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Homophonic!
Homophonic! Pride Prize
3 Shades Black
Classical musicians who don't blend in.
Life Is A Cabaret
Moving Scores
Life is a Cabaret 2018
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Meet the musicians – Benjamin Anderson
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Trombonist Benjamin Anderson has forged a remarkably diverse path through to his spot at the cutting edge of contemporary classical practice. An agent of fine musicianship, his fresh and sophisticated approach to the performance of orchestral repertoire has rendered him in demand with Australasian companies including Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and most recently Orchestra Victoria where Benjamin has held the position of Principal Bass Trombone since 2015.
It is the innovative and unconventionally beautiful that grips the core of Benjamin’s curiosity as an artist. As a soloist, he has collaborated with Paul Dean, Charles MacInnes, Andrew Aronowicz, Jacob Abela, Elliott Hughes, and Peter De Jager to create new works for his instrument. Benjamin retains a strong interest in experimental music, European modernism, and the avant-garde with stylistic influences ranging from composer Liza Lim to ballet choreographer Nacho Duato and Taiwanese-American large-scale visual artist James Jean.
A champion of innovation and cross-disciplinary collaboration, Benjamin welcomes the influence of non-musical art forms on his methods of artistic interpretation. His is a fresh, thoughtful, visceral and bold contribution to the patchwork of twenty-first century performance aesthetics.
Benjamin is driven by a deep joy of learning and solid commitment to developing his artistic toolkit. His undergraduate studies extend through two Bachelors of Music from the University of Melbourne and the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, Singapore and a year of postgraduate study at the Australian National Academy of Music. Benjamin was recently awarded a Master of Music (First Class Honours) from the University of Melbourne where he was the recipient of numerous prizes including the Donald William Thornton Bequest, a Global Atelier Postgraduate Travelling Scholarship, and the Jim Marks Postgraduate Scholarship. Benjamin’s principal mentors have included David Taylor, Don Immel, Michael Bertoncello, Shannon Pittaway, and George Curran.
As an educator and instrumental pedagog, Benjamin approaches the empowerment of students through active development of technique, self-confidence, and a fundamental love of collaborative music-making. He has worked with students of University of Melbourne, as a tutor with Orchestra Victoria’s mOVe workshops, and has co-developed workshops for SmArts, the University of Melbourne’s partnership program with The Smith Family and regional Victorian schools. In 2017, Benjamin joined the Australian Youth Orchestra’s Young Symphonists program as a sectional tutor, and in 2018 tutored for AYO’s National Music Camp.
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2009 Regional Championships - A year older, a year closer to the grave?
4BR looks at the latest facts and figures as the brass band movement prepares for its annual health check around the country. Are we in good shape this year?
The annual health check of the brass band movement in the UK takes place at various drop in centres around the country over the next few weeks.
From Blackpool to Torquay, Stevenage to Dundee the patients will file in and perform their prescribed workouts in front of one, maybe two, adjudicating GP’s and a few hardy onlookers.
And the diagnosis?
Individually it varies of course – some patients are in rude health, others feeling their age, quite a few in terminal decline. Most are muddling through with a bit of home care help here and there from foreign workers on day visas.
Collectively though? Well that’s a different matter all together.
This year there are a total of 490 (following 3 late withdrawls from the North West) bands listed as entering the musical surgeries up and down the country.
Biggest turnouts
The biggest turnouts are to be found in the North West with 75 bands making the trip to Blackpool (right). Bedworth will see 77 Midlands bands; London & Southern Counties will provide 76 at Stevenage and the West of England, 74 at Torquay.
Meanwhile, Yorkshire has 57 entrants in Bradford; Scotland will field 48 contenders in Dundee; Darlington will see 42 from the North of England, whilst Wales (below) will muster 41 in Swansea.
Last year 506 bands made it to the various stages. 16 bands have disappeared – over 1 a month.
Since the 2008 Regionals, the North West has had a net loss of 3 bands; Wales and Scotland have lost 2 each; Midlands are down 4; London has lost 3; North of England has lost 3.
Only the West of England has gained numbers - 2 bands - and Yorkshire stays the same.
How’s the old pulse rate now?
Previously, 4BR has looked at the facts and the figures surrounding the eight different regions and it didn’t make for comfortable reading. Now it is starting to make you wonder if a couple of Areas could be in line for euthanasia.
http://www.4barsrest.com/articles/2008/art841.asp?l=in
Whatever the reasons - times are hard, players are in short supply, the registry rules are a mess, the contesting rules are antiquated, gradings do not accurately reflect the actual playing standards of the bands - it all amounts to the same thing.
We are now a movement that has lost nearly 100 competing bands in a just over a decade. In 1998, over 590 bands took part – this year it will be 493.
And still nothing is being done about it.
BFBB
Forget any type of coordinated action plan being put forward by the British Federation of Brass Bands. They have shown no desire to address a problem that in its way is set to kill them off like a slow malignant cancer.
What mandate do they hold for the whole of UK banding when they themselves promote only an English National Championship? They are a body that has an ever diminishing relevance.
Kapitol answer
The answer lies with the owners, Kapitol Promotions, and the hopeful desire that they wish to radically revolutionise the whole Regional concept.
Kapitol headed by Philip Morris and Nikki Bland has the unenviable task of not only hosting the showcase events at the Royal Albert Hall and Harrogate International Conference Centre, but also to provide financial support to allow for Regional Committees to organise their qualifying contests too.
In theory it is a model that works – regional qualification is the fairest way of all to ensure bands are given the chance to get to the Finals. In pure business and musical terms though, it is an unholy bankrupt mess.
Inherited system
Kapitol inherited a system that they have done exceptionally well to maintain, and in some ways enhance. It is a system however that is now over 60 years old and patently no longer fit for purpose.
It has been tinkered with once – with the introduction of the First Section in 1992, but even that has become a contradiction in terms.
Profits out
Kapitol has put money in and has drawn profits out – but overall, it has earned the right to insist on change – not just for its own benefit, but also for that of the movement as a whole.
Without change the decline in numbers and the health of those left will reach the point were it becomes terminal for all concerned. Those who think the current system is working for anyone’s benefit are members of the brass band flat earth society.
Thankfully, some people are starting to think long term.
Scotland for instance will be setting up a voluntary scheme to get bands to be part of the Area experience without competing. It is a move to include rather than exclude, to be inclusive rather than exclusive.
It is simple but effective thinking – the type of thinking that should start with a complete re-grading of bands up and down the country.
Re-grading
How can we justify a situation whereby there are ostensibly 90 Championship Section bands taking part in the Regional this year, yet only 110 Fourth Section bands?
The structure has become such a mess that in Wales for instance, 11 bands will compete in the Championship Section; yet only 7 will take part in the Fourth and 6 in the Third.
Yorkshire has 12 bands in the top section, and just 9 in the Fourth; Scotland 10 in the top section and just 6 in the Fourth; the North East, 10 in the top section and 9 in the Fourth; London 12 in the top section and 16 in the Fourth.
Buffer section
Meanwhile, the North West will field 11 top section bands and 22 in the Fourth and the Midlands will have 13 in the Championship and 21 in the Fourth. The West of England will see 11 top section bands and 19 in the Fourth.
Where is the pyramid system that was supposed to be finally put in place when the ‘buffer’ First Section came into being in 1992? The current structure looks like a brass band version of a 1960’s tower block – ugly and not very good to live in.
Bands won’t like it, but the truth sometimes hurts. There are far too many top section bands. No – that’s wrong.
Far too many
There are far too many bands that think they are top section bands. If Kapitol really wants a regional set up based on quality rather than quantity then they should insist on re-grading the bands as soon as possible. If there are anymore than 40 true top section bands in the UK in terms of quality then that is being generous.
Other moves should follow too – opening up the Fourth Section to encourage participation, setting prescribed rules for each individual section, sorting out the ‘foreign’ imports anomaly – the list is not endless, but realistic and manageable.
Kapitol chance
Kapitol deserves the chance to mould the future of UK wide banding in a way that will benefit everyone.
It is now up to them to see if they are bold enough to do just that. The rest will surely follow, for strong leadership is all that is required.
Iwan Fox
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Teacher’s Union Boss on Bossier Landslide Loss: ‘Has to Be Some Level of Action’ [VIDEO]
Robert J Wright
Red River United Teacher's Union President Jackie Lansdale talks with 101.7 / 710 KEEL's Robert J Wright and Erin McCarty about Saturday's Bossier Parish election, a vote that resulted in a 74% to 26% defeat of the proposition that would have funded raises for parish teachers.
Lansdale tells KEEL listeners that she is beyond disappointment when it comes to her feelings about the vote. She explains that votes said, "We want to support teachers, but not like this." Then she adds that "teachers are waiting to see what it is that you (the voters) are willing to do."
More on the results from ktbs.com:
"The school board had two separate propositions on the May 4 ballot: 22.94 mills for salaries and 3.22 for technology upgrades. The measure in support of teachers would have generated about $26 million annually and allowed the board to give teachers an additional $7,200 annually and support staff, $3,000.'
"That would have equated to an approximate 24 percent property tax hike depending on the location in Bossier Parish, according to Tax Assessor Bobby Edmiston.'[
The sticker shock would have grown for businesses. One with commercial real estate valued at $500,000 would have seen almost $2,000 more in taxes."
In responding to the results, Lansdale says, "Teachers are highly motivated by this. We're not going to go too far in the next few days, but there does have to be some level of action."
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25 'Advertise with Us' Pages You'll Want to Copy
Chris Shuptrine
Brands like New York Times see the writing on the wall: programmatic ads are not long-term viable monetization strategies. But replacing them - either with direct sales or a self-serve ad product - is no easy task. Still, the benefits are there: in a world where you own your ad product, your ad experiences would be more user-friendly; your site/app would load faster; you'd increase your CPMs; and you would monetize without running afoul of GDPR and CCPA.
To help brands achieve this goal, we will publish regular pieces that offer advice about making the transition - whether that's specific coding instructions or best practices for sales, PMs, and ad ops.
Today’s article looks at “Advertise with Us” pages - a needed landing page that articulates the value of your ad platform - and which every large ad product has.
The importance of “Advertise with Us” pages
Let’s be fair - it’s unlikely a potential advertiser just stumbles on your Advertise page. Instead, it should be viewed as a sales tool once the advertiser has expressed interest. Alternatively, if you have a self-serve platform, it could be used to convince long-tail advertisers to sign-up and start testing your ad server.
In a future article we will be highlighting specific features and points all Advertise pages should have, but first we wanted to share twenty-five examples of what major brands have done.
These examples should provide a starting point for you and your product, marketing, and sales teams as you look to promote your direct-sold or self-serve ad product.
Tumblr's business page is short and visual, offering GIFs highlighting their Sponsored Posts, Sponsored Day, and Sponsored Video ad units.
Match Group
Match Group owns popular dating apps like Tinder, Match.com, and OkCupid, and their advertising page provides images of their bespoke ad units, including Branded Profiles. If you click on an ad unit, it takes you to an additional page describing it in more detail.
ZocDoc's business page is presented like a blog article, with visuals and concise, powerful messaging around why doctors benefit from paying to promote their listings.
As can be expected from such a visual-first brand, Snapchat's page screams character and expression. Their header is a carousel that scrolls through videos of ads in action; their audience description is told in pictures versus just text; and they have a clean call-to-action in "Launch your first ad in minutes".
Yelp's page is short and simple: it gives readers a chance to self-identify and click on a button for more info, as well as six stats about the tangible benefits of spending on Yelp. While it's only two panels, it's still quite effective.
Amazon Sponsored Products has a relatively simple page, with a short description of their self-serve ad product and links to case studies. This page's biggest differentiator is the "Get $50 in free click credits" - an offer that no doubt leads to more sign-ups.
WeTransfer offers a highly-polished professional video full of ad campaigns that recognizable brands have run with them. Paired with statistics about the efficacy of their ads, this is an effective "Advertise with Us" page.
Imgur leads with a powerful tagline about who their audience is. Such a statement excludes advertisers not looking to reach Millennial males, but for those that are, this presentation is compelling.
Expedia may have the most extensive Advertise page in the industry, partly a result of owning multiple brands and offering many ad formats such as native ads, banner ads, sponsored listings, and more. Their site has a 'choose your own adventure' feel, with deeper links based on objectives, ad units, and targeting goals. They also offer explainer videos, case studies, and research data.
Grab, Southeast Asia's largest ridesharing (and more) service, starts with a few panels on why advertisers should care about Grab's audience before moving to illustrations of each ad unit, with links to spec guidelines.
Pocket's Advertise page hones in on their target buyer: content marketers looking for innovative, brand-safe traffic sources. This focus leads to crisp messaging and descriptions of their users' demographics.
eBay's Promoted Listings page won't get points for design or flair, but it has all the information a self-serve ad product needs: a quick overview video, key benefits, success stories, and a lengthy FAQ.
Slickdeals follows the general best practices, with audience details, case studies, and ad unit examples.
It's unlikely Facebook really needs to promote Facebook ads, but they nonetheless still have an "Advertise with Us" page. Not surprisingly, it's less of a pitch and more of a set-up guide.
Google is in the same boat - does the quality of their Ads page really make a difference? For this reason the page is sparse - one illustration and some quick value-add statements. Most of their additional links takes you to FAQs and set-up guides. That said - they do offer a phone number to chat with an Ads Specialist. While not all brands can offer such a hotline, it adds a nice human touch.
Pinterest's Promoted Pins page is similar to other self-serve ad platforms: there's a little pitch, followed by instructions on how to get going.
Linkedin's Marketing Solutions page is well-designed and convincing, with high-resolution screenshots of its Sponsored Posts, Sponsored Listings, and Sponsored Messages ad units - followed by a clear CTA to get started on their self-serve platform.
Verizon Media's native ads page is simple and interestingly leads with an image of their platform's dashboard before going into the visuals of their various ad units.
TouchTunes - whose internet-connected jukeboxes sit in over 75,000 bars and restaurants - enables brands to purchase ads within their jukebox and mobile app. Their "Advertise with Us" page spends three panels focused on their reach and audience demographics, and their deeper ad unit pages offer case studies of what other brands have done with them.
Hulu's page is well-designed and has links to plenty of additional content, including 10 different case studies, private marketplace instructions, and their Insights solution.
TextNow's native ads page is short but a great example of how to concisely get across your value-add with visuals.
Spotify uses their page to highlight successful Spotify ad campaigns - and allows visitors to listen to the actual audio ads.
Not to be outdone, Pandora has an immersive page with multiple GIFs, case studies, and links to their more-detailed Media Kit.
B2W - which has a market share of about 50% of Brazil's online sales - offers native ads within their eCommerce sites, and their Ads page does a great job of highlighting the ad units and the demographics of their users.
Roku's Advertising page focuses on what they see as the future - all TV will be streamed - and implies that working with Roku is how you get ahead of that shift. Not all brands can build an Ads page around such an audacious statement, but Roku does it well.
Have additional examples or questions about building out an "Advertise with Us" page? Reach out to us on Twitter.
Chris the VP of Marketing at Adzerk. Chris has worked in ad tech for over twelve years in a variety of roles - giving him customer support, PM, and marketing perspectives from both the advertiser and publisher sides.
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Kosher Salt vs. Sea Salt: Which Salt Should You Use to Cook?
Kosher salt vs. sea salt: which salt should I use to cook? This is a question I get asked often when I teach cooking classes. Throw out your table salt for good, and read on to learn a few things to help you make a decision about which salt to stock in your pantry.
Where Does Salt Come From?
Salt is a mineral, sodium chloride, and an incredibly important element in cooking. Besides being an essential nutrient to our survival, it also enhances the flavor of the food that we make. Without salt, good food would lack that “zing!” of flavor that makes us exclaim “this is so good!” and keeps us coming back for more. In fact, without salt, food tends to taste flat. All salt originates in the ocean, whether it’s from an ancient sea bed in Utah or the Pacific Ocean. Salt takes on different shapes, depending on how salt is produced. All salt is created through the evaporation of a saltwater brine, but it is the rate at which is evaporates that determines the size and shape of the final salt crystals. A salt that is made through rapid evaporation in a closed container will create a crystal that is small and dense, such as refined sea salt. Slower evaporation in an open container will create a hollow, lighter flake.
Table salt is small and dense, which makes it very salty. It is heavily processed to remove trace minerals, and usually has iodine added to it. This was a practice started in the 1920s, in an attempt to prevent goiters, which are caused by iodine deficiency. However, this is not an effective way to get iodine in the diet, because it’s only about 10% bio-available to us, as explained here. Iodine also gives the salt a somewhat metallic taste. Table salt also contains other items besides salt, such as anti-caking agents and dextrose. If all you have in your house right now is table salt, do yourself a favor and get some kosher or sea salt right now!
There are two main brands of kosher salt available in the United States, Diamond Crystal and Morton’s. The word “kosher” actually refers to the size of the flake, not the fact that it is necessarily kosher-certified. (But it can be!)
“Koshering” salt was traditionally a larger flake salt, because this size was better for koshering meat because of its greater surface area. These two kosher salts actually have quite different qualities, because of how they are produced. Diamond Crystal (the red box) is made by evaporating sea water in an open container of brine which produces light and hollow flakes which are less dense. Morton’s sea salt (the blue box) vacuum-evaporated salt methods produces thin dense salt flakes. This means Morton’s sea salt is almost 2x as salty (dense) than Diamond Crystal. They are not interchangeable, and what’s important to know when following a recipe is which kind of salt the recipe calls for. Diamond Crystal kosher salt also dissolves quickly and sticks to food better because of its larger crystals.
Sea salt comes in a couple of different forms. Larger flake salts, such as fleur de sel or sel gris are made with low-yield labor intensive methods. Fine sea salt, which is made by rapidly boiling down sea water in a closed container, yields a denser flake. Some sea salts are more refined than others. The every day salt I use, Redmond Real Salt, is minimally refined, and contains trace amounts of minerals. It is made slightly differently, as it is sourced from a salt mine in Utah.
Kosher Salt vs. Sea Salt: What You Need to Know
I’m sure you’re probably wondering, well, this is all fine and good, but which salt should I use to cook with? Turns out, outside of throwing out your table salt, all salt use is really based on preference and familiarity. The most important thing is that you’re familiar with the salt that you cook with, and know it’s properties, so you can create delicious meals every time. For everyday cooking, choose a fine sea salt or kosher salt, and have on hand a bigger flake special salt, such as Maldon sea salt or Celtic grey salt, for garnishing and finishing touches. I personally use Redmond fine sea salt for every day cooking, and keep a couple of different large flakes salts on hand. When I am in a situation where kosher salt is what’s available to me, I make sure I know which type it is (red or blue box), and adjust my seasoning accordingly.
Other Salts and Unexpected Uses for Salt
Himalayan salt is another popular salt these days. It contains mineral deposits and is mined in the hills of Pakistan. The biggest difference between Himalayan salt and a single origin sea salt such as Redmond Real Salt is origin. I like to support reduced food miles by choosing a product that is produced closer to my home.
I use salt in many places where people might not think to. I especially like salting salads, not so they taste salty remember, but so that they have the “zing!”. This Crisp Romaine Salad is a good example, as well as this recipe too.
What type of salt is your preferred salt? Share you answer in the A Good Carrot Community.
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Pyne: Are universities complicit in predatory publishing? – Ottawa Citizen (Derek Pyne | April 2017)
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As recent articles in the Ottawa Citizen make clear, a growing scourge in universities has been the growth of predatory journals. These journals claim to be peer reviewed but in reality allow authors to buy publication and thereby inflate their publication records. Authors can then use their publication records to apply for research awards, promotions and other benefits.
Some universities have policies against them. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that several Australian universities do not allow them to be used for promotion and even ask academics to identify them in publications reported on their annual reviews. Many higher quality universities may not even need formal policies: their researchers have good reputations that they do not want to damage with publications in predatory journals.
Despite this, publications in predatory journals have been growing. Cenyu Shen and Bo-Christer Bjork, researchers at the Hanken School of Economics, estimate that in 2014, a staggering 420,000 papers were published in predatory journals and all indications are that the number is still growing. This implies the existence of some universities were predatory publications are relatively common. Common enough, that one suspects that universities are aware that their faculty are publishing in predatory journals but are turning a blind eye to it.
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We build human-friendly audio software and our mission is to democratize content creation.
Our sophisticated technology makes a difference because it’s integrated into elegant products with intuitive UIs. This is how we help our users stay in the flow and get the job done fast and reliably.
Technological innovation is in our DNA. We are one of the first companies that ever released commercial Machine Learning audio processing products. Our technology is licensed to some of the world’s biggest consumer media companies and they support the creativity of literally millions of content creators every day.
Accusonus started with the vision to use scientific skills and creativity to build innovative audio software.
Alex Tsilfidis (CEO) and Elias Kokkinis (CTO) started the company in Greece in 2013. They were both passionate about sound, acoustics and music technology. Elias was a drummer in local heavy metal/punk bands and was working as a sound engineer. Alex was an electronic musician mainly composing soundtracks for theatre plays and films.
After obtaining their Computer Engineering diplomas, they pursued PhDs in Audio Signal Processing and worked as audio researchers in the same academic lab. Michael Tzannes (Chairman) joined as an angel investor some months later and the company incorporated in the United States with Alex, Elias and Michael as co-founders. Michael, formerly the CEO of Aware (NASDAQ: AWRE), brought significant expertise as a tech entrepreneur and seasoned business executive.
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6 Saints to turn to if your child is struggling at school
Alanna Boudreau left us speechless with “The Lord Is Coming”
Written by three young Catholic artists, “The Lord Is Coming” has us excited for the future of Catholic music.
All you people of the land
Bound beneath the weight of all your sorrow
Turn around while you still can
There’s no guarantee you’ll see tomorrow
Alanna Boudreau is one of the finest young Catholic songwriters currently on the music circuit. Her lyrics are deeply reflective of her Catholic faith and they almost always give new, interesting perspectives that spur spiritual reflection and growth — in a way that praise music rarely does — and her music is always composed with an eye for innovation.
Her 2018 album, Goodbye Stranger, is solid all the way through, but it contains one song in particular that is a Catholic gem of the highest quality, “The Lord Is Coming.” Written with the help of Scott Mulvahill and Gabi Wilson, two Catholic musicians who are also making a splash, the song is smooth and somber as it cautions us to turn from sin while we still can, because, of course, “The Lord is coming.”
Scott Mulvahill is the complete package with Virtuoso on the bass
The lyrics take us through several Bible passages: Daniel in the lions’ den, the Israelites crossing the Red Sea, and then their subsequent exile in the desert. The chosen narratives, which note the power of God to perform miracles like pacifying lions or splitting the sea itself, emphasize the need for us all to place ourselves in God’s hands and trust in his wisdom, especially in situations where we can turn to no other.
Musically, the song is a masterpiece. Mulvahill leads the song with a cat-walk baseline that brings to mind a line of people trudging across a desert at a steady, weary pace. Boudreau opens up the vocals with a really jazzy melody that has a rhythm that moves faster than the bass line to create an infectious clash that almost begs to be placed on endless repeat.
From there the song gently builds with a really sleek guitar, which nearly sounds like a keyboard with the effect they used. Andy Baxter lends vocals to the second verse and does a great job of harmonizing with Alanna for the rest of the song.
Scott Mulvahill has also recorded the song for his own release. His vocal is every bit as powerful as Boudreau’s, and if you like the tune, it’s certainly worth a listen. He also takes some more liberties on the bass in his version that exhibit his incredible musicality.
The song that eased Jim Caviezel’s pain during arduous “Passion” filming
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Dan Desai Martin
Florida Republican Vern Buchanan bought a yacht worth at least $1 million on the same day he voted for the GOP tax scam.
Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) couldn't wait to take advantage of the $2.1 million kickback he was giving himself when he voted for the Republican tax scam.
So he bought himself a multi-million dollar yacht on the very same day as the vote.
"Buchanan spent between $1 million and $5 million purchasing an Ocean Alexander yacht on Nov. 16, 2017, the same day he joined 226 other Republicans and no Democrats in voting in favor of the 'Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,'" reports Florida Politics.
The financial disclosure form Buchanan filed only required a broad range of the cost of the yacht, but his new boat "likely trended toward the higher end of the reported range given that Ocean Alexander's least expensive model — the 70-foot 70E Motoryacht — has a base price of $3.25 million," according to Florida Politics.
Buchanan is worth a reported $73 million, and the tax scam was written to be a boon for the wealthy. In fact, more than 80 percent of the benefits eventually ended up in the bank accounts of the richest 1 percent of Americans.
"It's no secret to his constituents that he has lived the American Dream," a Buchanan spokesperson said in response to reports of his yacht purchase. He just voted to make his dream a little dreamier, it seems.
Buchanan, of course, wasn't the only wealthy beneficiary of his vote.
Rich corporations are lavishing wealthy Wall Street investors with record levels of stock buybacks and dividends which "help enrich corporate executives, whose compensation is often linked to their share price," reports CNN.
Workers, meanwhile, are getting left behind. Most Americans report that they have not seen any increase in their paycheck whatsoever — let alone enough to purchase a luxury yacht.
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) was roundly mocked after touting a woman who will receive an additional $1.50 per week due to the tax scam. If she saved every penny of that, it would take her more than 41,000 years to be able to afford Ocean Alexander's least expensive yacht model.
Even though the rich are getting richer, the tax scam won't do much for the overall economy. In fact, the economic boost from the tax scam may be "as small as zero," according to a new report from economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
And the tax scam will add close to $2 trillion to the national deficit, passing along mounting debt to the next generation.
Meanwhile, Buchanan is doing his level best to keep the luxury yacht industry afloat.
While Buchanan works hard to ensure the wealthiest 1 percent are able to afford expensive new toys, he seems much less concerned with people on the other end of the economic spectrum.
Months after his multi-million spending spree, Buchanan cast a vote in the House of Representatives to take away SNAP, or food stamp benefits, from more than two million people — many of whom are low-income working families with children.
Maybe some of those children can get a part-time job cleaning Buchanan's yacht to help make ends meet.
Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.
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Radjah radjah
CLASS: Aves (Birds)
ORDER: Anseriformes
FAMILY: Anatidae
GENUS: Radjah
SPECIES: radjah
Radjah, which means “king” or “prince” in Hindi, may seem like an odd name for a duck. But the radjah shelduck Radjah radjah is no ordinary waterfowl. The radjah shelduck’s unusual coloration sets it apart—with its pale pink bill and feet; its white head, neck, and breast; its dark chestnut-colored collar/breast band; green bands on its chestnut-colored wing tops (seen in flight); its dark rear and tail; and the white iris of its distinctive eyes.
If you’re from Australia, you might refer to this eye-catching bird as a Burdekin duck, named for the Burdekin River in Queensland. And some people substitute the word “sheldrake” for shelduck (both words mean “pied or dappled waterfowl”). But whatever you call it, this is one unusual bird.
At just under 2 feet (61 centimeters) in length and weighing about 2 pounds (1 kilogram), web-footed Radjah shelducks are strong swimmers that can make their way very quickly across a body of water—however, they are usually found in shallows with just 2 inches (5 centimeters) of water or less. And while they are skilled fliers that have been described as being more like geese than ducks, they are equally good runners, capable of swiftly traversing a muddy bank.
HABITAT AND DIET
Radjah shelducks live in forest and coastline areas of northern Australia, from Queensland to the Northern Territory and the Kimberley in Western Australia, the Moluccas islands of Indonesia, and New Guinea.
Radjah shelducks can be found in brackish mangroves and paperbark tree swamps, or in freshwater wetlands, lagoons, and billabongs. There, they forage for food and eat mollusks, insects, algae, and sedges—and occasionally small fish, crabs, larvae, and seeds.) They use their bill to filter through the water and scoop up food. These birds feed mainly at night, grazing or dabbling in shallow water, grasslands, and mudflats.
During the wet season, November through April, radjah shelducks establish breeding grounds, and the males become very aggressive in defending them. When radjah shelducks mate, they remain monogamous and form long-term pair bonds. The pair will scout out a place to nest that is near good locations for finding food, often in a tree hollow. They build their nest out of their own soft down feathers, using no other materials.
The female will lay a clutch of 6 to 12 cream-colored eggs by May or June, and she will incubate them for about 30 days, until they hatch. The new chicks are covered with down, with black markings, white spots, and a dark chestnut crown that extends to the eyes.
Both the male and female care for and raise the young birds. The youngsters fledge in about 50 days, but they will stay with their parents until the dry season begins. During the dry season, May through October, radjah shelducks form flocks and fly off together in search of small ponds.
AT THE SAFARI PARK
Radjah shelducks are featured at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park’s new Walkabout Australia exhibit, which opened in May 2018.
Radjah shelducks are protected by law throughout Australia. Populations are considered to be stable, however the species faces a variety of threats in the wild, including habitat loss, habitat fragmentation, and illegal hunting.
apx. 15 years in zoos, 5 to 10 years in the wild
Number of eggs: 6 to 12 per clutch
Egg size: 2.3 by 1.6 inches (60 by 42 millimeters)
Incubation: 30 days
Fledge: 50 days
Maturity: 2 years
Length: 19 to 24 inches (48 to 61 centimeters) in length
Weight: about 2 pounds (1 kilogram)
Wingspan: 11 inches (28 centimeters) maximum
Some Australians call radjah shelducks “Burdekin ducks,” named for the Burdekin River in Queensland.
Radjah shelducks are skilled fliers, and they are also surprisingly good runners, capable of swiftly traversing a muddy bank.
Juvenile radjah shelducks have similar coloration to adults.
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One of the Richest Filmmakers George Lucas Is a Billionaire-Find Out How He Made His Billion Dollar Fortune?�
News by Azen Published on 02 Jan,2019 Updated on 02 Jan,2019
When it comes to Star Wars franchise you surely have heard the name of George Lucas. What you might not know about him is that he is the one who came up with the Indiana Jones franchise. We all have known Lucas as a filmmaker as well as for his most iconic movies of all time. Besides that, Lucas is just more than a filmmaker he is also an entrepreneur.
According to Forbes, it was disclosed that Lucas has a net worth of $5.5 billion. You are surely surprised and probably looked at that number again and again. If you awestruck and wanna know how did he achieve such astounding net worth then stick with us we are gonna be sharing all about his achievement and his huge success.
George Lucas Networth Is $5.5 Billion-How He Made His Million Dollar Fortune?
Back in 2012, Lucas sold his American film and television production company Lucasfilm to The Walt Disney Company. But the force is still strong with his bank account, he sold the company for $4.1 billion. This concludes that he also sold his right of Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchise to the Disney company.
Wondering why selling his company gotta to do with his net worth? As a matter of fact, all the money that he made over the years through Indiana Jones and Star Wars franchise the major source of his current net worth is by making the decision to sell his company. The Disney company indeed pay him 4.1 billion dollars making the majority of his net worth that he has now.
CAPTION: Young George Lucas at the set of Star Wars with Mark Hamill(left) and Harrison Ford(right) SOURCE: Pinterest
Moreover, that's all of Lucas' source of earning. The other major source of his earning is from his company, Industrial Light & Magic. Furthermore, before he sold Lucasfilm he also earned money from selling Star Wars and Indiana Jones merchandise. As of the entrepreneur, Lucas has a net worth of $5.5 billion making him 94th richest man in the United States.
Some of his iconic movies Indiana Jones franchise and Star Wars franchise Box office and Budget is listed below:
Release Date Movie Cast Budget Box Office IMDb Rating
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Peter Cushing, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness
$11 million $775.4 million 8.6/10
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, David Prowse, Kenny Baker
Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-Davies, Denholm Elliott, Ronald Lacey
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, David Prowse, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, Frank Oz
$32.5–42.7 million $475.1–572.7 million 8.3/10
Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone, Amrish Puri, Jonathan Ke Quan
$28.2 million $333.1 million 7.6/10
Harrison Ford, Denholm Elliott, John Rhys-Davies, Julian Glover, Alison Doody, Sean Connery, River Phoenix
Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Ian McDiarmid, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Pernilla August, Frank Oz
$115 million $1.027 billion 6.5/10
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Lee, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Frank Oz
$115 million $649.4 million 6.6/10
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent, Shia LaBeouf
Also see: Daisy Ridley and Mark Hamill Celebrates 40 Years Of Star Wars With Disney’s Force For Change
George Lucas' Assets
Lucas' Home
Lucas lives at Los Angeles, California. Likewise, his house is worth $33,900,000. The house consists of nine bedrooms and 8 bathrooms. Speaking the area of the house it is of 8,932 square feet. Lucas bought the house from two times presidential candidate and billionaire businessman H. Ross Perot.
Lucas' Cars
Lucas owns three cars: Mosler MT 900s, Fiat Bianchina and Ferrari F360. Speaking his car, he received the Fiat Bianchina as a gift from his father. Unfortunately, he was in an accident with the car Bianchina in public road and was hospitalized after the accident.
Quick Facts: George Lucas
Lucas was rejected in the US army due to having diabetes as well as too many speed tickets.
In Lucas' high school days he was in a fatal car accident which led to him to hospitalized with broken ribs and collapsed lungs.
In 1973 before releasing star wars Lucas directed and co-written American Graffiti which was nominated for Five Academy awards for Best Picture and Best Director.
In 2013, Lucas was awarded The National Medal of Arts by Barrack Obama.
Lucas is part of Giving Pledge an organization that donates half of their wealth to charity.
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Interview / Lexx On Cosmic Shift
Lexx` debut long-player, Cosmic Shift, lands today. Awhile in gestation, a lot of people have been waiting. And perhaps a lot of people will be surprised. After giving the record a quick first listen I emailed Lexx,
“Less Balearic….More 2020 R&B.”
The music seeming to slot into a looming Street Soul revival – prompted by Be With Record`s reissue of Bo`vel `s Check 4 U, and in evidence on Ruf Dug`s recent The Committee E.P.
Having said that, over the last couple of days I went back and listened to all of Lexx` previous productions, and remixes (yep, I have them all), and to my ears at least his sound has not changed that dramatically. I mean there`s no House here. No Dub Disco. Tempos are lower, and any idea of a 4 / 4 kick removed. But the bottom end heft – belying Lexx` love of Reggae and Dub – remains. Guitars come in wash and overdub. Stoned Psychedelic solos. Eno & Lanois Apollo-esque Country slide. Keys and vibes in glissando. Overall, it`s still this kind of Technological Soul – but more so – because of the vocalists.
Jonny Spencer, on Deep Blue, provides a classic Yacht Rock update. Think AM & Shawn Lee`s City Boy. But warmer, fuzzier. The ethereal sighs, gentle conga, and Space Age wah-wah of Waves could be Nite Jewel doing Sade. The fragile but defiant voice of Ella Thompson, recalling the beautiful highs of Nautic`s Laura Groves. Eye 1-2 is a Summer sojourn. A Tropic of Jazz inflections, and Detroit pads. Singer, Asé, a Billie Holiday, by way of Erykah Badu. On Too Hot Lexx` long-term collaborator, Woolfy, searches for some safe shade in a dread Californian heat wave, to a Compass Point-esque skank. Fellow Californian Harriet Brown flows like Andre 3000, persuading his baby to taking off his / her cool, on Hot Weather. Machine rhythms percolating like Mtume`s Linn LM-1. Universal Prayer too comes with West Coast harmonies, but set to a Nyahbinghi rattle. Connected Lost has Helicon sirens singing beneath a cloudless azure sky. Vibrate is a cooling breeze of Brazilian cuica, groovy syncopation, and Lexx` own Rap-informed poetry.
In my opinion Cosmic Shift is a real achievement, primarily because it`s a collection of proper songs. It`s not a handful of dance floor hits plucked, or reworked, from Lexx` past, linked together by instrumental / Ambient doodles. By being grounded in song the album truly has the potential to connect with, and crossover to, a much wider audience. Young folks into Blood Orange, Washed Out, and Rhye, and a hundred other happening acts that I’m too old to know the names of, should be checking Cosmic Shift out.
How long did the album take to put together?
I had in mind to make an album for quite a while. In 2015 I started with the first demos. After previously doing mainly remixes, I first had to find out which direction I wanted to take and find a voice of my own. I tried to fuse the key elements of the music I love and have been listening to for the past 30 plus years.
Does what you’re listening to influence the music you make?
That’s somehow inevitable .
The album may surprise a few people. After a quick first listen to the album, I emailed you and said “Less Balearic, more 2020 RnB” Was it a conscious decision to move away from the sound you’ve been associated with? If so, why?
It was a conscious decision to move away from purely instrumental music. I definitely wanted to work with vocalists and do proper songs. It didn’t feel like moving away from something, rather getting closer to the core.
Does the album represent a move back towards your roots in RnB and Rap?
I don’t think so. Maybe I do embrace my musical roots a bit more these days but it doesn’t feel like moving backwards.
How did you find the vocalists? Can you tell me more about them?
I first heard Ella Thompson on the GL tune What Happened To Us? which I listened to a lot at home. My second encounter with her was when I remixed Venus II’s I Want U 4 Myself. While working on the mix I fell in love with her voice but didn’t make the connection at first. Once I realized, I wrote to her and asked if she wanted to be part of my album.
To ask my buddy Woolfy to sing on one of the tunes was a no-brainer. We’ve been in the studio together before and I love his energy. He’s fun.
When I imagined a voice for what became Deep Blue, Jonny Spencer came to mind. I was into Chicken Lips` White Dwarf and I thought his voice would match perfectly. Deep Blue was the last song on the album to be completed but I knew that I wanted it to be the opener.
Paul Byrne contacted Harriet Brown for our collaboration Hot Weather. I’m not sure how it came about exactly. I think a Daniel T, song with Harriet on it, caught Paul’s attention.
Asé is an up-and-coming singer from Zurich. She’s a friend, and has worked previously with Kevin (Gabriel Wettstein), who played some bits on various tunes on the LP. It was lovely to work with her. She’s a special one.
How did the collaborations work? Did you provide both music and lyrics?
I knew the feel I was looking for and had some ideas concerning the themes. At the same time I wanted to give the singers enough space to express themselves. I didn’t provide the lyrics but made suggestions and gave input, on all of the songs except Hot Weather. I wrote a verse for Too Hot with slightly more conscious lyrics but Woolfy wasn’t having it. Haha.
Were the interactions digital or physical?
Woolfy and Harriet both recorded in L.A. Ella in Melbourne and Jonny in Spain. The sessions with Asé were here in Zürich, in the same space I recorded my own vocals.
Equanimity is slow stoned Psyche, close to the sound of Khruangbin. I can also hear similarities on the album with acts like Nite Jewel, and Nautic, Bo`vel, and Sugar Records` Winsome. Would any of these artists have been influences?
With for Equanimity, was aiming to create a feeling of relief and being at peace with myself. To me it has a slight Ry Cooder Paris, Texas vibe with a Jazz twist. If any of the people you mention have been an influence, it wasn’t intentionally. I would call Look How Long-era Loose Ends an influence, Sly & Robbie’s 80’s productions, Sade, between 88 to 92, Paul “Groucho“ Smykle`s mixes, but also more current artists like The Internet or Frank Ocean.
The album is a big achievement, with proper songs, and the chance to crossover to both Indie and Jazz audience. The track Vibrate had me thinking the London Jazz thing, Andrew Ashong, 22a, On The Corner, Black Focus, etc. Have you been taking in any of this music? Does Gilles Peterson have a copy of the album?
Thank you. Vibrate is somewhat inspired by Roy Ayers, who I was listening to again a lot last Summer. It started as a fifteen minute jam after a long day of recording with Guitarist Roger Szedalik. I took it from there and edited and arranged it into a song.
I definitely follow some of the new acts that have emerged out of London in recent years. If you’re into current music, it’s hard to ignore what’s going on. No, Gilles hasn’t got it yet but I’ll definitely send him a copy of the vinyl!
You can order a copy of Lexx` Cosmic Shift directly from Phantom Island.
Bo`vel `s Check 4 U
AM & Shawn Lee
Sugar Records` Winsome
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Queensrÿche Starts New Album with Bassist Eddie Jackson
Raul Amador
A Reinvigorated Queensrÿche Starts the Writing Process for Their New Album, Featuring Bassist Eddie Jackson, Tentatively Due Early Summer 2015 via Century Media Records.
With the Queensrÿche canvas wiped completely clean and the band’s easel the strongest and most stable it’s been in years, Eddie Jackson, Todd LaTorre, Parker Lundgren, Scott Rockenfield and Michael Wilton forge ahead to create yet another QR masterpiece. The band has already begun writing new material for the follow up to their critically acclaimed self-titled 2013 Century Media Records release, Queensrÿche. The new album is tentatively scheduled for release in early summer 2015.
“The Queensrÿche internal dynamic has certainly changed in terms of musicianship. It’s more of a cohesive team and the chemistry we have now is making what we can do creatively limitless. For Queensrÿche, it was always about being able to write together as a band. We didn’t have that for a long time but now that it’s back, we feel extremely liberated,” states founding guitarist Michael Wilton. “We’ve already begun the writing process for the next album and have a few songs demoed that we feel really good about. We’re taking the songs in the classic Queensrÿche direction but maybe a little more progressive and heavier at times. The thing is, you never know what you really have until it’s complete. We can’t wait for the final outcome. Writing with such a dynamic group of individuals has been nothing short of amazing.”
Queensrÿche recently reached a settlement in their dispute over the ownership of the Queensrÿche name and brand. Century Media is pleased to announce that Eddie Jackson, Scott Rockenfield and Michael Wilton have successfully agreed to purchase Geoff Tate’s portion of the Queensrÿche name. The band will buy out their former lead singer’s share of the Queensrÿche corporation while allowing him the ability to be the only one to perform Operation: Mindcrime and Operation: Mindcrime II in their entirety. He will no longer have use of the TriRyche logo or any other album images aside from the Mindcrime releases. He can only refer to himself as the “Original Lead Singer of Queensrÿche or “Formerly of Queensrÿche” for a period of two years and that text must be at least 50% smaller than his name in all materials. After this two year period passes, he can only refer to himself as Geoff Tate with no mention of Queensrÿche at all. Geoff Tate will be able to finish any confirmed dates billed for his Queensrÿche lineup scheduled to terminate on August 31st, 2014.
As of September 1st, there will be only one Queensrÿche entity and that will consist of Eddie Jackson, Todd LaTorre, Parker Lundgren, Scott Rockenfield and Michael Wilton.
This lineup will continue to perform selections from their entire musical catalog including songs from Operation: Mindcrime. The band will be able to use all TriRyche logos and previous album artwork for any purposes as needed by the corporation.
Queensrÿche is:
Todd La Torre – Vocals
Michael Wilton – Guitars
Parker Lundgren – Guitars
Eddie Jackson – Bass
Scott Rockenfield – Drums
Related Topics:Michael Wilton, Parker Lundgren, Queensrÿche, Scott Rockenfield, Todd LaTorre
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Akerman and Space-Time by Ella Harris, Eve Marguerite Allen and Keifer Taylor
Akerman and Space-Time
An ongoing collaborative research project on space and time in Chantal Akerman's films between Ella Harris, Eve Marguerite Allen and Keifer Taylor.
Spaces of Refraction - Ella Harris
Three Geographical Encounters
Premises:
1. “The site is defined by relations of proximity between points or elements”
2. “one could describe, via its network of relations, the closed or semi-closed sites of rest—the house, the bedroom, the bed, et cetera. But among all these sites, I am interested in certain ones that have the curious
property of being in relation with all the other sites, but in such a way as to suspect, neutralize, or invent the set of relations that they happen to designate, mirror, or reflect.”
(Foucault, Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias and Utopias)
The mirror is a semi-real/semi-unreal site. It is real because it takes up a literal portion of spacetime, it occupies an actual site in a given room. However, the mirror is also virtual because it has the potential to take on countless images, and unreal because it shows things where they are not. In ostensibly displaying you in your own real site the mirror actually transports your image over there – reframing it in a curious elsewhere, where it is given a new site and takes on a whole new set of relations and therefore characteristics, changing your image before you have a chance to catch it. The mirror is therefore a not a space of reflection: its surface is one which refracts, bends and distorts what it shows by a process of theft and motion, taking what is and transfiguring it into something else, in its passage via the virtual.
For Foucault, there are certain spaces, which he names ‘heterotopias’, that function like mirrors, in that their relations with other sites have a transformative effect. The relational connections that heterotopias have with other sites are not relations of affirmation or propping up, a neighbourly proximity that secures each’s place – they are relations of questioning and destabilisation; relations which cast a critical light upon all spaces and their relations. As Foucault suggests, even the most seemingly circumscribed of sites, ‘the house, the bedroom, the bed’ can have this transformative power.
Akerman’s early work demonstrates a fixation on the interiority of precisely these places, the bed, the bedroom and the apartment. This is spelled out in La Chambre but more acutely explored in Je Tu Il Elle and Saute Ma Ville and 15/8.
La Chambre - Eve Marguerite Allen
Saute Ma Ville:
As Ivone Margulies describes, Saute Ma Ville, Akerman’s first piece of cinema, is a sort of coming of age film. It begins as Akerman bounds up the stairs into her first adolescent apartment. For Margulies, the apartment is a space of youthful experimentation and the suicide finale of the film is a rite of passage through which Akerman passes into her creative adult life. Importantly, we see the suicide in the apartment’s mirror – it is performed as much for the benefit of the character as for the audience and, as Margulies argues, this mirror-image performance does not just reflect Akerman – it propels her into her future. A real hetertopia, the mirror’s relationship with exterior spaces is one of transformation.
A bedroom or an apartment is crucial as a private space. It is a space to be yourself, so to speak. But whilst being yourself is about identity, it is not about being identical to your own image, to who you are day to day. When you’re young, being yourself in your bedroom, as we all remember, is more to do with experimenting. The little kid plays with the dressing up box, imagining themselves as other in order to advance themselves as themselves. The teenager too uses the walls as a set to be endlessly redecorated with posters -also an act of trying on. Being in the bedroom is being +, it is you + the tentative creation of what you might become. You, but you in relation to known and future others, and therefore more than just you.
Three minutes before the end of Saute Ma Ville, after Akerman has found and explored herself in the mirror, Akerman’s mirror image climbs onto the radiator and crouches in the window. The mirror Akerman then jumps, sideways, back into real space. In the mirror Akerman’s antics in the apartment have come into a new set of relations – what seemed a film about the untroubled and chaotic explorations of youth, becomes about self-consciousness and (at the end of the film) self-sacrifice in the artistic process. This theme is discovered in the mirror, and this discovery changes our protagonist. It is not the reflected but the refracted Akerman who jumps back, equipped with a more worldly knowledge.
From this point on she is the virtual Akerman from the mirror, the Akerman who could be anything and who awaits a world with which to relate her performances. Her subsequent suicide is therefore also virtual: a symbolic death designed to create not to destroy, represented in the mirror because literally an act of self-reflection within which both Akerman, and the spaces her world come into relation with, are reconfigured.
La Chambre:
La Chambre starts with an empty chair, with a missing person. The camera works methodically to find its subject. Panning round, then back, catching glimpses of the young woman in her bed. The woman is looking directly into the camera. Ironically this means we know her less. If she was not looking she would just be a character within the world of the film and we’d know how to take that. Characters are not unknown because they cannot be known, they exist in a different realm. But this character’s stare, her direct address, transforms her from the known- because-unknowable protagonist into a stranger in the real world, somebody we don’t know and whose coy stare suggests that she is keeping something from us.
The bedroom we find her in is, on the one hand, completely circumscribed by the circular motion of the camera. On the other it is penetrated by the camera which Akerman stares straight back into like a mirror – making us the image – the result of her glance refracting as it passes through the lens. The table we pan past is set for two and this private space is certainly transfigured into a space of encounter. But it’s unclear who found who, which is the original gaze, our slow panning or Akerman’s stare? Either way, this is an encounter which complicates the act of looking and the resultant relationship between the viewer and the viewed.
Je Tu Il Elle:
In Je Tu Il Elle the protagonist, Julie, begins by telling us that she has spent the week repainting all her furniture. Whilst the first shot that greets us is of an unassuming room that we have no reason to question, Julie’s narration immediately unsettles this apparent stasis by conjuring images of the room’s alternative appearances. It seems we’re not necessarily meant to believe that the room was a series of different colours, Julie’s main aim is just to press upon us that despite initial appearances this is a highly unstable apartment. As if to prove her point, Julie proceeds to rearrange and then banish all the furniture, systematically dismantling the ordinariness of the space. She heaves the furniture across the floor until at last she is satisfied to sit, pushed up against a cold looking corner.
This deconstruction, and Julie’s tales of redecoration immediately establishes the space’s lack of fixity and its virtuality: another space of exploration.
Julie herself is in also in state of unrest. She dresses and undresses, eats sugar straight from the bag, spills it, piles it back in, and intermittently examines herself in the window at various stages of undress, as if to catch snap shots of her alterations. It’s a lover that has generated this unrest and Julie’s main pursuit is to write letters to them. However, her letters are less acts of communication than props in an internal dialogue. They are themselves unstable: we are pointedly told that they have been crossed out and started over again. Performatively, she lays the letters across the floor of her room. There, they are rendered not methods of communication, but an exhibition for her own benefit, an exhibition which displays and therefore objectifies otherness, neutralising it and ensuring Julie’s safety within her space of interiority.
But this bounded space cannot hold. The energy of its oscillations eventually breaks the walls and thrusts Julie into relation with real others.
In retrospect we feel like Julie’s apartment has been like an incubator where she tosses and turns until she is ready to emerge into the world outside. At night she uses the window as a mirror to examine her naked body, self-reflecting again. But by the morning the window has become something to see through rather than to see in. Strange men catch glimpses of her standing uneasy in the light. She is back in a space of relation and her first foray into communication is to take up with an unpleasant truck driver whose deplorable traits she pretends not to notice, studying instead the back of his neck. Luckily, this proves merely to be a test run of human interaction and Julie soon arrives at an ex lover’s house.
In the lover’s homely apartment she and Julie, perform a strange, negotiated geometry of relations. First they establish a line of connection, a line defined by the lover’s giving (first time, attention, then food, then wine), then, in bed, they twist and push themselves into new shapes, new relations of self/other until, having completed some kind of quasi platonic coming together, they sleep, and Julie leaves.
The noises which accompany the sex scene are reminiscent of the crazed humming which supervenes over Saute Ma Ville.[1] In both, the self becomes its own narrator, providing its own accompaniment –and this discordance of voice and image coming from same-but-separate sources sets up a space of dis-identity (as does the sequential disjunction of narration and action throughout Akerman’s early work). This space-between, like the mirror in Saute Ma Ville, functions as a space for refractions of the self and for the invention and transfiguration of its relations.
[1] These noises are conspicuously absent on version of the film available online but I am certain they existed in the A Nos Amours screening. Any verification/refutation of this would be very appreciated!
Catching sight of the Real - Keifer Taylor
For Slavoj Zizek “the Real” and “symbolic reality” we inhabit is inextricably linked. In ideological terms, we are governed by a “false consciousness” that prevents a clear understanding of our “Real” surroundings. As many are aware, Zizek’s lofty theoretical framework stems from Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Jacques Lacan proposed that our perception is constructed by a symbolic order of laws and language, featuring an “absence” that “cuts the real” When we encounter this “Real” it becomes a traumatic symptom that ruptures our cushioned everyday routines.
Returning to Zizek, these two realms intermingle via the corresponding symptom of the Real. Despite the indirect nature of this area, he explains, “the real (the part of reality that remains non-symbolised) returns in the guise of spectral apparitions” that “gives body to that which escapes (the symbolically structured) reality” In relation to the spatial properties of Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, the unspoken traumas and regimented procedures of the eponymous housewife’s daily life collide over the three-day narrative.
Usually, before we even consider the thematic basis of Jeanne Dielman or other Akerman films, the vividly constructed spaces demand primary attention. Symmetrical framings of this mundane setting presents obligatory household chores, against a backdrop of bland patterned walls, a marble green bathtub, a spacious living room and compact kitchen. These images illustrate a utopian bubble of domestic bliss. The compositional rigour of these spaces and its central figure’s manoeuvres can be considered a symbolic reality of Dielman’s attempts to repress her closeted pain.
The first day is a steady visual summary of this symbolic order: the phlegmatic single-parent housewife’s daily routine consists of preparing the food for her young son, Sylvain, babysitting, cleaning, engaging in her additional role as a prostitute and sleeping until the following day’s aforesaid activities. The stringency of its formal qualities proposes a sense of oppression within this seemingly natural environment. The stiffening absence of camera movement alone implies a lack of emotional fluidity. Instead, Dielman is locked inside her securely barred tedium of homely rituals.
Saute Ma Ville - Eve Marguerite Allen
By the second day, the invisible wounds of trauma (the Real) begin to surface, projected by slight disorders. After a visit from one of her customers, phlegmatic housewife attends to other business. Money is placed in the jar without placing the lid back on. The potatoes are overcooked, forcing her to purchase a new bag and concoct the same meal. Sylvain returns, commenting that her hair is tangled. These minor details all constitute the character’s tacit inner disturbance. Despite the rigid precision of shots being intact, the triggered agitation of the Real taints the ostensible normality of Dielman’s impenetrable symbolic order. Once the Real arises, it becomes an indelible stain on the composed character’s symbolic space of repression.
It’s difficult to grasp the enigmatic trauma haunting Dielman across the film’s duration, though pinholes of insight into her past shed light on this. Perhaps her husband’s death is the cause of her emotional and sexual repression? Possibly the numb divorcée’s evening visit from a customer sparked an incandescent surge of thoughts and feelings, holding close ties to her true self? Towards the film’s convulsive climax, the photograph of a married couple resting upon the make-up table may solidify these claims.
The power of suggestion is an integral part of this investigation. To scope out symptoms of the looming Real one must pierce Chantal Akerman’s stiffly balanced frames. Gradually, the well-engineered space becomes a permeable sight of repressed desires, highlighting the unvoiced imperfections of Dielman’s symbolic reality. Once present, it is uncertain whether these two worlds are separate or exist concurrently. The final handful of images leans towards the latter, indicating the inextinguishable traumas that lurk within the seemingly prosaic.
Spot Light on North Korea, Part Two by Ella Harris and Eve Marguerite Allen
Spot Light on North Korea Part Two: The View from the West
Since the death of Kim Jong-il in 2011, North Korean cinema has received a surge of interest. The facts and fictions surrounding the North Korean cultural propaganda industries are as dark as they are bizarre. This three part article interrogates the construction and the function of the myths surrounding North Korea's global image by examining the film produced there.
The ‘Othering’ of North Korea
The West’s recent fascination with North Korean cinema is perhaps unsurprising given that films are one of the only things that regularly manage to escape the country’s tightly maintained borders. Despite constant attempts, few people successfully ‘defect’ from North Korea and images of real life in the country are limited to what can be glimpsed from the border zones with the South, or related by those who have managed to flee. In an age of near total communication, life inside North Korea is perhaps the globalised world’s best kept secret; endlessly discussed but barely understood. So it is fascinatingly peculiar when from the depths of this sinister black hole what greets us is kitsch, B-movie Godzilla rip-offs executive-directed by Kim Jong-il.
In this light it’s clear why Western attention to North Korean cinema fixates on the ‘exotic’ nature of their film industry. Surely what we are drawn by is the layers of performance at play in North Korean films; by actors who we assume must play a double role, also ‘pretending’ to be happy North Korean citizens. Moreover, we are struck by how earnestly and naively they play the role of global movie stars, seemingly unaware of their country’s bizarre cinematic status. We look at them with an anthropological gaze, wondering what kind of humans they must be, or must have become, who spend long days at film school in order to dutifully and unquestioningly carry out the artistic desires of the dear leader.
Thanks to this ‘otherness’, North Korea’s film has garnered a cult status in the West and everyone from counter-culture aspirant VICE to international news vender Al Jazeera has been getting in on the act (pun intended) to celebrate the strangeness of the North Korean film industry. Al Jazeera even visited the film school in Pynogynang (after three failed attempts when the school was ‘closed for refurbishment’) to witness a carefully choreographed ‘lesson’ for Pynongyang’s budding acting talent.
It seems that this attention is knowingly coaxed and charmed by North Korea’s PR department which produces laughably bold statements about Kim Jong-il’s wide-reaching prowess (Kim is, according to North Korean press, the world’s best golfer, the inventor of the hamburger, and able to control the weather) and no less grandiose claims about the nation’s cultural output: “In recent years our film art has created an unprecedented sensation in the world’s filmdom… The revolutionary people of the world are unstinting in their praise… of [our] immortal revolutionary and popular films” Korean Review 1974.
These assertions of Kim’s North Korea’s talent for ‘film art’ are all the more amusing once you’ve actually seen the films made in North Korea (several are available on youtube here). The most widely discussed is Pulgasari. Made in 1985 it is Kim’s answer to the Godzilla franchise; a monster-movie directed by the captured Shin Sang-ok. ‘Endearing’ feels like the wrong word for anything produced under a dictator and as the direct result of a kidnapping but Pulgasari, is, amongst other things, a charmingly bad piece of cinema.
From its crude special effects to the neo-mythical narrative Pulgasari has the erratic amiability of a film like ‘The Clash of the Titans’ but is set in a feudal village more akin to Monty Python’s take on medieval Britain in ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail.’ The plot opens with the village people in turmoil. The Governor’s men are confiscating all items made of iron from the distraught villagers to melt into weapons for the ‘war effort.’ A village elder clinging too tightly to his pans is beaten and imprisoned by the authorities. He dies in jail, leaving two children behind him, but not before fashioning a tiny monster out of rice from the bottom of his cell. This monster, Pulgasari, takes on a life of its own and is adopted by Ami (the man’s daughter and the story’s heroine) and her younger brother. At first he is a tiny dragon-like being (“so cute!”) with a quirky desire to eat metal and jerky, awkward movements (probably the result of the actor straining to move in a monster costume.) He warms the hearts of Ami and her brother, prancing around their room and eating sewing needles.
As he eats more iron Pulgasari grows bigger and bigger, eventually getting so big that he terrorises not only the chaotic army (who try to defeat him) but the villagers too. The long action scenes glorifying Pulgasari’s strength (full of ‘peowww peowww’ sounds as he heroically fires cannon balls straight back at the army after catching them in his teeth!) are interspersed with shots of concerned locals lamenting the loss of their iron possessions to Pulgasari’s stomach (“It even ate my pot!, “Oh, no! Not you pot too!?”)
Whilst Pulgasari is basically invincible, it soon becomes apparent that his insatiable iron addiction will end in world wars fought to provide for him. Eventually Ami is forced to sacrifice herself for the greater good. She smuggles herself into Pulgasarai’s open jaws within an iron cylinder and as Pulgasari crunches down on her small body they both meet their ends. Pulgarsari shrinks back down to a cute baby monster and leaps with a flash onto Ami’s lifeless face where he becomes a single tear drop.
Like many North Korean film narratives, the plot of Pulgasari can be read as a praise of the overcoming of Japanese rule in North Korea (1910 – 1945). The army are the Japanese occupiers and the revolutionary people are to be the citizens of the new North Korea under Kim Il-sung; their collective spirit but their lack of greed (they only want to keep their iron implements in order to be able to farm and cook!) are typical of North Korean cinema and its reiteration of the ‘Juche’ spirit. Fate of a Self-defence Corps Man (1970), developed from a story reportedly written by Kim Il-sung during the battle against the Japanese occupation also celebrates self-sacrifice and collective unity, as does Sea of Blood (1969) which is derived from another war-time novel about a farmer who becomes a national heroine through her fight with the Japanese. Self-sacrifice as a favourite theme is perhaps second only to the depiction of how contented, self-reliant and hardworking village life is, reflected in the titles of feature films like A Family of Workers, Rolling Mill Workers and A Flowering Village.
The country’s isolation means that unbiased facts on the reaction to films like Pulgasari from within North Korea are hard to come by. Though for outside audiences Kim’s curious productions have gained a somewhat cult following for their dodgy special effects and kitschy charm it is hard to determine whether cinema going is a popular or even available activity in North Korea. The Pyongyang International Cinema Hall and Kaeson Cinema apparently hold regular screenings but any North Koreans in attendance would certainly not be familiar with many of the Kim’s own points of reference, gained from the hours he spent consuming North American and Japanese movies. There is a manipulative absurdity of a despot who regulates cultural production inside the country he rules while having the sole privilege of experiencing arts outside his own nation: North Korean cinema is tangibly influenced by external filmic cultures (as in the obvious Godzilla/Pulgasari comparison), however its audience could only glean reflections from this external industry in the North Korean output; a Juched-up (sorry) synthesis of Western film.
Whilst there is certainly something funny about a dictator who convinces his captive/captivated country that his cinema is globally celebrated it is also incredibly sinister that to gain this reputation (and indeed to limit understanding of how forceful his general political rule is) he chooses to ban all cultural imports. Interactions with other nations are limited but when visitors do come Pynongyang is held up as the show city, where closely monitored guests, including Google executives and sports stars are given meticulously planned tours around the certain parts of the city; a pseudo-film set built to impress which, presumably, is a million miles from the conditions that most North Koreans live in.
Sly links to the outside
Pynongyang also hosts the Pyongyang International Film Festival which is one of the few events planned with the international community in mind. Two unlikely international collaborations with the North Korean film industry have received some press attention in the West. Comrade Kim Goes Flying, a joint British-Belgian-North Korean rom-com, and Aim High in Creation, a comedy about the ‘cinematic genius’ of Kim Jong-il by Australian Anna Broinowski, are both released this year. It will be interesting to see the reaction to these films. Whilst a good reception from North Korea’s indoctrinated citizens would be unsurprisingly (especially given the regime’s zero tolerance attitudes towards criticism or debate), surely the cheer of North Korean produced film must be jarring to a viewer with access to the news and to cinema from the rest of the world?
But the West does seem to be totally capable of enjoying the oddities of North Korean culture despite the fact that leaked reports from defectors about prison camps and national starvation are increasingly published (North Korean Defector Reveals The Horrifying Conditions Inside Secretive State's Concentration Camps, Huffington Post. North Korea: New images reveal true scale of political prison camps, Amnesty International). Such reports indicate that outside of the cities life differs harshly from the cheerful feudal scenes in many North Korean films.
That collaborations even exist between North Korean and Western cinema industries is a testament to the extent to which the comic face of North Korea is enjoyed and the horror of the country downplayed entirely. For North Korea to agree to collaborate with the West or for Western film makers to want to engage with the North Korean industry there has to be a distinct lack of Western coverage of North Korean human rights abuses. Flippantly, we could say that when there are plenty of human rights violations elsewhere it is more interesting, amusing and profitable for Western media to celebrate absurdity in North Korean than to condemn the government’s treatment of its people. But is there a more profound geopolitical sense in which the image of North Korea as a funny fantasy land works for the West and for North Korea itself?
Whilst Pulgasari might, on one level, be deeply funny, and whilst there is certainly something ludicrous about a kidnaping motivated by cinematic aspirations, the message of North Korean cinema is clearly deeply thought out, not just accidentally hilarious. Stories of dire conditions in North Korea continue to reach the West and it is difficult to reconcile reports of torture with the stranger than fiction tales of Kim’s childlike obsession with film, his 15,000 DVD collection and his love of Elizabeth Taylor. It’s hard to believe that North Korea isn’t a toy-town Disneyland owned by a benevolent cartoon villain and this is certainly how the nation is treated by much of the Western press.
Arguably, this means that maybe some of the propaganda has worked on us. We need to ask ourselves what work does this image of the comic dictator/director do? Does it enable North Korea to function, in some respects, as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, allowing filmic collaborations with the West and, more sinisterly, shrouding the country’s multiple human rights abuses in a double-bluff spectacle of naff cinema? Who benefits from this internationally maintained facade? We may laugh and proclaim Kim Jong-un the ‘World’s Sexiest Man Alive’ (The Onion) but the cuddly-film-fanatic-despot is a convenient distraction story for one of history’s most frightening characters.
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This week: A Casting Director Calls Out a Casting Director for Bad Behavior
This was not to be the scheduled blog for this week. Generally I’m four weeks ahead of myself in my writing you. But there was a breach of trust from behind the audition table this week. And it must be addressed.
This past week during casting for The New York Musical Theater Festival casting director Daryl Eisenberg was tweeting live commentary during auditions about the actors she was seeing before her. I’ve seen the tweets on Twitter which have subsequently appeared on numerous web sites:
“If we wanted to hear it a different way, don’t worry, we’ll ask.”
“Your skirt makes me think you’re Wiccan…”
“Who is that person in your headshot? it is def not the person standing in front of me.”
“If you are going to sing about getting on your knees, might as well do it and crawl towards us…right?”
When Actors Equity Association got wind of this behavior Ms. Eisenberg then released the following tweet:
“We have a quick break….for the record, we tweet when the actors are NOT IN THE ROOM.”
Ms. Eisenberg, you shouldn’t be commenting at all. It is not your position to digitally vomit your reactions to the public at large during auditions. What happens in the audition room stays in the audition room. This is not American Idol.
Now before you interject, “Paul, hello this is the kettle. You’re black.” My audition room observations in my book and this blog offer solutions. Having been someone who was ridiculed in my youth I give careful consideration before relaying any anecdotes that may embarrass. All examples of missteps that I share (including my own) must come with an offer of a solution or adjustment for improvement and not be utilized for the sake of entertainment or humiliation.
Ms Eisenberg you have violated the trust of those who came before you. Artists who bared their talents in exchange for an offer of work; a chance to earn monies for food and rent. An audition is when the actor is often at their most vulnerable emotional state. An actor faces many challenges in their career. As casting directors we should be there as support for the artist. A casting director is nothing more than glorified human resources and any casting director who gives themselves “power” over an actor is not a collaborator of the arts but a dilettante. We are not to place ourselves upon pedestals. We don’t hire. We’re traffic managers bringing in and out of the audition room a flow of talent. We’re personal shoppers and nothing greater.
It’s behavior such as yours Ms. Eisenberg that makes me ashamed at times to be a “gate keeper”. For that’s all we are. A casting director’s job was not created out of need but out of convenience for the creative team. Before casting directors existed, producers, directors and stage managers did the leg work that has become our trade. We’re expendable. This current economic crisis and our dwindling client base as budgets are cut should have made you more than aware of that reality.
Actors deserve better treatment from those behind the audition table. I was once an actor. I have a great empathy for them. I don’t know if you Ms. Eisenberg were once an actor. If so; you should be damned ashamed of how you have treated those who now stand where you once stood. If you never had the displeasure of auditioning consider yourself fortunate that you never had to endure what actors in your audition room experienced this past week.
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Students Earning Fall 2013 Awards
Author Christopher LynnPublished on February 9, 2014 March 9, 2014 Leave a comment on Students Earning Fall 2013 Awards
Doctoral student Paul Eubanks received a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for his project "Caddo Salt Production in Northwestern Louisiana." Congratulations to Paul and his adviser, Dr. Ian Brown. Paul is our seventh doctoral student to receive an NSF DDIG. This speaks, first and foremost, to Paul's great promise as a scholar and also to the strength of our young doctoral program.
Doctoral student Erik Porth was received the Richard A. Krause Award at the 2013 Holiday luncheon. The Krause Award, established in 2008, is given in recognition of outstanding scholarship by a graduate student in Anthropology. Porth, whose research focus is the historical process of placemaking at Moundville, has consistently exemplified this in his dedication to research, teaching, and service to our department.
Master's student Kelsey Herndon was honored with a Graduate Student Association award to support travel to the South-Central Conference on Mesoamerica to present "Structure from Motion Mapping and Remote Sensing at the Maya Site of Chan Chich, Belize."
Undergraduate Meghan Steel
The Graduate School and Anthropology Department provide awards several times a year for meritorious research projects and for travel to present research at conferences. A total of seven proposals were submitted to the Anthropology Graduate Committee for the Fall 2013 round, all of which were subsequently forwarded to the Graduate School for consideration and received awards. The following students (in alphabetical order) received awards in the fall 2013: Jolynn Amrine Goertz, to support travel to the American Anthropological Association (AAA) to present "Fragments and Field Notebooks: Franz Boas and the Chehalis Oral Tradition"; Paul Eubanks, to support travel to the Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC) to present "The Timing and Distribution of Caddo Salt Production in Northwestern Louisiana"; Lynn Funkhouser, to support travel to SEAC to present "An Analysis of Near-Mound Cemeteries at Moundville"; Jessica Kowalski, to support travel to SEAC to present "Mississippian Period Settlement Size and Soil Productivity in the Southern Yazoo Basin, Mississippi"; LisaMarie Malischke, to support travel to the Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology to present "The Heterogeneity of Early French Forts and Settlements. A Comparison to Fort St. Pierre (1719-1729) in French Colonial Louisiane"; Ross Owens, to support thesis research on "How Smart Phones Affect Skin Conductance and Social Support Systems Among Students at the University of Alabama"; and Max Stein, to support travel to AAA to present "Religion as Resilience: Evaluating the Intersections of Religious Collectivity and Disease in Limon Province, Costa Rica."
This year, the C. Earle Smith Award for the most outstanding senior goes to two students--Maryanne Mobley and Meghan Steel. The Hughes Prize for a student who shows great potential and perseverance goes to Katie Moss. They do our department proud with their excellent grades, drive and determination, and wonderful personalities.
Published on February 9, 2014 March 9, 2014 Author Christopher LynnCategories NewsTags Achsah Dorsey, Bob Work Award, Elizabeth Wix, Emma Koenig, Erik Porth, Ian Brown, Jessica Kowalski, Jolynn Amrine Goertz, LisaMarie Malischke, Lynn Funkhouser, Max Stein, NSF DDIG, Paul Eubanks, Rachel Briggs, Richard A. Krause Award, Ross Owens
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Tag: Outstanding Commitment to Teaching
Student and Faculty Awards
Author Christopher LynnPublished on May 20, 2015 May 26, 2015 Leave a comment on Student and Faculty Awards
Numerous students and faculty were recognized for achievements and commitment this spring. Several undergraduates mentored by Anthropology faculty were recognized at the annual Undergraduate Research and Creativity Conference as follows: Mark Ortiz, Honorable Mention for Oral Presentations in the Fine Arts and Humanities division (David Meek, faculty mentor); Taylor Lawhon, 4th Place for Oral Presentations in the Social Sciences division (Ian Brown, faculty mentor); Rachel Madey, 1st Place for in Emerging Scholars Fine Arts and Humanities Division and International Focus (Kathy Oths, faculty mentor), and Sommer Hallquist and Madeline Anscombe, 2nd Place in Emerging Scholars Fine Arts and Humanities division (Ian Brown, faculty mentor).
Lynn Funkhouser accepts her award from Ian Brown.
Jessica Kowalski accepts a DeJarnette Scholarship.
Greg Batchelder accepts the 2015 Maxwell Scholarship from Dr. Brown.
This year's recipients of David and Elizabeth DeJarnette Endowed Scholarships in Anthropology are doctoral candidates Lynn Funkhouser and Jessica Kowalski. Doctoral student Greg Batchelder received the Allen R. Maxwell Endowed Anthropology Scholarship. The competitions were extremely tough, as always, so these honors are indeed great. For this year, each awardees will be receiving scholarships of $8,000 each to be used toward their research.
Achsah Dorsey, who received her M.A. in Anthropology in 2014, received the University of Alabama Outstanding Research by a Master's Student Award for her thesis "Food Insecurity, Maternal Mental Health, and Child Well-Being in NW Tanzania." This follows receipt of the same award in the Arts & Sciences in the fall 2014.
Katelyn Moss receives undergraduate honor from Dean Olin.
Taylor Lawhon, Jessi Mays, and Melinda Carr receive undergraduate honors from Cameron Lacquement.
This year's Honors Day allowed three of our outstanding undergraduates to be recognized. Katelyn Moss received a Dean's Award of Merit, while Taylor Lawhon, Jessi Mays, and Melinda Carr were acknowledged as recipients of the "Smitty" and Hughes Awards. Taylor received the C. Earl Smith Award, which is given to the graduating senior with the highest GPA in Anthropology. Jessi and Melinda were co-recipients of the Lynn Hughes Award, which is given to students in Anthropology or Economics who capture the imagination of the faculty through potential, intransigence, inventiveness, perseverance, or a combination of qualities.
The following students received funding from the Graduate School for their proposals to the Graduate Student Research and Travel Fund: Mirjam Holleman, Lynn Funkhouser, Lessye DeMoss, Daniel LaDu, Rachel Briggs, LisaMarie Malischke, and Paul Eubanks.
The Research Advisory Committee (RAC) selected Jason DeCaro as the 2015 recipient of the President’s Faculty Research Award for Arts & Sciences---Social Sciences. These awards, organized by the RAC and sponsored by our President and by the Vice President for Research and Economic Development, recognize select University of Alabama faculty members whose research or scholarship represents excellence in their field.
Chris Lynn receiving AS Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award from Dean Olin.
Jason DeCaro with co-recipients of an Award for Outstanding Faculty/Staff-Initiated Engagement Effort, John Lochman, Ansley Gilpin, and Qshequilla Mitchell.
Dr. DeCaro and his collaborators Ansley Gilpin, Caroline Boxmeyer, and John Lochman were also recipients of the 2015 Center for Community-Based Partnerships Awards for Outstanding Faculty/Staff-Initiated Engagement Effort. In addition, David Meek and Sarah Morrow were recognized at the same event with a Community Engagement Fellowship Award.
Dr. Lisa LeCount was awarded a National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration grant for $21,412 and a College Academy for Research, Scholarship and Creativity Activity grant ($5,000). These grants were to support another season of the Actuncan Project---"Archaeological Research at Actuncan's E-Group: Testing the Political Significance of Preclassic Lowland Maya Public Architecture." E-groups are the earliest known public architecture on ancient Maya sites. Multiple models have been proposed to explain their significance, the most recent of which suggests that Middle Preclassic (1000 to 400 B.C.) E-groups served as high-points on the geopolitical landscape to claim territory visible from them. The proposed research seeks to test this model by excavating Actuncan’s E-group to discover the heights of early architectural stages and performing ArcGIS geospatial analyses (least-cost path and radial line-of-sight) to determine the territorial boundaries visible or walkable from contemporaneous E-groups within the upper Belize River valley.
Finally, Chris Lynn received the Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award at the Undergraduate Honor's Day celebration. This highly coveted award is issued each year by the Leadership Board of the College of Arts and Sciences and recognizes a single faculty member for his or her superior teaching ability and absolute dedication to students. This is a most deserving award for Dr. Lynn and a great honor for our Department.
Published on May 20, 2015 May 26, 2015 Author Christopher LynnCategories Awards/Grants, Spring 2015 NewsletterTags Achsah Dorsey, Ansley Gilpin, Bob Olin, CARSCA, Chris Lynn, Daniel LaDu, David Meek, DeJarnette Scholarship, Greg Batchelder, Hughes Prize, Ian Brown, Jason DeCaro, Jessi Mays, Jessica Kowalski, John Lochman, Katelyn Moss, Kathy Oths, Lessye Demoss, Lisa LeCount, LisaMarie Malischke, Lynn Funkhouser, Madeline Anscombe, Mark Ortiz, Maxwell Scholarship, Melinda Carr, Mirjam Holleman, National Geographic Society, Outstanding Commitment to Teaching, Paul Eubanks, Qshequilla Mitchell, Rachel Briggs, Rachel Madey, Sarah Morrow, Smith, Sommer Halquist, Taylor LawhonLeave a comment on Student and Faculty Awards
Oths, Knight, Persons, Lynn, DeCaro, and Galbraith Receive Awards
Author Christopher LynnPublished on March 26, 2014 December 28, 2014 Leave a comment on Oths, Knight, Persons, Lynn, DeCaro, and Galbraith Receive Awards
Dr. Kathryn Oths
Dr. Kathy Oths has been selected by the College of Arts and Sciences as an A&S Distinguished Teaching Fellow for 2014-2017. This is such a wonderful honor and so richly deserved. It serves as a fabulous bookend for Prof. Oths having recently been selected as an NAA 2014 Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award recipient.
Drs. Jim Knight and Brooke Persons were part of a multi-national team recognized by a National Award of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba 2013. The team interpreted excavations at El Chorro de Maita in Cuba and identified it as a post-colonial contact indigenous community and cemetery. It is the first site of this type and has been recognized as one of the most important Cuban social sciences achievements of 2013.
Dr. Christopher Lynn was the recipient of an Arts and Sciences CARSCA (College Academy for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity) grant for a project entitled "Retention and Emotional Salience of Evolution Education via Comedy and Hip Hop." In collaboration with Dr. William Evans of Telecommunication and Film, this project will use survey and skin conductance methods to test the impact of evolution education when delivered via hip hop playwright Baba Brinkman's award-winning "Rap Guide to Evolution" show versus a stand lecture format.
Dr. Marysia Galbraith
Drs. Jason DeCaro and Marysia Galbraith were awarded Research Grants Committee support for their projects "The Culture of Child Caregiving in Mwanza, Tanzania" and "Jewish Heritage in Poland: Remembered Pasts and Imagined Futures," respectively.
Dr. Galbraith also has the rare honor of receiving a third Fulbright award to conduct her Jewish-Polish heritage project, which will also involve documenting and recovering her own Polish heritage. There is little precedent in anthropology for projects like Dr. Galbraith's, which document changes in self-identity and views of life from teen to adult. As a Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Galbraith will also be affiliated with Adam Mickiewicz University, which will enable her to connect and collaborate with Polish scholars.
Published on March 26, 2014 December 28, 2014 Author Christopher LynnCategories Awards/Grants, News, Spring 2014 NewsletterTags Baba Brinkman, Brooke Persons, CARSCA, Christopher Lynn, Cuba, Distinguished Teaching Fellow, Fulbright Award, Jim Knight, Kathy Oths, Marysia Galbraith, Outstanding Commitment to Teaching, RGC, William EvansLeave a comment on Oths, Knight, Persons, Lynn, DeCaro, and Galbraith Receive Awards
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Survey chapter: Bislama
Structure data for these languages can be found in structure dataset 23.
2. Sociohistorical background
3. Sociolinguistic situation
4. Phonology
5. Noun phrase
6. Verb phrase
7. Simple sentences
8. Complex sentences and comparatives
9. Reduplication
1. Introduction ⇫ ¶
Most of the population of the Republic of Vanuatu (estimated 218,000, July 2009) have some fluency in Bislama. It is used as a lingua franca, and increasingly as a first language, especially in urban centres (Port Vila, Efate and Luganville, Santo). The name of the language is variably pronounced /ˈbislama/ and /ˈbiʃlama/ in the language itself. An anglicized pronunciation may involve stress shift: /bɪˈslɑmə/. Vanuatu is an archipelago of more than 80 islands located in the south-west Pacific. Many Ni-Vanuatu people live and work in Australia and New Zealand, permanently or seasonally. The c. 80–100 vernacular languages of Vanuatu mainly fall into the Eastern Oceanic family; there are some Polynesian outliers in the central and southern islands. Vanuatu became independent in 1980. Before that, it was jointly administered as a colony by both Britain and France (and was known then as the New Hebrides).
2. Sociohistorical background ⇫ ¶
Archaeological evidence suggests that Vanuatu has been settled since c. 3200 BP. The region is characterized by extensive linguistic diversity; it is likely that during the history of Vanuatu some local languages have achieved lingua franca status in specific regions. It is not known how much these putative lingue franche were restructured or were distinctive by virtue of contact-induced change. Another pattern may have been extensive individual multilingualism. Both scenarios are found in Vanuatu today.
First recorded contact of Ni-Vanuatu people with Europeans was in 1606 with the voyage of Pedro Fernández de Quirós, a Portuguese navigator who was sailing under a Spanish flag and who sent a boat ashore on Sakau Island off the north east coast. De Quirós’ trip was followed in 1769 by Louis-Antoine de Bougainville’s voyage. James Cook charted most of the Vanuatu archipelago in six weeks between 18 July and 31 August, 1772 and dubbed the islands the New Hebrides; this is what the islands were known as during the colonial period. Missionaries arrived in the region for long-term settlement in the 19th century, and it was probably a London Missionary Society ship that started the sandalwood trading rush in 1853. This lasted until the sandalwood was exhausted in 1865. Much of the external trade during the early and mid-1800s was with whalers and traders from China including those interested in the biche de mer ‘sea cucumber’, from which the language Bislama derives its name. By the end of the 1860s, ships recruiting labourers for plantation work in the south-west Pacific (mainly what is now Australia, Fiji, New Caledonia, and Samoa) were frequenting the islands of Vanuatu. Recruits were mainly young men between 15 and 35, though a number of women also signed on for three years’ work. The number of women is estimated at approximately 6-10% throughout Melanesia. Some labourers may have been effectively kidnapped, or “blackbirded” as the practice was known. The labour trade had a significant impact on the demographics of Vanuatu. Between 1870 and 1880 alone, 25,358 young men and women (out of a population of c. 100,000 at that time) left. Simultaneously, the islands experienced significant depopulation due to introduced diseases. Workers on the plantations generally returned to Vanuatu after their contracts were up, and with them, they brought back material culture and the Pidgin English spoken on the plantations in northern Queensland. This ultimately developed into the Bislama spoken today. For many years, especially in outer islands, Bislama carried connotations of roughness or urban savvy; it could be seen as inappropriate for women to use the language.
Colonial administration of the islands was shared by the British and the French from 1906 to 1980 under a Joint Condominium government. During the Second World War, Vanuatu was an important staging post for the allied war in the South Pacific. Over 250,000 American troops (plus smaller numbers of New Zealanders and other Allies) passed through or were stationed in Vanuatu.
Since independence, Vanuatu has had a stable democracy and a growing economy, but the per capita GDP remains quite low. A subsistence lifestyle continues to be typical in most islands. Exports are largely agricultural. Tourism, fishing, and financial services are important sectors of the economy.
More detailed discussion of the history outlined here can be found in Clark (1979-1980), Crowley (1990), and Meyerhoff (2000a, on which I have drawn for this section and where full references can be found).
3. Sociolinguistic situation ⇫ ¶
Bislama is one of three official languages in Vanuatu, alongside English and French. The Constitution recognizes it as national language (with the proviso that it may, in theory, be replaced by any other autochthonous vernacular). A legacy of the colonial Joint Condominium is that families today must choose either French or English as the medium of education (in some areas, it is Hobson’s choice as there may be only one operative school). Some teaching in vernacular languages takes place in the first year or primary. There has been some effort to introduce basic education in Bislama in the urban centres, where it is the only L1 for many children, but there is considerable resistance to this because many people still perceive it to be “bad English”.
Bislama is widely used in everyday life in Vanuatu. It is broadcast on national and private radio stations, used for some news reports on television, and articles (sports, news and lifestyle) and editorial pieces may be written in Bislama in the Vanuatu newspapers. It is the default medium of communication between people from different islands in Vanuatu. The Bible’s Old and New Testaments (with Psalms) have been translated into Bislama. There are published instructional materials (popular and more serious teaching materials) as well as a dictionary and grammar of the language.
There is no standardized form of Bislama. The Vanuatu Literacy Council proposed a standard orthography in the 1990s, but this was not widely adopted. The orthographic conventions used by the Bible translation team are effectively the only written standard, but there is considerable variability in how Bislama is written and spoken. There are regional influences in the pronunciation, e.g. insertion of epenthetic vowels in consonant clusters by speakers from some of the north-eastern islands, prosodic features (often described as “pulling”) associated with speakers from Tanna, more or less prenasalization of intervocalic stops, presence or absence of word-initial /h/, devoicing of syllable-initial and final stops, etc. Some of these may be reflected in written representations of the language. In addition, perceptions about the structure of the language emerge in writing, e.g. the particle i (see §6) is a prosodic clitic and is often written attached to either a preceding pronoun (hemi instead of standard hem i) or a following verb (istap instead of standard i stap).
There has been no systematic published account of the spoken regional variation in Bislama. There is some anecdotal evidence that regional variation extends beyond pronunciation, e.g. the extent to which certain complementizers are used productively to introduce all subordinate clauses, or the use of se as a main verb in copular constructions. There is some lexical variation; this may be a reflex of an individual’s primary language of education, or it may reflect which colonial language was more dominant in a particular area.
Use of Bislama continues to spread, and some speakers of vernacular languages perceive it to be a threat to the vitality of their home language.
4. Phonology ⇫ ¶
Table 1. Vowels
The phonology and phonotactics of Bislama are described in Crowley (2004). Crowley says that there are only five phonemic vowels (see Table 1). While this is fundamentally correct, it is worth noting that quite a few speakers systematically distinguish tense and lax high front vowels in at least the pair [sit] ‘sheet’ and [sɪt] ‘shit’.
Diphthongs with rising offglides are /ai/, /oi/, /ei/ and /au/ (conventionally written <ae>, <oe>, <ei> and <ao>, e.g. klaem [klaim] ‘climb’, noes [nois] ‘noise’, plei [plei] ‘play’, nao [nau] ‘now’). Vowel combinations with open off-glides are /ua/, /oa/, /ia/, and /ea/, as in pua ‘poor’, loa ‘law’, bia ‘beer’, and wea ‘where’. The spelling of these is essentially phonemic. Word-finally there is variation between pure (monophthong) vowels and vowels with off-glides only with central vowels, e.g. me ~ mei ‘May’, mo ~ moa ‘more’, we ~ wea ‘where’, blo ~ blou ‘blow’. It is not entirely clear what the phonemic status of [oa] and [ea] is. Like [ua] and [ia] (which do not alternate with monophthong variants), they seem to head two syllables, while [ai] etc. head only one, and hence are diphthongs. Bislama also has two semi-vowels: [j] and [w].
Table 2 shows the phonemic consonants. In addition, there is a glottal fricative [h].
Table 2. Consonants
tap or trill
ɾ/r
tʃ <j>
Crowley (2004) shows a voiceless palatal stop /c/ (written <j>), but this seems to be an error. In earlier work (Crowley, no date), he is clear that <j> represents a palatal affricate and this is my own observation.
The /r/ phoneme may be realized as a tap (more common) or a trill. Bislama derives mainly from non-rhotic varieties of English and this is reflected in the realization of, e.g. brata ‘brother’, neva ‘never’, tanem ‘turn’.
Bislama uses a roughly phonemic orthography (but see §3).
5. Noun phrase ⇫ ¶
Bislama has no nominal gender system. It marks plurality with the determiner ol before the head noun (cf. (1)). A minority of speakers, mainly in urban centres, and perhaps only those with high English proficiency, may irregularly use a noun with plural suffix -s, with or without a Bislama determiner (cf. (2) and (3)). Nouns (including heavy NPs) may be followed by a postposed particle ia (4) which marks definiteness or specificity and can be used as a demonstrative (more research needs to be done on this; I use the abbreviation def in all examples simply in the interests of brevity).
Kafsaedem
botel.
Pour into clean bottles. VWH, 27 June 1998, p.12)1
putumaot
put.out
olgeta
praes
blong
indf
folem.
[...] they will decide the prices of some goods that stores will have to follow. (VWH, 20 June 1998, p.6)
Fulap
stap
holem
Many of them hold degrees [...]. (VWH, 27 June 1998, p.10)
Waef
witnesem
impotan
cerymony
ia.
The wife of the late Pastor Bill Camden also was there to witness this important ceremony. (VWH, 20 June 1998, p.6)
Disison
Vanair
tekem
helpem
The decision that the Vanair board has taken is designed to help people [...]. (TP, 10 June 1998, p.5)
Indefinite nouns occur with wan or sam (singular and plural respectively).
Table 3. Pronouns
1 (excl)
mitufala
mitrifala
mifala
1 (incl)
yumitu
yumitri
yutufala
yutrifala
yufala
tufala
Bislama has a fairly typical Oceanic pronominal system, distinguishing dual and trial as well as singular and plural. Pronouns are free forms (i.e. can be used in isolation to answer a question such as ‘Who brought the nice cake?’ Mifala ‘We did; Us’). Hem (3sg) is gender-neutral. Pronouns can be focused by postposing nomo ‘only’ or wan ‘one’ (Bislama does not have a cleft construction for focusing, see §8).
Coordination of pronouns traditionally occurs with the connective wetem ‘with’, rather than the connective mo ‘and’, e.g. Mi wetem Sale i go long Aore ‘Sale and I went to Aore’, but in younger and urban speakers it is possible to hear Mi mo Sale i go long Aore. The plural pronouns may combine with a specification of some members, e.g. Mitufala wetem Sale ‘We (dual) and Sale’, i.e. ‘Sale and I’.
The normal demonstrative pronoun is hemia (hem-ia [3sg-def]), e.g. Yu wantem kaliko ia? No, mi wantem hemia. ‘Do you want this fabric? No, I want that one.’ The interrogative wanem ‘what’ can be used in relative clauses as well, as in (5).
Pakoa
wanem
hapen.
Pakoa was not happy about what happened. (VWH, 13 June 1998, p.7)
Adnominal possessives are formed with a prepositional phrase blong X ‘of X’ following the noun, e.g. pikinini blong mi i gat naen yia ‘my child is nine years old’.
Indefinite pronouns are samting ‘something’ (cf. (6), (9)), wanem ‘what’ (cf. (5)) and (wan/sam) man ‘someone; people’ (cf. (7) and (8)). There are no negative polarity forms in traditional Bislama, but some speakers (perhaps those with higher English proficiency) may use enibodi in the scope of negation.
(wan)
samting
longwe
finis.
compl
Something over there has broken.
flatem
kakae
finis,
huia.
who.def
Somebody finished this food, but I don't know who.
spoelem
People shouldn't bother anybody else. (in context: ‘You leave me alone.’)
1pl.incl
wantem
indef
olsem
like.that
We don't want anything like that.
Cardinal (wan, tu tri, fo, faev [...]) and ordinal numerals (fas, seken, ted [...]) and adjectives precede the head noun in a complex NP (cf. (10)); PPs and relative clauses follow the head noun (cf.(11), (4b)). When used attributively numerals combine with the adjectival ending -fala. See §7 for predicative adjectives.
wetem
gudfala
good.adj
pikinini.
Jenita and Sale have three good children.
three.adj
jikim
olgeta.
Those three girls are being cheeky to their teacher.
Adjectives are invariant. Comparatives and superlatives of most adjectives are expressed with a subordinate clause or PP, see §8.
6. Verb phrase ⇫ ¶
6.1 Verbal auxiliaries
Bislama has a small number of TAM particles that mark tense, aspect, and mood. They are shown in Table 4 and exemplified in (12)–(16). Another grammatical element preceding the verb is the agreement marker i/oli (3sg/3pl) (see, e.g., (13) and (27)).
Table 4. Tense-Aspect-Mood markers
lexifier etymon
bae; bambae
by and by
irrealis
completive
savvy (< Portuguese saber)
abilitive; habitual
imperfective; progressive; habitual
all, except progressive
talem
abil
karem”.
She said, “You can't have it”. (Malo, 1995, Bretian)
Santo.
His brother had worked in the (same) place in Santo. (Malo, 1995, Dien)
They already have a truck of their own. (Malo, 1995, Atesolo)
1du
narasaed
other.side
ia?
Can you take us to that point over there? (Malo, 1995, Leikitah)
smolsmol.
red.small
I was working part-time. (Santo, 1995, Elsina)
In addition, there are several other verbs which may combine directly with a main verb to express desire (wantem ‘want’), inception of an action (stat ‘start’), direction (go and kam), and politeness (traem ‘try’).
droem
Lavinia wants to draw a horse.
bang.
Litu went and deposited his money at the bank.
These have not been included in Table 4 as auxiliaries because (i) a second agreement marker between the two verbs is possible (i.e. i wantem i droem) and (ii) it is possible to negate the second verb only (note that (ii) requires a biclausal construction with two sets of agreement, as in (19)). With the true auxiliaries in Table 4 negation takes both the auxiliary and main verb in its scope. Indeed, traem as a politeness marker must remain outside the scope of negation. Under the scope of negation it reverts to its lexical meaning.
Lavini
Lavinia wants not to draw a horse.
Traem
purumbut
put.boot
graon
longwe.
Please don't walk on the ground over there.
Do not try and walk on the ground over there. *Please don't (try and) walk on the ground over there.
6.2 Verbal negation
The negatives no (examples (19)–(21) above) and neva (22) occur between subject-verb agreement and the auxiliary/main verb.
longtaem
long.time
tortel.
She's been here for ages but she's never seen a turtle.
In imperatives (where there is no agreement, see (20) and (21)), the negative constituent is clause initial.
6.3. Copular sentences
There is no universally-used copula verb in Bislama, but se appears to be grammaticalizing as a copula in some parts of the country (it seems to be less common in the north). Crowley (1989) suggests that this is an extension from use of se as a complementizer, reinforced and influenced by the French presentational c’est /sɛ/.
The most typical strategy for expressing copular relations is through direct predication of some property. The complement can be modified with verbal markers (tense, aspect, mood auxiliaries).
javelin.
She is a javelin thrower. (TP, 10 June 1998, p.15)
taem
yangfala.
She was an athlete when she was young.
plante.
She will be an athlete if she trains hard regularly.
tu,
Tomman
ilan.
This hat is also from Tomman island. (Vanuatu Koljoral Senta signage, recorded June 1998)
yia
be.plenty
There will be few stalls this year. (VWH, 27 June 1998, p.6)
Presentational sentences with hemia ‘this; that’ subjects often do not have i at the head of the complement (26). However, this is certainly possible (example (27) is from a vox pop report that seems to be verbatim transcription), and there is a related strong focus construction as in (28) that doubles hemia with a canonical subject and agreement before the predicate. More research is needed into the relationship between and different discourse functions of (26)–(28).
Hemia
3sg.def
selebresen
That was the end of the programme for the 15th May celebrations [...]. (TP, 10 June 1998, p.8)
3sg.definite
kuestian
naoia.
now.def
This is a question that women want the answer to now. (VWH, 27 June 1998, p.10)
konsel.
This is a Council bylaw. () (TP, 20 June 1998, p.3)
7. Simple sentences ⇫ ¶
Basic word order in main and subordinate clauses in Bislama is SVO. All arguments may be omitted: The primary constraint on deletion for subjects is person and number of the referent (this corresponds to informativeness of subject-verb agreement, Meyerhoff 2000b). For objects, the most important constraint is the discourse salience of the referent (more recently mentioned referents are more likely to be omitted, Meyerhoff 2003a). It is possible to front arguments for focus purposes: Either a gap in the basic sentence (cf. (29)) or a resumptive pronoun (cf. em in (30)) is possible when a constituent has been fronted.
Niusilan.
New.Zealand
I bought this book in a store in New Zealand.
hedres,
spesel
em.
There are special names given to each headdress. (VKS signage, recorded June 1998)
Interrogatives do not normally use movement to the front (cf. (31)). A moved interrogative argument is pragmatically loaded and sounds abrupt, especially if the moved argument is a direct object. Moving the adjunct olsem wanem (as in (32)) is less inherently charged than a moved direct object, but (32) occurred in a string of queries which emphasized its challenging tone.
wanem?
no.more
narafala
Ni-Vanuatu
Why isn't there a Ni-Vanuatu person to fill that position anymore? (VWH, 27 June 1998, p.10)
Existential sentences use the verb gat ‘have’, and there is no overt expletive subject (see (30) and (32)).
Ditransitive verbs may use either a prepositional object (33) or a double object construction (34). The PP is much more common in my spoken corpus (example (34) is from court cross-examination). Because Bislama allows arguments to be omitted in discourse, the goal of the verb is often unexpressed (35). Less frequently the direct object is more salient and this is omitted (36).
givim
bakegen.
(I decided) I wasn't going to nurse him any longer. (Santo, 1995, Elsina)
Taetas
ripotem
polis,
mane?
If Taetas hadn't reported you to the police, would you have given him some more money? (Santo, 1994, Simeon)
soem
I had to show (the shop keeper) that piece of paper. (Santo, 1995, Rinette)
raetem
papa,
pikinini
hem.
They wrote a paper, and they gave it to the wife of one of his children. (Santo, 1994, Stiven)
Predicates may be intransitive, transitive or ditransitive. As noted in §5, adjectives such as gud ‘good’, red ‘red’ and laki ‘lucky, fortunate’ may be used adjectively modifying nouns, or as predicates, e.g. pepa we yu wantem i red ‘the paper you want is red’. Predicative adjectives may also be suffixed with -wan, e.g. redwan ‘red’.
8. Complex sentences and comparatives ⇫ ¶
The most common complementizer is se (< English say and French c’est, Crowley 1989). We (< English where) also introduces finite subordinate clauses (Crowley 1990: 330–338) and is the default relativizer. Olsem (‘like’ < English all the same) may be used with some verbs (Meyerhoff 2008). Nonfinite clauses are introduced with blong (< English belong).
Comparatives and superlatives are expressed with bitim ‘beat’. Comparative constructions with bitim ‘beat’ are unattested until the latter half of the 20th century; Crowley (1990: 328) cites work by Guy (1975) where the comparison with bitim is clearly biclausal (bitim occurs with i, see examples (37) and (38)) but the grammaticalization of bitim as a preposition is occurring rapidly and it is perfectly acceptable now in its bare form (as in (39) and (40)).
bigwan
bitim
yumi.
That house over there is bigger than ours.
Natora
other.adj
wud.
Teak is stronger than any other wood./Teak is the strongest wood. (Guy 1975, cited in Crowley 1990: 328)
two.adj
pripea
everi
Those two teams are fit and they are better prepared than every other team. (VWH, 27 June 1998, p.16)
red.run
But can you run faster than me? (Malo, 1995, Nina)
There are no cleft constructions in Bislama. Topicalization is via fronting (see §7).
9. Reduplication ⇫ ¶
Reduplication in Bislama signals a number of functions, which can be subsumed under a general notion of “augmentative” (Meyerhoff 2003b). A plural subject NP may trigger reduplication on the verb, but verb reduplication also may signal repetition of, or intensity of, the activity. Reduplication on an adjective usually signals intensification. An example of verb and adjective reduplication is katkatem smolsmol [red.cut red.small] meaning ‘chop finely; mince’, i.e. cut repeatedly, until very small. Some lexical reduplication exists, e.g. kakae ‘food’ and singsing ‘sing; a song’.
Productive reduplication targets the first syllable of a word and reduplicates onset, nucleus, and coda as a new syllable on the left edge of the word, e.g. faerap ‘pop’ > faefaerap ‘crackle’; slo ‘slow’ > sloslo ‘very slowly, carefully’. Some words do not reduplicate the coda, or do so variably. Native speakers report that V-initial syllables (which are rare) are not good candidates for reduplication, e.g. askem ‘ask’ but #/*askaskem is not used to produce ‘ask repeatedly; interrogate’.
It is possible to reduplicate words and clauses, so a frequent means of indicating that someone stayed a long time some place is to say Hem i stap (i) stap (i) stap, or to express lengthy or effortful travel, Hem i go (i) go (i) go (i) go. I have recorded up to six iterations of stap in a conversation. It seems the limits on how many times a lexical item can be reduplicated are rhetorical.
Clausal reduplication (41) allows speakers another option for intensifying a predicate. The final reduplication can be elided leaving only the complementizer (42).
krae.
My father cried and cried. (Malo, 1994, Janette)
mekem
we.
I did something to make her feel really bad/embarrassed. (Santo, 1995, Sikal)
Miriam Meyerhoff
Coordinates WGS84 16°S, 168°E
-16.00, 168.00
Glottolog: bisl1239
Autoglossonym: Bislama
Other names: Biche-la-mar, bislaman
Number of speakers: widely spoken among a total population of c. 218,000
Major lexifier: English
Other contributing languages: French Vanuatu vernaculars (Eastern Oceanic, some Polynesian)
Location: Vanuatu
Official languages of Vanuatu: Bislama (national language), English, French (languages of education)
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Camden, William G. 1979. Parallels in structure of lexicon and syntax between New Hebrides Bislama and the South Santo language as spoken at Tangoa. In Mühlhäusler, Peter (ed.), Papers in Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, No. 2, 51–117. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, A-57.
Charpentier, Jean-Michel. 1979. Le Pidgin Bislama(n) et le multilinguisme aux Nouvelles-Hébrides. Paris: Société d’Etudes Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France (SELAF).
Clark, Ross. 1979–1980. In search of Beach-la-Mar: Towards a history of Pacific Pidgin English. Te Reo 22. 3–64.
Crowley, Terry. 1989. Say, c’est, and subordinate constructions in Melanesian Pidgin. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 4. 185–210.
Crowley, Terry. 1990. From Beach-la-Mar to Bislama: The emergence of a national language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Early, Robert. 1999. Double trouble, and three is a crowd? Languages in education and official languages in Vanuatu. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 20. 13–33.
Guy, J. B. M. 1975. Handbook of Bichelamar/Manuel de Bichelamar. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, C-34.
Hyslop, Catriona. 2006. Bislama. In Brown, Keith (ed.), Encyclopedia of language and linguistics, Vol. 2, 2nd edn., 53–53. Oxford: Elsevier.
Meyerhoff, Miriam. 2000a. Constraints on Null Subjects in Bislama (Vanuatu): Social and linguistic factors. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Meyerhoff, Miriam. 2000b. The emergence of creole subject-verb agreement and the licensing of null subjects. Language Variation and Change 12. 203–230.
Meyerhoff, Miriam. 2002. All the same? The emergence of complementisers in Bislama. In Güldemann, Tom & von Roncador, Manfred (eds.), Reported Discourse: A meeting ground for different linguistic domains (Typological Studies in Language 52), 341–359. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Meyerhoff, Miriam. 2003a. Formal and cultural constraints on optional objects in Bislama. Language Variation and Change 14. 323–346.
Meyerhoff, Miriam. 2003b. Reduplication in Bislama: An overview of phonological and semantic factors. In Kouwenberg, Silvia (ed.), Twice as meaningful: Reduplication in pidgins, creoles and other contact languages, 231–238. London: Battlebridge.
Meyerhoff, Miriam. 2008. Empirical problems with domain-based notions of ‘simple’. In Meyerhoff, Miriam & Nagy, Naomi (eds.), Social lives in language: Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities, 327–355. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Tryon, D. T. 1987. Bislama: An introduction to the national language of Vanuatu. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, D-72.
Tryon, D. T. & Charpentier, Jean-Michel. 2004. Pacific Pidgins and Creoles: Origins, growth and development. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Crowley, Terry. 2004. Bislama Reference Grammar (Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication, no. 31). Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
Crowley, Terry. No date. Grama blong Bislama. Suva: The University of the South Pacific Extension Service. (Grammar outline with two accompanying course books for students and one book of linguistics readings.)
Crowley, Terry. 2003. A New Bislama Dictionary, 2nd edn. Suva: University of the South Pacific.
Texts/Corpora
The Old and New Testaments of the Bible are translated into Bislama:
Baebol long Bislama. Suva: South Pacific Bible Society.
Nyutestamen wetem ol Sam long Bislama. Suva: South Pacific Bible Society.
Lindstrom, Lamont & Gwero, James (eds.). 1998. Big Wok: Storian blong Wol Wo Tu long Vanuatu. Suva Institute of Pacific Studies: The University of the South Pacific / University of Canterbury: Christchurch Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies.
Some publications on material cultural and arts and politics are published in Bislama. They are often interesting for the dialectal differences in Bislama represented in them since written Bislama has not settled on standard norms. The following are some examples of these:
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific/Pacific Operations Centre (ESCAP/POC). 1996. Yumi Wok Tugeta blong Givhan long ol Woman. (Working together for Women.) Port Vila: ESCAP/POC.
Kanegai, Nadia J. 1994. Bure blong Ambae. (Women’s tattoos of Ambae.) No place: no publisher. (Possibly Vila: Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta).
Molisa, Grace Mera. 1995. Pasifik Paradaes. Port Vila: Blackstone Publishing.
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This week we talk PS2 freebies, outdoor gaming, portable gaming, and more. We …
WyldKard - Aug 24, 2003 9:25 pm UTC
Video Game Companies Go Oldschool
Wyldkard: Remember when you bought a console and it came with two controllers and a game? Well, neither had the Big Three until recently, when they began bundling their systems with "free" games. These promo offers were marketing ploys to pump up competition, and Nintendo went so far as to air TV ads making it seem cool that the price of an included game was $0.00. Evidently, kids these days don't realize this kind of offer used to be the norm.
Nevertheless, Sony is following suit, and though they're not letting buyers choose from a handful of titles like Nintendo, you can now get ATV Offroad Fury 2 with the online-enabled package of the PS2 for an expensive $199. For those who want expensive hardware without a $20 game, no need to fret, since Sony is happy to sell you the system for $179, and they'll keep their fancy online adapter for free. Thanks, Sony!
Caesar: I guess I'm not as super cool as most gamers (at least, that's what Calvin keeps telling me while crying about his lonely heart), but I'm amazed that Sony hasn't slashed the price of the PS2 more aggressively than it has. I can only use myself as an example, but here goes. I don't have a PS2. I wouldn't mind one, but the thing has been out forever. And $180 is still a lot of money to me for a system that has game prices that make PC gamers blush. The only way you'll get me into the PS2 at this point is to drop the price.
Sony, here's what I think: pretty much everyone who wanted a PS2 has one (indeed, some of my friends have already replaced their first PS2 with a new one, after the first one broke). What you've gotta do now is make the PS2 attractive to the real fence sitters. Sony's answer? Right now they're on the PSX kick, which I think is a mistake. Why would Se?or Fencesitter, in 2004, just about a year or so before the next-gen PS system comes out, want a system with value-added functionality that will look poxy in no time flat? By way of reminder, let's consider what makes the PSX cool: PVR functionality, and DVD burning capabilities. But who wants to buy a PVR that's latched to a gaming system that will be dwarfed so quickly? I suppose this is all heresy, but that's the fence I'm sitting on. And if you think I'm totally nuts, check out Calvin's quote of the week down at the bottom, which I actually saw after writing this insane ramble.
What Have I Got In My Pocket?
Calvin: While Wyldkard might have a legitimate gripe, there's a portable gaming system that's exciting gamers everywhere. No, no, it's not Nokia's laughable N-Gage, it's the Neo Geo Pocket Color. Not only does it come with batteries, it includes 6 GAMES for a mere $80.00. The games are:
Turf Masters
King of Fighters R2
Samurai Shodown 2
Metal Slug First Mission
Fatal Fury F-Contact
For an additional $40, you can get the 4 Game Expansion pack with:
Last Blade
SNK vs Capcom: Match Millennium Version
I just picked up both in preparation for my cross-country flights, and I'm pretty pumped. My understanding is that they're no longer being produced, so this is just to clear out back stocks. If you're interested, head on out to EB, or scour EBay. If you're interested in a quick review in a future edition, let us know in the thread.
The Sims in Space
Wyldkard: The concept of controlling crazy, artificial personalities is not limited to situations involving mothers-in-law, but it's also a concept making its way into more games than The Sims. While games similar to Maxis' famous social simulator have done poorly in comparison (even their own Sims stepchild, Sims Online), companies are trying to do more with the idea than simply give you an empty drawingboard.
Enter games like Space Colony by Firefly Studios, which puts a reason behind controlling virtual people. In this strategic building simulation, players must create space stations, but the way they build them is with builders who have personalities, unlike most building games.
The idea is a good one, and though Space Colony may not be a winner on store shelves, it's taking Sims-like games in an excellent direction, and hopefully to a point where a more directed online Sims game will be more than just a glorified chat room.
Yet Another MMORPG!!!!
Calvin Yeah, yeah, you're probably getting sick of them, but GameSpot is telling us that Origin has just announced Ultima X: Odyssey, a MMORPG based on the Unreal Engine.
Ultima X: Odyssey will boast a number of features not found elsewhere in the genre, the most intriguing of which is the "Odyssey Adventure System," which will deliver customized quests to players automatically, and will also allow players to request private adventure zones so they're not interrupted by uninvited troublemakers.
I disagree with them. I think the most intriguing aspect of the game is the Virtues:
Players who manage to master any of the eight virtues in Ultima X will gain the ability to use special powers and, eventually, create disciples for themselves. Upon mastering all the virtues, players will attain the ultimate status of "avatar."
I wonder if this will put a stop to player-killing...
Wyldkard: When I was a kid, playing outside meant cops 'n robbers, building forts in the forest, or riding a bike. If kids still go outside to get some air and sunshine, they may soon be taking their Gameboy Advance with them.
Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hand, being released by Konami this September, comes with a solar sensor which will be used to affect in-game situations. Based in a vampiric setting, sunlight makes enemies weaker, or, in some cases, is required to defeat certain enemies. While the idea is a novel one, I can't get around the annoyance of needing to play outside, not because I fear fresh air, but because playing much of anything in direct sunlight is a pain on the eyes, even with the spiffy new clamshell Gameboy Advance.
Calvin: If you ever met Wyldkard, you'd know he's as pale as a... well, as a Vampire. And while I'd agree that the glare of sunlight will likely make this game difficult to play, I think our semi-regular hangovers would prove an even bigger obstacle. Still, I have to congratulate Konami for trying something new and innovative, especially if it gets kids outside.
Licensing the War on Iraq
While Sony pulled the plug on its Shock and Awe game because of negative feedback from the public, another company plans on releasing Kuma War, a game in which players direct the actions of the US military to win scenarios based on real-life missions in the Middle East, such as the raid in Iraq that killed Saddam's sons.
Wyldkard: There's such a thing as bad taste, this I do not dispute. But sometimes, people take things too far, and some of this controversy is just that. Be it the now "banned" episode of the Simpsons that included scenes with the World Trade Center, or a war game set during the most recent War on Iraq, people need to face reality, not a game's timing. If they're concerned enough to yell at Sony for cashing in on a game based on current military campaigns, are they concerned enough to tell their politicians they don't agree with the campaign in the first place? And if they're okay with the war happening in the first place, then why growl at a game aimed at reproducing the events that already happened, if the only way to win is to complete the same objectives allied forces did?
Calvin: I don't have a problem with this game, but I would really feel better about it if I thought the ratings system worked like it was intended. I've heard several kids badger their parents into buying them Grand Theft Auto 3 with no resistance from the sales person. Even when the parent asked questions, the teenager behind the desk dodged it, or played it down. I guess you can't expect more from an employee with no say and little job security, but I would like to see the parents educated.
Caesar: Does anyone else see the irony about "reality" when it comes to gaming? On the one hand, we want realistic graphics and sound. We want immersive story lines and surround audio. But on the other hand, we're not sure that we want true real life simulations. At least, not total simulations (well, except for the people who want virtual sex). How long will it be before The Sims features rapists, cancer, and underfed children? Reality in gaming is going to be an increasingly scrutinized issue, and it's not going to be pretty: some of the best stories come from the pages of Real Life. Some of those pages are, however, really delicate to the touch. I don't think timing is so much the issue when it comes to these war games. I think it's all about political sensitivity, but not sensitivity towards what's going on this moment, but towards the uneasy state of affairs surrounding this particular military engagement. If you think about it, you can probably name off a handful of WWII games without much thought. Ancient history, you say? Perhaps so, but then, isn't Vietnam ancient history, too? But how many Vietnam games can you name? Yeah, there are some, but they don't fall off the lips of casual gamers very easily because they're just not as popular. Any WWII games where you get to work your way up to be the pilot of the Enola Gay? And let's not forget that some people didn't like C&C Generals because a) part of the time you're blowing up terrorists, while b) those very same terrorists happen to build lots of things that look like Mosques. That that game isn't even "reality based," but it drew the ire of those sensitive to a potential "political" message being conveyed by the game to young kids.
Top Ten PC Sellers (August 3-August 9)
Calvin: You guys did such a good job buying games from the Ars Shopping Engine last week that not only are there dozens of unharmed baby seals, but there's only one new game in the Top Ten: Age of Mythology. I expect this pattern to continue for another month or two - not because there aren't any big releases, but because Caesar is again holding your dollar hostage with his crazy threats. This week, he's threatening to mercilessly test cosmetic products on puppies, only it's not for commercial gain. You see, the man just likes makeup, and there's only so much he can force his undergrad students to wear. I hear they're thinking of switching their name to the "Harvard Rouge".
Flight Sim 2004: A Century of Flight / Microsoft $44.99
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne / VU Games $18.75
The Sims: Superstar / EA $29.00
Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided $39.90
Age of Mythology / Microsoft $24.16
The Sims Deluxe / EA $30.00
Zoo Tycoon / Microsoft $16.10
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos / VU Games $18.75
The Sims: Unleashed / EA $23.95
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 / Atari $24.00
Caesar: Ah, the madness of those Cornell-types. Seriously though, thanks to those of you who are using the price searching engine. It supports Ars, which means it supports Calvin and WyldKard, which means that their moms can slow down on the "care packages" that they both receive, despite their age.
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Finally a WWI RTS; Buka Entertainment brings us Entente, the demo for which is available here. From their web site, "It is the first game based on the events of WWI." Gee, guys, I must have hallucinated those other games based on WWI.
Microsoft has announced that preorders for Halo will come with the novel Halo: the Flood, or if preordered through GameStop, come with a Master Chief three-inch figure. How about they give us a time machine so we can get the game back when it was cutting edge, too?
Instead of writing our own mini-review of Lionheart, the CRPG that fails to live up to its name (for though it may have heart, it does not have the heart of a lion), see this GESC thread instead. In summary: unless you desperately need a new CRPG to play, and don't want to play MP, you can pass this one up.
Forget the NGage, bring on open source portables.
This is cool on a couple levels. First, it's in Java. Two, it's in 3D. Three, it's a homebrew project without big money sponsorship. While it's not the next big game by a long shot, give Alien Flux a look. Truly a testament to what can be done in Java.
UbiSoft is offering a 10-day free trial of Shadowbane. The download is free, the days are free, and this MMORPG is cross-platform for Windows and OS X. What more can you ask for?
The Next Iteration
I don't know where they keep coming from, but Snow-War, yet another Half-Life mod, is now at Beta 2.0.
Server browser Qtracker hits version 3.6.
Gaming Quote of the Week
"I don't really believe that pricing is a factor right now."
- Sony rep, evidently commenting on the fact that money grows on trees.
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Bhnam, B. (2010). Design a Fuzzy Expert System for Liver and Pancreas Diseases Diagnosis. Baghdad College of Economic sciences University, 7(2), 129-141. doi: 10.33899/csmj.2010.163891
Baydaa S Bhnam. "Design a Fuzzy Expert System for Liver and Pancreas Diseases Diagnosis". Baghdad College of Economic sciences University, 7, 2, 2010, 129-141. doi: 10.33899/csmj.2010.163891
Bhnam, B. (2010). 'Design a Fuzzy Expert System for Liver and Pancreas Diseases Diagnosis', Baghdad College of Economic sciences University, 7(2), pp. 129-141. doi: 10.33899/csmj.2010.163891
Bhnam, B. Design a Fuzzy Expert System for Liver and Pancreas Diseases Diagnosis. Baghdad College of Economic sciences University, 2010; 7(2): 129-141. doi: 10.33899/csmj.2010.163891
Design a Fuzzy Expert System for Liver and Pancreas Diseases Diagnosis
Article 11, Volume 7, Issue 2, Summer 2010, Page 129-141 PDF (1055 K)
Baydaa S Bhnam
College of Computer Sciences and Mathematics University of Mosul
Fuzzy logic is a branch of artificial intelligence techniques, it deals with uncertainty in knowledge that simulates human reasoning in incomplete or fuzzy data. Fuzzy relational inference that has applied in medical diagnosis was used within the medical knowledge base system to deals with diagnostic activity, treatment recommendation and patient's administration.
In this research, a medical fuzzy expert system named (Liv&PanFES) has been developed for diagnosis and decision making of general Liver and Pancreas diseases.
The (Liv&PanFES) is a rule based fuzzy expert system, results of laboratory analysis are inserted into the system. This system can define the probable diagnosis on these data, and later on it can pick out the most probable one for disease.
Artificial Intelligence; fuzzy logic; fuzzy expert system
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Ecosystem response to nutrient enrichment across an urban airshed in the Sonoran Desert
Sharon Hall, Ryan A. Sponseller, Nancy Grimm, David Huber, Jason P. Kaye, Christopher Clark, Scott L. Collins
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Rates of nitrogen (N) deposition have increased in arid and semiarid ecosystems, but few studies have examined the impacts of long-term N enrichment on ecological processes in deserts. We conducted a multiyear, nutrient-addition study within 15 Sonoran Desert sites across the rapidly growing metropolitan area of Phoenix, Arizona (USA). We hypothesized that desert plants and soils would be sensitive to N enrichment, but that these effects would vary among functional groups that differ in terms of physiological responsiveness, proximity to surface N sources, and magnitude of carbon (C) or water limitation. Inorganic N additions augmented net potential nitrification in soils, moreso than net potential N mineralization, highlighting the important role of nitrifying microorganisms in the nitrate economy of drylands. Winter annual plants were also responsive to nutrient additions, exhibiting a climate-driven cascade of resource limitation, from little to no production in seasons of low rainfall (winter 2006 and 2007), to moderate N limitation with average precipitation (winter 2009), to limitation by both N and P in a season of above-normal rainfall (winter 2008). Herbaceous production is a potentially important mechanism of N retention in arid ecosystems, capable of immobilizing an amount equal to or greater than that deposited annually to soils in this urban airshed. However, interannual variability in precipitation and abiotic processes that limit the incorporation of detrital organic matter into soil pools may limit this role over the long term. In contrast, despite large experimental additions of N and P over four years, growth of Larrea tridentata, the dominant perennial plant of the Sonoran Desert, was unresponsive to nutrient enrichment, even during wet years. Finally, there did not appear to be strong ecological interactions between nutrient addition and location relative to the city, despite the nearby activity of nearly four million people, perhaps due to loss or transfer pathways that limit long-term N enrichment of ecosystems by the urban atmosphere.
Ecological Applications
https://doi.org/10.1890/10-0758.1
ecosystem response
nutrient enrichment
urban atmosphere
perennial plant
annual plant
functional group
nitrification
Arid ecosystem
Larrea tridentate
N deposition
Nitrogen fertilization
Pectocarya spp.
Sonoran Desert
Urban environments
Winter ephemeral annual plants
Hall, S., Sponseller, R. A., Grimm, N., Huber, D., Kaye, J. P., Clark, C., & Collins, S. L. (2011). Ecosystem response to nutrient enrichment across an urban airshed in the Sonoran Desert. Ecological Applications, 21(3), 640-660. https://doi.org/10.1890/10-0758.1
Ecosystem response to nutrient enrichment across an urban airshed in the Sonoran Desert. / Hall, Sharon; Sponseller, Ryan A.; Grimm, Nancy; Huber, David; Kaye, Jason P.; Clark, Christopher; Collins, Scott L.
In: Ecological Applications, Vol. 21, No. 3, 04.2011, p. 640-660.
Hall, S, Sponseller, RA, Grimm, N, Huber, D, Kaye, JP, Clark, C & Collins, SL 2011, 'Ecosystem response to nutrient enrichment across an urban airshed in the Sonoran Desert', Ecological Applications, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 640-660. https://doi.org/10.1890/10-0758.1
Hall S, Sponseller RA, Grimm N, Huber D, Kaye JP, Clark C et al. Ecosystem response to nutrient enrichment across an urban airshed in the Sonoran Desert. Ecological Applications. 2011 Apr;21(3):640-660. https://doi.org/10.1890/10-0758.1
Hall, Sharon ; Sponseller, Ryan A. ; Grimm, Nancy ; Huber, David ; Kaye, Jason P. ; Clark, Christopher ; Collins, Scott L. / Ecosystem response to nutrient enrichment across an urban airshed in the Sonoran Desert. In: Ecological Applications. 2011 ; Vol. 21, No. 3. pp. 640-660.
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Men's Swimming & Diving Races Past Olivet
by Alan Babbitt
Daniel Keith won two events to lead the Hope College men's swimming and diving team in a 122-99 victory at Olivet College on Friday.
The sophomore from Saline, Michigan (Saline HS) clocked the fastest times in the 100- and 200-yard freestyle during the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association dual meet.
Keith, pictured, went 42.72 in the 100 freestyle and the 1:50.67 in the 200 freestyle.
Hope won a total of seven events.
Junior Jeff Engle of Kalamazoo, Michigan (Home School) took first in the 200 butterfly with a swim of 2:10.74.
Junior Ethan Yau of Chicago, Illinois (UIC College Prep) clocked a winning 100 backstroke time of 58.55.
Sophomore Will Benner of State College, Pennsylvania (State College Prep) posted a first-place, 100-breaststroke effort of 1:04.78.'
Sophomore Grant Williams of Grand Rapids, Michigan (East Grand Rapids) won 1-meter diving with a score of 275.80 points.
Freshman Nick Weigle of Grandville, Michigan (Grandville) recorded a winning 50-freestyle time of 23.04.
Hope's 200 medley relay of Yau, freshman Liam Faber of Grand Rapids, Michigan (East Kentwood), junior Keon Rick of Spring Lake, Michigan (Spring Lake), and freshman Andrew Dwan of Bay City, Michigan (John Glenn) won in 1:44.84.
The Flying Dutchmen next will compete at the University of Chicago (Illinois) Classic on Friday-Saturday, November 16-17.
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Ask Me No Questions
Author: Shelley Noble
From New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble, Ask Me No Questions is the first in the Lady Dunbridge Mystery series featuring a widow turned sleuth in turn-of-the-twentieth century New York City.
A modern woman in 1907, Lady Dunbridge is not about to let a little thing like the death of her husband ruin her social life. She’s ready to take the dazzling world of Gilded Age Manhattan by storm.
From the decadence of high society balls to the underbelly of Belmont horse racing, romance, murder, and scandals abound. Someone simply must do something. And Lady Dunbridge is happy to oblige.
Guest Post from Shelley Noble
“Ay Dios Mio.”
Philomena Amesbury, Lady Dunbridge, glanced at her lady’s maid who stood beside her, clutching the rail of the SS Oceanic, her eyes wide.
“Only speak in English or French, Lily,” Lady Dunbridge reminded her. “And try not to gape. It’s merely another large city, much like London.”
The steamship had slowed to a crawl as tugboats navigated it up the busy Hudson River toward Chelsea Pier, and it was a remarkable view. The skyline of tall buildings passed before them like Edison’s motion pictures, just as exciting and more than a little daunting. Lady Dunbridge could sympathize with the girl’s amazement.
Lily bobbed a satisfactory curtsey. “Pardon, madam.”
Not bad, Philomena thought, considering she’d been a lady’s maid for less than a week, after Lady Dunbridge had snatched her from the jaws of the London immigration police who had caught her attempting to stowaway on the ship.
At the last minute, Lady Dunbridge’s own maid had refused to board. Stuck between a rock and the deep, blue sea, and after much argument from her traveling companion, Preswick—her devoted if somewhat long in the tooth butler—and promises not to run away the minute they landed in New York from Lily, Lady Dunbridge had paid her passage. Admitting defeat, Preswick spent the seven days at sea, transforming the girl into a semblance of a lady’s maid.
He’d done an excellent job with a very apt pupil.
Lady Dunbridge smiled encouragingly at the young woman, who was now her servant and confidante. She was a tad too exotic looking for a lady’s maid, dark hair and flashing eyes with a renaissance painting complexion, which appealed to Philomena.
She’d stubbornly refused to tell her name—Philomena decided to call her Lily because of her complexion. Where she’d come from—certainly not the slums of London or Barcelona—nor her age. She was possibly youn ger than she looked. Regardless, she was younger than Philomena who was leaning closer to thirty than twenty.
She was a little rough around the edges but not vulgar, and very willing to learn. Most surprising she was fairly fluent in three languages. Now if she kept her promise not to bolt as soon as they landed . . . “Speak in English or French . . . but listen in Spanish.”
Lily frowned then flashed her a grin. “Oui, Madam. I understand completely.”
Ah, thought Lady Dunbridge. There was hope for this trip yet.
The ship finally maneuvered into the wharf and the engines were cut, the constant rumbling giving way to the clatter of carts and carriages on the uneven paving stones. Newspaper boys and urchins cried for coinage. A band was playing and she caught a glimpse of placards rising above the heads of people waiting on the street. Burly dockworkers hefted trunks and crates to their backs and lugged them through the waiting crowd, while cart boys darted in and out of the bystanders with a dexterity that belied their small statures.
There were even two automobiles, one black and one yellow, the latter she knew from Bev’s letters must belong to Reggie Reynolds. Of course Reggie would want to show off his new automobile. He had promised to meet them at the pier and drive them to the Reynolds brownstone on East Sixty Eighth Street, while their coachman conveyed her servants and baggage in the town carriage.
The wind whipped up, rustling the ostrich plumes of Philomena’s hat, and she held it to her head with one hand while she tried to catch sight of Bev or Reggie. It was impossible in the crush of people.
The captain approached her and bowed. “Lady Dunbridge. It has been a great pleasure to have met you. I hope you enjoy your visit. May I?” He offered his arm and personally escorted Philomena and her entourage of two to the gangplank, where the purser urged everyone toward the pier and the carte de visite agents. The captain kissed her hand before bidding her adieu.
But at the bottom of the gangplank, Lily balked. “What if they won’t let me in? What will I do?”
“Just be calm and look lovely,” Philomena reminded her. “You have a perfectly acceptable carte de visite.”
Preswick humphed.
“A somewhat unorthodox carte . . .”
“And perhaps a tad illegal?” added her faithful butler.
Philomena shot him a warning look. “It was drawn up, albeit hastily, by a member of the immigration service.” At least she was fairly certain he worked for that branch of government. “No matter, where there’s a will . . .” Lily certainly had the will; Philomena had merely given her the way. They should get on just fine.
They stopped at a customs desk and had their cartes de visites stamped—including Lily. Philomena sent the two off to claim the baggage and hire a carter to bring their trunks to the carriage. Then she followed the other passengers through the dark wooden reception hall to the street.
As she stepped out from the tall wide arches, she was hit with a cacophony of sound and a sea of faces. Old and young, clean and dirty; friends meeting friends, families hoping to find their relatives, all were intently watching the opening to the wharf, seemingly oblivious to the traffic and noise around them.
Bev stood at the very front, accompanied by a servant, liveried in maroon and gold.
Philomena’s smile widened. She was always amused by these American affectations, but she loved Bev and if Bev wanted a driver who looked like he just stepped out of some moldy aristocratic castle—hers for example— Bev should have him.
She was dressed in the latest mode as always. Lady Dunbridge’s own plumed hat paled beside the clamshell Bev wore rakishly angled over one eye. Its green and beige aigrette feathers made a delicious comment on the turquoise bolero jacket and skirt she was wearing with such panache. Philomena remembered seeing its sister design in the Paquin showroom on her last trip to Paris. No longer behind the time, these Americans.
She raised her hand to wave, but Bev abruptly turned away, hurried off in the opposite direction and quickly disappeared from view.
Taken aback, Philomena looked to the servant who was staring open-mouthed after his mistress. He roused himself and hurried to Philomena.
“Lady Dunbridge?” The driver yelled as the band marched closer and the noise grew louder.
“I am,” she yelled back.
“Mrs. Reynolds has . . .” He darted a look in the direction Bev had taken. “. . . has gone to fetch Mr. Reynolds and the auto. I’ll wait here and transport your trunks and servants in the carriage.” He gestured over the crowd to where a well appointed carriage was in the care of two footmen.
“Thank you . . .” she shouted.
His voice rose over the nearing oom-pahs. “Bentley, Ma’am.”
“Bentley,” she acknowledged at the top of her lungs. His name rang out in the sudden quiet as the band tumbled to the end of what Philomena now recognized as “Onward Christian Soldiers.” “My butler and maid should be arriving short—”
A pop, like a champagne cork, cut through the air. Someone was already celebrating. Except the pop was followed by a high-pitched piercing scream. Not champagne, but a gun shot.
Bentley jerked and at first Philomena was afraid he’d been struck, but he spun on his heels and began running through the crowd toward the yellow touring car.
“Bev!” cried Lady Dunbridge. She lifted her skirts and raced after him.
They had to fight their way through the crowd, half of whom were fleeing in all directions. The band and sign-carrying women marched past, cutting off their progress.
“The Women’s Temperance Association,” Bentley said as he danced around the edges of the parade looking for a way around them. The music started up again. Bentley plunged through. Lady Dunbridge plunged in after him.
When she made it to the other side, her hat was pitched forward due to coming into contact with a tuba; the nest of ostrich plumes covered both eyes. And she’d lost a button from her kid glove where it had caught on the stick of one of the placards.
A crowd was pressed around the touring car but there was no sign of Bentley or Bev. Philomena pushed the ostrich plumes from her face and squeezed through to the front.
She was met by a horrible tableau.
Reggie Reynolds was sprawled across the back seat, one foot on the floor, one arm dangling down from the seat and his head cradled among the skirts of a woman’s lap. Blood oozed past his vest, edged the lapels of his sack coat, and spread across the white shirt beneath.
Bev clutched at the open automobile door and stared at the scene.
“Why? Why did you do it, Reggie?” cried the woman in the auto, who was looking decidedly pale and awkward beneath her wide brimmed platter-sized hat. “Why did you kill yourself?”
“Murderer!” cried Bev, and reached out as if to reclaim her husband, who it seemed to Philomena was beyond reclaiming.
SHELLEY NOBLE is the NEW YORK TIMES Bestselling Author of the women's fiction novel BEACH COLORS, a #1 Nook bestseller, STARGAZEY POINT three novellas, Holidays at Crescent Cove, Stargazey Nights, BREAKWATER BAY and WHISPER BEACH.
As SHELLEY FREYDONT she is the author of the CELEBRATION BAY FESTIVAL MYSTERIES (Berkley Prime Crime) as well and two other mystery series, and the upcoming Gilded Age Newport Mystery series. Her mysteries have been translated into ten languages.
A former professional dancer and choreographer, she most recently worked on the films, Mona Lisa Smile and The Game Plan. Shelley lives near the New Jersey shore where she loves to discover new beaches and indulge her passion for lighthouses and vintage carousels.
You can find Shelley Noble on:
AthorWebsite.com
This was a lovely book to read and I have certainly gathered Lady Dunbridge into a favorite sleuth category. I really loved the historical setting and moments in this book. The strength of Phil (Lady Dunbridge) is something that propels her to the top of female sleuths. I think I loved seeing such a strong female for the time period of the setting. If you ask me, this book and this series is one to watch and enjoy. I am eager for my next mystery with Lady Dunbridge.
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Kay Garrett on November 26, 2018 at 7:13 pm
Thank you for your review on “Ask Me No Questions” by Shelley Noble and for being part of the book tour. Enjoyed reading all about the book and I’ve definitely added it to my TBR list. I can’t wait for the opportunity to read it.
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I love reading about The Gilded Age and this book sounds like an amazing read. Can’t wait to read.
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GETTING TO BEC
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Reduced mobility or special attention
What can I take?
Are there any prohibited items?BEC2017-11-16T08:54:31+01:00
Are there any prohibited items?
All items which may be dangerous to oneself or others as indicated in Decree 112/2010 or the Sports Act (cans, metal objects etc….).
Can I bring my photographic camera to a concert?BEC2017-11-16T08:54:12+01:00
Can I bring my photographic camera to a concert?
Yes, if it is a compact camera. Reflex or video cameras are not allowed. Due to the high value of the material, it will not be safeguarded in the cloakroom.
Can I wear a sign?BEC2017-11-16T08:53:53+01:00
Can I wear a sign?
Yes, as long as it is in accordance with the current regulations regarding the material and its contents (only signs with sticks made of flexible material and subject matter that is inoffensive and does not incite violence or xenophobia will be permitted).
Can I bring food inside?BEC2017-11-16T08:53:33+01:00
Can I bring food inside?
You may bring food into the BEC but you should check that the conditions of the event you are attending (tickets, promoter’s website, posters…) allow you to bring food inside.
Can I bring drinks inside?BEC2017-11-16T08:53:14+01:00
Can I bring drinks inside?
Yes, as long as the drink is non-alcoholic and in a plastic bottle under 50cl. For safety reasons, on entering the premises the bottle will be opened and the cap returned.
Is there a bar and catering service?BEC2017-11-16T08:52:58+01:00
Is there a bar and catering service?
Yes, all our bars have food and drink.
Can alcoholic beverages be consumed during the shows?BEC2017-11-16T08:52:40+01:00
Can alcoholic beverages be consumed during the shows?
Yes, if the show is not for children or sport. The sale and/or supply of alcoholic beverages to minors is prohibited.
Can you smoke on the premises?BEC2017-11-16T08:52:21+01:00
Can you smoke on the premises?
The legal regulations do not allow smoking in enclosed venues
Is there a lost property service?BEC2017-11-16T08:52:00+01:00
Is there a lost property service?
Any items found are kept until their owners come to collect them. You may ask by telephoning +34 94 404 00 00
Is there an ATM on the premises?BEC2017-11-16T08:51:46+01:00
Is there an ATM on the premises?
There is a BBK teller in the central atrium.
Is there a medical service in attendance?BEC2017-11-16T08:51:23+01:00
Is there a medical service in attendance?
Bizkaia Arena has a fully equipped ambulance at each of its events.
Is there a cloakroom?BEC2017-11-30T16:05:47+01:00
Is there a cloakroom?
You may leave coats and bags in the cloakroom as long as this service is open for the event you are attending.
The cost of this service is €2.
To confirm that the cloakroom will be open, please telephone: +34 94 40 40 000
Are there baby-changing facilities?BEC2017-11-16T08:50:34+01:00
Are there baby-changing facilities?
There are adapted lavatories which have baby-changing facilities.
Can I bring my child’s pushchair into the show?BEC2017-11-16T08:50:15+01:00
Can I bring my child’s pushchair into the show?
Yes, but you must leave it in the cloakroom.
The price is €2 per object or item.
Can minors attend the shows?BEC2017-11-16T08:49:51+01:00
Can minors attend the shows?
As long as the show is appropriate and suitable for all audiences, children under the age of 16 may attend if accompanied by their father, mother or legal guardian.
From which area do I need to purchase tickets if I am of reduced mobility?BEC2017-11-16T08:49:32+01:00
From which area do I need to purchase tickets if I am of reduced mobility?
Visit the sales channel to reserve seats for persons with reduced mobility. However, if the show does not require a special ticket type, a general entry ticket will be enough.
Where are the reduced mobility car parks?BEC2017-11-16T08:49:14+01:00
Where are the reduced mobility car parks?
Car parks for persons with reduced mobility closest to Bizkaia Arena can be found in the Orange Area of our car park, next to the lifts which will take you to the atrium. On the other hand, the closest car parks to the SALA CUBEC! are in the Blue Area of the car park, next to the lifts.
Access for persons with reduced mobilityBEC2017-11-16T08:48:53+01:00
Access for persons with reduced mobility
Bizkaia Arena has lifts for gaining entry from the car park and to access the halls from the central atrium. The building is adapted for all purposes.
Can I change my seat during the show?BEC2017-11-16T08:48:29+01:00
Can I change my seat during the show?
No, for safety reasons you must respect the seating capacity of each area and it is not possible to change your seat in the case of assigned seats or areas.
If I have purchased tickets on the day of the show and I am unable to attend the event, will I get my money back?BEC2017-11-16T08:48:11+01:00
If I have purchased tickets on the day of the show and I am unable to attend the event, will I get my money back?
No, it is not possible to make changes or give refunds
What are the opening times of the ticket offices?BEC2017-11-16T08:47:46+01:00
What are the opening times of the ticket offices?
The ticket office timetables vary depending on the show.
Where can I collect my tickets?BEC2017-11-16T08:47:17+01:00
Where can I collect my tickets?
At authorised points, please refer to the sales system where you purchased your tickets.
Can I buy tickets at the ticket office on the premises?BEC2017-11-16T08:46:56+01:00
Can I buy tickets at the ticket office on the premises?
On the same day as the event, as long as there are tickets available, depending on the sales channel.
How do I get my ticket and how much is it?BEC2017-11-16T08:46:28+01:00
How do I get my ticket and how much is it?
Click on event, where you will receive more information on the procedure to follow.
If the show has already started, will they let me in?BEC2017-11-16T08:45:28+01:00
If the show has already started, will they let me in?
Yes, you can still get in even though the event has already started.
You can enter the premises during the show by showing your ticket.
What time do the doors open before a show?BEC2017-11-16T08:45:06+01:00
What time do the doors open before a show?
Every show has its own schedule, so do not hesitate to look at the event form or visit us at Facebook, Twitter or email us at [email protected]
Which public transport can I use?BEC2017-11-16T08:44:39+01:00
Which public transport can I use?
Bizkaia Arena is next to the Ansio station of Bilbao Metro which connects with the rest of the Bilbao metropolitan area and has links to other facilities of interest (airport, Renfe’s rail network, the Euskotren rail network, the tramways, Termibus…) and there is a taxi stand at its entrance (Radiotaxi telephone).
To go by public transport from BEC to the airport you should take metro Line 2 to San Mames, where you can take a Termibus coach which leaves every 30 minutes. There is also a taxi stand at the north entrance to the venue, which takes around 20 minutes and costs about €30.
Avoid awaiting payment for the car park with pre-payBEC2017-11-16T08:44:17+01:00
Avoid awaiting payment for the car park with pre-pay
Depending on the event, you will be able to pre-pay the car park at the machines for this purpose and avoid queuing up at the event exit.
4000 Parking spacesBEC2017-11-16T08:43:42+01:00
4000 Parking spaces
The car park consists of three entrances (A, B and C) which will be opened according to visitor requirements.
The Orange area of the car park has the nearest exits to Bizkaia Arena. The Blue area, on the other hand, is nearest to the SALA CUBEC!
Remember the floor, colour of area and parking space number where you parked your vehicle.
Refer to the car park drawing
Is there WiFi?BEC2019-11-19T16:38:31+01:00
Is there WiFi?
Yes, visitors, exhibitors and other users of BEC can connect to the Internet free of charge from anywhere in the exhibition site.
The service offers 9 hours connection each day at 512 K. Therefore, users requiring a service with greater capacity or for a longer time must contract it directly through the payments gateway.
To do so, the service requires basic registration details, or in other words, name, surname, mobile telephone and e-mail.
What number should I telephone in case of an emergency?BEC2017-11-14T12:39:30+01:00
What number should I telephone in case of an emergency?
For general emergencies, dial 112.
Does the complex have parking facilities?BEC2017-11-13T15:35:34+01:00
Does the complex have parking facilities?
The Bilbao Exhibition Centre has indoor parking for 4000 vehicles.
Parking rates 2€ for the first hour, thereof 1.4€ hour, 15€ maximum for each 24 hours.
Check PREPAID or PAYMENT options that may exist in each of the events.
How do I get to the BEC?BEC2017-11-13T15:33:55+01:00
How do I get to the BEC?
Full information is available here.
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Contractor Donates Day of Service to Remodel Home of Teen with Special Needs
By Lisa Weinstein | 28, May 2019
Tags: Community
On a sunny, winter afternoon, Gloucester County, NJ resident Sarah P. picked up her daughter Gabby from the school bus and drove a short distance to the home of her parents. While Gabby enjoyed Grandma and Grandpa’s love and attention, Sarah had ulterior motives for the unexpected mid-afternoon visit. She didn’t want Gabby to know that a team of electricians, painters, and contractors had literally taken over her home, adding beautiful aesthetic touches to her daughter’s bedroom and the hall bathroom and, most importantly, creating a safer environment.
At four months old, Gabby, who is now a teen, was diagnosed with Dravet syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy that causes frequent and prolonged seizures, movement and balance issues, delayed language and speech issues, and disruptions of the autonomic nervous system which regulates body temperature and sweating. Gabby also has a feeding tube, as the frequent seizures impacted her ability to swallow. She receives 16 hours of nursing care a day from BAYADA Pediatrics, a BAYADA Home Health Care specialty practice.
“When Gabby was a baby, she had a seizure that lasted for 45 minutes,” said Sarah, recalling the fear and anxiety of those early days. “She has always been on medication because the seizures are so hard to control. At one point, she was having hundreds of seizures a day.”
Thanks to a combination of treatments, the seizures are down to once or twice a week. However, if a seizure occurred while Gabby’s nurse was helping her in the shower, a loud bathroom exhaust fan made it impossible for Sarah to hear so that she could go in and help.
There were other issues as well that may have seemed minor, but for a parent caring for a child with special needs, they posed a challenge. Poor lighting in Gabby’s bedroom made it difficult to react in a medical emergency. In addition, old and inefficient windows impacted the temperature of the house, which had a negative effect on Gabby, who overheats very quickly because Dravet syndrome renders her body unable to regulate its temperature.
Help from a local contractor
Sarah knew something needed to be done, but repairs proved to be cost-prohibitive. That’s when BAYADA Special Needs Advocate Shelby Myers connected her with general contractor Scott D’Antonio.
For the past five years, Scott has donated one day a month to remodeling homes of families who have children with special needs. Along with a team of laborers who also donate their time, he has installed wheelchair accessible ramps, built fences, pressure washed home exteriors, and fixed plumbing, carpentry, and electrical issues.
Scott is motivated to help others through the shared experience of having a son with learning disabilities. “I met children at my son’s school and started to find out about their families, what they needed, and how difficult life could be for them,” he said. “My son has come a long way and has become an inspiration for me to help others, because many of these families don’t have anywhere to turn.”
As Scott began to build connections within the special needs community, he wanted a better way to increase awareness about his Day of Service initiative. He enlisted the expertise of marketing specialist Natalie Simmons, and together they came up with the idea of a television program called “Home Town Heroes with Scott D’Antonio.” The show caught the interest of NJ On Air, an online TV channel that streams local news, entertainment, and human interest stories.
Now all Scott needed was a family willing to be featured for his pilot episode, and Sarah readily agreed. He arrived at her home with a team of laborers and a camera crew who filmed their progress.
Scott and his team donated the time and supplies needed to fix the bathroom electrical outlets, replace two windows, and install recess lighting in Gabby’s bedroom. And for good measure, the team also repaired a hole and repainted the kitchen walls, painted Gabby’s bedroom walls and trim, and hung new curtains.
The only stipulation, the paint and curtains had to be purple, Gabby’s favorite color!
“I don’t know if words can express what Scott and his team have done,” shared Sarah. “They are so kind, and truly amazing people.”
Watch the pilot episode of Home Town Heroes >>
Learn more about pediatric home health care services >>
BAYADA Donates to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
by Lisa Weinstein posted on September 22, 2015
Pictured during the "98.1 WOGL Loves Our Kids" Radiothon are WOGL Account Executive Mark Kaucher, BAYADA Pediatrics Director Brendan Dolan, BAYADA Clinical Manager Francesca Altamuro, RN, and WOGL Morning Hosts Valerie Knight and Frank Lewis.
BAYADA Pediatrics, a specialty of BAYADA Home Health Care, presented a $1,400 donation to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in support of the 14th annual “98.1 WOGL Loves Our Kids Radiothon” which has raised over $7 million to support patient care programs at CHOP since its inception. In addition, a team of BAYADA employees served as phone bank volunteers during the Radiothon, held recently in the hospital’s main lobby.
Tags: Pediatrics
BAYADA Client and Family Advocacy Program Grows in New Jersey
by Rick Hynick posted on December 29, 2016
Manager of Client and Family Advocacy Tara Montague with her daughter Mary
As the voices of our clients and families continue to gain momentum in the ongoing effort to stand up for a better tomorrow for home care, BAYADA welcomes a new manager of client and family advocacy within the Government Affairs Office. Tara Montague transitions from the role of community liaison in the Mt. Laurel (NJ) Pediatrics service office to her new role where she will focus on advocacy efforts specifically in the state of New Jersey.
Tara is the mom of a child with special medical needs who has received home care services for many years.
BAYADA Pediatrics Presents Donation to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
by Lisa Weinstein posted on December 18, 2017
BAYADA staff (from l to r) Clinical Manager Laura Clemmer, Transitional Care Manager Susan Ecker-Sterner, Transitional Care Manager Mary Simrell, Clinical Manager Crystal Lee, WOGL Radio Personality Harvey Holiday, Director Brendan Dolan, and Clinical Manager Ginny Savarese.
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) took on a transformation of sorts last week, when a Philadelphia-based radio station set up a live studio broadcast in the middle of the bright, cheerful, atrium lobby. It was all part of the “98.1 WOGL Loves Our Kids Radiothon”, an annual event that has raised over $7 million for CHOP since its inception 17 years ago.
BAYADA Pediatrics, a specialty of BAYADA Home Health Care and a long-standing partner with CHOP, was proud to help make the Radiothon a success by serving as a major sponsor for three years running. In addition to their financial support, BAYADA staff volunteered to answer phones during the event.
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March 2015 Gaming Weekend Part 1
March 9, 2015 by Count Belisarius
I have just had a most excellent gaming weekend with Simon (Goat Major), Iain (Essex Boy) and Dave (World2Dave). This has been planned for a while but like all these things it only really came together in the last few weeks when we finally realised we could all make it and it was going to happen. It was planned as a two game weekend. Meeting at Dave’s house on the Saturday for a 6mm Franco-Prussian War game and then travelling to near Lincoln for a game of Sharp Practice at Simon’s house in his new game room! I travelled down on the Friday night and after a swift pint with Iain in Newark I was picked up by Simon who had offered to put me up for the night. We were all booked into a B&B in Newark on the Saturday night so we could all grab a few beers and a meal and not have to worry about getting back anywhere!
We managed to get to Dave’s for around 10am (even Iain!) and soon got started with the first game. If you haven’t seen Dave’s armies and terrain you are really missing out. Beautifully coordinated terrain and figures that look stunning overall (and close up!) and were a pleasure to play with.
We did a 6mm FPW game using Real Time Wargames To the last gaitor button rules and Dave’s lovely 6mm Heroics and Ros collection. These are painted in a minimal style (how 6mm should really be painted) but the choice of colours and contrast really make them look good and the painting is just so neat! Myself and Simon took a Bavarian and Prussian corps respectively. This was the table with the jump off points indicated by markers. We were coming on with roughly two divisions each for the first three turns with the target being the town of Hoffen in the middle. The French held the town and were feeding in re-inforcements.
The rules use a grid for movement and firing and it took a while to adjust to the scale of command and how hard it is to change your plans once you’ve deployed a division to attack in a particular direction and then need to change! My troops streamed on to the left of the town with the plan to drive a wedge between the town the coming reinforcements on that flank. Unfortunately the French got into the woods to my left and I allowed myself to be drawn into covering that threat as my main forces pushed forward and tried to hold off the threat.
Part of my problem was poor initial placing of my corps artillery reserve but they eventually began to pummel the troops in the village. Unfortunately, as my weakened troops prepared for the assault they were hit in the flank by French cavalry.
Although I did manage to drive forward to the left of Hoffen and get troops into the woods to support my assault on the town I had lost too many men and my corps was looking fragile.
And as my left started to crumble it was clear the assault was too little too late.
Unfortunately the Prussians had had little success on their flank, struggling to build a strong assault.
Both the Prussian and Bavarian corps exceeded their breakpoint on the same turn and it was clear the French had won the day!
The rules worked really well, despite some issues adjusting to the ‘scale’ at the start and it was clear that reserves were crucial. Trying to cover too large a front and fight everywhere just doesn’t work as for any attack to work you need the fresh troops to take advantage.
The game was played in great spirit (we even overlooked Iain’s blatant cheating!) and the pictures don’t really do Dave’s setup justice. There are lots more pics here: Franco Prussian War gallery.
It was a great start to the weekend. More to come on Sunday’s game soon.
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Tag: postmodernism
Sarah Perry – Every Cradle is a Grave
Two ideas are hard-wired into our minds. We believe life is good and that forcing people into existence is a positive thing not because of rational thinking. Genes make us think this way, because this is how they progress. Without these ideas, an organism kills itself and doesn’t produce offspring. Genes die, and genes’ purpose is to continue.
People always killed themselves. Some cultures even claimed it’s virtuous in certain situations. We’ve made huge ‘progress’ (Or, more correctly, changes) over the years thanks to doubters who kept tearing down ideas and replacing them with new ones. The general ideas about the value of life and birth remained the same, though. One famous philosopher talked about how we shouldn’t have kids, but is there any major literary work that asks this question?
You can’t blame Perry for not digging deep enough. She’s in the toughest stage of philosophy. Ethics and the meaning of life are both hard subjects, and going against your own genes is even harder. Few people made that journey – many who tried just said suicidal people got some chemical imbalance and called it a day. If her exploration is sometimes a little shallow, it’s only because she has few sources to draw from.
Her section about suicide is the most disappointing one. It’s a shame, because it’s also the most important one. Of all the ideas in this book, assisted suicide is the most practical one. The suicide prohibition is harmful and no different than oppression of minorities.
We treat suicidal people like criminals. Voicing misogynistic or racist thoughts is less dangerous than voicing suicidal thoughts. People can be hospitalized against their will for wanting to die. No suicide prevention is willing to actually talk to suicidal people, to deal with the arguments behind why suicide is a valid option. At least when people argue against misogyny, they got science and philosophy behind them. When people talk about suicide, they write people off as ‘irrational’.
There are a lot of ways to look at this tricky subject. Suicide is a private action that causes great distress to the environment. Perry doesn’t delve enough into why suicide should be protected. The main arguments suicide are the value of life and the harm it causes to others. The harm it causes to others is especially important, since ethics often blur when freedom, pleasure and pain mix.
While Perry explains briefly the principle of consent that transform murder into assisted suicide, it’s not enough. Suicide causes extreme pain and we need more allegories, more rephrasing of why it’s okay for a person to kill themselves. There’s a whole chapter about the suicide contagion which feels a little pointless – sure, it’s a thing but not as central to the debate as other things.
The chapter about social pain is fantastic and too short. It’s a new way to approach the problem of suicide and is informative even if you don’t believe in the right to die. The common narrative is that people kill themselves because they’re depressed is common and pretty comfortable. It makes the problem more complex – how do you solve depression? – but it erases responsibility. Perry’s idea that people kill themselves because of failed social belonging demands a revolution in suicide prevention. Suicide prevention should start earlier, and constantly happen. If people kill themselves because they don’t belong, we need to create a more welcoming, a more social society.
This type of idea is easy to explain, since people experience a lot of social pain. Suicide is causing social pain, actually – you reject people, deeming them not worth the time. It’s also the only moral type of suicide – suicide prevention by improving life, rather than stopping the act itself.
Suicide is a difficult subject. There are the practical side of how we make assisted suicide available – who’s fit, who loses the right to die, whether there’s an age of consent. The issue of how people feel after someone dies to suicide cannot be ignored. No matter how integral the right to die is, suicide leaves a huge pain (In fact, it’s considered the worst way to lose someone). Perry doesn’t do enough to explore such an alien idea to many.
Her writings about antinatalism is far better. She does write off the subjective perspective too easily, though. This higlight the core difference between the right to die and antinatalism. Both rely on different versions of morality. The former values freedom and the subjective perception, the other one is about preventing harm.
So even if life is overall bad, the fact people perceive it overall to be worthwhile is important. People who behave in a ‘suicidal’ way, according to her, may just be optismitic enough to believe it’ll be worth it in the end. Maybe they take these huge gambles because they value life so much that even if the gamble fails, life is still worthwhile.
Nevertheless, her anti-life arguments can’t be written off easily. They demand questioning our genes. Picking apart our daily schedules is important even if you believe life is worthwhile. By showing us how much time we waste on doing nothing, how much of our life is actually unpleasant she motivates change. If you truly think life is worthwhile, then you must act in ways that’ll prove it. If social pain encourages suicide, we must build a more friendly, communal society. Our morality relies more about not doing harm than actually doing good. What kind of society is it where we only avoid harm but don’t do good? A good life isn’t defined by lack – happiness due to absence rarely lasts. We’re happy when we have friends, but we’re not happy because we’re not being bullied.
The chapter about the natural world is also essential reading. It’s a radical and rare view of nature – not as a friendly, optimal place but one whose behavior is actually anti-life. So many animals die so young. Yet we don’t interfere when the female mantis eats the male’s head. How do animal rights work in this context? Why is it wrong to kill animals, or to ignore murder but okay to ignore it when it the organism aren’t human beings?
What makes the book so valueable is that even if you don’t agree with Perry’s thesis – many won’t, since they either love life too much or they can’t resist their genes – the ideas here are still useful and thought-provoking. It’s not just about how bad life is, but what to do with it. The last chapter, “Living in the Epilogue” is both horrifying and comforting. If things are really that bad, we can at least speed up life by enjoying it. Also, who has it worse? The person who’s about to die or the person who has 90 unwanted years ahead of them?
It’s an incomplete book, but antinatalism and suicide are difficult subjects. Perry at least confronts them instead of writing them off. Maybe someday in the future – if we have one – this book will become slightly outdated because of some basic sections. For now, this is a book that stares at difficult subjects in the face, provides tough answers and plenty of room for discussions or to move forward. You don’t have to agree with Perry to enjoy this. Many of her ideas can be used to improve society. As she said in the beginning, and something we often forget – we’re all humans, and what drives ethical philosophy is compassion for others.
4.5 cradles out of 5 graves
Author The Brain in the JarPosted on April 21, 2017 Categories Literature, philosophy, reviewTags albert camus, animals, antinatalism, arthur schopenhauer, better never to have been, birth, book review, child, childbirth, children, creating life, david benatar, death, depression, epilogue, ethic, ethics, every cradle is a grave, existensialism, experience, friedrich nietzsche, grief, human rights, jean paul sartre, jim crawford, liberal, liberalism, libertarianism, living, meaning of life, mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, modernity, moral philosophy, morality, narrative, nature, parent, parenting, pessimisim, pessimist, pessimist philosophy, philosophical, philosophical pessimism, philosophy, philosophy of morality, plato, postmodernism, postmodernity, right to die, right to live, rights, sarah perry, socrates, story, suicide, the conspiracy against the human race, the view from hell, thomas ligotti
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NextThe Other “Other” California
Writing Orange County
Boom California on July 11, 2017
Orange County flag design, 1968, courtesy of Orange County Archives via Flickr.
Elaine Lewinnek
Naming a literary depiction of Orange County is no easy task. One or two sitcoms that describe the place may come to mind, along with movies depicting decadent capitalism or theme parks of overly-controlled leisure. Some may know the songs that offer resistance to that glossy, shallow image of Orange County. But novels or poetry? Those seeking literary guides to Southern California have had David Ulin’s magisterial Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology (Library of America, 2002), but now those seeking the literature of Orange County have their own guide: Lisa Alvarez’s and Andrew Tonkovich’s anthology, Orange County: A Literary Field Guide (Heyday, 2017). Drawing from community-college literary magazines as well as literary luminaries, this is a work of impressive research and discovery. Arranged geographically and then, within each region, chronologically, this book portrays an Orange County of consummate surprise.
There are no Stepford wives here. While Michael Chabon’s short story “Ocean Avenue” features a beautiful woman of leisure buying coffee in exercise clothes, she is neither one-dimensional nor docile; she’s unforgettable. And she is not alone. Her neighbor, in this anthology, might be a large Gullah-speaking mother of two football stars, displaced from home and determinedly seeking public space in her red tile roof and white stucco walled condo development, depicted in Susan Straight’s I Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots. Beekeepers, bicyclists, day laborers, artists, fishermen, surfers aggressively protecting their turf, Vietnamese immigrants protesting each other, Iranian teenagers desperate to fit in to a gated community painted endless shades of white, a lonely teenager who keeps giving her phone number to undocumented immigrants, the ghosts of an agrarian past, and a nervous young man serving an eviction notice at the beach mansion of his aging rock hero: this is a complex, divided, fractious, and deep depiction of Orange County. It is, in Aracelis Gormay’s poetry:
Santa Ana of grocery carts, truckers,
eggs in the kitchen at 4 am, nurses, cleaning ladies
the saints of ironing, the saints
of tortillas. Santa Ana of cross-guards, tomato pickers,
bakeries of bread in pinks & yellows, sugars.
Santa Ana of Cambodia, Viet Nam, Aztlán
The Orange County in view is a fictional one that many locals will recognize as true. It is also, in Lorene Delany-Ullman’s prose poetry, a space of “wetlands and weapons.” Violence, racism, and “the meeting of boom and loss,” in Tom Vanderbilt’s penetrating expression—all are here, in complicated histories bursting out beneath tidy suburban surfaces, like weeds pushing through sidewalk cracks.
In a region famous for its history of forgetting, to borrow Norman Klein’s title,[1] a place of “willful amnesia” where “a sales pitch… has always been substituted for history,” in D. J. Waldie’s depiction,[2] this is a book startlingly full of what the editors call, in their introduction to Lisa Alvarez’s poetry, “the contentious, unresolved history of Orange County’s suburban milieu, which is never far below the surface—if it’s below it at all.” Too literarily clear-eyed to be called nostalgic, there is still something close to nostalgia here as character after character laments the effects of development on beloved pieces of nature, while story after story faces paved-over land and dreams. In this book’s Orange County, a sense of place comes with a sense of history.
While good, this anthology is not perfect. The editors call the foothills area “the flatlands.” The excerpted stories by Christopher Isherwood and a few others end a bit abruptly. But like any anthology, this one serves up appetizers that may lead readers to investigate the fuller works of authors like James Blaylock, Martin Smith, Kem Nunn, or Anh Chi Pham. Gustavo Arellano’s “Foreword” mistakenly regrets the omission of Tom Vanderbilt’s Baffler piece about the Crystal Cathedral, which actually is included. Orange County’s oral histories, corridos, and church-newsletter literature also might have been included. But there is already so much in this volume that it seems churlish to state that it is unclear why the literature of Richard Henry Dana, Carey McWilliams, and Viet Thanh Nguyen are absent.
This book is for readers who relish knowing that LSD tablets were once dropped from an airplane to a crowd of hippies gathered in Laguna Beach, and that the unobstructed Santa Ana winds were once so strong they wore grooves in the floorboards of Jessamyn West’s house in Yorba Linda by repeatedly pushing the beds across the room. It is for those wanting to know “what’s been lost,” in Edward Humes phrase, or anyone who wants to name the history of what Tom Zoellner calls, in an essay written specifically for this anthology, “The Orange Industrial Complex.” The collection is for residents, students, teachers, tourists, and all who wish to understand America’s complicated suburbia.
This book, filled with empathy and environmentalism, is poetic critical geography. It is wonderful.
[1] Norman M. Klein, The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory, new and updated ed. (New York: Penguin Random House, 2008).
[2] Carolina A. Miranda, “How to look at Los Angeles: A conversation with D.J. Waldie, Lynell George and Josh Kun,” Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2015, http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-how-to-see-los-angeles-dj-waldie-lynell-george-and-josh-kun-20150721-column.html.
Elaine Lewinnek is professor in the department of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. She is the author of The Working Man’s Reward: Chicago’s Early Suburbs and the Roots of American Sprawl (Oxford, 2015), and is currently working on a bottom-up history of Orange County with Gustavo Arellano, Thuy Vo Dang, and Michael Steiner, titled A People’s Guide to Orange County (UC Press, forthcoming).
Copyright: © 2017 Elaine Lewinnek. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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The Other “Other” California
Danza de Los Superhéroes: Zapotec Immigrant Tradition in Transnational Transfer
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Photo taken by contributor Elijah Weerts, a 20-year-old photography student. People have always seen him as the outgoing, fun to be around, positive kid all through his life. He wasn’t ever “allowed” to be sad or at least he felt that he had to be the person who made everyone feel better. He thought that if he showed that he was sad that he was letting people down. Elijah has been a photography major for the past four semesters of college, and every time he does self-portraits people seem to respond to them very emotionally. Whether it be happy, uncomfortable, or sad, people are drawn to them. Photography allows him to show how he is feeling without having to say anything. It lets all of him be shown in a way people can somehow relate to and that’s what he gets passionate about. He wants people to feel something when they see his images. He wants people to actually stop and think about who they are.
About this photo: “One night I was feeling overwhelmed by all the circumstances that were going on around me. I could not fall asleep at all and it was nearly 3am. I was exhausted when I looked up to see these wonderful shadows being cast on my wall from the moons glow through my blinds. All the leading lines towards the middle seemed perfect for how I was feeling. I placed myself in the corner and used a long exposure where I stood for about 10 seconds in the corner then left the other 20 to the blank wall. It gave me that ghost effect and made me look like I’m being overtaken which is exactly how I felt.“
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Forget Your Worries
Hope Floats
21 thoughts on “Up All Night”
Me too tonight.
cowzarific says:
You’ll make it through. :} I did! I’m here for you!
Makes me tired just looking at it. 🙂 And the B&W works well for this type of shot.
I thought the B&W worked better as well. It added a certain heaviness to it.
Rewired and Retired in Nicaragua says:
Awesome interpretation!
Thank you. :}
Thanks :}
MixerUpper says:
Lots of emotion swirling around in one small picture.
I’m so glad it captured what I hoped it would!
Lily Mugford says:
brilliant interpretation, brilliant photo… Well done.
Oh, thank you quite muchly! :}
Incredible shot! One cannot look at this and walk away without emotion.
I still feel overwhelmed when I look at it haha
Leah Givens says:
Wow…great image and emotion conveyed…and makes me rethink the use of lighting in some of my own photographs. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you and you’re welcome :}
Ilusión says:
Reblogged this on My Thought. My Words… My LIFE!.
Bastet says:
Very impressive, really fantastic.
autisticaplanet says:
I always say to ask a doctor first, even if it is OTC, but maybe try Melatonin, a natural supplement available @ any pharmacy. Take it 90 minutes before you want to fall asleep. Our bodies don’t always make enough of it, and we need more of it @ night.
Your picture is fantastic! I am still only using a point-and-shoot, but I hope to work with different shutter speeds now that the weather is warming up. Other than that, did you use any digital editing, etc…?
ausedpoetictragedy says:
Reblogged this on …Truth… Something To Die For… and commented:
this photo…. touches my soul….to say the least… the artist has inspired me to go work on my own art, as opposed to being trapped in the current turmoil of my own mind…. saying thank you to him is not enough….
hey … thank you… tonight i have been on “razor’s edge” so to speak… i am not bipolar but i have borderline, c-ptsd and depersonalization disorder… i almost gave up 2night, but, because of this photo, because of YOU… i’m gonna get outta bed and work on some art..maybe try submitting it to this site, even though i’m scared to be rejected ha. Point is…. i can’t thank you enough for this. you’ve inspired and motivated someone who was just about a half inch away from losing control. thank you, thank you so very much….
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School Attendance and Chronic Absenteeism
August 09, 2016 | United Way Team
The June newsletter for Reading into Success shared an exciting update about local work to decrease chronic absenteeism. You might be asking, “what is chronic absenteeism, why is it important, and how does it connect to United Way’s education goal?”
Chronic absenteeism is when a child misses 10% or more of the school year, both excused and unexcused absences. That might not sound like much, but locally, that means 18 days or more per year — that’s two days per month!
According to Attendance Works, a nationally known organization working to improve attendance, 10% of kindergarteners, and even more preschoolers, are chronically absent. And a California Study found only 17% of students who were chronically absent in both kindergarten and first grade were likely to be reading proficiently in third grade, compared to 64% of students who had good attendance.
Students can overcome these statistics if they improve their attendance. You can read more about Attendance in the Early Grades on the Attendance Works site.
United Way of East Central Iowa’s education goal is to improve the number of low-income students who are on track academically and developmentally by fourth grade. One critical step in achieving academic success is attending school every day.
Schools do strong work to ensure kids come to school every day, but the challenges that families encounter are often best addressed by services provided by United Way’s partners. Some of the challenges families face include transportation, health (the child’s or the parent’s), or even job related. As a community, we can support these families to help them get their children to school every day, increasing their time to learn and achieve academically.
Reading into Success Attendance Update
Preliminary numbers from the pilot at Wright Elementary indicate promising results in the battle against chronic absenteeism (missing 10% or more of the school year). During the 2014–15 school year, 12.8% of students at Wright Elementary were chronically absent. This dropped to 5.6% in the 2015–16 school year! In addition to a new Student Support Liaison at the school, Wright Elementary held an Attendance Awareness Month campaign which included attendance pledges for parents, information regarding when to keep kids home, and posters around the school sharing the importance of everyday attendance.
The Student Support Liaison and School Counselor used the school district policy to generate letters and calls to parent, as well as in-person meetings to work together to create an attendance plan. At midyear conferences, parents whose children were on track to be chronically absent received a graph comparing their student's attendance with the rest of their class. Used as an education tool, this graph opened the door to conversations regarding the impact absence can have on achievement. The school district plans to share these strategies with other schools to help them have a positive impact on attendance next year, too!
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AI Podcast: Using Deep Learning to Improve the Hands-Free, Voice Experience
May 18, 2017 by Allison Toh
“Ok Google;” “Alexa…”
We’re familiar with these commands that wake up, say, our Amazon Echo or Google Home.
But what would the future of intelligent devices look like if we could bounce from using Amazon’s Alexa to order a new book to Google Assistant to schedule our next appointment, all in the course of a single conversation?
The latest episode of our AI podcast dives into this question as part of a conversation with Kitt.ai founder Xuchen Yao.
Previously, developers would rely on either a clap or a button to trigger an intelligent device, which would negate the point of a “hands-free” experience. But Snowboy, a tool kit developed by Kitt.ai, solves this problem.
“Before Snowboy, there was no, like, open community solution in the market,” Yao said, in a conversation with our podcast’s host, Michael Copeland.
Yao noted the possibility of combining the services offered by various companies through their intelligent devices.
“In the future, I would not be surprised to see a device, a 4-in-1 device, that has all the bigger companies’ backend waiting to serve you,” said Yao. “And then people can choose whoever’s services to use just by selecting this trigger word.”
When Yao first tried to bring a conversational engine to the market in 2014 (Kitt.ai’s Chatflow), the closest thing that existed was Siri. But now, taking in the burgeoning development of AI technology, he’s optimistic that the next generation will experience more conversational and natural device interactions.
“I imagine in five to 10 years, we’re going to have the personal assistant everywhere we go,” he predicted.
AI Podcast: When AI Meets VR
And if one hot technology isn’t enough for you, how about two? On the previous edition of the AI podcast, we spoke with IBM’s Michael Ludden on how the pairing of the AI and VR will impact various industries.
How to Tune in to the AI Podcast
We’re available through iTunes, Google Play Music, DoggCatcher, Overcast, Podbay, Pocket Casts, PodCruncher, PodKicker, Stitcher and Soundcloud. If your favorite isn’t listed here — or you have an idea for an upcoming podcast — send us a note at aipodcast [at] nvidia [dot] com.
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The Network Central
Introducing... Scientific American MIND blogs!
STAFFBy Bora Zivkovic on March 13, 2013
Today is a big day here at the network! Earlier this morning we launched the MIND Blog Network.
Scientific American MIND, the younger sister magazine, woke up this morning to a sparkling shiny new homepage, as well as the special new landing page for the MIND blogs.
What is probably most exciting to us, and to you, the readers, is that we added six new blogs to the MIND blog network. Let me briefly introduce them:
Melanie Tannenbaum (Twitter) is a doctoral candidate in social psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her new blog, PsySociety (following in the footsteps of her previous blog), will cover social psychology through the prism of popular culture. Say Hi to Melanie on her introductory post.
Felicity Muth (Twitter) received her PhD at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Her blog Not bad science (just like her old blog of the same name) will cover new discoveries in animal behavior and cognition. See her first post and say Hello.
Scott Barry Kaufman (Twitter) is a cognitive psychologist at NYU interested in intelligence and creativity, and the co-founder of The Creativity Post. His book, Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined, is scheduled to be published in June. Bookmark his new blog Beautiful Minds (and check out the archives of his old blog). You will learn more about Scott in his introductory post.
Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik (Twitter) are the new Illusion Chasers! They are neuroscientists and laboratory directors at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. They use illusions to study how are brains construct experiences of the world. They are authors of the book Sleights of Mind, have written many pieces in the Scientific American MIND series "Illusions" as well as on their old blog. They are now also member of the MIND's Advisory Board. Welcome them on their new blog and follow them on Twitter.
Adam Waytz (Twitter) and Jamil Zaki (Twitter) are starting their brand new blog - The Moral Universe. Jamil Zaki is an assistant professor of psychology at Stanford University. Adam Waytz is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. They are both interested in morality, empathy, and prosocial behavior and they explore it in dialogues with each other - to which you are all now invited as well. You can jump right in.
MIND Guest Blog is just like the main Guest Blog - a place where we invite scientists and other outside contributors to share news, insights and commentary in their fields of expertise, in this case in all aspects of the study of the brain, mind and behavior. It will be edited by MIND editor-in-chief Sandra Upson, senior editor Ingrid Wickelgren and myself. Feel free to send us your pitches.
Well, these are the new MIND blogs. But that is not all. Eleven of our current blogs are also receiving the new designation as MIND blogs. Here they are:
Streams of Consciousness: The scoop on how we think, feel and act. By Ingrid Wickelgren.
Talking Back: A science blog sans blague. By Gary Stix.
Brainwaves: Current thoughts on mind, life and culture. By Ferris Jabr.
A Blog Around the Clock: Rhythms of life in meatspace and cyberland. By Bora Zivkovic.
The Scicurious Brain: The good, bad, and weird in physiology and neuroscience. By Scicurious.
The Thoughtful Animal: Exploring the evolution and architecture of the mind. By Jason B. Goldman.
Literally Psyched: Conceived in literature, tested in psychology. By Maria Konnikova.
Science with Moxie: Musical notes on neuroscience. By Princess Ojiaku.
The White Noise: A hit of addiction and mental illness, chased by chemistry and culture. By Cassie Rodenberg.
Cargo Cult Contrarian: Notes on language, memory and perception. By Melody Dye.
Bering in Mind: A research psychologist's curious look at human behavior. By Jesse Bering.
You know how you see little "Staff" tags on the staff blogs on the homepage, like this?
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Kate Middleton Steps Out in the Perfect Floral Dress to Unveil Her Latest Garden Design
Simon Perry
People September 10, 2019
Kate Middleton proudly showed off her latest garden design on Tuesday!
The royal mom of three, 37, unveiled her third “Back to Nature” garden, which supports her ongoing campaign to encourage kids to play outside. The royal believes that spending time outdoors plays a pivotal role in children’s future health and happiness, building foundations that last through childhood and over a lifetime.
Kate was perfectly dressed for the occasion in an elegant pale green belted long-sleeved seersucker dress decorated with a pink floral print by Emilia Wickstead. She also wore her go-to tan wedges.
The garden at RHS Wisley is a bigger and permanent version of the original design that she and her three children — Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis — helped launch in May at the Chelsea Flower Show. Located about 25 miles southwest of London, it comes with a huge treehouse, a sandpit and swings.
Kate Middleton | Chris Jackson/Getty Images
Kate invited members of some of the charities and organizations she works with that support children to join in the festivities on Tuesday. She even arrived on a tractor trailer alongside a group of excited kids and Mary Berry (an ambassador for RHS) from the The Great British Bake Off show. The royal even thanked the tractor driver, telling her: “Thank you, well done. The kiddies loved it!”
Princess Kate and the Queen of Baking — Mary Berry arrive @RHSWisley for the second part of their visit. pic.twitter.com/LnvtGJoEAI
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Princess Kate has spent much of the last eight years highlighting work that benefits children’s well-being.
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During the event, Kate also played with some of the children before she made a short speech.
“As many of you know, I was invited by the RHS to co-design a garden for families and children for this year’s Chelsea Flower Show and Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival,” she said. “It’s been the most amazing experience and I can’t thank the RHS enough for giving me this wonderful opportunity.”
“I am not as green-fingered as many of you here, but I was passionate about creating a garden that inspired children and adults alike to get back to nature and reap the positive mental and physical health benefits that it can bring,” she added.
“Whether it is planting, exploring, digging, creating, or playing; quality time spent outside provides children with the perfect environment to form those positive relationships with the people in their lives and the world around them.
“As a parent, I have learned just how important it is to foster our children’s development, in all areas, not just physical, as soon as they are born. We build the blocks, the foundations, for future success and happiness later in their lives.”
Kate playing with some children at the coconut shy at the Back to Nature festival @RHSWisleypic.twitter.com/mT5Eru0vql
In May, her original design, which she created with designers Andrée Davies and Adam White, had caught the imagination of her own kids when they toured it at the Chelsea Flower Show.
When he was asked by dad Prince William to give the garden a score out of 10, George, 6, said loyally: “20!”
“Twenty out of 10?” William responded with a laugh. “That’s pretty good. I think Mummy’s done well.”
Prince George and Prince William | Matt Porteous/PA
Prince George and Princess Charlotte | Matt Porteous/Kensington Palace via Getty
Back in the spring, Kate told the BBC’s gardening expert Monty Don, “I really feel that nature and being interactive outdoors has huge benefits on our physical and mental wellbeing, particularly for young children. I really hope that this woodland that we have created really inspires families, kids and communities to get outside, enjoy nature and the outdoors, and spend quality time together.”
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In July, the garden was moved to Hampton Court Palace for the summer garden festival. There. she unveiled the space with children from some of her charities and patronages, including the Anna Freud Centre, Evelina Children’s Hospital, Action for Children and Place2Be, taking part in an insect-spotting activity and joining in a treasure hunt.
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An Authentic Derivative: A Novel
CALEB COY
A bearded young man blogs on language, literature, and spirituality
What the Next 007 Movie Should Be
Posted by Caleb Coy on November 26, 2012
My last post was a review of Skyfall.
Since I was a huge 007 fan as an adolescent, every 007 movie revives that in me. So I couldn’t resist thinking of what the next 007 movie should be and why.
We know Casino Royale with Daniel Craig rebooted the entire franchise with a fresh take that is actually more true to Ian Fleming’s novels than any of the previous twenty-one. Casino itself was based off the first novel and was pretty true to the story. With Quantum they wrote an original story as a sequel to Casino named after the title of another Bond story. Skyfall is yet another original, and forms somewhat of a trilogy, since (I won’t give it away) the movie brings a sort of closure to a certain character’s storyline, and embarks a new era for Bond.
It seems we’ve used three movies to reestablish Bond’s place. Since this “trilogy” is now done, I think it’s time to once again go back to the novels for more direct inspiration. After Casino, the next novel Fleming published was Live and Let Die. If you remember the movie version, it was Roger Moore’s first, known as the “blaxploitation” one, about voodoo and Harlem jazz and drugs and Yaphet Kotto playing Mr. Big, and that weird painted guy Baron Samedei that kept laughing. It obviously deviates from the book, which is why I think it deserves a new treatment. Bring in Tarantino as co-director or consultant to make an interesting blaxploitation take on Bond. Here’s how I imagine it going down…
In the novel, Bond is sent to investigate Buonapart Ignace Gallia (BIG), a Jamaican voodoo leader with smuggling connections to Harlem. Turns out he’s smuggling gold coins from a pirate ship to finance Russian spies. Bond teams up with Felix Leiter (CIA) and meets Mr. BIG’s celibate fortune teller mistress Solitare as he investigates in Harlem, Florida, and Jamaica. In the novel Bond finds out the coins are smuggled in the bottom of exotic fish tanks. Felix is fed to a shark and left crippled. This scene was so brutal it wasn’t in the movie, but they later put it in License to Kill with Timothy Dalton, which was a lot darker. Bond ends up sneaking on BIG’s yacht and planting a mine, but BIG captures him and Solitaire and keelhauls them, dragging them under the boat and cutting them up on the coral to attract sharks. But the mine blows the ship up and they survive and BIG dies. The keelhauling scene was really tense too but they borrowed it later in For Your Eyes Only.
The first film version changed it from pirate treasure to heroine, with BIG’s plan to flood the market with free heroine and get everyone hooked. Solitaire was white, because back then mainstream audiences couldn’t handle a white ending up with a black girl.
This could be adapted into a timely film. The original novel played on fears of Communists working through the black power movement. The reboot could play on fears of immigration and the drug trade, or terrorists using black Muslims in the American South, or focus on the opium trade in the Middle East and of the fears of Muslim extremists there. Our top national security fears seem to be terrorism and economic warfare.Either way, using drugs to finance terrorism is topical. The novel controversially reflected Flemings’ and other white peoples’ fears of the rising power of blacks in the 50s, so this novel could examine America and Britian’s fears of Muslims and/or immigrants.
Buonapart Ignace Gallia is a character few think Kotto gave justice in the original film.
Old Mr. BIG New Mr. BIG
An idea is to use someone like 50 Cent, Jay Z or DMX to make BIG a gangsta (50’s done this before in Righteous Kill, and it’ll attract more diverse viewers since 007 has been more of a stiff white guy’s action star) who works for a bigger drug lord in Haiti or Jamaica. The novel dealt a lot with jazz culture, so today a gangsta rapper could play a drug smuggler operating out of a club (why Bond would need Felix’s help as an undercover, naturally). He could even do the movie title song, since we have yet to have a hip hop artist do the opener.
The real villain would operate from a Caribbean island, painting his enforcers up and having them and perform brutal executions and litter the place with dead bodies as totems to intimidate local officials. A rising star I think could be used is Giancarlo Esposito, who played Gus Fring in Breaking Bad. He’s Chilean, but has that “versatile ethnicity” that works on Americans who often can’t tell one non-caucasian from another. His zen-like approach to criminal characters is classic Bond-ish (I’d love to see him in a knife fight), and a cold and ominous pairing with a company of “savage”, ghostly butchers under his command. Or the character himself could play dramatically into his own voodoo act, though not quite as corny as Baron Samedai. Another good choice would be Djimon Hounso (from Gladiator) or Jimmy Jean-Louis (Heroes) as BIG. They’d probably go with someone Americans haven’t heard of as usual and cast someone like Seydou Boro.
However, the twist could be that even with BIG and the “voodoo butchers”, the true “mastermind” to turns out to be a Calypso-like pirate/smuggler woman who orchestrates the whole thing (and may possibly be working for Quantum—the SPECTRE of the reboot series, appatently). The islanders could call her “Solitaire” because she surrounds herself with men yet is chaste, and circles around the actual island operating from a stolen cruise liner that she uses to smuggle drugs, weapons, etc. Not some seductive woman who toys with Bond, but a real nasty one the men fear. Imagine Hazelle Goodman, who played Evelda Drumgo in Hannibal.
They could actually call the film Property of a Lady (since it’s the name of a story and hasn’t been used as a Bond movie title yet). Bond will be sent by the Queen to bid for a lost sunken artifact treasure belonging to the royal family, only to sniff out that the current owner, a “treasure diver”, is underbidding the item to bump up the price to finance the drug trade similar to the short story, which they also use in Octopussy). Moneypenny and Q can assist him.
So the pun would be on the Queen’s property, the idea of the Queen once “owning” the world through Empire, the idea of a woman being the villain who owns her drug empire, and the long-lasting effects of colonialism and empire. If the film takes place in the Middle East instead of America and Jamaica, it would also be interesting to have a woman be the “main baddie” in a country in which we would assume women are a sub-class. I’m reminded of an episode of Law and Order: SVU in which a female Muslim extremist infiltrates an American slave trade as a sex slave. Hey giveaway is that since Islam forbids tattoos, they discover her fake slave house tattoo is painted on.
Another reason to use LaLD is the Felix plot. They left Felix out of Skyfall because it’s all about MI6. He should return for the next film and grow closer with Bond as the “two empires” work together investigating the islands (or Middle-East, or even South America). The feeding of Felix to a shark (or some other brutal fate sincethis was used in LTK) is dark enough for the new series, and can explore the theme of friendship that’s in the book (in Quantum remember that Bond holds Mathis as he dies, and the scene was so tender it was almost weird for a 007 movie). Felix survives but is disfigured for life. They actually leave him in a body bag for Bond to find with a note: “He disagreed with something that ate him“. This would once again test his limits of seeking revenge on a mission. Likewise, they could use the scene of Bond and “the Bond girl” being drug across a coral reef, or some similar kind of torture, only to be rescued by a mine or something. Imagine Bond battling through a sinking pirated cruise ship to save the girl and elude the villain, like in Uncharted 3. Imagine the defeated villain shooting the glass of a submerged foyer and the water cascading down in an effort to drown Bond also.
So, I predict they use the novel Live and Let Die, possibly given the title Property of a Lady, as the next 007 film. Bond investigates an auction for the Queen, steps into a drug deal in the Caribbean/Americas (or the Middle-East) that funds terrorism, a club owner played by a rapper, Buonapart Ignace Gallia played by a prominent actor and having skull-painted psycho henchmen, only for an imposing woman to be the villain behind the curtain, one who hides out on a cruise ship made into palace/smuggling rig. Felix gets fed to some animal, Bond and the token girl (Poker Summore, Juicy Cotoure, Fanny J Crosby—whatever they name her) get tortured and rescued thanks some Q gadget. It could explore the remnants of colonialism and foreign policy and the drug wars and terrorism and race all in one relevant post-9/11 Bond film. And it would attract a long-lost minority audience.
I enjoyed writing this post. It brought out the 7th grader in me. Now I want to just quit blogging and rewrite that adolescent spy novel about the nuclear bomb that’s the size of a billiards ball.
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Surgeon General’s Marijuana Warning Omits Crucial Context
By Shefali Luthra November 15, 2019
“Marijuana has a unique impact on the developing brain. It can prime your brain for addiction to other substances.”
Surgeon General Jerome Adams, in remarks at a substance abuse conference
Speaking about a recent federal advisory on marijuana, Dr. Jerome Adams, the surgeon general, put a new spin on long-standing admonitions about the drug.
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“Marijuana has a unique impact on the developing brain. It can prime your brain for addiction to other substances,” Adams said at a Washington, D.C., substance abuse conference held late in August and sponsored by Oxford House, a recovery center network.
This is a reiteration of the old “gateway” argument: the idea that marijuana is frequently an entree to using other, harder drugs. And the surgeon general’s emphasis comes just as many states are loosening restrictions around its medicinal and adult recreational use.
But marijuana research is limited, and this particular hypothesis is fairly controversial. We decided to put Adams’ claim to the test. Is his central thesis — marijuana has a “unique impact” on developing brains and can “prime your brain for addiction” — accurate?
We contacted the surgeon general’s office, which directed us to statements from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. NIDA noted that marijuana may have a gateway effect, but that most people who use the drug don’t progress to other, harder substances; and that alcohol and nicotine appear to have a similar impact. But the surgeon general’s office was also unequivocal on a related point: “From a public health perspective, no amount of drug use is safe for the developing brain.”
So how fair is Adams’ statement? When we interviewed experts, the responses were all over the map — reflecting just how contested this issue is and how difficult it is to speak definitively about marijuana’s impact.
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The Gateway Effect?
The idea that marijuana can “prime your brain for addiction” has some basis: namely, the results of some studies conducted with rodents.
There are findings to suggest that early exposure to the drug may “sensitize animals to the effects of other drugs,” noted Joshua Isen, an assistant professor at the University of South Alabama, who researches adolescent marijuana use.
For instance, Adams’ office noted that preclinical studies indicate exposure to THC — marijuana’s main psychoactive compound — during a period roughly equivalent to adolescence in rats resulted in greater self-administration of heroin when the animals reach adulthood.
In addition, THC exposure yielded changes in their brains’ reward system — in other words, yes, priming the brain for the rewarding effects of opioids.
But, Isen said, it’s scientifically problematic to draw a line from the effects seen in rodents to what might be happening to a human. Ethical considerations about human research make it more or less impossible to do a randomized controlled trial — the gold standard of scientific research — that would measure how marijuana does or doesn’t affect a developing brain.
“We should remain agnostic about the surgeon general’s claim,” Isen argued.
Other experts suggested otherwise, saying that since animal research is the best we can get, it’s worth taking seriously — and it is fairly conclusive.
Jonathan Caulkins, a professor and drug policy researcher at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, took a more optimistic view of that research, arguing that the animal evidence is “very clear” when it comes to marijuana’s neurological impact. He called it a fair basis for the surgeon general’s warning.
“What we know is strong enough to say that exposure during adolescence when the brain is developing is a risk,” said Susan Weiss, a scientific adviser to the NIDA director.
But how meaningful a risk — and how it compares with other drugs — is exceptionally tough to say, given the limitations on research. Studies on humans are limited because people who use marijuana at a young age may be exposed to other risk factors, such as peer influencers using harder drugs, or sociodemographic factors that might predispose them to abuse or addiction.
As Dr. Sue Sisley, an Arizona-based psychiatrist who tracks the state of marijuana research, put it: “I don’t see very much good, rigorous data to confirm either way.”
What About Uniqueness?
Surgeon General Jerome Adams, remarks at Oxford House World Convention, Aug. 30, 2019
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “The Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids,” January 2017
National Institutes of Health, “Is Marijuana A Gateway Drug?” September 2019
Office of the Surgeon General, “U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the Developing Brain,” August 29, 2019
Email Interview with Jonathan Caulkins, H. Guyford Stever Professor of Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon University Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, Oct. 29, 2019
Email Interview with Joshua Isen, assistant professor of psychology at the University of South Alabama, Oct. 30, 2019
Email Interview with Hugh Garavan, professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Vermont, Oct. 29, 2019
Email Interview with Sue Sisley, psychiatrist and marijuana researcher, Oct. 29, 2019
Telephone Interview with Susan Weiss, director of division of extramural research and scientific adviser to the director of the National Institute for Drugs and Alcohol, Oct. 30, 2019
Email interview with the Office of the Surgeon General, Nov. 1, 2019
In the narrowest sense, marijuana indeed has a “unique” effect on the brain. It elicits a response from what are called “endocannabinoid receptors.” Other drugs don’t — they interact with different brain receptors. So, certainly, marijuana affects development using a different (or “unique”) neurological mechanism from the ones used by, say, nicotine or alcohol.
And, as best as science can tell us, marijuana harms developing brains, both Weiss and Sisley said. From a commonsense public health perspective, young people in particular should be exceptionally cautious when using the drug.
But — and this is important context — marijuana is not the only substance that has this potential “priming” for subsequent addiction. The surgeon general’s office acknowledged this finding when we asked follow-up questions. That same context, though, is missing from Adams’ public statement.
“It seems that early exposure to many substances can make it likely someone will be addicted to other substances,” Weiss said. She acknowledged that rodent studies do also suggest nicotine may have a priming effect, albeit via a different neurological route.
On a practical level, Isen said, while one could highlight the distinct scientific effect marijuana has, “there is no evidence that marijuana has a uniquely deleterious effect on the developing brain — certainly not more than other substances such as alcohol.”
Speaking about the risks associated with marijuana, the surgeon general said it “has a unique impact on the developing brain” and “can prime your brain for addiction to other substances.”
The implications are tricky, and it’s important to note the significant limitations on marijuana research, as well as how it compares with other drugs. It may have its own, unique mechanism of “priming” adult addiction.
Still, other substances have similar effects — even if they take a different brain path to get there. And since this idea about marijuana’s priming effect is central to Adams’ broader public health campaign, emphasizing that nicotine and alcohol also could function in this manner matters even more.
This statement is partially accurate, but it leaves out important details and context. We rate it Half True.
This story was produced by Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Issue Date: August 29, 2016
Cultural connection important for retaining minority science students
By Andrea Widener
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Students from minority groups traditionally underrepresented in the sciences, especially those who are first-generation college students, leave science at higher rates than majority students. To help examine why, a team from California State University, Long Beach, surveyed 249 first-semester college students who had declared their interest in science, then followed up with a series of focus groups. As reported in CBE Life Sciences Education, the researchers found that many minority students are motivated to enter science because they think their work could help give back to their community (2016, DOI: 10.1187/cbe.16-01-0067). That is especially true for first-generation college students, who were most likely to express these altruistic values as a reason they decided to major in science. Underrepresented minority students were also motivated by the opportunity to help improve life for their extended families. Better understanding students’ culturally connected career motives could help in recruitment and retention efforts, the authors conclude. “Finding ways to help diverse sets of students authentically identify more strongly with science is important for broadening and sustaining participation.”
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Journalist for The New York Times James Risen shares his book, "State of War, " in which he explains the use of wiretapping without warrants in the Bush Administration and the CIA.
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The Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) is a NASA funded project supported by the Near Earth Object Observation Program (NEOO) under the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO). We are based at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Lab in Tucson, Arizona. Our mission at CSS is fully dedicated to discover and track near-Earth objects (NEOs) in an effort to meet the congressional mandate to catalogue at least 90 percent of the estimated population of NEOs larger than 140 meters, some of which classify as potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) which pose an impact threat to Earth. Longstanding success of the project is attributable to our comprehensive sky coverage, continued development and application of innovative software and our NEO detection pipeline, and the inclusion of near real-time human attention to the NEO discovery and follow-up process.
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The Catalina Sky Survey posted 1056 new near-Earth objects for 2018, the first survey to discover more than 1000 in a calendar year. The record-setting 2018 batch also pushed CSS’s historical total to over 9000 new NEOs.
Catalina Sky Survey Discovers Earth-Grazing Asteroid, the 4th Closest Flyby Ever Recorded
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Featured CSS Asteroid Citation
(300128) Panditjasraj = 2006 VP32 Discovered 2006 by the Catalina Sky Survey
Sangeet Martand Pandit Jasraj (b. 1930) is an exponent of Indian Classical vocal music. A life dedicated to music, Jasraj is the recipient of numerous awards, honors, and titles including the prestigious Padma Vibhushan and the Sangeet Natak Academi Award. His distinctive voice traverses a remarkable four-and-a-half octaves. (M.P.C. 115895).
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Modular Synthesizer Demo for Purim
Purim is the “most synthesizer-y” of Jewish holidays, given that one of it’s central rituals is noisemaking. This year we created a synthesizer demo running sounds from a gragger through several modules.
The demo uses a mixture of pre-recorded gragger on the QuBit Nebulae and live sound via the Mikrophonie and Make Noise Echophon. The full list of modules used in the Purim demo is:
Make Noise Echophon
Qu-Bit Nebulae (v1)
Rossum Electro-Music Morpheus
Mikrophonie
Make Noise Maths
Make Noise Tempi
Malekko Heavy Industry Noisering
I do wish I already had a Qu-bit Nebulae v2 for this project. You can see our review of v2 from NAMM 2018 here.
Purim is a holiday that commemorates the saving of the Jewish people in the ancient Persian Empire from the king’s wicked advisor Haman, as told in the book of Esther. Traditionally, the gragger is used to mask the name of Haman when said out loud during readings.
Posted on March 1, 2018 March 1, 2018 by catsynth Posted in Synthesizers Tagged analog, catsynth tv, gragger, holiday, jewish, make noise, malekko, modular, noise, purim, qu-bit electronics, rossum electro-music, Synthesizers, video 1 Comment
NAMM 2017: New offerings from Synthrotek and Division 6
Our friends from Synthrotek teamed up with Division 6 for a delightfully noisy and retro NAMM display.
This unique enclosure has that future retro look at we at CatSynth adore. It is unfortunately one of a kind at this moment. But we had a chance to admire it. Sitting above the panels, however, was a new product, the Division 6 “Business Card Sequencer”, available as a kit. It’s a dual 16-step sequencer with CV and gate out, as well as clock in. Quite handy and smaller than my iPhone.
Division 6 also introduced Mr Crotchety. It is a control-less Eurorack module that generates a non-linear CV source. It also has the best name of any product I encountered at NAMM.
Synthrotek is also continuing to come out with new modules and such. This ribbon controller looked quite interesting to us, and fits well in the 1U area of their cases.
We can also see at the top of the image the enclosures that allow the Business Card Sequencers to be mounted in groups into a Eurorack system. And off to the right is the new Roboto module. It’s hard to see in this picture, so here is a demo from Synthrotek.
Roboto is an audio-signal transformer based on old voice-transformer chips. One could of course use this for “robot”-like vocoding, but also for manipulating another other type of sound that crosses the wires of a modular synth. We also quite like the logo. There was also an affordable in interesting-sounding reverb module, with degrees of freedom that turn it into an instrument rather than simply an effect at the end of the chain.
We are looking forward to seeing more of these modules. But we really want that future retro case!
@catsynth in the namms!!!
A photo posted by Synthrotek (@synthrotek) on Jan 21, 2017 at 3:41pm PST
Posted on January 28, 2017 by catsynth Posted in Music, Reviews, Synthesizers Tagged analog, division 6, electronic music, modular, Music, namm, namm 2017, noise, review, Synthesizers, synthrotek, zip 1 Comment
CatSynth in the Window, Artists’ Television Access
I participated in quite a few performances in 2014, with a lot of challenges and memorable experiences along the way. But there was perhaps none quite as unique or purely fun as my solo set in the window gallery of Artists’ Television Access (ATA). It was part of a month-long program called Almost Public/Semi-Exposed, a “series of installed performances ranging from movement to musical, ritual to reenactment, interactive to endurance.”
[Photo by David Samas]
My performance, entitled “CatSynth in the Window”, was a solo with Moog theremini, analog modular, full cat-print costume and body movement. The theremin was a controller for various sound-generated modules, including the Metasonix R54 and Benjolin by Rob Hordjik. And at three hours with just one break, it was among the longest continuous performances I have done.
Immediately I know this was going to be a great experience. The window was my stage, and the city bustling by on Valencia Street was my audience. Many walked by with just a curious glance. Some stopped to listen for a few minutes. Others stayed a while, contacting friends to come check it out. One little girl called me a witch.
[Photo by David Samas. Click to enlarge.]
Sonically, the performance was relatively sparse, with usually no more than two sound sources at once. Motion and gesture were an central part of the performance, as was interacting with the people on the street. Here is a video excerpt.
[Video by Claire Bain]
Although I was inside the window, the sound was being broadcast through a speaker in the entryway of ATA to the outside so that people could clearly hear as they walked by. One unexpected challenge was the jazz band practicing inside the main ATA space. But I made the most of it using my skills as a jazz pianist and riffing off the standards they were playing. The audience interaction was among the most rewarding parts of the event, matching the gestures and motions suggested by people outside. For an extended period of time, one of the neighborhood’s icons Diamond Dave was completely enthralled by the performance and interacting with me.
In this next video, you can see a bit of our impromptu “duo”, as well as some of my attempts to play against the jazz ensemble.
[Video by David Samas]
The performance was an endurance test, physically and mentally, but it was an incredibly rewarding experience and I hope to be able to do it again, perhaps bringing to different venues and cities. It was interesting to see how a diverse flow of people choose to observe or interact. Indeed it was a mutual coming together at times, quite democratic and independent compared to a traditional concert setting. I would also like to think it was a positive contribution to the ATA site itself and to life along Valencia Street. I like how vibrant the street and neighborhood is, but providing a little weirdness and unusual performance brings back a bit of San Francisco’s long history of unique culture back.
A big thank you to Ariel Zaccheo and Tessa Siddle for curating this event, and to the folks at Artists’ Television Access for providing us the time, space and support.
Posted on December 22, 2014 by catsynth Posted in Art, Cats, Music, Personal, Reviews, San Francisco, Synthesizers Tagged amanda chaudhary, analog, artists television access, body movement, Cats, electronic music, experimental music, gallery, metasonix, mission, modular, moog, Music, noise, performance art, review, San Francisco, Synthesizers, theremin, theremini 4 Comments
Report from BPOW!!! Part 2: The Concerts
Today we conclude our reports from the Battery Powered Orchestra Workshop (BPOW!!!) in Portland, focusing on the evening concerts. Like the workshops, which we covered in Part 1, the concerts focused on DIY technologies, as well as analog synthesis.
The Saturday-evening program opened with Stephanie Simek performing on her custom multi-armed turntable.
The arms on the turntable were outfitted with contact microphones which picked up vibrations from the grooves of hand-cut records. Each arm fed a separate audio channel, creating a multi-track, spatialized performance from a single record. Musically, the repeated sounds of jungles, space, human activity and instrumental sources formed complex rhythms with changing syncopations and graduation motion over time. The effect was quite hypnotic. Even with the enveloping sound system, there was something intimate about the performance, probably related to the visuals and distinct sound of the record player.
Simek was followed by F-DT (Future Death Toll). F-DT is an artist collective and performances feature a rotating lineup, but on this occasion it included Edward Sharp and Nathanael Thayer Moss. F-DT describe themselves as “a throbbing mess of noise that eats technology and shits performance art.” And it was certainly a performance filled with loud noise in a variety of aural ranges – high electrical noises and pounding low-frequency patterns – set against a relentless stream of glitchy visuals and text.
Although it is hard to tell from this photo, much of their gear was colored orange, which seems to be an important part of the group’s identity. The music and presents is undeniably challenging, but well worth for those who make the effort.
Then it was my turn to take the stage. My setup focused on the analog modular synthesizer, along with another analog synth, iPad, the dotara (Indian string instrument), and Skatch Box. I also used the Synthrotek 4093 NAND synthesizer that I built during one of the workshops earlier in the day.
The 4093 worked flawlessly, as did the modular and the Luna NT analog synth. The acoustic instruments (dotara and skatch box) also worked well. As with any experimental electronic improvisation performance, there were a few technical glitches and a few things I would have done differently in hindsight. But overall, I thought it was a good performance, and it was very well received by the attendees. You can see and hear it in its entirety in the video below:
CatSynth (Amar Chaudhary) at BPOW, August 10, 2013 from CatSynth on Vimeo.
The final act of the first night was Mechlo. His performance combined lo-fi glitch audio and video from an NES console.
Clearly, there were modifications made to allow the system to be performed in a way that a traditional NES could not. Nonetheless, the graphics and audio were reminiscent of what one would expect from the classic 8-bit games. There were repeated modulating patterns, some of them more melodic, some noisier, with occasional glitches and pauses.
The Sunday evening concert opened with a performance by analog modular virtuoso Jeph Nor with Dan Green on analog video. Green brought an LZX modular video system, while Nor had a large collection of audio modules from different manufacturers.
Nor built complex patterns of sound that went from sparse and resonant to thicker and more pad-like. There were moments of eerie ambience and others that had a machine-like precision. Overall, he was able to give his improvisation with this instrument a musical and even narrative quality. The visuals focused on patterns of colors, curves and lines that were constantly changing, but occasionally slowing to a standstill before shifting rapidly and switching to a completely separate collection of shapes.
Next was Mike Todd performing custom visuals and sounds. Unlike the sharper edges from Nor and Green earlier, or the noisy intensity from F-DT the day earlier, Todd’s performance was software and more organic. The visuals, based on his own software, were composed of curving liquidy shapes that seemed alive. Similarly, his music had an equally liquid quality, with more open space between fast elements, as if a swarm of moving organisms.
Todd was followed by JMEJ, who assembled sonic circuits live on stage. One can think of this as “analog live coding”.
The process was fun to watch. As one might expect, the sounds were a bit on the noisier and unpredictable side, but with a lot of good crunchy lo-fi texture. As the performance continued, the circuits grew more complex and culminated in this tangled product:
The final performance featured Claus Muzak performing some of his electronic-music compositions.
This was a more structured performance, divided into songs. His music had a strong rhythmic and harmonic foundation, realized with a diverse collection of synthesizer and drum-machine sounds. It was dark and richly textured, and at times danceable, especially when he employed rhythmic lines with high-Q filters. It was probably the most “traditional” of any of the performances on either night, well crafted electronic music that would be at home in a club setting. But it was a fitting conclusion for evening’s performances and for the festival as a whole.
You can see and hear brief excerpts from all the performances in this video:
BPOW!!! Battery Powered Orchestra Workshop – Aug 10-11, 2013 from Molecule Synth on Vimeo.
Overall, both the concerts and workshops from BPOW were a rewarding experience. It would be great to visit again to participate in future events, and in the meantime I look forward to hearing more from the artists involved. Thanks to Travis Feldman of moleculesynth for organizing BPOW and Myles de Bastion of Cymaspace for hosting.
Posted on September 5, 2013 September 5, 2013 by catsynth Posted in Music, Reviews, Synthesizers Tagged amar chaudhary, analog, bpow, catsynth, claus muzak, dan green, diy, edward sharp, electronic music, experimental music, f-dt, glitch, jeph nor, jmej, mechlo, mike todd, modular, nathanael thayer moss, noise, pdx, portland, stephanie simek, Synthesizers, video 1 Comment
Godwaffle Noise Pancakes (March 3, 2013)
Pancakes and noise music may not be the first combination one thinks of for a Sunday brunch. But that is precisely what is offered at Godwaffle Noise Pancakes, a monthly noontime show organized by Grux at The Lab in San Francisco. I had the opportunity to perform at the most recent event on March 3.
I opted for a “purple theme” revolving around the purple Monorocket case I have for my Eurorack modular system. I selected an outfit and hair to match, and even found an old toy keyboard that was purple.
[Photo by Michael Zelner.]
The performance itself was on the subtle side, attempting to dial in on specific sounds and module combinations. It was an exercise in managing unpredictability and finding musical structures and phrases even in the noisiest of situations. You can see the performance in the video below.
Godwaffle Noise Pancakes live performance, March 3, 2013 from CatSynth on Vimeo.
The hall was quite dark during the set and my attempts to lighten the video resulted in a lot of artifacts. But it does complement the sound in a way. One take-a-way for future performances with the instrument is to be mindful of how one adapts the output of the small Eurorack jacks to standard live-sound systems. Investing in some strong audio adapters for the modular itself will cut down on some of those unpredictable pops. But overall I was quite happy with the set, and got a lot of positive feedback (about the visual as well as the aural).
The next performance featured Abyss of Fathomless Light featuring Bert Bergen. His fast moving performance combined vocal recordings on a series of cassette players with analog electronics into a thick and fast moving soundscape. He was followed by fslux, whose performance moved between longer more mellifluous sounds featuring her vocals and harsh electrical output from effects pedals.
The performance by J. Soliday (Jason Soliday) was undoubtedly the loudest and noisiest of this noise-based show. There were long sequences of repeated loud glitches that required a bit of effort to listen to, but also a few gaps and pauses with space for quieter detail.
The final performance featured a collaboration by Wobbly and Thomas Dimuzio. I have seen them perform together before, but this was the first time with the technological combo of Dimuzio on analog modular and Wobbly on iPad and other digital synths.
This was the longest performance of the afternoon (all the others including mine were quite short), but also the most captivating. They were able to create enveloping soundscapes that at times felt otherworldly and at others more meditative. The overall texture was lush, but there were dry moments with more staccato details from both the analog and digital instruments.
Overall, it was a fun afternoon of music. I am glad I was able to participate and hope to do so again soon.
Posted on March 8, 2013 by catsynth Posted in Music, Reviews, San Francisco, Synthesizers Tagged amar chaudhary, analog, bert bergen, electronic music, eurorack, experimental music, fslux, godwaffle noise pancakes, grux, j soliday, mission, modular, noise, San Francisco, the lab, thomas dimuzio, wobbly 1 Comment
Rubber ()) Cement, bran(…)pos, Hora Flora at Luggage Store Gallery
Today we look back at a recent show featuring noise and theater at the Luggage Store Gallery, part of Outsound Presents’ regular Thursday-night experimental-music series.
The first set featured Hora Flora, a project of Raub Roy. Most often, we associate noise music with electronic affects, but this set focused on acoustic noise opportunities. It opened to the sound of electric toothbrushes on drums. It turns out this sound can be quite rich, and also quite loud at times. Over the course of the performance, he used other acoustic generators for excite the drums, most notably large colorful balloons.
The set continued in this way, with the balloons and toothbrushes on the drums creating ever changing acoustic noise drones, with other elements such as didgeridoo and portable cassette players layered on top. The cassette players were very deliberately placed at even intervals on the beam that spanned the length of the gallery in front of the audience. I was right near one of them, but the sounds were still quite subtle when combined with the overall drone texture.
Horoflora was followed by bran(…)pos. I had last seen him perform at the 2011 Outsound Music Summit. Once again, he was performing from within a curtained space with video projections on the outside, but the setting was far more intimate setting. From my vantage point, I was able to see both his live performance “behind the curtain” as well as the enveloping video projection.
In his performance physical use of his face both generated and shaped the sound, which in turn controlled the video. The performance opened with expressive percussive sounds, which become more resonant through electronic processing and gradually formed a rhythmic pattern. It continued with a series of slurps, crunches and other forms of face percussion mixed with breath, voiced sounds and synthetic sounds. In addition to electronics for direct vocal processing, there were synthesizers as well, including an Access Virus:
Overall, the performance had the phrasings and overall structure of storytelling, but in a language whose words I cannot understand. It did come to a strong finish with growls and roars against a frantic thudding pulse.
The final performance featured Rubber (() Cement (pronounced “Rubber oh Cement”). The set was quite the spectacle, with a large costumed figure, a space creature of sorts, next to a towering old-school computer system made from cardboard. The visuals and sounds reminded me a bit of Caroliner Rainbow, but on a smaller scale, and on top of the audience instead of separated by a formal stage.
Somewhere inside that lumbering lurching figure was a large custom string instrument. The plucking and striking of the strings formed the sonic base of the performance, which were both processed electronically and countered by other synthesizer sounds emanating from the “computer”. I suspected that the things would get quite loud, and indeed they did, with lots of loud shrieky pedal noises processing the strings and reprocessing themselves in complex ways. Of course the focal point remained the physical and visual aspects of the performance. In fact, that is a bit of an understatement, as part of the audience experience including being “attacked”. I got swiped at least once by one of the extending parts appendages, which are actually quite heavy – I was nearly knocked over. Things got a little crazier as the creature moved out into the audience. But it was all in good fun, and I don’t think anyone was hurt. Definitely an unusual experience for this series.
Overall, it was a great show attend, with different sites and sounds than usual. The audience was different as well, with the artists bringing their own followings. I hope to see more of them at other venues in the near future.
Posted on March 30, 2012 March 31, 2012 by catsynth Posted in Music, Reviews, San Francisco, Synthesizers Tagged access, bran...(pos), diy, experimental music, hora flora, luggage store gallery, Music, noise, outsound, review, rubber o cement, San Francisco, Synthesizers
Myrmyr and Tiny Owl, Luggage Store Gallery
June began with a particularly strong electroacoustic and noise performance at the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco with Myrmyr and Tiny Owl.
Myrmyr is the electroacoustic duo of Agnes Szelag and Marielle Jakobsons, and their performance was in anticipation of the release of their new album Fire Star. Their work incorporates strings (in this case, electric violin and cello along with other instruments) and advanced electronics. I have heard and reviewed Myrmyr before, but this set was perhaps the most beautiful I have heard from them. Set amongst a dizzying array of electronics and wires, it opened with a series of struck string sounds that invoked the sounds of strings in South Asian or East Asian music. Szelag’s voice emerged over a series of rich arpeggios and became part of the texture via live looping. The complex harmony resolved to a long major-seventh chord, after which the strings became harsher and more percussive. Amidst pitch and delay effects, a plucked cello entered in counterpoint to the voice and other instruments. The overall effect was quite tonal and dream-like, and gave me the impression of glass objects.
[Myrmyr. Photo by Michael Zelner.]
The next piece started with strings, both plucked and tapped and used as a live-looping source. A rhythmic pattern formed from the loops, which built up in complexity and volume with lots of distortion. Over time, the distorted sounds became clearer and more ethereal as the strings cut out and left only the bells and electronic effects. These were in turn displaced by more liquidy sounds and the return of cello and violin, this time bowed. The piece featured interesting harmonies and vocals.
The final piece was from the soon-to-be released album. It became with a drone, with harmonium sounds and voice building up into a rich texture. As they fade out, a plucked string instrument (possibly guzheng after reviewing Myrmyr’s website) enters on a minor pattern. The sound was accompanied by bells and distortion effects. The music built up to a big recognizable chord that was unresolved. Another build-up followed, this time with voice that turned into a rich harmony with a particularly plaintive violin line.
[Tiny Owl. Photo by Michael Zelner.]
Myrmyr was followed by Tiny Owl, a band consisting of Matt Davignon (drum machines and synthesizers), Lance Grabmiller (computer and synthesizers), Suki O’Kane (percussion), and Sebastian Krawczuk (double bass and objects). Their performance consisted of one long constantly evolving piece. It opened with an impromptu round of “Happy Birthday” for Matt Davignon (it was indeed his birthday) that appropriately elided to a series of glitchy noise sounds. Soon the bass drum and cymbals and string bass entered. The overall undulating timbre seemed very insect-like, but there also bits of melody that came and went in opposition to the overall swells and dips in the sound. One gesture that I particularly liked involved drum machine “gurgling” set against bass. The gurgling sounds, which formed a complex timbre, were gradually slowed down to the point where it became a series of rhythmic elements – moments like this always make me think of Stockhausen’s Kontakte II. Eventually, they merged back into the overall ambient sound. Over time, the overall texture became busier, but also more drone like, with high pitches and even some screeches eventually emerging. Pitched noises moving up and down like factory machinery were set against a drum rhythm reminiscent of “Wipe Out” (that very insistent sixteenth-note rhythm that every young percussionist attempts to play). As the percussion (drums and objects) grew more rich, so the electronics became more intense with bursts of machine noise and longer notes with strange harmonics. The section of louder sound and more complex rhythm grew to a climactic point and suddenly faded out with just a low rumble and a sparse texture of percussive sounds. This part of the performance was drier, with more punctuated elements and scratching sounds. During a gentle rise in pitch and volume near the end of the performance, the sound seemed to merge with a passing siren on Market Street. (It wouldn’t be a Luggage Store Gallery performance without at least one siren incorporated into the music.)
The show concluded with both groups uniting for short jam. It was fun to hear the combined sounds: noise drones punctuated by strings, and at least one more siren from the street.
Posted on June 26, 2011 June 26, 2011 by catsynth Posted in Music, Reviews, San Francisco Tagged agnes szelag, electronic music, experimental music, lance grabmiller, luggage store gallery, marielle jakobsen, matt davignon, Music, myrmy, noise, outsound, review, San Francisco, sebastian krawczuk, suki o'kane, tiny owl 1 Comment
Outsound Music Summit: SoundScapes
We resume our reports from the 2010 Outsound Music Summit after a brief break. In this article I review the last night of the festival, titled “SoundScapes” and featured musicians whose music focuses on noise and sound textures. While this is often from electronic sound sources such as effects pedals or DIY synthesizers, many were from acoustic sources such as metal objects or conventional instruments like piano.
The evening was framed by the theatrical announcements of the artists by guest emcee Cy Thoth, a regular DJ on KFJC 89.7 FM.
[click image to enlarge]
The concert began with Phog Masheeen, a trio featuring Mark Soden, Jr, Dr. Francene Laplan and William Almas. They presented a single large-scale work for electronic and acoustic sound plus video called “Anthroscopic Tourism.” I was not quite sure how the medical term “anthroscopic” related to the sounds and images in the piece, which focused on the interplay of Kaplan’s pots and pans set against electronic sounds and loops and Soden’s electronically enhanced performance on trumpet and a large pipe from a Yamaha motorcycle. Soden had demonstrated some of the techniques he was using with the trumpet during the Touch the Gear event. But he added to the the performance techniques Soden used with his instruments rubbing dry ice against them. As most readers know, dry ice is extremely cold (and difficult to handle); and this it can have a strong effect on the shape and behavior of metal tubes. At one point, he smashed a block of dry ice before picking up pieces to use. He also had a blowtorch. The music often involved loops (sample based or otherwise) against which Kaplan played rhythms and timbres on the pots and pans – this was offset by the more freeform sections with Soden’s trumpet and pipe. Almas’ visuals included a variety of urban and industrial scenes, text, and footage of old musicians, which were mixed with live video of Soden’s performance.
Next up was Headboggle (aka Derek Gedalecia). The tone was set from the beginning both in terms of sound and slapstick comedy by his stepping on bubble wrap that happened to be placed behind the table with his electronics, and then slipping on the way to the grand piano. Actually, the comedic timing of his various slips, slides, tripping over his own feet and double-takes was expertly done, as in an old silent film or Vaudeville act. There was a bit of a scare for several of us in the audience when it appeared he had broken the bench of the piano, but I was assured this was all part of the act, this particular bench was found broken, and that no pianos were actually harmed in the making of this performance. Musically, he combined chaotic oscillators from Ciat Lombarde synthesizer – a reminder to finally put together my Ciat Lombarde kit – with classical and ragtime piano phrases, loops and deep bass sounds from a Micromoog. The piano and electronics are of course quite contrasting, but every so often the sounds and phrases (and physical humor) converged quite well.
Headboggle was followed by Kadet Kuhne, who presented video and live-music piece Fight or Flight, described by our emcee Cy Thoth as “space madness.” In fact, it was a very polished live electronic performance, very dark and ambient (although interestingly Kadet Kuhne talked in the pre-concert Q&A session about her desire to perform “lighter” ambient music). It began with low frequency sounds and a rumbling buzz, and included doors opening and closing and various sounds of machinery, with electric hums, blips and glitches. It was quite captivating and easy to get lost in. At one point, arpeggios and then beats emerged from the combination of noise percussion and more harmonic sounds, which got progressively louder as the piece built up to a climax and then faded to nothingness. The music was set against a video that focused entirely on a cloth-encased figure suspended in mid-air. It wasn’t clear at first whether this was a cloth figure or an actual person, though as the video progressed it became clear that it was the latter. The frequent shot and angle changes gave the video a glitchy quality which matched many of the electronic sounds in the music.
The final set featured Chen Santa Maria, the duo of Steve Santa Maria and George Chen. Both members of the group played electric guitar and a variety of electronic effects. The set began with a guitar drone set against high squeaking humming sounds. These sounds were soon joined by full guitar chords with heavy distortion and undulating raspy sounds from synthesizers or effects units. There were bursts of noise distortion and high shrieking. This was definitely a loud set. But there were still details to listen to (with appropriate ear protection). The harmonic patterns of the distorted guitars created rhythms, which was set against a more formal triplet rhythm from the electronic sound sources. This rhythmic pattern essentially continued for the remainder of the set, with periods of driving guitar, bursts of noise and more high shrieking tones which then decayed into a low rumbling noise. As the set drew to a close, the sounds became more “digital” with lots of blips and choppy sounds, but then this was replaced by a loud square wave. The square wave started out at a moderate pitch, but got lower and lower until it became a series of audibly distinct pulses, and then came to an abrupt stop.
Although this was the last performance of the festival, I will be presenting one more article, where I return to the MultiVox night which included my own performance with Reconnaissance Fly and the Cornelius Cardew Choir…
Posted on July 29, 2010 July 29, 2010 by catsynth Posted in Music, Reviews, San Francisco, Synthesizers Tagged ambient, analog, chen santa maria, ciat lombarde, dry ice, electronic music, experimental music, headboggle, kadet kuhne, moog, Music, noise, outsound music summit, phog masheeen, review, San Francisco, video 3 Comments
Metal Machine Manifesto – Music for 16 Intonarumori
Last Friday, I attended Metal Machine Manifesto—Music for 16 Intonarumori at the Yerba Buenca Center for Arts here in San Francisco. This concert, a joint performance of SFMOMA and Performa, was part of a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the launch of futurism, or more specifically the Italian Futurist movement launched in 1909. A century ago, the futurists were producing art, music, architecture and performance that still feels very modern, even more so than some of the more conservative post-modern art of recent decades.
In the area of music, one of the most influential composers and writers was Luigi Russolo, who wrote the Art of Noises, and developerd the intonarumori or noise makers. The work of Russolo and others in futurist music paved the way for experimental and technologically-focused music from George Antheil to the electronic experimental and noise music of today that we at CatSynth perform and celebrate. Indeed, RoseLee Goldberg in her introductory remarks to the program refers to the music of the futurists as the “original DNA of noise music.”
The intonarumori were hand-cranked instruments designed to produce “noises”. Their sounds included whirrs and buzzes, clangs, scrapes, and also sirens and mechanically plucked strings.
For this performance, Luciano Chessa, a “foremost Russolo scholar” oversaw the recreation of 16 intonarumori, which were used to perform both pieces by the original futurist composers, and contemporary pieces for these instruments.
The recreated intonarumori looked much like the old pictures, with simple wooden boxes and large cones for sound projection. You can see and hear some of the futurist noise makers in this video from Chessa and composer/performer Mike Patton:
After the concert I a chance to see the intonarumori up close and even try a couple of them out. This medium-sized instrument produced repeated plucked-string sounds.
This one was purely mechanical, though another that I tried which produced automobile noises appeared to have an electric motor.
The concert itself featured Luciano Chessa as conductor for most of the pieces, and members of the Magik*Magik Orchestra under the direction of Minna Choi.
It opened with Paolo Buzzi’s 1916 piece Pioggia nel pineto antidannunziana. This was a rather theatrical piece, with dramatic conducting by Chessa and various words in Italian shouted through a megaphone. The noise intoners here were used to literally reflect the urban noises of the time such as sirens and the whirring of machinery.
In the the more contemporary pieces, the noise intoners were used in other contexts rather than as simulation and expression of the modern noisy environment, but as instruments that could be played subtly and expressively. Such was the case with Theresa Wong’s Meet me at the Future Garden. Hits and clangs and mechanically plucked strings were set against Wong’s percussive vocals and Dohee Lee’s more dramatic low voice with loud vowel intonations. From Wong’s program notes: “2 a.m. sharp, in a primordial cooperation of pulsating forest, I will sing you a song tactitle tick tocking of residual harmonies, caution manifest launching the dominance of mutual respoect and hypersensitivitiy this message sent from my iphone [sp].”
let us return to the old masters, a collaborative composition by members of sfSoundGroup, took its inspiration directly from a quote of Francesco Balilla Pratella ‘s Manifesto of Futurist Musicians to “destroy the produce for ‘well-made’ music”. The piece itself was composed during the rehearsals for the concert. The sfSoundGroup members have excelled at extended technique and performance of complex compositions with their traditional instruments, and brought that skill to the intonarumori.
The first half of the concert ended with one of the most disinctive pieces of the evening, Donno Casina by Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi. The performance featured two the larger “bass” intonarumori, along with Kihlstedt on vocals and violin, Bossi on accordian, and Moe! Staiano playing a large drum and collection of colorful metal objects. The distinctly futurist sound of the intonarumori was blended with Kihlstedt’s more contemporary extended vocal and violin techniques, and Moe!’s intense and theatrical percussion performance.
In addition to having the best title of any piece in the concert, James Fei’s New Acoustical Pleasures (A Furious Meow) was the most subtle. It was made of “quiet noises” with lots of empty space between sounds and relatively little movement, and reminded me of some of John Cage’s more static pieces. The short, soft tones from the intonarumori were quite a contrast to the loud blaring representations of modern life of the original futurist pieces.
While listening to John Butcher’s penny wands and the native string, I came up with the word “scrapier” to describe the piece. And I am pretty sure that is not a real word. Nonetheless, the piece was “scrapier” than the others. The performance, which featured Gino Robair, included lots of scrapes and grinding sounds building up to a crescendo and then coming to an abrupt stop. After a brief silence, the scrapes and grinding sounds resumed. This pattern repeated a couple of times, with variations in each repeitition.
After Fei’s and Butcher’s pieces, the full ensemble returned for Mike Patton’s << KOSTNICE >>. All sixteen intonarumori were played together to produce a thick “orchestral” sound along with drums.
Luciano Chessa’s L’acoustic ivresse (Les buits de la Paix) also featured the full ensemble plus bass vocalist Richard Mix. There were similar thick clusters as in << KOSTNICE >>, but this time framing Mix’s vocals. There were moments when the vocals and ensemble played off on another, with Mix’s strong bass voice and traditional singing style simultaneously blending and contrasting with intonarumori. This performance received one of the longer and more spirited rounds of applause of the concert.
Elliott Sharp’s Then Go, which featured Dohee Lee, received a similar reaction. This was another full-ensemble piece, where the noise tones were very well synchronized to Lee’s dramatic singing. She also tapped (or stomped) her feet in time with percussive sounds from the ensemble in a strong rhythmic pattern. Through the rhythm, piece seemed to connect both the futurist sounds (as archetypically modern sounds) with something much more traditional, even primal.
The concert concluded with a realization of a fragment from Luigi Russolo’s 1913 Risveglio di una città. Like the other original futurist work in the program, this piece directly referenced “sounds of the modern world” like cars and sirens. This very short fragment of a piece abruptly ended with Chessa dropping his baton.
Posted on October 23, 2009 September 20, 2010 by catsynth Posted in Music, Reviews, San Francisco Tagged avant garde, carla kihlstedt, dohee lee, elliott sharp, experimental music, futurism, gino robair, intonarumori, italian futurism, james fei, john butcher, Luciano Chessa, Luigi Russolo, magik*magik, matthias bossi, mike patton, minna choi, moe!, noise, performance, Reviews, San Francisco, sfsound, theresa wong 2 Comments
(co)sine – LIVE – Luna's Cafe … and Mimì makes the rounds
From sendling we have this video of artist (co)sine. Great stuff, and it's at Luna's Cafe! How could I not repost.
Scrolling down one post earlier at sendling, we see a familiar face. Remember Mimì? Well, it seems that she's been making the rounds since her debut here at CatSynth, popping up at sendling and matrix. Go Mimì!
Posted on March 16, 2007 by catsynth Posted in Cats, Music, Synthesizers Tagged cafe, cat, cosine, electronic music, Luna, mimi, noise, Synthesizers
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Epic Insanity: US is preparing to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities?
Submitted by wendy davis on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 11:29am
For those who believe that it’s Bolton who’s still in charge of Trump’s Iranian policy, he seems to have handed it to his Secretary of Gunboat Diplomacy, Mike Pompeo, John Kiriakou’s Bolton’s Long Goodbye notwithstanding. Pompeo’s apparently been all over the Sunday teevee talking heads programs urging global solidarity in his/their mission to take on punishing Iran. Trump’s threats a month ago that if it came to war with Iran it would mean ‘the official end of Iran’…, arguably at the behest of his friends Nuclear Netenyahu and Crown Prince bin Salman of the Glowing Orb…may have even gotten tiresome for him.
‘U.N. officials: U.S. planning a ‘tactical assault’ in Iran; the military action under consideration would be an aerial bombardment of an Iranian facility linked to its nuclear program, the officials further claimed’, SHLOMO SHAMIR/MAARIV ONLINE, June 17, 2019, jpost.com
“Is the US going to attack Iran soon?
Diplomatic sources at the UN headquarters in New York revealed to Maariv that they are assessing the United States’ plans to carry out a tactical assault on Iran in response to the tanker attack in the Persian Gulf on Thursday.
According to the officials, since Friday, the White House has been holding incessant discussions involving senior military commanders, Pentagon representatives and advisers to President Donald Trump.
The military action under consideration would be an aerial bombardment of an Iranian facility linked to its nuclear program, the officials further claimed.
“The bombing will be massive but will be limited to a specific target,” said a Western diplomat.The decision to carry out military action against Iran was discussed in the White House before the latest report that Iran might increase the level of uranium enrichment.
The officials also noted that the United States plans to reinforce its military presence in the Middle East, and in the coming days will also send additional soldiers to the area.
The sources added that President Trump himself was not enthusiastic about a military move against Iran, but lost his patience on the matter and would grant Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is pushing for action, what he wants.
Pompeo has repeatedly made statements against Iran in recent days. He claimed that there is no doubt that the recent explosions in tankers in the Gulf were carried out by Iran.”
‘More troops and photos: America’s message to Tehran; The photos and the request for troops are a message to Tehran and the region that the US is serious about defending its interests and proving Tehran’s involvement, Seth J. Frantzman, June 18, 2019, jpost.com (and yes, a photo of the oil tanker with a jagged hole far above the water line)
“At least 1,000 US troops are on the way to the Middle East after a request from US Central Command, acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said on Monday. The US also released new photos showing Iranian involvement in the June 13 attack on two oil tankers.
The photos and the request for troops are a message to Tehran and the region that the US is serious about defending its interests and proving Tehran’s involvement. The photos of Iran’s involvement in removing an unexploded mine from a tanker clearly show an Iranian fast boat with ten men on board. This is alleged to be an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp boat sent on the afternoon of June 13 to remove the mine from one of the disabled ships.
Why would Iran remove a mine in broad daylight? It was apparently fearful that the ship would be towed to the UAE where a salvage crew and investigators would find the mine and easily link it to Iran. But the brazen Iranian removal also appears to show they felt. That even with US cameras rolling, they could do what they wanted in international waters and that there would be no repercussions. Iran has gambled on the US not wanting war.
Shanah[han?] says that the US does not seek conflict with Iran. That means that the US troop deployment is primarily defensive, for now, and that the message is for Iran. But. What is the nature of the message? Iran has announced it will surpass uranium stockpile guidelines set by the 2015 Iran Deal and Iran has threatened to close the Straits of Hormuz to oil shipments. It has also been working more closely with Russia, China and Turkey in several major summits in central Asia over the last week. Iran’s message is that it won’t be deterred.
The US now faces a significant challenge. It can keep showing photos, even close-ups of the IRGC men removing the mine or doing other activities. But Iran has wagered that this doesn’t matter. According to the US the Iranians even fired a missile at a US Reaper drone that was monitoring the June 13 attack. This also comes after two rocket attacks near US personnel in Iraq, one on May 19, one on June 17, and a mortar attack last Friday, and the May 12 sabotage of four oil tankers. In addition the Houthis in Yemen have dramatically increased their use of drones against Saudi Arabia. Iran is testing the US and its allies, seeing if there will be pushback.”
Statement from US Central Command on attacks against U.S. observation aircrafthttps://t.co/xeFfErkLwx
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) June 16, 2019
Let’s try to untangle a few of these claims. First, Iran had started a 60-day clock announcement that if the EU and other interested parties couldn’t get sanctions lifted and allow Iran to sell oil again, create an alternative to the SWIFT banking system, then they’d consider enriching uranium to a higher level, and that it was Trump (by way of Bibi) who’d pulled the US out of the JCPOA, which agreement was designed to ease sanctions on Iran, never mind that the IAEA had continued to say that Iran was in full compliance.
And never mind that anyone with half a brain can tell that the ‘Iranian attack on the oil tankers’ is such an obvious false flag that it would be funny…if the repercussions weren’t about to be so serious. The drone may have been what the owner of the tankers had noted crew members had reported: some sort of missile (some had reported ‘two’ from the air, not something exploding on the ocean’s surface. Over to a few snippets from Peter Symonds:
‘US preparing “assault” against Iran’, Peter Symonds, 18 June 2019, wsws.org
“The US subsequently [post JCPOA] re-imposed and strengthened its crippling sanctions on Iran aimed at cutting off all oil exports and collapsing the Iranian economy. It also threatened to take punitive economic measures against companies breaching its unilateral sanctions. Washington’s actions amount to an economic blockade of Iran and an act of war.
With US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the lead, the Trump administration is exploiting attacks on two tankers in the Persian Gulf last Thursday as the pretext for threatening to strike Iran. On Sunday, Pompeo declared that the US was “considering a full range of options,” including “a military response.”
The US Central Command, which would oversee any attack on Iran, released a video which it claims shows a small boat of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) approaching and removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the damaged tankers—the Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous. It followed up yesterday with photos of the same alleged activity.”
U.S. Central Command Statement on June 13 Limpet Mine Attack in the Gulf of Oman. https://t.co/9S9s3tqHST pic.twitter.com/d71d7d0HOK
“US officials have continued to blame Iran for the attacks despite a declaration from the tanker’s owner that the vessel was hit by a flying object according to its crew members. Both Japan and Germany have questioned Washington’s claims and called for further evidence, saying the video did not constitute sufficient proof. Iran has denied any involvement in the attacks.”
“Pompeo is due to travel today to US Central Command (CENTCOM) headquarters in Florida. He will meet with two top military leaders—CENTCOM commander General Kenneth McKenzie and General Richard Clarke, head of the Special Operations Command—to “discuss regional security concerns and operations.”
“The US has also seized on Iranian statements on Monday warning that its low-level enrichment of uranium will exceed the limit set under the 2015 agreement within 10 days to further wind up tensions. Speaking to the media on Monday, US National Security Council spokesman Garrett Marquis branded Iran’s actions as “nuclear blackmail” and insisted it must be met with “increasing international pressure.”
“Marquis also reiterated Trump’s lie that the US pulled out because “the horrible nuclear deal left their capabilities intact.”
“Iran has only tentatively moved towards abrogating the agreement, even though it would be fully justified in doing so by Washington’s illegal actions. In early May, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani set a 60-day deadline for the other signatories—Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China—to put tangible measures in place to enable Iran to export oil and transact with international banks. The deadline expires on July 7.
The European powers have sought to save the agreement, but so far have taken little action. An alternative payment system, INSTEX, which that would circumvent the existing US-dominated international financial and banking system, has been launched but is not yet operational. Even if it were up and running, it would initially only apply to trade in food and medicine. A fully operational system would bring the European powers into open conflict with the United States, which would undoubtedly retaliate.
The Trump administration’s warmongering in the Persian Gulf is opening up divisions in Europe. While German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has openly questioned US “evidence” of Iranian involvement in last week’s tanker attacks, Britain has quickly fallen into line. On Monday, Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini, leader of the fascist Lega, signalled Rome’s support for Washington’s war drive against Iran.
The Trump administration is recklessly preparing for a war against Iran. Any US airstrike on Iran, even if limited to one attack, would rapidly escalate into an all-out war that would not only involve other US regional allies such as Saudi Arabia and Israel, but also threaten to drag in other major powers to defend their vital interests.”
(cross-posted from Café Babylon)
hands off iran
empire and war crimes
caucus99percent blog
Submitted by ggersh on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 1:02pm
should we attack Iran
it would signal the beginning of the end
the whole ME will go up in flames.
our fearless leader and those he choose
to enable himself are fucking bullies and
while they may be able to bully some me
thinks Iran won't go for it...
trump will be amerika's last president
What if the impeachment of tRumpolini is meant
to destroy the D party, makes sense doesn't it?
elections = tptb excuse for sayin ameriKa is a
Submitted by The Wizard on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 1:37pm
This will quickly blow up
@ggersh
Iran has competent missile capabilities and will retaliate. The US will once again use stand-off weapons to attack, certainly Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from ships offshore of Iran. Iran has the capability to sink those ships in retaliation, which is totally justifiable. That will result in US loss of life and military assets. The Administration and the assholes in Congress will be outraged, "how dare they retaliate?" The result will be an unplanned full-on war with Iran, for which the US is ill prepared and Iran is quite prepared.
I think that Trump is walking a fine line on any re-election possibilities. His bellicosity has turned-off many Americans. Outright war that he has not sold to America will completely eliminate his chances, if not get him summarily impeached. I can't believe that he doesn't see this. Is he that commited to Israel and his beloved Saudi Arabia? Is he that easily swayed by the most evil characters in his administration? By getting him to commit violence with a few unjustified acts is he now "signed up"? I don't see him ever using caution or admitting culpability. This is a setup for a major disaster. What is going on here?
Capitalism has always been the rule of the people by the oligarchs. You only have two choices, eliminate them or restrict their power.
Submitted by MrWebster on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 1:46pm
In most bizarre way, Trump was the anti-war candidate in 2016
@The Wizard And it helped him win enough electoral college votes. I go back to a study that showed that counties with more military deaths supported Trump over his anti-interventionist rhetoric. That will all be blown away.
A NEW STUDY suggests that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump won more votes from communities with high military casualties than from similar communities which suffered fewer casualties.
Recall that Trump campaigned as a somewhat antiwar candidate who would break with bipartisan pro-war consensus (a promise he has not lived up to, and which didn’t exactly match his past record). His Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, ran a campaign more or less embracing the war status quo — with the emphasis occasionally, as with the case of Syria, on more.
STUDY FINDS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HIGH MILITARY CASUALTIES AND VOTES FOR TRUMP OVER CLINTON
Submitted by Big Al on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 3:53pm
He spoke with forked tongue. He also campaigned on
@MrWebster doing exactly what he and his admin are doing right now, going after Iran. I wrote about it numerous times trying to warn people he wasn't antiwar. Seems when people get the idea their candidate is antiwar there's no swaying them. Until the war. Even then it's all about the deep state or Clinton or Bolton, not the one in charge.
#1.1 And it helped him win enough electoral college votes. I go back to a study that showed that counties with more military deaths supported Trump over his anti-interventionist rhetoric. That will all be blown away.
The one and only thing that drives tRump
@The Wizard is the almighty dollar, although he might think
he has another act or two.
D's impeach him for this, nah.
As for your last question, the nuts are
in charge.
Iran has in all likelihood been planning for this day.
@ggersh Just when Bush invaded Iraq, I read a small press release that over the next several years Iran would train up to 35,000 suicide bombers. My impression is that Iran will engage in asymmetrical warfare or what some people called 4th generation war.
It will be Israel that nukes Iran
@MrWebster should this proceed on it's course.
While Bibi the nutter(tRumps soul brother)
thinks he has the most to gain, Israel
actually has the most to lose.
Did I mention that they're all fuckin nutz?
#1 Just when Bush invaded Iraq, I read a small press release that over the next several years Iran would train up to 35,000 suicide bombers. My impression is that Iran will engage in asymmetrical warfare or what some people called 4th generation war.
Submitted by wendy davis on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 4:50pm
the only thing i was
@MrWebster
able to kick up about that history was in 2007 at the 'middle east forum', but i'm not sure i trust the report, and dunno who Ali Alfoneh is. but it reads like hasbara to me, just skimming it, looking at the right sidebar.
it may be akin to the constant (and apparent mis-translation) of former irainan prez Ahmadinejad wanting to 'wipe israel off the map'.
oh, well;
@wendy davis
here he is. glancing at the titles of his pieces, meh. 'Ali Alfoneh is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies'.
pretty self promoting on twitter.
it's all pure insanity!
and you have to suspect that even centcom, trump, pompeo, bolton, bibi, bin salman, and the allied global nations...know that it's all based on false flags and utter lies, even past ones, but they want iran gone, so no rational thought matters. john mcCrnkypants must be cheering from his grave.
how many minutes before midnight is the nuclear clock now?
We aren't far from the minute hand
@wendy davis crossing to the right of 12.
doesn't the big hand
move past 12 once there is nuclear conflagration? and i agree w/ woods dweller, bombing nuclear facilities even w/ light water reactors would unleash hell. likely they'd use israel bunker busters as india has. are they just tipped with sorta spent uranium? oh, well, it's all so unimaginable, really.
but which is the sole nation EVER to have dropped nuclear bombs on a nation?
#1.3 crossing to the right of 12.
All major media is in on the justification for war.
Was listening to NPR and all their reports on Iran were just repeating in their own way State department press releases. Adam Johnson has a few tweets that show the utter lying stenography of the major media and bringing out pro-war hacks from the days of the Iraq invasion.
https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonnyc
Adam also points out the typical democrat response. Basically support war against Iran, but blame Trump for doing it all wrong. Of course, the gopers did this with Obama.
It just shows what others have said, private media companies are simply extensions of the corporate, security and war state. It is really like when a company hires a PR firm to manage its press releases. Somebody pointed out that CNN treats everything Trump says with doubt and suspicion except when it regards Iran, where everything is believed uncritically.
It seems to me that reports that Trump/Pompeo will heavily bomb one site in Iran are credible.
it was cnn that had reported
days ago that 'anonymous insiders tell us that Iran shot down our drone spy plane', etc.
but your twitter dude gives the sainted ilhan omar a free pass, lol. but i did grab this one, thanks;
It's honestly incredible that, as the UN is reporting that the US is planning air strikes on Iran, after the US threatened Iran with an aircraft carrier, bombers, and troops, that the NY Times says that it's *Iran* that "tests" the US pic.twitter.com/nkWMeFMRi8
— Khury (@kpYES) June 17, 2019
i gotta go get some rest as i have a hegg-ache big as...a boeing bomber; be back soon, and it's great y'all are talking to one another.
Maybe Iran should only mine DC
@MrWebster how would that workout?
@MrWebster @MrWebster how would that workout?
EDIT:sorry doubleclick
your amigo had the tweet
of the psyop to which i'd been referring; this is solid gold:
and here is our story!!! Iranian boat fired missile at US drone prior to tanker attack, US official says @CNNPolitics https://t.co/lq5Umuuamw
— Barbara Starr (@barbarastarrcnn) June 14, 2019
(anthony freda's 'disinformation room'
Submitted by WoodsDweller on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 1:54pm
I think it's orchestrated escalation
False flag on shipping.
Iran vows to step up uranium enrichment.
Conventional attack on some Iranian military target, possibly related to their nuclear program. This will inevitably spill radiation, BTW.
Iran retaliates with a strike against a convenient military target, for example the Abraham Lincoln.
Oil prices spike. Options traders make billions. Nobody quite knows where the money goes.
Response with tactical nuclear weapons, the "second strike" that Tom Cotton keeps talking about.
Full on conventional (probably) response by Iran. The US Command is astonished that they didn't surrender. They had a Plan B, but never expected to need it, and it wasn't adequate. Oops!
Further nuclear strikes. Iranian oil fields wrecked.
Russia and/or China supply Iran with tactical nukes with which to respond. American forces in the region decimated.
Israel launches their nukes. Iran responds.
Don't worry, El Trumpo is the steady hand in control of "the launch codes".
The truth is never as interesting as wild speculation.
i like your
@WoodsDweller
'orchestrated escalation' calculations, save for iran just started the enrichment clock 60 days ago in hopes...well, yanno. but that's not who Our Betters heard it, did they? yeah, i just saw big mouth cotton on twitter; yech.
RT has it that Trump told time magazine that he's not desiring war on iran, and another piece that acting sec def stranahan withdrew from consideration, apparently during his background check there were found some reports of fights w/ his wife. so now, it's 'boeing out, raytheon in!'
trouble is, most military members don't even face much threat these days, war has become so mechanized. ground invasions seem to be obsolete.
Submitted by Alligator Ed on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 1:56pm
Wendy, you are a subtle writer
but your essay throws me. The first half of your post seems to echo the party line that "Iran done it" but the second half is more reflective of reality. Perhaps a snark warning for th first part would have been in order. At any rate the US has already retaliated any causing explosions on 6 Iranian boats. This I believe will be the "in kind" punishment. For now, the score is even (if you wish to call it that). So did the Iranians remove a mine from the Norwegian tanker. Previous to false flag committed on two Japanese tankers while Prime Minister Abe is visiting Iran is so stupid that only Bolt-on Bo;t-off or Pompous Mike would think people would fall for it. But there were some non-Japanese tankers set aflame in the Gulf earlier. Whose fingerprints are on these?
i'd simply wanted readers to be
@Alligator Ed
advised of the jerusalem post's reporting. sorry you couldn't figure it out./s after all this was the first repost of the maariv online. news. thus, one might be tempted to wonder whether their report of (anonymous) 'Diplomatic sources at the UN headquarters in New York revealed to Maariv that they are assessing the United States’ plans to carry out a tactical assault on Iran in response to the tanker attack in the Persian Gulf on Thursday' might be a psyop, but if it's even close to that, we should ask not only why, but what more can they bleed from iran, or is it all just to convince the global world that it's practically a fait accomplis by now?
who save iran's allies will gie a good goddam? i did dig out iranian FM javad zarif's twit account, but he hasn't weighed in on this yet. just earlier accusations:
That the US immediately jumped to make allegations against Iran—w/o a shred of factual or circumstantial evidence—only makes it abundantly clear that the #B_Team is moving to a #PlanB: Sabotage diplomacy—including by @AbeShinzo—and cover up its #EconomicTerrorism against Iran.
— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) June 14, 2019
p.s. i'll try to remember to show you later how to downsize huuuuge graphics.
WD, you are fun with whom to correspond
@wendy davis Last point first: I know how to downsize pictures--I often choose not to do so--yes, it's an extravagant use of electrons but I don't care.
Now since I don't read the Jerusalem Post, I was unprepared for the onslaught of bullshit the first part of your essay delivered. I like my bullshit delivered in plain brown packages. So, thank you very much. It would not be snarky on my part to request that you please indicate your snarkiness with the usual symbol accepted by our community: s/
i'd written: now let's
see if we can untangle some of these claims...', no? how in blazes would i indicate i wasn't buying their rubbish, srsly? i should give the title and publication of the piece followed by: /s? sorry, i don't follow, gator.
now i still wonder about the original MAARIV ONLINE story w/ the (unnamed) UN officials and diplomat in it.
your right to not resize graphics, i reckon, but on big al's thread someone had put up a huge one that *may* have been referring to mackinder's eurasian heartland (geopolitics) theory, but it was so large it was fuzzy. i srsly backed out and never commented, not that i really knew what i might have contributed, lol. plus the fact that JtC had mentioned that this place uses a hella lotta bandwidth, and images burn a lot of it.
#4.1 Last point first: I know how to downsize pictures--I often choose not to do so--yes, it's an extravagant use of electrons but I don't care.
I would apologize for not recognizing Jerusalem Postings
@wendy davis But of course, then I, unlike yourself do not read 42 different magazines daily. So, in this age of fake news and fake politicians and fake policies, how am I, a poor being of limited cranial capacity, to know when you are being snarky. That would imply foreknowledge of which you are writing. And, thank you, wd, for warning me on behalf of JtC that I am recklessly burning bandwidth with my outsized pictures. I do this so that viewers, who get eyestrain from reading dense prose, can relax their tired eyeballs and enjoy a nice picture, If a big picture is worth a thousand words, are smaller pictures giving one a more condensed view?
#4.1.1
quasi-apology accepted.
but it's not that i read at so many sites...ordinarily, save for seeing what anti-palestinian hasbara is afoot, and more recently what jerusalem post, and less incendiary: haaretz has had to say about about the Trump/kushner/netenyahu/adelson I/P 'deal of the century' peace? plan.
but this time, i'd been pinging off '‘US preparing “assault” against Iran’, Peter Symonds, 18 June 2019, wsws.org for the first jpost, and then dug out the second one by myownself (fancy that cleverness, lol). there were others, of course.
and lol to: 'If a big picture is worth a thousand words, are smaller pictures giving one a more condensed view?'
g' night, wally gator.
#4.1.1.1 But of course, then I, unlike yourself do not read 42 different magazines daily. So, in this age of fake news and fake politicians and fake policies, how am I, a poor being of limited cranial capacity, to know when you are being snarky. That would imply foreknowledge of which you are writing. And, thank you, wd, for warning me on behalf of JtC that I am recklessly burning bandwidth with my outsized pictures. I do this so that viewers, who get eyestrain from reading dense prose, can relax their tired eyeballs and enjoy a nice picture, If a big picture is worth a thousand words, are smaller pictures giving one a more condensed view?
Submitted by Alligator Ed on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 10:09pm
Quasi-apologogy acceptance accepted
@wendy davis Dear wd, I definitely respect your thoroughness in researching your eloquent theses. Some times I actually agree with you. Actually I agree with you more times than not.
I am also fond enough with "Nuclear Netanyahoo" that I very well may plagiarize it--and, like so often happens, state I got the idea from an anonymous source.
#4.1.1.1.1
Submitted by wendy davis on Wed, 06/19/2019 - 8:25am
yes, i'm down with you
calling me your anonymous source, gator, but on one condition: that you pay me $1.99 for it, as i'm a poor widow with three blind chirren. (you may pay the cashier on your way out the door, please.)
but speaking of Nuclear Netanyau, this creepy-do-peepy uber paranoia: ‘Israel Bracing for 'Provocation' from Iran Amid US Tensions, Newspaper Claims’, june 19, sputniknews.com
“According to the unnamed officials, Iran has been "disappointed" over its apparent inability to pressure the US into rethinking its tough sanctions regime, and as a result "might opt for a provocation along the Israeli border."
This, according to the officials' logic, would further exacerbate the sense of a crisis in the Middle East and force Washington to 'reexamine its steps' against the Islamic Republic.
Haaretz's sources did not clarify what specific hostile steps Iran might take, although the newspaper suggested scenarios include a conflict involving Shia militias operating in southern Syria, "or perhaps an operation by Hezbollah or others in southern Lebanon."
Israel has ramped up its security efforts amid the tensions in the region. The country's security cabinet met twice this week, with the Israel Defence Forces holding two large-scale preplanned drills in the country's north. The Israeli Air Force held its own exercises simulating a multi-front conflict, reportedly including scenarios in which enemy forces are armed with S-300 and S-400 air defence systems.
On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he was aware of reports of "our neighbours from the north, south and east threatening to destroy us," and warned that Israel has immense "destructive power" which would-be enemies shouldn't test"
and this is awesome x 3:
‘US Navy Claims to Have Found Mine Fragments, Magnet Pointing to Iran in Oil Tankers Attack’, sputniknews.com today
"The United States Navy has shown limpet mine shards as well as a magnet extracted from one of the oil tankers allegedly attacked last week, claiming that they bore striking resemblance to Iranian mines.
According to Cmdr. Sean Kido of the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet speaking to reporters at a NAVCENT facility in Fujairah, the UAE, the damage inflicted to the Kokuka Courageous tanker was "not consistent with an external flying object hitting the ship" which contradicted a previous eyewitness testimony earlier revealed by the ship's owner.
The official added that fingerprints and a hand print have been recovered as a result of the probe conducted by the US Navy."
the prints likely resemble iranian ones, too. and there you have it: iron clad innuendo brought to you by the unbiased US navy investigators.
kewl that you agree with most of what i write; i usually do as well. ; )
#4.1.1.1.1.1 Dear wd, I definitely respect your thoroughness in researching your eloquent theses. Some times I actually agree with you. Actually I agree with you more times than not.
Submitted by Alligator Ed on Wed, 06/19/2019 - 10:46am
I am glad you find yourself agreeable with er...yourself
@wendy davis Interesting news how smart we Americans are in knowing an Iranian handprint when they see one--you know, the six fingered ones. Yes, and there's nothing like Iranian metal shards> Nothing like this anywhere in the world. You can tlell it's Iranian because the metal is rainbow colored, just the way it comes from the weapons factories of those sneaky mullahs.
#4.1.1.1.1.1.1
Submitted by wendy davis on Wed, 06/19/2019 - 11:40am
as i'd said...
most of the time...i agree with what i write. is that the telling signature of palm and finger prints of iranians? six fingers? and rainbow metal shards? yeah, the palm print would show the bumps from the first metacarpal/phalangeal joints; must have been six, then.
dang, those navy sleuths are good! let's give them a Large Clap!
#4.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Interesting news how smart we Americans are in knowing an Iranian handprint when they see one--you know, the six fingered ones. Yes, and there's nothing like Iranian metal shards> Nothing like this anywhere in the world. You can tlell it's Iranian because the metal is rainbow colored, just the way it comes from the weapons factories of those sneaky mullahs.
Submitted by Johnny Q on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 2:26pm
I think we need to face a "Coalition of the Willing"
We are clearly a threat to the region and are planning an illegal war of aggression.
They say that there's a broken light for every heart on Broadway
They say that life's a game and then they take the board away
They give you masks and costumes and an outline of the story
And leave you all to improvise their vicious cabaret-- A. Moore
blockades and crippling
@Johnny Q
sanctions are of course war by other means, but if the US is waging 'lo intensity war' is 40 nations now (including nato and africom), clearly amerika is the largest aggressor on the planet. of course the claim is always that the 'US exports democracy' as w/ bill clinton's wars in somalia and yugoslavia: Returning to the scene of the crime, Ex-US President Clinton visits Kosovo to celebrate 20th anniversary of NATO bombardment of Serbia, Jordan Shilton, 15 June 2019, wsws.org
"Clinton was joined for the ceremony by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former NATO supreme Commander General Wesley Clark, all of whom played a leading role in initiating the war of aggression against Serbia under the guise of standing up for “human rights.”
reading what wsws had reported in 1999 after the massive bombing blew my mind:
"At least 1,500 civilians have been killed. In the course of nearly 35,000 sorties, the US air force—abetted by its European accomplices—shattered a vast portion of the industrial and social infrastructure of Yugoslavia. NATO estimates that 57 percent of the country's petroleum reserves have been damaged or destroyed. Nearly all the major highways, railways and bridges have been extensively bombed. The electrical transformers, central power plants and water filtration systems upon which modern urban centers depend are functioning at only a fraction of their pre-bombardment capacity. Several hundred thousand workers have lost their livelihoods because of the destruction of their factories and workplaces. Several major hospitals have suffered extensive bomb-related damages. Schools attended by a total of 100,000 children have been damaged or destroyed."
i've long thought of putting up an open-thread sort of post about it, as i'd always bought into 'barbarian war criminal milosevic' in my ignorance. that's one good thing about being online; one can check out counter-arguments. and of course milocevic was posthumously exonerated of war crimes after he died in the prison at the hague.
anway, may the gods save the citizens of the planet from the US of A.
Possible election tie-in
I'm not wondering "why?", I'm wondering "why now?".
I'm sure Clinton was on board for an attack on Iran. Trump seems to be in favor. But the polling shows Trump losing the election (still a long way off, of course). I'm sure that some of the Dem candidates are also on board, but maybe the Pentagon doesn't want to take the chance of someone winning who won't play along.
is there an election afoot?
now i can't really speak to that, but i will offer that mr. webster's adam johnson had retweeted this fwiw (2017?; okay...)
Remember 2017, when not a single Democrat in the House or Senate opposed new sanctions against Iran? (Except Sanders, who is an Independent but caucuses w/ the Dems.)
Every Dem in Congress helped set the stage for the Trump admin's dangerous escalation.https://t.co/nLslBJrwJu
— Sarah Lazare (@sarahlazare) June 18, 2019
Submitted by Snode on Wed, 06/19/2019 - 7:44am
Election tie in....
@WoodsDweller If the economy heads south, there's always war. How can we talk about (economics, health care, education, jobs) when there's a war on! Ask not what your country can do for you! Everybody don your American flag pins (made in China).
I like the idea of Bread and Circuses, we ought to try it sometime. Instead we get Austerity and Body Bags.
Submitted by The Voice In th... on Wed, 06/19/2019 - 9:44pm
CNN trumpeting that Biden beats Trump by 9 points
Where? In NYC?
What was I doing watching CNN, you ask? I was in a nursing home visiting. CNN was on in the common room polluting the residents' minds in their twilight years.
Sanders-Gabbard 2020 !
Submitted by The Voice In th... on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 8:06pm
So REMOVING a mine is an act of war?
Then what is ATTACHING a mine? A peace move?
Someone (Trump/Pompeo) has their semantics backwards.
EDIT: and any numbskull knows you plant a mine UNDER the waterline, not above the waterline. Doesn't make a good photo that way though.
rotflmao!
@The Voice In the Wilderness
topsy-turvey past-orwellian news world. but of course attaching a limpet mine is just a ride on The Peace Train.
and that will serve as tonight's closing song. thank you all for a fine thread, and good night to all.
Submitted by Big Al on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 11:02pm
Article from Pepe Escobar explains how Iran is at the center
of the geopolitical power game. China and Russia can't afford to let Iran be taken down but that doesn't mean they couldn't throw Iran under the bus as well. As he states at the end, no one knows how this is going to shake out. I'm sure not even Trump who during his latest bullshit speech which included the issue of 9/11, he showed how fucking stupid he really is. I'll have to go back and find it but what he said told me the dude is not all that bright. So you know, that's our Commander in Chief.
Iran at the center of the Eurasian riddle
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51782.htm
Submitted by travelerxxx on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 11:45pm
No writer, Trump.
@Big Al
If Trump writes even one paragraph of his speeches, then he's a different man than the one we know penning those Twitter rants. I seriously doubt that his speeches are his own ideas and words. I assume his speech-writers have learned to stroke his ego as do the others in his circle. He does well at political rallies, with his backers screaming hosannas toward the podium, but that consists of him mostly repeating learned scripts.
Not to say he isn't stupid. However, he can still be effective even when stupid. Great mafia dons were possibly stupid for being in the mafia, but they could still be quite effective.
Submitted by Big Al on Wed, 06/19/2019 - 12:14am
Well, stupid is not the right term. But
@travelerxxx I can see where others in his admin like Rex Tillerson concluded he's a moron. Let's not forget his failings in the business world after a silver spoon start. He's a showman, a conman, but he's not all that bright. I'm not saying that from a superior standpoint at all, just as an observance of his inconsistencies and shallowness. The only reason it's a somewhat controversial assessment is because he is the President. If not, no one would blink an eye.
Submitted by travelerxxx on Wed, 06/19/2019 - 1:26am
The Chief Chiseler
Who am I to suggest Tillerson didn't know a moron when he encountered one. No doubt he was close to correct. But, you're right — Trump is a con who learned reality-TV show business. Someday they'll get hold of his tax info and reveal what a cheap swindler he really was. I say was because he'll be dead and gone by then.
#8.1 I can see where others in his admin like Rex Tillerson concluded he's a moron. Let's not forget his failings in the business world after a silver spoon start. He's a showman, a conman, but he's not all that bright. I'm not saying that from a superior standpoint at all, just as an observance of his inconsistencies and shallowness. The only reason it's a somewhat controversial assessment is because he is the President. If not, no one would blink an eye.
it's awfully long and
wide-ranging to read and grasp (even before my toast), but nah, India is indeed new US client. but this took a while to sink in, and causes me to wonder if it's actually so:
"There’s no question that in southwest Asia, Russia and Iran have interests that clash. What matters most for Moscow is to prevent jihadis from migrating to the Caucasus and Central Asia to plot attacks against the Russian Federation; to keep their navy and air force bases in Syria; and to keep oil and gas trading in full flow.
Tehran, for its part, cannot possibly support the sort of informal agreement Moscow established with Tel Aviv in Syria – where alleged Hezbollah and IRGC targets are bombed by Israel, but never Russian assets."
more mornig news:
b at MoA speculating on stranahan withdrawing his name from sec def consideration:
Trump already had difficulties to find a new Secretary of Defense. Shanahan was not his first choice. To now find a new candidate will be difficult.
It is unlikely that the U.S. would launch a war without a Secretary of Defense in place.
Bolton and Pompeo obviously want a war on Iran and they try their best to instigate it. They need a new SecDef in place as soon as possible.
Pompeo served five years as an officer in the U.S. army. He has extensive political experience. Would he want to become Secretary of Defense?
That would leave the Secretary of State position open for John Bolton to move in. The confirmation would be a bit difficult but the Senate is in Republican hands and might go with it.
One of Bolton's cronies could then take over the National Security Advisor position.
From the war-hawks' point of view it would be the ideal configuration to launch a big one.
he'd also featured this delightful Tweet:
Second day in a row. https://t.co/ohKEg1DMmu
— Jack Detsch (@JackDetsch_ALM) June 18, 2019
from an op-ed at wsws.org, a few squibs:
The feverish character of the US drive to war was expressed Tuesday in a highly unusual trip by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to MacDill Air Force Base in Florida for a meeting with the chief of CENTCOM, which oversees US military operations throughout the Middle East, and the commander of US Special Operations troops. CENTCOM’s Marine Gen. Kenneth McKenzie reportedly requested the deployment of another 20,000 US troops to the Iran battle zone but was overruled by the Joint Chiefs of Staff who feared that it could provoke a war. Like McKenzie, Army Lt. Gen. Richard Clarke, the head of Special Operations Command, was recently placed in charge by the Trump administration.
After the meeting, Pompeo insisted that Trump “does not want war,” but then went on to spell out an aggressive policy that leads inexorably to just that.
The threat of war was underscored by a pair of statements from China and Russia pointing to the growing danger posed by the US escalation. Beijing warned that Washington’s “practice of extreme pressure” threatened to open a “Pandora’s Box” in the Middle East. Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, meanwhile, told reporters in Moscow that the “unending and sustained US attempts to crank up political, psychological, economic and, yes, military pressure on Iran … cannot be assessed as anything but a conscious course to provoke war.”
We don’t want #Iran to get a nuclear weapon. We withdrew from the #JCPOA and are moving ourselves towards a set of policies which will convince Iran to behave like a normal nation. pic.twitter.com/mhEF0b8F5h
— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) June 18, 2019
Sitting here at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
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17 sec ago
You just tickled the hell out of me.
I am not as polite as you, so I fixed this :
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Not sure why anybody would pay attention to these idiots
@#23 Rec'd!!
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We have newspapers in this country?
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OKAY!!!
He really puts the boot in
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President Donald Trump targets General Motors and a local union official as he pushes the automaker to restart production at an Ohio facility.
Trump claims that GM “let our Country down.”
President Donald Trump targeted both General Motors and an Ohio union official on Sunday over an assembly plant that the automaker closed earlier this month.
His tweet amplifies the public pressure on GM to restart operations at the Lordstown, Ohio facility. Trump has frequently used his platform to push companies to take his preferred actions. Earlier this year, he threatened to cut the company’s subsidies after it announced plans to slash production at several U.S. plants.
On Sunday, Trump said he spoke to GM CEO Mary Barra about the facility and “asked her to sell it or do something quickly.” He claimed she “blamed” the closure on the United Auto Workers union.
“I don’t care, I just want it open!” he wrote.
Just spoke to Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors about the Lordstown Ohio plant. I am not happy that it is closed when everything else in our Country is BOOMING. I asked her to sell it or do something quickly. She blamed the UAW Union — I don’t care, I just want it open!
Earlier, the president tweeted that “Democrat” UAW Local 1112 President David Green “ought to get his act together and produce.” The union represents workers at the Lordstown plant. The facility’s closure is resulting in the loss of 1,300 jobs, though about 417 of those positions will go to other plants, GM previously said.
Trump wrote that GM “let our Country down” by shutting down the plant, where it made the Chevy Cruze. He claimed that “other much better car companies are coming into the U.S. in droves.” It was not immediately clear which companies he was referring to, or if they were American or international automakers.
“I want action on Lordstown fast. Stop complaining and get the job done!” he wrote on Sunday.
Democrat UAW Local 1112 President David Green ought to get his act together and produce. G.M. let our Country down, but other much better car companies are coming into the U.S. in droves. I want action on Lordstown fast. Stop complaining and get the job done! 3.8% Unemployment!
On Saturday, the president tweeted that GM “must” reopen the plant, “maybe in a different form or with a new owner, FAST!”
Because the economy is so good, General Motors must get their Lordstown, Ohio, plant open, maybe in a different form or with a new owner, FAST! Toyota is investing 13.5 $Billion in U.S., others likewise. G.M. MUST ACT QUICKLY. Time is of the essence!
Green has written two letters to Trump asking him to save the plant and its jobs, local TV stations WKBN reported in February. In a February letter shared by the news outlet, Green implored Trump to make a case for the facility. Green noted that the president had not responded to a first letter he sent in July 2018.
“While this may not seem that important to you, it will have a devastating impact on many families, business and communities, especially here in the Mahoning Valley, a place that I call home,” the union official wrote to the president.
Neither Green nor GM immediately responded to CNBC’s requests to comment on Trump’s tweet.
Trump won the White House partly on promises to boost manufacturing jobs and U.S. auto production. He has set out to renegotiate various free trade deals, in part to encourage automakers to produce at U.S. facilities.
While Trump has previously criticized GM, Sunday appeared to be the first time that he targeted Green, a local union official, by name.
GM has faced substantial pressure from Washington to keep the facility running. Both U.S. senators from Ohio — Democrat Sherrod Brown and Republican Rob Portman — have pushed the company to maintain jobs at the plant. In a tweeted statement Sunday, Brown said Green and the union workers “have shown grit and determination.”
“Instead of attacking workers, it’s past time you stood up to GM and joined the fight,” he said.
Mr. President, Dave Green and the workers at @UAW Local 1112 have shown grit and determination in the face of adversity, fighting for Lordstown from day one. Instead of attacking workers, it’s past time you stood up to GM and joined the fight. https://t.co/JuSONVX3Op
— Sherrod Brown (@SenSherrodBrown) March 17, 2019
Brown has tried to pass legislation that aims to make production in the U.S. more appealing to automakers. He urged Trump to support the legislation, called the American Cars, American Jobs Act, if he wants to boost auto workers.
The legislation would give consumers a $3,500 discount on American-made cars and revoke a provision that Brown says encourages automakers to send jobs overseas
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Left Archive: Case for the Formation of a Republican Socialist Party – precursor of the Official Republican Movement, late 1990s September 13, 2010
1. Phil - September 13, 2010
they shelved the proposal as “the time wasn’t right”
Dirty work at the crossroads!
…rather than the rejection of all nationalisms for socialist unity of the working class
Sigh. This would have left the ORM sounding like the Mils, but at least it would have put a bit of distance between ‘official’ republicanism and Unionism.
neilcaff - September 13, 2010
Yeah, what kind of topsy-turvy world would it be if socialists went around calling for unity of the working class?
Budapestkick - September 13, 2010
Heh. We were one of a handful of groups who took a position on the north that didn’t involve licking provisional testicles and we’ve been hearing about it since.
Phil - September 13, 2010
Not knowing you personally, Budapestkick, it’s hard to answer this, as I don’t know who “we” was – there are at least three possibilities.
…all of whom have been hearing about it ever since.
WorldbyStorm - September 13, 2010
WP, Militant, BICO, DSP, 1970s Socialist Party…
ejh - September 13, 2010
I like the sound of that last one. Is there an Eighties Socialist Party I can join?
Sadly not. 🙂
Ciarán - September 13, 2010
Not unless you have a Delorean.
2. Mark P - September 13, 2010
This is a very interesting piece.
Am I right in thinking that some of the people pushing the “Republican Left” idea went on to be in the Irish Socialist Network?
I hadn’t realised that the ORM actually voted for the Republican Left document but then didn’t implement it. 120 people at a conference was a reasonable turnout for a group that I’d always assumed was smaller than that.
Joe - September 13, 2010
Yes, you are right. Some in ISN had been members of ORM. A fair few others came from other places.
It is an interesting document. Very well argued. Ironic that ORM formed cos they thought (among other things) that the WP had become redundant and then the ORM leadership decided to make the ORM pretty much redundant by keeping it as a “society” rather than an activist party.
I think the listing of the factions within the leadership of WP over-egged the pudding a bit. If there was a “BICO faction”, it wasn’t much of a faction – more like a few ex-BICO people with, not surprisingly, common ideas and views. But then again, what would I know? I was one of those who, as a comrade memorably said, wasn’t important enough to be asked to join any faction.
Likewise. But I’m presuming you were asked during the split to go one way or another.
Can’t recall being specifically asked to go one way or the other by either side. Clearly they both saw I was pretty useless and not worth bothering with! [insert blushing frownie]
3. desad - September 13, 2010
Mature students unfairly hit by changes to grant scheme
http://www.labour.ie/press/listing/128429725164710760.html
4. Budapestkick - September 13, 2010
On a serious note though, this is an extremely interesting and surprisingly detached analysis of the evolution of the WP. In some ways a better analysis than most of the historiography that existed at this point.
It’s quite good, although as Joe says for some of the supposedly defined factions you’d have needed an electron microscope to find trace of them as serious organised entities. On the other hand I knew through acquaintances of two people in another branch in Dublin who were quite public to none party members about their admiration for Trotsky (no bad thing in my book).
LeftAtTheCross - September 13, 2010
These were the Militant entryists then, as were mentioned elsewhere here recently??
I doubt it. I think it was just they admired Trotksy’s work during the Revolution and didn’t regard his actions subsequently as making him some sort of apostate… but it’s also worth mentioning that in my own time in the party, a good seven or eight years I never once had anyone mention Stalin to me. Not saying there weren’t those who might have had an attachment to Stalin or Stalinism, just that it wasn’t an issue in any functional sense. Now if we broaden the focus to say, well Stalinism is equivalent to support for the USSR, even that wasn’t made much of as an element of actual work in the party. There were a fair range of views expressed on that from support to criticism.
I wasn’t being entirely serious there WBS 🙂
The thought struck me after I hit the “say it!” tab. Poxy WordPress and it’s no preview plug in… at least not with this template.
Garibaldy - September 14, 2010
AFAIK, elements of this document were lifted from one produced previously, at the time of the DL split I think it was (the stuff about the Student Princes etc). Although it’s possible Ó Murchú may have identified them as an element long before that.
The main interest in this document is in the light it sheds on the various claims and arguments put forward to justify the formation of a new organisation. In fairness, there were a few people within it, particularly in Dublin, who have remained politically active through other organisations. Clearly, for the majority and especially the leadership, all the talk about insufficient activism, internal democracy, and whatever else was a cover for a retreat from politics altogether. I was especially amused, but not surprised, to see people who had been presenting themselves as paragons of democracy simply overthrow a democratically-taken decision. Having failed to retire the WP from political life, they were at least able to retire themselves.
5. Jock McPeake - September 16, 2010
Almost everything Mr. Garibaldy says above is incorrect. In 1992-93 there was a sense of energy about rebuilding the Workers Party. The social democrats were gone, as were Harris and his crew. During 1991-92 a lot of veterans had come back into the party, esp in the North. Also some in the south. All were eager to keep going and try and rebuild and also learn lessons. By about 1994 people were unhappy that many of the leadership felt that no lessons needed to be learned and that asking questions was greeted with suspicion or even censure. Added to this was the fact that some of the veterans, ex-prisoners etc were shocked by how deep links went with the cops, special branch etc in Belfast and certain party leaders. Also ‘B’ had been revitilised to provide funds post 92 and people began to ask ‘funds for what?’. A combination of these questions produced the Campaign for Democracy in the WP. Then 1995-97 saw lots of rows, backed up by threats, night-time visits, guns put to people’s heads warning them never to talk to media or other members about links to the DPRK security services, Iraq, or the Soviet Union. Eventually people were court-martialled and sentenced to death (how serious this was is open to question but people were attacked and beaten). This is turn brought even more people back to respond to this. Hence the ORM-Republican Left. Some wanted to build a new WP without the Unionism/’Stalinism’, others wanted a veterans group-the veterans won out and no new party was formed. In the meantime RUC special branch raided members homes, the UVF were told that ORM were sectarian gnagsters and the provos and INLA told that ORM wanted to settle old scores with them. The provos also attacked members in Newry. This is all in the past now but I had to respond to the above.
Marxman - September 16, 2010
Almost everything Mr Jock Stein, sorry McPeake says above is incorrect. The Workers Party recieved a severe blow by the defections of DeRossa, Rabbitte etc., that other parties would find it hard to recover from but they did much to their credit.
As a veteran myself I found it hard to give my full support to the old RUC so I voiced my concerns at the proper meetings and got replies, most satisfied me some didn’t. Never but never did the ‘Devil’ or anyone one for that matter “censure” me at the meetings or after the meetings or even in a relaxed social setting did I find myself, “suspect”! Certainly animated discussions took place but never was I in all my 40 years as a full member have I been castigated for my views and no I am not an apparatchik just an ordinary socialist republican who sees the WP as the only serious party (small as it is but it was small before it gained several TDs and numerous councillors) with a long history of anti-sectarianism and non-tribal politics.
Now the jackanory section! “..how deep links went with cops, special branch etc.,” evidence besides hearsay and malicious intent on your part! Also in reference, “orm-republican left (who?)wanting to build a new WP” I got approached by a now ‘orm’ member who I hadn’t seen at an Ard Fheis since the 70s but loved to conspire at the end of the bar in various pubs and clubs but did little all else except turn up at Easter, no papersales, no leafleting, no card-carrying membership. No his only credentials, conspiracy and back-stabbing! Away with you! “UVF, INLA and PROVOS all told that the orm wanted to settle old scores with them” jeezus wept! If you want to be taken serious please supply proof of this nonsense.
ps. I still have some good friends who would give tacit support to the orm but would wince at your statements!
I noticed that Iran had been replaced by the Soviet Union, otherwise I might have thought it was George W. linking the WP to the axis of evil.
Clearly nothing but trolling, and not really worthy of a response.
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7. Potohealy - September 16, 2010
Let me preface these short comments by stating I’m a strong supporter of the WP.
The reactions to McPeake’s post I believe are not in the best mode of dealing with the issues raised. Whatever issues maybe had with what preceded it ended with the very positive remark “This is all in the past now”.
Whatever about the accuracy of McPeake’s statements, I have heard the same sentiments expressed enough times to know they are not some attempt to troll this site but expressions of genuine concerns which are current among many within the ORM.
How can anyone doubt that during a split many unfortunate incidents occur, particularly when issues (whether real or perceived) involving personal and organizational security are at stake.
If unfortunate incidents didn’t not occur in this spilt it would be breaking with republican tradition stretching back to the United men.
From McPeake’s comment it is clear that many in he ORM still share the fundamental socialist-republican values which only one party, the WP, are attempting to articulate politically.
There must be balanced and considered approach to these issues, even if agreement is not possible. If a wider alliance to advance the cause of republican socialism for the betterment of the people is to occur denunciation from whatever quarter of groups which value working class political action in the interests of the working class gets nobody anywhere.
As the Irish working class face an onslaught not seen in generations no thanks will be handed out for socialist republicans squabbling over incidents which occurred over 10 years ago. That said this discussion is a necessary one
8. Joe - September 17, 2010
I don’t think it’s helpful to dismiss Jock McPeake’s post as trolling. It comes across to me as a narrative of the experience from the ORM perspective. It also tallies with my memory of reports I read about the split in the papers at the time – maybe those reports were based on an ORM perspective also.
There are (at least) two sides to every story. Jock’s is one side. Marxman’s is another.
The WP and people like Garibaldi and Marxman are to be admired for continuing to try to win people over to their politics. But their efforts will be forever spancilled by concerns over internal democracy in the WP.
The thing is Joe there is a funny tendency on threads like these for new names to appear and make the same points that other new names have made previously on similar threads in practically exactly the same language and using basically exactly the same “evidence”/”accusations”/”stories” (delete as you think appropriate). The word “trolling” was chosen carefully.
As Poto noted above, I think the past is the past. As it happens I would have liked the new party/Republican left idea to have taken off. I am not bothered too much with commemorations etc now. Looking at the WP website I see a lot of the changes in policy presentation (ie republicanism) that people wanted now seem to be party policy (ironically). This might explain why some former ORM comrades have gone back to the WP. Does Gariblady consider that legitimate? As for trolls, I thought they were creatures that lived under bridges and scared children?
On a more serious point: I was not talking about the axis of evil ala Texas Bush. Garibaldy may not be aware that senior members of the WP visited Iraq on at least two occasions in the 1980s, (1981, 1984-85?). This was after Saddam’s massacre of the communists, of which we were aware. When asked about this we were informed a) Iraq was a progressive country b) there were opportunities for funding and support there. Support for the DPRK was also sold as a great opportunity for training, funding etc. I cannot remember anyone who went there (apart from the leadership) who actually thought the place was anything but a weird madhouse. The USSR was a different matter.
10. John O'Neill - September 22, 2010
Garabaldy stated “AFAIK, elements of this document were lifted from one produced previously, at the time of the DL split I think it was (the stuff about the Student Princes etc).” I would reject this assertion and ask him to state what document he is referring to. I also believe the term “Student Princes” was actually from the Labour Party who were resentful of the USI WPers taking the cosy union jobs that were usually reserved for the Labour Party. Garabaldy has a tendency to make these throwaway remarks quiet often but as far as I am aware, he wasn’t even a member at the time of this split.
Sticky Wicket - September 22, 2010
Did Harris or the Industrial Dept not put forth a document that called them ‘Student Princes’? This is what I always understood to be the case.
As for the Super-Sticks, the WP is still attempting to promote class politics and represent working class people whilst they(ORM) seem mainly concerned with giving out about the WP and the course of history.
I’d say more unites than divides and its heartening to hear some have returned to the fold both up North and down South
HAL - September 22, 2010
Did you write it ?,I fear thou protest too much.Either way its redundant.I mean the orm rejected what they voted for and they don’t seem that active on the drugs issue.Id say the main reason the WP struggled after the defections where financial ,huge debts and no TDs salaries.The media at that time was selective and only carried the DL side of things,an example of which was the DL claims of secret kitchen cabinets and nefarious goings on,and all the while they where the one’s actually plotting a secret coup against the membership.Hard times followed and bitching started,then the I told you so’s emerged and things just spiral’ed.Anyway as a previous poster said most are drifting back.
11. Jock McPeake - September 22, 2010
As the above notes that was a new document, not an old one. I see comrade Garibaldy has not bothered to respond to my questions about Iraq.
Sticky Wicket is right, Harris put a document calling Rabbitt, Gilmore and others the student princes. Is that the ‘lifted element’ Garabaldy is referring to? Because it is misleading to say the least to trash a paper dismissively, making out its merely a rehash of something written before when it wasn’t. The subtext being, the ORM wouldn’t be capable of writing anything coherent.
The WP might still have a few student princes.
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Alleged leaked database containing 4,929,090 Gmail email addresses and related passwords was dumped on a Russian Bitcoin Security Forum.
On September 9, user tvskit from Russian Bitcoin security forum BTCSec.com, first reported the dump of the 28.7 MB file containing more than 4.92 million of Gmail accounts and passwords, as well as several thousands of credentials from Russia's largest email service Yandex. According to the user, 60% of these credentials are valid. Since then, a forum administrator purged the passwords from it.
A study showed that the compromised accounts mostly belonged to Russian, English and Spanish-speaking users of the Google email service, reported Russian media outlet CNews.
Not only Gmail credentials give access to the email account, they also give access to other Google services such as cloud document storage Google Drive and social network G+.
Google Russia representative Svetlana Anurova said the company is investigating the alleged leak and advises users to "select strong passwords and be sure to use two-step authentication," reported CNews. She added that Google is constantly developing new levels of security to protect users, and is encrypting traffic between its data centers.
Media outlet the Next Web contacted Google regarding the issue. The company stated believing this incident wasn't the result of a security breach on its end. A Google spokesperson told the press:
"The security of our users’ information is a top priority for us. [...] We have no evidence that our systems have been compromised, but whenever we become aware that accounts may have been, we take steps to help those users secure their accounts."
Further investigation concluded that the dump combined older lists accumulated over a period of time, which could indicate the hack of a website unrelated to Google.
Gmail users are advised to avoid entering their username and password into any website claiming to check whether their credentials have been compromised. This method known as the 'honeypot' aims to steal even more identities, and many websites have already started distributing phishing messages. Russian website isleaked.com claims to help people checking if their accounts have been compromised and is already being accused of being run by the very people who leaked the database as its domain name was registered on September 8.
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All is not right with Texas A&M after No. 21 Aggies lose to No. 7 Alabama 59-0
By Brent SobleskiOct 18, 2014, 7:08 PM EDT
Where have you gone Johnny Manziel?
The answer is Cleveland, and the Texas A&M Aggies obviously miss their former quarterback’s presence.
The No. 7 Alabama Crimson Tide annihilated the No. 21 Aggies 59-0 Saturday. Nick Saban‘s squad dominated every level of the game. The Crimson Tide racked up 602 total yards. Meanwhile, the Aggies’ explosive offense was held to only 172 total yards.
While Alabama earned an opportunity to move up the national rankings, Texas A&M is going in the opposite direction after its third-straight loss.
Over the past two weeks, the Aggies have been outscored 66-0 during the first half against the Ole Miss Rebels and the Crimson Tide.
A Kevin Sumlin-coached team had never been shut out in the first half before last week. Now it’s happened twice in a row. #TAMUvsBAMA
— Sam Khan Jr. (@skhanjr) October 18, 2014
After the past three seasons, Sumlin’s squad lost multiple top talents. Manziel, wide receiver Mike Evans and offensive tackles Jake Matthews and Luke Joeckel were first-round draft picks. Players such as running back Christine Michael, defensive end Damontre Moore, linebacker Sean Porter and wide receiver Ryan Swope were also drafted. As well as Sumlin has recruited for the Aggies, it’s still a young team at key positions and lacks talent in others.
The Crimson Tide easily exploited Texas A&M’s problem areas. It starts up front with an undermanned defensive line. Alabama’s offensive line mauled its way to 298 rushing yards. Texas A&M couldn’t counter.
The Aggies’ normally explosive offense couldn’t stretch the field. Quarterback Kenny Hill was under pressure throughout the contest and forced off his spot. Alabama played sound football by keeping everything in front of them and not allowing yards after the catch.
These problems became a recipe for disaster.
In 7 seasons, @CoachSumlin has lost 3 straight twice before now: ’08 & ’10 (4 straight) at @UHCougarFB #TAMUvsBAMA
— Ivan Maisel (@Ivan_Maisel) October 18, 2014
Fans of Texas A&M should expect plenty of changes after this week. Sumlin already stated at halftime of the game some players would be replaced.
No one should be safe after Texas A&M laid another egg, including Hill after throwing six interceptions the past three games.
Tags: Alabama Crimson Tide, Christine Michael, Johnny Manziel, Kenny Hill, Kevin Sumlin, Mike Evans, Ryan Swope, TAM, Texas A&M Aggies
CFT 2014 Preseason Preview: SEC Predictions
As the 2014 season draws near, we peek into our crystal ball and guess project how each of the five major conferences will play out. Today, we will be examining the SEC.
And while we’re at it, check out our CFT 2014 Preseason Preview Repository for our team’s looks at the upcoming season.
1. South Carolina (Last year: 11-2; beat Wisconsin in Capital One Bowl)
I’ve said it multiple times and I’ll say it again: this could very well be Steve Spurrier‘s best and deepest Gamecock team since taking over in Columbia a decade ago. The loss of starting quarterback Connor Shaw will certainly have some impact, but the fact that Dylan Thompson isn’t your typical first-year starter — he’s started three games and thrown passes in 17 others — should help soften the transition. Losing a pair of defensive line starters and two secondary starters won’t help matters either, but USC has recruited well at those positions the past couple of years and should have the on-paper talent to fill the voids. A total of 16 starters return, though, including workhorse running back Mike Davis. The Gamecocks are clearly the class of the East, and it would be more than a little surprising to not see them in Atlanta in early December after qualifying for the SEC championship game.
2. Georgia (Last year: 8-5; lost to Nebraska in Gator Bowl)
After watching uneven and subpar defensive performances not just last season but the past couple of years, Mark Richt looked to right that ship by going out and reeling in Jeremy Pruitt of the defending BCS champion Florida State Seminoles as defensive coordinator. Combine that with the returning talent — nine starters on that side of the ball — and the defensive woes of the past should be a thing of the, well, past. The loss of a four-year starting quarterback will sting, at least initially, but the fact that his replacement, Hutson Mason, started two games at year’s end to go along with Todd Gurley carrying the offensive load while Mason gets his starting sea legs should help in the transition to the post-Murray era. Having to travel to East favorite South Carolina won’t help the cause, but getting past that early-season hurdle could set the Bulldogs up for a return trip to Atlanta after a one-year absence.
3. Florida (Last year: 4-8)
The Gators could very well be the third-best team in the SEC East — and that may not be enough to save Will Muschamp‘s job. Beset with injuries and overall poor play — especially on offense — in 2013, UF tripped, bumbled and stumbled its way through the program’s worst season in nearly two decades. The offense was simply abysmal, especially in the passing game, which served as the impetus for Muschamp to swipe offensive coordinator Kurt Roper from Duke in the offseason. The early signs point to a rejuvenated offense in general and quarterback Jeff Driskel in particular under Roper. The defense, as has been the case under Muschamp, will be just fine; if the offense can merely climb to respectable, it should be enough for the Gators to get closer to 2012’s 10-win season than last year’s eight-loss abomination. The schedule is essentially a wash, with games at Alabama and Florida State offset by tough games against LSU and South Carolina in The Swamp. UF could be staring an eight-win season square in the face — and that should be enough for Muschamp to get a fourth year on the job. Anything less than that, and his future employment in Gainesville becomes dicey.
4. Tennessee (Last year: 5-7)
Surprise!!! Yes, this one could — and quite likely will — come back and bite me square in the arse, but what the hell. Call it a hunch. Or the fact that they finished with a better record than did the Gators, who I have listed above. Or a bad case of (insert serious mental disorder here). Whatever the case, I love what Butch Jones is doing in Knoxville and, while I might be a year early on this, I’m buying in. How mental am I? I’m predicting the Vols to finish fourth in the seven-team East, even as I’m fully aware of the fact that UT is the only team in the country that lost every starter on both the offensive and defensive lines. And then there’s the schedule: the opener at home against an underrated Utah State; a road trip to Oklahoma in Week 3; and SEC away games at Georgia, Ole Miss and South Carolina. Yep, I’m nuts. But I do like the defense and the receiving corps, and think that Justin Worley is ready to take a step up to the next level in a conference riddled with questions at the quarterback position, especially as he’s now solidified his hold on the job. Again, I may not be right, but I think I’m closer to that than wrong.
5. Missouri (Last year: 12-2; beat Oklahoma State in Cotton Bowl)
The Tigers return just seven of 22 starters — three on offense, four on defense — from last year’s surprise SEC East championship squad. Mizzou must find a way to replace its leading passer, rusher and three top receivers from a year ago, although the former is a little disingenuous as Maty Mauk showed he was the Tigers’ future at the quarterback position subbing for an injured James Franklin. Losing Dorial Green-Beckham to a dismissal, though, was a huge blow for Mauk as he assumes the full-time offensive reins for the first time. The good news is that, while Mauk is adjusting to his new role, Mizzou will feature a pair of running backs — Russell Hansborough and Marcus Murphy — who combined for nearly 1,300 yards and 13 touchdowns last season. The schedule makers didn’t do Mizzou many favors, with road trips to South Carolina, Florida, Texas A&M and Tennessee in the offing. The Tigers surprised many most all observers by claiming a division title in just their second season in the conference; it’d be equally surprising if they came even remotely close to matching 2013’s success,
6. Kentucky (Last year: 2-10)
Despite just two wins last season, UK appears to be a football program on the upswing, especially if recruiting rankings mean anything. The past two recruiting cycles, UK has pulled in the No. 17 (2014) and No. 23 (2013) recruiting classes, and are currently rated No. 20 for 2015. Prior to Mark Stoops’ arrival, UK had just two recruiting classes — 2006 (No. 36) and 2009 (No. 41) — finish inside the Top 50 nationally since 2002. How long before that success planted on the recruiting trail bears fruit on the field? That remains unclear, although it could be 2015 before Stoops truly sees the fruit of his and his staff’s labor. Until then, it could be another rough football season at the basketball school, even as doubling up on last year’s win total would seem to be a modest and attainable goal.
7. Vanderbilt (Last year: 9-4; beat Houston in BBVA Compass Bowl)
I’m fully aware that the Commodores finished fourth in the East last year and won nine games, including the program’s first-ever back-to-back bowl game. I’m also fully aware that James Franklin was a huge part of that success, and Franklin and his coaching staff are currently in Happy Valley preparing for the upcoming season. Do I think Stanford’s Derek Mason was a subpar replacement? Most definitely not; he was one of the more underrated hires of the offseason. Do I think he can do what David Shaw did after Jim Harbaugh left The Farm after laying the foundation? No, because there’s simply not that type of foundation in place in Nashville. Inexperience on the skill player side of the equation, especially at quarterback and wide receiver, could be Vandy’s undoing.
SEC WEST
1. Alabama (Last year: 11-2; lost to Oklahoma in Sugar Bowl)
Replacing a three-year starter at quarterback? Pffft, no problem for a Tide squad that boasts two Top-Five SEC running backs in T.J. Yeldon and Derrick Henry… and the SEC’s best wide receiver-tight end combination in Amari Cooper and O.J. Howard… and at least three returning starters along the offensive line… and a defense that, despite the return of just four starters, is littered with four- and five-star recruits throughout the depth chart and will, again, be one of the most stout in the conference… and, hands-down, the best coach in college football in Nick Saban. So, yes, the Tide will, as has ofttimes been the case over the past five-plus years, be the favorite not only in the division but in the conference, despite the presence of East/SEC title winner Auburn. The Tide is locked and loaded to bounce back from two straight losses to end the 2013 season by a squad that was viewed by some, including its head coach, to be an entitled bunch. A pissed-off Saban with a legitimate agenda and loads of talent at his disposal entering a season is a dangerous proposition not just for the SEC but for college football as a whole.
2. Auburn (Last year: 12-2; lost to Florida State in BCS title game)
There’s no way around it, no way to tap-dance whilst whistling past the biggest question when it comes to AU football in 2014: did the Tigers use a couple of years (decades?) worth of luck in their magical, unexpected, inexplicable ride to the BCS title game? Even the biggest homer out on The Plains would have to admit that the Tigers were “fortunate” to end the season where they did. Of their 12 wins, six were decided by eight points or less. In four games — Mississippi State, Texas A&M, Georgia, Alabama — they were trailing with less than five minutes remaining in the fourth quarter. The Georgia (“Prayer at Jordan-Hare“) and Alabama (“Kick-Six“) wins immediately earned nicknames for the sheer improbability of the endings. There’s little doubt that Gus Malzahn has, very quickly, turned AU around from the three-win embarrassment that was the final season of Gene Chizik in 2012. How much was sheer luck, the kind of once-a-decade (or two) happenstance that simply can’t repeat itself? Regardless of the answer — I’m guessing the talent is sufficient so as to make the question moot — Malzahn’s Tigers will be one of the more fascinating squads to watch throughout the 2014 season.
3. LSU (Last year: 10-3; beat Iowa in Outback Bowl)
Eight times in Les Miles‘ 10 season on the bayou, the Tigers have won at least 10 games. Included in that total is a streak of five straight. Don’t expect that skein to be broken in 2015. Gone is starting quarterback Zach Mettenberger, leaving LSU with arguably the biggest question mark in the conference at the most important position. Gone also are the top two receivers and leading rusher. Back, though, are four offensive line starters and seven defensive starters. Entering the fray as well is Leonard Fournette, one of the most hyped freshman running backs since Adrian Peterson burst onto the scene as a true freshman in Norman a decade ago. Fournette has the type of ability that will allow whomever emerges from LSU’s quarterback competition to ease into the job. Well, that and a defense that will be as physical and stifling as it always is. The schedule makers also smiled on LSU, with its toughest road trip likely proving to be a Oct. 4 date with Auburn at Jordan-Hare, although a regular season-ending trip to Texas A&M’s Kyle Field won’t exactly be a cakewalk.
4. Ole Miss (Last year: 8-5; beat Georgia Tech in Music City Bowl)
I was almost — almost — tempted to put the Rebels ahead of the Bayou Bengals, but simply couldn’t pull the trigger. Ole Miss is the “trendy” sleeper pick heading into 2014, and for good reason. There’s really not a lot to not like about the potential of the 2014 version of Hugh Freeze‘s 2014 Rebels. They will, once again, possess one of the best offenses in the SEC to go along with a defense that, quietly, is one of the best in a defense-heavy conference. The biggest hurdle the Rebels have is something completely out of their control: the division in which they reside. Since Texas A&M joined the SEC in 2012, the Rebels are just 2-6 against those four programs — a three-point home win against LSU last season and a win in 2012 against an Auburn team that would ultimately win three games and fire its head coach. And that’s without even mentioning that Ole Miss has lost four of the last five Egg Bowls against in-state rival — and divisional foe — Mississippi State. How Ole Miss can crack the Top Three the way the West is currently constituted is unclear. What appears to be clear is that they have the head coach who could do just that, whether it be in 2014 or in the coming years.
5. Texas A&M (Last year: 9-4; beat Duke in Chick-fil-A Bowl)
Where do we start? You lose Johnny Manziel… Mike Evans, one of the best receivers in the country… the best left tackle in the game in Jake Matthews… myriad defensive contributors due to suspension/dismissals/other forms of attrition from a unit that was really bad in 2013… all of that, and it could be quite the season in College Station coming off the success that was A&M’s first two seasons in the SEC. One known amidst the question marks is that Kevin Sumlin always fields a Top-10 offense as a head coach; even as just five starters on that side of the ball return, that shouldn’t change as Sumlin’s system remains a big consistent for the Aggies. That defense, though, needs to step it up a level or eight so that the offense doesn’t have to outscore its expected unevenness on that side of the ball. Games at South Carolina, Alabama and Auburn — the Gamecocks contest is the season opener — doesn’t bode well for the young but talented Aggies.
6. Mississippi State (Last year: 7-6; beat Rice in Liberty Bowl)
MSU’s placement of second-to-last is not an indictment of Dan Mullens‘ football program, but merely an indicator of just how deep the West is. If the Bulldogs were in the East, they could very well be the third-best team in the division. Given their current football lot, they’ll continue to struggle to get past their in-division rivals. Since going 5-7 in Mullens’ first season in 2009, MSU’s win total has ranged from seven (twice, including 2013) to nine (2010). With 16 returning starters back, including nine on defense as well as one of the most experienced returning quarterback starters in the conference (Dak Prescott), MSU could and should very well get in that very same win range for a fifth consecutive season. Whether that’s good enough for the fans and the administration remains to be seen.
7. Arkansas (Last year: 3-9)
In Bret Bielema‘s first season in Fayetteville, the Razorbacks won just three games; two of those wins came against FCS programs, the other against a Southern Miss team that was in the midst of what would become a 23-game losing streak. UA ended the season on a nine-game losing streak, finishing up Year 1 of the Great Bielema Southern Experiment at 0-8 in SEC play. Six of those nine losses came by at least 10 points, with two of them coming by a combined 97 points. It was a rough first season for Bielema and his charges; it doesn’t expect to get much better in 2014. The good news for Bielema and his coaching staff is that his boss, athletic director Jeff Long, is committed to them for the long haul; whether the long haul is three years or four years or even five years remains to be seen. One thing is certain: Bielema has a helluva tough job ahead of him, cleaning up the mess left by the controversy-stained departure of Bobby Petrino and the lost 2012 season under John L. Smith. Oh, and all the while sweeping the broom in the toughest division in any conference in the conference. Yeah, good luck with that.
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Alabama over South Carolina
Tags: Alabama, Amari Cooper, Connor Shaw, Dak Prescott, Derrick Henry, Dorial Green-Beckham, Dylan Thompson, Hutson Mason, James Franklin, Jeff Driskel, Johnny Manziel, Justin Worley, Leonard Fournette, LSU, Mike Evans, Mississippi State, Missouri, O.J. Howard, Oklahoma, South Carolina, T.J. Yeldon, TAM, TEN, Todd Gurley, UF, UGA, Zach Mettenberger
When they were recruits: 2014’s first-round draft picks
By JJ StankevitzMay 9, 2014, 8:08 AM EDT
Of the 32 players drafted in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft, four were rated as five-star recruits out of high school — just one more than the total of players rated as two-star players taken among the first 32 picks Thursday night.
Being a freakishly good athlete out of high school often translates into success in college — like for Jadeveon Clowney, the No. 1 overall player in the class of 2011 and the No. 1 pick in the 2014 NFL Draft — but it hardly guarantees a player being a first-round draft pick. A look back at where this year’s first-rounders stood coming out of high school certainly proves that point:
1. Jadeveon Clowney: 5 stars, No. 1 overall player (2011)
2. Greg Robinson: 4 stars, No. 90 overall player (2011)
3. Blake Bortles: 3 stars, No. 44 quarterback (2010)
4. Sammy Watkins: 5 stars, No. 15 overall player (2011)
5. Khalil Mack: 2 stars, no national, positional or state ranking (2009)
6. Jake Matthews: 4 stars, No. 48 overall player (2010)
7. Mike Evans: 3 stars, no national, positional or state rankings (2011)
8. Justin Gilbert: 4 stars, No. 26 cornerback (2010)
9. Anthony Barr: 4 stars, No. 50 overall player (2010)
10. Eric Ebron: 3 stars, No. 21 tight end (2011)
11. Taylor Lewan: 4 stars, No. 194 overall player (2009)
12. Odell Beckham Jr.: 4 stars, No. 43 overall player (2011)
13. Aaron Donald: 3 stars, No. 37 defensive tackle (2010)
14. Kyle Fuller: 3 stars, no national, positional or state rankings (2010)
15. Ryan Shazier: 4 stars, No. 14 outside linebacker (2011)
16. Zack Martin: 4 stars, No. 22 offensive tackle (2009)
17. C.J. Mosley: 4 stars, No. 56 overall player (2010)
18. Calvin Pryor: 3 stars, No. 31 safety (2011)
19. Ja’Wuan James: 4 stars, No. 55 overall player (2010)
20. Brandin Cooks: 4 stars, No. 240 overall player (2011)
21. Ha Ha Clinton-Dix: 5 stars, No. 7 overall player (2011)
22. Johnny Manziel: 3 stars, No. 14 dual-threat quarterback (2011)
23. Dee Ford: 3 stars, No. 62 outside linebacker (2009)
24. Darqueze Dennard: 2 stars, no national, positional or state rankings (2010)
25. Jason Verrett: 3 stars, no national, positional or state rankings (2011)
26. Marcus Smith: 3 stars, no national, positional or state rankings (2010)
27. Deone Bucannon: 3 stars, No. 45 safety (2010)
28. Kelvin Benjamin: 4 stars, No. 60 overall player (2011)
29. Dominique Easley: 5 stars, No. 7 overall player (2010)
30. Jimmie Ward: 2 stars, no national, positional or state rankings (2010)
31. Bradley Roby: 3 stars, no national, positional or state rankings (2010)
32. Teddy Bridgewater: 4 stars, No. 113 overall player (2011)
Five-star players: 4 (Jadeveon Clowney, Sammie Watkins, Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, Dominique Easley)
Four-star players: 13 (Greg Robinson, Jake Matthews, Justin Gilbert, Anthony Barr, Taylor Lewan, Odell Beckham Jr., Ryan Shazier, Zack Martin, C.J. Mosley, Ja’Wuan James, Brandin Cooks, Kelvin Benjamin, Teddy Bridgewater)
Three-star players: 12 (Blake Bortles, Mike Evans, Eric Ebron, Aaron Donald, Kyle Fuller, Calvin Pryor, Johnny Manziel, Dee Ford, Jason Verrett, Marcus Smith, Deone Bucannon, Bradley Roby)
Two-star players: 3 (Khalil Mack, Darqueze Dennard, Jimmie Ward)
Tags: Blake Bortles, Brandin Cooks, Clemson, Eric Ebron, Florida State, Johnny Manziel, Kelvin Benjamin, Louisville, LSU, Mike Evans, Odell Beckham Jr., Oregon State, Sammy Watkins, TAM, Teddy Bridgewater, UCF, UNC
NFL Draft: Four SEC players in top 10 and Manziel still on the board
By Kevin McGuireMay 8, 2014, 9:19 PM EDT
Three SEC players went in the top ten and for the second season in a row a player from the MAC was drafted in the top five. Here is a quick rundown of the top ten picks in the 2014 NFL Draft.
1. Houston Texans: DE Jadeveon Clowney, South Carolina
Jadeveon Clowney was expected by many to be the first player drafted, and the Texans made him wait before the pick became official. Clowney is the fifth player from the SEC to be drafted number one overall since 2004.
2. St. Louis Rams: OT Greg Robinson, Auburn
For the first time since 2010 the top two picks in the NFL Draft came form the same conference. In 2010 it was Oklahoma and Nebraska accounting for the top four picks. Robinson is the first Auburn offensive tackle to go in the first round since Victor Riley in 1998.
3. Jacksonville Jaguars: QB Blake Bortles, UCF
Jacksonville pulled off the first puzzling draft decision of the night by drafting Bortles with the third overall pick. Bortles is now the highest draft pick and just the second first round draft pick in school history. The last UCF player to go in the first round was quarterback Daunte Culpepper in 1999.
4. Buffalo Bills (from Cleveland Browns): WR Sammy Watkins, Clemson
For the second straight season a Clemson wide receiver was drafted in the first round. The Bills traded up to get the player who may be the best receiver in the draft and we will finally get a chance to see CJ Spiller and Watkins on the field at the same time.
5. Oakland Raiders: LB Khalil Mack, Buffalo
The MAC defensive star that seemingly came out of nowhere is the second MAC player in two seasons to go in the first five picks of the NFL Draft.
6. Atlanta Falcons: OT Jake Matthews, Texas A&M
If you were curious why Johnny Manziel has been so effective for the Aggies, take a look at the draft. For the second straight season the Aggies sent an offensive linemen in the first ten picks of the draft (Luke Joeckel last year). Johnny Manziel sits waiting and sipping water in the back.
7. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: WR Mike Evans, Texas A&M
Tampa Bay picks up one of the top wide receivers by choosing the second straight player out of Texas A&M. Evans is the first wide receiver in school history to be drafted in the first round.
8. Cleveland Browns (from Minnesota Vikings): CB Justin Gilbert, Oklahoma State
This may be the strangest move of the draft. For some reason the Browns, having already traded down earlier, felt it necessary to move up one pick in order to draft a cornerback. Justin Gilbert is a good player, but there does not seem to have been any sort of demand to make this move for Cleveland, but they are the Cleveland Browns after all.
9. Minnesota Vikings (from Buffalo via Cleveland): LB Anthony Barr, UCLA
The Vikings passed on a chance to draft Manziel but do so by picking up a solid defensive addition in Barr. The Vikings could have used some help at quarterback, but adding Barr is not exactly a poor decision.
10. Detroit Lions: TE Eric Ebron, North Carolina
The Lions already have a franchise quarterback so there was no need to make a move for Manziel. Instead they add what could be the best tight end prospect in the draft and give Matt Stafford a nice target to compliment the wide receivers already on the field.
Players by Conference: SEC (4), ACC (2), AAC (1), Big 12 (1), MAC (1), Pac-12 (1)
Tags: Anthony Barr, Blake Bortles, CJ Spiller, Clemson, Eric Ebron, Greg Robinson, Jadeveon Clowney, Jake Matthews, Johnny Manziel, Justin Gilbert, Khalil Mack, Matt Stafford, Mike Evans, Sammy Watkins, TAM, UCF, UGA, UNC
Texas A&M receiver arrested for disorderly conduct
By Kevin McGuireApr 6, 2014, 4:30 PM EDT
Texas A&M wide receiver Ricky Seals-Jones was could be suspended by the school following an arrest for disorderly conduct.
Seals-Jones was taken into custody early Sunday morning on a disorderly conduct charge according to a report by KBTX. As it is being reported, a police officer saw Seals-Jones be bumped in o by someone outside a bar and Seals-Jones got in to a heated verbal exchange. Although no punches were thrown, the officer on the scene said tensions were getting to a tipping point and Seals-Jones apparently was attempting to pick a fight. At that point, the officer stepped in and made the arrest accompanied by the misdemeanor charge.
Texas A&M has initially issued an indefinite suspension to keep in line with school policy, but that decision was overturned until the school has more information on the incident.
Seals-Jones took a medical red shirt in 2013 after injuring his knee in a season-opening win against Rice. It is expected he will become the team’s top target this fall, replacing Mike Evans. He is the fourth Aggie player to be arrested this spring. Quarterback Kenny Hill, a starting quarterback candidate, was arrested for public intoxication in late March. Linebacker Darian Claiborne (disorderly conduct) and defensive lineman Isaiah Golden (possession of marijuana) were arrested and suspended in late February. Texas A&M also dismissed promising safety Kameron Miles for a violation of team rules in early March.
UPDATE: It was originally reported Texas A&M issued an indefinite suspension, but that decision was scaled back until more information could be reviewed.
Tags: Darian Claiborne, Isaiah Golden, Kameron Miles, Kenny Hill, Kevin Sumlin, Mike Evans, Ricky Seals-Jones, TAM
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Struck By Ancient Cosmic Cannabis Culture (Magic & Technology Of The Gods) PART 2
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In Cosmic Cannabis Culture Part 1 we talked about the most ancient origins of where and how cannabis emerged into existence.
In Part 2, we will go deep into what the ancient Vedic texts say about cannabis.
The verses from the Vedas, we read in Part 1, begins the ancient story of cannabis.
“The Vedas… describe how cannabis was created when the Gods stirred the heavenly oceans, of milk, with the peak of Mount Mandara.
A drop of amrita (heavenly nectar) fell from the sky and a sacred cannabis plant sprouted on the spot.
Lord Siva brought the cannabis plant down from Mount Mandara for the pleasure of Mankind and for this the plant was consecrated to him. [Siva].”
What we’ll learn, from the Cosmic Cannabis Culture, four part series, is as follows:
Who are the Gods? (Part 2)
What are the heavenly oceans? (Part 2)
What are they stirring? (Part 2)
What is Mount Mandara? (Part 2)
What specifically is the peak of Mount Mandara? (Part 2)
What is Amrita? (Part 3)
What specific pleasure does cannabis offer? (Part 4)
What does it mean for a plant to be consecrated? (Part 4)
What divine purpose does cannabis serve? (Part 4)
Keep in mind, as we learn about the ancient origins of cannabis, this story is presented in a very abstract manner. The abstract story, holds hidden within it, a more GRAND underlying metaphor.
As we continue our journey, on the quest for knowledge and the truth, we’ll seemingly always be on the path of finding, and uncovering, another layer of the truth.
Let’s begin, unfolding, the deepest known layers, about the origins of cannabis culture.
In the following image, is a grand story being told. This is the ancient Vedic story about Mount Mandara and what occurred surrounding the times.
The verse, from the Vedas we read above, tell the story about what’s going on in this image. The symbols go deep and are packed dense with information and ancient wisdom.
Let’s see if we can decode some of the deeper implications.
2.1) Who Are The God’s?
While there are a lot of “specific” gods, displayed in this story, we’ll focus on a few of the most significant gods and different “classes” of gods.
It is well known, back in ancient times, that hemp was an important staple of everyday life. Hemp was used as medicines and as mind altering chemicals used in rituals that facilitated an experiential link to the gods.
Hemp was also, at one time, known as the “flesh” of the Gods.
Vasuki, is the Serpent King. Seen in the image above, Vasuki is depicted as the giant snake, being pulled by the gods, from either side of the river. Vasuki, originally, offered himself to serve as the rope, in which to “stir” the Heavenly Oceans. He was being pulled, on one side, by the Asuras (demons), and the side, by Devas (gods).
The Devas (gods) and Asuras (demons), at one point, decided it was in the best interest of everyone involved, to form an alliance and work together, for a specific purpose. Once the alliance was formed, the Asuras and the Devas worked, together, for a millennium. For an entire millennium they worked to “churn” the heavenly ocean.
Their combined purpose, in churning the heavenly oceans, was to release, from the universe, Amrita, the original nectar of immortal life.
As demons, being demons, they demanded to hold the head of the snake, Vasuki.
There wasn’t much of a fight from the gods, to allow the Asuras (demons) to hold the head of Vasuki because, the God Vishnu (God of Preservation and Protection), gave the Devas (gods) advice to hold Vasuki’s tail.
Vishnu gave the Asuras good advice, in holding Vasuki’s tail. What ended up, as a result, from the Devas, holding the head of the snake, ended with them demons being poisoned by the fumes being emitted by Vasuki.
2.2) What Are The Heavenly Oceans?
Simply put, the Heavenly Ocean Of Milk is the Milky Way Galaxy (The galaxy in which we live) as depicted as a white spiral cloud.
The metaphor here is that all life, good and evil, combined their forces to “stir” immortal/eternal life, from the cosmos.
2.3) What Are They Stirring?
The gods and demons are stirring the “cosmos” looking to discover immortality. To stir simply means to mix together, that which hasn’t been before, mixed together. Combining one thing to another.
The “theory” is that if you mix enough things together, you will eventually discover what you’re looking for. According to the story, the demons and the gods had to “stir” for a millennium before they discovered immortality.
Through combined effort, they were able to search more of the cosmos, and run more experiments, than they were able to achieve on their own. By combining forces, both sides were able to, both selfishly and selflessly, achieve their outcome more efficiently. Selfishly because they both wanted the same thing. Selflessly because they were “helping” the other side.
The “image” of what they are stirring is of the rotating spiral galaxy structure, of the Milky Way, correlating with the Ocean Of Milk, being churned.
2.4) What Is Mount Mandara?
Mount Mandara is the Supermassive Black hole that is located at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Mount Mandara can be understood to be an incredible force, both gods and demons, were attempting to control and manipulate, in which to complete their quest to discovering immortality.
The image of the supermassive black hole represents just how extremely “heavy” Mount Mandara is.
In essence, “The weight of the project”, was quite massive.
Even the name, Mount Mandara, is used in modern cosmology as an ancient reference to the supermassive black hole that holds our Milky Way Galaxy together.
2.5) What Specifically Is At The Peak of Mount Mandara?
For the churning pole they used the peak of Mount Mandara.
The force was so great the mountain began to sink into the Ocean Of Milk.
As the mountain sank, Vishnu (God of Preservation and Protection), took the form of the great Tortoise Kurma, and bore the weight of the mountain on the shell of his back.
What is symbolized, in the metaphor at this point, is the tortoise is a representation of longevity. More specifically, in this story, it symbolized the protection and preservation of the attainment of the goal of discovering immortality, aka, longevity.
Standby for part three, of the epic journey, into the rediscovery, of the origins of the cannabis sativa plant.
Answers to these questions paved the way to the rediscovery of The Tree Of Life, via the secrets locked, and protected, within the Cannabis Sativa plant.
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This document provides guidelines for preventing the unauthorized modification of Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) firmware on PC client systems. Unauthorized modification of BIOS firmware by malicious software constitutes a significant threat because of the BIOS’s unique and privileged position within the PC architecture. A malicious BIOS modification could be part of a sophisticated, targeted attack on an organization —either a permanent denial of service (if the BIOS is corrupted) or a persistent malware presence (if the BIOS is implanted with malware). As used in this publication, the term BIOS refers to conventional BIOS, Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) BIOS, and Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) BIOS. This document applies to system BIOS firmware (e.g., conventional BIOS or UEFI BIOS) stored in the system flash memory of computer systems, including portions that may be formatted as Option ROMs. However, it does not apply to Option ROMs, UEFI drivers, and firmware stored elsewhere in a computer system. While this document focuses on current and future x86 and x64 client platforms, the controls and procedures are independent of any particular system design. Likewise, although the guide is oriented toward enterprise-class platforms, the necessary technologies are expected to migrate to consumer-grade systems over time. Future efforts may look at boot firmware security for enterprise server platforms.
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Graham Shiels is a happy man tonight. I just told him Yes Man, the Jim Carrey laffer he has a small, but memorable role in, premiered Friday at number one at the box office, taking in $6.5 million. The movie is expected to also take the top prize for total weekend box office, with an estimated $24 million haul. We talked about his role in the movie as "The Boyfriend", then he fills me in on the fiery demise of his sex-crazed, undead character Liam on the HBO hit True Blood, and of course I couldn't let him hang up before we talked about General Hospital's popular-yet-missing-in-action Cody, not to mention the back-to-back gigs he's booking on primetime's hottest shows.
Daytime Confidential: Congratulations on Yes Man premiering at number one at the box office!
Graham Shiels: It did? Wow, that's awesome. That's definitely a first for me. Hopefully it will translate into big DVD sales and reflect in my residuals! [Laughs]
DC: I remember from our podcast interview with you, that your character, The Boyfriend, gets into a fight with Jim Carrey's character Carl right?
GS: Yeah. He [Carl] hits on my girlfriend and I challenge him to a fight. The premise of the movie is that Carl has to say "yes" to everything. So he says yes to the fight and we go out into the alley and have a brawl!
DC: Who wins?
GS: Oh I kick his ass! [Laughs] I'm really excited to see our scenes, because Jim was improvising so much. I can't wait to see what they kept! I'm sure it will be hilarious.
DC: Oh I bet. So what about True Blood? I am behind on my primetime shows, my DVR que is full! Will Liam be back next season?
GS: Oh no, Liam burned.
DC: He burned?
GS: Yep. He's dead. He's done. [Laughs]
DC: But he's a vampire. They're all dead.
GS: Good point! But as far as I know he's really dead. He was burned at the Lair.
DC: Man, that bites. So what's up with Cody? Are you coming back to General Hospital anytime soon?
GS: I haven't been at GH for a couple of months now, so I don't know what's going on with Cody, but I am totally grateful to all the fans who support the character. Who knows, maybe GH will see Yes Man and bring Cody back and have him do some comedy?
DC: Hey, it's a possibility. You survived the Russians!
GS: [Laughs] Yeah, that's definitely a good thing.
DC: So what else have you been up to?
GS: Well, let's see, I just finished an episode of CSI: New York and the first of the year I will do an episode of Numbers.
DC: Somebody better sign you to a contract fast!
GS: I appreciate that. What I would really love is to do more film comedies. Maybe a Judd Apatow film.
DC: Well when you do, we'll be the first in line at the theater!
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In 2018, we have seen an unprecedented crackdown on anti-establishment voices on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. When they were first created, these social media platforms were essentially neutral, and they really did greatly contribute to the marketplace of ideas. But now there is a tremendous effort to censor voices that are a threat to the establishment, and in recent months we have witnessed the greatest purge of conservative voices in the history of the Internet. Anything that does not conform to the agenda of the elite is being labeled as “hate speech”, and countless anti-establishment voices have had social media accounts either “shadowbanned” or terminated completely. Needless to say, this could dramatically affect the outcome of the elections in November.
And it isn’t just political voices that are being silenced. As you will see at the end of this article, Facebook has been shutting down dozens and dozens of alternative health pages.
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Before the Internet came along, the elite had a virtual monopoly over the flow of information in our society. They owned all of the television networks, radio stations, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, etc.
But then the Internet happened, and all of a sudden ordinary people like you and I could communicate with one another on a mass scale without having to go through the gatekeepers. It was a wonderful thing, but we all knew that it wouldn’t be like that forever.
We can debate the extent to which the globalists are directly pulling the strings at these social media companies behind the scenes, but the end result of all of this censorship is evident to all of us. Anti-establishment voices are being silenced, and the agenda of the New World Order is being advanced.
At this point, the censorship of anti-establishment voices is so obvious that even liberal news outlets are reporting on it. The following comes from Vice News…
The Republican Party chair Ronna McDaniel, several conservative Republican congressmen, and Donald Trump Jr.’s spokesman no longer appear in the auto-populated drop-down search box on Twitter, VICE News has learned. It’s a shift that diminishes their reach on the platform — and it’s the same one being deployed against prominent racists to limit their visibility. The profiles continue to appear when conducting a full search, but not in the more convenient and visible drop-down bar. (The accounts appear to also populate if you already follow the person.)
Vice News mentioned just a few examples, but the truth is that hundreds of prominent anti-establishment conservatives have been “shadowbanned” on Twitter. Conservative members of Congress such as Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan and Devin Nunes have all been victimized, and earlier today U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz posted a furious tweet in which he accused Twitter of “deliberately targeting” all of them.
BREAKING: @Twitter deliberately targeting @RepMarkMeadows, @Jim_Jordan, @DevinNunes, & me to be #Shadowbanned.
Is it only a coincidence that these allegations would arise the week following my heated exchange with Twitter Executives before the Judiciary Committee??
WATCH. pic.twitter.com/6i1mtHLnhN
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) July 25, 2018
If Democrats were being treated the same way, at least we could say that Twitter was being fair.
But Vice News discovered that not a single liberal member of Congress has been shadowbanned…
Democrats are not being “shadow banned” in the same way, according to a VICE News review. McDaniel’s counterpart, Democratic Party chair Tom Perez, and liberal members of Congress — including Reps. Maxine Waters, Joe Kennedy III, Keith Ellison, and Mark Pocan — all continue to appear in drop-down search results. Not a single member of the 78-person Progressive Caucus faces the same situation in Twitter’s search.
When you are shadowbanned, it becomes much more difficult for people to find your account, and whatever you post is seen by a lot fewer people.
Prior to the Vice News article, Gizmodo discovered that quite a number of top anti-establishment Internet pundits were receiving the “shadowban” treatment as well…
“In what appears to be new ranking behavior, Gizmodo has identified several prominent far-right accounts now buried by Twitter’s search feature,” the site claimed. “As an unintended side effect of demoting divisive figures, many of the dropdown results now show fake accounts.”
Some examples of accounts which have been censored include author and journalist Mike Cernovich, author and YouTuber Stefan Molyneux, InfoWars Editor-at-Large Paul Joseph Watson, Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft, and commentator Laura Loomer.
And Breitbart added quite a few more names to the list…
Breitbart News also discovered other examples of censored users, which included author and commentator Lauren Southern, OAN correspondent Jack Posobiec, Dilbert creator Scott Adams, lawyer and commentator Will Chamberlain, Gateway Pundit reporters Lucian Wintrich and Cassandra Fairbanks, Daily Caller contributor Scott Greer, Daily Caller reporter Peter J. Hasson, Daily Caller and Rebel Media journalist Rob Shimshock.
But let’s not just pick on Twitter. Facebook is an even bigger offender, and it has been reported that traffic from Facebook to many conservative sites is down by 70 percent or more since the 2016 election.
YouTube is a major offender as well. On Wednesday, we learned that they just deleted four more videos from the Infowars YouTube channel…
YouTube removed four videos from Jones’ channel, which has 2.4 million subscribers, that contained instances of hate speech and child endangerment, sources familiar with the matter said. YouTube channels are deleted if they get three strikes in a three-month period.
Two videos contained hate speech against Muslims, and a third contained hate speech against transgender people, sources said. A fourth showed a child who was pushed to the ground by an adult man, under the headline “How to prevent liberalism.” All four of the videos are currently posted on Infowars.
And prior to that, YouTube completely shut down the SGTreport…
My You Tube channel has been terminated. 3rd strike for no good reason. #Censorship #BigBrother Please tweet to @TeamYouTube & demand that this injustice be immediately corrected by restoring my channel.
There were hundreds of high quality videos on that channel, and now they are all gone.
It is important to keep in mind that it appears that it is only anti-establishment voices that are receiving this kind of treatment. In fact, I don’t know of a single “never Trump” Republican that has been censored. Establishment voices on the “left” and the “right” are being totally left alone, but anti-establishment voices are being relentlessly persecuted.
And like I said at the beginning, it isn’t just political voices that are being censored. Global Freedom Movement recently compiled a list of 82 major alternative health pages that have been taken down by Facebook…
Collectively Conscious (915K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Natural Cures Not Medicine (2.3M followers) – Deleted on June 11th, 2018.
I Want to Be 100% Organic (700K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Viral Alternative News (500K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Organic Health (230K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Natural Cures From Food (120K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Heart Centered Rebalancing (3.9M followers) – Deleted a few years ago.
Awareness Act (1.1M followers) – Deleted in mid-2017.
Conscious Life News (1.1M follower) – Deleted on June 5th, 2018.
Wake The Fuck Up (550K followers) – Deleted about a year ago.
Living Traditionally (570K followers) – Unpublished on June 5th, 2018.
Organic Wellness (600K followers) – Unpublished on June 5th, 2018.
Chocolate Socrates (608K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Earth We Are One (1.7M followers) – Deleted on June 5th, 2018.
Meditation Masters (2.3M followers) – Unpublished on June 5th, 2018.
People’s Awakening (3.6M followers) – Deleted on June 5th, 2018.
Nikola Tesla (1.7M followers) – Deleted on June 5th, 2018.
Interesting Stories (1.5M followers) – Deleted on June 5th, 2018.
The Warrior (1.7M followers) – Unpublished on June 5th, 2018.
Natural Health Warriors (140K followers) – Unpublished on June 5th, 2018.
Tech Explorers (270K followers) – Unpublished on June 5th, 2018.
Universe Explorers (1.5M followers) – Unpublished on June 5th, 2018.
Area 51 (1.5M followers) – Unpublished on June 5th, 2018.
The Global Meditation (70K followers) – Unpublished on June 5th, 2018.
Video Explorers (780K followers) – Unpublished on June 5th, 2018.
Spiritualer. Com (80K followers) – Unpublished on June 5th, 2018.
Flower of Life (670K followers) – Unpublished on June 5th, 2018.
EWAO (30K followers) – Unpublished on June 5th, 2018.
Global Freedom Movement (27K followers) – Deleted on June 19th, 2018.
Health & Alternative Medicine (550K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Pure Nature (1.7M followers) – Deleted on June 3rd, 2018.
Nature Gallery (654K followers) – Deleted on June 3rd, 2018.
Mesmerizing Nature (912K followers) – Deleted on June 3rd, 2018.
Nature’s Touch (150K followers) – Deleted on June 3rd, 2018.
We Really Like Animals (544K) – Deleted on June 20th, 2018.
Nature’s Majesty (191K followers) – Deleted on June 20th, 2018.
Nature Magic (33K followers) – Deleted on June 20th, 2018.
Floral Photobook (160K followers) – Deleted on June 20th, 2018.
My Own Little World (1.5M followers) – Deleted on June 20th, 2018.
Brighten Your Soul (100K followers) – Deleted on June 20th, 2018.
Essence of Spirit (12K followers) – Deleted on June 20th, 2018.
Jesse Ventura Fan Page (750K followers) – Deleted a few years ago.
Exposing the Truth (800K followers) – Deleted on June 5th, 2018.
Learning the Truth (1M followers) – Deleted on June 5th, 2018.
Latruth (7M followers) – Unpublished on June 5th, 2018.
Healthy Life Box (1.8M followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Healthy Food House (3.4M followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Health Awareness (2.5M followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Healthy Life And Food (350K followers) – Deleted on May 23rd, 2018.
Check These Things (80K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Health Care Above All (90K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Health and Healthy Living (450K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Healthy Living Motivation (644K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Alternative Health Universe (420K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Natural Medicine Corner (411K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Organic Health Team (490K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Global Health Care (130K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Healthy Alternative Medicine (140K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Natural Healthy Team (190K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Organic Food Medicine (30K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Love, Health and Happiness (10K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Healthy Organic Life (25K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Healthy Lifestyle (55K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Guardian of Health (160K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Daily Health Keeper (190K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Health & Love Page (720K followers) – Deleted on June 5th, 2018.
Diabetes Health Page (180K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
The Beauty of Power (170K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Nutrition Facts and Analysis (170K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Deeper Perspectives (32K followers) – Deleted on June 13th, 2018.
Healthy Living (1.8M followers) – Deleted on June 5th, 2018.
Organic Planner (1.5M followers) – Deleted on June 5th, 2018.
Healthy Lifestyle (1.4M followers) – Deleted on June 5th, 2018.
Just Natural Medicine (1M followers) – Deleted on June 5th, 2018.
Great Remedies – Great Health (650K followers) – Deleted on June 5th, 2018.
Nature is Beautiful (1.1M Followers) – Deleted on June 3rd, 2018.
Amazing World (872k Followers) – Deleted on June 6th, 2018.
Pure Nature (425k Followers) – Deleted on June 6th, 2018.
Photography World (1.4M Followers) – Deleted on June 20th, 2018.
World Magazine (845k Followers) – Deleted on June 20th, 2018.
Divine Mystical Love (25k Followers) – Deleted November 2017
We will continue to press Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for answers, but it has become exceedingly clear that they are singling out particular points of view for censorship, and the end result is that the agenda of the New World Order is being advanced.
Michael Snyder is a nationally syndicated writer, media personality and political activist. He is publisher of The Most Important News and the author of four books including The Beginning Of The End and Living A Life That Really Matters.
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REVIEW: The True Queen by Zen Cho
JanineA- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsdragons / f/f / Fairyland / Fantasy / fiction with strong romantic elements / LGBTQ / Magic / magical powers / Malaysia / POC / Regency England / SFF7 Comments
Dear Ms. Cho,
Three and a half years ago, Sunita and I reviewed your first novel, a regency-set fantasy titled Sorcerer to the Crown. I liked it enough to request an ARC of the sequel, The True Queen. I have to admit, though, that I was a little apprehensive because of the long wait between books. But my worry was misplaced; The True Queen is even better than its predecessor.
The novel begins when two women, Muna and Sakti, come to consciousness during a storm, near the village of Janda Baik in Malaysia. Muna and Sakti recognize that they are sisters, though both are missing their memories. Sakti is haughty, opinionated, and possesses magical abilities. Muna is humbler, less certain, and has no magic whatsoever.
The local witch and wise woman, Mak Genggang, takes in Sakti and Muna and tells them that a curse worker stole their memories. The witch begins to teach Sakti how to use her magic, but Sakti feels restless. Muna, the main character, works in the kitchens alongside the other people and the lamiae Mak Genggang is also sheltering, and she enjoys it.
Then Sakti reveals to Muna that a magical hole is forming in her stomach, and she is sure that Mak Genggang is the curse worker responsible for that, as well for the loss of their memories. Muna is certain that isn’t true.
To forestall leaving Mak Genggang’s home, as Sakti wants them to do, Muna agrees to sneak into the house of Tuan Farquhar, the Resident (aka Raja to Sakti and Muna) of Malacca. Farquhar collects spells and Muna suggests they use one of his spells to discover who cursed them.
Just before they get caught in Farquhar’s house, Muna and Sakti learn that the curse worker’s name is Midsomer. And because they caused an international incident by infiltrating the Resident’s house, Mak Genggang sends them to England, to her friend the Sorceress Royal, Prunella Wythe.
En route, while walking through a forest on the border between England and Fairy Within, Sakti is sucked into Fairyland. Unable to find Sakti, Muna completes the journey to London. In England, Muna is mistaken for the magical Sakti and welcomed. She is given housing in Prunella’s academy, where young ladies are taught how to use their magic.
There, Muna makes the acquaintance of Prunella, three students and their two teachers, Henrietta Stapleton and Clarissa Midsomer. With the aid of a temperamental djinn that Mak Genggang entrusted to Sakti, Muna is able to use a tiny bit of magic. But her goal at all times, one for which she must continue her deception no matter how much she likes her new friends, is to locate Sakti and bring her home.
Meanwhile, an amulet belonging to the Fairy Queen, known as the Virtu, has disappeared from the hoard of a dragon who was storing it for her and the queen is convinced the English have stolen it. Her emissary, the Duke of the Navel of the Seas, arrives in England with the intention of eating everyone there in revenge. Prunella manages to delay him by suggesting he search for the thief first, but if the Virtu isn’t found, England will not survive.
When the fate of the amulet intersects with Muna’s quest to save her sister, Muna contrives to travel to Fairyland in a desperate bid to find and retrieve both.
This novel is a sequel to Sorcerer to the Crown but it has a different set of main characters, so I think it is a decent starting point if you want to skip book one. It is also a charming fantasy and two of the ingredients from Cho’s Sorcerer to the Crown are present: a Heyer-influenced sense of humor and a stealth romance.
The Malaysian heroine is a new and welcome ingredient, giving this book a fresher voice than Sorcerer to the Crown had, and The True Queen feels more surefooted than its prequel. Muna is easy to like—even stranded in England with her sister lost, unable to communicate with Mak Genggang, her determination to save Sakti still causes her misgivings when it requires her to deceive others. There is also an earnestness to her character that adds to her appeal.
The way Muna is contrasted with Sakti highlights her strengths. Where Sakti is decisive to a fault, Muna weighs her actions more carefully. Where Sakti’s arrogance leads her to assume she is always right, Muna is willing to admit her mistakes. Her journey is one in which she gains confidence in herself, but it is handled so subtly that when she and Henrietta save the day, it’s both utterly believable and a victory.
Henrietta, who plays a larger role here than she did in Sorcerer to the Crown, is sweet and gentle, anxious at times, but she is still brave. She’s determined to marry a suitor she doesn’t care for to salvage her family from financial ruin and so that her sisters won’t have to, and when she must go to Fairy Within and face danger there, she rises to the occasion.
The romance between Muna and Henrietta is slow burn and sneaks up on the reader. They begin as gracious strangers, evolve into friends, and then figure out that they love each other. They treat one another with care when they can, and when they can’t, it’s still evident that they care about one another. Their relationship is touching and sweet without ever being cloying.
Most of the important characters from Sorcerer to the Crown appear here as secondary figures but since Henrietta has a larger role than that, we also become acquainted with her sisters and parents. The sisters are loyal to Henrietta. Watching them deal with “Not Henrietta,” the robotic and magical double Henrietta leaves in her place when she has to go out of the house, is amusing, disturbing and shows how much they love their sister.
As Muna tries to work out whether it was Clarissa or another Midsomer who cursed her and Sakti, we get to know Clarissa Midsomer better too. There is more dimension to Clarissa than I remember her having in Sorcerer to the Crown, so she’s an interesting villain. Clarissa is snobbish and convinced that her white, aristocratic privilege is her due, but at the same time, despite upholding the patriarchal social order, she longs for more magical power than she can easily grasp as a woman.
Also prominent in the story are Prunella (still amoral but friendly), Mak Genggang (still warm but critical), the djinn (in search of some small but pernicious command to fulfill), Georgiana without Ruth and Rollo (both dragons, one fearsome and cantankerous, the other sweet), Rollo’s debonair and human lover, Damerell, and the Fairy Queen. The queen’s agent, the Duke of the Navel of the Seas, is another new character, smarmy and threatening.
Zacharias appears in the book, but the part he plays is smaller. Generally speaking, it’s the women who are at the forefront here.
There is a lot of humor in the book and much of it is embedded in the narration and dialogue. For example:
When Henrietta Stapleton found her in the attic, Prunella was too hot and vexed to receive with patience the news that Miss Liddiard had retreated to the bed, felled by an illness. Miss Liddiard taught the eldest class, and it was inconsiderate of her to be poorly on this of all days.
“A female may be poor or delicate or a spinster, but it does seem ill-advised of Miss Liddiard to combine all three.”
I was frequently reminded of Heyer, though the book isn’t quite as laugh-out-loud funny as most of the Heyers I’ve read.
The magic is incorporated into the story in a sometimes-oversized way and the pacing is fast, giving the book a frenetic feel. That and a small plot contrivance were my main nitpicks. I also found the name Damerell distracting, since I associate it so strongly with Heyer.
On the whole I enjoyed The True Queen very much. It’s a delightful book and the romance is adorable. B+/A-.
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Janine Ballard loves well-paced, character driven novels in romance, fantasy, YA, and the occasional outlier genre. Examples include novels by Katherine Addison, Ilona Andrews, Kristin Cashore, Cecilia Grant, Piper Huguley, Carolyn Jewel, Jeannie Lin, Miranda Neville, M. O'Keefe and Nalini Singh. Janine also writes fiction. Her critique partners are Sherry Thomas, Meredith Duran and Bettie Sharpe. Her erotic short story, “Kiss of Life,” appears in the Berkley anthology AGONY/ECSTASY under the pen name Lily Daniels. You can email Janine at janineballard at gmail dot com or find her on Twitter @janine_ballard.
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I’ve been waiting for more from Cho since her first book and it’s amazing to see Prunella utterly in her element.
This book is quite different from its predecessor.
Great review, Janine! And SOLD. The library hold list is weeks long. I flinched at the trade paper/SFF price, but I had a bit of a credit at Kobo. And honestly, I’ve had so much pleasure from Cho’s books that I should be supporting her with my $$ when I can.
Thanks! I hope you enjoy it. I would love to hear your thoughts on this book, especially after our prior conversation about Sorcerer to the Crown here at DA. I need to read more Cho! And I know what you mean about feeling the need to support an author you have enjoyed in the past. It’s always great to feel that way about an author and her books.
I’ve had this author on my “to check out” list for a while, definitely inspired too!
@Connie: Cool! If you read the book, I would love to hear what you think of it.
Yay, I’m glad to read this review. I’ve been cautious- both because of the price and because I enjoyed the last one so much. This sounds really good.
@cleo: I hope you like it! :)
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Washington Attorney General hiring around the state
May 14, 2018 uwcpsl
Due May 30: Legal Intern for API Chaya, stipend included
The Legal Intern’s duties will include: supporting advocates to help survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and/or human trafficking with legal matters (immigration law, family law, protection orders and criminal law); accompanying program participants to Protection Order hearings; working with local legal aid organizations to better serve survivors; working in partnership with pro-bono attorneys assisting program participants; possibility of community organizing/engagement opportunities for interns working more hours; other tasks as assigned. Read more here.
Washington State Attorney General hiring for three positions
Due May 16: Assistant Attorney General – Regional Services Division in Yakima
Due May 23: Assistant Attorney General – Spokane Division
Due May 27: Assistant Attorney General – Transportation & Public Construction Division, Olympia
Equal Justice Works hiring fellows for Crime Victims Justice Corp.
Fellows will provide legal services, outreach, and education to address legal needs resulting from human trafficking and a variety of civil legal issues arising from victimization, such as family law, education, employment, immigration, and consumer protection, as well as enforcing crime victims’ rights. Organizations are seeking applicants that are recent graduates and are already barred. Read more and apply to organizations here.
Columbia Legal Services seeking staff attorney
May 7, 2018 uwcpsl
Due May 15: Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute and Clinic and Clooney Foundation for Justice ‘TrialWatch Legal Fellow’
The Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute and Clinic (“HRI” and “the Clinic”), and the Clooney Foundation for Justice (“CFJ”) are seeking a full time TrialWatch Legal Fellow. The Legal Fellow would be appointed at Columbia University as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar or an Associate Research Scholar, depending on experience. The appointment will run from August 2018 to May 2020.
In connection with a collaboration between CFJ, HRI, and the Clinic, the Legal Fellow will play an integral role in the development and implementation of CFJ’s TrialWatch initiative. This initiative will monitor and respond to trials that pose a significant risk of human rights violations, with a particular focus on trials in which the law may be used as a tool to oppress vulnerable groups, to silence speech, or to target political opponents or critics. The Legal Fellow will also work in the Clinic, designing and implementing a clinical project in connection with the TrialWatch initiative, as well as contributing to syllabus development, seminar teaching, and scholarly research and writing. Read more here.
Due May 27: Columbia Legal Services hiring Yakima or Wenatchee staff attorney
Columbia Legal Services seeks a full-time Staff Attorney to work in our Wenatchee or Yakima office. The Attorney will engage in systemic, multi-forum legal advocacy to dismantle the structures that perpetuate poverty, racism, and other injustices in Washington. This position will focus primarily on advancing legal protections for farm workers and immigrants in our rural communities, including employment, civil rights, and access to equal opportunities. Read more here.
June 28: The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) hiring legal interns for fall
CEQ Law Clerkship Opportunity: The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) has a law clerkship opening for the Fall of 2018 (12-16 weeks), and is accepting applications from highly motivated 2Ls and 3Ls. Clerks are supervised by CEQ’s Office of the General Counsel, and provide critical research and writing assistance to both legal and policy staff on a variety of matters pertinent to CEQ’s functions, including oversight of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Through CEQ’s participation in policy processes across the Federal government, clerks have the opportunity to perform diverse, substantive legal work, including: (1) Drafting memoranda on environment, energy, natural resources, and general law issues; (2) Tracking Federal agency actions on environmental and infrastructure issues; (3) Attending interagency working group meetings; and (4) Assisting with responses to Freedom of Information Act requests and other inquiries regarding CEQ’s activities. Clerks also have the opportunity to analyze recent case law and to help advise CEQ’s policy teams on legal issues. Read more and apply here.
Upcoming CLEs focus on Legal Financial Obligations and Attorney Client Relationship
May 4, 2018 May 7, 2018 uwcpsl
May 8: CLE on Legal Financial Obligations
WSBA Presents is putting on a short ½ day CLE program on Legal Financial Obligations next week (May 8, 8:25am-11:45am, 3.00 Credits, In Person and Webcast). Please see below for a little bit more information. Learn more here.
Join us for a half-day program to learn about LFOs generally, including changes in the law that go into effect June 7, 2018, following the passage of under HB 1783, that address:
· interest on LFOs;
· imposition of costs at sentencing;
· payment alternatives;
· payment plans as an option for indigent offenders;
· standards for determining willful failure to pay.
May 15: Creating a Culture of Racial Equity
Dismantling institutional racism and otherwise unlearning oppressive systems that are engrained in our culture is a winding path with endless stops and starts. This month we are looking inward to realize our values and how we can use them as guide posts on this journey. We’ll also discuss roadblocks like gatekeeping and understanding your role in a situation. Learn more here.
June 8: Second Annual Law Bono Conference — Unbundling: Reimagining the Attorney-Client Relationship
Unbundled legal services is a vital emerging market for lawyers. This CLE will provide you the information, resources and practical advice to help you improve your practice if you are currently using unbundled legal services or help you see how best to introduce it to your practice. Co-hosted by the WSBA Low Bono Section and Seattle University School of Law CLE, the 2nd Annual Low Bono Conference will provide practical advice on providing your clients with exactly the services they need, when they need them, without wasting time, money or resources.
Topics include: How unbundled services work and how it is currently being applied by lawyers; how to explain unbundled legal services to clients; the roles of drafting, negotiation, research and brief services. Register here.
June 15: Alliance for Equal Justice Legal Aid Summer Intern Orientation
What is the Alliance for Equal Justice? What should you know to get the most out of your summer internship? Join us on June 15 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the University of Washington School of Law Room 138 (or via livestream from Gonzaga in room 227) to learn about the Alliance, receive substantive training, and meet students interning at other organizations. Final agenda will be posted soon. Co-sponsored by Seattle University School of Law, Gonzaga University School of Law, and the University of Washington School of Law. Lunch generously sponsored in Seattle and Spokane by Foster Pepper PLLC. RSVP here.
NWIRP hiring for two post-grad positions
April 23, 2018 uwcpsl
NWIRP hiring for two-year Equal Justice Works Crime Victims Fellowship beginning in June
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) will host a fellow over two years as part of the Equal Justice Works Crime Victims Justice Corps. The fellowship will begin on or about June 1, 2018 and end on May 31, 2020. The Equal Justice Works Crime Victims Justice Corps is a legal fellowship program designed to increase capacity and access to civil legal help for crime survivors. A cohort of approximately sixty fellows are placed at nonprofit organizations across the country to provide direct representation to survivors of crimes, including human trafficking, fraud/identity theft, campus sexual assault, and hate crime, and immigrant survivors of crime with meritorious claims for immigration relief, and outreach and education to community partners. All fellows will incorporate crime survivors’ rights enforcement into their practice and will receive training from the National Crime Victim Law Institute and other training and technical providers.
Learn more and apply for the fellowship here.
NWIRP hiring full-time staff attorney for the Family Services Unit
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) seeks a full-time bilingual staff attorney to work in
our Family Services Unit (FSU) in Seattle, Washington. The attorney will provide legal assistance to community members through: direct representation; individual consultations; self-help assistance in the form of community workshops and legal clinics; and community education. The attorney will focus on providing legal representation in various matters, but focusing on 1) defending individuals in removal proceedings, and 2) representing community members seeking immigration status through family visa petitions. The attorney may also be assigned work relating to other immigration matters.
Learn more and apply for the staff attorney position here.
Equal Justice Works funding deadline extended to May 15
Rolling Deadline: TeamChild hiring staff attorney for Yakima office
TeamChild is seeking a full-time staff attorney in our Yakima County office. Primary job duties include providing holistic civil legal representation to youth who are at risk of or already involved in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. Advocacy involves breaking down legal barriers to a wide array of community based services and supports, including but not limited to, education, safe and stable living situations, mental health care and medical services, and other civil rights issues. Activities include legal advice and/or representation in administrative or judicial proceedings, negotiations or other dispute resolution processes, advocacy in juvenile court in partnership with public defenders to promote alternatives to secure detention, and collaboration with and referrals to community providers. The staff attorney is also responsible for other advocacy activities, including community training, outreach, and policy work on behalf of our client base.
Read more and apply here.
Due May 14: Fellowship on the Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex (LGBTI) Persons
The fellow will assist with tasks of the Rapporteurship on the Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex (LGBTI) persons of the ES/IACHR under the supervision of its human rights specialists during the period of the fellowship and, at the end of the fellowship, present to the ES/IACHR a detailed report on the activities carried out by the fellow. This fellowship is subject to the availability of funds.
Due May 15: Equal Justice Works summer funding deadline extended
All AmeriCorps JD service members will receive a $1,200 Segal AmeriCorps Education award upon successful completion of the program and are eligible to seek funding from the host or another source up to $4,422. The priority deadline has been extended through May 15, 2018.
There are two ways for your students to get involved:
If students have already secured a position with a nonprofit organization or clinic for the spring or summer that fits in one of these priority areas, they can apply now.
If they are still looking for an organization to serve at this summer, they can click here for our nationwide list of over 100 sites seeking applicants.
Don’t miss UW-NALSA’s Salmon Bingo Dinner
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April 20: UW Native American Law Student Association is hosting annual Salmon Bingo Dinner
The UW Native American Law Student Association is hosting the annual Salmon Bingo Dinner, a family friendly evening of bingo games and good food. Enjoy playing bingo; build community with current students, alumni, and Indian law practitioners; and, celebrate students’ effort to advance Federal Indian legal issues this academic year.
April 25: WSBA Community Networking Event
The Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) invites you to a community networking event in Bellevue. This event is a great opportunity to meet and mingle with members of the legal profession. The WSBA remains committed to achieving inclusion and supporting the efforts of our local, specialty, and minority bar associations. We are proud to partner with the Filipino Lawyers of Washington, the Latina/o Bar Association of Washington, the Loren Miller Bar Association,Washington Attorneys with Disabilities Association, and Washington Women Lawyers to bring you this opportunity to network and connect.
Please RSVP here by April 19.
Coming up: Wayfind’s nonprofit legal trainings
April 25: Labor 101: Nonprofits and Volunteers, Contractors, and Employees + Legal Clinic
April 30: Let’s Go Legal! – Bellingham
May 9: GiveBIG Open House!
May 22: Nonprofit Legal Checklist – Webinar
May 24: Speed-Reading Form 990 for Nonprofits
King County Public Defense, Public Counsel LA hiring
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Due April 18: King County Dept. of Public Defense hiring attorneys
The Department is looking for talented, committed, hardworking advocates with excellent trial, research, and writing skills, and an ability to work in a fast-paced environment. The successful applicant will have a passion for public defense and a demonstrated commitment to helping those who are less fortunate. He or she will also have a demonstrated ability to receive feedback and integrate that feedback into his or her practice. Read more and apply here.
Rolling Deadline: Public Counsel hiring summer law clerks in LA
If you are seeking an opportunity to develop your interviewing and legal advocacy skills while also helping to address the growing homeless epidemic in Los Angeles, being a summer clerk with Public Counsel CARES is for you. Public Counsel CARES stands for “Connecting Angelenos to Resources and Essential Services.” As a summer law clerk, you will be able, with the supervision and support of our staff attorneys, to advocate on behalf of impoverished clients, helping them secure desperately needed shelter, food, healthcare, transportation and other social services and benefits and train others to do this work as well. Read more about Public Counsel here.
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Denis Bloch Fine Art Gallery is pleased to offer a wide selection of original lithograph posters by master museum artists of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Many of these collectible original lithograph posters were acquired directly from the original printers and are in excellent or mint condition. These beautiful rare art posters are an excellent way for art collectors to acquire original hand–printed lithographs by the major Modern Masters of the 20th Century at an affordable price.
Vintage Lithograph poster collecting became fashionable at the turn of the 19th Century. Hand–printed lithograph posters were a vibrant and expressive form of advertising meant to attract the throngs of everyday consumers in cities both large and small. These beautiful original posters had to be visually striking and immediately convey their message in order to entice the viewer. Lithographic art posters were typically placed at street (eye) level, and often these original posters were positioned in prominent areas such as art gallery windows, railway stations, street kiosks, or on the sides of buildings where the posters could be easily seen.
As vintage art poster collecting grew more popular, these artworks were burglarized from billboards at an alarming rate, and it became increasingly difficult for advertisers to keep their advertisement posters on the streets. As a solution to the problem, poster lithography workshops increased production and began selling the original art posters to the public.
These collectible posters were created in lithography print workshops (also known as ateliers) that specialized in the print medium of Lithography. The Atelier Mourlot, founded in 1852, was a french lithography print studio located in Paris that produced a number of hand–made lithographs and posters. Originally a printer of fine wallpaper, the Atelier Mourlot became involved in the printing of illustrated art books as well as high quality original lithographs and posters for the French National Museums and major foreign institutions. By 1937 the Mourlot studio had established a reputation as the largest print workshop of lithograph prints and posters by master artists.
The Atelier Mourlot was generationally operated by the sons of founder Francois Mourlot. The studio took a modern artistic turn when Fernand Mourlot invited the major master artists of the 20th Century into the lithography studios to learn the art medium of lithography. The Mourlot played host to many major 20th century master artists including: Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Chagall, Leger,Dubuffet,, Le Corbusier, Calder, Kelly, Rauschenberg, Matta, Bacon,Ernst,Lichtenstein, and many more.
Mourlot encouraged these artists to work directly on the lithography stones or plates to create original lithograph prints & posters which would then be printed in limited editions. The results of this artistic print collaboration between master artists and Mourlot were technically inventive, visually captivating and opened a unique realm of creative expression known as Fine Art Lithography. Mourlot was proud of these lithographic poster prints which bore the Mourlot family name and they became known worldwide for their originality, beauty and craftsmanship.
Vintage French posters by master artists of the 20th Century, have come to be recognized as a highly collectible form of fine art, whether for pleasure or for investment purposes. World–renowned museums exhibit vintage posters and many have permanent collections of vintage lithograph prints & posters. Magnificent examples of such vintage poster collections can be found at theLouvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
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Darwin's Soldiers
Learning programming through making video games
The Medical Necessity lore nobody asked for
Posted by aabicus on October 18, 2019
Remember Medical Necessity? It was the game development project where I had my first ill-fated experience as a project manager. In the end, we got cancelled due to lack of progress during the first quarter of production, and the only surviving product is the purchasable sprite sheet on itch.io.
The design document and production wiki note that the default names for the player’s allied soldiers are Homer, Berenson, Collins, and Cunningham. And while digging through a lifetime of old boxes preparing for my move to Portland, I found the original action figures those names came from. Their plastic has gone gummy and they’re now too fragile to do anything but collect dust, but at least I can photograph and chronicle the 4 most important toys I owned growing up.
“Corps Man adventures” were one of my favorite pastimes growing up with my younger brother Jake. We had huge boxes of GI Joes, LEGOs, Star Wars figurines, and other assorted toys, and we went on countless adventures where we’d each control one or more characters in sprawling odysseys that often took us around the house, backyard, and even our friends’ houses if they were participating. Arctic expeditions, police/detective procedurals, time-traveling, natural disasters, jailbreaks and manhunts… we role-played a huge amount of scenarios throughout the years, very rarely reusing characters or locales in favor of constantly inventing new backstories and storylines.
The squads on this page are among the very few action figures who always represented the same recurring characters. Jake and I each controlled our own 4-man team of special forces soldiers, and over the years they went on dozens of different missions for the “Power Team”, an international peacekeeping force. We made them ID Cards and everything.
The Rangers
My squad was the Rangers, and tbh they’re way more boring than the crazy stuff Jake came up with for his backstories. Just jump straight to the Mini-Force if you wanna see what a precocious 7-year-old can come up with.
Cunningham (the American) was the leader of my squad, with pretty typical leaderly qualities like being good at any team role and keeping a clear head under pressure. His main gimmick was believing that tools are unnecessary with sufficient skills, which was why he had no backpack and no attachments on his rifle.
Homer (the Australian) was the team’s muscle and combat specialist. He was always needlessly positive and optimistic, and had a tendency to get injured and need the other characters to drag him around until they found medical attention or a lull in combat to patch him up. He also wore the team’s parachute, which in our young minds made him literally immune to falling damage at any time.
Berenson (the Brit) was the team’s engineer and tech specialist. He wore a radio backpack so he could communicate with HQ, and was usually the one hotwiring vehicles or “hacking” something while everyone else defended him. He was the team complainer and usually sarcastically whining about having to do anything.
Collins (the Norwegian) was the team’s pilot and sniper. He’d always be the one driving/flying whatever the squads were using to get around, and during combat he’d often hang in the back and snipe with his scoped rifle. He was a scaredy-cat and always nervous about what the teams were getting themselves into.
The Mini-Force
Jake’s squad was the Mini-Force, and they wore tan uniforms to distinguish themselves from the Rangers’ green. Each teammate also outranked the next (unlike the Rangers, where everyone but Cunningham had the same rank) and could issue orders to anyone below them in this list.
Jake himself was the commander of his squad. He had a custom uniform we made by stitching a bunch of different army men pieces together ala Frankenstein, and it represented his chameleon abilities–because he didn’t wear the uniform of any specific army, he could bluff his way into enemy bases by claiming he worked for them. His sidearm was a laser pistol he canonically built himself.
Cooper (the Canadian) was “the competent one”; he was the teammate who knew how to do everything, and Jake’s second-in-command. This often left him in-charge whenever Jake was infiltrating an enemy base. I don’t remember a single time he actually put those goggles on.
When it came time for me to move away to college, our parents got Jake a dog so he’d still have someone to play with, and he named it Cooper since it was his new second-in-command.
Loft (the Antarctican) had a Barbarian-style rage that he could enter whenever he ate a Snickers bar. He didn’t talk much and he didn’t use guns, choosing instead to wade into battle dual-wielding a knife and a metal club. We used him as a “Shit, we need someone to do xyz but no human could realistically pull that off” plot device a lot.
Fireburst and Bentley
Originally, the fourth member of the Mini-Force was Fireburst (the English, cause we thought England and Britain were separate countries). He was “the stupid one” and usually just fired his gun at enemies or screwed something up to make the mission harder. Then one day we lost him in the backyard and he got replaced with Bentley (the Russian), who had a black printing error on his chin we both interpreted as a minuscule soul patch. Bentley was a rock climber who could scale any wall, but he never got much of a personality; his main gimmick was not being incompetent like Fireburst.
(Years later we found Fireburst, who we decided was now a badass survivalist that retired after being rescued and reintroduced to society.)
The Power Team HQ
Some other action figures entered the canon as we bought more figurines from the same set. They only rarely appeared as “guest stars” for a mission, or in storylines that involved the home base being attacked by invaders.
Xaviers
Maximilian Xaviers was the commander of the HQ, and often the one assigning us missions. He preferred to stay off the front lines, so he’d wield a high-powered sniper rifle whenever he found himself involved in combat. Sometimes he’d get kidnapped and we needed to go rescue him.
At some point, we realized HQ’s radio operator should get a name since we’re constantly talking to him, and thus Omeed Damont was born. He was a redeemed criminal and sworn noncombatant who refused to fight or kill anyone, so he never did anything beyond being the radio guy.
Achmed Møter was far-and-away the least seen character. His only job was being “a soldier stationed at HQ” and filling any minor plot role when we didn’t have another character to do it. I think he even died once or twice. We pronounced his last name as “Moy-turr” but that’s probably not how that letter actually sounds.
Mahgninnuc
Mahgninnuc was Cunningham’s evil twin, and he had a red eye and blond goatee we added with sharpie. Sometimes he commanded the evil forces, sometimes he was an underling working for the current villains, but he was always Cunningham’s arch-nemesis and the only recurring antagonist. He wielded a transparent red sword that could superheat to cut through anything, and often used it to escape after the heroes destroyed his evil plan of the week. I don’t think they ever ended up catching him.
This is actually the second time I rediscovered this small bag of action figures. They also reappeared while Jake and I were cleaning the basement shortly before I was gonna move away for college in 2009, and we enacted a short ceremony where Xaviers gave all eight of them medals and they retired with full military honors. Shame I can’t really remember any of the missions they actually went on, but these dudes are an important part of why I grew up loving storytelling to the degree I do.
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I’m 29 now!
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I GOT THE JOB
On my retirement from the Gang of Five
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People on the Chemical Edge: Introducing the first batch of stories
Lunch in Sarnia: Would you like cancer with that?
Life in Chemical Valley: Why don’t the kids have hazmat suits?
Hot Plastics in Windsor: Molten chemicals and sick women
Between January and April of 2014, my husband, David Fenton, and I went on a quest. Motivated by the desire to understand the reasons for serious illness and early death caused by toxic chemicals in both branches of our families, and with long personal histories as environmental activists, we decided to investigate developments taking place in an industrial region in which David grew up, and whose chemical-producing and chemical-employing industries provided a big enough case study to understand how and why every one of us is affected adversely, directly or indirectly, by today’s chemical regime. We believe this region is a telling microcosm of the larger chemical world, which is a global enterprise worth well over three trillion dollars. We considered that a visit to the region, and meeting with some of the people who are working to make it a better place to live, might yield some important lessons for thinking about the present and the future, and help us test the validity of certain conclusions at which we have arrived at that point in our own lives.
We expected to write about the experience in a number of different ways. This website is one result of that trip, combined with additional subsequent research. But we really wanted an up-close-and- personal encounter and the region laid out on the map below seemed the right place to get it.
Essentially we were scouting this heavily populated, trans-border region, cut through by a central watercourse, and defined at both ends by two sets of paired cities. To the north of the region, then, facing each other at the place where Lake Huron empties into the St. Clair River, sit two unprepossessing municipalities: Sarnia, Ontario and Port Huron, Michigan. Sarnia looks like nothing much, but its “Chemical Valley” produces fully 43 per cent of Canada’s chemicals, and is a key site for many U.S. and other transnational petrochemical corporations. People travel between Sarnia and Port Huron over the graceful arc of the Blue Water Bridge; chemical traffic in addition travels through a dedicated rail tunnel underneath the river itself. Not far southeast of Sarnia lies Petrolia, home to Canada’s oldest oil wells.
The Blue Water Bridge links Sarnia and Port Huron across the St. Clair River and the US-Canada border.
Sixty-five miles to the southwest, two much larger cities, Windsor and Detroit, face one another across the Detroit River – Detroit, the “Motor City”, and Windsor, its little Canadian sister. These cities are connected by the Ambassador Bridge, which is a strategic “free trade” corridor without equal. Ten thousand trucks a day go over the bridge carrying trade goods between Canada and the U.S., but also depositing huge amounts of diesel exhaust into the small streets of an already badly polluted atmosphere in Southwest Detroit.
2.5 million trucks travelled across the bridge in 2015 Photo Credit: Toronto Star
Detroit is an amazing city, a place where American industrial power burgeoned fastest until the last decade of the twentieth century and then came down hardest of any major city – a city so hard-hit by the flight of people and capital from it that, in effect, it was (and still is) the city where the apocalypse had already happened. Detroit is considered the poorest big city in the U.S. and you can still see it everywhere, though four years ago it was worse. Ruined facade of the old central railway station – Photo Credit: Urbex~Québec.
The apocalypse is visible in the dereliction of vast tracts of industrial plant and old public buildings, in street after street of burnt-out houses, in boarded-up stores along pot-holed thoroughfares in many neighbourhoods, in people visible on those streets as lost and broken as their surroundings. These sights provide a grim experience.
On the other hand – and this is huge “other hand” – Detroit is a miraculous place, because it is also a place where people have been coming together to rebuild, and the rebuilding is so dynamic and so full of life and imagination that it buoys the spirit. Gardens flourish where old buildings have been removed. New housing developments fill in where old houses had been put to the torch. Downtown, old buildings are being refurbished, new restaurants and businesses are opening, young people have been coming to the city and reclaiming old warehouse spaces to studios and lofts, everywhere there is the energy of new life. There is a tremendous spirit of renewal, and a lot of it wants to rebuild in ways that are environmentally wise and sustainable. We were especially interested in people, projects and organizations that were involved in the reclamation of old, often toxic properties and their transformation into gardens and homes and business. We found a lot of that, and you’ll find mention of it in the stories posted here now, and yet to come. Photo Credit: Ecocentric
Windsor, which never achieved either the wealth or the throat-slitting crashes of Detroit, a quieter, smaller city on the other side of the Detroit River. But it is struggling mightily, and certainly was then. The Big Three – as General Motors, Ford and Chrysler are called – came back big in the greater Detroit area after their long decline through the 1990s and the crash and burn of 2008, but not so much in Windsor. Youth unemployment is very high, well-paying unionized jobs have been steadily disappearing thanks to years of closures, automation and relocation to places like Mexico.
On top of that, Windsor has to contend with the heavy air pollution not only of its own industries, but of all the toxics that come across the Detroit River from Michigan. And all this means, as occupational health researcher Jim Brophy told us, that the health status of Windsorites is among the lowest of all Canadian Great Lakes cities.
But Windsor too is home to some remarkable people, including union women fighting to improve conditions in what are virtual sweat shops for automotive plastics. The conditions under which they work shocked us – “Third World” is how the women we met described them – and I suspect they’ll shock you too. They’ll also give you a way to really understand why so many plastic products – such as those made by these women – end up being bad for the rest of us.
Windsor at its most impressive seen from Detroit Photo Credit: David Fenton
Immediately north of Windsor and Detroit, fed from the north by the long stem of the St. Clair River and drained to the south by the Detroit River and shaped like a leaf of the basswood tree, lies Lake St. Clair, dearly beloved by those who live on its shores. On the Michigan side, north of the 8 Mile Road boundary with Detroit are “the Grosses” – Grosse Pointe, Woods, Farms and Shores – where big money lives in splendour and comfort and shocking contrast to Detroit City proper. On the Canadian side, the shore is residential but the land directly east is largely agricultural.
Let’s call this whole region the St. Clair watercourse. The American-Canadian border bisects it exactly down the middle, and it is a major and important bird migration route.
Waterfowl in winter on the St. Clair River Photo Credit: David Fenton
On the Michigan side, we also traveled farther west to Lansing, Michigan’s state capital and home to a robust and long-lived chemical lobby; and to Ann Arbor, site of the University of Michigan with its pioneering Environmental Studies department and environmental justice program, and home to the nationally known Ecology Center, one of the oldest and most distinguished independent research and campaigning organizations dealing with toxics in the United States. This coming summer we may yet get to Harbor Beach, about sixty miles north of Port Huron on Michigan’s Lake Huron coast, at the ‘thumb’ of the Saginaw peninsula, because it is a major site for Dow Chemical, which in turn is a huge economic and political force in the state. “If Dow doesn’t approve it,” James Clift of the Michigan Environmental Council in Lansing told us, “it doesn’t happen.”
Lansing’s famous domed capitol building where chemical business is big business
On the Canadian side we went as far east from Windsor as London, Ontario, home to the business-oriented Western University, to a lucrative insurance industry that has nevertheless been slowly relocating its companies and its jobs to Toronto for many years, and to an automotive capacity which was in a mortal death spiral until the announcement, in Feb. 2014, of a ten billion dollar contract to build light armored vehicles for Saudi Arabia. This was considered by many an odious and despicable contract and yet it was not refused. It was awarded to General Dynamics, a mammoth, US-based defense corporation that would subcontract among seventeen other London-area enterprises over the coming fourteen years. Increasingly, armaments manufacture is moving into the region where the auto industry has failed, in Windsor as well as in London.
We also traveled through the rural areas on the eastern shores of the waterway, from Corunna (south of Sarnia) down to St. Clair Beach (north of Windsor) – agricultural regions where chemical companies have testing fields for pesticides and fertilizers.
Between Windsor a little northeast of Windsor lies Chatham, where Monsanto and Dupont have agricultural operations. Test farm fields lie under the snow.
I hope to be able to post several more stories from the encounters we had during these trips over the next few months. In the meantime, we begin with four: two from different parts of Sarnia area, one from Windsor and the surrounding area and one from Detroit. What these stories capture – I hope – is the human dimension, often the tragic dimension, of living and working in a chemical region. I hope each one communicates in it own way, how what happens in chemical country affects us, even if we live and work far away. Finally, I hope you will find the everyday heroes in these stories as inspiring as we did.
Varda Burstyn – January 2018
Techno-Environmental Assaults on Children in America
Sarnia – Would you like cancer with that?
Sarnia – Why don’t the children have hazmat suits?
Nightmare in Detroit
Hot Plastics in Windsor
A sample of companies…
Sarnia-Lambton Petrochemical and Refining Complex – St. Clair County
Air Liquide Canada Inc.
Air Products Canada Limited
Cabot Canada Limited
CF Industries
Clean Harbors Inc.
Dow Chemical (large legacy sites, landfills)
DuPont Canada (huge – subsidiary of Dupont Inc, USA)
Esso / Imperial Oil Products and Chemicals Division (ExxonMobil – gargantuan)
Enbridge (pipelines, huge)
C. Starck
LANXESS Inc. (formerly Bayer, huge rubber butyl production )
NOVA Chemicals
Plains Midstream Canada
Praxair Canada Inc. (subsidiary of Praxair, Inc. – US, owned by Union Carbide)
Shell Canada Products Limited (huge)
Styrolution
Suncor Energy Company (massive)
Toda Kogyo Corp.
WINDSOR ESSEX CHATHAM LONDON
Plastics: 50+ small and medium plants producing parts for vehicles
Kapco, J & C, Crescent – tool and die manufacturers
Windsor Salt
CK Manufacturing (tank parts)
General Dynamics Land Services ($15.67 billion to build the ‘Light Armoured Vehicle III’, London and area)
Dupont (Chatham)
Monsanto (London, Tillsonberg)
EASTERN AND CENTRAL MICHIGAN
Dow Chemical – plastics, chemicals, and agricultural products including fertilizers and pesticides; is an uber-corporation state-wide and fully global in reach
Monsanto (Monsanto and Dupont both have agricultural facilities in Constantine, MI)
Ford (‘Big Three’ – armaments as well as domestic and commercial vehicles)
Koch Brothers/Marathon Oil – tar sands bitumen refining and network of gas stations
Enbridge (Canadian based, pipeline company; 3 year old bitumen leak in pipeline at Kalamazoo still not properly remediated)
Detroit Energy
DTE – 5 coal burning energy plants from south of Port Huron to Detroit
Plastics – 200 injection molded plastics suppliers
Severstall Steel
Southwest Detroit Waste Disposal Facility (industrial and domestic waste processed through equipment installed in the 1930s, biggest facility in the US.)
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Deadline Zombies: The Adventures of Maxi and Moxie
by Teel James Glenn
The Book is Fantasy/ pulp adventure/mystery
Published by BooksForABuck
Chasing a headline is just a job for ace reporter Moxie Donovan, but sometimes those headlines turn on him and bite. Moxie, along with his sexy better half, Maxi (a theater and film actor) face a tiger-sized panther, mechanical gunmen who support the master race, Irish Fae with the urge to pay Moxie back for the loot his grandfather took from them, murder and a hypnotist intent on re-filming Ben Hur.
And the good thing is I have two more collections of Moxie and Maxi just waiting for me. Book Two: Headline Ghouls, The Further Adventures of Maxi & Moxie; Book Three: Tabloid Terrors, More Adventures of Maxi & Moxie.
When reviewing the reading is always the easiest part. Makes sense, right? The writing of the actual review reads – too much, too bland, or you end up parroting yourself. The funniest thing about all this, is it’s hardest when you fully enjoy and love what you’ve just read. Which is why I’m taking this time to show you how I make my notes during review-reading.
Yes, reading to review is different…at least for me. I am judging the story, there’s no other way to say it. Even though I choose to not judge the technical writing aspect of any story sent to me. Never really sure if I’ve received an advanced final edited copy. This is why I take notes during my reading and here they are for DEADLINE ZOMBIES…
history of news people, journalist at beginning set the mood
want more, only at page 9
time and character voice dead on for time period – Teel has a knack for it
think Hepburn and Tracy
think Saturday matinees from years ago
touch of dark old fashion horror movies…of course, Bela makes an appearance
collection of short stories…want a full length novel with these characters one day
think of Nightstalker series…Darren McGavin
add in time period of War and Nazis…nice mixing
Oh WOW, did not expect that…nice.
Well folks, there you have it. The reasons I enjoyed DEADLINE ZOMBIES, it fits right in with my faves for total escapism.
Teel…about that full length novel…
Headline Ghouls: The further adventures of Maxi and Moxie
Reporter Moxie Donnovan has followed his actor-wife to Hollywood and taken a job as a studio flack, but he hasn’t lost his eye for a story… and Hollywood is full of stories. It’s 1938, Hitler rules Germany and is supporting U.S. Nazi groups, the studio system is in full force, America still suffers from the Great Depression, and hard-boiled reporter heroes are the order of the day. HEADLINE GHOULS follows Moxie, along with his hard-dancing, hard-drinking wife Maxi, as they confront Hollywood blackmailers, Nazi cells, occult Nazi gangs who use human sacrifice, New Orleans voodoo, and Germany’s attempts to infiltrate Hollywood. Moxie and Maxi play off against each other with quick dialogue, an assembly of interesting friends, and the glamour of the studio system in its heyday.
To find Teel:
Pulp magazines. We need them back. We need their dark innocence escape. A side benefit to this genre is Teel’s sharing of the history and feel to these pages and the, if not, magic, the release from reality’s binds to no holding back.
At the time these stories were written produced at a rapid speed, but lack nothing in the details or adventure. Heroes and heroines went into danger and lived…a bit battered but triumphal.
Maybe I’m sexist, chauvinistic – yes we women can be that, but I like female characters who are dames. Strong, confident, and sexy as all hell. Hey, strong and confident are needed for truly sexy male characters, too. Hmm, what’s the opposite of dame? Bogart had it. Tracy had it. Sam Elliott has it. Fictional characters like Mike Hammer and JR Ewing have it. Adding here Teel’s naming of Sam Spade and Phillip Marlow.
Never are these characters – female or male – attempting to be equals; however, their differences, in the end, make them equal. Differences together making each side of the coin.
Throw all this in with a touch of other worldness and you are back in Maxi and Moxie’s world. I will add, I really don’t want to leave their world. It’s too much fun. Although, Maxie might appreciate his own escape from everything.
Yes, I recommend this ebook and its mates…I’m forcing myself to finish the next one only because I don’t want it to end.
And I just have to add:
When’s a morgue not a morgue, but still a morgue? Ask Maxie.
Tabloid Terrors: The further adventures of Maxi and Moxie
Sorry, can’t find my notes
It’s taken so long to work this review that I’m actually writing it at 5am, March 23, 2018 from my hospital bed. Hey, need something to keep the mind active.
By now you know I enjoy reading these characters. Their style and voice hit me like old movies. Too get a little deep they’re blunt for their time and it’s refreshing instead of being cookie cutter sameness – not that that is a bad or negative thing.
Here’s my notes upon reading, sometimes having more impact than trying to write them all out. Hope you visit Maxie and Moxie.
Stepping into real world that is Moxie and Maxi’s fiction
Prologues tend to be long for me – first chapters?
Keeping secondary, even third, characters add to belonging and atmosphere – want to visit their history
There’s a perfect line I can’t share because it would give away too much – writers kill me when they do this
Language can be powerful; however this bring emotional reactions.
The Horsed Thief
In the virtual world of Old Basra a thief who loved a Princess learns to see with more than his eyes and changes the real world in the process.
In Old Basra the thief Asad El-baha falls in love at first sight with the beautiful Princess Fatinah, but it is a forbidden love. In the real world the office is a hotbed of bullying and unrequited love. The two worlds collide when the evil wizard-emir who transforms Asad into a horse, and the game goes horribly wrong.
Mr. Glenn always tells a swashbuckling tale. High action, fast-paced, and classic-voiced. I know this sounds like a bunch of catch phrases; however, this is what I’ve come to expect when I open one of his books. Why I look forward to opening them.
It’s easy to rewrite the storyline and delve into the nitty-gritty of structures and style. But lately I find myself moving toward a simpler voice. Surprisingly, moving away from the catch phrases and impact words to the plain fact…I enjoy Mr. Glenn’s writing.
I know, I know, even wrote it in another review, just saying I like a book isn’t enough. If it was all my reviews would be ratings and nothing more. Kinda of boring, really.
When I open a book from Mr. Glenn I expect to be swept away. To find myself in another world in the midst of adventure and full make believe. Actually, I think that hits it on the nail…reading Mr. Glenn is very much like playing make believe. I can plant myself in the middle of the story and literally have to pull myself out into reality. This is different from escaping into a book. This is watching a stage play calling me up on stage and taking me along as everything unfolds.
I didn’t know what to expect when I started reading “The Horsed Thief.” I kept thinking the land of Aladdin. Then I would be back in my old office cubicle waiting to escape to my daydreams…my books. Here I wonder if we’re escaping to a time past or future present?
When and how does the virtual become reality and reality, virtual?
I don’t really know, all I do know is I had fun reading “The Horsed Thief.”
THE EXCEPTIONALS: BOOK 1: MEASURE OF A MAN
By Teel James Glenn and Jerry Kokich
To state there is a new type of hero would be too cliché. However, Mr. Glenn and Mr. Kokich introduce us to new heroes who, I believe, satisfy any lover of military/police-based champions.
I am unsure about these characters, right now. Their abilities and personalities seem a little excessive. However, isn’t that what we want in our superheroes?
To quote the book’s description, these men and women are “extraterritorial bio-enhanced bounty hunters, who could go anywhere, do almost anything in the name of the law.” World Governments and the United Nations employ, train, pay, and generally sanction them and all their missions. “The Exceptionals Book 1” follow The Bodyguard, the New York Exceptionals team.
In this first look at The Bodyguard, we witness their skills as would-be-exceptionals-turned-criminals overtake The Bodyguard headquarters. Encounters with Captain Mephisto and his raiding pirates act as comic relief to the serious mission to Cambodia, where more shocks and secrets discovered. Will the team ever be the same? Hey, I had to leave you something.
I still have a few questions about the characters and the action sequences. However, after looking up Mr. Glenn’s resume I am convinced on the fighting skills. I found the quieter information research and discovery, the interactions between the characters, and the secrets made a more compelling read than the action.
“The Exceptionals Book 1” was a slow start, for me; however, I want to what happens next.
THE EXCEPTIONALS BOOK 2: ACROSS THE WASTELAND
Is it in our future to a step back to tribal times?
“Across the Wasteland” is a much stronger and more involving read. The Exceptionals characters, mostly Lastshot and Skorpion, were easier to believe and accept. They are the new heroes of a very disturbing future.
“Across the Wasteland” travels with us to a part of our world turned into a wasteland due to via a massive whole in the ozone layer that we caused. This area “the zone” is a virtual dead man’s land. Nothing electrical works within its ozone free boundaries. The solar radiation can and does kill. Even Lastshot and Skorpion feel this area’s weakening powers.
However, as renegade Exceptional, Rokk, knows, life is always hidden deep inside Mother Earth. Rokk is “a full blood Seneca, a citizen of the Original Nation Confederacy” as well as an Exceptional. Mr. Glenn introduces an interesting future for North America and her Native Peoples.
Rokk knows the Law and Justice are sometimes opposites and, sadly, he has taken the law into his own hands to delivery justice. You will need to judge him for yourself.
The base story of “Across the Wasteland” is the survival of Lastshot and Skorpion as they strive to deliver Rokk to the proper authorities while keeping the civilians, whose plane was commandeered for Rokk’s transportation, alive. Within the Wastelands, our group encounters the locals, who were force to band together into warring tribes, packs of radioactively mutated wolves, and their own internal battles.
I like Lastshot here more than in Book 1 of The Exceptionals. Here he is faced with someone, Rokk, who is very much like Lastshot, but has crossed the very narrow line dividing the legal from the illegal. How Lastshot accepts or doesn’t accept Rokk made for a deeper reading of what is an adventure series.
This time around Mr. Glenn has produced one storyline and has run with it to my satisfaction. So, what’s so great about it being to my satisfaction? I’m no longer going to read Book 3 because I’m curious or because I’ve accepted the review request…I’m reading Book 3 because I want to revisit this series.
Well done, Mr. Glenn.
THE EXCEPTIONALS BOOK 3: ON THE GOOD SHIP CALIGULA
This is not the Good Ship Lollypop, but their God Emperor Maximus Caligula the Second is a little lolly–as in gone around the bend a few times. Can The Bodyguard save two of their own from Maximus’ gladiator games?
I’m enjoying the escapism Mr. Glenn’s world offers and I’m a little surprised that I am. Mr. Glenn has created over-the-top super human heroes meshing natural abilities with technologies from some modern Six Million Man world and it WORKS. Not my normal reading choices, but I’m now looking forward to each new story.
In this book three of The Exceptionals, a tsunami of ‘27 sent the aircraft carrier, the California, crashing into a small village just north of Columbia. Now called the Republic of Nova Roma and ruled by said Maximus Caligula, who has brought back the life and death (mostly death) games of ancient Rome. Very lucrative games.
Exceptional Temper, Tori Yagyu, was tracking black market nuclear arming triggers when she ran into the games. What connection is there between the games and nuclear missiles?
Undercover, Exceptional Lastshot, Connor Le’Schott, goes in to bring Tori home. Is this the final face off between him and…like I’m going to tell you.
The Exeptionals is pure entertaining escapism. It’s the good guys against the bad guys and let the bodies fall where they will. It’s fantastical over the top situations that could just be a teeniest bit futuristically real.
Yes, I want more.
When RenFairies Attack
By: Teel James Glenn
Publisher: Whiskey Creek Press
Once the Fae and mortal worlds lived side by side, then Queen Morgana became unhappy with a mortal hero and closed the passage between the worlds. For many years the worlds of man and fae could be breached only in dreams or where dreams lived in the daylight: Renaissance Faires!
Then the barriers were opened again and the two worlds became as one—that was when things got interesting!
Now gods and ogres, jinn and demons cross into the world of mortal man with alarming regularity.
In this brave new world, a farmer makes a wish and his deal with a Leprechaun is not what he bargained for; an Englishman attends a party and accepts a terrible gift; a Manhattan bar bouncer throws the wrong little folk out of his pub and an actuary falls in love with a beautiful jinn princess.
Humans beware, when Renfairies attack, danger follows!
Here’s where I’m going to redirect you to my review of book one: Queen Morgana and the Renfairies because, really, how do you explain a smooth transfer from the separate realms of fantasy and our reality to one where both live together and no one thinks or behaves like we’ve all lost our minds?
When Renfairies Attack is a continuation of short stories where mortals mix with Fae and the outcome is anything but what we humans expected. We, humans/mortals, really need to be careful about what we wish for, ask for, and out and out think about ourselves. Then again, sometimes the god(s) are on our side, sorta.
As a reminder, the copy I received to read and review was not a final editing/proofed/ready for publication piece; therefore, structure and overall writing rules and such, well, I’m ignoring. Not that I really comment on those in any review. And, yes, I’m behind but it’s never too late for any review.
Back to Teel’s story. The Fae reality reads real because Teel knows Faires and this translates to his writing. What strikes me more about these stories, and maybe I’m going too deep into the humanity of us all, but I can’t help feel there’s a commentary on us here within these stories.
How would we be seen through another’s eyes? I don’t mean someone human, but one of the wee folk, as my great-granny called them.
How true is the belief – our thoughts will create our reality? Are our lives driven by our fears and worries? Are we seen by how we see and feel inside more than how we show on the outside? What about those gut reactions to some we’ve all experienced? Could we be “seeing” the true person, and in Teel’s words, the decaying monkey that they are.
I’m not saying reading “When Renfairies Attack” will change you as in studying a self-help book might/could if that’s what you’ve been looking for. But, it might make you pause and rethink your next wish – you never know who might be listening.
In the end, I got to visit with a sampling of my great-granny’s wee folk. Smile at some Leprechauns and giggle at the mortals who thought they knew better.
Let alone be reminded of the sayings my granny learned from my great-granny about being careful what you wish for and don’t go fooling around with the little folk…don’t go looking for trouble; biting off more than you can chew. Great-granny knew what she knew when looking in the garden.
Thanks, Teel.
Queen Morgana and the Renfairies
Publisher: WhiskeyCreekPress
Winner of the2012 Pulp Ark Award for Best Author
Queen Morgana will not allow free passage between the realms of the Fae and of humans. Because of this, both realms are dying. The only bridge between the worlds is the place where dreams live in the daylight: Renaissance Faires!
A group of humans stumbles through the portal: a cocky movie make-up man who hits on the wrong woman, a Vietnam vet whose nightmares make living a chore, a private detective on the strangest case of his career, a crippled cop and a burger store manager who loves to go LARPing.
One of them has to show the Queen of the Fae what true love is or they will perish in the greater darkness that is growing day by day. Oh, and in the process, they have to try and figure out who the strange guy in the Viking helmet is and why he is giggling all the time…
I think I’ve finally discovered why it takes me so dang long reading Teel’s stories…I get lost in them, I don’t want them to end. Lame? Oh for sure, specially since he writes more. I have at least four more waiting for me. I have yet to be disappointed in anything written by Teel.
Side trip time…
Oh, on first name basis am I? Why yes. Consider him a cyber-friend met through author-reviewer relationship. So, you’re thinking I won’t say anything negative? Really? Trust is built on honesty…mine to every author and reader who visits my reviews. And their/your trust in me.
However, for the record, here and for majority of those I review, I don’t comment on grammar or put my editor’s hat on (I might fight with it, but that’s because it hits first) only because I forget which eBooks/print books are prior to final publication and which aren’t. Not fair to comment on this area if I’m the one being forgetful.
Onward we go…
I really need to visit a Faire one summer. I’ve wanted to, but have never gotten around to it. I really need to go this year. Although, after reading this collection of neatly tied stories I might want to keep an extra lookout.
Or watch what songs I sing.
First be prepared to not like the first story’s main character, Jack. He’s an ego…and an ass, but I’ll stop there With that firmly set in your mind and the opening pages, be prepared to rethink it all. I dare you to tell me you don’t see the ending coming and then tell me you didn’t “ahhhh” over it. Shhh, I admit nothing.
Fine, I’ll admit I did cry at the opening of story two. (There goes my hard-hearted rep)
All-in-all QUEEN MORGANA AND THE RENFAIRIES is a mixed bag of tales revolving around Ren Faires. Curtain crossing to dreamlands and new beginnings.
Enjoyable, fun, sweet-emotionally moving. Would I be shot if I said, delightful?
Look, I’m fully captured by these characters. I smiled throughout the reading. You want to escape to the Sidhe side, here you go, I’ve been shown the doorway.
Yes, I did argue with my editor-hat, but I do that all the time. Frankly, those arguments where over little inconsistencies, refer to my side trip above.
What I didn’t see coming was the finishing touch. Made reaching that last screen page more satisfying. You know the moment when you’re completely content. You close the material, sit back, sigh-smile, and just be.
Always leads to hubby or child (or stranger should I be outside in public) ask “Good book?”
Yeeeahhhhh. (insert your own happy face here)
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Have you ever wondered how world successfully defeated the Nazis? Although the D Day invasion was close to becoming disastrous, there are five main points on why the D Day invasion was such a success during the war. These include German counter-attacks being delayed, the mass number of deaths and casualties, delaying German troops, confusion of troop placement, and also the attack on Omaha and Utah beach. Many of these factors led to delays and deaths of the Germans. Obstacles made it hard to attack the beaches to get to checkpoints. One reason why the D Day invasion was a success is due to the German counter attacks to the main initial were being delayed. This was mainly due to internal arguments between the German high-commands.Fortitude South was very successful in deceiving German troops which led to confusion. This also led to the counter attacks being delayed which allowed the Allies to advance instead of fighting constantly with the Germans. This was a main part of the success because fewer troops were left defending the Utah Beach. The Allies were then able to reach their destinations much faster and continue to move inland. Not only was the main invasion meant to confuse the Germans, but the misinformation of the Ally soldiers were meant to delay too. Landing troops on well-defended beaches made Allied planners to make strategies on how to invade properly. If the Germans knew the exact location on where the Allies were invading, they would put as much defense in that area as possible in order to counter them. The Germans placed defenses all across the western coast expanding to Europe in order for there to be few at the eventual point of attack. This part was successful for the Allies because the beaches were easier to invade with fewer German troops pushing them back. Misinformation techniques were used to convince Hitler that there were 350,000 Allied soldiers ready to attack Europe from Scotland. They also invented a fictitious 4th British army, “also known as Skye,” and made it the spearhead of the upcoming invasion of Normandy and Scandinavia. The German defenses being spread out also lead to attacks being more frequent from the Allies. The Germans, who were suffering from the confusion in the ranks, also were dealing with the absence of their commander, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, who was on leave. Hitler believed at first that the invasion was a faint distraction to the Germans from an upcoming attack just north of the Seine River. He refused to release the nearby divisions to join the counter-attack and the reinforcements were called from another airfield. This caused major delays in the German army. Hitler also hesitated to call armored divisions to help in Germany’s defense. The Germans were hit by Allied air support which also took out key bridges and forced them to take longer detours. This played a major role to help slow down armed defense and allowed the Allies to set up and be ready for the upcoming attack. Allied naval support also helped protect advancing troops. Allied air forces also took out other civilians of the Allies.
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Recreating Hieronymus Bosch
By Alyssa Coppelman
Hieronymus Bosch’s paintings teem with unusual figures. The closer you look, the more fantastical details you’ll see. Artist Lori Pond became so obsessed with those details that she recreated them as a new series, Bosch Redux. To produce the series, she brought in a prosthetics designer and taxidermist for props, scoured swap meets and friends’ closets for costumes, and then photographed the staged tableaus. That’s right—these bizarre new images are photos, not paintings.
Bosch Redux 1.0, from The Last Judgment
During a visit years ago to Madrid’s Prado Museum, Pond saw The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch’s famous early 16th-century painting, for the first time. Her reaction to seeing it in person was unexpected: she burst into tears.
Last year, Pond’s interest in Bosch was rekindled when she bought Taschen’s massive tome of his complete works. She recreated details from three paintings: The Garden of Earthly Delights, The Temptation of St. Anthony, and The Last Judgment. “I scrutinized the work carefully and found innumerable little tableaus of action,” she says, “so I decided to isolate one or two characters at a time and recreate these very small details as the focus of new photographic works.”
To recreate these details from the original paintings, Pond bought props online, in antique stores, and at swap meets, and friends donated old Halloween costumes. She also called upon a circle of creatives for help: “I hired a prosthetics designer to create the iconic ‘Bosch snout’ and legs and tail in one image, and a propmaster to make the life-size boat in Bosch Redux 4.0. My taxidermy teacher gave me some crows’ feet, and I got my friends not only to model for me, but also to help with the prop building, wardrobe, and makeup that went into every image. Most resulting photographs are made in camera, apart from some exceptions when I didn’t want to string up a woman in a harp or couldn’t find ears or birds bigger than a human.”
Bosch Redux 4.0, from The Garden of Earthly Delights
Though Pond builds and photographs as much as possible for this work, she doesn’t scorn software manipulation. “I fully abide by the maxim ‘A photograph isn’t a photograph until it goes through Photoshop,’” she says. “I use Photoshop CC 2015 and Bridge CC to color correct, crop, organize my bodies of work, make detailed selections, apply masks—really, the sky’s the limit with these two programs. I like working with tools that have limitless ways to facilitate my absolute best creativity.”
To achieve the beautiful effect of what’s old is new again, Pond employed textures, backgrounds, and other small details from the original paintings. “I used Photoshop to select the craquelure from a public-domain, high-res file of The Garden of Earthly Delights and applied it using blending modes.” These samples of the original paintings appear in 4.0 (the background texture and the heads floating above the boat), 5.0 (the figures to the right of harp), 10.0 (the bodies under the ears), and 11.0 (the background texture).
Bosch Redux 10.0, from The Garden of Earthly Delights
Pond went to great lengths to bring attention to Bosch’s work. She explains her motivation: “Hieronymus Bosch was a mystery. No one even knows if Bosch was his real name, or exactly when he died. There are many theories as to why he created the surrealistic characters and scenes in his paintings. Some art historians say his work is based on Dutch proverbs. At least one art critic thinks medieval and Renaissance ‘dream books’ (in which God is posited to bring dreams to humans to teach us life lessons) are the influences for his work. Did Bosch read these books and then visualize them with his paintings? Who knows—that’s the magic in his work and what I’m trying to bring to new viewers—to let them make up their own minds what the interpretation might be.”
Lori Pond’s work will be part of a group show in January at MuzeuMM, in Los Angeles, with a reception on January 9 from 6 to 9 PM.
All images copyright Lori Pond.
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Author: Jason Barber Date: Friday, 13th Oct 2006
After the international break, Dunfermline return to action still looking to make amends for the disappointing and fruitless trip up to Inverness two weeks ago. With some stinging criticism of the performance, an improvement on Saturday will go a considerable way to getting away days back to being enjoyable events for both players and supporters!
The centre stand at Fir Park will be host to Dunfermline fans that travel through to Motherwell on Saturday afternoon, with numbers having depleted to the extent that the large away stand is no longer required for this fixture. However, the move saw a long run of matches without victory come to an end earlier this year as The Pars won 3-2 with Ian Campbell (his only goal for the club) Mark Burchill’s penalty and a rare goal from Gary Mason providing the second of three consecutive wins.
Personnel has changed considerably in the six months that have passed, with Jim Hamilton moving sides since his eventual departure from Motherwell. Having his first return to Fir Park since his transfer, Hamilton will no doubt come in for a special welcome back from an element of the home support, here’s hoping he really gives them something to moan about with his first goal in Dunfermline colours!
Stevie Crawford will no doubt continue alongside him as he aims to continue his impressive return to the club. Both new strikers have found chances very few and far between in recent games, as Hamilton admitted to the press this week by saying he has only really had one chance in the five games he has played!
Iain Campbell celebrates his first (& last) Pars goal in April
The lack of ammunition provided by the midfield has fast become the main spoke in the wheels for a team that has shored up its defence in comparison to other recent campaigns. Even with the excellent Phil McGuire missing recently, the defence has not looked overly stretch and Dorus De Vries especially was unfortunate to be on the losing side in that turgid match at Inverness two weeks ago.
However, the midfield are failing to gain similar plaudits and much more conviction is needed if Crawford and Hamilton are to be given the opportunity of adding to the goals scored column. They look like having an extended run up front, with both Jim McIntyre and Noel Whelan still months away from a return to any football action at all. Mark Burchill, however, has made remarkable progress from his double hernia operation and has recovered quicker than anticipated.
Burchill won, then scored, a penalty back in May
Burchill was, of course, by far the main source of goals during the whole of last season, and has yet to open his account for this campaign. With a return to training this week, hopefully it will not be long before he does so this season, giving a whole new option up front. With Burchill’s pace and predatory instincts, Crawford’s guile and excellent link up play and Hamilton’s aerial ability and workrate, the coming weeks will hopefully be more exciting times…….
A Gary Mason goal, caught on camera!
Motherwell suddenly sparked their dismal season into life two weeks ago, with a surprising 5-0 win over Kilmarnock. Although the scoreline did appear to flatter the home side somewhat, it is an excellent result against one of the most consistent teams in the SPL. It was also the latest in a string of results that show any side from outwith the top three, currently, is more than capable of beating anyone else. If Dunfermline, or indeed anyone else, was just able to string a run of good results together at some point, a charge up the league table would be the end product.
Calum Elliot, on loan from Hearts, will be one dangerman to look out for on Saturday. Whilst Dunfermline were also linked with the under 21 international during the transfer window, it soon became clear that Motherwell were the front runners for his temporary signature. Alongside the always dangerous Scott McDonald, Motherwell will be looking to build on that 5-0 victory with another home win.
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BEST CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL Best of Bandcamp Contemporary Classical: November 2017 By Peter Margasak · November 27, 2017
Metronome photo by nigel_appleton
The taxonomy of contemporary classical music—new music, contemporary music, whatever you want to call it—is a thorny issue. But every two months, we’ll take a look at some of the best composer-driven music to surface here on Bandcamp, that which makes room for electronic experimentation, improvisation, and powerful takes on old classics.
Nick Photinos, Petits Artéfacts
New Amsterdam Records
Petits Artéfacts New Amsterdam Records .
Best known as the founding cellist in Chicago’s Grammy-winning Eighth Blackbird, Nick Photinos steps out on his own here, tackling a diverse array of short pieces, many of which contain shifting interactions with either electronics or duet partners. The collection takes its name from a six-part suite composed for him by bassist Florent Ghys. Photinos’s playing mirrors and distorts the sound of an edited weather forecast given by an Iranian newscaster on “Information.” “Game” asks the cellist to play alongside a primitive video game—a kind of musical analogue to Pong—while several other parts use programs to either fracture his live segments or deliver changing melodic instructions. He blends virtuosity with the emotionally resonant, dramatic writing of the National’s Bryce Dessner on “Lewisburg,” an extension of his piece Murder Ballads, which he wrote for Eighth Blackbird. Pascal Le Boeuf wrote “Alpha” for the cellist and percussionist Doug Perkins, who gives the piece a hyper-charged reading, reflecting an intense struggle for supremacy intimated by the title of the work, indicting domination as an operating principle.
Most of the works here were written for other musicians, but Photinos commandingly makes them his own. David Lang’s “undanceable” is a pithy cello-piano duet (heard here with Vicki Ray) that turns the feel of a tango inside out, pushing the listener to feel the inexorable rhythm, but upending it at every turn. “Sit and Dance” by Molly Joyce uses several pre-recorded cello parts, combining Baroque aesthetics with a droning pulse. David T. Little’s “and the sky was still there” employs the spoken voice of his friend Amber Ferenz telling her own story of navigating the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, with Photinos providing a kind of tender, sympathetic bedrock on cello. Ray returns for the five movements of Andrew Norman’s “Sonnets,” which draw their inspiration from fragments of a Shakespeare sonnet. The album concludes with Angélica Negrón’s “Panorama,” a dreamscape of processed electronic samples from found sounds and some of the composer’s earlier works in which the cello slaloms through the landscape with a melancholic tunefulness, casting a closing spell that lingers long after the silence.
Patrick Higgins & Josh Modney, Evrly Mvsic
NNA Tapes
'EVRLY MVSIC' NNA Tapes .
Some readers might argue that this collaboration between guitarist Patrick Higgins of Zs fame and violinist Josh Modney (Wet Ink Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble) doesn’t belong in this column because not a single note on the stunning Evrly Mvsic is notated—every sound heard was improvised over a two-day session in Hudson, NY. But the vocabulary of sounds and techniques belongs explicitly to new music tradition, and the duo’s inspiration comes as much from J.S. Bach as it does from Derek Bailey. While the pair have worked together in electro-acoustic fashion—Higgins’s gnarly amplified tones colliding with Modney’s large assortment of dissonant extended techniques—they ended up embracing a mostly acoustic approach here. And although they improvised the sounds on this recording, when they began assembling the results, they embraced the idea of “partitas” as a structuring device.
The first three pieces comprise the opening partita, where loose song forms are voiced with parched sounds—the wonderfully dry strum and pluck of acoustic guitar run up against gentle bowed scrapes. As the album plays, the friction and discordance increases, and long tones and melodic shapes evaporate. It’s all voiced with impressive interaction. Many of the tongue-in-cheek titles tweak micro-categories in classical and contemporary music, such as the final section of the first partita, “A New Austerity,” which does fit the sparse mapping of terse, brittle utterances, but this music never feels chilly or distant despite a certain iciness in the soundscape. The second partita includes two sections where both musicians deploy bows in significant ways, producing a rush of ringing overtones. The final section reflects the duo’s live set, with Higgins moving to electric guitar and the sounds gaining a confrontational energy, but there’s a clear relationship in these shapes to the interactions delivered on the playing in the first partita. If you’re looking for rigorous structures, this might not be the record for you, but the music is guided by a clear logic, and the engagement with timbre and texture is out of this world.
Third Coast Percussion, The Book of Keyboards
New Focus Recordings
Third Coast Percussion/Philippe Manoury: The Book of Keyboards New Focus Recordings .
Chicago’s remarkable Third Coast Percussion spent several years working on this challenging work by French composer Philippe Manoury, a demanding piece for tuned percussion of rigorous post-Boulez complexity. It’s an interesting project for the group, who have proactively pushed the sounds of contemporary percussion music away from the academy toward a more mainstream listenership. But the music of Manoury—who often works in electro-acoustic contexts—is a long way from Steve Reich or Augusta Read Thomas. That the group is able to essay these difficult works with such deceptive ease and genuine clarity, giving The Book of Keyboards a glistening appeal, speaks to their technical mastery. Five of the six movements, as well as an epic complementary piece, “Métal,” are actually scored for a percussion sextet, and on those pieces the group is joined by Gregory Beyer of Ensemble Dal Niente and Ross Karre of International Contemporary Ensemble.
Those movements feature a variety of expected instruments like marimba and vibraphone, but they also require the ensemble to play hard-to-find Thai gongs and versions of a microtonal homemade instrument called a sixxen, originally conceived of by the Greek composer Iannis Xenakis. Yet ultimately, it’s the exacting score, which asks the musicians to play with fluidity and grace while navigating thorny, hyper-difficult passages—both in terms of rhythm and melody—that are part of a score that largely dispenses with transparent structures, although the music itself is intensely structured. Manoury’s facility with electro-acoustic works is apparent in the use of overtones, a virtual extravaganza of ringing resonance, even on “Marimba Duo” between Robert Dillon and David Skidmore, and “Vibraphone Solo” played by Peter Martin.
Scott Wollschleger, Soft Aberration
Scott Wollschleger: Soft Aberration New Focus Recordings .
This gritty portrait album of the Brooklyn composer Scott Wollschleger is packed with dissonance, angularity, and wit. A slew of excellent New York ensembles tackle his music, all of which operates from organizing principles laid out with impressive clarity and intellect. The piano trio Longleash—whose own album is discussed elsewhere in this column—bring mordant humor and head-snapping execution to the opening piece “Brontal Symmetry,” using “discarded scraps” of material from other pieces, compiled and reconfigured in a process that destroys their original contexts. The piece is certainly jarring, but as the trio’s violinist Pala Garcia observes in the liner notes, “it only feels like cartoon violence.” The title piece, performed by pianist Karl Larson and violist Anne Lanzilotti, toys with the notion of memory; the piano lays out the piece in the opening moments in a solo statement, and when the viola joins and as the Feldman-esque shapes continue to unfold, they further decay and distort, a mirroring effect that transmutes the original lines.
The three parts of “Bring Something Incomprehensible Into This World,” a quotation from Gilles Deleuze that the composer embraces as an ethos for creating things that have never existed before, is spread out among other works on the rest of the album. The title is the text sung by soprano Corrine Byrne, but she breaks apart and extends every syllable to abstract shapes and phonemes that interact deftly with the trumpet smears, snorts, and whinnies blown by loudbang’s Andy Kozar. Over the course of the entire work, the trumpet and voice seem to take on one another’s qualities. Longleash cellist John Popham brings bristling clarity to “America,” a diverse, shape-shifting work that the composer built in tiny fragments in collaboration with the cellist. Fragmentation and white noise reside at the core of his “White Wall,” masterfully brought to life here by Mivos Quartet, with passages that move from barely audible scrapes to jagged collisions of fragile double stops, scratch tones, and upper register squalls.
Nadia Sirota, Tessellatum
Nadia Sirota
Tessellatum Nadia Sirota .
Formats: Compact Disc (CD), Vinyl LP, Digital
Deeply moved by the music of Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy, the versatile and endlessly curious violist Nadia Sirota (a member of countless ensembles including yMusic and American Contemporary Music Ensemble, as well as a trusted cohort of Nico Muhly) enlisted Dennehy to write her a piece that delved into a sea of overtones. He came through with Tessellatum, a gorgeous meditation steeped in string-driven resonance. After playing Renaissance duets with Liam Byrne, a master of the bass viola da gamba, Sirota yearned to dig into that instrument’s buzzing richness. Dennehy delivered, writing a piece for 11 bass viols and five violas, which the two musicians overdubbed under the thoughtful supervision of Icelandic engineer Valgeir Sigurðsson.
In this 13-part work, thick layers of strings mass, breathe, and move apart. The sumptuous timbre takes on organ-like properties, but there’s a grainy warmth there that could only be produced with strings; the music feels alive. Breaking down any individual movement misses the point: although Dennehy masterfully pulls away and builds up layers of sound as the work progresses, the music works as an awesome whole to get lost within. The download includes an aqueous video of the entire work by animator Steven Mertens, with a complementary digital, crystallized evocation of some sea world/outer space environment that masterfully underlines the old-fashioned/futuristic divide of the compositions.
Sarah Cahill, Eighty Trips Around the Sun
Irritable Hedgehog
Eighty Trips Around the Sun: Music by and for Terry Riley Irritable Hedgehog .
Formats: Compact Disc (CD), Digital
Bay Area pianist Sarah Cahill has distinguished herself as a peerless new music interpreter, particularly of classic minimalist works. She’s both interpreted and commissioned important work from the likes of Frederic Rzewski, John Adams, Yoko Ono, Ingram Marshall, and Pauline Oliveros, among others. One of her most fruitful associations has been with composer Terry Riley, who’s written half a dozen pieces for her over the years. On this monumental set she celebrates Riley’s genius by collecting a generous selection of his music for solo and four-handed piano written between 1958 and 2014, complemented by a helping of works written for his 80th birthday in 2015 by a raft of dynamic composers. Cahill—who’s joined on the four-handed pieces by Regina Myers, who also tackles two mid-’90s pieces on her own—serves up nearly four hours of music with stunning sensitivity, precision, and joy.
The set opens with “Two Pieces,” a pair of surprising early works from before Riley had forged the minimalist style he’s known for—here he’s still in thrall to Arnold Schoenberg, writing in a meticulous, fully notated form that draws upon serialism. By 1965, when he finished his two openly scored “Keyboard Studies,” his music had utterly transformed into cycling minimalism, and Cahill, combining the works in a single performance, brings a dazzling rhythmic drive and melodic ornamentation to it.
The music then jumps forward nearly two decades, with the four sections of “The Heaven Ladder Book 7.” Gone are the relentless rhythms, supplanted by a more meditative, fragile exploration with the occasional jazz-like voicing on “Fandango on the Heaven Ladder” or the blocky rhythmic syncopation and playfulness on “Misha’s Bear Dance,” performed by Myers, one of several pieces written for Riley’s grandchildren. The latest piece by Riley is the richly lyric “Be Kind to One Another,” which he composed for Cahill, performed here in a revised version from 2014. The second half of the set features pieces written for Riley’s birthday celebration by Oliveros, Danny Clay, Christine Southworth, Keeril Makan, Elena Ruehr, Dylan Mattingly, Terry’s son Gyan Riley, and Samuel Carl Adams (who joins Cahill on the Oliveros piece). As a whole, it’s one of the most impressive looks at Riley’s piano music, and the tribute pieces nicely underline the broad sweep of his influence.
Morgan Evans-Weiler, Unfinished Variations (for Jed Speare)
Weighter Recordings
Unfinished Variations (for Jed Speare) Weighter Recordings .
As with the Patrick Higgins & Josh Modney collaboration above, the remarkable Boston violinist and composer Morgan Evans-Weiler doesn’t have a score for this record, but its focus is ultra-precise. The piece, dedicated to the stalwart experimentalist Jed Speare, a close friend of the musician and who died in 2016, is a rigorous exploration of pitch, specifically in the microtonal complexity of the simplest bowed gestures. Evans-Weiler relies on a handful of simple pitch variations from memory, but ultimately the results don’t rely on any sort of melodic movement. Rather, the violinist pulls his bow across the strings in richly striated tones both gentle and piercing, marbled by a bounty of sounds—high-pitched squeals, abraded drags, intensely ringing double stops—that eventually bypass the lack of compositional shape to create an enveloping experience all its own.
In an email, Evans-Weiler explained that “the performance of the piece is specifically dictated by my experience of the repetitions and the fatigue that accompanies,” and that certainly can apply to the listener, whose level of engagement depends on a certain freshness of the ears, the volume of playback, and attention level. The performance draws heavily on psychoacoustics, where an immersion in the sounds creates an almost psychedelic experience—where the bowed violin seems to produce ever-fattening tones, both viscous and biting. Extended passages are interrupted by brief moments of silent repose, with the violinist changing his fingering before embracing a slightly different pitch—it also allows the listener to recalibrate and retrench for another study that builds in volume and attack. It’s probably not for everyone, but the degree of focus and the richness of Evans-Weiler’s sound-worlds are nothing short of astonishing.
Longleash, Passage
Longleash: Passage New Focus Recordings .
Longleash masterfully subvert one of classical music’s most treasured instrumental contexts—the piano/violin/cello trio—with a dazzling assortment of pieces collected from composers working around the globe on Passage, an album both bracing and tender. This instrumental setup was popular in the 19th century with composers like Schubert, Mendelssohn, and, especially Haydn (who wrote 45 works for such trios). Here, violinist Pala Garcia, cellist John Popham, and pianist Renate Rohlfing boldly reinvent the sound for the 21st century.
American composer Christopher Trapani treads lightest here with his gossamer-fine “Passing Through, Staying Put,” a two-part marvel where strings slide and burst around the piano figures in the first section, making way for the cello to take command in the second with a series of probing, percussive machinations. Italian composer Clara Iannotta manipulates the instruments to generate a wildly divergent palette by slackening the strings of the strings and damping the strings inside of the piano on her “Il colore dell’ombra,” a wonderfully visceral three-movement chamber work of harrowing physicality, tactility, and abrasion. The arrangements provide a gritty rebuke to the trio’s conventional ethos.
Japanese composer Yukiko Watanabe doesn’t employ such instrumental manipulations on her stunning “ver_flies_sen,” but she’s no less unconventional than Iannotta. Her work was inspired by an oil painting by Adriana Varejão called “O Húngaro” that depicts a pool framed by blue-and-white ceramic tiles. The music feels like a keen study of the irregularity of aquatic motion, with ever-shifting patterns, some of which feel similar to one another, but never identical, with timbres that are equally unstable. There’s a different set of extremes within Mexican composer Juan de Dios Magdaleno’s “Strange Attractors,” where swoops, slurries, and shards of sound seem to float through the ether, recombining in startling mixtures of pregnant resonance. On “Corde Vuote,” by Italian composer Francesco Filidei, the score pushes inexorably forward as Garcia and Popham play a delicious series of strokes across their instruments, letting overtones decay, smash into sudden piano explosions, or drift quietly.
Ashley Walters, Sweet Anxiety
Populist Records
Ashley Walters // Sweet Anxiety Populist Records .
Los Angeles cellist Ashley Walters was inspired by the collaboration between composer Luciano Berio and cellist Rohan de Saram (well-known for his lengthy membership in Arditti Quartet) as the driving force behind this stunning solo cello program, which delves deeply into the instrument’s most expressive capabilities. All but one of the six works involved some kind of composer-musician interaction, most involving Walters herself. Two of the works were written by Nicholas Deyoe, including the opening piece “For Stephanie (on our wedding day),” a dynamic exploration of striated, dynamically tactile long tones, percussive patterns, and subtly driving melodies. As the title makes plain, Deyoe wrote this for his wedding ceremony after convincing his wife that Walters would actually be performing a Schubert piece. It’s a bold move, as there’s nothing sentimental or even consistently serene about its stark movements, which are heightened by deploying a scordatura, including a detuned fourth string. This piece sets the tone for the rest of the album.
Berio’s “Sequenza XIV” was one of the last entries in this series of solo works—it was composed over a four-decade span, with the back-and-forth between Berio and de Saram cut short by Berio’s death in 2003, leaving the cellist to make certain final decisions. Walters consulted with him for her electrifying interpretation, a collision of thwacks, screeching double stops, and stretches of somber melody. Wolfgang von Schweinitz’s “Plainsound-Litany” is an exquisite study of just intonation—a kind of catalogue of double stops rich in overtones of exhilarating physicality, shaped with startling precision. Walters has worked with composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith in his Golden Quintet, and Smith returned the favor by writing “Sweet Bay Magnolia with Berry Clusters” for her, designing the work to meditate on the emergent shape of the titular flower with forward-moving melodic shapes, which are interspersed with improvisational contributions by the cellist. Another unconventional tuning surfaces in the closing piece “Another Secular Calvinist Creed” by Andrew McIntosh, who works with the cellist in the Formalist Quartet; it’s part of a series devoted to forging an abstract, idealist sort of perfection and is filled with eerie scalar patterns.
Bang on a Can All-Stars, More Field Recordings
More Field Recordings Bang on a Can .
On their second collection of commissioned work where composers were asked to use some form of field recording as the basis for each piece, New York’s Bang on a Can All-Stars deliver a typically sprawling and diverse program. Between the disparate aesthetics and backgrounds of each composer—whether Pulitzer-winning multi-instrumentalist Caroline Shaw or Arcade Fire member Richard Reed Parry—and the wildly varied methodologies at play, it’s remarkable that the double-album holds together as nicely as it does.
For “Lethe’s Children,” Jace Clayton (aka DJ / rupture) asked the ensemble members what the first song they learned as a child was, which became kernels of his piece. Meanwhile, Paula Matthusen not only used the recording she made at New York’s Old Croton Aqueduct, where the drip of water is plainly audible, but she engaged in a back-and-forth with the musicians and played their recordings back at the aqueduct and recorded them within that resonant environment, tipping a hat to Alvin Lucier’s sonic experimentations.
Glenn Kotche’s “Time Spirals” is an exhilarating, shape-shifting mini-opus drawn from a library of field recordings the percussionist and composer amassed over a year of touring, including, “parades, festivals, and protests to heaters, singing, and dying electronic toys.” Ben Frost’s “Negative Ghostrider” uses recordings he made of drone tests conducted for the U.S. military at great cost to U.S. taxpayers. But even without the political implications embedded in the piece, there’s no missing his deft use of the seething “drone” of the unmanned plane, surrounded by coruscating long tones shaped by the ensemble. Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir famously draws inspiration from the sights and sounds of her homeland’s dramatic landscapes, so it’s no surprise that her “Fields” is truly majestic.
-Peter Margasak
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Fitch downgrades Turkey’s sovereign debt by one notch
The country also continues to run the risk of US economic sanctions triggered by delivery of Russian missile components
WASHINGTON: Ratings agency Fitch on Friday downgraded Turkey’s sovereign debt by one notch to ‘BB-‘ with a negative outlook after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sacked the governor of the central bank.
The firing of Murat Cetinkaya last weekend for failing to follow government instructions “risks damaging already weak domestic confidence,” Fitch said in a statement. It also could jeopardize foreign investment, which the country needs and create “worsening economic outcomes.”
Erdogan has repeatedly railed against high-interest rates and called for them to be lowered to stimulate growth.
He once called high rates the “mother and father of all evil.”
Turkey’s main interest rate is 24 percent after the bank under Cetinkaya made an aggressive rate hike of 625 basis points in September 2018, in reaction to a currency crisis in August.
Last month, Erdogan said the rate was “unacceptable,” promising to find a solution as soon as possible. But Fitch said the firing demonstrates Erdogan will not tolerate the need for a period of lower growth to choke off inflation which has averaged 10.3 percent over the past five years.
“The president has regularly expressed unorthodox views on the relationship between interest rates and inflation, and has indicated the governor was replaced because he did not follow government instruction on interest rates,” Fitch said.
It also “highlights a deterioration in institutional independence and economic policy coherence and credibility.”
The country also continues to run the risk of US economic sanctions triggered by delivery of Russian missile components, the agency said, which could provide another hit to confidence in the economy.
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Corruption a cancer; committed to rooting it out, says NAB chairman
Corruption is just like cancer. NAB is committed to root out corruption by using all its resources with iron hands.
This was stated by Javed Iqbal, Chairman NAB. He said that NAB’s effective National Anti-Corruption Strategy for logical conclusion of mega corruption white collar crime cases by adopting “Accountability for All” Policy as per law.
He said that 59 percent people have proved very successful. Accordingly people have shown confidence upon NAB as per report of Gillani and Gallop Survey.
He said that the figures of complaints, inquiries and investigations are almost double as compared to the figures of same period of 2018 to 2019. The comparative figures for the last 19 months are also indicative of NAB’s excellent performance of NAB.
He said that NAB has filed 600 corruption references in respected Accountability Courts during the tenure of present leadership of NAB which is a record performance.
Besides 1210 corruption references are already under trial in the respected Accountability Courts.
He said that NAB has established state of the art Forensic Science LAB in NAB Rawalpindi Bureau which has facilities of Digital Forensics, Questioned Documents and Fingerprint analysis which is being utilized for further improvements in the quality of inquiries and investigations in all respect.
He said that said that due to prescribed timeline of 10 months for efficient, effective and expeditious disposal of cases from complaint verification-to-inquiry-to-investigation and finally to a reference in the Accountability Court.
He said that NAB has introduced a new concept of Combine Investigation Team (CIT) in order to benefit from the experience and collective wisdom of senior supervisory officers, a system of CIT comprising of Director, Additional Director, Investigation Officer and a Senior Legal Counsel has been put in place.
This is not only lending quality to the work but also ensuring that no single individual can influence the official proceedings of NAB.
He said that NAB has signed MOU with China to oversee CPEC projects being conducted in Pakistan.
He said that youth is our future; NAB has signed MOU with Higher Education Commission in order to aware youth about the ill effects of corruption at an early age.
More than 50 thousands Character Building Societies have been established in colleges and universities of the country.
He said that Transparency International (TI), PILDAT, Mishal, and World Economic forum have appreciated NAB’s efforts in eradication of corruption.
He said that NAB has devised a comprehensive Quantified Grading System in order to further improve the performance of NAB Headquarter and all Regional Bureaus.
Under Quantified Grading System, NAB Headquarter and Regional Bureau’s are being evaluated on Annual and Midterm basis at a given criteria which has proved very successful and the performance of NAB’s Regional Bureaus is being increased day by day due to regular monitoring and inspection.
The Chairman NAB directed all DGs of NAB to conduct complaint verifications, inquiries and investigations as per law with the prescribed time frame so that all mega corruption cases should be brought to their logical conclusion.
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Journal Of An Independent Shropshire County Councillor
These articles express the personal views of Independent Councillor Dave Tremellen, no one else unless they choose to share them!
#1. Standards In Public Life: Is it all a matter of perception?
#5. Is local democracy dead?
#24. When the burden of proof is on trial.
#27. The power of patronage.
#30. A case of bolts and stable doors.
#31. Revising the Planning System: What you see isn’t always what you get.
#32. You might say that, but I couldn’t possibly comment.
#33. Define ‘transparency’, go on, I dare you!
#41. Tremellen’s First Law of Fundamental Errors.
Dave Tremellen 14:40 on 12/12/2015
As the result of a Code of Conduct Complaint submitted by me, Keith Barrow was found guilty of a serious breach of Shropshire Council’s Code of Conduct. He was ordered to make a public apology, make a formal apology to full Council and resign as Chairman of the council-owned company ip&e. A week later he resigned as a councillor, ending his tenure as Leader of Shropshire Council.
I’ll give you some of the back-story on that because it has significance for everyone in Shropshire.
The electorate of Shropshire have a justifiable expectation that their elected representatives are seen to promote and maintain the highest values of public office by observing standards that are, by any measure, beyond reproach.
Keith Barrow is a partner in Peakfast, a company that owns land immediately adjacent to development land in Morda, just outside Oswestry. That information, whilst always in the public domain (because Peakfast was a registered company) was never going to be generally known unless someone either had reason to know or had made the effort to go looking for the information on the website of Companies House.
As a direct result of my publishing letters and articles commenting on ip&e, I was contacted by Mr Len Evans of Oswestry who gave me the information that established a direct connection between Keith Barrow and accountants DRE of Oswestry: Keith Barrow was a partner in Peakfast with Tony Mathews, a principal partner in DRE, a pecuniary interest Keith Barrow failed to declare at crucial times during the process that led to DRE being appointed as independent auditors of ip&e, a failure that breached Shropshire Council’s Code of Conduct. Significantly, that breach was only discovered when documents relating to the establishment of ip&e were made available to the solicitor investigating my complaint, until then the documents had always been held to be “commercially confidential”.
Also of considerable significance was the subsequent testimony to the investigating solicitor by directors and senior council officers involved in ip&e that, despite Keith Barrow’s failing to declare his connection with DRE and Tony Mathews, they insisted that Keith Barrow had never “influenced” the process that led to DRE being chosen over the other three candidate firms for the contract. They are asking us to accept that they were ignorant of the distinction between a sin of omission and a sin of commission.
In his statement to the investigating solicitor, Keith Barrow referred to the land owned by Peakfast as a ‘ransom strip’, a conventional term meaning that potential development land is subject to the constraint placed upon it by that ransom strip, the utility in the development land consequently denied to its owners unless a negotiated sum (“ransom”) is paid to the owner of the strip, in this case Peakfast, to allow passage across it.
A ransom strip can only ever realise its value if planning permission is granted for the development of the land held ransom. Whilst the legality of this practice was never in question – it is after all a legitimate commercial practice – what was questionable was the involvement of Keith Barrow, Leader of the Local Planning Authority with the power to make decisions that directly affected the value of the company in which he had a direct financial interest.
As a council-owned company underwritten with taxpayer’s money and operating in direct competition with private companies who enjoy no such support, ip&e and everyone associated with its management needed therefore to be subject to the closest scrutiny to ensure it operated not just within the letter of the law – which no one is above – but within what most people would consider the spirit of the law.
#2. Maidstone Borough Council has returned to a committee system of governance. →
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Japan. Spent zirconium fuel rods, usually submerged under forty feet of water, now lie uncovered in the drained spent fuel pools where they are stored.
The fuel rods at all six reactors at the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi complex contain plutonium — better known as fuel for nuclear weapons. While plutonium is more toxic than uranium, other radioactive elements leaking out are likely to be of greater danger to the general public.
Only six percent of the fuel rods at the plant’s Unit 3 were a mixture of plutonium-239 and uranium-235 when first put into operation. The fuel in the other reactors is only uranium, but even there, plutonium is created during the fission process.
This means the fuel in all of the stricken reactors and spent fuel pools contain plutonium.
In the heart of not one but six nuclear reactors some fuel rods maybe broken…ready to melt down, ready to spew radioactive material into the atmosphere.
We are facing a potential catastrophe in Japan.
Here I link you to the Vlogbrothers simple yet elegant explanation of nuclear fission…for those of you who may not understand what is going on. Technically.
Critical mass imminent? Likely? Who the hell knows.
Critical mass means that there is enough fissionable material to produce and sustain a chain reaction, which grows exponentially within a miniscule passage of time. This chain reaction is precisely what happens in nuclear weapons and could happen in Japan.
We are witnessing critical mass in other parts of the world: Bahrain where the government saw fit to shoot little children demonstrating with their parents. Libya where after the United Nations imposed a ‘no fly zone’. Gaddafi proclaimed a cease fire…then promptly bombed the rebels. Where, you may ask, were the fearless British and the noisome French?
Critical mass in Wisconsin is growing daily but completely ignored by almost all of the US news media who are frankly perplexed when confronted by white Americans behaving like anything other than bovine subserves.
Last night I, uncharacteristically, turned on the TV and sat with Rachel Maddow for a few irritating minutes. She was blathering on about how in the 1950’s the Democrats benefitted from the last time the Wisconsin Republicans tried to vote away collective bargaining, unions and the like. Well, that was then Rachel…when the Democrats served the people and as an effective opposition to the rabid corporation obsessed Republicans. In a time, long ago, when America and Americans were relevant.
Occurs to me that even if Rachel Maddow believes the Democrats can benefit from getting behind American Working People (she may be right) the working people of America will not be served by those Democrats they elect…most of whom are already bought and paid for by the corporation. Who said that capitalism means the enslavement of the people?
As fabulously bright as Maddow is there is something vaguely mithering and condescending in her tone. More worryingly..her solutions are rather naive.
Meanwhile…if it couldn’t get any worse for the LGBT community…
In Congress the ultra right-wing, motivated by crazy house leader John Boehner (Boner), is so deeply committed to dialing back rights for LGBT Americans that nearly 100 of them are co-sponsoring a resolution condemning President Obama for his decision last month to no longer defend DOMA in court.
As Americans struggle to recover from the recession, they just want their government to do right by them. Republican House leaders are doing the exact opposite – committing taxpayer money and precious time to defend a law that most Americans oppose, and a social agenda that most Americans reject.
Finally, critical mass at the micro level rather than the macro…I am suing somebody. It stinks…but it has to be done. Business is business and I hope that he doesn’t take it personally.
Maddow Defends Herself, Takes On Anti-Gay Critics (huffingtonpost.com)
Tags Bahrain, Critical mass, Democratic Party (United States), Democrats, Japan, John Boehner, Libya, MSNBC, Nuclear fuel, Nuclear reactor technology, Politics, Rachel Maddow, Republican, Spent fuel pool, Spent nuclear fuel, United Nations, United States, Wisconsin
Categories Gay, Rant
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Stand with us for those who need us most
Ahead of the 12 December general election, we're calling for the next Government to invest in older people and the public services they need.
6 million over 65s in England are in need of support – this must be addressed by the next Government.
4.1 million have poor health
1.5 million have an unmet care need
1.6 million are in poverty
1.1 million live in poor housing
0.8 million are lonely
0.6 million are socially isolated
We want political parties to pledge to make life better for older people, especially those who need us most this election.
What older people need from the next Government
The next Government must address the unmet needs of older people in the following areas. Improving these issues will not only change the lives of older people but those of many in our society.
Download the full manifesto
Read all our asks for the next Government in our manifesto.
Age UK's general election manifesto (PDF, 7 MB)
References (PDF, 356 KB)
Health is a serious issue for older people. Over four million older people live with one or more serious long-term health conditions like diabetes and heart disease. By 65, three in 10 people are no longer in good health. And worryingly, improvements in a health life expectancy have slowed recently.
However, with the right support and treatment it is possible to live well for longer. It is imperative that the next Government ensures people can access the high quality, responsive services they need.
The next Government must:
Provide the NHS with the support it needs to turn the vision set out in its long-term plan into reality.
Invest in general practice and deliver more local, tailored support.
Ensure older people have timely access to essential treatment and services.
Restore funding to public health services to ensure that older people can access help to keep them well and out of hospital.
1.5 million older people in England are not receiving the help and support they need to live well. The care system is broken. It is ignoring those in need, leaving carers with a heavy burden to cope with alone and costing people their life savings.
Secure the immediate future of care through substantial investment (around £8 billion) over the next two years.
Set out a clear and ambitious plan for a new national care system that is free and accessible for everyone when they need it.
Pensioner poverty has risen in the past few years. Shockingly, there were two million UK pensioners (aged 65 and above) in poverty in 2017/18 and a further million just above the poverty line. This is unacceptable and must be addressed.
For older people who are only just scraping by the rise of the State Pension age and changes to Pension Credit are a serious and worrying issue.
Protect the value of the State Pension for current and future pensioners by retaining the triple lock.
Give early access to the State Pension for those within three years of their State Pension Age and who are unable to work due to caring responsibilities or illness.
Reverse this year's changes to Pension Credit that mean a pensioner who is in a couple with someone younger can no longer claim pension credit.
1.1 million older people in England live in ‘unfit’ housing, dealing with damp, rot, infestations, electrical and plumbing problems. Too many older people also lack the peace of mind that comes from knowing you can live in your home for as long as you choose.
Appropriate housing that makes everyone feel safe and secure is vital for the country.
Reform the law so landlords can no longer evict tenants without reasons.
Build more social housing for genuinely affordable rents that are suitable for older people.
Require all new housing to be built to the lifetime homes standards.
8% of over 65s in England struggle with loneliness and 6% are socially isolated. It’s an issue that we can’t ignore.
TV is much more than a ‘box in the corner’ for many older people. TV is the main form of companionship for two in five people aged 75. It also provides a precious window on the world.
Lots of older people have struggled throughout their working life to save a little extra for retirement. But that small pot of savings for a rainy day means they don't qualify for means-tested benefits. Others are coping with the costs of ill-health or disability. Taking their free TV licence away is a cruel blow.
Work with the BBC to ensure the free TV Licence remains available for everybody over 75.
Commit to long-term funding for the Government's loneliness strategy launched in 2018.
As well as all of the above needs all older people's rights must be protected.
Many of the 'Windrush Generation' who were wrongly detained or denied support have still not been properly compensated.
We now risk 'Windrush 2' for 118,000 older EU citizens living in the UK who must apply for settled status, through a largely online system, however poor their state of health, access to support or digital skills.
All older people should also have the right to work. Age discrimination in the labour market is commonplace and there are still too many examples of unfair upper age limits.
3.4 million over 65s have never used the internet. There is a serious risk that the trend to ‘digital by default’ will deny many older people services they need. For instance, the growing closure of bank branches and ATMS.
Lead global efforts to create a UN Convention on the rights of older people, which would provide a framework to guide policy responses to ageing based on rights, equity and social justice in the UK and globally.
Guarantee that older people living here with connections abroad will never be deported or denied access to essential services because they cannot comply with bureaucratic systems they are unaware of or unable to navigate.
Ensure every older person has easy and free access to banking services and cash, including in rural areas.
Brexit could worsen the crisis in care for older people
The Government must act to keep EU care staff coming to work in the UK for older people who rely on them.
Switched Off: What next?
Caroline Abrahams, Charity Director, reflects on the campaign to save free TV licences for the over-75s.
Switched Off: Save free TV for older people
For over a million of the oldest people in our country, TV is their main form of company. That’s under threat.
1.4 million older people struggle each day without the help and support they need to live well.
Brexit and social care
Are we underestimating the threat of Brexit on social care.
No age limit: older people and domestic abuse
We need to make sure older people who experience domestic abuse are protected by the law.
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Abbreviations, sometimes put after authors’ names to indicate to which Roman Catholic monastic order or congregation the author belongs
o.e.s.a. Ordo eremitarum Sancti Augustini: order of monks conforming to the Rule attributed to Saint Augustine.
o.f.m. Ordo fratrum minorum: order of the Minors, also named Franciscans, after the founder Saint Francis of Assisi. The Rule of this order was approved in 1223 by Pope Honorius III.
o.min. another abbreviation of Ordo fratrum minorum. See above.
o.m.r. Ordo minorum recollectorum: Franciscans who strictly observed the original order rules.
oratorian a priest of the ‘Oratoire de Jésu-Christ’, a society of secular priests, founded in 1611 by Pierre de Bérulle (later cardinal), modelled after a similar community that was founded in the sixteenth century in Italy by Filippo Neri. The French Oratorians were approved in 1613 by Pope Paul V. Oratorium / oratoire means ‘prayer place’.
o.s.b. Ordo Sancti Benedicti: order of monks conforming to the Rule formulated by Saint Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. The order of Saint Benedict is the oldest monastic order of the Western Church.
recol. abbreviation of the Latin word recollectus, used to indicate a monastic order or congregation that has returned to strict observance of the original monastic order. E.g. o.m.r., mentioned above.
s.j. Societas Jesu: the order of the Jesuits, founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola and approved in 1540 by the Church.
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Stephen G. Baum, M.D.
Emailstephen.baum@einstein.yu.edu
Websitehttp://www.einstein.yu.edu/faculty/243/stephen-baum/
Fingerprint Dive into the research topics where Stephen G. Baum is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Adenoviridae Medicine & Life Sciences
Simian virus 40 Medicine & Life Sciences
Human Influenza Medicine & Life Sciences
Haplorhini Medicine & Life Sciences
Viral DNA Medicine & Life Sciences
Influenza Vaccines Medicine & Life Sciences
Viral RNA Medicine & Life Sciences
Genetic Hybridization Medicine & Life Sciences
Infectious thyroiditis
Carey, J. & Baum, S. G., Jan 1 2015, Clinical Infectious Disease, Second Edition. Cambridge University Press, p. 42-47 6 p.
Suppurative Thyroiditis
Mumps Virus
Litman, N. & Baum, S. G., Aug 28 2014, Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. Elsevier Inc., Vol. 2. p. 1942-1947.e2
Sialadenitis
Parotitis
Baum, S. G., Jul 2011, Goldman's Cecil Medicine: Twenty Fourth Edition. Elsevier Inc., Vol. 2. p. 1912-1916 5 p.
Carey, J. & Baum, S. G., Jan 1 2010, Clinical Infectious Disease. Cambridge University Press, p. 39-44 6 p.
Oseltamivir resistance: What does it mean clinically?
Baum, S. G., Dec 2009, In : Clinical Infectious Diseases. 49, 12, p. 1836-1837 2 p.
Viral Drug Resistance
Oseltamivir
H1N1 Subtype Influenza A Virus
Neuraminidase
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You are here: Home / Sports / Athlete of the Week: Stephanie MacDonald
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Athlete of the Week: Stephanie MacDonald
By Cheyenne Wood On January 4, 2020 Sports
As Stephanie MacDonald neared 40, she decided a physical challenge was in order. Little did she know how far it would take her.
MacDonald, a wife of nearly 20 years, mom to two girls aged 12 and 15 and a nurse, moved to Huntsville in 2016.
The following year she found The Barbelles and participated in a six-week strength and conditioning program to improve her overall health.
With several of those programs under her belt, MacDonald wanted a bigger challenge and moved toward something outside of her comfort zone: enrolling show prep.
“I am not normally the girl to don a bikini and heels and walk around on stage, so this challenge was going to push me mentally and physically. I was kissing 40 and wanted to prove to myself that I could do this,” MacDonald said.
She was excited to try something new but didn’t know how hard it would be.
“The level of athleticism and fitness required for one of these shows is pretty intense,” she said. It requires significant dedication and discipline. MacDonald completed intense workouts, and met her body’s daily nutritional needs by tracking her food intake and drinking a lot of water, nearly four litres per day.
She placed fourth in her first natural bodybuilding show in October 2017 where she competed in the bikini and fitness model classes.
“I was super proud but found myself wanting more. I may be a tad competitive,” said MacDonald.
After taking a season off to prepare for her next show, in June 2018, MacDonald placed in all of her categories and earned an elite status which qualified her for the UFE (Ultimate Fitness Events) world championships.
“I took another season off to ‘build’ and prep to compete at the world championships in Toronto in November 2019. The competition was tough, as one would expect, but at the age of 41 I earned a bronze medal in the masters bikini class. Pretty cool feeling to be presented with a medal at a world championship competition, I won’t lie,” MacDonald said.
The journey to her accomplishment was a lot harder than MacDonald thought it would be. “If you want to be successful you have to work hard. Bottom line. Cliché or not, you get out of it what you put in. I am fortunate to have the support of my family, friends and coach,” she said. “I can’t stress enough the importance of a solid support team. These are the people who cheer you on when you have those moments of ‘what was I thinking?’ and ‘I’m not going to be ready!'”
MacDonald’s coach, Ashley Moore from The Barbelles, kept her on track when she was training four to five times a week with weight training and cardio to help her fine tune her progress. Moore also helped to redirect her in moments of self-doubt by cheering her on and encouraging her to reach higher.
“It has been extremely rewarding for me to be a part of Steph’s progress and watch her achieve every goal she’s set out for,” said Moore. “Now, after three competitions, she’s one of the top natural fitness competitors in the world for her age and organization. I’m extremely proud of her discipline and determination.”
MacDonald’s competitive drive has her looking forward to June 2020 when she hopes to compete for her pro status. She will continue to show her daughters that she is a committed athlete building her strength over the years and showing them what good nutrition can do to fuel someone’s body and mind. “They’re proud of me,” said MacDonald.
Her husband has also been one of her biggest supporters, cheering her on and being there for her all the way through.
“I am capable of so much more than I thought I was,” said MacDonald.
Kudos, Steph! Everyone at SnapFitness was so proud of your accomplishment. Here was a young lady, going about her business, just like the girl next door. She is so modest that you have to drag information out of her; and the bronze hasn’t changed her one iota.
Coincidentally, I watched a documentary this morning, “This changes everything” (about lack of positive female images in the media). What does the future hold for the young women of today, if all they see represented are white, heterosexual males in positions of accomplishment? That was obviously a rhetorical question: They automatically eliminate the majority of their dreams.
Your win, Stephanie, although incredibly important as a personal best; was even more important as a symbolic one for female empowerment.
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"Human Toxoplasmosis: Occurrence in Infants as an Encephalomyelitis Verification of Transmission to Animals" (1939), by Abner Wolf et al.
In a series of experiments during mid 1930s, a team of researchers in New York helped establish that bacteria of the species Toxoplasma gondii can infect humans, and in infants can cause toxoplasmosis, a disease that inflames brains, lungs, and hearts, and that can organisms that have it. The team included Abner Wolf, David Cowen, and Beryl Paige. They published the results of their experiment in Human Toxoplasmosis: Occurrence in Infants as an Encephalomyelitis Verification of Transmission to Animals.
Subject: Experiments, Reproduction, Disorders
John Chassar Moir (1900–1977)
John Chassar Moir lived in Scotland during the twentieth century and helped develop techniques to improve the health of pregnant women. Moir helped to discover compounds that doctors could administer to women after childbirth to prevent life-threatening blood loss. Those compounds included the ergot alkaloid called ergometrine, also called ergonovine, and d-lysergic acid beta-propanolamide. Moir tested ergometrine in postpartum patients and documented that it helped prevent or manage postpartum hemorrhage in women.
Subject: People, Reproduction, Disorders
Neural Tube Defects (NTD): Folic Acid and Pregnancy
In the US, one in 1000 births is affected by neural tube defects (NTD). A neural tube defect is a birth defect involving the malformation of body features associated with the brain and spinal cord. An NTD originates from and is characterized by incomplete closure of the neural tube, which is an organizer and precursor of the central nervous system.
Subject: Disorders, Reproduction
Parasitic Twins
Parasitic twins, a specific type of conjoined twins, occurs when one twin ceases development during gestation and becomes vestigial to the fully formed dominant twin, called the autositic twin. The underdeveloped twin is called parasitic because it is only partially formed, is not functional, or is wholly dependent on the autositic twin.
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WMCC Chairman meets Cambodian Minister of State for Labour and Vocational Education
January 9, 2020 Education
ABU DHABI, Dr. Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi, Chairman of the World Muslim Communities Council, WMCC, today met, at the council’s headquarters in Abu Dhabi, Datuk Othsman Hassan, Minister of State for Labour and Vocational Education of Cambodia and President of the Development Corporation for Cambodian Muslims.
During the meeting, both sides discussed ways of enhancing the cooperation between the council and the Muslim community in Cambodia, as well as of exchanging experiences in consolidating social harmony, peace, tolerance and coexistence in Muslim societies. They also discussed the importance of spreading the values of moderation and religious dialogue around the world.
Both sides then talked about how to activate the role of vocational education in the development of Muslim societies and achieve the full integration of Muslims in their home countries.
Al Nuaimi highlighted the council’s mission to achieve intellectual and cultural change in Muslim societies around the world, by encouraging their members to be true partners in building civilisations and advocating peace, tolerance, coexistence and giving.
Hassan praised the council’s role in spreading the values of coexistence and citizenship and facing the discourse of hate and extremism around the world.
The council is an international non-governmental organisation based in the UAE capital, Abu Dhabi. It aims to gather relevant organisations and societies working in Muslim societies, renew their thinking, and improve their performance to achieve the goal of integrating Muslim societies in their countries.
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A Pizza Tour of New York
Inspired by the three part podcast on the history of pizza, we made a pilgrimage to New York to sample as many different pizzas slices as possible. With so much possible pizza to eat, we fortunately were not alone. We were joined by Marnay’s sister, Cheray, and her boyfriend, Chris. From Friday night to Sunday afternoon, we ate at five different pizzerias. Here is our take, presented in chronological order.
Corner Slice
Corner Slice had our favorite crust out of the five. It tasted like freshly made focaccia, but it had a sourdough tang to it. Although the crust was thick, it was by no means doughy. Somehow they made a thick Grandma slice that was neither too thick nor too thin. It had good cheese coverage and the large chunks of tomatoes tasted fantastic. Corner Slice was the unanimous favorite. In fact, Marnay said that it may have been the best pizza she had ever had.
This was thinnest slice of our tour. It was so thin that it was practically a bar slice, although without the crack crust. A lesser slice that was this thin would have fallen apart under the weight of the sauce and cheese. Scarr’s slice admirably kept its crispness intact. The margherita may have been even better than its plain cheese slice. Scarr’s does gets a negative point though for having a rude pizzaiolo.
Williamsburg Pizza
We visited the Lower East Side location of Williamsburg Pizza, totally unplanned. We just happened to walk by it. The grandma slice tasted exactly like garlic bread – it was oily and super garlicky, but with a crispy crust instead of that loaf of bread style. The plain slice had an airy crust and a flavorful sauce, with a good sauce-to-cheese ratio.
My Pie Pizzeria Romana
This was another square slice, but not nearly as thick as Corner Slice. It was very crispy and had more sauce then cheese, which is something that can be good when done right. Cheray and Chris got meatball pizza but unfortunately, the proportions were off. These were the least visually appealing slices, but the simple margherita was very tasty. Bonus points for having extremely friendly staff and for opening at 10am on a Sunday so we could pack in as much as possible before our train back to DC.
Sofia Pizza Shoppe
The slices at Sofia tasted most similar to a “traditional” deck oven pizza slice. As with all five places we went, the slices were elevated by the crispy crust. There was a little more cheese than either Williamsburg or Scarr’s, but what draws it back into the realm of elite pizzerias is the marvelously crispy crust.
Too often, at your run-of-the-mill strip mall deck oven pizzeria, the crust is an afterthought. Usually the crust is undercooked and practically soft. This lack of a crispy crust compounds itself when you load the crust with sauce and cheese.Now, I’m not saying that these types of deck oven pizzerias are bad – we grew up on them. In fact, I could go for one right now. But the way to differentiate a good pizza from a great pizza is in the crust. Every pizzeria we went to on our pizza tour of New York had incredible crust.
PS: If you want to make great pizza at home, you need to check out Pizza Camp from Joe Beddia. We swear by this book for making homemade pizza.
Best Bite:
Paul and Marnay: Corner Slice
Places we went:
Corner Slice – 600 11th Avenue New York, NY 10036
Scarr’s – 22 Orchard Street New York, NY 10002
Williamsburg Pizza – 277 Broome Street New York, NY 10002
My Pie Pizzeria Romana – 690 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10022
Sofia Pizza Shoppe – 989 1st Avenue New York, NY 10022
La Piquette
After years of not being overly interested by French cuisine, we have been on a French kick lately. In fact, it’s a safe bet to expect more reviews of French restaurants over the next few months. We started things off with brunch with friends Brenna and Kyle at La Piquette, in DC’s Cathedral Heights neighborhood.
We usually are hesitant to write a full review based on brunch-alone, mainly because the brunch menus at restaurants tend to be unrepresentative of the dinner menus. But the good thing about La Piquette is that the brunch, lunch and dinner menus are all very similar.
At La Piquette’s brunch, you have the option of ordering 3 course for $30—a really good deal. But it also seemed like a lot of food, so all four of us opted to order a la carte. My steak tartare was very finely minced, bound by egg yolk and shot through with copious amounts of horseradish. It was served a bit colder than I would like, however. It was a little like serving wine too cold – you can’t make out all of the flavors.
Meanwhile, Marnay cleaned the plate of her mushroom risotto, made with shitake, hen of the woods and royal trumpet mushrooms. We appreciated that La Piquette used some out-of-the-ordinary types of mushrooms and didn’t skimp, either.
Kyle went the more traditional brunch route, ordering piperade, a traditional Basque dish (really a sauce more than a dish). Piperade is a red pepper, tomato and onion-based sauce. While the Basque region tends to be associated more with Spain, it’s important to remember that it also includes portions of southwestern France. His piperade was topped with French ham, two sunny side up eggs and frites.
We expected to all be full after this, but the entrees were just so good we didn’t want to skip dessert. We all shared the gateau a la’ orange–a spongy, sweet cake, plus a chocolate mousse. The gateau came with crème Anglaise, meant for pouring over the cake. I’ll admit, the sauce was so good I also ate it on its own!
A lot of ink has been spilled over what constitutes a “neighborhood restaurant.” At its heart, I think it just means a place where you can go frequently (maybe 2-3 times a month). I believe that La Piquette fits the bill: it’s small, cozy, and moderately-priced with respectful but not overly formal service. If we lived in Cathedral Heights, I could see us going to La Piquette multiple times a month, for sure. For classic French cuisine in a casual setting, La Piquette is the place to go.
Paul: Steak tartare with frites
Marnay: Mushroom risotto
La Piquette: 3714 Macomb Street, NW Washington, DC 20016
Closest Metro: Cleveland Park
Rye Street Tavern
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I work in downtown Baltimore and wanted to have a fun daytime adventure before the end of 2018. So, before the holidays, Marnay met me for lunch at Andrew Carmellini’s Rye Street Tavern, in the Port Covington section of south Baltimore.
The restaurant, for now, is nearly all alone in Port Covington. The only exceptions are a few industrial buildings, an UnderArmour office and the restaurant’s sibling distillery, Sagamore Spirits. Down the line, though, this will be a large mixed-used area that will grow around the restaurant. As of now it is a destination spot with an incredible waterfront location. On nice days (such as the day we dined), the windows are opened for a cooling breeze.
Since the restaurant is isolated from residential areas, we were surprised to find it crowded on a workday. We went to the bar but had trouble finding two seats next to each other. We briefly had a feeling of helplessness until the wonderful bartender saw our plight and came out from behind the bar. She was able to play bar-patron Tetris and figured out a way for Marnay and I to sit next to each other. During the whole meal, in fact, she really went above and beyond!
The free cornbread to start the meal was a bit dry (but, hey, also free) but after that just about everything was fantastic. I opted for the $25 three-course prix-fixe, a good deal. The ember-roasted beets with sheep’s milk yogurt and candied hazelnuts tasted smoky like barbecue. Plus, the big chunks of sweet beets were so juicy they reminded me of watermelon, but with the texture of a root vegetable. The yogurt and the hazelnuts made it feel like a complete dish. Above all, the presentation was stunning.
Marnay ordered the Southern-style fried chicken, Rye Street’s Tavern’s signature dish. It was perfectly seasoned, and we especially liked the housemade hot sauce, which the bartender encouraged us to use. It really only needed a little bit because it was well-seasoned already. The only disappointment was the honey-butter biscuit, which tasted like it had been drenched in melted butter.
I came in with low expectations for the rock shrimp tacos—after all Rye Street Tavern is a modern-American restaurant. But the battered and fried shrimp topped with pickled jalapenos and a fiery guajillo chile paste and young cilantro were quite good. I would even consider getting them again!
My prix fixe came with dessert, so we shared a slice of vanilla buttermilk pie. It was a tasty end to the meal. Throughout everything, our bartender did a fantastic job of taking care of all, as while still serving the other bar patrons. If I had gotten her name, I would have passed along a good word to the manager on the way out. On a nice day, it’s hard to top Rye Street Tavern’s waterfront setting as a place to grab a bite in Baltimore. I can definitely see us going back in the Spring when the weather is warmer.
Paul and Marnay: Ember roasted beets
Rye Street Tavern: 13 Rye Street Baltimore, MD 21230
2018 was a year of traveling. I felt like we were Eater roving food critic Bill Addison, we were in so many different places. It definitely shows in our 2018 blog posts – there are more posts from outside the DC-area than there are posts within the DC-area. Marnay and I asked each other questions about our favorites of 2018, here are our responses:
What was your favorite meal of 2018?
Paul – My favorite meal was the Taste of Zahav prix fixe menu – a lot of incredible food for an absolute steal of a price, $48 per person. This may be one of the best dining deals in the country.
Marnay – My favorite was lunch at Al Ameer, the Lebanese palace in Dearborn, Michigan. We headed there as soon as our plane landed in Detroit and while we ate way too much food, I still can’t stop thinking about the stuffed lamb.
What was your favorite bar of 2018?
Paul – Maxwell, the wine bar in Shaw, which recently celebrated its first anniversary, is a wine-lover’s dream. They don’t take themselves too seriously, either. It is equally great for wine-geeks as it is for casual drinkers. It’s also the perfect place to go if you want to learn more about wine.
Marnay – Brenner Pass, Richmond. I really enjoyed the bar at this modern Alpine restaurant in Scotts Addition. We shared a bottle of wine with dessert – a perfect combination! The vibe was cozy, despite the fact that the place was packed and our bartender was incredibly knowledgeable.
Which restaurant do you want to visit again in 2018?
Paul – Commander’s Palace, in New Orleans. It made for an incredible, old school Creole experience.
Marnay – We loved eating breakfast every morning at Time Market when we were staying in Tucson. Closer to home, we are definitely going to back to All Purpose Shaw and Kuya Ja’s (for some lechon belly) ASAP.
What was your favorite food/restaurant-related experience?
Paul – I would consider going outside of one’s comfort zone as a food-related experience. So in that case, my favorite experience was our meals in El Paso. That area feels closer to Mexico than the U.S.
Marnay – We went to “Mexico in a Bottle” at the Mexican Cultural Institute, the old Mexican Embassy on 16th Street. For a modest fee, we got to sip on unlimited mezcal, meet local chefs and eat some delicious Mexican food. It was a dream come true!
Which restaurant surprised you the most?
Paul – Chai Pani in Decatur, GA, just outside of Atlanta. I had no idea how much I enjoyed Indian street food until we ate there.
Marnay – Momofuku CCDC. We had not been there in years, mainly because we were not super impressed the first time we went. But the menu has been totally revamped and that bronzed whole roasted chicken was delicious – and enough to feed an entire family!
What was your favorite meal in Silver Spring?
Paul – The medium-rare ribeye from Urban Butcher hit the spot for me. And it is consistent.
Marnay – The calzones at Pacci’s are insanely good right now. For years, we stuck to ordering Neopolitan pizzas and a salad. This year, inspired by our trip to Milan, we started ordering calzones at Pacci’s and we haven’t looked back.
What was your favorite meal outside of the DC-area?
Paul – There were so many meals outside of the DC area, but my favorite all-around meal was at H&H Car Wash in El Paso.
Marnay – Mine was dinner at Park Place Cafe in Merchantville, NJ. We were treated like family and the sauce on our pasta was something I will never forget. So incredibly simple yet so good.
What is your favorite recipe to make at home?
Paul – Grilled lamb chops with cucumber salad. Tender, crusty, fatty, salt and cooling. Mmmmmm.
Marnay – I’m a big fan of cooking weekend at breakfast at home. Since we are not home on the weekends very often, it’s a special treat. One of our go-to’s is making homemade biscuits and topping them with a fried egg and side of bacon. We use Alton Brown’s biscuit recipe. Who wants to go out for brunch, anyway??
Here’s a list of our favorites. Go ahead and give them a try!
Zahav: 237 St. James Pl. Philadelphia, PA 19106
Al Ameer: 27346 Ford Rd Dearborn Heights, MI 48127
Maxwell: 1336 9th St, NW Washington, DC 20001
Brenner Pass: 3200 Rockbridge St #100 Richmond, VA 23230
Commander’s Palace: 1403 Washington Ave New Orleans, LA 70130
Time Market: 444 E. University Blvd Tucson, AZ 85705
All Purpose Shaw: 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001
Kuya Ja’s Lechon Belly: 5268-H Nicholson Ln Rockville, MD 20895
Chai Pani: 406 W. Ponce de Leon Ave Decatur, GA 30030
Momofuku CCDC: 1090 I St NW, Washington, DC 20001
Urban Butcher: 8226 Georgia Ave Silver Spring, MD 20910
Pacci’s: 8113 Georgia Ave Silver Spring, MD 20910
Bindaas – Foggy Bottom
December 17, 2018 March 29, 2019 Leave a comment
On a frigid Thursday night, Marnay and I checked out Bindaas at the Indian street food purveyor’s Foggy Bottom location. This was our first time at Bindaas (the original is located in Cleveland Park). Afterwards, the most important question in our head was – what took us so long?!?
I started out with a masala lassi – a traditional yogurt and spiced based traditional Indian beverage. It was nearly savory, although with a touch of sweetness. We ordered four dishes, and once they are ready they start appearing rapid-fire. There isn’t much coursing, but since you are going to end up sharing everything it is not a big deal.
The puffy, pillowy olive oil naan was a great way to orient our palates from the work day to the Indian subcontinent. A wild mushroom uttapam, or rice pancake, was a mushroom bonanza. Not only that, though, it was quite spicy. A swab of mint raita proved to be a worthy foil.
Then there was the shrimp bezule, or breaded and fried shrimp, which was pleasantly light. The modest-sized shrimp gave off a very distinct jalepeno flavor. A garnish of mustard seeds, toasted in oil, added a bit more crunch and heat.
We rounded the meal out with a chicken kathi wrap. The chicken tikka masala, wrapped in naan, was dripping with flavor. A little mint chutney on the side for dipping helped lighten things and give a contrast in temperatures (the wrap was really hot, temperature-wise). It seriously was cold on the night that we went to Bindaas. But the Indian comfort food really warmed our souls and left us wanting more.
Paul: Chicken Kathi Wrap
Marnay: Shrimp bezule
Bindaas Foggy Bottom: 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20006
Closest Metro: Farragut North or Farragut West
Atlanta Recap
For my birthday weekend in November, Marnay and I headed to Atlanta for a quick getaway. This was our first time in Atlanta and we couldn’t wait to start exploring.
We flew out of BWI on Friday night. Since I work in Baltimore and Marnay works in downtown DC, this is the easiest airport to get to on work nights. We don’t typically include our flights in our travel recaps, but we had to include our meal at the airport. Varasano’s Pizzeria, which has a location in Hartsfield-Jackson airport in Atlanta, is actually an incredible pizzeria. Jeff Varasano, the man who figured how to hack off the lock on the self-cleaning feature of his home oven so he could cook homemade pizzas at 800 degrees, is something of a pizza savant. While he is originally from New York, he chose Atlanta to open a pizzeria. (The main location is in the Buckhead neighborhood). As soon as we landed in Atlanta, we made our way to Concourse A. It was about 9:30pm and the restaurant was closing, so we took a Margherita Di Bufala pizza and ate it in the baggage claim. It was so much fun and so delicious.
Our Airbnb was in the Inman Park neighborhood, immediately behind the transformative rail trail called the Beltline. Inman Park is one of the most walkable neighborhoods in Atlanta, which is a very spread out city.
We wanted to explore and hike one of Georgia’s mountains so we rented a Zipcar from the Edgewood-Candler Park metro. On our 1-mile walk to the car, we picked up coffee and an incredible croissant from one of our Atlanta favorites, Bread and Butterfly. Conveniently, Bread and Butterfly was directly across the street from our Airbnb.
The highways in Atlanta are insane, mainly because this area has poor public transit and a tremendous amount of sprawl. We traveled to Forsyth County, in the northern exurbs, and stopped at Dutch Monkey Donuts for an excellent caramel apple fritter. Feeling sated, we drove about 20 more minutes north to Sawnee Mountain Preserve.
The brisk 4-mile hike led us up Sawnee Mountain on the Indian Seats Trail for some amazing views of Northern Georgia. This part of Georgia is at the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains, which stretch from Alabama to eastern Canada. From the top of the mountain, we could see as far as the Tennessee-North Carolina border, 52 miles away. The hike was just right – good exercise, but not so difficult that we would be worn out.
Although we had been snacking all day, we had not had an actual meal. We hopped in the car and drove to Masterpiece in Duluth, a suburb northeast of Atlanta known for its excellent Asian cuisine. Masterpiece was recently named a semi-finalist for Best Chef Southeast by the James Beard Awards, so we had high expectations. With one dish, Masterpiece immediately exceeded those expectations. The Dong Po Pork is a braised block of pork belly in an ethereal brown sauce, part sweet, part salty, party spicy. I want to eat that pork belly every day for a week.
Since Saturday involved driving around the region, we decided to stay local on Sunday and explore the city. It was another beautiful day so Marnay and I walked on the Beltline to Little Tart Bakeshop, in Krog Street Market. Krog Street Market is a new-wave food hall in Inman Park, about half a mile from our Airbnb. Little Tart Bakeshop was a 2018 James Beard Foundation finalist for Best Baker (in the entire country!), so they also had a lot to live up to. Our best bites were a slice of the cranberry-almond butter cake and the apple gallete.
We then made a required stop at Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park to pay our respects. The park encompasses the famous Ebenezer Baptist Church and his birthplace. This is a important visit for any stay in Atlanta, as we cannot forget our country’s history.
Afterwards, we took the Atlanta Streetcar to Centennial Olympic Park, home of the 1996 Olympic opening and closing ceremonies. This is definitely the heart of the tourist area but it was a great outdoor space and surprisingly large.
The issue with this area, though, is that the downtown is COMPLETELY dead. One of the worst downtowns we have even seen. It is most likely because Atlanta is so spread out, but this is definitely not where the action is. That is why we stayed in Inman Park!
We hopped right back on the streetcar to escape downtown and had some downtime at Chrome Yellow Trading Company, a very hip coffee shop near the King Historic District. We had a great time writing in our journal and sipping on a cold brew.
After that relaxing time, though, it was back to more walking on the fantastic Beltline. It’s just a phenomenal addition to Atlanta (or any city), and the whole idea was cooked up by a couple of grad students. We checked out Ponce City Market, which was like a hyper-upscale version of Krog Street Market, with high-end stores in addition to food. To be honest, it was a little too much.
Later that night, after some relaxation at our Airbnb, we headed to dinner at Chai Pani in the close-in suburb of Decatur. It is so close to where we were staying, you could easily call Decatur part of Atlanta. Chai Pani, a purveyor of authentic Indian street food, ended up being our favorite meal of the trip. We were wild for the matchstick okra fries, so crispy and so salty (and absolutely not slimy). The vegetable uttapam, a rice pancake, was also stellar.
Happy birthday to me! We celebrated the morning by walking over to Bread and Butterfly for a chocolate croissant. I could have picked anything for my birthday, but all I really wanted to do was get a croissant from Bread and Butterfly and then go for a long walk on the Beltline.
By early afternoon, unfortunately, it was time to head to the airport. But the fun wasn’t over, because that meant we could have another pizza at Varasano’s, and MAN was it good. Not only does this pizza look perfect, it tasted phenomenal. I can’t say enough about it.
What to know if you want to visit Atlanta:
Almost all of the hotels in Atlanta are downtown. There is absolutely nothing to do downtown outside of Centennial Olympic Park. Instead, try to stay in an Airbnb in a neighborhood along the Beltline, like we did.
Be aware that the public transit system is not great. You will need to either rent a car or take Uber/Lyft.
Make sure you don’t miss out on the restaurants that are just outside the city, such as Masterpiece and Chai Pani.
Spend some time on the Beltline! Seriously, we can’t stress that enough. It’s the coolest attraction in Atlanta.
Momofuku CCDC Revisited
It has been over two years since we visited Momofuku CCDC and the restaurant has had some momentous changes since then, so it was time for a return visit. Back then the City Center hot spot had a menu full of David Chang’s greatest hits plus dessert from neighboring Milk Bar. We liked the food fine-enough, but certainly weren’t impressed with dessert. It was a place that we may have eventually gone back to, but a return visit certainly wasn’t imminent.
Since then, they have installed a new chef, Tae Strain, who has been given complete control over the menu. So long ramen and pork buns, hello bing bread. When we walked in, the noise in the bar & its surrounding dining area was so loud it was intimidating. Fortunately, the host took us down a short hallway to a more secluded dining area, slightly set off from the rest of the restaurant.
The new Momofuku CCDC is the rare restaurant that actually requires a rundown of the menu from the server, because of the recent menu changes. No matter what you order, you can’t miss out on the bing bread. These housemade, warm, pita-like rounds come with several choices of toppings. Marnay and I went with the sunflower hozon, a David Chang trademarked creation that tastes like hummus.
We also tried the spicy cucumbers which came with almond togarashi and some sort of green paste/puree—cheffy touches that completely transformed the vegetable. As leftovers the next day, they were even more flavorful yet did not lose their crunch.
The true showstopper of our meal was the bronzed whole roasted chicken which comes with a salad and rice. This isn’t just any rice through. This is chicken fat basmati rice, with chunks of pulled roasted chicken, vegetables, dried currants and 3 fried eggs on top. Absolutely decadent…and it was just a side!
The chicken is cut into pieces and served in a large platter, alongside roasted peppers, green olives and herbs. The olives were a bit of a surprise, but they provided a nice mildly salty contribution to the dish. The best part of the roasted chicken was the irresistible crispy wings. Even though the chicken was roasted, they were so crispy they tasted like they had been fried.
The new menu has a lot of great sharable items, such as a whole duck and whole short rib. Based on our recent visit, we would definitely return, maybe even with a group. We did not get a chance to try the new, non-Milk Bar desserts, and that is reason enough to go back!
Paul: spicy cucumbers
Marnay: roasted chicken
Momofuku CCDC: 1090 I St NW Washington DC, 20001
Closest Metro: Gallery Place-Chinatown or Metro Center
Southwestern Vacation Recap: Tucson
Welcome to the second post from our Southwestern vacation recap. You can read our El Paso and New Mexico recap here.
We took Amtrak from El Paso to Tucson, about a seven hour trip. Although it was not overnight, we got a roomette so that we would have our own space for the journey. Most of the trip was through the Chihuahuan Desert landscape of New Mexico. Since we were traveling in the evening, we were able to eat dinner in the dining car. Of course, I had my traditional Amtrak signature steak.
Our Airbnb was near the University of Arizona and along the route of the Tucson street car. It was a very modest home, and from the front window we would sit and watch the streetcar go by. Our Airbnb hosts were local restaurateurs and we practically lived at the nearby Time Market, a gourmet market and restaurant that they owned. The market bakes its own bread daily and serves breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Tucson is a large city and home to many different types of food, especially Sonoran cuisine: a mix from Mexico (specifically the state of Sonora), Arizona and Native Americans.
For local modern-American cuisine, we found nowhere better than Augustin Kitchen, in the mixed-used neighborhood of Mercado San Augustin. Highlights included the Mustard and Melon Salad with perfectly cooked Arizona sirloin and a sarsaparilla float for dessert with Isabella’s vanilla ice cream.
We returned to Mercado San Augustin the following day to have one of their quintessential Sonoran desserts, the raspado at Sonoran Sno-Cones. Raspados are shaved ice made with real fruit and real juice and often come in sour flavors, such as chamoy lime. You can also add condensed milk and Mexican-chile candies. Marnay and got a mangoyada and I got a mango and chamoy raspado with chile candies. The chile candies were spicy, but still sweet like candy and had a chewy texture. We sat in the open-air courtyard of the mercado and enjoyed the live music and the Tucson night-sky.
South Tucson is where the best Mexican-restaurants can be found, and Los Tacos Apson did not disappoint. In fact, we had the best barbacoa tacos we have ever had! It’s hard to describe just how amazing the taste was of these tacos. They have a smoky flavor and simply melted in your mouth.
On our last day in Tucson, we had Sonoran-style hot dogs! We went to El Guero Canelo, which unbeknownst to us had just won a James Beard Foundation American Classic Award. A Sonoran-style hot dog is a bacon-wrapped dog top with beans, onions, mustard, jalapenos and a little bit of mayo. All of this is inside a special bolillo bun, a soft Mexican roll that is the most important part of a Sonoran-style dog. It’s not a Sonoran hot dog without the bolillo bun.
We weren’t sure what to expect at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, however, it blew us away. It’s a museum in name only, as it is over 80% outdoors. It also seamlessly blends in with the landscape, since it’s completely surrounded by Tucson Mountain Park and Saguaro National Park.
Our Airbnb host recommended the hike up Tumamoc Hill, on the western edge of downtown Tucson. The trail is paved and it basically goes straight up, with some very steep switchbacks. It’s a nature preserve and it shows off the most distinctive feature of the Sonoran Desert landscape, Saguaro cacti. These monarchs of the desert can grow to over 40 feet tall and live for over 150 years. This is an intense hike, but it is remarkably popular with locals. Because it is so hot in the summer, people don’t start hiking until sunset. We opted to go a little earlier so that by the time we reached the top the sun would be setting.
From the top, you can see almost all of Tucson, and if you are facing south you can see all the way to the Mexico border. I could tell because you can make out the route of Interstate 19 going from Tucson to Nogales. I think that we saw arguably the best sunset of the trip here. We loved Tumamoc Hill so much we did it twice!
This desert vacation was like nothing we had ever done. I highly recommend going to the desert, if only for the amazing sunsets. Perhaps one day we will be back!
Southwestern Vacation Recap: El Paso and New Mexico
October 9, 2018 October 11, 2018 Leave a comment
Eatnowrunlater is back from our summer vacation and we want to tell you all about it! This summer, we headed to El Paso, Texas and Tucson, Arizona, with a stop in Las Cruces, New Mexico along the way. We learned a lot about the food in these similar yet district regions, just as we learned a lot about the desert. This post will be a mix of the food we ate and the scenery we experienced.
El Paso is in Texas, the furthest west you can possibly go and still be in the state. However, it’s in a different time zone than the rest of Texas and it’s 800 miles from Houston and 600 miles from Austin. It’s also sandwiched between Juarez, Mexico and New Mexico. Because of its location on the Mexican border, El Paso has developed its own “border cuisine.” It’s similar to Tex-Mex cuisine, but in its most authentic form.
At all of the restaurants we went to, the format for the meal is the same. When you sit down, you are greeted with tortilla chips and homemade salsa. They aren’t messing around with the salsa – this is spicy stuff. Once you order your meal, you are invariably asked “corn or flour tortillas?” Breakfast, lunch, or dinner. It doesn’t matter what you order, every meal has the chance of being hand-held.
The most “Tex-Mex” style restaurant we went to was L&J Café, “The Old Place by the Graveyard.” L&J was very crowded, especially considering we arrived at around 4:30pm, immediately after we landed in El Paso. It had a family-friendly atmosphere that chains like Chili’s and Applebee’s can only dream of emulating. The salsa at L&J was top notch. I had a great burrito (very common in El Paso) and Marnay had steak fajitas. To be honest, the chips and salsa were so good we filled up on them first.
La Rosita Cafe is on the Interstate 10 access road and looks a little run down, but inside the staff couldn’t be more warm and inviting. It’s the real deal, too – the menu is written on a white board and is entirely in Spanish. Another commonality among the restaurants in this region is that your plate consists of your main entrée, rice, and then beans with a little bit of mild cheese on top. In a basket on the side are your tortillas. Here, I ordered the lomo (pork loin) in a pipian, a cousin to mole. Meanwhile, Marnay got Chile Verde, beef in a green chile sauce.
We learned about H&H Car Wash from Eater’s Bill Addison, when he named it his favorite restaurant in Texas. It was opened in 1958 as a car wash with a small lunch counter attached and it does not look like it has changed much since then. This was our favorite meal in El Paso. Marnay had the best eggs of her life, along with beans with cheese and rice, while I had a ruddy Chile Colorado, which is basically beef in a red chile sauce.
Franklin Mountain State Park, which preserves the Chihuahuan Desert landscape of the Franklin Mountains in El Paso, is the largest urban park in the country. Ranger Peak, over a mile above sea level, can be reached by the Wyler Aerial Tramway. The four minute park ranger guided ride gives incomparable views of Texas, New Mexico and Mexico.
The following day, we returned to the mountain and went on a sunset hike with Don, a local guide. Don took us up the western side of the mountain, where we had views of New Mexico and downtown El Paso. He taught us a lot about the different plants that live in the desert, such as Sotol, Barrel cacti and Ocotillo.
We thought we were the only ones in the park that night, but it turns out there was one other hiker, and we caught him just as he was about to paraglide off the mountain! It was amazing to watch him run and jump off the mountain and then immediately go hundreds of feet in the air. On our way down, we saw one of the most magical sunsets we have ever seen. We stopped to hang out in the parking lot to take it all in, as bats whizzed by us in the night sky.
Early one afternoon, we headed to New Mexico and the incredible White Sands National Monument. About halfway between White Sands and El Paso is the small city of Las Cruces. If you know anything about food in New Mexico, you know that it is famous for its tremendous variety of chiles. In fact, the state has a beautiful new license plate that reads “Chile Capital of the World.”
Los Mariachis is another family-friendly establishment that showcased the best of New Mexico cuisine. It was Sunday brunch when we went, so I ordered the “Huevos Mariachi” – huevos rancheros with a red potent red chile sauce. Marnay stayed traditional and went with Chile Verde. The chips and salsa at Los Mariachis were HOT HOT HOT. To get the full New Mexico experience, we also ordered a side of green chile sauce.
White Sands National Monument in New Mexico is the largest gypsum sand dune in the world. It truly is like nothing you have ever seen. The dunes of pure white sand seem to go on forever and it really looks like something from another planet. It’s located in the Tularosa Basin, between the Sierra Blancas and the Organ Mountains.
In the evening, we did a sunset hike led by husband and wife park rangers. There are a surprising amount of plants that live in the dunes, and we learned that there is water about 30 feet under the sand. These plants have to touch the water to be able to survive – if they don’t, they will die. The most amazing part of the hike was getting to see TWO sunsets, because of the reflection of the mountains.
We loved El Paso and New Mexico but it was time to continue our journey. Click here for our Tucson recap.
Park Place Café and Restaurant
“Hi Paul, not Tom”, was our greeting upon entering the beguiling Park Place Café and Restaurant, a six-table BYOB in sleepy Merchantville, NJ. Since the restaurant only takes reservations by voicemail, they thought I said my name was “Tom” when the restaurant called that afternoon to confirm. We thought it was clever to use that as a greeting when we walked through the door. It was a light-hearted, warm welcome.
We were greeted by Francesca, the restaurant’s relentlessly charming host and co-owner. Our table had four seats and the restaurant was a bit loud, so when it came time to order Francesca actually sat down next to Marnay to go over the specials and to take down our order. It made us feel like we were regulars, even though it was our first time.
The chef and co-owner Phil Manganero, runs the kitchen but also spends his days off foraging for ingredients. The restaurant also has its own garden and gets the rest from mainly local purveyors. Their vision for the restaurant, among a sea of red sauce Italian joints, is to create a “New Jersey Terroir.”
The “Kitchen Sink Salad”, a weekly special, is a good example of what they are trying to do. It’s a mix of just about every fresh and seasonal or foraged fruit and vegetable that was available that week. Our salad had wild purslane, wax beans, blackberries, blueberries, herbs from the garden and a few other things thrown in. This seems like a lot, but it made sense. All of the flavors came together in harmony, and they were tied together with a sublime vinaigrette.
The housemade rigatoni, which Francesca informed us that the chef had finished making just before service, showed great restraint. It’s Jersey tomato season, so the pasta highlighted a light tomato sauce and a bit of parmigiano reggiano on the rim of the plate. The dish was brilliant simplicity – there was nowhere for imperfections to hide. A lesser chef would have drowned the rigatoni in sauce – but the housemade rigatoni was way too good to do that and needed to shine on its own.
We had seen on Instagram that Park Place was popular with wine aficionados and it did not disappoint. Shortly after we arrived, a table of six showed up, each person with three bottles of wine! I didn’t want to stare at them too long, but judging by the color of their white wine (almost brownish yellow) it had some serious age. It was entertaining to watch them pour each glass.
The olive oil poached tile fish, a special, was blitzed with shaved truffles and chanterelles. It was an umami bomb that was also intriguing because of its mix of temperatures – warm fish, cold chanterelles that tasted like they had been soaking (perhaps reconstituting?) in vinegar. Meanwhile, the poach in olive oil kept the white tile fish from overcooking.
The walnut cake for dessert reminded me a fancier version of my grandmother’s walnut rolls. Park Place takes it to a whole other level with a rich cream and extra walnuts placed on the side.
Park Place Café is a dream of a restaurant tucked away in Merchantville, NJ. Looking back, it’s hard to believe that place was real. If you live in the area, we strongly suggest that you check it out.
Paul and Marnay: Housemade Rigatoni with Jersey tomato sauce
Park Place Café and Restaurant: 7 East Park Avenue, Merchantville, NJ 08109
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Aydın, Erdal and Eichholtz, Piet and Yönder, Erkan (2018) "The economics of residential solar water heaters in emerging economies: the case of Turkey", Energy Economics, Vol.75, 285-299 (SSCI)
Afacan, Mustafa Oğuz (2018) "The object allocation problem with random priorities", Games and Economic Behavior, Vol.110, 71-89 (SSCI)
Albalate, Daniel and İnci, Eren (2018) "Introduction to the special issue on the economics of parking", Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, Vol.52, No.3, 181-183 (SSCI)
İnci, Eren and Lindsey, C. Robin and Öz, Gökmen (2018) "Parking fees and retail prices", Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, Vol.52, No.3, 298-321 (SSCI)
Aydın, Erdal and Brounen, Dirk and Kok, Nils (2018) "Information provision and energy consumption: evidence from a field experiment", Energy Economics, Vol.71, 403-410 (SSCI)
Leung, Tin Cheuk and Yazıcı, Hakkı (2018) "Optimal skill distribution under convex skill costs", Central Bank Review, Vol.18, No.1, 29-34 (ESCI)
Yazıcı, Hakkı (2017) "Intergenerational disagreements in labor supply and optimal bequest taxation", Central Bank Review, Vol.17, No.4, 127-130 (ESCI)
İnci, Eren and Van Ommeren, Jos and Kobus, Martijn (2017) "The external cruising costs of parking", Journal of Economic Geography, Vol.17, No.6, 1301-1323 (SSCI)
Afacan, Mustafa Oğuz and Alioğulları, Zeynel Harun and Barlo, Mehmet (2017) "Sticky matching in school choice", Economic Theory, Vol.64, No.3, 509-538 (SSCI)
Afacan, Mustafa Oğuz and Dur, Umut Mert (2017) "When preference misreporting is harm[less]ful?", Journal of Mathematical Economics, Vol.72, 16-24 (SCI, SSCI)
Kıbrıs, Arzu and Kıbrıs, Özgür (2017) "State-society relations in civil conflicts". Published Online First http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2017.1364634
Altınok, Nadir and Aydemir, Abdurrahman Bekir (2017) "Does one size fit all? The impact of cognitive skills on economic growth", Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol.53, 176-190 (SSCI)
Genç, Talat S. and Aydemir, Abdurrahman Bekir (2017) "Power trade, welfare, and air quality", Energy Economics, Vol.67, 423-438 (SSCI)
Aydemir, Abdurrahman Bekir and Kırdar, Murat (2017) "Quasi-experimental impact estimates of immigrant labor supply shocks: the role of treatment and comparison group matching and relative skill composition", European Economic Review, Vol.98, 282-315 (SSCI)
Afacan, Mustafa Oğuz (2017) "Some further properties of the cumulative offer process", Games and Economic Behavior, Vol.104, 656-665 (SSCI)
Gümüş, İnci (2017) "How costly are borrowing costs? An analysis of alternative fiscal policies during crises", Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol.21, No.5, 1141-1157 (SSCI)
Pavoni, Nicola and Yazıcı, Hakkı (2017) "Intergenerational disagreement and optimal taxation of parental transfers", Review of Economic Studies, Vol.84, No.3, 1264-1305 (SSCI)
Pavoni, Nicola and Yazıcı, Hakkı (2017) "Optimal life-cycle capital taxation under self-control problems", Economic Journal, Vol.127, No.602, 1188-1216 (SSCI)
Dean, Mark and Kıbrıs, Özgür and Masatlıoğlu, Yusuf Can (2017) "Limited attention and status quo bias", Journal of Economic Theory, Vol.169, 93-127 (SSCI)
Aydemir, Abdurrahman Bekir and Kırdar, Murat G. (2017) "Low wage returns to schooling in a developing country: evidence from a major policy reform in Turkey". Published Online First http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/obes.12174
Afacan, Mustafa Oğuz and Dur, Umut Mert (2017) "Incompatibility between stability and consistency", Economics Letters, Vol.150, 135-137 (SSCI)
Yazıcı, Hakkı and Leung, Tin Cheuk (2017) "On optimal skill distribution in a Mirrleesian economy", Bogazici Journal, Vol.31, No.2 (NA)
Bahadır, Berrak and Gümüş, İnci (2016) "Credit decomposition and business cycles in emerging market economies", Journal of International Economics, Vol.103, 250-262 (SSCI)
Demiralp, Seda and Demiralp, Selva and Gümüş, İnci (2016) "The state of property development in Turkey: facts and comparisons", New Perspectives on Turkey, Vol.55, 85-106 (SSCI)
Çitçi, Sadettin Haluk and İnci, Eren (2016) "The masquerade ball of the CEOs and the mask of excessive risk", Economic Modelling, Vol.58, 383-393 (SSCI)
Afacan, Mustafa Oğuz (2016) "Characterizations of the cumulative offer process", Social Choice and Welfare, Vol.47, No.3, 531-542 (SSCI)
Ersoy, Fulya Yüksel and Hasker, Kevin and İnci, Eren (2016) "Parking as a loss leader at shopping malls", Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Vol.91, 98-112 (SCI)
Baç, Mehmet (2016) "The expectation effect of a fall in divorce costs", International Review of Law and Economics, Vol.47, 41-47 (SSCI)
Gümüş, İnci (2016) "Fiscal uncertainty and currency crises", Review of Development Economics, Vol.20, No.3, 637-650 (SSCI)
Yazıcı, Hakkı (2016) "Optimal subsidization of business start-ups", Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol.18, No.4, 589-609 (SSCI)
Alioğulları, Zeynel Harun and Barlo, Mehmet (2016) "Tenacious selection of Nash equilibrium", BE Journal of Theoretical Economics, Vol.16, No.2, 633-647 (SSCI)
Kıbrıs, Özgür and Kıbrıs, Arzu (2016) "On surplus-sharing in partnerships", Social Choice and Welfare, Vol.47, No.1, 89-111 (SSCI)
Barlo, Mehmet and Carmona, Guilherme and Sabourian, Hamid (2016) "Bounded memory folk theorem", Journal of Economic Theory, Vol.163, 728-774 (SSCI)
Çitçi, Sadettin Haluk and İnci, Eren (2016) "Career concerns and Bayesian overconfidence of managers", International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol.46, 137-159 (SSCI)
Afacan, Mustafa Oğuz and Salman, Umutcan (2016) "Affirmative actions: the Boston mechanism case", Economics Letters, Vol.141, 95-97 (SSCI)
Afacan, Mustafa Oğuz (2016) "Enrollment manipulations in school choice", Journal of Mathematical Economics, Vol.63, 119-125 (SSCI)
Gümüş, İnci (2016) "The relationship between sovereign spreads and international reserves: does the exchange rate regime matter?", Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Vol.52, No.3, 658-673 (SSCI)
Kıbrıs, Arzu and Kıbrıs, Özgür (2016) "On the dynamics of extremist violence", Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, Vol.22, No.1, 1-25 (ESCI)
Kaygusuz, Remzi (2015) "Social security and two-earner households", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol.59, 163-178 (SSCI)
Barlo, Mehmet and Carmona, Guilherme (2015) "Strategic behavior in non-atomic games", Journal of Mathematical Economics, Vol.60, 134-144 (SSCI)
Çağlayan, Mustafa and Filiztekin, Alpay (2015) "Price dynamics and market segmentation", Economics Letters, Vol.134, 94-97 (SSCI)
Gümüş, İnci and Taşpınar, Emine Zeren (2015) "Real exchange rate volatility and business cycles in emerging market economies", Economics Letters, Vol.134, 127-129 (SSCI)
İnci, Eren and Lindsey, Robin C. (2015) "Garage and curbside parking competition with search congestion", Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol.54, 49-59 (SSCI)
İnci, Eren (2015) "A review of the economics of parking", Economics of Transportation (SI), Vol.4, No.1-2, 50-63 ()
Filiztekin, Alpay (2015) "Income inequality trends in Turkey (Türkiye'de gelir eşitsizliğinin gelişimi)", İktisat, İşletme ve Finans, Vol.30, No.350, 63-92 (SSCI)
Arnott, Richard and İnci, Eren and Rowse, John (2015) "Downtown curbside parking capacity", Journal of Urban Economics, Vol.86, 83-97 (SSCI)
Afacan, Mustafa Oğuz and Turhan, Bertan (2015) "On relationships between substitutes conditions ", Economics Letters, Vol.126, 10-12 (SSCI)
Baç, Mehmet (2015) "On the selection effects under consent and unilateral divorce", American Law and Economics Review, Vol.17, No.1, 43-86 (SSCI)
Hasker, Kevin and İnci, Eren (2014) "Free parking for all in shopping malls", International Economic Review, Vol.55, No.4, 1281-1304 (SSCI)
Güner, Nezih and Kaygusuz, Remzi and Ventura, Gustavo (2014) "Income taxation of U.S. households: facts and parametric estimates", Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol.17, No.4, 559-581 (SSCI)
Kıbrıs, Özgür and Tapkı, İpek Gürsel (2014) "A mechanism design approach to allocating central government funds among regional development agencies", Review of Economic Design, Vol.18, No.3, 163-189 (SSCI)
Barlo, Mehmet and Özdoğan, Ayça (2014) "Optimality of linearity with collusion and renegotiation", Mathematical Social Sciences, Vol.71, 46-52 (SSCI)
Slavik, Ctirad and Yazıcı, Hakkı (2014) "Machines, buildings, and optimal dynamic taxes", Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol.66, 47-61 (SSCI)
Afacan, Mustafa Oğuz (2014) "Fictitious students creation incentives in school choice problems", Economic Theory, Vol.56, No.3, 493-514 (SSCI)
Aydemir, Abdurrahman Bekir (2014) "Skill-based immigration, economic integration, and economic performance", IZA World of Labor (NA)
Book Section / Chapter
Yazıcı, Hakkı, "Quantitative analysis of optimal income taxation under directed technical change", Academic Studies About Communication, Business and Economics, Tüfekçi, Nezihe (ed.), Turkey: Strategic Researches Academy, March 2018
Aydemir, Abdurrahman Bekir and Kırdar, Murat, "The integration of the 1989 repatriates from Bulgaria to the Turkish labour market", Waves of Diversity: Socio-Political Implications of International Migration in Turkey, Karaçay, Ayşem Biriz and Sert, Deniz Şenol and Göker, Zeynep Gülru (eds.), Istanbul, Turkey: Isis Press 2015, 29-54
Filiztekin, Alpay, "Türkiye emek piyasasında eğitim-iş uyuşmazlığı", Tuncer Bulutay'a Armağan, Yıldırım, Nuri (ed.), Ankara: Mülkiyeliler Birliği 2015, 199-212
İnan, Murat Oluş and İnci, Eren and Lindsey, Robin, "Policies to control spillover parking", 52nd Annual Conference of the Canadian Transportation Research Forum, Winnipeg, Canada: CTRF, May 2017, 226-233
Canbakal, Hülya and Filiztekin, Alpay, "Wealth and inequality in Ottoman lands in the early modern period", Fourth Asian Historical Economics Conference, Istanbul, Turkey: Bogazici University, September 2014
Working Paper / Technical Report
Afacan, Mustafa Oğuz and Bo, Inacio and Turhan, Bertan, "Assignment maximization", February 2018
Afacan, Mustafa Oğuz, "Characterizations of the cumulative offer process", August 2015
Afacan, Mustafa Oğuz, "Matching with restricted trade", February 2018
Afacan, Mustafa Oğuz and Turhan, Bertan, "On relationships between substitutes conditions", August 2014
Afacan, Mustafa Oğuz and Dur, Umut Mert, "Strategy-proof size improvement: is it possible?", March 2018
Afacan, Mustafa Oğuz and Dur, Umut Mert, "When manipulations are harm[less]ful?", September 2015
Aydemir, Abdurrahman Bekir and Güven, Cahit, "The effects of primary care and maternal education on infant mortality: evidence from concurrent natural experiments of family medicine implementation and compulsory schooling reforms in Turkey", July 2015
Aydın, Erdal, "An assessment of residential energy efficiency in Turkey", May 2018
Langen, Mike and Eichholtz, Piet and Kok, Nils and Aydın, Erdal, "Getting low from getting high? the external effects of coffeeshops on house prices", April 2018
Aydın, Erdal and Brounen, Dirk and Kok, Nils, "Information asymmetry and energy efficiency: evidence from the housing market", September 2017
Aydın, Erdal and Eicholtz, Piet and Holtermans, Rogier, "Split incentives and energy efficiency: evidence from the Dutch housing market", June 2019
Barlo, Mehmet and Dalkıran, Nuh Aygün, "Behavioral implementation under incomplete information", November 2019
Barlo, Mehmet and İmren, Sura, "On regulation with zero–determinant strategies", August 2016
Barlo, Mehmet and Özkaya, Özde, "Temptation as a result of ambiguity", August 2018
Arnott, Richard and İnci, Eren and Rowse, John, "Downtown curbside parking capacity", August 2014
İnci, Eren and Lindsey, Robin C., "Garage and curbside parking competition with search congestion" 2014
Kıbrıs, Arzu and Kıbrıs, Özgür, "On the dynamics of extremist violence in civil conflicts", December 2014
Kıbrıs, Arzu and Kıbrıs, Özgür, "Violence, control and state legitimacy in civil conflicts", December 2014
Büyükboyacı, Mürüvvet İlknur and Gürdal, Mehmet Yiğit and Kıbrıs, Arzu and Kıbrıs, Özgür, "An experimental study of the investment implications of bankruptcy laws", October 2015
Slavik, Ctirad and Yazıcı, Hakkı, "Determinants of wage and earnings inequality in the United States", July 2015
Slavik, Ctirad and Yazıcı, Hakkı, "On the consequences of eliminating capital tax differentials", July 2014
Slavik, Ctirad and Yazıcı, Hakkı, "Wage risk and the skill premium", October 2016
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Episodes, Season 5
This Won't Hurt an Ed
"This Won't Hurt an Ed"
Season 5 Episode 7b
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Title Reference:
This Won't Hurt a Bit
Danny Antonucci
Rachel Connor
Storyboard Artist(s):
Steve Le Couilliard
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"Truth or Ed" "Tinker Ed"
"This Won't Hurt an Ed" is the 13th episode of Season 5 and the 115th episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy. In this episode, Eddy and Ed find out Kevin has a fear of needles through his medical file. They then decide to put this to their advantage by declaring to the other kids that it is Booster Shot Day. Kevin after finding out about this tries hard in hiding this secret, but Ed and Eddy do everything they can to make sure that he can't.
Ever the altruist, Edd has volunteered his services to the school nurse and become her assistant, and he is organizing various tools of the trade while his bored friends stand by. Of course, neither of them are very patient, and they cause disturbances until Eddy suggests they go for lunch. Ed agrees with this, as it is Whopper Wiener Wednesday and he wants to get a few wieners in him. Edd agrees, noting that some nourishment wouldn't hurt, but turns back to his work when he notices something out of place. Eddy is annoyed by this, and his annoyance level is only cranked up another notch when he hears a ruckus outside; apparently Kevin made 100 free throws in a row in gym today, and everyone's treating him like a hero. Eddy complains about this, and ignores his friends' attempts to mollify him until a misguided attempt by Ed sends a shelf full of student files crashing to the ground in a heap. While Edd hustles around gathering up the files, Eddy finds Kevin's file and begins reading it, quickly discovering that Kevin apparently has a fear of needles, which he, of course, reveals to his friends. However, Edd gets mad at Eddy for reading Kevin's personal file and even tries defending Kevin by pointing out that having a fear of needles is actually pretty common. But by the time he's done talking, the other two Eds have already left the office as Eddy has come up with an idea to prank Kevin.
In the cafeteria, Kevin's victory party is still going strong, with Kevin even going so far as to autograph Jimmy's hot dog with ketchup. Even the appearance of Ed and Eddy in nurse outfits doesn't rile him to anything more than a mocking comment. Suddenly, the party stops, however, as Eddy mentions that it's Booster Shot Day. Ed shuffles out some leaflets, and the kids begin to worry about the needle. To drive the point home, Eddy mentions that Rolf's wiener looks dangerously hot, and pokes it with a sharp meat thermometer. Seeing this, the color drains from Kevin's face and he falls backwards, knocking his chair over.
Soon, though, Kevin gets up, and with a half-hearted excuse about the coach calling him, exits the lunchroom. Eddy begins to gloat, but none of the kids pay any attention, as they're too busy panicking themselves. Even Ed gets in on the panic, dragging Eddy out of the cafeteria to escape the needle he believes is coming for him. Eddy is able to stop his friend and remind him what's going on, however; when they see Kevin walking down the hall, Eddy grins and declares that round two is on.
Kevin heads into a bathroom to try and calm his nerves. He splashes some water on his face and gives himself a pep talk. When he looks in the mirror, though, his eyes are drawn a few inches upwards to a ghastly picture of someone taking a needle straight through their arm. Seeing this, he stumbles backwards into a stall. He shuts the door behind him just as Ed and Eddy enter the bathroom, talking about sterilizing big, sharp needles. Kevin's heart is beating fast as he looks up and sees an air vent. Thinking quickly, he escapes into the vent. Naturally, Eddy notices, and he and Ed chuckle at how well their prank is going.
Kevin crawls through the vents, frantically trying to escape. When he comes to the first corner, though, he gets even more freaked out, as Ed sticks his head through a vent in their, revealing himself to have taken a needle straight through the brain. While Kevin crawls away as fast as he can, Ed ducks out, and he and Eddy laugh before Eddy mentions that he has another idea for how to continue the torture.
Edd, meanwhile, has finished his work in the nurse's office and is heading to the cafeteria to get some food when he runs into Jonny, who is bent over in front of him. Jonny pulls down his pants and says that he's ready, much to Edd's shock and revulsion. After instructing him to pull up his pants, Edd hears Nazz in the background, calling her mom to tell her she loves her, and sees Sarah pushing an armor-clad Jimmy forward and warning about how the needles can supposedly put a hole through a truck tire. Things get stranger yet when Rolf accosts the sock-on-head Ed-boy and gives him a jar of his father's stuffed olive pits and begs that the injection be as quick as possible before joining the line in the gym. Edd becomes more confused than ever when he reads on a poster that it's Booster Shot Day, and he checks his calendar, sure that the day is a long way off.
Eddy has been busy with Ed all this time, and they've built a giant replica needle. When they find Kevin, they threaten him with it, and Kevin is backed into a corner by the nurse's office, strung out on fear and adrenaline. Suddenly, Edd jumps in and tells Eddy that there are no vaccinations scheduled for today. Hearing this, Kevin's heart rate slows to normal and he starts to realize he's been duped. When he sees the makeshift needle, Edd quickly realizes what's going on and angrily accuses Eddy of defrauding the whole school for his own self-gratification–and this only becomes more evident when Jimmy spots the giant booster shot and warns the other kids, who panic and run out of the gym. Eddy still believes that he has Kevin nailed, though, and he demonstrates to Edd by poking Kevin's arm with the shot. As it turns out, though, Kevin has realized that he's been tricked, and is ready to beat Eddy into little tiny pieces with a golf club that formed part of the needle. Scared, Eddy pulls Edd in front of him and begs for help, and Edd is quick to offer it, by giving Kevin an alternate solution to his problem. You see, in a surprisingly devious move, Edd was able to convince the nurse to help Kevin get over his fear of needles by giving him a demonstration of a safely applied booster shot, and offered up Eddy as the recipient of the shot to even the score with Kevin.
Eddy: [dispassionately watching Ed inflate his face with the blood pressure cuff] "Gee, nice head, Ed!"
Ed: [excited] "WHOPPER WEINER WEDNESDAY, DOUBLE D!"
Edd: [looking despairingly at the mess on the floor] "Oh dear. Do you have any idea how long it took me to arrange in alphanumerical order those confidential student files, Ed? Do you?"
Ed: "Was it longer than a bread box?"
Kevin: [incredulous as Rolf kicks him] "Hey man, what gives?"
Rolf: "Rolf honors Kevin with the Posterior Punt of Praise!"
Jimmy: [looking adoringly at Kevin] "He's so dexterous!"
Kevin: [mocking Eddy and Ed's medical outfits] "Well, if it ain't Florence Dorkendale and Nurse Twerpenstein."
Ed: "Tell 'em to line up in the gym, bonehead! Did I do good, Eddy?"
Eddy: "Shut up, stupid!"
Ed: "That's my line, Eddy."
Ed: "Needles!? Run away! Evil! Pointy! Bad for Ed, Eddy!"
Eddy: [trying to freak Kevin out] "We'd better sterilize these sharp needles, Ed."
Ed: "Say they're big, monobrow!"
Rolf: [groveling in front of Edd] "Double D Ed-boy, Rolf begs you, take this jar of Papa's filled olive pits and be quick with your pain-filled poke!"
Ed: [sagely] "A good buttock finds its own bench, Eddy!"
Eddy: [as he gets his shot from Nurse Prowse] "I hate needles!"
Jonny: "Me an Plank are next, nurse assistant Double D!" [He pulls down his pants, exposing himself to Edd.]
Edd: [frantically covering his eyes] "GOOD LORD, JONNY! MAKE YOURSELF DECENT, MAN!"
Eddy: "Who's the big shot now, huh?! Get it?! Big, shot?" [laughing menacingly] "I'm too good!"
Kevin: "That was really funny, dorky! So I guess it's my turn, right?" [grabbing a golf club] "Kiss your face goodbye, loser!"
Goofs:
When Edd replaced the box of wooden sticks after Eddy contaminated them with his earwax, Edd had only one box of wooden sticks in his hand, but when the camera angle changed, he had two.
If you look closely when Ed launches himself out of his pants, he is barefoot. However, when he crashes into the shelf of medical records, and he is sitting beside the wrecked shelf, both of his shoes are back on.
James' file.
When Ed smashes into the filing shelves in the nurse's office, the files come out. When this happens, you can see that there is a person in a photo with the name of James. Jimmy's file and photograph are also briefly seen. The names Daniel, Raven, and Miller are also seen; these names referencing the producers of the show. Two other names seen are Marcy and Chris.
The fear of needles is often referred to as Trypanophobia, but Edd calls it belonephobia. Technically, this is correct, as belonephobia (generally called aichmophobia) is the fear of all sharp objects, not just needles.
Kevin called Eddy 'Florence Dorkendale' and Ed 'Nurse Twerpenstein.' These are references to Florence Nightingale and Dr. Frankenstein respectively.
This the only appearance of the nurse's office at Peach Creek Jr. High.
This is one of the few episodes where Edd manages to work out a peaceful resolution with Kevin.
The nurse's arm is seen fixing Eddy's needle, marking the third time an adult's arm is seen in the fifth season. Before, the arms of Eddy's Dad and Ed's Mom were seen near the end of "Mission Ed-Possible."
In the first scene of the episode, Eddy says "Forget Acapulco!" Acapulco is a city located in southern Mexico.
According to Kevin's student medical record, he has had dental work done to his top left molar. It can be presumed this is a filling, possibly related to excessive jawbreaker consumption.
A bulletin board has a notice about the toilet Sarah attacked Nazz with in the previous episode. It states to "Please bring it back."
"Where's the cash?!?" – Eddy
Please consider downloading this episode of the show in high definition from iTunes in order to support the creators' hard work.
Ed Edd n Eddy This Won't Hurt an Ed
Whopper Wiener Wednesday
Giant Booster Shot
Booster Shot Day
"Mission Ed-Possible" • "Every Which Way But Ed" • "Boom Boom Out Goes the Ed" • "Cleanliness Is Next to Edness" • "Out with the Old, In with the Ed" • "I Am Curious Ed" • "No Speak Da Ed" • "Cool Hand Ed" • "Too Smart for His Own Ed" • "Who's Minding the Ed?" • "Pick an Ed" • "Truth or Ed" • "This Won't Hurt an Ed" • "Tinker Ed" • "The Good, The Bad and The Ed" • "Tight End Ed" • "'Tween a Rock and an Ed Place" • "All Eds Are Off" • "Smile for the Ed" • "Run Ed Run" • "A Town Called Ed" • "A Fistful of Ed"
Seasons: Season 1 • Season 2 • Season 3 • Season 4 • Season 5 • Season 6 • Specials
See also: Episode Guide
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Uber London Revs Its Lobbying Engines Against “Bureaucratic” Rule Changes
Natasha Lomas @riptari / 4 years
Transport for London, the local body responsible for transport regulations in the U.K. capital, has published a set of proposals for changes to regulations pertaining to the operation of private hire vehicles (PHVs) in the city — with the stated aim of improving passenger safety.
Any rule changes would of course affect the operation of Uber’s on-demand business in London, so the company has mobilized its U.K. users, urging them to sign a petition against the proposed new rules — which it dubs “bureaucratic”, arguing they would signal the end of the Uber “you know and love.”
TfL’s new PHV consultation runs till late December, with any new rules set to be implemented early next year — based on the feedback it receives on the proposals. It’s the second consultation TfL has kicked off this year. The earlier March consultation garnered some 4,000 responses, and has been used to shape the proposals in the latest consultation, according to a TfL spokesman.
The regulations on PHV in London date back to 1998. The spokesman noted there has been a big increase in PHVs in the city in recent years — which is why it’s consulting on changes now. Recent stats from the U.K. government’s Department for Transport recorded a 25.9 percent hike in PHVs operating in London between 2013 and 2015. Over the same period London taxi numbers increased by just 1.5 percent.
Writing in the consultation documents, TfL states:
After careful consideration of the responses to our initial consultation, we are bringing forward a package of proposals for further consultation that we consider will strengthen the regulation of private hire services in London. Our overriding concern in developing these proposals is to improve passenger safety. We are also committed to maintaining a clear distinction between the taxi and private hire trades and further improving the quality, safety, accessibility and overall standard of private hire vehicle provision in London. We believe that the proposed measures will contribute to this aim and invite comments and views before making any changes.
The proposals run to some 25 points — and include several changes that would have an obvious impact on Uber’s operations. Uber is of course able to participate in the consultation, by submitting its feedback to TfL, along with all the other PHV firms in London.
Among proposals TfL is considering are that:
Operators must provide a booking confirmation to passengers that provides the driver’s photo ID and details of the vehicle booked
Operators must provide booking confirmation details at least five minutes prior to the journey commencing
Improved security for app-based booking platforms aimed at reducing the likelihood of an app being used by a person other than the licensed driver — such as by requiring a driver periodically logs back in, such as via facial recognition tech or a fingerprint reader
Operators must offer the facility to pre-book up to seven days in advance
Operators must have a fixed landline telephone number available for passengers to contact them at all times
Operators must not show private hire vehicles being available for immediate hire, including virtually within an app
Operators must specify the fare prior to booking being accepted
Operators must record the main destination for each journey at the time of the booking
Drivers should only work for one operator at a time
Controls on ridesharing in licensed vehicles
Controls on advertising displayed in vehicles, as well as on them
Uber does not offer a pre-booking facility so that’s one proposed change that would cause an obvious operational headache for the business.
The Uber app also displays bookable cars in the user’s vicinity in real-time — which is pretty much the killer feature of the app, from a UX point of view, so being forced to ditch that would likely make Uber a whole lot less sticky. Add to that, the proposed requirement to have a five-minute pre-pick-up wait time would also erode Uber’s convenience — near real-time pick-ups from a customer’s location are a key reason the app has been able to poach customers from existing PHV businesses, and steal a march on traditional taxi businesses.
Responding to the TfL consultation, Uber provided the following statement to TechCrunch — attributed to Jo Bertram, its Regional General Manager, UK, Ireland and Nordics — in which it claims the changes are aimed at protecting London’s black cabs, rather than improving passenger safety:
These bureaucratic new rules will not improve your ride. They’re designed to address the concerns of black cab drivers, who feel under pressure from increased competition. But the answer is to reduce the onerous regulations cabbies face today — not increase them for everyone else.
Uber now has more than 1 million users in the U.K., along with 18,000 drivers in London alone.
The company has used that platform to mobilize a lobbying effort to fight the proposed changes, messaging U.K. users to ask them to sign a petition — and following similar lobbying tactics to those it deployed in New York recently to steer off regulatory changes there.
At the time of writing, Uber’s petition has gained just under 80,000 signatures (or around 8 percent of its U.K. user base) — with the company touting that it’s getting a signature per minute.
In the consultation document, TfL adds that it already intends to take forward certain other measures — including a requirement for disability awareness training, noting that groups representing disabled passengers have told of “many issues” with availability and “more general attitude to those with disabilities.”
TfL writes:
We will include a requirement that introduces training for private hire drivers, to include disability awareness. This will be developed from autumn 2015 and all new licence applicants will be expected to undertake the training prior to becoming licensed. Renewal applicants will also be required to undertake this training ahead of the renewal of their licence.
Update: Uber is not the only taxi app complaining about TfL’s proposed rule changes. London based Kabbee, a minicab booking and price comparison app, said in its view most of the new rules are “ultimately designed to benefit black taxi drivers, over the 78K+ private hire drivers in London”.
In a statement, CEO and founder Justin Peters said: “We strongly urge TfL to consider making a set of requirements that are applicable and fair to both parties, as each one plays an essential role in providing a safe and reliable transport service for Londoners.”
“We disagree with a five minute delay for bookings, as GPS technology enables operators to provide a better customer experience and reduce waiting times. Reduced waiting times benefit drivers and Londoners alike so TfL should be careful putting forward legislation that means everyone waits longer,” he added.
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Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia: survival is influenced by the underlying cause
Hilario Nunes, Kirsten Schubel, Diane Piver, Eline Magois, Séverine Feuillet, Yurdagul Uzunhan, Zohra Carton, Abdellatif Tazi, Pierre Levy, Pierre-Yves Brillet, Andrew G. Nicholson, Marianne Kambouchner, Dominique Valeyre
European Respiratory Journal 2015 45: 746-755; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00148613
Hilario Nunes
Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, EA2363 "Réponses cellulaires et fonctionnelles à l'hypoxie", Bobigny, FranceAP-HP, Service de Pneumologie, Hôpital Avicenne, Bobigny, France
For correspondence: hilario.nunes@avc.aphp.fr
Kirsten Schubel
AP-HP, Service de Pneumologie, Hôpital Avicenne, Bobigny, France
Diane Piver
AP-HP, Service de Radiologie, Hôpital Avicenne, Bobigny, France
Eline Magois
Service de Pneumologie, Hôpital d'Amiens, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
Séverine Feuillet
Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, AP-HP, Service de Pneumologie, Hôpital Saint Louis, Paris, France
Yurdagul Uzunhan
Zohra Carton
Abdellatif Tazi
AP-HP, Département de Santé Publique, Hôpital Tenon, INSERM, U707, Université Paris 6 Pierre et Marie Curie, UMR-S 707, Paris, France
Pierre-Yves Brillet
Andrew G. Nicholson
Dept of Histopathology, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust and NHLI Division, Imperial College, London, UK
Marianne Kambouchner
AP-HP, Service d'Anatomie Pathologique, Hôpital Avicenne, Bobigny, France
Dominique Valeyre
Idiopathic, nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP) is most often associated with various clinical disorders, including connective tissue diseases (CTDs) and chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis (cHP). Emerging evidence also suggests that “idiopathic” NSIP may be the lung manifestation of undifferentiated CTD (UCTD). However, whether or not NSIP outcome is influenced by the underlying cause remains uncertain.
This retrospective study included 127 biopsy-proven NSIP patients (65 women, mean±sd age 55±12 years). Survivals were estimated using a Kaplan–Meier curve and compared using the log-rank test. Multivariate analyses were based on a Cox model.
15 (11.8%) patients had cHP, 29 (22.8%) had CTD, 32 (25.2%) satisfied the Kinder criteria for UCTD and 51 (40.1%) had idiopathic NSIP. At the end of follow-up (mean±sd 64±54 months), a difference in survival was observed between aetiological groups (p=0.002). Survival was better for UCTD than for idiopathic NSIP (p=0.020) and similar to that observed for CTD. cHP survival tended to be poorer than that of idiopathic NSIP (p=0.087) and was an independent predictor of mortality (hazard ratio 2.17, 95% CI 1.05–4.47; p=0.035).
NSIP outcome is influenced by its cause. cHP exhibits the highest mortality. UCTD does not differ from CTD supporting the concept of autoimmune NSIP, with a prognosis that is better than that of idiopathic NSIP.
NSIP patients should be investigated for the presence of an underlying cause, which significantly impacts survival http://ow.ly/F1lO2
Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP) remains an area of uncertainty that requires further research [1, 2]. Although most often idiopathic, the histologic pattern of NSIP is also observed in a wide variety of clinical settings, including connective tissue diseases (CTDs), chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis (cHP), drug toxicity and slowly resolving diffuse alveolar damage [1]. NSIP is the most common histological pattern in interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) associated with CTDs, including their forme fruste variants. Several authors have suggested that a subset of patients previously classified as “idiopathic” NSIP meet the criteria for undifferentiated CTD (UCTD) [3–5]. UCTD is characterised by the presence of features reflecting a systemic autoimmune process that do not fulfil the accepted diagnostic criteria for differentiated CTDs, i.e. rheumatoid arthritis (RA), Sjögren's syndrome (SjS), systemic scleroderma (SSc), polymyositis and dermatomyositis, systemic lupus erythematosus and mixed CTD [5, 6]. Whether or not patients with CTD-associated NSIP have a better outcome than those with idiopathic NSIP remains controversial [7]. Similarly, the prognostic impact of UCTD in NSIP patients has not been fully elucidated [8–11]. Although it is now well known that NSIP can represent the sole histological expression of a percentage of patients with cHP [12–16], no studies have compared the survival of these patients with that of patients with idiopathic NSIP.
The aim of the study was to compare the prognosis of NSIP patients stratified according to the underlying cause (idiopathic, UCTD, CTDs and cHP) in terms of survival, response to therapy and long-term functional outcome.
Patient selection and data collection
This retrospective study received institutional review board approval (Comité de Protection des Personnes Ile-de-France X, No. 2012-12-01). All consecutive patients with a histological pattern of NSIP on surgical lung biopsy (SLB) examined at the Avicenne University Hospital Pathology department (Bobigny, France) were selected. The patient cohort has already been the subject of a previous study focusing on histology [17]. The diagnosis of NSIP was based on a consensus by two pathologists (M. Kambouchner and A.G. Nicholson) [1]. Clinical and laboratory characteristics, pulmonary function tests (PFTs) and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) findings at the time of SLB were collected from medical records. The battery of individual serological tests and serum precipitins were ordered as part of the initial workup or during follow-up on clinical grounds. Two radiologists (D. Piver and P-Y. Brillet) reviewed in consensus high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) scans that were available within 6 months of SLB. Patients were classified as presenting a HRCT pattern either “suggestive or consistent with NSIP” or “suggestive of usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP)” [1, 2].
Standard diagnostic criteria were applied for individual differentiated CTDs [18–24]. Patients were considered to have UCTD when they had at least one symptom suggestive of CTDs and evidence of systemic inflammation in the absence of infection, as defined by Kinder et al. [5]. A narrower definition of UCTD was also applied, as proposed by Corte et al. [8, 25]. The diagnosis of cHP was established using the criteria of Richerson et al. [26]. In addition to clinical and radiological evidence of ILD, patients were required to have a history of exposure to an inhaled antigen known to cause cHP and either confirmatory serum precipitins or a lymphocytic BAL [26].
Patient outcome
Therapeutic response was recorded within 3–6 months of treatment initiation. Long-term functional outcome was evaluated for patients with available PFTs at least 12 months after their initial assessment. Improvement was defined as a ≥10% increase in forced vital capacity (FVC) % predicted or a ≥15% increase in diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide (DLCO) % predicted from initial values, and worsening was defined as >10% decrease in FVC or >15% decrease in DLCO.
All results are expressed as percentages or mean±sd. The various aetiological groups were compared using a Chi-squared test or Fisher's exact test for categorical variables, and Kruskal–Wallis test for continuous variables. Survival was calculated from the date of inclusion, which corresponded to the date of SLB and ranged from July 1987 to November 2011, until the end of the follow-up period. Patients were followed until death, lung transplantation or September 1, 2012, with complete follow-up for 125 out of 127 cases. Information regarding vital status and cause of death was obtained by reviewing the patient's medical charts and by contacting the referring physician and general practitioner. Transplanted patients were censored at the time of transplantation. The survival probability of aetiological groups was estimated using the Kaplan–Meier method and compared by a log-rank test. Univariate analysis was based on a log-rank test. For continuous variables, patients were classified into two groups on either side of the median value. All parameters with a p-value <0.20 were then entered into the multivariate Cox proportional hazards model. Results are reported as hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals.
Aetiological groups
136 cases with NSIP were listed in the Pathology department. Nine cases were excluded because the medical charts were not available. The study population comprised 127 patients (table 1). SLB were obtained from a single lobe in 29 (22.8%) cases, two lobes in 75 (59.1%) cases and three lobes in four (3.1%) cases. The site of SLB was not available for 19 (15.0%) patients, and for the other 108 patients corresponded to: upper lobes n=74 (68.5%); lower lobes n=90 (83.3%); middle lobe n=18 (16.7%); or lingula: n=5 (4.6%).
Patients' characteristics at the time of surgical lung biopsy (SLB) according to aetiological groups
The study population consisted of 62 men with a mean±sd age of 55±12 years at the time of SLB. 15 (11.8%) patients had a diagnosis of cHP induced by the following antigens: birds n=12, domestic moulds n=1, hay n=1 and textile dusts n=1. 29 (22.8%) patients had a differentiated CTD (RA n=7, SjS n=7, SSc n=4, polymyositis or dermatomyositis n=7, mixed CTD n=2, systemic lupus erythematosus plus SjS n=1, and SSc plus SjS n=1). NSIP occurred during the course of a previously known CTD in nine cases, with a median time to onset of 60 months (range: 5–192 months). The two conditions were diagnosed concomitantly in 16 cases. NSIP preceded the diagnosis of CTD in four cases by 8, 48, 120 and 120 months, respectively. While one of these four patients with RA initially had no features suggestive of a systemic autoimmune disorder, the other three patients with dermatomyositis, RA and SjS met the criteria for UCTD prior to the onset of differentiated CTD. Among the remaining 83 patients, 32 (38.5%, i.e. 25.2% of the whole population) satisfied the criteria for UCTD and did not develop differentiated CTD during follow-up, and 51 (61.4%, i.e. 40.1% of the whole population) had idiopathic NSIP with no UCTD. 19 cases (22.9%, i.e. 15% of the whole population) met the definition for UCTD proposed by Corte et al. [8].
Clinical characteristics, PFTs, BAL and HRCT findings
Patient characteristics at the time of SLB are summarised in table 1. Overall, aetiological groups were significantly different in terms of sex ratio (p=0.020) and smoking status (p=0.048). More specifically, patients with UCTD and CTDs were more likely to be females than those with idiopathic NSIP (UCTD versus idiopathic NSIP: 65.6% versus 37.2%, p=0.014; and CTDs versus idiopathic NSIP: 65.5% versus 37.2%, p=0.020). The UCTD group comprised a significantly higher percentage of nonsmokers than the idiopathic NSIP group (UCTD versus idiopathic NSIP: 71.8% versus 41.2%; p=0.007). Conversely, no significant difference was found between the UCTD and CTDs groups, or between the cHP and idiopathic NSIP groups. HRCT was available for 94 patients, and showed a pattern “suggestive or consistent with NSIP” in 88 (93.6%) cases and “suggestive of UIP” in six (6.4%) cases. All of these six cases had a biopsy taken from two lobes, providing evidence of a concordant histological pattern of NSIP.
Systemic autoimmune symptoms and laboratory findings
The results are shown in tables 2 and 3. As expected, the aetiological groups differed in terms of the presence of systemic autoimmune symptoms (p<0.0001) and auto-antibodies (p<0.0001). All patients with UCTD and CTDs had at least one autoimmune symptom, a much higher rate than that observed in patients with idiopathic NSIP (100% versus 43.1%; p<0.0001). By contrast, no significant difference was observed between the cHP and idiopathic NSIP groups. The proportion of patients with at least two symptoms was higher in the CTDs group than in the UCTD group (96.5% versus 78.1%; p=0.033).
Distribution of autoimmune symptoms according to aetiological groups
Distribution of autoimmune laboratory signs according to aetiological groups
Therapeutic response and long-term functional outcome
14 (11%) patients did not receive any specific treatment for NSIP during the study period, 106 (83.5%) patients were given corticosteroids (n=99) and/or at least one immunosuppressive agent (azathioprine: n=52, cyclophosphamide: n=33, mycophenolate mofetil: n=24, methotrexate: n=4, rituximab: n=3, cyclosporine: n=1, leflunomide: n=1 and plasmapheresis: n=1), and information was not available in seven cases. All cHP patients had been removed from antigen exposure. 101 patients were evaluated for therapeutic response based on PFTs. Overall, responses were not different between groups (p=0.219) (table 4). However, when patients with UCTD and CTDs were pooled and compared with the rest of the population, they presented a significantly higher rate of response (43.7% versus 24.5%; p=0.041). Long-term functional follow-up (≥12 months) was available for 105 patients. At the last follow-up, the distribution of patients according to functional evolution outcome and the annual decline in FVC and DLCO were similar between groups (table 4).
Patient outcomes according to aetiological groups
Survival and causes of death
Mean follow-up after SLB was 63.7±54.2 months. At the end of the study, 75 patients were alive, 40 patients had died, 10 had undergone transplant and two were lost to follow-up. 2-, 5- and 10-year overall survival was 89.0%, 65.6% and 49.2%, respectively. Survival was significantly different between groups (p=0.002) (fig. 1a), with an even more marked difference when patients with UCTD and CTDs were pooled (p=0.0006) (fig. 1b). Patients with cHP exhibited the poorest survival (2-, 5- and 10-year survival of 73.3%, 41.9% and 27.9%, respectively), followed by patients with idiopathic NSIP (2-, 5- and 10-year survival of 87.7%, 60.7% and 35.9%, respectively) and patients with autoimmune NSIP (2-, 5- and 10-year survival of 94.5%, 77.1% and 72.5%, respectively). A side-by-side comparison showed that UCTD survival was significantly better than that of idiopathic NSIP (p=0.020), but similar to that of CTD (p=0.583). cHP patients tended to have a worse survival than patients with idiopathic NSIP (p=0.087). Similar results were observed according to the criteria proposed by Corte et al. [8], with a tendency towards better survival in the UCTD group than in idiopathic NSIP group (p=0.090) and no significant difference between the UCTD and CTDs groups (p=0.614).
Patient survival according to aetiological group. a) Patients with undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD) (as defined using Kinder's criteria [5]) and connective tissue diseases (CTDs) are separated. b) Patients with UCTD and CTDs are pooled (autoimmune). cHP: chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis.
The causes of death were as follows: end-stage respiratory failure n=13; acute exacerbation n=11; respiratory tract infection n=2; pulmonary hypertension n=1; sudden death n=1; pneumothorax n=1; neoplasia n=5 (lung n=2, pancreas n=1, nasopharynx n=1 and colon n=1); upper gastrointestinal tract haemorrhage n=1; and unknown n=5.
Predictive factors of mortality
Results of the univariate analysis are presented in table 5. In multivariate analyses independent predictors of mortality were absence of response to therapy (HR 10.38, 95% CI 3.1–34.2; p=0.0001) (fig. 2) and a diagnosis of cHP (HR 2.17, 95% CI 1.05–4.47; p=0.035) (fig. 3).
Patient survival according to the response to first- and/or second-line therapy.
Patient survival according to the presence or absence of chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis (cHP).
Univariate analysis of factors associated with mortality
Only limited data are available in the literature on whether patients with secondary NSIP have a different outcome to those with idiopathic NSIP. The present study demonstrates that, despite similar baseline functional impairment and long-term functional decline, the prognosis of NSIP is influenced by the underlying cause of the disease. Patients with cHP appear to have a poorer outcome, while a diagnosis of cHP is independently associated with a higher mortality. Although patients with autoimmune NSIP, i.e. NSIP associated with CTDs or UCTD, have a better survival than those with cHP and idiopathic NSIP, the impact of a diagnosis of autoimmune NSIP is no longer significant on multivariate analysis. The absence of response to therapy is the strongest independent determinant of mortality.
A NSIP pattern is observed on histology in 16–50% of cases of cHP [12–16]. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is traditionally thought to be associated with a good prognosis, but a wide range of mortality rates are actually reported [27]. Most recent studies have estimated the 5-year survival to be between 25% and 55% in the presence of histological signs of fibrosis [12, 15, 28, 29]. A similarly poor outcome is observed in the present series, with a 5-year survival of 41.9%. This may partly reflect the large number of patients with bird exposure (12 (80%) out of 15), which has been suggested to be linked with a more severe course [27]. It is remarkable that the disease progressed in the majority of our patients, all of whom presented with avian cHP, despite exposure avoidance, which raises the hypothesis that, once NSIP is established, the disease may become independent of continuing exposure [15].
There is emerging evidence that so-called “idiopathic” NSIP is frequently associated with an autoimmune “flavour” [3–5]. Kinder et al. [5] first applied a set of diagnostic criteria for UCTD to an American cohort with idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIPs), and found that 88% of cases with NSIP had UCTD. In two other Japanese [10] and British series [8] the proportion of UCTD patients was 47% and 71%, respectively. Corte et al. [8] emphasised the highly nonspecific nature of Kinder's criteria, which were met by one third of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Using a more stringent definition, the frequency of UCTD dropped from 71% to 31% [8]. In our series, the proportion of UCTD patients was 38.5% and 22.9% using the Kinder criteria and the Corte criteria, respectively. No clearly validated criteria for the diagnosis of UCTD are available at the present time.
As in previous studies, our patients with UCTD were more likely to be females [5, 8, 30] and nonsmokers [5, 30] than those with idiopathic NSIP. UCTD patients were similar to CTDs patients, including in terms of demographic characteristics and survival. In line with previous observations [10], three cases with UCTD developed differentiated CTD over time. Taken together, these observations support the grouping of these patients into a subset of “autoimmune NSIP”.
Most studies have shown that individuals with CTDs-ILD live significantly longer than patients with IIPs [7, 31], but in the study of Park et al. [7] this difference disappeared in cases diagnosed by histology as NSIP. However, the absence of distinction of UCTD in this study may have led to overestimation of the survival of patients with “idiopathic” NSIP. In fact, the prognostic significance of a concomitant diagnosis of UCTD has been questioned in a small number of studies [8–11]. Corte et al. [8] showed that the presence of UCTD was not associated with a survival advantage in IIP patients taken as a whole, but this association was not tested in the NSIP subset. In the study by Vij et al. [11], no difference was observed between IIPs with autoimmune features (with a similar definition to Kinder's definition of UCTD) and IPF. It is, however, noteworthy that 80.6% of cases of IIPs with autoimmune features who underwent SLB displayed an UIP pattern [11]. By contrast with these papers, Suda et al. [10] demonstrated that UCTD patients had a significantly lower mortality compared with patients with NSIP not fulfilling the criteria for UCTD. Similarly, in our study, UCTD patients had a significantly better survival than those with idiopathic NSIP (p=0.002) and this survival difference persisted when patients with UCTD and CTD were pooled (p=0.0006). Comparable results were observed when the definition of UCTD was restricted to the criteria proposed by Corte et al. [8]. Univariate analysis revealed that the presence of auto-antibodies as well as the presence of systemic autoimmune symptoms was significantly correlated with a lower risk of death. We failed to establish the role of a diagnosis of autoimmune NSIP on multivariate analysis, possibly because of a link with the response to therapy.
This is the first study to show that the response to therapy is the most robust prognostic predictor. The response rate of 25.6% observed in idiopathic NSIP was similar to that reported in several previous studies (between 25% and 33.3%) [32–34], but lower than that estimated by Park et al. [35] (53%). Importantly, none of these studies had distinguished UCTD. The response rate observed in this study for patients with UCTD was comparable to that observed by Kinder et al. [9] (40% versus 38%, respectively). Interestingly, when patients with UCTD and CTD were pooled, i.e. patients with autoimmune NSIP, they responded more frequently to therapy than those with other forms of NSIP (43.7% versus 24.5%; p=0.041).
Our group has previously published a study based on the same cohort concerning the histological findings, in which we clearly demonstrated that NSIP subdivision into histological subgroups was clinically relevant for prognostic and aetiological purposes [17]. In addition to the widely accepted NSIP criteria, several histological subgroups could be identified according to superimposed minor histological features, which were associated with significantly different survivals. NSIP/organising pneumonia overlap was significantly associated with CTDs and NSIP/cHP overlap with a clinical diagnosis of cHP. Interestingly, only five out of the 15 patients with a clinical diagnosis of cHP presented a histological pattern of NSIP/cHP overlap [17]. These two studies, therefore, provide different and complementary information and support the role of thorough clinical investigation of the underlying cause of NSIP as well as a detailed examination of SLB.
Our study encompasses several limitations. First, we cannot exclude that some cases with UCTD or cHP have escaped diagnosis. Nevertheless, in our routine practice, we systematically question patients with ILDs about the presence of symptoms of CTD and exposures, and almost all patients were evaluated for at least antinuclear antibody and rheumatoid factor. One of the strengths of our study is the fairly long duration of follow-up, which decreases the risk of missing patients with late development of CTD. Secondly, interpretation of survival is limited by the small number of patients with cHP. Thirdly, SLB is rarely performed in the context of CTD and cHP, creating a potential selection bias. This issue has already been extensively discussed in CTD. In our patients with identifiable exposures, the decision to perform SLB may have been dictated by a particular clinical presentation or disease course, so that our findings may not be extrapolated to all cHP patients. Lastly, it is recognised that a histological pattern of NSIP and UIP may coexist in the same patient and, in the presence of interlobar variability, the outcome is that of IPF [36]. As SLBs were performed in various centres using different procedures over a long period of time, specimens were not taken from two lobes in all of our patients. However, the overall survival of our cohort is much better than expected for IPF, and 93.6% of our patients presented a pattern of NSIP on HRCT.
In conclusion, the outcome of NSIP is influenced by the underlying aetiology, with a poorer survival for cHP patients and better survival for patients with autoimmune NSIP. In addition to autoimmune signs and the recognition of forme fruste variants of CTD and UCTD, NSIP compels the clinician to be vigilant in questioning patients about environmental or occupational exposures. As the antigenic source frequently remains undetected and as new causative agents continue to be identified, so-called “idiopathic” NSIP may simply conceal a forme fruste of cHP. The role of detailed evaluation based on a systematic questionnaire for home and workplace exposures and a panel of serum precipitins needs to be investigated by further studies.
Conflict of interest: Disclosures can be found alongside the online version of this article at erj.ersjournals.com
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Impact of turnaround time on outcome with point-of-care testing for respiratory viruses: a post hoc analysis from a randomised controlled trial
Nathan J. Brendish, Ahalya K. Malachira, Kate R. Beard, Sean Ewings, Tristan W. Clark
European Respiratory Journal 2018 52: 1800555; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00555-2018
Nathan J. Brendish
Academic Unit of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UKNIHR Southampton Clinical Research Facility, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
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Ahalya K. Malachira
Dept of Infection, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
Kate R. Beard
Academic Unit of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Sean Ewings
Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Tristan W. Clark
Academic Unit of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UKDept of Infection, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UKNIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
Respiratory viruses are detected in around 40–50% of adults hospitalised with acute respiratory illness (ARI) [1, 2]. Routine laboratory PCR testing for respiratory viruses generally takes several hours to several days to generate results for clinicians and so cannot be used to inform decision making in real time. Decisions about hospitalisation, antibiotics, antivirals and side room isolation therefore need to be made presumptively and reviewed when results are available. Newer rapid molecular test platforms are accurate, easy to use, and generate a result in 1 h or less, making them potentially deployable for point-of-care testing (POCT) in clinical areas [3]. Recently, we reported on a large pragmatic randomised controlled trial (ResPOC) [4] which evaluated the impact of POCT (using the FilmArray Respiratory Panel (BioFire Diagnostics, Salt Lake City, UT, USA) which tests for a comprehensive range of viruses) in adults presenting to hospital with ARI. The study showed that POCT was associated with reductions in hospital length of stay overall and reductions in antibiotics use in patients with exacerbation of airways disease. Although this evidence would suggest that rapid molecular testing needs to be performed within clinical areas for these improved clinical outcomes, it has been suggested that rapid molecular test platforms used within centralised laboratories might also be associated with these clinical benefits, although the turnaround times (TATs) are likely to be much longer. In this follow-on study we evaluate the impact of POCT TAT on clinical outcomes with a view to determining how rapid molecular testing for respiratory viruses should be best implemented in clinical practice.
As very rapid turnaround times lead to better outcomes, virus diagnostics should be performed at the point-of-care http://ow.ly/eD6p30koZGg
We thank all of the patients and clinical staff at the Southampton General Hospital, including clinicians, nurses and laboratory technicians. We thank the directors, research nurses, data managers, clinical trials assistants and laboratory staff at the NIHR Southampton Clinical Research Facility and the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre. We thank the staff at the R&D Department, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and the NIHR Clinical Research Network, Wessex for their support throughout the trial.
This study is registered with International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number (ISRCTN) 90211642.
Conflict of interest: N.J. Brendish has been an investigator and recruited patients into clinical trials of antivirals sponsored by Gilead and Janssen.
Conflict of interest: T.W. Clark reports personal fees for consultancy work from Roche, speaker fees, travel expenses, equipment and consumables for purposes of research from BioFire LLC, outside the submitted work. He has been a principal investigator or chief investigator for industry sponsored trials of antivirals (Gilead, Janssen) and has been an investigator and recruited patients into clinical trials sponsored by Novartis, Baxter and GSK.
Support statement: The parent trial was funded by the University of Southampton in the form of an internal grant. This report is independent research supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) via a Post-Doctoral Fellowship for T.W. Clark (PDF 2016-09-061). The corresponding author had full access to all of the data and the final responsibility to submit for publication. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) or the Department of Health. The manufacturers of the molecular test platform (Biofire, Salt Lake City, UT, USA) had no role in the conception or design of the study, in data analysis, or in manuscript preparation. Funding information for this article has been deposited with the Crossref Funder Registry.
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Accepted May 30, 2018.
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guiding rule or inevitable consequence of something, such as the laws observed in nature
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Let us endeavor to think well; this is the principle of morality. ~ Blaise Pascal
If the ruling class thinks that by hanging us, hanging a few anarchists, they can crush out anarchy, they will be badly mistaken, because the anarchist loves his principles more than his life. ~ Adolph Fischer
Nor again can the Muslim administrator derive his authority from any papacy, or from Heaven; but he derives it solely from the Muslim community. Similarly, he derives his principles of administration from the religious law, which is universal in its understanding and application and before which all men come everywhere as equals. ~ Sayyid Qutb
Principles are laws or rules that have to be, or usually are followed, or can be desirably followed, or are an inevitable consequence of something, such as the laws observed in nature or the way that a system is constructed. The principles of such a system are understood by its users as the essential characteristics of the system, or reflecting system's designed purpose, and the effective operation or use of which would be impossible if any one of the principles was to be ignored.
Plato said that virtue has no master [Republic 617e]. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.
Apollonius of Tyana, to Euphrates, Epp. Apoll. 15
Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.
Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil (1845), Book II, Chapter II.
Precedents are not mere dusty phrases, which do not substantially affect the question before us. A precedent embalms a principle. The principle may be right or may be wrong—that is a question for discussion; but at the first glance it is right to conclude that it is a principle that has been acted upon and recognised by those who preceded us.
Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons (22 February 1848)
Unless you perfectly understand the principle from which anyone acts, how should you know if he acts ill?
Epictetus, Enchiridion, 45
If the ruling class thinks that by hanging us, hanging a few anarchists, they can crush out anarchy, they will be badly mistaken, because the anarchist loves his principles more than his life.
Adolph Fischer, Statement to the Court (1886)
The man of action is always unprincipled; none but the contemplative has a conscience.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections, Elisabeth Stopp, trans. (Penguin: 1998) #241
Treat the negro as a citizen and a voter, as he is and must remain, and soon parties will be divided, not on the color line, but on principle.
Ulysses S. Grant, Sixth State of the Union Address (1874).
Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.
Christopher Hitchens, as quoted in Merchey, Jason (2004). Values of the Wise : Aspiring to "The Life of Value". p. 330.
When an active individual of sound common sense perceives the sordid state of the world, desire to change it becomes the guiding principle by which he organizes given facts and shapes them into a theory. The methods and categories as well as the transformation of the theory can be understood only in connection with his taking of sides. This, in turn, discloses both his sound common sense and the character of the world. Right thinking depends as much on right willing as right willing on right thinking.
Max Horkheimer, “The latest attack on metaphysics,” Critical Theory: Selected Essays (1982), p. 162
I don't believe in princerple,
But, oh, I du in interest.
James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers (1848), First Series. No, VI, Stanza 9.
Ez to my princerples, I glory
In hevin' nothin' o' the sort.
James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers (1848), First Series. No, VII, Stanza 10.
I wish to establish some sort of system not guided by chance but by some sort of definite and exact principle.
Dmitri Mendeleev, Lecture to the Russian Chemical Society as quoted in "Peering Into the Unseen—What Is Revealed?" in Awake! magazine (22 August 2000).
[Many historians of morality,] Mostly Englishmen, … affirm some consensus of the nations, at least of the tame nations, concerning certain principles of morals, and then they infer from this that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me; or, conversely, they see the truth that among different nations moral valuations are necessarily different and then infer from this that no morality is at all binding. Both procedures are equally childish.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (1882) § 345, in Alexander Nehamas, Nietzsche, p. 36
God does not love that which is already in itself worthy of love, but on the contrary, that which in itself has no worth acquires worth just by becoming the object of God's love. Agape has nothing to do with the kind of love that depends on the recognition of a valuable quality in its object. Agape does not recognize value, but creates it. Agape loves, and imparts value by loving. The man who is loved by God has no value in himself; what gives him value is precisely the fact that God loves him. Agape is a value-creating principle.
Anders Nygren, Agape and Eros (1930)
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapor, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But, if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.
All our dignity consists then in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill. Let us endeavor to think well; this is the principle of morality.
Blaise Pascal, Pensées, #347, W. F. Trotter, trans. (New York: 1958)
In Islam, there is no priesthood, and no intermediary between the creature and The Creator; but every Muslim from the ends of earth or in the paths of the sea has the ability of himself to approach his Lord without priest or minister. Nor again can the Muslim administrator derive his authority from any papacy, or from Heaven; but he derives it solely from the Muslim community. Similarly, he derives his principles of administration from the religious law, which is universal in its understanding and application and before which all men come everywhere as equals.
Sayyid Qutb, Social Justice in Islam (1953), p. 30
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
novel by Robert A. Heinlein
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966) is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a lunar colony's revolt against rule from Earth. The novel expresses and discusses libertarian ideals.
Human brain has around ten-to-the-tenth neurons. By third year Mike had better than one and a half times that number of neuristors. And woke up.
Genius is where you find it.
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Private where private belongs, public where it's needed, and an admission that circumstances alter cases. Nothing doctrinaire.
A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as "state" and "society" and "government" have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals.
Whatever you do, do not let the past be a straitjacket!.
Let your document be studded with things the government is forever forbidden to do.
Women are scarce; aren't enough to go around — that makes them most valuable thing in Luna, more precious than ice or air, as men without women don't care whether they stay alive or not.
When Mike was installed in Luna, he was pure thinkum, a flexible logic — "High-Optional, Logical, Multi-Evaluating Supervisor, Mark IV, Mod. L" — a HOLMES FOUR. He computed ballistics for pilotless freighters and controlled their catapult. This kept him busy less than one percent of time and Luna Authority never believed in idle hands. They kept hooking hardware into him — decision-action boxes to let him boss other computers, bank on bank of additional memories, more banks of associational neural nets, another tubful of twelve-digit random numbers, a greatly augmented temporary memory. Human brain has around ten-to-the-tenth neurons. By third year Mike had better than one and a half times that number of neuristors.
And woke up.
"Soul?" Does a dog have a soul? How about cockroach?
I spent time then soothing Mike down trying to make him happy, having figured out what troubled him — thing that makes puppies cry and causes people to suicide: loneliness. I don't know how a long a year is to a machine that thinks a million times faster than I do. But must be too long.
That we were slaves I had known all my life — and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bought and sold — but as long as Authority held monopoly over what we had to have and what we could sell to buy it, we were slaves.
As it says in Bible, God fights on side of heaviest artillery.
Ch. 2, Manuel Davis
(Correction — are no homely women. Some more beautiful than others.)
I'm a Fifth Internationalist, most of the Organization is. Oh, we don't rule out anyone going our way; it's a united front. We have Communists and Fourths and Ruddyites and Societians and Single-Taxers and you name it. But I'm no Marxist; we Fifths have a practical program. Private where private belongs, public where it's needed, and an admission that circumstances alter cases. Nothing doctrinaire.
A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as "state" and "society" and "government" have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals. He believes that it is impossible to shift blame, share blame, distribute blame. . . as blame, guilt, responsibility are matters taking place inside human beings singly and nowhere else. But being rational, he knows that not all individuals hold his evaluations, so he tries to live perfectly in an imperfect world. . . aware that his effort will be less than perfect yet undismayed by self-knowledge of self-failure.
Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dead — but first get permit.
Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.
I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
"Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled."
TANSTAAFL
Acronym created by Heinlein for "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"; Heinlein and Milton Friedman are sometimes credited with creating this phrase, but it existed well before either's use of it, dating to at least the 1930s.
One way or other, what you get, you pay for.
This air isn't free, you pay for every breath.
Thing that got me was not her list of things she hated, since she was obviously crazy as a Cyborg, but fact that always somebody agreed with her prohibitions. Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws — always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up. Because not one of those people said: "Please pass this so that I won't be able to do something I know I should stop." Nyet, tovarishchee, was always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them "for their own good" — not because speaker claimed to be harmed by it.
As an electronics man I shuddered. Throw away every book, table, instrument, and start over? I know that some of my ancestors did that in switching from old English units to MKS--but they did it to make things easier. Fourteen inches to a foot and some odd number of feet to a mile. Ounces and pounds. Oh, Bog! · Ch 14
First, what is it you want us to pay taxes for? Tell me what I get and perhaps I'll buy it.
In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.
Suppose instead of election a man were qualified for office by petition signed by four thousand citizens. He would then represent those four thousand affirmatively, with no disgruntled minority, for what would have been a minority in a territorial constituency would all be free to start other petitions or join in them. All would then be represented by men of their choice. Or a man with eight thousand supporters might have two votes in this body. Difficulties, objections, practical points to be worked out — many of them! But you could work them out. . . and thereby avoid the chronic sickness of representative government, the disgruntled minority which feels — correctly! — that it has been disenfranchised.
Whatever you do, do not let the past be a straitjacket!
Comrades, I beg of you — do not resort to compulsory taxation. There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
You have put your finger on the dilemma of all government — and the reason I am an anarchist. The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it destroys. I was not joking when I told them to dig into their own pouches. It may not be possible to do away with government — sometimes I think that government is an inescapable disease of human beings. But it may be possible to keep it small and starved and inoffensive — and can you think of a better way than by requiring the governors themselves to pay the costs of their antisocial hobby?
I note one proposal to make this Congress a two-house body. Excellent — the more impediments to legislation the better. But, instead of following tradition, I suggest one house of legislators, another whose single duty is to repeal laws. Let the legislators pass laws only with a two-thirds majority... while the repealers are able to cancel any law through a mere one-third minority. Preposterous? Think about it. If a bill is so poor that it cannot command two-thirds of your consents, is it not likely that it would make a poor law? And if a law is disliked by as many as one-third is it not likely that you would be better off without it?
In writing your constitution let me invite attention to the wonderful virtue of the negative! Accentuate the negative! Let your document be studded with things the government is forever forbidden to do. No conscript armies... no interference however slight with freedom of press, or speech, or travel, or assembly, or of religion, or of instruction, or communication, or occupation... no involuntary taxation.
What I fear most are affirmative actions of sober and well-intentioned men, granting to government powers to do something that appears to need doing.
Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.
Oratory is a null program.
Some logics get nervous breakdowns. Overloaded phone system behaves like frightened child. Mike did not have upsets, acquired sense of humor instead. Low one. If he were a man, you wouldn't dare stoop over. His idea of thigh-slapper would be to dump you out of bed — or put itch powder in pressure suit.
Excuse me, I did not mean to criticize your planet.
At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate. In this age the myth is "the will of the people" ... but the problem changes only superficially.
You listening, Bog? Is a computer one of Your creatures?
But I was born free.
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Interview with Hamid Dabashi
Europe’s coloniality persists after the fall of empire
An interview with the Iranian-American historian and cultural philosopher Hamid Dabashi about writing, Europe's past and present, right-wing populism and the Arab uprisings. By Tugrul Mende
One of the most renowned scholars of postcolonial thought, Hamid Dabashi has created an archive of influential books and articles. His new book "Europe and its Shadows: Coloniality after Empire" deals with Europe as an allegory and traces "how the condition of coloniality persists even after the collapse of empires." Dabashi’s previous books include "The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism" and "Can Non-Europeans Think?".
Mr Dabashi, what made you write this book?
Hamid Dabashi: The entirety of my work is interrelated. One mind: multiple shades. Nothing in particular "makes" me or "compels" me to write any book. For that sort of writing I am blessed to have a voice in my Al Jazeera columns with a magnificent global audience that cares to know what I think of our current compelling issues.
Hamid Dabashi's new book "Europe and its Shadows: Coloniality after Empire" deals with Europe as an allegory and traces "how the state of coloniality persists even after the fall of the empires"
In my books I have an entirely different, far more fundamental and upstream body of thinking at work. They are like the physics to the engineering I do in my columns. This particular book is part of my continued reflections on the possibility of a level playing ground for former colonies and current post-colonies in a world that has hitherto denied them any such justice and fairness.
In "Europe and its Shadows: Coloniality after Empire" I go for the real thing, not the fact or phenomenon of "Europe", but its very allegorical power. How did it start? How does it work? Why are we mesmerised and repelled by it at one and the same time? My prose is neither Europhiliac nor indeed Europhobic. It is in a way very surgical. I want to know why and how the condition of coloniality persists even after the collapse of empires. That is the reason you see the word "shadow" in the title. The book, you might say, is a phenomenology of those shadows around the globe.
In what way is this book different than your previous ones, and is it at all connected to your series of books you dubbed the "Intifida Trilogy"?
Dabashi: "Europe and its Shadows: Coloniality after Empire" is very much connected to that Intifada series. Such events as the Palestinian Intifada or the Egyptian revolution, or the Arab Spring etc. have a mechanical and an organic dimension to their utterances. In my quick reflections in the form of my Al Jazeera columns I attend mostly to their mechanical aspects. But those who know my work in a more serious way can immediately see that my points are related to more deep-rooted issues in my thinking. In a way I am blessed to be ambidextrous in my writing. But in either hand I hold my writing pen, as it were, it comes from the same critical thinking. There are actually three platforms: Facebook, Al Jazeera, and my books: three slightly different playing fields where I play ball.
"Europe has long imagined itself as the centre of the universe" is the first sentence in the description of your new book. Do you still think that this is the case?
Dabashi: That "Europe" is no longer the centre of anything, let alone the universe. Europe has been systematically and consistently decentred. It can hardly hold itself together let alone be the centre of anything. But the phantom feeling of its idealism still persists apace. I am after dissecting that phantom feeling. As I say somewhere in the book, Europe has been looking down from behind our shoulders when we write anything, and now in this book I look down and in fact stare down to "Europe" as it has written itself. But I do so neither as an outsider nor as an insider but as a traveller through Europe. I have never lived in Europe, but I have travelled extensively from one end to the other of Europe. I am neither angry with Europe nor enthralled with it – the two feelings that distort truth.
With the rise of the far-right populists, in Germany and Europe as a whole, there is a lot of tension. In the recent European Elections, the far-right party AFD used the "Slave Market" by Jean Leon Gerome as a campaign poster, how is this issue addressed in your new book and do you think this development will intensify or change anytime soon? How does this situate in terms of "Post-Orientalism"?
Dabashi: As I have argued before, "Orientalism" is a work in progress, it is an unfolding falsehood. It simply refers to the relation of power and knowledge production. Since that relation of power is amorphous, not ethnocentric nor stable, so does knowledge production commensurate with it and assumes amorphous shapes. Jean Leon Gerome drew with power and confidence. Today European fascists and racists use it with fear and loathing. These are two different moments.
You worked a lot on Edward Said, especially on your book "Post-Orientalism"; can you imagine how he would react to this current development in politics?
Dabashi: He would of course be horrified. But he has left us with a massive body of work that has enabled generations of scholars and critical thinkers to think in his vein. At the end of a magnificent poem, Rumi finally gets tired of saying what he was saying and says to the musicians in the gathering, "well, you get my point, just continue to play along the same lines". It was the same with Said. He discovered a new episteme, and we now get to conjugate it to completion, and perhaps even chance upon the horizons of a new world. That is the reason why his political enemies are still active in the U.S. Department of Education trying, entirely in vain, to erase his memory. But he changed the very DNA of our critical thinking. These puny little minds from Tel Aviv to Washington DC know full well they are desperately swimming against a massive, magnificent torrent.
If you look back at the beginning of the revolutions starting in 2011, and how they unfolded now, would you write some of your articles or books like the "Arab Spring" in a different way today?
Dabashi: No, I would not. As I said early in my book on the Arab Spring, that whole book was my way of joining masses of millions of people from Tahrir square in Cairo, around the globe and shouting "people demand the overthrow of the regime". It was and it remains my "Communist Manifesto" (1848) and I am yet to be convinced that I should write my "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" (1852), as it were, with Abdul Fattah al-Sisi standing for Charles-Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.
You are writing regularly for Al Jazeera. How do you choose the topics for your articles and are these a starting point for new ideas which could be expanded into monographs?
Dabashi: I choose them while I am still in bed very early in the morning and reading the news upside down on my iPhone in the dark of the early dawn. I read and write and think and fume or laugh etc. and before I get up I am sometimes down with an entire article. Then I have to polish it and send it to my magnificent editors. Yes, sometimes they point to issues that need more relaxed and expansive reflections that emerge in my books. As I said, it is the same critical thinking playing on slightly different playing fields.
Interview conducted by Tugrul Mende
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Black American princess
This article is about the slang term. For the 1997 comedy film, see B.A.P.S.
Pejorative term for black women
Black American princess (BAP) is a (sometimes) pejorative term for black women of upper and upper middle class background, who possess (or are perceived to possess) a spoiled or materialistic attitude.
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Nature[edit]
While carrying valley girls overtones of the overly materialistic and style-conscious egotist,[1] the term has also been reclaimed as a matter of black pride to cover an indulged, but not necessarily spoilt or shallow, daughter of the emerging Buppies or black urban middle class.[2] At best, such figures carry with them through life a sense of civic pride, and of responsibility for giving back to their community.[3]
Culture[edit]
Stereotypically, young BAPs are often members of Jack and Jill, a social and civic organization for upper-middle-class African American youth. BAPs usually then go on to attend a "black Ivy" institution such as Spelman College or Howard University where they pledge either Alpha Kappa Alpha or Delta Sigma Theta sorority.
BAPs often later become members of The Girl Friends, Inc. or The Links, Incorporated,[3] and summer in black enclaves of Sag Harbor, New York or Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts. Many BAPs have friends in a variety of organizations, include Sigma Pi Phi fraternity and the National Association of Guardsmen, Inc.
Cultural depictions[edit]
The BAP Handbook: The Official Guide to the Black American Princess (ISBN 978-0767905503) written by Kalyn Johnson, Tracey Lewis, Karla Lightfoot, and Ginger Wilson offers a behind-the-scenes look at BAP speech, style, and history. According to the guide, a black American princess is a pampered female of African American descent born to upper-middle- or upper-class families. Her life experiences give her a "sense of entitlement", and she is accustomed to the best and nothing less.
The 1997 comedy B*A*P*S depicts a pair of women who become "BAPs" living off a millionaire's money.
The character of Hillary Banks from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air is a stereotypical "BAP".[citation needed]
In other cultures[edit]
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^ R. R. M. Coleman, African-American Viewers and the Black Situation Comedy 91998) p. 141
^ J. C. Smith, Encyclopedia of African American Popular Culture (2010) p. 92
^ a b J. C. Smith, Encyclopedia of African American Popular Culture (2010) p. 93
L. B. Thompson, Beyond the Black Lady (2009)
"BAP Like Me" by Adrienne Crew, Salon.com
"Would the Real African-American Princess Please Stand Up" by Derek Powell; review of a play on this topic
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Doctor Polidori – A Historical NPC for Ghastly Affair
Posted by Daniel James Hanley in Ghastly Affair, Gothic Gaming, Historical Gaming, The Ghastly Salon
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Presenting the Father of the Modern Vampire, Doctor John Polidori. Although eclipsed in fame by the great authors and poets with whom he associated, it was nonetheless Doctor Polidori who was responsible for establishing the image of the vampire as a dashing, sexually irresistible aristocrat. Of course, Polidori’s bloodsucking “Lord Ruthven” was meant as a satire of the Doctor’s infamous employer, Lord Byron!
Doctor Polidori (June 16, 1816)
Lord Byron’s personal physician, and future author of “The Vampyre”
Full Name: Doctor John William Polidori
Aliases: John Polidori, Dr. Polidori
Class: Everyman
Appearance/Most Memorable Characteristic: A handsome young man of Mediterranean mien. He seems to be favoring one leg when he walks.
Charisma: 10 Intelligence: 16 Wisdom: 13
Strength: 9 Dexterity: 9 Constitution: 8
Perversity: 10
Assets: Handsome, Fast Learner, Natural Artistic Talent (drawing)
Afflictions: Sprained Ankle (temporary), Hot-tempered, Prone to Sickness, Compulsive Gambler
Hit Points: 26
Attacks: 1 pistol, or caustic chemical splash.
Damage Bonus: +1
Special Abilities: Profession (+1): Physician | Avocation (+1): Writer | Affection (+1): Art | Academic Credentials (as the Mad Scientist Special Ability, instead of an Inheritance) | Social Contacts: Lord Byron (poet, employer); Mary Shelley (aspiring writer, recent acquaintance); Percy Shelley (poet, recent acquaintance); Claire Clairmont (Mary Shelley’s stepsister, recent acquaintance); John Murray (Byron’s publisher); Sir Henry Halford (King George III’s Physician-in-Ordinary); Gaetano Polidori (father); Frances Polidori (sister); John Soane (son of no-classical architect Sir John Soane).
Weaknesses: Phobia: Being Overlooked (Athazagoraphobia) | Prejudice: Homely People
Typical Equipment Carried: Stylish clothes, leather physician’s satchel (with vials of various chemicals), notebook, 1000p in local currency (55 Swiss francs).
Residence: The Villa Diodati, Lord’ Byron’s’ rented Villa on the shore of Lake Geneva.
September 7, 1795: John William Polidori was born in London. His father was the Italian author and translator Gaetano Polidori. His English mother Anna Maria had been a governess.
1804: John began school at Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire. The school, run by Benedictine Monks, eventually became one of the premiere institutions educating the British Catholic elite.
1810: Child prodigy John Polidori entered the University of Edinburgh to study medicine at the age of 15.
1814: John graduated from Edinburgh University, writing his thesis on somnambulism (sleep-walking). At 19, John was the youngest person to ever to graduate from the school with a medical degree.
April, 1816: Lord Byron hired Polidori to be his personal physician and traveling companion, on the recommendation of Sir Henry Halford. Shortly thereafter John is contracted by Lord Byron’s publisher John Murray to keep a diary of his travels with Byron, for £500.
April 25, 1816: Doctor Polidori and Lord Byron sailed from Dover towards Ostend, accompanied by three servants.
April 26, 1816: Doctor Polidori and Lord Byron arrived in Ostend, and took lodgings. John immediately witnessed Lord Byron’s sexually predatory behavior, writing “As soon as he reached his room, Lord Byron fell like a thunderbolt upon the chambermaid.” The pair set out with their servants for Switzerland the next morning. Lord Byron’s elegant carriage, brought over from England and overburdened with his possessions, broke down almost constantly along the way.
May 24, 1816: At Morat, John and Lord Byron stole bones from a ruined ossuary holding the remains of 15th century Burgundian soldiers.
May 26, 1816: Doctor Polidori and Lord Byron reached the outskirts of Geneva, Switzerland around midnight. They took lodgings in the Hôtel de l’Anglerre, popular with traveling Englishmen.
May 27, 1816: After boating with Lord Byron on Lake Geneva, Doctor Polidori met Mary Godwin, Claire Clairmont, and Percy Shelley, who by Claire’s connivance had been waiting on the shore. Mary and Percy initially mistook John for Lord Byron. Byron was not pleased to see Claire, but nonetheless invited her, Percy, and Mary to dinner that night.
June 2, 1816: John began giving Mary Godwin lessons in Italian (the Tuscan dialect), and took her son William to be vaccinated against smallpox.
June 10, 1816: John moved into the Villa Diodati with Lord Byron. Percy Shelly and Lord Byron became increasingly abusive towards Doctor Polidori, referring to him as “PollyDolly”, mocking his affection for a local girl, disparaging his writings, and otherwise goading him into angry outbursts whenever possible.
June 15, 1816: John severely sprained his ankle after being cajoled by Lord Byron into leaping from a wall in order to escort Mary Godwin up a slippery, rain-slicked path. That night, he had a conversation with Percy Shelly about the principles of life, and whether human life should be considered as a mechanical or spiritual process – “whether man was to be thought merely an instrument”.
June 16, 1816: Lord Byron challenges the group, forced inside by the inclement weather, to write ghost stories. Several days later Doctor Polidori will begin work on a ghost story, but not “The Vampyre”.
Personality and Role-Playing Notes:
Doctor Polidori is hung-strung, and quick to take offense. Consequently, he is always being goaded and needled by the sadistic Lord Byron. He loves art, but has strong opinions on aesthetics, and can be extremely judgmental of peoples’ appearances. Doctor Polidori is immensely proud of his academic achievements, and often annoyed by the way others seem to fawn over his employer. Polidori will quick to point out he is a physician, not a surgeon (which is a much lower status position in the early 19th century). He has a great fear of being ignored, and will do foolish things in order to be noticed and thought well of. He has a passionately romantic nature, and is developing an infatuation with Mary Godwin.
Doctor Polidori currently has a sprained ankle, from impetuously leaping to escort Mary Shelley up a wet path. He therefore walks with a limp – which Lord Byron may point out as evidence that the doctor is trying to imitate the poet in all ways! Doctor Polidori wants to be taken seriously as a writer, but Byron makes a point of disparaging anything he writes (and encouraging others to do the same). Nonetheless, Doctor Polidori is currently being paid by Byron’s publisher to keep journal of his experiences with the poet, and so will be keen to insert himself into any social interactions at the Villa Diodati.
Doctor Polidori in Your Game:
Anyone visiting the Villa Diodati in the summer of 1816 is going to encounter Doctor Polidori. If the PCs aren’t there to meet Lord Byron, may be trying to meet the former child prodigy, in order to seek his advice on some bizarre medical problem. Perhaps one of the PCs (or one of their loved ones) is a sleepwalker, experiencing horrible nightmares, or prone to fall into debilitating trances – all of which are Polidori’s specialty. In any event, Doctor Polidori will try to turn any conversation towards those topics – so he can feel like the smartest person in the room!
Another possibility is that the PCs are agents of Lord Byron’s publisher John Murray, sent to make sure Doctor Polidori is actually keeping his diary – and not just indulging in orgies with Byron.
John Polidori committed suicide by drinking poison in 1821 (although the death was officially recorded as being from natural causes). The Presenter could explore the possibility that in 1816 Polidori was already in communication with an actual Vampyre, who later made John one himself.
In 1800 John’s sister Frances married the Italian poet Gabriele Rossetti, and eventually gave birth to four children destined for fame – author and nun Maria Francesca Rossetti (who wrote a biography of Dante), painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti (co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood), literary critic William Michael Rossetti, and the poet Christina Rossetti (author of the classic “Goblin Market”). The Presenter could explore the possibility that Doctor Polidori’s family was haunted by fairies, and the John never died, but was actually whisked away to the Otherworld – with an illusory “stock” made of wood, leaves and moss left in his place. Perhaps Doctor Polidori was never really an ordinary human being at all, but a Fairy Changeling unaware of his own true nature until 1821 (when he chose to escape the Mundane World altogether).
Marquis de Sade – A Historical NPC for Ghastly Affair
Posted by Daniel James Hanley in Ghastly Affair, Gothic and Romantic Literature, Gothic Gaming, Historical Gaming, The Ghastly Salon
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And now for a villain who perhaps needs no introduction, but a warning. Far from being merely a misunderstood rascal, Sade almost certainly deserved even more time in prison than he actually experienced. Here then is the man who has lent his very name to the term “Sadism”.
Marquis de Sade (October, 1767)
Soldier, Dramatist, and Depravity Personified.
Full Name: Donatien-Alphonse-François, Comte de Sade
Aliases: Captain de Sade (of the Burgundy Cavalry), Count de Mazan
Class: Libertine (Aristocrat)
Appearance/Most Memorable Characteristic: An impeccably dressed man with a roundish face, high forehead, and deep-set blue eyes that stare intensely. His natural hair under his wig is blond.
Strength: 9 Dexterity: 13 Constitution: 9
Assets: Aristocratic Skills, Talented Writer, Actor, Military Training
Afflictions: Notorious, Obsessed with Numbers, Powerful Enemy (Madame de Montreuil, his mother-in-law), Powerful Enemy (Inspector Marais of the Paris police)
Attacks: 1 (pistol, sword, knife, rod, or whip)
Special Abilities: Disguise (+1) | Dueling (+1/+3) | Fraud (+1) | Sneak (+1) | Seduction (+1)
Weaknesses: Faithless Lover | Fascinated By Innocence
Typical Equipment Carried: Fashionable clothing of gray silk. A muff of white fur. A fine walking stick. A powdered wig. A dress sword (epee). High-heeled shoes. A small case with anise-flavored “pastilles de Richelieu” (candy pellets made with “Spanish Fly”, or powdered blister beetles).
Residence: His maison de plaisance in Arcueil, just south of Paris. The Château de Lacoste in Provence.
June 2, 1740: Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade was born in Paris. His father was Jean-Baptiste-Joseph-Francois, Comte (Count) de Sade. His mother, Marie-Eléonore, Comtesse (Countess) de Sade, was the Princesse de Conde’s lady-in-waiting. The family had persistent money problems, made worse by the Comte’s compulsive gambling.
1750: Sade begins his education at the Jesuit-run Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. He was frequently beaten and whipped while there.
1752: Sade’s parents separated, and his mother retired to a Carmelite convent.
1755: Sade was enrolled in the Régiment du Roi (King’s Regiment) as a sub-lieutenant. His position is unpaid and informal.
May 17, 1756: Great Britain declared war on France, formally beginning the Seven Years War.
January 1757: Sade was promoted to the official rank of “Cornet”, with the duty of bearing his infantry regiment’s standard.
June 23 1758: Sade narrowly escaped being killed at the Battle of Krefeld.
April 21, 1759: As was standard practice at the time, Sade’s father purchased for his son his own cavalry company, and the rank of Capitaine (Captain). The young Captain de Sade quickly developed a reputation for libertinage that was extreme even by the standards of the French aristocracy.
March 15, 1763: Sade is discharged from his regiment, due to the end of the Seven Years War.
May 17, 1763: Sade married Renée-Pélagie de Montreuil, eldest daughter of a wealthy – but only recently ennobled – family.
October 29, 1763: Sade is imprisoned in the Château de Vincennes, for attempting to induce a prostitute to engage in “sodomy”, mutual flagellation, and the desecration of religious objects.
November 13, 1763: Sade is freed from prison by order of the King, but confined to the Château d’Echauffour, owned by his wife’s family. The ban on his travel will be lifted in November of 1764.
July 1764: Sade’s first child with his wife was born, but died shortly thereafter.
December 1764: Sade was back in Paris, with Inspector Marais keeping track of his activities.
February 1765: Sade takes the voluptuous actress and dancer Mademoiselle Beauvoisin as a mistress, promising her a stipend of 20 Louis d’Ors a month. She already has at least two other lovers. Sade’s mother in-law quickly learned of the affair, and began conspiring to separate the couple.
May 9, 1765: Sade took the pregnant Mademoiselle Beauvoisin to his family’s château of Lacoste, arriving by June. He tells people along the way that she is his wife.
August 20, 1765: Sade and Mademoiselle Beauvoisin returned to Paris.
January 1766: Sade ended his affair with Mademoiselle Beauvoisin, who immediately rejoined the theater and took new lovers.
June 1766: Sade visits Château de Lacoste to supervise renovations, including the construction of a theater.
November 4, 1766: Sade began renting his maison de plaisance (pleasure house) in Arcueil. He became known around the town for bringing young men and women back to the maison for sex and whippings.
January 24, 1767: Sade’s father died, making him the Comte de Sade. In accordance with the custom among French nobility of the time, Donatien-Alphonse-François assumed the grander-sounding title of “Marquis de Sade”.
August 27, 1767: Sade’s wife gaves birth to his first surviving legitimate son, Louis-Marie.
October 1767: Sade resumed residence at Arcueil, and returned to his preferred pastimes.
Personality and Role-Playing Notes
Sade affects a refined and sophisticated demeanor, but he is quick to violence if he feels insulted, or even slightly annoyed. He is an atheist and an iconoclast, yet demands all the privileges of his title. His tastes in food is gourmet, to the point of snobbishness. He requires extreme amounts of stimulation to feel any sexual satisfaction, and is in constant search for the ultimate erotic experience. He enjoys both whipping others, and being whipped himself. He finds the idea of desecration very arousing, and will often incorporate some manner of sacrilege into his sexual escapades. Besides perverse sex, Sade’s other great passion is for the theater – both as as an author, and an actor. He often combine the two pursuits, and the scenes of his sexual crimes are often carefully arranged by him for dramatic effect. The oddest part of his personality, however, is his obsession with numbers. He will inexplicably insist on acts being repeated a specific number of times, or objects being presented to him in specific amounts, without any rational reason ever given.
Marquis de Sade Your Game
Sade is here depicted well before he has written the books that will make him (in)famous across Europe. He is already notorious among the police and prostitutes of Paris, but next year he will land in serious trouble for the imprisonment and torture of an unemployed cloth spinner named Rose Keller at his maison de plaisance.
Player Characters encountering Sade might be policemen working for Inspector Marais, or be private investigators working for the Marquis’ mother-in-law. They could be invited to one of his elaborate dinner parties, particularly if they are also nobility (or part of the Parisian demimonde). Perhaps they have been employed by the family of a young woman who barely survived one of Sade’s depraved soirées. Sade might possess an infamous book detailing the outer limits of pleasure and pain, which the PCs want to either read or steal. Or, maybe Sade seeks such a book, and commissions the PCs to find it. In a less scandalous vein, Player Characters could even be actors hired for a play the Marquis has written.
The Presenter could make Sade an actual member of the “Sodality of the Friends of Crime” (as described in his novel “Juliette”). In that case, the PCs might be either accidentally learn of the group’s existence, or have been actually sent by the Church to neutralize it. However, the PCs might instead be working for a rival group of hedonists who also wish to destroy the dangerous Sodality.
Sade makes a good recurring villain for Sagas that encompass decades. He will be in and out of trouble with the law for all the remaining years of his life – imprisoned for the entire period from from 1777 to 1790, becoming a politician during the Revolutionary period, and being imprisoned again from 1801 to his death in 1814. Sade’s influence could easily extend beyond his prison walls, particularly if the Presenter chooses to include the “Sodality of the Friends of Crime” as a real group.
Deacon Brodie – The Real-life Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” is one of the classics of Gothic literature, adapted and re-imagined in countless ways since its writing. Stevenson’s good doctor had a likely model, however – a man named William Brodie. By day, Brodie was the Deacon of the Wrights and a respected Town Councillor of Edinburgh, but by night he was a dissolute gambler and house-breaker! Here he is, statted for use with the Ghastly Affair rpg.
Deacon Brodie (January, 1788)
The real-life inspiration for “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”.
Full Name: William Brodie
Aliases: Deacon Brodie, Sir Lluyd (to be pronounced “lewd” – used when attending the Cape Club)
Class: Libertine
Appearance/Most Memorable Characteristic: A short, dark complexioned man of slender build, with large bushy eyebrows and sideburns. His eyes are deep-set, and dark brown. He is is very well-dressed, and walks with an arrogant swagger. If encountered during the day, he wears a white-powdered wig.
Charisma: 12 Intelligence: 14 Wisdom: 9
Strength: 11 Dexterity: 18 Constitution: 9
Assets: Profession: Wright (fine carpenter, cabinet-maker, and builder). Good Reputation.
Afflictions: Obsessive Gambler. Short.
Attacks: 1 pistol, walking stick, or pry-bar (+1 Bonus if fighting unaided, +3 if a desired lover is watching)
Typical Equipment Carried: A set of fine clothes (white during the day, but black at night). A fine-quality walking stick. A pair of small and concealable “muff” pistols. A pair of loaded dice. A mask of black crepe. A set of lockpicks. A small wooden case filled with putty, for taking impressions of keys. A small ivory whistle. A “dark” lantern, with a hood to obscure the light.
Residence: The mansion at Brodie’s Close, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Monday, September 28, 1741: William Brodie was born in Edinburgh. His father was a prosperous wright (fine carpenter and cabinet-maker) and Burgess (recognized property-owning citizen, with the right to vote and freely conduct business).
February 9th, 1763: William became a Guild Brother of Edinburgh, and was made a Burgess.
August, 1768: Brodie committed his first major crime – the theft of £800 from the counting-house of Johnston & Smith. He entered the premises by means of a duplicate key, which he made after being employed to do repairs to the building. Two night later, he anonymously returned £225 of the money. William will continue the practice of duplicating his customer’s house keys for the remainder of his life.
February 25th, 1775: William was admitted as a member of the “Cape Club”, a fun-loving gentleman’s society that met at James Mann’s tavern in Craig’s Close. All member of the club assumed a comical (or ribald) pseudonym at meetings, and William was known as “Sir Lluyd”. Among his fellow Club members was inventor James Watt. William also played dice obsessively at James Clark’s tavern at Fleshmarket Close, and frequented the cock-fighting pits of the city – particularly the one at Michael Henderson’s inn in the Grassmarket.
1776: William’s mistress Anne Grant bore him a daughter named Cecil (named for his mother). Anne will eventually give birth to two more of William’s children. Throughout that time Anne remained ignorant of William’s other mistress, Jean Watt – who became mother to another two of his children.
September, 1781: As newly elected “Deacon” (presiding head) of the Incorporation of Wrights, William also became a member of the Town Council of Edinburgh. He will be a Town Councillor for all his remaining years, except for 1785. The other Councillors employed his services as a wright, and William made duplicate keys of their properties whenever possible.
June 1, 1782: William’s father Francis died. William inherited the mansion in Brodie’s Close, £10,000, a second house in Old Bank Close, a tenement in Horse Wynd, another tenement in World’s End Close, and a third tenement at Netherbow.
July 1786: While attending the cockfights at Michael Henderson’s inn, Deacon Brodie met a locksmith named George Smith, a shoemaker named Andrew Ainslie, and John Brown (a convicted thief on the run). The four decided to become buglers together, as soon as Smith recovered from the illness currently afflicting him.
October 9, 1786: The shop of a Goldsmith near the Council Chambers was burgled by Deacon Brodie, and the now healthy George Smith.
Winter 1786 – 1787: Poet Robert “Bobbie” Burns moved into lodgings across the street from Deacon Brodie’s home. The two became acquaintances. By this point, rumors were already circulating that Deacon Brodie had somehow helped a local murderer escape from justice. Likewise, William had been seen at least twice by people unable to believe – and convinced they would not be believed – that the bugler in their home was none other than the respected Deacon of the Wrights!
November 1786: Using duplicate keys, Deacon Brodie and George Smith burgled Davidson McKain’s hardware shop in Bridge Street. They did not obtain much except a finely-bound notebook, which William subsequently gave to Michael Henderson’s daughter.
December 24, 1786 (Christmas Eve): Around 4 AM, George Smith broke into the jeweler’s shop of John & Andrew Bruce, on Bridge Street. The job had originally been Deacon Brodie’s idea, but William refused to stop playing dice at James Clark’s tavern long enough to join in the crime. George nonetheless carried away a rich haul of watches and jewelry. The next morning, George allowed William to select some stolen items to keep for himself.
August 16, 1787: Deacon Brodie, George Smith, and Andrew Ainslie robbed the grocery shop of John Carnegie in the port of Leith, making off with a large quantity of tea.
October 29, 1787: Deacon Brodie, George Smith, Andrew Ainslie, and John Brown broke into the University of Edinburgh, and stole the institution’s ceremonial silver mace.
Christmastime, 1787: John Brown stole the house key of a shopkeeper named John Tapp, which had been left hanging in the man’s shop. Deacon Brodie made a duplicate, and the original was surreptitiously returned. Brown later revisited John Tapp in his shop, and plied him with a bottle of liquor. While the shopkeeper was distracted, Deacon Brodie and the remainder of his gang used the duplicate key to burgle John Tapp’s home above the shop. Among the times they stole was a miniature portrait secretly kept by John’s Tapp’s wife, evidently of her gentleman lover.
Personality and Role-Playing Notes: Deacon Brodie’s obsessive, thrill-seeking nature is belied by his slow and deliberate manner of speaking. He is a “macaroni” – extremely fashion conscious and vain. Heir to a considerable amount of money and property, he commits crimes to fund his gambling, and for the perverse thrill of being a secret criminal. Above all, Deacon Brodie is a shameless liar who enjoys fooling and manipulating everyone in his life. He maintains two separate households of illegitimate children, with two women who know nothing of each other. By day he is a “pillar of the community”, but spends his nights indulging his sordid whims. He cannot resist a chance to gamble or take a pointless risk – a fact that can be used against him by clever adversaries. He also likes to dupe people into becoming unwitting accomplices, by presenting them with stolen gifts.
Deacon Brodie in Your Game: Deacon Brodie is presented at the point just before he and his gang will commit their disastrous break-in of the General Excise Office for Scotland, in March of 1788 – the crime for which he and George Smith eventually be caught and executed. His secret life reflects the dual nature of Edinburgh itself – simultaneously the rising “Athens of the North”, and an overcrowded criminal playground of thieves and prostitutes. The medical students of Edinburgh demand a steady supply of fresh corpses for dissection, readily supplied by Grave Robbers. The city itself is split into the medieval warren of the Old Town, and the rising New Town of neoclassical buildings. An Affair featuring Deacon Brodie could focus on exploring the motifs of secret identities, duality, hypocrisy, and the disconnect between the ideal and actual.
Player Characters can be drawn into Deacon Brodie’s sphere in many ways. Bandit, Grave Robber, and Libertine PCs might simply find themselves recruited to take part in a crime unrecorded by official history. A Demon Hunter stalking his quarry in the night might run into William and his gang. A True Innocent might be publicly courted by the respectable William Brodie, and thereby be the unwitting recipient of stolen jewelry. If any PCs are property owners in Edinburgh, their houses could be targeted by Deacon Brodie – especially if they also know him socially as a Town Councillor. One of the male PCs may even be Mrs Tapp’s lover, implored by her to find the miniature portrait of himself that was stolen from her home ! In two weeks Deacon Brodie is going to be gambling in James Clark’s tavern at Fleshmarket Close, where an outraged victim of the Deacon’s loaded dice will leave William with a noticeable scar under his right eye. The PCs may be there, and witness the event.
There were sightings of Deacon Brodie after his supposed execution on October 1, 1788. If your Saga is set after that date, the Presenter can explore the possibility that Deacon Brodie wore a steel collar to his hanging, and bribed his would be-executioner to ignore it – or that the Deacon’s dead body was reanimated through Mad Science by that fiendishly cunning Frenchman, Doctor Pierre Degravers! Deacon Brodie had fled Scotland before his trial, and was supposedly caught in Amsterdam. Perhaps the man sent back to Scotland to die wasn’t actually Deacon Brodie at all, but a hapless victim of William’s ultimate scam.
Ghastly Affair Location Catalogues Now Available on DriveThruRPG
Posted by Daniel James Hanley in Ghastly Affair, Gothic Gaming, Highdark Hall, Historical Gaming, OGL, OSR
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I just wanted to let you all know that I’ve made a bunch of modular PDF fill-out forms for use with “A Ghastly Companion to Castles, Mansions, & Estates”. They’re called Ghastly Affair Location Catalogues , and will guide you step-by-step through the process of creating imaginary Grand Houses for games set in the late 18th to early 19th century era. After you’ve created a house, the Location Catalogue becomes a systematic record that can be later referenced during game play. Whether you work with an existing map, or create a map from the Catalogue, the forms allow you to define practically everything about the house and its inhabitants – including any restless ghosts!
There are three main sets, which are all available on a Pay-What-You-Want basis:
The “Ghastly Affair Location Catalogue – Castle” will help you create a Concentric, Compact, or Courtyard Castle – or a Fortified House.
The “Ghastly Affair Location Catalogue – Mansion” will help you create a grand urban dwelling, such as an English Townhouse, Italian Palazzo, or French Hôtel Particulier.
The “Ghastly Affair Location Catalogue – Estate House” will help you create an English Country House, Italian Villa, French Château, or a similar aristocratic home in the countryside.
And if you want to define your house in extreme detail, I’ve made three supplemental forms to be used as needed:
The “Ghastly Affair Location Catalogue – Interior Room” has lines for recording almost every possible characteristic of an important area inside your house.
The “Ghastly Affair Location Catalogue – Garden Features” lets you define and work out the relative locations of individual features in each garden area of your house’s parkland.
The “Ghastly Affair Location Catalogue – Tower Interior” defines the rooms inside stand-alone towers, of the type that might be found along the outer defensive walls of a medieval Concentric Castle.
Random 18th Century Villages for a Gothic Sandbox
Posted by Daniel James Hanley in Ghastly Affair, Gothic and Romantic Literature, Gothic Gaming, OSR, Random Tables
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What’s a Gothic story without an isolated village filled with dark secrets? The following random tables will help you design small European communities with populations between 100 and 1000 people, of the kind that might be constitute part of an 18th century aristocrat’s estate. In conjunction with Appendices A, B, C, and D of “A Ghastly Companion to Castles, Mansions, & Estates”, they let you procedurally generate a complete countryside of horrors for PCs to wander at will.
If you would like your villages to be more Jane Austen and less Matthew Lewis, simply ignore Tables 16 and 17.
Table 1a: The Basic Layout of an Inland Village
The buildings primarily cluster…
along a straight section of road
along a section of road that curves like a “C”
along a section of road that curves like an “S”
around an “X”-shaped crossroads
around an “X”-shaped crossroads enclosed by a ring.
around a “T”-shaped crossroads
around a “Y”-shaped, three-way crossroads
around a trident where two roads converge at angles on a third.
around a star-shaped, six-way crossroads.
around an “H” of paths, one leg of which connects to the main road.
around an especially large square or green, through which the main road passes.
in a gridiron of streets forming short blocks, like a miniature city.
There will also be 2d4 minor lanes branching off from the main paths(s) towards the surrounding fields.
Table 1b: The Basic Layout of a Maritime Village
The buildings primarily cluster….
along a section of road that hugs the shoreline.
around a “T”-shaped crossroads, with the top of the “T” hugging the shoreline.
around a triangle of paths, with one side on the waterfront.
on a square of paths, with one side on the waterfront.
away from the shore, and resemble an inland village. Use Table 1a to determine Basic Layout.
The waterfront has…
a long embankment with bollards.
a long embankment with bollards and a single long pier.
a long embankment with 2d4 short piers.
a single long pier.
2d4 piers.
a beach, upon which boats are pulled.
There will also be 2d4 minor lanes branching off from the main cluster of buildings, leading inland.
Table 2: The Main Source of Fresh Water
Most of the water used by villagers comes from…
1d4 streams.
a canal. 50% chance a lock is located in or near the village.
a lake.
1d4 ponds.
a spring.
1d4 wells.
Table 3: Overall Impression of the Village
At fist glance, the village looks:
perfectly ordinary.
very clean and tidy.
very dirty, with filth and garbage everywhere.
quite new, as if all the building had been constructed in the past decade.
exceptionally ancient.
gloomy and depressing.
decrepit.
partially deserted.
overcrowded.
like there was a recent fire (or other disaster).
bucolic.
Table 4: Village Population
Population: Land-owning families (besides the primary landlord):
100 + d100 0
900 + d100 2 or 3
Divide the population by 8 to find the total number of cottages. If the village looks partially deserted, divide by 4. If the village is overcrowded, divide by 16.
About 90% of families of most villages will be directly involved in food production of some kind – whether farming or fishing.
In Poland, Russia, Prussia, and the Kingdom of Hungary, a village may be inhabited mostly or wholly by bound serfs.
In the Kingdom of Hungary, up to 10% of the population may be impoverished (or “sandalled”) nobility – barely distinguishable from peasants in their economic circumstances, but possessing the legal rights of aristocracy.
Table 5: Building Density
The building density in the village is…
Very high – almost every building shares a wall with those on either side.
High – there is perhaps a few inches between buildings in the central cluster, with only one or two outlying buildings.
Moderate – there is 1d4 feet between buildings in the central cluster, with a few outlying buildings.
Low – there is 4+1d10 feet between buildings. 50% chance that a house has a wall or fence around its lot. The walls or fences of adjacent lots connect. About 25% of the buildings will be up to a ¼ mile away from the main cluster.
Very low – there is 15+d20 feet between buildings in the central cluster, most of which are in the middle of walled or fenced lots. Half or more of the building are scattered up to a ¼ mile from the central cluster.
Modifiers:
-2 for villages in Italy, Spain, Portugal, or Provence.
+4 for villages in Poland and Russia.
A village will be built in the “vernacular” style of its region. There will always be a blacksmith, a grain mill, and a church (the presence of which distinguishes a village from a hamlet). A logging village will also have a saw-mill. Mills may be wind powered (common in colder regions), water-powered, or turned by draft animals. In beer-drinking regions, there often be a malt house (a large building with an open interior, where barley is malted to make beer). In a wine-growing region, a village will have a wine-press instead. In the Italian States, Spain, and southern France, a village may also have its own olive–press. Mills, wine-presses and olive-presses will be usually be owned by the village landlord, who will charge the villagers a fee for its use. Often, there is only a single bread (and roasting) oven in the village, and villagers are likewise charged for its use.
There will be few (if any) shops in a village. Villagers make their own clothing, make most of their own food, repair their own houses, and often make their own beer (or wine). Cutlery and worked iron can be commissioned from the blacksmith. A local woman may be willing to sew (or repair) clothing for visitors. There might be a doctor and/or apothecary in a larger village. Except in those parts of Britain which are already industrializing, most finished goods a village produces (such as cloth or ceramics) are made by its inhabitants in their homes, and then collected by an agent of the landlord (or commissioning merchant). Such commodities may be available for legal purchase – with several days notice. Goods and services that villagers cannot provide themselves must usually be obtained from the market in the nearest town, or from itinerant merchants (who might pass through the village once a week or so, from spring to autumn). Such visiting merchants might work directly for the landlord, or pay him a fee (unless they are Gypsies who visit irregularly, and sell illegally).
Table 5: The Village Church
The village church is…
too small for its congregation.
too large for its congregation.
very plainly decorated.
ostentatiously decorated.
in very bad repair.
neat, tidy, and in good repair.
filled with strange and disturbing art.
apparently a popular place for trysts!
of a different denomination than the official state Church.
actually two small churches that seem to compete for congregants.
an abandoned ruin – where do the villagers worship?
Also see “Twenty Creepy Churches in Isolated Places” in the supplement “A Ghastly Potpourri”.
Table 6a: Landmark of an Inland Village
The most noteworthy location in or near the village is…
the local church.
the estate house (or castle) of the local landlord.
the pleasure house of an aristocrat (other than the landlord). A Villa, Lustschloss, Maison de Plaisance, etc.
a nearby fort where a company or regiment of soldiers is stationed. If the landlord is titled nobility, they may also be the force’s commander.
a local ruin. See Appendix C of “A Ghastly Companion to Castles, Mansions, & Estates”.
a complex of subterranean tunnels. See Appendix D of “A Ghastly Companion to Castles, Mansions, & Estates”.
a network of underground caverns. See Appendix D of “A Ghastly Companion to Castles, Mansions, & Estates”.
an ancient tree.
a stone circle.
a bridge.
a natural spring.
a marsh or swamp.
a roadside shrine.
a corpse road.
a hill (if lowland) or valley (if upland).
a small patch of woods that is supposedly haunted.
another whole village, apparently abandoned.
a monument to a local hero.
the village cross.
a large, oddly-colored rock.
a rock formation that resembles something else (a person, animal, monsters, etc.)
a former battlefield, now a mass grave.
the remains of a defensive wall.
a monastery (or school for boys, in a Protestant country).
a convent (or school for girls, in a Protestant country).
Table 6b: Landmark of a Maritime Village
a small chapel on an island offshore.
a monastery or convent on an island offshore. Abandoned if a Protestant country.
the pleasure house of an aristocrat (other than the landlord).
a lighthouse / beacon
a supposedly haunted island offshore.
a rocky, supposedly inaccessible island offshore.
a wrecked ship (just offshore, or even washed up on shore)
offshore reefs (or rocks) that must be navigated carefully. 25% chance there is also a beacon.
a sea cave.
several picturesque cliffs.
Villages, whether inland or maritime, are often named for their Landmark.
Table 7: Accommodations for Travelers
Travelers looking for accommodations will find…
nothing at all – apparently everyone drinks and socializes in each other’s homes. 50% chance a family is willing to host travelers who pay in cash.
a tavern with a single common bed.
a tavern with a single private room for rent.
an inn with a common bed, and 1d4 rooms.
a rooming house, with 1d4 rooms available.
a Coaching Inn.
An exclusive Coaching Inn for wealthy travelers. Note: only possible if Village is on a major road. There will also be a separate Tavern, where ordinary villagers go to drink and socialize.
+3 to the roll if the village lies directly on a major road.
-3 if village if off a major road.
See Appendix A in “A Ghastly Companion to Castles, Mansions, & Estates” for more information on travelers accommodations in the Ghastly Age.
Table 8a: Famous Produce of an Upland Village
The village is best known for its…
butter and cheese.
cattle.
charcoal.
distilled liquors.
gemstones.
gunsmiths.
gypsum.
iron.
lime (mineral).
lumber and firewood.
medicinal plants.
mutton.
quarried stone.
salt (mined). In France especially the production of salt is heavily regulated, with ordinary people being required to purchase a minimum amount of heavily taxed salt a year.
tin.
hard cider.
wine and/or beer.
wool.
Table8b: Famous Produce of a Lowland Village
apiary products (wax and honey).
ceramics (tiles, pots, etc.).
cloth.
cutlery.
dyestufs (indigo, etc.).
eggs.
flax.
freshwater fish (village must be near a river or large lake)
grain (wheat, rye, barley, rice, oats, etc.)
gunpowder.
pigs.
poultry.
region-specific crops (almonds, olives, oranges, saffron, etc.).
tanned leather.
tree fruit (apples, pears, apricots, olives, etc.).
wine / beer / hard cider.
Table8c: Most Important Produce of a Maritime Village
boats.
fresh fish.
glassware.
oysters (or other shellfish).
pebbles (used for rocaille decorations)
rope.
sailors (half the male population will be away at sea at any one time).
salt. In France especially the production of salt is heavily regulated, with ordinary people being required to purchase a minimum amount of heavily taxed salt a year.
salted fish.
seashells (used for rocaille decorations)
shellfish.
smoked fish.
stockfish.
Table 9: Class Relations
Overall, relations between the social classes are…
Good. The local landlord is charitable, rents are reasonable, and the average villager is content with their lot. The landlord does not enforce any onerous feudal obligations. There is no crime or violence to speak of. Re-roll results of 13 or above on Table 10.
Average. The rents are a little higher than the villagers would like (but not impossible to pay), the tradesmen usually charge fair prices, and the landlord occasionally takes an interest in the welfare of the villagers. All ancient feudal obligations are enforced, but exceptions are made in cases of extreme hardship. There is some domestic violence, and the occasional drunken fight between villagers.
Poor. The rents are outrageously expensive. The landlord and his family zealously enforce any feudal obligations, and are completely disinterested in the misery they cause. The tradesmen frequently price-gouge. The ordinary villagers support and aid the local bandits. There is a significant black market. Many villagers support radical political ideas. Significant crime and violence occurs. Re-roll results of 7 or below on Table 10.
Examples of ancient feudal obligations that may still be in effect include:
Having to pay a fine to the landlord for each young woman who gets married.
Having to labor for free in the landlord’s fields (in addition to the rent one pays for one’s own field).
Handing over a portion of all crops grown in one’s rented field.
Unpaid labor on the local roads.
Unpaid labor at the landlord’s house or castle.
Having to pay to use the landlord’s mills and presses, and not being able to use any other.
Having to pay a toll to the landlord each time one crosses a bridge, and not being allowed to use any route that avoids that bridge.
Few (if any) feudal obligations would still be in effect in a British village, while all of the above might be suffered by a French peasant before the Revolution.
Table 10: Disposition of Villagers
The general disposition of the villagers seems to be…
virtuous.
honest.
polite.
amorous.
hot-tempered.
fanatically pious.
unfriendly.
dishonest.
frightened.
menacing.
gloomy.
envious / resentful.
fatalistic.
criminal. If Class Relations are good, the villagers simply flout needlessly repressive laws, and the village landlord tries to ignore their otherwise harmless behavior whenever possible.
Table 11: The Unofficial Village Leader
The average person in the Village looks for leadership from…
a wealthy farmer who owns a substantial tract of land. Roll again if Class Relations are poor.
a tradesman involved in the village’s primary produce.
the priest/parson.
the blacksmith.
the owner of the local tavern or inn. Roll again if there is no such establishment.
a retired military officer.
a retired sea captain.
a retired professor.
the local highwayman (or pirate), who only targets the rich. Roll again if Class Relations are good.
Remember, this an unofficial leader – as a rule an 18th century village does not have any formal government of its own, but is administered by the landlord who owns most of the property.
Table 12: The Wealthiest Villager
Besides the local landlord, the wealthiest person in the village is…
a farmer who owns a substantial tract of land. Some villagers might actually be renting land and/or a cottage from this person, rather than the community’s primary landlord. Where serfdom persist, the wealthy farmer might even own their own serfs. The village’s primary landlord, however, will still be the legal authority over the village as a whole.
a shrewd tradesman involved in the village’s primary produce.
the priest/parson
a wealthy dowager.
the miller.
a Mad Scientist whose laboratory is here.
Table 13: The Village Scapegoat
The first person who will get blamed for any catastrophe is…
a mentally-challenged vagrant.
the local “freak”, who suffers from a congenital birth defect.
a Gypsy who who has settled on the outskirts.
an old spinster who lives alone.
the “foreigner” who recently settled in the village.
the local prostitute.
the most recently arrived stranger – and that means the PCs!.
the Mad Scientist whose laboratory is here.
Table 14: The Most Beloved Villager
The most beloved person in the village is…
the priest / vicar / parson.
the landlord. Roll again if Class Relations are poor.
the landlord’s spouse. Roll again if Class Relations are poor.
the mistress / lover of the landlord (or their spouse).
the daughter of the landlord. Roll again if Class Relations are poor.
the son of the landlord. Roll again if Class Relations are poor.
the beautiful young daughter of a villager.
the handsome young son of a villager
the local midwife.
a generous dowager.
the blacksmith’s wife.
the proprietor of the local tavern/inn/rooming house. Roll again if there is no such establishment.
the local prostitute, known for her charity and kindheartedness.
a retired soldier.
its wealthiest inhabitant (other than the landlord). Roll again if Class Relations are poor.
Table 15: Current Events
Besides events in the landlord’s Estate House, everyone is also talking about…
an upcoming wedding – and wedding feast!
a pair of young lovers whose love has been forbidden by their parents.
the death of a beloved villager.
the recent arrival of Gypsies.
the upcoming religious festival / procession.
the upcoming village fair and dance.
the discovery of an adulterous affair.
the upcoming pig slaughter. Late autumn/early winter only.
a puzzling and mysterious death.
a dog that became rabid.
the disease that is sweeping through the village.
the recent death of a whole family from spoiled food.
the abduction of a child.
the recent increase in rents.
a puzzling decrease in rents!
a recent boxing match.
a charlatan who recently breezed through the village.
the strange, localized weather event that recently occurred. See Twenty Ominous Weather Events in the supplement “A Ghastly Potpourri“.
the recent birth of a strangely deformed child.
the child who was recently discovered to be a Fairy changeling.
the miraculous healing that recently occurred in the church.
the sighting of a diabolical figure dancing atop the roof of the church.
the exposure and arrest of someone for “crimes against nature”.
the theft of a domestic animal.
the recent attacks on livestock by predators.
a haunting that has recently begun.
the desecration of graves in the churchyard.
an apparently unbeatable fighting cock (or dog).
the statue of a saint that has begun bleeding / exuding oil / crying holy water. Roll again in Protestant countries.
the villager who just experienced a vision of the Virgin Mary. Roll again in Protestant countries.
the “foreigner” who has decided to settle in the village. Note: a “foreigner” could be anyone from a place more than a day’s journey distant).
the mysterious stranger who recently came into town.
the group of soldiers (or Gendarmes) that recently passed through and bullied everyone.
someone’s recent encounter with an Immortal Wanderer.
a recent visit by someone whom the villagers believe to be a member of the Royal Family in disguise.
the recent visit by a demagogue preaching subversive politics.
a recent visit by an artist searching for picturesque landscapes to paint.
the poet that has taken up residence in a cottage.
a monstrous corpse that has been unearthed (or washed ashore).
Table 16: The Immediate Danger
Villagers would welcome help with…
a pack of wolves.
a bear.
a rabid dog.
a gang of bandits.
normally non-aggressive animals that have suddenly turned vicious.
a Ghoulish Revenant.
a wandering Mindless Revenant.
a Vampyre.
a Werewolf.
a Ghost.
a family of Cannibals lurking in a nearby cave.
a monster lurking in the woods (or offshore).
a person suspected of being a witch (or warlock).
a Demoniac.
children who have gone missing.
the local Mad Scientist – pitchforks and torches are ready!
a press gang that has targeted the men of the community.
crimes committed by soldiers recently billeted in the village.
Ruffians employed by the local landlord to collect rents. Roll again if Class Relations are good.
a Fairy who who has abducted someone.
Table 17: The Village’s Dark Secret
The villagers don’t want outsiders to know about…
a terrible crime committed there in the past, for which no one was ever brought to justice.
a recent crime committed by one or more respected members of the community.
all the inbreeding. Use Appendix L: Inherited Peculiarities of Inbred Noble Families from “A Ghastly Companion to Castles, Mansions, & Estates” to determine the distinguishing characteristic of native villagers. Only roll once – the most inbred villagers are nowhere near as inbred as the aristocracy!
the Vampyre that they secretly serve.
the many werwolves who inhabit the place.
the nearby caves that shelter monsters.
the evil that lurks in an abandoned mine.
the ancient temple complex the village is built atop.
the Pagan worship that persists in the Village.
the human sacrifices they make to preserve the fertility of the fields.
their devotion to Satan (or another diabolical figure).
their highly unorthodox Christian worship.
their secret practice of Judaism. Openly Jewish villages exist in Poland, western Russia, and the Kingdom of Hungary. Elsewhere, the openly Jewish population tends to be urban.
their secret practice of Islam.
their reverence towards a local Fairy.
their hunger for human flesh!
their practice of swapping spouses.
the fate of the travelers that recently disappeared after visiting the village.
the purpose of the talismans hung everywhere.
the local gang of bandits (or wreckers).
the coven of witches who meets nearby.
the reason their church was abandoned.
an abandoned house, and the awful people who once dwelt there.
the ruined castle nearby.
the buried treasure that was recently unearthed.
the local haunting. See Appendix O in “A Ghastly Companion to Castles, Mansions, & Estates”.
the village demoniac.
the desecrated graves in the churchyard.
the revolutionary who is hiding out there.
the young aristocrat who is hiding there with their lower-class spouse (or lover).
the powerful magician who lives here.
the dragon that must be placated with the sacrifice of a virgin girl every 10 years.
their interbreeding with Fairies, or something monstrous.
the upcoming wedding of a young woman to Satan.
the landlord’s shocking practice of jus primae noctis.
Yesterday’s Official Rule Changes OFFICIALLY Rescinded!
Posted by Daniel James Hanley in April Fools, Ghastly Affair, Gothic Gaming, Historical Gaming, Humor
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I woke this morning to find that somebody had made supposedly official changes to the Ghastly Affair rules. I have no memory of making any such alterations. I do remember finding the door behind the plaster in my wine cellar, following the passage beyond to my grandfather’s long-lost laboratory, and accidentally breaking a stoppered flask filled with some unknown vapor. The next thing I remember after that is waking this morning in bed, with torn clothes and mud-entrusted shoes. Anyway, any supposedly official rules changes are hereby officially rescinded.
Now, I need to investigate the unsettling reports of a short, brutish fellow seen prowling in the vicinity of the townhouse just last night. A similar person was also apparently seen keeping company with the criminal class in the most disreputable part of the city. I believe, however, that the two people are unconnected.
OFFICIAL Rules Changes for the Ghastly Affair RPG!
Its no secret that Ghastly Affair is the biggest game in the world right now. Frankly, I feel bad for everyone else, who can only stand by in awe as Ghastly Affair continues to consume the entirety of the RPG market. Anyway, the following official rules changes must be implemented immediately by all Presenters. I’ll know if you don’t!
All Vampyre characters must speak with a Transylvanian accent. A model for the proper pronunciation can be found here.
All characters now have a characteristic called “Manliness”, rated from 0 to 20. It provides an equivalent Bonus to all Ability Checks and weapon damage. Obviously, chick characters can only have a 0 “Manliness”, unless they’re, like, completely weird or something.
High Ability scores can now be purchased from the Presenter. For real money. 1 dollar per point above 9.
Werewolves must be taken for walks by a responsible person. And given chin scratchies when they are good.
All Hit Dice are now changed to d1000. And all weapon damage as well. Don’t forget to add your “Manliness” bonus!
All characters must now determine the circumference of all orifices, and note this information on their character sheet. This is IMPORTANT! HOW CAN THERE BE A CREDIBLE GAME WITHOUT EVERYONE KNOWING THE EXACT SIZE OF THEIR ORIFICES? I’M WAITING!
All characters now bleed confetti, and all buried skeletons are actually made of candy. Yummy candy.
Your PC is now dead. Roll another.
Ghastly Affair Q&A on Randomworlds Chat – March 19th
Posted by Daniel James Hanley in Coming Attractions, Ghastly Affair, Gothic Gaming, GROOVY Ghastly Affair, Historical Gaming
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If you’d like to know more about Ghastly Affair, the Gothic Game of Romantic Horror, join me for a Q&A at Randomworlds Chat tomorrow (Tuesday, March 19th). starting at 7:30 PM CDT (8:30 EDT). I’ll be on until 9:30 CDT (10:30 EDT). See ya there!
The Ghastly News
Posted by Daniel James Hanley in Coming Attractions, Ghastly Affair, Gothic Gaming, GROOVY Ghastly Affair, Highdark Hall, Historical Gaming
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I will be the guest of an upcoming Q&A on RANDOM WORLDS chat (hosted at The Hardboiled GMshoe’s Office) March 19th, 2019, from 7:30 PM CST (8:30 EST) to 9:30 PM CST (10:30 EST). If you’d like to know more about Ghastly Affair, or what I’ve got planned for the future, join the conversation at https://tinyurl.com/randomworlds-chat . If you miss the chat, the log will be posted at https://gmshoe.wordpress.com/ afterward.
The PDFs of the Ghastly Affair Player’s Manual, the Ghastly Affair Presenter’s Manual, A Ghastly Potpourri, and Highdark Hall, are all currently marked down for DriveThruRPG’s GM’s Day Sale. Hurry, because the sale ends Monday, March 11th.
Ghastly Affair was recently discussed in Episode 14 of the “For the Gothic Heroine” podcast, which focused on Gothic gaming. I suggest checking out the other episodes as well!
Currently I’m working on a set of “Ghastly Affair Location Catalogues” – form-fillable PDFs that will guide you through the process of creating a massive Grand House using the tables from “A Ghastly Companion to Castle, Mansions & Estates”, while simultaneously creating an organized document that can be easily referenced during game-play. I hope to have those out very soon.
If you would like to see a group that’s already experimenting with the possibilities of GROOVY Ghastly Affair, I refer you to the Play@YSDC boards, where Victoria Silverwolf and her Players are running a Play-by-Post game of Ghastly Affair set in Los Angeles during the Swinging Sixties.
Victoria has also adapted Highdark Hall as the current setting for her main Ghastly Affair game. If you’d like to see an example of how to incorporate the mysterious home of the Altumber family into your game, check it out.
That’s the news for today. You can now return to brooding in a cold and shadowy chamber of your moldering family castle, haunted by the memory of a sin for which you can never be forgiven. Or, you could just browse some other blogs. Whichever.
A Ghastly Companion to Castles, Mansions, & Estates – Rough-Hewn Edition Now Available!
Posted by Daniel James Hanley in Coming Attractions, Ghastly Affair, Gothic Gaming, Highdark Hall, Historical Gaming, OGL, OSR
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A Ghastly Companion to Castles, Mansions, & Estates – Rough-Hewn Edition is your complete guide to gaming in the opulent Grand Houses of the Georgian, French Revolutionary, Napoleonic, and Regency eras. Although created especially for use with Ghastly Affair, “The Gothic Game of Romantic Horror”, it’s also an invaluable resource for any game set in the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries. Whether your scenarios involve destroying supernatural terrors lurking in crumbling castles, climbing the rungs of the social ladder through opulent townhouses, or unraveling the horrible secrets of the country gentry, this book is an essential reference!
This pre-release “ashcan” version does not include the illustrations, maps, floor-plans, and indices that will be in the full release. You still get over 270 pages of historical information, random tables, and practical advice, including:
A discussion of the various types of Grand Houses across 18th century Europe.
An outline of a typical day’s activities in a Castle, Mansion, or Estate House.
Over 100 tables to create a historically plausible Grand House, along with its inhabitants, gardens, and events – at whatever level of detail you desire.
A complete guide to the servants and retainers who make aristocratic life possible.
Tips for running an immersive Gothic “sandbox” that doesn’t force players into a pre-determined plotline.
A discussion of 18th century coaching inns (and coaches).
Random encounter tables for an 18th century setting.
Complete systems for randomly generating plausible ruins, caves, and subterranean crypts.
Tables for creating sumptuous, historically-accurate feasts.
Multiple tables for generating dramatic events that occur at dinner, during dances, and on the morning promenade.
Tables for defining twisted family histories, and the peculiarities of inbred nobles.
Information on 18th century noble titles – and tables to randomly determine the status of aristocrats.
Tables for quickly defining the most memorable characteristics of NPCs, and the scandalous desires of your house’s inhabitants.
Tables for randomly generating ghosts and hauntings – including Restless Houses that hunger to satisfy their own mysterious cravings.
An extensive system for randomly generating the multitude of paintings that festoon the walls of Grand Houses – and tips on how to make them essential facets of a scenario.
Tables to create typical names for British country houses, and evocative appellations for castle towers.
A table of technological marvels that might be found in a late 18th century Grand House.
And all at a price an orphaned scullery maid could afford! But like a Vauxhall Gardens doxy, once it’s better-dressed, the fancy new version will cost a little more!
Contains some mature subject matter. Reader discretion is advised.
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Sheeparific stuff for sheep fans....
Long, long ago—in the 1970s—three 20-somethings whiled away Sunday mornings in their favorite breakfast joint and dreamed dreams of future careers. Like 20-somethings now, they saw big opportunities in retail—reaching the millions with creative products that would catapult them to fame and fortune still early in their adult lives. One had loved working in a camera store during college. The other was all into houseplants—a major trend of the time. They thought "Photosynthesis" would be a great name for a combo plant and camera store. It's the thought that counts.
By the mid 1980s, these two had three little blessings under five and a fixer-upper. The trend then was "country living" designs and products. She—in her spare, mom-at-home time—somehow created a mail order catalog for a business she called Ewe & Me. A 1/16-page ad was purchased in Better Homes and Gardens' Country Home magazine offering her catalog for a buck. Ten-thousand bucks later she was selling inventory from the dining room while he built the mailing list and did the banking on his Apple II. After several years, life overwhelmed the business and they set it aside.
Now, several careers and moves later, they are back at it again—Ewe & Me digital for the new century. With new tech and social media, we are pumped about again connecting sheep-stuff lovers from all over the planet and creating a new community of ovisphiles (our word for sheep fans).
Join the fold. Have some fun. Here at Ewe&Me.shop.
Back in the mid-80s, the tools of our trade were an Apple II computer, an application called the Mail Order Wizard to manage our mailing list and print labels, a notebook to keep track of our product suppliers and ideas, and a camera for product shots. "Desktop publishing" was brand new—the Internet, still a government-only network. We hand-made a 5" x 8.5", 24-page catalog using our own design and a local printer. We did all product development and sourcing, inventory management, packing and shipping, product photography, and advertising with no prior experience or understanding of what we couldn't possibly do on our own. We became serial, incorrigible entrepreneurs with adult ADHD, ever-ready to move on to the next great thing. Now, as life's clock ticks louder and louder, we are very pleased to be able to re-launch Ewe & Me from the heart of the American Midwest and watch it thrive using all the great tools available over the web. And we promise not to get too distracted.
Why sheep?
Why not? Back in college, I was the Super 8 camera person for a documentary following the life of a local farmer as he raised sheep from birth to market. As a city-boy, farm life was all-new, all-thrilling and all-fascinating. I thought I saw a real nobility in the dedication and commitment of the farmer and the service of the sheep. We salute all you shepherds, farmers, and farm families out there and hope Ewe & Me will bring you a moment's diversion, a few smiles, and something to share. We also think lambs are really cute! Thanks for coming.
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SAP Fiori 2.0 – The Design Guidelines (Version 1.40)
Winner of the prestigious Red Dot Award for its user-centered design concept, SAP Fiori 2.0 is the newest evolution of the user experience for SAP S/4HANA.
SAP Fiori 2.0 focuses on users and the way they work. It allows the user to concentrate on core tasks while still keeping track of activities in other areas. Improvements to the existing SAP Fiori launchpad allow the user a degree of flexibility and guidance never before seen in business software. These include enhanced discovery and navigation, the opening up of surface interaction via the viewport, access to action-oriented personal notifications, improved collaboration, the use of a personal digital assistant, and much more.
With the newest version of the SAP Fiori Design Guidelines, the design language has been extended to encompass the most important aspects of SAP Fiori 2.0 as well as numerous improvements to existing controls and patterns such as dynamic side content, the wizard, the object page, and more.
Highlights from Version 1.40
A brand new visual design: The new “Belize” visual design theme, a new icon style, and a new color scheme, including updated design templates.
Viewport: The gateway to the user’s daily business, the viewport was introduced to allow the user to concurrently work with three different screen areas (the home page, Me Area, and the notifications area). A smoothly animated lateral move mimics the user’s head turning to the left and to the right in a panoramic view. To explore the concept of the viewport and the three areas in more detail, be sure to also check out the blog on the SAP Fiori 2.0 launchpad.
Navigation: New functionalities were introduced to manage the user’s favorite apps, to navigate between apps, and to discover new apps without sacrificing the design principles of adaptiveness and simplicity.Want to dive deeper? Check out the blog on the navigation and discovery concepts behind SAP Fiori 2.0.
Home page: With this update, the anchor bar is only displayed when more than one group is available. The home page can now be edited via the Me Area. A new floating toolbar is also available to allow the user to exit edit mode directly from the home page.
Shell bar: The shell bar and the application bar have now been merged into a single bar. New features were also introduced.
SAP Fiori Elements (formerly known as smart templates)
Overview page: With this update, the overview page now uses the dynamic page layout, which brings the snapping header feature to the overview page. The level of detail you offer in the header area can be geared to your use case. There are three options: a header with variant management and a smart filter bar, a header with just a text, or no header at all. For a closer look at the design and motivation behind the overview page, check out the blog on the overview page for SAP Fiori 2.0.
Object page: Now based on the dynamic page layout concept. The former one-toolbar approach no longer applies. You can now use the header toolbar (for global actions) alongside the footer toolbar (for closing or finalizing actions) in display, edit, and create modes. The footer toolbar is now a floating toolbar.
Step input: This new control allows the user to adjust a value by a predefined step.
For a complete overview of new and updated articles, check out What’s New with Version 1.40.
Tags: design, design guidelines, fiori 2.0, SAP Fiori 2.0, SAP S/4HANA, SAP UI5, User Experience, UX
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Anonymous 3 years ago
Could be great to improve the Fiori Launchpad with “Microtiles”:
https://blogs.sap.com/2016/10/04/more-tiles-on-the-fiori-launchpad/
Andrea Waisgluss 3 years ago
Hi Miguel, thanks for your comment! Be sure to follow us on Twitter (@SAP_designs) to keep up to date with all the newest design improvements to the launchpad.
8 Features to Know before Creating a Fiori UI5 Prototype with BUILD
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SAP CoPilot is the first step towards a true digital assistant for the enterprise. It empowers business users and helps them quickly complete their everyday tasks. While evaluating SAP CoPilot Merck, based in Darmstadt, Germany, identified several opportunities to leverage SAP CoPilot to optimize their business processes.
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SAP Fiori 2.0: The Object Page – Part 1: Its History
Representing business objects in a consumable yet sufficiently powerful way is a challenge on its own. Since joining SAP in 2006, I have witnessed a number of different approaches on how to provide a floorplan that can provide an easy overview of the most important aspects of the business object at the same time show […]
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1993 Grands Prix, San Marino Grand Prix, Formula One races in Italy
1993 San Marino Grand Prix
1993 European Grand Prix 4 of 1993 1993 Spanish Grand Prix
The Imola Circuit in 1993.
XIII Gran Premio di San Marino
Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari
Imola, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Permanent racing facility
Ligier-Renault
The 1993 San Marino Grand Prix, otherwise known as the XIII Gran Premio di San Marino, was the fourth round of the 1993 FIA Formula One World Championship, staged at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola, Italy, on the 25 April 1993.[1] The race, which was the thirteenth San Marino Grand Prix to be staged, would see Alain Prost claim a dominant victory for Williams-Renault.[1]
The race weekend would be surrounded in mystery, with Ayrton Senna proclaiming that he would not race due to Ford Cosworth's engine deal with McLaren.[1] Indeed, the Brazilian ace had decided that Ford should supply McLaren with their latest engines, instead of giving them to their official engine partners Benetton, who had scored just six points to Senna's 26.[1]
Senna would, however, decide to make the race in-spite of Benetton blocking the engine transfer, with the Brazilian just managing to get to the circuit in time for the first practice session.[1] Senna duly ended up behind the Benetton of Michael Schumacher after qualifying, claiming fourth, as Prost swept to pole position ahead of teammate Damon Hill.[1]
The circuit would be dampened by pre-race rain ahead of the start, with most of the field deciding to start on wet tyres.[1] Prost duly made a poor start to hand the lead to teammate Hill, while Senna also go the jump on the Frenchman to claim second.[1]
Early accidents saw Mark Blundell and Riccardo Patrese crash at Tosa, with the former left with a shattered Ligier-Renault.[1] On-track, meanwhile, Hill would slowly ease away from Senna, leaving the Brazilian to fend of the attentions of Prost once the Frenchman dropped Schumacher.[1]
Prost eventually squeezed past Senna on lap eight, prompting the Brazilian to sweep into the pits for slicks as the circuit began to dry.[1] Hill and Prost followed him in over the following laps, with Senna getting back ahead of Prost during the switch.[1]
A fired up Prost would then pull one of the moves of the season, having caught back up to Senna as the Brazilian caught an ailing Hill.[1] Indeed, as the trio came to lap some backmarkers at Tosa the Frenchman would send his Williams-Renault lunging past the pair of them to claim the lead, while Senna used the Frenchman's move to grab second from Hill.[1]
Hill's race was over soon after, a brake failure sending him into the gravel at Tosa, leaving Schumacher in third.[1] Prost, meanwhile, would ease clear of Senna to build a healthy lead, with the Brazilian's race ending on lap 43 with a hydraulic failure.[1]
With that the race was effectively over, with Prost cruising across the line half a minute clear of Schumacher to claim victory.[1] Jean Alesi, meanwhile, was en-route to finish third only for an engine issue to plague the Ferrari, allowing Martin Brundle to sweep past and claim the final podium spot.[1]
Ayrton Senna would leave Donington Park with a well enhanced Championship lead after the opening three rounds, ending the weekend on 26 points. That meant that the Brazilian was twelve clear of closest challenger and arch-rival Alain Prost, meaning Senna could already afford to miss a race and still retain his lead. Elsewhere, Damon Hill had retained third ahead of Mark Blundell, while Johnny Herbert completed the top five.
In the Constructors Championship it had been another dead-heat between Williams-Renault and McLaren-Ford Cosworth, with the two British squads leaving Donington with 26 points apiece. It was the latter who led the Championship, however, having registered two wins to Williams' one, before a nineteen point gap back to the team in third. That team would be former F1 giants Lotus-Ford Cosworth, who found themselves a point clear of Benetton-Ford Cosworth and Ligier-Renault.
The full entry list for the 1993 San Marino Grand Prix is outlined below:
Canon Williams Team Williams FW15C Renault RS5 3.5 V10 G
Ukyo Katayama
Tyrrell Racing Organisation Tyrrell 020C Yamaha OX10A 3.5 V10 G
Camel Benetton Ford Benetton B193B Ford Cosworth HBA7 3.5 V8 G
Michael Andretti
Marlboro McLaren McLaren MP4/8 Ford Cosworth HBE7 3.5 V8 G
Footwork Mugen Honda Footwork FA14 Mugen-Honda MF351HB 3.5 V10 G
Team Lotus Lotus 107B Ford Cosworth HBD6 3.5 V8 G
Sasol Jordan Jordan 193 Hart 1035 3.5 V10 G
Larrousse F1 Larrousse LH93 Lamborghini 3512 3.5 V12 G
Érik Comas
BMS Lola Scuderia Italia Lola T93/30 Ferrari 040 3.5 V12 G
Luca Badoer
Christian Fittipaldi
Minardi F1 Team Minardi M193 Ford HBC6 3.5 V8 G
Fabrizio Barbazza
Ligier Gitanes Blondes Ligier JS39 Renault RS5 3.5 V10 G
Mark Blundell
Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari F93A Ferrari 041 3.5 V12 G
Karl Wendlinger
Team Sauber F1 Sauber C12 Sauber 2175A 3.5 V10 G
The full qualifying results for the 1993 San Marino Grand Prix are outlined below:
Williams-Renault 1:22.788 1:22.070 —
McLaren-Ford Cosworth 1:24.042 1:24.007 +1.937s
Sauber 1:25.789 1:24.720 +2.650s
McLaren-Ford Cosworth — 1:24.793 +2,723s
Ligier-Renault 1:25.405 1:24.804 +2.734s
Lotus-Ford Cosworth 1:25.742 1:25.115 +3.045s
Jordan-Hart 1:26.142 1:25.169 +3.099s
Larrousse-Lamborghini 1:25.482 1:25.629 +3.412s
Footwork-Mugen-Honda 1:25.971 1:25.901 +3.831s
Tyrrell-Yamaha 1:27.312 1:26.429 +4.359s
Lola-Ferrari 1:27.371 1:27.388 +5.301s
______________ Damon Hill
Michael Schumacher 4
______________ Ayrton Senna
Karl Wendlinger 6
______________ Michael Andretti
Mark Blundell 8
______________ Martin Brundle
Riccardo Patrese 12
______________ Johnny Herbert
Rubens Barrichello 14
Derek Warwick 16
______________ JJ Lehto
Érik Comas 18
______________ Andrea de Cesaris
Thierry Boutsen 20
______________ Alex Zanardi
______________ Ukyo Katayama
Christian Fittipaldi 24
______________ Luca Badoer
Fabrizio Barbazza 26
The full results for the 1993 San Marino Grand Prix are outlined below:
Williams-Renault 61 1:33:20.413 1
Benetton-Ford Cosworth 61 +32.410s 3
Ligier-Renault 60 +1 Lap 10
Sauber 59 Engine 16
Larrousse-Lamborghini 59 +2 Laps 14
Minardi-Ford Cosworth 59 +2 Laps 25
Lola-Ferrari 58 +3 Laps 24
Lotus-Ford Cosworth 57 Engine 12
Footwork-Mugen-Honda 54 +7 Laps 21
Lotus-Ford Cosworth 53 Spin 20
Sauber 48 Engine 5
McLaren-Ford Cosworth 42 Hydraulics 4
Ferrari 40 Clutch 9
Minardi-Ford Cosworth 36 Steering 23
McLaren-Ford Cosworth 32 Spin 6
Footwork-Mugen-Honda 29 Spin 15
Tyrrell-Yamaha 22 Engine 22
Williams-Renault 20 Brakes 2
Larrousse-Lamborghini 18 Engine 17
Tyrrell-Yamaha 18 Gearbox 18
Jordan-Hart 17 Spin 13
Ferrari 8 Gearbox 8
Jordan-Hart 1 Gearbox 19
Ligier-Renault 0 Accident 7
Benetton-Ford Cosworth 0 Spin 11
Lola-Ferrari
* Lehto and Herbert were still classified despite retiring as they had completed 90% of the race distance.[6]
500th entry for a Williams chassis.[7]
50th entry for JJ Lehto.[7]
Karl Wendlinger, Mark Blundell and Ukyo Katayama entered their twenieth race.[7]
Tenth race for Alex Zanardi.[7]
46th victory for Alain Prost.[8]
Williams registered their 63rd win as a constructor.[8]
Renault earned their 43rd victory as an engine supplier.[8]
Michael Schumacher claimed his tenth podium finish.[8]
Prost recorded the 50th fastest lap for a Renault engine.[8]
Ayrton Senna had seen his lead effectively eliminated after failing to finish in San Marino, although he still held a two point advantage at the head of the Championship. Alain Prost had been the man to do the damage to the Brazilian's lead, leaving Imola with 24 points to the Brazilian's 26. Damon Hill, meanwhile, had lost ground in third, with half the points of teammate Prost, while Michael Schumacher and Mark Blundell completed the top five.
The Constructors Championship had seen a change at the top of the title hunt, with Williams-Renault moving ten points ahead of McLaren-Ford Cosworth. Indeed, those two were in class of their own at the head of the field with a quarter of the season gone, with a fourteen point gap back to third placed Benetton-Ford Cosworth. Ligier-Renault, meanwhile, would hold fourth, two behind the British squad, while Lotus-Ford Cosworth had slipped to fifth.
Ayrton Senna 26 —
Alain Prost 24 —
Damon Hill 12 —
Michael Schumacher 10 ▲2
Mark Blundell 6 ▼1
Johnny Herbert 6 ▼1
JJ Lehto 5 ▲1
Martin Brundle 4 ▲11
Christian Fittipaldi 3 ▼2
Philippe Alliot 2 ▲4
Riccardo Patrese 2 ▼2
Fabrizio Barbazza 2 —
Alex Zanardi 1 ▼3
Gerhard Berger 1 ▼3
Williams-Renault 36 ▲1
McLaren-Ford Cosworth 26 ▼1
Ligier-Renault 10 —
Lotus-Ford Cosworth 7 ▼2
Sauber 5 ▲1
Minardi-Ford Cosworth 5 ▼1
Larrousse-Lamborghini 2 ▲1
Ferrari 1 ▼1
↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 'San Marino GP, 1993', grandprix.com, (Inside F1 Inc., 2014), https://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr536.html, (Accessed 25/07/2019)
↑ 'San Marino 1993: Entrants', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2015), https://www.statsf1.com/en/1993/saint-marin/engages.aspx, (Accessed 25/07/2019)
↑ 'San Marino Grand Prix - QUALIFYING 1', formula1.com, (Formula One World Championship Ltd., 2019), https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/1993/races/593/san-marino/qualifying-1.html, (Accessed 25/07/2019)
↑ 'San Marino 1993: Qualifications', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2014), https://www.statsf1.com/en/1993/saint-marin/qualification.aspx, (Accessed 25/07/2019)
↑ 6.0 6.1 'San Marino 1993: Result', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2016), https://www.statsf1.com/en/1993/saint-marin/classement.aspx, (Accessed 25/07/2019)
↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 '1993 San Marino GP', chicanef1.com, (Chicane F1, 2014), http://www.chicanef1.com/racetit.pl?year=1993&gp=San%20Marino%20GP&r=1, (Accessed 25/07/2019)
↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 '4. San Marino 1993', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2014), https://www.statsf1.com/en/1993/saint-marin.aspx, (Accessed 25/07/2019)
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11AM - 10PM SUN-SAT Happy Hour
4PM - 6:30PM MON-FRI
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Weekend Specials
Nauti Mermaid Bar
Crab Deck
Back in 1930, when Kent Narrows was nothing more than a marsh full of muskrats, Captain Alex Thomas and his wife Mae opened the original Fisherman's Inn with a seating for 30 along with a grocery store. They lived upstairs with their two children, often renting their own bedrooms to anglers while they slept on the front porch swing.
In 1939, a second floor was added with more guest rooms. When the Chesapeake Bay Bridge was opened in 1952, the addition of a screened porch created seats for even more hungry guests.
The couple's daughter Betty and son-in-law Oscar "Sonny" Schulz, built and opened the new larger restaurant in 1971. Three years later, the purchase of the adjoining the property paved the way for the establishment of Fisherman's Seafood Market.
A fire completely destroyed the restaurant on December 23, 1980, but the Schulz family rebuilt and reopened in July of 1981. In the summer of 1991, Fisherman's Crab Deck became the latest addition to Fisherman's Village. Now an Eastern Shore landmark, Andy, Jody and Tracy, sons of Oscar and Betty, continue the family tradition of offering delicious food with friendly service that began nearly a century ago.
Best Seafood Shacks In US: Maryland Restaurant Makes List - July 2019
The Taste: Meet the New Chef at Fisherman's Inn - What's Up Magazine - August 2017
Schulz Family Profile - What's Up? Eastern Shore - May 2015
What's Up? Eastern Shore Feature - April 2015
Capital Gazette Review - February 2014
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