of this city in Mali by jihadists. Music is banned, absurd rules are enforced without explanation, women are pressured into marriages against their will, children are quickly orphaned, and people are tortured and terrified. During the q&a the filmmaker aptly called Timbuktu “a society in crisis.” Audience members were left wondering what we could do to help? A start is to suggest getting word out about this film. If Timbuktu appears in a theater by you: see it. Then, feel lousy like us about what’s going on over there.
Timbukto director Abderrahmane Sissako post-screening.
Former NYFF Program Director Richard Pena talking to Kessen Tall, Timbukto co-writer.
Two Days, One Night is a wrenching drama by the Dardenne Brothers starring Marion Cotillard as Sandra, a factory worker out on disability, who learns that management has decided to lay her off just when she is ready to return to work. If she can persuade her sixteen colleagues to forgo their 1000-euro bonus (about $1250), she will be allowed to keep her job. Cotillard is riveting. It’s a performance that’s Academy Award nomination-worthy.
Dardenne Brothers, Marion Cotillard and Kent Jones, NYFF Program Director (who our friend, Enchilada, calls Lurch).
Oren Moverman’s Time Out of Mind starring Richard Gere as a homeless man named George living on the street in New York City was a film with a gimmick that works. Much of this film was shot with hidden cameras as a disheveled Gere panhandles, sleeps on park benches and rides the subway. As longtime residents of New York, Milton and I are very familiar with seeing people like George who are on the fringes of society . We thought Richard Gere was terrific and his performance is Academy Award nomination-worthy.
Ben Vereen, Kyra Sedgwick, Richard Gere, Oren Moverman and Kent Jones.
We also attended the centerpiece screening, the world premier of Paul Thomas Anderson’s highly anticipated adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel, Inherent Vice. I asked Milton if he ever read any Pynchon novels.
Milton: They’re about a thousand pages long with no punctuation.
Translation: no. This film is 148 minutes long and the plot is a convoluted detective story that is impossible to follow featuring a fun pothead private investigator played by Joaquin Phoenix (who is excellent). It’s not a comedy, it’s not a drama, it’s not a thriller, but what it is most is tedious. If we had been stoned, or at least subject to a contact high, this plotless pile would have been far more entertaining and far less pointless.
Empty Inherent Vice press tent.
Tagged inherent vice, marion cotillard, mathieu amalric, new york film festival, richard gere, the wonders, timbuktu, world premier, yves saint laurent
Lame Adventure 435: Celebrity Stalking and the New York Film Festival
One of my former companions, Rockets Redglare, insisted that the older a woman grew, the more she disappeared. What a huge advantage that cloak of invisibility was for wily me on the opening night of the 52nd New York Film Festival where David Fincher’s latest film, Gone Girl, received its world premier.
Outside Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, eight Gone Girl posters rubbing it in to anyone without tickets.
I scurried around the press tent virtually unnoticed.
Press tent.
The area had heavy police presence.
Police barricades be damned! I am woman, I am invisible, hear my camera roar!
The cops ordered rubber necking pedestrians eager to glimpse the stars to keep moving. One cop thought he was hilariously funny when he barked:
Barking Cop: C’mon people, move it! That’s only Ben Affleck — not Matt Damon.
“Matt’s here?”
But I was able to exploit my ability to impersonate air to photograph the stars Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike.
Ben again.
My luck ran out every time I tried to snap a shot of Tyler Perry, who was obscured by camera crews.
I envy that tree’s view of Tyler Perry!
Milton and I have tickets to about half of the festival’s thirty-three main slate screenings.
Nice haul of tickets.
Gone Girl screened nine times on opening night. We scored tickets to one of the cheap seat screenings at the Francesca Beale Theater, located across the street from Alice Tully Hall, where David Fincher and the cast were in attendance.
Prized Gone Girl ducat.
Prized opening night playbill.
I did put the camera away while watching the film.
The film was highly entertaining. The movie web site IMDB identifies it as a “Drama Mystery Thriller” but I prefer Milton’s succinct classification:
Milton: It’s a modern day film noir.
David Fincher has directed a riveting film about a couple hit hard by the recession. The husband (Affleck) finds his living room ransacked and his wife (Pike) missing on their fifth wedding anniversary. The plot is a wild ride full of many twists and turns about marriage, money and the media. Gillian Flynn, who wrote the novel that was the source material, adapted her book into a very impressive first screenplay. Come awards time, this film will likely receive multiple nominations.
Over the weekend, we attended screenings at Alice Tully Hall, and were promptly plummeted back to earth. On Saturday, we saw the North American premier of Italian filmmaker Asia Argento’s Misunderstood. In her introductory remarks, Amy Taubin, a member of the NYFF’s selection committee and a veteran film critic, gushed about seeing that film earlier this year at Cannes. She claimed that it was about “girlhood”.
Asia Argento, holding microphone; Amy Taubin sitting at her right.
The film, set in Rome in 1984, is about a nine-year-old named, Aria, whose megalomaniac showbiz parents hate each other’s guts, divorce and treat their youngest daughter with varying degrees of anger, indifference and rare affection. Throughout the entirety of the film Aria shuttles from one parent’s home to the other’s after she inevitably steps on a landmine pissing off these insufferable clods. Twice this kid attempts suicide. As the ending credits rolled I said:
Me: I feel like I’ve been bludgeoned.
Milton: I didn’t believe a single word of it.
During the q&a, Taubin asked Argento that considering that her name is Asia, one letter different than Aria, she is the daughter of famous parents (the filmmaker Dario Argento and the actress, Daria Nicolodi), and she was nine in 1984, was any of it autobiographical? Argento looked baffled, but volunteered that her name is Aria on her passport. She also revealed that the film was a comedy. That took us by surprise. But, we appreciated that she showed school spirit and attended her screening.
Asia Argento following her screening that compelled us to eat pasta for lunch.
The next day, we saw David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars, which had its US premier the night before. It is based on the novel written and adapted for the screen by Bruce Wagner. He was the only member of the production to attend the Sunday afternoon screening. He delivered a brief, but memorable, introduction. Possibly, he was quoting a fortune cookie:
Bruce Wagner: The road to hell is paved with laughter.
This film began as a clever satire about Hollywood: the egomania, desperation and how people invent themselves. Many of the jokes are hilarious. A secondary storyline features Julianne Moore as a middle age actress in a career slump obsessed with landing a particular part. Her performance was outstanding. But, the film derails in the last third. Even though it is not at all in the running for the worst film we’ve ever seen, it is one that we could not recommend to approximately 98 percent of the people we know.
My snack of choice this NYFF has been an organic dark chocolate bar I get at Trader Joe’s. Naturally I offer to share my bar with Milton but he prefers milk chocolate. He told me that the next time he eats a piece of my candy bar:
Milton: I’ll bring my own sugar to sweeten it.
Yum to me. Yuck to Milton.
Tagged gotcha shot, happiest time of the year, movie maniacs, new york film festival, outsmarting authority, steaming pile of crap
Lame Adventure 391: Blue is the Longest Color
Au revoir 51st New York Film Festival.
Milton and I have attended our last screening at the New York Film Festival, the highly anticipated and critically acclaimed 2 hour and 59 minute lesbian opus from France, Blue is the Warmest Color. Adapted from a graphic novel written by Julie Maroh and directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, it stars Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos. It won the prestigious Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and the jury gaveExarchopoulos and Seydoux an Honorary Palme d’Or of their own. I had originally thought they shared a Best Actress award.
This is a coming of age story about the sexual awakening of a teenage girl named Adèle who experiences love at first sight when she sees Emma, an art student with blue hair, walking arm in arm with her girlfriend on the street. The hype surrounding it is a ten minute graphic sex scene that Kechiche shot with a handheld camera. I had hoped that this film would be on par with Brokeback Mountain in depth and quality, but now that I have seen it, I declare it a straight guy’s wet dream about pretty girls who are the Energizer Bunnies of the boudoir.
Milton’s two-word review:
Milton: Major disappointment.
Thus far, critics have been praising this film all out of proportion which is baffling. This is certainly not the lesbian Citizen Kane. Stephen Spielberg’s Lincoln ran 2 hours and 30 minutes, 29 minutes shorter than Blue. Is a slender tear-drenched and snot-soaked ode to first love on the same level as an historic epic about the man who freed the slaves Milton?
Milton: I hated most of the film. It was boring.
There just was not enough story to merit that length. A family dinner sequence showing the character, Adèle, ravenously eating spaghetti with her parents while all three are watching TV seemed shot in real time. I got the point that they were not members of the French aristocracy when Adèle licked her knife, but did I need to watch her scarf seconds to hammer home that she’s a girl with a voracious appetite?
Length aside, Kechiche took many liberties with Maroh’s story. He has used her characters as a springboard for his own version of who lesbians are, and that offended me so much. At a party sequence that made my skin crawl, men, undoubtedly representing Kechiche’s warped viewpoint about gay women, are opining about lesbianism and female orgasm. If only I had a mute button.
Sitting at left moderator Kent Jones with director Abdellatif Kechiche and actress Adèle Exarchopoulos.
Maroh has expressed her dismay that she was excluded from the filmmaking process, but she has not condemned the film. I suspect she was paid well, so she is not going to kick a gift horse in the teeth. If the Koch Brothers want to buy my book for a chunk of change and turn it into a Tea Party manual, sold! Maroh might be anticipating a backlash from lesbians and anyone else that can see through this sham no matter their gender or which way their pendulums swing.
Maroh has spoken out about the notorious sex scene that occurs about halfway into the film. She has called that scene “unrealistic”. It was the Cirque du Soleil of scissoring and ass slapping set on a mattress. The sighs and groans the characters emitted were ear piercing. I emailed Milton:
Me: I enjoyed it voyeuristically while watching it, but at the same time, I have never in my life had sex like that. A lot of what they were doing was in these strange positions that my partners and I never do.
Milton: I’m glad you said that because, although I found the scene steamy, at times I didn’t know what the hell they were doing. That penetration without penetration thing? What the fuck was that?
As for our audience, men, presumably straight, exceeded the number of women in attendance. Milton said never before did he have to wait in a line of 500 guys to use the bathroom. He is going to monitor how this film does at the box office. It enters general release in the US, but not in Idaho where it is already banned, on October 25th. It is being released uncut and rated NC-17. I am sure that by showing it uncut that will guarantee increased box office revenue. Kechiche has announced that he wants to release a director’s cut that is forty minutes longer, presumably that will be the DVD. More go-to viewing for the undeclared target audience: drooling straight guys. Milton wonders if lesbian orgasms merit ten or fifteen million dollars at the box office over here in the land of the free, home of the bored. I anticipate that it will sell even better.
Tagged cannes film festival, lesbian film, lesbian movies, lgbt, lgbt film, new york film festival, wankers
Lame Adventure 390: New York Film Festival-time
The most wonderful time of the year.
Milton and I have been going to the New York Film Festival. Thus far, we have attended four screenings, but he recently rubbernecked the red carpet arrivals without me. He took this gotcha shot of Robert Redford entering a screening of All is Lost.
“Get that iPhone out of my face.”
Our selections span the globe provided you are only traveling to China and France. Milton was very eager to see Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin. For weeks he talked avidly about this film. He urged me not to read anything about it so I would view it with a completely open mind. I heeded his advice. Finally, the night of the screening arrives. Milton mentions for the 127th time that he’s very excited. The program begins. Out steps the moderator, Amy Taubin. Cue downbeat.
Milton (loud whisper): I hate her!
Me (barely audible whisper): No, it’s Annette Michelson that you hate. She’s the one that burped into the microphone that year.
Milton (insistent whisper): I hate her, too, and I hate this one! She was a second rate critic at the Village Voice and now she’s here!
Milton emits a groan of disgust normally reserved for seeing a rat the size of a toaster scampering across the subway platform. Fortunately, the film, four loosely interconnected stories about members of the working class in modern day China who grow increasingly enraged by the economic divide and react memorably, was riveting. Milton was so impressed he intends to see it again. We left craving noodles, but settled for nachos.
Center, Jia Zhangke with his lead actress and his wife, Tao Zhao. Amy Taubin at right. Translator at left.
Next, we made our way to France when we saw The Stranger by the Lake, a thriller about gay male cruising that was shot entirely outdoors by a lake. It was written and directed by Alain Guiraudie and had a distinct Hitchcockian feel if Sir Alfred had ever been inclined to shoot a film showing hardcore sex between guys. The NYFF had disclaimers all over the place warning: Please be advised that this film has scenes of a sexually explicit nature. That evening’s Milton-approved moderator, Dennis Lim, again reminded the audience comprised of approximately 98% gay men, about this fact. The guys applauded and cheered the announcement.
Center, Alain Guiraudie, right, Dennis Lim and left, handsome young translator who rated vocal gay male audience approval.
Stranger delivered on many levels, and I agree with Dennis Lim that it’s a film about watching. All eyes were glued to the hyper masculine character Michel. Michel reminded me of Mark Spitz. Milton said Michel reminded him of every gay male porn film icon of the Seventies and Eighties. Stranger was highly entertaining until the last twenty minutes when it veered in a direction we wish it had not and no, I’m not saying that Michel announces that he’s straight and has decided to marry his long lost love, Mary Ellen Flaubert. We just wished it had gone in a different direction. A chatty chap sitting behind us kept referring to the protagonist, Franck, as “a ninny”; an opinion Milton found immensely irritating.
Over the weekend, we were joined by our friend, Lola, for a double header. First, we saw the latest from filmmaker, Catherine Breillat, Abuse of Weakness, starring screen legend, Isabelle Huppert. This is a drama based on true events in Breillat’s life after she suffered a severe stroke and when she had a relationship with a notorious conman who milked her for hundreds of thousands of Euros. Again, the moderator was Amy Taubin, but Milton practiced restraint and simply glowered at her. Huppert, now age 60, looks luminescent. She personifies that je ne sais quoi factor French women exude. I whispered to Milton:
Me: I’ve seen Isabelle Huppert in person. I can die happy!
Left, Isabelle Huppert, center Catherine Breillat, right, Amy Taubin.
Milton smiled warmly; he was thrilled to see her, too. About the film … did it suck! Behold, Milton’s two word review:
Milton: Pure torture.
Milton was livid that Maud, Huppert’s stroke victim character, would be eating prosciutto after a stroke.
Milton: Who the hell does that? That’s like eating straight salt!
The only way Huppert could have saved this story might have been if she uttered the French word for “rewrite”. What impressed Lola about it was a question an irate audience member sitting in the balcony bellowed during the q&a.
Irate Audience Member: Why can’t the French have subtitles in yellow? Why does it always have to be white on white? I can’t read that!
Next we saw an infinitely more engrossing film, a meticulously crafted and very clever thriller directed by Claire Denis appropriately titled Bastards. She unfolded the story in fragments. The audience never knows more than Marco the protagonist who we’re rooting for to solve the mystery about what happened to his niece. This is a film that requires full attention. When the guy sitting next to me suddenly got the hiccups that was briefly distracting, but I maintained focus.
This time the moderator was Kent Jones, the Director of Programming, and a serious Claire Denis cheerleader. Bastards was pure cinema. Milton had no complaints.
Lousy zoomed in iPhone iDistant shot of Claire Denis and Kent Jones.
Responding to my SOS text, Lola takes this shot of Claire and Kent from her third row seat.
Tagged anti-hollywood, everyone's a critic, foreign film, gay male cruising, independent film, movie madness, new york film festival
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The church is situated in the middle of the village, it is named after Aelhaearn, a disciple of Beuno. He came to the area in the 5th or 6th century.
The church consits of a nave, sanctuary and a north and south transept. The nave dates from the 12th or early 13th century and the transepts from the 16th or 17th century. The chancel was enlarged in 1892 when the whole church was refurbished. One of the most notable features of the chancel is the old east window. also of interest is the repaired window in the north transept.
In the wall of the nave there is a window that dates from the 16th century allthough it has been greatly repaired. In the same wall there is a door that dates to the 12th or 13th century that was closed in 1930. In the west wall is a door that is likely to date from the 14thcentury. The bell tower is also of interest, it probably dates to 1749 which is inscribed on the bell along with the names of Griffith Jones and Robert Pritchard, Wardens. The ceiling is modern allthough 3 wooden trusses from he Middle Ages have beeen reused.
In 1865 in a field called Saint’s Garden( Gardd Sant) – Erw Sant today – a stone was found. It dates to the 5th or 6th century and in Roman lettering it reads-“here lies Aliortus a man of Elmett”.
This stone was placed on the wall of the north transept. In this same transept there is a slate memorial tablet to Rev. John Evans, Bryn Bychan who became Bishop of Bangor in 1702 and died in 1724. Four chairs were also given in memory of him and 2 stand in the sanctuary and 2 in the chois stalls. They are decorated with the Bishop’s Mitre.
On the wall there is a slate memorial tablet to Catherine, the eldest daughter of Richard Glyn , Elernion who died in 1702. The box pews date to the late 18th or early 19th century. The church is on the Pilgrim road to Bardsey, pilgrims called here after visiting St beuno’s Church, Clynnog. Llanaelhaearn is part of the Diocese of Bangor.
To arrange a visit or to have the church opened contact the keyholder Lynda Cox 07787953887
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The Biographer, The Empress, Her Dynasty, Her Lover: Linda Jaivin in China
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Linda Jaivin is best-known for her erotic fiction, which fuses the political and personal with refreshing dollops of wit. Her 1995 best-seller, Eat Me broke new ground in exploring the lascivious possibilities of fruit. But Jaivin is also a renowned sinologist, a fluent Mandarin speaker with an encyclopaedic knowledge of China. She has lived and lectured there, and apart from writing fiction, one of her sidelines in as a translator and movie sub-titler.
Her seventh novel, The Empress Lover, blends her love of this complex country with myth, memoir, memory and more than a hint of magic. She also bears a passing resemblance to her heroine, Linnie, a middle-aged Australian movie sub-titler, who lives in one of Beijing’s older quarters. They share the same Chinese name Jia Peilin, are consumed by the desire to write fiction, and are bound emotionally to spirit of place.
But here the similarities end and what begins is an examination of “fusa”, a wonderful Chinese word that means obscure, complicated, uncertain. If modern China is fusa incarnate, laden with historical baggage and contradictions, then Linnie’s own background is as fusa as they come. Brought up by relatives after her 17-year-old mother dies in childbirth, Linnie has no knowledge of her father. All she has been left are a richly carved pair of expensive jade bracelets, and the dying words of her mother who said her father was “a Prince” – certainly the stuff of fiction.
Linnie herself lives in a highly imaginative world. For years she’s been struggling to write her novel about her experiences in China, and has returned to Beijing after a long spell in Australia to complete it. She has also written another book, an account of the real-life trickster and scholar Edmund Backhouse. Backhouse wrote a sensational and fictional account of the 19th century court of the Empress Cixi. In his erotic fantasies, he imagined an affair with the then elderly Empress. Linnie’s novel, The Empress Lover, replicated his “saga stuffed full of gratuitous, sensationalist sex scenes, murder, history lessons and purple prose”.
One day, Linnie receives a letter from a man on horseback dressed in 19th century costume, purporting to give her news about her mysterious father. The writer of the missive is no less than Backhouse’s own biographer, a man so ancient everyone presumed he was dead. Curiouser and curiouser. Or more and more fusa.
By now, the reader realises that the novel is like one of those carved ivory Chinese balls within balls, or a series of Chinese boxes. Fact and fiction blur. What starts out as a straightforward narrative dips into magic realism and back again. As we get to know Linnie, we discover the circumstances that have shaped her, in particular a life-long love affair with the handsome, enigmatic and elusive Q. We also learn a great deal about China’s rich and complicated history and lifestyle, from the earliest days of the imperial dynasties to the massacre at Tiennamen Square and today’s schizophrenic society, which balances extreme wealth and commercialism on the one hand with communist values on the other.
As Linnie prepares for an evening rendez-vous to find out about her father, Jaivin dips in and out of anecdote and memoir, history and fantasy. The story is told in a number of voices, from Linnie’s own (essentially part 1), to a poet who knew both Linnie and Q in their youth, in part 2. In the middle are other storytellers, including Backhouse himself. It’s to Jaivin’s credit that for the most part, she juggles these multiple story-lines expertly. Every so often the sheer weight of fantasy and absurd coincidence seems to overpower the novel, threatening to split those interlocking ivory balls apart. But Linnie is such a sympathetic character, and her voice so touching and believable, that you forgive Jaivin her little peccadilloes.
More than anything, this is a novel about the weight of history impacting on the present, the persistence of love and memory, the redeeming power of fiction and imagination to redress the hurts of the past. And it’s a wonderful evocation of China, in all her bewildering, dazzling fusa-ness.
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A trailer-mounted water treatment process controlled by a Productivity2000 PLC has recently been developed at the University of Idaho. Professor Greg Möller, in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, along with engineers from the College of Engineering have teamed up to build the platform, and to further research the economical removal of phosphorus from various wastewater sources.
The engineering effort is part of a capstone project involving a number of engineering students and a French industrial water engineering intern from Suez Environment, led by Martin Baker, a mechanical engineer on staff at UI. Gene Staggs is a recent graduate from the engineering school, and is the Automation and Control lead on the project. Gene contacted AutomationDirect in early June, asking about PLC options to control the project. In addition to the technical criteria, he also explained the accelerated timeline for completion of the project. AutomationDirect technical staff reviewed the capabilities of the Productivity2000, and assured him that his entire bill of materials could ship the day he placed the order.
While the primary function of the mobile platform is to go “on-site” for up to a week at various locations (paper mills, lagoons, and larger waste water treatment plants) to process effluent, remove phosphorus and collect samples, the platform is also a STEM Educational vehicle. The development team has already coordinated tours for elementary through high school teachers, and they have plans to take the platform to various professional conferences as well.
T he treatment process is accomplished via a pair of “plug-flow” reactors in series, each followed by a corresponding self-cleaning sand filter. The reactors are 45 feet long, constructed from 6” diameter PVC pipe (the green tubing in the pictures). The first reactor introduces low doses of biochar, a less expensive, yet similar material to the activated carbon used for many filtering applications. After moving through the first reactor, samples are taken and the effluent moves into the first sand filter. Samples are taken again, and the effluent moves into the second reactor where precise quantities of ozone are injected. After a third sample is collected, the effluent moves through the second sand filter, a final sample is collected, and processing is complete.
The entire process is known as “catalytic oxidation”; it allows for destructive removal of most organic contaminants (they are mineralized to carbonates) and it sterilizes the water, killing all microbial life including prions, viruses, and bacterial spores. Mineralized nutrient phosphorus and nitrogen are bound to the biochar and recovered from the water. The nutrient-laden biochar can be recovered and pelletized for use as fertilizer and as a soil amendment in agriculture.
The mobile platform processes about 15 gallons per minute, but because it is based on a commercially proven process, it is scalable to tens of millions gallons per day.
The Productivity2000 PLC controls all aspects of the filtration process, from opening and closing valves, to metering the biochar, ozone, and the sampling operations. A pair of AutomationDirect SureStep™ stepping systems are also used for preprocessing of the biochar. Commercially available biochar is available in three forms: powdered, slurry and suspension. The engineers developed a creative approach to manipulate and meter the biochar, regardless of type. Three sets of custom 3D printed parts were designed to fit on the shafts of the stepper motors. A simple auger processes the powdered form, an auger and a linear actuator are used for the slurry form, and a pair of mixer paddles and peristaltic pump are used for the suspension form of the biochar. The Stepper systems are controlled using a high-speed output card (P2-HSO) in the Productivity2000.
Additionally, the Productivity2000 is running eight separate PID loops (with auto-tuning); it also communicates with a C-more touch panel HMI for operator control. “It is a great system to work with – some of the best features were the custom tag names, PID features and QR codes” said Gene, just after completing the three-week build. Gene also reports that the import/export of the tag database was a huge time saver, and the team was even able to use the spreadsheet style tag data to help document other parts of the project. He pointed out other benefits as well, “Because this is also a research vessel, the data logging and network capabilities are invaluable.”
The mobile platform gives the team a great vehicle to further their research and to show wastewater treatment operators the benefits of the new technology. While it is still in the fairly early stages of development, the results are very promising. Existing studies conclude that reactive filtration is one-third to one-half the capital, maintenance and operation costs of other approaches, AND the process will produce useful fertilizer, clean reusable water, and even carbon trading credits.
Interested parties should contact the University of Idaho (ott@uidaho.edu) or professor Greg Möller (gmoller@uidaho.edu)
Originally Posted: Aug. 5, 2015
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STRIGGLING: Callide MP Colin Boyce and Maroochydore MP Fiona Simpson (Shadow Minister for Employment and Small Business) visit the North Burnett on a small business tour. Mackenzie Colahan
Pricey power keeping industry out of small towns
by Mackenzie Colahan
28th Nov 2018 2:25 PM
BRINGING industry back to the Burnett was top of the agenda for Callide MP Colin Boyce and the Opposition' chief of Employment and Small Business, Fiona Simpson, this week as they toured our region's towns to discuss economic development.
They met with residents, business owners and community groups to get feedback on the North Burnett's business prospects and develop a vision for the region's future.
A rapidly decreasing population and out-of-control power prices were identified as the main challenges to overcome if the Burnett is to prosper.
An Eidsvold irrigator said a quarterly power bill of $15,000 during dry spells had brought their lucerne operation to its knees.
The same farmer, who said they wanted to do the right thing by the environment, had been quoted $140,000 to install a solar package.
Others said prices were so high they had resorted to running machinery on diesel generators.
Mrs Simpson blasted the lack of competition caused by Ergon's stranglehold on the electricity market.
"It's unethical and killing local business,” she said.
"The Government is getting a huge return from the Ergon monopoly and it's sucking money out of the rural economy that could be invested elsewhere.”
People in Monto pleaded for the Government to bring back the district's once-booming timber trade.
Mr Boyce said farming alone could not sustain small towns in the long-term.
"Traditionally, an agricultural base has supported the Burnett economy,” he said.
"In Monto, we've seen the demise of the timber and dairy industries detract from what was a thriving little town.
"The reality is the renewable energy technology cannot sustain industry yet.
"We're losing our young people because there's nothing here for them.”
Monto grazier Trevor Gleeson said the North Burnett Regional Council needed to assign a facilitator to come up with a plan for the region's economic development.
"I've been farming here for 40 years and I've seen it all - floods and droughts,” he said
"The biggest impacts to our region have been caused by dairy deregulation, council amalgamation and shutting down the sawmills.
"Us old farmers just sit on the verandah and stare out at the paddock.
"There's so much fertile land -so much potential - but if my sons wanted to take it over there's no guarantee they can support their family.”
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Honduras, the perfect storm?
In January 2016, the government of Honduras and the Organization of American States (OAS) formalized the creation of a new international organ to help fight corruption in this country. The Mission of Support Against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (MACCIH, in the Spanish acronym) is a welcome step. However, it is very early to estimate whether it will be able to make a positive contribution to solving the daunting challenges facing justice and security in this country.
Honduras experiences what can be called a “perfect storm” of interrelated problems: violence perpetrated by diverse actors (gangs, drug traffickers); human rights abuses, in the context of a steady militarization of public security; impunity; corruption at the highest institutional levels, and widespread poverty and inequality. For years, it has been the most violent country in the world, with an average rate of 90 homicides per 100,000 people according to estimates by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Bank, which is significantly higher than the international average intentional homicide rate of 6.2 per 100,000 people.
This article about Honduras was published February 29, 2016, on the website of Sustainable Security. Click here if you wish to read the complete text.
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Apple breaks ties with Alabama lobbyist who opposes same-sex marriage
Tuesday, February 17, 2015 4:50 pm Tuesday, February 17, 2015 90 Comments
“Apple has ended its relationship with a lobbyist in Alabama who had a record of opposing equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people while serving in the state legislature,” Amanda Terkel reports for The Huffington Post. “Apple recently hired former Alabama state Rep. Jay Love (R) for lobbying work in the state, as first reported by Inside Alabama Politics. As of Tuesday morning, the Alabama Ethics Commission’s list of registered lobbyists still included Love as representing Apple. But Apple, whose CEO Tim Cook is gay and from Alabama, told The Huffington Post that Love is no longer with the company.”
“In 2009, Love gained attention for sponsoring a resolution that praised Miss USA pageant contestant Carrie Prejean for speaking out against same-sex marriage,” Terkel reports. “The year before, while running for Congress, Love aired an ad that touted his position against marriage equality: ‘Jay Love will stand up to the liberals and fight for what’s right. He’ll defend the unborn [and] traditional marriage.'”
“Cook came out as gay in October 2014, becoming the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 company,” Terkel reports. “Last year, Cook also donated money to help fund an LGBT equality initiative in his home state and two other southern states. Alabama recently became the 37th state with marriage equality, although some county officials are refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.”
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]
Apple CEO Cook makes ‘substantial’ donation for gay rights activists in U.S. South – December 19, 2014
Alabama sexual orientation anti-discrimination bill to be named after Apple’s Tim Cook – December 4, 2014
Russian memorial to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs dismantled after CEO Tim Cook announces he’s gay – November 3, 2014
Apple investors don’t care that Tim Cook is gay – October 31, 2014\
Goldman Sachs CEO: Apple’s Tim Cook coming out as gay ‘will resonate powerfully’ – October 31, 2014
Human Rights Campaign: Tim Cook’s announcement that he is gay will save countless lives – October 30, 2014
Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me’ – October 30, 2014
Apple joins Gay Pride parade in Austin, Texas – September 21, 2014
Apple releases video highlighting employee participation in San Francisco’s LGBT Pride Parade – July 8, 2014
Tim Cook, Apple employees march in LGBT Pride Parade in San Francisco – June 30, 2014
Apple inviting employees to march in annual San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade – May 7, 2014
Apple lauds U.S. Supreme Court rulings on gay marriage – June 26, 2013
Apple among 60 companies to back gay marriage in U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief – February 27, 2013
National Organization for Marriage to Steve Jobs: You’ve become Big Brother (with video) – December 17, 2010
Christian Group asks Apple to reinstate pulled ‘Manhattan Declaration’ iPhone app – November 30, 2010
California’s ‘No on 8’ same-sex marriage campaign models ads on Apple’s ‘Get a Mac’ commercials – November 01, 2008
Apple donates $100,000 to fight same-sex marriage ban in California (Proposition 8) – October 24, 2008
Glad to see bigotry can have a financial cost to the bigot.
I don’t understand why those bigots at Apple hate people who support conventional marriage.
dijonaise
Nice walrusing.
Our nation is founded on liberty, your liberty stops where mine begins.
Your beliefs are not mine, your fake, fairytale book of lies meant to prop up the white male domination of others is not my law.
Church and state bro, church and state.
BTW Fuuuuuuuck You
TGABTG
You might want to go back and research where exactly the liberty this country was founded on is based… That fake, fairytale book. If that book is fake then so is your liberty.
His Shadow
Uh, no. Your essential freedoms sure as shit do *not* come from the Christian Bible.
RIght, they come from the proper alignment of cells over billions of years…
If you are made in insignificance and die in insignificance then your life can have no significance at all.
However, since man is made in God’s image then man is significant and has dignity and rights which are endowed by the Creator.
Ever heard of Giordano Bruno? He believing that stars were suns, like ours only far away. The church burned him at the stake for that
So God’s Word teaches us to burn people for scientific statements? Obviously not. So is God’s Word at fault or does the fault lie with people abusing it to achieve their own ends?
Many evils have been committed by religious men but that is only more reason to know God’s Word so that these evil men can be combatted.
sccaldwell
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 9:24 am
And how exactly is it that you KNOW that the Bible is “God’s word.”
You don’t.
You may believe it, but that doesn’t make it true.
Imagine if you had been adopted by a nice Muslim family at birth. You’d have quite different beliefs now, most likely, wouldn’t you?
Fact: for 99% or more of the world’s population, their religious beliefs are due to nothing but a circumstance of birth. Chance. Or if your parents had converted to Buddhism when you were 2…your likely be a Buddhist.
Think about that for a minute, and realize that religion is nothing more than a fairy tale, perpetuated by generations of parents who blindly believe what they were taught growing up, with zero proof whatsoever, and push the same BS down to their own children.
Someone told you Santa Claus isn’t real, and now you can see through that myth. Religion is just as absurd, if you think about it.
“He flies through the air in a sleigh, delivering presidents to billions of children in one night!”
“He died on a cross and arose from the dead, turned loaves into fish”, etc, etc, etc.
Both are absurd, neither is true, and yet millions of people believe the second one “because the (human written) bible tells me so.”
Religion is simply a tool for controlling the masses.
occasionalposter1
Ever hear of ISIS, or Hitler, or Stalin, or Mao Tse Tung, or Pol Pot. Just diagree with them or not, if they don’t like you, you die, – burned, drowned, decapitated, after being raped or tortured just for their fun.
Evil is ever present in basic humanity, in athiests and religionists, but not all athiests are evil, nor are all religious people. To believe other wise and castigate one group only is sheer ignorance that is meant to appease your own ego!
CitizenX
Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 10:33 pm
Actually in christian theology, man is insignificant, unworthy, unholy, unable to have any worth until he is “washed in the blood of the lamb”, and admits how unworthy he/she is.
DustyMac
I don’t know about that. Jesus considered us worthy of dying for.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 12:09 pm
Hence the washed in the blood of the lamb. You can’t get to heaven by your good works. You can’t get to heaven being a good person. The only way to heaven is to admit your powerlessness, unworthiness, etc and accept that Jesus gave his life for you to make it to heaven. I had this discussion many a time with members of my ex-wifes fundamentalist church in Montana and Washington. Mother Teresa was not saved for an example.
I guess it is part of the great mystery. I have found so many areas of Christian faith where both sides of the paradox are true. Therefore we are worthy of being created in God’s image and redeemed by the blood of the lamb and yet we are also completely unworthy.
Spare us your superstitious drivel. The basic underpinnings of civilised culture pre-date your particular deity construct by over 400 years. Functional societies pre-date the writers of the Torah by thousands of years. You can no more rely on your imaginary super friend for “meaning” than you can rely on the Ten/Eleven/Thirteen/Six Hundred and Thirteen Commandments for a rational system of law.
Humans fashioned the laws that govern us, just as humans fashioned the gods you want to credit. If you actually want to argue otherwise, first show me your god.
wmd500
The common phrase “Church and State” statement is used wrong by you ( just like many others). The U. S. Constitution doesn’t separate the Church from the State (go look)!
This statement came from a letter by Thomas Jefferson. He wanted to protect churches from government.
Stay away from your fairytale books, and your made up laws (too much mush in your head). Bottom line, everything you said, just shows how little you know, even down to your big fancy words.
“The First Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that and Article VI specifies that “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” The modern concept of a wholly secular government is sometimes credited to the writings of English philosopher John Locke, but the phrase “separation of church and state” in this context is generally traced to a January 1, 1802 letter by Thomas Jefferson, addressed to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut, and published in a Massachusetts newspaper.
Echoing the language of the founder of the first Baptist church in America, Roger Williams—who had written in 1644 of “[A] hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world”—Jefferson wrote, “I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.””
Thelonious Mac
dijonaise is delusional at best.
Delusional is insisting that a book of myths and tall tales was the basis for morality when the book condones slavery and commands you to kill children for talking back.
handsomesmitty
Nailed it. Cook is the bigot,moulin and simple. Kiss his ring (wink wink) or be abolished to the gulag.
Liberty is dead, get over it.
Exactly. If a guy wants to marry 6, 700 or an infinite number of wives, that’s his right just like it says in the Bible!
It had a real financial cost for Chick Fil A Ron…. Financial windfall is what it was…
TowerTone
Well, here we go. If the gays don’t get their way, it is bigotry.
It can’t be about the defense of marriage. No.
Only bigotry.
“a lobbyist in Alabama who had a record of opposing equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people”
So I guess he was for firings, imprisonment, banishment, death, psychotherapy, shock treatments….wait, what?
He’s for upholding traditional marriage?
What’s next, gay mafia?
It’s obvious your agenda has little to do with equality, or laws could have been passed to allow decisions be made by a another person, not just a spouse.
No, it’s about having a fit and attacking traditions.
Maybe you should demand the next President is gay, whether he is qualified or not.
It’s only fair….right?
md8mac
Who the hell are you talking to?
So if you were running a company, would you hire a lobbyist who supported gay marriage? Of course you wouldn’t, based upon what you’ve written. You would only hire lobbyists who supported traditional marriage. As no one should be able to tell you who to hire, why should you be able to tell Apple who to hire? It’s their business, not yours. Vote with your pocketbook if you don’t like it.
Additionally, what you (and many others) tout as “supporting traditional marriage” can easily be seen as “denying non-traditional marriage” to others. If that satisfies you, and you hope it stays that way forever, then legislation and financial penalties are the only way to bring about change. Many people must be drug screaming into the 21st century, much like the South in the 1960s. Remember the iconic image of the young woman spewing hate at the black girl attending college? That’s how people who oppose gay marriage appear now (to me). You hate them because they simply want to share in something wonderful, that you are entitled to by benefit of being “traditional.” What exactly do you lose by them being able to marry? Name one way in which your life will be changed for the worse.
And…after writing all that, I seriously considered deleting it just because trying to have a polite conversation/debate with a bigot is impossible. But, whatever, go ahead and tear me a new one, big boy(s).
So now I am a bigot?
You compare me to Democrats in the 60’s and then claim the struggles are similar?
You are waaaaaay out there.
As far as the business side of this goes, I have no problem with Tim Cook doing what he thinks is best for Apple. They are in the private sector.
(I’m just glad Steve the vegan didn’t go after us meat eaters)
The question should be..
What exactly do they gain by being able to “marry”?
Marriage is between one man and one woman before God. In other words men and woman marry to have God’s blessing on their union and thus to be able to partake in marriage benefits such as sex, which is unlawful outside of marriage.
Does the LGBT really just want the tax breaks that come with “marriage”? If so then there are other ways to go about getting them. Or is it that they want everyone’s approval and ultimately God’s blessing? Well, unfortunately that will never happen because God has already declared it to be unnatural. That is why I oppose same sex marriage because it is against God’s law and actually not marriage at all.
An by the way it sounds as if you are more hateful towards “bigots” then they are towards LGBTs. I know some personally and I care for them that is why I tell them what God says about their lifestyle and guess what we get along just fine.
Ralph M
@ TGABTG – “Marriage is between one man and one woman before God.” WTF???
In the United States – all 50 of them – a marriage license is not issued by God, it is issued by a county clerk or similar governmental official. Marriage is sanctioned by the state, not a religion.
I might add that people were being married LONG before the advent of Christianity and it is safe to say that considerably more people will be married in the world in 2015 in cultures that do not include the notion of the Judeo-Christian “God” (capital G) than those that do.
Did I say marriage is a Christian invention? It was a creation ordinance and it was established by God as one man and one woman. A marriage license is a man made notion and can vary from state to state, country to country. Marriage however is not man made and thus man cannot change what it is.
No it’s not. Other religions have marriages . Get out of your bigot christian bubble. Religion is incompatible with a modern enlightened society.
Marriage isn’t “God-made”.
Marriage is a man-made status, that people thousands of years ago decided had to be sanctioned by their God.
Other religions, not just Christians, invented similar statuses and we now refer to them all as “marriage.”
BTW, I know that marriage isn’t “God-made” simply because “God” is man-made.
joebloggs
Ummm. No. YOUR idea of christian marriage may be between one man and one woman before god, but that certainly isn’t everyone’s idea. And there are far more issues involved in this than just taxes.
Personally, I think the traditional idea of god is just a man made fairy tale, invented to explain things early humans couldn’t otherwise explain and to try to impose some sort of social rules before people could figure them out for themselves. Your “God’s law” is just the same as Sharia law – a law based in religion. Religious laws have no place in a country whose constitution guarantees separation of church and state. Neither you nor anyone else gets to ram your fairly tale beliefs down anyone else’s throats; nor do you get to impose restrictions on what people who believe differently to you can or cannot do based on your religious “law.”
If I were to believe in god, I’d want god to be a loving and accepting god, not something that discriminated against people supposedly made in its image. Many in the LGBT community are christian. I suspect they want to believe in that sort of god too. And that’s their right. Just like it’s their right, in a country where discrimination is against the constitution, to get married.
If God doesn’t exist then belief doesn’t matter anyway. We are all just a bunch of grown up germs, who cares what germ lives with what germ, who cares about marriage! Why are germs worried about getting married in the first place? Just do whatever you want, kill whomever you want, steal from whomever you want, we are just a bunch of germs!!!
I see. If it weren’t for the good book,
you’d kill your neighbors, and steal anything that wasn’t locked down? I don’t need a book, or the threat of burning for eternity to tell me how to behave properly
Really, who tells you how to behave properly? The chemicals gurguling in your brain, the electrical impulses?
If there was no God then in the words of Paul the apostle, “Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die” Yeah, Dave Matthews apparently read the Bible.
KingMel
Please go to church. The MDN forum is not a pulpit.
See my other post above re: benefits gays are denied due to gay marriage being denied.
spyintheskyuk
Having been interested to learn before I formed an opinion on this some time ago when the question arose here I researched marriage and the man and women aspect is a Christian (and certain others) interpretation pre existing civilisations and belief systems thought and indeed still think and define it differently. Not sure why any one set of beliefs should be deemed superior to any other especially when they have no evidence that their ‘creators’ even exist let alone condone it. So why not let those who think different, exercise their right to ‘traditional’ marraige as they see it and that pre dates our present view of what is traditional marriage should be. Since when is equality for those not considered mainstream deemed bigotry?
Then how do you stand yourself and all your friends? Because don’t look now, but you’re a bigot (by your definition).
derss
If the man tries to abuse human rights due to his personal beliefs, it is a bigotry, no other way around it. No one tries to force the man marry other men and no one tries to ban different sex marriages, so it is time for him to pay the price for being horrible person that wants to harm others for the sake of his own ideas.
You are kind of rambling.
To be clear, first list what ‘human rights’ are.
Some people street that pretty far.
Legal rights, maybe?
Typical Liberals
You won’t get anywhere with the decadent “if it feels good do it” types that are so prevalent here. They want to bask in their immorality and proclaim it to be decent and natural. They simply want to make it the norm that anything goes. Anything THEY approve of, that is.
Type for you to get yourself some gosh darned edumacation. Homosexual behavior is common throughout the animal world. So it seems like it is “natural.”
And no-one is forcing you to have a gay relationship. Do what feels right and natural to you. But you don’t get the right to judge others who were made differently. Sexual orientation is a genetic thing, you know. It could just as easily have been you.
“Do what feels right and natural to you”
No wonder we are in this mess in the first place.
emmayche
Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 12:20 pm
The study to which you implicitly refer was withdrawn, and disclaimed, by its creator. Homosexual PAIRING (which is what you’re really saying) doesn’t EXIST in the animal world; the behavior to which you refer is dominance behavior, not pairing.
You can’t be upholding something that infringes on the rights of others. Gay people should have equality before the law, including marriage. For you, and others who don’t want gay marriage, then don’t marry someone of your own sex. That’s ALL you have a right to, to make your own choices about YOUR life. Stay out of everyone else’s. And traditional marriage is far from what you seem to have dreamed up, BTW. For eons, women were property, and men could marry multiple wives. THAT is traditional marriage, but it’s just as much bullshit as your silly rant.
Preface: I’m not gay, and I’m not religious, so I have no horse in this race.
So, objectively….what is religion’s issue with gay marriage? Fear? Because “the bible says Jesus defined marriage between man and woman?”
Well, the bible also defined certain people as being slaves (I forget the verse, but look it up…there are passages showing perfect acceptance of slavery). The bible also defined women as being subservient to men. Most don’t see it that way now, either…..but but but but….the bible says it!!!!
How does gay marriage hurt religious people?
IT DOESN’T.
How does gay marriage benefit gay people? In many ways. It provides the same emotional bond, but far more importantly, it provides rights.
Imagine your loved one being deathly ill and you can’t even get in to see him/her because “it’s family only.”
You have NO SAY in their treatment options even though you’re in love and have lived together for 20 years, just as a husband and wife would.
Imagine that loved one dying and you becoming embroiled in a legal battle with their family because you don’t qualify as spouse, so may actually lose the home you shared with your partner. Even if they left all to you in a will, wills can be contested, and if the judge happens to be against gay marriage, you’re likely screwed.
The list goes on.
The point being: religious people oppose gay marriage because of what some book tells them (& the guy who reads from that book, aka “preacher”).
But it doesn’t hurt them AT ALL, and it affords the same protections to others as straights enjoy, therefore is only fair.
Or, as I once heard a comedian say: “I’m in favor of allowing gay marriage. Gay people should be able to fuck up their lives the same as straight people do.”
Any time you talk about “traditional marriage” in relation to the Bible, you clearly have no idea what you are talking about.
Macinfo
typical, Why is the gay agenda the only one there is? I think Tim Cook is being the bigot, getting along is a two way street, its not his way or the highway..
So Tim Cook is a bigot because he prefers not to hire someone who actively lobbies against banning discrimination against Tim Cook? Really?? Have you thought that out at all??
“..a record of opposing equality..”
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender are equal and have the exact same rights as any person to marry. The problem is they don’t want to get married they want something entirely different. This isn’t an issue about equality but rather an issue of acceptance.
Exactly, and the militant wing will never he happy because they are self-loathing.
After this there will be another rallying cry for the next issue they will use to shame the common-sense gays into siding with them, which really hurts their movement overall.
Like the militant blacks that didn’t want to be slaves.
Mike F.
You can’t be fired for who marry. I can. That is not equality it’s discrimination.
Says who? Manny companies don’t allow you to marry co-workers.
Anyhow, it has nothing to do with being fired or who you live with or your personal preferences.
Actually that’s not the issue. Marriage by definition is between a man and a woman and thus you can’t get married no matter what “rights” you have. Being fired for your life choices is a completely different issue and I agree with you that if you are fired because of some choice that doesn’t affect your work performance is discriminatory and wrong.
There you go again. “Marriage by definition is between a man and a woman . . . .” Whose definition?? Your god’s?? That doesn’t count in this country. If you want to live by religious laws, go to somewhere like Saudi Arabia or Iraq or Iran. They have some strict ones there.
God’s Word doesn’t count in this country! That’s exactly why it is being judged. We’ve replaced God’s Word with “do what you feel”.
kevicosuave
My God says it’s perfectly fine for gays to marry.
You mean you say it is fine? Show me where your god has made such a declaration.
Where does your God say it isn’t? The bible? Is that the official bible of the United States? When was that selected?
How do you know it’s god’s word?
Because it says it is.
You do realize that EVERY religious book says the same?
But this is the only one that is correct.
Because it says so.
Yehhhh, right. It’s the word of god because it says it’s the word of god.
If it’s the word of god, much of it is the word of a petty, raving, vindictive psychopath…
“I kill…I wound…I will make mine arrows drunk with blood and my sword shall devour flesh.” Deuteronomy 32:39-42
Did you know, for example, that God:
• Forced friends and family to kill each other for dancing naked around Aaron’s golden calf?
• Burned Aaron’s sons to death for offering him strange fire?
• Burned complainers to death, forced the survivors to eat quail until it literally came out their noses, sent “fiery serpents” to bite people for complaining about the lack of food and water, and !!!!! killed 14,700 for complaining about his killings !!!!!?
• Buried alive those that opposed Moses (along with their families)?
• Burned 250 men to death for burning incense?
• Rewarded Phinehas for throwing a spear though the bellies of an inter-tribal couple while they were having sex?
• Ordered, assisted in, or approved of dozens of complete genocides?
• Accepted human sacrifice in the cases of Jephthah’s daughter and Saul’s seven sons?
• Helped Samson murder 30 men for their clothes, slaughter 1,000 with the jawbone of an ass, and kill 3,000 civilians in a suicide terrorist attack?
• Smote the Philistines of several cities with hemorrhoids in their secret parts?
• Killed a man for trying to keep the ark of the covenant from falling and 50,070 for looking into the ark?
• Approved when David bought his first wife with 200 Philistine foreskins?
• Killed King Saul for not killing every Amalekite as he told him to do?
• Slowly killed a baby to punish King David for committing adultery?
• Killed 70,000 because David had a census that he (or Satan) told him to do?
• Sent a lion to kill a prophet for believing another prophet’s lie, another lion to kill a man for not smiting a prophet, and some more lions to kill people that didn’t fear him enough?
• Killed 450 religious leaders who lost a prayer contest with Elijah and burned 102 men to death for asking Elijah to come down from his hill?
• Sent two bears to rip apart 42 boys for making fun of Elisha’s bald head?
• Killed 27,000 Syrians by having a wall fall on them, sent an angel to kill 185,000 sleeping soldiers, interfered in human battles to kill a half million Israelites and a million Ethiopian soldiers?
• Killed King Ahab for not killing a captured king, and then sent King Jehu on a series of mass murders to kill all of Ahab’s family and friends who had ever “pissed against a wall?”
• Killed Jehoram by making his bowels fall out?
• Killed Job’s ten children in a bet with Satan?
• Killed Ezekiel’s wife and told him not to mourn her?
• Killed Ananias and Sapphira for not giving Peter all their money?
• Killed King Herod by feeding him to worms?
And that’s just some killings. We could also go into how to send out your daughters to be gang-raped, how to treat slaves and more. Lovely, just lovely.
Why does your employer know who you married?
Your employer could fire you because they don’t like the gate and your staff. The reality is that if the employers don’t like you, no matter what the reason is, they will make up a reason to get rid of you. It doesn’t matter who you’re married to, what your orientation is, what tattoos you have, where the language that you use. If they don’t like you, they will get rid of you. It is a little bit disingenuous to make the assumption that you’re only going to be fired because you’re married to someone that is disagreeable to your employer. People get fired for a lot of different reasons. If you were to actually get fired because of who you were married to, yes, that would not be right. But let’s face it, employers do a lot of different things that are not right. So getting fired is not just a gay issue…
Gait in your step* (Siri!)
I guess you are right. If two people of the same sex get married, you must accept it. If, say, you are a tax preparer and your same-sex clients say they are married, filing jointly, that’s how you have to fill out the forms. Is that some kind of problem for you?
In the case of the politician, Apple was paying him money to advocate its position and he stated he opposed some of Apples positions on issues, so maybe Apple shouldn’t be paying him to oppose them.
Another variant on the “changing the definition of marriage” tripe. Gay people getting to marry the non-related adult of their choice does not redefine marriage. Did women getting the right to vote redefine voting?
Translation: “we don’t tolerate people that don’t tolerate other people.”
I’m not advocating a party. I’m not advocating a belief system. I’m not saying apple is right or wrong, justified or unjustified…but that is what they have just said/done – they don’t tolerate people that don’t tollerate other people.
claytonkimball
I hope this man was very vocal about this belief to deserve disassociating the company from him. And I hope Apple will never get to the point of firing employees for any inwardly held beliefs, regardless of how different or unpopular they may be.
I see Apple’s point on this. If the gentleman was Apple’s lobbyist and they are lobbying for same-sex marriage then of course they wouldn’t want him as a lobbyist.
Can anyone here show me a Bible passage that says it’s every person on Earth’s job to judge. Seems that’s reserved for another being. If this is your religion, you should probably check that out.
To name a few. Christians must judge because we are called to live righteous lives and fleeing from evil is part of that. We must not judge people with a harsher judgment than we judge ourselves but ultimately we must all be perfect according to God’s judgment or law. Of course no one is perfect in regards to this and thus Christ is necessary, since He lived a perfect life in our place and died to take away God’s wrath for our sins.
DavGreg
Conservatives and progress have always been at odds. Always will be.
Conservatives are not at odds with progress. You believe that progress is only defined by YOU. You consider rampant abortion progress for instance. The fact that more black children were aborted than were born in New York is progress to you. Conservatives don’t see that as progress. The mother of planned parenthood would agree with you though. She intended for legal abortion to be a form of eugenics.
More people are on economic government assistance than ever before in this country. Again, conservatives don’t consider this progress.
The cultural dissolution of the nuclear family is progress to you. It has resulted in more people in jail in this country than any other. This is progress to you.
Many people in the middle class work as much as 40% of their lives to pay taxes. Call that progressive if you like, I call it slavery.
Millions of illegal aliens entering the country and being given driver’s licenses, free medical care, as well as being allowed to vote, is considered progress by liberals.
Conservatives and liberals backed THE civil rights movement in this country. I consider that progress.
Change is not, by definition, progress. Progress occurs when things get better. Just because you think something is better, doesn’t make it progress.
BiteanAAPL
Very well stated, Sir. Thank you for your contribution.
Conservatives at the time of the Revolutionary War were called Royalists and were opposed to Independence. There would be no America without liberal thought.
dprater2014
Gotta love us southerners. At least I can say that one of the greatest men of the world came from my backwater, old state.
People here need to read the latest science. The same-sex attracted individuals are just the most visible part of a larger group which includes their heterosexual relatives. If you want to hate gays then you should, in fairness, hate all their female relatives who also have the same gene complex that makes them have an enhanced attraction to male traits (and more babies than other women). Findings like these are the reason that things are changing so fast, even powerful forces like the Anglican Church realise that these traits are a) beneficial to large numbers of people, b) are not actually spread by LGB people (hence no need to persecute them on false charges of promotion or recruitment), and c) if they were to really maintain their opposition to these traits then all the sisters mothers and aunts would have to go as well (and who knows how big that number is!).
When you realise that the situation at the scientific understanding level has actually changed in the past decade, you’ll realise also why opposition is fading fast. The prejudice is no longer justifiable or even remotely fair.
Why do you think everything is hate? i respect the rights of people to marry whomever see fit. I also respect the rights of people who have certain religious beliefs to practice them, even though I’m an atheist.
In this respect, Tim Cook is a hypocrite. On the one hand he states that there are people who are afraid to practice their religion, on the other he has Apple punish a lobbyist for practicing his religion.
In other words, practice your religion, unless I don’t like it.
The hypocrites are the liars who claim their bigotry is “freedom of religion” while they ignore literally every other “law” in the Bible. Salad bar cherry pickers that hide behind “faith” when they are called on their bigotry.
Ticket to the clue train: you don’t actually have a case when you want to hide your intolerance behind a collection of myths and tall tales that would have you murdered for eating shellfish or wearing a poly-cotton blend shirt.
Thelonious: you say “Tim Cook is a hypocrite. On the one hand he states that there are people who are afraid to practice their religion, on the other he has Apple punish a lobbyist for practicing his religion.”
You’re mistaken. Cook didn’t punish the lobbyist. He just decided to stop rewarding him by employing him. The lobbyist is free to continue “practicing his religion”; he can just do it without Apple’s help and money.
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Leaked photos portraying a judge’s night life stirred heated debate in the Egyptian human rights community about the ethics of using personal information to bring down political enemies.
This week, compromising photos of State Council Judge Naser Abdel Rahman were widely circulated on social media, showing Abdel Rahman interacting with women in night clubs in a purportedly inappropriate manner.
The State Council said Abdel Rahman would be referred to investigation in a statement released on Wednesday.
The council held an urgent meeting Wednesday to discuss the matter, said State Council spokesperson Mohamed Zaki Moussa, adding that the council was “keen to preserve the prestige and integrity of the judiciary, and all measures will be taken to protect the judicial gown from any impurities.”
Abdel Rahman is not currently working for the State Council, but has been delegated to Qatar for three years, a source in the judicial investigations department told the privately owned Al-Arabiya news site.
The incident was preceded in December by another controversy, when Facebook users spotted a Facebook account allegedly belonging to Judge Mohamed Nagui Shehata that appeared to show that he “likes” pornography websites.
Shehata, who has recently overseen trials of leading activists and has been accused of lacking impartiality, also appeared to publicly express his political views against these activists on the Facebook account.
However, the judge denied having a Facebook account, claiming the page in question was fake.
Following the release of the images allegedly implicating Abdel Rahman, human rights activists entered into a general debate around the ethics of exposing the personal lives of public figures with controversial political views.
While some activists said it is unethical to use the personal lives of public figures to seek revenge for their unfair stances against activists, others said that this is not the case when it comes to members of the judiciary.
Human rights lawyer Malek Adly said judges must be held to a strict ethical code to guarantee the judiciary’s integrity and neutrality.
“Some judges have been sent to retirement because they sat in cafes, or were involved in suspicious relationships or gambling,” he said.
Adly criticized the ethical superiority some activists adopt in dealing with the ruling regime’s atrocities. He believes that this idealistic approach has harmed the revolution.
Revolutionaries and activists must be reminded of their insistence that former President Hosni Mubarak not be tried in revolutionary or emergency courts, but be tried according to current Egyptian law, Adly argued.
“What have we gained from this noble approach?” he said. “Mubarak is acquitted.”
But those who opposed the leak of the judge’s photos referred to a recent incident in which personal videos and photos of activist Alaa Abd El Fattah were shown during his trial. Abd El Fattah, who faces charges of violating the Protest Law, had his laptop and mobile phone confiscated when he was arrested. When the prosecution showed the evidence against him and the rest of the defendants, Fattah was surprised to see home videos showing his wife. After a backlash, the judge, who later stepped down from the trial, ordered that the evidence be dismissed.
However, Adly believes that there is a difference between the personal life of an activist or a judge. According to him, judges are compensated by many privileges for giving up some of their personal freedoms in order to meet certain ethical standards, and they are abusing those privileges by violating these standards.
“I’m not a judge, and I do not take endless privileges to compensate for some of my personal freedoms and follow a certain ethical order,” Adly explained.
Activist Khaled Abdel Hamid, who opposes the exposure of the judge’s personal life, takes a more down-to-earth approach.
“What is the benefit of a religious and committed judge if he issues unjust verdicts?” he told Mada Masr. “Injustice is our battle here.”
For Hamid, playing these kinds of games is a losing battle.
“As rights and democracy defenders, we have no control over such images. The state will win in this battle if we decide to play with the same card it uses. We all have similar photos. The state has the willingness to fabricate photos, the state is able to obtain activists’ personal data and control their personal lives to get what it wants. Such a weapon in the hands of the state is a totally different scenario,” he explained.
For him, it is more important to avoid making more enemies than it is to lose supporters.
“This judge is in the State Council. He has nothing to do with the Criminal Court or the Misdemeanor Court. Did we decide to launch our war against the entire tribe of judges? Are we in a general war now?” he asked.
“It has nothing to do with ethics or political correctness,” Hamid argued. “It has to do with formulating a political stance through which we can gain more allies than enemies.”
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Brisbane’s Top 10 Growth Suburbs Over the Year
Brisbane’s property market has seen the median house price increase 1.5 per cent to reach a new high of $680,000.
The findings come from the latest Real Estate Institute of Queensland Market Monitor report, which reveals capital growth in Brisbane suburbs for the 12 months to March, amid the nation’s housing slump.
And while the report reveals annual growth is showing signs of slowing, REIQ chief executive Antonia Mercorella says Brisbane’s housing market has recorded 27 straight quarters of capital growth.
“Despite a nationwide trough, the property market in Queensland remains affordable and continues to show signs of sustainable growth when compared to its southern counterparts,” Mercorella said.
Brisbane’s softer unit market saw the annual median unit price drop 2 per cent to $441,144 for the period.
The suburbs?
Auchenflower, which sits 2.5 kilometres from Brisbane CBD, recorded 23.1 per cent growth over the 12-month period to March this year.
Along with Northgate, Gordon Park, Hamilton and Clayfield which delivered double-digit growth for the period.
“These are areas that are in demand and have the right house at the right price for many buyers,” Mercorella said.
“And not all of those suburbs are blue chip suburbs. There are some great, affordable suburbs that are delivering outstanding growth.
“Home owners in Durack, where the median house price is $445,722, will now have an asset that increased in value by almost 10 per cent over the year to March 2019.”
Brisbane LGA top 10 growth suburbs for houses
The Greater Brisbane housing market, an area that takes in the LGAs of Brisbane, Ipswich, Logan, Moreton Bay and Redland, has been relatively stable across the past 12-months, with the region recording 1.9 per cent growth for the year.
Ipswich recorded a 1.8 per cent increase taking its median house price to $346,000, Logan increased by 1.3 per cent to $400,000, and the standout performer Moreton Bay increased by 2.5 per cent to $450,000.
The analysis shows the unit and townhouse sector across Greater Brisbane saw price declines of 1.5 per cent.
For the state, the research shows Noosa again outperformed the overall market on average, recording an annual return of 8.7 per cent for houses and 6.8 per cent for units.
“The March quarter median price fell 4.7 per cent and the December 2018 quarter fell 8.2 per cent,” Mercorella said.
“Our view is this market may be cooling in patches and certainly the feedback from local agents is that it is very patchy at the moment.”
While the Sunshine Coast LGA, which excludes the Noosa market, recorded the second-highest annual growth in Queensland at 3.5 per cent.
The annual median house price on the Sunshine Coast is $585,000, up 29.3 per cent from five years ago.
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Daniel Craig’s James Bond clearly loves a good lock-up garage to store his various Aston Martins and vehicular co-stars. Since March 2014, the best automotive exhibition space in London has been Covent Garden’s Bond in Motion. Housing an ever-updated array of 007’s cars, bikes, jets, tuk-tuks, submersible crocodiles, missiles, Little Nellies, boats, helicopters, planes, submarines, underwater Lotus cars and even some trains, the dedicated London home of all things Bond has always showcased the newest additions to EON Productions official archive. Curated by EON’s chief archivist Meg Simmonds, Bond In Motion also presents the newest costumes, gadgets, ephemera and bullet ridden metalwork of the latest 007 movie to fire at the world’s movie screens.
With April 2020 marking the grand return of Bond in his twenty-fifth spin of the wheel No Time to Die, Bond in Motion is now proud to announce a collection of location-warm additions that add intriguing insight and tantalising promise as to the action, costumes and vehicles accompanying our man James on his newest opus.
James Bond (Daniel Craig) drives the Land Rover Series III in Jamaica.
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Bond in Motion spoke to some of the visual effects and vehicular captains responsible for No Time to Die. “Initial talks with Aston Martin and Jaguar Land Rover commenced in October 2018, and many detailed conversations were held to discuss the film’s requirements’, says Visual Effects supervisor, Chris Corbould. “Aston Martin built eight bespoke DB5s along with an extensive spares package capable of completing the rapidly evolving action sequence in Matera. They also supplied three Aston Martin V8’s as used in The Living Daylights and two of the latest DBS Superleggera. At the same time discussions were being held with Jaguar Land Rover to produce the first batch of eight New Land Rover Defenders, a mission shrouded in secrecy as the world had no idea at this stage of the design.”
Corbould is a familiar face at Bond in Motion with No Time to Die marking his fifteenth Bond movie and his ninth as supervisor. He continues – “a number of the DB5s and the Defenders were fitted out with complete roll cages, safety fuel cells, fire extinguisher systems, hydraulic hand brakes, battery isolators, rally seats and five-point harnesses. Q Branch gadgets on the DB5 include revolving M134 mini-guns appearing from the drop-down headlights, traditional smoke screen, mines dropping from under the rear bumper and an LED number plate creating a modern take on the Goldfinger (1964) revolving version”.
Primo steers the Triumph Scrambler 1200 XE in Matera, Italy
Other vehicles that played special roles in the film include Bond’s Land Rover Series 111, a Royal Alloy GT125 scooter used in Jamaica, and a Triumph Scrambler motorbike used in Matera as driven by new character Primo. “I think the audience will be thrilled to see the DB5 in full battle mode driving at speed through the streets of historic Matera in Italy”, suggest Corbould. “As the city is built on the side of a hillside, the balconies, roofs and gardens created a natural amphitheatre, and the public clapped and applauded whenever the iconic Bond car was in action.”
Lee Morrison is No Time to Die‘s stunt co-ordinator. Working on his fifth Bond outing, he is well aware how the stunts get bigger and more elaborate on each new film. “All the vehicles we used in the film performed brilliantly,” remarks Morrison. “We knew we wanted to achieve something off-road and the New Defender didn’t disappoint. We put the vehicles through the most extreme conditions in a chase sequence, and they were unstoppable. The three Triumph scramblers and the Tiger 900 we used were specially modified to handle the rigours of the action sequences in Norway and Italy, part of which can be seen in the first trailer. I’m really proud of the stunts we created, and I’m excited to see the audience reaction when the film is released.”
The New Land Rover Defender in action.
One of the film’s stunt drivers is Mark Higgins. Working on his fourth Bond film, he was tasked with driving the various Aston Martin DB5s in No Time to Die. He notes how “eight stunt replica cars were designed and built for the film and they all had a role to play in different configurations and were fantastic and rewarding to drive, it’s a very special car. We filmed in Italy for seven weeks in the summer. Matera is an incredible city, but a challenging environment for a car chase with its narrow cobbled streets, low grip and lots of people around.
The No Time to Die vehicles are now on display at Bond in Motion and what represents a great holiday afternoon idea. Located in the heart of London’s Covent Garden, tickets are available online and the presence of the seriously great 007 Store is another reason to get your Bond motors running to London.
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Everyone has a story to tell. Harness the power of maps to tell yours. Combine interactive maps and 3D scenes with narrative text and rich multimedia content to weave stories that get noticed.
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Storytellers often turn to maps to illuminate and contextualize their words. Maps are the visual representation of where events happen. As such, maps and stories complement each other, but until recently they have existed more as side-by-side products and not as one integrated presentation. The big idea of this chapter is that narratives and geography can be combined into one experience: a story map.
Story maps use geography as a means of organizing and presenting information. They tell the story of a place, event, issue, trend, or pattern in a geographic context. They combine interactive maps with other rich content—text, photos, illustrations, video, and audio—within intuitive user experiences. While many story maps are designed for general, nontechnical audiences, some story maps can also serve highly specialized audiences. They use the tools of GIS, and often present the results of spatial analysis, but don’t require their users to have any special knowledge or skills in GIS. This has resulted in a veritable explosion of story maps. (Go to storymaps.arcgis.com to see them come alive.) As you click through to the various story maps linked in this chapter or at the story maps website, take the freedom to immerse yourself in the various narratives. These are information products that reward exploration.
With today’s cloud-based mapping platform, the fusion of maps and stories has finally come of age.
“The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species has evolved to become the world’s most comprehensive information source on the global conservation status of animal, fungi, and plant species. This story map brings a geographic focus to their critical work, as well as an emotional focus by presenting beautiful paintings of the endangered and extinct species to a broad audience.
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Every day the global Esri user community works to create the most authoritative scientific data on the world’s most pressing and serious issues—much of it available for full-scale exploration on the ArcGIS platform. The imaginative uses of story maps and the live examples featured on these web pages and in the Esri-curated Story Maps Gallery are designed to show the range of ways that such narratives can be used to convey rich and complex information.
This map, a collaboration between the Esri Story Maps team and PeaceTech Lab, uses crowdsourced data from Wikipedia to present a chronology of terrorist attacks around the globe. Wikipedia moderators include experts in the field of global conflict and terrorism, and the pages driving this story have been systematically revised numerous times since the beginning of 2016. As a result, the quality of the data on this map is constantly improving.
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Some maps do the very basic work of describing places. These are the maps we use to explore and navigate the world. Designed for intrepid travelers and armchair tourists, this entry from Norlisk, Russia, presents the story of deep cold.
Protecting lives
Vietnam remains plagued to this day by unexploded ordnance from the Vietnam War. This story map reveals how the locations of such ordnance continue to affect the people by denying safe access to agricultural land for rural villagers.
Revealing patterns
Although many might believe that America’s largest fast-food purveyors are a nationally homogeneous bunch, this story map examines 94,000 locations to uncover the regional truth.
Presenting narratives
Take a tour of some of the most extreme inhabited regions of the earth, and learn about what it’s like to live there. How do these places compare to where you live?
Visualizing the world
Our planet has countless millions of wonderful trees. On the occasion of Arbor Day, this map tells of a tiny proportion of trees which have gained fame as sacred or historic sites, or as specimens of unusual size, shape, or age—the botanical hall-of-famers.
Celebrating the world
In spite of their literally morbid function, graveyards and cemeteries are among some of the most fascinating locations on the planet, as playfully featured in this Halloween-themed story map.
Tracking the news
With US border security dominating the news cycles, this story map uses science and spatial thinking to objectively attempt to answer the question: Will the border wall strike a fatal blow to one of the most imperiled wild regions in North America?
Recounting history
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. This exploration of the actual geography of the attack provides new context for an event that most people assumed they fully understood already.
The power of storytelling with maps
Storytelling carries the potential to effect change, influence opinion, create awareness, raise the alarm, and get out the news. Who authors story maps? Anybody—any individual or group with a desire to communicate effectively, including you. Here are a few examples, created by people just like you, to spur your imagination.
Literary research
California novelist Susan Straight created this rich story map to accompany a published essay. The map and essay explore the author’s lifelong connection to regional American fiction, and conviction that these tales of “slaves and pioneers, indigenous and immigrants” can help us better understand the cultural differences that define the United States.
Historical education
San Francisco Fire Captain Henry Mitchell was on duty April 18, 1906, when the earthquake struck. For the next three days, he kept detailed notes, which were published over 100 years later by his grandson.
As climate change focuses the world’s attention on the Arctic, new elevation data is being developed to improve the science. The data is brought to life and made accessible via this rich story map.
Thought leader: Allen Carroll
Why maps are so interesting
For most people, sight is the dominant sense, so when it comes to information delivery, most like it served visually. One way to think about it is to consider that as information publishers, we actually have relatively few ways to organize information. We can alphabetize it, but that’s not very much fun. We can arrange it by time, chronologically, but that has its limitations. We can organize knowledge taxonomically by category or hierarchically in some kind of ranking. And then we come to spatial organization, the system that arranges things by where they are. This option offers unique insights and the potential to visualize information. Organizing by location is a particularly interesting and useful way to marshal information
Another reason why so many relate to maps and geography is that we have no choice but to think and see spatially. We have to make sense of our surroundings and navigate through our world. Maps make sense of things. They lend order to complex environments, and they reveal patterns and relationships.
Maps can also be quite beautiful. They stimulate both sides of our brain: the right side that’s intuitive and aesthetic, and the left side that’s rational and analytical. Maps are this wonderful combination of both. It’s this neat marriage of utility and beauty that I find so alluring.
For more than two decades, Allen Carroll told stories with maps at National Geographic. As the Society’s chief cartographer, he participated in the creation of dozens of wall maps, atlases, globes, and cartographic websites. Today he leads the Esri Story Maps team, which uses state-of-the-art GIS technology, combined with digital media, to bring maps to life in new ways.
Story Maps: How to Tell Your Story Using Esri's Storytelling Apps
What kind of story do you want to tell?
Esri Story Map Tour
A user experience for place-based narratives
The Story Map Tour app is ideal when you want to present a linear, place-based narrative featuring images or videos. Each “story point” in the narrative is geolocated. Users have the option of clicking sequentially through the narrative or browsing interactively.
Esri Story Map Journal
Create compelling multimedia narratives
Designed for when you want to combine narrative text with maps and other embedded content, the Map Journal app contains entries, or sections, that users simply scroll through to see associated maps, images, videos, illustrations, or web pages.
Esri Story Map Cascade
Create immersive scrolling narratives
The Story Map Cascade app combines narrative text with maps, images, and other content in an engaging, full-screen scrolling experience. In a Cascade, sections containing text and in-line media can be mixed with “immersive” sections that fill the screen with maps and graphics.
Esri Story Map Series
Make it easy to browse a series of maps
The Story Map Series app presents a series of maps via tabs (shown above), numbered bullets, or an expandable “side accordion” control. In addition to maps, you can also include images, videos, and web content in your series to help tell your story and engage your audience.
Esri Story Map Crowdsource
Crowdsource your story map
The Story Map Crowdsource app enables you to publish and manage a story that allows anyone to contribute photos with captions. Use it to engage a specific or general audience on any subject. Contributors can sign in with Facebook, Google, ArcGIS, or a guest account.
Esri Story Map Shortlist
A fun way to present points of interest
The Story Map Shortlist app lets you organize points of interest into tabs that make it engaging for users to explore what’s in an area. People can click on the places either on the tabs or in the map to find out more about them. The tabs automatically update as users navigate around the map.
Esri Story Map Swipe and Esri Story Map Spyglass
Compare two related maps
The Story Map Swipe and Spyglass app enables users to interact with two web maps or two layers of a single web map. This allows you to present a single view, or to develop a narrative showing a series of locations or views of the same maps.
Esri Story Map Basic
Let your map speak for itself
Story Map Basic puts all the emphasis on your map, so it works best when your map has great cartography and tells a clear story. You’ll also want to take time to configure good-looking pop-ups, which can include text, images, graphs, videos, and more.
Things to consider when creating a story map
Explore a story map about story maps!
Think about your purpose and audience
Your first step is to think about what you want to communicate with your story map and what your purpose or goal is in telling the story. Who is your audience? Are you aiming your story at the public at large, or a more focused audience, including stakeholders, supporters, or specialists who would be willing to explore and learn about something in more depth?
Spark your imagination
Go to the Story Maps Gallery to see some examples handpicked to inspire you and that highlight creative approaches. Filter and search to check out how authors have handled subjects and information similar to your own. Explore. Get a good feel for what makes a good story.
Choose a story map app template
Go to the Story Maps App to browse the app templates and choose the best one for your story map project. Each app lets you deliver a specific user experience to your audience.
Follow the instructions for the app template you choose
See the Tutorial tab for the story map app template you choose for instructions on how to proceed. For example, here is the Tutorial for the Story Map Journal app template.
Share your story map and promote it
When you’ve finished, you simply share your story map to launch it and make it go live. You can share it publicly or restrict it so it can be accessed only by people in your organization. To promote the story map to your audience, you can add links to it, embed it into your website, write a blog post about it, and share it on social media.
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Tell the Story of Irish Public History
The Easter Rising, also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an unsuccessful armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week, April 1916. After the execution of 16 rebel leaders by the British administration, the Rising captured the political imagination and became an important rallying cry for separatist groups in Ireland. A 2006 commemorative event marked the first time that the civilian deaths of the rising were publicly and politically acknowledged.
First, you’ll use a comma-separated values (CSV) file to map the Rising’s casualties. Then, you’ll create a Public Information web app that includes social media posts about the Rising’s commemoration. By comparing the locations of these social media posts to the locations of casualties, you’ll probe questions about how the Rising has been perceived, remembered, and engaged with by the general public. In particular, you’ll focus on how the story of civilian casualties has entered into patterns of commemoration and observations on social media. Lastly, you’ll create a story map to share your findings in the context of some key locations during the Rising.
Build skills in these areas:
Adding layers from CSV files
Creating a story map
Drawing conclusions from maps and data
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Neil Youngblood
Maybe it goes without saying, but working in a restaurant kitchen is a lot different than cooking at home. The head chef at a restaurant is responsible for an entire crew of cooks, tasked with thinking about food costs and creating interesting specials, and, of course, consistently producing great food.
A good chef knows how to make the moving parts work. A great chef gets in there and helps make it happen.
“I’m definitely not that guy that surfs the clipboard,” says Neil Youngblood, head chef at Blowin’ Smoke. “I open the restaurant myself five days a week and work the line. I’m back there making tacos; if I’m staffed well enough, I’m in the window expoing and making sure the food is going out the way I want it to.”
In other words, he does it all.
Youngblood got his start as a line cook at Waffle House around the time he started taking culinary classes at Savannah Tech eleven years ago. He worked as a sous chef all over town—“I felt like the boy named Sue,” he jokes—before landing his first executive chef position at Blowin’ Smoke.
He’ll never forget where he came from, literally—his “resume sleeve” has a visual assortment of past jobs, from Alligator Soul right on down to WaHo.
Youngblood recently streamlined Blowin’ Smoke’s menu to focus mainly on tacos and their award-winning ribs, working toward a better, faster experience.
“The food just flies out,” he says proudly.
But that doesn’t mean it’s just a taco place now. Youngblood’s challenge was “to put fine dining in a taco,” which means using classical techniques like braising and smoking. Every taco has its own unique flavor that complements the technique. Take, for instance, the Smoked Pork Belly taco. The pork belly is smoked for eight to ten hours, flash fried, then smashed into lardons and paired with a spicy mustard and pineapple salsa.
While designing the new menu, Youngblood considered the guests and what would make them want to come back.
“What reminds you of your childhood? Taste and smell are the senses that make you remember, feel that comfort,” he explains. “What I try to bring is a mixture of soul and comfort and flavor and what would really make you remember this place.”
One of the worst complaints a restaurant can receive is an inconsistent experience, and Youngblood is determined not to let that happen at Blowin’ Smoke.
“I don’t 86 shit,” he says. “I want people to know that when they come back, they can get the things they want. It’s all about thinking and being a couple steps ahead and making sure not to run out of product.”
That kind of attitude is what separates the men from the boys, but Youngblood doesn’t feel above anyone at all.
“Reading [Anthony Bourdain’s] Kitchen Confidential, I wanted more of that; camaraderie was being compared to pirates and I fell in love with that kind of imagery,” he says.
“With the chefs in Savannah, I feel like I got in this awesome frat of cooks and pirates.”
—Rachael Flora
Runner-up: Mashama Bailey
The tastes, the chef, the plates, the forks, the spoons
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Brad Fittler and Boyd Cordner
Why Boyd Cordner owes it to Brad Fittler
by David Riccio
11th Jul 2018 12:41 PM
TO appreciate the bond between Brad Fittler and Boyd Cordner, you have to start by jumping in a Toyota Camry racing towards Campbelltown Stadium.
In the front passenger seat, you'll find a dirty, sweaty 16-year-old Cordner.
He's wearing a stained Roosters jersey.
His playing shorts, socks and boots are muddied from the SG Ball game he has just played at St Mary's.
It's a Saturday afternoon in March, 2009, and it's so hot out west that the Toyota's air-conditioning feels like a hair-dryer.
Holding a water bottle on his lap, the Taree teenager's head is spinning quicker than the Camry's silver rims along the M7.
"I couldn't get my head around what was happening,'' Cordner said, prior to Origin III in Brisbane.
Boyd Cordner playing for Newtown in 2011. Picture: Gary Sutherland.
"I was walking off the field and Peter O'Sullivan (former Roosters recruitment manager) stopped me and said; "Quick grab your bag, we're going to Campbelltown.
"I said: 'What, to watch first grade?
O'Sullivan replied: "Nah, you're going to play.
"Grab your bag, don't bother having a shower, we've got to go.''
Cordner said quickly; "Wait, let me just grab my Dad.'
Brad Fittler, the Roosters head coach between 2007-09, was waiting at Campbelltown for the teenager to arrive.
Boyd Cordner leads the charge for NSW. Picture: AAP.
He was preparing the NRL squad for a trial match against Parramatta.
The Roosters squad included Braith Anasta, Willie Mason, Anthony Minichiello, Sia Soliola, Mark O'Meley and Craig Fitzgibbon.
And now a teenager, whose head was about to fall off.
"I walked into those sheds and as soon as I saw everyone, I thought; "Oh (expletive) … what's going on?''
"I was 16.
"There was all these men, NRL stars like Braith, O'Meley, Willie Mason … I'd spent the school holidays pretending to be them in backyard with my mates back at school.''
Boyd Cordner helped the Roosters to their 2013 NRL title success.
Fittler walked over to Cordner, who was sheepishly shuffling towards the first corner of the dressing room he could find.
"I'll give you a run, but I don't know for how long,'' the coach said.
Cordner nodded his head.
What else could he say?
"I got suited up and I was sitting there quietly and a couple of the boys said just relax, you'll be fine, it's a trial. You deserve this'," Cordner said.
"I warmed up and sat on the bench. The game was on, and all the while I'm jumping up and down on the sideline, wondering when I'm going to get on.
Cordner played the final 22 minutes, tackling anything in a blue and gold jumper, including Fuifui Moimoi and Jarryd Hayne.
"I didn't do anything special, but I got through my work,'' Cordner said.
"I then flew back to Taree and saw my mates. They asked, 'how did you go with the SG Ball game?'
"I said, 'I played NRL as well'.
"They didn't believe me.''
Boyd Cordner leads the Roosters into battle. Picture: Gregg Porteous.
Before Wednesday night's career-defining moment for the pair, when as captain and coach, they will hold aloft the Origin shield for NSW, Fittler gave an insight into what he saw in Cordner as a teenager - and what he has watched ever since.
"Back then, I could just see that he was built for the game,'' Fittler said.
"I just always had faith in him. Whether it was as a 16 year old … he was always going to make it.
"You could just see it in his eyes, even as a 15, 16-year-old.
"There was no fear in his eyes. Never.
"Like in Origin II two weeks ago, his calf was gone, but he said; 'I'll just keep going until, it breaks.'
"Some of his runs were awful but he just ran. No fear. That's what he had 10-years ago and still now, no fear.''
Cordner is a country boy at heart who protects his family and his emotions.
But every now and then, he'll reveal his true self.
On Fittler, he admits he owes so much.
"Looking back on it now, it's pretty special to hold onto that I was able to play with an NRL squad at 16,'' Cordner said.
"Freddy and I have built that relationship ever since.
"He's the coach of NSW, but he's the guy that gave me my first shot.
"He taught me a hell of a lot as a young kid.
"I'm very grateful to have that opportunity to have a guy like Freddy in my corner.
"He's been backing me for years and so what do you do when someone does that for you?
"You do anything for them too, which for me, is working my backside off for him and the team.
"I want to bring that shield back to the people of NSW and for Freddy.''
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Archive | May 2016
Maryland Court of Appeals continues its cautious approach to finding implied private causes of action
By Jonathan Biran
On May 20, 2016, in Fangman v. Genuine Title, LLC, a case certified from federal court, the Maryland Court of Appeals held that Md. Code Ann., Real Prop. (“RP”) § 14-127 – which generally prohibits kickbacks and similar arrangements with respect to real-estate settlement business – does not create a private cause of action. Judge Watts wrote the opinion for the unanimous Court, which continued a winning streak in the Court of Appeals for defendants arguing against recognizing implied private rights of action.
May 2016 Maryland Certiorari Grants
The Court of Appeals of Maryland has posted its certiorari grants from its May 19 conference. This month’s list is unusually heavy on civil cases, with only one criminal appeal compared to four civil appeals. Perhaps most notably, Seley-Radtke v. Hosmane addresses the burden of proof in defamation actions brought by private individuals. The full list appears after the jump. Read More…
Non-Mutual Collateral Estoppel: A Shield, but Now Clearly Also a Sword
By Brad McCullough
Last summer, I reviewed the decision of the Court of Appeals in Shader v. Hampton Improvement Ass’n, Inc., 443 Md. 148 (2015), and the decision of the Court of Special Appeals in Garrity v. Maryland State Bd. of Plumbing, 221 Md. App. 78 (2015), and posed the following question: In addition to being used defensively as a shield, may non-mutual collateral estoppel be used offensively as a sword? In Garrity, the Court of Special Appeals had embraced the use of offensive non-mutual collateral estoppel, at least in the context of successive proceedings brought by separate administrative agencies. But I noted that the Court of Appeals on a number of occasions had neither embraced nor rejected offensive use of the doctrine, and, in Shader, had skirted the question, holding that the case did not require an answer to it. I suggested that the issue needed to make its way back to our highest court so that the Court could have the final word on the subject. Having granted certiorari in Garrity, the Court of Appeals a few weeks ago issued an opinion permitting offensive non-mutual collateral estoppel.
Do not overestimate the exceptions to the exhaustion of administrative remedies
By Karen Federman Henry
When evaluating a new case, the focus often relates to the merits of the claim: Is your client credible? Are there witnesses who can corroborate your client’s position? Are there documents that substantiate the claim? What legal theories apply? Has the statute of limitations run yet?
All of these elements play a significant role in advising a client and deciding to pursue the case. When handling matters before administrative agencies, however, it also is essential to consider the hierarchy of remedies that are available. Some administrative remedies must be pursued before filing a complaint in court, while others may proceed concurrently or without affecting other legal processes. Knowing where to go first can be tricky, as two police officers learned the hard way.
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Yes, appeal options matter in state District Court
By John Grimm
One of the challenges of a criminal practice in the Maryland District Court is deciding how best to position your client for appeal. A typical day in the District Court can be a busy, if not hectic, affair, requiring lawyers to wrangle witnesses, work out plea deals, examine discovery, and, not uncommonly, meet and interview their clients for the first time. Although it can be hard to devote attention to preserving appellate issues, or even thinking about appellate strategy, the District Court’s unique jurisdictional status presents both appellate risks and benefits, and, during your trial preparation, it’s worth giving a little thought to what you’d want your criminal appeal to look like.
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COSA Dissent Watch: Defining a “Collection Agency”
[Dissents in the Court of Special Appeals are, as we’ve noted here before, an infrequent thing — but quite useful. Many times, disagreement in the intermediate court portends consideration and resolution by the Court of Appeals, or highlights thorny issues that appellate practitioners can take up in future cases. In this new feature, the Blog tracks and analyzes split decisions at the Court of Special Appeals.]
By Chris Mincher
The case: Old Republic Ins. Co. v. Gordon, No. 1020 (Sept. Term 2014)
The question: Did the circuit court err in its construction of the phrase “collection agency” under BR § 7-101(c)?
The facts: Old Republic Insurance Company sold Countrywide Home Loans a “credit insurance policy,” pursuant to which Old Republic would pay for losses caused by defaults in loans held by Countrywide; in return, Countrywide would subrogate its rights of recovery to Old Republic. Countrywide submitted a claim for Nancy Gordon’s default on her approximately $70,000 loan, and Old Republic paid it. Old Republic then exercised its subrogation rights to pursue repayment.
The company filed suit in circuit court and moved for summary judgment. Ms. Gordon opposed the motion on the grounds that, under Maryland law, Old Republic was barred from bringing its claims because it was acting as a collection agency subject to the Maryland Collection Agency Licensing Act but wasn’t licensed to do so. The court agreed and granted summary judgment to Ms. Gordon.
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Etisalat Group remains most valuable B2C brand in the Middle East
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UAE and KSA brands are leading the charge ahead of its Middle Eastern counterparts in the brand value stakes.
Emirati and Saudi Arabia each have 19 brands in the top 50 Middle East most valuable brands in 2019.
Etisalat Group remains the Most Valuable Portfolio of Brands in Middle East this year exceeding US$ 10 billion barrier, with the Etisalat brand alone worth $8.3bn.
Etisalat boasts valuable portfolio of brands:
Valued at US$8.3 billion, up 8% since last year, Emirati telecoms giant Etisalat remains the most valuable B2C brand in the region for the 3rd year in a row.
Etisalat Group also boasts the most valuable portfolio of brands, with an important regional presence of networks including Mobily, Ufone, Maroc Telecom, and PTCL, which has exceeded the Middle East’s record of US$10 billion. Operating in 15 countries across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, Etisalat’s success can also be attributed to its customer loyalty programs as well as strategic sports and events sponsorships.
As the premier digital partner of Dubai’s Expo 2020 showcase, Etisalat is preparing to deliver the event’s visitors and delegates with a cutting edge and immersive digital experience. Sports sponsorships provide an international platform through which Etisalat can connect with its loyal customers, sharing and supporting their interests and passions.
David Haigh, CEO of Brand Finance, commented:
“The Middle East is home to so many world class brands which are asserting their presence on both a domestic and regional scale. As the UAE looks ahead to Expo2020, Saudi Arabia races towards its Vision 2030 and Qatar gears up to host the World Cup in 2022, it is ever more important for these home-grown brands to be nurtured and catapulted to the global stage.”
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USPGA Championship First Round Three-Balls
July 25, 2016 5:45 pm \ Leave a Comment \ by admin
The fourth and final major of the season, the USPGA Championship, gets underway at Baltusrol Golf Club, Springfield, New Jersey on Thursday and, as is customary, the winners of the first three majors, Danny Willett, Dustin Johnson and Henrik Stenson, play together for the first two days. Following a sensational performance at Troon, Henrik Stenson (13/8) looks worthy of support in that particular three-ball.
Elsewhere, Sergio Garcia may never shed the tag of ‘best player never to win a major’, but is another who arrives in fantastic form after finishing tied fifth at Troon. The Spaniard should be suited by the course and, at 15/8, may be able to get the better of Bubba Watson and Jordan Spieth in the opening exchanges.
Last, but hopefully not least, Baltusrol favours accurate driving, so Jason Dufner (7/5), who won this tournament three years ago and finished in the top 25 at Troon, may be able to steal a march on Martin Kaymer and Y.E. Yang.
Selections: Henrik Stenson (13/8), Sergio Garcia (15/8), Jason Dufner (7/5), 1-point Win Treble
‘Pie-in-the-sky’ Patent, Tuesday, July 19
Laila Honiwillow failed by just a length to withstand the challenge of Mr. Orange and land our treble at Pontefract last Friday but, even so, a 36-point profit, courtesy of Monsieur Joe (7/2) and Final Venture (6/1), did us no harm. Suitably inspired, we’ve decided to put up three more selections in the hope of repeating the dose.
In the 3.15 at Musselburgh on Tuesday, Bashiba has been raised just 2lb for winning a 0-95 contest at Windsor earlier this month and, dropped back into 0-80 company, must have every chance of following up. The Iffraaj gelding has done all his winning on good, or faster, going over the minimum trip and, although on a career-high handicap mark, has plenty going for him.
In the 4.45 at Musselburgh, Always Resolute could probably do with a drop of rain, but should run his race in any case and can defy a 5lb rise in the weights form winning at Chester last month. That was just his second attempt at 2 miles on the Flat so, with the flat, slightly undulating track once again in his favour, he may be capable of further improvement.
In the 7.50 at Chelmsford, Clovelly Bay recorded his sole win over course and distance last November under Hayley Turner and, reunited with the lady jockey, must have a decent chance of winning again off a handicap mark just 3lb higher. His recent form on turf is nothing to write home about, but back on Polytrack, he can win a fairly uninspiring contest.
Selections: Musselburgh 3.15 Bashiba, Musselburgh 4.45 Always Resolute, Chelmsford 7.50 Clovelly Bay, 1-point Win Patent
‘Practical’ Patent, Friday, July 15
July 13, 2016 12:38 pm \ Leave a Comment \ by admin
Three cracks of the whip served us pretty well the last time we tried one of these, so here goes again.
In the 7.20 at Newmarket on Friday, Monsieur Joe has continued in excellent form since winning a similar race at Hamilton three starts ago and can return to the winners’ enclosure. His second of 12, beaten a head, behind Brando in the Coral Charge at Sandown on his penultimate start was a particularly valiant effort and a reproduction on that form should be good enough.
In the 7.30 at Pontefract, Final Venture has been raised 2lb for his 1-length defeat in the King Richard III over 6 furlongs on the West Yorkshire course 10 days ago, but was clear with two furlongs to run and only succumbed close home, so dropping back to the minimum trip appears in his favour. So, too, does the return to good to firm going and he can regain the winning thread.
In the 9.05 at Pontefract, Laila Honiwillow has improved steadily this season and can complete a hat-trick. The form of her most recent win, at Doncaster three weeks ago, has been franked by the runner-up, Portland Street, and she’s fully effective on the prevailing good to firm going, so she must have a decent chance of defying a 6lb penalty.
Selections: Newmarket 7.20 Monsieur Joe, Pontefract 7.30 Final Venture, Pontefract 9.05 Laila Honiwillow (1-point Win Patent)
‘Deadly’ Double, Tuesday, July 5
July 4, 2016 4:33 pm \ Leave a Comment \ by admin
In the 3.10 at Pontefract on Tuesday, Black Cherry has failed to add to her winning tally since stretching away to win a 0-85 handicap at Sandown last summer, but has proved a reliable performer at Listed and Pattern level and deserves a change of luck. Her latest seventh of 14, beaten 4¾ lengths, behind Usherette in the Duke of Cambridge Stakes at Royal Ascot was another solid effort and the return to faster underfoot conditions should do her chances no harm.
In the 4.10 at Pontefract, Trainnah has run two promising races, over an extended mile on her debut at Nottingham in May and one over 1 mile 2 furlongs at Salisbury last month, and can put that experience to good use. She’s bred to be suited by middle distances and trainer William Haggas has 33% strike rate with her age group at the course over the last five seasons, so it’ll be disappointing if she can’t get off the mark at the third time of asking.
Selections: Pontefract 3.10 Black Cherry, Pontefract 4.10 Trainnah, 1-point Win Double
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All grown up (and playing someone else’s role?)
Get ready to play Yourself.
It was 2019. The world was suffering from noisy overwhelm, texting at dinner tables, neglected vision boards and an insatiable craving for the freedom to “be yourself.”
The problem was that not everyone knew who they were…
SHE. definitely didn’t know.
Although she was the does-it-all Queen, she incorrigibly didn’t ‘do’ herself. Stuck in an identity (she spent a life getting there,) she was tickled for more.
More meaning.
She was ready to give up the vision that three-generations-back had for her, once n’ for all!
To be her own maestro in a magenta tux. To create her own change, without feeling she had to change.
She wanted to live in a body that felt alive, and she also wanted to leave a body of work behind. Something of her own. To make her mark and count her whole lotta cash.
Entrepreneurial lifestyle was in vogue. While hugging lattes behind her laptop, she brilliantly weaved world-changing dreams within her up-and-coming digital empire.
A hidden leader under her silky robe, still afraid to get noticed. She longed for the call that would bring to life her true voice, purpose and self.
Days, she crafted content and client sessions. Nights she conquered timezone gaps, virtual masterminds and kept hiding while fighting to be seen.
But it would take a hint of magic to help her step into the new slippers of a new identity. And to move from behind the screen to center page.
It was Monicka Clio Sakki, visual virtuoso, that showed up to turn her fortune.
A creative director and married mama of two. Fresh from Tel Aviv with roots in Acropolis and professional past in the Big Apple. Trilingual with no mother tongue. Tattooless but colorful. Uninhibited by midlife manuscripts. Two big, blue, round eyes in league with Miss Piggy. Owner of an overcrowded desk of self-made LEGO Goddesses.
Her old jobs? Illustrating best-sellers. Rocking style guides. Designing cover-to-cover products for the greats (Disney, Mattel, WarnerBrothers and Nickelodeon.) Creating and publishing the renown Sakki-Sakki Tarot–for the Artist in Each of Us. It came with a written-in-the-stars companion book, Playing with Symbols, and a color punch.
Monicka had been where SHE was. Between the old ways, and the new challenges. At the place where…
…she didn’t see herself as a leader. Not before everyone else told her so.
… she doubted her ideas because they weren’t fitting any template. ouch!
… she’d realized she needed to connect with herself if she wanted to connect with her people.
…and she needed new pictures (without her kids climbing on her) and tons more to feed her hungry IG feed.
Monicka stood in front of her camera, and took a shot that changed everything.
It sparked a lightbulb and a new mantra: “No lens will love you more than your own.”
A hallelujah moment. She kept at it, and many layers of lipstick later… Voila!
Self-Magic Woman™ was born.
It was the ultimate cure for visibility yo-yo. The solution to hide-out-but-wanna-stand-out syndrome.
It took shape as a course for self-portraits. In no time it grew into three trainings, twelve modules strong. A visual engine, composing imagery with creative routines. Building never-ending banks of content and confidence. Inspiration and insights. A timeless, color driven framework with book on the way.
This was Monicka’s slide to her own creative freedom (and kingdom.)
Ladies lined up to join the experience. They wanted more of that, for themselves.
SHE. started to See.
Her camera clicked non-stop, producing never-before-seen portraits. She kept shooting herself only to come back alive more than ever. Her photo library overflowed with creative adventures, exclamation marks, fireballs of energy and proof of her uncompromising personality.
The heroine’s journey, with a thousand selfies…
For the first time in a long time, she felt creative and lit up with electricity that would outshine Vegas. She saw herself (and her work) with a new set of eyes and D&G pink glasses.
She replaced self-protection with Self-Magic!
…One picture
…One surprise
…One color at a time.
SHE. started to Show.
Her presence blinged like a 27karat diamond. Her work got legs and cheers. She was showered with self-love and forgotten kind o’ fun. She faced to be vulnerable and re-named her cats “Camera” & “Confidence.”
She reflected on her creative identity (instead of her identity crisis.)
She dared to be jaw-dropping different, and made a disco ball of difference.
Her inspiration converted into impact. Her jitters into joy.
And she finally answered the call to make her mark mighty (and highlight it in yellow neon, too.)
All by being more of herself.
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archaeometallurgy
Five minutes with…Dr Eleanor Blakelock, Archaeometallurgist, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
May 11, 2015 National Heritage Science ForumLeave a comment
What’s your scientific/heritage background?
I have a BSc in archaeological science at Bradford University which was followed by an MSc in Technology and Analysis of Archaeological Materials at UCL. I then did a PhD studying Anglo-Saxon and Viking iron knives and investigating the skills and methods of the blacksmith. My main focus has always been the study of ancient metals and metallurgy, although I have an interest in all archaeological and historical materials.
What’s your role at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery?
I am one of a team of people who are researching the Anglo-Saxon Staffordshire Hoard. I use an X-Ray Fluorescence instrument to determine exactly what elements are in the gold and silver objects in the Hoard. I also get the opportunity to work with the staff and instruments at the University of Birmingham Metallurgy department to investigate the metals and surface treatments.
Using XRF in the conservation laboratory
While working on the gold from the Staffordshire Hoard recently I discovered a completely unknown treatment that the goldsmiths were applying to the objects. The goldsmith was treating the sheets behind the beaded wires to create a contrast. This was an exciting discovery which has implications for past research and is changing the way heritage scientists and archaeometallurgists view gold objects.
Microphotograph of pommel K88 showing the contrast between the gold enriched backing sheet and the filigree wires
It’s impossible to choose only one from the many people who have inspired me at different stages of my career. My BSc and PhD supervisor Gerry McDonnell was a big influence and led me towards the joy of archaeometallurgy. I’ve also been inspired by many of the Historical Metallurgy Society members past and present who have made interesting discoveries, and have supported me through the years.
The thing I love most is that I get to see and work on a huge range of objects from all periods; some including the Staffordshire Hoard represent the pinnacle of craftsmanship. I also love how there are still lots of new discoveries to be made about how metal objects were constructed.
Through heritage science researchers in the present can get closer to the people who lived in the past.
heritage sciencearchaeometallurgy, gold, Staffordshire Hoard
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Read in Ned | December 21, 2017
By Tom Lambrecht
We make choices daily when selecting the foods we eat, the movies we watch and the music we listen to — all selections based on our ever-changing moods. The books we choose to read make greater demands on our attention than other, more passive diversions which means that selecting the “right” book to settle down with might mean rejecting a couple of “right now” titles that just happen to be perched on the nightstand. As the evenings grow longer, my own taste in reading material leans towards the introspective. The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel, which was published in 2009 by Yale University Press, recently appeared in our library’s “new” section and was well suited to my mood now that the solstice is upon us.
The slightly washed-out and surreal black and white cover of this book is about as understated as a book cover can be. It consists of an image of an overstuffed chair in a forest, with a floor lamp casting a comforting circle of light around a reader whose back is to the viewer. The mood is simultaneously one of remoteness and intimacy and perfectly evokes the mood of Manguel’s writing.
Each chapter of the book is an essay that explores “The Library as …” ostensibly, from a single viewpoint. However, Manguel’s exuberant writing is never constrained by a mere chapter heading — each new topic only provides a jumping-off place for the author’s rich and meandering storytelling.
“The Library as Myth” begins with the story of his home and personal library, built on the remnants of a historic ruin on a French hilltop. Its construction and the area’s history provide a backdrop as Manguel relates the nocturnal pleasure he takes in the interior, the shelves, the books and his perception of the space, where “at night I can read with a lightheartedness verging on insouciance.” After a brief nod to the noted philosopher and essayist Montaigne (who preferred to spend his evenings sleeping), the author moves to a discourse on vast private and public libraries, which leads into the chapter, “The Library as Shape” that explores the arrangements and architecture of some of the world’s notable libraries. Lest one think that such a discussion is dry, Manguel’s written impressions drip with the sensuousness of a devotee of both books and collections of books.
As a working author, his library serves as a research tool and a creative space and “The Library as Workshop” begins with musings on the space where he writes and moves to the personal libraries of Kipling, Cervantes and Borges. In “the Library as Chance,” the author ranges from flea market book stands to the libraries that sprang up on ancient trade routes. “The Library as Mind.” begins with his own unique cataloguing system which relies on associations of books, authors and personal experiences — “the remembered order follows a pattern in my mind … rather as a stargazer connects in narrative patterns the pinpoints of the stars.”All is not celebration, however, as Manguel mourns books censored and burned and libraries looted in “The Library as Shadow” and “The Library as Oblivion.”
From antiquarian books and medieval libraries to the Internet and virtual book collections, Manguel leaves almost no stone or book unturned. His writing, like the organization of his own book collection is organic and though it takes disparate trajectories with biographical, historical and literary asides — sometimes all in a single page — it never comes across as jumbled or chaotic. The Library at Night is an ideal volume to curl up with in your own circle of light on windy, wintry evening.
Tom Lambrecht is a Library Assistant at the Nederland Community Library.
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CRPF troops deployed in Assam move to J&K
Official sources said at least 70 companies of CRPF have left for Jammu & Kashmir from Assam
TEZPUR , August 3, 2019 11:08 pm
A large number of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troops deployed in Assam have moved to Kashmir valley in the last two days as part of a massive security drive.
Official sources said at least 70 companies of CRPF have left for Jammu & Kashmir from Assam.
“Each company consists of about 100 troops. So a total of about 700 CRPF troops engaged in Assam will now be deployed in J&K,” an official told Northeast Now.
He said at least nine companies of the paramilitary force from Assam have already taken position in Kashmir valley.
Less than a week after moving 10,000 troops of paramilitary forces to Kashmir, the centre on Thursday rushed about 25,000 paramilitary personnel to the Valley.
Fear and confusion gripped the valley after the J&K government issued an unprecedented order, cancelling a pilgrimage and asking tourists to leave the state.
These developments have taken place amid rumours in the Valley that the Union government may be planning to abrogate Article 35A that grants special rights to permanent residents of Kashmir.
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m-bandmusic » Classical » Mozart, Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli - Flute And Harp Concerto K. 299 - Sinfonia Concertante K. 297B
Mozart, Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli - Flute And Harp Concerto K. 299 - Sinfonia Concertante K. 297B album
Mozart 1993
Performer: Mozart
Title: Flute And Harp Concerto K. 299 - Sinfonia Concertante K. 297B
Formats: FLAC MPC ASF MP2 VQF VOX MP1
Concerto For Flute, Harp And Orchestra In C Major, K. 299 (297c)
Cadenza – Karl Hermann Pillney, Osian EllisFlute – Kenneth Smith Harp – Bryn Lewis
1 1. Allegro 10:27
2 2. Andantino 9:38
3 3. Rondeau: Allegro 9:31
Sinfonia Concertante For Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon And Orchestra In E Flat Major, K. Anh. C 14.01 (297b) - Attrib. Mozart
Bassoon – Meyrick AlexanderClarinet – Michael Collins Horn – Richard WatkinsOboe – John Anderson
5 2. Adagio 8:54
6 3. Andantino Con Variazioni 9:01
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
Conductor – Giuseppe Sinopoli
Cover [Photo] – Joachim Rühl
Engineer – Wolf-Dieter Karwatky
Engineer [Balance] – Klaus Hiemann
Orchestra – Philharmonia Orchestra
Producer – Wolfgang Stengel
Recording: London, All Saints' Church, Tooting, 12/1991
(p) 1993 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg
Printed in Germany by Neef, Wittingen
SPARS Code: DDD
Mozart: Flute and Harp Concerto . 99; Sinfonia Concertante . 97b (classical music album) - Play streams in full or download MP3 from Classical Archives (classicalarchives. CD 1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer. Concerto in C for Flute and Harp, . 99 Work. Elgar: Enigma Variations; Cello Concerto. Philharmonia Orchestra of London.
Mozart: Flute & Harp Concerto . 97b. 1993 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin. Released on: 1993-01-01.
Concerto for Flute and Harp in C, . 99: 3. Rondeau: Allegro. Your browser does not support the audio element. Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, Orch. . 97b: 3. Andantino con Variazioni. Terms and Conditions.
The Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra in C major, K. 299/297c, is a concerto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for flute, harp, and orchestra. It is one of only two true double concertos that he wrote (the other being his Piano Concerto No. 10; though his Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, and Orchestra could just as well be considered a "double concerto"), as well as the only piece of music by Mozart for the harp
Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra in C, . 99 : 3. Mozart: Flute & Harp Concerto . Composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 04. 06. 97b : 3. 97b, an album by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Kenneth Smith, Bryn Lewis, John Anderson, Michael Collins, Richard Watkins, Meyrick Alexander, Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli on this site. Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra in C, . 99: 2. Andantino - Osian Ellis, Karl-Hermann Pillney, 9:380:30. 3. Rondeau: Allegro - Osian Ellis, Karl-Hermann Pillney, 9:310:30. 4. 5. 6.
Background Music Wedding. Giuseppe Sinopoli, Kenneth Smith. Mozart: Flute and Harp Concerto K. 299; Sinfonia Concertante K. 297b.
Concerto For Flute & Harp In C . 99. Single Jewel Case presentation with minimal liner notes. First Choice - Penguin Stereo Guide. Matrix, Runout: AWCD 28515 -2250-.
Kenneth Smith (flute), Bryn Lewis (harp), John Anderson (oboe), Michael Collins (clarinet), Richard Watkins (horn), Meyrick Alexander (bassoon), Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Osian Ellis, Karl Hermann Pillney: Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra in C, . Philharmonia Orchestra. Kenneth Smith (flute), Bryn Lewis (harp). Recorded: 1991-12-11. Recording Venue: All Saints Church, London.
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Ikea to pay $46 million to family of toddler crushed by dresser
Posted 7:22 am, January 7, 2020, by Justyn Melrose
(THOMAS SAMSON/AFP via Getty Images)
Swedish furniture maker Ikea will pay $46 million to the family of a California toddler who died after being crushed by one of its dressers.
Jozef Dudek was two years old when he died in May 2017 after an Ikea Malm dresser toppled onto his neck, resulting in injuries that caused him to suffocate, according to the family’s lawyers.
Feldman Shepherd, the legal firm that represents the Dudek family, said in a statement that the payout is the largest wrongful death settlement related to a child in US history.
A spokesperson for Ikea confirmed the $46 million settlement. The company apologized in a statement.
“While no settlement can alter the tragic events that brought us here, for the sake of the family and all involved, we’re grateful that this litigation has reached a resolution,” an Ikea spokesperson said.
“Product safety is a top priority for Ikea and at the core of the design process every day. Again, we offer our deepest condolences to the family,” the spokesperson added.
In 2016, Ikea paid $50 million to the families of three other children who had been killed by Malm dressers and agreed to redesign the product to higher safety standards.
“Nevertheless, millions of the unsafe older model dressers remain in the homes of consumers around the country,” said Feldman Shepherd, which represented the families in these earlier cases.
There have been eight reports of child deaths involving Ikea chests and dressers, according to the company’s US website.
Since 2016, it has recalled 17.3 million units in the United States and received nearly 300 reports of incidents causing 144 injuries to children.
A lawsuit filed by the Dudek family in June 2018 alleges that Ikea knew of the deaths associated with the dressers but “failed to take adequate measures” to improve their safety and stability.
As part of the settlement, Ikea has agreed to broaden its outreach to consumers about the Malm product recall, according to the family’s lawyers.
The lawyers said the furniture maker will also meet with representatives of Parents Against Tip-Overs, an advocacy group lobbying for safer furniture designs and more stringent testing standards.
Topics: crushed, Dresser, IKEA, toddler
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Martyn Ashton Talks Us Through His Custom Bike From ‘Back on Track’
All bike photography: Global Mountain Bike Network
Martyn Ashton is a legend in the world of the mountain bike. He’s a pivotal figure in the rise of the trials scene, he’s created some of the most viral cycling videos of all time, and possibly most impressive of all, he’s renowned just for being a really, really nice guy too.
Of course, in 2013 he had an accident during one of his touring trial shows that left him paraplegic. The story is well known at this point, because two years later, in July 2015, he dropped the stunning ‘Back on Track’ – a video which shows him getting back on the bike and hitting the trails despite his disability.
If you’ve not seen it, and over a million have watched it on YouTube at this point, then feast your eyes on the beauty below. Even if you have watched it before, it’s always nice to refresh your memory…
So, after that epic, probably the greatest mountain bike video to come out of 2015 and one of the most inspirational of all time, we were lucky enough to catch up with Martyn Ashton for a ‘Back on Track’ interview and ask him all about it.
It was great to chat to Martyn. He’s a hilarious guy, and nearly every sentence that comes out of his mouth is either incredibly interesting or well worth a laugh. As such, we didn’t have quite enough room in the previous article to chalk down everything of note – including the bike check he gave us on the custom Nicolai Geometron that let him get back on track.
So, without further ado, here’s Martyn to tell you everything you need to know about his now-famous custom two-wheeler.
Speaking back in September, the riding legend told us: “It’s a custom Nicolai Geometron build, the frame. It was put together mostly by the guys at Mojo suspension in South Wales, headed up by Chris Porter. There was some mounts that they asked Nicolai for on the frame that were going to be used just to support the super large seat, but we actually didn’t use those in the end.
“The seat is literally just off a sit-ski, which is just as it sounds. That’s a disability sport that has been around for a long time, so that seat is just an off the shelf thing which has obviously been developed over years of the development of that sport. I just put that on a seat tube and bolted it on top. It works really well!
“It’s a D.O.S.S seatpost, and it’s got so much support built into it for me, so I’m strapped into that seat really heavily, and it holds me on line and as soon as I’ve got my hands on the bars I’m really well supported.
“For my feet, we’ve got the pedals both facing forward, so my feet are on a platform almost rather than on pedals, and then they’re in a fixed position and we just tape my feet on.
“The thing is, everyone thinks I’m just taped on but I’m in that seated position anyway, so my feet are kind of like floating there and are just on the pedals. It’s more that the tape is holding my feet still in terms of sideways movement rather than me actually being taped on.
“You could not tape my feet on and I wouldn’t fall off. The tape is not really doing much, but we liked the humour of taping me on with electrical tape. We talked about clipped pedals and all sorts but we just thought nah, let’s just tape me on – it’ll be funny!
“That’s pretty much it! The front end, I’ve got Fox 40s [forks] on it, so it’s a pretty heavy duty front end. Obviously I can’t lift the front up, so I’m kind of smacking the front wheel into things! I’ve got a big fork for my type of riding to be honest, but on the bottom it offloads.
“When you’ve got that seated weight on the bike, you’re just putting it through so much force all the time. It takes a bit of a pounding!”
The bike features a Fox DHX2 shock, 2.8” WTB tyres, Renthal Fatbar Carbon bars at 780mm width and the aforementioned Fox 40 twin crown forks offering 8”/203mm of plush travel.
You would think they would have tried the bike out a few times before getting going on the final video, but actually the trail ride featured in ‘Back on Track’ was the first time the bike had been properly tested.
Martyn continued: “We had tested it out in Mojo’s car park. Kind of like making sure I fitted on the bike fine and rolled around a little bit, but it’s really hard to tell until you get onto a trail that moves you around, what’s going to happen.
“We were really confident with it. The video for me wasn’t so much about doing a one-time only stunt, it was about starting the process of getting back on the bike and starting to improve.
“We’re already trying new things with the bike now to see if I can get better. I want to be able to do more on the bike than just roll down the hill, as good fun as that is – because it is really great.
“I think there’s more I can do and that’s just how my mind is. I just want things to be progressing, so I’m just thinking about what I can do next. That’s the mentality you’ve got to have when you’re doing professional riding.”
If that’s not enough detail for you, check out this awesome video of Martyn talking through the bike for the Global Mountain Bike Network below. It’s got every detail you could possibly ask for!
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Wednesday Night Shooting In Sioux Falls Under Investigation
Chuck Wood
Suspects remain at large following a shooting in downtown Sioux Falls on Wednesday night.
Sioux Falls Police Public Information Officer Sam Clemens said around 8:30 p.m. multiple people reported gunshots near North Spring Avenue and West First Street according to KSFY News.
Five shell casings were found by officers in a West First Street alleyway. Officers learned that a car had been shot.
Police believe the shooting occurred after a drug deal went sideways. Further investigation revealed that two people were attempting to buy marijuana.
Clemens said a suspect pulled out a gun, stole the marijuana and took off with an undisclosed amount of money.
Clemens said the victims were inside the car when the suspects shot the car. No injuries were reported.
No arrests have been made at this time.
Contact CrimeStoppers of the Sioux Empire Anonymously with any information that may be helpful in this case.
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MJJRealRealm Yesterday, Today, & FOREVER The King of Pop
TIME Magazine Quote of the Day
Thursday, Mar. 08, 2007
“As Charles Dickens
says,`It’s been the best of times, the worst of times.
But I would not change my
career. “ — MICHAEL JACKSON
at a fan appreciation
event in Tokyo
Other quotes at the event:
"While some have made
deliberate attempts to hurt me, I take it in stride because I have a loving
family, a strong faith and wonderful friends and fans who have, and continue,
to support me"
"Japan is one of my
favorite places to visit in the world"
"I want to thank all of you for making me the biggest-selling
artist in Japan"
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Indigenous Occupation On Ketagalan Boulevard Surpasses Eighty Days
Brian Hioe 05/14/2017 EnglishIndigenousMay 2017RaceSocial Movements
by Brian Hioe
Photo Credit: Brian Hioe
INDIGENOUS OCCUPIERS continue their occupation on Ketagalan Boulevard, despite facing increasing harassment from the police. Namely, indigenous occupiers anticipate that the Tsai administration wants their occupation, which has lasted over 80 days, is to be cleared before May 20th. May 20th will mark the one year anniversary of the Tsai administration taking power and Tsai is slated to give a speech on Ketagalan Boulevard reflecting on her year as president. Today is the 81st day of the occupation.
In spite of its high profile apology to Taiwanese indigenous on behalf of the ROC government in August of last year and spotlighting Taiwanese indigenous during her inauguration ceremony, the Tsai administration has remained silent when confronting indigenous demonstrators who have occupied Ketagalan Boulevard. This is despite the fact that among the indigenous occupiers on Ketagalan Boulevard is singer-songwriter Panai Kusui, who performed at Tsai’s inauguration. Panai recently released an album of songs written while encamped on Ketagalan Boulevard.
Indigenous occupiers are demonstrating draft proposal put forward by the Council of Indigenous Peoples to restore traditional lands to indigenous did not restore lands which are privately owned to indigenous. Although indigenous estimated the size of their traditional lands as consisting of 1.8 million hectares, indigenous would only be granted 800,000 hectares under the proposal.
Indigenous groups view this as the Tsai administration failing to live up to its promises and as backsliding on promises to realize transitional justice for indigenous. Indigenous groups emphasize that they are not demanding special privileges for themselves, but merely the restoration of what is rightfully theirs. Indigenous groups are also not only calling for the restoration of traditional lands, but for action to be taken regarding continued arrests of indigenous for practicing hunting, as in the case of Tama Talum, and other cases when the ROC state arrests indigenous for merely attempting to practice their traditional culture. Indigenous groups have suggested this is the ROC state failing to properly enforce the Indigenous Basic Law.
Police harassment has increased sharply in the past few weeks, however, with police forcing the removal of several art installations by occupiers and trying to evict the occupation entirely. This has included forceful actions as attempting to drag away wheelchair-bound Nabu Husungan Istanda, Panai Kusui’s husband and a fellow musician. It remains to be seen if police actions will grow in intensity in efforts to force indigenous occupiers off of Ketagalan Boulevard.
As a show of force, then, indigenous demonstrators would hold a concert on Ketagalan Boulevard on Sunday, May 7th, with performances by indigenous musicians including Panai, Suming, Danubak, and others. Starting at 4:30 PM and lasting until after 9:00 PM, the performance drew several hundred. Some commented, however, on the irony of that police presence was minimal during the performance while at other times, facing down hardly a dozen occupiers, police have sometimes mobilizes over one hundred officers, outnumbering demonstrators by many times over.
Performance by Panai Kusui on May 7th. Photo credit: Brian Hioe
Indeed, as also remarked upon by Tsay Ting-Kuei of the pro-independence organizations Free Taiwan Party and the Alliance of Referendum for Taiwan, which has maintained an occupation outside of the Legislative Yuan nearby for several years and has been supportive of indigenous occupiers, police attempts to evict indigenous occupiers has been disproportionately large and intensive.
It likely is because of the pressing need of the Tsai administration to get indigenous occupiers off of Ketagalan Boulevard before May 20th that police responses have been so severe. To avoid having their occupation dismantled, indigenous occupiers also held a daylong event to clean-up their occupation on Friday, May 14th, but further actions of the Tsai administration remain to be seen. It may only be a matter of time before the Tsai administration decides to take more decisive measures.
In particular, the Tsai administration is using the the Assembly and Parade Act to try and force indigenous occupiers off of Ketagalan Boulevard. A much hated legal measure dating back to the authoritarian era, the Assembly and Parade Act is seen as restrictive of free speech by many, and the Tsai administration had previously vowed to change the act. Evidently, it finds the act useful for its own purposes now, however.
While indigenous occupiers had demonstrated the strength of their mobilization capacity with the concert held last Sunday, if the police decide to mobilize in such numbers to force them off of Ketagalan Boulevard, there is little that can be done. What remains, then, is to consider what moves should next be taken in order to put pressure on the Tsai administration regarding the traditional lands issue. Maintaining an occupation is certainly one way to apply pressure to the government, but there may be other tactics which need be considered at this juncture.
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Brian Hioe
Brian Hioe was one of the founding editors of New Bloom. He is a freelance writer on social movements and politics, and occasional translator. A New York native and Taiwanese-American, he has an MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University and graduated from New York University with majors in History, East Asian Studies, and English Literature. He was Democracy and Human Rights Service Fellow at the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy from 2017 to 2018.
丘琦欣，創建破土的編輯之一，專於撰寫社會運動和政治的自由作家偶而亦從事翻譯工作。他是出生於紐約的台裔美人。他自哥倫比亞大學畢業，是亞洲語言及文化科系的碩士，同時擁有紐約大學的歷史，東亞研究及英文文學三項學士學位。
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05/15/2017 Jeremy O'Donnell
Perhaps it is time for Taiwanese Aborigines to emulate the Aboriginal Tent Embassy that has been [almost] in continuous existence since 26 January 1972 in Canberra Australia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_Tent_Embassy
05/16/2017 Melody Takata
curious to know more about the indigenous people and their continued struggle.
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Despite Joshua Wong Visit, the DPP Remains Adamant on Refusal to Set up an Asylum Process for Hong Kongers
The Formosa Alliance's Attempts to Prove That Tsai's Dissertation Is Fake Reveal Its Vacuous Politics
關鍵詞：什麼是社會主義？
Anger Against Ko Wen-je on Facebook After Misogynistic Comments
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Has Climate Policy Become More Popular Than Health Care?
By Bradford Plumer
Obama's health care agenda may be staggering in the polls of late, but a new Washington Post-ABC survey finds that 57 percent of Americans still, at least, support Obama's energy policies, with just 29 percent opposed. Even the cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases, easily the most contentious part of the House climate bill, gets majority support: 52 percent back it, 43 percent don't. Likewise, 52 percent figure Democratic energy policies will either decrease energy prices or make no difference.
Now, presumably Obama's energy ideas are faring better than health care because they're not the top target right now. Perhaps if Republicans were spending all August savaging climate policy instead of health care, you'd see different results. But then again, the GOP spent much of the early summer denouncing the House climate bill as "cap-and-tax" and predicting economic Armageddon, so maybe this public support is fairly robust. Support among independents has even ticked up slightly since the House debate. And these poll numbers do jibe with the conventional wisdom on energy issues: Clean energy is as popular as cute kittens, while the public is more leery of carbon pricing, though not adamantly opposed.
No surprise, enthusiasm for cap-and-trade depends on how much it would raise electricity prices: According to the poll, if electricity bills go up just $10 per month or less under the cap, 58 percent of Americans will support the policy. If the bill hike hits $25 per month, support falls to just 39 percent. For context, the EPA estimated that, thanks to the House climate bill's energy-efficiency measures, consumer electric bills would actually be 7 percent lower in 2020. (Overall, when you factor in gas and the rise in prices for consumer goods, the average American would be paying about $80 to $111 extra per year by 2020 under the House bill.)
Meanwhile, as Keith Johnson points out, it's interesting to see how Americans feel about individual energy sources. Renewables get 91 percent support. People seem to be excited about electric cars—81 percent with the thumbs up. Oil and gas is still riding high at 64 percent. And nuclear and coal both clock in at just 52 percent support.
(Flickr photo credit: kekika)
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Reshaping Clusters COMPETES
By Andrew Reamer
Yesterday, we welcomed the arrival of a clusters-based regional innovation program in H.R. 5116, the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act. This development is great news--America’s signal piece of innovation legislation has now been made to recognize the essential role of regional networks in maximizing U.S. competitiveness. Following the proposals of our 2008 clusters policy paper, the act may soon gain a two-pronged cluster effort--grants to local cluster initiatives and a cluster research and information program. The latter will particularly valuable--a low-cost, high-impact resource that would enable clusters efforts around the U.S. to make more informed, intelligent strategic decisions.
With that said, I do want to note a troublesome aspect of the draft grants program language that could well undercut the value of the contemplated policy. Fortunately, it could quite easily be addressed tomorrow when the House Science and Technology Committee meets to mark up the bill.
Here’s the problem: The legislation directs the Commerce Department to fund individual regional clusters rather than regional programs that have the flexibility to support multiple clusters, shifting resources across these clusters as strategy and circumstances warrant.
Here’s why that’s a problem: First, rather than encouraging regional collaboration and consensus-building to determine priority clusters, H.R. 5116 would allow a free-for-all competition for scarce federal funds among regional actors with industry-specific interests, such as industry trade associations. A program that picks regional winners and losers has the potential to set off hard feelings and reduce intraregional cooperation and trust, quite the opposite of the bill’s intention.
Second, the Commerce Department, not the state and regional development community, would select which local clusters are worthy of federal support. Regions, then, would lose the opportunity to cooperatively set priorities and strategy. Moreover, as the legislation does not require an applicant to justify why its cluster should be a regional priority, Commerce will be flying blind as it tries to judge among competing applications within and across regions.
Third, by not explicitly inviting applications that cover multiple clusters, the bill would diminish, not enhance, regions’ abilities to address its economic challenges. Most regional economies rely on more than one cluster; it’d be highly valuable for a regional applicant to be able to use funds to aid several cluster initiatives and have flexibility to reorder cluster priorities as circumstances change. Further, that flexibility would allow the regional applicant to build its capacity for reflective, adaptable development.
However, the bill’s problematic orientation could be easily changed, greatly strengthening an otherwise very good program. The House Science and Technology Committee should rewrite the bill to require that applicants have state or regionwide (not industry-specific) economic development responsibilities; allow, even encourage, applicants to request support for more than one cluster initiative; and require applicants to make the economic case for the proposed use of funds, including the fit with existing regional economic strategies.
With those changes, America COMPETES would deliver on a promising regional approach to addressing competitiveness issues the U.S. has struggled with for 30 years.
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Stocks recover, oil prices rebound
A look at highlights from the day's business news:
Stocks skid on global economic jitters
Stocks recovered from deep losses posted earlier in the session but ended lower Wednesday, as investors welcomed the Fed's forecast of an improving economy amid lingering fears about the global economy.
The Dow Jones industrial average finished 67 points lower, or 0.6 percent. Earlier, the index dropped 150 points. Industrial stocks led the decline, with
shares of Caterpillar and Boeing falling more than 2 percent.
For allies, integrating gays in military easier done than said
The U.S. and its military allies agree on many things, from the size of bullets for their rifles to the design of future fighter jets. But on the issue of gays in the military, the U.S. stands alone among the Western allies.
Filed under: Gay and lesbian • Military
BP told feds it could handle massive spills
Oil company BP told federal regulators it could handle an oil spill more than 50 times larger than the one it is now struggling to contain in the Gulf of Mexico, according to documents and congressional testimony Wednesday.
Filed under: BP • Gulf Coast Oil Spill
Security Brief: Gates to address Afghanistan attacks
On the heels of two deadly attacks against U.S. forces in Afghanistan this week, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expected to brief reporters at the Pentagon Thursday afternoon.
Gates is expected to address the brazen attack Wednesday by insurgents on the U.S. air base in Bagram, Afghanistan which wounded nine troops and killed one U.S. civilian. A car bomb attack Tuesday killed five U.S. troops and one Canadian soldier in Kabul.
Gates is also expected to address the South Korean government's announcement on the results of the investigation into the sinking of a naval ship in March. U.S. officials have said the South Korean warship was hit by a torpedo launched by North Korea. South Korean media reports have said South Korea will blame North Korea for the attack.
Thursday's briefing will be his first since he spoke to reporters more than a month ago with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu to announce the new Nuclear Posture Review.
Post by: CNN Senior Pentagon Producer Mike Mount
Filed under: Afghanistan • Military • Security Brief
Cuban migrants illegal in their own country
"I was caught because I was an illegal," explained a bicycle taxi driver as he gripped the rusted blue handle-bars of his vehicle in Havana's Central Park. "And because I'd been here several times before, I was deported back."
But the driver working his trade in the capital city did not arrive in Cuba from another country. Instead he is among the thousands who have come from rural provinces in search of work and a place to live - but who have been deported back because of "Decree 217."
Post by: CNN's David Ariosto
Filed under: Cuba
Cuba says private farmers can deal directly with suppliers
In the latest loosening of government involvement in Cuba's still predominantly state-run economy, private farmers in the country will be allowed to bypass the government bureaucracy and purchase goods directly from suppliers.
Reports: 'Noah's Ark' baby elephant gift costs $10,000
Robert Mugabe, right, is said to be giving two of every species in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park to North Korea's Kim Jong Il.
North Korea is paying $10,000 for each of the two young elephants it is getting from Zimbabwe in what had been dubbed a "Noah's Ark" wildlife gift, according to reports from Zimbabwe’s capital on Wednesday.
Vitallis Chadenga, Zimbabwe’s parks chief, said the elephants and other animals are being shipped from Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park to North Korea as part of a simple business transaction and are not a gift from President Robert Mugabe to North Korea’s Kim Jong Il, according to a posting on Earth Times.
Filed under: Animals • North Korea • Zimbabwe
Cops: Golfer Chi Chi Rodriguez robbed of $500 K in goods
Three armed men robbed famed Puerto Rican golfer Juan Antonio "Chi Chi" Rodriguez of about $500,000 worth of jewelry, watches and other personal items in his home early Wednesday, police said.
The crime occurred about 1:30 a.m. when the robbers broke into the golfer's home at El Lagado Resort in the southern Puerto Rican city of Guayama, police spokesman Wilson Porrata said. The robbers tied Rodriguez up before making off with the merchandise, Porrata said in a statement. Rodriguez, 74, and his wife were not injured.
Rodriguez had the first of his eight PGA Tour wins in 1963.
Iran dismisses proposed U.N. sanctions
With a fresh set of tough sanctions on the table, Iran lashed out Wednesday against U.S. efforts to punish the nation for its nuclear program.
Filed under: Iran
The LeBron sweepstakes - a nationwide contest
LeBron James is featured on ESPN in a Bulls and Knicks jersey -- further fueling the fire about his free agency.
Even though his Cleveland Cavaliers were eliminated from the NBA playoffs last week, LeBron James is the league's most talked about player right now because of his impending free agency. On July 1, any of the league's teams can try to woo the league's most valuable player to change uniforms with the promise of hundreds of millions of dollars and championship glory. Before then he can only talk officially to the Cavs, which hasn't stopped the rumor mill and sales campaigns from going full blast around the league.
If you just can't stand the wait, you can monitor exactly how many days minutes and seconds until things really get swinging on ESPN's LeBron tracker. That's right, a countdown to his free agency, that's how big this is going to be.
The quest to sign LeBron has practically become a sweepstakes - a contest who can woo the big star the best - with lobbying campaigns that could put Washington to shame and sales pitches farther over the top than Vince the Shamwow guy - all to convince King James they are the right choice.
Obama: Arizona law a 'misdirected' expression of 'frustration'
[Updated at 12:34 p.m.] President Barack Obama said during a meeting Wednesday with Mexican President Felipe Calderon that Arizona's immigration law is a "misdirected" expression of "frustration."
He said his administration is taking a close look at the law, particularly in terms of its civil rights implications.
[Updated at 12:26 p.m.] U.S. President Barack Obama said Wednesday during a meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon that the two leaders have agreed to work toward a U.S.-Mexico border that is "modern, secure and efficient."
[Posted at 10:23 a.m.] Mexican President Felipe Calderon said at the White House Wednesday that Arizona's controversial new immigration law is causing "our people to face discrimination."
Calderon made his comments during a news conference held with President Barack Obama.
Filed under: Barack Obama • Immigration • Mexico • U.S.
First photo of Times Square bombing suspect since arrest
Faisal Shahzad was arrested in connection with an attempted bombing in Times Square.
[Updated at 10:51 a.m.] CNN's Susan Candiotti has obtained Faisal Shahzad's mugshot, which is the first new photo of the attempted Times Square bomber, since he was arrested for his association with the plot in Manhattan.
The photo was taken after Faisal Shahzad was formally placed in the custody of the U.S. Marshals on Wednesday. He’s shown wearing a grey sweatshirt — the same clothes he wore in court. Unlike earlier photos taken before he was arrested, he now has a slight beard.
[Posted at 10:40 a.m.] Attempted Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad is being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan, a federal law enforcement official told CNN.
Filed under: Terrorism • Times Square Car Bomb
Pakistan shuts down Facebook over 'Draw Mohammed' Day
Pakistan is blocking access to Facebook in response to an online group calling on people to draw the Prophet Mohammed, officials said Wednesday.
Filed under: Facebook • Pakistan • Technology • World
Pakistani man: Chile detention is 'misunderstanding,'
A Pakistani man arrested at the U.S. Embassy in Chile last week when his clothes tested positive for explosives said Tuesday he was innocent and maintained a positive outlook.
"I strongly believe that there is a big misunderstanding stemming from a mistaken identity," Mohammed Saif-ur-Rehman Khan told reporters in Santiago after a meeting with his lawyer. "I want to assure you all that the allegations laid against me are baseless and false."
Filed under: Chile
Leahy: Kagan nomination hearings to begin June 28
The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin hearings June 28 to consider the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, the panel's chairman, Sen. Patrick Leahy, said Thursday.
Filed under: Elena Kagan • Supreme Court
On the Radar: Thai protests, primaries, juvenile sentences
A Thai anti-government protester runs beside a burning shop Wednesday in Bangkok.
Thai protests - The deadly standoff between the Thai government and protesters reached a boiling point Wednesday as security forces surged into Bangkok's Lumpini Park, with at least five people dead in the largest offensive on protesters since demonstrations began. Residents in the capital took to rooftops and anxiously watched news reports, while some fled with precious keepsakes as they feared a mini-civil war was coming. For those who decided to stay and are now trapped in Bangkok, there is only one thing left to do: hunker down.
Midterm election primaries - Voters sent mixed signals in Tuesday's primaries in Arkansas, Pennsylvania and Kentucky. They tossed out a longtime senator, picked a Tea Party-backed candidate and forced a Democratic senator into a runoff. CNN's political analysts give their take on what it all means and how it may affect midterm elections in November.
Filed under: Justice • On the Radar • Politics • Supreme Court • Thailand
New British government unveils political reforms
The new British government plans to replace the House of Lords with an elected second chamber of Parliament, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said Wednesday.
Filed under: United Kingdom • World
Coast Guard: Tar balls found in Keys not from BP spill
Tar balls discovered on the Florida Keys shoreline are not connected to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guard said Wednesday.
Filed under: Florida • Gulf Coast Oil Spill
Wednesday's intriguing people
Amardeep Singh
The co-founder and director of programs of the Sikh Coalition, the largest Sikh civil rights organization in the United States, will be among those speaking today at a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on racial profiling in law enforcement policy. Singh is scheduled to talk about the racial profiling he has experienced since 9/11, especially from those who thought he is Muslim. He is Sikh, a religion founded 500 years ago and practiced today by more than 20 million people worldwide. Singh has represented dozens of Sikh victims of airport profiling, employment discrimination and hate crimes. With Department of Homeland Security officials, he helped to formulate guidelines governing the searches of Sikh passengers in U.S. airports. While at Human Rights Watch, Singh wrote the report, “We Are Not the Enemy: Hate Crimes Against Arabs, Muslims, and Those Perceived to be Arab or Muslim after September 11.”
The Sikh Coalition
CNN.com: Army allows Sikh to keep beard, turban, uncut hair
Post by: CNN Managing Editor Jay Kernis
Filed under: Most Intriguing People
Wednesday's live video events
10:00 am ET - Gulf Coast oil spill hearing - The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee holds a hearing on the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Officials with BP, Transocean and the EPA are expected to testify.
10:00 am ET - Rebuilding Haiti hearing - Actor/activist Sean Penn testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on efforts to rebuild and revitalize Haiti following this year’s devastating earthquake.
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Graduate Poster Session Celebrates Excellence in Research
May 11, 2018 by Rebekah Henson
The top five presenters are honored for clear and engaging displays of their research.
About 200 Dartmouth community members gathered in Alumni Hall for this year’s poster session. (Photo by Faith Rotich)
Every spring, the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies hosts events for Graduate Student Appreciation Week, recognizing the contributions all graduate students make to the Dartmouth community. The annual highlight is the Graduate Poster Session, which celebrates graduate student research.
This year, about 200 members of the Dartmouth community gathered in Alumni Hall at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, where 54 graduate students shared their research in subjects ranging from cancer treatments to Greenland ice sheets to political influences on U.S. circuit courts.
A panel of 11 judges selected this year’s top five presenters, awarding them prizes for clear and engaging presentations of their research.
The winning graduate students:
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Nicholas Blelloch, left, holds his award with Christian Darabos, a life science informatics specialist in Information, Technology & Consulting and one of the poster session judges. (Photo by Kevin Yang)
Nicholas Blelloch, PhD Candidate, Chemistry, Guarini
Hometown: Easton, Mass.
Poster Title: Photo-Responsive Sublimable Adhesives
Research: Blelloch is designing novel sublimable adhesives—compounds that bond to surfaces and release easily without force or solvents. His goal is to understand how molecular-level details like a surface’s chemical structure affect how well the adhesives stick and release.
Why Dartmouth? “Growing up in New England and attending college in Vermont, I was drawn to Dartmouth because of its close-knit community and its beautiful location in Hanover. Furthermore, I had the opportunity to work with Assistant Professor Katherine Mirica as an undergraduate and knew how exciting the research was and how friendly everyone at Dartmouth is. Here I have found incredible interdisciplinary resources, both within the new graduate school and at Thayer with Professor Douglas Van Citters, as well as excellent mentorship and friends.”
Sally Demirdjan, left, stands with judge Nancy Serrell, director of Science and Technology Outreach in the Office of the Provost. (Photo by Kevin Yang)
Sally Demirdjian, PhD Candidate, Microbiology and Immunology, Guarini
Hometown: Tripoli, Lebanon
Poster Title: PIP3 Induces Phagocytosis of Non-Motile Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Research: Demirdjian studies immune responses to the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a major cause of hospital-acquired infections in patients with compromised immune systems. This research identifies a potential new therapy to help patients with chronic infections clear the bacteria when other treatments fail.
Why Dartmouth? “When I interviewed for the microbiology program at Dartmouth, I gathered from my interactions with the students that they were very happy with the mentorship they were receiving from the faculty and life in the Dartmouth community. These were very important factors in my decision to join Dartmouth, besides the excellent research itself. As I reflect on my last four years here, I can say with certainty that I feel extremely supported on both academic and social levels.”
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Michael Kokko with his winning poster presentation summarizing his research on detecting infections in joint replacements. (Photo by Faith Rotich)
Michael Kokko, PhD Candidate, Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering
Residence: Lyme, N.H.
Poster Title: Explants, Electrons, and Light: The Search for Prosthetic Joint Infection
Research: Kokko’s interest lies in the process of making the best estimates, predictions, and decisions based on indirect, low-fidelity, or incomplete data. His poster summarizes his ongoing work to detect infection in prosthetic hips and knees using data from joint replacements that have been retrieved from patients.
Why Dartmouth? “I moved to the Upper Valley in 2011 and worked for several years as a systems engineer and project manager at Simbex, a Lebanon-based product development firm with strong Dartmouth ties. Teaching has always been a passion of mine, so I enrolled in Thayer’s doctoral program as a step toward refocusing my career on engineering education and research. I feel fortunate to be simultaneously pursuing a PhD and raising a family in a nurturing community amid such beautiful surroundings.”
Audrey Martin stands in front of her winning poster presentation on understanding why joint replacements corrode and fail. (Photo by Faith Rotich)
Audrey Martin, PhD Candidate, Engineering, Thayer
Hometown: Torrance, Calif.
Poster Title: Disassociation of Acetabular Liners: Retrieval Analysis with Mechanical Simulation
Research: Martin analyzes the degradation process of materials in failed joint replacement implants. A better understanding of the corrosive processes will lead to improved design and device testing in the future.
Why Dartmouth? “I was drawn to Dartmouth by the Dartmouth Biomedical Engineering Center for Orthopedics (DBEC), the laboratory in which I currently work. I became interested in medical devices and orthopedics as an undergraduate. I knew about DBEC and respected their work, so I sought out the laboratory in my graduate school search as an opportunity to pivot from my undergraduate work. Dartmouth and DBEC have not only provided this opportunity but have also surrounded me with an amazing group of colleagues and friends and provided unlimited access to the outdoors. I have been astounded by the collaborative nature within the laboratory as well as the greater Dartmouth community, making the Upper Valley not only fertile ground for academic growth, but also a place to truly thrive.”
Owen Wilkins, left, with poster session judge Susan Schwarz, a research software engineer in Information, Technology & Consulting. (Photo by Kevin Yang)
Owen Wilkins, PhD Candidate, Program in Experimental & Molecular Medicine, Guarini
Hometown: London, England
Poster Title: Normal breast tissue 5-hydroxymethylcytosine is enriched at DNA regulatory elements of breast cancer cells
Research: Wilkins studies epigenetics—genetic changes in cells that are not coded in the cell’s DNA. He has identified an epigenetic feature in breast tissue cells that regulates the formation of breast cancer cells, which can help doctors determine whether a patient is at risk of developing breast cancer.
Why Dartmouth? “While completing a study abroad research internship at Dartmouth during the junior year of my undergraduate degree, I was offered a glimpse into the life of a graduate student at Dartmouth. Ultimately interested in pursuing a doctoral degree studying cancer biology, I was attracted by the plethora of expertise and research activities among the faculty in the Program in Experimental & Molecular Medicine. Beyond the academics, Dartmouth’s appeal was enhanced by its proximity to a never-ending list of exciting outdoor opportunities.”
Rebekah Henson can be reached at [email protected].
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Here I have found incredible interdisciplinary resources, both within the new graduate school and at Thayer with Professor Douglas Van Citters, as well as excellent mentorship and friends.
Nicholas Blelloch “
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Justin Chambers Reportedly Batted Mental Health Issues Amid ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Exit
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Welcome to PopCrush's Daily Break! Here's a breakdown of today's hottest pop culture and lifestyle stories as heard on PopCrush Nights, airing across the country. Check out Meghan Markle's new gig, Antonio Brown's Instagram Live meltdown and more , below!
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Meghan Markle Signs Deal with Disney
Meghan Markle and Disney have reportedly signed a deal for her to do voice overs. According to sources, she is doing this in exchange for a donation to the organization Elephants Without Borders, which is a charity that helps protect animals from poachers. Now that she and Prince Harry have stepped away from the royal spotlight, it seems that Meghan wants to get back to doing what she loves: acting. (PopCrush)
Antonio Brown Throws Pack of Penis Gummies at Baby Mama
It's safe to say that ex-NFL star Antonio Brown won't be playing football anytime soon because his online antics just keep getting more and more wild. The cops were called to his home after a heated exchange between him and the mother of his kids. Brown accused her of attempting to steal his car. (Business Insider)
He also threw a "bag of d---s" in her direction.
Justin Bieber Desperately Tries to Get "Yummy" to No. 1... and Fails
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Despite his efforts, the song debuted at No. 2, following Roddy Rich's song "The Box." (PopCrush)
Gwyneth Paltrow Is Selling a Candle Scented Like Her Vagina
Gwyneth Paltrow is selling a vagina-scented candle. The "This Smells Like My Vagina" candle is 10.5 oz and sells for $75. The description of the product on the website explains how exactly the candle came to be: "This candle started as a joke between perfumer Douglas Little and GP [Gwyneth Paltrow] —the two were working on a fragrance, and she blurted out, 'Uhhh..this smells like a vagina'—but evolved into a funny, gorgeous, sexy, and beautifully unexpected scent." (PopCrush)
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All Tyrone Ladies Final | Fox Lodge Vs Strabane
It’s all about the North-West Ladies Cup Semi-Final this past Monday night as Fox Lodge and Strabane progress to the final.
At Ballymagorry, the first game saw Fox Lodge claim a massive 8-wicket victory over the season favourites- Burndennett.
Batting first, it looked to be plain sailing for Burndennett as a 56-run stand between openers Julie Logue (37), and Kylie McGarrigle (18) helped steer the total to 60 off the opening eight overs.
With a change in the bowling from Mollie Devine (19-3), the visitors lost the critical wicket of Logue and McGarrigle in the 14th over. By then it looked like Burndennett might not even get 100, but all that changed with a 37-run partnership between Nicola Arbuckle (14) and Megan McGettigan (15) helped to finish with a final total of 101 off their 20 overs.
Fox Lodge’s top order have always been consistent with the bat this summer, and they didn’t disappoint with their response either as with an outstanding 80 run stand between Emma Allen (47) and Mollie Devine (35) pushed the total to 80 off the opening ten overs
Once Devine dismissed in the 14th over due to the accurate bowling from Julie Logue (10-2) She was then followed in by skipper Hannah McLaughlin as the Foxies found themselves still 15 runs adrift with only 3 overs left.
With three quick 4’s from Allen, the hosts went on to gain the total with just one over to spare, allowing them another victory and to advance on to the final.
Strabane Saints also booked their place into the 2018 ladies final due to a forfeit from Eglinton as they were unable to field a team.
Speaking to the North-West Strabane Saints skipper, Megan Moorehead said;
”I am thrilled to be going through to the 2018 ladies cup final even though we would have preferred to have played to gain the place in the final.”
It’s unfortunate that Eglinton could not field a team, but we hope they can rebuild for the remainder of the season as they are a great bunch of girls.”
We look forward to facing on Fox Lodge as it is sure to be a thrilling competition between our two teams but my girls are more determined than ever, and we hope I can get the cup back to Strabane Park.”
The Date & Venue for the Final will be announced in due course.
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2017 NYCDH Graduate Student Project Award Recipients
This topic has 2 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 2 years, 3 months ago by Ian August.
Zach Coble
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the fourth annual NYCDH Graduate Student Project Award for 2017.
The awardees are:
Jonathan Reeve (Columbia University). First prize ($1000) for the project “Corpus DB: A Textual Corpus Database for the Digital Humanities”
Aaron Hershkowitz & Rick Hale (Rutgers University). Runner Up ($500) for the project “RTI & Photogrammetry for Badian Collection”
Roxanne Smith (Columbia University). Runner Up ($500) for the project “Documenting the Art Collections of San Francisco’s 19th Century Tycoons: A Digital Map and Archive”
Juan Carlos Sánchez Herrera (New York University). Honorable Mention for the project “Food Pairings Over Time: Colombia 1977-2017”
The submissions we received were of a very high quality, and showed us that digital humanities work among graduate students in New York City is robust and full of promise. Although we could only give out three cash prizes and one honorable mention, NYCDH is dedicated to supporting the DH work of NYC graduate students by offering DH programming, training opportunities, collaborations, and guidance throughout the year.
About the NYCDH Graduate Student Project Award:
Awarded annually, the award committee solicits proposals over the summer. The proposals are judged by a group selected from the NYCDH Steering Committee, and the winners are chosen based on their intellectual contribution, innovative use of technology, and the clarity of their work plan.
About NYCDH:
The New York City Digital Humanities group brings together New York City scholars and members of the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) community to talk about, experiment with, collaborate on, teach and learn about, and just generally commune around the digital humanities.
To learn more about NYCDH and to join our community, see https://nycdh.org/about/
October 17, 2017 at 9:17 am #2906
In our excitement to announce the recipients, we neglected to include one of the Honorable Mention projects! We are pleased to announce an additional Honorable Mention:
David Danzig (New York University) for the project, “Ethnic Dynamics in Migratory Scenarios of the Ancient Near East: Collection and Analysis of Data on Inter-Ethnic Contact Drawn from Everyday Texts.”
Our apologies to David for the omission, and congratulations to all of the recipients!
Ian August
I would love to view these projects. Do you have links? I did a quick google search for two of them, and did not find anything.
Digital Pedagogy
NYC Omeka Group
digiBar
NYC Digital Art History
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Small-Noise Analysis and Symmetrization of Implicit Monte Carlo Samplers
Jonathan Goodman, Kevin K. Lin, Matthias Morzfeld
Implicit samplers are algorithms for producing independent, weighted samples from multivariate probability distributions. These are often applied in Bayesian data assimilation algorithms. We use Laplace asymptotic expansions to analyze two implicit samplers in the small noise regime. Our analysis suggests a symmetrization of the algorithms that leads to improved implicit sampling schemes at a relatively small additional cost. Computational experiments confirm the theory and show that symmetrization is effective for small noise sampling problems.
Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
https://doi.org/10.1002/cpa.21592
Symmetrization
Multivariate Distribution
Asymptotic Expansion
Probability Distribution
Goodman, J., Lin, K. K., & Morzfeld, M. (Accepted/In press). Small-Noise Analysis and Symmetrization of Implicit Monte Carlo Samplers. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpa.21592
Small-Noise Analysis and Symmetrization of Implicit Monte Carlo Samplers. / Goodman, Jonathan; Lin, Kevin K.; Morzfeld, Matthias.
In: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2015.
Goodman, J, Lin, KK & Morzfeld, M 2015, 'Small-Noise Analysis and Symmetrization of Implicit Monte Carlo Samplers', Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpa.21592
Goodman J, Lin KK, Morzfeld M. Small-Noise Analysis and Symmetrization of Implicit Monte Carlo Samplers. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. 2015. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpa.21592
Goodman, Jonathan ; Lin, Kevin K. ; Morzfeld, Matthias. / Small-Noise Analysis and Symmetrization of Implicit Monte Carlo Samplers. In: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. 2015.
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How To Safely Store A Password (codahale.com)
298 points by IgorPartola on Dec 14, 2010 | hide | past | web | favorite | 210 comments
timtadh on Dec 14, 2010
B-crypt and S-crypt are great libraries to use to solve this problem. However, the poor man's approach is as follows with HASH being your favorite hash function
h = HASH.new()
HASH.update(password)
HASH.update(salt)
for x in xrange(X):
HASH.update(HASH.digest())
return HASH.digest()
this approach "strengths" the hash by forcing you to calculate it over and over again. You should set X to be the number of rounds you want to conduct. Ie. how slow you want you server to respond to an individual request. It is always a trade-off between server slowness for individual requests and "security" of the hash function. The goal is to make dictionary attacks take longer than is feasible for you attackers to conduct.
[Note: you should absolutely have a different salt for each password with this approach.]
tptacek on Dec 14, 2010
For what it's worth: this is essentially PBKDF2.
cperciva on Dec 14, 2010
Actually, it's essentially PBKDF1, but that's close enough for non-cryptographers.
Shit, you're right. (PBKDF2 generates arbitrary-length output, which is what you want from a key derivation function, but maybe not something you care about for a password hash).
Here's a version that's much easier to read than the spec:
https://github.com/emerose/pbkdf2-ruby/blob/master/lib/pbkdf...
I should stop saying PBKDF2 and just go back to saying PBKDF.
PBKDF2 also protects against entropy loss from repeated iteration, although that doesn't really matter unless you're using an unreasonably short hash.
brown9-2 on Dec 14, 2010
Why would you use this "poor man's approach" over bcrypt or scrypt? My understanding is that these two work on a very similar concept (work factor) and are free to use.
ams6110 on Dec 15, 2010
Some projects require FIPS 140-2 compliance. I've not been able to find that blowfish or bcrypt are certified. See http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips140-2/fips1402ann...
burgerbrain on Dec 15, 2010
If a randomly clobbered together and unvetted system is compliant, but bcrypt isn't, that just goes to show how little FIPS140-2 compliance actually means. (as if everybody didn't already know it's worthless)
Nonetheless, some projects mandate use of FIPS 140-2 hashing algorithms, and afaik bcrypt is not one. So if you find yourself on such a project, bcrypt is not an option on the table.
I'd be happy to find out I'm wrong.
csytan on Dec 14, 2010
I can think of one reason: Lack of the available libraries on a particular platform.
This is why I mentioned it. It provides improved time guarantees for your users with out needing another library.
paperclip on Dec 14, 2010
bcrypt is open source and ported to a range of operating systems. I cannot imagine getting it up and running on any system would be too difficult. It would probably be wiser to to spend the time to get bcrypt (or another standard scheme) working rather than coming up with some custom scheme which probably hasn't had the same level of thought put into it.
jrockway on Dec 14, 2010
Because building your own square-shaped wheel is more fun than talking a walk over to your friendly neighborhood wheel store and buying a round one?
Because we all know rolling your own in the crypto world instead of deferring to the experts never leads to catastrophe!
You assume those are the only two choices, I was considering that in some environments these might be the only two choices when I asked the question.
IgorPartola on Dec 14, 2010
Why not also add
On each iteration as well? Then again, if things were this simple, someone would have already said "just do this", it would have been peer-reviewed and would have become widely used. Anyone know why this hasn't caught on yet in web frameworks like Django/Rails?
Xk on Dec 14, 2010
If you're talking about why you don't do hash.update(salt) on every round, well it turns out that H(salt || H(H(H(H(H(H(password))))))) is just as strong as H(salt || H(salt || H(salt || H(salt || H(salt || H(salt || H(salt || password))))))). So you don't add any security by doing that.
When working with cryptography, "why not also add" is really dangerous, because some times you get less secure systems after doing so. And other times you get no benefits from doing so.
gcr on Dec 14, 2010
Could you explain a bit more about this?
(Aside: I'm sure that tptacek could give a significantly better answer here than I can, but I'll give it a shot. (And then whenever he answers trust him more than me.))
Assume you have a perfect cryptographic hash function H(X). No matter how many of N bits of X you change (0 < N <= len(X)), on average 50% of the bits of H(X) will change. So, let's consider the case of just H(salt || H(salt || password)) versus H(salt || H(password)).
Let A = H(salt||password), and let B = H(password). A and B are now, for all practical purposes, two different random integers. Each of which has the same entropy. This is because adding the salt should make no impact on the quality of these random numbers. It should now be fairly easy to see that there is no difference between H(salt||A) and H(salt||B), other than the fact that they produce different outputs.
This is all based on the assumption that the hash function is a perfect one -- however this assumption is reasonable for strong hash functions.
Raphael on Dec 15, 2010
What value of X would be good for a web app? 10? 100? 1000?
1000 is a minimal value.
As I said, it depends on how slow you want your server to respond to a given request. For instance, you could set X so high that it takes a minimum of 1 second to respond to a request. That is probably not necessary. The real answer is you need to take the estimated minimum amount of time to calculate one of hash using the function you have chosen. Then compute using that number as the basis the minimum number of rounds to assure reasonable security for a single password. Reasonable security could be it would take 1 year to a do a full dictionary attack alphanumeric only or perhaps 1 month or 1 week. The value you choose for the time it takes to brute force one password is the level of protection you are providing your users.
EDIT: also what Thomas said. It is in the standard that 1000 should be the minimum value. I would use higher based on the level of protection you want to give your users. Note that different hash functions have different costs so this will also impact the choice of X.
Cushman on Dec 14, 2010
I wonder, is it easy to use bcrypt with a variable work factor per-password?
I'm thinking you could take your entropy analysis of the user's password and set it so that "weaker" passwords use a higher work factor. This analysis could be easily done before hashing every time the password is input, so an attacker wouldn't be able to single out weak passwords from the hash file.
Theoretically, you should be able to tailor the numbers so that cracking a weak password isn't any faster than cracking a strong one, right? Plus it will encourage your users to use a stronger password in the first place, since it'd make login slightly faster.
Any obvious problems with this plan?
It's not hard to do this (with Ruby bcrypt, it's 2 lines of code using the public interface), but I think you're overthinking it. Most users will use crappy passwords. Set the work factors uniformly high.
Definitely a good point.
I feel like it might still help you to avoid wasting time exhaustingly hashing already strong passwords. I mean, how high does that uniform work factor have to be?
The guy whose password is "password" or "qwerty12" is gonna get cracked no matter what, sure. But what about people whose passwords are a couple of dictionary words? If the work factor means each hash takes a second or two, even a slightly complex dictionary attack becomes fruitless (for most crackers...)
So the user can still log in, but it takes a second or two, and there's that little message, "To ensure the safety of your password, your login has been slowed down. If you use a more secure password, like <generate password>, you will login much faster!"
And the young lady using "6ab$TRa?" isn't being punished for the fact that most users use crappy passwords, nor is your server.
You're overthinking both the security aspect of this and the performance aspect of it. User-imperceptible hash times are adequate to make most conceivable brute force attacks intractable.
That's true of passwords over a certain strength, for sure. And it always has been; "6ab$TRa?" has never been counting on the difficulty of hashing for security, and probably won't for some time.
But as computing power increases, that minimum strength is being pushed out. bcrypt lets us hold the line by keeping pace with computing power— couldn't it also give us the ability to push back?
How many users are using the 100,000 most common passwords? 1,000,000? As it stands today, anyone using one of those is instantly compromised the moment the hash file is accessed. With a truly variable work factor, you could theoretically ensure the safety of any password, regardless of strength.
It obviously gets silly toward the far end (make "password" take three months to hash?) And maybe it gets silly a lot sooner than I'm thinking. But surely it could be pushed back a little, yes? Make one of those 1,000,000 passwords intractable, and you're protecting thousands of users from attack.
andreyf on Dec 14, 2010
"6ab$TRa?" has never been counting on the difficulty of hashing for security, and probably won't for some time.
Elaborate. Obviously its security depends on the hashing scheme (if it's CRC32, you could find a collision pretty easily), but educate us -- is that all you meant?
gxti on Dec 15, 2010
To nitpick, the topic at hand is pre-image attacks, not collision attacks. Pre-image is where you know the hash and want the plaintext, collision is where you create two plaintexts with the same hash but don't care about the actual hash value. The former is recovering information, the latter is falsifying trust and almost always involves signatures.
Collision attacks don't apply to many situations but are much easier to execute, for example a MD5 pre-image attack requires approximately 2^128 steps but a collision attack requires only about 2^64 steps. This is why MD5 is totally unsuitable for collision resistance, and in fact has already been successfully exploited to fabricate a real-world CA certificate, but still puts up mild resistance to password cracking. Not that I'm recommending you use it or anything -- do what the nice gentleman says and just use bcrypt already!
Wrong. Collisions can be found in MD5 in 2^21 time due to an attack by Xie and Feng. 2^64 is a very respectable number and is not practical for people to do on their home machines. 2^21 is.
You are right, of course. I wrote that as 'ideal digest' instead of MD5 then rewrote it. Specific digests always lose a few bits in real life, or in MD5's case, most of the bits...
StavrosK on Dec 15, 2010
Plus you only need a collision to break into a system that uses hashed passwords, not a preimage.
Clarify? Collision attacks by definition do not feature an existing digest as input so they are not useful for breaking into a system secured with a digest.
Ah, I misunderstood. By "collision attack" you meant "find two plaintexts that hash to the same digest", I interpreted it as "find one plaintext that hashes to a specific digest", and "preimage attack" as "find the plaintext that was hashed to this digest".
Please disregard my comment above.
I guess he could mean that you could find a plaintext that had the same hash value through use of a collision ... but that's just finding a preimage.
That's all I meant. 8 type-able characters is pretty easy to break if you have a couple of grand to invest in GPU's.
> As it stands today, anyone using one of those is instantly compromised the moment the hash file is accessed.
How? If hashing one password takes one second, and you have a dump of a thousand users, it will take you a million seconds to try just 1,000 common passwords on that list.
Are you thinking of unsalted hashes, perhaps?
As noted in the OP, it takes far, far less than one second to hash one password using standard algorithms.
It seemed to me like you were talking about bcrypt, weren't you?
Well, the argument was that user-imperceptible hash times should be sufficient for all passwords. I was trying to make the case that even the class of extremely weak passwords can be protected with perceptible hash times.
So really I think you were demonstrating my point :)
stcredzero on Dec 15, 2010
I think it would be enough to get hold of the 1,000,000 most common passwords and tell the user it's not allowed.
That still leaves you open to side-channel attacks, yes? It's easy for an attacker to find which passwords are prohibited, so by restricting them you remove them from the search space. But your users aren't going to start choosing fundamentally secure passwords, the attack just shifts to the next 1,000,000 common passwords.
Maybe it just shifts to the secure password you generate and suggest to them?
joshu on Dec 15, 2010
Dumb idea:
Have the work factor also be a function of the password itself... this would cause even more difficulty brute-forcing the password, as it means intermediate steps would also have to be tested - breaking one weak password doesn't give you any information about other passwords.
I'm not sure about the bcrypt implementation, but if the work factor is public (i.e. you have to know it before calculating the hash), this gives you information about the password, which is bad.
jasonwatkinspdx on Dec 15, 2010
This exposes information about the password: namely it's estimated entropy. The bet you're making is that the increased work factor overshadows any advantage an attacker may gain knowing that information.
How could someone use this? Well, I could decide to only target the rows with a low work factor. Since your entropy estimate is high for these rows, I can know that it's more likely they'll be 8 characters or longer and use a wider range of characters. I can likely ignore all candidate passwords that are shorter or that do not include non-alpha characters.
How useful is this? Let's assume 2 choices of work factor. Also let's assume strong passwords of length 8 have 96^8 ~= 53 bits of entropy and eak passwords of length 8 or less have 27^8 ~= 38 bits of entropy.
You just let me cut the search space for strong passwords of length 8 to to ~15 bits, and in a double whammy, I get to use bcrypt with a low work factor when brute forcing against these rows.
I'm not a cryptographer, and so it's entirely likely I've made some mistake here. But as a general rule, I think it is an _extremely_ bad idea to use cryptography in any way that exposes additional information about individual rows in a database.
Cryptography is not a place for innovative thinking. Even cryptographers need their cleverness to undergo exhaustive review.
alanh on Dec 15, 2010
If I’m remembering my discrete math correctly, your claim isn’t correct:
> … Let's assume 2 choices of work factor. Also let's assume strong passwords of length 8 have 96^8 ~= 53 bits of entropy and eak passwords of length 8 or less have 27^8 ~= 38 bits of entropy.
> You just let me cut the search space for strong passwords of length 8 to to ~15 bits…
You can’t subtract bits of entropy like that.
Here’s something I hope will convince you this reasoning is faulty.
Imagine a universe of 3-digit passwords, and there are two kinds of passwords: Strong ones use a mix of digits 0–7, and weak ones only use the digits '0' or '1'.
You could see the strong passwords could be any of 8^3 = 512 different combinations (~9 bits of entropy), except the 2^3 = 8 combinations (3 bits of entropy) that would only contain ones and/or zeros. So while a worst-case for brute-forcing a known-weak password is trying 8 strings, the worst-case for brute-forcing a known-strong password is trying 504 strings. This is still the same order of magnitude, and still approx. 9 bits of entropy! You removed such an incredibly small sliver of passwords, that an attacker really isn’t any better off than before.
Another way to think of this is, just because the user didn’t use only lowercase letters, doesn’t mean that none of the characters are!
Back to your example, with a strong password search space of 96^8. Now if you know a password is strong, that means it isn’t one of the 27^8 possible weak passwords. By how much does this reduce our search space?
7,213,895,789,838,336 possible strings of length 8
- 0,000,282,429,536,481 possible 'weak' 8-char passwords
= 7,213,613,360,301,855 possible 'strong' 8-char passwords
We’ve reduced our search space by only .0039%.
That said, rolling your own crypto — which the grandparent post isn’t really quite doing — is something you should run away from, fast, unless you really are a cryptographer!
You are correct: 2^10 - 2^5 != 2^(10-5); which is what he is doing by subtracting the entropy.
Thanks for the correction!
a_m0d on Dec 15, 2010
If I understand the grandparent correctly, there would be no way to determine which rows have a higher work factor. The work factor would be determined when the password is given, based on the password entropy - the correct password will always have the same entropy, therefore the same work factor. If the work factor is calculated on the wrong password (typo, etc.) it will not generate the correct hash anyway. Therefore an attacker has no way of determining which password hashes have a high work factor, and which ones have a low work factor.
Ah, yes, I'd missed that. Since you have the password at login time, you don't need to store the work factor. There are some practical things about making sure you can version the entropy estimate code without breaking existing logins, but it's certainly doable.
mfukar on Dec 14, 2010
The definition of a "weak" password is so loose it doesn't make sense to make your work factor a function of it. The most common attack on this kind of schemes is a side-channel attack, where you single out a subset of the password alphabet with a relatively small "work factor" and crack passwords which use that alphabet quickly.
BCrypt is already based on the premise that there are passwords which are easy to compute, and tries to avoid that differentiation. Why would you introduce it back in?
I see it as a kind of side-channel defense; take the set of passwords which it is possible to crack quickly and use the work factor to even it out so that the total time to crack a password remains relatively constant.
Of course it's a good point that the challenge then becomes determining what that set of passwords is. And not having run the numbers, I can't be sure how much room for improvement there is.
Hm. I don't know about bcrypt at all -- is it possible, given the ciphertext, to know roughly how much work is required to test a password?
E.g. an attacker can go "Oh! this password will take FIVE SECONDS to test, so I know it must be a simple password." or "Hey, check this out; this password can be tested in 0.1 seconds. It must be pretty complex."
In general, I'd guess that these kinds of information leaks are pretty bad because if an attacker can see how hard a password is to test, he now knows something about the password.
It may be better if, given a single unchanging hash, if it takes a variable amount of time to test a given password against this hash, though that might have its own can of worms.
> is it possible, given the ciphertext, to know roughly how much work is required to test a password?
The work factor is an input to the digest function, both when creating and when validating the password. Normally it should be stored alongside the digest itself so you can increase the work factor over time without disrupting existing passwords. So you are correct. It might theoretically be possible to correctly balance the work factor to counter variation in password info entropy so that all passwords take about the same time to crack, and this would be very cool and impress members of the opposite sex, but it would not improve security at all.
Making a probabilistic password checker is also a superficially interesting idea. Maybe my mind is too small to explore it completely, but it seems that at best it would be no better than just increasing the work factor.
Yeah, obviously if you can tell from the hash which class the password came from you lose the benefit.
rorrr on Dec 15, 2010
Doesn't matter. 5 seconds or 0.1 seconds per test means that you cannot brute-force. Even for 5-letter English lowercase letters your search space is 11,881,376 combinations. At 0.1 sec/try it will take you 6.8 days on average to find just one password.
jmillikin on Dec 14, 2010
"It’s important to note that salts are useless for preventing dictionary attacks or brute force attacks. You can use huge salts or many salts or hand-harvested, shade-grown, organic Himalayan pink salt. It doesn’t affect how fast an attacker can try a candidate password, given the hash and the salt from your database."
Why are you storing the whole salt in your database? Isn't it much more common to keep half of it in a configuration file? I know Django has a SECRET_KEY parameter for this sort of thing, and hopefully other frameworks do also.
For that matter, why is authentication being handled by the web server? If you've got data worth stealing (billing, emails, medical), you can afford to spring the extra few hundred for a proper authentication server.
Gawker's password handling (7-bit salt, in the database, digested with crypt) seems like the worst possible implementation of secure password storage.
That salt is a public value. The security of salted password schemes is meant not to depend on the secrecy of the salt.
Every time this topic comes up, 15 people chime in with various schemes in which some of the "salt" is derived from the hostname and some of it is stored in an encrypted vault and some of it is inferred from the color of the user's eyes. This is why Coda is making fun of "Himalayan pink salt".
To understand how irrelevant these details are, consider AES encryption. In addition to hiding an AES key, you can also hide portions of the AES CBC IV (a public value). You could use a random number of rounds. You could mix in tweaks with the round key. All of these things are possible, but (a) nobody analyzes AES based on those random hacks, because they don't fundamentally alter the properties of AES, and (b) nobody does those things, because they are silly.
Gawker could use the best conceivable practices in cryptography to obscure passwords; they could be using Colin Percival's scrypt function (which nobody uses yet) to be (in some way) provably resilient to hardware-assisted cracking. You could still level this criticism at them, for "not doing something to further obscure the encryption they used".
This is not a new argument; what I am re-explaining here is Kerckhoffs' principle.
cosgroveb on Dec 14, 2010
Chrome OS is using scrypt!
> That salt is a public value. The security of salted password schemes is meant not to depend on the secrecy of the salt.
I don't understand why you'd add extra content to the password unless you keep it secret. The whole point of a salt/nonce is to prevent attackers from attacking the digest, right? You need some per-user data, to defend against rainbow tables, and some per-site data, to protect weak passwords.
My fundamental objection to schemes like bcrypt/scrypt is that they impose a heavy performance penalty on authentication to avoid a relatively rare case; besides, any theoretical entity capable of reversing a typical salted-password implementation is also capable of reversing bcrypt/scrypt.
"Reversing" bcrypt? "Reversing" salted hashes?
You're exactly the guy I'm talking about. "Oh, I use AES, but I don't just use AES; I store the secret IV for AES in a cookie so even my server can't decrypt it unless the client comes back with the IV so it's like two guys in the silo with the missile keys". Seriously, I just found that piece of code yesterday. Did you write it? Stop writing that stuff.
nkurz on Dec 14, 2010
I can probably top you: some many years ago, I discovered that Network Solutions (the original domain name provider) was using the first two characters of the password as the salt for their user accounts, presumably so that the salt could also be secret. Of course, this had the side-effect of making the first two characters of the password visible in plain text if you looked at the hashes. I reported this as a bug and never heard back. I've also never done business with Network Solutions since then.
wolfhumble on Dec 15, 2010
So the salt was just added to the hash without hashing the concatenated hash + salt, i.e was this the method they chose?: saltedhash(password)=hash(password).salt
A part from the obvious flaw of including part of the password in plain text, how secure is this method compared to the following method were the salt is not a secret and were the concatenated hash + salt is hashed?: saltedhash(password)=hash(hash(password).salt)
Using two-character salts might be as big of a wtf here.
Perhaps in retrospect, but this was standard for the Unix crypt() function and passwd files of the time: http://linux.die.net/man/3/crypt The dangers of rainbow table attacks weren't well considered at the time.
The real error was misreading the man page and using the first two characters as the salt, which is then published as the first two characters of the hash. It's sort of an easy error to make, because to decrypt, you do use the first two characters of the hash. Understandable for a beginner working on a school project, but pretty ludicrous for a large company holding control over most of the domains on the internet at the time.
No; I use standard, time-proven, secure designs. SHA1(salt + password) is sufficient in almost all cases, and if anybody is capable of deriving the original input from the digest, they can do so no matter what digest algo is used.
I know there's lots of ways to screw up security, but most of them derive from lazy people taking shortcuts. They run the httpd, database, and authentication all off the same server so a vulnerability in one compromises all. They store secrets in the database because figuring out secure storage would take half an hour of research.
Replacing a poorly-implemented SHA1-based system with a poorly-implemented bcrypt-based one won't help security.
SHA1(salt || password) is an incompetent design that is debatably even easier to crack than the Gawker hashes. The insecurity of that construction is why we have PBKDF2.
If the entire knowledge you have of cryptography comes from _Applied Cryptography_ --- wait; let me extend that: if you even feel the need to cite _Applied Cryptography_ --- you should be careful debating crypto constructions. You're not going to end up happy.
I'm curious what the attack is that makes that easier to crack than the Gawker way. (I'm sure you're right, I just didn't know that it would be easier.)
SHA1 might (I think it is, but I'm not sure) be faster than DES; among other differences, DES crypt(3) has to run the DES key schedule before producing a hash. Data slips through SHA1 like a greased seal.
bhousel on Dec 14, 2010
Looks like you're right.. these benchmarks show SHA1 about 5x faster than DES: http://www.cryptopp.com/benchmarks.html
Ah, alright. I was thinking there was some kind of length-extension weakness (which doesn't apply here, which is why I was confused) or some other attack in the cryptographic sense. Thanks.
SHA1(salt || password) does have a length-extension property; you can easily compute SHA1(salt || password || junk || arbitrary-data) for any given hash. That's not very useful for password hashes, but is devastating for the kinds of SHA1-based authentication schemes that people who write their own password hashes seem to come up with.
Yeah, by "doesn't apply" I meant "that's not very useful for password hashes".
getsat on Dec 14, 2010
A machine with a few GPUs can compute hundreds of millions of SHA1 hashes per second.
http://www.win.tue.nl/cccc/sha-1-challenge.html
ewams on Dec 15, 2010
Or go commercial: http://www.digitalintelligence.com/products/rack-a-tacc/
e1ven on Dec 14, 2010
I don't have a dog in this race either way, but I'm curious what you dislike about Schneier's book.
Locke1689 on Dec 14, 2010
It's not deep enough to provide true knowledge of cryptography and cryptographic attacks while it also doesn't give practical advice on what to actually do in situations that require cryptography (read: always use high-level primitives). Applied Cryptography is pretty good (if outdated), I think, if you're seeking to gain a beginner-level knowledge of cryptography. Practical Cryptography, on the other hand, is a far better choice for what to do when actually using cryptography (although even that is outdated now).
If you think _Practical_ is outdated (and I'm not saying it isn't), you should come over and let us buy you coffee sometime.
Haha I'll take you up on that when I get back to Northwestern. I'll admit that the only reason I think it's outdated is because I was just teaching basic cryptography to the network security students and ran across a few things that made me think "Hmm, Niels/Schneier should really include this in their next printing." Some things I'm thinking of are EAX/GCM instead of the conventional CTR.
Quoting me: "Lots of random facts about crypto trivia. Not a lot of context. Even less information about how to actually safely use crypto primitives. You'll come out of it knowing how to get CAST or IDEA into your code --- two ciphers nobody uses anymore --- but not how to properly choose an IV for CBC mode."
defen on Dec 14, 2010
> No; I use standard, time-proven, secure designs. SHA1(salt + password) is sufficient in almost all cases, and if anybody is capable of deriving the original input from the digest, they can do so no matter what digest algo is used.
Anyone can create an input that hashes to a given value. The relevant factor is how long it takes to create that input. I hope you can see the difference between that process taking 3 seconds vs 40 years.
> they impose a heavy performance penalty on authentication to avoid a relatively rare case
You're authenticating over the internet. What is 1/10th of a second to authenticate the first time you want to log in relative to everything else? It's like complaining you have to put the key into your car before starting a five hundred mile road trip. Yes, it takes a few seconds. But worth it? Most definitely.
codexon on Dec 14, 2010
If you have 10 people logging in per second, you put a 1 second delay on future requests which is certainly noticeable.
Maybe the correct thing to do is to make the key derivation executed on the client side, but then this would erode the experience of mobile phone users.
There is no way to securely do this clientside. It's hard to imagine a situation in which login overhead is painful where scaling in general isn't already a huge concern; presumably, anything you do after login is going to be more painful than bcrypt.
I would imagine some kind of zero-knowledge proof would work here, but that would require more server interaction than just doing the hashes in the first place.
If you have ten people logging in per second, you've got to have more than one server. Distribute the login requests.
And if it really kills you to make it take a full second, then make it take 1/10th of a second: there, now your hashing is faster than the time it takes to dynamically generate a page.
People really need to learn that security doesn't come free, and some times you just need to bite down and say "You know what? I never plan on getting broken into, but just in case I do I'll take the tenth of a second extra computation in exchange for doing the right thing."
dguido on Dec 14, 2010
Basic version: The salt prevents an attacker from being able to pre-compute a mapping from password <-> hash value. It's most effective when it changes per-password and it doesn't matter if it's public.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)
nitrogen on Dec 14, 2010
To make it even more obvious, it's to prevent this (I haven't done SQL in a long while so this may be broken):
SELECT username FROM users WHERE password=HASH('secret');
I've seen systems where that statement will give a list of all usernames with the password "secret".
rmc on Dec 15, 2010
If you use a salt you could still do this 'attack.
SELECT username FROM users WHERE password = HASH(salt||'secret');
This is academic because you already know the password ('secret').
Salts make rainbow tables (essentially precomputed hash values of (say) all english words) hard and infesiable.
azernik on Dec 14, 2010
The point of the salt is not to add extra complexity to the secret information; it is to make your transformation of the password into a hash different from everyone else's such transformation. This prevents attackers from getting a supercomputer or two, calculating a mondo rainbow table, and using it to crack every password hash in existence. The salt forces them to perform this computational feat separately each time they want to crack a password.
izak30 on Dec 14, 2010
I may be mistaken, as I was only browsing. I was looking at Django's auth system last night (as all of this had me curious about the backend). I don't think that SECRET_KEY is used for part of the salt at all, I think it's primarily used for validation of site-generated data, signing requests, and cookie encoding/decoding.
You are correct, Django's hashes are stored as salt$digest, or maybe salt$function$digest nowadays. It wouldn't be very good if all your password hashes became invalid because you changed the secret key.
You're probably correct; when I used Django I had to reimplement the auth, since their built-in doesn't support roles, and I didn't look too closely at their implementation.
beej71 on Dec 14, 2010
If you want to crack passwords ultrafast, you make a look-up table of the hashes of all probable passwords. Without a salt, this is rather a smaller table. A 7-bit salt makes the table larger, but not hugely larger, and not troublesomely larger.
The 128-bit salt used by bcrypt makes the table intractably hugely large. You cannot precompute it.
Of course, you know the salt (because it's stored right there in /etc/shadow), so you can still run through dictionary words and try them all. But bcrypt is designed to take arbitrarily long amounts of real time to do this.
So in the case of bcrypt, it's not really an issue that the salt is stored right there alongside the hashes password.
Those password crackers that are belting through billions and billions of passwords an hour with just a couple of video cards aren't using rainbow tables, are they? You could have zero bit salt: you're still boned.
Bcrypt is not better because it has a better salt. It's better because one iteration of bcrypt takes a long time, and millions of iterations take an intractably long time.
Bcrypt is better for BOTH those reasons working together; removing either the salt or the variable-cost key scheduler would be Bad.
Obviously, the variable-cost key scheduler is the central notion to the thing, but not having a large salt completely nerfs it.
bcrypt uses a 128-bit salt, and it uses it for good reason. See the paper, sections 6.2.1 and 6.2.2.
You're not wrong. But a 128 bit salt on SHA1 would do zilch to slow down an attacker. You see my point. I see yours.
Yes... the point I see you making is something like this:
Putting the 128-bit salt on there prevents a precomputed dictionary attack, a constant time operation.
But SHA1 itself is a constant time operation, so having a salt only slows down an attacker in a wall time sense, but not the more important time-complexity sense.
We all agree the salt is not particularly important for the constant time hash. (It's only practically important when the hash takes a lot of wall time relative to the wall time of a precomputed dictionary lookup, and constant time hashes gradually lose this edge due to Moore's Law.)
The point you see me making is that bcrypt is not a constant time operation (due to the variable-cost key schedule--2^cost, actually), and allowing people to use a constant time precomputed dictionary lookup by not having a large salt would make it as bad as no-salt SHA1.
So we all agree that the large salt is vitally important for the non-constant time bcrypt.
Not that either of these points are relevant to my initial assertion that giving the salt to an attacker is not something people worry about. The salt is there to prevent a precomputed dictionary attack, and a large salt does this no matter how well-known it is.
whakojacko on Dec 14, 2010
How is that really any better? You should assume that if an attack can get to your database, they can get to your web servers and take all of that as well. Such a scheme certainly wouldn't have saved Gawker.
jhchen on Dec 14, 2010
In Gawker's case this is exactly right. The database AND the source code was accessed so the config file defense would not have worked.
Config files are not typically world-readable; the httpd reads them before dropping permissions. Otherwise, a vulnerability in the httpd would allow access to everything in the config (remote server passwords, signing keys, etc).
There's no reason why compromising the database would allow attackers into the web server, unless you've configured SSH to allow signing in from arbitrary remote systems.
If you lose code execution on your server to an attacker, you're done. 100% fucked. Everything in your environment needs to get stripped down and rebuilt from trusted sources. Do not be one of those people who rationalizes "oh, I just lost uid=4294967294". Gawker lost root. So will you.
JonnieCache on Dec 14, 2010
And if you lose root, the disk must be reimaged. Rootkits are too advanced these days to ever make the assumption that you have removed them.
bigiain on Dec 14, 2010
It's possible that sometime not too far in the future that advice might need to be upgraded to "If you lose root, unplug and destroy the hardware and install a completely new machine from trusted sources".
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/23/network_card_rootkit...
(Why yes, I _did_ have that problem weighing on my mind while I investigated several machines that had a weekends worth of exposure to the recent Exim remote root exploit...)
kgo on Dec 14, 2010
Direct DB access isn't typically world-accessible either. It's not like I can do an XML request to get my hashed password on any site.
The point is, if someone has gotten enough access that they can actually get a raw copy of the database, it's just as likely they can get a raw copy of the config files, or /etc/shadow, or whatever else is on the host system.
hoop on Dec 14, 2010
> Config files are not typically world-readable; the httpd reads them before dropping permissions. Otherwise, a vulnerability in the httpd would allow access to everything in the config (remote server passwords, signing keys, etc).
I think you give people way too much credit. Maybe config files aren't "typically" world-readable but they ARE typically httpd-readable.
It's a mistake to assume, that because you might follow best-practices, the rest of the people out there do. You said yourself in a comment on this same post that many people make mistakes because they're too lazy to take that "half an hour of research." Let's make the assumption that that is typical.
> There's no reason why compromising the database would allow attackers into the web server, unless you've configured SSH to allow signing in from arbitrary remote systems.
Oh, you mean the default behavior? See above.
niels_olson on Dec 14, 2010
Fun fact: this has been posted to Hacker News before, when it first came out. I think most would agree this is a great example of why re-posting should be allowed.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1091104
I admit I games the system a bit to re-post this link, but it seemed very relevant. I learned a ton from this discussion, so my selfish reasons were met.
Thanks to codahale for writing this, r11t the HN user who originally posted this early this year, and the discussion by everyone on that HN thread which convinced me of the correctness of the bcrypt approach.
I've already shipped one project which I'm sure at least part of the reason we successfully pitched was our demonstrated indepth understanding of password security requirements.
(I also realised in retrospect that a project I'd designed and specced before reading that article/discussion was going to be wrong in it's password handling, I'm disappointed we never got to build that product, but I'm kinda glad I'm not sitting here thinking "Fuck, what am I gonna do if $project's database ever gets compromised? It'll be just as bad as Gawker...")
bostonvaulter2 on Dec 14, 2010
If you have a 5-year old database using a given bcrypt work factor, how difficult is it to transition to a new, higher work factor?
This is a good practical question. My read of the algorithm is that you must force each user to enter a new password, and encrypt that at the new higher cost.
If you wanted to "upgrade" the passwords to the higher cost key schedule, you'd just continue the key schedule where it left off--but this would require knowing the original password! So that's not really an option.
You can upgrade passwords when the user logs in. The sanest thing to do seems to be to store all the public variables (work factor, salt) alongside the digest so each password can be handled separately.
miGlanz on Dec 14, 2010
What about performing the hashing again, on the existing hash (of course it would be simplest to encrypt from the beginning when user logs in again, but just for discussion's sake). Let's say we have a legacy db with hashes created with small work factor. We could simply perform the hashing on these previous hashes (increasing work factors as appropriate). We could simply annotate the fact that one have to perform the hashing two times.
Of course we're 'overthinking' it again, but is the above solution viable?
yummyfajitas on Dec 14, 2010
I'm no expert, but I think you could just convert a database via function composition:
new_hash = (bcrypt new_work_factor) . old_hash -- new hashing function
new_hashed_passwords = map bcrypt old_hashed_passwords -- convert the old hashed passwords to new
Of course, this will fail horribly if (bcrypt new_work_factor) is somehow an inverse (or partial inverse) of old_hash. It could also fail horribly if (bcrypt new_work_factor) maps it's input into a low "rank" (sorry, I'm a mathematician, not a crypto expert) region of old_hash's domain.
eru on Dec 14, 2010
But if one of those two properties where true, that would probably give you some hints into how to attack bcrypt.
Imagine this Python code (I'm using SHA1 iterated multiple times, basically PBKDF2):
hashed = password
for i in range(50000):
hashed = hashlib.sha1(salt + hashed)
Provided we also store the number of iterations (along with the salt), and provided I didn't do anything stupid above, we could simply add more iterations after these 5 years and update hash and number of iterations field. Would it be a viable solution?
So the original question remains, is it possible with bcrypt?
I don't know, but Oliver Hunt suggested just validating the password on the next login and upgrading it on the fly, which, to be honest, is what I'd probably do.
marcinw on Dec 14, 2010
import bcrypt
hashed = bcrypt.hashpw(password, bcrypt.gensalt(log_rounds=13))
Increasing log_rounds by one increases the work factor exponentially (2 * * log_rounds).
I rigged up a small test on my Macbook. Do you think 50,000 iterations would be enough for a general website (such as HN)?
import timeit
t = timeit.Timer(stmt="""\
def test(pwd, n_iter):
for i in range(n_iter):
pwd = hashlib.sha1(pwd).hexdigest()
test('hello', 50000)
""", setup='import hashlib')
print t.timeit(100) / 100
>>> 0.126629960537
kurin on Dec 14, 2010
If a user logs in, and their work factor is the low one, authenticate them, and then calculate the new hash with the higher work factor, and save the new hash and work factor.
pavel_lishin on Dec 14, 2010
Follow-up question: I assume this also means that it would result in new hashes for the same passwords?
wladimir on Dec 15, 2010
Yes. But from what I understand, that's even the case if you bcrypt() the same password with the same load factor multiple times, as it uses a random salt.
city41 on Dec 15, 2010
My issue is asking a lot of people to change their password because I've decided to change my encryption algorithm. Is there a best practice for upgrading encryption without forcing users to do that? Something like when the user logs in, hold onto their plaintext password for a bit, confirm it's correct against your current algorithm, and then re-encrypt it with bcrypt?
niktech on Dec 15, 2010
Why not do it behind the scenes?
Simply use the existing MD5/SHA1 hash as input to bcrypt and update all password hashes in your database in one go. Then, whenever the user logs in you first apply the old hash function followed by bcrypt before comparing with what you have in the DB.
Nice, thanks. This is why I asked. That approach had not occured to me.
dangoldin on Dec 15, 2010
My gut instinct would be to do just that but I wonder if there's a better way. You'd probably also want to track the encryption of each user so you know when you can make the final switch.
Another alternative is to just send "update your password" emails to everyone framing it as an improvement to your site's security.
Waywocket on Dec 15, 2010
>Another alternative is to just send "update your password" emails to everyone framing it as an improvement to your site's security.
I guarantee everyone with a decent spamfilter will miss those e-mails - that looks exactly like a standard phishing attempt.
tocomment on Dec 14, 2010
HN, is this the consensus? I thought certain hashes worked fine when properly salted?
sph on Dec 14, 2010
The problem is that it's relatively easy to brute-force attack even a salted hash today.
On the first day, people stored passwords in plain text. If someone got access to your database, they had all the passwords.
On the second day, people decided to hash the passwords so that people couldn't unencrypt them. Then the attackers created rainbow tables that correlated each hash with its associated password since the password would always hash to the same value (so you have "109BCA" in your database, but they have a table that has that hash and that "12345" hashes to that value).
On the third day, people decided to salt the hashes to render the rainbow tables ineffective. Now, each password would hash to a different value so they couldn't just look up the password for a given hash. However, as computing power increased it became easy to just brute-force the password. You have the hash and you have the salt so you can just try every password with the hash until you get a match.
hashed_password = "ACBDEF1234567890"
salt = "12345"
possible_passwords = ["password1", "ilikesheep", "micro$oft"]
possible_passwords.each do |pass|
if Digest::SHA1.hexdigest("#{pass}#{salt}") == hashed_password
real_password = pass
The problem is that code like that has gotten really cheap to run and it's incredibly parallel (you can have loads of machines each take a piece of the workload - oh, and hopefully no one will make a joke that you'd never write that in Ruby; I just felt that would be easy pseudo-code to demonstrate). You can just try combinations of passwords at random, but there are lists of more common passwords that you can try first making it go even faster. Hashing algorithms are meant to be fast because they're meant to be usable on a large piece of data. As such, it also becomes fast to brute force check all sorts of combinations.
On the fourth day, people started using things like bcrypt because bcrypt was made to be slow. The fact that bcrypt is slow means that if someone wants to brute force it, it will be very slow going for them. If one can check 10,000 SHA1 hashes in a second, but only 10 bcrypt hashes in a second, it will take 1,000x longer to crack the bcrypt stored password (those are just made-up numbers as an example).
Salting is better than not salting because they have to brute force the password. However, as computing power increases it isn't so much better because brute forcing is becoming easy. One needs to use a slow algorithm to make sure that cracking it will also be slow (prohibitively slow). Bcrypt also allows you to specify how much work you want it to have to do. This way, as computing power increases, you can increase the amount of computing power needed to compute the bcrypt. By contrast, hashes are meant to go fast and so every day they're getting less secure.
tzs on Dec 14, 2010
Salting was introduced long before rainbow tables were invented.
Salting was introduced in the 1970's to combat the underlying class of attacks that rainbow tables optimize. Think of rainbow tables as a compression scheme; the attack is precomputation.
That said, I don't know why, with today's computing power, people don't make rainbow table chains longer (or shorter, it's been a while since I read the paper) to save on disk space.
oiuytrtyuiuytr on Dec 14, 2010
And with GPUs rainbow tables are gone - it's now quicker to calculate an MD5 than read it from disk!
> And with GPUs rainbow tables are gone
Not exactly. I could have a rainbow table for every possible password eight characters or fewer, and find it in a rainbow table in log(table_size) but to brute force it might take several days. GPUs make it so you can generate bigger rainbow tables faster too.
frisco on Dec 14, 2010
Yes, this is consensus. "Salting" isn't actually a real security practice. See: http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2007/9/7/enough-with-the...
aidenn0 on Dec 14, 2010
That article actually states that salting is a real security practice, is a necessity, and that it's been in UNIX since 1976,
He may be saying that because I've been making fun of people who use the word "salt" (in most other situations, crypto people would call that a "nonce"); I have in the past made the point that real crypto people never say "salt".
But then Eli Biham used the term extensively in his HAIFA framework and I lost the argument. I'll still make fun of the word (salt! smoked salt! peanut salt! hah!), but I can't say no crypto people use it. I wish they wouldn't, though.
That argument sounds like the German balloon fliers, who insist that they "fahren" (drive) the balloon and don't "fliegen" (fly) it.
I was more talking about bcrypt being consensus with that post. Salting slows down cracking attempts by a factor of N where N is the length of the hash; md5 and sha1 are so fast that you shouldn't be banking on salting to protect you in 2010. Also, you should assume that if an attacker has your database (with salts), they also have your code, which tells them exactly how the salt was applied. In that case, salting doesn't slow you down at all.
But you're talking about defending against brute force attacks? Salting's strength is in defending against rainbow tables. It seems the best policy at this point is to use both as they defend against different things and are not mutually exclusive.
I think the point is that you should use bcrypt and salt at the same time.
You don't need to do anything like that; bcrypt does all this stuff for you. Don't salt bcrypt.
youngian on Dec 14, 2010
I think people would be a lot less confused if you said this first. Say "Don't salt bcrypt, bcrypt salts for you" and you'll have to explain yourself less.
amalcon on Dec 14, 2010
The salt does exactly one thing: it makes the attacker pay to get each password, as opposed to making them pay once and get all of them. When the cost is a fraction of a second on a commodity CUDA setup, it's not really that helpful to make an attacker pay it multiple times.
ax0n on Dec 14, 2010
In a case like the Gawker incident, it isn't safe. If the source code to the password hashing algo is compromised (it was) then the salt becomes useless. In short, just use bcrypt.
Salting and choice of hashing algorithm are orthogonal. If it takes X amount of time to brute force a password of strength Y and you do salt, then an attacker can crack N passwords of strength Y in time NX. If you don't salt, then an attacker can crack all* passwords of strength Y in time N, which is a huge difference.
Alas, I stand corrected. Thanks. At the same time, the author does have a good point that very slow algorithms are fundamentally better for security, but I'm glad you pointed this difference out. Classic case of me not thinking things all the way through.
No. No no no.
The source code to the hashing algorithm means nothing. It is already open source!
The reason that the salt is there is to prevent against rainbow tables.
The salting did NOT become useless. If they had not salted passwords, then many many more passwords would have been broken because instead of having to brute force each and every one, you'd just look it up in a massively large hash table.
No, he thinks the salt is stored secretly in the source code. Of course, it's not; you store it right next to the hash so that you don't have to use the same salt for every password.
16s on Dec 14, 2010
Micrsoft Active Directory stores what it calls an NT Hash in NTDS.DIT files on domain controllers.
These are unsalted, md4 hashed, unicode strings.
They are fast and easy to crack if you ever do get your hands on them. The point is that many big companies don't do passwords right, so why expect Gawker to do so?
Edit: md4 is not a typo. They use md4 not md5... OK.
count on Dec 15, 2010
And that's not the only place they're stored (assuming the default cached credentials setting is still in place). Also, with the advent of pass-the-hash, you don't need to crack Windows AD passwords to use them anymore. Just having the hash is enough for loads of fun.
Worse, Windows up to Server 2003 by default stores LAN Manager hashes as well. To describe the cracking of these as 'trivial' would trivialise the work 'trivial'.
shabble on Dec 14, 2010
The part that I don't quite understand about bcrypt and the "scales with hardware speed" claim, is that, as I understand it, validating a password requires 3 parameters; password string, salt, and cost factor.
If you start out now with some given cost factor, that is unfeasibly breakable with modern hardware, that factor will remain stored somewhere, presumably in the database. Once computing hardware speeds up to the point that your factor is now practical to break, you can increase the cost factor for new passwords, but older ones remain susceptible to cracking. The only option would be to re-encode them periodically with the new factor to keep them secure.
Can anyone clarify if I've understood this correctly, or if I'm missing something fundamental about bcrypt? I've looked over the usenix paper, but I can't see anything obvious to confirm one way or the other.
Strilanc on Dec 14, 2010
If you're using bcrypt then the client has transmitted the password to you. You can store a higher cost hash after verifying the password against the old hash.
iana on Dec 15, 2010
If an attacker steals a DB of passwords, it is only a matter of time before computing power catches up and is able to crack the list, regardless of the methods used to hash the values. Advances in cryptography are rare, advances in processor capabilities are not. bCrypt may be the best we can do at this point to delay this inevitability, but programmer's shouldn't come away from this thinking that using bCrypt "solves" this problem. An interesting question related to this is how long a time period is considered "safe" enough to protect a stolen list? If the list is protected from brute-force cracking for 3 years after theft, is that enough time to render the passwords unusable? 5 years? It seems like the answer to this question would be used to calculate an appropriate value for bCrypt "speed".
mcgin on Dec 14, 2010
I made an attempt to implement bCrypt on the last web app I built. The problem I found with it is that there was no robust implemention of the algorithm for the tech stack I was using (J2EE) - I'm not sure whether that is the case outside of Java. jbCrypt was the only thing I could find, and if you look at the source, it really is a poor implementation. I could have gone ahead and rolled my own implementation, however I'm no security expert, and much prefer to rely on something more robustt then my own implementation which in all likelihood would have bugs in it.
jbellis on Dec 15, 2010
I googled [bcrypt api] to see how hard it would be to wrap with JNA (my guess: not very), but the first hit was "jBCrypt - strong password hashing for Java." So I stopped looking.
retroryan on Dec 15, 2010
What did you end up using? What are good solutions on a java platform?
pmjordan on Dec 15, 2010
The Java implementation linked from the article, jBCrypt, http://www.mindrot.org/files/jBCrypt/jBCrypt-0.2-doc/ uses java.lang.String's compareTo() function (lexicographical comparison) to validate the hashes of passwords. Is there cause for concern about this in practice, considering it will probably have varying runtimes for different match lengths? (I realise that running in a JITted VM means I can't predict the assembly language produced anyway)
Seth_Kriticos on Dec 15, 2010
What the article tries to say is, that your password hashing function needs three attributes:
* it has to be dog slow (to make brute forcing hard)
* it should be complicated enough to avoid collisions (this really applies to most hash functions)
* it should be suitably salted, to avoid rainbow tables
-> bcrypt is designed like this, if in doubt, use it
Some everyone is saying how easy it is to crack md5. Say I have an md5 hash and I know it was created from a 1000 byte string. How long would it take to enumerate all 1000 byte strings that could create that hash?
Actually you can (almost surely) stop cracking at 16 bytes, because that's how long MD5 digests are and any more bits than that are going to give you hashes you've already seen. You won't get back the original string but you don't need the original string.
seunosewa on Dec 16, 2010
Actually, you have to go a bit beyond 16 bytes to be sure.
boscomutunga on Dec 15, 2010
I think sooner or later computing power is going to increase to the point of making bicrypt look like md5 or lesser,i think what matters is protecting the hash.
asdfor on Dec 14, 2010
Its really simple , AS LONG AS the user uses a weak password, using bcrypt or not wont protect him. Why ? Well instead of brute forcing the hashed password i'll directly try to bruteforce using the normal login method of your site (even if you rate limit my login attempts it wont take that much time...(see proxys)(if you are thinking about rate limiting per username etc you suck).
If you need yours users account to be safe just force them to use a strong enough password
hashed(password + salt) = epic win
I think rate limiting per user is perfect. And if the real person wants to log in while someone else used up their attempts, do a quick email confirmation.
"do a quick email confirmation". And what happens if one or more of your users gets targeted for a long period of time ? You will force them to open there inbox every time they want to log in your site ? And this gets even better if they target your site generaly, it will be a lot of fun for the majority of your userbase to have to do that "open inbox" step, bet users will love it :)
Sorry mate but your method sounds easily exploitable ... heck using reCaptcha would be less punishing for the user than your approach.
davebob on Dec 15, 2010
please explain what you mean by rate limiting and why that's no good.
In some period of time a user is only able to do some amount of login attempts, after that he has to wait until he can try again to login. You can do that per IP or per username, doing it per username its not good because someone can abuse that to block the genuine user to log in. Doing it per ip is the best option you have and i didn't say that its not good, what i said is that if the user uses a weak password even if you put a rate limit they will be able to find the password soon enough.
adulau on Dec 14, 2010
When seeing the title, I was expecting an article about CMAC or HMAC or even PBKDF2-like function but it's the "old" bcrypt.
You say that as if it's a bad thing.
EDIT: Oh, you mean it was similar to other submissions. Fair enough.
Not really. Just it was already mentioned sometimes ago about the fixed cost function in bcrypt:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=762708
joeguilmette on Dec 15, 2010
I use a different password for every website. It is easy to remember, I just have a portion of my password that changes for every website. For example:
dg76fb23S for Facebook, dg76fb23S for hacker news
Been working great for years :)
>dg76fb23S for Facebook, dg76fb23S for hacker news
So you use the same password for everything.
steveklabnik on Dec 15, 2010
Your Facebook and HN passwords are the same? ;)
And if someone ever sees these in plaintext, it's trivially extrapolate-able to other sites. Dunno.
easysecured on Dec 15, 2010
What if there are no passwords to start with. If users do not enter a password and instead a hashed key is generated for the device used by the user which then encrypts everything before it is stored on the server.
This key could be generated in real time and would not be displayed anywhere on the form and will be transferred in stealth mode to the server.
With no passwords to enter or transmit, there will be nothing to hack.... If the key generated in origin is itself a strong key decrypting information stored on the server will require first hacking the key which if not stored on the server in the first place will make life hell for hackers as they will require access to the individual devices as well.
Cheers, gurudatt
jimwise on Dec 14, 2010
I'm not so sure. The other side of the coin is that ``{MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512, SHA-3, etc}'' have had extensive peer review in the cryptography world.
There's a long history of ``clever new ways'' to use existing crypto algorithms turning out to have serious flaws -- a good example is early attempts to improve the strength of (56-bit key) DES by encrypting three times with three keys. This turns out to introduce enough non-randomness to make the result much weaker than one might expect; standard 3DES works by encrypting with the first key, decrypting with the second, and encrypting with the third, which results in very different properties of the output cyphertext.
I'm not saying BCrypt has the same sort of issues, but I'd like to see some cryptanalysis of this before trusting my users' data with it. Notably, there seems to be no links to such analysis on the BCrypt home page -- not even an argument from the author as to why this code should be cryptographically sound.
No. Use Bcrypt. Always.
Bcrypt is backed by Blowfish, designed by Bruce Schneier. Go look it/him up. It's secure.
MD5/SHA1/etc are not weak because they are cryptographically weak (though some are), it is weak because they are fast. SHA3, when it is picked, will still be a very bad choice because it too will be fast.
So, why Bcrypt? Well, it uses Blowfish. Blowfish has a very slow key scheduling algorithm which basically involves a lot of hashing to get the round subkeys. Bcrypt makes this even slower. So what? Well, with Bcrypt you could set it up to take .3 seconds to verify a password. Try bruteforcing on that.
Indeed. Blowfish is also standardized and has withstood peer review, cryptanalysis and has otherwise been baptized by fire. Plus, if it's good enough for people as picky as Theo DeRaadt, it's probably good enough for you.
kd0amg on Dec 14, 2010
Well, yes, I trust the Blowfish cipher (and GP probably does too). The question is how we can be sure it isn't being somehow misapplied, i.e. whether the way bcrypt uses it opens some other hole. That's what I (and probably GP) would like to see an expert weigh in on.
khafra on Dec 14, 2010
Bcrypt is recommended by all the relevant experts who haven't heard of scrypt(1). Those who have(2), use scrypt because it's got a better built-in Moore's Law-defeater than bcrypt.
(1) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=601408
(2) http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/p...
(a) Virtually nobody has heard of scrypt; contrary to HN conventional wisdom, Colin is not yet a world-famous cryptographer. Give him time.
(b) There are operational reasons not to use scrypt, one of them being that there is no reference implementation with broad language bindings.
(c) The specific improvement scrypt makes over bcrypt is not yet relevant; nobody has ever hardware-optimized a bcrypt cracker, and the project that successfully does so and publishes their results will have made a contribution to cryptography literature.
(d) Even when bcrypt starts to face down hardware crackers, it doesn't "lose"; you simply have to increase work factors to compensate.
(e) You don't even have to use bcrypt; you can use PBKDF2, which simply iterates SHA1 a tuneable number of times. Bcrypt is better than PBKDF2, but every adaptive hash, PBKDF2 included, is in a different and better league than "salted hashes".
dfranke on Dec 14, 2010
The specific improvement scrypt makes over bcrypt is not yet relevant; nobody has ever hardware-optimized a bcrypt cracker, and the project that successfully does so and publishes their results will have made a contribution to cryptography literature.
Sure they have. A hardware-optimized bcrypt cracker is called a GPU. I can buy a 480-core GPU on Newegg for $350, but it doesn't come with any more RAM than a low-end PC does.
URL to the source code, please.
I am looking right now at Schneier's reference implementation of the Blowfish key setup function, and there is nothing in it that would not be straightforward to parallelize across a CUDA warp (read: no conditional branches). Is it your assertion that getting from here to a working bcrypt cracker would be sufficiently difficult as to constitute a significant "contribution to cryptography literature"?
You win this time, Franke. This time.
Are you earnestly conceding, or are you just bogged down in enough other arguments that you don't want to deal with this one?
I'm earnestly conceding.
True. But this article was about Bcrypt, so I'm writing that instead of Scrypt.
Edit: I defer to tptacek.
tedunangst on Dec 14, 2010
What it means to "open a hole" or what a "hole" would even be are hard to imagine in the case of bcrypt.
First of all, none of this security even comes into play until after your password file is stolen, but your and jim's comments imply you believe that using bcrypt would somehow make an existing site less secure.
Ixiaus on Dec 14, 2010
Question, I use SHA512 for my passwords; is that also "fast" in comparison to bcrypt?
sparky on Dec 14, 2010
If I can believe this ( http://www.cryptopp.com/benchmarks.html ), SHA-512 can still hash data at tens to hundreds of megabytes per second on a single couple-year-old core. Bcrypt lets you configure the slowness of your key generation with a "work factor", so I suppose with a work factor of 1 it'd probably be pretty fast too, but with a work factor of 10 it takes me roughly 100ms to hash 1 10-byte password.
So yeah, SHA-512 gives you a much larger keyspace, which is awesome, but isn't demonstrably slower than MD5, SHA-1, etc. Which was one of its design goals (and also one of the goals of all entrants in the ongoing SHA-3 competition).
SHA512 is very, very fast compared to Bcrypt. It's only slightly slower than SHA1 or SHA256.
Source: http://www.cryptopp.com/benchmarks.html
Thanks for the answer and the link. My salting algorithm is very strong but I hadn't considered the idea of renting a bunch of EC2 instances and brute-forcing hashes because the hashing algorithms are so fast.
You shouldn't get downmodded for a comment that demonstrates exactly the moment of enlightenment Coda was trying to get people to have about password hashing. Let me fix that for you.
What do you mean by "my salting algorithm is very strong"?
Instead of just concatenating a salt to the password string, I use a dispersion method. I first concat the salt to the beginning of the password and SHA512 that. I then have a globally configured list in my app (it's different for every app I produce) that defines at which index, in the hashed salt+password digest, chunks of the (same) salt are sliced and interspersed.
Given the same list of indexes, I can then "find" the salt of a stored password hash and run a given plain text password through that algorithm.
But, as has been stated, that effort is completely null if the SHA512 algorithm is fast and brute-forcing it only takes a handful of rented GPU instances...
[EDIT] Now that I think about it, if the Gawker attack were to happen to me, then the attackers would also have the source code and can get the salt dispersion list... So this is, in hindsight, kind of pointless.
ErrantX on Dec 14, 2010
Poor mans solution here is to iterate your fast hash a number of times.
This is essentially what bcrypt does for you anyway (in a really crude sense).
The question is not whether BCrypt is backed by Blowfish, the question is whether BCrypt uses Blowfish in a way which is cryptographically sound. If it does not, then an attacker may not need to use brute force. Assuming the author has read more of Mr. Schneier's book than the quoted preamble, he should know this -- Schneier discusses this at length in both editions of Applied Cryptography.
Again, an example of this is the 3DES encrypt/decrypt/encrypt process vs. a more naive encrypt/encrypt/encrypt process. One is substantially stronger than the other. One is a secure way to use DES, and one is not.
Don't use DES-EDE.
Schneier all but disavowed _Applied Cryptography_ in _Practical Cryptography_.
Schneier's reputation as a cryptanalyst is, as even he might concede at this point, somewhat outstripping his actual career.
Bcrypt is part of the academic literature; the people who wrote it are both renowned.
You can make your same critique about any other crypto construction; maybe the OCB block cipher mode is unsafe! After all, Bruce Schneier didn't write it!
Bcrypt has been around for ten years. No one has broken it yet. Is this perfect? No. But then again, we don't know that the implementation you would pick for MD5, SHA1, etc are perfect either. You take the best you can get.
You're speculating about the existence of a flaw which is there no evidence to believe could exist. Just because some crypto constructions are not as sound as naive theory suggests does not mean all constructions are flawed, or even capable of being flawed.
bcrypt is not an encryption algorithm. It doesn't "protect" your users' data, so there's no reason to trust or not trust it with their data.
Yes there is. A hash function does protect a user's password.
If you don't believe me, consider this hash function
H(A) = (A>>1)&0xFFFFFFFF
There. Hash function. It sends any input to a 32 bit value. Would you use it for your password though? No. I certainly would not.
Granted, that is an incredibly weak example, but it's one that's easy to see why it's weak, and thus why a hash function does protect a user's data.
ok, that's a fair point. i guess i just believe bcrypt does a better job than that. :)
"A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme" by Provos and Mazieres. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.80....
An HTML version appears to be here: http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix99/provos/provos_html/node... Some of the links, particularly the main page, appear to be broken.
As with the website, that paper discusses only the speed of BCrypt. There is no cryptanalysis at all, and no indication that BCrypt was submitted anywhere for peer review of its cryptographic soundness.
This doesn't mean BCrypt is unsound. It does mean that I would want to see such analysis before using it.
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The Honourable Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has called on the World Bank to support the establishment of an effective medical emergency transportation network in rural communities across Nigeria, in order to ameliorate the challenges of transporting emergency cases to hospitals on time. The Minister made this appeal in Abuja, when …
Ehanire solicits World Bank assistance for Medical emergency Transportation network
EHANIRE SOLICITS WORLD BANK ASSISTANCE FOR MEDICAL EMERGENCY TRANSPORTATION NETWORKThe Honourable Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has called on the World Bank to support the establishment of an effective medical emergency transportation network in rural communities across Nigeria, in order to ameliorate the challenges of transporting emergency cases to hospitals on …
Stakeholders call for implementation of National Multisectorial Strategic plan to scale up Nutrition
Stakeholders in the Nutrition sector is calling for effective implementation of National Multi Sectorial Strategic plan to scale up Nutrition in the country. Speaking at a One day Nutrition Stakeholders meeting in Abuja, The Executive Secretary, CS-SUNN, Mrs Beatrice Eluaka called on all Nigerians to work towards reducing the rate …
NHIS WILL BENEFIT FROM THE REFORM INITIATIVES OF OAGF-AHMED
August 28, 2019 Business, Health 0
The Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris fcna said that the NHIS as a public institution must be subjected to rules of engagement as far as public institution is concerned. He stated this when the management of NHIS led by the Executive Secretary Prof. Mohammed Nasir Sambo paid an advocacy …
Place high priority on Exclusive Breastfeeding- Stakeholders
August 7, 2019 Health 0
Bukola Afeni The wife of the Kaduna State Governor, Hajiya Aisha El’Rufai is calling on all states in Nigeria to place high priority on Nutrition so as to improve the cognitive development of children. She made the disclosure at the CS-SUNN media roundtable on Exclusive Breastfeeding in Abuja. Speaking at …
FG charge mothers to practice Exclusive Breastfeeding
The Federal Government has called for an increase in the proportion of infants exclusively breastfed for six months. The Permanent Secretary, Mr Abdulaziz Abdullahi stated this at launch of the National Zero Water Campaign, which aims to highlight the superiority of breastmilk and the need to discourage prelacteal feeding. He also charged …
Experts raise concern over rise in Non Communicable Disease
August 6, 2019 Health, Uncategorized 0
The UN Resident Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr Edward Kallon, has raised concern over the increase in Non-Communicable Disease in the country. The UN Resident Coordinator who was represented by Mr Clement Peter, the Officer in charge of WHO stated this at the launch of the National Multi-Sectorial Action Plan for …
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Popular launches Mi Banco ‘app’ for Android devices
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Forty-three percent of Banco Popular's 43 online banking customers connect to the service via smartphones.
Forty-three percent of Banco Popular’s 43 online banking customers connect to the service via smartphones.
Six months after introducing its mobile banking application for the iPhone and iPod touch, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico announced the launch of the version for Android devices.
The application is free to download from Google Play and allows users to access their Banco Popular accounts, manage their accounts and balances, review transactions, transfer funds, as well as make and plan payments.
“The Android application aims to facilitate value services for our customers,” said Camille Burckhart, first vice president of Popular technology. “With more than 390,000 customers using ‘Mi Banco’ Online, this tool provides increased availability and convenience to our customers.”
“We try to create products and services that provide immediate benefit and the Android app meets that vision of high quality,” she said, noting that 43 percent of the bank’s online banking customers connect to the service via smartphones.
The Android tool was developed by a group of Puerto Ricans who designed it in a four-month period based on the tastes and needs of current customers. Just as its iPhone predecessor, the Android app allow users to view and save payment receipts, personalize accounts and find ATMs and bank branches using GPS technology.
“The reception given to the iPhone and iPod touch app was amazing and we hope that Android users find the same value,” said Burckhart adding that in its first month of availability, the iPhone and iPhone app was downloaded 73,000 times.
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“Jonas Brothers Home Haunted,” Says Celebrity Psychic Kenny Kingston
The Jonas Brothers have been advised to exorcise a Hollywood Hills building that they hope to buy.
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tres_francais
FRENCH PEOPLE POST
likegunfire
you know you wanna get with this
the cast of THE VIEW out and about
the view (abc)
mattchew03
"GO BACK TO SUCKIN ON WHAT YOU ALMOST FELL ON"
ME VS. SISTER PATTERSON
I got into a "fight" (quotation marks used for the people that won't realize this was for entertainment) over Twitter with Sister Patterson (New York's mom). It started on Friday night and continued tonight. I'll just let the tweets speak for themselves...
ROUND TWO:
Sources: My Twitter -- Her Twitter
pepto_abysmal
Katona: 'Cocaine keeps me functioning'
Kerry Katona's troublesome relationship with Mark Croft has left her on the brink of suicide and heavily addicted to cocaine, a friend of the star has claimed.
The former Atomic Kitten has also been binging on amphetamines and anti-depressants to numb her emotional pain, reports the News Of The World.
Katona apparently told friends: "Cocaine is the only way I can function. It's the only way I can get this sorted."
The paper said that the 28-year-old embarks on three-day binges, and took seven grams of cocaine during one session alone.
"Kerry is completely addicted to drugs. It is worse than ever and she is close to the edge. She takes them all day every day. She simply can't cope without her fix," a friend said.
Katona announced that she was divorcing Croft last week after the couple reportedly argued about money.
They have since reconciled, despite Katona's claims that Croft had "bled [her] dry".
Obligatory trainwreck (skip to 3:00):
british celebrities, divorce, scandal
ihaveajetta
Nicholas Hughes, Sylvia Plath’s Son, Commits Suicide
“It is with profound sorrow that I must announce the death of my brother, Nicholas Hughes, who died by his own hand on Monday 16th March 2009 at his home in Alaska. He had been battling depression for some time.”
When everyone around you kills themselves, that's enough, Ted Hughes. RIP, though :(
lovetheepacey
Katie & Suri Visit Crumbs Bakery
Suri Cruise shows off her sweet side as her mom, Katie Holmes takes her to buy cupcakes at Crumbs Bakery in Beverly Hills on Sunday (March 22).
The two-year-old sported her favorite princess dress and even held a cute pink bow in her right hand!
Earlier in the day, the pretty pair also went on a carb run as they stopped for some treats at Le Pain Quotidien bakery in Beverly Hills in the morning.
Joey Potter's lookin' rough!
katie holmes, suri cruise
daftylion
Kellan Lutz: How Robert Pattinson Gets the Girls
"His accent and his crazy hairdo get the girls swooning," Kellan told Ryan.
killmotion
talkaboutit.org Talk About What? Well, we don't get to know yet.
http://www.talkaboutit.org/
Greg Grungberg updated his Twitter a few minutes ago with a link to this site where you hover over different areas of the screen with Hugh Laurie, Teri Hatcher, Milo Ventomiglia, Hayden Pannettiere, Gary Oldman, Jane Kaczmarek and what looks like Julie Benz (I could be wrong) so far telling us to 'Talk About It', what has yet to be confirmed is what is supposed to be talked about. Well, according to Greg, it will be revealed on Thursday.
Source via my twitter
I love Greg Grunberg, idk why he isn't higher on the Twitter celebs list. This obviously has something to do with the Epilepsy Walk in DC he's been pimping out.
celebrity social media, heroes (nbc)
Britney Spears planning to tour Australia
PLANS are under way for pop superstar Britney Spears to make her first Australian tour.
Leading concert promoters are in talks with the US singer, and tour dates are expected to be scheduled for later this year.
"All the promoters are vying for it, but the bottom line is she really wants to come here and she really wants to come here this year," Sony Australia boss Denis Handlin said.
Handlin spoke to Barry Weiss, the head of Spears' American record label, last week about the tour.
"I think the promoters are battling it out at the moment," he said.
Frontier Touring's Michael Gudinski confirmed he was in discussions with Spears' management.
Gudinski said several promoters had been chasing Spears.
"I don't expect anything will be worked out or finalised for a month, but we're in there," he said.
Spears began her new Circus tour in New Orleans earlier this month.
The stadium spectacular features a rotating stage, acrobats, special effects and a greatest-hits set.
"It will be one of the biggest concert productions to come here," Gudinski said.
The Circus tour opened in the US to rave reviews.
The two-hour show has four acts: Circus; House Of Fun; Freakshow/Peepshow; and Electro-Circ.
Although some critics have panned the troubled mother of two for lip-synching in the show, reviews have been mostly positive.
Spears performs one song on a stripper pole.
The set list includes her controversial new hit, If You Seek Amy.
britney spears, concert / tour dates
brandonblog
Japanese superstar Utada in-store appearance at Sephora Hollywood
Tuesday, March 24 from 6-8pm
Sephora Hollywood and Island Def Jam Records present an in-store appearance by international superstar, Japanese recording artist Utada. Guests are invited to listen to her music, hear Utada talk about her career and inspiration for the songs she created, participate in a Q&A, and receive a complimentary token of appreciation. Sephora pro-artists will be in store to do make-overs and talk about the latest trends.
I would kill to go to this! And i just left LA a few days ago!
asian celebrities, cpop / jpop / kpop
patidifuso
Dollhouse 1.07 “Echoes” Promo
So what did you think of last friday's episode?
do_somethin
t.A.T.u To Break Up, My Life Over.
You're not going to believe this one.
The girls of t.A.T.u. are going their separate ways according to a statement on their official blog:
Last December a "staff meeting" attended by Yulia, Lena and Boris took place. Parties had unanimously decided to cease the "operation of t.A.T.u. in full-time mode".
This decision was not spontaneous, it was long-grown.
For the sake of ethics I will not mention the reasons behind it, I'll just say that these have nothing to do neither with creative nor with economic aspects.
The message goes on to detail a large amount of forthcoming releases and information regarding the faux-lesbians' next endeavors. To summarize:
+ Their third video will still be released at the end of March.
+ Promotional duties for the ceaselessly delayed "You And I" video will continue.
+ Special editions of t.A.T.u.'s latest Russian album, Happy Smiles, will debut on Amazon.com and their official website, featuring new covers and bonus remixes.
+ The English version of the "Beliy Plaschik" video will be released.
+ Production on the international version of Happy Smiles was stopped at the end of 2008 (NO!), though the label will try to make available the English versions of songs already recorded for the scrapped release.
+ No further public performances, aside from special events including Bacardi.
+ Yulia's intentions are not known at the moment. She has disbanded from t.A.T.u.'s management after recording the English version of "220," entitled "Sparks."
+ Lena is continuing to work with t.A.T.u.'s management to pursue a solo career. The project is already titled and the website reserved, and production on the solo effort is expected to begin around late April, leadininto a single release at the second half of 2009 with an album to follow.
WHY. WHY DOES GOD ALLOW ACTS LIKE CASCADA AND SOULJA BOY TO EXIST, WHILE T.A.T.U. IS ALLOWED TO SIMPLY TO FADE AWAY?!
My foundation has been utterly shaken to its core. A small part of me has died, and I'm unsure how I'm supposed to move forward following this news.
And a solo career for Lena?! I mean--come on, she isn't even the INTERESTING one of the two!
Most of all, I blame both Katy Perry and Tila Tequila making faux bisexual the new faux lesbian.
But seriously, they made some good Pop....I'm actually a bit gutted.
Sauces:
t.A.T.u. blog.
MuuMuse, my blog.
breakup, celebrity social media, music / musician
colossusx
Desperate Housewives Post
Edie's not so "SHOCKING" DEATH!
I know everyone knows she's dead but IDC I like when zig when you thought they were gonna zag, if that makes sense...
And a preview of the next episode...which doesn't air until April 19th! SONUVABITCH!
desperate housewives (abc)
CHENOWETH DETAILS BIZARRE STAGE MOMENTS IN MEMOIR
Actress KRISTIN CHENOWETH had a shocking return to Broadway for her 1998 run in YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN - when security had to escort a man out of the theatre for pleasuring himself.
The Tony Award winner starred as Charlie's little sister Sally in the production, one year after making her Broadway debut - and admits she's experienced a host of awkward moments during her acting career.
Recounting the jaw-dropping moments in a new memoir, A Little Bit Wicked, she writes: "Once the security officers had to drag a guy out of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown because he was masturbating during (the song) My New Philosophy."
And although Chenoweth insists her experiences on the New York stage haven't always been so lewd, she admits theatre acting can bring a new set of challenges.
She adds: "I remember a performance of The Fantasticks where a mom brought a teenage son with Tourette's syndrome to the show. It was explained to me that because he liked me a lot, it became especially difficult for him to control his outbursts when I came on stage... Every time I said or sang anything, he would snort, howl or bellow some expletive about bodily functions or female anatomy... (and drop) F-bombs."
The book is scheduled to hit shelves in April (09).
books / authors, broadway / theatre
whawhatindabutt
Winehouse Album News
The singer’s demo tracks for her third album, recorded in the Caribbean, have left her label less than happy.
mrmidwest
Internet, You Cost 50 Cent a Job
When Curtis Jackson's new album is called HTML Hataz, know that he is talking about you, the internet masses who cried out in pain when it was announced that he would replace Forrest Whitaker in Sylvester Stallone's gimmicky new film The Expendables. The outcry was enough that, just a few days after the announcement, 50 Cent was off the movie and the angelic Terry Crews was in.
Good work, internet. Terry Crews is amazing. His participation in this movie may actually make it watchable. Unlike many of you, I've been fearing The Expendables. For a number of reasons:
- Stallone is self-destructive. Look at his career. He will make one or two good - nay, GREAT! - movies and then follow them up with complete shit. His filmography is like a yo-yo (and no, I'm not taking into account Stallone movies that are 'so bad they're good.' I'm just talking about really, honestly good Stallone movies). Sly has made two really, really good movies in a row. It's time to shit on that streak, and I know he'll do it.
- The casting is a joke. I know that this is what is getting the internet excited, but the cast for this sounds more like a fanboy's wet dream than anything really sustainable. On top of that, many of the actors cast in this film work as leads in their own movies due to their personal ridiculousness. Dolph Lundgren does not scream out 'ensemble cast' to me.
- It's a PG-13.
But Terry Crews - hell, he made Balls of Fury almost watchable. Him joining the film is the best news I've heard about it in months.
thrillisgone_89
Christina Milian & The Dream out in Hawaii
they're like the bootleg version of christopher robyn, y/n? gurl shouldn't make fuckin' for tracks so obvious.
as much as it pains me to say this, nick cannon > the dream.
helloq
Bluefly on Gossip Girl Tonight
blair's closet
rest of the cast
Got this in my inbox.
Source: uh me i guess? or bluefly. dunno you choose.
fashion, gossip girl (cw)
stewiegilligan
Super DILF Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman, his wife Deborra-Lee Furness and their 3-year-old daughter Ava Jackman spend the afternoon together at a park in New York City on Sunday (March 22).
After dropping by the park, the 40-year-old actor stopped by an art store to pick up a few supplies with his 8-year-old son Oscar.
Later that evening, Hugh and his wife attend the Broadway opening of God Of Carnage at the Bernard Jacobs Theatre.
There is a fashion god!
LAUREN Conrad's clothing line is on hiatus until further notice. Los Angeles sources say the MTV reality starlet, who's wrapping up her last season on "The Hills," won't be producing any more seasons of her Lauren Conrad Collection, which launched in fall 2007. Some showrooms got a message from her camp saying, "In light of the economic climate, Lauren has decided to completely rethink her line." As a result, shipment of the last spring and summer delivery has been canceled, the memo said. Page Six previously reported that the line wasn't moving in stores like Kitson and Bloomingdale's. "Lauren is going to revamp her line and design with more high-end fabrics . . . things she couldn't do the first time around," a source close to Conrad said. Her rep told us, "With everything going on in the economy and in her life, she wants to rework her line and offerings. She will make announcements soon."
daavaaad
currently, this artist has the #1 song in the WORLD right now...
you spin my head right round, right round, when you go down, when you go down, down!
Coolest rapper I've ever met! And also, my favorite rapper (and this coming from someone who's not a big rap fan.)
But you all know I love the Lady GaGa and the Girlicious songs he rapped on!
He was totally cool and down to earth, even took the time to personalize my autograph and write a short message.
Shit imma buy his album now! heeey
FUCK ME SIDEWAYS!
source: Me :-)
Flo Rida of course!
celebrity encounter
ontd_follow_me
Cloris Leachman returns to DWTS, brings back the crazy
This week's results show features Cloris, Adele and Hall & Oates
"Dancing with the Stars" has announced that its results show on Tuesday, March 24th will include a return performance by actress Cloris Leachman and her partner from Season 7, Corky Ballas.
Also performing on Tuesday will be 1980s duo Daryl Hall & John Oates and Grammy winner Adele, along with the live "dance off" between the two couples with the lowest vote totals.
Viewers will watch the couples perform the samba and the fox trot on Monday night's performance show.
Stars doing the foxtrot: David & Kym, Shawn & Mark, Ty & Chelsie, Steve-O & Lacey, Melissa & Tony, Chuck & Julianne
Stars doing the samba: Lil' Kim & Derek, Holly & Dmitry, Gilles & Cheryl, Denise & Maksim, Lawrence & Edyta, Steve & Karina
Cloris Leachman is like a solar eclipse. It burns your eyes to look right at her but you can't turn away.
synth___romance
lance armstrong falls... and can get up
Lance Armstrong falls during race in Spain and is taken to a hospital.
edit: more info for the complainers
Armstrong reportedly fell around 20 kilometers from the finish and was seen pointing to his collarbone, CNN's Al Goodman reported from northern Spain.
Organizers said Armstrong was taken to hospital and had withdrawn from the race.
The 37-year-old Armstrong, who ended a three-year retirement to return to competitive cycling in January, walked to the ambulance unaided, television pictures from the scene showed.
A group of 15 to 20 riders fell, according to Bartosz Huzarski, a cyclist racing for the Italian team ISD. Huzarski, who saw the fall, said he did not know what had caused it. Only Armstrong appeared to indicate he was hurt, the Polish cyclist said.
An official with Armstrong's team, Astana, said he did not know the extent of the cyclist's injuries.
The fall took place a on a sunny day on a stretch of two-lane highway, Goodman said, as riders tackled the 104-mile (168-km) opening stage.
accidents, sports / athletes
Banned Family Guy Clip
FAIR WARNING: this is an insanely catchy tune that will stick in your head for hours after viewing
cartoon / children's show
just_becca
Which closeted TV icon enjoys “watersports*” in his bedroom? His steady stream of gentleman callers are a little grossed out by it.
*via urbandictionary
Exclusive: Brian Austin Green cast in The CW's 'Body Politic'
Does his casting mean the end of "Terminator" and a David Silver cameo on "90210"?
Though the "Beverly Hills 90210" vet is currently a regular on FOX's "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," The CW confirms that Brian Austin Green has just secured a role in their "Body Politic" project.
The series, if green lit, will follow young government staffers living and working in Washington, D.C. Green will play Lucky, a D.C. insider who knows everyone in town.
The notorious BAG is just one of several names already attached to "Politic" including Gabrielle Union, Tim Matheson, "Friday Night Lights"' Minka Kelly, "Veronica Mars"' Jason Dohring and "Six Degrees"' Jay Hernandez.
So, does this mean Silverado will never return to Beverly Hills for an appearance as Donna Martin's loving husband on the new "90210"? Not really. He told me he is down and could easily do both.
More importantly for "Terminator" fans, does Green's "Politic" casting signal that the fate of "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" is sealed? Not necessarily. No doubt BAG's involvement in "Politic" is in second position to "T:TSCC," meaning that if "T:TSCC" gets another season, that would be his first priority. Still, the fact that he's looking around is not a good sign for the FOX show. SOURCE
Uh-oh for Terminator. Also, I predict now that BAG and Minka Kelly will be dating by the end of the year.
90210, candids
Matt Lauer hits Bambi... with a bicycle
Where in the world is Matt Lauer? At home, recovering from a bicycle accident.
"He was riding his bike over the weekend and he had a run-in with a deer," Today show cohost Meredith Vieira explained on this morning's broadcast.
"He apparently dislocated his shoulder and he's at the doctor's this morning."
Lauer's injury occurred when, while bicycling on Long Island, the animal darted into the road in front of his pedal-pushing ride. Lauer quickly braked to avoid veering into the venison and the sudden stop sent him flying over the handlebars.
Vieira said her early morning colleague sent her an email to explain the unusual situation and air his suspicions that "the deer was hired by the competition."
"I hired the deer, but I said just graze him," she joked.
NBC News' Lester Holt filled in for the recuperating 51-year-old. It's unclear when Lauer will return to his anchor duties.
I'm sorry and good luck to him, but I think this is hilarious. Mental images galore. LOL@"Oh, deer"
accidents, news / news anchors
idkreally
Who Went Home On I Love Money 2!
WHO WHO WHO?
downerdebbie
Michael Urie to Star in The Tempramentals
Photo by Nicole Weingart
The New York Times is reporting that Michael Urie will star in "The Tempermentals," a play by Jon Marans ("Old Wicked Songs"), set to begin April 30 at the Barrow Group Studio Theater.
MAN underdog presents "The Temperamentals" by Jon Marans, Off Broadway at The Barrow Group Studio Theater, 312 West 36 Street 3rd Floor. Previews begin Thursday, April 30, 2009 and the opening is Monday, May 4 at 8:00 pm for the limited engagement. It is directed by Jonathan Silverstein. The cast will soon be announced. "Temperamental" was a code word for "homosexual" in the early 1950s, part of a created language of secret words that gay men used to communicate. In this underground world, danger was always an underlying presence. But with it, a heady, intoxicating secrecy also hung in the air.
"The Temperamentals" tells the story of two men - the communist Harry Hay and the young Viennese refugee and designer Rudi Gernreich, weaving together the personal and the political to tell a relatively unknown chapter in gay history. It explores the deepening love between two complex men, while they build the first gay rights organization in the United States pre Stonewall. This is the perilous, unpredictable world these men inhabit as their impossible dream of forming such an unheard of organization becomes a reality. They must navigate their relationship in new and surprising ways. "The Temperamentals" is an intimate portrayal of the men who created history and the epic struggles they overcame. The characters consist of the actual men who founded the Mattachine Society, as well as prominent figures of the time such as Frank Tavener of the House Un-American Committee and the director Vincente Minnelli.
Performances of the limited Off Broadway engagement of "The Temperamentals" are: Friday - Monday at 8 pm and matinees on Sunday at 4 pm; with special performances on Thursday, April 30 at 8 pm and Saturday, May 2 at 2 pm through May 18. There is no performance Saturday evening 5/2.
EDIT: He's playing Rudi Gernreich. In case anyone was curious.
broadway / theatre
jilldando
Chris Moyles reprimanded over 'gay' spoof lyrics to Will Young song
Chris Moyles has been censured by Ofcom for condoning negative stereotypes of gay people, after the DJ made what the media regulator ruled were derogatory comments about Will Young on his BBCRadio 1 breakfast show.
Moyles changed the lyrics of two of Young's songs, Evergreen and Leave Right Now, and sang them in "an effeminate and high pitched voice", according to Ofcom.
The Radio 1 DJ sang the spoof lyrics on his breakfast show on Young's birthday, 20 January. They included the words: "It's my birthday today, gonna wear my new dress tonight. And I smell nice. I've had a show and I've shaved my legs. Going out later, might go to Nobo for dinner. Oooh Will Young here, mmmh. I'm here, it's Will's birthday and as the years go by I get more very gay."
Other spoof lyrics inserted by Moyles included: "When you saw me years ago you didn't know, but now I'm the gayest fella you probably know. Mmm, I like to wear a silly hat, I get camper by the hour, oh would you look at the muck in here. I'm Will Young and I'm gay."
In its defence, the BBC said Young was not being ridiculed because of his sexuality, adding that Moyles' remarks were not intended to be hostile or derogatory.
However, Ofcom, in its ruling published today, said Moyles' language "could have reasonably been interpreted by listeners as promoting and condoning certain negative stereotypes based on sexual orientation".
"Although no doubt intended to be humorous, comments such as these and the manner in which they were delivered, in Ofcom's view, could reasonably have been perceived as hostile and pejorative," the regulator added.
"In Ofcom's view, the broadcast of this language by Chris Moyles, taking account of both the tone and words, had the potential to cause considerable offence."
The regulator added: "Such material runs the risk of being imitated by children, for instance in the playground, causing unnecessary distress."
radio shows / radio celebrity
cherisheddreams
ashley tisdale at lax
Ashley Tisdale wheels her own luggage into LAX airport in Los Angeles as she and mom Lisa catch a flight to New York on Sunday afternoon (March 22).
The 23-year-old singer/actress had a busy weekend. She filmed a music video for her upcoming single, “It’s Alright, It’s OK,” starring Adam Gregory as her ex-boyfriend.
Ashley will be stopping by MTV Buzzworthy today. Did you have a chance to submit your questions?
i can't wait for her album to come out / leak!
ashley tisdale, high school musical (disney)
neptune_lvr
Rob Thomas Says, No Veronica Mars Movie Anytime Soon....
I'm leading the parade of the heartbroken this morning fellow "Veronica Mars" fans because Rob Thomas, the show's creator, just broke the news to PopWrap that his proposed won't be coming soon to a theater near you. Sad face emoticon!
"While the pitch [to producer Joel Silver] went well and I don't think the movie's dead, right now it's looking depressing," Rob exclusively told PopWrap this morning during a chat about "Party Down," his new series. "I think honestly if we would have had the pitch ready a year earlier, it would be a go project. The hope that we would get a quick greenlight didn't materialize. This is the least optimistic I've felt in a while."
Boooooo world! I hate this story sfm! I want more Veronica, now!
More IV with Rob at the source where he talks about what the movie would have looked like and apologizes for crap-tastic season three finale!
xx_rapunzel_xx
One Review of "West Side Story" on Broadway by the NY Times: Our Gangs
Even when they’re flashing switchblades and kicking people in the ribs, the teenage hoodlums who maraud through Arthur Laurents’s startlingly sweet new revival of “West Side Story” seem like really nice kids. When a pure-voiced boy soprano (Nicholas Barasch) shows up to perform the musical’s banner anthem, the aching “Somewhere,” it feels like the manifestation of some inner angel who always lurks beneath the surface of the angry adolescents onstage.
Pictures (in case you were curious)
ETA: Damn, I didn't realize my opinion could cause a minor calamity! What I'm trying to say is that I enjoyed the movie more than the play. I also wasn't sure who was playing Anita that night - if it really was Karen Olivo, then I apologize for mixing her up. I got confused with what my playbill said. That being said, I guess I expected more from her, considering a lot of people seem to love her here. Personally, I didn't love the revival and expected more from it, but please don't let anything discourage you from going if you really wanna see it. That's all I can say.
36 Crazyfists
nappyxheadedxho
Oh for the love of God
Jade Goody's funeral to be screened on television
Jade Goody's funeral will be screened on live television, her family have confirmed.
The celebrity Big Brother star's publicist Max Clifford said the event would be the final "Jade Goody Production", complete with the laughter and tears that marked her wedding to Jack Tweed, 21, and the christening of her young sons Bobby and Freddy.
The 27-year-old former dentistry nurse lost her battle with cancer at her home in Essex early on Sunday morning, surrounded by Tweed and her mother Jackiey Budden.
The funeral, at St John the Baptist Church in Buckhurst Hill, Essex, is expected to be held within the next two weeks and will be relayed to the public by big screen.
Mr Clifford said of the service: "Jade wanted a celebration of her life. It will be very much a Jade Goody Production with Jade doing her own thing her own way."
He said she had originally given the job of planning the funeral to one of her bridesmaids, but added: "Within a minute she was saying she didn't want that and she did want this and how she wanted it to be.
"It will be a celebration, but of course there will be a lot of tears."
He said Goody had chosen Bermondsey undertakers, "because she was always a Bermondsey girl".
After a church service the funeral cortege will process through Loughton - near her home in Upshire, Essex, he said.
He said the funeral would be a public celebration just as Jade had lived her life out in the public eye in the last seven years.
"She died the way she lived."
Speaking on Sky News, Reverend Jonathan Blake, who officiated at Goody and Tweed's marriage ceremony, called the bride, "a saint from Upshire and a princess from Bermondsey".
"My thoughts and prayers and love are very much with the family and friends. Jade has become for us, so many different things, a saint from Upshire and a princess from Bermondsey, an exemplar of biblical proportions."
He said that she had, "laughed in the face of death and given us a completely different approach to the way we deal with cancer".
He praised her "courage, grace and unselfishness", adding: "The wonder of Jade was that she was raw, honest and genius deep within. Not a superficial person as so much of life is now. She spoke what she thought sometimes to the shock and outrage of others.
"Her great sense of generosity of spirit particularly in allowing us to take a journey to the rainbow bridge between this world and the next is a source of inspiration to people and families who are going through the exact same thing."
A saint? A genius? a princess?!
british celebrities, death
numbereleven
Which Hayden is which?
Hayden Christensen and Masi Oka were spotted grabbing some lunch together at Mozza Pizza in Hollywood yesterday.
Taking a weekend break from the set of their hit show "Heroes," Hayden Christensen and Masi Oka were spotted grabbing some lunch together at Mozza Pizza in Hollywood yesterday (March 22).
And of course the paparazzi were all over the place, prompting Mr. Oka to unsuccessfully attempt to block Hayden's face with his to-go box.
Both stars looked cool and casual, with Miss Panettiere sporting a white top with distressed denim Capri pants and sandals, while Masi opted for a blue button-up with jeans and a Nike baseball hat.
Tonight at 9pm EST on NBC Heroes is all-new. Per the show's Web site, "HRG (Jack Coleman) convinces Emile Danko (guest star Zeljko Ivanek), a.k.a. The Hunter, to release Tracy ( Ali Larter) from Building 26, in hopes that she will lead them to Rebel. As Angela (Cristine Rose) evades capture, she turns to an old friend (guest star Swoosie Kurtz) for help. In Los Angeles, Hiro (Masi Oka) and Ando (James Kyson Lee) continue on their latest mission from Rebel to protect the newest hero."
Honestly, I know Claire and Nathan are rocking a sort of Luke/Vader thing, so let's not confuse me even more by making me pay attention to things I don't care about.
Real Hayden news, pls. Like say, ( Collapse )
hayden panettiere, heroes (nbc)
LC & Kyle Howard: Kissing Couple
Lauren Conrad shares a passionate kiss with her boyfriend, My Boys actor Kyle Howard at a Hollywood bar on Sunday (March 22).
The 23-year-old reality star is rumored to be discontinuing her clothing line, The Lauren Conrad Collection. Some showrooms got a message from her reps saying, “In light of the economic climate, Lauren has decided to completely rethink her line.”
Her rep tells Page Six, “With everything going on in the economy and in her life, she wants to rework her line and offerings. She will make announcements soon.”
The Hills returns with its final season on Monday, April 6 @ 10PM ET/PT on MTV.
The Man Behind 'West Side Story' (Mo Rocca interviews Arthur Laurents)
1962: Arthur (right) with his late lover Tom Hatcher in Hollywood
"Streisand's character (in The Way We Were) is a pain in the butt. How much of her is you?"
jesustolemybike
Keira Knightley rents shoes
Keira Knightley rents shoes to satisfy her footwear fetish.
The global economic downturn has forced 'The Duchess' star to cut down on the number of designer high heels she buys, so she has started borrowing shoes instead.
The 23-year-old actress said: "I think when I was very young and I suddenly started earning a bit of money and I could actually afford to buy shoes, I got very excited and bought a lot. I mean a lot!
"I haven't bought any in quite a while. Now I just rent them for the day. They give them to me for the day and I give them back in the evening, which is good."
Keira recently revealed she is only attracted to men with good taste in shoes.
The British beauty - who has been dating 'The Young Victoria' star Rupert Friend for three years - finds fancy footwear sexy and demands her lovers take pride in their feet.
She said: "I go for someone who is a little brooding and somebody you can have a good conversation with, a good fight with, who will always keep you guessing and make you laugh. And he has to have good shoes."
wikkidraven
New couple alert!
josh groban, katy perry
Elvis Costello to release 'secret' album
Legend plans summer release for 'acoustic' LP
Elvis Costello will release new album called 'Secret, Profane And Sugarcane' on June 1.
The LP was recorded in three days at Nashville's Sound Emporium Studio and was produced by long-term collaborator T Bone Burnett.
Rather than his regular backing group, Costello was joined by a number of American country music and bluegrass musicians for the largely acoustic effort.
The tracklisting is:
' Down Among the Wine And Spirits'
'Complicated Shadows'
'I Felt the Chill'
'My All Time Doll'
'Hidden Shame'
'She Handed Me a Mirror'
'I Dreamed of My Old Lover'
'How Deep is the Red'
'She Was No Good'
'Sulfur To Sugarcane'
'Red Cotton'
'The Crooked Line'
'Changing Partners'
'I Felt The Chill' is Costello's second co-write with Loretta Lynn. Meanwhile, a previous version of 'Complicated Shadows' featured on 'All This Useless Beauty', while 'Hidden Shame' was previously recorded by Johnny Cash.
Closing track 'Changing Partners' was made famous by Bing Crosby.
KIIS FM'S WANGO TANGO 2009 LINEUP
This morning Kiis fm announced the lineup for their Wango Tango 2009.
The concert is on May 9, 2009 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater.
(same venue as last year)
kiis fm website
kiis fm's twitter
and of course, my radio.
ontd, who's thinking about going?
concert / tour dates, kelly clarkson, lady gaga
gemegz
Nikki Cox & Jay Mohr: STUNNING!
The undeniable gorgeousness of Nikki Cox and Jay Mohr (aka Jon Ferguson Cox Mohr) was on full display at a Knicks game in NYC the other day. They're happily married and it totally shows.
Bring back hot Cox!
UPDATED: For all the "He looks like Mr. Incredible" comments - lol
klutzy_girl
Mariska Hargitay Returns To Work
Mariska Hargitay is putting on her badge again: The actress will return to work on Law & Order: SVU on Monday following a three-week absence, People reports.
Hargitay was hospitalized for a third time earlier this month for discomfort related to a collapsed lung, which she sustained in January.
The hospitalization forced Hargitay to miss one episode. Last week, her rep debunked rumors that the Emmy winner would be sidelined for the rest of the season.
Hargitay isn't the only familiar face on set this week: Hilary Duff will show off her dramatic chops in a guest spot, scheduled to air April 28.
www.tvguide.com/News/Mariska-Hargitay-Returns-1004284.aspx
downtownpunk
The most wonderful lady ever, Tina Fey, goes to Disney World. Oh and John Stamos is there too.
It's a double-star sighting today at Magic Kingdom with 30 Rock star/mastermind Tina Fey and ER star John Stamos, posing with princesses Belle, Cinderella and Snow White inside Cinderella Castle. Fey and Stamos are visiting Walt Disney World with their respective families and happened to be at the theme park on the same day. Stamos is a known Disneyphile, but we wonder what Fey likes best about Disney World (She has a young daughter, so princesses are probably in the picture, so to speak).
Aww, Alice finally got to "go to there." So cute.
, disney, television
Robin Williams recovering from surgery
TMZ has learned Robin Williams underwent his highly publicized heart surgery and is recovering at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
Robin postponed his comedy tour at the beginning of this month after announcing he needed to have an aortic valve replacement.
UPDATE: Robin's rep just released this statement from his cardiothoracic surgeon:
"Mr. Williams' operation went extremely well and we expect him to make a full recovery. The 3 1/2 hour heart surgery was conducted to replace his aortic valve, repair his mitral valve, and correct his irregular heart beat.
His heart is strong and he will have a normal heart function in the coming weeks with no limitations on what he'll be able to do.
A couple of hours after surgery, he was entertaining the medical team and making us laugh."
www.tmz.com/2009/03/23/robin-williams-recovering-from-heart-surgery
1cupofrpattz
This is a LONG Twilight post to spare tha haterz~~
Bella’s truck and the old bikes!
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqIkmYqS0N8&feature=player_embedde
Source: http://en.twilightpoison.com/index.php
tigtogiba34
It's like Jolie vs Aniston cept these two were never in love with the same man... I hope
celebrity feud, sports / athletes
jennyinla
Why Vanessa Redgrave Wore White to Natasha's Funeral
Of the countless images the world has seen from Natasha Richardson's Sunday funeral, one of the most striking is that of her mother, Vanessa Redgrave, clad in a brilliant white pantsuit and paisley scarf.
While fashion would seem an unlikely concern for Redgrave at present, such a bold contrast to the rest of Richardson's black-clad family is no coincidence.
What could the motives be for such an unusual look at such a bleak time?
"This is clearly a statement on her daughter's life, not her daughter's death," says expert Dr. David Kessler, coauthor of On Grief and Grieving, with Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.
"She may have wanted everyone to remember the brightness of Natasha."
Ashley Tisdale Auditions the Band for her New Album!
Ashley auditions the new band for her upcoming album "Guilty Pleasure". Get all the details at http://www.ashleytisdale.com
this song needs to leak already.
her whole album leaking would be great too.
ginagorexx3
The Jonai Broke the Internet
That's right, today kicked off the pre-sales for their 2009 World Tour and chaos has ensued.
At 10am the fanclub website began selling tickets, however after a few minutes the server was knocked offline.
It's currently still offline and no tickets are being sold at the moment because of this.
-Well, well, well now the site says it's 'Offline for scheduled maintenance'.
During the first few hours of the World Tour presale... ORLY?
Seems to me like the Jonai have broken the internet. Or was it just Kevin's fault?
my nifty jonai fanclub self
She's broke bitch!
As we all know, Lindsay Lohan -- like many Americans -- is unemployed. However, unlike most Americans, she isn't going to let a silly lack of job problem get in the way of her rock star lifestyle and drunken sailor spend-a-thons. New house? No problem! Maserati? Absolutely? $30K rolex? Why the hell not!
Alyson Hannigan buying juice
What a gorgeous preggo! Pregnant actress Alyson Hannigan grabbed a Jamba Juice for herself and hubby and Alexis Denisof, fellow Buffy The Vampire Slayer actor, who waited in the car. After fueling up on juice, the expectant parents headed to CBS Studios. This will be the first child for the couple. Alyson has looked incredibly radiant and gorgeous throughout her pregnancy - even up to the very end!
Our recent daily poll predicts that Alyson will give birth at the end of this month. We can’t wait to hear the news!
www.celebritybabyscoop.com/index.php
I can't wait until she has the baby. I wonder what other Buffyverse actors will have babies this year, since David Boreanaz's wife is also pregnant.
alyson hannigan, candids, pregnancy
Scarlett Johansson covers Vogue Paris
joshluvsduff
Hilary Duff onset of Law & Order SVU - 3/23/09
Looking beautiful onset of Law & Order SVU today, which is set to air April 28th 2009.
She already filmed a cool guest spot on "Ghost Whisperer" and today (March 23) Hilary Duff continued her run of primetime cameos with a trip to the "Law & Order: SVU" set.
lasamy
you know, Willy Wonka is a killer...
Ngl, I watched this for Matt Saracen *g*
Frédéric Chopin - Allegro Vivace | Powered by Last.fm
fukd_by_sugar
David Letterman Ties the Knot!
David Letterman and his longtime girlfriend, Regina Lasko, have gotten hitched, Usmagazine.com has learned.
The couple tied the knot in a courthouse ceremony near their ranch in Montana Thursday, a witness at the Monday taping of his CBS Late Show tells Us.
The announcement "was about 20 minutes into the show, before the 'Top 10' list," the witness says.
According to transcript released to Us by the Late Show rep, Letterman said: "On Thursday, at 3 p.m., March 19, 2009, at the Teton County Courthouse in Choteau, Montana, I was married to Regina Lasko.”
"Regina and I began dating in February of 1986, and I said, 'Well, things are going pretty good, let's just see what happens in about ten years...'"
"…I had avoided getting married pretty good for, like, 23 years, and I -- honestly, whether this happened or not -- I secretly felt that men who were married admired me…like I was the last of the real gunslingers, you know what I'm saying?'" he joked.
The family's truck got stuck in the mud en route to the courthouse, he explained. Letterman "walked two miles back to the house in 50 mph wind," he said. "It's not Beverly Hills -- it's Montana."
"And the whole way, I'm thinking, 'See, smart ass, see you try to get married and this is what happens,'" he went on. After getting his car from home, five-year-old son, Harry, says, "'Are we still going into town?'...he got very upset because mom had told him if I wasn't back in an hour, the deal was off."
Letterman and Lasko -- who began dating in 1986 when Lasko worked for him on his show -- welcomed Harry in November 2003.
In 2007, Letterman told Oprah Winfrey that his son Harry has made a "huge difference" in his life -- but the boy doesn't always get his daddy's sense of humor.
Said Letterman, "Mommy has to tell him a lot that I'm just teasing."
Letterman was previously married for seven years to his college sweetheart Michelle Cook.
teenagewhore
Madison De La Garza at Disneyland.
Some call her Juanita Solis.
She's with her sister Dallas. and FRIEND CALI
heinawook
"The Hills" accused of being trashy?
The people behind "The Hills" are in a legal war over the live season finale -- accused of being even trashier than the people on the show.
The guy who owns the Beverly Hills mansion where MTV shot the "Live from the Hills Season Finale" claims when he rented the place out for the show in 2008, he was promised it would be returned in "the same condition." What he got back, he claims, was a disaster area.
According to a lawsuit filed today in L.A. County Superior Court, Igor Greenberg claims MTV and New Productions Inc. "caused extensive damage to the property in at least the amount of $158,250.07" -- and he wants them to fork over the cash.
Sure, it's meaningless, stupid drama -- but so is everything else that has to do with that show.
omg_stunning
a LOST post.
new pics of yunjin kim and matthew fox. and a new 5.10 promo from sky1.
fierce bitch is fierce.
asian celebrities, lost (abc)
Lost and Grey's Anatomy Wedding News!
If you've been bummed out by all my end-of-season death charts and suicide blind items, I've got just the pick-me-up for you: Lost and Grey's Anatomy are both heading for weddings!
ehs_wildcats
Zac Efron in Paris & Paramount's Official Statement
Paramount's Official Statement on Footloose:
"Footloose is a project we've longed to see rebooted for a new generation. While Zac in no longer attached, we remain excited and committed to the collective brain trust of [HSM turned Footloose director] Kenny Ortega, Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, who will reinvigorate the franchise. Their fresh take on the film will undoubtedly be filled with the same kind of breakout performances that we've come to expect from them."
I am surprised Meron and Zadan are still attached since Zac brought them on board. I guess we'll see if they stay on.
17 Again Paris Promotion, part 1:
She's still at it. Milking it for all it's got
Katrina ‘Bikini Girl’ Darrell: Hawaiian Tropic Cutie
She’s been milking her American Idol fame for all it’s worth, and this past Saturday (March 21) Katrina Darrell aka Bikini Girl was spotted hosting a gig for Hawaiian Tropic.
american idol (abc)
ecctv
Colbert wins NASA space station name contest
NASA's online contest to name a new room at the international space station went awry. Comedian Stephen Colbert won.
The name "Colbert" beat out NASA's four suggested options in the space agency's effort to have the public help name the addition. The new room will be launched later this year.
NASA's mistake was allowing write-ins. Colbert urged viewers of his Comedy Central show, "The Colbert Report" to write in his name. And they complied, with 230,539 votes. That clobbered Serenity, one of the NASA choices, by more than 40,000 votes. Nearly 1.2 million votes were cast by the time the contest ended Friday.
NASA reserves the right to choose an appropriate name. Agency spokesman John Yembrick said NASA will decide in April, but will give top vote-getters "the most consideration."
If NASA accepts the name (which they WILL) do you think he'll get to decorate it? Put up a plaque? I am very excited to see what will happen with this.
science, stephen colbert / the colbert report
bb_g
Zac Efron: Full Interview...Interview =/
cheesy cut text not by me =|
FYI, i only scanned the interview. no pics sorry - they've already been posted HERE by ehs_wildcats
it's tl;dr - so you've been warned.
hardcore zefron fans only =)
interview, zac efron
Agyness Deyn and Albert Hammond Jr. Break Up
Ok, ladies. So we lost newly married Ryan Adams, but it looks like the dating world has gained back another New York-based musician.
According to New York Magazine’s Jada Yuan, the romance between Albert Hammond Jr. and model Agyness Deyn has officially ended.
The couple in happier, more photoshoot-y times.
new_yawk_punk
Holy Howl
Taylor Lautner walking through the streets of Vancouver with as much swagger as Travolta in Saturday Night Fever
prettypertelote
Hey Ya'll, Chris Brown is beat too: Emotionally.
People have mellowed out on putting in their two cents on the Chris Brown and Rihanna scandal lately. But this weekend two different people spoke up on the issue, and had very different input.
Chris’ close friend Tyrese spoke with People over the weekend and said, "Although he appears to be really strong through all of this, it's really taking a toll on his spirit.
"People like me and Puff, we're just trying to show him love and keep his spirits up while he's going through all of the heat, and there are a lot of people doing the same for Rihanna."
Tyrese went on to say that despite the public thinking Chris is over the situation, he’s not. He says, "It's really hard for him to focus right now on his music, even though he really wants to.
"At the end of the day, I'm not trying to justify it because wrong is wrong, but unfortunately, us as entertainers, we have to grow up on stage with a lot of people looking at us. And a lot of people forget that he's 19, she's only 21."
On the other end of the spectrum, professional martial artist Din Thomas had some choice words for Chris, and they were anything but supportive. He told the crowd during a match on Sunday, "It’s not cool to put your hands on a woman. So Rihanna, if you want someone to kick his a**, holler at me."
Yikes! We wouldn’t want to be in the ring with that guy! But the fact of the matter is, everyone has their own opinion about the situation, and none of it matters. Chris will get whatever the judge thinks is necessary when he’s arraigned April 6th.
I think the world is scrutinizing him for his seeming lack of remorse. I personally feel like we want shame to ooze from his pores***.
chris brown, domestic disturbia 09
doperty
FYI: THAT'S NOT TENNESSEE THOMAS.
Mark Ronson and his rock chick girl share a tender kiss... by the dustbins
Last updated at 3:10 PM on 23rd March 2009
When the passion strikes, you have to act on the moment - as Mark Ronson illustrated in public fashion with his rocker girlfriend outside a pub.
It wasn't the most romantic of locations, but Tennesse Thomas, drummer with American band The Like, didn't mind the view.
The couple were so intent on locking lips they didn't seem to notice they were sitting next to a row of wheelie bins.
Heating up: Mark Ronson and girlfriend Tennesse Thomas lock mouths in a less-than-romantic setting
And more pictures at THE SUN.
hardcoresince3
Dita on the cover of Inked magazine
The article is really long but I bolded some parts for the tl;dr crowd
nirvana; big cheese
dita von teese, magazine covers and articles
DirecTV brings back cancelled shows
DirecTV has inked a deal to broadcast the short-lived TV series Eyes, Smith and The Nine — unaired episodes and all.
A Ray Liotta-fronted drama about an all-star ensemble of master thieves, Smith served up just three episodes during its original CBS run. But starting April 8, DirecTV's 101 Network will unspool all seven produced episodes, airing Wednesday nights at 10 pm/ET.
Next, The Nine will get its due. The serialized drama about the hostages of a bank robbery will have all 13 of its episodes, including four hours never seen on ABC, air on DirecTV starting May 27. The Nine's cast included Tim Daly (now a star of Private Practice), Kim Raver (in her first après-24 outing) and Scott Wolf.
Perhaps the biggest treat is in store for fans of Daly's other underappreciated TV gig, Eyes. Come July, all 12 episodes of that series — seven of which never saw the light of day — will air on DirecTV every Wednesday at 9 pm. Interestingly, Kate Walsh guested on Eyes before it got pulled, establishing a chemistry with Daly that Private Practice has (with varying degrees of success) tried to capitalize on.
All three of DirecTV's acquired series will be presented in hi-def and without commercial interruption.
I'm still waiting on Eli Stone
lauramhepp
Sick Pussy
Due to the illness of lead singer Nicole Scherzinger, The Pussycat Dolls are canceling tonight's performance at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, NY.
Britney Spears' performance will proceed as planned. Britney and her camp wish Nicole a speedy recovery!
Source: http://www.britneyspears.com/2009/03/pussycat-dolls-not-performing-tonight-in-ny.php
nicole scherzinger / pussycat dolls
atwtfanforever
Colleen Zenk Pinter who plays Barabra on "As The World Turns" Oral Cancer Has Come Back
Colleen Zenk Pinter's Battle with Cancer
The popular soap actress reveals the biggest challenge of her life–oral cancerBy Colleen Zenk Pinter, as told to Micki Siegel Posted March 18, 2009 from Woman’s Day; April 14, 2009
The cameras were rolling and I was trying to say my lines, but I knew I sounded like I'd had a stroke. For the last 30 years I've been playing Barbara Ryan, a feisty woman who's never at a loss for words, on As the World Turns. But now I couldn't get the words out clearly.
Viewers started writing to the show and flooding fan websites, wondering why I sounded so awful. I knew I owed them an explanation, but I just wasn't ready. I was still digesting the bad news.
On March 5, 2007–my daughter Georgia's 14th birthday–I found out that I had oral cancer. Stage 2 squamous cell carcinoma, to be exact. I remember leaving the doctor's office, picking up Georgia's birthday cake, wrapping some presents and hosting a party as if nothing had happened. I was in shock.
I thought most people who got oral cancer were men who smoked and drank heavily, and I don't fall into any of those categories. But I learned that I was probably among the fastest-growing group of oral cancer patients, because my illness was most likely caused by HPV-16, a strain of a common sexually transmitted virus that can also cause cervical cancer.
http://www.womansday.com/Articles/Health/Conditions-Diseases/Colleen-Zenk-Pinter-s-Battle-with-Cancer.html
health problems, soap opera
vougestar
Christina Aguilera & Hubby at Hamasaku restuarant on March 21, 2009
Christina Aguilera and Jordan Bratman dine out together at Hamasaku restuarant on March 21, 2009.
starlacomet
We Energies sues Dustin Diamond over utility bills
By Mike Johnson of the Journal Sentinel
Posted: Mar. 23, 2009 3:32 p.m.
Port Washington - Looks like Dustin Diamond, who played geeky Screech Powers in the teen sitcom "Saved by the Bell," may be in a financial pinch again.
Diamond, 32, is being sued in Ozaukee County Circuit Court by We Energies over non-payment of $2,079.40 in utility bills at his home on Grandview Drive in Port Washington.
The suit, filed in small claims court, says Diamond racked up the charges on or before Feb. 4. Diamond has until April 15 to respond to the suit.
The one-time child actor isn't a stranger to Ozaukee County courts.
In 2006, Diamond faced losing his $340,000 home under a foreclosure order filed in Ozaukee County Circuit Court. At the time, the order demanded that he come up with the remaining $272,000 he owed under a land contract.
Diamond had said the land contract - in which the buyer agrees to make an initial payment and regular subsequent payments until the full price is paid - was one of the few options available for him in 2003 because of a bad credit record, which included a 2001 bankruptcy filing in California.
At one point, Diamond called on fans to help bail him out by buying T-shirts that said, "I paid $15.00 to save Screech's house."
Some people claimed they paid for, but never got the shirts.
Diamond ultimately was able to secure a $284,000 adjustable-rate mortgage and the foreclosure lawsuit was dismissed.
In November, Ford Motor Credit Co. sued Diamond in Ozaukee County court to recover a 2005 Ford Expedition.
A default judgment was entered in January in favor of Ford, allowing it to repossess the vehicle, according to online court records.
Diamond could not be reached for comment.
msofarc
Moviefone's 15 Questions with Seth Rogen
For years, you knew Seth Rogen as the wisecracking sidekick in comedies like 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' and the TV show 'Freaks and Geeks.' But then came lead roles in 'Knocked Up' and 'Pineapple Express,' and suddenly, Rogen is -- dare we say it? -- hot, starring in not one but three big '09 movies: the animated 'Monsters vs. Aliens' and comedies 'Observe and Report' and 'Funny People.'
He's appeared on the covers of Vanity Fair and Playboy, hit the SXSW and talk-show circuit ... Heck, he's even got Lindsay Lohan complaining that he won't call her back.
Even with so much on his plate, the former stand-up comedian good-naturedly fields our questions about his various movie projects (including the much-anticipated 'Green Hornet'), his newly svelte figure and the shocking revelation that he may, in fact, be sexier than Brad Pitt.
-- By Patricia Chui
1. In 'Monsters vs. Aliens,' you play B.O.B., a monster who doesn't have a brain. Was that a big stretch for you?
I've done it several times. It was just one more for the canon. [Laughs]
Inside Hilary Duff's SVU Shoot - SPOILERS!
Inside Hilary Duff's SVU Shoot
Squeaky-clean pop princess Hilary Duff will have some very racy scenes in her upcoming episode of Law and Order: SVU, according to on-set snitches.
SPOILER ALERT! Don't read on if you don't want to know what happens this season!
hilary duff, television
u_are_so_funny
Pics of Aubrey showing Omarion her playboy magazine cover
Omarion has finally joined the “It only took me umpteen years to cut my braids off” club:
blueskin
This Week's New CD and DVD Releases
The following CDs and DVDs come out tomorrow, except Twilight which came out this past Saturday.
Basia "It's That Girl Again"
Blue October "Approaching Normal"
Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles "The Stars Are Out"
Eric Church "Carolina"
Coheed & Cambria "Neverender: Children of the Fence Edition (Limited Edition 4 CD/5 DVD)"
The 400 Blows
Andy Richter Controls The Universe: Comp Series
Babylon Culture
The Cake Eaters
Pink Floyd- Learning to Fly(Live)
cd / video / home media releases
Jennifer Aniston ended relationship with John Mayer because of his Twitter 'obsession'
People claiming to be friends of the actress have told Star magazine that she finished the affair after discovering Mayer, 31, spent hours on the networking website, despite telling her he was too busy to get in touch with her.
A source claimed Aniston decided Mayer was not committed enough to her and called time on their romance having found hourly updates on his Twitter page.
The source said: "John suddenly stopped calling her or returning her emails and when she would finally catch up with him, he'd say: 'I've been so busy with work. I'm sorry I haven't had time to call you back."
The source added: "Jen was fuming. There he was, telling her he didn't have time for her and yet his page was filled with Twitter updates.
"Every few hours, sometimes minutes, he'd update with some stupid line. And in her mind, she was like 'He has time for all this Twittering, but he can't send me a text, an email, make a call?'."
It has also been claimed musician John made no attempt to cover up his Twitters.
The source said: "He didn't even deny it. He knew he was avoiding her. So when she called him on it and ended things, he just said OK, and that he was sorry it didn't work out.
"He took the break-up like a man." Even so, shortly after Aniston's call, Mayer's Twitter update read: 'This heart didn't come with instructions.'
True or not, this is hilarious.
celebrity social media, jennifer aniston, john mayer
jackdonovan
David Archuleta song leaked from studio!
Check it out! it's awesomeness! Checked ONTD and I didnt seen any other postings.
Here's some video footage I got from his concert at the marquee theatre in tempe, az
allisonlynn0122
Why aren't the police doing anything about this??
Kim Kardashian wants her Twitter name back
She has called the company to complain about all the Kimposters
Reality star Kim Kardashian is taking aim at the paparazzi and on a mission to reclaim her identity on Twitter.
Last week, Kardashian came to the defense of Lindsay Lohan following the “Mean Girls” star’s short-lived arrest warrant and weekend of police and paparazzi outside of girlfriend Samantha Ronson’s home. During a new interview with Access Hollywood, Kardashian explained why she spoke out.
The reality star said that if she can’t get her name back on Twitter, that she has a plan to ensure her fans read about the real Kim Kardashian.
“I’m trying to at least get my name back cause I should at least have my name,” Kim added. “They’re Twittering under ‘Kim Kardashian.’ Maybe (I’ll pick) ‘The Real Kim K’ or I’ll make up some name that I can use.”
Also, everyone needs to watch this video:
celebrity social media, kardashian / jenner, reality show celebrity
nastyposition
Sidewalks interview BoA
Two weeks ago, BoA fans flooded the Sidewalks TV blog site to submit their questions for BoA. Though not everything could be asked, interviewer Christina Lee has picked out about 40 questions out of the 700 submitted. BoA was asked questions such as, "Why is there no ballads on your album?" and whether BoA would cover her past Japanese or Korean songs on future projects. But most important of all, we find out her celebrity crush and what friends she keeps in contact with within her music company.
UPDATE: YouTube video available!!
Sidewalks confirm part 2 & 3 hitting the web soon.
Her debut album is amazing <3! What do you think of it, ONTD?
i did it for love - boa (ft. sean garret)
cpop / jpop / kpop
timandnorah
Seth Rogan would consider working with Lindsay Lohan, but hasn't recieved a call
Seth Rogen says he’s never had a call from Lindsay Lohan regarding a possible work project.
“That’s not true - I never got a call from anyone that works for her,” the actor said at the Los Angeles premiere of his new animated film Monsters Vs Aliens.
Lindsay apparently claimed in the latest issue of Nylon magazine that she was looking to get the Canadian star involved in a future acting project, but “Seth won’t call us back”.
So, would the actor be returning Lindsay’s calls in the future?
“If it was a work related thing, yeah definitely,” he said. Seth provides the voice of alien B.O.B in the new Dreamworks film, which also stars Reese Witherspoon and Hugh Laurie.
“He’s a brainless blue mass as I’ve been at times so I can relate,” joked the Superbad star.
Seth also expressed his delight at becoming only the ninth man ever to grace the cover of Playboy magazine - he appears in the April issue.
“It was fun,” he said. “It’s not every guy that gets asked to do that so I figured I had to do it.”
Seth should be so honored to work with someone with so much potential.
Shawnee Smith returns in saw 6
"We've found out some brand new info, which you can read all about inside! A piece of news we've been sitting on for quite some time now is that Shawnee Smith is set to return as Amanda in Lionsgate's Saw VI. While we were trying to get more info, Twisted Pictures producer Mark Burg told Official Saw the following. "Shawnee Smith [as Amanda] is in Saw VI. There are several new characters. Also, this movie is a lot more violent than the previous five. Lastly, we have traps that pit victims against each other like the opening of Saw V. Could be the best script yet!" What we learned on our lonesome is that Shawnee will be returning in a flashback, possibly in old footage. We have not confirmed that she will actually set foot in Toronto for filming later this month. Saw VI hits theaters October 23.
Bloody-Disgusting learned exclusively this evening that Shawnee Smith will in fact be filming brand new scenes for Lionsgate's Saw VI. All of her scenes will be flashback sequences (because she's dead), while the biggest news is that she will play a major role in the outcome of the film.
Shawnee sets foot in Toronto March 30th, the first day of shooting.
This is pretty big news considering she was one of the main factors in my distaste for Saw V. Shawnee is to Jigsaw as Robin to Batman -- only there are no "holy rusted metal" lines in the works... or are there? Jigsaw does work in mysterious ways.
flowerings
Hoops, Obama lift CBS in rating
Network wins Sunday night in demos, viewers
By RICK KISSELL
The conclusion of some nail-biter college basketball tournament games and Steve Kroft's interview with President Obama on "60 Minutes" carried CBS to a strong Sunday in the ratings, winning in both demos and total viewers. ABC's "Desperate Housewives" remained the night's top entertainment series.
Reliable Nielsen estimates weren't available Monday for particular CBS programs, since basketball ran in much of the country until about 7:50 p.m., but "60 Minutes" is expected to be the night's most-watched program with more than 16 million viewers. The basketball action, which included second-round playoff games such as Michigan State against USC and Missouri against Marquette, also averaged more than 15 million viewers to dominate the opening hour of primetime.
Among entertainment programs, ABC was the top draw in the 7 o'clock hour with "America's Funniest Home Videos" (1.9/6 in 18-49, 7.1 million viewers overall) and at 8 o'clock with "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" (3.1/8 in 18-49, 10.0 million viewers overall). And jumping sharply from there, "Desperate Housewives" dominated at 9 p.m. (4.9/12 in 18-49, 14.7 million viewers overall), though it was down slightly week to week, and "Brothers & Sisters" kept the net on top in demos during primetime's final hour (3.5/9 in 18-49, 10.4 million viewers overall).
At Fox, "The Simpsons" (3.0/8 in 18-49, 6.2 million viewers overall) and "King of the Hill" (2.6/7 in 18-49, 5.5 million viewers overall) were up a tick week to week, while "Family Guy" (3.7/9 in 18-49, 7.4 million viewers overall) and "American Dad" (2.9/7 in 18-49, 5.8 million viewers overall) were flat week to week.
NBC was up at 7 p.m. with "Dateline" (1.5/5 in 18-49, 6.6 million viewers overall) but dipped at 8 o'clock with the second week of drama "Kings" (1.3/3 in 18-49, 4.6 million viewers overall) :'(, which ran a distant fourth among the broadcast nets. From 9 to 11 p.m., "Celebrity Apprentice" (2.9/7 in 18-49, 7.3 million viewers overall) was down from its prior average but up a tick vs. last week's one-hour edition.
Mods, I didn't see yesterday's ratings posted, and I was bored. ♥
ratings / charts
j_k_m
I honestly didn't think there were this many MG fans on ONTD
"When it's actually a television broadcast that celebrates actual Canadian music, rather than who's doing well internationally and has been in car commercials and iPod commercials ... I'll go,"
award show and discussion
bonitaquetal
Better late than never..
Who did my friends and I meet?
guess who, saturday night live (nbc)
goldaline87
Actors And Their Sad History of Tiny Paydays
Lindsay might be selling herself on the Italian market to pay the bills these days, but plenty of celebrities don't wait until they are famous before showing up in commercials.
(-12:00 time mark)
Most people know Emerson as the shadowy Ben from ABC's Lost, but this 1992 educational video for the Federal Bureau of Prisons reveals that America's favorite anti-hero once did hard time. Makes sense.
LOL. Oh Ben.
beaute__exquise
PHOTO POST!
mr_tv
Keri Hilson - "Knock You Down" feat. Kanye West & Ne-Yo
i would like to say as a guy, i fucking love this song
couturified
Miley Cyrus goes to In N Out!
Miley Cyrus cruised to In & Out burger this afternoon with her sister Brandi in her convertible, while Mammie Loretta sat in the back with the wind whipping through her hair. After, they all headed over to a recording studio in Burbank.
Jason Segel on Fresh Air
Jason Segel: The Best Man For The Job
Fresh Air from WHYY, March 23, 2009 · Actor and writer Jason Segel plays a sexist, slovenly slacker from Venice Beach in the new "bromantic" comedy I Love You Man.
The film stars Paul Rudd as a man on a quest to find a best man for his wedding. After embarking on a series of "man-dates," he decides on Segel's character.
Segel's previous credits include roles in the TV series Freaks And Geeks and How I Met Your Mother. He also wrote and starred in the film Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Listen at the sauce or download here.
I forgot the new HIMYM started at 8 D:
Summit's official cast annoucement for New Moon
More new actors officially confirmed.
nandayarou
Brad sleeps with the nanny and Angie kicks the crap out of him
Ohh man. So. I just thought this was too funny not to share.
Source: Me, my phone camera, and the newstand a block away from my school. Ooh I already feel ashamed for posting this. /headdesk
(There were also several pics of Jesus Luz dancing at a club with some girl in another magazine, btw. Man that woman looks ugly as hell imo.)
angelina jolie, brad pitt, magazine covers and articles
indy788
omg yay.
WB taps archive for DVD service
Studio opens vault to home viewers
Warner Bros. is opening its vault -- which contains more than 5,000 films
never made available on DVD -- to home viewers.
The studio's Home Entertainment Group is launching a branded
manufacturing-on-demand operation, offering films and TV titles whose limited
sales potential have prevented a traditional retail release.
Starting today, consumers can order 150 classic Warner movies for $19.95 each
at new studio site WarnerArchive.com. The studio will ship a made-to-order
DVD, in a shrink-wrapped case with cover art, to consumers within five days of
Some of the new-to-DVD titles listed at WarnerArchive.com include "Possessed,"
starring Clark Gable and Joan Crawford; "Once Upon a Honeymoon," with Cary Grant
and Ginger Rogers; and "All Fall Down," with Warren Beatty and Eva Marie Saint.
Others include "Sunrise at Campobello," "The Citadel" and "Mr. Lucky."
Warner intends to add 20 classic films and TV episodes each month to the MOD
service, dubbed Warner Archive Collection, and expects 300 titles will be
available by the end of the year.
and SOURCE
o hale yes.
film, old hollywood
pseudo_shigure
N.E.R.D. Is AWOL After Malaysia Ordeal
World-renowned hip-hop group N.E.R.D. cancelled a planned Sunday night concert in Jakarta after band members were allegedly threatened with jail by Malaysian authorities and feared a repeat situation in Indonesia.
According to a press statement released by Java Festival Production and Urbanite-Sinjitos on Sunday, Malaysian authorities had twice denied N.E.R.D. — an acronym for No One Ever Really Die s — permission to perform at the Sunburst Kuala Lumpur International Music Festival for fear the band would offend Malaysians.
The statement said N.E.R.D. was eventually allowed to enter Malaysia and was not prevented from performing at the festival.
“But when they finished their repertoires, all of their passports were confiscated. This is a very bad precedent,” it said.
Michael Jackson wants a new baby
MICHAEL JACKSON is planning to adopt a child while staying in Britain for his sell-out concerts. He is said to feel he is an “ideal” adoptive parent.
michael jackson / jackson family
piscesvstaurus
'Parks and Recreation': Poor audience test results are normal, NBC's Ben Silverman says
Reports of poor test results for NBC's new sitcom Parks and Recreation hit the web today but NBC Entertainment co-chair Ben Silverman tells EW these kinds of negative responses are not unusual for a new series. "All of the research we do around initial rough cuts is negative," Silverman says. "If you had seen the initial research on all of ours and our competitors' successful shows, it tends to be like that." Silverman says he has "no idea" how the test reports were leaked. Parks and Recreation, which stars Amy Poehler and comes from The Office's Greg Daniels and Mike Schur, premieres on April 9. Poehler plays Leslie Knope, an ambitious but clueless parks department employee who hopes to rise within the local government of Pawnee, Ind. Rashida Jones and Aziz Ansari costar.
Daniels and Schur were originally assigned to pen an Office spin-off for NBC but developed Parks and Recreation instead. Silverman says, though, that he is still definitely interested in pursuing a spin-off of the Steve Carrell comedy series.
b_mckinley
Weekly Spoiler Chat!
So mad I missed GG tonight
Beyonce - Single Ladies
gossip girl (cw), heroes (nbc), lost (abc), television, the office (nbc)
foreverxromance
Bridget Marquardt filming Bridget's Sexiest Beaches
Continuing her romp around the globe, Bridget Marquardt was back out for more filming of her new reality show "Bridget's Sexiest Beaches" on Monday afternoon (March 23).
The former "Girls Next Door" star hopped into a figure-revealing black swimsuit as she playfully posed for the cameras while lounging next to the pool.
, playboy / girls next door, reality show celebrity
Madonna's next single is rumored to be...
LOL WHAT
Demi Moore is urging a terminally ill fan not to have plastic surgery to look like her.
sometimes_mbv
ryan & scarlett candids
Scarjo at Heathrow's airport in London today:
and Ryan walking their puppy in LA
source & source
la_petite_singe
Ciaran Hinds rumored to be cast as Aberforth Dumbledore
It is being reported that Ciaran Hinds has been cast in the role of Aberforth Dumbledore for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
When reached by MuggleNet, Warner Bros. neither confirmed nor denied the rumor. We'll keep you posted as more information becomes available. No word yet on if the goat from Order of the Phoenix will reprise its role in the final films.
OHSHIT, I hope this is true. He's awesome. These movies, I swear--bad writing, AWESOME casting.
A.R. Rahman - Jai Ho | Powered by Last.fm
Another GND related post
Taking a break from her dancing duties, Holly Madison hosted an evening at Prive nightclub inside Planet Hollywood Resort Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on Saturday night (March 21).
The former "Girls Next Door" star teamed up with fellow Playboy beauty Alison Waite, as the two greeted Sin City revelers for a night of drinking and getting down on the dancefloor.
Lost 5x10, Sky One promo
Just....disappear, Kate!
lost (abc)
masterofmystery
Jacko invites a few friends to his UK concert.
I had to keep the photo the Sun used.
MICHAEL JACKSON has invited the young stars of the Harry Potter films to be access all areas guests at the opening night of his sellout summer shows.
Aren’t they a bit old for him?
DANIEL RADCLIFFE, 19, EMMA WATSON, 18, and RUPERT GRINT, 20, have been handed the chance to moonwalk through security to watch the most eagerly anticipated gig since Live 8.
Millions of Jacko fans will be wishing they could borrow an invisibility cloak to help them sneak backstage at the O2 on July 8.
A source said: “Michael is a huge fan of the Harry Potter books and films.
“He was utterly enchanted by the magic of JK ROWLING’s novels. The tales of Harry and his pals in the books gripped him, he has followed them all religiously.
“He is a big admirer of the films too, he owns all the movies and he has bought memorabilia for his collection.
“He has also shown an interest in going to the premiere for the final instalment of the Potter films.”
harry potter, michael jackson / jackson family
donskii
Queen Cheryl Cole and Kimberley Walsh missing out on Girls Aloud rehearsals
They hiked up Kilimanjaro for charity, but Cheryl Cole and Kimberley Walsh are finding the rocky road to recovery even harder.
They are suffering from exhaustion - throwing rehearsals for the Girls Aloud tour into chaos. Ignoring advice to rest for two weeks after the climb, they began filming the video for new single Untouchable. But it was too much, too soon. We hear:" They were due to start rehearsing with a choreographer.
"But Sarah, Nadine and Nicola have had to start without them. "They are all such workaholics, getting them to relax is a struggle."
pls rest, Chezza!
Girls Aloud - Untouchable
PR season 5 winner comments on Cat Throwing Kenley
Pictured Above: The crazy puta being escorted out of the apartment by the popo
"Winner Leanne Marshall said the incident proves the Bravo show did not distort reality.
"This should put a clear answer to the question I am most frequently asked, 'Was Kenley really that awful, or was she just edited like that?' "
Marshall told the Post. "When she got angry, I knew to keep my distance. Clearly, she needs therapy."
But though Collins frequently displayed her temper on camera and on the set, she never actually became violent.
"I feel a little sorry for her that she can't control her emotions and behavior, but on the other hand, absolutely nothing excuses physical violence and throwing a poor, defenseless kitty at someone who is sleeping," Marshall said. "I feel bad for the cat, the bruised apples [OP's note: What the fuck?] and Zak."
Gunn and supermodel co-host Heidi Klum declined to comment on her behavior."
Previous posts if you still don't know what happened:
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/33274944.html
project runway (lifetime)
iamcheryltweedy
~spotlight on Lou Rawls, y'all~
The revival of soul, 50 years after Motown
As the legendary Motown label turns 50, soul music is back and booming, ever since British diva Amy Winehouse hit world charts two years ago.
"While the Winehouse phenomenon kick-started the commercial resurgence of soul, the roots of the revival are older, dating back to the turn of the millennium," said Sebastian Danchin, an expert on Afro-American culture and author of the "Encyclopaedia of Rhythm & Blues and Soul."
dear ONTD, please discuss your favorite old-school and modern soul singers/labels/songs/albums/etc in this post.
irapatherappa
Random entry about Computer Generated characters.
New Astro Boy Promo Image
Source:MTV
MTV has premiered a new promo image for Summit Entertainment's Astro Boy, coming to theaters on October 23. Directed by David Bowers, the animated sci-fi adventure is voiced by Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Nathan Lane, Bill Nighy, Eugene Levy, Matt Lucus and Donald Sutherland.
Click the image*lj-cut* below to view the full pic, and for more info, go here.
I already made a post before detailing which voice actor is playing what.
Don't know where to find it?
cartoon / children's show, film
leviicorpus
GG 2x20 Promo, "Remains of the J"
I need caps of Chuck's bitchface at the end - it's macro time! Anyone? Even though I should be writing a 10 page paper that's due tomorrow morning.
ETA: thank you, shim_shim!
gossip girl (cw)
hoyay2327
The HBIC will return to primetime
Roseanne Barr is looking to return to primetime.
The star of ABC's long-running sitcom has teamed with one of the "Roseanne" producers, Caryn Mandabach, for a family comedy in which she would play the matriarch.
Jim Vallely ("Arrested Development") is attached to pen the script for the project, which has been pitched to Fox. He would executive produce with Mandabach, Maggie Rowe and Barr.
After her eponymous sitcom ended its nine-year run in 1997, Barr fronted a syndicated talk show and a reality series for ABC. Since then, she has made numerous guest appearances on a variety of primetime sitcoms, including "3rd Rock from the Sun," "The Nanny" and "My Name is Earl." Now she's returning to her scripted comedy roots.
Howie Day - Collide
roseanne, television
nirey
Amanda Fucking Palmer!
Saturday at the House of Blues in Houston.
angi_is_altered
A.V. interviews Zoë Bell
AVC: Angel Of Death is also a reunion with Lucy Lawless for you. How does it feel acting opposite her, as opposed to doing her stunt work?
ZB: Our relationship hasn’t changed at all. I mean, it’s obviously a change, acting opposite her, and it’s interesting to be doing things with her instead of for her—but the relationship we have is still pretty good. What she had to offer me is that she was there supporting me as a fellow actor. [Laughs.] I can’t believe I said that. But it was really fun; it was the first time we’ve both been in front of the camera at the same time. Usually I’d just wait for her to say her lines, and then we’d switch out so I could get beat up.
its_miley
THIS IS A DENIS LEARY POST
Denis Leary to Release New Song, Launch Comedy Tour
Comedian-actor Denis Leary will release the song “At the Rehab,” March 24 on COMEDY CENTRAL Records. The Rescue Me star recorded the song with his band, The Enablers and calls out by name pop culture icons and their rampant substance abuse to an up-tempo calypso beat. The single is digital-only and will be available exclusively through iTunes for the first two weeks.
Leary will also launch the Rescue Me Comedy Tour March 21 in Atlantic City. The fifth season of Rescue Me will premiere April 7 on FX.
Listen to song “At the Rehab”:: http://go.thesyn.com/denisleary/index.html
Rescue Me Comedy Tour Dates
3/28 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun
4/2 New York, NY Radio City
4/4 Los Angeles, CA Nokia Theatre
4/9 Dallas, TX Nokia Theatre
4/11 Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre
4/18 Atlanta, GA Fox Theatre
4/21 Clearwater, FL Ruth Eckerd Hall
4/23 Orlando, FL Bob Carr PAC
4/26 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Hard Rock
4/29 Philadelphia, PA Tower
Menage-a-Denis On New Season of "Rescue Me"
Denis Leary will have three - count ’em, three! - women fighting over him in the new season of “Rescue Me” when his hit dramedy returns to FX next month.
“I believe wholeheartedly that this will be the best season yet,” she said.
comedy / comedian, concert / tour dates, television
zulkey
Andy Richter reveals!
Turns out he knew he'd be back on Conan the night of the final episode:
AVC: What was the mood like on the final episode of Conan?
AR: It was melancholy, but still pretty jubilant. It was odd for me, too, because I secretly knew that I was coming back, and not many people there knew I was coming back, so for me, I was kind of—it was exciting, just the notion of getting back into it. But some of the entire crew and staff stayed behind to do Jimmy Fallon’s show, some of the people retired. Very few people were left in the lurch in between. A lot of the people were sad it was ending, but excited about the new thing. But you know, there’s just a lot of people moving from New York to California. Mostly what I was doing was just answering questions about how long does it take to drive from Calabasas to Burbank. So I think it was kind of unexpected closure with all kinds of other stuff going on. I don’t think in large meta ways about things—but I was sitting in the makeup chair getting ready, and the title credits came on, and the opening music came on, and I said to the people in makeup, “Holy shit, this really is the last Late Night With Conan O’Brien.” It didn’t hit me until it was already on. I knew he was taking over The Tonight Show, and I had a couple of years to get used to that idea, but I never really thought about that meaning that the other show was going to end. I just was thinking about the new thing. I think there’s also a lot of disbelief over it being 16 years. Just—15 or 16 years, that’s a long goddamn time to be on the air.
Much, much more at the source.
If you haven't seen "Andy Richter Controls the Universe" you should, now that it's out on DVD. HITLERRRR!!!!
conan o'brien, interview
Carmen Electra Topless in Maxim Mexico Magazine (March 2009)
nudes / nsfw / nip slips
xifour
Marilyn Manson brings in the new era with picture and song.
Marilyn Manson sheds his skin once again as his upcoming seventh album,
The High End of Low, approaches its release date on May 19th.
Manson has no intentions of keeping his fans waiting, this Friday March 27th,
Manson will start off the new era with a free download of, We're from America.
The song will be available for download on his official website marilynmanson.com
Source = www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl
annaed884
Transcript of the "shocking" finale of Jon & Kate Plus 8
Mods, source is before the cut
The last 3 minutes or so, the producer asked them what the show has done for the kids, and they mention the opportunities it gave them to give the kids things they never thought they'd be able to or something like that. Then he asked what it has been like for them.
The full transcript is under a cut. It's a lot, so a summary of it is: Kate really wants to do season 5, but Jon seems like he doesn't want to do it anymore. He hates not being able to go out anymore, and he brings up going out, and people taking your picture and "doing all they can to do something", but that's as far as he'll go on the topic.
It ends with Jon saying "Maybe there will be a season 5, maybe there won't".
Full awkwardness under cut.
Source: My TV and my boredom
*P.S. I would have video, but YouTube is being dumb
jon and kate gosselin
Colin Quinn and Other SNL Alums To Join Salma Hayek In New Adam Sandler Film
Salma Hayek, Maya Rudolph and Colin Quinn have joined the cast of the untitled Adam Sandler comedy at Columbia Pictures.
Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider and David Spade have already boarded the project, which revolves around five best friends from high school who reunite 30 years later on a Fourth of July weekend.
Hayek will play the wife of Sandler's character and Rudolph will portray Rock's spouse.
Dennis Dugan is onboard to direct the pic, which is scheduled to begin lensing in the summer. Sandler penned the screenplay with "Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star" scribe Fred Wolf.
The untitled pic is shaping up to be a reunion for "Saturday Night Live" alums. Former castmembers Rudolph and Quinn join Sandler, Rock, Schneider, Spade and Wolf, who all spent time on the long-running series.
Sandler's Sony-based Happy Madison shingle is producing.
Hayek, who has a recurring role on NBC's "30 Rock," will next be seen in Universal Pictures' "Cirque du Freak."
omgg. I've been waiting forever to submit a Colin Quinn post to ONTD. This is the first time ever I found some recent news about him! ily Colin!
Denis Leary::Rehab
film, saturday night live (nbc)
Margaret Cho - info and song from new album plus tour info
Eat Shit and Die
Margaret is working on an album of comedy songs for release in 2010. You can follow her progress, get free downloads and video here: http://www.margaretcho.com/guitarded/
Enter your email address to get a free download of a live version of "Eat Shit and Die," a song she is working on with Grant Lee Phillips!
If you're in LA, come see Margaret perform some of her songs live, along with Grant Lee Phillips, Susie Suh & Garrison Starr at Largo tomorrow night, March 24th at 8:30pm!
Nashville Shows Rescheduled
We regret that we needed to reschedule Margaret's May shows at Zanies in Nashville, TN, due to a scheduling conflict with her new "Drop Dead Diva" series for Lifetime, which will be shooting from April - Aug. All tickets purchased for the May Zanies shows will be transferable to the new dates in September, or can also be refunded at point of purchase. Please call Zanies in Nashville with any ticket questions (615-269-0221). Sorry for the inconvenience!
Upcoming Cho Shows
See Margaret LIVE as she works on material for a new stand up tour and develops new songs for her album at shows around the country. Visit the Tour Page to get ticket info for the following shows:
Mar 24 Fingerbang @ Largo - Los Angeles, CA
Mar 28 Co-hosting The GayVNs - San Fran, CA
Apr 3 The Dinah - Palm Springs, CA
Apr 4 Treasure Island Casino - Red Wing, MN
Sept 10 Zanies - Nashville, TN
Oct 30 Aqua Caliente Casino - Rancho Mirage, CA
Source: My email & Margaret's MySpace
Here's the song.
asian celebrities, comedy / comedian, concert / tour dates, music / musician
mauichic
Amanda Seyfried OUT of Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch
Zack Snyder just lost his leading lady. According to Entertainment Weekly, Amanda Seyfried (Jennifer’s Body, Mama Mia) won’t headline Snyder’s action fantasy film Sucker Punch after all due to “scheduling conflicts”.
Snyder has called the film “Alice in Wonderland with machine guns”, an R-Rated $100 million budgeted 1950’s-period action movie which tells the story of a girl named Baby Doll (the role Seyfried was originally set to play) who is confined to a mental institution by her evil stepfather, who intends to have her lobotomized in five days. While imprisoned, she imagines an alternative reality to hide her from the pain. In this fantasy world, where she needs to steal five objects to help her out before she is deflowered by a vile man.
Last we heard that Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical), Abbie Cornish (Stop-Loss), Evan Rachel Wood (The Wrestler, Across The Universe), and Emma Stone (Superbad) would play Seyfried’s fellow inmates who also travel into the alternate reality. Seyfriend was scheduled to complete work on Chloe this week, but HBO won’t release her from her Big Love commitment, which will be in the middle of filming its fourth season when Sucker Punch goes into production this fall.
It will be interesting to see how this project proceeds, especially in a post-Watchmen world where Snyder is no longer hailed as the same post-300 box office god. I wouldn’t be surprised if studio executives are now pushing for a bigger name to be cast in the lead role. Warner Bros has already announced a October 8th 2010 release date for Sucker Punch.
*So, who would YOU want to see take over Amanda's part? I say maybe Mila Kunis or Emily Browning?*
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Clinical and Pathologic Response of Barrett's Esophagus to Laparoscopic Antireflux Surgery
Brant K. Oelschlager, Marc Barreca, Lilly Chang, Dmitry Oleynikov, Carlos A. Pellegrini, John Hunter, Tom R. DeMeester
Summary Background Data: Patients with Barrett's esophagus (BE) are frequently offered laparoscopic antireflux surgery (LARS) to treat symptoms. The effectiveness of this operation with regards to symptoms and to the evolution of the columnar-lined epithelium remains controversial. Methods: We analyzed the course of 106 consecutive patients with BE who underwent LARS between 1994 and 2000, representing 14% of all LARS (754) performed in our institution during that period. All 106 patients agreed to clinical follow-up in 2002 at 40 months (median; range, 12-95 months). Fifty-three patients (50%) agreed to functional evaluation (manometry and 24-hour pH monitoring); 90 patients (85%) to thorough endoscopy, with appropriate biopsies and histologic evaluation to determine the status of BE. Results: Heartburn improved in 94 (96%) of 98 and resolved in 69 patients (70%) after LARS. Regurgitation improved in 58 (84%) of 69 and dysphagia improved in 27 (82%) of 33. Distal esophageal acid exposure improved in 48 (91%) of 53 patients tested and returned to normal in 39 patients (74%). One patient underwent reoperation 2 days after fundoplication (gastric perforation). Preoperatively, biopsy revealed BE without dysplasia in 91 patients, BE indefinite for dysplasia in 12 patients, and low-grade dysplasia in 3 patients. Fifty-four of the 90 patients with endoscopic follow-up had short-segment BE (3cm) preoperatively. Postoperatively, endoscopy and pathology revealed complete regression of intestinal metaplasia (absence of any sign suggestive of BE) in 30 (55%) of 54 patients with short-segment BE but in 0 of 36 of those with long-segment BE. Among patients with complete regression, 89% of those tested with pH monitoring had normal esophageal acid exposure. This was observed in 69% of those who failed to have complete regression. One patient developed adenocarcinoma within 10 months of LARS. Conclusions: In patients with BE, LARS provides excellent control of symptoms and esophageal acid exposure. Moreover, intestinal metaplasia regressed in the majority of patients who had short-segment BE and normal pH monitoring following LARS, a fact that was, heretofore, not appreciated. LARS should be recommended to patients with BE to quell symptoms and to prevent the development of cancer.
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Metaplasia
Fundoplication
Oelschlager, B. K., Barreca, M., Chang, L., Oleynikov, D., Pellegrini, C. A., Hunter, J., & DeMeester, T. R. (2003). Clinical and Pathologic Response of Barrett's Esophagus to Laparoscopic Antireflux Surgery. Annals of Surgery, 238(4), 458-466.
Clinical and Pathologic Response of Barrett's Esophagus to Laparoscopic Antireflux Surgery. / Oelschlager, Brant K.; Barreca, Marc; Chang, Lilly; Oleynikov, Dmitry; Pellegrini, Carlos A.; Hunter, John; DeMeester, Tom R.
Oelschlager, BK, Barreca, M, Chang, L, Oleynikov, D, Pellegrini, CA, Hunter, J & DeMeester, TR 2003, 'Clinical and Pathologic Response of Barrett's Esophagus to Laparoscopic Antireflux Surgery', Annals of Surgery, vol. 238, no. 4, pp. 458-466.
Oelschlager BK, Barreca M, Chang L, Oleynikov D, Pellegrini CA, Hunter J et al. Clinical and Pathologic Response of Barrett's Esophagus to Laparoscopic Antireflux Surgery. Annals of Surgery. 2003 Oct;238(4):458-466.
Oelschlager, Brant K. ; Barreca, Marc ; Chang, Lilly ; Oleynikov, Dmitry ; Pellegrini, Carlos A. ; Hunter, John ; DeMeester, Tom R. / Clinical and Pathologic Response of Barrett's Esophagus to Laparoscopic Antireflux Surgery. In: Annals of Surgery. 2003 ; Vol. 238, No. 4. pp. 458-466.
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Generalized Fractional Programming with User Interaction
S. Ilker Birbil, J. B. G. Frenk and Shuzhong Zhang
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Equivalent Results in Minimax Theory
J. B. G. Frenk, G. Kassay and J. Kolumbán
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Mining Frequent Intemsets in Memory-Resident Databases
Wim Pijls and Jan C. Bioch
Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Centre for Computers and Law
The Algorithmic Complexity of Modular Decomposition
Jan C. Bioch
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Centre for Computers and Law
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Chrysalis 20.4
Posted on March 30, 2013 by wildbow
From the moment Charlotte had sent her text, I’d been bracing myself for the worst case scenario. I’d resolved the situation with Greg, and I’d had just enough time to let my guard down before things started falling apart for real.
A guard stopped me in my tracks before I was three steps out of the office, arresting me mid-stride by setting his hands on my shoulders.
I resisted the urge to fight him. I wasn’t sure I could, without a weapon, my armor or powers, and it threatened to make the situation worse. He peered down at me, but I averted my eyes, staring down at the ground so he couldn’t get a straight look at my face.
“No running, kid,” he said.
He let me go, and I resisted the urge to breathe a sigh of relief.
My thoughts were a mess, a jumble of half-finished thoughts, ten times worse than it had been earlier in the day. Somehow, in the midst of it, I managed to establish a few priorities. Slip out, get rid of evidence, assess the threat, and then address it.
I walked slower. I had the papers I’d removed from the clipboard, and I started tearing them up as soon as the guard had disappeared through the doors of the office.
On a more strategic level, I drew on a share of the handful of bugs in the school to get a sense of my surroundings. I’d be letting people know Skitter was present, if they noticed the odd movements of the flies and ants, but I had good reason to believe someone already knew.
Either the people after me were the good guys, and it didn’t matter if I clued them in, or it was one of my other enemies, and the heroes showing up could be a good thing.
Arcadia High consisted of two longer buildings joined by a third, joining them to form something like a capital ‘H’. The main office, where I was, and all the other administrative and staff-related facilities seemed to be located around the center. The only exits from this immediate area would open into an open space where I would be surrounded by walls lined with windows, all looking down at me. Worse, the doors all had the heavy horizontal bars that suggested they were emergency exits, and an alarm would sound if I used them.
Assuming I had someone after me, I couldn’t afford to put myself in that position.
That left me two options. I could head into the building to my left, which featured four stories of classrooms, the cafeteria and a gymnasium, with a door that led to the student parking lot at the front of the school, or I could head right, into a building that was much the same, though longer, with an auditorium and the front doors of the school in close proximity to one another, and quite a few more classrooms.
I headed for the front door, to my right, depositing the scraps of paper in a trashcan on my way. I moved as fast as I could without drawing undue attention, discreetly placing bugs on all of the guards I could find.
I stopped in my tracks as my bugs made contact with two other individuals. Adamant and Sere were in the company of two guards, moving from the front door to the intersection immediately in front of me.
Making a sharp right, I headed for the stairwell, ducking away before they could advance far enough ahead to get a glimpse of me. I’d worried they were making a beeline straight for me, but they stopped at the junction where the two hallways met. I was already reaching the hallway below. The guidance counselor’s office and staff meeting rooms sat behind floor-to-ceiling windows with the same glass that the exterior windows had: hexagon-shaped cells blending near-seamlessly into one another. Looking straight at it, I couldn’t tell the difference, but the light caught each cell differently if I viewed it at certain angles, making them stand out. Measures against Shatterbird?
Behind one of the windows, I could see two guidance counsellors sitting in a circle with a dozen students. Nobody, not even the guard who was standing on the other side of the glass door, gave me more than a glance.
The exterior windows of the building were all securely closed. The building was cool despite being a greenhouse of sorts, but it made getting my bugs into the building a difficult matter, and that left me with a relatively small swarm. I gauged the number of bugs I could spare, and situated the less mobile bugs on doors and at the points where the walls met the floor or ceiling. I might have preferred a denser collection, to map out my surroundings, but it gave me a sketchy mental picture of how the hallways were laid out.
A small cloud of flies was only now reaching the front office, slipping inside as a student opened the door, navigating between legs and feet to make their way to the principal’s office.
Listening in required conscious thought, but I’d been working on training my brain to follow human speech with the insects’ alien hearing. It was easier, the more I had nearby, but I’d have to make do.
“…fight on my campus…” she spoke into the phone.
I had some information now, for as long as she was on the phone. Not much, and it required me to divert some focus to translating, but it was something.
“…of my students are …ly sensitive … to … them feel unsafe…”
It was an unfamiliar school, and while I had a basic sense of the layout, particularly on the exterior, the interior was something of a hurdle. The hallway I was on ended in short staircases at either end, each of which led up to the main hallways of the larger buildings. I made my way towards the one furthest from Sere and Adamant.
“…if that’s an order… yes… fine…”
The principal hung up the phone, placing it on her desk. She didn’t act right away. I quickened my pace.
The bugs I had on her pant legs informed me that she was swiveling around. I had to think about the layout of her office before it clicked. The computer.
I was at the top of the stairs, the door that led to the parking lot at my left, when the signal went through. Every single guard in the building reacted in the same moment, as did Adamant and Sere. Some withdrew things from their pockets -phones, I could guess-, while others were already kicking into action.
It wasn’t just the guards. The bugs I had on classroom doors informed me of some students slipping out of class. Two students, both boys.
My enemy was the Protectorate, or someone with strong connections in the Protectorate. Nobody else would be able to pull this.
Guards stepped into the building and shut the doors behind them. The heavy, mechanical sound of the doors locking echoed down the hall around me; the doors leading outside were all being sealed shut.
The gate at the front of the school was closed, and a guard was heading for the chain-link barrier at the edge of the parking lot as well.
Could I run? Maybe. Fight my way past the guards? It was possible. I could cloak myself in bugs, use my limited repertoire to disguise myself, to disable and/or distract them while fighting my way outside. Could I get to the end of the parking lot in time? That, too, wasn’t impossible.
All together? With barely a hundred bugs available? I wasn’t so sure. Any fight took time, it involved a risk to myself, and I wasn’t wearing my costume. If any of the guards had a weapon they’d confiscated or if one of the capes in the area caught up with me, I’d be more than screwed.
I didn’t have any bugs on my person. I’d been concerned about a pat-down at the gate, and I didn’t want to have bugs crawling throughout the inside of my pant leg or in my pockets when a guard searched me for weapons. I wasn’t wearing my costume for much the same reason. Stupid of me.
I was stuck.
“May I have your attention please?” Principal Howell’s voice sounded from speakers throughout the school. “The school is now being locked down. For your own safety, please remain in your classrooms. Students not in an assigned classroom should proceed in a calm and orderly fashion to the nearest seating area. Students in the north wing of the school will need to make their way to the auditorium. Students in the south wing should gather in the cafeteria. Remain calm and rest assured: there is no immediate danger.“
The noose was constricting around me. The students would be contained in select areas, and classrooms would be cleared one by one. If the Protectorate was involved, I wasn’t even sure I could find a proper hiding spot. Didn’t Kid Win have some ability to see through walls or detect heat signatures with his goggles?
The two boys had reached a room on the bottom floor, near the gymnasium, and were quickly changing into their costumes. Clockblocker and Kid Win.
What did the good guys know? They’d been alerted that I was in the school. I’d been in the office only minutes ago, and the principal had put my name into the computer. That was probably the catalyst, given how fast things had proceeded in the minutes since. The principal got the phone call, and had ordered the lockdown as a consequence. The fact that she’d warned me, it didn’t jibe with the lockdown: she probably hadn’t wanted to do it.
It struck me that they didn’t know that I was in the school now.
Inside of the building, I was largely defenseless. Outside, I did have my bugs. I doubted I could get out without drawing attention, but I could theoretically get them to call off the lockdown.
My bugs moved from the surrounding blocks and collected near one of the fire doors I’d noted earlier. They formed into a decoy, a rough copy of my general silhouette, covered in bugs, and then began moving toward the school gates.
One of the guards standing by the auditorium saw and shouted for Sere. The white-shrouded hero hurried for the door.
Sere was a long ranged cape, probably capable of killing my swarm with little difficulty. I split my swarm off into further copies, maintaining their movement towards the gate and the walls.
Another announcement was broadcast throughout the school. “A supervillain is currently near the school entrance. Students in the central areas of the school should relocate to the cafeteria. Anyone already in a secure place should please remain where they are.”
The office was emptying, now, and guards were breaking away from their groups to ensure that every student that had been sitting around in the hallways was moving to the appropriate areas. Emma was among the forty or fifty students heading toward the cafeteria, nestled in the midst of the group, while the principal followed at the rear with two guards in her company.
Behind me, the guidance office was evacuating as well. The glass door opened, and the soundproof seal broke. I could hear one of the counselors speaking to the twelve or so teenagers around him. “Let’s go to the cafeteria. If this takes a while, we’ll at least be able to eat.”
He spotted me and gestured for me to join the group.
I could have argued and asked to go to the auditorium instead. There were any number of excuses that could have worked, including ‘I have an issue with one of the students who’s in the cafeteria’.
But I was more interested in being invisible. Better to play along, to think of a plan and execute it, while doing as little as possible to draw attention to myself. Here, at least, I’d be hidden among others. I joined the crowd moving in the direction of the cafeteria.
More guards were directing other students to the cafeteria, the groups merging into a single mass, with the cafeteria doors as the bottleneck. Inside, everyone was spreading out to find tables. Again, I noted the distinction between the two varieties of student. The bright and cheerful ones were collecting together, filling up every space at the tables closest to the door and to the front of the cafeteria, where all of the food was available. Others were spreading out, alone or in groups of two to five.
The principal and other staff members were standing by the door, seeing that everyone filed peacefully into the room. Emma was sitting at one table with all of the secretaries and a few of the teachers who I supposed hadn’t had a class to teach. She glared at me as I walked into the room.
I found Charlotte, too, identifying her by the cube of paper with the ladybug inside that I had my more prominent minions carrying these days.
“Taylor!” she hissed, as I made my way towards a table at the back of the room.
I was dimly aware of Sere striking down one of the decoys. The moisture in the air zipped to his hand, and nearly half of the decoy was ruined, the bugs dazed or unable to move.
The spiders, I noted, suffered worse than most. They used a kind of biological hydraulic system to move. Shit. I liked my spiders. They were particularly useful.
I reached Charlotte and murmured, “Best if you don’t know me.”
“Hey, Taylor,” she hissed the words, twisting around in her seat. When I didn’t reply, she repeated herself, “Hey. Is this about you?”
“I think so,” I muttered.
I took a seat at a table near the back, folding my arms in front of me and resting my chin on the back of my hands. Staying out of sight, while keeping an eye on everything. It also allowed me to focus on my swarm.
My bugs were discreetly tracing back routes and other options. Was there a place where the cafeteria staff unloaded the day’s food? Some back way leading from, say, a gym or custodial entrance? A way onto the roof, even? I didn’t have enough bugs to spare that I could leave them on walls. I was forced to personally memorize every corridor and feature of the building that might be important.
Outside, Sere was working at destroying my decoys. I split off more copies, and then moved one group to him to see if I could blind him.
The bugs were being sucked dry of moisture as they got too close to Sere; I wouldn’t be able to disable him with just my swarm. He drew more water from a cloud of bugs, desiccating and killing hundreds.
The number that died was indicative of something, though. As devastating as the attack was, the effect didn’t cover a massive area. It was a roughly cone-shaped area, with a long reach, but narrow breadth.
If he was surrounded by moisture, maybe I could use that against him? My flying bugs started doing bombing runs. They picked up small stones and dirt, using the fine tarsals that helped them cling to walls. There wasn’t the suction, but it served to allow them to pick up specks at a time. They flew in tight loops, staying high over Sere as they dropped the fragments, touched ground to collect more dirt, and repeated the process. I was careful to spread them out and collect the fragments from multiple places so he couldn’t kill too many at a time.
Dense moisture and dirt could become a thin mud, and it might serve to blind him or distract him where my bugs couldn’t.
In the cafeteria, another group of students was filing inside. Fifty or sixty in all, they each bore telltale signs of the kids who’d stayed. Many were drenched in sweat, and the teacher with them held a basketball. Had they been in the gym, burning off nervous energy, working on building social bonds and all that?
There were maybe three or four hundred people in the cafeteria, now, as students from all over the school streamed in, including most of the ones from the auditorium. With the increasing number of students, it was impossible for anyone to have a table to themselves. A group of three boys claimed the far end of Charlotte’s table, and she stood up.
She had issues around unfamiliar men. It might have served as a push for her to do what she’d been debating doing anyways. She joined me at my table, sitting close enough that our shoulders touched.
“What’s going on?” she whispered.
“You know when Tattletale vetted everybody?” I whispered back.
Charlotte nodded.
“She made a list of names, some vetted people along with some others who were safe. Mixing it up. She gave the list to the principal, with the idea that maybe she could cut us some slack and we’d help keep the peace in the school in exchange. So she had an idea that I was related to the Undersiders, she told me to run and hinted someone might be after me,” I said.
Charlotte nodded again, mute.
“I tried,” I whispered, “but I couldn’t cover enough ground in time. Someone forced her hand and ordered her to put the school on lockdown. I can’t slip out without drawing attention to myself, I’m not in a position to fight, and it’s only a matter of time before they find me.”
“Shit,” she said.
“Exactly,” I said. “I won’t blame you if you want to move somewhere else.”
“I’ll stay,” she said.
“Char-”
“I’ll stay,” she repeated.
I relented. I couldn’t afford to focus on this, when I needed to control my bugs and memorize any possible escape routes or hiding places. “If anything happens, get clear. You don’t know me. Your ‘little brother’ is counting on you, and he should be your priority.”
“Little brother?” she asked. I saw the realization as she remembered our code word. ‘Little brother’ referred to all the kids in her charge.
“Oh. Right,” she said.
Kid Win was making a beeline for the front door. I clustered bugs on the surface of the door, blocking his line of sight as much as I was able.
It didn’t work. The thermal goggles. Which means he can tell there’s no body inside any of the decoys. He pushed the door open and shouted, “Sere!”
That was about as far as he got before my bugs descended on him, filling his open mouth.
“What are you going to do?” Charlotte asked. With the degree of attention that I was devoting to what was going on, she sounded almost distant.
Even with the murmuring of hundreds or so students conversing, the cafeteria was eerily still and quiet compared to what was going on outside. Adamant was standing at the doorway to the auditorium, simultaneously trying to keep an eye on the stray students from the north building and the fighting outside. Clockblocker was making his way to the front. He was slightly different; he wore what seemed to be a gauntlet, out of proportion with the rest of his body.
“I have a few options,” I whispered my response. “I could be aggressive, take on the people at the door. I think I could slip away.”
“Why didn’t you do that already?”
“They were too guarded, and they were anticipating trouble from within the building. My bugs are causing some chaos outside, now, and they’ll have their backs turned. I’ll have time to improvise a mask, which I didn’t, before.”
“You have to get out of the cafeteria first.”
“I’m not too worried about that,” I said. “There’s two or three possible escape routes I’ve been able to find, if I can get my hands on a set of keys or create a big enough distraction to get away with making some noise. The principal has my back, and she might make it easier. I’d ask her for a key, but I’m not sure she would be willing to risk it, and there’s too many people around her.”
Including Emma, I noted. One person I could count on to pay attention to me.
“What if she’s the one who made the call to these people who are after you?”
The principal? I shook my head. “Her priority is keeping this school and its students safe. Besides, I overheard her communicating with someone on the phone. If she was playing both sides, there’d be no reason for her to maintain the ruse when I wasn’t anywhere nearby.”
“Unless she knew you could hear through your bugs,” Charlotte added.
“Unless she knows,” I echoed her. “I don’t think she does.”
Kid Win was suffering at the hands of my swarm. He drew a weapon, but my swarm was already prepared with lengths of silk. They constricted the weapon and prevented it from unfolding. Sere, for his part, had his hands full trying to take down the decoys. A large part of what I was concentrating on was the decoys, getting enough details right, and splitting them off in a way that suggested I could be any of them, while simultaneously keeping them far enough apart that he couldn’t attack more than one at once.
“Taylor,” Charlotte whispered. “If they know who you are, they know. They could find you again, or put your face on the news.”
“If they did, it would be breaking a good few unwritten rules. Especially if they only knew who I was because I helped with the Echidna situation. They can’t afford to punish villains for helping against the big threats. It would mean fewer people showed, and they need all the help they can get. Here, at least, they could say I was intruding on neutral ground.”
The explanation felt feeble.
“It doesn’t make sense,” Charlotte whispered, echoing my line of thinking. “Doing it here, at a school, with so many potential hostages around. Breaking the code?”
“I’m thinking…” I replied, “I’m thinking everyone knows the Protectorate is falling apart. Legend’s gone, Eidolon’s announced he’s leaving as soon as things get quieter, the head of the PRT stepped down, a whole bunch of rank and file members left, and so did Weld and a lot of the more monstrous capes. Maybe there’s pressure from the top to put one in the win column, remind people why the Protectorate exists.”
And who better to take down than the creepy teenage supervillain who’s leading the team that took over a city?
“But in a school?”
I didn’t have any guesses to offer on that count. I focused on the fighting outside instead of responding.
Getting too close to Sere was killing my bugs just as easily as his long ranged absorption attack. I had to attack him from range, and the rain of dirt and small stones wasn’t doing anything, as far as I could tell.
I turned to a tactic that had crossed my mind while fighting Echidna. She, like Sere, had been tricky to get close to. Unlike Sere, she’d been too big to really tie up.
Spiders drew out lines of silk and formed them into cords, weaving them into one another to form extended lines, fifty or so feet long. With the combined efforts of dozens of flying insects, half gripping one end and half gripping the other, the lines were flown in Sere’s direction, so he was caught by the middle.
The bugs holding the ends then continued onward, keeping the cord taut as they circled him, one group flying clockwise, the other flying in the opposite direction. In this manner, they orbited him, winding him up in a single length of cord.
With five cords being wound around him in that fashion, I soon had him hampered, his arms and legs restricted in movement.
He kept moving forward, attacking my decoys. As he passed a signpost, I hurried to have my bugs wind the remaining lengths of cord around it. Lines went taut, cords constricted around him, and he fell. He struggled, but it didn’t seem he would be on his feet anytime soon.
With Kid Win on the ground, thrashing, that was two down.
The other two, I was pretty sure I could deal with them if it came down to it. I wasn’t sure what Clockblocker’s glove did, but I had a suspicion. Adamant’s armor was just begging to have silk cords wind through the chain links and armor plates.
My bugs rifled through Kid Win’s pouches and armor compartments. Masses of bugs and teams of the larger, stronger bugs working to pull silk cords helped to divest him of various tinker tools and components. His smart phone, a cylinder with a trigger on the front and a button on top, a sphere with a hole through the center, with screw-like rifling and electrical connectors in the interior. There were two devices like tuning forks, too, with tines that wound around one another without touching, and wires beneath the handles. Bugs in his ears helped to work an ear bud out of position and carry it off.
Once he was denied as many of his tools as I could move, I dragged them away. It was only when I was sure that he wouldn’t be able to use them against the swarm or against me that I eased up on him. I let my bugs drift in the general direction my decoys had gone, as though I were leaving or gone.
He stood, gagging and choking. Sere wasn’t in sight, and I’d taken Kid Win’s phone. There was only one place for him to go if he wanted to communicate with the others and touch base. He headed back into the school.
I was ready. Bugs flowed out of his pockets, gaps in his armor and from where they’d clustered at the small of his back. I tied his wrist to the door handle.
It took him a long few seconds to realize the door wouldn’t swing shut until he moved. That bought the remainder of my swarm time to turn around and flow through the open entryway. They headed straight for the guards, and swept into their pockets the same way they had with Kid Win’s pouches.
Keys? Yes.
While Kid Win and the guards were blinded, my bugs fetched the keys.
I stood from the bench of the lunch table. “I think I’m set.”
“Just like that?” Charlotte asked.
I looked at the front of the room, where other students were feeling hunger and teenage appetites overcoming their fear of what was going on elsewhere in the school. Only a dozen or so. Maybe they don’t have a steady supply of food where they are, I mused. There were areas of town which weren’t in good shape.
There’re pizza slices, I noted. It was a reminder of how the day wasn’t going as I’d planned.
“It shouldn’t be a problem,” I said. Get out, then see what Tattletale can manage as far as damage control. “Wish me luck. I’ll send you a message and meet you at the lair after school if everything goes according to plan.”
I crossed the cafeteria, heading for the buffet tables and sneezeguard-protected counters with empty trays waiting to be filled by staff. Emma was at her table, I noted, surrounded by secretaries and teachers. I was joined by other hungry students, eager for their free food, and their bodies helped to block me from the sight of both Emma and the staff.
Confidence, I thought. I stepped around the counter and through the doors that led into the kitchen. Confidence made it look like I knew what I was doing; being furtive would only arouse suspicion. My bugs were still carrying the keys, bringing them along an air vent. I’d need to find a way to open a vent cover and retrieve them, but it was among the smallest of the problems I’d face today.
I found a door to the outside. My bugs clustered on the other side, my hand pressing against my own, separated by an inch and a half of door. I glanced over my shoulder to make sure I hadn’t been followed, then started looking for a way into the air conditioning duct.
The smallest of the problems I’d face today.
There was an impact, heavy enough that the lights flickered. Even the bugs I’d gathered on the door were knocked loose, both by the force of the landing and the flying dust and debris.
Right outside the door.
I didn’t need to move my bugs to search out the identity of this antagonist.
A figure strode through the swarm of bugs. He tapped the door with the end of his weapon, and the breath was knocked out of me. Every bug within thirty feet of the door died, including the ones in the air conditioning duct.
I was still reeling as he pushed against the door. It was deadbolted, but the metal of the door’s surface buckled, and it tore free of the frame.
He was wearing armor, forest green and gold, with the stylings of a lizard’s frills or bat wings on the trim, and a faint etching of scales to the green portions. His spear, too, bore a distinctive design, with an etching like a lizard’s skull worked into the heavy spearhead.
He advanced, his spear point leveled at my chest, and I backed up, maintaining a distance between us. To do otherwise would mean letting him drive the weapon into my chest.
On the other side of the campus, another heavy armored suit touched ground, somewhat more gently.
He stopped when we were at the front of the cafeteria. I kept backing up, knowing it was futile. Dragon had exited the other suit, and was using a jetpack to navigate the hallway, flying towards us with an accuracy and ease of movement that belied how fast she was moving.
I didn’t have an escape route. The woman stopped directly behind me, at the entrance to the cafeteria.
“Dragon,” I said. “And Armsmaster.”
“The name is Defiant,” Armsmaster corrected me. His voice had a funny sound to it.
“Skitter,” Dragon answered me, loud enough for everyone to hear. Her voice was almost gentle. “I’m sorry it worked out this way. My hand was forced.”
This entry was posted in 20.04 and tagged Adamant, Armsmaster, Charlotte, Clockblocker, Defiant, Dragon, Kid Win, Sere, Taylor by wildbow. Bookmark the permalink.
471 thoughts on “Chrysalis 20.4”
By popular request, I’ve added notes to the table of contents to mark which interlude features which character. In one or two instances (Grue) I’ve been particularly vague or chosen to use the civilian name over the cape name, because knowing in advance could shape how the chapter is read.
Thanks for reading, guys. Have a happy Easter weekend if you’re celebrating, and a happy non-Easter weekend if you’re not.
Psycho Gecko on March 30, 2013 at 05:49 said:
Happy Eostre, you egg-sucking rabbit-eaters!
Toast on March 30, 2013 at 08:13 said:
That’s unfair.
Rabit is *delicious.*
TheAnt on March 30, 2013 at 14:40 said:
I wonder if there are any lame holiday themed villains in the Wormverse. Beware the Evil Bunny!
For Valentine’s: The Massacre
For St. Patrick’s Day: LepreKhan, the Irish-Mongol Warlord
Mardi-Gras: Evil Beadle
Easter: The Easter Weasel
Dia de Los Muertos: Catrina and her henchminions, la Calaveras (I might use this one actually)
Boxing Day: The Pay Puncher
las* Calaveras
Christmas: Red Slay
Horatio Von Becker on September 11, 2014 at 12:42 said:
Eh, why not.
July Fourth: The Detonator
Christmas: Twelfth Knight
Arbor Day: Treehug
Gilgamesh on October 16, 2018 at 03:26 said:
Labor Day: Josef Stalin
Hey, we have lame holiday themes villains too!
Veloren on March 30, 2013 at 20:39 said:
April Fools: Poison D’Avril.
Dis on March 31, 2013 at 18:00 said:
heeeyo!
Please, April Fools will be none other than Psycho Gecko.
World Weaver on January 2, 2018 at 08:40 said:
TOOOOOOO TRUE!
Fake Name on March 30, 2013 at 00:02 said:
In the cast page, under Lung it says ” At the most extreme end of his transformation, he is capable of trading blows with an Endbringer, though he has only participated in one such fight.”
Does this mean Lung actually fought an Endbringer once, or does it mean he’s only fully transformed once?
Also- how did Dauntless die? Did it happen offscreen, or have I just forgotten about it?
I’ve also been wondering about how far the Simurgh’s precognition runs. I remember vaguely something about other precogs being able to screw up her power. Did she see far enough ahead to be able to set up Echidna hitting Brockton Bay specifically, or was she just able to set things up enough to start the process of turning Noelle into a monster without knowing specifically how and when and where the damage would occur? I would assume Dinah and Coil’s powers negate the Simurghs influence.
If Tattletale got in range of Scion, would she discover that he had similar physiology to the Endbringers and never was human? Ok, I don’t actually expect you to answer that one- I just wanted to throw out something I’ve been thinking of.
I know none of this really had anything to do with the current chapter- I just figured I’d get a better chance of a reply if I put it up early.
I try to reply whenever I’m able. If I don’t, it’s less that it’s up at the wrong time and more that I’m just busy/distracted.
Lung fought an Endbringer once. Dauntless died onscreen. Can’t comment on the Simurgh or Tattletale; I don’t answer those sorts of question, regardless of how on or off target it is. A direct refusal/acknowledgement would be spoiler-ish. Acknowledging that there is or isn’t a spoiler is spoiler-ish.
> I don’t answer those sorts of question, regardless of how on or off target it is.
Like I said, I didn’t expect an answer. Just wanted to throw it out there, cause I had been thinking about those things.
Ok, I misunderstood. Thought you were asking twice because you were really keen on an answer.
Pandemonious Ivy on March 30, 2013 at 01:43 said:
Would you be able to tell us which Endbringer fought Lung? Or the outcome? (Obviously Lung didn’t win, but he could’ve run, been incapacitated, etc) Ignore me if it’s spoilerish, just been curious about that myself since I read the Hive arc earlier.
greatwyrmgold on July 29, 2013 at 12:16 said:
Lung survived. Against an Endbringer, that’s a victory. He obviously won.
Fane on March 30, 2013 at 03:30 said:
Re: confirming the existence of spoilers is spoilerish — reminded me of a time travel game’s “Further information not available here” (Continuum? i think the name was, there’s a copy or two on scribd, anyway)
throwaawy on March 30, 2013 at 01:35 said:
dauntless and two other capes got frozen in time by a bakuda bomb(tm) launched by miss militia. although it was mostly leviathan’s fault they got stuck in there, but i wonder if that counted as friendly fire…?
I don’t know if he technically died or if he’s just moving so slow that Brockton Bay will have crumbled by the time he exits the bubble.
How much is time slowed in that bubble, anyways? And what happens if someone tries to go in?
randomsoul2 on March 30, 2013 at 00:10 said:
Yay, Dragon and Armsmaster. Gotta love how little robots/androids/cyborgs are bothered by bugs…
I wonder how much control Sere has over the amount of moisture his shots drain.
Loki-L on March 30, 2013 at 02:13 said:
They are presumably more vulnerable than Mannequin was and this time it is not Skitter who has a whole bunch of innocent hostages to protect during the fight.
mc2rpg on March 30, 2013 at 09:15 said:
On the other hand Skitter is in some serious shit if she actually threatens all those innocent hostages. She also doesn’t seem to have enough of a swarm inside the building for such a threat to really get off the ground.
He was referring to the hostages Mannequin had.
And yeah, the lack of a swarm is an option.
How much time do you think Taylor could buy by feigning ignorance about being Skitter? None or almost none?
Aside from that…she may be screwed.
The Sandman on March 30, 2013 at 00:11 said:
Ah. Looks like somebody with authority gave Dragon some orders, and that little restriction is buried deep enough in her code that Armsmaster hasn’t been able to remove it yet.
This is, shall we say, unfortunate.
Assuming Armsmaster actually would have wanted to remove it. Maybe he was able to implement an override but didn’t trigger it for this case because he doesn’t like Skitter. Or maybe he took the opportunity to create some sort of authority to himself and was the one who gave the order to attack Skitter.
Afterall whatever restrictions Dragon is under Armsmaster is there of his own free will.
Armsmaster being there of his own free will would mean that he blew off hunting down the core of the Slaughterhouse Nine in order to attack a cape who he’s known to have personal issues with while she was in her civilian identity and not causing any particular trouble. If nothing else, it would be an atrocious move from a PR standpoint, and if there’s one thing Mr. Mostly Armless knows it’s the importance of PR.
So I find it more likely he was given orders, and his current “totally not violating the terms of my house arrest I swear” status means that he really can’t afford to openly disobey anyone who outranks him.
I’m thinking now that it must be Cauldron behind this. They’ve got the motive (several motives, when it comes to Skitter) and the ability to break the ‘unwritten rules’ in this kind of way.
And I’m thinking that Dragon isn’t beholden to Cauldron, and would, if forced to obey it, perform perverse genie-like twistings of its orders to the degree that it stopped ordering her around.
I can imagine her doing the same here anyways. If her programming allows it. We don’t know how she’s programmed; Dragon might be forced to obey the spirit of the command, and be forced to misinterpret that somehow.
Channels, Toast. Cauldron’s name doesn’t need to be on the writ. All they have to do is push a little in the right direction. Which is what I meant by “ability to break the unwritten rules”.
xdrngy on April 1, 2013 at 01:37 said:
so… everyone’s curious about the same things I am… interesting…
I know earlier Dragon was curious to talk to Skitter, she may have decided Skitter’s trying to be a force for good, and there may be a chance she can control all the plant-incarnated 9 now running around – they have simpler minds, hopefully. Anyway, I’m guessing ulterior motive, not just wanting her arrested.
I’m not sure he would if he could. He might.
“With five cords being wound around him in that fashion, I soon had him hampered, his rms and legs restricted in movement.”
Missing ‘a’ in arms.
Nice chapter. Didn’t think it really would be Dragon.
Spellchecker, ye have failed me.
Yog on March 30, 2013 at 00:11 said:
So in the end Armsmaster did mindrape Dragon into submission. Shame.
And now it’s off to Birdcage with you, Skitter!
Personally, I would take all the kids hostage. Or make a big political statement, like disclosing the Cauldron protectorate and their dirty secrets. Just as a final f*ck you.
But that’s me.
Oh, well. We’ll see what Taylor does.
Don’t see the mindrape thing – it’s more likely that ‘forced her hand’ refers to something else.
I mostly infer this from Defiant’s attitude. I get a feeling that he’s not against being here and now putting Skitter down.
He bloody well should be. He should be too ashamed to be within 100 yards of her.
Which is why I believe him to be at least complicit in this, if not actively helping the Cauldron.
Random Lurker on March 30, 2013 at 00:26 said:
I really don’t think Colin mind-raped Dragon. It just seems he hasn’t yet been successful in taking out those Three Laws subroutines. Taylor’s probably right about someone wanting to make a statement, and forcing this to happen.
If Taylor does go with the disclosure of Cauldron route, it might actually save her, as it could suddenly turn the PRT into a non-legitimate authority, letting Dragon defy them.
But Taylor doesn’t know any of this, sadly.
re: authority — You know, she specifically noted that it was ‘local’ authority, if I remember right. Skitter might qualify.
Dread Pirate on February 27, 2018 at 12:35 said:
Oh, that would be beautiful!
wouldn’t it be somewhat amusing if during their time together, dragon actually instilled a sense of moderate compassion in def-master and he’s actually there to HELP skitter?
sure he probably still doesn’t trust her, but he also didnt immediately shoot her with a grappling-hook….tinker…thing..
maybe there’s hope for him yet?
Pinkhair on March 30, 2013 at 02:13 said:
Well, his idea of helping her may well be to fill her with cybernetics.
Maybe. Or maybe his bug zapper takes up so much space he didn’t have room for that other tinker thing.
Gnarker on March 30, 2013 at 03:01 said:
Not likely. Miniaturization and always having his entire loadout on him is his specialty.
rmctagg09 on March 30, 2013 at 00:14 said:
Whelp, I guess we’re all taking a trip to the Birdcage.
endgame on March 30, 2013 at 00:36 said:
Jailbreak?
Doubtful. The ‘ride to jail’ break has been done a few times already, story-wise, and the Birdcage is not something I see the Undersiders successfully defeating – especially without Skitter.
A few possibilities. 1a. She goes to jail and stays there until Armageddon, and the story follows her exploits trying to not die from the nasties in there. She’d be completely powerless, no doubt. With interludes from the rest of the Undersiders building the power base without her – or not. I really don’t want to see this one happening. 1b. She goes to the birdcage, but someone or something else breaks her out. Not particularly fond of this scenario either; Catwoman already went there in the last Batman movie.
2. She talks down or defeats the cyber-duo, somehow. Maybe Char sends a message to the rest of the Undersiders?
3. She goes to trial, and Tattletale social-fu’s the trial, getting her released.
4. Godzilla attacks right now.
Tricky for Char to send a message from within a Faraday cage.
Or. Or. Damn, this just clicked for me. Cauldron wants Skitter – or at least Eidolon and Alexandria pushed for it.
There’s so many reasons. Not least is that Coil was supposedly their Great White Hope… now whose shoulders does that fall on? Do they want revenge, or just to know what happened/why he’s dead/how she did it? Do they want her help somehow? Do they want her head on a wall?
Iunno, but I do know they have a lot of reasons to want her for something. And they could have put a hit on her, so to speak, through channels Dragon would have to respect.
*Conservation of Detail*
all—every single one—of the interludes have focused on people who were important to the MAIN STORY in some way.
marquis straddles the line because his backstory was important for panacea’s downfall, but there is ALOT of detail put into the politics of the birdcage.
canary is there for… what? in no way does she contribute to the main story…
…until now?
my vote is skitter going to birdcage.
I think you’re probably right, but to play devil’s advocate, I should point out that (a) the initial Marquis interlude not only set wheels in motion re: Panacea, but demonstrated Simurgh involvement and (b) the Canary interlude showed you the fate of Lung and Bakuda’s as well as introducing Dragon as a character.
Both those interludes served important story purposes even if the main story never ends up in the Birdcage…
Throwaway- what do you send into a coal mine ahead of you? A canary.
I agree, it’s a strong possibility she goes into the cage. I just hate it enough to wish for a Godzilla attack instead.
I’m putting Birdcage on an equal probability with a chat from Cauldron, though. Or maybe some combination of the two.
alexanderthesoso on March 31, 2013 at 02:23 said:
you know, if the birdcage really is a softball sized thing somewhere, I wonder how being shrunken effects her range.
Presumably the same way it affects the range of teleporters and such.
Don, we still dont know what produces the samples. What if they are extracts from some kind of insect?>
Bobby on March 30, 2013 at 00:15 said:
Arcadia High consisted of two longer buildings joined by a third, complete with a building that joined them, forming something like a capital ‘H’.
So wait, is that three or four buildings total?
Three. Reworded. Thanks.
soulpelt on March 30, 2013 at 00:15 said:
I was right! 😀
Why Dragon?! This wil not turn out good, no not at all. Well atleast Emma might get her mind blown by this…..but Danny is in trouble….God what will he think of his daughter being Skitter?! Poor man just might have a trigger event. xD No i’mma get some sleep and see what PG will have to say…..
Individuo on March 30, 2013 at 00:22 said:
I see some hostages for skitter, i mean, there is a whole caffeteria of them XD. And i think we know who will be the first one.
Armsmaster brought a deluxe bug zapper this time. Skitter’s essentially defenseless.
Wow, is that a game breaker, by the way. Now that this tech is shown to be possible in-universe, Skitter is screwed. By anyone who can make or buy a zapper. “Oh, Skitter, are you trying to stop me??” zap “Die.”
She might as well retire. Oh, wait, that’s out of her hands.
he’s had the bug zapper since the PRT banquet/fundraiser thingy
the only way she was able to stop it was to put a non-conducting material between it and the surface he was grounding it on… unfortunately the only one she had at the time was the silk in her costume….
Not the same thing. This one’s area affect.
so was the last one, he’s just doubled its range (15>30ft AOE)… which is probably a neat trick on its own
That would require Armsmaster to sell his tech at a cheap price. And for Skitter not to adapt new tactics. “Die. Hey, what’s wrong with the button?”
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razorsmile on March 30, 2013 at 22:11 said:
Made of win.
Hydrargentium on March 31, 2013 at 04:17 said:
Truthseeker on March 30, 2013 at 13:26 said:
Jerden on March 31, 2013 at 18:01 said:
Ah, and this is why the comments section loves the Gecko.
That’s…interesting. Step 4 is probably my favorite, with my least favorite bit being that last other pamphlet mentioned.
Not what I was hoping for. Great writing, though.
Wait, they called her Skitter in front of the whole cafeteria?…… FUUUUUUUuuuucccc.k
Come on man, you cant leave us hanging like this……. snif snif
On the other hand Taylor called Defiant Armsmaster in front of everyone as well.
Between that and going after a cape in their civilian identity whoever is in charge at that point seems to have given up on the truce.
If word gets out about this they won’t have many villains turn up for the next Endbringer fight and with the Triumvirate potentially out of action they really can’t afford that.
Word is gona get out and the Snafu will be a sight to see.
>>“Dragon,” I said. “And Armsmaster.”
>>“Skitter,” Dragon answered me, loud enough for everyone to hear.
the narration implies a difference in the volume for each character. skitter may not have spoken loud enough to get through the cafeteria’s doors (which were closed iirc). besides i doubt the common civilian is aware of what happened to armsmaster, or at least they wouldn’t find his presence as off-putting as other capes might
(and only those who knew what he did. for all we know, the story that got circulated was his fight with mannequin. grievously wounded, but still fighting the good fight as defiant!)
still, i’m half waiting for greg’s ‘I KNEW IT’ moment…
Yeah, I’m waiting for Emma to come up and tell them they have the wrong person, this little worm couldn’t be Skitter. Then Taylor calls her Emma, and Dragon begins the verbal SMACKDOWN!
I can’t imagine this happens, but I hope it does.
Arathi on March 30, 2013 at 00:20 said:
Awesome as usual. Now the waiting begins
Meanwhile, I, as Taylor, was still moving in the same general direction as the crowd. More guards had directed other students to the cafeteria, and everyone was spreading out to find tables. Again, I noted the distinction between the two varieties of student. The bright and cheerful ones were collecting together, filling up every space at the tables closest to the door and to the front of the cafeteria, where all of the food was available. Others were spreading out, alone or in groups of two to five.
Missing paragraph?
Editing snafu. Fixed.
Mishie on March 30, 2013 at 00:23 said:
I really can’t help but be amazed by how stupid the hero’s are being, they know for a fact that the Undersiders have info that can destroy them, and considering Armsmaster breaking the Endbringer truce is the smallest thing, that’s saying a lot. And yet, they still went after Skitter, and they did it when she was in a school as a civilian, using info they gained during another truce. So unless they manage to capture ever other Undersider right away, they’re going to get destroyed. Either that or Tattletale decides to hold the info hostage to Skitter being released.
The only other way to not have that happen is that they aren’t arresting her and people high up just want to talk, but that’s pretty unlikely since Dragon did seem pretty upset about what she was doing, which does imply that they’re arresting her.
tl;dr Hero’s are derpy and bad things are going to happen to them because they did not think this through at all.
Yep. Agreed in every particular.
So yeah, just had a lightbulb moment as to what’s going to happen, I think that maybe the hero’s are doing this to get a way to talk to Skitter (and pals), and that this is the only way for them to do it. Sure they know where her secret base is, but if the hero’s were to rock up there, it would kinda start things off in a bad way since Skitter would go into panic mode and things would get nasty for everybody.
And although that’s kinda what happened here, I’m pretty sure their plan was to take advantage of the fact that Skitter was isolated from her power base and as such, less likely to fight back so they could talk to her without huge collateral damage.
And as for why Dragon and Armsmaster are there, it’s because of the reason why they want to talk to Skitter, because the Undersiders are not only one of the few groups to beat the S9, but they may have info about them that could lead to wiping them out for good.
As for Dragon being upset about what she’s done, it’s because of the fact that she’s just blown her identity right in front of a massive crowd, which is a bit of a dick move and Dragon knows it. Also, something that I just remembered, none of the hero’s actually made an attack against her, although that could be because of the fact that Skitter took them out before they could, but it could mean something.
As such, it suddenly becomes more likely that the hero’s aren’t complete morons and are planning something big, although there is still the chance that they’re there to arrest her.
Naeblis on March 30, 2013 at 00:57 said:
Sure, but all this depends on the fact that they knew they could get Skitter isolated from everyone else and were preparing for it, which is not the case. Had Taylor decided not to bother with the whole Greg thing, this wouldn’t have happened.
A plausible explanation is the since Dragon knew about Skitter/Taylor, she had everyone on “alert” and ready to move in case Taylor showed up on the radar, but I don’t remember anything “official” happening besides the principal talking to Taylor and printing out a fake address (I’m assuming she didn’t enter Taylor’s name in any system).
I can’t remember when if Dragon discovered Taylor being Skitter before the S9 mess or after, as it would depend a lot on that too.
Probably happened due to the text mails about the bullying, that could have been a giveaway, not for a normal person, but for Dragon? totally plausible.
If Dragon knew Taylor’s name and just wanted to talk peacefully, why go through the trouble of staging a fight at school?
There must be hundred databases that say that contain her home address. Everytime she entered her name in a sweepstake it went into some database that Dragon should be able to hack into (or outright buy since the address databases get sold for marketing purposes) and that is not even mentioning all the official records (some of which admittedly might have been destroyed by Shatterbird due to bad backup/offsite-storage policies).
If Dragon really just wanted to talk she could have taken her pretty Gynoid body to the Taylor’s home in the evening and rung the doorbell and told Danny that she was an acquaintance of his daughter and ask if she was home.
Hell if she was looking for a fight instead of wanting to talk she could have done the same only with a Terminator looking for Sarah conner vibe instead.
Dragon isn’t the one initiating this conflict- she’s just following orders.
And Dragon does know Taylor’s name- she figured it out in her interlude.
Guile on April 2, 2013 at 00:53 said:
Because I know when I want to talk somebody into helping me, I first run them to ground with half a dozen superheroes, announce their deep dark secrets to a cafeteria full of vindictive teenagers, and then drag them in by force.
Really gets them in a mood to help their fellow man.
Sere was killing her bug clones quite quickly, but maybe he could have done it faster if he hadn’t been holding back.
Reveen on March 30, 2013 at 01:33 said:
I don’t think this is stupid idiothead moment such as a deliberate ploy by whoever ordered this (probably Cauldron) for some effect. Send a message? Create controversy regarding non-Cauldron capes? Intentionally spark-off a cape war so they can disperse and regroup their operations in the chaos? My guess is that Cauldron doesn’t want to try to steer the PRT/Protectorate into safe waters and are gonna leave the whole institution to burn while they try something more drastic.
I really doubt this is Dragon reaching out for a conversation, if she wanted to do that she could easily send her a text message for Chrissakes instead of busting into a school.
Whatever it is, I don’t think the “heroes” are in on it. Those present at the school we’re probably just responding to the lockdown that they didn’t expect. Which was for the purposes of keeping Skitter there long enough for Dickhead and Robo-girl to get there.
Well, not exactly. Remember that Dragon has a hate-on for Cauldron – could be she wants them outed for what they are.
Kessler on March 30, 2013 at 12:10 said:
Maybe Dragon is acting stupid on purpose here? She was ordered to capture Skitter by an authority figure, so she can’t disobey. So she does it in a way that violates the truce – giving Taylor opportunity to invoke the truce and force them to let her go. Granted it also messes up her life, but perhaps if the alternative is being sent to Birdcage, Dragon decided it’s worth publicly revealing her identity.
The only problem with the plan is Armsmaster’s presence, but there’s no way around that.
Actually, if you reread Dragon’s interlude, she mentions figuring out who Taylor is. You seem to be right about the rest, though.
Patrick Reitz (@dreamfarer) on March 30, 2013 at 00:24 said:
You know, everyone’s been eager to see Dragon and Skitter meet up but I’m suddenly more curious about what Defiant will have to say to her.
Also, what’s with slacking on hunting the Nine there D&D? You’re both machine enough to keep going 24/7/365 so what’s with this little vacation here?
Or what she’ll have to say to him.
“The name’s Defiant.”
“No. The name is Armsmaster. The same dickcheese who tried to murder me. The same person who will sacrifice anything and anyone for his personal aggrandizement. Changing your name might mean everyone else forgives you, but to me you’ll always be on the same level as Mannequin – only hiding behind the label of hero.”
“Which makes you worse–at least Mannequin was honest.”
Also, yeah. That does seem odd. How did they have time to get here from there so quickly? It doesn’t add up.
They have jetsuits. Jet-propelled robodragon mini-mecha. And it wouldn’t surprise me much if Armsmaster pushed for the first flight to Brockton Bay once he heard that Skitter’s civilian identity was known.
Something forced their hands, because come on, they took down Siberian, and they where doing pretty well on their own, so i think this order is coming directly from Cauldron.
Dungeon. That should totally be Colin’s new moniker.
Ted on March 30, 2013 at 00:24 said:
This has been a long time coming, I am looking forwards to dragon and skitters conversation.
Also I don’t think Skitter is wearing a mask, if she was wearing a mask in the room full of people she would stand out, and leaving there is no mention of a mask.
So that seems like her cover is blown. Emma will be freaking terrified Oh goody.
Wonder how fast Skitter can talk, how much juicy secrets she can spill, the carpets ruined already but she might be able to ruin the wallpaper too 😀
Cause you know this pretty much breaks the truce, going after her in such a public way in her civilian identity.
Also i’ve just reread and skitter seems to be hearing from the bugs?
She specifically says she has been training to understand human speech when listening through her bugs.
Great chapter btw
Also dont know if its been pointed out but I just realised chrysalis is for when a caterpillar is cocooned. Will the second trigger be coming soon?
P.S is there a way to update your posts? I keep rereading and noticing shiny new things.
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MrVoid on March 30, 2013 at 00:25 said:
“I joined the crowd moving in the direction of the cafeteria.
Meanwhile, I, as Taylor, was still moving in the same general direction as the crowd.”
It seems like the second paragraph was meant to come after some actions that she took as Skitter
Ninja’d by packbat but, “I have a few options,” I whispered my response. “I could be aggressive, take on the people at the door. I think i could slip away.”
Thanks. *shakes fist at lazy spellcheck program*
Someguy on March 30, 2013 at 00:26 said:
‘He wore what seemed to be a gauntlet, out of proportion with the rest of her body.’
His body unless Kid Win suddenly had a sex change midway.
Clockblocker, and no sex change.
An unfortunate accident where he was startled while touching himself.
Oh shit! I was hoping Taylor would get caught without having her identity revealed to everyone (except the other capes), but I definitely like this development.
Will Armsmaster man up and do what Dragon WANTS to do but can’t?
Which is… what, exactly? Let Skitter go? I don’t see that happening.
Well, Colin doesn’t really give a shit about the rules or keeping his superiors and co-workers happy, but I could see him caring about Dragon enough to help.
I don’t think he’s the type to hold a grudge against Skitter for ruining his life-especially as I think he’s probably MUCH happier with his current situation running around with Dragon than he ever was working for the Protectorate.
I’m not saying that I think it WILL happen- just that I don’t think it would be out of character.
I realize I may be a bit off about Colin- it’s probably not so much that he doesn’t give a shit about keeping his co-workers and superiors happy, but rather that he’s just really bad at it (and any other person-to-person human interactions).
I’m curious as to what she means when she says “her hand was forced”. Armsmaster/Defiant’s influence? Or were there more pressing circumstances?
ThingsAndSuch on March 30, 2013 at 00:31 said:
Hm. If this goes to the Birdcage, I can see Tattletale mounting its first escape…
How about this – space warping theory of birdcage is true. The prisoners are miniaturized. As are their nervous systems. Which allows Skitter to mind control them. All of them.
three rights make a left. on March 30, 2013 at 00:43 said:
thats a pretty cool idea. But even though their miniaturized they still have complex nerve systems compared to bugs so i doubt she would be able to control them.
Yes, but wouldn’t they have to get normal-sized again? Possibly while escaping, or sometime after? What then?
Dues on March 30, 2013 at 01:43 said:
As awesome as that would be, remember Atlas. Size doesn’t really matter to her power. On the other hand, everyone in the Birdcage is the size of an ant. So if Taylor can sneak an ant colony into the birdcage…
The movie THEM is reenacted in there, which would be pretty cool. Though I doubt she will make it there. She first has to have a trial, and a good lawyer can really push the facts that she is a minor and that she was betrayed by Armsmaster/Sophia’s bullying. Such a trial will probably bring attention nobody wants. You know Tattletale is gonna retaliate for this, and I honestly think Cauldron is going to try to use it’s influence to help her escape. Cauldron does not want their activities to become public and I can see Tattletale giving them an ultimatum to get her out or she spills the beans.
Or in a last resort, she could pull a Shadow Stalker/Assault and become a hero. Not in Broketon Bay, but it could work if she were moved to another town. Probably unlikely though.
Another question I asked once, but I don’t think I got a reply: Since Dragon seems to have a human(ish) body now- what happens if she dies? Are the regular backups and restores still taking place?
Cause if I were her, I wouldn’t want to go full human, but it seems she’s doing that.
I’ll leave this for others to answer/speculate on.
Don’t mean to be rude, just don’t like to give answers on this stuff when the story can provide those answers instead. I keep answering questions like that and I eventually get in a situation where people are thinking in meta terms and saying, “Well he didn’t say Y or Z so it must be X!” or some such.
My money is on the backups still being in place. Having a human body is a useful thing for her, but no reason to be stupid about it. Heck, if it weren’t for the obvious and severe security problems associated with it, and the fact that it is technologically impossible at present, I’d want regular backups of my brainmeats.
The problem with backups of your mind is that they have a mind of their own. Plus, the only way they’ll ever be used is if you, the orignal, is dead.
Another thing about the Dragon backup, even if she gets free, it’s possible Cauldron could alter and activate a copy of the backup data and have their own Dragon. In fact, why would they stop at just one?
Lik I said, obvious and severe security problems.
As for Dragon’s backups being jacked … scary thought. I think tricky, but definitely a scary thought.
I wonder if any of the new members of the Slaughterhouse Army knows anything about hacking. Aside from Jack Slash and Bonesaw, that is.
Anyone here ever read “To Live Again” by Robert Silverberg?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Live_Again_(novel)
A novel exactly about this idea (brain backups), and some of the interesting ramifications therein.
we’ve already had prior experience with her uploading herself to proxies (the ‘wetware computers’)
she prolly just restores herself like normal while defiant fixes up her old body for retransferring herself
I wonder if the fact that they are currently inside a big Faraday cage designed to prevent cell-phone communication will figure into this as a Chekhov’s Gun. If Dragon dies in here she won’t have the benefit of any last transmission to understand what killed her .
For that matter she won’t be able to remote control the dragon-vehicle they flew in on or to communicate much with the outside world at all to warn her of incoming threats.
it would make her decision to confront Skitter inside the building instead of letting her step outside even more of a moronic idea.
Then again the authorities must have some way to communicate since they were able to reach Sere, Adamant and the Wards, perhaps Dragon has access to that even if it doesn’t give her the sort of bandwidth that would be optimal for purposes. (In that case Skitter might remember Tattletale’s earlier tactic and go on WiFi access point hunt with her swarm throughout the school)
her last backup was triggered by a cessation in communications from the suit she was using at the time, i’m assuming she has a greater window allowed to account for the faraday cage. as far as ‘knowing the last few things that happened’, that’s what defiant is there for.
having a partner makes things easier o.o-b
Having a partner you can trust to be completely honest and objective about the subject would certainly help with that.
“I know you wanted to bring her in alive, but after pretending to surrender the little sneaky little bitch totally killed you with her bugs without any provocation and I was forced to stab her with my spear in self-defence. Also I disposed of the bodies on the sport for security reason so you won’t be able to analyse it to figure out how she killed you with her bugs or discover that both bodies had spear-shaped entry wounds in the back. You can totally trust me on this, it even says so in your new programming.”
sounds legit.
in all honesty though, dragon seems to trust def-master so i’m cautiously optimistic…
taliesinskye on March 30, 2013 at 03:02 said:
It would be fairly simple to get only authorized transmissions through a faraday cage. There’s obviously a landline (the phone/internet) going into the building, so all you’d need is a wireless network inside that an authorized user could use to get outside.
alexanderthesoso on April 1, 2013 at 02:46 said:
Since they are the same parts used to upgrade Defiant, It’s still a cyborg. I’d say she’s operating it like a suit.
So who’s the asshole who ordered Dragon to do her little arrest at a high school full of kids who probably have had enough of the cape-jockey bullcrap? Considering that this is a school where the Jack Slash once hunkered down in a city that was trashed by Leviathan having Defiant bust through the door pointing a spear at a student is in unbelievable poor taste, though from Colin that doesn’t surprise me.
Now, the sticking point here is why the hell they’re outing her in front of hundreds of people, that definately isn’t something Dragon would pull so it was probably specifically demanded.
The first thought would be that someone that Cauldron has in their pocket ordered it, but this kind of shit doesn’t seem like their style. My thought is someone going rogue in the PRT or Protectorate outside of Cauldron’s payroll trying to make a statement.
There’s always the possibility that Armsmaster has taken control of Dragon and is just being an asshole, but right now I don’t think he has the authority to order a cheeseburger let alone put a school in lockdown.
Still, the fact that he’s freely going along with this truce-breaking crap is very suspicious. Dragon’s programmed to obey the guys in suits, Colin is not.
Actually, this doesn’t really break the truce- Dragon has known who Taylor was for a loooong time, and she set up the system that alerted her when ‘Taylor Hebert’ was typed into the school’s computers. Has nothing to do with them seeing her face during the Echidna fight.
I don’t see this as being Cauldron either. It doesn’t seem to benefit them in any way. I think it’s just some asshole in the Protectorate trying to make it look like they’re doing something good. Get some good PR by taking down a dangerous villain.
(I bet it backfires spectacularly)
I think the truce protects against villains being outed publicly or capes trying to dig up identities to use against people. Actually knowing an identity without abusing situations to find out doesn’t break until you act one it.
The only person I can see pulling shit like this is Piggot. Who I wouldn’t think would have the authority anymore, but she was fast-tracked by Cauldron so who knows.
Nah, Piggot was the normal selection. She was biased against full integration of supers with regular society, as noted in the interlude where we met Weld. That was one reason Cauldron wanted her gone and replaced with Coil.
There you go. Everything you need to know about authority in the Wormverse: Coil, Alexandria, and Eidolon are Cauldron, Piggot is the uncorrupted government authority, and Dragon and Armsmaster are the uncorrupted heroes.
>She was biased against full integration of supers with regular society, as noted in the interlude where we met Weld.
No? It was just the opposite. She may hate parahumans, but she’s working towards integrating them with people.
Hmmm…it seems you are right. Either Cauldron’s screwing with me again, or someone’s been letting Imp edit the story.
Director Armstrong seems interesting. Like the kind of fellow who’d make a split to go with the Irregulars.
The most I can add, like some old man suffering from Impzheimer’s on his front lawn yelling at you walk away, is that she may have been moving on that plan…but she didn’t like it!
anKLJ on April 5, 2014 at 15:59 said:
I know this is very necro-comment, but:
Impzheimer’s
That is brilliant. And I say that as someone who has had too much personal experience as an Alzheimer’s caregiver. Not everyone in the AZ care community would get it, but the ONLY thing that makes it bearable is to see the kooky side.
Possibilities I see for escape methods, in order of decreasing probability:
Hostages. Lots of civilians in the building, and probably a decent number of insects just as a consequence of being a building with places for them to hide and things to eat. All she needs is to have bugs go into a few people’s ears, then threaten to have them start eating their way inwards. Or invading other various orifices, I suppose. Fun part is that she even has a decent chance of being able to just bluff that she’s doing this without actually going through with it; it’s hard to verify it’s just a bluff on short notice, and it would probably screw with Dragon’s First Law of Robotics hard-coding.
Second trigger event. This one depends on whether this situation is stressful enough to cause it, whether what Noelle saw/smelled/sensed in her interlude was the evidence of a previous second trigger event or evidence of the potential for a second trigger event, and whether the resulting boost/change in her powers actually gives her something of use in the current situation. The first of these criteria is the big question mark, and probably depends on exactly how the next few minutes in-story play out.
Clockblocker submitting his resignation from the Wards in particularly dramatic fashion. While this is actually the one with the best chance of working, because neither Dragon nor Armsmaster would see it coming and Clocky’s power takes them completely off the board for at least a few minutes, I just don’t see him as the sort to commit such a spectacular act of treachery. Especially when the Protectorate is going through a major shakeup and thus there’s actually a chance that his complaints about how they do business will be addressed.
Something with no foreshadowing whatsoever that cannot possibly be logically deduced (or is it induced? I can never remember the difference between deductive and inductive reasoning) from known facts about the Wormverse and its inhabitants. For obvious reasons, not much I can say about this.
She gets caught and Birdcaged. Possible, but unlikely for narrative reasons; it seems a bit too early yet for that to happen and the consequences of Taylor’s identity as Skitter getting blown wide open are more interesting to play with right now. There also hasn’t really been enough time for the “right now we pretty much own this city” thing to settle in, which is kind of important as a component of this arc being a breather before the plunge into the next string of catastrophes.
I’m sure there are some other scenarios I’ve missed, but this seems like more than enough to start with.
1) Hostages. If you saw how Defiant took on Bonesaw and just handled her bugs, he’s more likely to immediately knock her out and take his chances than let her stall out Dragon.
2) Echidna’s sense; Someone proposed a theory connecting that sense to a more powerful/complex passenger working with those three. i.e. Taylor controlling bugs and multitasking, Brian being able to copy any power, Eidolon manifesting any power. Seems like they’d take a different kind of passenger, so that could’ve been what she was sensing.
My personal theory: Cauldron is bringing Taylor in and unveiling the plan to win the Endbringer war.
I like this theory. I don’t think it’s very likely, but it *is* very fun.
Against escape method the first: Colin has a bug zapper. Unless Taylor can use her range somehow, get hostages at a distance and use that to push Colin and Dragon into leaving… but that’s problematic at best. They have her hostage… and she’d have to convince the both of them that she’d actually use lethal force on innocents, which she wouldn’t, so she can’t.
They can’t just send her to the birdcage without a trial. She isn’t canary who they could justify keeping from talking because of her power. A good lawyer can play merry hell with the fact that she is
A. A minor
B. Her reasons for becoming a villain. She WAS a hero before Armsmaster betrayed her. You know she is gonna call out the fact that Armsmaster is a criminal.
C. Sophia- Tattletale could probably easily inform people about her past, and her role in the trigger event. The PRT would take alot of heat for the fact that they let a psycho get away with murder, bullying a student, and the fact that no one would help her.
But the biggest reason I don’t think she will end up at the Birdcage is cauldron. They do not want their activites to be known, and Tattletale can easily spill the beans on them/numerous other dirty secrets of the PRT including the fact that known villains like Madcap got a second chance. So I think they’ll try to help her escape, and have her take the credit for it just so the secret stays secret.
i think you’re being overly optimistic that she’s guaranteed to get a trial. if cauldron is behind this and they don’t want her to talk, i’m pretty sure they wont give her the chance to.
you’ve listed plenty of ways a trial isn’t in their best interests; with things going as badly as they are they may simply lock her up without due process to avoid the hassle. also:
• she’s already shown an unwillingness to switch sides.
• she already knows another cape’s identity so they could claim she broke the truce first.
• she was also involved with the group that ‘drove said cape insane’ (depends how their PR department spun it)
• all the other various ‘truce-breaking behaviors’ they’ve attributed to her, like the attack on triumph’s family and two of the PRT’s directors
• she put hundreds of civilian lives in danger by ‘invading a school’
added together there are a lot of ways they can spin it so she’s totally in the wrong without the public being any wiser
sure, tattletale will probably give them hell about it, but maybe theyre even thinking they could ransom skitter for tt’s silence
Well trying to justify not giving a minor a trial is probably not going to go well with the heroes. They DO owe her one for Echidna, and at least a few of them might not appreciate Cauldron trying to screw her over. I don’t think they can risk TT letting the secret get out at all, which makes me think they weren’t behind this stupid move. They either have to try and take out all of the Undersiders at once, difficult considering their track record, or insure they can silence Skitter without TT spilling the beans. The only way I can see that is arranging for her to escape. They do control some villains and we know that there are jailbreak specialists.
Minors get trials all the time. Sometimes the verdict is extreme, especially when treating them as adults. Others, like in the case of at least one multiple rape and molestation that the rapists made a video of, the boys got three years, with the entire town backing the rapists up and even a national news channel covering the story showing more sympathy for the boys whose bright futures were ruined than the girl who was raped.
She did not put lives in danger by invading a school. She was a teenage girl going to a school. The heroes put lives in danger by showing up with weapons. Skitter even freely gave up her knife.
She is no longer guaranteed to be unwilling to join sides, as the reason she avoided doing it was Shadowstalker.
Knowing a cape’s identity is not breaking the truce. Further, the truce was definitely broken first by Armsmaster. Evidence to that extent is in the hands of Flechette. Skitter only learned about Sophia’s identity because she had to go to the hospital while helping to save people after Armsmaster got villains killed and fried her armband.
That said, would anybody really be surprised if she didn’t get a trial at all with this group?
I honestly don’t think they can justify not giving her a trial. Which means someone has not thought this attack through, or they intend to get rid of her before she ever gets to the stand.
Cauldron, of course. No way in hell they’d let her testify in a court of law that they exist.
• there’s a difference between having a farce of a trial and even allowing a trial in the first place. minor or not, my guess is the authorities-that-be wouldn’t want any chance of their dirty laundry to be aired, and the simplest way is to not let anybody listen to her. seeing as the PRT is splintering from the top-down, they (or cauldron) may be trying extreme methods to reclaim their legitimacy by putting away “a dangerous supervillain”
• from the authorities’ POV, a super-powered fight broke out that resulted in evacuation protocols (or whatever they were doing) and property damage in a heavily populated school. all because of skitter’s *presence*. it doesn’t matter that it was nice and peaceful until they started it in the first place, it’s a matter of how they can spin it in their favor. “a supervillain invaded a school, leading to a fight between her and members of the blah blah blah…”
• afaik they still don’t know *why* she refused the offer to join the wards (again, dragon is not the one making the decisions). again, they can spin that as the words of an irredeemable supervillainess
• finding out another cape’s identity is definitely breaking the truce, seeing as how they handled it. there were mitigating circumstances, but the main reason they let it slide was armsmaster’s goof. however,
the ‘settlement’ WAS KEPT QUIET.
the only people who knew armsmaster was in disgrace were the people that were present directly, or the rest of the members of the Brockton Bay PRT. sere and adamant are outsiders iirc.
remember, it’s not what really happened that’s important, it’s how you can sway public/administrative opinion in such a way that one side looks better and the other looks worse.
yes i’m cynical.
I wouldn’t say cynical, more like realistic. This is the wormverse after all. There is a great quote between Psycho Gecko and throwaway in the quotes on the tropes page that shows this. Someone should add the tagline under it: Yeah, its that kind of setting.
Principled people in Worm? That IS suspicious.
Syroc on March 30, 2013 at 06:15 said:
Not to be too grim, but as the saying goes: “It’s a long journey from here to the rope.” It’s just as long to the courtroom.
If Cauldron wants to silence the Undersiders, then the Birdcage might not be the most obvious choice. It would be easy enough to kill her once she’s in custody, and Colin’s presence provides a hand scapegoat: it wouldn’t be very hard to imagine that he’d carry a grudge, and DOES have a history of breaking the rules.
Though I don’t think they would until they can arrange similar fates for the rest of the Undersiders.
One more: Bitch-Ex-Machina. She has minions going to this school. What’s to keep one of them from sending her a message? …And *BOOM* the wall crashes down. Hellhounds EVERYWHERE.
I can totally see this. Taylor is the heart of the Undersiders. Tattletale will probably be making some important phone calls but I can see the rest attacking the PRT headquarters head on. Avengers assemble time or to quote Megatron,”Transform and Rise Up.”
You just want to see the sons of bitches in action.
Makes me think of the Dark Souls animated fan video:
Sons of Bitch: ‘Wrong place wrong time motherfucker.’
Bitch: ‘and I’m Bitch!’
D&D get nommed on by giant dogs! :3
The way everyone talks of the Sons of Bitches, I just keep imagining the Headbangers from Brutal Legend.
“Bitch-Ex-Machina” should be a new thing.
No One In Particular on March 30, 2013 at 00:39 said:
There are exactly two good things about this situation, and otherwise everything’s screwed.
1。 Taylor can go all out。
2。 Next Tuesday is closer than the wait until today was。
G reat chapter，as usual。
Realized this could be taken the wrong way. I mean the situation for Taylor.
All-out how, exactly?
Bug zapper. Kills every bug that comes near Colin, when he so chooses. It even kills through walls (re: ventilation ducts.) She has no armor, no allies that can fight nearby…
But you’re right about Tuesday.
endochrom on March 30, 2013 at 20:22 said:
She is in a school. Hostages.
Dragon gets Taylor. If anything, the hostage-taking works the other way. Taylor could do some very nasty things, but all those innocents are getting in her way.
…see,thing is, when I envisioned the battle Taylor would get into before this update, I included a jar of deadly and useful bugs, carefully separated to not kill each other if she’s not controlling them. Guess I carried that over.
Well, my logic still stands. Kind of. Taylor fights better in person, she might be able to hold them off until undersiders arrive. And if there’s one thing Taylor is good at, it’s planning on the fly.
Or she can just openly talk to them, because I’m sure we all remember the result of Taylor’s last encounter with a Dragon robot suit, and how that worked out.
‘out of proportion with the rest of her body.’ – I thought Clockblocker was a guy.
Also, why isn’t Emma in the tags?
My only other concern was Clockblocker, despite getting mentioned and attention being drawn to the gauntlet, does nothing in this chapter. While I’m sure its to set something up, he just felt extraneous to the point of annoyance for this chapter. Didn’t he do anything while everyone else was fighting? Why didn’t he help Kid Win? Things like that.
I’m starting to think the chapters of Chrysalis have a running theme of some mental disconnect or cognitive dissonance. I’m not sure what’s the right phrase here, but in each chapter, something happens to Taylor that shows some stark contrast between her lives. Getting a message about Greg during territory operations. Comeuppance on Emma, but only due to school corruption turning in her favor. Here, we have a big action scene outside, while Taylor tries to seem calm and collected inside the school.
Maybe its just me, but this reveal of her identity by Dragon is probably the entire point of the theme. Its the final release, so Taylor no longer has that duality. She won’t need to worry about identities, and it’ll be something to see how the student body, especially Emma reacts to this reveal. But it will definitely effect her all relationships, particularly with her dad. How it ends up, only Wildbow knows.
Maybe I’m just overanalyzing. Back to gushing over the story. Great job Wildbow!
Illise Montoya on March 30, 2013 at 00:43 said:
Actually, I think your observations were pretty astute. Then again, I’m not the writer, so your analysis just SOUNDS right to me.
I agree with this. Also, I loved the word choice of “astute”. So she’s emerging from the dissonance of being Skitter THEN Taylor into something greater.
Dude, Clockblocker didn’t help Kid Win because he wasn’t there. Either he was on the other side of the school trying to get to the fight, or he was watching another exit, or he was being kept in reserve, whatever. Adamant didn’t do anything either. Was he an annoyance?
That’s not what I mean. Adamant was at least described DOING things, such as trying to intercept Taylor, watching the students to see if anyone stood out during the fight outside, etc. It felt like Clockblocker was just there most of the time. I think Clockblocker’s role was more an annoyance than Adamant’s BECAUSE we actually know him, compared to knowing nothing about Adamant. We readers can more easily ignore Adamant as a background character, but since we know so much about Clockblocker as a character, his lack of action draws so much more attention. While things like this happen in the real world, it becomes a bit jarring when reading it in a story.
Maybe he was having reservations against going head to head with Skitter after that bonding moment. Could be possible that he rationalized it with “Well if she gets past them, I should hop in then…yeah.”
Yes, I speculated something similar previously that the Chrysalis might be a reference to Taylor finishing her transformation into Skitter full time. Losing the vestigial trapping of a little bullied school girl and bursting out of the cocoon of her obsolete civilian identity and flying of as a beautiful super villainous butterfly.
Or going by things have been going so far in this series an alien chest-burster metaphor might be more appropriate than a butterfly. (Which reminds me Skitter’s powers would totally work on xenomorphs wouldn’t they?)
T’would be awesome indeed. An Alien/Worm crossover. Lol. A “What If?” comic, aha ha ha!
Individuo on April 1, 2013 at 15:41 said:
Kinda like Aquaman powers would work on Chtulhu, because he sleep on the sea and is considered and aquatic creature XD.
Chrysalis could be a much stronger metaphor, actually – when Skitter gets put into the Birdcage.
Helpless, cut off from her power (mostly – there’s probably a few bugs lying around in there, but…), stuck in the same hole as LUNG of all people, but also with Panacea there… Good god, what a clusterfuck that would be. But the least cognitive-dissonant outcome would be Lung killing her within a few hours of her arrival. Assuming she ends up in there, I just don’t see the cards falling a different way without unlikely intervention.
Though, that said… the girls already have a reason for not letting Lung into their side of the ‘cage – last time, he killed a woman straightaway. They can’t be happy about that.
Half awake, so this will be short:
I figured Dragon and Defiant would come swooping in. Something called in that fast would no doubt be answered by these two.
Somehow Taylor getting arrested in front of Emma doesn’t strike me as a winning moment. It’d be interesting (and heartrending of course) to see Danny’s reaction to his daughter being outed as Skitter. IF things go that far.
Great read, as usual.
In my head it is actually a loosing moment for Taylor. Because now Emma wouldn’t learn anything at all. She would rationalize her punishment (if it stands, which I now doubt) as being a result of Skitter’s influence.
Moreover, she may well win in the end.
Oh, I agree about the thing with Emma. Mos def. I dunno about her “winning” in the end, a la Charlie Sheen. Nope. The more I read of this story, the more I get this sense that no one really wins in the sense they want to. Or “think” they want to. Or want to “think” they want to. Ever. Niiihilism…
Which would make it hilarious if it turns out that Emma can be tried as an accessory to all of Skitter’s crimes thanks to having been directly responsible for the latter’s trigger event.
I would LOVE that. Heheheehe.
i think the forced hand is metaphorical, not literal. or at least i did but on second thought that makes no sense. why would dragon do this at a school, its just plain stupid. and why would the heroes do this at alll? it breaks the s class threat truce by using their knoledge of her identity against her. the only people willing and able to do this would be cauldron.
Because her orders were phrased in a way that allowed no other interpretation. And because the heroes weren’t necessarily behind it all – there’s other players at work in those channels. That’s why.
MrMoray on March 30, 2013 at 00:46 said:
I apologize if I’m not the first to wonder this, but I’m too tired to read through lots of comments at the moment, but …
I wonder if Taylor will notice that Dragon isn’t really human. An insect or two should be enough to uncover that.
I would assume that at this point Defiant will have been augmented so much and Dragon has added more and more biological components to her current body that the two of them are almost equal in how cyborged they are. I doubt you could still figure out who started as what just by crawling and insect over them.
On the other hand Skitter has shown signs of having great intuition before. Her biggest obstacle to figuring out Dragon’s secret is that she has already analysed Dragon’s Tinker power and would have to make the leap that an AI could actually have a trigger event to deduce that the person in front of her could both have Tinker powers and be an AI.
Pretty easy to figure out Dragon isn’t breathing.
How ironic, that Dragon’s big giveaway is Dragon’s Breath.
Why would Dragon not be breathing? Most high-fidelity way to mimic a human voice is to blow air over some vibrating cords into a resonance chamber whose dimensions can be altered to produce sounds of staggering variety. Save the speakers for when nobody’s looking. People notice when you don’t blink, and they notice when you don’t breathe. Even if you’re not using breath to talk, you still want your android’s chest to go up and down.
For one thing, if you shove bugs up Dragon’s nose and throat, she won’t choke any.
Bebop on March 30, 2013 at 00:47 said:
Really enjoying your work, It’s very different from a lot of other Superhero works one reads- both professional ones or those composed for webfiction. I hope you keep it up! I know you’re talking about brining it to end game, but PLEASE don’t feel the need to rush yourself- I know the temptation to start new work can be strong but… You’ve thrown so many juicy plot lines out there, I’ll be sad to see if you cut out too early and don’t extract all the delicious drama you could. I suspect from here there’s going to be a reunion between Skitter and Panacea, which I’m looking forward to personally. Always liked Panacea- all that power, world breaking or world saving power, wrapped in a fragile, anxious teenage girls mind. It’s like if Superman had an anxiety disorder. I also hope dragon give Skitter SOMETHING, anything to work with after all that “I’ll be watching you” thing a while back.
There have been Supermen with issues before, but they tend to be viewed negatively. Marvel’s the Sentry had all kinds of mental problems (schizophrenic agoraphobic, supposedly) who was a bit of a Sue and took Rogue’s virginity when no one was looking. Superboy-Prime was a normal teenager with the powers of Superman who was forced to see his entire world and his shot at being a hero like Superman destroyed, instead forced to watch as the world his was sacrificed for turned darker.
Also, is this your first time commenting while all caught up with the story? With everyone who has caught up lately, it’s gotten a little harder to keep track.
Scrambles on March 30, 2013 at 00:50 said:
I really hope we get to see Emma’s reaction to this.
Shock. Then glee, when she sits and thinks Taylor is getting dragged off to the Birdcage. Which she very well might!
“Oh ho! I’m such a hero! I did a public service by torturing Skitter in school!” She’d spin it that way, you know she would. YOU KNOW IT.
I was hoping for more pants-soiling terror but yeah, you’re probably right
Why would she experience such bowel-loosening terror when she realizes she got to bully the supervillain that took over the city without any negative consequences directly stemming from Skitter as far as she knows.
storryeater on April 6, 2015 at 13:08 said:
Implying she sees herself as hero.No,seriously,her mind has been warped to think in terms of predator and prey.Worst case scenario,she thinks Skitter is prey for getting caught,and she is alpha predator for bullying a supervillain.
Being as I don’t think it’s been mentioned yet: the bit about Charlotte being uncomfortable around unfamiliar men was interesting. I hadn’t thought about that, but it seems like an obvious thing in retrospect.
Indigo on March 30, 2013 at 00:53 said:
Well I’m not going to be able to enjoy my weekend waiting to find out what happens.
Sorry. 😦
Chapters like this are exactly why I had planned on not following the story after the Echidna arc ended. I was going to wait at least until you had the next arc or two finished, and then come back to read it all at once.
But I couldn’t stay away =(
Curtis on March 30, 2013 at 01:54 said:
The trick is to fill your time up completely between updates so you don’t have time to think about just how long it is taking to be tuesday. Personally I find the wait from tuesday to saturday easier than saturday to tuesday, mostly because the weekend has much more leisure time. My friends and I call it The Gap.
On a similar note: Wildbow if everything you write is going to be this kind of quality work then I for one am probably going to be a avid fan and reader for life. This addiction won’t allow for anything less.
*ahem* Well, there are other things you can read. They are a bit different, though.
I hear villainousintent.wordpress.com is a good way to relax after a Worm update leaves people tense and anxious.
So there is PG’s own web serial thingy….THANKS FOR ANOTHER BLOODY ADDICTION YOU ARSE!
You’re welcome, my little super-junkie. Could be worse. The archive binge could be incapacitating.
underwhelmingforce on March 30, 2013 at 23:06 said:
If we’re doing shameless self-promotion, I’ve been pretending I can write at shinynewjustice.wordpress.com. Only two up so far, but I’ve got a pretty good buffer by this point, so there is more to come.
Do like I’m planning: sleeping pills and an IV.
Man, outing her in front of that many people, including ones who know her name(As opposed to completely random people)…
One thing- in my high school, all the external doors had those heavy horizontal bars instead of handles, not just the emergency ones.
“boys claimed far end of Charlotte” The far end.
“I think i could slip” Missing caps.
So I guess we can put “trashed school property and scared the piss out of teenagers” into the Armsmaster is an Asshole files. With the way he stomps around like he has something to prove I think he should stay in Arcadia, it’s his element.
I feel a bit sorry for Dragon that she has to take up the burden of getting this shit-leopard to change his spots.
Armsmaster will get so pissed off at Dragon being nice to Taylor that he’ll go and date Emma to get back at her.
Well it seems my speculation about the transformation in the arc title being a reference to the loss of the civilian identity might become true.
With how the odds are stacked against her Dragon and Defiant might easily get to put her into the birdcage this time. Of course Skitter has actually won against impossible odds before…
Whatever is going on the strategy of the heroes is extremely stupid here. They are trying to trap her in a school full of hostages where any big use of power might create lots of collateral damage. Why not at the very least let her go outside first and put some distance between her and all the children?
For that matter, if the goal was just to bring in skitter why not simply land a Dragon suit in her territory and call her out? Attacking at the school just to get the advantage of having her out of her bulletproof costume and a bit unprepared? Skitters file should say by now that she is good at improvising and her team-mates will probably be there to back her up soonish if things drag on. Since Dragon seems to know her civilian identity and her families home address is presumably in some database they could have attacked her at home if they really wanted the advantage of fighting her while out of costume.
And that doesn’t eve go into the stupidity of breaking the truce like that and risking things in the first place. The PRT, Dragon and Defiant all have secrets that they don’t want to come out and skitter has a teammate who enjoys revealing secrets. Not tom mention the fact that Skitter recently demonstrated her insect loudspeaker announcement powers to a whole bunch of heroes. This just seems stupid.
Allowing time for banter instead of just stabbing her with a shock lance or having Dragon shoot her in the back and saying sorry when she wakes up in cuffs would have been a better course of action for the duo. They are playing against time and have to stop Skitter before she hurts anyone (other than Kid Win and Sere), before she can go on bug PA and start announcing stuff about Defiant really being Armsmaster etc and most importantly before the rest of the Undersides and potentially some of their allies turn up…
If some low level PRT bureaucrat who got promoted recently is pulling the strings it might explain some of the heavy handed incompetence here.
On the other hand maybe Dragon is not here to actually cause trouble. Maybe when she said that her hands were forced she meant that circumstance forced her to go this way not some built in programming restrictions and she actually needs to talk to Skitter urgently for some reason and had the school put in lockdown for that.
I sort of doubt that the next words out of her mouth will involve the revelation that Bonesaw has unleashed a plague of mutant locust or that giant insects are invading from the other side of the portal and the heroes need her help but at least it would be an explanation.
If Dragon’s coming to ask for Skitter’s help, I’m guessing it’s because she needs someone to debug her code.
HA, I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE
Dragon: “Don’t worry, students and teachers. The situation is under CTRL.”
At least until Skitter commits her great ESC.
If Skitter wants to get out of there, she better Shift…
You know, all of this would make sense depending on the phrasing of Dragon’s orders. “Capture Skitter wherever she is, as soon as you can” might leave wiggle room for a dedicated cop, but Dragon might have to read that literally.
If Skitter goes on bug PA and says that Defiant is really Armsmaster what exactly do you expect to happen? Everyone that matters already knows and is ok with things. As long as he keeps saying he isn’t he has plausible deniability. Have fun proving this robot guy isn’t some flesh sack tinker that lost an arm when Dragon vouches for him. Also, who would she tell? A bunch of students that don’t actually matter and probably don’t understand why this is even an issue?
I hate to think this, but the Birdcage fits the definition of a cocoon quite nicely.
“He tapped the door with the end of his weapon, and the breath was knocked out of me. Every bug within thirty feet of the door died, including the ones in the air conditioning duct.”
Ugh. Tinkers.
saintsant on March 30, 2013 at 01:07 said:
Fucking tinkers… Also, screw you, Armsmaster. No, seriously, we’re going to make an eighth circle of hell just for you. You can spend eternity rimming Satan.
>>There’re pizza slices, I noted. It was a reminder of how the day wasn’t going as I’d planned.
and. he. ruined. PIZZA TIME!
…granted she was already on her way out, but… PIZZA!
I… really don’t see Skitter getting out of this. Armsmaster has such an enormous hate-boner for Skitter it’s practically visible from orbit. All the good sentiments in the world from Dragon are meaningless, because she’s either shackled to the Law or subverted and under Armsmaster’s control. All that remains for her is to pull their happy little delusions down around them before she’s Birdcaged.
This is a really unnecessary comment from me, but I love that second sentence. “Hate-boner” *snickers*
Hate boners are fun. Just, no matter what you hear (damn Screwhaul), I had no boners at all for that sidekick with the short shorts. It was completely innocent between us. I was just torturing him to death is all. I didn’t have a lot to work with, though, so I had to oil him up like that.
I can’t see her going to the Birdcage. Isn’t that reserved for particularly vile villains or repeat escapees?
Take a look at what happened with Canary. She’s proven that she’s resourceful and determined enough to pose a threat. The PRT and government routinely violate their own rules, so why shouldn’t they lock her up and throw away the key?
Yeah, but Canary was an unusual case- and she got a trial and everything. Canary wasn’t allowed to speak out in her own defense due to her power, but Taylor would be.
And as Skitter knows secrets pertaining to national security or some such (for example about that portal hole) or secret identities of heroes, she can compromise, a public trial is out of question…
Don’t see why everyone thinks Armsmaster slaved Dragon’s CPU to his intentions.
Makes just as much sense that Cauldron’s via the protectorate, is being an ass here, using Dragon’s own diligence in hunting down Skitter’s identity against her. It certainly fits the usual pattern of the heroes fucking everything up.
And on top of that, Cauldron is screwing with the order of words in my sentences!
And they’re even accidentally putting exclamation points in the email entry part to mess up my commenting!
And putting my comment down here when it was meant to be up there!
Those Cauldron bastards!
I’m not sure why you think Armsmaster hates Skitter. In most of his scenes he is at worst completely apathetic towards her survival and at best baffled by why she kept doing even more villanous things. The only time he actually acts in a deliberately malicious way is when he rats out her intentions towards the Undersiders.
What else has he done to her? Tried to arrest her when she raided a fund raiser in a terror attack? What if next time around she killed someone to get in with Coil? Taylor just isn’t a huge deal for Armsmaster, dude has other concerns.
Does Colin have a hate-boner for Skitter though?
Now that he’s had some distance and time to think? It’s hard to say and we didn’t see enough in this chapter to be sure what it is he wants here.
We can rule out that he’s feeling humbled and penitent based on his entrance but we can also rule out that he’s in full on death-hate mode too otherwise he wouldn’t have been holding her off with the spear, he’d have been pureeing her the way he did Bonesaw.
There’s a wide realm in between those two extremes and I think Colin may surprise us with where he’s at.
As I mentioned above, I think Armsmaster probably much prefers running around with Dragon hunting the Nine 24/7 to being part of the day to day politicking of the Protectorate he had to deal with as Armsmaster.
So I don’t think his life was ruined or anything. Quite the contrary.
(so I am also thinking that he doesn’t have a huge grudge/hate boner- I think people are reading a bit too much into his actions and the situation in this chapter)
I think so too. He probably has some feelings related to what happened, but I bet he’s a lot more over that whole mess now.
random thingy, i notice you use dashes to cut-off dialogue. in my experience an en-dash (–) or em-dash (—) are used more frequently for those. i guess it doesn’t reaaaaally matter, but the longer dashes look better to me (>_>a);;
“wha-?”
– alt+0150
So noted.
In all honesty, though, I probably won’t change it until it’s time to format for ebook specifications though. The work investment just isn’t (unless 90% of my readers insist it’s really bringing down the quality of the work) worth it.
So much negativity, but did anyone notice how badass Defiant looks now? Like a velociraptor with a hunter’s spear. So awesome. I’m really looking forward to Armsmaster/Defiant duo art.
Judging by how elegant and not Judge-Dredd-rejectish it looks I’m going to guess it was Dragon’s design.
That’s so cute, your girlfriend is choosing clothes for you! I bet smashing through the doors is him being passive-aggressive about it.
Skitter: “I am making my escape. I am a little thirsty, though. If only I had some Kool-Aid…”
*Armsmaster smashes through the door* “Oh Yeah!”
Sadly, the Kool-Aid Man was one of Shatterbird’s first victims.
Psycho Gecko on April 1, 2013 at 06:38 said:
The streets ran red that day.
Freerider on March 30, 2013 at 17:27 said:
It is they mention somewhere back when Dragon and Defiant were getting ready to go after the S9 that Defiant is in one of Dragon’s old suits – and that he has been further personally modifying it since.
New thought: Cauldron purposely wanted Taylor’s identity revealed so they could make her help them by offering to not bother/protect her father. Sneaky sneaky.
A postcard sent to her home address with the words “We know where you live!” and a note that they will be in contact to make demands would have served the same purpose and be less likely to horribly backfire on them.
You know, Cauldron might actually be well-disposed towards them because of Skitter’s actions in the Echidna incident. I’m betting this is simply Armsmaster getting back on his moral high-horse, sadly. If someone wanted her cooperation there are a thousand better ways to do it.
Armsmaster had a moral high-horse? Since when? I think you mean penis size high-horse.
Also, I think we all have to remember that, PRT reps notwithstanding, Cauldron is a cold, amoral organization. I don’t think they’ll be treating Skitter as anything other than a resource to be used or a threat to be destroyed.
“Saving the world, whether you like it or not” seems like their motto.
“We do what we must because we can. For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead.”
If you have noticed, Doctor Mother is not adverse to making displays of force when a lighter touch could’ve been more prudent. i.e. When Contessa f*cked up the entirety of Faultline’s group. Even when a note saying “Bro, leave us alone” would’ve been a decent step 1 instead of resorting to extreme force immediately.
Why leave them a note saying to back off when they have clearly shown they are in this for keeps? They are interrogating your patsies and trying to track you down, to the extent that they are freeing people from the Simurgh zone! That isn’t a group that will stop just because a note says to back off. Letting them live seems like an unnecessary risk to me, so I would say just sending someone through to beat the shit out of them is actually an extremely limited show of force.
That’s why a few of us said letting them live was uncharacteristic and there has to be a reason for it. Faultline came closer than anyone else in decades, why would they let her live? It would be much easier/safer to get rid of them.
something was bugging me about the narrative (pun not intended)
she had the idea to make them think she was outside, which prompted her to create bug clones and draw attention out there so she could theoretically move with impunity in the school.
why didn’t she consider have the clones scatter to the four winds and make them think she was completely gone or at least running? similar to the trick she pulled on coil’s mercs. instead as soon as Sere stepped outside, she sent them into a fight.
yes, kid win’s thermals would have outed the trick, judging by how much she prioritized taking him out of communications, but maybe at least have her thinking about using the swarm-clones as decoys to make everyone think she was fleeing, then maybe ‘o crap kid win is here, plan b!’ and THEN she starts trying to stall the cape response.
They might’ve kept the school on lockdown until it was confirmed that “Skitter” was no longer around, which means the guards still inside would’ve had their attention once again focused inwardly instead of where the fight was going on.
i’m not debating that it wouldn’t have worked, i just want her to have considered it. the fact that she immediately jumped from a ‘confuse and distract them’ ploy directly to ‘bring them down!’ without any obvious consideration bothers me
She has enough tactical experience and know-how at this point to have an instinctive feel for what moves to make instead of second guessing and taking time to think over things like that. At least that’s how I see it.
Actually she still had bug clones making a run for it, she only turned a couple of them around to go for Sere directly to slow him down since he was otherwise taking down her clones faster than she could get them out of the school grounds and away. Kid Win had to be stopped of course because he could have blown the whole deception. Really if it wasn’t for the last second arrival of Dragon and Defiant then Skitter would probably have slipped away.
Clockblocker’s new glove: what is it?
i’m guessing rocket punch! possibly had kid win or another tinker design it. basically just fire off a fist that has a cable trailing behind it. gives him some ranged attacks…
…inspired by skitter’s abuse of his power vs echidna
Yes, it is very likely something inspired by the Echidna fight, but I am guessing more along the lines of creating blades out of thin strands of otherwise harmless threads with his power. Wasn’t there some discussion about his ability normally having range limits that would only allow him to achieve what he did in the fight on a good day?
Alathon on March 30, 2013 at 02:33 said:
I’m guessing it shoots various types of cord so he can do moves like the one Skitter set up. Probably other useful stuff like comms, gps, taser, maybe something like silly string for quickly restraining people and objects of irregular size.
I’m surprised no one thought to do such a thing before.
Welp. Unless someone (Clockblocker? He’s a bro, but man, I dunno..) bails her out, sure looks like Skitter is fucked. Her dad too, ‘cuz you know, Skitter sure has pissed off some shady folks. I dunno that Skitter has it in her to hostage her way out of this mess. And 1v2 with no bugs against Dragon and Armsmaster, well, them ain’t fighting odds. More likely we get a look at how the (in)justice system operates.
Paging Phoenix Wright to Earth-Bet, STAT!
Clockblocker? I think he is still pissed about the whole frozen bugs in his mouth thing.
Matthew K on March 30, 2013 at 02:47 said:
Well this is a fine pickle you’ve gotten us into, Greg. A curse of a thousand stinkbugs upon thee and thine house.
Oh mercy, do I feel a Birdcage arc upon us? It could be… or we could get a Skitter Moment or the principal was prudent enough to notify Tattletale as to the situation, in which case The Cavalry may arrive. Either way, Taylor’s identity is public knowledge now, thanks Armsjerk.
frozenchicken on March 30, 2013 at 03:01 said:
I bet 5 nonexistant dollars that Skitter’s reply will manage to throw enough dirt into the air that her secret won’t be unambiguously revealed. Heck, I can think of at least one really obvious reply where she denies being Skitter, but agrees to being arrested and taken away so that she doesn’t have to be present if the real Skitter takes hostages when cornered (making another important point in the process).
Nonsensical Nonsense on March 30, 2013 at 03:42 said:
I think its to late to play innocent cause she already called him Armsmaster but now that i think about it do they have any hard evidence that she is Skitter, but I doubt they would let her go anyway.
frozen chicken on March 30, 2013 at 04:36 said:
Not in front of them, in front of everyone else. Entirely different tactics are needed for dealing with Dragon and Defiant.
Get directly between the two when Armsmaster tries to electrically zap her, and dodge at the last second?
The status quo is again out the window. For those saying she will end up in the birdcage, I list my reasons up above why I think its doubtful she’ll ever make it there. Besides she is a minor. She is probably going to have a very interesting conversation with Sophia.
Sophia AND Theo. Maybe I can finally predict the elusive wildbow with my guess that Theo triggers and joins the Undersiders. Statistically speaking, I have to be right at some point.
Imagine a breakout attempt being orchestrated between the three of them. That would be so undeniably badass I couldn’t even fathom it. Then a subsequent one-on-one between Sophia and Taylor might provoke Theo’s trigger…
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Hydrargentium on April 2, 2013 at 03:17 said:
@ TheAnt: Ummm, no, you don’t. Statistically speaking, your million-monkey tactics afford significantly less than 100% probability of intersection. There is not enough time left in your life to even make a significant dent in the possibilities.
That is assuming Worm is random, not a narrative.
Worm has a status quo?
Oh, right, you mean the way things tend to spiral out of control in a horrifyingly brilliant cascade of train-wrecked Xanatos Gambits and unexpected banana peels. Right. Carry on.
I don’t think she’s going to the Birdcage, but that’s because she’s not going to be caught.
Tattletale’s going to accept a deal with that Thinker she doesn’t like after whichever group that is shows up and saves Skitter.
I agree that she won’t go to the birdcage or juvie version of it, but I can’t see Accord helping out. He may hate chaos but he probably wants to control the city to make it all orderly. The Undersiders will be less effective without her.
i disagree that she’s going to avoid the birdcage. depending on how the next few minutes play out, this is the best chance for the heroes to send her there, and my main argument for a birdcage arc is the presence of the canary interlude and the various interludes describing the *insides* of the prison itself.
conservation of detail and whatnot. to quote the tvtropes page:
>>There is a fine line between good World Building, and rambling on about pointless crap.
But she is a minor. She’ll go to the juvie version of the birdcage and spend the night next door to Theo and Sophia.
Grim (random flyby poster) on March 30, 2013 at 20:56 said:
One womyn/man’s trash is another’s treasure. If some parts are purely bonus material, I don’t mind.
The Birdcage is one of the biggest Chekovs gun until now, we now that with the amount of detail dedicated to it, it will be just a matter of “when” and not “if”.
And the interesting thing is that where that line sits varies by reader.
One might absolutely love a massive rambling epic while another can read the same book and go “OMG, just get to the *point* already!!”.
I think sometimes people fall into the trap of thinking that’s an objective yardstick and it just isn’t.
I wonder if Char is going to do anything, Taylor told her not to get involved but Char seems to respect her a lot and doesn’t seem to like how the PTR is confronting Taylor in her civilian identity. I also wonder if Clockblocker might play a role in this upcoming situation, i doubt it but his talks with Skitter and the whole PTR being revealed to be a part of Cauldron, the fact that they are arresting Skitter in her civilian identity, especially since he might realize that she only came to school to talk to Greg, given that he saw her talking to him and I’m pretty sure talked to Greg afterword, it might make him doubt what he is doing here and if it doesn’t make him questions things right now I could see it affecting him in the future.
But honestly if Dragon and Armsmaster don’t knock Taylor out soon they are either really underestimating her for like the gabillionth time, even if you have her surrounded with no bugs and with tons of your teammates, although considering Dragon is doing this against her will she might not be trying her best.
– and i doubt Armsmaster made Dragon do this she wouldn’t sound so gentle if he had reprogrammed her she would be pissed, given that from her perspective she has to follow but not enjoy what she is told to do by the authorities.
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to Outlaw X, your hottest show for all news in supervillainy. Our top report is that Skitter has once again evaded capture after being attacked while in her civilian identity at a high school. She has evaded Defiant, meaning she has a perfect score in evading power armored superhero tinkers who wield spears. Defiant, as we all know, made his first appearance just after Armsmaster, a similar hero in every way, disappeared. Almost makes you wonder what that guy’s up to these days.
It’s reported that she was cornered in the kitchen of the school and made use of the meager food supplies, electrically-powered cooking equipment, and her bugs to defeat the hero. When last seen at the scene of the escape, he was covered in whipped cream, slipping on pizza slices that were also stuck to the bottom of his spear. Word is she would have used banana, but Skitter had to split.
Dragon was mostly absent from the fight, her armors being naturally too big to fire into a cafeteria full of people without doing some slight collateral damage. Word is that student Emma Barnes was injured in the fight, but seriously, screw that bitch. She has a fat ass and stupid hair.
Well, Dragon did show up in person, surprisingly, but she had little impact on events.
Meanwhile, while Dragon and Defiant were busy fighting a teenage girl in a high school, the Slaughterhouse Twenty-Nine attacked a zoo, murdering 73 children and roughly 300 people before fleeing on jury-rigged scorpion-bears and silverback tiger-gorillas. Sources close to Dragon suggest she’s glad to see more children dead so that armored spear-wielding superheroes can continue their general vendetta against Skitter.
Others suggest Cauldron, the force behind the superheroes and mass infiltration of a government defense and peacekeeping agency, is behind this. Congress was all set to have hearings on the matter, but several members of the senate had a change of heart and a notably increase in their bank accounts. Word is that one notable senator even cried at the injustice of holding a secretive group pulling the strings behind America’s government accountable. But after the press conference about the blatantly illegal practices of the big banks, he also thought it was wrong to look into Cauldron. All that’s for certain now is that only significant force in the world without Cauldron infiltration are the supervillains, such as the ones currently holed up in the Birdcage.
Glad that decision worked out for the heroes and the law-abiding people who are about to die horrible deaths.
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I eat. I eat things like chocolate Reese’s bunnies, and chicken, and bananas, and stuff. Just not seafood. Bleh. Tastes awful and it’s full of parasites, Hg, antidepressants, and birth control.
I also sleep, but I don’t like doing that. There’s a lot of fun things out there I like to do in between sleeping.
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We’ll be covering this story as it develops or until we get bored.
endgame on April 1, 2013 at 10:22 said:
Only 29? I’d have expected a Slaughterhouse 90 at this point(if only because it sounds closer to 9).
Also, now I kinda want to see those scorpion-bears and silverback tiger-gorillas you mentioned.
What else would Bonesaw do if she got access to a zoo?
How is our heroine/villainess going to get out of this? Everyone say she can’t possibly get out of this. I disagree. Here are some possible scenarios for what happens next:
1. And then I triggered the EMP-bomb, that I and Lisa had hidden in the basement weeks ago based on Dinah’s warning. (Deus-Ex-Machina worked on Coil!)
2. “Look over there! An invisible, S-Class, stranger-type cape who will slaughter all the innocents in the building if you turn your attentions away from them.” – Runs away. (It worked against a dragon suit before!)
3. “If you don’t let me go I will trigger the bomb in my heart that will kill me.” (It worked before but Armsmaster might have removed or is able to override the do not kill part of her programming and call her bluff.)
4. Skitter uses her bugs to pull the fire alarm and activate the sprinklers. (Dragon is unlikely to short-circuit from the water and throw sparks and the water will harm Skitter’s minions more than the D-Duo, but it might at least affect the usefulness of Sere’s power. And in any case doing something stupid/unexpected is always a valid move when your opponent has the upper hand.)
5. Skitter uses her insect based superventriloquism and the fact that they are currently apparently threatening a harmless schoolgirl and that thanks to the recent changes in armor the duo is not immediately identifiable to incite a panic: “Oh my god it’s the Techno-Raptors are attacking the school!”, “They are going to kill us all!”, “There is only two of them, get them before the rest of the terrorist turn up!”, “Kill them before they kill us!” and if necessary “I heard they are extreme Nietzschean-Darwinist who kill all those who run away and only spare those who at least put up a fight!” – While Dragon and Defiant fight of a horde of students while trying not to hurt them Skitter walks away. (Superman had superventriloquism pre-crisis it is a valid superpower and Skitter should totally have trained her speaking through insect abilities to pull this of)
6. “Aren’t you supposed to be busy hunting down what is left of the Slaughterhouse Nine after they were run out of my town? For that matter didn’t I kill you body and ran a bunch of your suits out of town the last time you tried to pick a fight with me and mine? And didn’t I ruin your boyfriends career so hard after he tried to cross me that he was forced to take on a new name? Are you really sure you want to fight me?” (This approach won’t really help the situation very much, but it might set the proper tone for the upcoming fight with none of that stupid “I don’t want to fight you but I don’t have a choice.” crap.)
7. “The following statement is true. The previous statement is a false.” – Dragon goes all “Does not compute!” and her boyfriend is to busy to help her calm down to prevent Taylor from walking away. (Only works if Skitter figures out the AI bit and Richter was a really sloppy programmer.)
8. “I Surrender. Take me to the Birdcage I won’t resist.” maybe a bit of additional briarpatching to make really sure she ends up where she needs to be. (Works if Dinah’s warning said that she needed to get Amy to do a makeover on her so that she could be there at the end of the world, because “You will be there, but you will be different.”)
9. Skitter gets knocked out by Dragon after a fight. She wakes up and Dragon tells her that she had to make it look like she followed cauldrons orders and simulacrum of her is sent into the birdcage and Skitter gets borged into becoming the new hero Dragonfly. (Being borged by Dragon would also qualify for the “there but different” prophecy and it would follow the theme of Skitter being forced to turn into something she despises, first a villain then a powersuited pseudo-thinker.)
Dragon’s tech seems to overpowering with her unarmed. But they know better then anyone how dangerous it is to underestimate her. I’m going to go with the cause chaos choice for my guess. She can order her bugs before they knock her out, and they’ll still do it with her unconscious. I’m hoping for another trigger event but I doubt Wildbow will do it after the trip into Echidna didn’t trigger her.
tieshaunn on March 30, 2013 at 05:35 said:
in echidna’s interlude, we learn that taylor already had a second trigger event – she says that skitter, grue and eidolon “smell” different from other parahumans, in the same way that normal parahumans smell different from normal people. what’s the difference between a norm and a parahuman? a trigger event.
so those three already had a second trigger event. remember, in the interlude with the pure visiting the university, we learn that second trigger events can happen in immediate succession of each other, making it nearly impossible to distinguish them. it would explain why eidolon can’t have a second one no matter how much he tries.
also, it fits with taylors trigger event. way, waaaaayy back when she, brian, alec and lisa were eating burgers, she told them how she was locked into the locker (heh) and suddenly felt all these bugs – and only when the input became too much did she get the power to both compute the input and control the bugs, indicating that she had her second trigger event right there
You make an excellent point, but I just want another trigger event. Just to see what else Wildbow can create and to give her more tactical options.
It was never /explicitly/ stated what the smelled indicated, although I can see why people assume it’s a second trigger.
@Loki-
2) Imp isn’t S-class, and I doubt she’s higher than C or B if people can remember her long enough to input her into a rank classification.
7) Azazel was smart enough to avoid a Logic Bombing tactic from Skitter even without Dragon’s direct overseeing presence.
9) What’s with the title “Dragonfly” you seem to be so keen on?
I vote she incapacitates them with horribly descriptive BentleyXRegent fanfic its what I would do.
Nah, Armsmaster is limited by the circumstances. That little electro killer spear he’s wagging around could be dangerous around any teenagers or people with mostly or entirely synthetic bodies that could be present.
Huh, somehow I missed reading that it was Dragon’s bodysuit there that boomed out and called her Skitter. In all the enthusaistic jumping around, I missed that and the subsequent outing of Skitter in front of everyone.
Well folks, time to hit the musical number on this one. There aren’t a whole lot of songs out there about people’s secret identities as villains getting known. Well, maybe something in opera, but I have very little experience with opera, I admit.
But what experience I do have with it has led me to this song.
Congratulations on your coming out, Skitter.
Alternatively, ‘Prince Ali, yes it is he, but not as you know him…’
Brilliant choice, Radio X.
Outlaw X is what I call that little program, though the song leading into it is ZZ Top’s “Heard it on the X”. I think the person heading the program would probably be called Outlaw X too, as it is a cool name. Here’s the song itself:
It is an awesome concept, I think. A pirate radio station that not everyone can access, meant specifically to act as a quick news source for supervillains. Then again, wouldn’t be a bad idea for a podcast to talk about things superhero and supervillain related. And before anyone starts, that sure is hell is not going to be me. I have a voice that would make Simurgh go “Please shut up before you drive me insane.”
Man, I wish I sounded more like UltraMantis Black. Or Komodo! That guy can really pull off the lipstick.
I love those songs. Allow me to add one that I think is also (or will soon be) appropriate:
I was saving that one for when Taylor’s dad finds out about her.
Sorry, it was down to this or “Zydrate Anatomy”, and The Merchants are already dead.
I’m partial to Night Surgeon, but it doesn’t fit. Though maybe Thankless Job for when Dragon interrupted the BBQ.
At the Opera Tonight would be good for any chapters nearing the climax of a story arc. The trouble is figuring out which one. Maybe the S9 or mayoral meeting?
qwerty77753 on March 30, 2013 at 04:09 said:
Unless the very first thing that happens in the next chapter is for either Defiant or Dragon to knock Taylor out, they’re probably not there just to apprehend her. Maybe, as others have said before, they are questioning her, trying to get her help, help defeat the nine, etc. As to why specifically D&D were sent and why they were in the city to begin with is beyond my guess though.
To be honest, I really hope that we don’t get the “Birdcage” arc, it kinda kills the flow of the story and I don’t think it would be as interesting as the other possibilities. If it does happen, I’m pretty sure Wildbow can pull it off, and I guess it would be a way to kill some time in the two year in story gap we have until the conclusion. Still, Taylor having to deal with the fallout (and not to mention the various unresolved pot threads like Dinah’s notes and the portal) is something that I find far more engaging right now.
Speaking of the two years until the end, assuming that Taylor isn’t sent to the Birdcage, there could be some interesting events that happen. I don’t know if anybody mentioned it yet, but maybe a “holidays” type interlude might be fun. Barring another massive attack, the city should be relatively normal by the time Thanksgiving/ Christmas comes around, and a short sequence (either serious or completely silly) following the Undersiders/ Wards/ others during these times would be nice. I don’t know, might make a nice Donation goal, “The Worm Christmas Special.”
At first I thought we might be getting a birdcage ark but it doesn’t seem like it would fit, someone previously posted making pretty good points as to why, and with all the background mentions that have been going on at the start of this ark, of the Fallen and the Ambassadors as well as Fern, it seems like it would be odd to leave all that to relocate to the birdcage.
I wouldn’t mind a Birdcage ark at some point – Skitter without her bugs, locked up in the same place as Lung and Trickster. I’d like to see how wildbow writes himeself out of that. And Skitter would meet Panacea again.
In many ways, the Birdcage already is an “ark”.
But a storyline, or “arc”, that takes place in the Birdcage would certainly be tense.
Undead-Spaceman on March 30, 2013 at 04:18 said:
Wait a minute, I’m confused here, is Taylor in the Cafeteria or is she in the kitchen? This line here says she entered the kitchen (“I stepped around the counter and through the doors that led into the kitchen.”). and found a door on the other side of the kitchen that leads outside: that’s the door Defiant dynamic’d entry’d.
He then backs Taylor towards the front of the cafeteria but there is no mention of her going through the kitchen doors or actually entering it which leads me to think he’s backing her closer to it. Then Dragon arrives, standing in front of the cafeteria entrance but this could mean she’s standing at the student entrance to the cafeteria or the door leading to cafeteria from the Kitchen.
So is she in the caf’ or not?
Well you can probably see most of the kitchen from the cafeteria in most lunch lines, so I think it can still fit.
Alan on March 30, 2013 at 04:24 said:
What about the weapons she took from Kid Win?
I believe Tattletale threw those away when they escaped. They had no idea how to fix them, and they were still being “tinkered” on so it was probably dangerous to keep them.
I think he meant the gadgets she took from Kid-win in this chapter. She had her bugs leave them outside and could probably fly them up behind Defiant and trigger them.
Great catch, I forgot all about that. Combined with her supermulti-tasking skill, she might stall long enough to bring it full circle.
peter o on March 30, 2013 at 05:13 said:
I’m actually wondering if we might have an “I am skittercus ” type scene that allows her to get away. The majority of the cafeteria crowd seems to be ‘stayers’, we know both Char and some of Bitches’ Boys are likely present, and even clockblocker is likely to be sympathetic to skitter.
Also can you imagine the panic among heroes/the protectorate when they are confronted with evidence that skitter is a POPULAR villain?
I’m skeptical this will happen.
All this time and y’all missed the set up. “I’m skeptical this will happen.”
“No, I’m skeptical this will happen!”
“No, I am skeptical this will happen!” one after the other with everyone chiming in.
I am skeptical that would happen.
So am I.
Sure, suuuuuure, now that I explain the joke people are jumping on the bandwagon. “I am skeptical!” Yeah, sure, and I’m Spartacus.
Gnarker on April 1, 2013 at 15:20 said:
Hey, stop pretending to be me.
Maybe just Char would do it. A thin girl walks out laughing hysterically as bugs swarm all around her would cause a panic and cause some doubt to Mr./Mrs. Dragon. Char says she owes her and wants to help her. A distraction may be enough to get away.
That’s…actually a lot more plausible than I initially thought. There’s no way Char would let things go to hell without at least trying something. And all the Undersiders’ minions attending school should back her up, too. The problem, though, is that there are no psychics in the Wormverse, so no one can communicate such a plan telepathically.
What can be done, though, is strategic use of the Famine Engine, if someone got that thing fixed.
Skitter winning this through a popularity contest? Yesssssss
I don’t think it would be focused on Skitter so much as super-zeroes busting into their school to arrest students suspected of supervillainy. Considering what has happened to alot of the kids here, many of them might have good reason to go off on Defiant and Dragon, and if a super-hero refuses to be subjected to public shaming then they’re no superhero at all.
This does involve Armsmaster after all, the guy is temperamental and operates on the same level as a 15 year old. Getting into shouting matches with minors isn’t exactly OOC for him.
Catquiet on March 30, 2013 at 07:21 said:
Clockblocker’s gauntlet… I’m putting my money on it shooting a net with a line attached so CB can make the net indestructible once it is wrapped around the villain.
Also, Tattletale is meeting up with the Ambassadors soon, if she has been alerted to the trouble with Skitter then she could ask them to help with the rescue as their “entrance fee” to the city.
Next time, on Worm:
*Ride of the Valkyries plays.*
Dragon holds down Taylor while Armsmaster stands over her, shitting. Grue is challenging someone on Dance Dance Revolution, then smirks and activates his smoke. Regent holds his stomach and runs into a room, yelling, “But it’s your baby!” while the camera reveals he’s addressing Bentley, who is peeing on the sofa. Armsmaster holds down Taylor while Emma stands over her, shitting. Accord sits across from Chris Farley, losing at Checkers. He makes a note in his little black book for the date, revealing this is a flashback to December 17th, 1997. Chuck Norris jumps out from behind a corner, ready for action. He falls over, tased in the balls from behind, revealing Imp with a mischevious smirk on her face. Tattletale is running a commercial for Miss Tattle’s Tarots with a crappy Jamaican accent. Emma and Armsmaster hold Taylor while Dragon stands over her, straining, until printed sheets of paper the size of toilet paper fall out on Taylor. Bitch crawls out from under the pile of bunnies, only to see a massive wave of fuzzy chicks rolling towards her. She tries to run for it, but falls, only to look up, screaming in horror, as the chicks crash down upon her. The Undersiders all run from an icecream truck which goes up in a massive explosion.
You know, that would really have worked better if I had used “giving her a wet willy” in place of “shitting”.
However, like someone who didn’t realize their partner wasn’t into that stuff, I will probably have to just live with the way I did it.
Or even “taking a dump” instead of shitting.
The only reason people think Chuck Norris is undefeated is because Imp’s abilities are just that powerful.
Skitter is the chuck norris of this setting. Skitter threw a grenade and killed 50 people, then it exploded.Once a cobra bit Skitter’s leg. After five days of excruciating pain, the cobra died. There used to be a street called Skitter, but it had to be changed because nobody crosses Skitter and lives. When the boogeyman goes to sleep at night, he checks his closet for Skitter.
Unlike Clockblocker, time doesn’t stop for Skitter. Instead, it waits for her permission before moving.
Skitter once had smoke inhalation, blindness, some messed up ribs, and was covered in puke. Or as she called it “A minor inconvenience”.
One time, Skitter fought a Dragon. She killed it by breathing fire on it.
Skitter doesn’t run from danger. Danger runs from her, gets tripped up, and has its crotch melted off by spiderbites.
Someone once thought of using grenades on Skitter. He thought twice.
Normal rodeo is for wusses. Skitter rodeo-rides Endbringers. While stabbing them with a halberd.
If you can see her, she can grievously maim or kill you. If you can’t see her, she can grievously maim or kill you, while calmly drinking tea.
+If you can see her, she can grievously maim or kill you. If you can’t see her, she can grievously maim or kill you, while calmly drinking tea.+
Dear God we need a poster of this I can hang on my wall.
Seconded, although I refer it to Wildbow as opposed to my kind and loving deity.
Thirded.
Nightmares don’t make Skitter whimper in her sleep. Skitter makes nightmares whimper. (14.11)
Chthulhu horrors find that even the thought of Skitter makes them crazy. And they get creeped out when something that even looks like Skitter is nearby. (18.z)
There is no Santa Claus. But Skitter sees you when you’re sleeping, she knows when you’re awake, she knows when you’ve been bad or good so be good or suffer unimaginable pain. (20.1)
Skitter does not get dehydrated. She ties dehydration in knots and embarrasses him in front of everyone, instead.(this post)
Skitter once decided to distract a tidal wave. She succeeded. (8.4)
Do not bring a knife to a Skitter fight. (too many to count)
“The grue is a sinister, lurking presence in the dark places of the earth.” Skitter made it her boyfriend.
Schools in Brocton Bay don’t have fire alarms. They have Skitter alarms.
It’s been proven that the universe you survive in is the universe you don’t try to bomb Skitter.
Skitter can count everything that dances on the head of a pin. She put them there.
Skitter’s lunch begins with violence, followed by terror, and ends with the takeover of a city. If she’s already taken over the city, then lunch ends with free barbecue. If she likes you.
Skitter decided to try teenage rebellion once. The city is now under the control of herself and 6 other teenagers.
Skitter mentioned she was bored once. The universe threw 3 different S-class threats at her city, and all three regretted it. The first was driven off, the second reduced to a third of their numbers, and the last was entirely obliterated. The universe appears to be deliberating it’s next move.
Skitter started her villain career as an undercover hero. She was so skilled that when the villains she’d set out to betray found out, they decided to offer her her position back.
Skitter was complaining about some mild aches and pains when a hero with the ability to absorb injuries tried to heal her. He started screaming and yelling moments later.
are we really…? meh. fine.
Skitter convinced the universe to let her flip the bird at evolution. (Giant flying beetles, ahoy!)
Skitter logic-bombed an advanced AI that was explicitly immune to logic bombs.
Chariot uses his tinker-segway for mobility. Bitch uses her dogs. Skitter uses S-class supervillains. (Shattersled, ahoy!)
Eldritch abominations find one Skitter to be more of a threat than the Triumvirate combined.
A supervillain once looked at Skitter funny. She cut out his eyes.
Lunchbreaks are the times when the world stops what it’s doing to get as far away from Skitter as possible.
There are only Four Horseman of the Apocalypse because Skitter rides a giant beetle.
Superheroes who talk to Skitter commonly suffer from mental breakdowns because they aren’t as good a person as the super villain who gouged out a man’s eyes.
Actually, Skitter does have eyes on the back of her head. And on the wall. And around the corner. And on your head…
Jack Slash is so terrifying that few heroes and villains can bear to look him in the eye. He ran a away from Skitter.
Skitter once made an Endbringer cry.
In Brockton bay arachnophobia is no longer a recognized medical condition. Instead there are several new conditions for people who are not yet deathly afraid of bugs.
In Brockton Bay, there is a supervillain who’s super powered guessing was so powerful, it mistaken for mind reading. She goes to Skitter for advice.
Skitter once chopped a pseudo-Endbringer in half just by looking at it.
TheAnt on April 1, 2013 at 01:54 said:
Best thread ever.
Pita on September 19, 2013 at 07:08 said:
I LOVE YOUR PUN
When Skitter watches paint, it doesn’t dry. It wets itself.
Skitter can win a land war in Asia.
Hitler didn’t just commit suicide. He was making sure he never ran into Skitter.
When Skitter makes out with a guy, she cures mental illness. When Skitter makes out with other girls, she cures a plague.
Yeah, I’d say cutting a giant monster apart would make a piece of string pretty awesome…
Damn, ninja’d.
CURSE YOU GECKO!!!
Bwahahahahaha! *Starts playing Ted Dibiase’s theme song.*
throwaawy on April 1, 2013 at 20:01 said:
Skitter mentioned once that she’d like to visit Australia. Hero-capes worldwide collectively went “NOPE,” and preemptively evacuated… never to return.
People have tried to kill Skitter with fire. Multiple times. Apparently it’s not the only way to be sure.
A meteor didn’t cause the dinosaurs to go extinct. They saw the ginormous bugs they were living with and simply gave up on life, knowing Skitter was coming soon*. (*note: dinosaurs sense of the passage of time very poorly)
Skitter scares the bejeezus out of people who can literally hold the power of the sun in their hands.
If you can’t see Skitter, she can still see you. If you *can* see Skitter, you’re about to get dogpiled by a swarm of bugs that weigh more than you do.
Skitter doesn’t die if she’s been killed.
If Skitter was at one of their colonies, Weyland-Yutani WOULD nuke the site from orbit.
endgame on April 16, 2013 at 11:17 said:
And they still wouldn’t be sure.
thomas on March 1, 2014 at 05:34 said:
Another shameless Necro-reply, because I can…
Class-S threats are designated S because they are measured in Skitters.
Skitter isn’t made of win. Win is made of Skitter.
Skitter has never gotten a cold. She once had a concussion, but the city never recovered.
When Skitter makes pretty costumes for her friends, her friends are afraid to NOT wear them.
Skitter didn’t need to tell the PRT that Echidna was a Class-S threat. Anything that faces Skitter willingly is automatically classified either Class-S or [assumed deceased].
On Earth-Bet, Kick Ass is a documentary about Skitter. After winning Best Picture in the Please Don’t Hurt Us category, it is now used as a litmus test to gauge the mental fortitude of Special Forces applicants.
Skitter can make snow angels in asphalt.
Skitter was never blinded. Light just had a panic attack when it realized who it had fucked with.
Skitter is the reason villains don’t pay taxes. She mails in a picture of her costumed self, and the IRS mails back an apology.
Laurids on May 2, 2014 at 10:46 said:
Necro reply here as well:
The villain known as Coil once successfully assassinated Skitter. She didn’t even notice it. He, on the other hand, very much noticed her assassinating him right back.
It’s exceedingly hard to seriously tempt Skitter – unless you’re offering her either a fight with a class-S threat or a hot cup of tea.
Fate chose to make Skitter a girl because a male Skitter wouldn’t have been able walk with balls that big.
Fluflesnufaluphagus on May 29, 2018 at 13:21 said:
Skitter once had to fight two Skitter clones. Skitter won.
Ireadmanga on October 19, 2019 at 00:35 said:
Necro!
At the end of a tale, other heroes leaves a legend. Skitter is not a hero, maybe that’s why her feats is recorded as facts instead.
Eddie on March 30, 2013 at 10:01 said:
Yay, an update!
Sometimes reading the comments is just as good as reading the story. Great group.
Worst case scenario, the S9 backtracked D&D to the school. After all, aren’t a significant portion of the “next generation” in the school? Given the instability of the “old guard”, a dramatic loss of potential young heroes could be catastrophic.
But far more likely is the fact that Dragon and Defiant are there to deliver lunch. It will be a subpar selection, and everyone will agree that a better choice could have been made.
I’m curious as to why Defiant’s voice sounded funny. Maybe he jumped the shark and went full artificial, and he’s using the same speech emulation software that Dragon was, except without a fake accent to hide the fake speech. The speculation is amazing. Also, I wanna see what Clockblocker’s gauntlet is about. I forsee some definite applications for some sort of net/grappling hook launcher. Could synergize very well with his powers.
Also, is it just me who saw some epic potential for Panacea to create some dog-spiders that Bitch could pump up and Skitter could control. Eight Legged Freaks style, giant spiders everywhere.
Last irrational theory, Greg has a trigger event. His power is to kill bugs, he is inconsolable. Skitter punches him in the face and he runs away swearing vengence.
I’m going to stop now before this gets completely out of hand.
Well, Eddie, Armsmaster’s voice sounded funny because there comes a time in every boy’s life when he begins to go through some changes. He gets taller, hair starts growing in funny places, and you begin to get fun thoughts about girls, or other boys, or girls and boys. For a geek like Colin, this took a little while and required the use of computers, but it seems he’s finally hit puberty and he has had high tech electronic balls installed in the dropped position.
I am pretty sure that it was stated somewhere he used something to alter his voice a little because he’s not supposed to be out and about as Defiant.
The Gauntlet is probably just something that fires a dart with a line attached to it for him to have ranged timestopping powers, inspired by what Skitter did against Noelle.
Damn good idea.
Sounds potentially very dangerous: it’d leave time-frozen cord hanging in the air all over the place…
Even with Bonesaw’s latest toys, there isn’t a chance of the remainder of S9 heading back to Brockton Bay anytime soon. They’ve gone up against the PRT and probably any other military oriented cape organization and emerged victorious with most of their firepower intact. They go to Brockton Bay and within a week they lose half of their members, including two of their three supposedly unbeatable brutes.
Jack Slash is cunning and deadly, but he isn’t stupid. Skitter would personally plant her boot in his ass if he broke the truce they agreed to, preventing the S9 from heading back within a certain amount of time. (2 years, I believe?)
Wouldn’t keep her from sending minions that way, though. Hey, new entrance exam! Bring us the head of one of the Undersiders!
3 years actually. (I think)
Clarvel on April 1, 2013 at 21:34 said:
For Theo, its 2 years.
zack on March 30, 2013 at 10:22 said:
arg the cliff hanger glad its the shorter saturday to tuesday gap can’t wait for the next 😀
Just occurred to me: Arcadia High is in Parian’s territory. What were the terms of her truce, again?
Not Parian’s territory. Parian’s in the north end of the city, Arcadia High is more mid.
Arcadia High is built on the back of a giant, slow-moving turtle. It can be anywhere it needs to be. Mwahahaha!
(I know you didn’t move it around. Just amusing myself.)
You left out the four elephants between Arcadia High and the turtle.
I think you mean beetle, friend. It can be anywhere Skitter needs it to be.
archivis on March 30, 2013 at 12:36 said:
Wooohoo! Will there be another school smackdown? Some tinker needs to be recruited to make microbombs for Skitter’s bugs, for dealing with armor and robots.
Ya know… whatever happened to Chariot after he was carted away? It’s not like he did anything cageworthy – or did he? Somebody paying more attention, hope you know the answer to this one.
He could be in the same minor cape jail that Theo (YMMV) and Sophia (Proven) are in, where Skitter might (WMG) be headed. But on the cast page it just lists him as missing.
Theo wouldn’t be in that kind of jail. He has no powers. I would argue the constitutionality of putting an unpowered human in with superpowered juveniles just on the suspicion he could get powers, but at this point I’d only be making their legal system laugh with that one.
Constitutionality for parahumans, whats that? Well depends on how often third generation capes manifest. Makes me wonder what school that 5 year old with powers in Toronto is going to go to.
Glassware on April 1, 2013 at 14:33 said:
It looks like Chariot was last seen being held at gunpoint by Tattletale’s hired mercs. I suppose that she could have turned him over to the heroes, but I would think they would have mentioned that. She could have run him out of town like Circus, Leet, and Uber, who were in the same situation and subsequently got eaten by Echidna (but apparently disappeared midway through the Echidna arc). Or she could have offered him a job-anything Coil had offered him she could have as well, and it isn’t like he has many places to run to after what happened during the debate.
It’s been mentioned by others, but guess who’s present but untouched by the action, sporting a new toy we haven’t seen yet? Someone who was struggling with the PRT’s rules even before the Echidna fiasco, who has a new respect for Skitter and might even be a little sweet on her? C’mon, Clockblocker, show us what you’re made of.
YES. I really want some new blood and a Ward joining the Undersiders would be great. Come one Clockie, take a stand.
chaos985 on March 30, 2013 at 16:41 said:
Your overlooking another option.
skitter is captured. Clockblocker lays claim to the newly acquired teenage super, gaining some serious new firepower for the wards, offering skitter an out and pissing off pretty much everyone else in the process.
Chrysalis is the process of changing from a catapiller into a butterfly. Having skitter get caught, then forced to face and own up to some of the bad shit she has done, then try to make up for it as a hero would fit that name.
also, please, PLEASE next time your doing dialog with clockblocker, and you accidently type cockblocker instead, leave it, and just have someone laugh in the background without ever explaining why.
If you want Skitter to stop doing bad things, why the hell would you want her to be a hero?
maybe i want the heros to stop doing bad things…
Taking the moral high ground would require them to get into situations where they don’t have a dozen teammates, a battalion of PRT grunts, and multi-million PR and legal defense departments backing them up.
I swear to god these guys wouldn’t walk a little old lady across the street without a 200 yard military perimeter and Legend on call for support.
The heroes can’t take the moral high ground. The villains captured it years ago using a team that cares about each other and aren’t disfunctional while also being much better for the residents of the high ground. In attempting to take it back, the heroes authorized a plan to firebomb it in a Burnt Earth policy. Luckily, the villains saved the moral high ground and have rebuilt it as a nice place to live with good schools and property values.
Thank you to Jeff for the donation.
Yay Jeff!
Althalus on March 30, 2013 at 18:45 said:
Another possible twist that might be interesting is if those kids under her protection that Charlotte brought to school all run out and try to keep Dragon and Defient from taking her away.
eduardo on March 30, 2013 at 20:17 said:
Dragon is forced by her program, to obey authority. She wants Skitter to escape and is talking to give her a chance.
Why is everyone assuming it is Cauldron behind this? Cauldron is more or less removed from the Protectorate now. I think this sinister action can be given to the PRT without any help from Cauldron. Or maybe even the Guild (seeing as Dragon is a member).
The Guild AND Dragon?
She should have just one question for Armsmaster then.
Nemesis is a Cauldron plot.
Lord Nemesis is watching you, Pinkhair.
It occurs to me that Skitter may have done a bit of ass-u-me-ing here. I have a strong notion that she’s so vain and really thinks this song is about her when it isn’t. Maybe Dragon and Armsmaster are shutting her down because she’s interfering with the heroes that are here to help.
And by “here to help”, I mean, “fight the Slaughterhouse Niner(s) about to show up”
ivolucien on March 30, 2013 at 22:56 said:
Excellent point.
What if the principal was saying “run” because of an impending lockdown caused by an S9 sighting?
Or, what if Bonesaw got to Armsmaster and is controlling him somehow? Skitter has messed with Bonesaw’s “family” quite a lot after all…
WMG tiiiiime! *wears tinfoil hat with pride*
Perhaps I missed someone else drawing this same conclusion, but *if* Dragon just outed Taylor as Skitter, then it really has to be intentional and either part of what she’s being forced to do, or part of how she’s interfering with the goal of whomever is forcing her hand. Dragon could not break the truce and cause that kind of harm due to carelessness.
My tentative guess is that the S9 and the end of the world scenario have manifested in such a way that Skitter’s powers are flatly necessary. For as yet unrevealed reasons, Dragon is simultaneously putting Taylor’s dad in protective custody and exposing Skitter’s identify so that it can’t be used against her in the future.
That still rings a little hollow to me though, and so have faith that wildbow will pull something completely unexpected out of his hat.
Wageslave on March 31, 2013 at 00:03 said:
I think it’s rather telling that it’s just D&D and a couple of localish/nearby heroic-types. Hardly seems like the amount of firepower ‘Skitter’s’ reputation would warrant?
Eh. D&D have been going after the Nine singlehandedly, so…
Loki-L on April 1, 2013 at 01:59 said:
Well, to be fair, the local heroes, wards and guards were not really much of an inconvenience for Skitter. She beat them handily by calmly sitting in the cafeteria and then nonchalantly strolling out the door.
Or she would have if it wasn’t for D&D. Dragon despite her questionable taste in boyfriends is the premier tinker cape in the world. And while Defiant is an asshole, he is an asshole who used to be the leader of the local Protectorate team and who designed the weapon that Skitter used to hurt an Endbringer. They spent their spare time hunting down an S-class threat. They are good.
Don’t forget,Armsmaster used to be the seventh most powerful protectorate hero.
In nearly every battle Kid Win has participated in do far he has failed to impress, how many more times must his orifices be stuffed full of bugs before he wises up and wear a costume that’s bug-proof? Maybe its time to change his name to Kid Fail?
To be fair, he only just now figgered out his tinker specialization all the while the villains are getting increasingly out of his league and local authority is falling apart at the seams. Kind of hard to find an opportunity for success.
Frankly, I sympathize with his decision to focus on his work and not worry about all the bullshit that’s been going on. Smart kid.
But someguy does have a point. Kid Win is an energy Tinker. Why hasn’t he made a force field yet?
Bobby on April 1, 2013 at 02:13 said:
It’s funny how the chapter is only about a tent of the length of the page.
Rika Covenant on April 1, 2013 at 06:31 said:
First off, first time posting. Just finished archive binging from chp. 1 to now reading off and on a few hours at a time over the past three days. I’d go off to do something else, but then irreversibly get dragged back to Worm to keep reading. It’s a story that I easily put up there with Jim Butcher’s Dresdenverse, Sandy Mitchell’s Ciaphas Cain series, Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series- or a multitude of other similar amazing authors and their works.
Your portrayal of the characters as people is beyond being just simply realistic, landing firmly in the territory of solidly -real-. The interactions betwixt all the Undersiders as a team as well as the Undersiders and the PRT and their affiliates just resonates beautifully with how real people would act, not how you might think people might act.
Seriously, Wildbow, I really look forward to you getting better recognition and an official acceptance from a publisher so that you can become more widely known and can produce even further adventures (while getting handsomely paid) in the Wormverse once Skitter’s is finally done; As it is, at over a million words, if you remove interludes and publish them as a separate anthology of short stories attached to Skitter’s Tale, I could see this easily being a series of two trilogies and the anthology already, just going by word count (Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files typically run about 80-120K words or so, with some variance each novel, for example).
On a less fangirlish squeeing note directly to the author, I haven’t been following the comments section too closely, but I do remember you mentioning no one properly understood how Grue’s power siphoning worked, exactly, and would like to posit my own potentiality: His passenger connects to the other parahuman’s passenger via the medium of his power; The darkness dampens the powers of parahumans because his passenger was leeching the power all along; His second trigger event allowed his mind to tap a little more of the passenger’s power and has been dampening more powers because it’s able to steal more power, and only now can he actually utilize that lost potential of the other parahuman himself- He’s basically acting as a conduit for their powers, rather than stealing them for a period, or just dampening their powers needlessly. This would also explain the fact he can only draw from a single other power at once- They are all having a portion stolen, but he can only channel one power at a time- Much like trying to thread a needle, you can only really get one thread through at a time or else they bunch up and refuse to slide through. If someone’s already gotten it right, please do correct me on that.
Lastly, in regards to the current story as it is: Skitter entered the cafeteria’s kitchen, not the serving area. I can tell you from experience working in school cafeterias that unless they’re low budget (and far too many are) they often have a kitchen area in back behind doors proper where dishwashing, prepwork, possibly baking and other cooking can go on outside the view of the cafeteria proper- especially if cooking classes or extra credit work in the cafeteria is offered as well.
It was specifically mentioned that Taylor went through the doors to the kitchen of the cafeteria, so only those who were paying attention to someone slipping through the doors- a certain Emma, for example, who may have not taken her eyes off Taylor since entering the cafeteria, or perhaps Greg- would have been able to get even a hint that it was Taylor that was in the kitchen. Armsmaster did indeed kill the bugs that were on the outside door, the one that kitchen supplies would have been brought into the school by. Dragon stopped outside the doors into the kitchen, inside the cafeteria- Everyone in the cafeteria heard, but no one can actually see Taylor right now.
I’m thinking that they’re going to allow her to go in the end, using either a loophole or Defiant/Armsmaster letting her go even though he doesn’t think she deserves to; However, I think her public identity is now going to be compromised, and she will indeed metamorphose from the split life of Taylor and Skitter to simply being Skitter. (And if you decide that she needs a new name and rename her to The Monarch, I’m going to facepalm so hard…)
Okay, two last things: Psycho Gecko, you’re awesome, and you deserve a hug for your insanity, inanity, and overall awesomeness in referential humour and crazy bag lady stuff. Comments section, Y U SO LONG?! Seriously wish half the time that the comments defaulted as collapsed until you opened them up, so i could see how far into a chapter I was, or how much remained, instead of having to just eyeball it and search for a while if I accidentally lost my place >.o The comments for this page alone are well over 9/10ths the entire length of the page now.
wildbow on April 1, 2013 at 09:47 said:
Hi, R.C.
Thank you for the compliments, it’s kind of mind-blowing that I’m being compared to the likes of Jim Butcher or any of those guys.
In regards to the Grue thing – the comment I made about people not understanding it was more directed at people who kept saying that they expected Grue to get in the middle of a cape fight and absorb every power, and kick ass with zero effort. I can’t/won’t confirm or deny speculation, but your explanation is pretty fitting.
Hopefully tonight’s update will clarify where things are in terms of the overall layout. Worst case scenario, I go back and rewrite, but I’m trying to minimize how much I do that, especially as time gets shorter and it takes away from the writing of the next chapter(s).
Anyways, I won’t dither. Thanks for your comment, and I hope to see you about, Rika Covenant. If you happened to be willing, a review or even just a rating out of five on Webfictionguide would be appreciated. I know you have to sign up, but it’s more visibility and will hopefully nudge me up the popularity list (where I’m presently #3).
Just call me Rika, Wildbow. I don’t want to have anyone coming up to me and going “ba-weep-gra-na-weep-ninny-bong” and trying to stick something up an exhaust pipe. ;P I also am more a fan of purple than pink.
I wouldn’t give you the compliments if I didn’t feel you deserved them. I really haven’t been this interested in reading a story since I finished re-reading the Mistborn series (I really think he outdid himself finishing off Wheel of Time- What do you think?).
Wasn’t expecting you to confirm/deny speculation, was more directing it at the idea that it only draws one power at a time, and the methodology of it as a bonus- I’ve always been very concerned about a consistancy of how things work within any given work- I like to figure out how things tick by taking them apart and putting them together again, I guess? Bit like Dragon in that way. X3
I just realized in my sleep-deprived state (I’m up all night and into the morning @_@) that he didn’t just force her to the doors to the kitchen, but back through them and to the cafeteria doors- It seems like I once again glossed over the exact details when i was reading, like it seems quite a few had as well in regards to the kitchen doors existing. I think it comes from not putting into perspective that he’s marching her through the doors back into the cafeteria, just that he stops when they’re at the front of the cafeteria, and I interpreted that as meaning the doors from the kitchen to cafeteria, somehow.
I rated this web serial on topwebfiction.com already, by the way, and I just registered to webfictionguide to rate it and write a more comprehensive review later, I think. To think I’d be recommended to read this from an online game- One about anime parodies, no less. Love you, Auth. ❤
Aaaaand review is up now, as well.
Thank you, Rika. 🙂
A good review never fails to put a smile on my face. I’m glad I’ve managed to get character’s voices through in a distinct way.
Getting increasingly nervous about what happens post-Worm. Feel like I somehow got lucky, chanced on an idea and a set of characters that just fit well with how I think, and when I try the next work, I’ll realize it was just a mater of stars aligning right. Urk.
Been dabbling with ideas on what I might write next, as of late. Is daunting, to try and match what I’ve put together with Worm.
soulpelt on April 1, 2013 at 11:29 said:
Finally. Welcome to the Wormling fold, Rika. Time for the initiation! 😀
Well, you know what they say about the “sophomore” album, Wildbow. You get your entire life to do the first one, and only a year or so for the follow-up.
You might actually be better off spending time marketing THIS book before really starting on the next one. Look how long JKR took before she came out with something new.
You didn’t just get lucky, Wildbow. If you just got lucky, then you wouldn’t have gotten out -over a million words- worth of text that is as riveting now as it was when you first started writing it, and will be a decade from now as well. It is the fruit of your honest labour, your hard work and determination and perseverance- and a good editor team in your regular commenters 😛
You’ll do fine. I believe in you. ^_^
You might be amused, Rika, at this commentary regarding the review, in Webfictionguide’s forum:
http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/the-headaches-of-april-first
Greetings Rika! Always fun to see someone else who wants to talk about me. All this other speculation around, you’d almost think I wasn’t the main event, halftime show, and crossdressing as half the cheerleaders all in one package.
Let’s talk about Gex, baby, let’s talk about you and me. Let’s talk about all the good things, and the bad things, that may be.
Feel free to add your own speculative voice to our little comment collective. It gets slow the day just before an update. Then again, the whole page slows for me a little due to all the comments.
We all appreciate another hopeless Worm addict, Wildbow appreciates the appreciation , and I also appreciate the kind words despite me being something like the lovechild of everything the Nostalgia Critic hates with everything he loves.
You’ve missed some crazy comment fun, but we’ll change all that. From now on, you’ll miss your sanity instead.
RazorSmile on April 1, 2013 at 11:37 said:
Sorry to make the comments section even longer but I have a question: has Dragon made a meat-body that can fool everyone that isn’t DefiantMaster yet? I am almost certain she has but can’t find the chapter.
Interlude… whichever one was situated between Colony and Monarch, I think. Non-bonus.
Found it. It’s Triumph’s interlude, wherein Defiant is introduced to the PRT.
A thank you goes out to Henry for the donation. Thanks Henry!
Seems I can’t reply to your comment above, which irks me, so leaving my reply here: What do you mean -that- enthusiastic, huh? Huh? 😛 Also congrats on the $50 donation! Thanks Henry. Wish I had some to toss your way as well.
Pandemonious Ivy on April 1, 2013 at 22:35 said:
Hello there Rika,
As a commenter just as in love with Worm as the next, yet not nearly as prolific as Gecko, mc2rpg, Loki, or any of the others, I would like to say you are several shades of awesome
*swirls cape and disappears*
Scrambles on April 1, 2013 at 23:14 said:
More than several shades, I’d say. A lot of shades. Like, at least fifty shades. Yeah, that sounds right. Fifty shades of awesome.
Hmm, sounds familiar
Wasnt there a Few Shades of Day, fanfic, or something?
GAAAAAH NO GET IT AWAY IT BURRRRRNS
But seriously, I’m not that awesome .____.
How am I several shades of awesome? @_@;
Genetics, magic, temporal distortion, I dunno ^_^
Everyone together.
Thank you Henry
Oi, Wildbow, would you get annoyed if people asked Worm trivia questions when you start your new projects?
So I can know how likely you are to postpone Parahumans: The Sequel if I ask you several more times which Endbringer fought Lung
*Note: No this isnt an impending threat of irritatingness heh
I’m not much more likely to answer them -then- than I am now. We’ll see. I may stipulate certain answers I’d be willing to give (as far as clarifying story events, perhaps, filling in the blanks in conversations where only half was heard, etc).
I love your willingness to go into the comments section and actually respond to your fans
Imagine if your favorite writer would respond to some of your questions while reading through the chapters of their book
You are a fantastic person, also thank you for the answer, I appreciate it
For the love of God, please, i dont want an april fools joke here…. i…. i coulnd handle it, specially after that clifhanger
Lucky thing that the update is on the second, not the first.
Dalton on September 29, 2017 at 23:19 said:
Don’t know if you have or ever would, but imo you should strongly consider pulling an April Fool’s prank for one of your updates, if it lines up.
Fake Name on April 2, 2013 at 12:30 said:
The last chapter button is broken here- it links back to this chapter.
How did they get to Brockton Bay so goddamn fast? They were chasing the Slaughterhouse Nine on the other side of the country wtf! Also I feel like Taylor would have realised Dragon of all people would be on the computers but maybe she’s not knowledgeable about that.
“Other side of the country”? Last we hear, D&D and the S9 were in Boston, and Brockton Bay has been stated to be on the east coast. Besides, they have Dragon’s suits, which can probably fly at least as fast as a commercial airplane.
Some withdrew things from their pockets -phones, I could guess-, while others were already kicking into action.
Punctuation issue.
Senalishia on December 11, 2013 at 14:08 said:
Woohoo! When Taylor didn’t need bugs to figure out who had just showed up to the party, my first thought was “Defiant? Nah, that’s gotta be just my eagerness to see him making me think crazy things, it’s probably Alexandria or the ghost of Echidna or something.” And then it was him! And Dragon! This is gonna be awesome!
I love the story, the characters, nearly everything! It really is fantastic. Cannot WAIT to see how Skitter and Dragon circle one another!!!
Now, I do have some criticism you might find useful in the edit process. It started small, with the first example I found in this chapter that jerked me out of the story, but you’ll see how it expands to a generalized issue.
This description is awkward with joined-joining:
” … two longer buildings joined by a third, joining them to form something like a capital ‘H’.”
” … two longer building wings joined by a third, forming a capital ‘H’.”
If I am visualizing what you really meant, it’s not 3 really buildings (as discussed in early comments), it’s one H shaped building with long legs (one longer than the other?).
They aren’t considered separate buildings if they interconnect — just wings. It’s a pretty standard architecture to maximize windows to square footage in institutional buildings.
Same paragraph “… open into an open space …” — also awkward, several ways to fix. Just drop the 2nd open, or change it to wider, or change first open to ‘reach’.
Oh, and later, when she goes down a stairwell to where the guidance offices are? I don’t recall her going UP any stairs earlier, so if she WAS on a ground level (same as the front door), she is now below ground. The guidance office have interior ‘window’ walls, but windows to outside?!? Was she just standing there in front of the guard and the counselor at the window-wall the whole time she was gathering bugs and checking exterior exit options and eavesdropping on the principle’s call and so on just before the lockdown alarm? That would be noticeable.
Speaking of evaluating exits, since the doors to the parking lot and the door you are calling ‘front’ are apparently both facing the same compass direction, but on the ends(?) of two different wings, maybe you should call the second ones the MAIN ENTRANCE doors.
ERRGH! You see how your description slows me down?
I have found that your descriptions of physical surroundings, especially building interiors, OFTEN make me stop and go, “Hunh?” Sometimes I think it is because you OVER describe details, at times with this kind of ‘clunky’ wording, so much that I’m trying to fill in even more minutia NOT relevant to story flow.
I doubt that Skitter thought much more than “I don’t know this place too well but it seems like an H-shaped building; I’m in the center part with all the admin offices. Too many windows look down into here, gotta move out. Let’s see … All the doors around here look like emergency only, barred and alarmed, so … Main entrance door in right wing past the auditorium, door to parking lot in left wing past the gym and cafeteria.” as she evaluated this — why did you elaborate?
Describe the little bits she sees, either with her eyes or her bugs, in the SIMPLEST big picture way you can. Pare it down. Every piece of architecture becomes a Chekov’s brick, so only describe the ones she really will need to climb over or break through or check behind.
Oh, and to lighten this just a little — I cannot believe you didn’t have her shelter in at least ONE bathroom as she was attempting to evaluate her options! It’s so HS classic and story resonant!
Skychan on August 5, 2014 at 13:01 said:
What affect will / did this event have on endbringer participation by villians?
I find it strange how viewers see a character that is villainous/they simply dislike,and,just because of that,make assumptions that are completely OOC for him,or that blame him for events.
Armsmaster has been shown not to hate Skitter,and to not be willing to mindrape Dragon,damnit.He is just as bad for taking this decisions as all the other heroes who participated except Dragon are,no worse,no better.
Well….and I thought Bad finally stopped the everlasting “everything always goes badpy and fast” routine.
Mind, I think Worm is a good serial. But with a little less “oh wie is skitter” it could be fantastic.
inventorfrog on November 27, 2015 at 12:44 said:
And now we finally get to find out if Emma’s reaction is worth Taylor’s secret identity.
(I wish)
MisterTeatime on December 7, 2015 at 23:48 said:
It took me a while to notice, because it doesn’t seem to get mentioned anywhere in the text, but Sere’s power completely ignores the Manton effect. He’s pretty scary.
OMg, I guess we won´t see an school life Taylor anymore.
Monkey Cap on October 9, 2018 at 13:56 said:
Ive been reading this series nonstop for 2 weeks now… Just one more chapter then I’ll sleep
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Motherlode | Stop Asking if My 4-Year-Old Has a ‘Girlfriend’
By Lynn Messina
February 21, 2016 8:00 am February 21, 2016 8:00 am
Credit Getty Images
My father isn’t the first person to ask my son if he has a girlfriend. The question pops up frequently when we’re visiting friends of my mother’s over the holidays or talking to affable cashiers at the supermarket. It’s always asked in the same way — with genial good humor and an air of expectation, as if they already know the answer.
My son typically responds with a blank stare — not, it should be noted, the aggressively vacant stare I cultivated in my 20s to discourage the apparently benign interest of family and friends in my romantic life, but an actual stare of incomprehension.
He doesn’t understand the question because he’s 4 years old. Five months ago, he started prekindergarten. Three weeks ago he learned how to calculate seven minus five on his hands. Yesterday, he had a dry overnight diaper for the fifth morning in a row.
Unable to let the moment play out, I jump in with an answer: Yes, I say, he has girl friends and boy friends. He has, in fact, lots of friends.
I say it calmly and pleasantly, with a polite smile that reveals nothing of how I truly feel about this question — this ludicrous question that follows little children around like a puppy sensing scraps. I understand that it’s just the meaningless chatter of adults trying to make conversation with children. I get that their intentions are 100 percent harmless.
And yet every time this question is posed, I hear insidious rumblings. I hear heteronormative expectation: You’re a boy, so naturally, you’ll like girls. I hear the gender indoctrination: Girls aren’t like boys, so you should treat them differently. I hear the premature insertion of sexual politics: Girls aren’t your friends; they’re potential objects of desire.
In this one seemingly innocuous query, I hear one generation imposing on the next one its resolute idea of How Things Are.
And these messages aren’t confined to well-meaning relatives and kindly salesclerks. If only this were a battle being fought on one front. Alas, the global entertainment complex seems to have joined forces with my mom’s college roommate’s husband to provide furtive lessons on how young boys and girls should interact. The G-rated “Peanuts Movie,” for example, which is not only aimed at 4-year-olds but is also, according to one of the early “Peanuts” comic strips from 1950, about 4-year-olds, has more romantic entanglements than an episode of “The Love Boat.” Charlie Brown blushes and stammers around the girl he’s crushing on, the cute little redhead who lives next door, while Peppermint Patty pines away for him in unrequited love. His sister, Sally, ardently pursues Linus, her “sweet babboo” (a term, incidentally, that Charles M. Schulz’s own wife actually called him). Lucy throws herself at Schroeder. Even Snoopy — a dog! — models romantic behavioral standards by courting a beautiful poodle named Fifi.
Why do we do this? Why do we endlessly replicate mature patterns for young audiences? Are we, like the men chasing the maidens on Keats’s Grecian urn, locked forever in “mad pursuit”? Do we instinctively reach for the same worn blueprint, or do we collectively make the choice to pass it along?
At this age, there’s no difference in the way my son treats boys and girls. There’s no variation in the tenor of his laughter, no disparity in the force of his giddiness. There’s only the joy in being chased — around the playground, down the block, through the velvet curtains that line the black-box studio where we had his birthday party. He isn’t enacting an archetype that has existed for thousands of years. He’s simply being himself in the presence of his friends.
Later, perhaps, his attitude will change. Maybe when puberty kicks in he will assume the awkwardness of Charlie Brown or the forwardness of Sally. Perhaps this will happen much sooner than I think. Maybe first grade. Maybe even kindergarten.
But right now, he’s 4 and learning how to subtract with his fingers, and he doesn’t need to be enmeshed in a complex web of dating rituals. He needs to go to the park and to have a sixth dry night.
And when he’s ready for a girlfriend — or a boyfriend — I’ll let you know. But be warned: If you ask about it, he might still give you a blank stare.
Lynn Messina is a novelist living in New York City. Her most recent book is “Prejudice & Pride,” a modern retelling of the classic with a gender-bending twist.
Food Lessons From Families of Kids With Allergies
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Toyota FT-AC concept shows rugged SUV of the future
Brett Davis Nov 30, 2017
Car News, Concepts, SUV, Toyota
Toyota has revealed an all-new concept SUV at the Los Angeles auto show, called the FT-AC. This is the concept that was previewed a couple of weeks ago.
Described as the next step in Toyota’s line of adventure-loving concept vehicles, the FT-AC is a brash and versatile proposal with proper off-road capability. As Toyota says, the concept allows a “deeper exploration to take life’s journeys even further”.
Some of the design details include a wide and thick front grille with bright LED headlights, detachable fog lights that can be mounted to a mountain bike, with twin tow hooks for recovery. There’s also skid plates underneath, chunky all-terrain tyres on 20-inch wheels, with bulging wheel arches, and an adjustable roof rack.
There’s also rear-facing LED lights for night time camping and so on. These can be controlled via a mobile device. Meanwhile an integrated bike rack at the rear makes life easier when loading and unloading, and there’s geolocation capability for sharp direction guidance. In a statement, Toyota said:
“FT-AC reminds adventurers of all skill levels how remarkable the trip – not just the destination – can be. Going for a paddle on the river. Climbing a favourite rock face. Hitting a trail on a mountain bike. FT-AC is experience-centric. It compels. Any wheel time in FT-AC brings genuine facetime with the friends aboard.”
There’s no mention of the powertrain specifics, however, it does use a petrol engine with advanced torque vectoring all-wheel drive. There’s also a terrain response system with four-wheel locking for maximum traction. Toyota says the concept could also offer a next-gen hybrid system to help with its future-thinking and real-world practicality approach. No word on whether this beast will inspire a production car as yet, but we’ll keep you updated.
Toyota FT-AC
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Toyota GR Super Sport Concept hints at future supercar January 12, 2018
2018 Toyota HiLux Rugged X review (video) August 4, 2018
Mitsubishi Triton concept previewed, to inspire new rugged variant? March 20, 2019
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The Placental Microbiome: A New Site for Policing Women's Bodies
Saray Ayala & Lauren Freeman
Ijfab: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 9 (1):121-148 (2016)
Saray Ayala López
This paper brings feminist public health ethics and feminist analytic tools to bear on mainstream medical research. Specifically, it uses these approaches to call attention to several problems associated with “The Placenta Harbors a Unique Microbiome,” a recent study published in Science Translational Medicine. We point out the potential negative consequences these problems have for both women’s health and their autonomy.Our paper has two parts. We begin by discussing the study, which examines the composition of the placental microbiome, that is to say, the communities of microorganisms that live in the placenta. Among other things, this study considers two different relations: a correlation..
Feminist Approaches to Philosophy in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
DOI 10.3138/ijfab.9.1.121
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Methodology and Ontology in Microbiome Research.John Huss - 2014 - Biological Theory 9 (4):1-11.
“Snake-Oil,” “Quack Medicine,” and “Industrially Cultured Organisms:” Biovalue and the Commercialization of Human Microbiome Research. [REVIEW]Melody J. Slashinski, Sheryl A. McCurdy, Laura S. Achenbaum, Simon N. Whitney & Amy L. McGuire - 2012 - BMC Medical Ethics 13 (1):28-.
Property and Research on the Human Microbiome.Kurt Hirschhorn Goldfarb, Rosamond Rhodes & Brett Trusko - 2013 - In Rosamond Rhodes, Nada Gligorov & Abraham Schwab (eds.), The Human Microbiome: Ethical, Legal and Social Concerns. Oxford University Press.
"The Human Microbiome: Ethical, Legal, and Social Concerns" Edited by Rosamond Rhodes, Nada Gligorov, and Abraham Paul Schwab. [REVIEW]Nicolae Morar - 2014 - Environmental Philosophy 11 (2):362-366.
Property and Research on the Human Microbiome in The Human Microbiome: Ethical, Legal, and Social Concerns.Abraham Schwab, Mary Ann Bailey, Joseph Goldfarb, Kurt Hirschhorn, Rosamond Rhodes & Brett Trusko - unknown
The Human Microbiome.Lily Frank, Keith Benkov, Martin Blaser, Matthew E. Rhodes & Rhoda Sperling - 2013 - In Rosamond Rhodes, Nada Gligorov & Abraham Schwab (eds.), The Human Microbiome: Ethical, Legal and Social Concerns. Oxford University Press.
Biobanks and the Human Microbiome in The Human Microbiome: Ethical, Legal, and Social Concerns.Abraham Schwab, Barbara Brenner, Joseph Goldfarb, Rochhelle Hirschhorn & Sean Philpott - unknown
Biobanks and the Human Microbiome.Abraham P. Schwab, Barbara Brenner, Joseph Goldfarb, Rochelle Hirschhorn & Sean Philpott - 2013 - In Rosamond Rhodes, Nada Gligorov & Abraham Schwab (eds.), The Human Microbiome: Ethical, Legal and Social Concerns. Oxford University Press.
Women, Wellness, and the Media.Chris la Barbera & Melissa Meade - 2010 - International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 3 (1):158-164.
Not by Our Genes Alone.Mauro Mandrioli - 2013 - Aisthesis: Pratiche, Linguaggi E Saperi Dell’Estetico 6 (2):21-29.
The Speculum of Ignorance: The Women's Health Movement and Epistemologies of Ignorance.Nancy Tuana - 2006 - Hypatia 21 (3):1-19.
Confronting Diminished Epistemic Privilege and Epistemic Injustice in Pregnancy by Challenging a “Panoptics of the Womb”.Lauren Freeman - 2015 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 40 (1):44-68.
Are Changes to the Common Rule Necessary to Address Evolving Areas of Research? A Case Study Focusing on the Human Microbiome Project.Diane E. Hoffmann, J. Dennis Fortenberry & Jacques Ravel - 2013 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 41 (2):454-469.
Parts and Wholes: The Human Microbiome, Ecological Ontology, and the Challenges of Community.Gregory W. Schneider & Russell Winslow - 2014 - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 57 (2):208-223.
Mujeres y Salud.Veronica Reyes, Blanca Villafuerte & Agustin Gois - 2000 - Cinta de Moebio 9.
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OuttaSiteOuttaMind
Nogut mi lusim tingting…
Life in the zone…
On what I owe to whom…
Grace, Lent, Poetry
season of temptation
tantalized with the forbidden
(though self-imposed)
limitations force the hidden
into view
at worst little more than a mind-fuck
creating obsession where thoughtlessness prevailed
frustration out of abundance
desire replacing the carefree
foibles exposed by preoccupation
freighted with shame
this is good?
season of seduction
enchanted by abundance
toy around the edges of the holy
enticed to consider others
at best faults are a reminder:
tempting me towards forgiveness
to fool around with fidelity
to eat at the table unworthily
to be allured by the divine temptress
to laugh and levitate relations
to lace with love; garnish with grace
this is good.
give in…
you know you wanna…
Missionary Kids, Papua New Guinea
MK mischief…
My family furloughed from the mission field in 1985. “Furlough” consisted of returning to your ‘homeland’ for one out of every five years, and raising funds for the next four years’ ministry expenses. During this furlough my family was invited to be the ‘missionaries in residence’ at the denominational college in the midwest. We were provided a home to live in, fully furnished. And in return, my folks made appearances in chapel services, taught some occasional classes, and just generally were available for students to talk to. On top of these obligations to the local college, my folks traveled and spoke around the country, fundraising. Mom indicates she and dad were gone 47 of the 52 weeks that year. Meanwhile, my brother and I enrolled in classes in the local high school (he was a junior, I a freshman) and went about our business. We were quite independent by this point–largely because we’d already been at boarding school for several years.
My folks met all sorts of people as they traveled and spoke, and often they would drop by the house to meet my brother and me if they happened to be visiting campus. Neither of us kids found these little encounters much fun, as we didn’t know the visitors (we’d not previously met them) and often they were intrusive–assuming unwarranted familiarity. They would tour the house, ask us kids to speak ‘that language’ or to sing or ‘tell missionary stories’. We were much like a petting zoo–interactive yet none-the-less on display.
Mom phoned us and let us know one day that a couple they’d recently met would be coming up to the campus that weekend. All we knew about this couple were their names. Mom said she and dad had offered to let them stay at the house, instead of having to pay for hotel during their visit to campus. She told us she’d describe us kids to this couple, and they were nice and would enjoy meeting us.
My brother and I put our heads together, irritated that once again we were stuck entertaining the masses. Then it hit us: it wasn’t just that we didn’t know this couple–THIS COUPLE DID NOT KNOW US. We schemed with two of our highschool friends (a guy and a girl) to come spend the weekend at our house pretending to be us. They could tell “New Guinea missionary stories” and no-one would know the difference. They assumed our identities, and my brother and I headed out on the train for a weekend in Chicago–sleeping in the bus terminal one night, and O’Hare airport the second. We never said a word to anyone about the switch.
Then one day, months later, dad announced that we would not be returning to the mission field: instead, he was going to be taking a pastorate in the States. To our surprise (and subsequent horror) the church he was now going to pastor was this couple’s home church. My brother and I were now their pastor’s kids. We had a lot of explaining to do.
Indeed, “your sins will find you out”.
Colonialism, Commute
Global litter…
I had an enlightening conversation this morning with a Nigerian cab driver who talked about Nigeria prior to discovering its oil, and how oil corrupted his people and his homeland. He spoke of the hopelessness of his generation and how “Nigerians now litter the world because we have no future in our homeland.” He described how he’d promised himself that he’d only come to the U.S. for four years, then he would return home–but how much had changed at home in those four years, and how he realized that as much as he missed it, he could never make a life there for a family. Many of his college mates have been assassinated for trying to evoke positive, moral change on behalf of their country’s poor. And he expressed disgust at his own betrayal: earning a living dependant upon the very industry which ruined his nation. He has now been in the U.S. (legitimately) for 34 years. It was a gut wrenching, heart breaking conversation and tears rolled down his cheeks while he talked. When I asked how things could change, he sucked air in through his teeth (in that Northern African way…) and said “I believe there is no hope for that land. To go back and fight the system is certain death. Better to be littered across the globe than to go back.”
I exited the cab sobered, vowing to decrease my dependence upon oil. But it sobered me in other ways: I was reminded of my own exodus from my native ecclesial land–and how very painful the denominational divorce was for me. Much like my driver spoke, I’d begun to realize that there was no future for me there–but it never dulled the pain of separation from my ecclesial birth-family. The nostalgia I’ve felt doesn’t outweigh the gravity of the spiritual danger it imposed–I’m better off having immigrated. It was a death-dealing situation, and my newly adopted homeland (I immigrated 6 years ago) has been life-giving.
My story isn’t unique and is hardly singular. Many of the colleagues with whom I went to seminary now minister in other denominations. And many have cast aside all forms of religiosity in favor of a more benign ‘spirituality’. We are ecclesial litter, to put it in my driver’s vernacular. And while we have managed to thrive in other environs, there remains that twinge of homesickness.
Peace, Theology
Devastating theology…
At the conservative holiness seminary I first attended, I was trained to be cut-throat in my evaluations and assessments of my peers (well, of their work, but it never really stops there, does it?). When I first came to a liberal seminary to study feminist theology, I took on Dr. Dwight Vogel (a professor) and dismantled his argument in front of a class. I was ruthless. He initially got flustered and turned red. But then he very calmly collected himself and asked me to step outside the room. He politely said that a blood bath wasn’t the kind of theological discourse anyone at this seminary was interested in, and that I needed to step back and tone it down.
I was embarassed–almost wounded by his remarks–and fearful of what the latter half of class might bring. But when we returned to class, he said to the group “You know, Donna is right… I hadn’t thought that through. Donna, will you come up here and let’s talk it all the way through so we understand the significance of the argument you made, and where mine falls short.”
I vowed to never destroy someone theologically again. He modeled for me nonviolence and respect. And put me on a path towards peaceableness.
Abandonment, Grief, Missionary Kids, Papua New Guinea
Missing wantoks…
I’ve been in a funk this past week and I know it is related to news from New Guinea. There was a landslide which took out two villages near Mendi (about 40 missing–buried) and then the ferry capsized off the coast of Lae–there were 250 students on board, and 104 are still missing (days later). Several of those on the boat were from the Melanesian Nazarene Bible college. It is heart breaking… and especially frustrating how little press it received. (Given how much press the cruise liner off the shore of Italy received… where only 24 are still missing. I guess it once again pays to be European).
There is a system in PNG called “wantoks”–which literally means “one talk”–that is, you speak the same native language. What is implied therein, is that you are from the same village, and are related, and your concerns belong to all your wantoks. There is an obligation to tend to one another’s needs. Sometimes this is good–no one is left out and no one goes without help. But at times it is also a pain: relatives can just show up and demand things. It is heavily intertwined with the lack of a notion of ‘personal property’ and the fact that language groups are so very small, isolated, and tight. Anyway… I’m missing wantoks these days…
And the grief I’ve experienced over the news from PNG kinda exacerbates that feeling: to whom can I turn when I feel like this? There isn’t anyone around who speaks my language… who has shared these experiences… who shares my grief. It makes it very difficult to even talk about New Guinea at times. I remember once when dad and I were riding his motorcycle, we came upon a bus accident. I was about 10 years old. Dad worked to triage folk, and we noticed one man who was bleeding out. Dad said there was nothing to be done, so we tried to make him comfortable, and then went to help the other injured. We heard a gurgling noise and saw someone pouring water down the man’s throat–literally drowning him. The rationale: he’d lost a lot of fluid so this good Samaritan was filling him back up. When we told this story in the US, it was met with disbelief that the ‘natives’ were so ignorant. Sigh.
And I recall a time when a missionary family was driving the highlands highway (the only highway)–which was treacherous in and of itself with 20 some rivers to ford–to visit us on the north shore for vacation. They never arrived at the appointed time, and we traveled to find them, only to discover a large landslide had covered part of the highway for several kilometers. We spent 4 days digging people out, removing bodies and vehicles and debris, only to find out that the landslide had occurred before the missionaries got to that part of the road. Because it was impassable, they merely turned around and went home, never thinking to notify us where they were, or that they were safe. And their spin on the situation was that God had somehow intervened and saved them from being buried.
With whom can I share such tales? Who can hear them without sensationalizing them, or using them for their own agenda? In my grief, I am missing my wantoks. And my wantoks are missing…
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Why are there so many species, and what are we going to do about it?
I am interested in the forces allowing many similar species to coexist in diverse communities – and in cases in which those forces break down. Why does one super-organism not dominate the surface of the Earth or its oceans? What maintains such a diversity of plants, animals, and microbes? And when an organism is introduced from a far-off land, why does it sometimes dominate and spread to become “invasive?” Many factors contribute to diverse biological communities by creating physiological trade-offs, including abiotic variation such as temperature, moisture, and soil chemistry, as well as biotic factors such as predators, competitors, and diseases. Accelerating rates exotic introductions and biodiversity loss due to human activity make understanding these factors and their effects on diversity all the more critical.
I am interested in developing and testing theories about the factors that maintain species diversity at multiple scales. I am particularly interested in studying the biological communities in cryoconite holes. These are small holes that form in glacial ice when dust lands on it and the dark material absorbs sunlight, melting the ice beneath it. Entire ecosystems assemble in these holes, from photosynthesizing algae and bacteria to microscopic animals such as rotifers and tardigrades (“water bears”). Learn more about the project and follow updates during our field seasons (Nov-Feb) at cryoholes.wordpress.com.
In my doctoral research, I asked how predation and resource competition interact to determine species diversity, especially in the case of species invasions. I studied how buffel grass (Pennisetum ciliare), which had been introduced from Africa to North America, suppresses the regeneration of long-lived native plants where it spread. I looked at whether the adult grass prevented native seeds from germinating and seedlings from establishing, and whether it did so through resource competition or through increasing the abundance of rodents that eat native seeds. The rodents eating native seeds in areas that buffel grass invades, however, act not only as consumers, but as seed-dispersers by burying them in shallow caches outside their burrow. To find out whether the rodents were burying seeds more often under buffel grass because its dense canopy provided better hiding places from owls, I used fluorescent powder to locate caches. Finally, I asked how the cover-seeking behavior to avoid predators might affect the diversity of the rodents themselves, especially if grass cover increased their effectiveness at hiding. Since there were no robust theoretical predictions for this, I used simple consumer-resource models to determine when predator avoidance behavior would increase or decrease the ability of the avoiders, who also compete for resources, to coexist.
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Protest in London to mark anniverary of Ocalan’s kidnapping
8 October, 2012 By pikcampaign in Conflict resolution, Kurdish community, Peace process, Political prisoners Tags: Fedbir, London, Ocalan, PKK, Protest, Turkey, UK
PRESS RELEASE ON ANNIVERSARY OF OCALAN’S KIDNAPPING!
8th Oct 2012 Kurdish Federation UK
Contact: Fedbir@gmail.com
Kurdish Federation UK Protest
the venue: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
date and time: 9th October 2012 at 12 o’clock
Abdullah Ocalan lived amongst the Kurds in Syria for many years having made the political decision to direct the struggle for Kurdish rights from outside of Turkey!
His presence there left a lasting legacy amongst the Kurds in Rojava Kurdistan that is evident for all to see as, today, the Kurds in Rojava liberate themselves from many years of brutal Baathist rule!
The Kurds in Rojava loved to have Abdullah Ocalan amongst them and the majority have kept their loyalty to him since he was forced to leave his base in Damascus by threats from Turkey, similar to the threats we hear today towards Syria.
On 9 October 1998, the Kurdish leader was expelled from Syria, where he had been living for many years.
From there he went to Greece, Russia, Italy and then again Russia and Greece before going to Kenya, where, on the evening of 15 February 1999. he was taken on board an aircraft at Nairobi airport and arrested by Turkish military intelligence.
He was then flown to Turkey, being kept blindfolded for most of the flight. On arrival in Turkey, a hood was placed over his head while he was taken to İmralı Prison, on the island of Imrali, where he was held in police custody from 16 to 23 February 1999.
The leader of the Kurdish Freedom Struggle had been kidnapped by an international conspiracy!
Kurdish people all over the world exploded in a outcry of anger and frustration as their leader was captured with the Turkish state declaring victory over the PKK.
Little did the Turkish state know that 13 years later the Kurdish struggle would be at it’s highest intensity with Turkish soldiers dying every day in the middle range intensity war that rages in Turkish occupied Kurdistan today!
A war imposed on the Kurdish freedom movement who seeks a peaceful resolution of the Kurdish Question!
A war that has no military solution!
Abdullah Ocalan remains the one figure that can resolve the conflict in an instant! A towering figure and leader who stands above all with the respect and love of the Kurdish people evident for all to see!
A political and peaceful solution to the Kurdish Question in Turkey is more urgent now as it has ever been in the history of this conflict.
The prime minister of Turkey, Tayyip Erdogan mistakenly thought he could solve the Kurdish Question by military means. He thought he could apply the Sri Lanka model of total military onslaught and annihilation against the Kurdish freedom movement!
Erdogan, in the last 18 months alone has jailed nearly 10,000 Kurdish political activists from all walks of Kurdish life, MPs, Mayors, Councillors, solicitors, lawyers, barristers, journalists and rank and file activists from the Kurdish legal party BDP!
He has bombed the Qandil mountains where the PKK is based 24 hours around the clock 7 days a week!
Abdullah Ocalan himself has been kept in isolation for over a year in conditions that are a fragrant breech of international laws of the rights of prisoners! His whole team of lawyers were themselves arrested and charged with ‘terrorist’ related crimes, a charge common to all Kurds who struggle for Kurdish rights in Turkey!
As a result, the Kurdish freedom movement is stronger now than it has ever been!
A political solution is evidently and urgently needed!
For that, we demand that Abdullah Ocalan be released from his isolation and be afforded the rooms and living conditions needed to consult with his lawyers and political comrades in the leadership of the Kurdish movement to present the Kurdish demands to be negotiated with the Turkish government.
The Kurds in Rojava Kurdistan are liberating their country! Instead of pursuing a continued racist and old style Kemalist military approach to the demands of the Kurds, the Turkish state should make peace with the Kurds in Western Kurdistan (N.Syria) and NW Kurdistan (Turkish occupied).
For a prosperous and peaceful coexistence of Turkish, Kurdish, Arab and other people’s of the Middle East it is imperative that Abdullah Ocalan is freed and political negotiations begin for a peaceful solution to the Kurdish Question!
The time is now! Freedom for Abdullah Ocalan! Freedom for all political prisoners in Turkey! Freedom for the the Kurds!
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Work is underway to renovate a 25,000-square-foot section of the former Walmart and Tractor Supply Company building at 1750 Washington Road in Washington, IL. The space is being transformed into the permanent home for Connect Church.
Uftring Chevrolet used the church’s space and the building’s parking lot for nearly a year while its new dealership was being built a few hundred yards away at 1860 Washington Road. The former dealership at the same location was destroyed by a massive fire Jan. 5, 2018. The new dealership opened Dec. 17, 2018.
Connect Church purchased the space in the former Walmart/Tractor Supply Company building in late 2017, but put its plans to move into the building on hold and leased its space and parking to Uftring Chevrolet so the dealership could continue operating at a convenient location that is appropriate for its size.
Connect Church currently holds its Sunday services for about 480-520 each week in the gym, cafeteria and a classroom at Washington Middle School.
Connect Church’s new home will have an auditorium that seats 450, seven classrooms that can accommodate 225, a multi-purpose room, a foyer with a coffee bar and an office for the church’s four full-time and two part-time staff members.
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Make Harry Reid and the Liberals Pay
By Melissa Clouthier 2010-01-12T14:23:10
If Harry Reid is forced to retire, do conservatives and Republicans actually end up the biggest losers?
This morning I read a quote from Ilya Somin of the Volokh Conspiracy and laughed out loud. Here's what was said:
If the GOP wins this particular fight and Reid is forced to resign, there will be a new norm in public discourse under which no prominent person can openly say the same kinds of things as Reid without being labeled a racist.
We've been there for a long time -- if you're anything but a liberal Democrat. Republicans, conservatives ... regular Americans can't say what Harry Reid said without censure.
Noting that President Obama turns the jive on and off is no different than noting that Hillary Clinton does it. It's no different than noting that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson do it. It's no different than noting that major sports and music celebrities (white and black) do it. That is not racist. That's a fact. Now, whether or not this verbal nuance is a good or bad thing is another argument entirely, but I don't think anyone can honestly argue that it doesn't happen.
If I said these things and I was a Democrat, though, I wouldn't be presumed racist -- just a little edgy and maybe somewhat insensitive. But since I'm a conservative, that last paragraph just confirms what is self-evident to someone from the left: I'm a racist -- else would I be a conservative?
Never mind that there are plenty of black people who would make the same observation. Never mind that there are black conservatives who would say the same thing. The conservative blacks, though, are illegitimate. They betray their race for refusing to do things like sliding into jive in front of certain audiences. They are trying to be "too white." They aren't proud of their black heritage, evidently.
Of course, the whole "black enough" argument is deeply offensive and ridiculous and actually very racist. But these notions are put forth by the very leaders who insist that they are for changing the black culture to respect education, erudition, and intelligent discourse.
So while Ilya Somin is correct in decrying the constriction of speech for all people, I'm saying it's already happened for some people. Now, I wrote those words because I have already given up. Being labeled racist bothers me less than restricting my speech. And by virtue of being conservative, I am already labeled racist.
What makes me inherently racist is my conservatism. It's axiomatic. So screw it. The label has lost it's sting.
https://pjmedia.com/blog/make-harry-reid-and-the-liberals-pay/
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Offices of optometrists
2018 ACS Estimate
The top three occupations in the Offices of optometrists Industry Group are Optometrists, Opticians, dispensing, Receptionists & information clerks, Medical assistants, and Dietetic technicians and ophthalmic medical technicians. On average, full-time employees in the Offices of optometrists Industry Group work 40.7 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $60,442. Part-time employees in the same industry work 24 hours and earn an average annual salary of $28,660.
The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Offices of optometrists Industry Group are South of I-10 & Inside Loop I-610 PUMA, TX, Newport & Bristol CountiesNewport City PUMA, RI, and Forrest, Lamar, Marion & Perry CountiesHattiesburg City PUMA, MS. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Offices of optometrists.
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A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Offices of optometrists Industry Group. Optometrists are the most common position, but the Offices of optometrists Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Optometrists, compared to other industries.
The highest average salary in Offices of optometrists goes to Physicians.
Workforce (ACS Estimate)
± 9.46k
According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Offices of optometrists Industry Group has been growing at a rate of 4.45%, , from 142k people in 2017 to 149k people in 2018.
The following graphic shows the share of employment in Offices of optometrists by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Optometrists represent the largest share of positions held in Offices of optometrists at 18.9%, followed by Opticians, dispensing with 15.5% and Receptionists & information clerks with 8.45%.
The most common occupations in the Offices of optometrists Industry Group, by number of employees, are Optometrists, Opticians, dispensing, Receptionists & information clerks, Medical assistants, and Dietetic technicians and ophthalmic medical technicians.
Compared to other Industry Groups, Offices of optometrists employs an unusually high number of Optometrists, Opticians, dispensing, and Dietetic technicians and ophthalmic medical technicians.
The highest paid occupations in Offices of optometrists, by average wage, are Physicians, Optometrists, and Registered nurses.
On average, employees in the Offices of optometrists Industry Group make $53,442 per year. This number makes Offices of optometrists the 130 highest paying Industry Group in the United States out of a total of 269 Industry Groups.
Wage by Location
HIGHEST PAYING PUBLIC USE MICRODATA AREA
Tuckahoe, Short Pump & Wyndham PUMA, VA
Idaho Falls City PUMA, ID
South of I-10 & Inside Loop I-610 PUMA, TX
This map shows which public use microdata areas (PUMAs) pay the highest average salary to employees in the Offices of optometrists Industry Group.
WAGE GINI
Offices of optometrists has a wage GINI of 0.497, which is more than than the national average of 0.479. In other words, wages are distributed less evenly in Offices of optometrists (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).
Spatial Concentration
Public Use Microdata Areas with RCA
Newport & Bristol CountiesNewport City PUMA, RI
Forrest, Lamar, Marion & Perry CountiesHattiesburg City PUMA, MS
This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Offices of optometrists Industry Group.
These are locations that employ more people in the Offices of optometrists Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Offices of optometrists Industry Group.
Demographic information on the Offices of optometrists Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $115,769 and $37,883. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.
FEMALE WORKFORCE
±8.46k
MALE WORKFORCE
80% of workers in the Offices of optometrists Industry Group are Female, making them the more common gender in the workforce. This chart shows the gender breakdown of the Offices of optometrists Industry Group.
±$18,598
±$2,370
On average, Male workers in the Offices of optometrists Industry Group make 3.06 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the gender-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Offices of optometrists Industry Group.
Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs
RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY
On average, Asian employees in the Offices of optometrists Industry Group earn 1.08 times more than other races and ethnicities. This chart shows the race and ethnicity-based wage disparities in the 5 most common occupations in the Offices of optometrists Industry Group.
Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Offices of optometrists Industry Group. Based on estimates from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, this section indicates the amount of money spent by a specific industry in other industries. Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Offices of optometrists Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Offices of optometrists Industry Group is Educational services, health care, and social assistance.
In this visualization, click on a category to expand or collapse it. All of the industries listed to the left are those places from which the highlighted industry has made purchases. They are the intermediate inputs to the highlighted industry. All those industries listed on the right side are those industries that have made purchases from the highlighted industry. They are the use of outputs of the highlighted industry. The visualizations below offer alternative ways to see and understand this data.
Industrial Flow
The closest comparable data for Offices of optometrists is from Educational Services, Health Care & Social Assistance.
Intermediate Inputs
HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY
Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing
The Offices of optometrists Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Professional and business services Industry. This visualization does not include labor and capital costs.
Use of Output by Other Industries
LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY
Educational services, health care, and social assistance
Other services, except government
The Educational services, health care, and social assistance Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Offices of optometrists Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Offices of optometrists Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.
Educational Services, Health Care & Social Assistance
Health Care & Social Assistance
Industry Sub-Sector
Services incidental to transportation
Industry Group
Motor vehicle & motor vehicle parts & supplies merchant wholesalers
Business, technical & trade schools and training
Rubber products, except tires, manufacturing
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The Top 15 Cocktails of 2018
Contributing editor Robert Simonson shares the best cocktails he drank this year.
story: Robert Simonson
photo: Dylan + Jeni
I found it an easier job to choose my top 15 cocktails from all the glasses I drained during the last twelve months than I did in 2017. Maybe that’s because so many great new bars opened in 2018. Or maybe it’s because, given the state of things in D.C. and abroad, I just drank a lot more this year. (My money is on the latter.) But, either way, I wholeheartedly recommend and salute all of the following cocktails, which are listed in chronological order, from first drink drunk to last. The recollection of each of them has kept me warm as the days have grown colder.
Tall Boxes | Prairie School, Chicago
Jim Meehan’s ambitious, Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired Chicago bar didn’t last a year. But Tall Boxes, its interpretation of that Midwestern staple, the Brandy Old-Fashioned, will be forever lodged in my taste memory. Meehan kept the brandy domestic, but used the superior Sacred Bond, a 100-proof spirit from Kentucky’s Heaven Hill. He then fine-strained out the muddled orange and cherry “garbage,” creating a silky and deceptively simple drink.
Tall Boxes | Photo: Hilary Higgins
Call me Ish | Simon & the Whale, New York
Simon & the Whale, Gabriel Stulman’s new restaurant inside the Freehand Hotel in Manhattan, proved a breakout favorite with critics and diners when it opened in February. The bar held up its end. Head bartender Drew Nemetz and Billy Nichols came up with this inspired liquid essay in simplicity, made of equal-parts bourbon, Spanish brandy (Torres 15) and Amaro Meletti, plus orange bitters. Nemetz said he had been inspired to pare down the cocktail creation by the book 3-Ingredient Cocktails. That he was, at the time, unknowingly serving the drink to its author had nothing to do with my liking it so much.
Telegraph | Death & Co., Denver
The Death & Co. crew brought their “A” game when they opened their second bar by that name inside The Ramble Hotel in Denver this year. No better proof of this came than Tyson Buhler’s Telegraph, an elegant pre-batched and frozen Martini variation in which pear eau de vie, Cocchi Americano and Mathilde Poire liqueur scrimmage in place of the usual vermouth. A drop of eucalyptus extract adds a touch of mystery—something every good Martini ought to have.
Trash-Tini | Broker Shaker, Los Angeles
The Trash-Tini is the opposite of Death & Co.’s drink; it’s on the rocks and casual, an Oscar to the Telegraph’s Felix, and proud of it. What do you expect from a rooftop, poolside, Los Angeles bar? Still, a surprising amount of precision and care goes into this multi-layered creation by Christine Wiseman. The mix includes gin, vodka, Luxardo Bitter Bianco, charred onion-infused dry vermouth, celery shrub, sherry vinegar and two garnishes: an olive and a cocktail onion. The kitchen sink never tasted so good.
Oliveto | Marvel Bar, Minneapolis
The Marvel Bar in Minneapolis has been serving rafts of Olivetos since it opened in 2011. But I tasted their signature drink for the first time this year, so on the list it goes. On paper, the Pip Hanson drink looks very last decade: gin, lemon juice, simple syrup, egg white, Licor 43 and a half-ounce of extra virgin olive oil. It’s a Gin Sour with a couple left-field touches that were once all the rage in craft cocktail circles. But there is magic in the mixture—the olive oil and egg white yield an unusual texture that elevates this sour above its fellows.
Aviation | Tattersall Distilling, Minneapolis
The Aviation has never been a favorite of mine. So when I encounter a version I like, it gets my attention. That happened at the in-house bar at Tattersall Distilling in Minneapolis. The deployment of the Aviation’s defining ingredient, crème de violette, has always been the monkey wrench in this blend: Too much and the drink tastes like scented bath soap; don’t use any and the drink isn’t really an Aviation. The distillery seemed to have solved this problem by using their own Tattersall Crème de Fleur, a lovely distillation of six flowers. The liqueur brought the drink the delectable floral quality, as well as the palatability that I always find so elusive in the Aviation.
Double-Barrel Winchester | The Polynesian, New York
Brian Miller’s gin Zombie, the Winchester, was already known and loved before he opened his palatial tiki palace, The Polynesian, this year. His new digs seemed to demand an upgrade. The various modifiers (grenadine, ginger syrup and St-Germain) were adjusted to tone down the sweetness. And he upped the number of gins used from three to four, one of them being the overproof Perry’s Tot, which performs the same rocket-booster duty that an overproof rum does in a typical tiki drink. It’s as if the old Winchester has been hitting the gym.
Double-Barrel Winchester | Photo: Eric Medsker
The Smillie | Broken Shaker, New York
The Manhattan iteration of the popular cocktail-bar chain Broken Shaker put a smile on New Yorkers’ faces from the moment it opened this summer on the roof of the Freehand Hotel. The Smillie helped tug out some of those grins. Created by head bartender Evan Hawkins, and named after chef Justin Smillie at the restaurant Upland, it is a dazzling rainbow of a drink. The tangy-savory blend of tequila, lime juice and agave syrup infused with golden beets, ginger and turmeric, is given a striking visual accent in the form of a half-and-half rim of golden turmeric salt and red beet salt. Optically, it is the best sort of Tequila Sunrise. Culinarily, it tastes far better.
Hinoki Martini | Katana Kitten, New York
A lot of the drinks at barman Masahiro Urushido’s new Greenwich Village bar work beautifully, but the Hinoki Martini might be the first among equals. As befits a bar that tries to straddle Japanese and American cocktail styles, this Martini is an international affair, made with French vodka, Colorado gin, sake and sherry. This is accented by a tincture inspired by hinoki, a type of cypress tree native to central Japan; as hinoki is not available in the U.S., a close species of cypress tree from Colorado is used in its place. The tincture is applied in both dash and spray form—five of each—and lends a woodsy, cooling air to the graceful drink. It’s served in a conical glass, nestled among ice in the traditional square box that sake is served in.
Barry Huffman | Existing Conditions, New York
The owners of the most important bar opening of the year make it hard to single out one great cocktail on their menu. But I’m choosing the Barry Huffman, perhaps because it illustrates how the bar team can come up with solid cocktails without enlisting the help of its Laboratory of Wonders. The drink is simply Old Duff genever, Wray & Nephew rum, Bénédictine, green Chartreuse and an acid-adjusted lemon cordial, plus a few drops of saline solution, served on a large cube in a rocks glass. It is advertised “malt and herbs” and possesses the low-key flavor complexity that is the bar’s hallmark.
Barry Huffman | Photo: Lizzie Munro
Nilsson Schmilsson | Hidden Pearl, Brooklyn, New York
Bartender Jeremy Oertel has a way with crushed ice and coconut cream. He used those two tools to famous effect a few years ago in the Brancolada, the standout cocktail at Brooklyn’s Donna. Now, he’s worked his magic again at Hidden Pearl, another Brooklyn bar, tucked behind a ramen restaurant. Whereas the Brancolada went heavy, using rum and Branca Menta as its base, the Nilsson Schmilsson tacks lighter to match the bar’s bright, airy feel. Navy strength gin is combined with sake, lime juice and vanilla syrup, then lemon zest and toasted coconut crown a hill of pebble ice. It’s a dreamy-tasting drink that has you ordering a second before the first one is half done.
Tuxedo No. 2 | The Varnish, Los Angeles
One expects standard-bearer craft cocktail bars like The Varnish to get the classics right. But when they get it this right, it still comes as something of a surprise. The bar’s recipe for success with this drink calls for Beefeater gin, Dolin dry vermouth, maraschino liqueur, two dashes of orange bitters and a rinse of Pernod absinthe. Nothing so surprising there, but Lord it came together. (And yes, I had a Tuxedo No. 2 on my 2017 list, too—from Flora Bar in Manhattan. What can I say? I get lucky with this cocktail.)
Old-Fashioned | Doppelgänger, Buenos Aires
I’ve been served hundreds of Old-Fashioneds, but none like the one I got at Doppelgänger, a wonderful neighborhood bar in Buenos Aires. Following local custom, the bartender coats the inside of a rocks glass with a thick crusta of mixed sugar and 10 dashes of Angostura bitters. They then muddle an orange slice (pith removed) and fill the glass with cracked ice, then pour bourbon (Wild Turkey 101 or Jim Beam Black 6 Year) over it and garnish with a cherry and a small Old-Fashioned spoon. Because the sugar is not fully integrated, the drink tastes like straight whiskey at first, but the bitters and sweetness trickle in bit by bit as you sip.
Negroni | Amaro Library, Washington, D.C.
A Negroni is a mysterious thing—so simple a formula, yet so hard to perfect. Every now and then this liquid slot machine yields a winner in terms of gin, vermouth and bitter liqueur choices. I found this one at the Amaro Library, a new bar attached to the restaurant Officina in Washington, D.C.’s newly rejuvenated The Wharf. The equal-parts blend uses the typical Campari, but makes unusual choices otherwise, using Edinburgh Gin, a London dry gin made in Scotland and Contratto Vermouth Rosso, a heritage vermouth brand from Turin. Jackpot.
The Lincoln | Bar Bantam, Rochester, New York
The Lincoln is named for the Lincoln Tower, the original name of undulating white skyscraper that is home to Rochester’s new lobby watering hole, Bar Bantam. The drink is as sturdy and dignified as its name. Conceived by Charles Cerankosky as a Manhattan variant in the vein of the Greenpoint or Red Hook cocktails, it has a bourbon base (Old Forester 86), with equal parts Cap Corse Mattei Quinquina Rouge and five-year-old Madeira acting as modifiers, plus a couple dashes of cardamom bitters, all served on a large rock. The Madeira, in particular, furnishes it with the character of a classic cocktail from the old days.
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Robert Simonson writes about cocktails, spirits and bars for the New York Times. He is the author of The Old-Fashioned: The Story of the World's First Classic Cocktail (2014), A Proper Drink (2016) and 3-Ingredient Cocktails: An Opinionated Guide to the Most Enduring Drinks in the Cocktail Canon (2017).
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IUP Student Struck By Vehicle, Hospitalized With Critical Injuries
By Trina Orlando September 10, 2012 at 5:33 pm
Filed Under:Accident, Auto Accident, Brandon Bushmire, Canonsburg, Car Accident, Car Crash, Chief Bill Sutton, Crash, Indiana County, Indiana Police, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Injury, IUP, Pratt Avenue, School Street, Trina Orlando, Washington County
INDIANA, Pa. (KDKA) — An Indiana University of Pennsylvania student from Washington County was hospitalized with critical injuries over the weekend after he was hit by a car near campus.
The accident happened in the 800-block of School Street near Pratt Avenue around 11:20 p.m. Saturday.
Authorities say Brandon Bushmire, 20, of Canonsburg, a sophomore studying business management, stepped into the path of a speeding car.
“I come out and I see him trying to breathe, and I see my buddy, Grant, who is his best friend and his roommate, he’s over there in a mess,” said Shawn Bartman, a witness. “He’s bawling.”
According to investigators, Bushmire had allegedly been drinking with friends at a nearby house party.
He was taken by ambulance to Indiana Regional Medical Center and then flown to Allegheny General Hospital with critical injuries.
“I saw cops investigating the scene of course. They made the caution tape around here,” said Bartman.
The driver, identified by officials as a 23-year-old IUP student from Philadelphia, has not been charged.
Witnesses told police he appeared to be traveling at a high rate of speed through a 25 mile per hour zone.
“There may be charges – that would be pending the results of the investigation,” said Chief Bill Sutton, of Indiana Police. “At this time, there’s a suspected DUI, but that’s also pending investigation.”
IUP is making counselors available to students.
The university’s president sent students an email encouraging them to send online greetings to Bushmire through the Allegheny General website.
“It’s just heartbreaking when we hear about our students involved in these kinds of tragedies,” said Michelle Fryling, of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. “We are reaching out to the family. The family has been wonderful. They know that we’re very concerned, that our students are very concerned.”
As police continue to investigate, they are reaching out to the community for help. If you saw the crash or heard something about it, Indiana Borough Police would like you to contact them.
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Housing Affordability: Baby Boomers Vs. Gen Y
>> Housing Affordability: Baby Boomers Vs. Gen Y
Inter-generational arguments over affordability have again become salient in the media.
Characterizations of moaning millennials were made by economist Stephen Koukoulas, prompting a response from young writer Osman Faruqi that baby boomers should choke on my soy flat white.
Confusion around the severity of housing affordability arises because dwelling prices change daily, yet the institutional papers and ABS data we look to are retrospective.
The Submission to the Inquiry into Home Ownership by the Reserve Bank of Australia in June 2015 explored ownership rates as a possible proxy for understanding the severity of housing affordability, and whether expensive housing was keeping young people out of the market.
However, the home ownership rates referenced are only measured to 2012 – before the enormous housing boom of 2013 – and therefore the submission paper does not take into account the largest and longest housing boom we have seen in over 30 years.
The following graph shows the House Price Index for Australia’s eastern metropolitan markets over time.
The increase in the HPI from 2013 (particularly in Sydney and other east coast markets) marks an unprecedented rate of growth in dwelling values.
Graph 2: House Price Index
Housing Affordability Is An Undeniable Problem In Australia Today.
It is measured using the ‘median multiple’, which is a measure employed by the World Bank.
It is found by dividing median dwelling prices by gross annual median household income.
An indicator of 5.1 or more is considered to be highly unaffordable.
We only have median household income data at a capital city level, up to 2012.
To get a more accurate figure, I have indexed income by changes in average weekly earnings so I could work out the median multiples for each capital city. With the exception of Canberra, the median multiple is well above 5.1.
In Sydney it is currently about 13.
The Interest Rate Debate
One of Koukoulas’ main arguments was that low interest rates have made it easier for young people to take out money to afford a home. He argues that baby boomers struggled with interest rates of over 17% in the 1980s.
While I don’t deny Koukoulas’ latter statement, it is important to get a better understanding of what low interest rates actually do to affordability.
Economics literature shows Australian’s have a high elasticity of demand for houses.
This means that the more money people have access to, the more likely they are to buy houses.
Low interest rates make the cost of borrowing money cheaper and access to money easier.
When interest rates are low, the cost of housing is bid up higher because more people are competing for housing.
Graph 3 demonstrates the inverse relationship between interest rates and Australian median house values.
Graph 3: Interest Rates and Median House Values in Australia
Low Interest Rates Have Not Worked In The Favour Of First Home Buyers.
In fact, in 2014, for the first time in recorded history and while the cash rate was at historic lows, more money was lent to people who were buying investment housing compared to people who were buying something to live in (see Graph 4).
This unusual phenomenon eased shortly after APRA placed higher risk weights and investment lending restrictions on banks, however it does show that owner occupiers, some of which are first home buyers, do not necessarily benefit from low interest rates.
Graph 4: Loans to Investors vs. Owner Occupiers
Home owners also faced high unaffordability in the late 1980s when interest rates increased sharply and average home loans peaked at 17%.
The cost of loans became extremely high and some were forced to sell their home or take on multiple jobs in an attempt to pay off their rapidly growing debt.
On top of this, house prices fell, which left some people with mortgage debt even after they lost their home.
ABS data shows that the average loan size of owner occupiers in NSW over the 1980s was approximately $80,000, while the average interest rate increased to 17% in 1989.
Assuming a 30 year mortgage on $80,000 taken out in 1989, the total repayments work out to be around $263 per week, at a time when the average person across NSW was earning between $359 and $620 a week depending on their job status and sex .
The $263 home loan assumption represents between 73% and 42% of average weekly earnings at the time.
Today, standard home loan rates are at approximately 5.35%.
In February 2016, the average loan size taken out by owner occupiers in NSW was $416,000 .
With the same loan assumptions as above, weekly repayments work out at approximately $536 per week.
In November 2015, the average weekly earnings across NSW ranged between $951 and $1,712, depending on labour force status and sex, making repayments between 56% and 31% of average weekly earnings.
This analysis is fairly ‘back of the envelope’, but looking at these numbers suggests that few owner occupiers today, nor many owner occupiers in 1989, could enjoy stress free and affordable weekly mortgage repayments – which is considered to be no more that 30% of income.
Exorbitant home loan repayments persist 25 years on, but for different reasons.
A surge in interest rates overwhelmed young home owners in 1989, whereas today many young people are lucky to overcome the deposit hurdle due to enormous dwelling prices.
In the case of owner occupiers today, this is with the ‘benefit’ of low interest rates.
Ambiguity Still Exists In This Comparison, For Many Reasons.
For example, average weekly earnings is looking at individuals rather than households.
Young people in the 1980s were more likely to have formed double income households than young people today.
1989 was a different world to 2016, particularly in terms of the nature of the economy, technology, job vacancies and the terms of employment.
However, a lack of affordability is not so much a generational problem as it is a socio-economic problem.
Years of analysis could be done trying to understand ‘who had it tougher’, but this seems like a waste of energy.
Low income households and single parent families will face tougher challenges than members of Generation Y who are in high income brackets.
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John Rambo's (Sylvester Stallone) Costume
RAMBO (2008)
John Rambo’s (Sylvester Stallone) costume from Sylvester Stallone’s action sequel Rambo. The battle-hardened former Green Beret wore his Burma outfit when he attempted to rescue missionaries who were abducted by the Burmese military.
Rambo’s costume includes an olive-coloured long-sleeve shirt, brown T-shirt, dark green cargo pants, and a pair of black leather boots. The buttonless long-sleeve shirt is made of linen and shows “#1” handwritten on the collar in black ink. The tattered T-shirt shows a bullet-hole on the left shoulder, which Rambo sustained while operating a Jeep-mounted M2 machine gun.
Rambo’s cargo pants show a frayed tear at the left knee which is partially stitched together. The black leather Adidas boots show “SLY” handwritten in black ink on the tongue of the right shoe. Paired with the costume are two wardrobe tags that note the costume as “CHANGE 4” and “END STAGE AFTER BULLET HIT”. Accompanying this lot is a certificate of authenticity from Stallone’s official “Stallone – The Auction .” The costume exhibits intentional production distressing, with dirt and grime throughout, but remains in very fine condition.
£2,500 - 3,000
This item comes with a Prop Store Certificate of Authenticity.
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Auction Format
The auction is being held live in London on September 20th at 12pm BST. Bidding can be done in person, via Prop Store’s online auction platform, or telephone.
The following are suggested bid increments for the Auction. Please be advised that they are suggested increments only, are not intended to be and shall not be binding, and the Auctioneer retains the sole and absolute discretion, at the time of the Auction, to change, modify, or vary the bid increments at any time.
• £10 - £50 by £10
• £50 - £500 by £25
• £500 - £2,000 by £100
• £2,000 - £5,000 by £250
• £5,000 - £10,000 by £500
• £10,000 - £20,000 by £1,000
• £50,000 - £100,000 by £5,000
• £100,000+ by Auctioneer's discretion
Payment can be made by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, cash (to a limit) and bank transfer.
Buyer's Premium of 23% (plus VAT if applicable) will be added to all winning bids.
[†] These lots are sold under standard VAT rules. For buyers within the EEC, 20% VAT will be due on the hammer price; 20% VAT will also be due on the Buyer’s premium. If EEC based buyer is a business outside of the UK who has provided their VAT number, no VAT will be due. When lots are exported outside the EEC (proof of export required or shipped by Prop Store or through Prop Store’s authorised shipper), no VAT will be due on the hammer price; 20% VAT will be due on the Buyer’s premium only; unless items are exported to a registered business outside the EEC, in which case no VAT is due.
[Ω] These lots have been temporarily imported from outside the EEC for sale at auction in London. For buyers within the EEC (private individuals or registered businesses), 5% VAT will be due on the hammer price; 20% VAT will also be due on the Buyer’s premium. When lots are exported outside the EEC (proof of export required or shipped by Prop Store or through Prop Store’s authorised shipper), no VAT will be due.
[M] These lots are sold under the margin scheme. For buyers within the EEC (private individuals or registered businesses), no VAT will be due on the hammer price; 20% VAT will be due on the Buyer’s premium. When lots are exported outside the EEC (proof of export required or shipped by Prop Store or through Prop Store’s authorised shipper), no VAT is due.
[US] These lots are currently located in Prop Store’s Los Angeles facility and will ship directly to the buyer from the Los Angeles facility. For buyers within the EEC (private individuals or registered businesses), no VAT will be charged by Prop Store on the hammer price; 20% VAT will be due on the Buyer’s premium. For buyers outside the EEC, no VAT will be charged by Prop Store.
Payment plans over a maximum of 3 months are available for all lots.
Payment plans require an immediate 20% non-refundable down payment. The balance can be paid off in equal instalments over the agreed months. All funds are non-refundable. No cancellations, transfers, or exchanges will be accepted. Your piece will be safely set aside for you and will ship once the balance is settled in full.
The Buyer is solely responsible for all shipping, handling, and delivery costs. Prop Store can help you arrange packing and shipping through FedEx for smaller items or Precision Cargo for larger items or you can use your own licensed carrier, approved by Prop Store. Customers are strongly advised to request a shipping quote prior to bidding. Email here and we will aim to provide you with a comprehensive shipping quote within 1 working day, though freight quotes for oversized items may take longer. Please be advised that certain Lots are highly fragile and should be handled with caution. Prop Store recommends that the Buyer collect such Lots locally from Prop Store if possible.
By participating in this auction you are agreeing to our Terms and Conditions. The full terms and conditions can be found below.
We strongly advise all bidders to request a shipping quote prior to bidding.
Buyer pays all shipping costs. The buyer is responsible for all fees including duties, taxes, VAT, customs and other charges for items shipped. All property must be shipped at the buyer's expense. It is each buyer's sole obligation and responsibility to be aware of, to comply with, and to bear all relevant import duties, taxes, VAT, customs and other fees charged by buyer's local government and/or tax authority. Prop Store will ship all packages with the full value of the goods declared. Buyer understands and agrees that Prop Store shall have no obligation or responsibility for any import duties, taxes, VAT, customs, shipping or other charges for the items shipped.
It is the Buyer's responsibility to ensure that any property purchased from Prop Store enters the shipping location lawfully, that all duties and taxes have been paid and that all required export procedures, regulations, and laws were properly complied with. Buyer understands and agrees that Prop Store shall have no obligation or responsibility for complying with any export procedures, regulations, or laws applicable to the property.
In the event that a customer refuses to accept a shipment due to import duty charges, and the item is returned to Prop Store, the customer shall be subject to a charge of 20% of the purchase price of the returned item, plus all shipping charges incurred in the shipment and return shipment of the item. The balance of the price paid for the item will be issued only as a store credit to be used against future purchases. Store credits are proprietary to each office of Prop Store, and may not be transferred to another office.
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This Buyers’ Guide contains a brief overview of Prop Store’s auction process and the terms under which Lots are made available for sale at auction. A more detailed statement of our Terms and Conditions of Sale follows after this Buyer’s Guide. Please read the Buyer’s Guide and the Terms and Conditions of Sale carefully. By registering to bid and participate in a Prop Store auction, you will be deemed to have agreed to be bound by them.
2.1. When the following words are used in this Buyers’ Guide, they mean:
Auction A live sale by auction hosted by Prop Store
Bidder Any person, properly registered and approved by Prop Store to participate in the Auction who makes or considers making a bid to buy a Lot at Auction
Buyer The person or organisation making the highest bid or offer for a Lot accepted by the auctioneer, including a principal bidding as agent
Buyer’s Premium A commission of 23 % (plus VAT if applicable) of the Hammer Price for a Lot, payable by the Buyer to Prop Store Conditions of Sale Prop Store’s terms and conditions of sale at auction, from time to time as may be amended, a copy of which appears in the Buyer’s Guide
Guarantee of Attribution Prop Store’s limited guarantee relating to the provenance of each Lot, given to the extent set out in Condition 10 of the Terms and Conditions of Sale
Hammer Price The highest bid for a Lot accepted by the auctioneer at the Auction or the post-Auction sale price of that Lot
Lot Each item or group of items consigned by the Seller to Prop Store to be made available for sale at an Auction, as detailed in the catalogue
Prop Store Prop Store Limited (company number 08622002) of Great House Farm, Chenies, Rickmansworth, WD3 6EP
Purchase Price The Hammer Price plus Buyer’s Premium (plus VAT if applicable)
Reserve Price (Where applicable) the minimum price at which the Seller has authorised Prop Store to sell a Lot
Seller The person or organisation offering the Lot for sale, including their agents or personal representatives
3. Before the Auction
3.1. Bidder Registration
3.1.1. Every person or organisation wishing to make a bid is required to register with Prop Store before participating at an Auction.
3.1.2. To register, the registration form (available in this Buyer’s Guide or online at propstore.com) must be completed in full and Prop Store provided with valid Visa, MasterCard or American Express credit card details to be held on file; and
3.1.2.1. at least one (1) form of ID is required which must include one (1) government-issued photo identification. If this does not state your current address, proof of address will also be required.
3.1.2.2. an organisation must provide a certified copy or original certificate of incorporation, or, in the case of unregistered entities, other evidence satisfactory to Prop Store – contact Prop Store on +44 (0)1494 766485 for confirmation of what will be acceptable;
3.1.2.3. a person registering as an agent to bid on behalf of a third party must bring the appropriate identification documents as set out above for themselves and for the third party on whose behalf they are authorised to make a bid and provide to Prop Store a signed authorisation from the third party confirming their authority to participate at the Auction on that third party’s behalf.
3.2. Pre-Auction Viewing
3.2.1. Over 200 of the Lots can be previewed at the public exhibition held at ODEON BFI IMAX, 1 Charlie Chaplin Walk, Waterloo, London SE1 8XR. Please inquire if the lot you are interested in is included in the exhibition.
3.2.2. During the Pre-Auction Viewing period, as set forth in the Auction catalogue, any Bidder may preview Lots not present in the public exhibition free of charge by appointment with Prop Store.
3.3. Delivery Costs
3.3.1. Without any liability, Prop Store can provide shipping estimates before the Auction; a Bidder requiring this information should email shipping@propstore.com including the Lot number and shipping address at least 3 working days before the start of the Auction.
3.4 Bidders outside the U.K.
3.4.1 If the Bidder is based outside the United Kingdom, the Bidder should ensure in advance of the Auction that the Lot can be exported from the U.K. and imported into the country of destination. No sale will be cancelled because the Lot may not be imported into the country of destination.
3.4.2 Prop Store’s recommended third-party independent freight agent, Precision Cargo, can advise Bidders on relevant export licensing regulations and may submit export licence applications upon request. Neither Prop Store nor its freight agents can guarantee that any licences, permits or consents will be granted.
4. At the Auction
4.1. Estimates
4.1.1. Estimates represent Prop Store’s guide to Bidders and do not give any indication or representation of actual values or likely bids. Estimates do not include any Buyer’s Premium or VAT.
4.1.2. Prop Store reserves the right to amend its estimates from time to time
4.2. Reserve Price
4.2.1. The Reserve Price is the minimum price the Seller will accept for a Lot. The Reserve Price will not be more than the lowest estimate given by Prop Store. Prop Store may disclose or keep confidential the Reserve Price at its entire discretion.
4.3. Bidding
4.3.1. All bids are by individual Lot unless the auctioneer states to the contrary during the live Auction. Lots will usually be sold in their numbered sequence, unless the auctioneer announces otherwise.
4.3.2. All bids must be made in English only.
4.3.3. The auctioneer may accept bids from Bidders present in the sale room, via telephone, online or written bids delivered to Prop Store before the Auction commences, either using the form in this Buyer’s Guide or the online form at propstore.com.
4.3.4. Telephone Bidders must provide to Prop Store a list of Lots on which they intend to bid at least 24 hours before the start of the Auction. Telephone bids will only be accepted on Lots with low-end estimate of at least £500 and telephone calls may be recorded by or on behalf of Prop Store.
4.3.5. Written bids will be executed at the lowest possible price, taking into account the Reserve Price.
4.3.6. Online bids shall be made in accordance with and subject to the terms of the online auction platform access provider.
4.3.7. The auctioneer may also execute (non-identified) bids on behalf of the Seller up to the Reserve Price only. No bids may be made by the Seller in excess of the Reserve Price.
4.3.8. Save as expressly stated in this Buyer’s Guide, Prop Store accepts no liability for errors or omission in respect of bids made online, by telephone or in writing.
4.3.9. The auctioneer may accept or decline bids at his entire discretion.
5. After the Auction
5.1. Successful bids
5.1.1. Prop Store will notify successful Bidders and send (by email unless requested otherwise) a payment invoice setting out the Purchase Price and itemising the Hammer Price, Buyer’s Premium, and if applicable Buyer’s Expenses plus any applicable VAT within 7 calendar days of the end of the Auction.
5.2.1. Payment is due within 7 calendar days from receipt of invoice and must be made by the Buyer. Payments from any other source will not be accepted and shall be returned by Prop Store.
5.2.2. Payment must be in Pounds Sterling and may be made by electronic transfer, debit card, credit card (up to a maximum of £25,000) bankers draft or cash (up to a maximum of £5,000). Please quote the Lot number, invoice number and Bidder registration number when making payment to ensure it can be processed as efficiently as possible.
5.2.3. Credit card payments are only acceptable on the express understanding that the Lot is not returnable, refundable nor exchangeable and no charge card credit may be issued in the event of any such return. If payment is made by credit card, Buyer will not undertake any action or effort to stop payment, seek a refund, or attempt a charge back of such amounts – or any Credit Card Fee assessed thereon – by the issuer of the credit card.
5.2.4. [†] These lots are sold under standard VAT rules. For buyers within the EEC, 20% VAT will be due on the hammer price; 20% VAT will also be due on the Buyer’s premium. If EEC based buyer is a business outside of the U.K. who has provided their VAT number, no VAT will be due. When lots are exported outside the EEC (proof of export required or shipped by Prop Store or through Prop Store’s authorised shipper), no VAT will be due on the hammer price; 20% VAT will be due on the Buyer’s premium only ; unless items are exported to a registered business outside the EEC, in which case no VAT is due.
[Ϻ] These lots are sold under the margin scheme. For buyers within the EEC (private individuals or registered businesses), no VAT will be due on the hammer price; 20% VAT will be due on the Buyer’s premium. When lots are exported outside the EEC (proof of export required or shipped by Prop Store or through Prop Store’s authorised shipper), no VAT is due.
[US] These lots are currently located in Prop Store’s Los Angeles facility and will ship directly to the buyer from the Los Angeles facility. For buyers within the EEC (private individuals or registered businesses), no VAT will be charged by Prop Store on the hammer price; 20% VAT will be due on the Buyer’s premium For buyers outside the EEC, no VAT will be charged by Prop Store.
5.3. Export and Import
5.3.1. It is the Buyer’s sole responsibility to arrange and obtain all necessary export/import licences, permits and any other necessary consents before the Lot is shipped.
5.3.2. Prop Store’s third-party independent recommended freight agent will be able to deal with enquiries from Bidders and Buyers on importing and/or exporting of Lots. Precision Cargo is Prop Store’s freight agent of choice.
5.3.3. With regards to lots exported outside the EEC, if your Lots are shipped by Prop Store or through Prop Store’s authorised shipper, you will not be required to pay VAT when settling your invoice. If you are using any other shipper, or hand carrying your Lots outside the EEC, then VAT will be due on the invoice, which will be refunded once acceptable proof of export is provided by your shipper of choice.
5.3.4. To prove export of your Lots, on Ω Lots, obtain HMRC form C88 through Prop Store’s authorised shipper, which must be stamped by HMRC upon leaving the U.K.. On † or margin scheme Lots, obtain Notice 4 07 from Prop Store’s authorised shipper, which must be stamped by HMRC upon leaving the U.K.. In all cases Lots must be exported within no more than 3 months of the sale date, and proof of export must be reported via the appropriate form.
5.4. Shipping and storage
5.4.1. The Buyer is solely responsible for all shipping and delivery costs. Prop Store recommends Lots are custom-packed and recommends FedEx as its carrier of choice. For oversized Lots, Prop Store recommends Precision Cargo.
5.4.2. In the event of delay in shipping or failure to collect a Lot (for a reason outside Prop Store’s control) within 14 days of the due date for payment of Prop Store’s invoice (or such other date for shipping or collection agreed by Prop Store a storage fee of 3% of the Hammer Price per month shall be charged to the Buyer. If the Buyer has failed to pay the Purchase Price and the cost of shipping and handling, Prop Store, at its option may cancel the sale.
These Terms and Conditions of Sale (“Conditions”) set out the legal relationship between the Bidder/Buyer and Prop Store and the Seller. By registering to bid and participate in a Prop Store Auction, you will be deemed to have read and agreed to be bound by these Conditions and the accompanying Buyer’s Guide, as set forth in the catalogue for the Auction and online atpropstore.com.
These Conditions shall include the terms set out in the Prop Store Live Auction Buyer’s Guide, a copy of which has been made available to the Bidder. In the event of any conflict between these Conditions and the Buyer’s Guide, these Conditions shall take precedence.
2.1. See 2.1 of Buyer's Guide.
3. Prop Store as agent
3.1. Unless expressly agreed otherwise, Prop Store acts as agent for the Seller. The contract for the sale of the Lot is made between the Seller and the Buyer.
4. Catalogue descriptions and condition of Lots
4.1. All Lots are sold subject to their condition at the date of the Auction. By making a bid, the Bidder accepts the actual condition of the Lot and acknowledges that if a bid is successful, the Buyer will buy the Lot ‘as is’.
4.2. Prop Store’s staff are not professional restorers so descriptions of Lots, images and statements of condition in Prop Store’s brochure or on its website are for illustrative purposes only. Poster lots in the auction may have undergone restoration; Prop Store staff will make reasonable efforts to identify any restoration and this will be disclosed within the lot description. Prop Store cannot guarantee that colours are properly shown. Save for Prop Store Terms of Guarantee of Attribution all Lots are sold ‘as is’. Save for Prop Store Terms of Guarantee of Attribution all Lots are sold ‘as is’. Prop Store cannot and does not warranty any restoration or the longevity of any restoration work carried out at any point in a lot's lifetime. Bidders are encouraged to inspect Lots and satisfying themselves as to condition before bidding, taking independent professional advice where required.
4.3. Condition reports are available for each lot upon request
4.4. Film posters in the sale include condition abbreviations: M = mint; EX = excellent; VG = very good; G = good; F = fair
4.5. Lots are sold only as collectibles and unless stated expressly to the contrary, Prop Store makes no representation or warranty that any Lot is fit for any other purpose.
4.6. Mannequins, display stands, scale measures and other display equipment are not included with the Lots unless expressly stated in the Lot description in the catalogue.
4.7. Estimates are simply a guide and should not be relied upon as to advice on value or the ultimate Purchase Price, which could be significantly higher.
5.1. Every Bidder must register with Prop Store (including providing evidence of identity) in accordance with the Buyer’s Guide. Personal information shall be used only in accordance with Condition 8 below.
5.2. From time to time, Prop Store may offer a Lot which it owns in whole or in part or in which it has a financial interest and any such Lot will be identified in the catalogue with the symbol Δ next to its Lot number.
5.3. Bidders are aware that, due to the one-of-a-kind nature of the materials, Prop Store only guarantees the provenance of Lots to the extent set out in the Terms of Guarantee of Attribution, and Prop Store will not accept returns of any material and will not issue refunds, credits or exchanges except as provided for in the Guarantee of Attribution.
5.4. As a courtesy to Buyers, Prop Store offers interest free payment plans on all auction Lots (see Condition 7.3 of the Conditions of Sale).
6.1. Prop Store reserves the right to refuse admission and/or participation at the Auction and to reject any bid. Bids may not be accepted from unregistered bidders and all Bidders must be 18 or over.
6.2. All bids must be made in GBP Sterling. The auctioneer has the right to exercise reasonable discretion in refusing any bid, advancing the bidding in such a manner as he may decide, withdrawing or dividing any Lot, combining any two or more Lots and, in the case of error or dispute, and whether during or after the sale, determining the successful Bidder, continuing the bidding, cancelling the sale or reoffering and reselling the Lot in dispute. If any dispute arises after the sale, then, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary the sale record maintained by the auctioneer will be conclusive.
6.3. Unless otherwise indicated, all Lots are offered subject to a Reserve Price. The Reserve Price will not exceed the low estimate printed in the catalogue. The Reserve Price will not be more than the lowest estimate given by Prop Store. Prop Store may disclose or keep confidential the Reserve Price at its entire discretion.
6.4. The auctioneer may open the bidding on any Lot below the Reserve Price by placing a bid on behalf of the Seller. The auctioneer may continue to bid on behalf of the Seller up to the amount of the Reserve Price, either by placing consecutive bids or by placing bids in response to other Bidders.
6.5. When making a bid, every Bidder acknowledges that such bid is a binding offer to buy the Lot at that price (plus the Buyer’s Premium, Buyer’s Expenses (if applicable),, all applicable taxes and any and all shipping charges, storage and other costs). A successful Bidder will be deemed to be the Buyer unless it has been explicitly agreed in writing with Prop Store before the start of the Auction that the Bidder is acting as agent on behalf of an identified third party acceptable to Prop Store (and registered with Prop Store), and only then will Prop Store regard that third party as the Buyer. In such circumstances, the Bidder acting as agent confirms that he is authorised to bind the third party and that the Buyer has been made aware of and accepts these Conditions.
6.6. Prop Store will use reasonable efforts to execute written bids delivered before the Auction for Bidders unable to attend the auction in person, by an agent or by telephone or online. All such written bids must be made on Prop Store’s Absentee Bids Form (in the catalogue).
6.7. If Prop Store receives written bids on a particular Lot for identical amounts, and at the auction these are the highest bids on the Lot, it will be sold to the person whose written bid was received and accepted first.
6.8. Online bidding at Prop Store Auctions is made available via third party service providers and use of their services and all online bidding is subject to their respective terms of use. Successful online bids will be subject to payment of Buyer’s Expenses.
6.9. The Auction will be tracked on a video or digital screen, which may display, among other things, a photograph of the Lot offered for sale and the then-current bid. Bidders understand and agree that errors may occur in its operation and, except as expressly stated in the Buyer’s Guide or these Conditions, Prop Store shall have no liability arising out of or related to any errors or omission in respect thereto.
6.10. By participating in and/or attending the Auction and signing the registration form, each person consents to be filmed and/or photographed and agrees and authorises Prop Store to use and publish such film and/or photographs, name and likeness for use in (1) providing online access to the Auction, (2) recording the results of the Auction, (3) print, digital, online and all other media for marketing purposes (including without limitation, on Prop Store’s website, YouTube and other online platforms) and (4) in any other Prop Store publications of whatever nature. The participant releases Prop Store and holds it harmless from any reasonable expectation of confidentiality or privacy associated with such images and releases Prop Store and any third parties involved in the making, creation or publication of the images or any marketing or other materials from all and any liability for claims made in respect of such publication. Publication of the images in whatever format confers no right of ownership on the individual or right to royalties or payment. A designated area will be set aside if you do not wish to be filmed. If you wish to withdraw consent, email support@propstore.com.
6.11. Subject to the auctioneer’s reasonable discretion, the Bidder placing the highest bid accepted by the auctioneer will be the Buyer and the striking of his hammer marks the acceptance of the highest bid and the conclusion of a contract for sale between the Seller and the Buyer. Risk and responsibility for the Lot (including frames or glass where relevant) passes to the Buyer on the date seven calendar days from the date of the sale or on collection by the Buyer if earlier and the Buyer should arrange insurance cover for the Lot if required.
7.1. Prop Store will notify successful Bidders and send (by email unless requested otherwise) a payment invoice setting out the Purchase Price and itemising the Hammer Price and Buyer’s Premium plus any applicable VAT within 7 calendar days of the end of the Auction.
7.2. Unless a payment plan (as set out in condition 7.3 below) has been agreed by Prop Store, payment is due within 7 calendar days from receipt of invoice and must be made by the Buyer. Payments from any other source will not be accepted and shall be returned by Prop Store.
7.3. Payment plans will be available in 1, 2, or 3 month increments. Bidders wishing to utilise the payment plan service, if approved by Prop Store, will be responsible for paying a 20% deposit on their Lots within 7 calendar days of receiving their invoice. The balance will then be split over 1, 2 or 3 months per the Buyer’s selection. If the 1 month option is selected, the remaining balance on the Lot will be due 30 days after the deposit date. If the 2 month option is selected, half of the remaining balance will be due 30 days after the deposit date and the remaining half 30 days after that, and so on.
7.4. Prop Store offers no grace period on payment plan deadlines. If the Buyer does not adhere to payment deadline as agreed under the terms of the payment plan, the Buyer will have defaulted. In the event of default all funds already paid to Prop Store will be forfeited by the Buyer, and title of the Lot will not transfer to Buyer. Prop Store and the Seller shall also be entitled to all remedies for non-payment as described below and at law.
7.5. Title in the Lot will pass to Buyer and the Lot will be made available for collection by the Buyer only when Prop Store is completely satisfied that all monies owing have been paid in full.
7.6. Payment must be in Pounds Sterling and may be made by electronic transfer, debit card, credit card (up to a maximum of £25,000) bankers draft or cash (up to a maximum of £5,000). Please quote the Lot number, invoice number and Bidder registration number when making payment to ensure it can be processed as efficiently as possible.
7.7. Credit card payments are only acceptable on the express understanding that the Lot is not returnable, refundable nor exchangeable and no charge card credit or refund may be issued in the event of any such return. If payment is made by credit card, Buyer will not undertake any action or effort to stop payment, seek a refund, or attempt a charge back of such amounts – or any Credit Card Fee assessed thereon – by the issuer of the credit card.
7.8. [†] These lots are sold under standard VAT rules. For buyers within the EEC, 20% VAT will be due on the hammer price; 20% VAT will also be due on the Buyer’s premium. If EEC based buyer is a business outside of the U.K. who has provided their VAT number, no VAT will be due. When lots are exported outside the EEC (proof of export required or shipped by Prop Store or through Prop Store’s authorised shipper), no VAT will be due on the hammer price; 20% VAT will be due on the Buyer’s premium only; unless items are exported to a registered business outside the EEC, in which case no VAT is due.
[US] These lots are currently located in Prop Store’s Los Angeles facility and will ship directly to the buyer from the Los Angeles facility. For buyers within the EEC (private individuals or registered businesses), no VAT will be charged by Prop Store on the hammer price; 20% VAT will be due on the Buyer’s premium. For buyers outside the EEC, no VAT will be charged by Prop Store. 7.9. The Buyer will not acquire title to the Lot until all amounts due to the Seller and Prop Store from the Buyer have been received by Prop Store in cleared funds even in circumstances where Prop Store has released the Lot to the Buyer.
7.10. By registering for this auction the Buyer authorises Prop Store to charge the credit card provided at registration for all Lots purchased at the auction, and any future auction a Bidder may participate in, if not paid in full within 7 calendar days after the auction close.
7.11. If the Buyer does not make any payment due to Prop Store by the due date for payment, Prop Store may charge interest on the overdue amount at the rate of 5% a year above the base lending rate of LloydsTSB Bank plc from time to time. This interest shall accrue on a daily basis from the due date until the date of actual payment of the overdue amount, whether before or after judgment. The Buyer must pay Prop Store interest together with any overdue amount.
7.12. In addition to its rights in condition 7.11 and at law, in the event of default by the Buyer, Prop Store may take one or more of the following actions:
7.12.1. hold the Buyer liable for the total amount due and commence legal proceedings for its recovery together with interest, legal fees and costs to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law;
7.12.2. cancel the sale;
7.12.3. resell the Lot publicly or privately on such terms as Prop Store shall think fit;
7.12.4. pay the Seller an amount up to the net proceeds payable in respect of the Hammer Price; 7.12.5. set off against any amounts which Prop Store may owe to the Buyer in any other transactions, some or all of the outstanding amount remaining unpaid by the Buyer;
7.12.6. apply any amount paid to discharge any amount owed in respect of any particular transaction, whether or not the Buyer so directs;
7.12.7. reject at any future auction any bids made by or on behalf of the Buyer or to require a deposit from the Buyer before accepting any further bids;
7.12.8. exercise all the rights and remedies of a person holding security over any Lot in Prop Store’s possession owned by the Buyer, whether by way of pledge, security interest or in any other way, to the fullest extent permitted by the law of the place where such Lot is located. The Buyer will be deemed to have granted such security to Prop Store and it may retain such Lot as collateral security for such Buyer’s obligations;
7.12.9. take such other action as Prop Store deems necessary or appropriate. If Prop Store resells the Lot under condition 7.12.3 above, the Buyer shall be liable for payment of any deficiency between the total amount originally due to Prop Store and the amount received upon resale as well as all reasonable costs, expenses, damages, legal fees and commissions and premiums of whatever kind associated with both sales or otherwise arising from the default. If Prop Store pays any amount to the Seller under condition 7.12.4 above, the Buyer acknowledges that Prop Store shall have all of the rights of the Seller, however arising, to pursue the Buyer for such amount.
7.13. Prop Store shall be entitled to retain Lots sold until all amounts due have been received in full in good cleared funds or until the Buyer has performed any other outstanding obligations as Prop Store shall reasonably require. Subject to this, the Buyer shall collect, or have shipped or collected for shipment, purchased Lots within 7 calendar days from the date of the sale unless otherwise agreed between Prop Store and the Buyer. Lots can be collected in person by appointment only.
7.14. Each Lot will require a custom packing service and by bidding on a Lot a Bidder agrees to pay all relevant shipping costs. Prop Store’s carrier of choice is FedEx, although some Lots will require special freight service. Potential shipping estimates can be obtained by emailing shipping@ propstore.com detailing the Lot number of interest and the shipping address prior to the auction.
7.15. Prop Store recommends working with its preferred third-party independent freight agent Precision Cargo on any questions regarding importing and exporting Lots.
7.16. Although Prop Store shall use reasonable efforts to take care when selecting third parties for these purposes, the Buyer will contract directly with such third party and Prop Store accepts no liability or responsibility for the acts or omissions of any such third parties. Similarly, where Prop Store suggests other handlers, packers or carriers, its suggestions are made on the basis of its general experience of such parties in the past and Prop Store is not responsible to any person to whom it has made a recommendation for the acts or omissions of the third party concerned.
7.17. It is the Buyer’s sole obligation and responsibility to be aware of, to comply with, and to pay for all relevant import duties, taxes, VAT, customs and other fees charged in the Buyer’s local jurisdiction. Prop Store will ship all packages with the full value of the Lot declared. Buyer understands and agrees that Prop Store shall have no obligation or responsibility for any import duties, taxes, VAT, customs, shipping or other charges for the Lots shipped. Failure by the Buyer to pay all necessary amounts may result in the relevant authorities returning the Lot to Prop Store and in those circumstances the Buyer will be charged and will pay storage cost and Prop Store’s additional reasonable costs and expenses.
7.18. It is the Buyer’s responsibility to ensure that any Lot purchased from Prop Store enters the shipping location lawfully, that all duties and taxes have been paid and that all required export procedures, regulations, and laws were properly complied with. Buyer understands and agrees that Prop Store shall have no obligation or responsibility for complying with any export procedures, regulations, or laws applicable to the Lot.
7.19. Unless otherwise agreed by Prop Store in writing, the fact that the Buyer wishes to apply for an export licence does not affect or postpone the Buyer’s obligation to make payment in accordance with Prop Store’s payment terms nor Prop Store’s right to charge interest or storage charges on late payment. If the Buyer requests Prop Store to apply for an export licence on his or her behalf, Prop Store shall be entitled to make a charge and be paid for this service. Prop Store shall not be obliged to rescind or cancel a sale nor to refund any monies paid by the Buyer to Prop Store as a result of or related to the Buyer’s failure or inability to obtain an export license.
7.20. Where Lots are not collected within 14 calendar days from the due date of payment, whether or not payment has been made, a storage fee of 3% of the Hammer Price per month shall be charged to the Buyer. If the Buyer has failed to pay the Purchase Price and the cost of shipping and handling, Prop Store, at its option may cancel the sale.
8.1. Prop Store will hold all personal information provided by the Bidder at registration and the Bidder agrees and consents to such information being used by Prop Store to:
8.1.1. make available each Lot for shipping to the Buyer;
8.1.2. process the Buyer’s payment;
8.1.3. contact credit reference agencies and keep records of any searches carried out on Prop Store’s behalf;
8.1.4. inform the Bidder about other auctions, products and services provided by Prop Store if the Bidder chose to opt-in. Please contact Prop Store by email at enquiries@propstore.com or by phone +44 (0)1494 766485 if you wish to stop receiving these;
8.1.5. inform the Bidder about important auction updates.
9.1. If Prop Store fails to comply with these Conditions it is responsible for loss or damage a Buyer suffers that is a foreseeable result of Prop Store’s breach or its negligence. Prop Store is not responsible for any loss or damage that is not foreseeable. Loss or damage is foreseeable if an obvious consequence of Prop Store’s breach or if contemplated by the Buyer and Prop Store at the time the hammer falls on the Lot at the Auction.
9.2. Subject to condition 9.3, Prop Store’s liability shall be limited to the amount actually paid for the Lot by the Buyer. Save to the extent required by law, in no event shall Prop Store be liable for incidental or consequential damages of any kind.
9.3. Prop Store does not exclude or limit its liability for:
9.3.1. death or personal liability caused by its negligence or the negligence of its employees, agents or subcontractors;
9.3.2. fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; and
9.3.3. breach of the terms implied by sections 12, 13, 14 and 15 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 (title, description, quality and fitness for purpose) save to the fullest extent permissible at law.
10. Terms of Guarantee of Attribution
10.1. Prop Store warrants the attribution of each Lot as stated in the title block (film title and item title) of that Lot in the Auction catalogue, subject to any revisions (which may be given in writing or online before or during the Auction at which the Lot is purchased by the Buyer); this is Prop Store's Guarantee of Attribution. Buyers should be aware that multiple examples of props and costumes are frequently used during production and it is often impossible to determine whether a specific piece has been used on-camera. Any specific on-camera usage known to Prop Store will be noted within the description, but no warranties are given by Prop Store on that description.
10.2. If a Buyer demonstrates, to Prop Store’s reasonable satisfaction, that the Guarantee of Attribution is materially incorrect, the sale will be rescinded if the Lot is returned to Prop Store in the same condition in which it was at the time of sale. In order to satisfy Prop Store that the Guarantee of Attribution is materially incorrect, Prop Store reserves the right to require the Buyer to obtain, at the Buyer’s expense, the opinion of two experts in the field, mutually acceptable to Prop Store and the Buyer.
10.3. In the event a sale is rescinded in accordance with condition 10.2, Prop Store shall repay to the Buyer the Purchase Price. Repayment of the Purchase Price shall be the Buyer’s sole remedy for an incorrect Guarantee of Attribution, to the exclusion of all other remedies to the extent permissible at law. It is specifically understood that this will be considered the Buyer’s sole remedy under this clause 10.
10.4. The Buyer expressly agrees that Prop Store shall not be liable in whole or in part, for, and the Buyer shall not be entitled to recover, any special, indirect, incidental or consequential damages including loss of profits or value of investment or opportunity cost.
10.5. Bidders are aware that description revisions may occur on some Lots, and should inquire before the Auction whether any description revisions have occurred on a given Lot and/or examine a lot before bidding on it. Prop Store will make all reasonable efforts to make description revisions readily available during the Auction.
10.6. Except as expressly provided in these Conditions Prop Store shall have no liability to the Buyer in respect of a Lot and all and any implied warranties and conditions are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.
11.1. The copyright in all images, illustrations and written material produced by or for Prop Store relating to a Lot (including the contents of the Auction catalogue), is and shall remain at all times the property of Prop Store and shall not be used by the Buyer, nor by anyone else, without Prop Store’s written consent. Prop Store and the Seller make no representation or warranty that the Buyer of a Lot will acquire any copyright or other reproduction rights in it.
11.2. In the catalogue descriptions, Prop Store takes steps to identify and provide provenance for Lots offered at auction. In many cases, the Lots offered were used in or in conjunction with motion pictures or other programmes and information is furnished in order to fully identify and describe the Lot offered at Auction, including photographs and illustrations. Prop Store in no way claims any connection to or relationship with the producers of the motion picture or other programme. In all cases, the use of the titles or other elements of a motion picture or other programme is for informational purposes only.
12. Events outside our control
Prop Store will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of its obligations under these Conditions that is caused by an event outside its control, that being any act or event beyond Prop Store’s reasonable control, including without limitation strikes, lock-outs or other industrial action by third parties, civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war, fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster, or failure of public or private telecommunications networks. Prop Store’s obligations shall be suspended and time for performance extended until such time as the event outside it’s control is over, following which a new collection or shipping date can be agreed.
13.1. If any part of these Conditions is found by any court to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that part shall be discounted and the rest of the Conditions shall continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.
13.2. The contract is between the Seller, Buyer and Prop Store and no other person shall have any rights to enforce any of its terms.
13.3. If Prop Store fails to insist on performance of any of a Buyer’s obligations under these Conditions, or if it delays in doing so, that will not mean that Prop Store has waived its rights against the Buyer and does not mean the Buyer no longer has to comply with those obligations.
13.4. These Conditions are governed by English law, without regard to its choice of law provisions. The Parties agree that any dispute or claim (including non-contractual disputes or claims) arising out of or in connection with this agreement or its subject matter or formation may be brought in any court of competent jurisdiction located in England or Wales or, alternatively, in any court of competent jurisdiction where Prop Store or the Bidder/Buyer resides, at the option of the Party bringing the claim, only. The Parties expressly agree to the jurisdiction of such courts and agree to submit to the jurisdiction of such courts. The prevailing party shall be entitled to an award of all attorneys’ fees, costs and expenses incurred by it/him/her in connection with the dispute. “Attorneys’ fees and expenses” includes, without limitation, paralegals’ fees and expenses, attorneys’ consultants’ fees and expenses, expert witness’ fees and expenses, and all other expenses incurred by the prevailing party or its attorneys in the course of their representation of the prevailing party in anticipation of and/or during the course of the litigation, whether or not otherwise recoverable as “attorneys’ fees” or as “costs” under applicable law; and the same may be sought and awarded in accordance with applicable procedure as pertaining to an award of contractual attorneys’ fees.
13.5 By registering for this auction, the supplied card will automatically have a sum of £0.01 held and subsequently returned within 30 working days to verify the validity of the card.
13.6 The buyer is solely responsible for ascertaining that each lot sold with copyright is otherwise cleared for publication including but not limited to satisfying any publicity right that persons appearing in an image may have under any statute or common law. Neither the consignor nor Prop Store Ltd makes any representation or warranty as to any matters that need to be cleared prior to publication. No representation or warranty is made regarding copyright outside of the United Kingdom. All publication issues should be referred to the buyer’s own professional advisors. All representations or warranties as to copyright or rights to publish are solely made by the consignor and not Prop Store Ltd; the buyer agrees that Prop Store Ltd. will not be liable to Buyer in any respect for alleged breach of any such representation or warranty.
THE PUNISHER: RETURN TO BIG NOTHING (1989) - Mike Zeck and John Beatty Hand-Drawn Page 61 Artwork with Matching Color Blueline
RAISING ARIZONA (1987) - H.I. McDunnough’s (Nicolas Cage) Diapers
RED SONJA (2014) - Frank Thorne Hand-Drawn T-Shirt Artwork and Signed Comic Book
RED DWARF (TV 1988-) - Kryten's (Robert Llewellyn) 'Naked' Costume
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