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T.J. Perkins def. Johnny Gargano (Second Round Match)
The resilient Johnny Gargano takes on the flashy T.J. Perkins as the Second Round of the Cruiserweight Classic comes to a close. Video courtesy of the award-winning WWE Network.
The last spot in the Quarterfinals was up for grabs as Johnny Gargano took on T.J. Perkins. In the locker room before the match, Johnny Wrestling was seen having his knee taped up by trainers, a painful reminder of the loss he and Tommaso Ciampa’s suffered to The Revival at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn II just four days prior … and a target for his opponent.
Perkins was quick in going after Gargano’s injured knee, stretching it with a Muta Lock early on in the match. Despite the injury, Gargano didn’t hold back, going after Perkins on the floor with a tope suicida and locking on a surfboard hold back in the ring. TJP’s confidence in his counter-wrestling never wavered; he eventually took back control of the match with a snug headscissors, followed by a dab to add insult to injury. Gargano turned the tables with a diving spear through the ropes, but each high-impact move he executed seemed to hurt his injured knee as much as it did Perkins.
Gargano’s fate may have been sealed while diving onto Perkins at ringside, when his injured leg slammed into the timekeeper’s table with a sickening thud. Johnny Wrestling fought valiantly, attempting to pick up TJP and launch him like a lawn dart into the turnbuckles, but his knee couldn’t support the weight at first. Gargano eventually succeeded, but the injury was too much to overcome. Perkins locked on a kneebar, and before the resilient Gargano could reach the ropes, he crossed his leg over, turning the submission into a hold he calls the TJP Clutch. The pain was too much for Gargano to bear; he had no choice but to submit.
The heartbreak was evident on Gargano’s face after the match, just as the elation was plastered over Perkins’. With the victory, the flashy Filipino moves on to face Rich Swann in the Cruiserweight Classic Quarterfinals, which start next Wednesday at 9/8 C, only on WWE Network.
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Gallery: Top 10 accessories for Apple's HomePod
There's a lot riding on the success of Apple's new HomePod smart speaker, so news that it had sold out on pre-orders ahead of the 9 February launch will have been met with a few sighs of relief in Apple's 'spaceship' HQ in Cupertino.
Initial reviews generally praise the speaker's audio quality, but the HomePod is also an AI-driven device that's designed to work with Apple's Siri voice assistant. And, crucially, the HomePod also incorporates Apple's HomeKit software for home automation. HomeKit was actually launched back in 2014, as part of iOS 8, but has struggled to gain support as smart speakers such as Amazon's Echo and Google Home have taken a lead in the smart home market.
So, as well as just being a high-quality speaker, the HomePod is also a vital strategic product that needs to be a success if Apple is to gain a foothold in the key home-automation market. And, with the HomePod barely a week old, the initial signs are favourable, with a number of new smart devices announcing support for HomeKit. Most of these are aimed at home users, but many can also be useful in an office or commercial environments such as hotels or restaurants (and, of course, most of them also support the Amazon Echo too).
If you're thinking of buying a £319/$349 HomePod as a hub for your smart home or office, here are some of the HomeKit-compatible devices you'll be able to control.
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August Smart Lock Pro
August Home is the best-known manufacturer of smart locks in the US, and several of its products work with HomeKit, allowing to you lock or unlock a door using Siri voice commands (as well as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant), or simply by using your smartphone as a key.
HomeKit's interoperability features mean that you can also link the locks to other HomeKit devices, perhaps turning on your Philips Hue lights as soon as you unlock the door to your office in the morning.
August's products aren't widely available in the UK as European homes and offices tend to opt for mortice locks rather than the dead-locks used in the US. However, the Smart Lock range is available via Amazon in the UK, although you should check the suitability of the door fittings in your home or office before buying.
£230 (inc. VAT, or $230)
August Home
Photo by: August
Belkin Wemo Bridge
Buying new lights, thermostats and other smart devices for your home or office can be expensive, but there are cheaper options that allow you to add some smart tech to existing devices.
Belkin's Wemo range of plugs and switches provide smart power-management features, allowing you to turn other devices on and off remotely, and also to monitor energy consumption. And, at CES this year, the company announced the Wemo Bridge, which adds HomeKit compatibility to the Wemo range of energy products (but not its security cameras, unfortunately).
The Bridge costs just $39.99 in the US, and has been selling like hotcakes since CES -- in fact, Belkin informed us that demand in the US is so strong that it may be a few weeks before it can start shipping to the UK and Europe.
$39.99 (£TBA)
Photo by: Belkin
Elgato Eve Room
Many recent news stories have covered health problems caused by indoor air quality, so monitoring devices that can measure temperature, humidity and levels of carbon dioxide and VOC (volatile organic compounds) can be useful in many offices and homes.
However, Elgato's Eve Room is one of the few air-quality monitors that also supports HomeKit (Netatmo's Healthy Home Coach is another). One of the great strengths of HomeKit is its ability to create 'automations' that combine and control multiple devices. So you could create an automation that links the Eve Room to a smart plug or switch that activates a fan or air-conditioning system (or even open the windows using the forthcoming Velux system from Netatmo). Elgato also makes a number of security sensors that support HomeKit, so they can all be controlled using the HomePod, or the Home app on most iOS devices.
£70 (inc. VAT, or $80)
Photo by: Elgato
Lightwave Link Plus
Like Belkin's Wemo Bridge, the Link Plus hub from Lightwave can be used to add HomeKit compatibility to the company's existing range of plugs, light switches and heating controls.
The hub can be bought on its own for £108.33 (ex. VAT, or £130 inc. VAT), which is more expensive than the Wemo Bridge, but the Link Plus can be used to control up to 200 separate Lightwave devices, including dimmer switches, power sockets, thermostats and radiator valves, and security sensors. The company also sells kits that bundle the Link Plus with a number of other accessories.
£130 (inc. VAT; $TBA)
Photo by: Lightwave
Security cameras are far and away the top-selling smart devices, and Logitech's Circle 2 is a versatile camera suitable for both home and office use. Bear in mind, though, that it's only the mains-powered 'wired' version of the Circle 2 that supports HomeKit, although there's a battery-powered 'wireless' model that can be controlled via its own app on both iOS and Android devices.
The camera itself is fairly conventional, providing 1080p video recording for security footage, but the wired version of the camera is weatherproof and suitable for both indoor and outdoor use. Logitech also sells accessories such as an outdoor extension lead and window-mount attachment that can be used to position the camera in order to monitor public locations such as offices and other commercial premises. There are also multi-packs available, with two or three cameras for larger buildings.
Photo by: Logitech
Nanoleaf isn't as well known as Philips, but the company has been making a name for itself recently with its imaginative Smarter range of smart lighting products.
As well as simple bulbs and lamps, Nanoleaf also produces the eye-catching Light Panels Smarter Kit, which costs £150 (ex. VAT; £180 inc. VAT, or $230). The kit includes nine triangular lighting panels that click together like Lego bricks, allowing you to create custom lighting designs to suit different rooms and locations.
Initially aimed at home users, the Light Panels have proved popular with many businesses for use in public locations such as hotels and restaurants. You can also buy expansion packs with additional panels for larger installations, and there's even a 'rhythm' add-on available that can sync the light display with music playing on the HomePod.
Photo by: Nanoleaf
Netatmo Presence
Netatmo's Presence combines a weather-proof security camera with a powerful floodlight, making it a good security option for monitoring the outside of homes, offices and other premises. Artificial intelligence allows it to tell the difference between people, animals and cars, and also to focus on specific zones outside your building. This means that it can ignore cars driving by, but then activate the floodlight if it detects someone approaching a door or window.
You can control the Presence using a conventional iOS app, but HomeKit support means that you can use voice commands too -- such as 'turn on the floodlight' if you want to have a quick look around outside.
Photo by: Netatmo
Netatmo Smart Thermostat
The Netatmo by Starck Smart Thermostat -- named after its famous designer, Philippe Starck -- isn't the only smart thermostat that aims to help reduce your energy bills (by 37%, according to Netatmo). However, it was one of the first to support HomeKit, allowing you to control the heating at home or in an office using voice commands. It also integrates well with the company's extensive range of home-automation and security products.
The Smart Thermostat is neatly designed too, with a translucent and sturdy plexiglass casing that's available in a variety of colours. You don't even have to attach it to a wall either, as the device can run off batteries and easily be carried from room to room. There's also a demo feature on Netatmo's website that allows you to view the main features in the thermostat's app to see if it meets your needs.
£150 (inc. VAT, $TBA)
Philips Hue White Starter Kit
Smart lighting that can help to reduce energy bills is useful for both home and business users, and Philips dominates the lighting market with its Hue range of smart bulbs, lamps and other devices.
You need to purchase one of the starter kits first, such as the Hue White Starter Kit, which costs £60/$70 and includes two Hue bulbs and the Bridge hub that connects to your router and provides the HomeKit compatibility. Make sure you get the square, second-generation version of the Hub, rather than the round, first-gen model.
With the Bridge hub in place you can expand your lighting setup by purchasing additional bulbs and lamps, as well as runners and ceiling lights that are suitable for office use.
from £60 (inc. VAT, or $70)
Photo by: Philips
Yale Assure Lock with iM1 Network Module
Yale is one of the world's best-known security companies, although it has been a little slow getting to grips with the Internet Of Things. But, after promising HomeKit support for a while, the company recently released its iM1 network module, which adds HomeKit compatibility to some of its Assure locks and keypads. The iM1 is currently available in the US and Canada, with UK pricing and availability due early in 2018.
The iM1 allows you to use Siri voice commands to lock or unlock a door, and if a HomePod or iPad is available, you can remotely control the lock over the internet as well. The lock and iM1 module cost around $250 together, but Yale recently announced plans to acquire August Home, in order to boost its range of smart locks. However, we're still hoping to see the results of Elgato's collaboration with Yale to see if they can provide a smart lock that's really suitable for European users.
iM1 - $50; with Assure Lock - $250
Photo by: Yale
By Cliff Joseph | February 14, 2018 -- 10:10 GMT (02:10 PST) | Topic: Apple
Apple's HomePod can be used as a hub to control HomeKit devices via Siri voice commands. Here's a selection of accessories worth investigating.
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The first biography of Robert Frank one of the world's greatest and most influential photographers.
“American Witness is the first comprehensive look at the life of a man who's as mysterious and evasive as he is prolific and gifted. Leaving his rigid Switzerland for the more fluid United States in 1947, Frank found himself at the red-hot social center of bohemian New York in the '50s and '60s, becoming friends with everyone from Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky to photographer Walker Evans, actor Zero Mostel, painter Willem de Kooning, filmmaker Jonas Mekas, Bob Dylan, writer Rudy Wurlitzer, jazz musicians Ornette Coleman and Charles Mingus, and more. Frank roamed the country with his young family, taking roughly 27,000 photographs and collecting 83 of them into what is still his most famous work: The Americans. His was an America nobody had seen before, and if it was harshly criticized upon publication for its portrait of a divided country, the collection gradually grew to be recognized as a transformative American vision. And then he turned his back on certain success, giving up photography to reinvent himself as a film and video maker. Frank helped found the American independent cinema of the 1960s and made a legendary film with the Rolling Stones. Today, the nonagenarian is an embodiment of restless creativity and a symbol of what it costs to remain original in America, his life defined by never repeating himself, never being satisfied. American Witness is a portrait of a singular artist and the country that he saw." Dust jacket
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At Whiston Willis, Global Learning plays a central role in our teaching and learning and we are proud to have achieved the full International School Award in July 2019. We believe the purpose of education is to develop young people with core skills and competencies that relate not only to the world in which they are living, but also to the future world in which they will live. These are often known as 21st century skills or deep learning skills and include:
ways of working: communication and collaboration
ways of thinking: critical thinking, problem solving, creativity and innovation, learning to learn and metacognition
tools for working: information literacy, information and communication technology (ICT) literacy
ways of living in the world: global citizenship and civic responsibility, including cultural awareness and competence
We aim to enable our students to learn about global issues by ensuring drawing out links in many of our topics to the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In addition to being embedded in our curriculum through the richness of our topics, the SDGs are also incorporated into a range of additional activities and initiatives throughout the school year, such as Fairtrade Fortnight and the work of our International School Council.
http://www.teachsdgs.org/
We celebrate the rich and diverse heritage represented in our school, local and national communities for example celebrating Multicultural week, World Religion Day, International themed World Book Day.
We respect and value different cultures and beliefs through the many varied trips and visitors here for example; Judaism Assembly, Harvest Celebration, Whole-School Remembrance Day
We enjoy regular contact with students and adults living in different countries, through membership of the ePALS website.
We actively encourage the study of a foreign language by teaching French and keeping in touch with our partner school in France.
Please check out our twitter account @whistonwillis1
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Please follow the links below to see examples of our work towards International School Status.
European Day of Languages
In September, the whole school took part in the European Day of Languages. Each Key Stage concentrated on a different European country, its language and its culture, including Spain, Germany, France and Italy. The children and staff have given their thoughts on the day and how they would like to develop this learning in the future.
This was also the starting point for a link with a new French partner school, Ecole de Villiers de Morhier in Rambouillet. Pupils from both schools introduced themselves and their respective schools in both English and French. This link has been actively maintained and developed all year, exchanging information about each of our schools, classrooms and curriculum.
French Partner School
During the school year 2018-9, our 8-10 year old have been communicating with pupils of the same age in Ecole Villiers le Morhier in Rambouillet, France.
Headteacher - Mr Mike Saulnier
Class teacher: Sabrina Hetrit
School address: Ecole de Villiers le Morhier
28130 Villiers le Morhier
Through the year, we have corresponded by post and email, exchanging information about ourselves, our schools and classrooms and our curriculum. We made and exchanged Christmas and Easter cards and parcels. A particular focus was on sharing and comparing key Global Learning activities and details of this can be found under European Day of Languages, Amnesty Art, International World Book Day and Centenary of World War One pages. We are also sharing details of our "Zoo project" and began by sending our partner school an animal names challenge, linked to our class names. They have responded with their own animal name challenge.
Partner School MathsPartner School Planets Partner School Location
Class NamesPartner School Animal ChallengeFrench Partner School Class and Curriculum
Amnesty Art
Our year 5 and 6 pupils had the opportunity to work with Gill Taylor, a local Art specialist, to create pieces of art work centred on 'Amnesty International.' At Whiston Willis Primary Academy, we strongly believe that our children should have a voice and that voice should be heard. The children created small pieces of art, reflecting the rights we should all have as human beings.
The children worked collaboratively, creating small sections which then came together to form a large piece. Each small piece depicts one of the human rights each and every individual is and should be entitled to. The children explored a variety of artistic mediums, such as collage, creating different textures, drawing, painting and using inks on silk. This impressive piece of art is now on display in our Key Stage 2 building to remind all pupils of these human rights.
We shared pictures and descriptions of our artwork with our French partner school and they responded with photographs and an account of their recent class visit to an art gallery.
Amnesty ArtTeacher Evaluation French Partner School Art
Currently, the whole school is working towards Rights Respecting Schools Silver Award. We are working on embedding the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in our policy, practice and culture. Each class has a Class Charter which is a mutual agreement between adults and children in classrooms and around school. The whole school also follows the "Jigsaw" PSHE scheme with key themes including "Being me in my world", "Relationships" and "Celebrating Difference".
Our Steering group has chosen Article 24 - The Right to the best healthcare, safe water to drink, nutritious food and a clean and safe environment as our Article of the Month for July as they felt it best linked to our work for the zoo project and the learning around the countries the endangered animals live in and varied living conditions there. The steering group are gathering work for our first Rights Respecting newsletter which they will be putting together to go out this half term!
International School Council
At Whiston Willis Primary Academy we have developed an International "Smart" School Council to ensure all children throughout school have their voice heard. Our online tool has allowed our “communication team” to get other children on board with global issues and ways in which we can have an impact.
This year the council’s first project was to support Children in Need. Every child from Nursery through to Year 6 designed a Pudsey biscuit, each donating £1.00 to take part. Within classes the children researched and discussed the important work that Children in Need do and ways in which our fundraising could help support this important work.
At Christmas the children within the Smart School Council discussed the increasing numbers of individuals who now found themselves living on the streets of Liverpool. Within classes we discussed rights of all individuals then looked at poverty and other issues facing people within our community and the wider world which can lead to homelessness. This led us to support The Whitechapel Homeless Charity.
Thw whole school community then participated in the Christmas shoe box appeal for the homeless. We came together and held a whole school assembly as the response to this appeal was amazing. We personally delivered the items to the Whitechapel and it was an emotional day.
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EYFS - Where does snow go?
At Whiston Willis Primary Academy, we ensure that Global Learning takes place from our pupils’ earliest days in school. In January and February, our youngest children in EYFS began to explore SDGs 6 (Clean water and sanitation), 13 (Climate Action) and 14 (Life below water) as part of their "Where does snow go?" topic. They considered how to care for living creatures and their habitats both near to home and far away. Parents and carers were informed and involved through a class newsletter and an "every little helps" challenge.
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To celebrate Black History Month, each class focused on a significant black individual from a book called Young, Gifted and Black by Jamia Wilson. Examples of these people included Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Maya Angelou. The children produced posters, leaflets and fact files as well as taking part in drama activities. As a whole school, we participated in Wear Red Day as part of the Show Racism the Red Card initiative. Every child was invited to come to school dressed in an item of red clothing and during the day, focussed on discussions involving racism and how we, as a school, can prevent this from happening and raise awareness.
At Whiston Willis all age groups were involved in learning all about Fairtrade during Fairtrade Fortnight and Fairtrade Maths Day 2019. We looked at which foods are Fairtrade, and where we could buy them. Children were challenged to search for for the Fairtrade logo whilst out shopping and to speak to their families about why Fairtrade is important. Fairtrade cakes were made and sent home as Mother’s Day gifts in EYFS. In Key Stage 1, chocolate bars were discussed and we designed a new wrapper and bar for Fairtrade traders to sell. Through the story of "Cloud Tea Monkeys", Key Stage 2 looked at a favourite drink of the nation – tea. They tried and tested different ones and really felt for the people who are being unfairly treated, then wrote to Tesco, persuading them to stock more Fairtrade products.
Learning about Fairtrade opened a window to the world and showed us that we are all connected and that small actions and changes in our daily lives can impact on producers and workers around the world..
In March, all our classes enjoyed an international theme for World Book Day. Each year group explored a different French text including "Heads, shoulders, knees and toes", "Dear Zoo", "Goldilocks" and "The hungry caterpillar.". We shared this experience with our French partner school, emailing examples of our work. Year 6 created their own book of "Otto" in French which we posted to our partner school and they emailed their response. Our partner school studied "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" in English and sent us photographs of the class members with their Wonka bars and golden tickets.
World Book Day Otto-French Partner School Charlie and Chocolate Factory -French Partner
Illegal Wildlife Trade - Chester Zoo Project
In the Summer Term, the whole school is taking part in an exciting new knowledge and humanity rich project based curriculum on the Illegal Wildlife Trade with guidance and the support of Chester Zoo, Ignite and in conjunction with the Literacy Tree. Each phase is focussing on a different animal; the ivory trade of the Black African Rhinos and Elephants, Sumatran Tiger and the plight of the Gauer’s Gorilla.
Each Key Stage is concentrating on a different animal.
EYFS: The Black Rhino
KS1: The Elephant
LKS2: The Gorilla
UKS2: The Sumatran Tiger
As a school we want to be the driving force of our education; learning powers through research, empathy, resilience, resourcefulness, reflectiveness, collaboration. We want to raise the awareness of the plight of animals who are pushed towards becoming critically endangered, forced to the edge of extinction. We want to understand and highlight the work people are achieving to create sustainable habitats and environments in which humans and wildlife can both thrive. We want to know and spread the word so that we be actively helpful and supportive to be better informed. We want to be making individual choices that don’t threaten species such as not buying products from wildlife protected by law and by supporting companies that demonstrate sustainable supply chains and environmentally responsible policies.
At Whiston Willis we want to show that we have a voice in which we can have impact on the future of our world and the world of others and importantly our own education. We are sharing our work and pictures of our exhibition with our partner school in France, to see if they feel the same.
The outcome of the project is a showcase/exhibition of the excellent work achieved within the school and its wider community through Literacy, Humanities, PSHE, Arts, UN Rights Respecting School and Sustainable Goals 14 and 15.
As quoted by Margaret Mead:
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
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South Africa Partner School
This year (2018/19), we have began building relationships with a school in South Africa called Khulasizwe Primary School in Tembisa. This relationship will be built upon during 2019/20.
Class Teacher: Nkazimulo Mbonani
School Address: Phofo and Nkwe street, Mqantsa section Tembisa 1632, South Africa.
During 2019/20, Year 3 and 4 children will be communicating via post, email and video; exchanging information about ourselves, our school, our class and our community. We will specifically be working on a project together looking at 'Quality Education'. The project illustrates how we can support the development of quality education for everyone through the study of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 - to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong opportunities for all.
Everyone Deserves A Quality Education - You Know Who I Am
In September-October 2018, Upper Key Stage 2 children were given the opportunity to increase their knowledge of the tropical and temperate rainforests and where they are situated in the world in relation to the equator. This was completed through map work and exploring the different types of rainforests across the world. They explored the varying layers of a rainforest and the living things which inhabit each area, including the indigenous people. After this, the children investigated SDG 15, “Life on Land”, learning about deforestation and how forests are being destroyed in order to make the land available for other things. This included burning forests, destroying the places where plants and wildlife live, and reducing biodiversity. In addition, they also discussed how climate change is affecting rainforest depletion, the small steps we can do to make a change and how we can convey this message to others.
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World War One centenary
During November 2018, all pupils took part in activities and learning to mark the centenary of World War 1. Each key phase focussed on a different aspect of World War 1. EYFS and Key Stage One created poppies out of arts and craft materials to commemorate the event. Lower Key Stage Two created their own information powerpoints which explained the special centenary celebration. Upper Key Stage Two focussed on the Christmas Truce. The children watched a video clip which illustrated the event and then wrote letters in role as a soldier writing home to his family. They also created a dance based on being soldiers in No Man‘s Land.
This activity linked with our partner school in France. We emailed examples of our learning and they told us how they commemorated the centenary through a visit to an exhibition about life in the trenches and through reading poems at a Remembrance event.
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An interview with Martin Pentenrieder, co-founder at Kraftwerk
by Heather Lo, W Hub - - 2016-11-28
Recognizing the growing popularity of electric cars and the global movement towards reducing CO2 emissions, the team at Kraftwerk have created a revolutionary, highly efficient fuel cell, which uses natural gas to produce cleaner energy. As part of the INFINITI Accelerator 2.0 program, Kraftwerk is developing a fuel cell extender solution to apply to existing electric cars. They are also developing their marketing arm in Hong Kong through the INFINITI Accelerator 2.0 program, to educate investors and consumers about their technology.
Air pollution has been a huge and serious topic in the city over the last few decades, and the general public has been paying more attention in reducing the emission of pollutants, which in turn has encouraged the development of electric cars. However, with the current technology and the way batteries for electric vehicles are being produced, the emission of CO2 hasn’t dropped drastically. The fusor for lithium ion batteries is very expensive with a lot of technical issues. “It is very expensive, yet the battery runs out quickly and it takes a long time to recharge,” Martin Pentenrieder, co-founder at Kraftwerk says.
With the mission to give a real impact in the fight against pollution and global warming and providing a more efficient alternative to lithium ion batteries, Kraftwerk strives to redefine electric mobility with the new technology.
Liquefied natural gas-powered fuel cell: feasible model for Hong Kong
Martin’s co-founder Sascha Kühn started the research on liquefied natural gas-powered fuel cells 15 years ago. Martin believes that this could be the future of electric cars in Hong Kong. “With Kraftwerk’s compact, full metal fuel cell, we can transform natural gas or hydrogen into electricity with an extremely high efficiency,” he says. Kraftwerk’s fusor can generate electricity in one compact package, and the product can run on natural gas (LPG, LNG, CNG, propane etc.) as well as hydrogen. “Our German fuel cell technology offers a much cleaner and efficient alternative to lithium ion batteries for long term sustainability concept. It can solve three major problems which exist with lithium ion batteries: pricing, weight and energy density. An electric car with our powertrain requires a refill just after 2000 miles by a 1-minute charge. The entire system will be just one-third of the weight and cost of a lithium ion battery EV,” Martin claims.
Martin points out Kraftwerk’s full metal fuel cell is the lowest carbon footprint mobility concept in the world. Martin says natural gas like CNG can be produced easily with the Power to Gas technology, a technology that converts electrical power to a gas fuel. The technology allows us to create natural gas out of renewable energy, reduce the emission of CO2 and enable a more sustainable future.
As well as being environmental friendly, Martin also pinpoints that it is a viable model for cities like Hong Kong. As the city is already armed with a large infrastructure of liquid petroleum gas(LPG) filling station, Martin says natural gas like CNG would work.
From Kickstarter to INFINITI Accelerator
Kraftwerk launched a campaign on Kickstarter in 2015 for its MVP (minimum viable product), a pocket-sized USB charger that uses fuel cell technology to convert camping fuel or lighter fluid into electricity. The campaign was chosen as a staff pick on Kickstarter, with more than 11.6K backers, Kraftwerk has successfully secured over US$1.5 million for its MVP power plant.
With such a huge success with the MVP, the US-based startup decided to join the INFINITI accelerator program to find a suitable investor and further accelerate the business. The INFINITI Accelerator 2.0 is a 12-week, full-time program designed to help startups from around the world grow and scale rapidly. Martin hopes to develop Kraftwerk’s marketing arm in Hong Kong through the accelerator program as educating customers and investors has been one of the biggest challenges for them. “The accelerator program is a great opportunity for Kraftwerk to better understand its potential clients and get feedbacks from them,” Martin says.
Using Hong Kong as one of their test markets, Kraftwerk also has set its sights on the highly populated Chinese mobility market, which is striving to become greener and more sustainable. “Hong Kong is the easiest way to get a soft start as it is an international city, we have encountered fewer problems when communicating with locals.”
Looking to the future, Martin hopes to further spread the message that there are other solutions to mobility besides the battery. He says the team is motivated by the eager to help lower the CO2 emission in Asia by developing a more sustainable and clean technology for the mobility concept.
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EgyptAir flight 804 from Paris to Cairo disappears from radar
An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar Thursday morning, according to multiple news accounts citing the airline. Flight 804 had 59 passengers and 10 crew aboard. According to Sky News Arabia, the plane was last detected in the skies over Greece, about 40 minutes from Athens. (www.washingtontimes.com) 更多...
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jhwenger 3年之前 18
New info coming out indicates that a fire in the electronics bay may have disabled the A/C. These message time-stamps seem to be coincident with the cessation of ADS-B transmissions.
"On May 20th 2016 The Aviation Herald received information from three independent channels, that ACARS (Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System) messages with following content were received from the aircraft:
00:26Z 3044 ANTI ICE R WINDOW
00:26Z 561200 R SLIDING WINDOW SENSOR
00:26Z 2600 SMOKE LAVATORY SMOKE
00:27Z 2600 AVIONICS SMOKE
00:28Z 561100 R FIXED WINDOW SENSOR
00:29Z 2200 AUTO FLT FCU 2 FAULT
00:29Z 2700 F/CTL SEC 3 FAULT
no further ACARS messages were received"
If you remember previous Airbus fire pictures the main electrical buses, relays and really big circuit breakers are right under the first officers seat. Exactly what the ACARS messages indicate. They probably had no radios and ultimately lost all the flight control computers.
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John McCabe 3年之前 4
Thanks! - It's good to get information instead of speculation...
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PhotoFinish 3年之前 2
An FAA Inspector with experience investigating this A320 cockpit window lamination issue gave an interview this morning in which he believes that the evidence and his intuition from prior experience with the issue is that it is leaning more toward mechanical failure rather than act of terrorism, which is what he and most might've believed initially given the sudden catastrophic failure at altitude.
He basically said that the window comes apart over time and the gold laminate between the layers of window drops down and forms a capacitor-like structure that holds electrical charge and can lead to overheating of window and possible cause an electrical fire, etc.
I tried to find links about this, but didn't find anything directly addressing the issue.
I did find this old story, which I'll share, about a couple of pilots who found themselves at the pointy end of an A320 full of passengers, without coms and with blank nav screens in the crowded NYC airspace. In that instance they turned around and landed back at Newark without being able to coordinate with ATC tower and without being able to see other aircraft except with their eyeballs. Luckily it was daylight with clear weather.
http://www.denverpost.com/2012/08/22/airbus-a320s-cockpit-problems-continue-since-faa-order/
sparkie624 3年之前 2
A lot of cockpit windows have that issue... We in maintenance keep a close look at that. I have seen some that they determinate so bad that they have to be repaired at out stations. This does not happen often, sometimes we can ferry pressurized, and sometimes we have to ferry unpressurized and a few the plane is AOG.
joel wiley 3年之前 3
Source is
http://avherald.com/h?article=4987fb09&opt=0
Amoc Sivunna 3年之前 1
OK. Interesting informations. Anyway we'll know more from the flight recorder results.
Peter F. Hartmann Esq. 3年之前 -170
Can you help me out...? What is a "flight recorder? By chance are you referring to a CVR ( Cockpit Voice Recorder ), or a FDR? ( Flight Data Recorder ). Or are you referring to the various sat. based systems Part 121 maintainence ops. keep track of their aircraft ?
Ricky Scott 3年之前 8
Yes flight Recorders, In fact I was in the Flight Recorder group at Boeing. Do you have some expertise in Designing them and what they are called ?
Peter F. Hartmann Esq. 3年之前 -90
Hi Ricky:
In answer to your question...I have never seen a "Flight Recorder".
And ..to be honest..I am probably not competent to design a tree-house...!
I read somewhere that there are FLIGHT DATA RECORDERS and COCKPIT VOICE RECORDERS, and also, to assist in IRAN issues, some large turbine aircraft continually separately broadcast data-streams on the "health" of the aircraft.
But again, I have NO competence in that area...so all I can do is ask QUESTIONS about what people post...certainly not be so bad-mannered as to offer an OPINION about something I know nothing about.
Well..let me take this back...my new Garman Area 500 ( just bought it as a "back-up" in case my entire panel incurs a main-buss failure and goes down...) does actually record some parameters of my ops. Even gives me a "cookie crumb" trail I could follow back to my last "fix" or landing !
But I must apologize...that was my OPINION...of course it is totally irrelevant and unnecessary to the tragedy being discussed in this "thread"....I have no idea whether EggyptAire or, for that matter..other Part 121 operators have anything nearly as sophisticated as my Garmin Area 500......!
The 2 basic boxes known as the "Black Boxes" which ironically are the only 2 boxes on the plane that are not black and are actually bright orange with Red Stripes in most cases. The CVR is audio from the "Cockpit Voice Recorder" and records all of the sounds in the cockpit from multiple sources and channels (similar to stereo or surround). The FDR (Flight Data Recorder) or now days known as the DFDR (Digital Flight Data Recorder) and picks up from sensor and switch positions, messages, and all sorts of info including flight control position, commanded position, Engine Settings, and Engine run parameters and much more that can be downloaded to a computer to be plotted or rebuilt. The CVR and DFDR are also linked via a data bus to sync time so that the voice track on most can be linked to the digital data to give a real time audio vs a/c actions.
This type would be on most 121 a/c as well as a lot of 145 (depending on size). In reality it could be installed in any FAA class even 91 depending on the a/c size and configuration. Sometimes required, sometimes not.
No the CVR and FDR/DFDR only track its own plane, not any other planes in close proximity, but some data from the TCAS may be logged to the DFDR in the form of TA or RA alerts for close traffic and commands to the flight crew (Climb or Decent)
william baker 3年之前 6
Don't edge Hartmann on. He's just looking for attention that among other things. Lo. Rest in peace off all Aboard EgyptAir 804. May we find the truth and come up with a solution for it to never happen again.
Sorry Lo. Is Lol
sparkie....you are wasting these people's time. More and more "flyers" are taking over this "site"....fewer and fewer people like you, who have actual technical knowledge, ( and thus have opinions worth reading ) are coming in here.
So I submit you are wasting the "flyers" time....by taking up space posting technical detail that is of little value or interest to them, you are interfering with their endless "opinions"........
rapidwolve 3年之前 15
The only thing wasting people's time is the shackababble coming from your fingers...I, for 1, listen to the opinion of others and if I don't agree or understand, I engage them about it...you, on the other hand, come on here like you are king of pilots and aviation and no one else is suppose to comment...you asked a question, it was answered, very well I might add, and you proceeded to be a jerk...this is not the time, nor place, for idiots like you so take your holier than thou attitude and stuff it...my apologies if I have offended anyone, not including Hartmann Esq.
Amen. Well said rapidwolve. Thank you
Work on your reading comprehension please. I love to see opinions......that is, if they were made by people who have knowledge of what they are posting about. A opinion by someone who justs posts to feel good about themselves is of no benefit to me.
Obviously , I am not technically competent to discuss this tragedy. If you feel you are, perhaps you could take a cue from "sparkle"'. Tell us your background. I would place high value on your opinion if you could help me understand & add to my knowledge about this tragedy
allench1 3年之前 6
This is both a site for factual information as sparkie624 and high time experienced pilots as myself and our lost brother preacher1 ( Wayne Bookout ) and those that submit their thoughts to move the conversation forward. This is both a factual site and a conversation site for those who try to bring their thoughts on a crash before the facts emerge.One more fact: you are new to this site whereas sparkie624,myself among others have been here for many years, so tame your arrogance, but that must be hard for an Esq. of ????
preacher1, Wings flying higher than ever before... Rest In Peace! He is highly missed here and as a great personal friend.
tim mitchell 3年之前 2
Preacher1 is truly missed.
Hopefully, the "fliers" in here wont drive away the folks like this "Preacher" - I know towards the end he was getting really tired of "fliers" cluttering up this forum with their OPINIONS. He, like the rest of us who are actually involved in aviation, welcome QUESTIONS. I have never seen anyone suggest we shouldn't have "fliers" in here asking QUESTIONS.
There are plenty of public chat rooms where those who have a need to express their OPINIONS, whether or not they have a CLUE what they are posting about....Hopefully, good manners will prevail, encouraging people like the late "Preacher" to stay in here.
Olav Neiuwejaar 3年之前 4
"There are plenty of public chat rooms where those who have a need to express their OPINIONS," says the person who has registered more opinions on this thread than any other person. "Hopefully, good manners will prevail" and he will end his little game.
Wolfgang Prigge 3年之前 2
We should all remember this important advice: "Don't feed the troll!" I'm certain preacher would agree with me.
In case you have not figured out out, Preacher is now Flying at Flight Level Unlimited, He was probably one of the most influential person in the forms and was respected by all... I am not sure what he would have said to you, but I assure you it would have been fitting and at the exact right time....
Rest in Peach my Good Friend.
rapidwolve 3年之前 1
I think you replied to a brick wall, sparlie...The more I learn about who Preacher was, the more I can understand how and why he was so well liked and respected in here.
Do you suppose the reason this "Preacher" fellow was so highly regarded, was because he did NOT go spouting OPINIONS except when he was in a technical area where he knew what he was posting about ? Discuss, please ?
To my recollection, the Reverend Mr. Bookout aka Preacher1 expressed on opinions on a wide range of subjects, not all of which he had in-depth technical expertise. He opinions were mainly thoughtful, well-considered and mostly respectful of the other posters. He did occasionally provide a slap-up-the-side-of-the-head when warranted. I believe he gave a couple of them to you.
Should you have any interest to do so, you are welcome to peruse the comments posted by Preacher1. All squawk comments are retained by Flightaware and are available by doing a right click on the poster's id.
As for your question supposing the reason this '"Preacher" fellow' was regarded and posing the question "Discuss, please?", that is, in my opinion, way of the topic of the current thread.
Your consistent and continued comments seem to fit the definition of diatribe. For example. here is an excerpt from one of your earlier posts taken from the Flightware squawk history:
The operators of this forum may wish to consider some mechanism to limit these comments to legimiate flight crew. I am not clear how either the REAL aviation community, or this form of communication, benefits from the spurious comments of people who clearly are not pilots - simply "wanna-be's" who feel a need to intrude with silly comments into a technical area beyond their comprehension.
(Written on 01/09/2013)
In Regards to your comment: "The operators of this forum may wish to consider some mechanism to limit these comments to legimiate flight crew." --- Well that would certainly kick me out and I have been pounding this site for over 7 years now. But I do know what you are saying.
The last para should have been in quotes as it was a comment Mr. Hartmann posted 3 years ago.
Sorry Joel..I do know what you maen and are saying..I do go off sometimes on these "trolls" and I realize I shouldnt.
Sometimes I forget "least said, soonest mended"
Ya, I flew up from KDTS to see him a few months before his final flight and unless i'm wrong i think he told me you had come to see him as well, but I could be wrong as I am getting up in years, born in 45.
Yeah... We only lived a few hours from each other... A good person to say the least... It seemed like he knew what to say and when to say it and it was always perfectly timed.
ya I bring him up when I can to honer his life so he is not forgotten.
A special thanks to yourself and sparkie for honoring preacher1 as you do...I did not know him long but feel as thou he was a HUGE part of a great many in here..I salute to you preacher1.
"those who submit their thoughts to move the conversation forward" ? Yes, cant agree more - we need the thoughts of folks like you, Sparkie, and Preacher - people who have actual technical knowledge of some particular area being discussed.
My concern is the infestation of this "site" by people who apparently have some emotional connection with aviation, have some "need" to see their words in print.
Of course if they ASK QUESTIONS hopefully one or more of us who is educated in that particular area will help them out. That's not the problem.
The problem is all these "wanna-be's" taking space on the screen that SHOULD be used for people - again, like you, Sparkie, and the late "Preacher". It does appear that some, if not many people with a LEGIT interest in aviation are dropping out - they just don't have the time or patience to filter thru so many opinions that just waste our time.
By the way...I am hardly "new"....I suppose I should admit then when I took my first IFR check-ride, we were still being cross-trained in lo-freq ( "AM band") en-route nav....!
WeatherWise 3年之前 7
What gives you the right to declare who is a "wanna be" on this site? You don't know anything about me or most of the folks here, for that matter. How does anyone know the qualifications of ANYONE posting here? Anybody can type in any pilot rating they want when they sign up. You don't engage in discussion, you actively seek confrontation, so as far as I'm concerned, pilot or not, that makes you a troll. Try behaving like a normal human being and less like a cranky old workman's comp lawyer.
Please work a little harder on both your reading comprehension and anger-management issues. I do not recall asking anyone about their qualifications. I do not recall suggesting anyone who is curious about aviation, shouldn't ask questions.
I DO recall suggesting there are plenty of chat rooms for those who have a desire to venture opinions whether or not they have a background in any given subject matter.
I cannot contribute to this particular "thread", because as I noted, I have no background in the area. Good manners suggest I do not venture an opinion - heck, this tragedy involves technical issues so far beyond me I don't even know what questions to ask..!
The only "discussion" I can contribute, is suggest GOOD MANNERS so that those of you who DO know what they are talking about, can give us YOUR opinion. That's what many of us are here for. ( If I wanted to hear how "the bad guys stole their airplane and are hiding it on a desert island"...there are plenty of general public chat rooms for that ! )
Look at how much time and screen space you guys are wasting - you realize how silly some of you sound - what in hell are you angry about....? My noting the obvious ? That this "site" is increasingly taken over by people who just want to say something..anything, to tell the world they are here ?
Again (not that repeating myself is going to get thru to those too hard-headed and angry with the world to comprehend ) I do not recall objecting to the general non-aviator public coming in here to ask questions.
Again, (not that repeating myself is going to get thru to those too hard-headed and angry with the world to comprehend...) I DO SUGGEST FOLKS NOT QUALIFIED IN AN AREA...ASK QUESTIONS...LISTEN....BUT PLEASE DONT CLUTTER UP THIS PARTICULAR SITE WITH 'OPINIONS' that make it harder to filter thru to learn from the posts/opinions of people like "Sparkie" and the late "Preacher".
Mike Reimer 3年之前 10
"BUT PLEASE DONT CLUTTER UP THIS PARTICULAR SITE WITH 'OPINIONS'" Says the poster who has just posted his "opinions" on the subject no fewer than 10 times in this thread alone. LMAO Peter
So you are saying YOUR behavior on here would be considered GOOD MANNERS??? You've done nothing but ridicule members on here. You are basically saying anyone posting on here who isn't pilot rated or an expert on the subject at hand should "go elsewhere"? This is a forum for open discussion on aviation related topics, for anyone who joins FA. And gee, Esq., so sorry that some of us aren't aviation experts like you. This is a post about an air crash. Should we ban everyone who isn't an NTSB investigator from commenting? You say you're not qualified to discuss this incident but yet this comment section is full of your insults and condescending remarks. Here's some "reading comprehension" for you: How about YOU go find a chat room and "venture an opinion" as to why people don't like you. You liked "Preacher"? THEN TAKE YOUR OWN ADVICE AND BE LIKE HIM!
To be honest... We have very few negative conversations here. On occasion I know I have gone off the deep end, gotten flamed here, and be brought down by Preacher1 (RIP). We usually have good open discussions, but keep in mind that most of us are discussion theories and try to figure out what is going on, not necessarily trying to figure what equipment is on board, or other similar items. It is more open discussion of different views of what happened and hopefully we as professionals can learn from them and not make those mistakes... Sometimes as we have seen from Eastern 401, even 1 small light bulb not working can cost the lives of hundreds of people and that is no exaggeration. That is why CRM was instigated across the US and I hope that EVERY AIRLINE CREW MEMBER here uses it everytime they fly... (Especially when I am flying on board, or they are flying over my head :)...)
Just my opinion, and the regulars know that I share many of them.... UGH.. time for the flaming to start :)
Keep on doing exactly what you do sparkie..I obtain a good deal of info from your posts and appreciate it
Ken McIntyre 3年之前 7
Well, Peter...
Why are you so condescending? Not everyone on here is an "expert", me included. But, I did have 5 1/2 years of airline ground experience in the late 80s for a large regional carrier. Was weather qualified and on the emergency first response team.
Just because a person is not a 30 year "left seater" doesn't mean that they can't be interested and contribute. (I miss preacher)
As for the fans, let them be. They are trying to learn something. For trolls, give it up. They are everywhere and you'd better grow a thick hide. Ignore them both if you can't stand them.
This is a public forum. At least that was what I was led to believe.
Bill Babis 3年之前 1
The location and progression seams to point to the FO location. Could it have started with a spilled cup of coffee or is the area well protected from liquid contamination? The crew may not have been able to make a distress call because voice comm radios may have been taken out before the ACARS messages started.
Not very likely. Keep in mid if in fact the FO had done this the captain still has his side which is totally seperate. Keep in mind that there are 2 or more of all critical systems... 2 Navs, 2 Comms, 2 AHRS or IRS or INS systems, etc, etc, ... and each side gets power from its own side as there are also 2 generators and so forth... If the FO did do this, it would have only affect equipment on his side and not to mention there are backup systems as well.
Thanks sparks. I don't know the aircraft and was thinking more along the lines that a common area existed there where all the buses or main feeder bus could be affected.
As far as tbe bussing goes, there is no common area so to speak.... The FO's equipment is on the FO's side and the Captains side is on his side!. The Center console is split and almost nothing is shared. The only sharing really and varies between fleets is the Door Lock, Radar Control Panel, Throttles, Yaw Dampner, and a few other things. Over head panels are different. They are departmental, in other words bleed control is on the bleed panel, Air Conditioning is on the its own, and the same for the Electrical, Hydraulic, lighting and other systems.
Well, we have some knowns of what was happening on board and I am just fishing for the two biggest unknowns. What started the sequence of events and why no communications from the crew.
Just remember... When ever you are flying a plane... the first and foremost concern and priority is to "FLY THE PLAN".. communications is somewhere down the lines... they may not have had time to send a message. -
Very true. I just can't think of another instance not related to a planned attack where the crew didn't communicate at least once. Even ValueJet and SwissAir crews communicated. The onset was very rapid even to the extent of an incendiary device in the cockpit. With still no claims of responsibility, we will just have to wait and see.
Well with Swiss air and valujet the pilots had time to send a message to atc. Thy both flew more then ten minutes after the fires started. This aircraft depending on the if it was a fire and when it started went basically down to the ground in a few mintues. If it had stayed together they were probably fighting to control the jet and bring it back to level flight rather then call atc which again both valujet and Swiss air had time for because neither jet took a plunge at first. But time will tell what happen to this aircraft and we will find a solution to the issue and pray it never happens again.
Also keep in Mind Eastern 401 that they did not have time to contact ATC, all because of one Burnt Out Light bulb, which is the Primary Reason for the development or CRM in the Cockpit. One analogy that no one thought about. Maybe both crew members got so involved with Troubleshooting the aircraft that they forgot the one key point of there job.... "FLYING THE PLANE". We know there was several smoke alarms... Just supposed they were trying to find the source so bad that forgot while they were there... Keep in mind the unexplained movements... One tight turn followed by the circle down. Suppose they both were troubleshooting depending on ole Fred to fly knocking him off line and by the time they realized what was going on it was too late... I would also like to Reference that the strict cockpit policies in the US and the US Training, it is not necessarily true over sees with less stricter procedures... With that the perfect example would be "KLM Flight 4805" who began its take off roll without departure clearance and the FO did not challenge him and thus causing the worst kind of runway incursion with Pan Am Flight 1736... I think most here could remember that scenario.
For those of us who remember, it is one thing: someone born that day is 39. There are a couple of generations now that might benefit from looking into those events. Mr. Hartmann suggests 'listening' and many topics for research can be found in some of these squawks.
PLANESOLUTIONS 3年之前 0
I'd add that is depends on what the plan is. Only fly the plan if it makes sense!
Dave McCoy 3年之前 11
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MSR804/history/20160518/2045Z/LFPG/HECA
glen krc 3年之前 1
Also interesting is MSR803, which has a recent history identical to that of 804 (i.e., consistent use of 737-800, except on May 18). 803 arrived at CDG from Cairo about 90 minutes prior to 804's departure from CDG, leading to the strong possibility that the A320 was the same aircraft - and evidently a substitute aircraft - for both flights. The essential conclusion is that the substitution of the A320 for the 737-800 did not occur at CDG, but in Cairo (or earlier point of origin).
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MSR803/history/20160518/1450Z/HECA/LFPG
Jon Van Staalduinen 3年之前 18
Cruising altitude
Reliable airliner
Decent carrier
I dont like where this is going....
Don't want to throw out the "T" word quite yet....
But realistically....has to be number 1 suspect at this point
Water temperature would allow for a window of survivability.
Thoughts and prayers....
Robert Curley 3年之前 -1
This wouldn't be the first time an EgyptAir flight was deliberately flown into the sea.
Jeffrey Bue 3年之前 0
Yep...
william baker 3年之前 -2
Egypt Air 990 was flown into the ocean not the Sea folks lol.
Jim Murray 3年之前 9
One day the black box will be pulled from the depths of the Med Sea and we will know.
Tim Smith 3年之前 2
It will be nice when the commercial air fleet is equipped with black boxes that float. The military has had them for years.
http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-airbus-to-equip-long-haul-jets-with-floatable-black-boxes-2015-1
black boxes ? tell us more. Is it possible you are referring to the various recording devices - (oh..by the way..none of them are black...by ICAO regs...they must be INTERNATIONAL ORANGE.......)
Peter you are well aware they are commonly called black boxes even though they are painted international Orange. We whom designed the systems called them black boxes, so dont be so arrogant.
And yes, I designed the specifications and integration of the Flight Data Recorder systems for 737, 747, 757, 767, and 777 aircraft. Just so you are thinking about pulling one of your holier than thou attitudes.
WELL said Ricky,well said.
See my message above.
thank you for that informative post...."the black box"....tell us more about "the black box"......
You really are quite the asshole, Petes. Maybe you should hang it up.
Just my view, I think this was maintenance related to pressurization and too many cycles... I think just like Aloha Airlines 247 and Japan Airlines Flight 123 with the Aft pressure bulk head blowing out. It appears that they were partially able to control the aircraft, but was too much as the start of the decent appeared controlled based on radar data. I think that if this was a bomb that we would have seen a much more radical flight path. Keep in mind that the A320's are old and the first came out in the mid/late 80's and the fact that over seas they have much less strick rules on inspections and cycles. Many times when a plane is cycle or timed out in the US that same plane is shipped over seas and continues revenue flights.
Just my opinion.. .Don't blast me too bad please! I have been a working on these type of a/c since about when this model came out.. and wow that makes me feel old. :)
Ivan Blakely 3年之前 2
SU-GCC (MSN 2088) first flight was July 2003. Is that old?
Don't know the number of cycles, but the production list shows many older aircraft active with first tier airlines, including Delta, United, BA, Finnair, Air New Zealand, Qatar, Iberia, Austrian, Swiss, American, the list goes on.
I looked at multiple sites I think you may be right ...the plane was only 12.8 years old.
Depends on whether or not ownership ever changed hands...It may have operated for years under another registration number before being sold to the current carrier.
Doesn't sound too far fetched to me.
Gerald Anderson 3年之前 1
If that's the case, the rules on aircraft should be world wide and the practice of selling aircraft overseas , then do they monitor anything close to our standards?
Matt Lacey 3年之前 1
Japan 123 was a misperformed repair or retrofit. It wasn't too many cycles. There was a doubler that was connected to nothing on the other side. I saw an AIAA pitch a few years ago from one of the investigators that showed a drawing of the error.
Very true... But who is to say that something similar did not happen. they have not gone through the aircraft records yet. We do not know what kind of repairs it was.
Also, with the news all the smoke warnings, it is really now looking like an electrical related problem based on new evidence released from ACARS data.
Sad thing about that one is i believe that bulk head repair was actually signed off on by an inspector.
The repair was preformed by Boeing and inspected and signed off by a Boeing and Japan Airlines Inspector.
Jonathan Davis 3年之前 6
Hopes and prayers.
Casey Samnek 3年之前 6
Crashes are never easy to digest for me. What was going through their minds, what happened, what did it feel like. Let's hope they find out soon.
canuck44 3年之前 4
Why would an A329 have a crew of 10 for 59 passengers...was there a second crew dead heading back to Cairo?
mary susan watkins 3年之前 2
this was clarified....news reports called three security officers (our equivalent of air marshalls)in the count of 10 crew..
Rob Jose 3年之前 2
EgyptAir says 3 of the 10 were security personnel. The 7 remaining is still a lot. Maybe 2 flying, 3 cabin crew, and 2 dead-heading?
linbb 3年之前 -35
At the point they were all killed that makes little difference and of no bearing on why it crashed. OK?
Tom Lyons 3年之前 3
It might have a bearing if one of the crew was complicit.
If this turns out to be terrorism, a complicant crewmember with a bomb in the cockpit would explain many of the unknowns. May God comfort all invoved and send the perpetrators to burn in hell.
And so once again, the idiot speaks.
Robert Walker 3年之前 -10
Yeah, and he just said "And so once again, the idiot speaks".
Wow, your first ever comment on FA. Congrats!
Sanders Cleveland 3年之前 6
Why does FA show it as a 737-800 but news says its an A320?
temukukiwi 3年之前 3
Yes it's one of there A320 aircraft it was on FLIGHTAWARE and Flightradar24 not a BOEING 737
That route is normally served by a 737-800 but this particular day it was an A320..my thoughts and prayers go to all the family members and friends of all involved
The plane planned was probably AOG somewhere and instead of substituting one of there own planes, they may have contracted this flight to another carrier.
http://www.9news.com.au/world/2016/05/19/14/02/an-egyptair-flight-with-69-people-on-board-has-disappeared-from-radar
TBCA
EgyptAir has confirmed flight MS804 was carrying 59 passengers and 10 crew when it vanished from radar this morning.
EgyptAir said on its Twitter account it is in the process of dispatching rescue crews.
MS804 was flying at 37,000 feet when it disappeared at 2.45am Cairo time (10.45am AEST), EgyptAir said.
"An informed source at EGYPTAIR stated that Flight no MS804, which departed Paris at 23:09 (CEST), heading to Cairo has disappeared from radar," the airline said in press release.
"EGYPTAIR media centre will update as more information becomes available."
Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/world/2016/05/19/14/02/an-egyptair-flight-with-69-people-on-board-has-disappeared-from-radar#7Sqe8XZpr2CS0q3b.99
Colin Seftel 3年之前 3
Wreckage has been found on Friday, 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Alexandria, according to a statement from the Egyptian military. This follows an erroneous report of wreckage south of Crete on Thursday.
See http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/20/middleeast/egyptair-flight-804-main/
jeff forber 3年之前 3
It looks like my flightfeeder and piaware picked up the last minutes of his flight see link ...........http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MSR804/history/20160518/2045Z/LFPG/HECA/tracklog
Robert Wells 3年之前 3
Via CNBC, Egypt air is reporting that the a320 HAS crashed. Search aircraft have spotted aircraft parts floating in the sea. This aircraft was put in service in 2003 & CNBC has shown the actual aircraft file photo. Thoughts & prayers for the families of those lost.
CBS news now reporting that the flight recorders have been located.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/egyptair-flight-804-black-boxes-crashed-airplane-located-mediterranean-sea/
This is great news, but by reading the article, FInding them is one thing.. Getting to them may be a totally different subject as they are being listed as being as much as 10000 feet deep,and keep in mind it may be a recorder and not recorders! so we may have one or the other... Hopefully it turns out to have both in very close proximity, but that is usually not the case.
I don't know how Airbus does it but on Boeing they are next to each other in the rear of the aircraft. Hopefully they will be near each other. EAR data requirements are similar to FAA but there should be enough on the modern FDR and CVR to point them in the right direction. Avionics bay parts would be a plus.
Some Boeings have 1 in the tail and the CVR up front.
Rog, The ones I worked on we downloaded data out of the rear near the tail. CVR may be up front, never really payed attention a lot of times. To busy trying to get my FDR data downloaded after a test :).
You are exactly correct, all that I am saying is that some of them are moving them to the front. I do not know the reason for this. Personally I think they should be in the back.
Ruger9X19 3年之前 1
Just speculating but by separating them you increase the chance at least some of the data survives or is found. Say for instance they happen to find the FWD fuselage sections of the missing Malaysian aircraft. If both boxes are in the back then all the data is still lost to us.
Cade foster 3年之前 3
What is this doing on the Main FlighAware page like it just happened? Maybe a date or something in the Title/Heading. Thought Egypt Air had just lost another plane.
David Barnes 3年之前 3
I wondered the same thing! FlightAware Squawk glitch?
ian hatch 3年之前 2
the graphs of altitude and speed correlate with the ADS-B data - neither show a change of heading or rapid descent - did the ADS-B data get truncated on Flightaware or did it cease suddenly
Last track entry was at 33.7/ 28.8 from LTFG. FA shows 4 feeders on Cyprus. Wonder if any of them picked up anything.
ride click 3年之前 2
Would a rudder hard over exhibit the same flight path?
Jeff Katten 3年之前 2
Just a comment about the potential for a Volcanic Ash incident. Have a look at http://www.meteo.fr/vaac/archives/ETNA/e.20160519061200.ETNA.201611.201605190600.html It appears that another A320 reported volcanic ash at FL360 roughly 3 hours after the accident aircraft lost radar contact. Has anyone heard any other reports that may indicate that Ash from Mt. Etna may have been a factor? Is there the potential that there was physical damage to radio antennas and pitot tubes?
Claude DIS 3年之前 2
This is what was spotted Wednesday by the International Space Station :
https://www.facebook.com/NASAAstronautJeffWilliams/photos/a.524217247761107.1073741828.513174152198750/572610542921777/?type=3&theater
Could there be something ?
Aljazeera is now reporting that the Greek radar findings were incorrect. The head of Egypt's state-run provider of air navigation services says that EgyptAir flight 804 did not swerve or lose altitude before it disappeared off radar.
See http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/05/egyptair-plane-swerve-crash-160523143800474.html
Looks weird. Aljazeera quotes Reuters, which doesn't give precise details about what the Egyptian air navigation said. Why would the Egyptians say that ? To put one more layer of fog on this tragedy ? Makes me think of the information of the French TV M6 (very poor quality) saying Saturday that the pilots had talked to the Egyptian air control about smoke in the cockpit a few minutes before the plane disappeared from radars. This information has afterwards been proven wrong.
But the top of stupidity so far is this one :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3604875/Extraordinary-claim-Turkish-airline-pilots-saw-UFO-MS804-vanished-just-hour-crashed-emerges-one-Turkey-s-biggest-news-outlets.html
They just forget that on Thursday at 11:30pm, the MS804 had been at the bottom of the Med Sea for almost 24 hours.
rsmath 3年之前 2
how far does egyptian airspace cover off the coast of egypt? I keep wondering as I watch the coverage if anyone on the mediterranean coast near cairo with a decent ads-b setup would have been able to pick up any final ads-b transmissions. I know FA (nor apparently the competitor who the news orgs have been showing during their coverage) seem to have a feeder who picked up final ads-b. Distance-wise from my own experience here in the U.S., I'm routinely receiving aircraft flying 37,000 feet starting at 200 miles away so I wonder if that would have covered egyptian airspace if I were in cairo or if egypt airspace covers further out.
that should be "not had a feeder".
Most airlines at this point have not incorporated ADS-B, so that would be a real long shot. ADS-B is very very new technology.
tell us more about how & why you receive ADS-B "out" signals...why you have such a receiver ? Mine is a Garmin 750 linked to a Garmin transponder - in my aircraft, of course. Is your ADS B receiver in YOUR aircraft ?
joel wiley 3年之前 11
Counselor, are you familiar with the site: http://flightaware.com/adsb/ ?
Well said. Mr. Hartmann is well known for berating anyone and everyone who doesn't have their pilot's license, regardless of knowledge or experience. This post is no different.
I concur David and very well said to both yourself and Joel
I do not recall berating people who do not have a pilot's license. I DO recall berating people, whether they have some "RATING" or not, who come into a technical site and take up space with their OPINIONS in areas they are not qualified in.
Of course everyone, whether they are a "flyer" or someone actually connected with aviation, wants to know more. Best way to LEARN is to LISTEN.
I know less than nothing about turbine-powered aircraft & Part 121 ops. I cannot imagine being so rude as to volunteer an opinion in that area, taking up space for those who DO!.
It is not your space to dictate how it is used, oh and I am a well Qualified pilot from baby 9's through 747 diff. models and an assortment of private turbines. Not trying to be sarcastic just stating the facts, but of course reading your previous squawks you will want proof and you arnt woth the time.
Thanks for the link. The way that I am into Avionics/Electronics, Computers, and Planes, I am certainly going to build one of those devices... great info that I had not found yet.
Yes - I am aware of what ATC can do and how the system benefits from ADS B. On mine and other systems I am aware of, I can see other airplanes for miles around. Of great imterest when I am operating my airplane.
If what you folks are telling me is correct, some of you have some kind of weird hobby, using the system just to watch other people traveling around. Not clear where the benefit to that kind of hobby is....?
Mr. Hartmann, I am not sure you read thru the link that I posted and upon which you commented 'weird hobby'. Had you done so, you might have seen that the 'hobby' is a series of products produced to feed data to Flightaware. Included in that link is:
"With over 50 non-ADS-B data sources and over ten million monthly users, FlightAware is the world's largest aggregator and free source of live flight tracking and flight data. If you have ADS-B data or are interested in receiving it, FlightAware is the best partner for sharing your data with the world and being recognized for your contribution. FlightAware will aggregate your positions with dozens of available sources to share with millions of users."
I personally see a benefit to my providing data to Flightaware by receiving an Enterprise Subscription ($89/mo value). That Flightaware developed and maintains the software to run the feeds, they seem to feel there is value as well.
"Share my data"......? I don't "get it". People other than ATC and others in the area and altitude that I am operating I would want to know or care what I do with my airplane?
Yes, Mr. Hart. Your flight patterns in particular are of great interest to me. I do not wish to be around your area of operations as if you are this terrible at trolling on the internet, I'm expecting your flight skills are likely not up to par. How did your last BFR go?
If you are un-licensed and are in the learning stages, the chances that your plane having this technology is next to none. If you were to install it into a small plane by current technology there would be weight capacity issues... ADS-B is the latest and greatest, but the Airlines are not even using it yet... It is that new. but for airlines it is going to be requirement. I know the airline that I work for we are phasing in upgrades getting ready for it... Laying wire bundles and installing the ground work for when it actually breaks out. It is not only ADS-B, but rather an integration and modification of all the electronics... For example, having it is great, but you have to interface it with the rest of the electronics... If you do not, how are you going to get the infomation... Example, it has to be wired into the EFIS screens or steam gages so to speak, and then the devices have to upgraded and modified to be able to receive and display that data. That means modifiying the EFIS Screens, output devices, and installing communications lines to make it talk to the rest of the plane.. think about the FD and AP are are required to be tied into this as well. It is not as simply as a home computer and it is not Plug-N-Play.
Unfortunately, thanks to 91.225 ADS-B is even coming to the little guys by 2020. I have several former customers who are selling their aircraft and getting out now because they can't afford the retrofit. It really is sad.
Very true... I was thinking it was by 2025, I guess they moved it up.. the airlines still are not ready for it and the deadline is coming soon. I am just wondering how the Deferals/MEL's will be applied as you know as with any piece of electronics... they BREAK!
THRUSTT 3年之前 4
Duuuuuuuuude!!!
Peter just does not get it Thrustt, think of Wayne Bookout every time I post on this site, just saying....
Hi Allen - you lost me - help me out. Who is Wayne Bookout, and how does he or your post help us understand what happened to a tragedy involving long-range Part 121 ops ?
http://flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/1_year/new/51683/Preacher1%20gets%20his%20wings
Chris B 3年之前 2
Acars can't tell the whole story, but sudden failure of the sliding window (you chose cause of the failure), then evidence of smoke in toilet (behind cockpit) and in electronics bay (under cockpit and toilet), then I'm trending towards sudden decompression and fire (you chose cause).
If internal (bomb) or external (missile) point of impact/explosion would give flight crew little chance of maintaining control.
I am tending to disagree... We had a lot of ACARS messages, but to naturally assume a bomb is not good. Smoke possibly, but what is the real source... It could be the ships battery, or a host of other electronics or who knows what else... Satelite says there were no explosions. If it were a missile Satelite would have picked that up, so that scenerio is pretty much out. If it was electrical they could have thought that it was decompression forcing a controlled decent, and then things go worse and everyone knows the basic conclusion.
I agree with you Sparkie. So far there is no report of any heat flash or any other indication of an explosion, contrary to what happened to the Russian jet over the Sinai. Keep in mind that this area is closely monitored by several countries.
Its Interesting that throughout its recent history the flight has been a B738 and on this flight it was an A320. I would assume that this was also not the normal crew for the trip.
macaque 3年之前 2
Actually - comaparing the history here and FR24 there seems to be a disconnect on aircraft type - it was A320 for previous days (completed flights) on FR24 and 737-800 listed here. The FR24 site does have registration numbers though.
So what?????????? Think that they wanted to use that for a dark reason? NO just in your head get over it.
Tom Lyons 3年之前 13
Why are you so reflexively hostile to people who are noting unusual circumstances surrounding this flight? If it was a different plane than usual, and a larger crew than usual, that's something that's worthy of discussion.
WeatherWise 3年之前 12
linbb is obviously a troll. FA should ban his sorry ass.
YES..."ban his sorry ass"...clearly..anyone who disagrees with your opinions should be censored out of here.
Mr. Hart! That is the most intelligent thing you've said today.
Would you please go crawl back into your hole!
andrew357 3年之前 3
An Egyptair Airbus A320-200, registration SU-GCC (our reports database features 0 other incidents for the same aircraft, Egypt has been listed 35 times within our reports database) performing flight MS-804 (dep May 18th) from Paris Charles de Gaulle (France) to Cairo (Egypt) with 56 passengers and 10 crew, was enroute at FL370 over the Mediterranan Sea about 130nm north of Alexandria (Egypt) and about 210nm northnorthwest of Cairo when the transponder signals of the aircraft ceased at 02:33L (00:33Z). The aircraft is presumed crashed in the Mediterranean Sea.
The airline reported at 05:00L (03:00Z), that flight MS-804, estimated to land in Cairo at 03:10L (01:10Z), is missing and so far has not landed at any airport in reach of the aircraft. Egyptair subsequently tweeted that the aircraft was enroute at FL370 about to enter Egyptian Airspace when radar contact with the aircraft was lost at 02:45L (00:45Z). A search and rescue operation has been launched. The airline further corrected initial statement of 59 passengers to 56 passengers actually on board of the aircraft. The commander had accumulated 6,275 hours with 2,101 hours on type, the first officer has accumulated 2,675 hours. The aircraft had been manufactured in 2003. The airline has opened hotlines for relatives at +202 25989320 (outside Egypt) and 080077770000 (landline in Egypt).
At about 07:40L (05:40Z) Egyptair updated their statement saying, that the contact with the aircraft was lost 280km (151nm) from the Coast of Egypt at 02:30L (00:30Z). The crew comprised the captain, first officer, 5 cabin crew and 3 sky marshals. Amongst the passengers there were 30 Egyptians, 15 French, 2 Iraqis, 1 British, 1 Belgian, 1 Kuwaiti, 1 Saudi, 1 Sudanese, 1 Chadian, 1 Portugese, 1 Algerian and 1 Canadian.
Greece's Civil Aviation Authority reported radar contact with the aircraft was lost about 2 minutes after the aircraft was handed off from Greek to Egyptian Air Traffic Control. The crew did not report any problems up to hand off. The CAA subsequently clarified, that the crew was talking to air traffic control in Greek when the aircraft entered the Greek control zone. When ATC attempted to hand the aircraft off to Egypt the crew did not respond, radar contact was lost 2 minutes after the first attempt to raise the crew for hand off, the aircraft was 7nm past mandatory reporting point KUMBI (N33.7139 E28.7500), boundary between Greek and Egyptian control zone.
At 08:25L (06:25Z) Egypt Air reported that search and rescue have picked up an emergency locator transmitter (ELT) signal. Dawn in the area was at 04:26L.
France is joining the search and rescue efforts dispatching ships and aircraft into the search area, which is already being scanned by Greek and Egypt aircraft and ships.
At 10:15L (08:15Z) Airbus posted "Airbus regrets to confirm that an A320 operated by Egyptair was lost at around 02:30 am (Egypt local time) today over the Mediterranean sea. The aircraft was operating a scheduled service, Flight MS 804 from Paris, France to Cairo, Egypt. The aircraft involved, registered under SU-GCC was MSN (Manufacturer Serial Number) 2088 delivered to Egyptair from the production line in November 2003. The aircraft had accumulated approximately 48,000 flight hours. It was powered by IAE engines. At this time no further factual information is available."
A good number of civilian ships in the area have, according to MarineTraffic, veered off their intended courses and are now steaming towards a common position at approximately N33.4 E29.7 approximately 30nm eastnortheast of the last ADS-B position. A first ship "Oceanus" has already reached that position and is nearly stationary there.
At 12:30L (10:30Z) France's President Hollande announced that the aircraft has crashed while flying over the Mediterranean Sea in Egyptian Airspace.
The responsible Paris states attorney has opened an investigation into the disappearance of the aircraft but cautioned, that a mechanical failure or other causes besides terrorism have not been ruled out at this point. No credible claims of downing the aircraft have been made so far.
A number of ships left intended course towards a common position (Graphics: MarineTraffic):
Infrared Satellite Image Seviri May 19th 2016 00:00Z (Photo: AVH/Meteosat):
Map and flight trajectory based on Mode-S transponder signals (Graphics: AVH/Google Earth):
At the time of writing, the aircraft type Airbus A-320 is being featured at least 819 times.
https://www.aeroinside.com/item/7565/egypt-a320-over-mediterranean-on-may-19th-2016-aircraft-lost-over-mediterranean-elt-signal-picked-up
Elias Macedo 3年之前 2
Very sad this news I heard, by flightwere, Radarbox24, flightradar24 and other and other social networks and aviãção ,That jesus will comfort those families God bless and comfort
If jesus were to be in the seat beside me on flight 804, would he die with me? Who would comfort me then?
HE only flies Southwest. You're on your own.
I don't have any choice. On those rare occasions when I have to be a "flyer"....I HAVE to "fly" SOUTHWEST. For a very good reason. I have several friends who sit up in the pointy end for Southwest...if they caught me being a "flyer" in any other Part 121 aircraft...they'd kick me in the part that goes over the fence last.......!
Ugh... I used to work for South West... I would never fly them. Perdiction: They are going to have a very big let down and a lot of people are going to pay the ultimate price. I have been on the inside of that company and I know how they work... One real bad thing.. Pier Pressure... The crash in LGA just recently putting a nose wheel in the Electronics bay was a direct result that the captain put the on time aircraft ahead of safety... A VERY BAD THING!
Ric Wernicke 3年之前 2
This is terrible. Condolences to the families and friends.
Usually security in France is rather well done. I'd be surprised if terror boarded there.
If people in that part of the world want to live in the fifth century, and are willing to go to war to insist on it, why don't the rest of the world let them have their way and suspend aviation until they wake up, and fly right.
are you referring to any particular Part 121 operator ? You have a basis for your opinion on Part 121 ops ? Do tell us....for example, what can YOU tell us about Egypt Air ?
The statement was crafted to be witty and rhetorical, sorry you missed that.
RadBaron 3年之前 2
At least 8 ships in the local area altering courses
http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:748443/zoom:10
matt jensen 3年之前 1
I'm surprised there were only eight? There's about a hundred ships out there on a typical day in the Eastern Med.
Boy that is not a lie :), In my previous life I was an Airborne Electronic Warfare operator for the US Navy. We did Med runs a lot and trying to pick Combat Ship Radars out of the Piles of ComTrucks (Nickname for Commercial Vessels) was a GIANT PITA. On any given run, I could hear 100s of Radars in my receiver.
RadBaron 3年之前 -1
The zone I highlighted is only about 20 sq miles, zoom out for a LOT of ships :)
A ship captain who had earlier posted on his Facebook page that he was involved in the search for debris has now posted images of what he says is a lifejacket in the sea.
Tarek Wahba is an employee of the Maersk shipping company from Alexandria. He said a lifejacket and part of an airplane chair were found, but it is not clear where.
Cecil Clark 3年之前 1
CNN reporting debris confirmed to be from the plane is being recovered in the Med; further, both Egyptian government and US officials say it was likely a bomb.
Ken Day 3年之前 1
Omg, certainly sounds a terrorism occurance. There seems no info of bad weather, or mechanical trouble. Prayer are with the search and rescue, and for the grieving families. Cheers.
Michael Townsley 3年之前 1
Perhaps the reported last minute maneuvering were the pilots attempts to execute a controlled spin to either drop altitude quickly and/or to confuse high-jackers who were in a high altitude shoot out with air-marshals.
That's thinking outside the box but doesn't explain no radio calls from the crew.
Alaska Airlines Flight 261: While in the final dive (due to flight control failure), the CVR recorded the flight crew saying Mayday repeatedly. This was not transmitted to ATC. It's plausible (and seen before) that the crew thought they were making a radio call and in the heat of the moment (regardless of the circumstance) failed to key the mic.
Great point David. As many have said, when the recorders are found, we will have our answers.
chudddds 3年之前 2
having the recorders does NOT guarantee all the answers. and that's if they are not damaged beyond recovering.
The DFDR's as they are called no days can be pretty much totally destroyed and they can still recover most all of the data from the memory module. It is amazing what they can do on the bench to make a pile of crap smell like roses... Figuratively speaking that is.
chudddds 3年之前 -2
and you are so wrong.
Why would you say that... There was a crash a number of years ago (can't remember the flight). The FDR was in about 3 pieces. They took the memory module and extracted 99% of the data.
I think he may be the poster person for Peter F. Hartmann's argument.
Maybe you're thinking of the Germanwings crash.
Here is a photo of the FDR:
http://airwaysnews.com/blog/2015/03/25/germanwings-9525-crash-no-survivors-cvr-and-fdr-retrieved/
I don't think so. The one I was talking about was a DFDR and was physically in 3 separate pieces when it was recovered...
How is he so wrong, Do you design the specs for the DFDR? I Did and they have amazing survival requirements for the memory module, Much higher G requirements than any aircraft should attain even in a catastrophic failure. Also the Burn Requirements exceed what any aircraft should experience. Of course these are the modern recorders, not the old wire or tape ones but those should be long gone.
Perhaps not so far out of the box per a NY Post report: "The plane was headed from Paris to Cairo Thursday when it went down somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea, killing all 66 aboard. Flight data automatically sent by sensors on aircraft indicated smoke inside the plane, officials said.
After the conversation, the pilot made an “emergency descent” in an effort to depressurize the cabin and clear the smoke, according to the French station."
At 40 miles out I would think that the crew was anticipatingredients their arrival instructions;vectors,check points etc. All day the news has reported that not so much as a peep came from the crew..Is it to much to consider that theven crew had the radio tuned to the AWOS or ATIS so that they could properly configure plane for landing and then disaster struck to the extent flying the plane became the first priority?
My first reaction was that it could NOT be a terrorist attack. The security measures in Paris CDG airport are strict. Nevertheless, since the November terrorist attacks in Paris, the Paris Airport has fired dozens of «radicalized» people who were working on the airport zone, and were more or less in contact with the planes. So, could someone have put a device on board during the stop in Paris ? Terrible question. Hope the black boxes will be found quickly and speak.
All my thoughts to the loved ones of the victims.
This plane originated in Eritrea, then to Cairo, Tunis, back to Cairo, then to Paris.
Yes, that's what I've read. But putting something on board during the former stops increases the possibilities that the device may be found during the different security checks the plane must have gone through (unless the security conditions at these airports are poor…). So, what worries and scares me is that the bomb (let's be careful, there's no proof yet) was put during the Paris stop.
Yeah, I hear ya Claude, but I'm always reminded of Pan Am 103, which originated in Frankfurt, Germany. But while in London, there was a plane change, and different baggage and different passengers were introduced. I lost some friends on that flight, I was in the USAF at the time and that particular flight was being used as a military charter flight, along with civilians. So , on this Egypt Air flight, you gonna have different baggage and humans getting on and off that has nothing to do with Paris. Doesn't mean I know jack, what I'm getting at is, just cause it left Paris, doesn't mean they pulled off all the baggage and humans from multiple stops and checked the contents, humans and baggage. It took the FBI and Brits 3 years to figure that out on Pan Am 103. Remember 911, if their baggage hadn't been put on the wrong flight, it would have taken the FBI much longer to get their info, if at all. We ALL don't know jack , yet. But I admit, your post took me back to 1988. No christmas or new years that year for me.
Thank you for your answer, Chudddds, I understand better now how it works when a plane makes several trips to different airports during one single day. I'm so sorry that my post reminded you the friends of yours who were on Pan Am 103. I lost a friend on TWA 800. This is why I dislike these tragedies every time they happen.
my tears i shed are with you
Ian Narita 3年之前 1
Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and (I would think) Israel probably have radar coverage of this airspace. Primary coverage is for defense purposes to identify aircraft that might be flying towards or near their airspace. Both Egypt and Israel have some of the better in this category.
From the voice and flight recorder we'll know the truth. In any case a terrorist act is almost certain. If the vrekages will be found near Alexandria could be a bomb regulated with the internal pressure of the aircraft or at the biginning of the descend procedure.
Wim Blanken 3年之前 1
Why was this aircraft flying faster than its topspeed, minutes before the crash? (See details MS804 on flightradar24)
I could be wrong but I think FR25 and FA both show estimated ground speeds, that makes it extremely difficult to determine true air speed.
Probably going down hill instead level flight.
leif JOHANSSON 3年之前 1
The plane came from somewhere before it landed in Paris.
What if a bomb was loaded on the plane on the airport where it came from !!
/LJ
Seems like there is a pretty big debris field.....what are the odds we are dealing with another plane that was shot down....Syria,Isreal, Greece and Russia all have a presence in that area and non of them haven't said anything..Russia has recently shot a passenger jet down in the last year and they do have a navalanche station in the area....Just a speculation but unless the plane just broke apart no one has taken any responsibility for it.
Jim DeTour 3年之前 1
Tough figuring with little info. Current info was smoke in forward lavatory. I was initially thinking flight controls loss with attempts for control reversing direction to a 360 to the right. Reminded me of a Swiss Air when an entertainment system overheating destroyed the plane. Breakers for the passenger cabin didn't turn off the entertainment system so arcing continued with worse yet insulation was flammable. But with only smoke for a clue even the APU in the tail whose bleed valve supplies cabin air could be passing smoke throughout the aircraft and through air nozzles in the lavs where the smoke detectors are. If an APU in the tail had problems that spread to controls back there its more than a smoke problem. Sad day. I've started to wonder if allowed altitudes to be flown shouldn't be reevaluated seeing that any control issues at 37k like they were at adds to the dangers.
Fire is everyones worse nightmare.....smh
tsz kwai chan 3年之前 1
Where? where?
Wreckage found near Karpathos Island
paul trubits 3年之前 1
This is like watching the Superbowl and all you get is coverage of a fight in the stands.
And usually started by one particularly insecure and sarcastic jerk.
I do not know why I think that comment is funny. But it is...
ZXINT ZS 3年之前 1
Mike Hurley 3年之前 1
Why is the news reporting a 90 and then a 360 turn while descending through 10,000 but FA data shows none of that?
Brian Bough 3年之前 3
Probably through the use of military radar by the Greeks. If I had to guess -- and guessing is all any of us are doing right now anyway -- the events are consistent with a small bomb exploding, compromising the fuselage, but not initially dooming the aircraft. A 90 degree turn toward the island of Karpathos, near where the wreckage was found, might indicate the pilots were trying to land there. Getting down to 15,000 would mean getting somewhere with enough oxygen to compensate for the loss of pressure. From there, perhaps the stress of flying with the hole in the plane eventually caused its disintegration.
The report from Greek military radar is also consistent with a AF447 scenario - instrument failure, loss of auto-pilot, stall and crash.
Also similarities to American 587. We can't know anything until the recorders are examined.
That would be scary -- none of the turbulence caused by weather or riding in the wake of a much larger jet existed. Or, to put it another way, the tail simply fell off. I would not think this to be likely, but if it were the case, the tail of every 320 would need to be reexamined.
For me, with al Qaeda's soda can bomb and laptop bomb, I feel like the scenario I offered above is much more likely -- initial decompression followed by later disintegration. The soda can also offers the greatest possibility of the bomb being smuggled on-board prior to the plane's arrival at CdG.
Agreed that the wake encounter that caused the copilot to control the rudder excessively exists here. However this aircraft is at a much faster airspeed so I would think a quick accidental rudder input (whatever the cause) would be equally catastrophic.
Mike Mohle 3年之前 3
Critical V speeds are computed at IAS not GS which is what FA reports. IAS at FL370 was likely 240ish Kts. Also, wouldn't A320 FBW control system ensure that over control inputs not upset the aircraft to result in a DFCF?
At 37000 I'm guessing they had a cruise power set at around Mach 0.78 much different aerodynamically than sub 250kts below 10000ft.
Meant to say "doesn't exist here."
That is a great point I had not considered.
Not quite: With AF447 they were flying through intense thunderstorms, but nothing too unusual for the passage across the Atlantic. However, they were also inducing a stall by continually trying to climb. Here the altitude held steady at 37,000 feet until the event that caused them to descend (there was no climb/attempt to climb of which we are aware). I'm sure the debris field will also yield clues. AF447 was intact until impact -- a positively frightening scenario for the passengers who likely were aware that they were crashing for about 3-4 minutes before it happened. If the MS804 debris field is widely scattered, it would suggest disintegration of the aircraft while still in the air.
Maybe the AF447 explanation is more possible than I credited it?
http://www.nytimes.com/live/egyptair-flight-missing-paris-cairo/aviation-website-cites/
Omg, certainly sounds a terrorism occurance. There seems no info of bad weather, or mechanical trouble. Prayer are with the search and rescue, and for the grieving families.
btweston 3年之前 -3
Smoke in the cockpit is the new news. If Donald Trump gets elected he won't allow smoke in the cockpit. It's really a bad way to have a cockpit. It's disgusting, really. Donald Trump won't allow smoke in the cockpit of he's elected president. But he won't tell you how he'll go about it. If you ask he'll have his people write mean tweets about you.
Such a bad comment.. Smoke in the comment is not a joke and should not joke about and can be and is a major problem. As a maintenance controller I have worked with crews in the air with smoke in the Cockpit/cabin/lav. I will never joke about them and they are serious situations. A lot turn out to be false alarms, most are ACM's in the Air conditioning system that is coming apart and puts smoke in the cabin... Any crew that assumes that it is a system failure and disregards these messages and continues normal flight does not get my respect. I could care less if it is a fault Lav Smoke detector going off... TREAT IT AS BEING REAL, DIVERT TO NEAREST SUITABLE, and get the hell out of the plane and let maintenance and the Fire Departments to make the determination...
I would reference Air Canada 797 in KCVG, all started with a popped CB for a toilet motor that if the breaker had not been reset 3 times, over heated and caught fire... Upon landing and exiting the plane, 21 people died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_797
I don't normally ask this, but I ask my friends to down vote your comment because of its tone!
Richard Hodges 3年之前 0
+Why don't commercial aircraft have boxes that float. How much would that add to the total cost of a plane?
Keep in mind that these units are mounted into the aircraft, usually in the tail... To make it float it would have to detach.. Great idea but not realistic... Most of the times when they are recovered they are still attached to the structure... Also, floating would cause them to take up more space and if you had something to pop a valve to inflate something then you have the issues of having that monitored and repaired. A costly expense for very little gains.
Why do we rely so heavily on data recorders? The technology is available to continuously relay the same flight data and voice communications by satellite link.
Not True, The data that is down linked by comparison is very very small and the ACARS data is only sent in specific intervals (5 minutes for example, and some only once per flight). The FDR or DFDR is a continuous recording that shows every second and fractions of seconds of flights and stores this data so that it can be rebuilt. Check out: https://youtu.be/33NUAy3eomg and this will show you how the FDR can track. there is no way that an ACARS could give this kind of data, also the DFDR will track over 256 data points. They can look at engine running parameters, Throttle command positions, Flight Control Command positions, as well as actual flight positions... It will cover this an more. A few things tracked: Every switch position commanded, Pressurization and Cabin Enviroment, and an all messages (Status, cautions, warnings, and Norms),All flight data info (Altitude, Attitude,Airspeed), A/C actual position (From both GPS and from the navigation system), and one other piece of information that the crew never see is a 3 Axis G-Meter so that they know how many G's the aircraft is sustaining and not just the attitude. All data in the FDR and DFDR can be compiled into a computer system and produce information to put the flight back together to see what happened and generate animations with the parameters they desire just as in the youtube link above.
That's a comprehensive explanation of how the current ACARS and FDR works - thanks! However I was asking why ALL the FDR and CVR data isn't streamed via satellite to a remote storage device. NASA does this for every launch. The technology is available, but we aren't making use of it. Yes there will be a cost, but look at the cost of locating flight recorders deep underwater, eg SA295, AF447 and MH370.
No... Very little data by comparison is streamed live.... Most of the info streamed is based on a system failing or health updates of the plane that either go to the company of maintenance. A good example would be a pilot sends an acars message that he needs maintenance to meet the aircraft that he has a pax door outer handle caution. For the fleet that I work under I would ping the a/c for codes and get the information that tell me that PX-25 is faulty... I would be ready with the part or deferral of the aircraft when he lands to eliminate or minimize any delays or cancellations.
On regular schedules engine data is also downloaded as well as error codes that are on the aircraft for maintenance to review as well.
good question. Let me explain....airplanes go all the way up into the sky. The sky is full of AIR. AIR can make an airplane bounce around. Because AIR can make things that are part of an aircraft's equipment in an airplane bounce around...they have to be BOLTED DOWN.
So...think about it...even if "boxes could float"...if they are part of an aircraft's equipment...they have to be BOLTED DOWN. If they are BOLTED DOWN...and the airplane sinks....guess what.....they wont float to the surface until someone goes down in the water and disconnects them....
Buzz Schranz 3年之前 1
Even if they could float to the surface the wind and currant would take far away, or not.
today on the news it was reported the searchers have found some debris, such as floating lubggage, and also sadly,some body parts..it was also stated today the reporting system from the plane (acars)sent signals of smoke in a restroom and possibly in avionics (I am not familiar with that plane so what i am writing is what was on cnn this afternoon)..no one knows until the black boxes can be located exactly what the circumstances were...
Margeaux K 3年之前 -1
EgyptAir Flight Made Abrupt Turns, Crashed Into the Sea
An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew on board crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday morning off the Greek island of Crete, with French President Francois Hollande confirming "that this plane crashed at sea and has been lost."
http://www.newser.com/story/225345/officials-egyptair-flight-crashed-into-the-sea.html
Olav Neiuwejaar 3年之前 -1
andrewcarter747b 3年之前 -1
EgyptAir Flight MS804: 9/13/02/egyptair-flight-disappears-from-radar-while-flying-from-paris-to-cairo#XBQDTEBGwUssHeZj.99
An EgyptAir flight lost early Thursday over the eastern Mediterranean with 66 people on board fell 22,000 feet and swerved sharply in Egyptian airspace before it disappeared from radar screens, Greece's defence minister said.
The plane carried out a 90-degree turn to the left and a 360-degree turn to the right, falling from 37,000 to 15,000 feet and the signal was lost at around 10,000 feet," Defence Minister Panos Kammenos told a news conference.
His comments come shortly after French president François Hollande confirmed EgyptAir Airbus A320 had crashed.
Mr Hollande said “no hypothesis” could yet be ruled out regarding potential causes of the crash
Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/world/2016/05/19/13/02/egyptair-flight-disappears-from-radar-while-flying-from-paris-to-cairo#XBQDTEBGwUssHeZj.99
http://www.9news.com.au/World/2016/05/19/13/02/Egyptair-flight-disappears-from-radar-while-flying-from-Paris-to-Cairo
Hugh Somsen 3年之前 -1
Avoid long TSA lines, fly Egypt Air..... I don't need no stinking line......
Buzz Schranz 3年之前 -2
Real information is spotty at best. There is a possibility that 804 might have spun in - long shot I know, but possible. And what about F/A Samar Ezz Eldin who was working the trip and posted this picture on FaceBook 26Sep2014 - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=904184259710962&set=a.195202017275860.40482.100003581907956&type=3&theater
scary......
Taking a closer look, that picture was actually posted by FaceBook member Samy Samh and is surely a PhotoShop project.
she's hot, or was
EgyptAir: We Found Wreckage
Debris from EgyptAir Flight 804 has been found in the waters near Greece's Karpathos Island, ABC News reports via a statement from the airline.
http://www.newser.com/story/225365/egyptair-we-found-wreckage.html
This was missed in an earlier post. F/A Samar Ezz Eldin who was working the trip and posted this picture on FaceBook 26Sep2014. It her exiting the water with a crashed plane behind her. It makes one suspect that she knew the crash was coming and this is her entering heaven. - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=904184259710962&set=a.195202017275860.40482.100003581907956&type=3&theater
buzz, dont get yourself in an oliver stone frenzy. patience.
This Marine and airline pilot has just enough patience. No more.
You'd better get down to the "patience" store and buy a BIG supply...as more and more of these posted "opinions" are by "flyers" ...not people actually involved in aviation....
Sorry Esquire, it is what it is. I see you have a hard on for real pilots all over this thread. Time to stop being so defensive.
On closer inspection it looks like a PhotoShop exercise by FaceBook member Samy Samh.
ROLMFAO !!!
I double checked - she actually did post it on her FB timeline.
tarcio luiz leme de paula 3年之前 -3
sempre a mesma coisa e nunca aprendem e vidas que se vao,sao mais uns para o mundo e cia aerea.ficam tristezas das familias,empresa aerea nao perde o seguro paga outra aeronave.
susanna hoffs flew like
Jose Rodriguez 3年之前 -4
I don't buy the "vanish" theory... If Google with a cheap $100 telephone knows where we are 24/7... How a millions of $$$ piece modern technology just "vanish"?
Our prayers are with them!
I think we just met one of the Dumb and Dumber Brothers... I think this one is Dumber.
he must work out
You realize that the Google phone still relies on cell service, right? In the south Mediterranean there is precious little cell service because it is the sea, not the land. The reason the aircraft's debris has been spotted so easily is the radar tracking.
That is far better than what happened with the Malaysian flight, where there was literally no radar coverage in the South Indian Ocean...
I think he is expressing frustration that with all of our technological knowledge, we still can't figure out what seems like a no-brainer -- but apparently isn't.
artur kerner 3年之前 -10
Is there a possibility that the plane did not crash but that the transponders were shut off and the plane has been taken to a secret place
No, because there is ACARS DATA!
to the grassy knoll on Diego Garcia
I see a whole group of you got together and censored out this "Artur Kener" OPINION....Is that consistant with what some of you are telling me about my views on the un-informed....?
At the time of this post, there have been 263 comments. Of those, 44 are yours Mr. Hartmann. What is your point on your recent comment on 'Artur Kener'. And what do you think you have contributed with the other 43?
Hi Joel:
I can no longer find the comment posted by this "Artur Kener" that was censored. My recollection is that it was not a QUESTION (which I am sure anyone with knowledge of the question would have been happy to answer )...it as an OPINION.
My concern is, if we let the "wanna-be's: clutter this valuable site with too many of their "OPINIONS" (that were just made for them to fulfill some emotional need to be seen) we will discourage or even drive away the LEGIT folks who can help us with more knowledge in any given technical area.
There are plenty of general public chat rooms for those who want to tell us all about their opinions of 'shutting off transponders"....volcanoes....hiding airplanes on out-of-the-way islands...invasions of the Space Monkeys...etc...etc....
Again..simple good manners would suggest when you come into what is obviously a technical forum of primary interest to those of us who are actually connected to aviation (besides being a "flyer" with some kind of radio receivers to spy on us...) .....that you ASK QUESTIONS...not venture your OPINIONS unless you are educated in that area...
Thanks not what he said. Let me make this more clear for you. Everytime someone says something on this post you have to have the last say and it's never a good comment. As said before this chat is for everyone's opninon but to me like others your opninon seems to be the only one the counts. We have all been respectful to you and you been doing nothing but putting us all down, calling us stupid, and saying our opninons don't matter. I think it's time you take your own advice and stop putting everyone and everything down on here. As for the rest of us. I appreciate your patience as well as other people with this individual and his comments and harsh nature. Thank you for keeping a cool and collected head.
Also I am shocked and sadden that flight aware staff haven't noticed you or your comments yet to everyone on here.
You are replying in a linked thread, the original post is one in question.
Reproduced for your convenience here:
[ artur kerner 3 days ago -11
Is there a possibility that the plane did not crash but that the transponders were shut off and the plane has been taken to a secret place.]
You could call it an opinion posed as a question if you so desire.
You have repeatedly expressed your OPINION that this forum should be by and for pilots only. I, and I believe others, have suggested you start your own forum such that you could control the membership and subject material and stop complaining that this public forum does not meet your standards.
If you feel so strongly that this forum is being abused, I suggest you refer your complain to Daniel Baker.
We're you referring to me Joey??
Actually, no. http://flightaware.com/about/executives/
I didn't think so. Was just making sure was all.
To be honest it was a comment with no relevance and was demeaning. There was proof to the contrary early on and they have found derbies from the aircraft.
I am puzzled...I see one poster volunteered he has some kind of ADS-B receiver and thus could tell us about this tragedy.
I merely expressed curiosity about that - asking him about his ADS-B installation, volunterring that my ADS-B installation consists of a Garmin 330, that reports both to my ACK-4 and my Garmin 750 in my aircraft...and it has told me nothing about this tragedy...
It seems my mere asking a question was considered so inflammatory by the "flyers" in here that they all voted to censor/don-vote my question.
Anyone know what that is all about ?
I do not buy the ADS-B theory... The chances that plane just happened to have that equipment would be very much a long shot
Peter, your ADS-B that you speak of is an aircraft installation that is both IN & OUT capable. The poster has a home ADS-B receiver or IN only device that receives information from aircraft in its local vicinity. I have one also where I am and its fun to see what I pick up. They are both relatively cheap and/or easy to make at home.
Don't worry about being a non pilot or what someone might say about it. I have some non pilot friends and acquaintances that are much more aviation literate that some pilots I know. Just be careful of flaunting the Esq. more than necessary on an aviation board.
This is interesting...some folks in here are determined to believe I am opposed to non-flight crew coming in here. Of course we should all welcome QUESTIONS ! I've asked some pretty dumb questions in my day; fortunately running across folks who are charitable enough to ANSWER QUESTIONS. Perhaps they were friendly because I did not offer OPINIONS in areas where I am not technically qualified ?
All I have suggested, again....is that there are plenty of non-technical chat rooms where you can offer all the opinions & theories your needs require, without taking up space in a technical chat room.
I do not recall how I got the "Esq". after my name. I will try and remove it. If I cant figure out how to remove it, and it stays, I have several suggestions for those who are upset by it.
In Defense... Not all of us are Flight Crew... I for one am not, and generally I am accepted here, And I have heard a lot of not so great gripes from flight crews...
One of my favorite is: "The PA Light will not extinguish when I deselect it"... My usual answer is: "Of Course Not, Your Observers Audio Control Panel is set to the PA Position, Select another Mic selection"...
Yes, I hear that one a lot! No one is perfect, and we all have a lot to learn.
I am going to get slammed for this one... But 2 very common names given to pilots are:
"Seat to Throttle Actuators" and "Seat to Yolk Actuators" :)
"Yolk" actuator - useful if you want an omelette maybe?
You're not speaking loud enough, Mr. Hart. Will you speak up? Mr. Hart, you're still not speaking loud enough. Will you stand? Speak louder, Mr. Hart! Fill the room with your intelligence!
Let's see...am I as qualified as most of the posters who come in here ? Well...I am a "flyer" meaning I have, on occasion, ridding in the back of large turbine-powered aircraft. I certainly don't want to be called a "passenger"....I need the "emotional connection" of being called a "flyer" Am I "type-rated" in heavy turbine aircraft ? Of course not - most of the posts in here are by fellow "flyers" who have a desparate need to see their words in type.
So - I want to add my two cents ( yeah....over-valued....!) comments. The way I see it, the airliner was all the way up in the sky...and something went wrong with the "up-ness"....and so...the "down-ness" outweighed the "up-ness". There...I feel so much better now...I've stuck my nose into a technical area I know nothing about...but who really cares ? After all...why stay out of something beyond one's technical experience...?
Frank Reynolds 3年之前 10
Is there any chance you will cut this whiny "protesting" any time soon? Or are you just going to continue the spiteful and rude trolling on these forums? If the latter, why not just leave the site?
You don't even engage with anyone here; you just bitch and rant. You bring less to the discussion than the lowly non-pilots you despise so much. I'd argue that all you do is detract from it.
I'd say the odds of Mr. Hartmann departing our presence anytime soon is somewhere between slim and none. He seems to love berating those without type ratings, regardless of whether they have other technical expertise or experience to contribute. As I've suggested previously, he should create and moderate his own discussion forum (I recommended "arrogantpilot.com") on which he can require all participants carry a licence. Thus far, my recommendation has been ignored, both in discussion and in practice.
At this point, I believe the Esquire is attempting to set a board record for most down-votes.
You mis-understood what I am suggesting. All I am suggesting is good manners. When a technical issue arises, and you are competent in that particular area...by all means contribute. We have, obviously...a number of people in here with knowledge and technical competence in the type of aircraft in this particular tragedy.
Sadly..this "medium" has also attracted and is serving as a "dumping ground" for "flyers"...you know...the people who sit in BACK...but have a desperate emotional need to "want to belong" and sound important. They occupy space in here that wastes our time filtering thru it.
There are many many chat rooms on the Internet, where I suggest these "flyers" would be much happier babbling away to others who also know little or nothing about real aviation ops. I recommend that course to them...both for our and their satisfaction.
Sir, I may be obtuse, but I have not discerned from your comments that you were suggesting good manners. You have consistently 'suggested' than all non-pilots get the h*** off this forum. I don't see that as good manners. If you have provided any positive contribution to discussions in squawks over the last year , I seem to have missed it. If there is a problem in the boards of people "babbling away to others", I submit that you, sir, are part of that problem rather than part of the solution. This particular thread is about an airliner crash due to as yet undetermined causes. I have attempted to contribute a little information to the mix (guestimated position for the site, source for an informational quote. What have you contributed to the discussion Mr. Hartmann?
Wrong - I am an AMERICAN -"our kimd" does not believe in censorship. all I am suggestion is if any given subject is not your area of expertise....LISTEN a don't take space from those that do know what they are talking about
I think that wrapping oneself in the flag and advising non-experts to self censor is getting off the topic of MS804. Much posted here is speculation, some idle some not. There is a report that the black boxes have been detected and perhaps we will have more information to speculate on. G'day
you are right...I cant bring ANYTHING to this particular 'thread'..as I am not competent in this particular area.
And where in HELL did you get the idea I "despise non-pilots". All I do suggest is that good manners should require people to ASK QUESTIONS when they are not competent to discuss a technical issue....not clutter up a technical site with wild "opinions" that simply waste space, intrude in our ability to get to the opinons from people like SPARKIE who DO have the background.
Frank Reynolds 3年之前 2
So that's a no, then. Got it.
You don't have to be a pilot to participate on FA, but there certainly isn't a need for more troll types making light of a tragic accident. "Up-ness"? Down-ness?" Either a very lame attempt at humor or a fine display of your "dumb-ness". Based on your other negative and nasty comments on these forums, I'll go with the latter.
I agree. And although I don't generally like to jump to conclusions, when I read those 3 letters, I was pretty sure what type of individual's comments I was reading. Oh, the 3 letters? Esq. Get real, does anybody seriously use that term anymore? Ok, now back to our regularly scheduled squawking.
joel wiley 3年之前 -3
Mr. Hartmann is licensed to practice law before the bar in California and has a perfect right to use Esq. if he chooses. He has expressed opinions, before you registered in FA, that the boards should be limited to those individuals who have held a pilots license. Some on the boards disagree. You might research his past posts and review your conclusions.
This has nothing to do with what he sticks at the end of his name and everything to do with his rudeness and ignorant comments. He thinks only pilots should be on these forums? Anyone can join FA and list themselves as a private pilot or an ATP. Who is going to know the difference? How do we know he's a pilot? Just because his profile photo shows him standing in front of an airplane? I have reviewed his past posts. Let's just say I wouldn't ask for his legal or aeronautical advice.
His licenses to fly and lawyer are a matter of public record. His community has a dirt strip with an airport code. I believe your opinion of his opinions are a bit higher than mine.
Can you help me out ? I'd like to have a "license to fly".
Where would I get one of those? I tried looking that up in my copy of the FAR's....no luck. I do have a CERTIFICATE issued by the FAA, as do many of the posters in here. But with your posted opinion..I bet I am not the only one who feels kinda left out.
Actually my ratings are much different than most around here. I am an Aircraft Airline Mechanic with over 38 years of experience working airline class planes and specializing in Avionics & Electrical systems. You will note that my replies more so follow towards a technical view. I have lost count of all the types of A/C that I have worked on, but it has been Boeing's, McDonald Douglas, Fokker, Bombardier Products (CRJ & Dash's), a few Airbus's, Embraers, SABBS, and more.
http://www.faa.gov/licenses_certificates/
My bad, 'license' is fuzzy terminology for the airman's certificate. I stand corrected. But I believe it was a license the Calif Bar issued.
you are correct...and forgiven for being "fuzzy". You may have noticed that neither my "pilot's certificate" or my "law license" has made me feel that any OPINION I have about this tragedy would be of ANY value, as I am not technically competent in this area....so good manners require I do not waste people's time with my "OPINION"....
Either License or Certificate works... I have an A&P Certificate, but in most areas of the arena it is referenced as a license... Good point of interest I have several friends who are A&P's and Airmen. Many of they have a pilots licence and many say they have an airmens certificate are both in the same card. In reality, it is one in the same, and Certificate vs license is more Political Correctness than anything else... For the record, I am not PC.
"for the record"...I can't find the word "license" on my PILOT'S CERTIFICATE.
It is not there.... In print it is call a Certificate, but many in the mechanics field have called it license.
Tim Duggan 3年之前 6
Yeah, definitely a know-nothing troll. WeatherWise called it.
THRUSTT 3年之前 -1
Duuuuuuuuuude!!!
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Micrsosoft: PCs are what we do best
Smartphones are dead Part II: Evolve or die, Microsoft's ultra-mobile PC strategy
Consumers and app developers are demanding increasingly sophisticated personal computing from the smartphones that we carry with us daily.
This demand has led to an evolution of smartphone hardware and consumer usage that positions these devices more as mini-tablet computers than phones. In fact, we established in part one of this series that current smartphones are indeed mini-tablet PCs that are an "evolutionary" step between phones and the next phase of personal computing. Ultra-mobile personal computers (as I am calling them) will be pocketable all-in-one devices that take advantage of a universal platform, context sensitive hardware and software, universal apps and the cloud to facilitate the mobility of a user's digital experiences.
I contend that our current "smartphones," which have replaced small tablets, which replaced desktop PCs for an increasing number of personal computing tasks, will continue their trek toward the all-in-one ultra-mobile device capable of managing an increasingly complex array of personal computing tasks previously reserved to the traditional desktop environment.
This smartphone evolution in its current "mini-tablet" state is, of course, a device-agnostic transition. iPhones, Android devices, and Windows phones have all reached dimensions, functionality and usage that qualify them as mini-tablets. Indeed, each of these platforms is represented in the market by devices that occupy this transitory phase preceding the advent of the true ultra-mobile PC.
However, this current smartphone landscape, which is dominated by the iPhone and a host of Android devices, has virtually plateaued. As a result of a "phone-focused" paradigm, these two dominant platforms impose inherent barriers to evolving into personal computing's next phase. I believe, however, that Microsoft may possess the missing link.
Evolutionary dead end
Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella had the following to say regarding Redmond's future in the mobile landscape and mobile computing's evolution:
If anything, one big mistake we made in our past was to think of the PC as the hub for everything for all time to come...today…the high volume device is the six-inch phone...But to think that that's what the future is for all time to come would be to make the same mistake we made in the past…Therefore, we have to be on the hunt for what's the next bend in the curve…We're doing that with our innovation in Windows…features like Continuum.
Even the phone, I just don't want to build another phone, a copycat phone operating system, even…when I think about our Windows Phone, I want it to stand for something like Continuum. When I say, wow, that's an interesting approach where you can have a phone and that same phone, because of our universal platform with Continuum, can, in fact, be a desktop. That is not something any other phone operating system or device can do. And that's what I want our devices and device innovation to stand for.
The ability for a "phone", via Continuum, to be a desktop is indeed not something any other phone operating system can do (yet). It is this unique platform level capability combined with the Universal Windows Platform that has positioned Redmond's mobile strategy on a divergent "evolutionary" path from rivals Apple and Google. A path that I contend will allow Microsoft's mobile efforts to accommodate progressively complex personal computing demands unencumbered by barriers inherent to Apple's and Google's phone-focused paradigm.
Continuum and the UWP position Windows "phone" on a divergent evolutionary path.
The current "smartphone-focused" iPhone and Android dominated mobile landscape has two major barriers preventing their transition to the next step of ultra-mobile personal computing.
First, the current smartphone paradigm evolved from a perspective of bringing greater functionality to a handheld, app-focused slate form factor environment, as a distinct and deliberate departure from the desktop environment. Thus, a development, user interface and user experience "chasm" between the PC and smartphone evolved with the evolution of the mobile landscape. So the entire infrastructure that supports the current smartphone paradigm has built into its foundation and "DNA" that it is not meant to serve the complex range of personal computing provided by a desktop computing environment.
For the past nine years, however, the smartphone industry has struggled to reconcile the increasing demands of users and app developers for more PC-like functionality with the inherent limitations of the infrastructure of the current smartphone. Consider this: as users demanded more desktop-type power and functionality from their smartphones, the industry responded with bigger, faster and higher specced devices while maintaining the systemic barriers between "phone" and "desktop" systems.
A focus on improving "phone" hardware and updating the OS would inevitably lead to a dead end.
Though this approach has provided a limited approximation of desktop power and capabilities on our phones, the current system is self-limiting. This surface-level "throw-them-a-bone" solution did not address platform level limitations that could not be addressed by bigger, faster and shinier phones with better cameras. Thus, a reasonable analysis of the current system leads to a sobering conclusion.
First, it is virtually inevitable that user's and developer's demand for more complex mobile personal computing will continue to approach that which is usually reserved to the desktop. Thus, the focus on improving "phone" hardware and updating the OS without intentionally crossing the chasm between the desktop and "phone" environments, on a development and user experience level, would inevitably lead to a dead end. That is a plateauing of the smartphone landscape where high-end devices based on the current nature of their platforms have virtually no further to go in answering the demand for more desktop-like personal computing. And that's exactly what has happened.
Today's "mini-tablets", our smartphones, have reached their comfortable size limits and the spec race offers little differentiation between competing devices.
The spec race offers little differentiation between competing devices.
This reality is the core of the second and more profound barrier. There still exists many personal computing activities that, despite slumping PC sales, are best managed in a desktop environment that these "mini slate PCs" cannot serve. The 270 million and growing installs of Windows 10 (which is a contributor to lower PC sales), the increasing market of 2-in-1's, the 1.5 billion install base of Windows PCs, the slight increase in sales of Macs and growing niche popularity of Chromebooks are a testimony to this.
Evolving alongside this foundation, however, personal computing continues its trek toward an increasingly mobile experience. Often, a user's digital experiences are managed in the cloud, and all-in-one portable hardware is expected to be capable of managing more of the tasks currently served in a desktop environment.
That said, I believe that the company that is successful in embracing and intentionally positioning their mobile devices as "personal computers" linguistically, in relation to hardware flexibility and in broad universal platform support, will be best able to meet users' and developers' diverse mobile personal computing expectations. If this analysis is accurate a deliberate disassembling of the barriers between the mobile phone and desktop environments that evolved with the smartphone industry would, therefore, be in order.
Tearing down barriers
Microsoft's bold Universal Windows Platform and Continuum are an audacious upheaval of a mobile paradigm that has sought to bring an increasing range of personal computing experiences from the PC to the phone through hardware improvements and OS updates. Microsoft's solution is a comprehensive restructuring of the mobile paradigm which accommodates both the current state of mobile and its future, where the mobile platform is tasked with more of the weight of the desktop environment.
In fact, Microsoft's approach to mobile personal computing facilitates a strategically progressing merger of the desktop and mobile environments. The current practice of transitioning to an entirely different device (phone to a PC for example) to access a different user interface or operating system will likely ultimately be replaced, for most tasks, with a single device that adapts to a user's needs. Context conforming hardware and software as demonstrated by the Surface, Continuum and Continuum for Phone will be the bridge between a user and a particular personal computing task.
In hindsight, some might argue that had industry leaders foreseen how central the smartphone would become to personal computing a course toward unified platforms would have been an early goal of the mobile revolution. That may or may not be true. Apple's Tim Cook has publicly stated OS X and iOS will remain distinct platforms.
"We feel strongly that customers are not really looking for a converged Mac and iPad …what we're worried would happen, is that neither experience would be as good as the customer wants."
Of course, Apple is a notoriously secretive company. And they have set a precedent of denying a particular strategy virtually up until the time they launch a new product or initiative that contradicts that public profession. Larger iPhones, for example, (though leaked) were denied as a course the company would follow due to ergonomic "common sense" benefits of smaller devices.
That said Apple is publicly pursuing building a closer relationship between iOS and OSX via Continuity. Though, given their history, a merger of the platforms can't be ruled out entirely.
Furthermore, Google is pursuing bringing Android and Chrome closer together as well. The company's SVP of Android, Chrome OS and Chromecast, Hiroshi Lockheimer, is on record, however, stating that a total merger of the platforms is not on Mountain View's roadmap.
"While we've been working on ways to bring together the best of both operating systems, there's no plan to phase out Chrome OS."
The 2016 introduction and 2017 release of the composite Android/Chrome OS, combined with the practical applications of Apple's Continuity, puts Microsoft's Universal Windows and Continuum strategy under tremendous pressure for success.
That said those plans committed to by Microsoft's rivals are wrought with challenges that prevent them from providing as comprehensive a solution of bringing desktop level personal computing to a mobile form factor as Redmond's strategy provides. We will delve deeper into each of these strategies in part three of this series. But suffice it to say, though I contend Microsoft's strategy offers the best solution, Apple's and Google's combined 97% mobile share positions their solutions as a "default" to the vast majority of mobile users.
Thus, the success of Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform rests in the weight of the firm's success in the PC space and its 1.5 billion install base. But not likely in the way many may think.
Bridging the PC gap with PC apps
In, Windows Phone isn't dead part VI, we took a deep dive into Microsoft's efforts to build an app ecosystem. This area, of course, is the Achilles heel of Redmond's mobile strategy. It is so profound a problem that even non-techies are known for stating, "Windows Phone has no apps." There is no shortage of apps, or programs, however, in Microsoft's desktop PC environment. As a matter of fact, during Microsoft's Build 2016 Developers Conference Microsoft boasted that there are sixteen million legacy Win32 apps currently available on Windows. That's a lot of apps.
The PC is not dying, but it is changing.
Microsoft is aware that despite declining PC sales due to the increase in mobile personal computing, the PC is not dying — it is changing. This reality is combined with the fact that many personal computing tasks are still optimally facilitated in a desktop space. Personal computing then is both a mobile and static experience. One where tech firms are working to build systems (i.e., Apple's Continuity and Microsoft's UWP with Continuum) that will help users move seamlessly between these environments.
Microsoft realizes that the 16 million legacy Windows apps will always have value. I believe that the company sees them as powerful tools that simply need to be updated, or evolved, to adapt to the new world of mobile and desktop computing. This juncture is where Microsoft's Project Centennial Bridge, which was strategically pushed during Build comes in. In a nutshell, this Bridge can be used by developers to convert their Win32 desktop app to a Universal Windows app that works across form factors.
The arguments regarding parity between certain Win32 apps and their Universal Windows app counterparts can be debated in comments, the forums or social media. Here, I am simply addressing the goal of the initiative. Which is to bring legacy apps to the Windows 10 Universal Platform.
This topic is usually discussed, argued or debated within the context of how this Bridge will bring apps to Windows "phone." The argument that is often made is that no one wants desktop apps on a phone. Fair enough. But let's look at this from another angle.
I see your 1.5 million apps and raise you 1.6 million
First, let's consider the broad picture. Microsoft's ultimate goal is to bring legacy (and other) apps to the Universal Window Platform. This platform incorporates many form factors including the desktop PC environment that, as we discussed, still has a place in personal computing. Legacy apps converted through the Centennial Bridge or desktop app convertor can be coded as universal apps that will work on all form factors and will also be distributed through the Windows Store.
If just 10% of these 16 million apps are converted to Universal Windows apps 1.6 million new apps will have been added to the Window Store. When added to the nearly half million apps already in the Store that would bring the total number of apps to approximately 2 million.
Of course, Apple's and Google's app stores, which currently both boast about 1.5 million apps apiece, will continue their upward trek as the Windows Store is populated with "bridged" apps (if successful). But via Centennial alone, 10% of the available Win32 apps would effectively (numerically) close the app gap.
The Centennial Bridge updates the familiar desktop with apps adapted to a static and mobile environment.
Both the practical availability of these apps via the Windows Store and the symbolic victory the successful execution of this strategy brings would be of great benefit to the platform. Other developers, who have neglected Windows may be encouraged to invest time polishing or building apps for the platform after seeing the potential vitality such an app surge would bring the ecosystem.
If nothing more, this Centennial Bridge strategy succeeds in updating the familiar desktop environment so that programs that we are accustomed to are adapted to a world with both static and mobile computing demands. That takes care of the software. The hardware is the next piece to this puzzle.
You say phone, I say ultra-mobile PC
The question has been asked, "Who want's desktop apps on a phone?" The answer to this rhetorical question is an implied, "no one." The question that I ask is "who wants desktop apps on a PC? The implied response of course is, everyone. I believe, as I posited last year in "Will Microsoft's rumored Surface Phone be a re-imagined Surface Mini?, and in part one of this series that the anticipated Surface Phone will not be a "phone" at all.
Will the Surface Phone be a re-imagined Surface Mini? https://t.co/5wzrjFG9hk @thurrott @leolaporte @maryjofoley
— Jason L Ward (@JLTechWord) March 9, 2016
I believe what Microsoft is planning to introduce next year will be an ultra-mobile personal computer. I think it will occupy the lowest tier of the Surface family hierarchy. Beneath the Surface Book which doubles as a digital clipboard and the Surface which is both a tablet and laptop, the new Surface will be a pen-focused digital notepad as well as an ultra-mobile personal computer.
Through Continuum, the UWP and Universal Windows apps, this device will allow a user to connect to peripherals to provide a desktop environment. A new feature introduced at BUILD 2016 will even allow this Continuum enabled device to project the phone UI wirelessly to any Windows 10 PC or laptop. (See time mark 6:24 in video below).
Ideally, users will have access to a host of desktop apps converted via Centennial, which will allow them to work as one would work in a desktop environment.
Though this device will be positioned as a PC, its mobility-focused hardware will allow it to accommodate the mobile aspects of Windows 10 and Universal apps. Thus, it will be capable of seamlessly conveying a user's experiences between the desktop and mobile environments.
Of course, this ultra-mobile PC will also make phone calls.
Furthermore, though making phone calls on our current "mini-tablets" ranks sixth below PC-like activity (as I shared in part one of this series) of course this potential ultra-mobile PC will also have telephony.
Like all of Microsoft's first-party hardware, this new Surface will be an aspirational device for other OEMs to pattern after. And not just phone OEMs. Microsoft's PC partners may be the company's strongest allies in introducing the next phase of mobile computing as they add this device category to their product portfolios. Consider this: Since the PC market is declining due to mobile devices, ultra-mobile PCs are a natural solution. And for phones that have plateaued at a spec race-inspired dead end, ultra-mobile PCs are a natural evolution.
Ultra-mobile PCs are a natural solution to a declining PC market and natural evolution to a plateauing smartphone market.
This strategy is a long play. It involves teaching a 1.5 billion PC install base, bloggers, analysts, developers and the industry at large to rethink what a personal computer can be. This shift will take time, marketing and thorough communication from Microsoft and its partners. That said how OEMs package these ultra-mobile PCs is also critical to how they will be perceived.
Take the image of the Acer Jade Primo below for instance. I don't know about you, but packaged in a box with an accompanying monitor, keyboard and mouse makes me think PC not phone. This form of communication is a good start.
Microsoft has come under a lot of fire for its phone strategy. How history will ultimately categorize their efforts, I don't know. But if my analysis is correct the company has been positioning its mobile strategy to play to its strength. And if there's one thing that we do know, Microsoft knows personal computers.
Part I: This is the age of the mini-tablet
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Home Zip Code Kodak Black begs for ‘lighter sentence’
Kodak Black begs for ‘lighter sentence’
Rapper Kodak Black has begged judges for a lighter sentence in his gun case, ahead of his sentencing date.
Kodak Black is set to be sentenced in gun case where the rapper put intentionally put misinformation details on a gun application.
The “ZeZe” rapper has been in prison after getting arrested on his way to perform at Rolling Loud Miami Festival in Miami.
The 22-year-old rapper is reportedly begging the judge to lower his expected sentence. Black’s lawyers wrote a letter to the judge requesting to give him a sentence of 3-3 and a half years in prison.
After the Floridian rapper admitted to lying on the gun application, the lawyers decided it’s a reasonable sentence, since he was truthful.
Kodak Black still remains banned from buying guns due to the fact he’s on bond for rape charges.
As Kodak Black prepares for being sentenced, his lawyers are arguing that the charge was for deception rather than having the gun in his possession.
However, when Kodak was arrested, the rapper took complete accountability for the crimes authorities claimed he did.
Additionally, Kodak’s lawyers backed the rapper by revealing Kodak and his team were on the receiving end of death threats made by gangs.
In their plea for a lighter sentence, Kodak’s lawyer also brought up the fact that he grew up in a rough environment, in Miami’s housing projects.
They also brought up the fact that Kodak has a child to raise.
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Demonstration & Result
Human practice
In this project, in order to detect and monitor the lactic acid concentration during milk fermentation, we constructed two plasmids with GFP reporter gene in engineered bacteria to respond exogenous lactic acid.
To date, the lactic acid detected plasmids have been demonstrated with two critical achievements:
1. Under the induction of lactic acid, the reporter gene, GFP, with significantly upregulated expression level than the negative control group;
2. We successfully designed an optical fiber based model to detect and monitor the lactic acid induced GFP signals during the fermentation.
Nature offers a potential solution in the form of bacterial genetic operons, which are designed to sense the concentration of important metabolites in the environment and activate gene expression in response. The sensitivity of such systems is very high—often compounds are detected at micromolar or even nanomolar concentrations and a wealth of such systems that can detect important metabolites for mammalian cell culture such as sugars, amino acids, and metabolic waste products have been identified [1].
Schematic of the LldPRD operon and biochemical mechanism (Figure 1): In the absence of lactate, dimers of LldR bind to the operator sites in the lldPRD promoter and form a tetramer, sequestering the DNA and preventing transcription of the operon. Bottom: Lactate enters the cell via the glycolate permease (GlcA) or LldP and interacts with the LldR regulator protein. The LldR dimer bound to O2 dissociates when bound to lactate, but the dimer bound to O1 becomes a transcriptional activator that promotes transcription of the operon when lactate binds[1].
In quorum sensing (QS) process, bacteria regulate gene expression by utilizing small signaling molecules called autoinducers in response to a variety of environmental cues. Autoinducer 2 (AI-2), a QS signaling molecule proposed to be involved in interspecies communication, is produced by many species of gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. In Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium, the extracellular AI-2 is imported into the cell by a transporter encoded by the Lsr operon. In every case, AI-2 is synthesized by LuxS, which functions in the pathway for metabolism of S-adenosylmethionine (SAM), a major cellular methyl donor. In a metabolic pathway known as the activated methyl cycle, SAM is metabolized to Sadenosylhomocysteine, which is subsequently converted to adenine, homocysteine, and 4,5-dihydroxy-2,3-pentanedione (DPD, the precursor of AI-2) by the sequential action of the enzymes Pfs and LuxS. DPD is a highly reactive product that can rearrange and undergo additional reactions, suggesting that distinct but related molecules derived from DPD may be the signals that different bacterial species recognize as AI-2. The regulatory network for AI-2 uptake is comprised of two other important components, lsrR and lsrK, both of which are located adjacent, but divergently transcribed from the lsr operon (Figure 2). LsrR is the repressor of the lsr operon and itself. LsrK is a kinase responsible for converting AI-2 to phospho-AI-2, which is required for relieving LsrR repression [2].
Figure 1. (a) Organization of the lldPRD operon. O1 and O2 represent the operator sites in the lldPRDp promoter. The three genes in the operon are (from left to right) LldP: lactate permease to allow lactate transport, LldR: regulatory protein, LldD: Lactate dehydrogenase for lactate utilization. (b) Diagram of the mechanism of lactate-dependent induction of lldPRD operon in E.coli cells. Figure 2. (Left) Model for regulation, transportation, and modification of AI-2 by the Lsr proteins in E. coli. AI-2 is synthesized by LuxS and accumulates extracellularly. The AI-2 uptake repressor LsrR represses the lsr operon (comprised of lsrACDBFG) and the lsrRK. Basal expression of the LsrACDB transporter allows some AI-2 to enter the cytoplasm, where it is phosphorylated by LsrK. Phospho-AI-2 has been reported to bind to LsrR and relieve its repression effect on the lsr transporter genes, thus stimulating additional AI-2 uptake. Figure 3. (Right) Illustration of project principle.
Therefore, we hope to combine QS system and lldPRD operon for constructing two-expression plasmids (Figure 3).
Engineered Bacteria Composition
According to the modeling results, we finally decided to choose following engineered E.coli as our biosense detector.
lldPRD operon promoter-Luxs-Lldr × LsrA promoter-GFP
1. After constructing two plasmids pCDFDuet-1 and pET-28a(+) contained lldPRD operon promoter-Luxs-Lldr and LsrA promoter-GFP, respectively, we transformed them into one K12 competent cell (Figure 4). For transformants selection, pCDFDuet-1 and pET-28a(+) contained streptomycin and kanamycin, respectively. As described previously, the lldPRD operon should be activated under the lactate induction. Thus, we used Western Blot for detecting the expression of LuxS and lldR proteins from lldPRD operon (Figure 5).
Figure 4. K12 E.coli can grow on two-resistant-media containing both Kanamycin and streptomycin. Figure 5. Western Blot result. (a) Characterization of LuxS under different concentrations of lactic acid and IPTG. The LuxS protein had been an obvious protein band between the last two marker bands of 15 kDa and 25 kDa. The molecular weight of the LuxS protein is about 17 kDa. Lane 1: IPTG 0 mM, lactic acid 0 mM; Lane 2: IPTG 0.5 mM, lactic acid 0 mM; Lane 3: IPTG 1 mM, lactic acid 0 mM; Lane 4: IPTG 0 mM, lactic acid 2 mM; Lane 5: IPTG 0.5 mM, lactic acid 2 mM; Lane 6: IPTG 1 mM, lactic acid 2 mM; Lane 7: control( IPTG 0 mM, lactic acid 0 mM); Lane 8: IPTG 0 mM, lactic acid 0 mM; Lane 9: IPTG 0.5 mM, lactic acid 0 mM; Lane 10: IPTG 1 mM, lactic acid 0 mM; Lane 11: IPTG 0 mM, lactic acid 2mM; Lane 12: IPTG 0.5 mM, lactic acid 2 mM; Lane 13: IPTG 1 mM, lactic acid 2 mM. (b) Characterization of Lldr under different concentrations of lactic acid and IPTG. The lldR protein had been an obvious protein band between two marker bands of 25 kDa and 35 kDa. The molecular weight of the lldR protein is about 29 kDa. Lane 1: IPTG 0mM, lactic acid 0mM; Lane 2: IPTG 0.5mM, lactic acid 0mM; Lane 3, IPTG 1mM, lactic acid 0mM; Lane 4: IPTG 0mM, lactic acid 2mM; Lane 5: IPTG 0.5mM, lactic acid 2mM; Lane 6, IPTG 1mM, lactic acid 2mM. Note: we have used two kind of plasmids: (1) pCDFDuet-1, its resistance is streptomycin; (2) pET-28b(+), its resistance is Kanamycin.
2. Then, we used optical fibers to detect the green fluorescent signal from GFP expression and the fluorescence intensity was quantified spectrophotometer (Figure 7.).
Figure 6. Equipment of optical fibers. Figure 7. Fluorescence Intensity results from spectrophotometer. Note: EG refers to Experimental Group; CG refers to Control Group; [Lactate] refers to applied lactate concentration, mM.
3. From above data, we calculated their net value as well as got fitting figures and functions (Figure 8). Along with series lactate concentration variety, all net value is above 0. This result indicated that this engineered K12 E.coli can emit distinct GFP fluorescence intensities under different lactate concentrations. Except for the initiation of the reaction, the rest of the functional curves showed similar trends, especially when the reaction time was 5 min and 10 min, and the peak value was reached before the concentration of lactate concentration is 1 mM. From Figure 8, we could conclude the engineered bacteria was best used to detect the lactic acid concentration in yogurt at the reaction time of 5 min and 10 min due to the relative high sensitivity. In order to reduce the reaction time of engineered bacteria, the reaction time of 5 min was selected.
Figure 8. Fitting Results.
4. The diagram indicated that the system for monitoring and quantifying lactic acid in fermentation via using our engineered GFP bacteria (Figure 9).
Figure 9. Design of lactate biosensor device. The container is made by 3D printing (details).
1. Goers, L., et al., Whole-cell Escherichia coli lactate biosensor for monitoring mammalian cell cultures during biopharmaceutical production. Biotechnol Bioeng, 2017. 114(6): p. 1290-1300.
2. Xue, T., et al., LsrR-binding site recognition and regulatory characteristics in Escherichia coli AI-2 quorum sensing. Cell Res, 2009. 19(11): p. 1258-68.
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Second and 10...A Winnipeg Blue Bomber Blog
A blog by Blue Bomber fans for Blue Bomber fans.
Mid-February Roster Analysis: Winnipeg Blue Bombers Offensive Line
Part 3 of 6...the most maligned group of "athletes" in Winnipeg, the Blue Bombers offensive line.
The Blue Bombers currently have 11 OL under contract, 7 non-imports and 4 imports.
Here's what we ended last season with:
LT January
LG GREAVES
C SORENSEN (signed with Edmonton)
RG MORLEY
RT Jarvis Jones
First, we'll take a look at each guy individually, then the group.
The Veterans-
Steve Morley (6'7 325 33) entering his 6th season as a Blue Bomber, 9th as a CFLer, the first overall pick of the 2003 CFL Draft.
Morley started at tackle in his first season as a Bomber (2009), but has made his living at right guard since 2010. Morley was a decent tackle and it took him a long time to become a good CFL guard, something he's still struggling to be over 18 games. In my opinion, his best stretch as a guard for the Blue Bombers was the 2nd half of the 2011 season, when Chris Garrett took over at RB and the Blue Bombers committed to actually having some remnant of a power run game.
The more aggressive Morley plays, the better he plays. He has the ability to be a very good CFL offensive lineman, and has shown that ability in spurts. Morley tends to play more aggressive (better!), including in pass blocking, when the Blue Bombers establish the run. Why? Couple reasons. First, he's physically engaged in the game. Second, teams aren't going to pin their ears back and blitz like crazy because they are playing against a team that just might run the ball. This is a typical trait of nearly all offensive linemen, not just a Morley thing. If you don't know this by now, you will hear me say it a lot, the simplest way to improve your OL play as a team is to commit to establishing the run. This doesn't mean you run the ball 50 times a game, it means you run a more balanced offence, ie 60/40 pass run, and don't pull a Crowton and abandon the run if your first two carries are not successful.
Morley struggles in pass blocking. He plays guard like a tackle (or a guard who isn't that great), which is to say that he almost always retreats off the snap and pops high out of his stance, giving up leverage. A tackle has more leeway to give up ground, because the edge rusher is taking a long route as long as the tackle doesn't get beat inside. A tackle can lose 5 yards and still form a nice pocket, and this is in fact basic pass protection technique, for a tackle to keep the rusher in front of him and widen the rush lane (route to the QB) rather than quickly engaging him at the line of scrimmage. Guards and centres need to get a lick on rushers coming through their gaps ASAP. They don't necessarily want to fully engage a rusher, because then the rusher can make a quick move and slip into the pocket clean, but they want to get a body on them and start the battle. If you are giving up ground before you even engage the rusher, and then continue to get pushed into the pocket...bad, really bad for your QB and passing game.
The play at 3:18 of this Bomber-Argo video perfectly illustrates bad Morley. The line of scrimmage is the Argo 53. Morley is playing right guard. Pause at 3:20. Notice the left guard (Greaves) and the centre (Sorensen). They stay low, pretty even with the LOS before making initial contact with any rusher and their hips remain facing the Argo endzone. Morley is immediately scrambling backwards, high out of his stance with his hips turned towards the sideline (big no-no) and chases an Argo end who is already being blocked by Jarvis Jones, giving up his inside gap (the biggest no-no). The Argos are only rushing 3, which probably saved Max Hall`s life, if a guy like Shane Horton is coming on a delayed blitz and Morley turns to chase a defensive end back 10 yards, KA-BOOM! Greaves and Sorensen are perfect off the snap, but a little nonchalant in supporting January against the 3 man rush (while Morley is too eager to support Jones), Greaves finishes the play poorly with a half-assed hip check, forcing Hall to flee the pocket (although he had a lot of steamboats).
There`s one ongoing question with Morley...can he play a full season at his full potential? If he can, we should have no major issues at right guard, but he hasn't done it yet at 33.
Chris Greaves (6'5 300 27) is heading into his 5th season as a Blue Bomber and CFLer, his 3rd as a starting guard.
Greaves is one of the most athletic offensive linemen in the league. He's the anti-Kabongo. Greaves is one of the few linemen in the league who is as quick as the guys he is blocking. He is not the strongest relative to many of the interior DL he faces as a guard, so he needs to battle and use his agility to be successful. He's not going to drive a DL 5 yards downfield, he needs to get a good fire out of his stance and turn the DL to open up a gap in zone run blocking and hopefully move up to the next level (LB/HB) with a little help from his friends at tackle or centre. Greaves is very quick out of his stance in run blocking, especially when he puts a hand down into a 3 point stance, athlete.
Greaves is a steady pass blocker. He's patient, he holds his inside gap first and foremost, he keeps his butt and hips low facing the endzone and battles. As a guard, he engages rushers at the line of scrimmage as he should to help form a pocket. Greaves is very good at getting his hands inside and fending off initial pass rushing moves. As an interior OL, if you win or tie the initial 3 steps off the snap, you've won the play (just hope Morley isn't chasing wildly after Buzz and Boomer on the other side of the formation, leaving his gap wide-open). Greaves will be the starting left guard, no doubt about it.
Glenn January (6'6 300 31) is heading into his 6th season as a Blue Bomber and 8th season in the CFL.
Take everything I said about Greaves and transfer it to the tackle position, that's January. As a tackle, his main job in pass protection to widen the pass rush lane to the QB for the edge rushers while making sure he doesn't lose his inside gap to that edge rusher or a blitz. January does his job. He struggled with consistency in his early years with the Bombers, but has developed into a very steady import OT and clearly one of the team leaders. He's in his prime and he's one of the best in the league, probably would get Most Outstanding Lineman hype if he played on a better team. January will be starting at left tackle.
Jarvis Jones (6'7 300 26) is heading into his 2nd season as Blue Bomber and CFLer. Joined the Bombers on September 17, and started at left tackle in the game 3 days later.
Jones was impressive. He immediately got under Marcus Howard's skin in that first game with his tenacity, ability to keep Howard from getting around the edge (for the first 3 quarters anyways) and willingness to play through the whistle. Ended his first drive as a Blue Bomber by driving Howard 5 yards deep into the endzone on a Bomber 1 yard TD. Jones showed very good raw ability to take on edge rushers, but struggled at times with inside moves, spins in particular and blitzes through his inside gap. I expect Jones to have the inside track on being the starting right tackle for the Blue Bombers in 2014, barring any ratio issues.
Shannon Boatman...please don't bring him to training camp.
Chris Kowalczuk (6'5 305 29) the only Bomber OL under contract currently who has snapped a football in a CFL game.
Unfortunately, that really means nothing. He started the 2012 season as the Bombers centre and immediately lost the job after one game to Justin Sorensen, who won't be joining John Bonk in the Blue Bomber hall of fame to put it mildly. Kowalczuk is entering his 5th season as a Bomber and has only played a handful of games. He hasn't seen enough meaningful action to say anything definitive. I thought he played ok as a guard in his start against Edmonton in 2013, after the first drive I was no longer concerned for Max Hall's life, but otherwise he barely saw the field. Hard to know where he stands against the other spare part OL the Bombers have, that he's still here after 5 years and few contributions on gamedays is odd.
The Prospects-
Paul Swiston (6'8 325 25) is heading into his 4th season as a Blue Bomber and CFLer.
Swiston has a lot of similarities with Morley. He's a natural tackle. He's being moved inside to play guard. It's an awkward transition. Based on what we've seen of Swiston as a guard, which isn't a whole lot in terms of game action, he's good in pass protection, he engages at the line of scrimmage, you don't have to worry about your quarterback getting killed when Swiston is playing, which is always a good starting point.
He needs to work on getting his hands inside to control rushers and battle against inside pass rushing moves. Based on his couple of 2013 starts, he tends to lean to his outside gap too quickly, leaving him prone to a quick inside move by the guy he's blocking or a delayed LB blitz. It's a classic lock on one block instead of focusing on blocking your gaps from the inside out, much like Jarvis Jones at the tackle spot. You never want to give that direct route into the pocket.
As a guard in a tackles body, he's always going to struggle to get leverage inside, especially in run blocking. On the bright side, Swiston is 25 and has 3 seasons in. He is still raw, and his development is stalling due to injury, problems which date back to his CIS career, causing his drop into the 4th round. Will he take the next step and become a viable starting CFL OL?
Patrick Neufeld (6'5 295 25) is entering his first season as a Blue Bomber, 4th in the CFL as the Blue Bombers top OL acquisition heading into 2014.
Neufeld only started one game in his aborted return from a broken fibula suffered in the 2013 preseason. That game was the Banjo Bowl. Neufeld started at right guard. Zach Anderson absolutely mauled him all afternoon, just beat him up physically. There's not much technique to look at, he spent half the game on his can, with Anderson getting free runs at Durant. Neufeld didn't play again in 2013, apparently reinjured his leg and was traded to the Blue Bombers before the end of the season.
In 2012, he started 13 games for the Roughriders at right tackle. The full game I watched of Neufeld at tackle was the 2012 West Semi-Final against Calgary. Neufeld is matched up against Charleston Hughes and Cordarro Law, two of the better pass rushers in recent CFL history. Neufeld held his own in that game, but looked more like a speedbump than a guy you'd want starting 18 games at tackle. Hughes and Law did get a reasonable amount of pressure but they never got a free run at Durant.
It became pretty clear that Hughes was taking a wide first move and coming quickly inside on Neufeld to break into the pocket, Neufeld didn't really have an answer for that. Sometimes he was able to get a shot on Hughes as he drove through into the pocket, but at that point Neufeld's hips were already turned to the sideline and he had no hope of blocking Hughes. This forced Durant to leave the pocket consistently. In that situation, when a guy literally has no hope of contesting a rusher with such strong moves, you just want to make the rusher take the longest path to the quarterback possible. Hold your inside gap and kickstep to widen the rush lane as much as possible without letting the rush end make a quick and easy inside move.
The Riders supported Neufeld quite often with a tight end or running back joining him on his outside gap. Something I really didn't like from him in that game was that he was getting locked on the outside rusher rather than minding his inside gap first, this was even happening when he had blocking support from a tight end/receiver or running back on his outside gap. Knowing that he had support, if anything Neufeld should have cheated inside. Calgary did have some success blitzing LB's through Neufeld's inside gap, along with Neufeld's chasing Hughes making his rips and spins to the inside more effective.
The Riders offence (they did score 30 points) started going when they began dropping off screen passes behind the rush and letting Sheets go. They only ran a handful of designed running plays, and other times Durant was just running for his life.
Neufeld is a natural tackle and has not shown to be even passable as a guard...yet. That leads to two big questions; first, will Neufeld show well enough to beat Jarvis Jones out for the starting right tackle spot? Second, if he doesn't win the right tackle spot, can he be a useful player for the Blue Bombers at another position (maybe a conversion to centre?)?
Also, is his fibula back in one piece?
Tyson Pencer (6'7 300 25) is heading into his 3rd season as a Blue Bomber and CFLer, the 3rd overall pick in the 2012 CFL Draft.
In watching his first couple starts, Pencer actively engages pass rushers, and he was getting a good surge off the line in run blocking, even out of a 2 point stance. Like most of the younger OL I've talked about in this post, he shows a tendency to lock on blocking one rusher and not always minding the concept of making a pocket by protecting inside to outside, giving up only the widest and most indirect rush lanes. This plays right into a lot of the stunts and blitzes that defense's run, and why patience is a virtue for offensive linemen. Pencer actually played most of his first start at right tackle after Glenn January left due to injury, and he looked quite comfortable. He did get beat off the edge a few times due to being overaggressive and attempting to engage the defensive end too early off the snap inside of getting a couple kick steps in and widening the rush lane a bit first to match the speed of the defensive end. That is somewhat understandable given that he had been practicing as a guard and preparing to start that game as a guard.
Pencer certainly has the aggression and the athleticism necessary to be a CFL OL. Will he develop the physical and mental technique? Getting to see Pencer play last season was encouraging, because he is not that far away from being a valuable player, but he does need experience and he needs to take advantage of the opportunity. It is time for Walters and the coaching staff to decide which position they want Pencer to play. In my opinion he could be either a tackle or guard, but moving him back and forth will only hurt his development.
Terriss Paliwoda (6'4 300 30) has spent time on the practice roster with the Eskimos (2007), Argos (2013) and Bombers (2013), he is a non-import. Have no insight into his game. I'm hoping he can play centre....
Dan Knapp (6'5 305 25) started a game at right tackle in his first week as a Blue Bomber, just like Jarvis Jones, 3 days after he joined the Blue Bombers. As an import he's in tough to beat out January or Jones for a job. I'll spot him Boatman.
The Big Picture-
3 out of 5 positions are up for grabs: centre, right guard and right tackle.
Here is how the OL stacks up as of February 20 (NON-IMPORT):
LT- January
LG- GREAVES
C- KOWALCZUK
RG- MORLEY, PENCER, SWISTON
RT- Jones, NEUFELD, Knapp
I've omitted Boatman because bringing him up for training camp would defy logic. Also omitted Paliwoda because I have no idea where the Bombers see him fitting in. He played guard at the University of Alberta. Is he a candidate to play centre?
Based on our current depth chart, we need a centre for sure. Will someone currently on the roster convert to centre? Morley? Neufeld? Will the Bombers draft a centre, and will that centre make the immediate jump into the starting lineup?
Players have converted later in their career from other positions to centre. Two notable recent examples for the Bombers are Moe Elewonibi and Obby Khan, who both started their CFL careers as tackles. Is it safe to assume that someone can do this easily? No.
For all we know, the process has already begun and whoever they chose to be the convert has been working on snapping the ball etc. This is a very important issue for this team which must be addressed before training camp. The centre handles the ball on every offensive play. That guy doesn't get the ball clean to the QB on 10% of the plays, that's 6-7 fumbles in a game. The centre is absolutely crucial.
The battle for right guard should be one to watch. The Bombers have been trying to replace Steve Morley since mid-2012, and no one has stepped up to take the job. Will Pencer or Swiston take it this season?
The battle at right tackle will be more about the ratio than anything else. If they both had the same passport, there would be no contest between Neufeld and Jarvis Jones, Jones wins easily. But, if the Blue Bombers need to start 4 non-imports on the offensive line to satisfy the ratio, it won't be a contest either, Neufeld wins by default.
In part 4 we will shift to the defensive side of the ball and look at the defensive line.
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Electroelastic Actuator Nano- and Microdisplacement for Precision Mechanics
Sergey Mikhailovich Afonin, Department of Intellectual Technical Systems, National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET), Moscow, Russia
Received: Dec. 28, 2017; Accepted: Jan. 29, 2018; Published: Mar. 6, 2018
In the present work the structural-parametric model of the piezoactuator is determined in contrast electrical equivalent circuit types Cady or Mason for the calculation of the piezoelectric transmitter and receiver, the vibration piezoactuator and the vibration piezomotor with the mechanical parameters in form the velosity and the pressure. The aim of this work is to obtain the structural-parametric model of the electroelastic actuator with the mechanical parameters the displacement and the force. The method of mathematical physics is used. Structural scheme of electroelastic actuator for nanotechnology is obtained. The transfer functions of the actuators are determined. For calculations control systems for nanotechnology with piezoactuator the structural scheme and the transfer functions of piezoactuator are obtained. The generalized structural-parametric model, the generalized structural scheme, the generalized matrix equation for the electroelastic actuator nano- and microdisplacement are obtained in the matrix form. The deformations of the electroelastic actuator for the precision mechanics are described by the matrix equation.
Electroelastic Actuator, Piezoactuator, Nanodisplacement, Structural Model and Scheme, Transfer Function
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Aztec Culture was the culture of the Mexica People. Aztec Culture was rich and highly influenced by past Mesoamerican civilisations. Human Sacrifice and Religion was a big part of the Aztec Culture. Read more about the Aztec Culture >>
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The Aztecs empire was well organised with rich cultural and religious Customs. Some Aztec Customs were taken from previous Mesoamerican cultures and others were created to improve Aztec society. Read more about the Aztec Customs >>
Aztec Daily Life
Aztec Daily life was centred around the family, community and religion, warfare & human sacrifice was also common in Aztec Life. Aztec Daily Life had strong and good values and there was a well structured class & education system in place. Read more about the Aztec Daily Life >>
Aztec Economy
The Aztec Economy centred around the three pillars of agriculture, trade and tribute. The Aztec Economy was also strongly influenced by its constant wars which could bring new wealth to the major cities such as Tenochtitlan. Read more about the Aztec Economy >>
Aztec Education
Aztec Education was very important to the Aztecs and every child was given an education in Aztec society. There were different Schools in Aztec Education such as Telpuchcalli and Calmecac which were geared towards specific goals. Read more about the Aztec Education >>
Aztec Flowers
The Aztecs loved flowers, there are numerous mentions of flowers in extant Aztec poetry fragments as well as the stone engraving of flowers on the walls of temples and palaces in Aztec ruins Read more about the Aztec Flowers >>
Aztec Music
Music was one of the most important components of Aztec life, private as well as public. The common people had instruments like whistles and rattles at their homes which they used for worship Read more about the Aztec Music >>
Aztec Society
The Aztec society was advanced for ancient times and education was compulsory for children of school age. Aztec society was a class society that was a similar structure to medieval society in Europe. Read more about the Aztec Society >>
Aztec Technology
Aztec technology was advanced in areas such as astronomy, medicine and agriculture. The Aztecs were also one of the first civilizations to make education compulsory for all children in society. Read more about the Aztec Technology >>
Aztec Civilisation History
The region of Central Mexico was composed of competing city-states around the time 1100 CE. Each city state had its own ruler and nobility along with the urban centre and the farmland.
With the passage of time, competing empires emerged in the Valley of Mexico and by 1400 CE, they were constantly at war with each other. In 1428 CE, the dominant empires of Texcoco and Azcapotzalco fought against each other in a civil war.
The latter was defeated by an alliance of Texcoco, Tenochtitlan, and some other smaller city-states. After the war, the capital of the Aztec’s, Tenochtitlan became the most powerful city-state in the region and became the capital of the Aztec Empire.
Aztec Civilisation: Laws, Rules and Organisation
Aztecs had a unique system of governance where the city-states were ruled through a system of tribute. After the payment of this tribute to the city-state of Tenochtitlan, other city-states could have their own rulers.
So while the laws and rules were largely similar, they varied to some extent from one city-state to another. There was an efficient system of law enforcement and courts and harsh punishments were meted out for crimes.
There were courts in every city-state where the senior Aztecs warriors acted as judges. Additionally, there was a supreme court at Tenochtitlan where sometimes the emperor himself acted as the judge.
Aztec Civilisation: Buildings and Architecture
The Aztec civilisation had rich traditions of architecture and building which just like every other important aspect of life was influenced by the classical Mesoamerican civilisations. They built very impressive pyramids at the top of which they had temples dedicated to different gods.
Special care was taken for accurate proportions of these buildings and rich symbolism was incorporated into the architecture. Other than pyramids, the Aztec’s also had magnificent palaces for the emperor and gathering places for the warriors, priests, and nobles.
Aztec Civilisation: Education
Education is an impressive aspect of Aztec civilisation and it was one of the first societies in the world which made education compulsory for all children. However, separate schools were established for the children of the nobility and those of the common people.
Similarly, separate schools existed for boys and girls. An important aspect of education in Aztec civilisation was particular emphasis on basic military education and it was deemed compulsory for all the male students above a certain age.
Aztec Civilisation: Music
Music was a very important part of Aztec civilisation since it was included in their religious practices and rituals. Instruction of music was given to children at schools and they were also taught songs which were important in their culture.
Nobles had their own bands and song writers to create music for them. Important musical instruments in Aztec civilisation included drums of various types, rattles, flutes, horns, and trumpets of various sorts. Music was also an essential feature during their religious ceremonies which frequently took place.
Aztec Civilisation: Art and Design
Art was particularly important in Aztec civilisations since they lacked a fully developed writing system and their written language itself consisted mainly of pictogram’s. Thus drawing was a part of everyday life and rich depictions of battles and conquests are found in the codices. Other representations of art in Aztec civilisation included richly coloured clothing, ceremonial knives, architecture rich in symbolism, sculpture, masks of various sorts, works of pottery, carved pillars, painted walls, and jewellery of many types etc.
Aztec Civilisation: Entertainment
Entertainment in Aztec civilisation mainly consisted of various games and sports, in addition to music and religious ceremonies. Aztecs played a variety of games some of which even had ritualistic status.
For instance, the Aztec ball game had religious significance and was reserved for the nobility. They also played board games and one common feature in all the games was heavy betting. Music and dancing were also important forms of entertainment and part of Aztec life.
Aztec Civilisation: Prayer and Religion
Religion was perhaps the most important component of life in Aztec civilisation. Aztec’s held religious ceremonies at the end of each 20-day month and one of the most important rituals during these ceremonies was human sacrifice for which the prisoners of war were used.
Other than that, prayers were an integral part of everyday life in Aztec civilisation and every household had a special place reserved for worship and prayer. Due to the importance of religion, priests enjoyed a status on par with the nobility.
Aztec Civilisation: Hygiene and Sanitation
Aztec civilisation had an impressive system of hygiene and sanitation. They had steam baths for nobles as well as commoners and it was thought that regular steam baths provided good health and also drove away the evil spirits.
Aztec’s built an impressive system of aqueducts to bring potable water to Tenochtitlan from the springs on the mainland. Human waste was handled by means of privies in all public places and often canoes were used to collect excrement from private dwellings.
The excrement was then used as fertiliser for the floating agricultural lands or used for tanning of animal hides. Overall, the system of sanitation was better than its counterpart in Europe at the time.
Aztec Civilisation Summary
Aztec civilisation took birth in the city-state of Tenochtitlan which was founded by the Mexica people in 1325. With the passage of time, its importance and power grew and it became the Aztec Empire in 1428 as a result of a civil war.
Aztec civilisation development a sophisticated system of governance based on tributes and formed its own laws and social organisation. Religion was of supreme importance in Aztec civilisation and it influenced every other domain of life, in particular music, art, and architecture.
Aztec civilisation is also noteworthy for it’s impressive system of sanitation which was better than major medieval European cities of the time.
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Home English Home win on the Tourmalet
Home win on the Tourmalet
Emanuel Buchmann improved on the first Pyrenean stage of the Tour de France on rank five. The front of the impressive Julian Alaphilippe remains. The victory of the day goes to one of his compatriots.
There were three winners on the 14. Stage of the Tour de France: twice in France, once out of Germany. First climbed by the Frenchman Pinot, Thibaut the legendary Col du Tourmalet. 200 meters before the finish line had dropped off the professional from the Team Groupama-FDJ from the top group and the steep ramp was pushed up to the Pyrenean summit.
To him the residue of the carrier of the Yellow Jersey and the country man Julian Alaphilippe, and expanded also thanks to the time credit his lead in the overall standings, followed just six seconds. Alaphilippe is defending for the tenth Time, his leadership and supported his claim, but at least the favorites in this Tour in 2019 to. Before the Start of the tour de France this year had expected the Least.
Buchmann: “Not so fast”
Also far beyond the General expectations of Emanuel Buchmann was. The 19-Kilometer-long elimination of the contenders to the overall victory up to the Tourmalet, the man from the Team, “Bora-hansgrohe was” no nakedness, and attacked in the last Kilometer from the ten comprehensive driver Advanced.
Emanuel Buchmann (left) leads the top group on the last kilometers of the Tourmalet-rise
“We are not in a hurry, then I attacked, but the others were in the back and then I canceled it immediately,” said Buchmann, only seconds after the arrival in the ARD-television. At the end he landed after 117,5 kilometers long part of the piece to a strong fourth place. Just eight seconds Scam be behind the victory of the day.
The somewhat taciturn Buchmann, summed up the stage this way: “I felt really great, had a whole day of good legs and am optimistic for the next few days.” He must be also. Because in the overall standings Buchmann improved to rank five, he even succeeded in the final stage, defending champion Geraint Thomas by almost half a Minute to hang out.
“I’ve heard that Thomas had problems. That’s good to hear,” said Buchmann short-term weakness of the favourites. The Briton is next on court two, the gap Alaphilippe is but been 2:02 minutes. Buchmann is 3:12 minutes – the same time as the winner of the day Pinot. And all of this without his main helper. Maximilian chess man tags overthrown in a previously difficult and had to abandon the race with multiple metacarpal fractures.
Of the favorites on the final climb
Also in the high mountains a stunner: Julian Alaphilippe (l.) defended his Yellow Jersey impressive
Some of the co-favourites, had, however, buried their hopes on the first of four high-mountain stages. The Irishman Daniel Martin fell as well as Nairo Quintana from Colombia, the Bardet Briton Adam Yates and Frenchman Romain.
Already on Sunday on the second stage in the Pyrenees could improve Buchmann even further. Crucial is likely to be the Alps, where the Tour entourage will be on Friday and Saturday to visit. Has divided, Emanuel Buchmann and his forces well, and this appearance he made on the Col du Tourmalet, then at the final in Paris, even a place on the Podium for him this coming Sunday in.
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Vinod Khanna will still rule the hearts of millions – Pema Khandu
Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu joined the rest of the country in mourning the sad demise of veteran actor and sitting BJP MP Vinod Khanna who passed away at the age of 70 on Thursday.
In his condolence message to the eldest son of the legendary actor Rahul Khanna, Khandu wrote “with profound grief I write to share the grief of losing one of the finest actors ever produced by India and a charismatic, influential and dedicated leader of our great nation.
The news of his demise came as a shocker to the people of the entire country. Late Vinod Khanna will rule the hearts of millions for being one of the most stylish, handsome and an awesome actor of all time. A sitting Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Gurdaspur district of Punjab, Late Vinod Khanna proved the country that he is versatile in every sphere. Apart from being a legend in Indian Cinema, he proved his mettle as a seasoned politician who undertook many welfare initiatives.
I believe, leaving this mortal world will not diminish the love and affection showered on him by the people and his soul will remain immortal. So would his footsteps and the contributions made to the country during his long and memorable decades of Film World and political career.
I know this would be the most trying times for the people of the country and family members to cope with the irreparable loss, I hope my humble words of consolation would ease the grief even if a little. In this moment of grief, me, my family, colleagues in the Government and people of Arunachal Pradesh extend our solidarity with you and share the pain inflicted on you and the family members by one of the greatest truths of life” the message added.
He prayed almighty God to give strength to the bereaved family members to bear the irreparable loss.
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Board index ‹ Particulate Pollution ‹ Take Action in Your Community: Local Groups
National Air Pollution Summit is held
Be a part of the solution to air pollution.
by swiper » Thu Aug 14, 2014 6:28 pm
Below is a statement by air pollution experts, civil society organisations and air pollution-affected communities on the need for new air pollution laws in Australia.
Read about the PROBLEM, POLITICAL DELAY and INDICISION, and WHAT IS NEEDED!
NATIONAL AIR POLLUTION SUMMIT MELBOURNE, 1-3 AUGUST 2014
STATEMENT BY PARTICIPANTS
Air pollution causes the death of over 3000 Australians each year.1 The serious health consequences from exposure to the different sources of air pollution are now well established. There is consensus that there is no ‘safe’ level of exposure for many pollutants, and that there are harmful effects from exposure at levels well below the current air quality standards.2
In many Australian communities, measured air pollution levels frequently exceed the current national standards without meaningful consequences for polluters. Whilst we know that the current standards are frequently exceeded, the lack of adequate monitoring in many locations means that we often don’t know by how much or how often many communities are exposed to the very serious health risks from air pollution. Without changes in the monitoring and enforcement of standards for current polluters and improved assessment and licensing of proposed new developments many communities will continue to be put at risk.
The Australian Medical Association has said that, “Current air quality standards in Australia lag behind international standards and have failed to keep pace with scientific evidence.”3 Last year a Senate Committee inquiry concluded air quality is a significant problem in many parts of Australia and recommended several new
policies and programs.4
Political delay and inaction
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has recognised that current air quality laws are deficient and in 2011 committed to developing and adopting a
1 Begg, Vos, Barker, Stevenson, Stanley & Lopez, The burden of disease and injury in Australia 2003, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Canberra (2007), p234,
<http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=6442467990>.
2 Doctors for the Environment Australia, Submission to Senate Community Affairs References Committee, Parliament of Australia, Impacts on Health of Air Quality in Australia, 2013, pp5,8; World Health Organization, Health Aspects of Air Pollution with Particulate Matter, Ozone and Nitrogen Dioxide, Report on WHO Working Group (2003) pp5-6.
3 Australian Medical Association, submission to Senate Community Affairs References Committee, Parliament of Australia, Impacts on health of air quality in Australia, 2013, p2.
4 Senate Community Affairs References Committee, Parliament of Australia, Impacts on Health of Air
Quality in Australia, 2013, p3.
National Plan for Clean Air by the end of 2014. Despite COAG working on this reform since 2011, the Commonwealth Environment Minister recently announced that development of the Plan would be delayed for another two years, until July
2016.5 This is a cause of significant concern to the medical profession and to the
community. Commonwealth and State and Territory Governments are not treating air pollution with the seriousness and urgency it deserves.
This delay reflects a broader pattern of inaction on air pollution by State and Commonwealth Governments, including a failure to implement the recommendations of the 2011 Ambient Air Quality National Environment Protection Measure (NEPM) review,6 and the 2013 Senate Inquiry into Impacts on Health of Air Quality in Australia.7
What is needed?
The current regulatory system for air pollution is failing to protect Australian communities from the harmful effects of air pollution. Sixteen years after Australia adopted our first national air quality standards, the continuing lack of a compliance standard for PM2.5 places Australia far behind world’s best practice in air quality regulation. The current arrangements for coordinated action by the States and Territories have many fundamental problems and have failed to ensure a strong and consistent national approach. Implementing the recommendations of the NEPM review and the 2013 Senate Committee would go some way towards improving regulation of air quality in Australia. However a more significant reappraisal of Australia's approach to air pollution regulation is needed.
The State, Territory and Federal Governments should implement the NEPM
review recommendations immediately.
A compliance standard for PM2.5 (fine particles) should be adopted immediately.
The Commonwealth Government should legislate a National Air Pollution Prevention Act that is binding on all States and Territories, and establish a National Air Pollution Regulator to ensure that air pollution is effectively regulated. The National Regulator should have a responsibility to implement standards that prioritise the protection of human health and reduce the exposure of Australian communities to hazardous air pollutants.
5 The Hon Greg Hunt MP, Inaugral Alan Hunt Oration, Speech to the Urban Development Institute of
Australia 7 March 2014 <http://www.environment.gov.au/minister/hunt/2014/sp20140307.html>.
6 National Environment Protection Council (NEPC) 2011, National Environment Protection (Ambient Air) Measure Review Report <http://www.scew.gov.au/resource/national-environment-protection-ambient-air- quality-measure-review-review-report>.
Quality in Australia, 2013.
ENDORSED BY THE FOLLOWING ORGANISATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS
Doctors for the Environment Australia
Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales
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Camp Salmen Nature Park
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Canoe Launch
Visitors to Camp Salmen can plainly see just how scenic Bayou Liberty is from our banks. There are many alluring glimpses through the overhanging vegetation and panoramic vistas of the bayou’s slow, swirling currents and deep quiet. However, there is even more to be seen for those who wish to launch a canoe. We have a special spot on our bank just off the main parking lot where people are encouraged to bring their paddle-craft to the water for cruising up or down this historic stream. They will see beautiful wetlands teeming with wildlife and lovely, historic homes and estates.
The launch has a gentle slope above and below the water line, making it fairly easy to manage a canoe launching. Like a lot of our bayou bank, it’s loaded with brick chunks leftover from Fritz Salmen’s brick-making enterprise as well as those who preceded him in doing this same thing at this location. In fact, there were piles of brickbats noted on the deed when Joseph Laurent bought the property for his Indian Trading Post (the Salmen Lodge) in the early 1800s. We have covered the launch area with sand to smooth it out.
Those launching their expeditions are encouraged to fill out one of the Float Plans offered in the Information Binder in the Main Pavilion and leave it face up on the dash of their car or under their windshield wiper in case their return is somehow delayed.
A paddle upstream on Bayou Liberty will fairly quickly bring one to the bridge over U.S. 190 and the wooden boardwalk of Carollo Station, currently the eastern end of the Tammany Trace bike path. Traveling much further upstream will take one on a jolly fifteen-mile long slog up a winding, narrowing stream full of various wooden obstacles. Most people prefer to travel downstream where it widens up considerably. Camp Salmen’s location has historically been considered the stream’s head of navigation and was wide enough for Laurent to turn around his 50 ft. schooner, the Marguerite.
As the crow flies, Lake Pontchartrain is only four miles away but somewhat longer to paddle downstream around the bayou’s twists and turns. The Scouts used to routinely paddle from here to camp the night on the lake’s starry shore.
The bayou flows through the heart of Bonfouca, a place occupied for thousands of years by Native Americans and settled by some of the first French in Louisiana. Their succeeding generations became both Creole and American. They farmed the land along the banks, raising crops and livestock, hunted its woods and marshes, and took advantage of the surrounding timber to make various products. They also built boats to trade their bounty of the land with the growing city across the lake and other coastal communities. There is a pride found on this bayou from people who know their long heritage. The new, upstart railroad town of Slidell next door should also be proud of having such a noble, older sister for a neighbor.
For a really adventurous paddle, go past the historic St. Genevieve Catholic Church where the bayou flows into open marsh and joins with its twin, Bayou Bonfouca from old downtown Slidell to flow to the lake and all the possibilities of exploration along the wilderness shore.
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The Q Review - Comic Book Reviews
Marvel Apes #2
It can't be a good sign when my weekly quotient of review material arrives with a sympathetic apology from the powers that be. Such was the case with Marvel Apes #2, and with good reason. It's tough to remain impartial about a mini-series when the very premise seems to be no more than a thin, bad joke, but such is my task this afternoon.
Behold the Marvel Apes: discovered through a chance series of events involving a scientist, DNA, a villain masquerading as a lab monkey and an interdimensional portal, these simians populate a universe in which man never rose to rule the Earth. Naturally that means the responsibility of dressing up in spandex and fighting crime has fallen to the chimps, and they've embraced that call of duty.
In the two stories crammed into this extra-sized issue, Karl Kesel and Tom Peyer each take a turn at penning the apes' adventures. The authors are virtually indistinguishable, delivering two heaping armloads of bad puns and a surplus of shamefully unfunny parodies of mainstream superheroes. Doctor Ooktavius? The Mighty Thorangutan? Are you serious?! This is a collection of the very worst elements of Marvel's history, the homage to a path blazed by Spider-Ham that I'd been dreading for years. While there's an undercurrent of serious plot running beneath the ridiculous gimmicky faux-humor, it's bargain basement at best and utterly buried beneath a mountain of cheese.
That's not to say that the book's tone is its primary handicap. There's certainly a place for comedy in mainstream comics, even lowest denominator-targeted goofball humor like this. Deadpool has been the star of that style of book, off and on, for years and he's no worse for wear. No, where the Marvel Apes train sails off the tracks is about six inches away from the terminal: the problem is with the premise itself. Was there really a need for this? Was anyone banging on Marvel's door, demanding a horror-tinted world of simian superheroes? Even if they were, is this actually entertaining them? Every time I think the story can't get any dumber, it manages to top itself on the very next page. I think this level of stupidity would insult even Rain Man.
Ramon Bachs and Karl Kesel provide the artwork for this month's stories, and they too produce very similar results. Neither can decide if this issue should be filled with apes who walk like men or men who act like apes. They lumber around the page with strange proportions and stretched anatomy, rarely resembling monkeys so much as they do strange, furry, flat-faced humanoid aliens. Each successfully delivers the light tone that the bulk of the story demands, just not in a way that I found even remotely appealing. Maybe I was disturbed by the image of the more scantily clad ladies of the Marvel line as apes, or maybe these artists just had a tough time coming to grips with what they were being asked to illustrate (unlikely, since Kesel actually wrote the primary story). Either way, this ain't pretty to look at.
Marvel Apes #2 is punishment. If you've been reading Marvel Comics for any length of time, chances are good that at some point you've come across a moment that made your eyes involuntarily roll. I'm a die-hard fan of the line, but I can't deny its lasting tendency to cross the line occasionally and grow a bit too silly for its own good. This issue is like a roundup of every such moment, capitalized by a cast full of overdressed gorillas. It's terrible. Just terrible. SKIP.
On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is poor and 10 is amazing...
Overall Score: 1
Posted by drqshadow at 11:58 AM
Labels: captain america, karl kesel, marvel apes, ramon bachs, tom peyer
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Penn State vs Wisconsin Pregame Podcast
Audio posted December 28, 2012 in CommRadio, Sports by Basketball Pregame Staff
Mike Esse, Tyler Ball and Matt Stainthorpe preview Penn State's Big Ten opener against Wisconsin.
Mike Esse
Mike Esse is a senior from Grosse Pointe, Mich., majoring in broadcast journalism with a minor in business. He is a reporter for the Centre County report with a primary focus in sports. Additionally, he serves as the Student General Manager for ComRadio as well as being a producer, talk show personality and play-by-play voice.
Mike also is a staff writer for gopsusports.com where he covers Penn State women’s basketball and baseball and works for Penn State Athletics in video production. He has completed internships with MLB Advanced Media in Summer 2014 and Westwood One Sports in summer 2013.
Mike is interested in pursuing a career as a TV executive, producer, talk-show host or a play-by-play announcer. You can reach him via email at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and follow him on twitter @MikeEsse22.
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View from the hill
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How the NHS failed me and mine.
What it did, to the most important person
in my life and how it could happen to you unless
we do something about it!
First They Came For Your Daughters.........
And now for your son's.
A recent headline story in the Independent caught my eye as an example of 'disease mongering'. My dislike of HPV vaccination will have been made clear from my last post, as I feel it is a somewhat large hammer for a very small nut. The vaccine Gardasil, from Merck is seen in this light by myself and and many others. Age standardised mortality rates of Cervical Cancer in the UK stood at 2.4 per 100,000 in 2008 and falling which is a risk of .0024% if my calculation is correct. Down it seems from 1971 of 7.1 per 100,000 and in most of those years the vaccine did not exist. It is also somewhat easy to cure and in many cases no harm results from infection with even the low percentage of CIN 3 lesions detected only progressing to actual cancer 1% of the time. So why we should vaccinate against such a problem bemuses me, when we ignore many other cancers of much higher rates of incidence.
Michael Douglas, a throat cancer sufferer.
A new 'epidemic' it seems, is now being sold as a reason to vaccinate young boys as well as girls. We are told, that Oropharyngeal Cancer (throat cancer) has increased alarmingly, by some 73%! And that HPV vaccines will guard against it's further spread. It is only when you read the actual figures that the figure is put into context. A rise from 1 per 100,000 to 2.3 per 100,000. So yes, it is a rise but that's the 'actual' (rather than relative) risk which remains almost too small to measure, in scientific terms. And one must remember that the 'actual risk' of harm from the vaccine itself. exceeds that figure by some 50% (playing them at their own game), it's about 3.5 per 100,000.
The increase is laid at the door of 'yoofs' predilection for oral sex as opposed to the 'missionary position' one assumes, which does lend to them, some inclination against unwanted pregnancies. It's a pity that such a risque form of sex should be viewed as 'risky' by the Professor (honourary) who broke the story; Hisham Mehanna. This practise increases the risk of HPV infection of the throat by this 'staggering amount' (sic), sufficient for him to advocate HPV vaccination. Yet quite a number of Scientists find themselves at odds with this because the protocol remains largely unproven and in most cases the recipients would have to wait some twenty to thirty years for any evidence that it was, to come to light. And of course, the vaccines do not protect from all HPV strains so their effect is at best 70% for 4 to 10 years.
At the moment the NHS continues to roll out the HPV vaccination of young girls but not boys. This story is a 'move' by someone who combines both Private and NHS careers to frighten young women, girls and now anxious parents, to press for this vaccine to be available for all. It seems a cynical ploy to me to once more 'generate' more things to do for an already declining resource fund; the NHS. I could point out that Mehanna receives funding for some of his studies from GlaxoSmithKline, the maker of one of the two major vaccines; Cervarix. But of course I wouldn't do that, would I?
Posted by blackdog at 12:26
Labels: Cervarix, Daughters, Gardasil, Hpv, Merck, Son's, Throat Cancer
Willow 29 January 2012 at 13:25
In this blog article - http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/01/29/hpv-vaccines-for-boys.aspx - today, Dr Mercola also inveighs against Gardasil for young boys. And with good reason. I recommend the article.
Vaccines are certainly not the Little Goodie Two-Shoes of pharmaceutical drugs that many people believe.
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Power to the people: Eco tents: Racoon dahn the drain: Otopussy twat: and a Bloody big spider.
Captain Mainwaring’s Casualty
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statins, low cholesterol make some people crazy
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Stearic acid again
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What has the phlogiston theory to do with the belief that the only cause of becoming overweight is eating too many calories and taking too little exercise?
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NHS: Tap Water &The Last Cook.
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Support for "Trick and Treat": How 'healthy eating' is making us ill
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'Child' Migrants
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Ex politician, Journalist, Biologist (in the 60's),Firearms Instructor (lapsed).Deeply troubled by the safety of (and lack of it) within the NHS and the Doctor cohort in general. Furious that the 'Bolam Test' still exists in Modern Medicine. Never could work out what to do when I grew up so I didn't bother (to grow up).
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2011; End of Term Report.
Chocolate and Paracetamol.
No, it's not a new recipe for pain relief, although thinking about it may have some merit. Chocolate has been investigated for it'...
Health care in general and the NHS in particular, places far too much reliance upon the notion of prevention and 'early' detection...
Hubris, Dominance and Radicalisation.
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The Perfidy of Politics.
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"I'm feeling strange, she said". I glanced across from the road in front. She looked agitated, and her voice became slurred, a...
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Some news today that many of us have been awaiting, often with many false dawns, I might add, but always with hope that one day, Will Powell...
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More Usually Means Less.
Oliver Wendell Holmes. " I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used , could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, i...
Loss of Innocence (On the Ward)
That night felt as if it would last forever, despite it being the longest day. Like all things in life, however it did, and dawn crept over ...
Obama's Gift To Pharma.
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T: -4
E: -5 (actively hostile stellar environment)
R: -2
Jump Points To: Destiny (inaccessible), Grissom, White, Yeager (inaccessible)
Full Of Radiation
Graveyard System
It Was The Only Way Back
The Lost System. Even today, reports are still confused as to exactly what happened, but these things are known:
There was a small colony - less than 20,000, gathered in one town on the only barely habitable planet. Never self-sufficient, it had survived as a subsidized fuel depot and emergency repair station.
A small team of Nephilim attempted to set up a wormhole using Chandley's star. Had they succeeded and brought through reinforcements, they would have been able to run rampant over the Hawking and Argent sectors, and make significant incursions into the Enigma and Sol sectors before running into any real resistance.
This effort would take weeks or months - it is unclear exactly how long - and thus relied on stealth. Fortunately, it was discovered, and Confederation military alerted. (The Nephilim killed all the colonists, and then did a poor job of pretending to be them. Captains of passing ships were instructed to humor them until a military response could arrive. This ruse held.)
Six Yorktown-class carriers were the only capital ships able to intercept them in time, and only because they had been mothballed in what was thought to be the safe, uncontested side of Terran Confederation space - away from the Kilrathi Empire, previous Nephilim incursions, and other events. Fighters and ordinance were hastily manufactured or diverted while the carriers were prepared.
Destroying the Nephilim equipment turned Chandley's star into a black hole. (Who knew this would happen, and when they knew, is hotly debated - mostly by those who were not there.) Two of the carriers were either lost, or escaped to Destiny or Yeager. The other four escaped to Grissom.
While the jump points are far enough away that things coming through them are not immediately sucked into the black hole (the Nephilim did not add that much mass to the star, though there is enough gravity to affect navigation), the system is now flooded with radiation. Human crews in well-shielded ships that go there and immediately jump back accumulate a severe case of radiation poisoning from their brief exposure; going anywhere within the system before returning, or attempting to cross to another jump point, would be guaranteed suicide. Completely automated drones have not been able to reach the Grissom jump point from the White jump point or vice versa, save as radiation-fried husks with all electronics - including jump drive controls - destroyed (necessitating retrieval by other drones, jumping at precisely calculated times). Given that, and the fact that no such probes from Destiny or Yeager have come through, it is assumed that probes sent to Destiny and Yeager did not survive the trip.
Consolation is taken from the high likelihood that the same thing happened on the far side of the wormhole, which would have been a major Nephilim colony, with a population in the millions or billions.
As far as most people are concerned, "impassible" and "going there = suicide" sum up Chandley today.
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Effects in functional and dependently-typed programming
by Iain Lane
"... Effectful programming is supported in Haskell by compilers which provide primitive effectful operations, together with functions to combine these operations into larger programs. Unfortunately, this makes the task of reasoning about the correctness of and understanding the behaviour of programs with ..."
-by-construction programs which are guaranteed to match their specifications. We move on to discuss a potential new model for specifying local state (á la the ST monad), along with an initial prototype in the dependently-typed functional programming language Agda. This model specifies the effect that computations have
Dependently typed programming in Agda
by Ulf Norell - In Lecture Notes from the Summer School in Advanced Functional Programming , 2008
"... In Hindley-Milner style languages, such as Haskell and ML, there is a clear separation between types and values. In a dependently typed language the line is more blurry – types can contain (depend on) arbitrary values and appear as arguments and results of ordinary functions. ..."
In Hindley-Milner style languages, such as Haskell and ML, there is a clear separation between types and values. In a dependently typed language the line is more blurry – types can contain (depend on) arbitrary values and appear as arguments and results of ordinary functions.
Dependently-Typed Formalisation of Typed Term Graphs
by C Wolfram Kahl, Wolfram Kahl
"... We employ the dependently-typed programming language Agda2 to explore formalisation of untyped and typed term graphs directly as set-based graph structures, via the gs-monoidal categories of Corradini and Gadducci, and as nested let-expressions using Pouillard and Pottier’s NotSoFresh library of var ..."
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We employ the dependently-typed programming language Agda2 to explore formalisation of untyped and typed term graphs directly as set-based graph structures, via the gs-monoidal categories of Corradini and Gadducci, and as nested let-expressions using Pouillard and Pottier’s NotSoFresh library
Security-Typed Programming within Dependently-Typed Programming
by Jamie Morgenstern, Daniel R. Licata
"... Abstract. Several recent security-typed programming languages allow programmers to express and enforce authorization policies governing access to controlled resources. Policies are expressed as propositions in an authorization logic, and enforced by a type system that requires each access to a sensi ..."
sensitive resource to be accompanied by a proof. The securitytyped languages described in the literature, such as Aura and PCML5, have been presented as new, stand-alone language designs. In this paper, we instead show how to embed a security-typed programming language within an existing dependently typed
Generating typed dependency parses from phrase structure parses
by Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Bill MacCartney, Christopher D. Manning - IN PROC. INT’L CONF. ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION (LREC , 2006
"... This paper describes a system for extracting typed dependency parses of English sentences from phrase structure parses. In order to capture inherent relations occurring in corpus texts that can be critical in real-world applications, many NP relations are included in the set of grammatical relations ..."
This paper describes a system for extracting typed dependency parses of English sentences from phrase structure parses. In order to capture inherent relations occurring in corpus texts that can be critical in real-world applications, many NP relations are included in the set of grammatical
An Overview of the C++ Programming Language
by Bjarne Stroustrup , 1999
"... This overview of C++ presents the key design, programming, and language-technical concepts using examples to give the reader a feel for the language. C++ is a general-purpose programming language with a bias towards systems programming that supports efficient low-level computation, data abstraction, ..."
This overview of C++ presents the key design, programming, and language-technical concepts using examples to give the reader a feel for the language. C++ is a general-purpose programming language with a bias towards systems programming that supports efficient low-level computation, data abstraction
The C Programming Language
by Dennis M. Ritchie , 1988
"... The C programming language was devised in the early 1970s as a system implementation language for the nascent Unix operating system. Derived from the typeless language BCPL, it evolved a type structure; created on a tiny machine as a tool to improve a meager programming environment, it has become on ..."
The C programming language was devised in the early 1970s as a system implementation language for the nascent Unix operating system. Derived from the typeless language BCPL, it evolved a type structure; created on a tiny machine as a tool to improve a meager programming environment, it has become
Semantics of Context-Free Languages
by Donald E. Knuth - In Mathematical Systems Theory , 1968
"... "Meaning " may be assigned to a string in a context-free language by defining "at-tributes " of the symbols in a derivation tree for that string. The attributes can be de-fined by functions associated with each production in the grammar. This paper examines the implications of th ..."
"Meaning " may be assigned to a string in a context-free language by defining "at-tributes " of the symbols in a derivation tree for that string. The attributes can be de-fined by functions associated with each production in the grammar. This paper examines the implications
The Lorel Query Language for Semistructured Data
by Serge Abiteboul, Dallan Quass, Jason Mchugh, Jennifer Widom, Janet Wiener - International Journal on Digital Libraries , 1997
"... We present the Lorel language, designed for querying semistructured data. Semistructured data is becoming more and more prevalent, e.g., in structured documents such as HTML and when performing simple integration of data from multiple sources. Traditional data models and query languages are inapprop ..."
are inappropriate, since semistructured data often is irregular, some data is missing, similar concepts are represented using different types, heterogeneous sets are present, or object structure is not fully known. Lorel is a user-friendly language in the SQL/OQL style for querying such data effectively. For wide
The synchronous dataflow programming language LUSTRE
by N. Halbwachs, P. Caspi, P. Raymond, D. Pilaud - Proceedings of the IEEE , 1991
"... This paper describes the language Lustre, which is a dataflow synchronous language, designed for programming reactive systems --- such as automatic control and monitoring systems --- as well as for describing hardware. The dataflow aspect of Lustre makes it very close to usual description tools in t ..."
This paper describes the language Lustre, which is a dataflow synchronous language, designed for programming reactive systems --- such as automatic control and monitoring systems --- as well as for describing hardware. The dataflow aspect of Lustre makes it very close to usual description tools
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Sports Health Photo Contest Winners Announced!
Athletic Trainer for Bloomington Blaze Pro Hockey Team Wins $5,000 Award
Earlier this year, Sports Health launched “A Day in the Life of an Athletic Trainer” photo contest, giving Athletic Trainers the opportunity to submit a photo illustrating what happens during a typical day on the job. We received a great variety of entries, all of which can be viewed in the Sports Health Facebook Album.
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Sports Health selected two Athletic Trainers to be the judges of the photos. Participating judges were Phil Hossler, MS, ATC from East Brunswick High School in New Jersey and Tory Lindley, MA, ATC and Director of Athletic Training Services at Northwestern University. Each judge ranked their top three nominations and the winner was the highest combined ranked nomination from each judge. The runner up was randomly selected from the remaining nominations.
Congratulations to Matthew Aiello, ATC (pictured right) who won 1st place and the $5,000 award with his action shot of treating one of the Bloomington Blaze pro hockey players during a game.
Connie Fernandez, MAT, ATC, LAT received the runner-up award with an image of a baseball player being checked out on the field. Connie is the Assistant Athletic Trainer at Calallen High School in Corpus Christi, TX.
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A few additional notable entries include:
A humorous graphic of people’s perceptions of an Athletic Trainer’s job. View photo>>
This fantastic collage of Carlitta M. Moore, MS, LAT, ATC at Saint Augustine’s College. View photo>>
A close-up action shot of a wrestler being treated at Pelham High School in NH. View photo>>
To show our appreciation of the time and effort that went into all of the photo submissions, Sports Health will be sending a $100 gift card to each entrant! We would like to thank all of the teams, schools, Athletic Trainers and athletes who came together to create this powerful collection of images.
Posted by Sarah Zieth at 3:03 PM
How often will you run this contest?
Sports Health November 28, 2012 at 11:41 AM
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Young women volunteers provide companionship for Russia’s elderly
Letter writing, entertainment and friendship – no job is too small for Liza Oleskina and Marina Kochevalova when it comes to taking care of the elderly in Russia. They are members of Starost v radost, or “It’s nice to be old.” Founded in 2006, its young women volunteers provide much needed companionship for the older generation from the Urals to Siberia.
Listen to the report by Geert Groot Koerkamp in Moscow:
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Every weekend, Marina Kochevalova travels to the Russian countryside to visit the elderly
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Russian activist changes Moscow by counting cars
Maksim Kats is not your typical politician. The 27-year-old was elected as deputy in the local council in Moscow and has since started counting parked cars in the city with a group of volunteers. They’re collecting hard statistics to show that the city is not friendly to pedestrians – and hopefully change the cityscape in small ways.
DW’s Geert Groot Koerkamp spoke with Maksim and the volunteers helping him in Tverskaya, Moscow’s main shopping street. They have been counting cars and people in several locations in the city, including the district where Maksim is a deputy in the local council. At the same time, they also record other things that are not right, like illegal street advertisements.
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Russian student works toward honest democracy
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For a long time, Russians were thought to have little interest in politics. Opposition rallies used to draw only a handful of activists. All that has changed since the parliamentary elections held on December 4, 2011. Frustrated by evidence of widespread election fraud, tens of thousands took to the streets in Moscow alone.
Belonging to the opposition has become fashionable again in Russia, and a growing number of young people are talking part in the protests. Among them is Anatoly Bulgakov, a 25-year-old student who felt he had to take action to show his discontent. DW’s Geert Koerkamp met him at one of the meetings against election fraud in Moscow.
Anatoly helps distribute white ribbons, which have quickly become a symbol of the new movement for democracy in Russia. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin only boosted their popularity by alleging that he first thought they were condoms used to draw attention to the fight against aids. The awkward statement was skillfully used by activists in a call to join the protests.
Student activists responded to Putin’s condom mix-up with this Youtube video:
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KNOTS AND ROPEWORK. Page one.
See also Seamanship and
Seamanship Education
Reeds Splicing Handbook
Practical Knots
Knots. Step By Step
Splicing Modern Ropes
50 Knots you need to Know
The Arts Of the Sailor
Knot Craft & Rope Mats
Knotting with Modern Rope
Netmaking
The Marlinspike Sailor
Knots and Splices
The Splicing Handbook, Third Edition
Collins Gem Knots
Nautical Knots Illustrated
The Adlard Coles Book of Knots
RYA Pocket Guide to Boating Knots
Knots & Splices
Knots, Splices and Line Handling
The Knot Handbook
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By Jan-Willem Polman. Softback, 0.12kg, 100mm x 160mm, 123 pages, colour photgraphs. Published in 2018.
Splicing rope is an essential skill. But the traditional 3-strand rope is fast disappearing. So how do you splice braided rope?
Most of the techniques are quite easy to master – and also fun to do. See why splices are better – and stronger – than knots or shackles for joining or shortening rope, and follow the step-by-step photographs and clear instructions to find out how to splice efficiently.
Containing step by step photos and clear instructions, this colourful and easy to follow aide memoire guides users every step of the way.
This is the definitive pocket-sized guide to all rope splicing techniques.
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PRACTICAL KNOTS. A STEP BY STEP GUIDE
By Barry Mault. Softback, 0.28kg, 140mm x 220mm, 128 pages, colour photgraphs. Published in 2015.
A knot book aimed at the everyday user of knots around the home and outdoors. Instead of presenting a bewildering array of knots which are of no consequence in real life, this book shows you, step by step in photographic sequence, how to tie knots, and then how they can be used for a number of practical tasks
By Des Pawson. Softback, 0.46kg, 100mm x 190mm, 400 pages, Colour Photographs. Published in 2012.
Ultimate guide to knots for every occasion "Knots Step by Step" is the essential guide to knowing and tying knots for every purpose. From figure-of-eights to reef knots and highwayman's hitches to monkey's fists, it includes every knot you ever thought you needed to tie, and more. The book comes with a handy rope so you can practice every knot as you learn. Covering more than 100 knots for climbing, sailing, horse-riding, survival and fishing as well as for gardening, DIY, medical and decorative purposes, the clear layout and photographs of every step will move you on from knot-tying novice in no time. You'll also learn all about the different types of knots and the fascinating stories behind how many of these came into being. "Knots Step by Step" is the ideal book to have to hand for whenever a knot is needed.
(Previously published as the "Handbook of Knots")
By Jan-Willem Polman. Hardback, 175mm x 255mm, 176 pages, Colour Photographs. Published 2016. 0.67 kg
For any seafarer, splicing rope is an essential skill. But the traditional 3-strand rope is fast disappearing. So how do you splice braided rope? This is the definitive guide to this crucial skill. Most of the techniques are quite easy to master – and also fun to do. See why splices are better – and stronger – than knots or shackles for joining or shortening rope, and follow the step-by-step photographs and clear instructions to find out how to splice efficiently.
Learn how to·
Make strong, reliable splices in braided rope ·
Select ropes in the materials that best suit your on-board requirements·
Customise your ropes to make your setup easier and safer·
Optimise your deck layout and save weight on board·
Taper your sheets for ease of handling·
Splice an extra cover on your ropes to give better grip in clutches,
Avoid chafe and make them last longer
While a knot can reduce the strength of a rope by as much as 50%, a well-spliced rope loses only 5–10%. The techniques, insights and suggestions within these pages will be invaluable to all boaters, whether recreational or commercial.
By Marty Allen. Hardback, 0.26kg, 130mm x 195mm, 96 pages, colour line drawings. Published in 2015.
If you're unaware of the difference between a Cow Hitch and a Marlinspike Hoop or a Running Bowline and a Square Lashing, all will be revealed in 50 Knots You Need to Know. Packed with step-by-step instructions, discover how to tie knots to get you through any situation, whether it's nautical knots for sailing adventures or shanks and hitches for camping or climbing weekends. You will learn simple knot-making techniques that can be used for all your favorite pursuits. And once you've graduated from the easy stuff you can move on to the more serious examples, such as a make-shift rope halter to you can use to tame a wild beast or strong knots for securing and tying things together.
Also included are a couple of pieces of rope, so you can start tying knows right away.
THE ARTS OF THE SAILOR.
By Hervey Garrett Smith. Paperback, 0.30kg, 140mm x 215mm, 226 pages, Line Drawings. Published in 1990.
Over 150 years ago, the skills needed to operate a merchant sailing vessel were many and varied. While not nearly as much in demand today as they were in the days of the Yankee clippers, these skills nevertheless remain important and necessary to today's yachtsmen and owners of smaller pleasure boats.
In this excellent handbook on basic shipboard skills, marine expert Hervey Garrett Smith offers boating and yachting enthusiasts a complete course in rigging, working, and maintaining a ship. More than 100 illustrations help the reader grasp the fundamentals and fine points of handling a ship while the author describes in detail a sailor's tools, basic knots, and useful hitches as well as the arts of splicing, handsewing, and canvas work.
Other topics equally important to safe, economical, and efficient boat maintenance and management include belaying, coiling, and stowing; towing procedures; how to make a chafing gear; and much more. Easy-to-follow instructions for fashioning decorative knots, ornamental coverings, and nettings, and even how to make a proper bucket round out this engaging and informative guide.
Packed with useful "hands-on" information conveyed in a chatty, humorous style, The Arts of the Sailor is the perfect book to keep aboard ship for study and for ready reference when the need arises. It also makes delightful reading for armchair sailors and the legions of landlubbers with an interest in the sea.
By Des Pawson. Softback, 0.57kg, 210mm x 210mm, 176 pages, Line drawings & Sketches. Published in 2016.
A collection of Des Pawson's personal ropecraft recipes combines an extended and now full-color collection of projects from Des's popular Des Pawson's Knot Craft, together with 20 new and brilliant mat designs.
Learn how to make 60 different ropework projects, including mats, bellropes, key fobs, fenders, and doorstops. Along with fascinating tidbits of nautical history as background to many projects, Des gives step-by-step instructions on how to put these knots together to form finished projects, and advice on the size and lengths of the materials required.
Full-color illustrationswith clear and practical tips on technique.
KNOTTING WITH MODERN ROPE.
By P.W.Blandford. Hardcover, 0.3kg, 146mm x 212mm, 152 pages, black and white illustrations. Published 1995.
In recent years man-made materials have taken over almost completely from the natural fibres which have been used to make rope and all sizes of cordage for thousands of years.
Although synthetic rope has many advantages, its smoothness and method of construction makes the surface more slippery, so some traditional knots may slip and be unreliable and even dangerous.
This book addresses the practical problems of knotting synthetic ropes and cordage safely and securely and describes the best knots for particular applications.
NETMAKING.
By P.W.Blandford. Paperback, 0.13kg, 121mm x 178mm, 104 pages, black and white illustrations. Published 1986.
Bibliographic notes covers the subject from the very elementary points.
Netting sizes and knots
Varying flat net shapes
Tubular nets and bags
Mounting nets
Square netting
Repairing nets
Miscellaneous processes
Things to make
THE MARLINSPIKE SAILOR.
By Harvey Garrett Smith. Pbk, 215mm x 280mm, 144 pages, drawings and plans
Ever wondered how sailors tied those fancy bell handles or how rope fenders were made? And what about that braided rope that you want to splice? Well this book has them all! Discover the tools and trade of the marlinspike sailor and how they used decorative knots practically.
A comprehensive range of knots made simple by basic illustrations and easy to read text. This book has a very well illustrated section on splicing 2-in-1 Braided Ropes. A fantastic book for any serious sailor!
KNOTS AND SPLICES.
By Cyrus Day. Pbk, 107mm x 152mm, 64 pages, full colour photographs.
This book has been used by many thousands of sailors all over the world. The new edition of this much loved reference has now been completely revised to bring it up to date with modern developments.
Superb full colour photographs show the formation of each knot.
Refers to modern materials and their properties.
Covers knots, bends, htiches, loops, whippings, seizings and much more.
A comprehensive pocket guide designed for anyone wanting to work with rope.
THE ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTS.
By Clifford W Ashley. Hardback, 1.86 kg 220mm x 287mm, 620 pages, Black and White Illustrations and drawings.
This is the definitive book on knots. Here are approximately 3900 different kinds, from simple hitches to "Marlingspike Seamanship." Mr. Ashley has included almost everything there is to know about them. Precisely named and classified (some new ones for the first time officialy), they can be easily found in the big index. He tells when they appeared, something about their history, and what they are good for.
Above all, Mr. Ashley gives explicit directions on how to tie them. He describes each step simply and clearly in the text and has penned right alongside some 7000 drawings to make it still more graphic. This book and a piece of cord will open a new and chanllenging world of practical adventure to readers of all ages.
There are many distinctive features to this informal encyclopedia. Outstanding are the delightful sketches and illustrations by the author that enliven every page. Mr. Ashley, a prominent marine artist, is at his best here.
NZ$150.00 + Delivery
THE SPLICING HANDBOOK, Third Edition - 2011, Techniques for Modern and Traditional Ropes.
By Barbara Merry with John Darwin. Pbk, 140mm x 215mm, 246 pages, monochrome photographs and drawings.
This 2011 edition has added aditional wire splices and information on the choice of wire. Also a new section on decorative ropework, such as rope fenders, chafing gear and others.
This is the only book we know of that is dedicated entirely to splicing modern ropes. The book includes step-by-step illustrations and explanations for the most useful and popular splices in traditional twisted and modern braided ropes. It covers every kind of splicing project a boatie is likely to encounter, from the purely functional to the mainly decorative. The text and illustrations cover the most modern cordage such as Spectra, and includes wire splicing and rope-to-wire connection.
Barbara Merry has the experience of twenty years marine trade ropework; John Darwin is a master of rope technology and has an extensive background at sea as deckhand and master, prior to employment with a large rope manufacturer.
COLLINS GEM KNOTS.
Pbk, 82mm x 112mm, 192 pages, full colour drawings. 0.11 kg
A guide to over 30 of the basic and most useful knots. It has clear step-by-step instructions to tying stopper knots, fixed loop knots, hitches and bends as well as decorative knots.
Includes a table of knots with their uses.
NZ$17.00 + delivery.
NAUTICAL KNOTS ILLUSTRATED.
By Paul Snyder and Arthur Snyder. Pbk, 185mm x 235mm, 96 pages, full colour and monochrome photographs and drawings.
This book performs two functions; one is to describe how to produce 20 common knots, and the other is to instruct in winch and other rope-work in the environment which includes knotting.
The knotting descriptions are very well illustrated using lined rope and in many cases full coloured photographs, to allow the reader to easily follow the path of the rope. The illustrations are well backed with a full narrative describing how to make the knot as well as its use and other technical information.
The ropework section includes the use of cleats and winches, and covers the fixing of "snarl-ups" as well as instruction on the correct processes. It also describes heaving lines, running lines through sheaves, hanking a coil, and belaying pin work.
THE ADLARD COLE'S BOOK OF KNOTS.
By Peter Owen. Pbk, 148mm x 210mm, 96 pages. full colour photos and illustrations.
Whether you enjoy boating at sea, on rivers or canals, and whether you prefer dinghies, yachts, canal boats or motor-cruisers, you will need to know how to tie and use a variety of knots. The Adlard Coles Book of Knots, previously published as The RYA Book of Knots, is now available in a new edition, with clear how-to diagrams for easy reference and colour photographs to enliven the text. It will enable you to master over 50 of the most useful knots you will ever need.
The knots are divided into groups such as stopper knots, bends, loops and hitches, each used for different purposes. The clear illustrations show how to tie each knot and for which situations it is most useful. There is a handy indication of which knots are easy to tie quickly in emergencies, and which work best with natural or artificial fibre ropes. Finally, there is handy advice on securing rope ends.
RYA POCKET GUIDE TO BOATING KNOTS.
By RYA. Paperback, Spiral-bound, Waterproof, 0.04kg, 105mm x 150mm, 17 pages. full colour illustrations. Reprinted in 2012.
Contains the 8 most useful knots that any boater needs to know. This book is compact enough to fit in your pocket and, because of its design, stays open, allowing you to use both hands to practise tying your knots.
Was NZ$15.00 + delivery.
Now NZ$5.00 + delivery.
KNOTS & SPLICES.
By Jeff Toghill. Paperback, 0.04kg, 115mm x 180mm, 63 pages. Black & White illustrations. Reprinted in 2014.
Beginning with a description of different kinds of rope and their uses, this practical guide illustrates, with step-by-step instructions and photographs, how to tie a wide variety of secure knots, hitches, bends, loops, splices, whipping and seizing, for use afloat and ashore.
CAPTAIN'S QUICK GUIDE TO KNOTS, SPLICES AND LINE HANDLING..
By Captain's Quick.Waterproof Sheet. Folded.
Everything you need to know about Knots, Splices and Line handling. Compact onboard reference to the most useful knots and line handling techniques. 14 waterproof panels fold into a tidy and useful package.
THE KNOT HANDBOOK.
By George Lewis. Hardback. 155mm x 215mm. 0.34 kg. 2016.
Adhesive tape and Velcro have their uses, but they have not rendered knots redundant; no technological advance ever will.
This book shows you how to tie 50 knots. Some have been chosen for their fame, some for their beauty and some because they are knots that everyone should know how to tie...
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2013 Hugo and Campbell Awards: Get out the popcorn!
Posted on September 3, 2013 by Cora
The winners of the 2013 Hugo and Campbell Awards have been announced. You may recall that this year’s nominations proved to be unexpectedly controversial, when a bunch of people did not agree with the nominated works and creators at all. Short summary of a long and heated discussion: Yes, we want diversity, but not this kind of diversity.
Now the winners have been announced, so let’s heat up the popcorn and wait for the controversy or not to roll in. John Scalzi finally won a Hugo in the best novel category (he already won best fan writer and best related work) for Redshirts. It wouldn’t have been my first choice (I preferred both Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance and Throne of the Crescent Moon), but it’s one I can live with. It’s also a choice very likely to piss off the “The Hugos are broken” crowd, since Redshirts came in for a lot of flak along with the works of Lois McMaster Bujold and Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant for being too light, too nostalgic and not serious enough (because SFF is serious business, damn you!).
Brandon Sanderson won in the novella category for The Emperor’s Soul, which is the main puzzler in the fiction categories for me. Because I vastly prefer Aliette de Bodard’s On a Red Station, Drifting and Jay Lake’s The Stars Do Not Lie in this category. The Nancy Kress novella also got a lot of good press and actually won the Nebula award in that category. Meanwhile, The Emperor’s Soul was along with the Mira Grant novella the nominee that wasn’t really on my radar at all. It’s not the only Hugo Brandon Sanderson got to take home either, for his Writing Excuses podcast also won in the best related works category. IMO this is another puzzling win. It’s not that I have issues with Writing Excuses. A lot of my writer fans praise that podcast, though I have never listened to it, cause I don’t do podcasts. However, there is a separate podcast category in the Hugo awards, which was won by SF Squeecast (so Seanan McGuire did get to take home a well-deserved Hugo after all). So why did Writing Excuses get nominated in the “Best related work” category, which I have always understood to be for non-fiction books about SFF-nal themes? Indeed, my favoured choices in the best related work category are usually academic books about SFF, though those rarely win.
Pat Cadigan won in the novelette category for the delightfully entitled The Girl Thing Who Went Out for Sushi, while Ken Liu won in the short story category for Mono No Aware. I can’t really disagree with either winner, though I would have preferred both Kij Johnson and Aliette de Bodard in the short story category, since I have read and enjoyed their short stories, while I haven’t read Ken Liu’s. Mur Lafferty won the Campbell award, another good choice.
The Avengers won in the best dramatic presentation long form category, which surprised absolutely no one considering how popular the movie was. Though there was something of a surprise in the short form category, for Game of Thrones finally managed to break the six year domination of Doctor Who and won for the episode “Blackwater”. Next year will certainly be interesting in this category, when we have a rather lackluster Neil Gaiman written Doctor Who episode, the 50th anniversary special, the episode that was supposed to reveal the name of the Doctor, but didn’t and possibly a regeneration episode, too, going up against the Red Wedding.
I can’t say much about the graphic novel and the artist categories, ditto for best podcast. The choices for best editor, best semiprozine and best fanzine should be pretty non-controversial as well (but then you never know). Finally, I am very pleased that Tansy Rayner Roberts won the best fan writer Hugo.
Strangelove for Science Fiction has photos of the winners. I was quite surprised that the gentleman standing next to George R.R. Martin is Rory McCann, the actor who plays The Hound in Game of Thrones, since I didn’t recognize him without the make-up.
The voting breakdown, including works which didn’t make the nomination list, may be seen here BTW. And since Hugo voting is rather cryptic, Nicholas Whyte has taken it upon himself to analyze the breakdown. What I find particularly interesting is that the Cambridge Companion to Fantasy, which would have been my personal favourite in the best related work category, lost out to the podcast by only a couple of votes. Larry Correia, whose self-promotional efforts caught quite a bit of flak during the “Hugos are broken” debate earlier this year, narrowly missed being nominated in the best novel category (Correia himself comments on his blog). Seanan McGuire narrowly lost out garnering another nomination in the short story category. The nominees who didn’t quite make it in the fan writer category are also interesting.
As for reactions, so far everything has been surprisingly quiet. Mondyboy shares his Hugo reactions at The Hysterical Hamster and Cheryl Morgan has some Hugo thoughts here. Among other things, she writes:
I gather that the Angry Young Men brigade thinks that Scalzi winning Best Novel is a sign of the death of civilization.
In fact, that pretty much was my first thought as well. My, a whole lot of people will be very pissed off at this. But oddly enough, the angry young men, at least the usual suspects among them, remain strangely silent so far. At The Guardian, David Barnett has a summary of this spring’s Hugo controversy, but that’s all so far. I suspect the angry young men are still too jetlagged or hungover to react.
Finally, there is some sad news to report, for legendary writer and editor (and in recent years blogger) Frederick Pohl died today aged 93. His last blog post is dated September 2, 2013 BTW, so he was active right up to the end. Jo Walton shares her reactions to the news at Tor.com.
The Annual Hugo Nomination Reaction Post
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Thoughts on the 2012 Hugo Awards Nominations
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Andrew Trembley says:
The producers of Writing Excuses don’t consider their work appropriate to the Fancast category, because they’re professional writers talking about the craft and business of writing.
“Best Related Work” was first “Best Non-fiction Book” and used to be “Best Related Book” but was expanded to other media. It’s kind of a sloppy category with a wide range of eligible content types.
I agree that the “best related work” category is a bit messy. Last year, there even was a filk CD among the nominees.
I think Seanan’s CD belonged in one of the Dramatic Presentation categories (there is a precedent for an album to be nominated and put in the ballot) rather than “related work.” But there were enough nominators who put it there, and no technical/objective justification in the rules for the administrators to move it.
In those cases, it’s “let the electorate sort them out.”
Dramatic presentation would certainly have been more appropriate, though she would’ve been creamed by either Doctor Who or Hollywood movies in either dramatic presentation categories.
Just out of curiosity, did you read the nominated stories/novels that you mention here or are your preferences based on your overall opinion about the nominated writers (past work, reviews, genre, origin or whatever).
I was disappointed about Sanderson’s win, too. I thought Aliette de Bodard’s novella was by far the best in this category (Jay Lake’s was award-worthy too, Nancy Kress’s story was well-written and entertaining, but lacked originality).
I really liked Pat Cadigan’s The Girl Thing Who Went Out for Sushi (my first choice), and I’m quite happy that it won.
In the short story category Aliette de Bodard’s story was my first choice, but Ken Liu’s was award-worthy, too.
I didn’t vote in the novel category this year (and most of the other categories). Not a single novel that I was interested in. I didn’t even download the novel package from the Hugo Voters packet.
It’s half and half (not a Hugo voter this year, so no packet. But next year…).
In the novel category I read the Bujold (cause I follow the series) and the Scalzi. I heard good things about Saladin Ahmed’s Throne of the Crescent Moon and wouldn’t have minded to see it to win, if only to strike a blow for diversity in the genre. I didn’t read the Robinson and the Mira Grant, cause I neither care for Kim Stanley Robinson nor for zombies.
Novella: I read the Jay Lake and Aliette de Bodard and enjoyed them both. I didn’t read the Nancy Kress, but heard good things, plus it did win the Nebula Award. Didn’t read the Mira Grant (zombies) and the Sanderson was barely on my radar, because usually doesn’t write things that interest me.
Novelette: I read both Seanan McGuire stories and liked them all right. I didn’t read the Pat Cadigan, though I love the title and like her work in general. Didn’t read the Catherynne Valente (not a fan) and the Thomas Oude Heuvelt, though I wouldn’t have minded if he won, cause there isn’t enough Dutch SFF.
Short stories: I read Aliette de Bodard and Kij Johnson, but not Ken Liu, cause I didn’t have the anthology it was published in. Though I hear Lightspeed has reprinted it.
Films: Didn’t watch a single one, though it’s pretty clear that The Avengers would take this one. My personal favourite Beasts of the Southern Wild, wasn’t even nominated.
TV: Watched and enjoyed Game of Thrones, gave up on Doctor Who a while back, never got into Fringe in the first place.
If you want to see the Angry Young (?) Men ranting about Scalzi, I suggest you check out John Ringo’s Facebook post in which he asserts Scalzi’s pandering to a liberal conspiracy is what won him this Hugo.
That certainly sounds popcorn worthy.
Not really. It’s pretty much a tl;dr whine-fest by self-identified conservatives who claim a liberal elite conspiracy is systematically denying their Hugo-worthiness and shunting the award over to someone who panders to them.
Larry Correia’s “Please, please nominate me for a Hugo” in overdrive then mixed with a bit of the “Straw Communists ruined publishing and stole my Hugo” that can be found on the blogs of certain right leaning writers.
Pat Cadigan says:
My name is Pat Cadigan. Not ‘cardigan’, Cadigan.
Sorry about the misspelling. I’ve corrected it in the post. Also many congrats on the Hugo.
stfg says:
I know Ken Liu’s story was hard to come by without buying the whole anthology it was in or by getting a Hugo voter packet. However, Mark, of Mark Reads, read the three short shory nominees out loud on his website if you would like to listen to it. Link here:
http://markreads.net/reviews/2013/07/mark-reads-short-stories-nominated-for-hugos/
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HISTORY OF BLACKBURN SUBSCRIPTION BOWLING GREEN CLUB
Compiled by Ray B Smith
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In the 18th century, in the reign of George II, Blackburn was a small town with a population of five or six thousand. The bubble was soon to burst with the growth of the cotton industry. Money was pumped in by entrepreneurs and the local landed gentry. Not only the building of the Leeds Liverpool canal from 1795, but following on, was the spread of the railways, all affecting the town. Sites for these services and for the new cotton mills were being sought so the bowling green became vulnerable having spent many years in a quiet area, close to the town.
The origin of bowls is lost in time and many historians have done their best but have only succeeded in collecting some scattered references to the game on the “bowling alleys" attached to many great houses.
In 1427, it is recorded, the Grocers' Company of London had an “alley", to which it was their courteous custom to admit citizens upon application. There are many allusions to bowls in Shakespeare's plays, and the terms he used suggests a personal acquaintance with the game. We all know that Francis Drake was playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe in 1588 when he was informed that the Spanish Armada had been sighted and retorted that he would finish his game first. Charles I is reported to have played bowls in London. However, all this is superseded by the Southampton (Old) Bowling Club whose first Master of the Green was appointed in 1299 and every club President has been called Master since. In 1540, or thereabouts, the local bench was lashing out fines of 6s 8d a time to peasants caught playing bowls when they should have been practising archery.
Locally, it has been found that in 1663, the Dunkenhalgh at Clayton le Moors had a designated green, as an inventory taken at the house included a set of bowls.
Of course, bowls in the south, as we all know, is flat green, but no one has been able to ascertain where the crown green version started, places such as Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Cumbria and Yorkshire have been suggested.
There were two bowling greens in Old Bank Street, Snig Brook, 1820, and another, in Thunder Alley (Town Hall Street) 1822, and subsequently, many hostelries had them adjacent to their premises as the game became ever more popular. The Griffin's Head at Redlam had one by 1844. These greens were some 60 years before the first “Talbot" Bowling Handicap in 1882 and the first “Waterloo" in 1907, both in Blackpool. Lancashire County Crown Green Bowling Association was formed in 1888 and the British Crown Green Bowling Association was instigated in 1907. There had been professional bowlers prior to 1878.
Chapter 1
W. A. Abram in his 'History of Blackburn' published in 1877 states that 'the club' existed as long ago as 1734, and most of the Blackburn gentry from that date onward have been members. The old bowling green of the club was at the foot of the slope at Cicely Hole, and was removed about 1844, when that land was taken as part of the site of the railway-station. The Green near the Grammar School was then formed; and again in 1869, the Club removed to a new Green constructed for its use in Shear Bank Road. The number of members in 1734 was 18 and is now limited to 100.
The minute books that are still in existence at the Community History Department of Blackburn Library date back to 17th May 1753 when the club was officially constituted and rules drawn up, although as the minute book records, payment of subscriptions for the years 1753 and 1754 perhaps there was a previous record now lost. It can therefore be ascertained that apart from the Parish Church, now the Cathedral, and Blackburn Grammar School, it is the oldest institution in the town. Certainly, it is the oldest properly constituted bowling club along with Lewes in Sussex, in the whole of the UK.
The 'green' to which its earliest records relate was situate at Cicely Hall Farm, upon which the Blackburn railway station now stands, and its 18 members paid a yearly subscription of 2s each. The land belonged to Mr Joseph Feilden, and as the accounts mention no payment in respect of it, it is to be presumed the members were in the happy position of paying no rent. The 'green' was enclosed by a quick thorn hedge and was approached by a path, through a rope walk, from what is now the Boulevard.
The first page in the 1754-minute book records the Rules of the club as follows:
The Rules of the Bowling Green in Blackburn 17th May 1754
That no person shall be admitted a subscriber but who shall have the consent of a Majority of the then subscribing Members.
That no person enter thereon but who is either himself a Subscriber or introduced by one.
That no person be heard to swear thereon, on forfeiture of sixpence for each singular offence.
That no person be guilty of uttering any obscene or scurrilous language thereon, on forfeiture of the like sum of Sixpence for each singular offence: such language to be adjudged whether obscene or not by a majority of the then present subscribers.
That no Subscriber Bowl or be concerned for money either in! Betts or on any other account whatsoever above Sixpence in anyone Game: and seven casts to be reckoned the Game, on forfeiture of all the Money or value won and lost, above such sum in anyone game as aforesaid.
That this last Rule extend to the playing at Tables or any other game hereon practised.
That before any persons begin to Bowl their Games. Lotts be cast as well for the choice of the Bowls as the lead of the Jack, unless the parties otherwise agree.
That no one set of Bowlers bowl above Three Games together, but at the end of such three games shall offer and deliver up the Bowls to the then present Subscribers, upon pain of being excluded the Green.
That the Jack lying be one yard at least from the edge of the Green, and twenty yards at least from the footer or mark. And that no person shall lead the Jack three times together on pain of losing the Jack.
That every person leading the Jack has a right to remove the footer for the better soling or other advantage, provided he exceed not two yards from the distance where the Jack was taken up. And such removal to be before a Bowl thrown.
That during the game no one direct or instruct any of the persons bowling in any wise, unless he be himself a party, or have some wager depending on such game, on forfeiture of two pence for each offence.
That all forfeitures incurred by the breach of any Rules herein contained be paid to the Steward for the time being, and by him applied for the use of the Green.
That the Steward of the Green for the time being shall be yearly chosen by a Majority of the persons subscribing. And he or his deputy shall take in, collect, and account for the Subscriptions to the Green, as well as the forfeitures hereby incurred. And also have the direction and ordering of the Green, and the charge of Bowls, and all other matters and things thereto belonging.
“As witness our hands this 17th day of May 1754."
(Here follow the signatures of the first Subscribers, thirty-five in number, who each paid the sum of 4s.
The Rules are continued as below:
That the Steward for the time being in the month of April yearly appoint a meeting for the making up of his accounts. (The rest of this rule has been afterwards crossed with a pen, as if cancelled.) Of which meeting he shall give four days notice by the Bell Man, that the Subscribers may have knowledge thereof, and shall, at such meeting, make up his accounts, and pay over any moneys (that) shall then remain in his hands, either Subscriptions or forfeitures, to the succeeding Steward, which succeeding Steward shall be chosen and appointed at such meeting by a majority of the Subscribers then present. And that all Subscribers shall appear, either by themselves or their deputy, and pay their respective Subscriptions for the ensuing year to such succeeding Steward, and also their respective shares of the expense of such meeting, or in default of attendance, either personally or by deputy, to be entirely debarred from subscribing to the Green for such ensuing year.
That the Steward for the time being shall pay or answer out of his own pocket all such forfeitures as he shall neglect or refuse to demand or receive (having notice thereof). And in case of neglect or default in calling or giving notice of a meeting in the month of April yearly as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay to and for the use of the Green, to the next succeeding Steward, the sum of Five Shillings.
“That any subscriber, upon knowing any forfeiture to be incurred by the breach of any of the before-mentioned Rules, may demand such forfeiture from the offender. And, in case of payment, pay over the same to the Steward for the time being. Or, in case of non-payment must acquaint the Steward of the Green for the time being therewith, who is to receive the same, and provide for the due execution of these Rules in all respects."
At this time there were 35 fully paid up members (see Appendix for list) each having paid 4s for the 1753 and 1754 season. The Subscribers paid 2s 6d for the 1755 season and the sum of £4 14s 1d was handed over by the first Steward Mr John Sudell to Mr Richard Smalley the new Steward.
Expenses for the 1855 season were as follows:
£ s d
12 John Nevill for a second time crying meeting 3
15 For a Box to put Bowl in sent to Liverpool 3
22 Geo. Abbatt for four times rowling Green, oiling Bowls etc. two days work 4 6
3 For carriage of bowls from Liverpool 1 0
3 For 6 pair New Bowls, a New Jack and a Bag 1 11 0
28 Hen. Watson for two New Footers 8
31 Richd. Procter for two New Seats and repairing Old Ones 3 0
31 For New Pigin 1 9
3 Geo. Abbatt for times Rowling and Mowing, oiling Bowls etc. 7 0
20 Geo. Abbatt for 4 times Rowling and Mowing Green 6 4
11 Geo. Abbatt for Rowling and Mowing Green, Dubing Hedge 7 6
17 James Haworth for Mending 6
29 Geo. Abbatt for Mowing and 3 times rowling 6 0
19 Geo. Abbatt ditto 7 6
10 Geo. Abbatt ditto and rowling 3 0
5 Geo. Abbatt for oiling Bowls, new Lock, Hay Seeds etc. 4 0
1 Geo. Abbatt for Cumin's Matt 1 0
16 Man for making New Rode 6 0
17 Man for Guttering side of New Rode 1 0
19 For a Load Lime to reaper House 1 0
2 Geo. Abbatt and Giles for Fencing and Cumins (see Appendix) 2 8
13 James Feilden, Six days work, 8s; 112 load Lime, Hare, etc 2s 6d 1 0 6
27 Geo. Abbatt and Jno Nevill for calling 6
£5 12 4
There is no mention of any rent being paid to Mr Joseph Feilden so one has to assume that he had allowed them the use of his land rent free.
Extracts from the minute book as follows:
1763 April 5th; Agreed by subscribers present at this Meeting to spend Five Shillings of the Public Stock at every election of a Steward. Agreed per Joseph Browne, John Talbot, John Hindle, Thomas Shorrock, Edward Stott, William Ellison and John Haworth.
1772 April 20th; We do hereby order that every future Subscriber hereto who liath before subscribed, and shall omit to subscribe yearly, shall before his admittance pay a double Subscription, equal to that present year's Subscription, and of that the year next before.
1773 May 17th; It is declared and agreed that if any Subscriber to this Green shall be found guilty of leaving the Keys at any place but Mr Margerison's, he shall be fined One Shilling, and on refusing such payment, be excluded from the Green for the Season. Thomas Bolton, J Greenall, Richard Birley, B Markland, Law, Duckworth, John Osbaldeston, Robert Hornby, Edmund Peel, John Craven and B Walmsley.
1778; Frequently complaints having been made of Subscribers introducing Non-Subscribers who are inhabitants of the Town, and upon persuing the 2nd Article of the Green, which allows every Subscriber the privilege of introducing any person (without excepting Inhabitants) - It is unanimously agreed by the Subscribers at this Meeting, that every Inhabitant who chooses to partake of the Diversion ought to contribute to the expense; therefore, resolved that for the future no Subscriber shall introduce and Inhabitant, on pain of forfeiting One Shilling for each offence. John Haworth, Oliver Livesey, W. Margerison, Robert Hall, Robert Parker, J. D. Pryme, Richard Birley, Richard Smalley, Thomas Smalley, Hugh Jamieson, Edward Haworth & Thomas Bancroft.
1779 March 11th; Whereas material Damages have been done to the Fences of the Bowling Green by the Subscribers going over them, it is agreed, upon at this Meeting that any Subscriber going over the same for the future shall forfeit for each offence Sixpence.
A new set of “Rules of the Bowling Green in Blackburn" agreed to be observed from this time, 19th March 1781
1793 At a Meeting at Mr Robert Woods Dun Horse on Friday 28th June 1793 the following Motions were proposed and carried with Mr W. Heaton in the chair.
Resolved that on account of the expense of the New Room etc. built over the Bowling Green House, every subscriber shall pay an additional subscription of a Guinea each, to defray the expenses already incurred and that any member who refuses the same shall be excluded the Green.
Resolved that on account of the above-mentioned expense every new Member who may be hereafter admitted shall pay a Guinea entrance, besides the usual subscription of 2s 6d per annum.
Resolved that when a surplus the President or Steward shall at the election of a new Steward expend the sum of a Guinea provided the fund exceeds that amount and that the annual Meetings hereafter be held at the Bowling Green House.
Resolved that if any Member refuses or neglects to pay his Subscription of 2s 6d on or before the 24th June if demanded by the Steward he shall forfeit for every month so neglecting the sum of 6d per month on pain of expulsion.
Resolved that the Steward shall within one month after the election of a new Steward make up and transfer his accounts to his successor on pain of forfeiting 2s 6d per month.
Resolved that a copy of the Rules etc be printed and distributed to each Member and the undermentioned Subscribers agree the above.
Resolved that the thanks of this meeting be given to Mr Heaton for his attention to this business. Some 45 members agreed and the total special subscription amounted to £46 4s.
As time went on the subscription was gradually increased to 7s per annum, and the green enrolled amongst its members the Hindles of Woodfold Park, and representatives of the Sudell, Birley, Hornby, Walmsley, Thwaites, Chippendale, Freckleton, Heaton, Alston, Livesey, Osbaldeston, Hopwood, Dodgson, Hutchinson, Stanley, Thompson, Pilkington, Ainsworth, Turner, and other influential families.
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the club was sufficiently numerous to impose an entrance fee of £l 1s upon new members, and affluent enough to pay a small rent.
An entry in 1785 quotes the club paying a Mr Gimes for catching worms which seemed to have been an on going problem.
In 1793 a subscription was entered into, for the purpose of building another room over the Greenhouse, of £l 1s each member, which raised £46 4s. This, with the fund previously accumulated, paid the cost thereof, namely, £73 4s 10d.
As the number of members increased, and as soon as the funds enabled it, a rent of £4 10s was paid per year, and afterwards one of £10.
In 1842, June 10th, Messrs Atkinson, Morrice, Smithson, Alston, Rodgett, Robert Ainsworth and James Haworth were appointed a Committee to revise the Rules.
At a Special Field Day, on the 24th June 1844, John Alston Esq. the then senior member of the Green and steward, was presented with a gold snuffbox, value £3 l ls. At the same meeting John Leyland Feilden Esq., son of Sir William Feilden, volunteered to give three dozen bottles of champagne, which were drunk in the centre of the Green, and Mr Alston's health was given musical honours. The membership at this time was 59.
In 1846, the East Lancashire Railway Company approached Mr Joseph Feilden (steward in 1808) with a view to buying the land on which they wished to build the new railway and station.
On the 30th June, 1846, a Committee of three Messrs. John Alston, Joshua Smithson and Robert Ainsworth were appointed to negotiate with the East Lancashire Railway Company for compensation for the taking of the Green by the Company. It helped of course that many of the gentry members of the club were shareholders in the Company. The compensation was fixed at £150 and was paid by the Company on the 7th October 1846 into the Manchester Liverpool Bank.
The Green was then removed to and reconstructed on a plot of land adjoining the Old Free Grammar School, east of St Peter's Church, and the entrance thereto was in a street now called St Peter Street.
At a Meeting held on 23rd April 1847, it had been resolved that the New Bowling Green situate near the Free Grammar School be opened for the ensuing season on Thursday the 13th May next at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and that £5 be appropriated out of the funds towards the expense of a cold collation provided for Subscribers at Mr. Birch's the St. Leger Inn on that day.
In 1849, a boy was engaged “to wait after the members attend to the green every afternoon during the season". A woman was employed to do the cleaning and wash the towels and other people were engaged to mow the green and do various jobs. The members were obviously used to paying people to work for them rather than them joining together to help out.
The conferring of honorary life membership on members of distinction was introduced in 1850 when James Hamer was so honoured “he being the oldest member of the club, first elected in 1780, and served as steward in 1786". A later one was James Livesey, later of Blackpool, who became a member in 1898, serving as treasurer and was still a member in 1937.
An extract from P. A. Whittle's “Blackburn As It Is" published in 1852 reads as follows:
“The new Subscription Bowling Green, established in 1847, and opened early in the summer of the same year, is near the Free Grammar School, and forms a source of amusement to those who are fond of exercise and innocent recreation. It is a relaxation to those who are close to the business of the day, and whose body requires a change, as well as mind, from the toils of the shop and counting house".
On October 22nd 1852, the members of the club presented Mr. Thomas Bennett with a silver snuffbox, for his valuable services as Secretary.
In the year 1867, in consequence of the land all around the Green having been let for and covered with buildings, the situation was becoming quite unfit for a Bowling Green. It was therefore removed to and reconstructed on the site of the present Green in Shear Bank Road, which was the only plot of ground that could be obtained near the centre of the town. The late Mr Feilden very generously let the land on a lease at the same rent which had been paid, but as it was necessary from the situation that strong boundary walls should be erected, Mr Feilden agreed to erect them, and the Committee consented to pay a rent of five per cent on the outlay, which made the rent £30 per year (this is the figure still paid to date). The central portion of what is now a commodious and comfortable clubhouse was built in 1869, by Alderman Henry Duckworth (grandfather of a subsequent member and president Walter H. Duckworth), and further extensions and alterations have been made, both externally and internally from time to time.
The levelling, draining, and forming of the Green, from the hilly nature of the ground, cost a considerable amount of money, and as a larger and better greenhouse was required in that neighbourhood than in St Peter Street, a debt was incurred amounting to £1, 000 and upwards. The committee tried at that time to raise the money from members which numbered 70 but found that they could not do so.
It is interesting to note that the green was built to a specification (whether this was common at the time I do not know although other greens of the period appear to be similar) of 42yds square, with falls of 6in., 9in., 12in. and 14in. to the four respective corners.
A donkey was purchased costing some £3 for its keep over 5 years, its shoes costing 8s. Why the donkey was acquired or where it was kept we do not know.
In 1880, the members which now numbered around 100, with the assistance of friends, by subscriptions reduced the debt to £600, and on the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 20th, December 1886 a bazaar, opened by William Coddington, Esq. M.P. was held in the Exchange, which was a success, and, with the exception of a very small sum, placed the Green out of debt.
From 1881 to 1893, Henry Backhouse occupied the position of president, and special mention should be paid, for it was under his leadership that the club was freed from debt, and also, for the constant and whole-hearted interest he took in its affairs.
The first match with any established club in the district was at Whalley in 1883, when the committee decided that “a horse and trap be provided to convey the woods there". It must have been a long day, what with the slow progress of the horse and cart, the playing of the game and the hospitality which was common in those days, one can imagine an early start and a very late homecoming (no doubt helped by being in a very happy state).
Mr. Randle Joseph Feilden M.P. of Witton conveyed the property to the club in 1894, leaving the land and buildings as freehold for perpetuity with a ground rent of £30 per annum.
In July 1900, two sets of woods were given by the members to the newly opened Blackburn Union Workhouse bowling green.
By the early 1900s membership had been increased to include Full, Country/non-playing and Life with a maximum of 135 which was maintained for a number of years but rose to 166 until 1945, and then was raised to 175. The 1959 year saw a reduction to 150 but another increase took place in 1965 to 175 but this was to include Ladies who were allowed to become members in 1968.
J. T. Rowntree presented the club with a cup which is still played for today. Initially, it was for an internal competition but in 1966 it was used for an annual competition between ourselves and East Lanc's Bowling Club.
In 1937, a short history of the club had been compiled to mark over 200 years of the club's existence, it mentioned that there were many long serving members of the club over the years. These included Alderman William H. Grimshaw, captain of the club who had died in May that year and was a member from 1895, being president and captain "who worthily upheld the fine traditions of his predecessors ". Other members listed in the 1937 history included:
James Meadowcroft J.P., a trustee who had also joined in 1895, he died on the 4th August 1951.
William Wilson (1896), resigned in 1946.
William W. Wilkinson (1896), remained a member until 1945.
Peter Forbes (1898), died in 1939.
Robert Ferguson (1899), who was a past president and for many years secretary in succession to the late Mark N Margerison who served for a long period and current treasurer until 1949, then life president, dying 23rd November 1957.
Charles Baines (1899), past president, died 1947, as honorary life member.
Fred W Metcalfe (1901), died April 1938.
John Farrow (1902), past president, died May 1938.
Secretary, George Rimmer (1902), past president, was a member until 1955.
John McVittie (1903) who was also connected with the Blackburn Caledonian Curling Club which used the club for its meetings left the club in 1965.
The current president and councillor George Burke who died in 1946.
Secretary WilIiam E T Evans was to remain a member for many years.
The 1937 history also noted: "some current members well remember 'Billy' Evans and his better half being members in our time, still living on Strawberry Bank. He was made a life member and trustee while treasurer in 1965 and 1966 dying in 1978. The chief constable of the Borough Christopher Hodson OBE had joined in 1914 and was a member until he died in 1938".
Coronation year in 1953 saw a new cup 'The Coronation Cup', presented by Robert Ferguson, being played for on 2nd June and won by Chris Maudsley.
Of more recent years the longest serving member must be Francis Ewart Smith an accountant who joined in 1931, becoming assistant secretary in 1938, hon secretary in 1941, trustee and hon treasurer 1949 and 1950, president 1955, dying in 1980. He was a formidable character reminding one of that Dickensian character Mr Pickwick with his waistcoat and fob watch. His wife Marian was made a honorary life member in 1969 and died in 1981.
In 1951, a bi-centenary celebration was held coinciding with the Borough's own Centenary. The 150 members were invited to “take tea with the president and captain" on Saturday 11th August. A match took place between the President's team and the Captain's team for the Rowntree Cup. Women were not allowed on the premises, except on the most important occasions. And, then only, as catering assistants. The introduction of a billiard table some ten years before had been frowned on, when an enthusiastic member suggested one. Eventually a point was conceded to the younger generation, and a small table was allowed. “Younger Generation" in the club meant anyone under 50 years of age.
In 1956, a revolutionary step was being considered, that of admitting women members. Why? Because, they had finally come to the conclusion that the club couldn't carry on without them. Funds were low - and knowing that behind the funds of most organisations in those days led the magic touch of the women - their all-male resolve had been weakened. Considering was still the operative word though. For after taking so long to broach the subject, the men weren't likely to be up to a year or so in making their decision.
They had actually started thinking about it the previous year. But on an August Saturday, the biggest step forward was taken when wives of members were actually invited to the green, for the first ever Ladies' Day.
The idea of the occasion was for the men to discover their opinions on the subject. Mr Frank H Lloyd, the president, was all in favour of a mixed membership. “We need help in raising money, and I have no objection to mixed company" he said. Mr Francis E Smith, the chairman, supported him. “Many members have not been attending regularly in recent years, and I think they would if they could bring their wives along". Committee member Mr Robert Wilkinson (uncle to present members Dorothy Kenyon, Joan Smith and Leslie Greenhalgh) said “I am in a cricket club, where the ladies play a big part, and do it well. So I would be very happy to see them here".
There were a few male dissenters though. But their dark mutterings: “Why should we admit wives after all this time - is nothing sacred?" were severely muffled on Saturday.
It would have taken a brave man to voice them when the wives were present in force. And what of the wives?
“It's about time, too," was the opinion of Mrs Lloyd and Mrs Wilkinson when they heard the suggestion.
“Times have changed, and these days wives aren't expected to stay at home while their husbands go out."
Another wife remarked “Now my husband can stay in and look after the children, while I go to the club for a game of bowls, for a change."
It took until 1964 to eventually' bite the bullet' and ladies were admitted. 17 in all joined at a £ ls Od per annum fee growing to 32 in 3 years.
The Captain's Cup for Ladies was introduced in 1966 and has been played for ever since.
In 1970, the club decided to enter a team in the Blackburn & District Bowls League with eight players and two reserves. They were accepted to play in Division 5. For the first two years they were bottom of the league but then they commenced to climb. Two years later, they entered the Darwen League and by 1976, a 'B' Team had followed into the Blackburn League. By 1978, a Ladies' Team had entered the Blackburn Ladies' Bowling League.
The highlight came in 1980 when the Darwen Team won the Darwen & District Bowling League Division Four Championship by beating Crown Paints 12-8 and so picking up the club's first trophy in 231 years. Team captain Ron Simms was delighted: “Everybody is very pleased that after years of trying we have finally won a trophy," he said.
A great deal of credit for this initial success must undoubtedly go to experienced Roe Lee campaigner, Jack Wilkinson, (president in 1986). Since joining the club about two years before, Jack's enthusiastic and encouraging approach had been responsible for a resurgence of interest, leading to this success. He took over as greenkeeper and did an excellent job on almost a daily basis despite living in Great Harwood. He died on 26th December 2010 but Ruth, his wife, is still a member.
In the early 80s, the club entered a snooker team into a league formed with East Lanc's called the Parkside Snooker League. The Sportsman, West View, Gibraltar and other public houses around the Corporation Park area all took part. Winning the Team K/O Cup was the highlight of our membership but when the officials of the league, which had grown considerably, decided to have the season in the summer, the conflict with the bowls season meant that we had to pull out and look for an alternative league. We joined the Blackburn Sunday School League, of long standing, and our 3/4 table was accepted despite the league being for big tables. Our membership continues still.
It was decided in 1984, to put the club and green on the map, that an Open Doubles Competition should be started commemorating 250 years of the club's history and would be known as “The Anniversary Cup". It was a sponsored event with the cup being donated by Daniel Thwaites. Appropriately, two club members, Jack Wilkinson and Fred Almond won the first event. Many of the area's best bowlers took part as can be seen by the list of winners:
1985 D Wyche (Crown Paints) & David Howorth (St Stephen's)
1986 Mick Chapman & Mick O'Donnell (Highfield Park)
1987 Alan Cottom & A Whittaker (St Philip's)
1988 B Topham & A Catlow (Blackburn Subs)
1989 S Oakland & D Helmn (Everton Street)
1990 no event
1991 H Warren & S Connelly
1992 Vinny O'Donnell & J Chatburn
1993 M Burns & D Hoyle
1994 Fred Almond & Jack Wilkinson
1995 John Bentley & B Gosling
The competition foundered because of lack of sponsorship and organizers.
The first ever senior county match was held on the green on a Sunday, before 3rd July 1986 following a most successful junior county match. The match was against Greater Manchester in the British Crown Green Crossfield Cup. Local home players were Highfield trio Roy Rigby, Mike Chapman and Mike O'Donnell along with Keith Cooper of East Lanc's followed by David Haworth, Harry Burgoyne, John Kilcoyne, Colin Campbell, Fred Whittle, Eric Lomax, Terry Connell and Brian Tomlinson.
Since then, the club has hosted the Ladies' County Bowlers.
The Moorfield Trophy of the Darwen & District Bowling League was won in 1985. In 1987, the Blackburn A. Team were in the 1st Division and, the following year, the Darwen Team won the Sports Team of the Year in the Darwen League. The year after that, the Ladies' Team were the champions of the Blackburn Ladies' Bowling League, the first of many.
More honours have followed from all the teams and individuals representing the club and these can be seen in the Honours Board in the Appendix.
Another step forward was made in 1992 when Mrs Pat Riley was elected the first ever woman president, her husband having been president in 1985. She succeeded Ray B Smith, twice president, who had joined in 1965.
Another president for the second time, John Clough, joined on the 7th February 1978, was captain in 1979, hon. secretary from 1980-83, becoming president for the first time in 1989 and second time 2012, serving for many years on the committee including green keeper.
On Monday 23rd February 2017 at an Extra-Ordinary Meeting the members voted to sell the club due to the amount of monies needed to be spent on the fabric of the buildings and surroundings and not able to get grants towards the costs.
Appendix
List of Stewards (or Honorary Secretaries) in its early years. The term steward was dropped in 1877 in favour of Hon. Secretary. 1906 saw the introduction of a Hon. Treasurer and in 1909 the title of Captain was introduced with a Vice-Captain; their job was being in charge of the green.
1753-54 John Sudell
1755 Richard Smalley
1756 Thomas Ainsworth
1757 Thomas Brewer
1758 John Parker
1759 Thomas Bolton
1760 Henry Heaton
1761 Dr T Harris
1762 Henry Sudell jnr.
1763/64 Joseph Brown
1765/66/67 John Talbot
1768 William Margerison
1769 Thomas Roberts
1770 John Yates
1771 Thomas Wright
1772 Robert Hornby
1773 Bertie Markland
1774 William Whaley
1776 Walton Freckleton
1777 Robert Parker
1778 Christopher Marsden
1779 John Wilson
1780 Robert Ashburner
List of Presidents from 1881 prior to which the leading figure was the chairman
Members who have been Mayors of Blackburn Borough
1851-52 Alderman W H Hornby Snr. MP JP DL
1856-57 Councillor William Pilkington JP
1860-61 Alderman Thomas Thwaites JP
1865-66 Alderman James Thompson JP
1866-67 Alderman John Dean JP
1872-73 Alderman John Thompson JP
1873-74 Alderman John Pickup (Pickop) JP
1874-75 Councillor Sir William Coddington Bart JP
1877-78 Alderman James Dickinson JP
1882-84 Alderman James Hoyle JP
1910-11 Alderman W H Hornby Snr MP JP DL (2 terms)
1914-15 & 17 Alderman William Thompson JP
1915-17 Alderman Alfred Nuttall JP (died in office)
1927-29 Councillor John Aspden Ormerod JP
1931-33 Alderman William Kenyon JP
1940-41 Councillor William Tempest JP
2001-02 Councillor John Williams
2010-11 Councillor Sheila June Williams
List of prominent members over the years
John Sudell gent.; was son of Mr Henry Sudell cotton manufacturer of Woodfold Hall and was born in December 1729 and was thus 24yrs old in 1753. Both were governors of Blackburn Grammar school. He died aged 55 on 29th May, 1785. Henry Sudell snr joined the club in 1755 and died in 1770.
John Whalley gent.; lived in the large brick house that formerly stood on the site of the Bank of Messrs Cunliffe Brooks & Co opposite the Old Bull. He was a leading townsman, and brother to James Whalley Esq. of Clerk Hall, near Whalley. He died in 1767.
John Hankinson gent.; was a governor of Blackburn Grammar school in December 1761, and a wealthy, well-connected townsman, he died in 1774.
Joseph Feilden gent.; of Church Street, ancestor of the Feilden's of Witton Park. He was a young man when he became a subscriber in 1753 or 1754. His wife was Margaret, daughter and heir of William Leyland Esq. Of Blackburn. He succeeded to the estate of the family as heir to his brother John in 1771 and died in December 1792. He was great grand sire of Lieutenant-General Feilden MP of Witton Park.
Thomas Livesey; was a merchant in Blackburn born in 1734. A member of a collateral branch of the Livesey's of Livesey Hall. He joined the club at 21 years of age living in the old-fashioned stone house on the north side of King Street. He was elected a governor of Blackburn Grammar school in 1755 and 1769 Messrs.
Thomas Livesey & Co. of Blackburn were bleachers between Rishton and Whitebirk. He subsequently became head of a noted firm of calico printers at Mosney in Walton le Dale. His sister Miss Alice Livesey married Mr Henry Sudell jnr.
Thomas Brewer; was a chapman in Blackburn and was Steward in 1757 and continued as a member until 1768. He died in 1801. At one time the Brewer family owned Shadsworth.
Thomas Bolton; a chapman of Brookhouse was elected Steward in 1759 and was made a governor of Blackburn Grammar school in 1761. He died in 1803 aged 73.
William Leyland; merchant, in his will of 1763 left £200 for the foundation of the Girls' Charity School. He lived in a house he built in 1741 at the top of King Street. He died in November 1764.
Richard Cardwell; was the first of the Cardwell's to settle in Blackburn. His first wife was Miss Martha Holme the daughter of Rev John Holme who was the Vicar of Blackburn. He died 10th March 1785 aged 79yrs.
List of Club Honours
1978 B Riley Winner President's Trophy Blackburn Ladies' Bowling League
1980 A Team Champions Division 4 Darwen & District Bowling League
1982 A Team Champions Division 5 Blackburn & District Bowling League
1982 A Team R/U Division 3 Darwen & District Bowling League
1983 B Team Champions Division 4 Darwen & District Bowling League
1985 A Team Winners Moorfield Trophy Darwen & District Bowling League
1985 B Team R/U Division 4 Darwen & District Bowling League
1987 A Team R/U Division 2 Blackburn & District Bowling League
1987 R Briggs Merit Winner Division 2 Blackburn & District Bowling League
1988 Club Winners Sports Team of the Year Darwen & District Bowling League
1989 Ladies' A Champions Division 1 Blackburn Ladies' Bowling League
1989 J Smith R/U Ladies' Town Bowls
1991 J & R B Smith Winners Borough of Blackburn Mixed Pairs
1992 J Martindale R/U Presidents' Cup Darwen & District Bowling League
1993 D Proud-Briggs & R Briggs Winners Scapa Scania Doubles
1994 Ladies' A R/U Division 1 Blackburn Ladies' Bowling League
1994 D Proud-Briggs R/U Presidents Cup Darwen & District Bowling League
1996 Team R/U Division 3 Blackburn Indoor Bowling League
1997 D Proud-Briggs Winner Max Forrest Blackburn & District Bowling League
1999 B Team Champions Division 5 Blackburn & District Bowling League
2005 J Rushton Winner President's Trophy Blackburn Ladies' Bowling League
2006 Team Champions Division 2 Blackburn Vets League
2006 T Hindle Winner Merit Trophy Division 2 Blackburn Vets League
2006 R B Smith R/U Individual Merit Trophy K/O Darwen & District Bowling Leagu
2006 R B Smith Winner Division 3 Merit Blackburn & District Bowling League
2006 JT & J Martindale Winners Mixed Doubles Darwen & District Bowling League D & M Harvey R/U
2007 R B Smith Winner David Whittaker Memorial Trophy
2008 J & R B Smith R/U Mixed Doubles Darwen & District Bowling League
2008 J & R B Smith R/U Registered Doubles Darwen & District Bowling League
2008 R B Smith R/U David Whittaker Memorial Trophy
2008 Team R/U Division 2 Blackburn Vets League
2009 Ladies' A Winners Coronation Cup Blackburn Ladies' Bowling League
2009 J Smith Winner President's Trophy Blackburn Ladies' Bowling League
2009 F Almond Winner Merit Trophy Blackburn Vets League
2009 J & W Catterall R/U Mixed Doubles Darwen & District Bowling League
2010 Ladies' A Winners Coronation Cup Blackburn Ladies' League
2010 JT & J Martindale Winners Mixed Doubles Darwen & District Bowling League
2011 J Martindale & R B Smith R/U Reg Doubles Darwen & District Bowling League
2011Blackburn Vets Winners Division 2 Blackburn Vets League
2011 P Allen Merit Winner Division 2 Blackburn Vets League
2011 Ladies' A R/U Blackburn Ladies' League
2011 Blackburn A Winners Div 3 Blackburn & District Bowling League
2011 Darwen A Winners Div 3 Darwen & District Bowling League
2011 Ladies' Team R/U Ladies' Afternoon League
2012 Darwen A R/U Moorfield Trophy Darwen & District Bowling League
2012 Blackburn B R/U Division 4 Blackburn & District Bowling League
2012 D Kenyon Merit Winner Division 4 Blackburn & District Bowling League
2016 Ladies' team R/U Blackburn Ladies' League
PRESIDENTS OF BLACKBURN SUBSCRIPTION BOWLING GREEN CLUB
1881-3 Henry Backhouse (councillor & solicitor) 81 Preston New Road
1884-7 John Chamley (wine & spirit merchant) East Bank 26 Shear Bank Road
1888 Alfred Nuttall JP (brewery owner) Shear Bank
1899-1900 William Henry Cunliffe (painter & decorator company) Eldon Place Preston New Road
1901 John Halliday
1902 John Frankland (photographer) 40 Preston New Road
1903 William Spencer Livesey (mill Manager) 20 Shear Brow
1904 Thomas Ferguson
1905 James Livesey (cotton manufacturer) Sunnyhurst Limefield Preston New Road
1906-7 William Bury (brush manufacturer) 81 Alexandra Road
1908 William Henry Grimshaw (alderman & chemist) 3 East Park Road
1909 John Myers (brush maker) Bridge End House 58 Church Street|
1910 James Hargreaves (tobacco wholesaler) Barscroft Meins Road
1911 Richard Birtwistle (cotton manufacturer) Nether1eigh 44 Shear Bank Road
1912 Char1es Baines (hatter & glover) 28 Revidge Road
1913 John William Green (salesman) 23 East Park Road
1914 Thomas Abbott Leaver (painter & decorator) 1 London Road (J Leaver & Sons)
1915 Thomas Sharples (alderman & solicitor) 152 Preston New Road
1916-18 Richard Smith (cotton manufacturer) 271 Preston New Road
1919 James Frankland (quarry master) Whalley New Road
1920 Harold Read (schoolmaster) 107 Langham Road
1921 William Kenyon JP (alderman & billposting manager) 22 Holland Street
1922-23 Robert Ferguson (solicitor) Beardwood 108 Preston New Road
1924 George Rimmer (schoolmaster) 63 East Park Road
1925 John Thomas Rowntree (heald & reed manufacturer) 19 Duke's Brow
1926 Thomas Hargreaves (wholesale tobacconist) Dunedin Billinge Avenue
1927 James Smith (cotton manufacturer) 18 East Park Road
1928 George William Singleton (cotton salesman) 77 Shear Brow
1929 Thomas Stirrup (boot & shoe maker) 33 Wellington Street St John's
1930 Robert Eastwood (clerk)44 Palmer Street
1931 Frank Airey (plumber) 2 Brantfell Road
1932 J Whalley
1933 John Farrow (cashier) 193 London Road
1934 Walter Henry Duckworth (alderman & building contractor) Gadshill Shear Bank Road
1935-6 Char1es Tate (union secretary) 161 Pleckgate Road
1937 George Burke (alderman & cotton manufacturer) West Bank Preston New Road
1938 William Ashworth JP (plumber) 113 Duke's Brow
1939 Walter Dawson (shuttle maker) 44 Wellington Street St John's
1940-1 John Fairhurst (Howarth's) 40 Wellington Street St John's
1942 Joseph Livesey (building contractor) Fox Lease Mollington Road
1943 Alfred Percy Yates (draper) 210 Revidge Road
1944 J Isherwood
1945 William E T Evans (traveller) 8 Strawberry Bank
1946 John William Thomber 55 Pleckgate Road
1947 Frank Robinson (asphalt contractor) 30 East Park Road
1948 William Byrom (auctioneer & valuer) 6 Taunton Road
1949 Robert Marsden (wholesale draper) 7 Azalea Road
1950 A L Wilkinson
1951 Raymond Carter (fertilizer manufacturer) 109 Preston New Road
1952 George B Lewney B Sc (schoolmaster) 28 Albany Road
1953 James Liversedge (boot dealer) 10 King Street
1954 Arthur Greensmith (confectioner) 284 Preston New Road
1955 Francis Ewart Smith (accountant) 10 Osbome Road
1956 Frank H Lloyd (haulier) 104 Lynwood Road
1957 Percival C Smith (house furnisher) 2 East Park Avenue
1958 Chris Maudsley (insurance superintendent) 41 Duke's Brow
1959 William Gill (plumber & sanitary inspector) 7 Shear Bank Gardens
1960 Robert Wilkinson (decorator) 193 London Road
1961 Alan J Meadowcroft (essences manufacturer)
1962 Bert R Nutter (engineer) 79 Yew Tree Drive
1963 Harold Rodwell Petre House Farm Langho
1964 Bruce K Critchley (decorators merchant) Under Billinge
1965 John Fairhurst (Howarths) 40 Wellington Street St John's
1966-7 Geoffrey M Taylor (estate agent) 4 Church Lane Mellor
1968 G Reginald White (Public Health Inspector to Rural Dist Council)
1969 Oscar R T Ashcroft
1970 J Arthur Kenyon
1971 William Akers
1972 Kenneth C Holt
1973 John Harrison
1974 Alan W Forrest
1975 Albert F Harwood
1976 John Curren
1977 Derek A Cooper
1978 Harry Neumark
1979 Arthur Greenhalgh
1980 Stanley W Maidman
1981 Raymond B Smith
1982 Ronald Simms
1983 N Kenneth Riley
1984 David Wilkinson
1985 Donald Riley
1986 Jack Wilkinson
1987 Brian Topham
1988 Geoffrey Kenyon
1989 John T Clough
1990 Peter Allen
1992 Patricia A Riley first lady president
1993-4 Norman Oldham
1995-6 James Martindale
1997 Doreen Gill
1998 Jean Rushton
1999 Joan Smith
2000 Margaret Curren
2001 Kenneth Elvin
2002 Kenneth Price
2003 Joan Gallimore
2004 Deidre Allen
2005-6 William Catterall
2007 Anne Kinder
2008-9 Denise Harvey
2010-11 Dorothy Kenyon
2013 Norman Oldham
2014 Susan Magee
2015 Terry Hindle
2016 Michael Harvey
List of Blackburn's Bowling Greens
1 Blackburn Subscription Cicely Hole (1749) present green Shear Bank Road 1869
1 Red Lion Snig Brook (1820)
1 Bowling Green St Paul's Street (1820)
1 Thunder Alley (Town Hall Street) 1822 (closed pre. 1848)
1 Burnley Road Bowling Club (post 1911)
3 Corporation Park (1857) first 2 greens opened in 1923
1 Feniscowles & Pleasington Bowling club Livesey Branch Road (opened 16/4/1921)
4 Queen's Park (1887) 2 greens added in1932
3 Roe Lee Park (1923) green opened 30/5/1923
4 Green Park (2 in 1923 with 2 later)
2 Highfield Park (1900)
1 (2) East Lancashire Club (1878) (green after 1890)
1 Cherry Tree (Scapa) opened 12/6/1920
1 Lower Darwen Memorial (1919)
1 Dugdale Memorial Club (St Philip's) (1921)
1 Witton Subscription (pre. 1931)
1 Audley House Working Men's (1881-closed 2002)
1 St Stephen's (Little Harwood Hall) (pre. 1931)
1 Lower Darwen Memorial Bowling Club (1928)
1 Park Lee Hospital
1 Tramways Dept Accrington Road (1926-35)
1 Alexandra Hotel (pre. 1900)
1 Bowling Green Hotel Eanam (1809)
1 Bowling Green Inn Scotland Road (1874)
1 Butler's Arms Pleasington (1846)
1 Cemetery Hotel Whalley New Road (1931)
1 Cunliffe & Ward Ltd Gate Street
1 Fernhurst Hotel Ewood
1 Florence Hotel Moss Street (pre. 1900-closed aft 1910)
1 George & Dragon Northgate (1807)
1 The Griffin's Head Inn Redlam (1844)
1 Hamilton Arms Hollin Bridge Street (1870)
1 Hole I'th Wall Shear Brow (pre. 1903-1931)
1 Little Harwood Inn Whalley Old Road (1931)
1 Livesey New Inn (Factory Arms Inn) Waterloo Livesey Branch Road (pre. 1890-closed 1930s)
1 Mill Hill Hotel Mill Hill Bridge Street (1902)
1 Old Mother Redcap Accrington Road (1841)
1 Oozehead Inn Manor Road (pre. 1900-1931)
1 Railway Hotel (Pleasington Bowling club) Pleasington (1858)
1 Red Lion Whitebirk (1854)
1 Royal Edward Inn Harwood Street (1910)
1 Royal Park Inn Addison Street (1868)
1 Stanley Arms Garden Street (green on Bridgewater Street) (1868)
1 Private Green Dunsley Pleckgate Road
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Timmy Talking Trillions a Tough Sell? Say it Isn't so!
I was trying to be good and NOT launch into a raging rant on the current push for more bank bailouts AND stimulus packages. But when I see Timmy Talking Trillions... well, I just have to get it out!
This entire bank bailout business is insanity within the theatre of the absurd. Geithner is evidently ready to roll out ANOTHER TRILLION DOLLARS in government aid and backing to the banking industry ON TOP OF the $300 billion remaining in TARP funds for a total proposed new spending of $1.3 TRILLION on BANKS. Words cannot describe how screwed up that is… not that it will be just ineffective, no, no, it will be far worse than ineffective – it will ensure a death spiral that is inescapable.
Guess what? When you’re in a spiral, you apply OPPOSITE RUDDER, the last thing you want to do is keep applying the same controls that got you into the spin to begin with! Evidently the falsehoods of Friedman and Keynes are going to take an all out black smoking crater in the ground before people wake up. Too bad. What we really need is an ADULT at the controls like Capt. Sullenberger!
And why did they really delay this announcement? Think long and hard about that… I can’t come up with a possibility that’s any good, and NO, I don’t buy the B.S. of putting the stimulus package in the spotlight first! The lies and spin are neverending.
Stimulus Battle May Signal Tough Sell for Bank Rescue
By Matthew Benjamin
Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s struggle to push an economic stimulus bill through Congress may seem easy compared to what he’ll encounter when he returns to Capitol Hill for additional funds to rescue the banking system.
Obama will likely need to ask Congress for more money to recapitalize banks, as much as $1 trillion on top of the roughly $300 billion remaining in the current Troubled Asset Relief Program, according to an estimate by former Federal Reserve economist Ward McCarthy. That will be an even tougher sell for the new president than the stimulus plan, which is headed for a Senate vote this week after passing the House with no Republican support.
That package, at least $780 billion of spending and tax cuts aimed at boosting consumer demand and creating jobs, is just a part of what it will take to pull the economy out of the 14- month-old recession. The stimulus will be effective only if credit markets, currently frozen by illiquid assets clogging banks’ balance sheets, begin to function again.
“It will take an enormous effort to build broader public support” for another bank rescue plan, said Thomas Mann, a congressional scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington. “Had the stimulus gone through swimmingly it would have made it easier.”
Geithner’s Speech
New steps to be outlined this week by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will include fresh capital injections into banks and ways to deal with toxic securities still on their balance sheets, according to people familiar with the matter.
Geithner’s speech has been pushed back one day to Feb. 10 to avoid distracting attention from the economic-stimulus bill, White House economics director Lawrence Summers said today. That is the same day the Senate is scheduled to vote on the bill.
“There’s a desire to keep the focus right now on the economic recovery program, which is so very, very important,” Summers said today on ABC’s “This Week.”
Treasury will probably propose a combination of buying toxic bank assets, providing guarantees for other assets, and making additional capital infusions to banks, said McCarthy, now a principal at Stone & McCarthy Research Associates, an economic research firm in Skillman, New Jersey.
“The remaining TARP funds are not going to be enough for the job,” said McCarthy, who estimates that up to $1.5 trillion in government aid will be needed to save the banking system. “If they want to get the job done, they will have to scrape up more cash,” said McCarthy.
Tangible Benefits
New funding for the banking system will be all the harder to justify because the original TARP, which so far has provided almost $400 billion to more than 360 banks, hasn’t shown much in the way of tangible benefits.
“They continue to assume that if you do something and it hasn’t worked, you have to continue to do more of it,” said Representative Darrell Issa, a Republican from California. “That’s the definition of insanity.”[NO KIDDING – Nate]
Obama and his staff struggled last week to win support for the stimulus package from several moderate Republicans in the Senate, including Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania.
Support for another round of cash for ailing banks may be even tougher to win after reports last week raised new questions about the cost and effectiveness of the assistance provided already.
$78 Billion Overpayment
The chairman of the TARP’s Congressional Oversight Panel told the Senate Banking Committee that Treasury paid $254 billion of TARP funds for bank equity worth $176 billion, an overpayment of $78 billion. And even after the infusions of taxpayer funds, a majority of U.S. banks still made it tougher for consumers and businesses to get credit at the end of 2008, a Feb. 2 Federal Reserve report showed.
Such findings give ammunition to lawmakers such as Utah Republican Senator Bob Bennett of Utah who say they were misled about how the TARP would work.
“Can we believe what we are told next time?” Bennett said at the Senate committee hearing. “Those of us who decided we were going to take the political risk of voting for this the first time will be faced with a constituency that will say, ‘Fool me once, OK, but don’t fool me twice.’”
Bonuses and Perks
Other lawmakers may balk at the idea of providing more rescue funds after hearing of banks that took billions in taxpayer money and continued to provide bonuses and lavish perks to employees.
New York financial institutions doled out $18.4 billion in bonuses last year, the sixth-biggest haul in history. A Merrill Lynch & Co. executive spent $1.2 million to redecorate his office while the company accepted $10 billion in government funds. Insurer American International Group Inc. hosted a $440,000 conference at a California resort in September after agreeing to a federal bailout.
“It will be harder for Obama to keep all the Democrats on board,” said Washington-based political analyst Stuart Rothenberg.
Not only will they resist the idea of additional money for banks, Rothenberg said, “but there may be some sort of hangover from the stimulus bill, with Democrats feeling as though the Senate compromised too much to get two or three Republican votes.”
The original TARP legislation failed to pass the House by a dozen votes on Sept. 29, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 777 points. It was approved on a second attempt after several lawmakers changed their votes.
Blue Dog Democrats
This time around fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democrats, troubled by another piece of legislation with a price tag in the hundreds of billions of dollars, may be the biggest obstacle for Obama.
“Blue Dog Democrats and Republicans will line up to tell Obama, you’ve got to do better than to say, ‘give us the money and trust us,’” said Representative Issa.
Obama has already begun a public-relations push to build popular support for additional bank bailouts. Last week he introduced new executive pay guidelines for financial institutions needing government help to remain solvent. They included a $500,000 cap on executive pay and new disclosure rules on perks like corporate jets and holiday parties.
In addition, he continues to ratchet up his rhetoric on extravagant bank compensation and perks.
“For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis is not only in bad taste, it’s a bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president,” Obama said when he announced the new restrictions on Feb. 4.
He’ll also have to make any new financial rescue plan look starkly different from TARP, said Stan Collender, a former analyst for the House and Senate budget committees, now at Qorvis Communications in Washington.
“The new plan has got to have a different goal, a lot more for homeowners and individuals,” said Collender. “It’s got to be more than banks holding on to the money.”
The futures are so far expressing their displeasure. Who would have thought?
Hey, keep at it and this picture artist will be proven correct:
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A Month of Kurosawa: High and Low (1963)
Eric San Juan November 24, 2018 1 Comment
To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer’s Guide, due out Dec. 15 from Rowman & Littlefield — preorder here! — I’ll be doing capsule reviews all month covering every single Kurosawa film and posting (very) brief excerpts. These will be short impressions and recommendations, nothing more. For a full, detailed analysis of each, grab the book! High and Low (1963) From the very start of his career, Akira Kurosawa was concerned with exploring the class divide, delving into the things that separates the wealthy from the poor. He had perhaps never explored this idea so nakedly as he did in High and Low, called Heaven and Hell in Japan, a film split in two just as the society it depicts…
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A Month of Kurosawa: The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Eric San Juan November 19, 2018 0 Comments
To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer’s Guide, due out Dec. 15 from Rowman & Littlefield — preorder here! — I’ll be doing capsule reviews all month covering every single Kurosawa film and posting (very) brief excerpts. These will be short impressions and recommendations, nothing more. For a full, detailed analysis of each, grab the book! The Bad Sleep Well (1960) Following a string of period pieces, Akira Kurosawa jumped back to contemporary Japan for his look at corporate corruption, The Bad Sleep Well. It’s been called by some a loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, though to be frank, I think that’s a stretch. Regardless, it’s a slow burning look at the way in which corruption can ruin lives. More…
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A Month of Kurosawa: Stray Dog (1949)
Eric San Juan November 9, 2018 0 Comments
To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer’s Guide, due out Dec. 15 from Rowman & Littlefield — preorder here! — I’ll be doing capsule reviews all month covering every single Kurosawa film and posting (very) brief excerpts. These will be short impressions and recommendations, nothing more. For a full, detailed analysis of each, grab the book! Stray Dog (1949) “Masterpiece” is probably a word that gets thrown around a little too easily, especially when discussing movies, but it’s hard not to use the word when discussing 1949’s Stray Dog, a gritty crime noir by Akira Kurosawa that peels back the curtain on postwar Japan’s underground crime scene and presents some stark moral questions in the process. Stray Dog once again…
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Upcoming Films That True Crime Fans Will Love
Eric San Juan August 29, 2018 1 Comment
Contributed Post Crime is a fascinating movie genre, and it’s even better when the movies are based on true event. True crime lovers can rejoice knowing that there are some fantastic films on the way in the next year, featuring all sorts of shady characters – some well-known and others not so well-known. Image: Pxhere Want to know what’s in store for the true crime genre? Take a look at the following and put some dates in your diary. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile While it doesn’t have an anticipated release date as yet, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile has already gathered a lot of hype. Based on the true story of charming serial killer Ted Bundy, it shows the events from the…
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OPENING NIGHT: THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL!®
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National School Chess Championship 2019
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Btw, I've checked it with CG and the reason the cross-table (8th Asian Continental Chess Championship (2009)) here appears so confused is that the official site didn't make any distinction in their PGNs between the main event and the Women's Championship, so this page includes the games from both events. M eet K Kamalini Hardhana Nimban. 2019 National Elementary Championship 9-May-19 Nashville, TN K-6 Blitz Combined Results Individual Awards Place Name/Team Rate Score MMed Med Solk SBx2 Cum 1 EMIR. The winner of the CHAMPIONSHIP section will represent Georgia at the 2019 National Girls Tournament of Champions. 2018 Results. 5 W106 W 62 W142 D 8 W 41 W 13 W22 4 Kumar, Nikhil 9 FLM054 FL 2370 6. Find events from before 2019 here. We host both the official State Championship, Scholastic Regional and State Championships. CLARKSBURG, W. Secured 1st place in school state level chess championship held by school education department Tamilnadu-2016. Over 300 U-19 chess players across India are participating in this national tournament. By Nicu Barbu; Jun 23, 2015; No comment; previous article. Chess for the Disabled; Chess for Seniors; School Chess; Chess for Girls; Chess for Scouts; Chess for Veterans; Chess for At-Risk Youth; Special Events. The PSCF is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation, and donations are tax-deductible. Chess Scotland AGM 2019. Only five players in history have won the National Elementary, Junior High School and High School championships: Joel Benjamin, Joshua Waitzkin, Nawrose Nur, Danial Asaria, and Harutyun Akopyan; only Waitzkin, Nur and Danial have won the National Primary championship as well, Danial Asaria won 2016 National junior High School Chess Championship. 3/2 160 players compete at State K-12 Scholastic Championships The CSCA and Manchester High School were the hosts of the 2019 CT State High, Middle, Elementary and Primary School Championships. 5 to 5 years to learn the basics of playing chess. NATIONAL TOURNAMENTS FOR ALL AGES AND SKILLS because it's like a chess match trying to figure it out. The Saint Louis Chess Club admits students of any gender, race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. Nominations P. A total of 40 chess players participated in an amazing week of fun and learning at our 2019 Chess Summer Camp (June 24-28, 2019)! Our campers explored the great game of chess through interactive activities, classroom lessons and technology, and of course, playing plenty of chess against their peers (including a mini tournament on Friday). Karnataka State Open Chess Championship 2019-FIDE Rated (Event Code UKCA/S011/19) Organised by Innovators Chess Academy, Bangalore. Invitation: This is the official invitation to all the FIDE Members Chess Federations and eligible players, to. (GCF) is gearing up for its first 2019 Grand Prix chess tournament under the new administration. Team Ateneo was composed of Tristan Rivera (5-Yakan), Linus Zosa (6-Corregidor), Arjay Co (3-Apo), Reef Francisco (6-Barasoain), Darren Uy (5-Ifugao) and Ralf Ceralde (6-. Chess-Results Server Chess-results. According to New York Times' Nicholas Kristof, Tanitoluwa Adewumi, has won the chess champion for kindergarten through third grade at. Watch Live Games on Lichess. The National Chess Champion-ship begins next Sunday, April 7, 2019. The tournament was directed by NBCC President and CSCA director Norman Burtness. 33rd National U-9 (Open & Girls) Chess Championship-2019 Participation Certificate Gujarat State U-19 (Open & Girls) Selection for National Chess Championship-2019. Local Events* 36th National Age-Group Chess Championships 2019 Fri. "There is stiff competition in the Under-18 category. The CBSE National Chess Championship was held from 9th to 14th December, 2015 at the Lakshmipat Singhania Academy, Kolkata. We host the Greater New Haven Fall Open, Greater New Haven Winter Open, the New Haven Championships and CT State Championships, run week-long summer chess programs, and our instructors are available for private and semi-private lessons at your convenience. 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International Chess School offers professional Chess Training. Glover Primary School. The Armenian team is set to start at the European Team Chess Championship 2019 in Batumi, Georgia. The event was run by the Ulster Chess Union (UCU) and kindly supported by the school headmaster Graham. Terry on KUPA CHAMPIONSHIP CHESS TOURNAMENT; Congrats to WFM Refiloe Mudodo the Zim Open 2018-19 Ladies Champ. Makerere University Business School (MUBS) won the 9th edition of the Inter – University Beach Soccer Championship at Lido beach in Entebbe on Sunday, 27th October 2019. 2019 National K-12 Grade Championship Scholastic (K-12) German International School New York - White Plains, NY: NATIONAL SCHOLASTIC CHESS FOUNDATION. “I want to be the youngest grandmaster,” Tanitoluwa Adewumi, who goes by Tani, told. Chess teacher Bonnie Waitzkin reported that at the New Jersey Chess Championship on Sunday November 19 at Brookdale College in Lincroft, Eric Wu '24 won all five games to win the sixth grade championship title for the fourth year in a row. Over a dozen Woodall School chess team members will head to Grapevine, Texas, in April for the 2019 National Junior High (K-9) Championship. Note: tournaments more than 12 months in advance are not shown to avoid the potential for confusion. Michael Moore, a senior, now will represent the state in the. According to New York Times' Nicholas Kristof, Tanitoluwa Adewumi, has won the chess champion for kindergarten through third grade at. Alina graduated from the faculty of psychology at the Russian Social State. Women's Chess Championship. 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The Saint Louis Chess Club admits students of any gender, race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. The 12 qualified players from National B 2019 will compete with Isuru Alahakoon, the National Chess Champion and the highest rated Harshana Thilakaratne for this years crown. National Finals - 2018/2019 National High Schools Chess Champs. Illinois Chess Association, Inc. How to Qualify for the OSCF State Championship. 2019 Board of Directors Nominations. The Norwegian Research School on Changing Climates in the coupled Earth System (CHESS) is a direct response to this demand. HRCC Club Championship; Chess for Everyone. See below for chess tournaments near San Antonio. The 2019 Greater New York Championships had near-record-shattering attendance. girl is first teen to win U. The high school junior from La Cañada has been playing chess for more than a decade. 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Chess for the Disabled; Chess for Seniors; School Chess; Chess for Girls; Chess for Scouts; Chess for Veterans; Chess for At-Risk Youth; Special Events. com's overview of the strongest chess events of the year. 5/20; 2nd Millfield School 15; 3rd Westminster School 11. 27 Dec, 2019 10:00 am - Mon. at Chrysler Elementary School, when her teacher invited a chess lot of national championship teams, taking. National Sports Festival Chess Championship - 2019 Cental Province and Western Province won the Men's and women's Chess Championships at 42nd National Sports Festival. However, for Ben Chen, it's a championship way of life. Directly After School - 5:00 PM (late pick-up options too) From complete beginners to advancing tournament players our goal is that all PS11 Players can experience both the joy and significant social/educational benefits of learning and playing chess! 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At the 58th National Inter-school Team Chess Championships (held on Tuesday, 5 September 2017), Team VS achieved National 3rd and East Zone Championship title. click here for 2018-2019 magnus chess league standings including free entry prizewinners! 2019 eastern chess congress, 10/25-27, princeton, nj 2019 eastern chess congress: uscf-rated results! 2019 eastern chess congress blitz championship: uscf-blitz-rated results! 2019 central new york open, 10/19-20, syracuse, ny. Led by Coach Russ, ICN was founded with the vision of establishing a network of high performing chess programs, where each school embodies their own unique chess culture while still maintaining a network-wide commitment to excellence. The 2018 MSNCT was also held at this site. 5 to 20, to capture the 2019 K-5 National Championship. Zach Tan (P3E) managed to clinched a Merit Award in the North Zone for Boys under 10 category. October 14-18, 2019 National coaches, sponsors, advisors/officials appreciation week. The town has previously hosted the Championships on five occasions, the most recent of which was the 100th Championships in 2013 …. Karnataka State School Championship Gold Medalist, 2018. The recently launched Chess for Tots allows kids aged 3. was the rest day before the final two rounds of the U. All abilities welcome. com and is an elite “Puzzle Rusher” with a high score of 86. Athletics Australia is the national governing body for the sport of athletics in Australia. 57th kerala state senior fide rated chess championship 2019: 12-09-2019 to 16-09-2019: 225863: polytechnic college, west hill, kozikode: 8848621993 9497085077: first masters trophy state open & school chess championship 2019: 21-09-2019 to 21-09-2019: 0: national high school,vallamkulam, thiruvalla: 9746778268 9846671412. National Master (NM) Byron Small was a late entry, but still overcame the odds to win his first national chess title. 6-Day Schedule Round 2 Round 2 Games. HRCC Club Championship; Chess for Everyone. News India coverage of Interschool Chess championship 2019 organised by R. A total of 18 engines will battle for six promotion spots in the newly formed Qualification Division. Women’s Chess Championship in nearly two decades of Ashburn, won the 2019 U. Toronto Secondary School Indiv. GA Scholastic Girls Championship Georgia Chess Association. Championship Schedule; CiS Seminar; Pairings; Rec Games; DSC_0639. FOLLOW US. She rose to the top after defeating her fellow Filipino chess wizards and players from Singapore, Korea, and Myanmar; The Philippines’ youngest female FIDE master has dominated a chess tournament held in Pattaya, Thailand recently. may 18 – 20, 2019 – 2019 ontario open chess championship. ” Muradali, a student of Sevilla Private Primary School, Couva and national Under-8 division champion, scored a massive seven points, which was enough to see him earn a silver in the U-8 absolute category and make him eligible for a the candidate master or CM title. CBSE North Zone-1 Chess championship 2018: Date: October 2-6, 2018 Chess players of the school participated in CBSE North Zone CBSE North Zone 1 Chess championship, and won 7 out of 12 accolades. The coaches explore new ideas in chess, guide members along to reach their maximum potential. 2019 National Youth Chess Championships Report June 11, 2019. The Wisconsin Scholastic Chess Federation (WSCF), formerly Milwaukee Area Scholastic Chess Association (MASCA), is a 501(c)(3) non profit association dedicated to promoting chess for our youth in greater Milwaukee and Wisconsin. March 22, 2015 • Featured, Tournament Results • 2554 By Susan Justice On March 21st, 70 scholastic chess teams gathered at Creekland Middle School in Lawrenceville, GA to compete for the state team title in one of four sections: K-1, K-3, K-5, and Middle School. PH bags 5 golds in 2019 ASEAN Age Group Chess Championships. This Chess Tournament was held on 2019/09/20 to 2019/09/24 at Uva Province Library Auditorium, Badulla. All-Girls National Championship, 17-19 April 2020, Wheeling, IL; 4. The tournament’s golden edition certainly has grown in size and stature from the first one in 1969, run by Bill Goichberg in New York City, which had 370 players (the highest-rated participant back then was 2206). 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He attended the University of Texas, Brownsville where he lead the team to its first ever national championship. Filipino rules ASEAN Chess Championship. Organized by Castle Chess Academy, it is an eleven rounds swiss event following a time control of 90 Minutes for the first 40 moves plus 30 Minutes for rest of the game with 30. was the rest day before the final two rounds of the U. Chokshi School of Chess. 1 World School Chess Championship Antalya / Turkey 17–27 April 2019 1. The students said the life. The Bahamas Bain and Grants Town Chess Club (BGT) won the overall prize at The Bahamas Chess Federation’s (BCF) Annual Scholastic Team Championship at Tambearly School on May 18. Updated 2:27 PM, September 12, 2019 Jan Jodilyn Fronda returned to the top of Philippine ladies chess by capturing the national championship. Makerere University Business School (MUBS) won the 9th edition of the Inter – University Beach Soccer Championship at Lido beach in Entebbe on Sunday, 27th October 2019. March 22, 2015 • Featured, Tournament Results • 2554 By Susan Justice On March 21st, 70 scholastic chess teams gathered at Creekland Middle School in Lawrenceville, GA to compete for the state team title in one of four sections: K-1, K-3, K-5, and Middle School. K-8 State Team Championship 2015 Results. 15 hours ago; Early Bird registration for the state cheer/dance competition ends tomorrow 10/31 the deadline for regular registration ends 11/14. Complete 2019-20 Scholastic Tournament Calendar ** November 2nd LIGHTNING QUADS ** December 13-15 2019 / Nationals K-12 Championships; March 14-15 / 2020 NY State Scholastic Championships; April 17-19 / National All-Girls Championship; May 8-10 2020 / National Elementary Championship.
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Home Business This UAE-based Indian kid’s eco-robot to be showcased at Dubai Expo 2020
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This UAE-based Indian kid built a eco-robot that segregates waste to organic composting
A small robot built by a nine-year-old United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based Indian child which segregates waste, will be showcased at the Expo 2020 Visitor Centre in Dubai, it was reported. Nine-year-old Putsala Harshith, who originally hails from Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh, is a class four student at the Bright Riders School Abu Dhabi. His project, called “Robotic waste segregation to organic composting”, was chosen to be part of the Expo 2020 Young Innovators programme. <!–
“My robot, Wsegrebot, segregates waste into green, wet, metal, paper, wood and plastic. The wet and brown waste, like paper and wood, will be shredded. Then the waste is converted into organic compost, which turns into soil when mixed with sand,” the Khaleej Times reported on Wednesday citing Harshith as saying.
By turning waste into something that would be useful for farming, he seeks to “turn the desert into a garden”, adding that his vision for the project was to “promote chemical-free agriculture”.
He has also made a cleaning robot using old cars, cardboard and motor. “I had made a smaller robot to help my mother. Now I have made a bigger one to help with cleaning.”
For the past few years, Harshith is also leading a campaign against plastic use. He makes paper bags to replace the plastic ones.
He will continue and expand his drive when he visits Srikakulam during vacation. “I have taken my campaign to 20 schools in Srikakulam.”
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No, I’m Not a Horse: A Refutation of the Clever Hans Comparison to Autistic Typers
This is a horse.
This is a human.
This is Clever Hans. He was a horse in the early 1900s who looked like he was doing simple math equations by stomping his foot. Turns out he was just picking up cues from his handler.
Horses have no innate propensity to develop language, understand complex language or communicate in language. I love horses, but they are horses, not humans. Humans have an innate propensity to develop language, understand complex language and communicate in language; therefore even humans who lack typical access to verbal communication because of a disability still have the capacity to grasp language (except in extreme circumstances).
Humans who are deaf develop sign language.
Humans who can’t speak verbally type or use augmentative communication.
Humans with Down Syndrome understand and speak utilizing the complex patterns of language.
So, why is it so hard for some professionals to believe that humans with autism have innate language capacity?
For example, here is a course in the Applied Behavioral Analysis department at a university (instructor’s name removed), which is described this way:
Ever since Facilitated Communication (FC) crashed onto the shores of the U.S. in the early 1990s, remarkable claims of sophisticated communicative abilities in otherwise nonverbal people with autism have proliferated. FC itself has morphed into other forms, including the so-called Rapid Prompting method. However, regardless of the name, all of these techniques have one thing in common: They claim to show that previously nonverbal people with autism are in fact highly verbal and expressive so much so that the diagnosis of autism is sometimes questioned. This is not the first time in history in which remarkable claims of communication have been made about nonverbal individuals. Perhaps the most famous case was that of a horse in Germany around the turn of the 20th century, named Clever Hans. In this talk, Dr. X describes the story of Clever Hans, including the experiments carried out by the German psychologist, Oskar Pfungst, which revealed the nature of Hans’ cleverness, and its lessons for recent claims of remarkable communicativeness in people with autism. Dr. X urges the same level of scientific scrutiny regarding these claims as with Clever Hans, and suggest (sic) that all stakeholders in autism should approach remarkable claims skeptically and scientifically.
I will analyze this paragraph sentence by sentence.
Ever since Facilitated Communication (FC) crashed onto the shores of the U.S. in the early 1990s, remarkable claims of sophisticated communicative abilities in otherwise nonverbal people with autism have proliferated.
When I was in high school I learned in my English class about loaded language intended to bias the reader. FC “crashed on the shores.” Its claims of success are “remarkable,” because the typed communication of nonverbal people is “sophisticated.” Ha ha. You see, autistic people thinking and typing is a joke already.
FC itself has morphed into other forms, including the so-called Rapid Prompting method.
Here RPM is lumped with FC , the method that “crashed” on our shores, in an apparent attempt to discredit it. RPM is actually a different teaching method than FC, and though it is referred to as “the so-called Rapid Prompting Method,” that is the actual, copyrighted name of the method.
However, regardless of the name, all of these techniques have one thing in common: They claim to show that previously nonverbal people with autism are in fact highly verbal and expressive so much so that the diagnosis of autism is sometimes questioned.
This sentence is packed with disinformation. Nobody questions the autism of people who type except for those who don’t believe that severely autistic people understand language. By their logic, if an autistic person types he can’t be autistic. This is circular logic.
My old ABA supervisor said exactly this about Tito Mukhopadyhay because he communicates by typing independently. He stims. He has every autistic symptom in the books but since he is obviously communicating sophisticated thoughts he can’t be autistic. Ha ha. What would his correct diagnosis be then, and why was he diagnosed with autism as a young child before he typed? It is intriguing that these particular professionals don’t question whether their understanding of autism is correct when someone with autism comes along who challenges their theory. Rather, they claim that it’s the person who is incorrect. My book actually explains pretty thoroughly what it is like having autism.
This is not the first time in history in which remarkable claims of communication have been made about nonverbal individuals.
No, it is not. How can we present autistic communicators as a joke?
Perhaps the most famous case was that of a horse in Germany around the turn of the 20th century, named Clever Hans.
By comparing autistic people to animals. How witty.
In this talk, Dr. X describes the story of Clever Hans, including the experiments carried out by the German psychologist, Oskar Pfungst, which revealed the nature of Hans’ cleverness, and its lessons for recent claims of remarkable communicativeness in people with autism.
As I mentioned, I think a horse is an animal with no innate capacity for language and a person with autism is a human with innate capacity for language despite being severely hampered by bad theories, bad instruction and a severe mind/motor disconnect. (For more information on the mind/motor problem, please see my essay Motor Difficulties in Severe Autism.
Dr. X urges the same level of scientific scrutiny regarding these claims as with Clever Hans, and suggest (sic) that all stakeholders in autism should approach remarkable claims skeptically and scientifically.
By all means, skepticism is good. I have dealt with and convinced skeptics for many years. Biased, hostile people are not skeptics, nor scientists. (See Scientific Un-Query and More on Scientific Un-Query). By the way, people who have autism are stakeholders too, as are their parents.
Science is filled with stories of people who introduced new theories only to be treated with scorn by professionals who toed the line of the day, but the theories were ultimately proven to be correct. Now we laugh at the obtuseness of the critics in these cases, but they actually ruined lives and reputations.
I’m an autism expert. I didn’t study it in class. I didn’t teach ABA to kids. I did however live and breathe it. I learned that experts and professionals can be well meaning but wrong. I learned that I, and others who type, have much to teach about the truth of the disability. My expertise is solely based on empirical evidence and anecdote. I never ran tests on myself. Nevertheless, I know my nonverbal autism inside and out. My autism is a mind/motor disconnect. It isn’t a language processing issue. It isn’t cognitive delay. It is a real disability, hard to live with, and mostly it is painful to be unable to speak, but not speaking is not the same as not thinking.
Posted in augmentative communication, autism, Rapid Prompting Method, RPM, Tito Mukhopadhyay. nonverbal autism, typing, Uncategorized
Tagged Clever Hans, skeptics
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Retiring This Blog – But Moving to a Greener Building
The Green Initiatives Staff Team of the UUA enjoyed blogging, but now their attention is turning to the move to our new headquarters at 24 Farnsworth Street in Boston. The entire UUA staff hopes to make the new building greener than 25 Beacon Street and are involved in planning the new space. Read about it on the Join the Move! blog.
Margy Levine Young
GIST team
Walk/Ride Day Challenge Update
The UUA joined Green Streets Initiative‘s Walk/Ride Day Corporate Challenge in March to challenge ourselves to use a greener form of transportation to work one day per month. So far, our participation has been a success–exceeding our own expectations and that of the Green Initiatives staff!
Here is an update:
In March, the UUA led other organizations of a similar size, with 36% participation.
We went up from there and had 40% participation in April–continuing to lead our category!
Prizes, prizes, and more prizes!
One of the perks of being a leader is that one staff person each month wins a prize. I’m very pleased to announce that Linda Rose won a $25 gift card to Eastern Mountain Sports for her participation in March. Kimberly Reardon was April’s winner and will take home a nifty Green Streets umbrella. Congratulations to you both!
Next month’s prize will be a $75 gift card to The Beehive, a fabulous dining and nightlife destination in Boston’s South End. Green Streets is also offering prizes for people who log their commute outside of the Corporate Challenge. So tell your friends to log their commutes, too, and they could win a gift card from Darwin’s Ltd, a coffee house in Cambridge, MA.
This Friday, May 25, is our next Walk/Ride Challenge Day! Be sure to head over to http://greenstreets.mapc.org/ to log your commute any time this week. Let’s keep the momentum going and show our community our commitment to promoting a greener world in all areas of our life–including our work!
The UUA’s Green Initiatives Staff Team (GIST) are Pat Grimm, Rob Molla, Jan Sneegas, Mike O’Herron, Alexis Rizzuto, Rachel Walden, Tim Brennan, and Adrianne Ross. If you’d like to join us in minimizing our environmental impact at work, please feel free to get in touch with any one of us.
Rachel Walden
Committment, Environment, GIST team
UUA joining Green Streets Initiative Walk/Ride Day Corporate Challenge
Join us in greening the UUA and entering our staff for raffle prizes! The UUA is joining Green Streets Initiative‘s Walk/Ride Day Corporate Challenge. All UUA Staff have to do is go to their website on the last Friday of the month and log their commute that day (as long as it was not a single person driving in a car to work). Be sure to include that you work for the UUA and log in with your uua.org email address. Options for alternative transportation commuting are:
Ride the Train
They also include kayak and canoe on their list, but I’m not sure that applies… let me know if it does for you!
They have a number of sponsors who offer special deals on the last Friday of the month- make sure to check out all the opportunities here (and note there are 7 pages of sponsors!)
Staff who work offsite can participate and log their commute as well!
Days of the challenge: (last Friday of each month March-September):
March 30, April 27, May 25, June 29, July 27, August 31, September 28.
Photographs of Genzyme Headquarters
Genzyme Headquarters
Genzyme HQ is certified as LEED Platinum
Atrium at Genzyme
Offices at Genzyme HQ`
The fountain in the lobby at Genzyme.
Photographs of Genzyme Headquarters at 500 Kendall Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The UUA’s Green Initiatives Staff Team organized a visit and tour for UUA staff on February 15, 2012 of the Genzyme offices, which were certified LEED Platinum in 2005.
Rob Molla
Environment, GIST team
Visit to Genzyme- a LEED certified building
A group of UUA staff went over to Genzyme in Kendall Square to see what a really green office building looks like. We also wanted to imagine what our headquarters might incorporate sustainability-wise and this was a chance to open our minds to different possibilities.
Genzyme is a LEED platinum certified office building. You can go to their website to see other recognitions it has received, and more information.
So many details of the building planning were interesting and innovative. Fountains with running water in the atrium deadened the sound, making acoustics of other people’s conversations not much of a problem for people working close by; it was very quiet and peaceful. The lighting system involved a complex series of roof mirrors and ceiling mirrors and prism chandeliers to give off the right amount of diffuse light, moving light when possible to give a calming effect. They were controlled by an automatic weather system to adjust to different lighting levels depending on the day (sunny or cloudy- angles of mirrors would adjust differently). Through this system they achieved an 80% natural light to 20% artificial light ratio in their work spaces. The average work space is the reverse.
We came equipped with questions and had some things we would have wanted to do differently- but it was a great learning experience. I’ll ask the other tour attendees to add comments to this post with things that stood out to them and what they learned. I’ll ask anyone else to comment what they would like to see the UUA incorporate further into our building, whether we stay here or find another space to work in- what green aspects would you strive for us to operate with?
If anyone missed the tour but will be in the area and wants to check it out there is some information available in Genzyme’s lobby and you can get an idea of the space:
Individual Viewing of Genzyme Center: Individual visitors and the general public may view Genzyme Center from the public space on the first and second floors Monday through Friday, 7am-7pm. You do not need to register to view the building during these times.
Interactive Kiosks & Brochures: There are two touch-screen interactive kiosks in the public viewing space. These kiosks host a virtual tour that highlights the different architectural and environmental features of the building. In addition, brochures about the building are located on a display stand in the lobby and at the reception desk.
Tar Sands Action Leads to Change
[Taken From Beacon Broadside] On November 6, Beacon Press editor Alexis Rizzuto was part of the Tar Sands Action protest in Washington, DC. She sat down with our blog editor to discuss the protest and its impact.
Beacon Press editor Alexis Rizzuto
What was the protest about?
It was to tell Obama not to approve the Keystone XL pipeline in Alberta, Canada, proposed by TransCanada corporation to run from Canada to Texas. They are cutting down the boreal forest in Alberta and turning it into a toxic wasteland to get at the oil up there. Which is a hugely intensive use of energy—you have to burn a lot of carbon to get the oil out, (more…)
Committment, Environment
Owl Pellets Can Save the World
Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA is a hot spot for migratory birds and those who watch them, and the stars of the bird show this spring have been the owlets. In late April, the two great horned owl chicks appeared in the nest in the thorny honey locust tree, as small and fluffy as kittens with little muppet faces. At first, they mostly leaned against each other and napped. As the weeks went by, they gained more feathers, started stretching (more…)
Alexis Rizzuto
Environment, Video
A Spring Story
Last spring, on the second floor of 41 Mt. Vernon, I heard a chirping outside the bathroom window. The window opens up into a shaft of about 40 feet from the bottom (outside the window) to the top. I figured if it was an adult bird it would find its way out, so I’d wait and see. If it were a baby, it would still be there later, and I’d try to help it. But someone from the upper floors also heard it, and had stuck her head into the shaft and seen that it WAS a juvenile in need of help. So she came down to our floor, and people directed her to me, the resident bird-nerd. (more…)
Step up and join other UUA staff in the Earth Day challenge
Watch this teaser to see what other UUA staff are doing.
Or if you’d like, you can pick something off the UU Ministry for Earth list of sample actions.
Take a pledge for water justice today!
Robin Nelson
Committment, GIST team, Video
40 day commitment Challenge for Earth Day
Earth Day is approaching and we would like all UUA staff to take part in the celebration. We’d like to take this opportunity for the UUA as an institution to make our workplaces friendlier to the environment and help people most adversely affected by environmental degradation.
We’re kicking off a 40 day commitment challenge on Wednesday, April 27th, where staff will engage in small and large daily actions to support and celebrate our life-giving planet. We’re focusing our actions on water justice, but a multitude of social justice issues impact water, from food to energy to immigration, so we encourage you to be creative in what you might do! (more…)
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The Tradition Dodge
One of the fundamental differences between progressives and conservatives is the way we view tradition and heritage. For progressives, tradition is not sacred. I won't go so far as to say that tradition is automatically dismissed, but in general, our way of looking at the world involves examining the past so that we can make the future better, and part of that requires breaking with tradition, since so much of it is steeped in patriarchy and racism.
When I've written about what it's like to be a progressive southerner, I've dealt with the idea that it's important to be honest about our regional heritage and tradition, especially as regards symbols like the Confederate flag. There's plenty to be proud of--we have a strong culinary tradition and a unique regional literature just to name two. And there's no question that those two things wouldn't have turned out the way they did without the racist and patriarchal landscape they sprang from. But we celebrate those responses to that landscape, not the landscape itself. When people claim pride in their heritage and use the flag as a symbol, they're celebrating the landscape, the tradition of subjugating women and people of color.
The same is true in religion. The Anglican communion is facing a potential schism, and has been for a while now, because the progressive and conservative wings are at odds over the role of women in the church. And now even the Catholic Church is weighing in--guess which side they're on?
"Such a decision is a break with apostolic tradition maintained in all of the Churches in the first millennium, and is therefore a further obstacle for reconciliation between the Catholic Church and the Church of England."
The progressive wing of the Anglican communion looked at the patriarchal tradition and decided that it was faulty, that women should be able to take part in the leadership of the church. Even though I'm an atheist, I celebrate this move, because it is more inclusive and because it not only points out the fundamental unfairness of traditional Christianity, but is trying to change it as well.
And did you notice what the Catholic Church appealed to? Tradition. The problem with conservatism in general is that it overvalues tradition, and what's more, uses it as a fallacious authority to hide behind when challenged on the probity of its positions. "Because we've always done it this way" is nothing more than a dodge, a way to evade responsibility for your actions.
Which is not to say that a new way of doing something is necessarily better. Take beer, for example. Amy and I went to a family reunion over the Fourth of July weekend--wonderful get-together, lots of family, big fireworks, good food, Nintendo Wii, all the necessities. But the beer options were, well, not beer. They were Bud Light with Lime, Michelob Ultra and Mich Ultra with grapefruit/tangerine/ass-funk. That's not progress. Give me an Anchor Steam made by brewers who are pitching yeast by hand and throw in whole-flower hops any day. But even they keep the tradition only to a point--they don't depend on wild yeast carried on the breeze, and they do use stainless steel and modern sanitation methods. And they make a hell of a beer as a result.
Labels: Anchor Brewing, Anglican Church, catholic church, patriarchy, racism, tradition
About Sebelius and Clinton
I used to think that Truthers were crazy...
Speaking of change
Things I Watch To Cheer Me Up:
Lookie what I saw
Glad to see this
Just how big is Obama's lead?
But they're eeeebil!!
Gee, why don't people trust FPL?
It's a start, at least
Well, they already felt longer than an hour
Indeed they do, John
An upside to the housing crash
Miami NIMBY
Stay classy, y'all
Okay, this is funny, but...
Um, Bill?
What about that "paying Caesar's things to Caesar"...
Oh Ouch
Horror Journalism:
A little perspective, please
Learning lessons
Talk about missing the point
Books Replaced by their Movies
Some Publication News and the Random Ten
Annette Taddeo at Netroots Nation
Snubbing Atheists on the Campaign Trail
Some Schadenfreude
Liberal Media, my ass
Some mornings
Young Republicans, desperate to be relevant
Desperate for attention?
Where the women at?
What was the big deal again?
The Evolution of James Dobson
Shorter Frank Rich
Why would this be a bad thing, now?
My Robot, or The History of Electronic Girls, Part...
Not good, just better
What are they hoping for?
qui custodiet ipsos custodes
Not quite far enough and the Random Ten
More gay harassment
Happy Birthday Amy!
Dear Terrorists...
On Abolishing Darwinism
And the wheel turns again
Great old local commercials
When Jokes Bomb
Attention, everyone!
I'm asking you for money
Well no wonder
About Offshore Drilling
What is this middle you speak of?
Oh, the Hummer
Worst App Ever
Let's keep it going
About that freedom of speech
I'm glad it's happening now
Once more unto the Naugle
Feeling like crap and the Random Ten
Don't tease me
Greg Cote, however...
Gail Collins nails it
Important Endorsement
Not a joke
Doctor Donna
IOKIYAR Part the 746938274th
An Atheist Meets God
Sex is natural, sex is fun, sex is best when it's....
Good local polling news
If this video doesn't make you happy...
Is some people gonna get sued?
Why don't we talk ill of the dead?
Ohpleasepleaseplease
Disapppointed in Obama?
Meme This!
Scathing Book Review
Jesse Helms is Dead
Happy Fourth of July
Thursday Night Party Time
You don't have to be excited
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A to Z of Indycar 2014 - Part 5 - U - Z
In our final part of our look back, (in which we have passed 6 weeks of the long off-season!) Jason and Adrian round of the A to Z of the 2014 Indycar season looking at U through to Z. We hope you have enjoyed our slightly irreverent at times look back at some of the highlights and moments of the past season on and off the track.
U is for UFD
The UFD racing girls were right behind Hinch, literally (UFD Racing)
It is always great to have new sponsors getting involved with Indycar and existing ones upping their involvement.. keep it up... (see below)
V is for Verizon
Imagine for a moment if you will that Indycar is the unpopular boy at Motorsport School. He's spotty and he's a little out of shape but he's got great personality and people that know him really like him. During his time at school, all Indycar has really wanted is a good looking rich girl (Title Sponsor) to bring to the School Dance. Sure he's managed to court a few girls, Northern Lights, Pep Boys, IZOD but none of these girls have let Indycar get to the next level and most of the time, Indycar ends up dropping them off without so much as a goodnight kiss. Worse still, Indycar has to watch that Country Boy Nascar parade around with the gorgeous Sprint Girl and all her money. Sometimes it just got Indycar down. Then enter the alluring Miss Verizon. Like all good courtships, Indycar and Verizon got to know each other slowly, going on a few dates but the lovely Verizon got to know Indycar and in the Spring of 2014, found herself ready to commit. Indycar finally found the girlfriend it's always wanted. Indycar is now in a position to have Verizon spend lots of money on it, she can help clean up it's spotty appearance, get it in shape and help turn it into a much more popular boy at Motorsport school and better still, she can help let everyone else know just how awesome Indycar is. Simply put, Verizon is the best thing to happen to Indycar in a long, long time. Here's wishing them a long and happy relationship.
W is for Winners
2014 saw a record tying 11 Different winners throughout the Indycar season and it's a proud testament to the parity that exists in the series. The DW12 Chassis has helped even the playing field and with those 11 winners coming from 7 Different teams, 2014 really showed us that any team and driver combination were capable of winning on any weekend. Compare Indycar's results to those of Formula One (3 Different winners from 2 teams) and you get an idea of the level of competition and the depth of talent that Indycar boasts on a weekly basis. Simply put, if you found yourself in Victory Lane at an Indycar race this season, you earned it.
X is for Xerosere
(Bare with me on this one...) In essence the survival and continued presence despite the lack of water... give or take. What does this have to do with Indycar you may ask? Check out this blog post from Pressdog back in April to do with Indycar, growth, survival, TV ratings... and the lack of 'water'.
Y is for Young'uns
Chaves aiming high (C.Owens)
Any good sport or team is only as good as those who wait in the wings, those young men and women who will one day take up the reins and replace the current crop of athletes who lead the charge. As many problems as Indycar has had over the years, one of the recent things they have done right is it's ladder system. Indycar seems to know that it won't survive and thrive for years to come based on what Mario Andretti, AJ Foyt, Tony Kanaan or Helio Castroneves have done or are doing, it will be the teenagers and children strapping on helmets to race Karts and other cars further up the road to Indy ladder. A look down the ranks at some of the young guns who wait in the wings gives you a clue as to who you can expect to see one day competing for Indy 500 wins and Championships, names like Chaves, Piggott and even a younger generation of famous names like Brabham, Herta and Cindric are all climbing the ladder towards Indycar. The future is definitely bright where driving talent is concerned.
Z is for Zero Point Zero Six
Hunter-Reay pips Castroneves for the win (M.Harding)
The tiniest of margins, but one which brings the biggest of victories.
Part 1 - A - E
Part 2 - F - J
Part 3 - K - O
Part 4 - P - T
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UK TV Coverage (Good News)
Thanks to Tom for these updates, firstly Indycar, and BT Sport will be broadcasting a weekly motor sport show on Tuesday evenings for an hour from 8pm, the details of the show are 'covering motor sport from across all BT Sport platforms' so we will wait and see on that front...
And also good news for followers of the Mazda Road to Indy, Motors TV will broadcast selected races throughout the season, more details are available here.
The first Indycar race of the season is live on ESPN UK Sunday evening from 8pm.
2014 Race Reviews and Your Thoughts
Given the short gap between each race this coming season I have decided not to do the same race review format as last year. It would be touch and go getting them in and up before being superseded by the next weekends race. But a big thank you to the eighteen Indycar fans that spent their time writing for us, it was great to get so many people writing about Indycar, some for the first time.
I did still want to do something though so you could get your opinions out there without being limited to 140 character and .... skipping .... tweets .... in... the... timeline!
So this year, after each race I will be posting 4-5 questions / topics that arose from the race on the website for you to give your thoughts on. These will be live for around 24 hours, where I will then put together and publish them. no pre-registration or anything, just contributions after the race. Not primarily looking for just UK based fans either, anyone can get involved this time round.
First one will be up next Sunday evening!
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Goat Island Performance Groupkaren2019-12-17T12:56:55+00:00
Goat Island
Chicago-based collaborative performance group
Goat Island was a Chicago-based collaborative performance group, 1987–2009. The company produced performance works developed by its members for local, national and international audiences.
Members contributed to the conception, research, writing, choreography, documentation and educational demands of the work. Characteristically, rather than the usual proscenium theater situation, we attempted to establish a spatial relationship with audiences suggesting a concept, such as sporting arena or parade ground, or creating a setting for which there is no everyday comparison. We performed a personal vocabulary of movement, both dance-like and pedestrian, that often made extreme physical demands on the performers, and attention demands on the audience. We incorporated historical and contemporary issues through text and movement. We created visual/spatial images to encapsulate thematic concerns. We placed our performances in non-theatrical sites when possible. We researched and wrote collaborative lectures for public events, and often subsequently published these, either in our own artists’ books or in professional journals.
Core members were Karen Christopher, Matthew Goulish, Lin Hixson, Mark Jeffery, Bryan Saner, and Litó Walkey. Associate members were Cynthia Ashby, Lucy Cash, CJ Mitchell, Judd Morrissey, Margaret Nelson, John Rich, Charissa Tolentino and Chantal Zakari.
Karen Christopher was a core member of Goat Island from 1990 to 2009. More information about Goat Island’s performances, films, teaching, writing and publications can be found at here.
Goat Island completed nine works: Soldier, Child, Tortured Man (1987); We Got A Date (1989); Can’t Take Johnny to the Funeral (1991); It’s Shifting, Hank (1993); How Dear to Me the Hour When Daylight Dies (1996); The Sea & Poison (1998); It’s an Earthquake in My Heart (2001); When will the September roses bloom? Last night was only a comedy (2004); and The Lastmaker (2007). The company toured the US and to England, Scotland, Wales, Belgium, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Croatia, Germany, and Canada.
Goat Island Makes Earthquake, video diary by Karen Christopher
Cake dance from It’s an Earthquake in my Heart, Goat Island, 2001, Arnolfini, Bristol
Excerpt from It’s Aching like Birds, film by Lucy Cash & Goat Island
Excerpt from The Sea & Poison, Goat Island, Chicago, 1998
Excerpts from The Sea & Poison, Goat Island, 1998, video by Left & Right, Glasgow
Excerpts from The Lastmaker, Goat Island, 2007, MCA Chicago, video by Nadia Oussenko
Judith Butler gets a sip and drinks it
Quiet (A Disruptive Fog (or a hogshead full of vapor called memory))
Distance = a camel caravan on a grain of rice
How Dear to Me
Karen Christopher
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Legends of Atlantis: Exodus Now Available for PC
by Garv on April 10, 2012 at 11:44 pm
Posted In: News, PC
Strategic time management game is now available for PCs with future versions coming for Mac, iOS, and Android platforms.
Legacy Interactive® announced today the release of Legends of Atlantis: Exodus, an addictive new strategic time management game. Help evacuate the ancient Atlanteans from their homes before Atlantis sinks into the ocean!
In Legends of Atlantis: Exodus, players are transported to the mythic continent of Atlantis, on the verge of destruction. Clear obstructed paths, dig canals and caves, combat fearsome robbers and monsters, find and accumulate necessary resources, and much more to free the entrapped residents. Progress through five beautifully rendered HD locations, with over 50 levels of engaging time management gameplay and special bonus levels. For an occasional change of pace, play colorful hidden object and match three mini-games. Strategy becomes increasingly important; multiple missions in each level must be prioritized in order to complete everything within the allotted time.
The PC version of Legends of Atlantis: Exodus is available now on Legacy Games, http://www.legacygames.com. Later this Spring, iOS, Android, and Mac versions of the game will be available. The mobile games will include a premium version as well as a free-to-play version, with in-app purchases and in-game currency.
“This game has been lots of fun to work on. The Atlantis landscape is breathtaking, the little Atlanteans are adorable, and the gameplay is strategic without being frantic. The only thing I enjoy better than working on the game is playing it!” says the game’s producer Jamar Graham.
“This is the first truly multiplatform game that Legacy has released,” says Ariella Lehrer, CEO of Legacy Interactive. “We chose a game genre and graphics style that we believe translates really well on all platforms, whether touch or mouse controlled. We love the result, and hope our customers do too.”
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Make His Face To Shine Upon Thee
If for no other reason than that he'd succeeded in snatching the great James West right out from under the nose of his startled partner. He'd made it a point to go along with his men, just so he could see the expression on Artemus Gordon's face. Surprise, with just a touch of fear... oh, and frustration, of course, knowing there was nothing he could do without risking Jim's life. That best of all: the look of agonized helplessness.
A good day. And it could only get better.
Doctor Miguelito Loveless watched his men push West to his knees on the plush carpet and began to laugh.
A wonderful day.
He didn't say anything at first. Oh, he knew West was waiting for him to begin; expected a long-winded rant. In the past he'd always obliged him. And, probably, he would do it again. But, for the moment, Loveless was satisfied just looking.
James West was easy on the eyes, his handsome face only the finishing touch on a body sculpted to perfection. For all his studies of the human form, Loveless had yet to explain how West could look so perfectly in proportion. Short, compact, yet infinitely graceful, in motion and in repose. There was something about his bearing, perhaps -- a smoothly arrogant self-awareness. He moved as if he owned the world, and the world too often seemed to agree.
His eyes always gazed levelly into those of every person he spoke to, yet he never seemed to tilt his chin to meet them. West refused to look up at any man; and he'd always done Loveless the inestimable favor of not looking down on him. An unasked courtesy that was as flattering as it was infuriating.
His expression, now as always, gave nothing away. He showed neither chagrin at his capture, nor fear of what might come, nor annoyance at Loveless' silent survey. West's chiseled features were as blank as they were handsome, and Loveless knew they were destined to stay that way, regardless of what he did.
Ever since their first meeting, he'd been alternately fascinated and incensed by that bland expressionless mask. He remembered with bitter pleasure that moment when he'd first caged West. Despite being well and truly trapped, West had allowed none of the annoyance, the self-directed anger at being outmaneuvered which must have been brewing inside, to show. And his refusal to react properly to his confinement took all the joy out of the coup. It had tainted every victorious moment since.
It had become something of an obsession with him: to get a reaction out of James West.
"Well, Mr. West, and how are you this fine day?" Loveless finally asked.
"Fine, Dr. Loveless, and you?"
"Oh fine, fine..." Loveless laughed again, tickled by the conversation: parlor-polite despite the circumstances. The amusement passed quickly, however; West merely gazed calmly at him, not in the least embarrassed by being forced to kneel before his captor. Annoyed, Loveless gestured angrily at his men, who obliged by pulling West off his knees and forcing him back into a chair. "Now," he continued, ignoring West's utter unperturbability with a supreme effort, "aren't you the least bit curious about what I have planned?"
"You'll tell me in time," West responded calmly.
"Ah yes, in time. But how much time, Mr. West? Perhaps I mean to wait. Perhaps I'll tell you next week sometime, or next month."
The corner of West's mouth quirked a little. He knew. Oh yes, he knew as well as Loveless did that there was not so much time. In fact, Loveless had calculated it down to the minute: how long before Gordon could be expected to arrive. It wasn't long. Never long enough.
With a gesture, Loveless sent his men out of the room. He didn't like audiences; at least, not their sort. Even without guards, Loveless knew he'd be safe from West. Physically, at least. West was capable of amazing feats of athleticism and leaps of intuitive logic; he'd attempt every trick in the book to put Loveless behind bars. Except using his fists. His own personal code of ethics would no more allow him to strike a man like Loveless than a woman. Useful, but infuriating. For, though it meant that West would never be able to vanquish Loveless, it also meant he'd never take him completely seriously either.
"Do you think you can keep me prisoner that long?" West asked finally, alluding to what they both knew: that Gordon was already looking for him, and had a history of taking him back from Loveless.
"We are all prisoners, are we not?" he asked philosophically, absently rubbing his fingers over the smooth marble top of his desk. "Bodies are just cages of flesh and bone."
"We've had this conversation before," West reminded him impatiently. He rarely showed much forbearance for philosophical conversation.
"Yes, I suppose we have," Loveless conceded. He wanted to have it again. The last time, West wasn't paying attention. Having just shook off the effects of the hallucinogenic drug, he was understandably short tempered. Loveless had dropped the subject once he realized West wouldn't cooperate. In fact, he'd had to cease the conversation entirely before West made him completely lose his temper and do something he'd regret. For the only time in their history, West had deliberately goaded him.
Understandable, perhaps. Loveless had made West believe he'd killed his partner. He hadn't correctly anticipated the full range of emotional response to that. He'd told Kitty what he was going to do -- "make a man kill the thing he loved," he believed was the phrase -- and somehow forgotten what that would do to the man in question. Or not wanted to remember, or believe. West had been unresponsive and sullen; deliberately trying to work Loveless into a temper. It had taken great restraint to prevent himself from doing what West wanted. Killing him then would have served no purpose.
Unwillingly, he remembered something else West had told him at the time: 'You need me.' A patent untruth.
Realizing suddenly that they'd spent several wordless minutes looking at each other, Loveless grew flustered and angry. "Well, if you mean to sit there in silence, and play childish games--" he whirled at the sound of the door slamming back against the wall. "I thought I told you--"
"Sorry, doctor. They ain't listenin.'" The rough man in the doorway laughed boisterously at his own humor. Two more uncouth types threw Loveless' men through the door to land in bloody heaps on the expensive carpet.
"Who... How dare...?" Loveless stuttered, his eloquence deserting him, as it always did in the height of his fury. The invasion of his house alone was enough to earn them his eternal wrath. But killing his men in the process was entirely uncalled for. They may not have been very good men, not like Voltaire -- silent, loyal Voltaire -- but they were his men. His, and no one but he had the right to damage them.
"Mr. Griffith'll be pleased to see you. Take him, boys."
"Careful, now," Loveless warned, sliding slowly backward with the instinct of a cornered animal; closer to West, as it happened. "Griffith won't want me hurt. I'm worth too much to him."
Knowing he was hopelessly outnumbered, Loveless didn't try to fight. He knew their orders were certainly not to hurt him. Not, at least, until Adam Griffith got what he wanted. He suffered himself to be manhandled, his hands bound before him, and pushed rudely toward the door.
A whirlwind of violence erupted behind him. West, making his bid for freedom. Loveless turned to look -- for once able to take undiluted pleasure in watching West at work. This time, he could actively hope the man would win.
Three against one weren't impossible odds, not for a man like West. He felled one with a solid punch and threw the second off his back like a dog flinging off a rat. Unfortunately, their leader took advantage of the moment West was off balance to bring the butt of his gun down on the back of the young man's skull, sending him crashing to the floor.
"Let me kill him, Martin!" the first man demanded eagerly, his tongue sneaking out to flick his bottom lip, split and bleeding from West's punch, in obscene anticipation.
"No! He's mine!" Loveless bit his tongue savagely, fitting punishment for having lost control of it. He wanted West dead, but at his hands. Only at his hands.
"Well, well, well. What have we here?" Martin waved his man away from West. Roughly, he grabbed the thick hair and forced West's head back, peering into the half-closed, heavily dazed eyes. "A friend of the good doctor? I didn't know he had any." He frowned. "Best bring him along. He could prove useful." He snapped his fingers at the man West had thrown across the room, who was only just regaining his feet. "Tie his hands tightly, mind you."
Martin waved his gun at Loveless, directing him out the door. He walked before Martin docilely, imagining he could feel the cold barrel of the pistol pointed at his back, and listened to the scraping sound of West's feet being dragged over the floor behind him.
Not a good day after all.
Loveless stumbled and fell again. He was quick to regain his feet; it was either that or get dragged over the rocky ground.
Three more ruffians had joined Martin's company, and they took turns "watching" the prisoners. Which merely meant that they alternated which horse the ropes were tied to. They responded to questions with blows and allowed rest and a mouthful of water only when absolutely necessary. Salt Lake City, and Griffith, were a fortnight's travel across the great American desert. Perhaps Griffith didn't want him alive after all.
He lost his footing in the loose soil and fell again. Strong hands grabbed him by the shoulders and lifted him back onto his feet. West fell into step beside him. Like Loveless, his hands were tied before him, tethered to a long rope which was fastened securely on Eric's saddle horn. Unlike Loveless, West was better able to keep his feet, and the pace.
"Who's Griffith and what does he want with you?" It was the first thing West had said since they were taken; perhaps his headache had finally subsided.
Loveless was ridiculously reassured by West's calm tone. If he could rely on one thing in this world other than pain, it was that West would always be West.
"A blackguard," Loveless panted, "dirty, ignorant, thieving, murderous--"
"Doctor..." West's tone was warning now.
"A man I did business with," he admitted wearily. "He claims I left without paying him his fair share."
"Did you?"
"Of course." Loveless tilted a scandalized expression at West, wondering how he managed to look so unruffled. Even with his shirt and vest open, his bare chest gleaming with sweat as he stumbled along on the end of the rope, he seemed calm and cool. "Did you seriously believe I'd hand a man like Griffith the power that much money can buy? You disappoint me, Mr. West."
Difficult situation and a pounding headache notwithstanding, West threw his head back and laughed, sending a shock of pleasure through Loveless. He had provoked a reaction.
On the heels of this small triumph, a treacherous rock turned under his foot, throwing him once more to the ground. Loveless scrambled for his feet, cursing. The same twisted fate which gave him his grotesque joke of a body had left him with brittle bones. He couldn't take much more of this; something was bound to snap at the rough treatment.
Strong hands once again grabbed and lifted. This time, however, he was hoisted into the air in a dizzying arc which ended on West's broad shoulders. Loveless hated being picked up and carried; it was undignified and terrifying to be swung around like some sort of helpless child. He'd never had any doubt of West's strength, but neither had he ever experienced it first hand. The mere application of it was almost more shocking than the use he'd just put it to.
West had never grabbed Loveless or picked him up. It went along with not hitting him, he supposed. That, then, was the answer. Regardless of his opinion of Dr. Loveless, West was a man of the law. He'd return Loveless to jail without a moment's thought -- would always work actively for that end, in fact -- but he would neither torture him, nor stand by and watch him hurt. It was precisely the same consideration West would show for any other human being in the same predicament. No more, no less.
A fascinating insight.
West carried him all that day, without faltering or complaining.
Martin's men had a good laugh, but didn't interfere. So long as the prisoners kept moving, they didn't care how. And Loveless... he simply hung on.
Night came on fast, without warning. The sun seemed to sink all at once, and they were plunged into inky darkness and cold. Their captors made camp on the scrub-dotted plain, eating their dinner over a small fire before crawling into their bedrolls. They didn't even post a sentry. Who, after all, would be looking for them?
Loveless curled into a small ball on the ground and tried to shiver himself to sleep. As he'd once told West, pain was so close and enduring a friend, he hardly felt it anymore. Nonetheless, he did not like to be uncomfortable. His hands were no longer bound, a relief for the raw abraded skin. In place of the ropes, a metal fetter weighed down his left foot, the short chain passing through a stake driven solidly into the parched earth to end at the manacle's mate on Jim's left ankle. Neither of them would be going anywhere.
As soon as Martin's company had settled firmly into a cacophony of snores, West tested the length and strength of the chain. He couldn't even reach the edge of the light thrown by the fire; nor could he get the stake out of the ground, no matter how hard he kicked at it. Finally, he gave up with a shrug.
Loveless fingered the cuff of iron binding his leg, his sensitive fingers searching the pitted surface for weaknesses. He wished suddenly that he hadn't been so thorough in relieving West of all the little gadgets he'd had secreted about his person. A few of them might have come in handy right about now.
Loveless stiffened when the sound of movement next to him heralded the sudden introduction of West's body heat. The muscled chest, once again buttoned up in the blue jacket, pressed up tight against his back, then retreated slightly. One arm enclosed Loveless' waist, trapping him utterly.
"It's cold," West explained softly, "and it'll get colder."
There was nothing to say. No way to explain that he understood perfectly the sharing of bodily warmth, but would never have anticipated West offering it. Or that his muscles froze at West's nearness for reasons the other man would never understand -- for the proximity of something Loveless could never have. West lay close for warmth, and to keep his would-be prisoner alive until he could get him out of the hands of the criminals and into the hands of the law. For duty's sake, and no other.
"Artie will find us soon," West murmured with simple assurance, his voice slurred with sleep.
Loveless ground his teeth until his jaw hurt. But he stayed where he was, half-suffocated in the heat of West's body.
Loveless hated Gordon. Hated him with a fine hot passion uncluttered by the conflicting impulses West aroused in him. He hated Gordon for his strong healthy body, taller even than West, though not as well conditioned. He hated him for his good looks, for his intelligence. Gordon occasionally stepped on Loveless' inventive toes, never enough to truly threaten his genius, but enough to annoy. He hated Gordon for always showing up at the moment when he was least prepared to see through one of his infernal disguises. He hated him for continually taking West away. But, most of all, he hated Artemus Gordon for having the one thing he never could: the affection of James West. And he felt both anger and contempt for the man who had so much his for the asking, yet never knew it.
Loveless was blasted awake by dazzling lights and deafening explosions. He rather wished he still had his pocketwatch. He wanted to see if Gordon was on time.
The darkness flickered with an unworldly glow, flames and red smoke, broken by brilliant flashes of light. Some of Gordon's fancy fist-sized incendiaries, no doubt. West was on his feet, ranged to the extreme limit of the chain, fighting two or three shadowy figures at once. Even with West fettered, there was no doubt about the outcome of the fight. Loveless had long ago learned respect for West's skill at fisticuffs.
Fists were no match against guns, however, and Martin's men were no fools. Frightened and disorganized by the sudden attack though they were, they found their weapons in no time, and the crack of small-arms fire joined the explosions.
"Jim!" The shout barely preceded the gleaming arc of metal. Loveless lost Gordon's shadow in the flickering melee, but he saw Jim catch the pistol and begin firing about him.
Loveless felt around him on the ground until his hand closed over a fist-sized rock. He brought it down with surgical precision on the tiny flaw he'd felt in the manacle, and the iron cuff fell open with the ease of a cracked walnut. Released, he crawled quickly off into the sparse undergrowth, only stopping once he had a good-sized boulder between himself and the fray.
Finally, the explosions subsided. Loveless peeked around the edge of his boulder. There were only two men standing in the fitful light of burning scrub brush. He couldn't hear their conversation, but their actions told the story clearly enough. They searched around the site, shifting debris and dead bodies aside, and finally ended where they had begun.
West stared out into the darkness, as if he could spot Loveless by sheer force of will, reluctant to return without his prisoner. Gordon touched him on the shoulder and gestured back to where two horses stood placidly waiting. After a moment, West shrugged and turned. Gordon wrapped an arm around his shoulders as they walked away. It seemed to Loveless that West leaned into the embrace, just slightly.
He watched until even their shadows faded into the night.
Loveless curled up in the lee of the boulder and waited for the sun to rise. He'd scavenge what he needed from the ruins of the camp, and make his way back to civilization. It would be arduous but not impossible; Loveless had survived worse.
There would be other days.
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Why is Scarlett Johansson Playing Motoko Kusanagi? *dEEP, HEAVY, SIGH*
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Ghost in the Shell’s upcoming live action film has some interesting cast decisions…
Oh man. First off let me say Rinko Kikuchi, known for her roles in Pacific Rim and one of my favorites Norwegian Wood, would be a MUCH better fit than… umm… Scarlett Johansson. I say this not only because of Kikuchi’s acting prowess and the personal style similarities she has with Motoko Kusanagi but also because… umm.. she’s Japanese?
Here we have yet another example of the Whitewashing Hollywood does, an act that’s built upon a not too pleasant American history but one that the industry seems to not care to correct ’cause money. I read somewhere that the reason for casting Scarlett Johansson was because there’s not many new stars in Hollywood, and so casting her was a way to get some star power associated with the film or whatever (find that article Here). Yeah, because non anime and manga fans are really going to flock to a live action adaptation of a Japanese series that has a specific cult following, which is even lesser outside of Japan.
How else will Hollywood discover new talent, particularly talent of color, if they’re not given a chance? A film like Ghost in the Shell is the perfect vehicle to give new talent an opportunity to shine, because it’s not like it’s going to make mainstream bucks anyway. And it’s not like there’s NO Japanese actresses, or at the very least Asian, in Hollywood to take the role because there definitely are (and i’m not just talking about Lucy Liu, who for the record I don’t think would be a good fit). I’m not even going to begin to tackle this supposed CGI Asian-face thing that’s happening ’cause OMG WAT.
Basically if you’re not going to do something right, just don’t do it at all. It’s like a Black or Hispanic person being cast to play Queen Elizabeth: it’s culturally and contextually incorrect. Motoko Kusanagi is Japanese, the story takes place in Japan and is centered around the Japanese government. The fact that all of this even has to be said is problematic.
At the end of the day I won’t be watching the new Ghost in the Shell film unless 1) the casting is changed or 2) it’s ripped and uploaded onto Dailymotion or something. No way in hell am I going to give this project any bit of my money and if anime/manga fans, or just people who generally see the bullshit, all withhold their cash as well we can hopefully send a message. You tell me:
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Making a Game Boy Game! (Part 3)
Over the past few weeks I've decided to work on a Game Boy game that I'm having a bit of fun making. The working title of it is "Aqua and Ashes". It's open source, hosted at https://github.com/InvisibleUp/AquaAndAshes. In this third part I'll talk about how I made my sprite drawing less of a pain to work with by using the power of sprite mappings. Here is a link to the previous part.
Fantastic Sprites and How to Store Them
Last time, I had just finished rendering some sprites to the screen. It was just done in a very ad-hoc and messy fashion. Basically, I ahd to specify in code what to display where. This made animation pretty much impossible, it was consuming a lot of CPU time, and it was unmaintainable. I needed a better way to do this.
Specifically, I wanted something where with a only an animation number, a frame number, and a timer I could iterate through every single animation. If I wanted to change the animation, I only wanted to change the animation and reset the frame counter. The animation routine that ran every frame should just pick the right sprites to display and throw them at the screen without any effort on my part.
As it turns out, this is a pretty solved problem. What I was looking for was known as sprite mappings. Sprite mappings are data structures that (really roughly) contain a list of sprites. Each sprite mapping contains all the sprites to render one object. Also related are animation mappings, which is a list of sprite mappings with information on how to loop them.
Funnily enough, back in May I had added an animation mapping editor to an already-existing sprite mapping editor for the 16-bit Sonic games. (It's here, if you want to check it out.) It didn't make it in yet, as it was quite unpolished, painfuly slow, and generally not pleasant to use, but it still technically works. And hey, I think it's pretty neat... (Part of the reason it was so unpolished was because that was literally the first time I had ever worked with any JavaScript framework whatsoever, but I digress.) Sonic, being an old game, is the perfect thing to base my new old game on.
Sonic 2's Mapping Format
Sonic 2 was the particular game I was targeting, as I was toying around with the idea of making a Genesis hack before this came along. Sonic 1 and 3K are mostly the same, but to keep things simple I'll stick to discussing 2.
First, let's start with sprite mappings. Here's a fairly typical sprite for Tails, his halfway blinking animation. (I wanted to be different. Go for sprite #2 instead of sprite #1.)
The Genesis does sprites a bit differently. A tile on the Genesis (called a "pattern" by most programmers) is 8x8, just like on the Game Boy. A sprite consists of a rectangle of up to 4x4 tiles, a lot like the Game Boy's 8x16 mode, just more flexible. The catch there is that the tiles have to be next to each other in memory. With Tails, the developers of Sonic 2 wanted to reuse as many tiles from the standing frame as for the blinking frame. Therefore, Tails is split into 2 hardware sprites consisting of 3x2 tiles; one for his head and one for his body. Here they are.
The top half of this dialog are the attributes for the hardware sprites. It contains their position relative to the origin (the negative numbers are clipped; they're actually -16 and -12 for the first sprite and -12 for the second), the starting tile it uses in VRAM, the width and height of the sprite, and some various status bits for flipping the sprite or changing the palette.
The bottom half shows the tiles as they're loaded into VRAM from the ROM. There's not enough space in VRAM to contain all of Tails' sprites, so the necessary tiles have to be copied into memory every frame. These are known as Dynamic Pattern Load Cues. We can skip over these for the time being, though, as they're mostly independent of the sprite mappings and therefore easy to add later.
On the animation side, things are a touch simpler. An animation mapping in Sonic is a list of sprite mappings with 2 pieces of metadata; a speed value and an action to do when the animation ended. The three most-used actions were to loop all frames, loop the last N frames, or go to another animation altogether (for instance, when transitioning from Sonic's standing animation to his impatient foot-tapping). There's also a couple commands that set internal flags in the object memory, but not many things used them. (I may, now that I think about it, set a bit in object RAM to 1 when the animation loops. That would be useful for sound effects and stuff.)
If you were to look at the disassembly for Sonic 1 (Sonic 2's disasm was too big to link to), you'd notice that animations aren't referred to by any sort of ID. Instead, a list of animations is given for each object, and an animation index is kept in memory. To render a particular animation, the game takes the index, looks it up in the animation list, and then renders that. This keeps things a bit simpler, as you don't have to scan through animations to find the one you're looking for.
Distilling Struct Soup
Let's review our mapping types:
Sprite Mappings: A list of sprites, which consist of a starting tile, the number of tiles, a position, flip status, and a palette.
DPLCs: A list of tiles from ROM to load into VRAM. Each entry in a DPLC consists of a starting tile and a length; each entry is placed after the last in VRAM.
Animation Mappings: A list of animations, which consist of a list of sprite mappings, a speed value, and a loop action.
Animation List: A list of pointers to each animation action.
Given the fact we're on a Game Boy, we can make a few simplifications. For sprite mappings, we know that there will always be 2 tiles in an 8x16 tile. Everything else we need to keep, though. We can, for the time being, drop DPLCs entirely and just keep everything in VRAM. This isn't sustainable, but again, it's an easy enough fix. Lastly, we can probably get away with throwing out the speed value if we assume every animation runs at the same speed.
Let's start figuring out how we'd implement a system like that in my game.
Follow along with commit 2e5e5b7!
Let's start with the sprite mappings. Each entry in a mapping should mirror OAM (Object Attribute Memory, the sprite VRAM), that way it becomes a simple loop and memcpy to display an object. As a reminder, an OAM entry consists of Y, X, a starting tile, and an attributes byte. I simple just need to make a list of these. For the attribute byte, I just prepared them ahead of time using the assembler's EQU pseudo-op, so I had a readable name for each possible attribute combination. (You'll notice in the previous commit that I had swapped the Y/X with the tile in the mappings. This was because I was dumb and misread the OAM specs. I also added a sprite count, so that I knew how long to loop for.)
One thing you'll notice is that the tail and the body for the arctic fox are stored separately. If they were stored together, there would be a lot of redundancy, as every single animation would have to be duplicated for every tail state. This would add up quickly. Sonic 2 had the same problem with Tails. In that, the problem was solved by making Tails' tails their own object with their own animation state and timer. I don't really want to do that, as I don't really want to deal with the issues of keeping the tail in the proper position compared to the fox.
Instead, I solved the problem in the animation mappings. If you look at my (only) animation mapping, there's 3 pieces of metadata. There's the number of animation mappings, so I know when it ends. (Sonic instead checked if the next animation was invalid, like the concept of a null byte in C strings. Sonic's approach frees a register but introduces a comparison, which would have worked against me.) There's the loop action, of course. (I condensed this from Sonic's 2-byte approach to a 1-byte number with bit 7 as the mode bit.) But there's also the number of sprite mappings. Sonic didn't have this. Having multiples sprite mappings per animation frame allows me to reuse mappings across multiple animations, which I think will save a lot of precious storage space. You'll also note that the animations are duplicated for each direction. This is because the mappings are different for each direction, and they have to be included.
Dancing with the Registers
Follow along with this particular file in commit 1713848.
Let's start with drawing a single sprite to the screen. Well, okay, that's a lie. As a reminder, we can't write to the screen outside of VBlank. And this whole process lasts too long to place in VBlank. So we have to write to the region of memory we have set aside for DMA. Ultimately this changes nothing, but it's important to write to the right place.
Let's start counting off registers. We have 6 registers on the GBZ80, A through E, H, and L. H and L are special, as they're really good for iterating across memory. (Because they're used together, they're referred to as HL.) In one opcode, I can write to the memory address that HL contains and add one to it. This is hard to beat. I can either use this for the source, or the destination. I used it for the destination, and the register combo BC for the source, because that worked out the best. That leaves only A, D, and E. I need A for math operations and the like. So what will DE be used for? I'll use D as a loop counter, and E as scratch space. And now we're out of registers.
So, as an example, let's say we had 4 sprites. We set D (our loop counter) to 4, HL (our destination) to the address of our OAM buffer, and BC (our source) to whatever location in ROM contains our mappings. At this point... I wish I could have called memcpy. Slight issue, though. Remember those X and Y coordinates? They're relative to the origin, the center of the object used for collision and such. If we were to write them as-is, every object would be displayed in the top-left of the screen. That's no good. So to fix that, we need to add the object's X and Y to the sprite's X and Y.
Quick side-note, I've been talking about "objects", but I don't think I've introduced the concept. An object is just a set of attributes related to a thing in the game. The attributes include position, speed, direction, what the thing is, etc. I bring this up because I need to pull the X and Y data from these objects. This would require a third register set that points to wherever in object RAM the coordinates are. And then we would need to store the X and Y somewhere. Also the direction, because that helps us determine which way to face the sprites. Also, we want to render all the objects, so we need a loop counter for the objects, too. And we haven't even got to animations yet! This is getting out of hand fast...
Rethinking Our Approach
Okay, I've gotten way, WAY ahead of myself there. Let's rewind and think about every piece of data I need to keep track of, and where I can put it.
First off, let's split this up into "stages". Each stage should only serve to fetch data for the next, except for the last which does the copying.
Object (Loop) - Figure out if object needs to be rendered and, if so, render it.
Animation List - Determine which animation needs to be displayed. Also fetch object attributes.
Animation (Loop) - Determine which mapping list needs to be used and render each mapping in it.
Mapping (Loop) - Iterate through each sprite in the sprite list
Sprite - Copy sprite attributes to OAM buffer
For each of these, I listed the variables they needed, the roles they played, and where they were to be stored. That table looks something like this.
OAM Buffer 2 Sprite Pointer HL HL
Mapping Source 2 Sprite Pointer BC BC
Current Byte 1 Sprite Scratch Mapping Src E
X 1 Sprite Variable HiRAM A
Y 1 Sprite Variable HiRAM A
Animation Mapping Start 2 Sprite Mapping Pointer Stack3 DE
Mapping Source 2 Sprite Mapping Pointer [DE] BC
Sprites Remaining 1 Sprite Mapping Scratch Mapping Src D
OAM Buffer 1 Sprite Mapping Pointer HL HL Stack1
Animation Mapping Start 2 Animation Scratch BC/Stack3 BC Stack3
Mappings Remaining 1 Animation Scratch Anim Start HiRAM
Total Mapping Count 1 Animation Variable Anim Start HiRAM
Obj Direction 1 Animation Variable HiRAM HiRAM
Mappings per Frame 1 Animation Variable Anim Start UNUSED!!!
Frame # 1 Animation Variable HiRAM A
Mapping Pointer 2 Animation Pointer AnimStart + Dir*TMC + MpF*F# BC DE
OAM Buffer 2 Animation Pointer Stack1 HL
Animation Table Start 2 Animation List Scratch Hardcoded DE
Object Source 2 Animation List Pointer HL HL Stack2
Frame # 1 Animation List Variable Obj Src HiRAM
Animation # 1 Animation List Scratch Obj Src A
Obj X 1 Animation List Variable Obj Src HiRAM
Obj Y 1 Animation List Variable Obj Src HiRAM
Obj Direction 1 Animation List Variable Obj Src HiRAM
Animation Mapping Start 2 Animation List Pointer [Anim Table + Anim #] BC
OAM Buffer 2 Animation List Pointer DE Stack1
Object Source 2 Object Loop Pointer Hardcoded/Stack2 HL
Objects Remaining 1 Object Loop Variable Calculated B
Objects Active Bitfield 1 Object Loop Variable Calculated C
OAM Buffer 2 Object Loop Pointer Hardcoded DE
Yes, that is a mess. To be perfectly honest, I only made that while writing this post to explain things a bit better, but I'm already getting use out of it. Regardless, I'll try and walk you through it. Start from the bottom and work your way up. You can see every piece of data I start with, that being the object source, the OAM buffer, and some pre-computed loop variables. For each loop, we start with that and only that, with the exception that the Object Source gets updated every loop.
For every object we render, we have to determine which animation needs to be shown. While we're at it, we might as well store the X, Y, Frame #, and Direction attributes before incrementing the object pointer to the next object and storing it on the stack to pick back up when exiting. We use the animation number combined with a hardcoded animation table offset to find where the animation mapping begins. (I'm making a simplification here by having every object share the same animation table. This limits me to 256 animations for the whole game, but is that really anything I'll go over?) We also stash the OAM buffer to save some registers.
Once we have out animation mapping, we need to find where the sprite mapping list for the given frame and direction and how many mappings to render. You'll notice that the mappings per frame variable isn't used. This is because, looking over my code, I wasn't thinking and hardcoded that to 2. I should fix that. We also grab our OAM buffer back from the stack. You'll also notice the complete absence of anything involving loop control. That's done in a separate, much simpler subroutine that can skip a lot of the register juggling here.
From there it's relatively straightforward. Our mapping is a bunch of sprites, so loop over the sprites and draw them using our stored X and Y coordinates. However, we re-store the OAM pointer at the end of the sprite list so that the next mapping can start where that left off.
The end result of all of this? Exactly what we had before. Arctic fox, waving tail in the darkness. But adding a new animation or sprite is a lot easier. Next time, fancy backgrounds and parallax scrolling! Now if you excuse me, I have a lot of code I need to clean up, because I can so use those registers better...
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BRIEF HISTORY AND FORMATION OF KHARDAH MUNICIPALITY The seven lettered word “KHARDAH” bring us a snap of organically grown town developed through continuous process of migration. There are so may myths regarding the nomenclature of Khardah of which one is, once upon a time there was the dynasty of “Kharags” that’s why the place was named as “Khardah” and another concept is that the term Khardah has been emerged from the land of “Khardwip”. The history of Khardah region dates back to a few hundred years. The region has its first Municipality in 1869. Thereafter in 1877, South Barrackpore and West Barrackpore Municipalities were established of which “Khardah” was a part. At a later date, these Municipalities were sub-divided and in 1920 South Barrackpore Municipality was renamed as Khardah Municipality on 28/03/1920 vide Govt. Notification no – 646 M dated 09/03/1920 with only four wards. Khardah Municipality started its maiden journey in the year 1920. Then the area was only 0.95 sq,km with a population of 6000 only. Enrich with the Vaishnab culture Khardah had the distinction of nurturing many great sons of Bengal. It is the place where Sri Rabindra Nath Tagore come by his PADMA Boat and stayed for fifty four (54) days in Shivali apartment. During his stay at Khardah he composed many songs and wrote many poems, one of which is “Bhagaban Tumi Yuge Yuge Dut Pathayecho Bare Bare.” Khardah is proud of having the foot prints of Sri Chaitanya, Sri Adwita, Sri Nityananda, Sri Ramkrishna, Maa Sarada, Vivekananda, William Jones, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay., Dr, Bidhan Ch. Roy, Dr. Nil Ratan Sarkar and many more. Sree Sree Radhyashyam sunder Jew Temple is one of the renouned old temple who attracts one people throughout the state.
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Joe Albert • April 25, 2018 • No Comments •
Domain names are the address on the world wide web. They allow users to find your web site and also send you an email. Running servers and ensuring that your email and other programs run correctly is a tedious process. There is a solution which many business took advantage of and that is moving their mail system to the Gmail enterprise email platform.
Provided below are the pros and cons of moving your domain email to Gmail’s platform.
Many people are using their domain email addresses as their personal email as well as for their business purposes. Majority of the people like to have their domain email since it gives a professional touch to the correspondence as well as makes it easy to remember.
Pros and Cons of Operating an email System
It is however not without the drawbacks as using a domain email means you are responsible for everything that happens and there may be certain factors which may not be in your control which will kill the purpose of using your own email server.
You have to deal with power outages, hardware failures, software problems, fire wall or router issues and more. These types of issues usually lead to people switching from their domain email to other options such as Gmail for their e-mail requirements.
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The solution is to have Google handle the domain email for the user while they get to keep their current of their existing e-mail address intact as well. This way, you do not have to inform people about the change in your email address but it would be an internal process.
This means that the user will be using the Google’s webmail interface, but it is all connected to the user’s domain. This is through the Google Apps. Google apps allow the user to transfer their complete e-mail infrastructure to Google. Which means that the user gets to keep their email address, as before, while having the advantages of the email being hosted by Google.
Pros of Gmail’s Email platform
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There are the pros of moving your domain email to Gmail:
Google uptime
It has online solution for storage
Google has a better and higher speed
There is long term stability associated with Google or Gmail as compared to using your own domain email.
Google has a spam protection that is really popular.
It provides full support for IMAP (with idle)
There is complete support for SMTP, which means there is no need for a separate outgoing server
There is SSL support for both incoming as well as for outgoing mail
You do not have to worry about keeping the e-mail server up.
You get to use all of the Gmail features
You get all of the Google power and use it on your domain
It is equipped with chat, calendar and docs
You can access your emails from any device or browser and from anywhere.
You can store all of your emails at Gmail account instead of using of all the storage space at your mail server.
How to make the transition to Gmail
Once you have decided that you want to switch your domain email to Gmail, you need to start the process by first signing up for Google apps. Once you have signed up for Gmail apps, you have to click on the icon that says “standard edition” which will avoid them from making money.
If you already have a domain email set up then you simply enter the details and go on with the sign up. Or else, there is also an option to buy a domain for yourself from Google.
Once the set up is done, then you need to sync your email. Gmail can easily handle email that has tags and not folder. In order to start, you should begin with archiving all of your emails.
Whatever will be in the trash can folder will get automatically deleted within 30 days. You can make tags that you can use while making sure you prefix all of the tags with Gmail. So currently the user should have [Gmail]/Archived, [Gmail]/Drafts, [Gmail]/Queue, and [Gmail]/Trash. These help to archive and move your email folder to the Gmail account.
Then you should set up your connection to Gmail just like you do with everything else. For you to do that, you should log into your account then go to the settings section and then forwarding and pop/iMap and then click on the enable iMap and finally click on the option for save. This will give you the exact same email account that you have with your domain email.
There is yet another way of switching your domain email to Gmail. This process is also quite simple and easy if you follow these basic steps:
First you need to create an account on the Google apps (free of cost)
Then you need to verify the domain-ownership with Google
Next, change your MX records in order to point to Gmail servers
Now you have to wait for it to update for at least ten minutes
You can pay a fees for upgrade and then import everything for another online email account
The costs of transferring from domain email to Gmail
Transferring your domain email to Gmail is although quite simple and easy, but not without its costs. Not only does the user has to get used to a new system of using their emails, but also have to go through the correct way of setting up the email system as well. When you transfer your domain email to Gmail server, there is a registration cost that the user must pay. Which means, the cost of having to transfer your domain is the price of one year of registration for that particular domain? For instance, if there is a domain that is costing about $12 per annum, the users have the option of transferring that to the Google domain for simply $12 as well as buy another year of registration. In fact if the domain was registered till January 1, 2019 before the transfer happened, then it will be registered till the time of January 1, 2020 even after the transfer has taken place.
The disadvantages of moving your domain email to Gmail is the added cost that you must pay plus a few other disadvantages as listed below:
There may be some regulatory issues that can cause problems, if the user is working in a highly regulated industry such as healthcare then you must talk to and take advice from the legal department whether the switch is legal or not.
Privacy can prove to be an issue. The user has to decide how much they can trust Google to use it for their personal and private emails. Even though there have never been any problems or negative publicity with Google, it varies from person to person how much they value their privacy.
Google Apps Gmail is a great idea to use when people want to switch from their domain to using Gmail for their email needs. Gmail provides an easy and a reliable answer to their email problems which might exists with the domain email. Moreover, this option gives them the opportunity to keep their original email intact while benefiting from Gmail services.
Moreover, Gmail is a known interface and so the user would be comfortable working on it and this gives them enough time to get the feel of the new mail server. Thus, switching over to Gmail is quite simple and easy with numerous benefits that definitely outweigh the costs and is a simple process which the users can benefit form.
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PHOTO: Brian vs. Kayleigh at Silverdale
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The photo I originally used in the story was an archive photo of the UL-11... but Brian was driving Bob Schellhase's boat which was re-numbered UL-11 this weekend. Kayleigh's on the inside in the UL-72 (red). Brian's in the UL-11 (yellow) on the outside. Thanks for the photo and pointing out my error.
"Wasn't as bad as I thought," said Steve David. It was nothing more than (a part in the ) activator - a bellows - about a$250 part. #1 engine is ready to go, gear set is ready. We're 100% ready."
"Went to 148% N2, did some minor damage to the thing, couldn't keep it together. The exhaust gas went from 600 to 900. At 900, you're burning $1,000 dollar bills. At 900, you worry about blowing the hot section and $100,000 worth of damage. It was all I could do to limp across."
"In the points battle that we're in, it really makes Evansville one of the most important races on the circuit. It's the last fresh water race before we go to Qatar and who knows what happen's there with the salt water," said Steve David. "The pressure's really on to win this thing."
"We're in just as big of a points battle now as we were at the beginning of the year. We were dead even then, and we're about dead even now," said Dave Villwock.
"The actual racing is far better. The controversy is far less," said Villwock. "I think it's better for the sport, not having a bunch of people angry at the end. If we have a bunch of controversy at the end of every race every week, it's no fun for the fans."
"In terms of giving the fans a better product, what we're doing now is working better than how it's worked in the past."
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Dave Villwock has won 10 of the last 13 races at Evansville. He did not race there last year. "He's master of the course," said Steve David about Villwock.
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“I’m a Feminist, But…” Popular Romance in the Women’s Literature Classroom
by Julie M. Dugger
October 24th, 2014 |
As I grew older and began to better identify my values and beliefs… I realized that reconciling my love of feminist theory and classic romances would be no easy task.
—Student discussion post, 2012 [End Page 1]
To hear my classmates say “I hate that I enjoy this book because it’s a romance” makes me clench my fists.
—Student discussion post, 2012
The enduring popularity of the romance novel makes it an ideal genre to use in teaching feminist literary theory because it raises a compelling question: What is the women’s studies critic to do when a genre dominated by women writers and readers appears to conflict with feminist ideals? The question becomes all the more significant when the romance reader and the romance critic are the same person: when, that is, a student who enjoys reading romances is asked to assess them critically. Given the popularity of the romance genre, this is a situation that teachers should expect to encounter every time they bring a romance text to class, and one that provides key opportunities for reflecting not only on romance, but on assumptions in literary and feminist studies that might otherwise go unexamined.
The opposition between feminist theory and women’s popular reading practices is an especially pointed instance of an opposition often expressed in the scholarship of teaching literature more generally. Teachers note the disjunction students feel when asked to switch from one set of interpretive practices (popular reading), to another (academic critical reading). This article advocates not only that we acknowledge the disjunction between these practices, but also that we make it an analytical focus. I will outline the different emphases of popular and critical reading, then look more specifically at feminist critical arguments for and against romance to better understand the contradictions students face when they attempt to read romances in an academic context using a women’s studies approach. One of these arguments for romance is that the romance genre and the popular, female-dominated reading strategies associated with it can be less alienating to women than the genres and strategies associated with academic literary criticism, a field historically dominated by men. I will attempt to address this shortcoming by identifying ways to approach and incorporate popular romance reading practices for critical analysis in class.
When students are invited to consider women’s enthusiasm for the popular romance alongside those aspects of the romance narrative that they find dangerous from a feminist perspective, they are also invited to think critically about the relationship between feminist theory and the diverse women for whom it advocates, including themselves. They must acknowledge their own overdetermination as readers: that they read using practices taken from varied personal and cultural pasts, practices that sometimes conflict with the new perspectives they are embracing as university students. They will be moved to question what critics value in literature, and how assumptions about gender influence those values. In short, they will be invited into a moment of metacognition, furthering their “ability to recognize and evaluate [their] own thinking” (Linkon 68). Students may respond by condemning the romance, by condemning feminist assumptions, or by attempting to reconcile the two. But whatever their conclusions, by juxtaposing what seem to be opposed practices—popular and critical romance reading—they gain a better sense of the beliefs and contexts motivating each. [End Page 2]
Popular and Critical Reading Practices
How wide is the gap between critical and popular reading practices in discussions of teaching literature? So wide that some scholars suggest a student who takes easily to one of these practices is likely to be stymied by the other. In his article “Disliking Books at an Early Age,” Gerald Graff notes that “when I was growing up I disliked and feared books” (36), and that he only began to enjoy reading after acquiring a literary critical lens for it, “as if having a stock of things to look for and to say about a literary work had somehow made it possible for me to read one” (39). Conversely, Sarah Webster Goodwin describes classes of “sullen and resistant” (233) students who are unwilling to turn a critical lens on their love of romance, either in life or in literature: “as a whole, they do not want to critique romance. To understand it, yes, but not if the price is losing its magic” (234).
As both Graff and Goodwin indicate, critical and popular reading practices use strategies that often conflict. James Marshall, in an examination of studies of these different strategies, reports that academic critical reading and analysis are characterized by “the close reading of selected texts in relative isolation from cultural contexts” (384). By contrast, the popular reading practices of book groups and book clubs stress immersion in the world of the book and are “far more likely … to relate personal experiences, talk about important ethical issues, and share their emotional experience of reading” (386).[1] Critical approaches tend to be text-centered; popular approaches draw more on readers’ social and individual contexts.
In an examination of Janeites, or Austen fans, Claudia Johnson also contrasts popular and academic critical reading strategies. Academic practices specify
that it is inappropriate to talk about characters as if they were real people or in any way to speculate upon their lives before, after, or outside the text itself [as popular readers do]; that biographical information about an author is irrelevant at best and heretical (i.e., a ‘fallacy’) at worst; … that Austen’s novels are essentially about marriage, and that the courtship plot—rather than, say, the category character—is the major event in her fiction. (214)
It is important to note that the popular reading practices described by both Marshall and Johnson are highly intellectual. A critical reader might ask how the book’s narrative point-of-view reveals a character, while a popular reader might consider how that character, as revealed in the book, would behave in a situation the book does not describe: “before, after, or outside the text itself.” Both begin with a text-based analysis (both evaluate the character as created by the book), even though one approach stays with the text and the other moves away from it.
Marshall also points out that of the two reading strategies, popular reading is the more dominant and resilient, even for “college-educated readers of more ‘serious fiction’” (386). “[T]here is little or no correlation,” he writes, “between the reading practices we teach in school and the reading practices in which most adults engage when they leave school” (386). Life-long readers return to the popular reading practices they used before they took up academic critical reading—the latter, if Marshall is correct, stays in the [End Page 3] academy. Thus if literature plays an influential role in society, that influence would appear to operate primarily through popular rather than critical practices.
It follows that scholars who are interested in cultural criticism—and, from a literary angle, in how books contribute to society—should take an interest in popular reading. This is not to say we should abandon the particular strengths, intellectual engagements, and even pleasures of critical reading: in fact if students’ university careers are the one brief window in which they adopt academic critical practices, then it is all the more important that we, as academic practitioners ourselves, make the most of that window. But one of the ways we can make the most of it is by working with what students already have and are likely to return to in the future. There is much to be gained from putting the popular ways in which they already read into dialogue with the critical reading practices we are teaching them.
Fortunately, not all students react to the contradictions between popular and critical reading practices by rejecting one and restricting themselves to the other. In five years of teaching a romance unit for a course on “Women and Literature,” I have found that most students are open to considering both strategies, despite their varying degrees of experience with popular romance reading and academic critical reading (especially feminist academic criticism).
Students in the class range from those with little-to-no romance reading experience, to those who not only read romances but participate in romance fan organizations. The category of inexperienced romance readers includes many male students, who often report unfamiliarity with the genre (not surprising, considering that 91% of romance buyers are women [Scott]). Unlike Graff, however, even students who have not previously read romances seem prepared not only to take them on, but often to describe the experience of reading them as a pleasurable one. “I’m glad we were given an actual excerpt from a Harlequin book,” writes one student, “since we’ve been talking about them in class so much”; while another notes that “As an outsider coming into the Pride and Prejudice universe, I have found the book to be incredibly enjoyable.” At times this pleasurable reading is presented as incompatible with critical analysis. In one online post, a student describes suspending his critical understanding of romance plots (an understanding bolstered by class sessions that outlined and analyzed these plots) to better enjoy a novel: “Despite never having read this novel prior to this class, I am fairly certain of the resolution. When I read it, however, I dismiss any such predictions because I am thoroughly enjoying the read and I don’t want my predictions to interrupt this surprisingly pleasant reading experience.”
This comment is typical in that the student, like many critics, sees popular and critical reading practices as mutually exclusive: working critically by using plot models to make predictions will “interrupt” the experience of “thoroughly enjoying the read.” As contradictory as these practices may feel, however, most students appear willing to take on both of them. The student who suspended plot analysis while reading, for instance, readily moved back into critical mode to reflect on his reading experience once it was completed. And unlike Goodwin’s students, who “often don’t call themselves feminists” (237), my students also seem prepared to approach the course material from a feminist perspective—which is to be expected, given that they have voluntarily enrolled in a class titled “Women and Literature.” Indeed, a significant number of students in the class already [End Page 4] identify as women’s studies scholars, whose embrace of feminism and its critical practices is a driving force in their intellectual development.
All this engagement with both critical and popular reading practices, however, does not protect students from feeling the differences between them, and wondering if it is impossible to hold both perspectives in combination. This is particularly the case when the critical approach is feminist and the reading material is the romance, since feminist scholarship has often—and not without justification—seen the popular romance novel as harmful to women.
But the feminist critique of the romance is increasingly offset by feminist voices in support of it, sometimes within the academy and sometimes outside of it. By introducing students to both sides of this argument—to the cases for and against romance—we open the door for an appraisal of popular romance reading in particular, as well as of the relationship between popular and critical reading practices more generally.
The Feminist Case Against Romance
The opposition between feminist theory and the romance novel dates back as early as the publication of Janice Radway’s 1984 work, Reading the Romance. Radway’s study is considered a pioneering work in reader-response theory as well as in romance studies, since she took the key step of studying romance by studying romance readers. Radway conducted extensive interviews with a group of Midwestern romance fans, all of them women and many of them, significantly, housewives. To her great credit, she allowed her interviews to change the course of her study entirely. What started out as an examination of the formal properties of romance shifted to encompass an analysis of romance novels’ affective qualities as well.
Reading the Romance is a tour de force that pulls together Marxist, psychoanalytic, reader response, and formalist arguments. It was influential when published and has continued to be an obligatory citation in romance novel scholarship ever since.[2] Like all studies, however, the book has its blind spots, and Radway, writing in a time when homemaking may have seemed more of a gender-restricted default than a career choice, appears to hold it in little esteem. The women in her study, for example, repeatedly state that they value their caregiving relationships with their husbands and children. As individuals whose primary occupation is homemaking, they are “very proud of their abilities to communicate with and to serve the members of their families” (92). Yet Radway, not herself a professional homemaker, seems to find it impossible to believe other women might be happy and fulfilled in that role. Rather than comparing homemakers who take romance-reading breaks to college professors who shut their office doors between classes, Radway sees the caregiver’s labor as inherently oppressive. The narrative structure of romance, she writes,
demonstrates that despite idiosyncratic histories, all women inevitably end up associating their female identity with the social roles of lover, wife, and mother. Even more successfully than the patriarchal society within which it was born, the romance denies women the possibility of refusing that purely [End Page 5] relational destiny and thus rejects their right to a single, self-contained existence. (207)
Because she doesn’t consider the possibility that some individuals might autonomously prefer a “relational destiny” to “a single, self-contained existence,” Radway seems convinced that her interviewees have been duped. “[T]his literary form,” she writes of the romance, “reaffirms its founding culture’s belief that women are valuable not for their unique personal qualities but for their biological sameness and their ability to perform that essential role of maintaining and reconstituting others” (208). Romance novels, to Radway, are a tool used by housewives to reconcile themselves to serving others in a patriarchal society, thereby perpetuating their own oppression.
One wonders if any of Radway’s subjects read her study, and if so, what they thought of her claim that reading was the opiate by which they drugged themselves into social submission. But we do not have to wonder what Sarah Webster Goodwin’s students thought of her condemnation of romance, because she tells us. Goodwin begins a class on “Romance and Gender in the United States” intending to show her students that romance “is a cultural form of tremendous power, and one that is disadvantageous to women” (233). As she discovers, this argument doesn’t fly well in a class of students who aspire to romance in their own lives (234), some of whom even admit, “reluctantly and with hesitant laughter,” that they read romance novels (239). “In no other course,” she writes, “have I lost so many students; no other course has actually cost me a full night’s sleep from worry” (233).
If Radway, in 1984, writes at a time when homemaking might have been seen as a restrictive default for women, Goodwin, in her 1997 article, describes women students who don’t feel restricted at all. They don’t identify as feminists, “because the need for feminism is over: we are already equal” (237). Goodwin’s students, in the process of earning their college degrees, are unlikely to see homemaking as the obligatory choice it may have been for Radway’s women, only eight percent of whom were college-educated (50). Like my own students, some of whom were raised by women who freely and deliberately chose a domestic career, Goodwin’s students do not assume with Radway that traditional female roles are inherently oppressive (an assumption that carries its own sexism). Nor do they appear to be women’s studies scholars, trained to recognize the continuing presence of sexism in a legally equal-opportunity society. Instead, the students in Goodwin’s class see neither domesticity nor discrimination as a problem.
Accordingly, these students are at a loss in a class that views the promotion of domestic pairing as a form of sexist domination. It is one thing for critics to write, as Radway does, about distant romance fans who may not be reading the critic’s disapproval. It is a far more difficult thing, Goodwin discovers, to bring that disapproval out into the open with students who don’t share it.
Despite the unpalatability of their conclusions to fans of the genre, however, critics like Radway and Goodwin have good reasons for distrusting romance novels. The feminist case against romance, as presented by both professional critics and students, works from three main objections:
1. Romance endorses women’s relational roles at the expense of their individual development. [End Page 6]
Radway plots “the narrative structure of the ideal romance” in thirteen steps. In step one, “[t]he heroine’s social identity is destroyed” (134). In the conclusion to the novel (steps 11-13), it is restored through union with the hero:
The hero proposes/openly declares his love for/demonstrates his unwavering commitment to the heroine with a supreme act of tenderness.
The heroine responds sexually and emotionally.
The heroine’s identity is restored. (134)
Radway sees the romance’s emphasis on relational identity (the heroine regains her identity only through union with the hero) as patriarchally restrictive: “[t]he romance does deny the worth of complete autonomy. In doing so, however, it is not obliterating the female self completely. Rather, it is constructing a particular kind of female self, the self-in-relation demanded by patriarchal parenting arrangements” (147). Because the romance emphasizes identity secured through heterosexual union with a man, it seems tailor-made to enforce the traditional female role of dependent wife, discouraging alternatives.
Many of my students find this emphasis as disturbing as Radway does. To quote a discussion post, “The whole idea that a woman ‘finds herself’ or discovers her true identity only after a man has validated her … is troubling to me.” Students embrace the idea that self-discovery is an independent enterprise (hence the “self”), and feminist students especially, because they are aware of how often women have been and continue to be denied such independence, express discomfort with the way romances idealize identity found through another. Even if, as I will argue below, there is much to be admired in a genre that validates women’s traditional relational identity, there is also danger in that validation. Women may not default into domestic roles in our own time quite as easily as they did in Radway’s, but they are still more likely to end up in those roles than men are, and to feel more pressure to occupy them. It is thus not surprising that feminist readers take alarm when they find that the literary genre that most encourages relational identity is also a genre directed mainly toward women.
2. Romance plots and characters validate abusive relationship patterns.
Still more troubling than the heroine’s ultimate relational identity is how she arrives at it. In Radway’s narrative structure, before the heroine and hero love each other, they hate each other: “The heroine responds to the hero’s behavior with anger or coldness,” and “The hero retaliates by punishing the heroine” (134). In the most extreme instances, this punishment involves rape, which means that the heroine must regain her identity by loving her rapist.
There may be mitigating factors here. Radway’s readers don’t like rape stories (71), and romance reviewers Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan argued in 2009 that rape romances are an “Old Skool” phenomenon (13), largely dated: “The rapist hero went away by degrees … cultural sensibilities have changed, and fictional rape, especially by the hero, is more likely to burn the average romance reader’s biscuit than melt our butter” (24-5). Arguably, the most egregious instances of the hero punishing the heroine have never been embraced by women readers, and are a legacy issue now.[3]
But the legacy is very real. Even in contemporary romances, the relationship between hero and heroine can be highly dysfunctional, even abusive. Recent megahits Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey, for instance, feature heroes who keep stalker-close tabs [End Page 7] on the heroine’s whereabouts (sometimes without her knowledge), and heroines who become emotionally dependent in ways that isolate them from other relationships or life activities (Peronto). Radway describes women’s interest in abusive romances as an attempt to come to terms with their oppression: “the same awful possibilities of violence that dominate bad romances are always evoked as potential threats to female integrity even in good romances, simply because women are trying to explain this situation to themselves” (72). Violence, sadly, is something women readers, past and present, can relate to.
Even the mildest of punishments still send the message that the best relationships evolve out of antagonism between the partners and humiliation of the heroine. Elizabeth Bennet of Pride and Prejudice is “punished” only in the sense that she suffers when she discovers she has been wrong, and Fitzwilliam Darcy does not desire to punish her at all—only to tell his side of his story. Most readers of this very beloved romance come to the conclusion that both hero and heroine required humiliation: it betters their proud and prejudiced characters, a development set up from the very title of the book. Novels, after all, require transformation. A romance story in which heroine and hero fell instantly in love and stayed there would be very short. Whatever its narrative rationalization, however, a genre in which love is repeatedly founded in hate sets a problematic model for human relationships.
3. Romance novels are commercial, formulaic productions of little literary value that perpetuate harmful media stereotypes.
Romance novels are undeniably a lucrative commodity. The Romance Writers of America (RWA), who keep some of the best-documented statistics on the subject, report that romance “generated $1.438 billion in sales in 2012” and “was the largest share of the U.S. consumer market in 2012 at 16.7 percent” (emphasis RWA’s).[4] Literary fiction, by comparison, generated $470.5 million (Scott). Radway argues that romances are not only sold like advertised commodities, but have the same effect on their readers: the romance novel “presents satisfaction, contentment, and pride, not as a result of the individual’s actions or social intercourse with others, but as the natural consequence of the activity of consuming or displaying a particular product. Happiness is not an emotional condition that one creates for oneself through action; in advertising, it is a thing that one can buy” (117). By Radway’s argument, romance buyers are fed virtual happiness, rather than acting to create real happiness.
One can presumably buy happiness by purchasing literary novels as well, yet literary critics do not object to this. Romance novels, from a literary critical perspective, are different not only because they are so much more successfully sold, but also because, like other branded commodities, one is as good as another. To the critic, if not to the romance reader, romances lack individuality. Even literary romances often follow the thirteen predictable points in Radway’s plot outline. And category romances, by this logic, are even worse, appearing in numbered series where each book is guaranteed to resemble the next, since all must adhere to a formula established not by the author who writes individual stories, but by the publisher who sells them in mass. Content aside, one can distinguish a category romance from a single-title romance by the size of the author’s name on the cover: if the name is as large as or larger than the title of the book, it’s probably not a category romance. Indeed, for anyone who believes in authorial genius or originality, the category romance is a slap in the face. “I don’t like the thought that writing a book all comes down to [End Page 8] a ‘formula’ that any average person can follow,” writes one student. “I realize that this is snobby, but I just feel that having the … ability to write an amazing book is rare, so the fact that it has to be ‘dumbed down’ really annoy[s] me.” The standardization of the romance is seen to attack both the author’s genius and the reader’s intelligence.
The other and more feminist problem with the romance novel’s commodification is that it repeats harmful gender stereotyping also found in the larger culture. As one self-proclaimed early romance fan in my class wrote, her childhood reading “gave me a very distinct idea of what I needed to be to be considered a woman of worth. To be as successful as the characters in these books I needed to be patient, quiet, shy, beautiful, unique, kind, generous, thin, organized, well-kept, virginal, and most of all, inexplicably captivating.”[5] Students are quick to note that romances promote stereotypical standards of worth not only in their heroines, but also in their heroes. In Radway’s description, “[t]he hero of the romantic fantasy is always characterized by spectacular masculinity,” and it isn’t difficult to find this hero surviving in current writer’s guidelines for romance writers.[6] As a male student wrote, the romance could “create unrealistic standards among women for men to be prince charming and to live up to the highest expectations of chivalry.” Existing in a typological box themselves, romances encourage their readers to stay in them, and to seek other people who match pre-existing, standardized, and unrealistic expectations.
The Feminist Case for Romance
Even feminist scholarship that is highly critical of romance has good reason to look for the up-side of a genre so clearly associated with women, and Radway and Goodwin both find positives there. Further, students and critics influenced by third-wave feminism, which tends to be more open to stereotypical femininity than the second-wave criticism of Radway’s time was, may be more open to romance along with it. As one student writes of the Smart Bitches, Trashy Books romance review and fan site:
I like what the S[mart] B[itches] girls are doing because they show it is not a negative thing to read or write a romance, everyone is free to explore and enjoy as they like! Like these books and the third wave of feminism, I think we should be valuing each interest…. I think we must be careful about putting certain opinions or ways of living into the category of “not as good” or into “not a true feminist…”
From both the second and the third wave, then, feminist arguments in favor of romance point to the genre’s utopian potential, its validation of traditional female roles, and its challenging of individualist assumptions that have been problematic for women readers and writers, particularly in an academic context.
1. Romances offer women a way to acknowledge their oppression and imagine a better future.
A devoted teacher, Goodwin loses sleep and listens to the “Romance and Gender” students who speak to her through their “passive walk-out” (233). “I have learned,” she [End Page 9] writes, “to concede to my students that there is something to admire in the romance paradigm: that it is not just an enforcer of the status quo but a fantasy vehicle for change, a utopian impulse” (239). Radway sees similar potential in the romance:
Romance reading supplements the avenues traditionally open to women for emotional gratification by supplying them vicariously with the attention and nurturance they do not get enough of in the round of day-to-day existence. It counter-valuates because the story opposes the female values of love and personal interaction to the male values of competition and public achievement and, at least in ideal romances, demonstrates the triumph of the former over the latter. Romance reading and writing might be seen therefore as a collectively elaborated female ritual through which women explore the consequences of their common social condition as the appendages of men and attempt to imagine a more perfect state where all the needs they so intensely feel and accept as given would be adequately addressed. (212)
If Radway’s ultimate conclusion in Reading the Romance is that romances prevent women from bettering their lot by repeatedly insisting that their relational roles are their destiny, here she suggests that the romance does at least allow them to imagine that relational destiny in “a more perfect state.” Radway’s housewife romance-readers nurture others but are insufficiently nurtured themselves. Romance heroines, by contrast, are nurtured by romance heroes. Romances, then, allow their readers not only to experience vicarious nurturing through identification with the heroine, but also to acknowledge and explore the lack of nurturance in their own lives. If they do not encourage reform, they at least allow women to acknowledge the need for reform.
2. Romances challenge a male-modeled individualism.
Romances allow Radway’s housewives not only to address a lack of nurturance in their own domestic, relational positions. They also allow them to imagine a society in which those positions are appreciated rather than denigrated. It is painfully ironic that in the same paragraph where Radway observes that the romance “opposes the female values of love and personal interaction to the male values of competition and public achievement,” she refers to women in domestic roles as “the appendages of men.” Why do women read romances, and why might feminists love them? Because, unlike Radway, romances do not assume that people in relationally-oriented traditional female roles are categorically subordinate to people in individualistically-oriented traditional male roles.
If romance imagines “a more perfect state” for Radway’s women, it also validates where they are presently. Relationships and domesticity are supreme in the romance, even if elsewhere relational domestic work continues to be devalued culturally and economically: the stereotypical housewife outside the romance is desperate, dumb, or bored, and people who care for children are paid little, if at all. As long as women are associated with “love and personal interaction,” in opposition to a masculinity-associated “competition and public achievement,” then they win with the romance novel, where love triumphantly rules. [End Page 10]
As Goodwin comments, updating Radway, the importance of relationships is a theme that continues to resound in a culture where sexuality is not always relational. If Radway’s women defaulted into relational roles, Goodwin describes romance readers who may feel pressure to deny their desire for close emotional relationships. The persistence of romance, she writes, suggests “an enduring dissatisfaction with the pleasure of sex without emotional involvement. We read in category romances explicit sex scenes, but in the context of a familiar—very familiar—affective bond.” Romances thus “return sexuality to the affective bond in the fantasy life of a reader who may feel some social pressure to be stronger, more autonomous, than she wants to be” (239). Romances thus validate not only women who elect to stay in traditional relational roles, but also women who feel overly pressured to leave relationality behind in pursuit of emotional and sexual independence.
In the romance, both the heroine and, significantly, the hero opt for a committed relationship. Not only the woman but also the man—typically, as Radway points out, a hyper-masculine man—must embrace a relational destiny if the novel is to achieve a happy romantic ending. The obligatory antagonism between heroine and hero in the standard romance plot is key in this validation. It establishes that both heroine and hero are capable of independence, and when they trade it in for romance they do so freely, accepting relational lives as superior lives.
Thus if romance’s undermining of individualism is sometimes seen as a danger by feminist critics, it might also be seen as an asset. This is particularly the case since feminism, along with other identity politics approaches, has reason to be highly suspicious of the “single, self-contained existence” that Radway presents as a basic human right. Quite apart from the fact that nobody actually lives a single, self-contained existence, there are ideological perils in imagining such a life as the ideal state. The individual in the Western intellectual tradition has been defined by a male model.[7] As a student in Goodwin’s class aptly notes of a study that critiques women’s emphasis on finding romantic relationships, “They’re thinking just like men. You’re not serious unless you’re just focused on work and career” (236). Goodwin notes in her class, correctly, that “romance is a relatively recent and unusual phenomenon” and “not primarily biological, but cultural” (233). But the same might be said of individualism. Romance and individualism indeed go hand-in-hand: romance is after all the celebration of individual choice (rather than family arrangement) in a relationship between two people, each of whom is uniquely irreplaceable to the other. If we are to critique romance as a social construction (and we ought to), then we should give individualism equal scrutiny.
3. Romance provides women with an alternative to a sexist high-culture literary canon.
“Why does every female genius have to die insane and alone?” writes one student in my class in response to the story of Judith Shakespeare in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. Woolf famously tells the story of Judith, William Shakespeare’s hypothetical sister whose attempts to duplicate her brother’s career end with her suicide, to make the point that social and educational inequities would have prevented even a woman as talented as Shakespeare from finding success as a Renaissance writer. This is an essential point to make, but as my student’s response emphasizes, women’s doomed and helpless fate under social oppression is a story that high-culture literature tells repeatedly. It is also a story that can, as romance writer Jennifer Crusie observes, be profoundly alienating to women. In [End Page 11] her former career as a Ph.D. student, Crusie writes, “I had to read Madame Bovary, I had to read Anna Karenina, I had to read ‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,’ I had to read Faulkner and Fitzgerald and Lawrence. I had to see Hester Prynne as the great American heroine who triumphs by remaining celibate for the rest of her endless life.” While in the middle of this mandatory curriculum of stories of disastrous female sexuality, Crusie, looking for examples of women’s narratives, begins reading romances:
For the first time, I was reading fiction about women who had sex and then didn’t eat arsenic or throw themselves under trains or swim out to the embrace of the sea, women who won on their own terms (and those terms were pretty varied) and still got the guy in the end without having to apologize or explain that they were still emancipated even though they were forming permanent pair bonds, women who moved through a world of frustration and detail and small pleasures and large friendships, a world I had authority in.
For Crusie, romance is not utopian fantasy. It describes a world more familiar and real to her than the world of the academic literary canon, in which sex condemns a woman to an early death (often at her own hand), and marriage means slavery. In the world of romance, the autonomous woman need not “die insane and alone.” She can live on and have a successful relationship that assists rather than thwarts her self-realization—which, after all, is something that many women actually do.
Crusie’s experience serves as a vivid reminder that domestic suburbia is not the only place where women suffer the effects of patriarchy. The world of high culture has its own forms of oppression, as does the world of academic research, and critics and professors are no more immune to the influence of patriarchy than are mass-market publishers. And here we might pause to consider how an emphasis on individualism has affected the way high-culture literary institutions define authorship, and correspondingly how they define good literature. We value originality in literature partly because, despite literary criticism’s present-day emphasis on historical and cultural context, we still think of the best literary works as the products of exceptionally talented individuals. In my student’s words, having the “ability to write an amazing book is rare.” A book with a formulaic plot, by contrast, doesn’t feel rare at all. If anyone could write it—if many have in fact already written it—then it feels short on genius.
But our critical emphasis on originality in literature is not just cultural and historical; it is also to a certain extent illusory. If girl-meets-boy, girl-hates-boy, girl-loves-boy is a clichéd plot (romance), so too is wife-is-unfulfilled, wife-rebels, wife-dies (Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina, Revolutionary Road, “To Room Nineteen,” etc.). Indeed, it might be said that both narrative paradigms are merely opposite sides of the same modern Western relational coin: one utopian and one dystopian, and both entirely derivative.
I don’t want to overstate the case here. I am certainly not arguing that there’s no qualitative difference between, say, To the Lighthouse and a stack of Harlequins. Many criteria apart from plot structure might separate romances, or at least category romances, from high literature. Radway for instance points out that the romance readers in her study prefer conventional prose that does not require “hard work” to follow (196-7). But not all novels with a romance plot use transparent language: the Radway readers who avoid [End Page 12] difficult prose also avoid Jane Austen (197). Given that complex language may appear in romances, and borrowed plots in high-culture novels, we might ask whether the romance’s poor literary reputation is founded not only on notions of quality but also on gender politics.
Johnson, for example, has noted that mid-twentieth-century literary scholars, primarily male, made Jane Austen novels into acceptable material for serious study by masculinizing the way they were read. Chastising non-academic Janeites for their love of “novels by ‘a mere slip of a girl,’” scholars “participate[d] in that demand to consolidate and reinvigorate masculinity elsewhere visible in the larger context of British and American culture” (220). This revision of thinking on Austen was part of a larger effort to further university study of the novel itself, which previously had not been considered worth scholars’ time:
Academic literary criticism of the 1940s and early 1950s saves Austen from her admirers and for a middle-class professorate by celebrating her acerbity and seriousness, championing her fiction as a legitimate object of study in the as yet young field of novel studies over and against the ostensibly frivolous appreciation of Janeites. (220)
Predictably, one of these legitimizing, masculinizing strategies was to de-romanticize this writer of romance plots. “Indeed,” Johnson writes, “Austen’s very skepticism about romantic love is in part what qualifies her as a tough-minded fellow traveler” (221). Austen a romantic? Not really. Put her on the syllabus![8]
That the novel’s disreputability is associated with women readers and their relational interests would not have come as any surprise to Austen herself, who lampooned such attitudes. Although Northanger Abbey provides a critique of readers who confuse fiction with reality, it is also scathing toward those who look down on novels as a gender-coded waste of time. When heroine Catherine Morland “with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man,” asks the foolish Mr. Thorpe if he had read Ann Radcliffe’s Mysteries of Udolpho, he shoots her down: “Udolpho! Oh, Lord! not I; I never read novels; I have something else to do” (47). But Thorpe’s opinion is in turn shot down in this exchange between Catherine and the novel’s hero, Henry Tilney:
“…But you never read novels, I dare say?”
“Because they are not clever enough for you—gentlemen read better books.”
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. I have read all Miss Radcliffe’s works, and most of them with great pleasure.” (102) [End Page 13]
In the world of Northanger Abbey, the ability to take pleasure in books that women read cements Henry Tilney’s general fabulousness. In the world of Austen criticism, however, it would mark him as a lightweight of ambiguous sexuality who fails to understand “that the business of studying [literature] is serious indeed, requiring analytical skills and specialist knowledges available through courses of study at colleges and universities” (Johnson 214). Amongst those with “something else to do,” novels are not for fun.
And so we return to the pervasive opposition of critical and popular reading. Goodwin may learn from her students to appreciate romance, but she still despairs when a class full of women, viewing the BBC Pride and Prejudice, “emits a collective sigh” as Darcy “simply removes his cravat, throwing back his head and revealing his neck” (240). “At that moment,” she recalls,
I doubted that I would be able to edge those students into a critical perspective on the film. I was right. Not until I got them into Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God was I able to pull them along with me—because that novel, more than anything else we read, places ambivalence and its catastrophes overtly and brilliantly on the table. (240-41)
Perhaps it is to be expected that a pedagogy founded on the assumption that romance is “disadvantageous to women” finds it more difficult to analyze a story in which a woman gains a hard-won understanding with a man she comes to admire and happily marry, than a story in which a woman idealizes a lover who steals her money, flirts with infidelity, and beats her. As long as students can’t analyze the romances that make them sigh, they will have only a fragmentary understanding of romance altogether—and not to mention (especially if Marshall is correct about the dominance of popular reading practices) of their own past, present, and future reading choices. If we really want students to analyze the narratives of romance—utopian as well as dystopian—especially when we teach in a culture that is so caught up in these narratives, we must enable them to work critically from their pleasure as well as their discomfort.
Critiquing from Pleasure
Perhaps the first step in making room for students to read pleasurably as well as critically is to acknowledge that all interpretive practices have strengths and weaknesses, and academic reading is no exception. Literary critical reading has its own limits, its own professional turf to defend, and its own forms of sexism. It can benefit students in any academic class on feminist literary studies to be aware of work like Johnson’s: studies that draw attention to the ways male scholars have elevated themselves above other men by comparing those men’s reading practices to women’s.[9] This is not to say that the texts and practices privileged by scholarship are all bad, but that they are part of the same patriarchal culture that pleasurable romance reading is a part of, and susceptible to the many of the same defects. Correspondingly, just as scholarly reading has its strengths, so too does pleasurable reading. We can encourage multiple modes of approaching a text. [End Page 14]
Further, we should bring these multiple modes into the classroom. Literary education need not be presented as a unidirectional progressive move from one style of reading to another. We should not only acknowledge the validity of non-academic forms of reading, but explore them in an academic context. The following practices may enable such consideration:
1. Use and integrate multiple venues of discussion.
This article is certainly not the first to advocate using different discussion formats—large group, small group, online posts, etc.—to make it easier for students with different learning styles and comfort levels to enter a discussion (see for example Linkon 67-8). But it is all the more important to make different entry points available when the topic is romance reading, so often disparaged in high-culture contexts including academe. Assigning online responses is particularly effective, as it allows students to venture opinions that they might be shy about expressing in person. The downside of online posts is that they can sometimes go unread by other students, so if I find one that is particularly apt, I bring it into class for closer attention.
2. Juxtapose high- and low-culture romances.
As Pamela Regis reminds us, “[t]he courtship story [was] a major force shaping the novel in English” (63). Great novels are often great romances, and the moment we include high-culture texts in the romance genre, we dramatically increase the number of students willing to admit they enjoy romances. Including high-culture novels has the further advantage of opening the question of why some texts are valued in an academic context more than others. Students may consider factors from syntax to assumptions about originality to fan-culture reading practices to the dynamics of canon formation.
Making romance novels the focus of these considerations helps us unpack how a text or genre’s association with women affects our perception of its literary quality, since romance is associated with women readers and writers. If Pride and Prejudice is as well written as, say, Anna Karenina, they why are fans of the one considered sillier than fans of the other? To what extent do they seem unserious because of their practices (dressing up in Regency costumes at conventions, sighing over the attractions of male characters), and to what extent is it because, as Johnson notes, “we now live in a cultural environment when it can be assumed that literature written by women is literature written for women” (213), and a female readership is considered less prestigious than a male readership? Or to what extent are these two possibilities related?
3. Analyze pleasure.
If students feel comfortable admitting that they enjoy reading romances, they can turn a critical lens on their enjoyment. Radway herself points out that her study is not a comprehensive overview of romance readers (48-9). It is also, by now, dated. Students who enjoy romance themselves can respond to Reading the Romance by offering their own answers to the questions Radway asks the women in her study, extending its scope. Because Radway studied housewives, for example, many of her explanations for romance [End Page 15] reading revolve around homemakers’ needs and concerns. But if full-time college students read for reasons similar to those of Radway’s housewives (escapism, for instance), then what other explanations can they offer? What does pleasurable reading accomplish for them, and how do these ends differ from the ends accomplished through critical reading?
Beyond student responses, it can be useful to analyze other groups of avid romance readers. Web sites such as The Republic of Pemberley (Austen fans) or Smart Bitches, Trashy Books are rich in reader responses to and analyses of romances.
4. Give air-time to both sides of the debate.
Few, if any, teachers have a pedagogical style that is neutral, whether they work from the conviction that romance is “disadvantageous to women” or that romance is unfairly maligned for its association with femininity. But when a genre is as widely-read and as provoking in its gender politics as romance is, we need to recognize that there are multiple ways to look at it. Students may have highly emotional responses to romance, whether because they cherish it deeply or because they feel it has harmed them. And teachers should make room for these varying positions, perhaps even by modeling them. During the romance unit in “Women and Literature,” I often open a class session by flip-flopping on the position I expressed in the previous class, sometimes in response to student online posts that jumped on the last class’s bandwagon. My own preference is to keep students guessing about where my bandwagon is headed, but it can also be effective to make it clear that there are multiple bandwagons to jump on, whether or not they are embraced by the instructor.
5. Teachers who like romances (or who admire people who do) should admit it.
If you happen to enjoy romances, admitting it need not compromise your ability to critique them. (I point out to students that in addition to reading romance novels, I also consume enormous quantities of butter, which I am reasonably certain is not good for me.) If you wish you could blend romance and suspense like novelist Mary Stewart, say so. If your friend the feminist biochemist is addicted to soap operas, say that too. If romance is the top-selling genre of fiction, then students who admit to reading it should not need to do so “reluctantly and with hesitant laughter.” Romance reading is so widespread that even those who don’t partake in it usually know and respect someone who does: in discussing romance, one student writes, “all I could think about was how my mother and grandmother would feel.” A feminist literature classroom shouldn’t ignore these thoughts, but should be attentive to the reading habits of our mothers, our grandmothers, our friends, and ourselves.
There are a wide variety of romances out there. Readers who have no patience for misogynist “Old Skool” punishing kisses or drugstore Harlequins may find that they not only admire the narrative structure of Jane Eyre, but also enjoy, just a little bit, Jane and Rochester’s jousting repartee. If this describes you, say so, even if you still have reservations (Jane Eyre, for one, offers fodder aplenty for these). It’s easiest to encourage others to be open about their varied reading experiences if you go first. [End Page 16]
First the disclaimers. I don’t by any means wish to devalue academic literary reading practices, on which I have built a career. Nor do I wish to deny the misogynistic elements in romance fiction, or that some romances and romance subgenres are particularly ugly in this regard. I acknowledge the existence of very, very badly written romance novels, and I don’t believe that the distinction between high- and low-culture literature is entirely based on sexism (although I have been persuaded that it is partly so). I am willing to accept that there may be readers, some of them maybe even students in my classes, who consume romance for the self-defeating purposes that Radway describes.
But I also believe, strongly, that most of my students are savvier than that—particularly those who are already fluent, or aspiring toward fluency, in the feminist critical convictions that inspire scholars like Radway and Goodwin. And while some of them may be unable to reconcile loving both romance and feminist criticism, others may find that they can—even if sometimes they feel (understandably) that these two loves conflict.
Further, years of discussions with students about their reading have convinced me that English teachers owe a debt to popular fiction genres, including romance, for their entry-level recruiting: for providing easy-to-read texts that capitalize on the lure of popular typologies, books that help readers develop the fluencies that allow them to approach other books. If I believe we should criticize romances, I also think we should be grateful to them.
And for all that we see—accurately—as wrong in the romance, we should also suppose—humbly—that some of its appeal might be in its rightness. If we believe in the capacity of our students to distinguish between goods and evils, then we should open ourselves to appreciating the books that they appreciate—and assist them in turning an eye on their appreciation that is both critical and open-minded. As we do this, it cannot hurt to remember how often love is a positive force in human endeavor, whether it be romantic love for other people, or readerly love for the stories they tell.
[1] Marshall cites book club/group studies by Janice Radway and Michael Smith.
[2] See for example Goodwin (234, 238-9), Tan and Wendell (20), and Regis, who calls Reading the Romance “the single most influential work on the romance novel” (5).
[3] This claim should be liberally qualified. Rapist romances are still out there. Further, Wendell and Tan suggest that the rape of the heroine may only “have shifted focus; instead of violating the heroine’s hoo hoo, rape may be visited instead on her will. This sort of metaphorical breach is especially pervasive in paranormal romances, in which heroines are often changed or transformed without their consent, even against their express wishes, by the hero” (25)
[4] Statistics are not as available for other countries. The Romance Writers of Australia report that out of “10 million books sold each year in the UK… seven million are romance novels,” but do not cite a source for this information.
[5] This reader’s list of romance heroines’ features doesn’t entirely match that of the ideal romance heroine as described by Radway and her readers, whose most valued traits are intelligence, independence, and a sense of humor (77), not patience and shyness. Both this student’s and Radway’s heroines are conventionally beautiful and virginal, however (132). [End Page 17]
[6] The Harlequin Desire hero, for instance, is a “powerful and wealthy hero—an alpha male with a sense of entitlement, and sometimes arrogance,” and Harlequin Medical heroes are “top-notch docs, hot-shot surgeons,” not nurses.
[7] More broadly, it has been defined by the model of those in power: not only male but white, heterosexual, etc.
[8] In this discussion of how the quality of a genre is associated with its masculinity, I’ve focused on the romance plot, but even diction preferences arguably carry gender biases. Scholarship on Frankenstein shows that Mary Shelley’s simpler prose suits our own contemporary tastes more than her husband Percy’s Latinate revisions of her manuscript, through which Percy displays an education that was unavailable to women of the Shelleys’ time (Mellor 162-3). Perhaps we like our writing dumbed down now. Or perhaps our period is merely different in its tastes than the Shelleys’, and simplicity (“Do not overwrite,” and “Avoid fancy words,” as Strunk and White advise [72, 76]) is now prized by educated men, and therefore desirable.
[9] It is important to note that men are not the only offenders here. Although most of the fan-disparaging Austen scholars whom Johnson cites are men, some are women. As Gayatri Spivak has noted, a person who belongs to multiple identity groups may well choose to speak from the perspective of the group in power (for example, “The subordinated gender following the dominant within the challenge of nationalism while remaining caught within gender oppression is not an unknown story” [2119]). A person who is both female and an accredited scholar may thus be likely to speak from a scholarly perspective, even if that perspective disparages women. If male scholars elevate themselves above other men by suggesting that those men’s reading practices are womanish, we might expect female scholars to avoid those same practices to demonstrate that they, true scholars, are not that kind of women. [End Page 18]
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Wiluna seems an unlikely place for a citrus farm given that it sits on the edge of the Western Desert. Yet in 1967, a man by the name of Jack Parr set about doing exactly that when he cleared 70 acres and planted mandarins, valencias, navel oranges and grapefruit. The land was surprisingly perfect for citrus trees that took to the dry heat and fertile soil and water was in plentiful supply, provided from a network of 15 bores that spread across the land. And as the trees grew, the aptly named Desert Farm rooted itself into financial success.
Desert Farm was created to develop a strong supply of citrus for Australia’s eastern states that would come online out of season. The products could be brought to market out of season, and with less competition from other growers would be in demand and fetch a higher price. But there was a problem: after the trees were first planted, there remained a number of years before they would be sufficiently mature to produce a crop. Eager to establish a cashflow, the owners of Desert Farm struck upon an interesting idea: to plant rockmelons at the base of the trees as a cash crop to supplement their turnover until the citrus trees came into reached maturity.
In the first year of the rockmelon harvest, a Perth company had the contract to cart the melons from Wiluna to Parkeston, where they would load them onto a train for the journey east. These were rough roads, too, with gravel spanning from Leonora to Wiluna, an 1100-kilometre round-trip that took two long days for a truck to traverse. The melons would be picked green, one or two weeks before turning ripe and allowed to mature on the trip east to market. They would be stored in chilled trailers for the road journey and pulled by some of the Perth company’s prime movers. But quickly there were more melons than the contractor could manage, and Little Industries were approached to supplement the fleet with its trucks.
During harvest, every day through December and January two of the company’s trucks would haul 50 tonnes of rockmelons down to Parkeston to be hand-loaded onto rail and sent east. A familiar story, the Little trucks got the job done without issue while the contracted Perth company faced issues with unreliable trucks and drivers.
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World Artists and their Story, 25 - Serge Game
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World Artists and their Story, 25 – Serge Game
Serge Game makes sculptures of foam, polyether foam, which is also in mattresses. With glue he sticks it together, cutting it with a bread knife and preserving it with acrylic resin. Three examples could be seen in the Bob Smit Gallery. These were smaller foam sculptures, he also has much larger specimens, totem-like sculptures, sometimes hanging on the wall. One of the first major polyether foam sculptures was a totem pole of four meters high. It originated while experimenting. But unpreserved polyether foam does not last forever, it discolors and eventually crumbles under the influence of sunlight. He cut the sculpture to make new sculptures that fitted in spaces with a common lower altitude.
I speak with Serge in the gallery. Besides his sculptures there are paintings on the walls, some large, and a series of drawings. For the first time Serge Game shows his sculptures, drawings and paintings together. Game: “Previously my drawings were a kind of ‘fremdkörper’ at exhibitions. Only in recent years it all comes together. In this way, a cross-fertilization arises between two-dimensional and three-dimensional. It makes my practice richer and more exciting.”
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We look at the work more closely, starting with the foam sculptures. ‘Jean Priape’, a double-faced head with big ears and the hair standing straight up, like the God Priapus, and two huge noble parts, which are so large that a nose is no longer needed. On one side there is a curved support piece so that the noble part proudly stays up.
Next to it hangs a rope ladder. ‘De Leer’ it is called. There are some sports in the ladder in which scrolls without text are hidden. Game: “De leer is an old word for ladder, the word also refers to doctrine. The ladder goes to heaven, it is a reference to the Jacob’s Ladder.” According to the Bible, angels climbed through the ladder from heaven to earth and back again. In a dream Jacob saw Yahweh at the top of the ladder, speaking to him and promising him the land of Canaan.
On the other side of the room stands ‘Reliquary’. It is a small container of relics. It looks monumental. “You will see the monumental form come back in my drawings. ‘Reliquary’ is in between a functionless form and a treasure chest. This year I saw in Aachen the treasury of the cathedral, the burial place of Charlemagne. Great! A lot of pomp. Sometimes you see bones in the reliquaries, but often it is not there anymore. But the effect is equally effective, because you start to think that a piece of a saint was in it.”
Animated fire
We go to the drawings. They are made with oil pastel. There is a huge one titled ‘Fire of Laments’ and many smaller ones at B5 size (between A5 and A4). In all these drawings flames flying away and big, sometimes terrifying, questioning eyes. Often with an ecstatic expression. “Animated fire. I consider fire as an alive organism. In ‘Fire of Laments’ you see a dystopian landscape and on the ground all kinds of odds and ends among which you can perceive bones and other human remains.”
On one of the small drawing a phoenix rises from the ashes. “The phoenix is the mythological bird from Greek and Roman legends. Other elements refer to artifacts from Oceania. There you can see many sculptures that are actually abstract and also often have small anthropogenic or zoomorphic features. The Wereldmuseum here in town has a fine collection of these sculptures, including a kind of very high totem poles which were placed near ‘longhouses’. Inspired by those totem poles, I started experimenting with polyether foam.”
On another drawing, ‘Outskirts’ you can see a kind of totem pole with the tongue falling on the ground from a gaping mouth. On the left is a large wheel with some bodies dangling. “It’s a kind of whirligig, to which bodies, actually more stick figures, are hanging, falling prey to raptors. The title of this work refers to a painting by Philip Guston, my idol.”
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We go to the big paintings. At ‘Fortress’ (2012) we see a fortress consisting of twisted stairs. The wood of the stairs is scorched. “As inspiration I had a three-dimensional arrangement, made of DAS, a modeling paste. I first crushed the block and rolled it into a thin piece with a rolling pin and then turned stairs out of it. It was exciting to see whether it would succeed, because DAS consists of nothing but wood glue and paper pulp. Although the painting is based on a spatial arrangement and there certainly is depth, I always think the actual depth of my paintings, might you measure it, is only 5 to 10 centimeters. It has a front and a background that are just inches apart, and that I wanted to achieve. ‘Fortress’ is a fortress which is not a fortress, a form of false security.”
Behind Jean Priape hangs another large painting, it seems a big yellow lantern on a chain. The lantern resonates in blue and gray uniform lines. “It is a reliquary filled with ‘water of life’. A ‘strongbox’ usually a metal box designed for storing valuables. I wanted to have an organic form. Inside the strongbox there is light. You see ghost shadows.”
At the back of the other gallery room hangs ‘Mana’, a huge constricted pink cactus, it seems. In front of a wall, on a sloping surface and propped up in order not to fall. “Mana is a supernatural power that is in all things. For Polynesians mana was a force that stood for respect, authority, power and prestige. Not only people could have mana, but even lifeless objects. My mana is on a Sisyphus slope, false flat.”
And at the far left hangs a smaller painting of earlier date, 2008, titled Thonopo. “An anagram for No Photo. It is a statement. For free painting, free form. Incidentally, I have processed picture pieces in it. It’s tongue-in-cheek. As an example served my old mobile phone, a Samsung, that I could clap open and shut. I’ve turned it into an unbalanced creature.”
Key work
Does Serge have a key work, a work that served as a tipping point? It seems to be there indeed. It’s called ‘Make room for the blessed’ (2005). We see red and brown sperm-like creatures. It could also be fruits, plants, or animals. Game: “For this painting I worked figurative. I thought it was too anecdotal. With this more abstract work, I got in my own right. All the works follow this work. Sometimes you have to do things before you can understand them. You have to take a ‘hump’ and purely by working you arrive where you should be. You only see it the next day or a month later. This work opened the door to a new view on my work. It gave me a different perspective. With a circular movement I later came back into my first source of inspiration. I dared to bring it back into my work. I think this has to do with the fact that I’m working for some time and take the freedom to be more fluid with anything that concerns and fascinates me.”
His motivation is to evoke alienation. “I give a finger, but not the whole hand. A piece of alienation in the work causes people to be put on the wrong track. The characters and objects stand in their own right, but not in place and seem displaced. Where they exactly are is unclear, as well as why they are there. This is reinforced by the monumental character. My paintings are obese, in your face. I’m looking for the edges of the canvas. That it pinches a little. I create a world that is also possible.”
At a very young age Serge Game liked to read comic books. “I made no distinction between the world in those comics and the existing world. For movies the same, I went all the way with it. I also had profound, almost sacred first experiences in nature, forests and heath. And even in churches. There was a kind of sacred silence that made you very aware of yourself and your thoughts. I’m not a practising Catholic, but I am raised catholic. I’m not so much looking for a divine element, but rather a mystical element to make a link between what we do here and any higher powers, things we do not understand. In that line I see my work: it is there, it exists, but why remains a mystery.”
Serge Game is an artist for 22 years. In 1994 he graduated from the Art Academy Den Bosch, which later merged with the Breda Academy to the Art Academy St. Joost. How does he experience the art world? “It is a rich life. I cannot imagine myself doing anything else. I am inclined to explore new material all the time, I do not stop at one form. It is not always easy, but I feel it is very exciting and challenging where the works bring me. And sometimes you ‘catch’ something and the images start flowing. I think few other people will experience this in that way.”
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Mottern, the Chairman of the Audit Committee, is, or ever was, a CPA?” http://www.pfcdavidlawrence.org/eastonboydzone/2016/07/27/the-main-points-of-your-speech-should-be-written-down-in-a-few-words-so-that-you-can-see-them-at-a-glanceIn FARM’s preliminary proxy statement filed with the SEC on October 17, 2016, the Company did an about-face with regard to the disclosure around Mr. Mottern’s CPA status, disclosing now that “Mr. Mottern was a Certified Public Accountant.” Was he really? If so, when? We note for the record that Mr. Mottern’s biographies in public SEC filings of Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Inc., for which he served as a director from 1997 through 2004, never disclosed that he is, or ever was, a Certified Public Accountant. Unfortunately, FARM has failed to provide Save Farmer Bros. or the investing public with (i) any additional information regarding Mr. Mottern’s current status as a CPA, (ii) any evidence that Mr. Mottern ever was a CPA or (iii) any explanation for including what now appears to be false and misleading information regarding a material feature of Mr. Mottern’s biographical background in the Company’s proxy statement for three consecutive years. Save Farmer Bros.
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LOS ANGELES – 18 April 2017 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
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The Needs of a Neighbour
First Letter of Michael
Past Travel Blogs
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Seville & Morocco 2010
Camino and Château d’Oyré Friends
Descriptive Itinerary for Spain
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Preparation for the Camino
Michael’s Travel Stories in illustrated booklets
Unforgettable Journeys
The eXile – A visit to Cuba in January 2010
Mexico City – 2 cities, 2 cultures, 2 days
HAVANA Cuba 2008 with Victor
‘Top 10’ Pics
MobileMe Gallery
Picasa Web Albums
Trip Videos
Australian Outback Encounter – August 2010
Good Friday in Seville – April 2010
Spetses, Greece in July 2009
The Melbourne Wedding of my Niece Jacqui and Satya – July 2010
Silent Retreat at Riverview – July 2010
News| December 12, 2019
We sailed up the river in the misty dawn this morning to anchor mid-river near the village of Syuru. Time for croissant and coffee on deck before going ashore.
In our zodiacs, we proceed in V-formation to meet an advancing party in Asmat warrior canoes that set-out from the shore to the beat of drums and much noise from all the villagers lining the river bank..
This South Papua province of Indonesia is one of the most remote and mysterious regions of the world. This Asmat region is the realm of headhunters and cannibals; and where Michael Rockefeller Jr disappeared, feared eaten, in the 50’s.
I feel incredibly privileged to have the opportunity, not only to witness a traditional welcome with Asmat warrior canoes rowing-out to greet us mid-river in our zodiacs, but also to walk among the people of Syuru village (in Indonesian West Papua) and feel so welcome.
A true National Geographic moment. Ponant is operating these cruises in conjunction with National Geographic. We are lucky enough to get to live the dream.
Another happy moment is seeing the captain take his own zodiac up to the village and invite children to come for a spin. (A ‘Pope Francis’ moment, albeit by a Frenchman in a zodiac?)
The affable Captain Michel Quioc is than more than happy to rub shoulders with the village Chiefs and pose for photographs.
Yirrkala
Hope dawns in Yirrkala.
I share just a little of my experience here in Yirrkala in the hope that ‘the art of the possible’, a model of integration of first nations people, can be extended to include even more of Australia’s first nation communities. It’s always disheartening to read of so many people struggling to overcome disadvantage and rise above the poverty line.
Coming ashore again in zodiacs, there’s a relaxed tropical feel of wide-open spaces as we walk up from the beach along red sand paths into the township. We head for a seat in the shade of large trees surrounding a courtyard outside the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre.
“The feeling on your face as it is struck by the first rays of the sun” is an apt meaning for “Buku-Larrnggay”. And “Mulka” means “a sacred but public ceremony”. I can relate to these as I sit and wait.
A community leader welcomes us to Yirrkala explaining that “we are not like white man who tells the story of first nations peoples as if we are strangers”.
He goes on, “you are welcome to this place. You are a person and a friend.
He reminds us that Australia did not acknowledge aboriginal people in 1901, and they are still fighting for recognition:
“Aboriginal people still have a law and customs; they still own the land; we struggle; we still live; we want to share something that is really special; we want to share our culture so you can learn; tell your people. Thank you very much for coming.”
We start to hear singing coming down the street and see a huge crowd of women and children walking together towards us to join in the ceremonies. Rhythmic sounds of clap sticks and ‘yidaki’ (didgeridoo) alert us to the start of the ‘welcome to country’ and smoking ceremony.
The Yolngu put their heart and soul into the songs and dances while circling the fire. The children seem steeped already in the tradition and join in.
Afterwards, I’m amazed at the quality and extent of local artwork including totems and bark paintings on view in the museum and for sale in the Buku-Larrnggay Art Centre. Many of award-winning local artists represented here exhibit in Australia’s top national museums and abroad.
With the advice of one of the Yolngu staff, I happily purchase a yidaki (a traditional wooden didgeridoo) for which Arnhem Land is famous. I’m told that this is an instrument that you must feel, rather than just simply hear, and after hearing the beautiful sound, I get the feeling that I might be challenged to learn.
I’m fortunate to be introduced to one of the celebrated local artists, Barayuwa Munuŋgurr, whose paintings represent stories from his mother clan’s salt-water country. His mother beautifully describes the complexity of her beliefs and of her son’s work:
“My son Barayuwa Munungurr is the caretaker for this land Yarrinya and the sacred designs that lie beneath the foundation of the sea Garnggirr Manbuynga and beyond … our paintings and designs represent the identity and the characteristics of who we are, where our mother and grandmother land is and where we need to stand firm in the foundations of laws in Yolngu culture.” This woman’s words invite reflection.
Guided down a spiral staircase into a darker area of the museum, we are also fortunate to view and learn about the historical Yirrkala Church panels. Each of these two large paintings document the creation stories of the Yolngu country. They were originally installed as part of a screen behind the communion table in the Methodist church at Yirrkala.
The major theme is that of country and kin, of how the panels represent the combined efforts of the Yolngu people to tell the story of their land and their relationship to it, and to one another through the land.
These paintings became a crucial record of the Yolngu rights to the land in the 1960s when the area was threatened to be destroyed by bauxite mining. In 1963 the now famous Yirrkala Bark Petition was created in an attempt to prevent mining projects going ahead. (We view copies of the original that are now in Canberra.) Despite the protest being unsuccessful, this was a pivotal moment in Aboriginal history, asserting the need for Aboriginal representation in such decisions, and prompting protection of sacred sites.
I traipse back to the beach, hot but not bothered, thinking there’s so much for us to learn and respect about life ‘our own backyard’.
… to be wound in.
I ‘invade’ the homeland of the Yolngu indigenous people in North East Arnhem Land by zodiac, landing on the beach.
Unlike stories of history, I’m an invited visitor here in Yirrkala, one of Australia’s most remote communities and a pulsing stronghold of aboriginal culture.
The children are raised to appreciate their traditions while benefiting from education and opportunities to make a living. So many of Yolngu people are all capable and entitled to express their sacred identity through art.
News| December 9, 2019
A wiry old grandfather adorned in paint, armulets and feathers has such an aura about him – a spiritual figure from another age. He looks the part; he is the part. He‘s from another world.
As for us, we have one foot in two different worlds … Le Lapérouse and . . . Le Dreamtime.
Grandfather, singularly, assumes a rare and special role. He starts the welcome dance to the music of didgeridoo and clap sticks putting all he has in him into it. He exhausts himself, ending-up leaning, breathless and bowed, on the central ceremonial dance poles until assisted into the shade and given water.
The carved and painted poles represent each clan group. and have memorial and mourning ceremony applications. They are decorated with bands of ochre pigment, woven strings and feathers.
In this rare dance performance, we learn that the grandfather is passing-on identity and knowledge to his great grandson standing out here with others in this small community of first nation’s people dressed in a rainbow sash. He tells of ‘who we are’ and ‘where we come from’.
We are indeed honoured to be witness to this.
Grandfather is the figure head of the Galiwin’ku community on Elcho Island off the coast of East Arnhem Land in Australia’s Northern Territory.
The dancing that follows tells of the people’s spiritual journey; a journey starting with a God that comes from nothing and who is represented in the poles set up in the centre ground before us. The songs talk about the universe and creation from their view. Culture is presented in timelines. And the poles represent timelines of a different time.
We sit comfortably on chairs placed on mats laid over powdery red soil. Branches of eucalypt leaves on top of simple structures provide shade. Beyond the central open courtyard, the sea rolls in in gentle waves on a wide stretch of beach and breaks over large ochre boulders at each end. Shade trees line the shore. Last week, a crocodile took one of their dogs.
Song, didgeridoo and clap sticks herald the entrance of an enthused community, daubed with ash and white paint, branches waving in their hands, women and children included, circling around the poles dancing, stomping with clouds of fine red dust up their nostrils, unperturbed. (Our worlds are very far apart indeed.)
There’s never been anything like this here before, and they’ll probably not do it again for a long time.
After lighting the welcome fire, a couple of impressive ‘Aunts’ do all the explaining. This is first group from a cruise ship and they are so anxious to impress. They are obviously up for it. It’s a big thing to be handling an event like this and to see it carried out so beautifully.
Years ago, their grandfather’s great vision included education for his daughters, and he sent them to school in Darwin. These now older women explain to us wonderful stories of their history which they in turn are proud to be passing on to their children.
Speaking with one of the younger men, I learn of his own very interesting backstory including a little about how the people live and earn a living. His parents separated when he was five months old and his Irish/Welsh dad took him to Australia where he was educated, played Aussie Rules football, and got a trade.
He was brought up as a Pentecostal Christian where he learned the importance of honouring your father and your mother. So, in his mid-20s, he felt it time to look for his mother, and reconcile. He is now living with her in the community learning how to hunt and gather and do the things that are the members of his family have done for years.
The opportunities for employment are provided largely by the government services. Tourism and indigenous Arts and crafts figure highly in the plans of the community, and they are doing their best to respond with their own special brand of welcome and hospitality. We can attest to that. They’re on their way and hopefully to more self-sufficiency over time.
How privileged we are, not quite ‘heliocoptering’ in, but coming ashore in zodiacs from the comfort of a small airconditioned French cruise ship to land on a beach in what could otherwise be a very inhospitably hot land.
And to have been welcomed this way with an unconditional hand of friendship offered, almost imploring us to go home and tell their story. We can only learn from these First Nations people.
News| September 28, 2019
Rundale Palace, stands majestically in its yellow grandeur surrounded by apple orchards on the plains of southern Latvia. For all its majesty it now sits in the middle of nowhere. As we approach from Vilnius, wind gusts blow dust and dander up my nose, so I’m not inclined to hang around for long. And where is that much vaunted rose garden? In such absence, I tread warily squishing over fallen fruit under the trees in the apple orchard trying unsuccessfully to reach ripening red beauties on branches beyond my reach. I do gather some low hanging fruit in my arms to take back to Dominic because our driver that he can take home and pickle.
Time on my hands in Berlin
News|Berlin, Concert, Kaiser-Wilhelm Memorial Church| September 6, 2019
ow many times have I passed the Kaiser-Wilhelm Memorial Church at the end of the Kurfenstendam In West Berlin, and not gone in? I’ve remedied that now. I not only sat quietly for a time admiring the blue Chartres glass walls of the Memorial Hall, but I bought a ticket to the concert tonight.
I sit quietly for a time enveloped by glowing midnight-blue glass walls and a giant ‘floating’ Jesus looking at me in this Kaiser-Wilhelm Memorial Hall.
This modern octagonal structure sits as an anti-war memorial next to the bombed-out hulk of the original church since 1961.
Popular classics performed beautifully by the Berlin chamber Orchestra, and some excellent soloists. I’m also a sucker for a Toccata and Fugue on the Schuke organ with its 63 registers and more than 5,000 pipes.
I was drawn more into the music tonight than listening in a concert hall or at home. The lady who sold me the ticket gave me the choice of being near the cello or amongst the violins. I chose the violins – the horse hair of the bow was swishing at such a pace across the strings I could almost feel the friction.
Vale Tony
News|Eulogy, Tony| August 24, 2019
IAN ANTHONY MUSGRAVE +RIP
2.11.1935 – 24.8.2019
After a stoic battle with prostate cancer over more than ten years, my eldest brother Tony breathed his last this afternoon amongst his family at home.
We remaining siblings, Michael, Anne and Mark feel blessed to have had the opportunity to spend time with Tony as late as yesterday cheekily ‘jousting’ about many memories of good times past.
Rest in Peace Tony+
In London in the early 90’s – (pocket handkerchiefs were the ‘go’)
EULOGY – TONY MUSGRAVE 26 Aug 2019
An enriching Immersion – in Railaco
News|East Timor, Jesuits, Railaco, Timor-Leste| July 6, 2019
A very fruitful relationship
he whole week, from June 23rd to 28th, was a very fruitful and memorable time for the eighteen of us from St. Canice’s who spent the whole week in Timor.
We visited the Railaco parish including surrounding villages in the mountains, as well as the Jesuit schools in Kasait.
The aim of the visit was to see the reality and the progress of the Railaco parish in the programs St Canice’s supports: feeding program, mobile clinic, NOSSEF high school, water project, and other projects of the Jesuit Social Services. . . . . .
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Meeting the people of Railaco – GOLD!
The visit from parishioners of St Canice’s was a momentous occasion, especially for the residents in the remote villages of Railaco. It was also a golden opportunity for the parishioners of St. Canice to witness and meet the people – children, students, teachers, elders, youth – whom they have had such a successful long distance relationship with.
Here in this photo, parishioner Sue Buckingham is greeted by one of the senior teachers at NOSSEF, the Railaco Secondary School.
Children delight at eating tasty food
This video is about Children eating tasty food brought by the Railaco Jesuit Mission in the remote sub-district Cocoa in East Timor.
It’s quite incredible that 100 children turn-up in the small sub-district of Cocoa outside Railaco today to greet us. Some are just babies carried in a sling by an older sibling, and others are nursed by their mothers. After announcing our arrival with the bagpipes, Khoda’s enthusiasm and passion sees him serving meals to the kids, and relating immediately to these youngsters through sparkling eyes, and the simple language of love.
Parishioners of St Canice’s Sydney initiated this children’s feeding program with Fr Bong of the Jesuit Railaco Mission way back in 2004, and they have been the main benefactor ever since. The sense of joy we take away is more than reward.
We leave a trail of happy kids following us in a cloud of dust.
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St Canice’s Railaco Immersion 2019 – Pre-trip
News|Immersion, Railaco| June 4, 2019
Our Neighbours in Timor
he word neighbour derives from those near-by. When the neighbour is drawn into the exchange of kindnesses, our human-ness is enhanced by the enabling of goodness.
This is what the relationship between St Canice Elizabeth Bay parish and the Jesuit Mission in Railaco is all about – simply being neighbourly, the mutual comfort each of us derive from having good neighbours.
Introduction to the Immersion Experience
We are ambassadors of St Canice Parish in its long-time involvement with Railaco.
Our visit to Timor is an ‘immersion’ experience. As ordinary people, we go to Railaco to listen to the voices of others who speak of ordinary needs.
Railaco Immersion 2019 – More pre-trip posts
News| June 3, 2019
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Transatlantic Crossing on Ponant’s ‘Le Boreal’ 2019
News|Bermuda, Le Boreal, Ponant Cruise| April 26, 2019
Smooth sailing for two days through the heart of the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ between Bahamas and Bermuda on Ponant’s ‘Le Boreal’. At dock in St George Bermuda
mooth sailing for two days through the heart of the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ on Ponant’s ‘Le Boreal’ between Bahamas and Bermuda, (with the Atlantic Ocean up to five kilometers deep in places).
Bermuda, is a British Overseas Territory UNESCO World Heritage municipality. We dock away from the capital on St. George’s Island, the territory’s first English settlement. Would I want to live here? No!
The homes are built in the Bermuda tradition and sit amongst trees and gardens on the side of hills dipping down into a green sea. All have a ridged white roof treated with lime and designed to capture rain water. The walls are painted in bright pastel colours and make for a quaint experience, but that’s where my fascination ends.
The homes have a ridged white roof treated with lime and designed to capture rain water, and the walls are painted in bright pastel colours
It was from here in Bermuda that in early 17th century that British colonists landed in Jamestown, Virginia, to help replenish the dwindling colonists. They provided the starving Jamestown folk with food brought from Bermuda and, via John Rolfe, one of the new arrivals from Bermuda, provided them with tobacco found growing in Bermuda which later became a major American industry.
The capital Hamilton, at the other end of the island is the financial hub. Most of the quaint buildings there have now been replaced by glass and steel.
My fellow sailors, Jim and Eddy have settled in to this lazy life at sea very easily.
A fine Swiss specimen amongst the blooms - Eddy
Easter in Miami – Nurturing friendships
News|Easter, Edmundo, MIami| April 22, 2019
Amex days on three continents hold many memories. But none so important as friendships forged. Leaving Hector and Dolores behind in Phoenix last weekend, I land in Miami to stay with old friend Edmundo. Perhaps it’s through the depth of his close friendships that I, in turn, have made so many good friends here over the years. One week is not enough.
And, this evening, two more Amex friends of nearly fifty years will come to dinner at Edmundo’s – Eddy from London and Jim from New York. We three ‘old farts’ are embarking on a two-week cruise across the Atlantic tomorrow on Ponant, the French shipping line – to Lisbon. First stop the Bahamas, where yet another Amex alma mater from London Days, Robert will entertain us.
Chocolate Easter eggs from Brazilian friend Ricardo - with crushed Brazil nuts make wonderful Easter gifts.
A rose (Tere) among the thorns - Hailing from many countries of the Americas - 3 Cubans, 2 Brazilians, 1 Venezuelan and 1 USA
Reynier and Natalie
Happy Easter to all!
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REUNION OF FOUR WHO FAREWELLED AMEX IN THE 1990’S
Edmundo Perez-de Cobos hosted a wonderful dinner party this evening in his home in Coral Gables to mark a reunion of four old Amex friends, all of whom retired in the 90’s. Michael from Frankfurt; Eddy from London; Edmundo from Mexico City, and Jim from Moscow.
Edmundo, Michael, Eddy and Jim at Edmundo's home in Coral Gables
Easter Iconography – Adam and Eve raised from the dead
News|Easter| April 22, 2019
This ancient iconography is very profound; it encapsulates the true Easter message; death and resurrection; the gift of Christian Hope that all we baptised believe is ours forever, with Him, in heaven when we die.
Jesus descends into the underworld after his death. We see him surrounded by the key characters of the Old Testament – the royalty, the prophets and law-givers. Under him all the instruments of death are falling into the abyss with the bound-up Satan.
Yet his first task – quite phenomenologically – is to take Adam and Eve physically by the hand and to wrench their bodies from the grave.
My mother always told me that ‘we are on this earth for but a short time, on our way to our eternal reward’. As I head towards eighty, her words ring ever loudly.
40 plus years of memories in Miami Shores
News|MIami, Susan Kelley| April 22, 2019
Susan Kelley and I worked together in Amex New York back in 1975. We were both 34 when my mother Connie braved the journey on Pan Am all the way from Sydney to visit me; and Susan entertained us to Tea on the front terrace of her Gramercy Park Manhattan brownstone. (Mum was most pleased that I had met such a nice lady. The fact that Susan was married didn’t seem to come into the equation.)
Tonight, Edmundo Perez-de Cobos, my good friend and my host here in Miami, and I drive up to Miami Shores in his noisy new soft-top convertible red Fiat 500 to have drinks and dinner with Susan and Bill. Again, such welcoming hospitality with the many decades passed counting for nought.
Four ‘Scotties’s scurry to meet us but Cupcake and Winston insist on sitting on laps for a photo shoot.
Four ‘Scotties’s scurry to meet us but Cupcake and Winston insist on sitting on laps of Michael Musgrave and Susan Kelley for a photo shoot.
Arizona Weekend
News|Arizona, Phoenix, Sedona| April 16, 2019
Simple sightseeing pleasures made all the more pleasurable with simple home hospitality by Hector and Dolores at their home in Phoenix. How many years is it since we were working together in London, and eldest daughter Alexandra’s wedding in Madrid? Three decades and four grandchildren later, we are together again kicking-back with a coffee, stroking nuzzling dogs, and catching-up in the comfort of home as if it were yesterday.
Saturday morning, a walk down Main Street of old Scottsdale reminds me of my first visit to Arizona with Des Whelan while attending my first Amex ‘Outer Space’ Meeting in 1971. (From here we flew in light planes to the Grand Canyon and on to Las Vegas. I’m not sure whether this ‘boy from the bush’ (as Des would taunt me) truly understood how lucky he was to be doing things like at age 28, and every year till moving to the US to work five years later.)
Then, tacos in America had to be ticked off my list. That done, Hector and I drive out to the Desert Botanical Gardens to meet Dolores and go walk through the blooming cactus and other desert plants in colourful Spring bloom.
Driving home, and stopping-by their local Franciscan church, preparations are well under way for Palm Sunday services outdoors ‘on the grass’ in the shade of tall palm trees.
We skip this in favour of going to Mass in the morning, in Sedona, a couple of hours drive north. The ‘greeting’ from smiling ladies and gentlemen (who must have abandoned their walkers to get up and welcome us), and a well-meaning choir of white- haired songstresses make it a little difficult to concentrate on the Mass.
Lunch at Mariposa Grill with Hector and Dolores in Sedona, Arizona
A road-trip to Monument Valley has always been on my ‘to do’ list, but I’m running out of years. The red in the mountains and rocky outcrops in mountains surrounding Sedona has more than satisfied my hankering. And to stop for lunch, at a restaurant, magically located right on a bluff with full view of the surrounding red mountains and outcrops, puts the icing on the cake. A few extra squeezes of fresh lime into my Margarita made for a grand welcome cocktail as we settle in to our prize dress-circle table and wait for lunch to be served.
Cherry Blossom time in Tokyo
News|Cherry Blossom time, Tokyo| April 12, 2019
CHERRY BLOSSOM TIME
Seeing cherry blossoms in bloom is the main focus of this, my first visit to Tokyo in 50+ years. And the sun is shining on a perfect blue-sky day.
My ‘tours by locals’ guide Hiroshi, a calm retired businessman, is somewhat non-plussed with the request, but with a little zigzagging around Tokyo in trains and taxis respectfully playing to my eccentricity, he delivers in spades (and blooming blossoms).
I wonder what the excitement is about?
Walking through the fish market stalls, there is no cherry blossom; only fish. But a quick taxi ride away, and a walk in the park, I’m rewarded. Blossoms keep falling on my head in the cold gusts of wind, (even land on my lip as you’ll see in one of the photos). Trellises of budding wisteria around the lake trigger a momentary impulse to return in a month’s time for more joy and beauty. (“By learning to see and appreciate beauty, we learn to reject self-interested pragmatism,” so says Pope Francis in ‘Laudate Si’.)
A stop for a cup of the bitter ‘matcha’ green tea in a traditional Japanese teahouse on the lake presents an opportunity to know little more about the growth of Tokyo since my last visit. Away in the distance through today’s soaring skyscrapers is Tokyo Tower, the tallest building in all of Tokyo back in 1966, even taller than the Eifel Tower.
I am not expecting to see Mt Fuji, but Hiroshi knows just the 40th floor vantage point. The winds have blown all clouds away, and there it is in all its glory in the distance, beyond the glass, framed by Tokyo Tower and taller office buildings.
I wonder why most of the other diners in our stop for a Teppanyaki fish lunch are decidedly more elderly (and quieter) than the masses on the streets. Surely it couldn’t be the ten-dollar price tag? No, the owner once ran this as a leading seafood restaurant before the tall building was built, and older customers (including Hiroshi obviously) continue to patronise his establishment.
Seemingly half-way around Tokyo by train and we alight at Ueno Park with its five-storey Buddhist Pagoda and golden Shinto Toshogu shrine; in the gardens, giant peony blooms, sheltered from the sun under paper parasols, add the colour to replace the now fading cherry blossoms floating in the wind.
The cherry blossom was also important to the samurai of feudal Japan; it was their duty to simultaneously realise the inevitably to death and release any fear of it. Their lives, marked by battle and conflict, were often cut short, and the fallen cherry blossom became the symbol of that short life.
Celebration of the Life of Des Whelan
News| March 18, 2019 1
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FR STEVE INTRODUCTION
EULOGY – Michael Musgrave
EULOGY – Ray Harris
READINGS – Lily Horneman
1 Corinthians 13:4-7, 11-13
A reading from the first letter of St Paul to the Corinthians.
Love is patient, love is kind, Love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude.
It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrong-doing but rejoices in the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.
When I was a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways.
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we shall see face to face.
Now I know only in part, then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.
And now, faith, hope and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
POEM ‘The Isle of Innisfree’ by W B Yeats – Lily Horneman
Des’ grand daughter, Lily Horneman
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to wear the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all the glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
HOMILY – Fr Steve Sinn SJ
Fr Steve Homily transcript Click to read.
I’m glad there are many rooms because there are rooms for all of us in my Father’s house. There’s no one way. It’s interesting to hear that story. ‘When I told you that I’m going to prepare a place for you’. It’s a lovely stanza, ‘He’s gone before us and he’s prepared a place for us, each one of us. If I’ve gone to do that, I will return and take you to myself, so that whereby you also will be’. So that again is a lovely image that He can’t be without us.
And it’s a kind of image that we kind of had a taste of that with Des. He had gone to prepare a place for us, whether it was around a BBQ, around a bar, so that where he is, we are. We’ve had a little taste of the future.
And the one who said that He has been through death and promised to take us to himself to the place he has prepared for us. When that promise says, ‘but we don’t know where we’re going’, he says, ‘you know the way’. We say ‘we don’t know the way’, but then we do. There’s no book. The way is the relationship. ‘I am the way’. There’re no descriptions, no rules. It’s a relationship we have with one another. It’s the way. We know that in our hearts, and Des embodied that. He was priestly. He showed us the way. He showed us the power of communion; the power of relationships; the power of being together. So this is the truth. This is the way. This is what life is.
And so I just thank Des for showing us the way, and the truth and the life.
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South Pacific Cruise 2018
Photos| October 28, 2018
here’s lots to like about the ‘French’ touches on this Ponant 30th Anniversary Cruise on which we’ll be sailing to little visited islands of the South Pacific, and east to French Polynesia. Pity I left my reef shoes and ‘budgie smugglers’ at home. I learn that there’s a lot more wet landings and ‘swimming in idyllic waters’ opportunities than I imagined.
Farewell Berlin 2018
News|Berlin, Cruise River Spree, Tennis Club| May 23, 2018
wonderful twilight dinner at the Blau Weiss Tennis Club with hostess Carla Eysel and friends in this very leafy setting and sporting establishment of Berlin-Grunewald since 1899.
In this ‘enclave of privilege’, large families gather for a meal, and attractive young people relax (in their regulation white tennis gear), chatting after their games, (and then pay with dad’s credit card). I can only hope that their education gives them an appreciation for the ‘want’ that exists in the world. An intriguing feature is seeing that all are well-versed in the ‘art of conversation’ and none has their nose in a mobile phone!
So much more laughter and conversation here in the late afternoon than when we were ‘trapped’ on a cruise boat drifting along the River Spree taking in the sights and forests of both East and West Berlin yesterday. (And waiting for the water to empty at two locks along the way) for nearly four hours thinking that this will never end.
If this were a first time for a cruise on the upper deck of the slow-moving boat, it would be most interesting, with Berlin having more waterways and bridges than Venice. However, yesterday‘s experience with pollinated white wisps of irritation (loosed from the newly-greened trees in the wind) flying up the nose and in the eyes and down my throat was quite a trial.
Thank you, Frank for the river cruise and later for the Sicilian ‘snack’ and bottles of wine. And thank you Carla for the wonderful farewell meal as the sun disappeared over the white-clad players on the clay tennis courts and the evening cooled down.
BERLIN PHOTOS
Johann Sebastian Bach – St Thomas Boys Choir
News|Bach, Leipzig, St Thomas Church Choir| May 18, 2018
arents entrust their sons from a young age to the care of the Cantors at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig for their education and training as choristers up until they are ready to attend university.
Johann Sebastian Bach was one of these cantors for twenty-seven years here at the Thomaskirche back in the 18th century. He was hired by the City of Leipzig to compose music for special Court and Church occasions, and to develop the choir.
We attend a special performance of the St Thomas Boy’s Choir and sit in pews ‘choir style’ so as to get a good view of the organ and the choir. I simply close my eyes and ‘imagine’ during the Bach organ solo pieces.
Leipzig – Music, Learning, Trade, Resistance & Reunification
News|Germany, Leipzig| May 18, 2018
MUSIC – The significance of Leipzig is so much more than the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Here in the mid-18th century, as Cantor of the Thomaskirche, Bach composed most of his music.
We enjoy listening to the students of the University playing the Bach organ (newly constructed to replicate the identical musical tones as that used by Bach himself in the 18th century). Tomorrow evening, we are going to hear the St Thomas Boys Choir, (whose history dates back to the year 1212), singing in the church.
LEARNING – More than forty thousand students attend University here in Leipzig. Many are studying the Humanities or attending the famous Medical School.
Leipzig is also the home of Goethe, a literary celebrity by the age of 25, who was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar in 1782 after taking up residence here. Students from all around the world come to study German here in the Goethe Institute.
The over-filled outdoor cafés and bars, so noisy with laughing and conversation is testament to this. And it is the season of white asparagus. Wundabar!
TRADE – In the middle ages, Leipzig was the cross roads of Europe’s trade routes – from France in the west to Russia in the East, and Italy in the south to the Baltic Sea in the north. Leipzig remains a major centre of trade today with its Trade Fairs that commenced centuries ago.
It was here five hundred years ago that Martin Luther translated the Bible from Greek into German for the first time. And with the advent of the printing press around the same time, Luther was able to have the ‘Word’ distributed throughout the land, and also disseminate leaflets explaining his disagreements with the Church of Rome.
REUNIFICATION – Prior to the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990, Leipzig was a major industrial centre with eight hundred factories, coal mines, and no protection of the environment; in fact, choking pollution. All factories closed and there was ninety percent unemployment.
Porsche, BMW, DHL and other companies lead the return of industries after the Reunification, and today Leipzig is a thriving city with unemployment at just seven percent.
THE PEACE MOVEMENT – In 1982, even under the rule of the dictatorial German Democratic Government, a Lutheran Reverend at the Nikolaikirche here in the centre of old Leipzig, started weekly ‘Peace Prayer’ gatherings in the church.
This movement developed the momentum that eventually influenced the collapse of the Berlin Wall seven years later. In October 1989, the Military, in tanks, surrounded the church of people defying orders from the State Security to cease the Movement. Ten thousand other people gathered in the Square outside.
The famous conductor, Kurt Masur, loved by the people, broadcast a message into the square, “We want peace. We want calm”. Soldiers were listening to this local hero, and no order was given to shoot.
The Reverend then told the people inside to leave the church, carrying a candle at their breasts, and shouting out, ‘No violence”. The Military phoned Security HQ where there was no answer. They then phoned East Berlin, while the crowds swelled to seventy thousand people and marched to Headquarters of the State Security demanding change.
This was followed by a Peaceful Revolution in which half a million people from all over the GDR marched on the State Security Headquarters again, and occupied it.
One month later, the Berlin Wall came down!
OLD FRIENDS – Four of us, who have shared friendship since our days working with Amex, are here on this little adventure, and to share a reunion.
LEIPZIG & DRESDEN PHOTOS
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Travels with Mon Oncle
Yes, In the sub-head of my blog, I am indeed drawing parallels to the eccentric, quintessential traveller in Graham Greene’s novel “Travels with my Aunt”. I laughed so much when I saw the comedy with Eddy in a West End theatre in London in the early 90’s.
Wikipedia says ” . . . the retired Henry Pullingcock finds himself drawn into Aunt Augusta’s world of travel, adventure, romance and absence of bigotry . . .”
O, for the romance bit!
Michael - Born to travel!
Enjoy engaging, being involved, and making a contribution. But equally as stimulated, creating in my own space.
'Nothing is good where better is possible' - the old Welsh saying defines me in a way, but at the same time can be a curse.
When will I learn to be content and 'live in the moment'?
Andrew Blair on Celebration of the Life of Des Whelan
Juanita Baronessa on Silver Wind Mediterranean Cruise – 2018
Craig Dwyer on Celebrating a Doctorate at the University of Sydney
Holy Week – Sydney and Seville | the M chronicles on Holy Week ‘Semana Santa’ Seville 2010
Linda Barber on Hot Air Balloon in the Loire with Touraine Montgolfière
“The Truth about the Brooch” May 23, 2013
The Video – Camino de Santiago “Our Way” June 16, 2012
Burma the Movie March 29, 2011
A Tale of Two Ticks June 7, 2011
The Closed Door March 7, 2012
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Michael Mus
Born to travel!
Yes, In the sub-head of my blog, I am indeed drawing parallels to the eccentric, quintessential traveller in Graham Greene's novel "Travels with my Aunt". I laughed so much when I saw the comedy with Eddy in a West End theatre in London in the early 90's. Wikipedia says " . . . the retired Henry Pullingcock finds himself drawn into Aunt Augusta's world of travel, adventure, romance and absence of bigotry . . ." O, for the romance bit!
130 Countries Visited
Michael Musgrave has been to: United Arab Emirates, Albania, Armenia, Argentina, American Samoa, Austria, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Barbados, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Bahamas, Bhutan, Canada, Switzerland, Ivory Coast, Cook Islands, Chile, People's Republic of China, Colombia, Cuba, Cape Verde, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Egypt, Spain, Ethiopia, Finland, Fiji, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, France, United Kingdom, Grenada, Georgia, Ghana, Guadeloupe, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Croatia, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, India, Iceland, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Japan, Kenya, Cambodia, South Korea, Laos, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Luxembourg, Libya, Morocco, Monaco, Montenegro, Madagascar, Macedonia, Mali, Myanmar, Macao, Martinique, Malta, Mauritius, Maldives, Mexico, Malaysia, Namibia, New Caledonia, Niger, Netherlands, Norway, Nepal, New Zealand, Oman, Panama, Peru, French Polynesia, Philippines, Pakistan, Poland, Puerto Rico, Palestine, Portugal, Paraguay, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Singapore, Slovenia, Slovakia, Sierra Leone, San Marino, Senegal, Syria, Thailand, Tibet, East Timor, Tonga, Turkey, Trinidad and Tobago, Taiwan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vatican, Venezuela, U.S. Virgin Islands, Vietnam, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, Samoa, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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Chain of Command - 1939 Russia vs Japan
On Saturday, Stephan hosted several of us at his house to play a game of Chain of Command.
This was to be a border conflict somewhere in Mongolia, with Russian forces engaging Japanese troops.
At this stage, the squads were quite large & did not operate in teams, thus they would either all shoot, or move. The Russians deploy first, a couple of their BT-7 tanks also arrive. (Chris & Chen played the Russians)
As word spreads, the Japanese deploy to intercept the interlopers. (Andrew & I played the Japanese)
I played the armoured elements, with my first 2 tanks arriving. (As they enter from the road, it often leads to this situation, where tanks pile up side by side, not the most historical tactics).
A Japanese squad rushes to the Kraal wall to catch the Russians in the open.
At the urging of a Senior leader, a loud URAAGHHH! is heard & the 2 Russian squads rush the Japanese troops.
As the slaughter was bloody, I chose not to show that footage. Both squads at the wall were decimated.
The tanks at the other end of the battle were slugging it out. Round after round was deflected from Sgt Ping's tanks. A shot managed to destroy the main gun of one of the BT-7's. It then surged ahead into the grain. As well a T28 trundled onto the field.
Then with the arrival of a Russian Field Gun, the shock on the defending Japanese squad began to quickly mount. The Russian Infantry squad moves into the grain preparing for another assault.
The BT-7 Command Tank is knocked out. The driver of the 2nd BT-7 is killed.
The Russians pummel the Japanese squad causing it to break. They then managed to end the turn, causing the squad to rout.
The remainder of the Japanese tanks advance slowly (doesn't help when you continue rolling 1's for movement. The Japanese commander's tank (Top in photo) had been immobilized.
There was 1 further charge by the Russians & again the melee was bloody & deadly. Although the Russians won the fight, they lost both their Junior & Senior leaders. When the command hits were rolled, the battle ended in a draw with both forces dropping to 0.
Of course there was much after battle kibitzing about whom should have done what. But all in all it was a fun game & lots of death to both sides. Thanks to Stephen for putting on such a great table & game!
Posted by Terry Silverthorn at 3:44 PM
Michael Awdry January 6, 2020 at 12:47 AM
Lovely looking game Terry, an impressive start to the year.
Terry Silverthorn January 6, 2020 at 11:46 AM
Thanks Michael. Stephen does make nice tables to battle on!
Zabadak January 7, 2020 at 7:26 AM
Great looking terrain and a bloody -looking fight (or two!)
As CoC is aimd at a two player game, how much did having multiple players effect the logistics of the game - extra time, end of turn dice etc ?
The forces were split between the main player per side (Infantry) & secondary force (Armour), Each had their own command track. Losses to one force could impose Command rolls on the secondary, etc. All 5's rolled by either would be tallied together on the main player command track. The secondary player could get multiple activations, but not end the turn. As a social gathering, we were not playing to a specific time. Being such a bloody melee brawl, the Command loss was quick!
Get your motor runnin! - So, Last week and this weekend was all about building cars for Gaslands, seems that its been a great motivator for me and the creative pistons are firing ...
Couple of Quick Game Updates
3D Printed Ruins
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Friday, Feb 12, 2016, 10:30 am
With 3 Recent High-Profile Walkoffs, Is the Wildcat Strike Back?
New York Uber drivers during their wildcat strike earlier this month. (Spencer Platt / Getty)
Three high-profile wildcat strikes have caught business watchers and union leaders by surprise in recent weeks. Could they be bellwethers for a rising tide of worker militancy?
A wildcat strike is one that occurs with little notice or legal sanction. Wildcats are often organized in violation of a contractual commitment not to strike or a legal prohibition to do so, and in defiance of both the employer and official union leadership. Non-union workplaces wildcat by striking without formally certifying or affiliating with a union.
Wildcat job actions have sparked some of the largest strike waves and union gains in American history, and the revitalization of the 21st century labor movement will require a degree of worker organizing that is not dependent on union staff and resources. So spontaneous job actions merit attention.
The sudden return of the wildcat
Longshoreman at the New York and New Jersey ports launched a classic wildcat strike on Friday, January 29, catching the Port Authority, the Shipping Association and their own International Longshoremen Association totally unaware. The strike, which cost businesses that rely on the ports to ship goods in and out of the country hundreds of thousands of dollars in a few short hours, was apparently in protest of a government agency, the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, imposing new job requirements on top of and outside the bounds of the longshoremen’s collective bargaining agreement.
The walkout seems to have been a genuinely spontaneous action, sparked and spread within a few short minutes and over by nightfall. Industry observers are still scratching their heads at what it all meant, and whether it will happen again.
The following Monday, NYC-based drivers for the controversial “rideshare” app, Uber, began a 24-hour work stoppage and staged a rally outside of the company’s local headquarters. The tech firm is notorious for its questionable legal practices of treating its employees as “independent contractors” and often operating outside of taxi and limousine regulations in order to undercut traditional yellow cabs and car services. Drivers struck in protest of a 15% reduction in Uber’s fares, a cost that they alone must absorb.
While planned at least a day or two in advance, this wildcat strike was organized by an informal network calling themselves “Uber Drivers United,” according to the homemade fliers they handed out (although some coordination with the Taxi Workers Alliance has been noted). Uber was designed by its Silicon Valley founders to “disrupt” traditional work rules and regulation and to definitely be union free. The strikers are not demanding union recognition in the modern sense, but simply demanding a rollback of the wage cut.
While the smug business press scoffs (Fast Company said of the strike, “The irony, of course, is that by taking a slew of drivers off the road, the strike actually serves as a good opportunity for other drivers to profit from surge pricing, the fare increase that Uber imposes when demand is high”), the protests could spread to other cities.
Earlier in January, a faction of Detroit schoolteachers led by former Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) president Steve Conn staged a wildcat sickout over the abhorrent physical conditions of the school buildings that forced 64 out of 97 schools to close. Conn’s group is exactly the sort of alternative competitive union that I have predicted will become the norm if unions embrace non-exclusive members-only organizing.
Conn, a polarizing perennial opposition leader, eked out a narrow win for president in a low turnout election in January of 2015. But he failed to carry his slate in the union’s executive board elections and seemingly made little effort to unify the union around his agenda. An unpopular attempt to disaffiliate the DFT from the national American Federation of Teachers resulted in his removal from office eight months later. (Full disclosure: I am a former organizer at the AFT.)
Conn has since tried to decertify the DFT in favor of a new union he calls the Detroit Teachers Union. The sickouts over the crumbling infrastructure and lack of investment in Detroit public schools was his group’s attempt to vie for shop floor power. In so doing, Conn may have found his true calling as the leader of a proudly independent militant minority union.
As far as I can tell, most Detroit public school teachers retain their loyalty to the DFT, even if many were willing to take part in the frankly long overdue protest. The DFT, of course, had to denounce the action. They signed a contract with a no-strike clause, Michigan public sector law makes any strike illegal and the viciously right-wing state legislature is seeking retribution via a bill that would decertify any union that allows a wildcat strike to happen.
But the AFT has embraced the issue, if not the wildcat tactic, and successfully connected the deplorable condition of Detroit schools with the poisoning of the children of Flint as a national scandal that naturally follows from electing the GOP equivalent of Immortan Joe to run a once-functional state government.
A bellwether or a fluke?
The U.S. labor movement has historically grown in incredibly short and intense periods of activity, and then slowly declined in the interim periods. All of these periods of growth corresponded with a mass strike wave (although not every mass strike wave—of which there have only been about seven or eight since the Civil War—has resulted in membership growth for unions).
Most American strike waves have been led from below. Many began with wildcats that were unplanned or even opposed by union leadership. When conditions were right, union leaders swooped in to take charge of the actions and cut peace deals with the bosses that led to measurable gains for the working class. This is a healthy—and missing—dynamic in the labor movement.
Arguably only two of the great strike waves were planned and led by unions. One was the post-WWII wave of strikes that saw demands for a better quality of life, long-delayed by war and depression, finally begin to be realized. The other was the wave of strikes for union recognition in the public sector in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
Those are examples of union leadership recognizing and harnessing genuine rank-and-file militancy and winning big. Because they are two of the most recent strike waves, they have left an outsized psychic impression on our movement as well as the residual magical thinking that if only Richard Trumka or [insert your favorite union leader to complain about here] would snap his fingers and call for a general strike, then labor would be restored to its rightful position of power and influence.
This is both ahistorical and betrays a lack of awareness of labor’s current state of organization.
The best that the presently existing unions can do is prep for job actions that can serve as an inspiration to even non-union workers and have a decent shot at winning. The once and future Chicago teachers strike, Fight for 15 and Bargaining for the Common Good are the best contemporary examples of the kind of union leadership that’s needed.
In response to my last piece on labor’s ultimate weapon, historian Erik Loomis writes, “The real lesson of studying strikes is that they can serve as a great window into their time. Sometimes they are aspirational, demanding and winning real changes in the lives of workers.” He points to the sit-down strikes that organized General Motors and the Lawrence Bread and Roses strike as examples of aspirational strikes. (The two planned strike waves I cite above also fit the bill.) “Other times though, what strikes really tell us is that workers are desperate,” and their strikes represent “last-ditch efforts to save what they once had.”
All three of the wildcat strikes highlighted here certainly have an air of desperation about them. With workers rights under attack and middle-class living standards increasingly out of reach for most, desperation is likely to be what inspires militancy in the short run. The key, I think, is for workers to at least feel some agency in their struggle against descending into a worse life, if not actually winning a better one.
And, for better or for worse, the workers who took part in these three wildcat actions do come away feeling more powerful because at least the action was their decision and their protest. Each action clearly caused the employer some discomfort, which is in turn some comfort to the activists who took the risk. And that small win, one hopes, did not go unnoticed by other workers who are now fantasizing about how to ruin their boss’ day one day.
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Queen Live
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Re: Queen Live
Queen (Live at Wembley Stadium 12-07-1986)
You can't go wrong with this particular show at all. Of course you will want to own this on DVD as it's flawless. The YouTube version here is good, but I was having some connection issues, so this one gets a lesser rating.
Adam Lambert will join Queen
I don't think this has anything to do with Queen Extravaganza
Adam Lambert will join Queen for a performance at the Sonisphere Festival in July, the American Idol alum reportedly told the UK's Daily Star.
"The intention is to pay tribute to Freddie and the band by singing some f***ing great songs," he reportedly said. "It's to keep the music alive for the fans and give it an energy that Freddie would have been proud of."
However, Lambert appeared to dismiss the remarks on his Twitter page on Friday evening.
"Oooh them clever reporters takin my quotes outta context.... I haven't confirmed any guest appearances. I was talking about the EMA'S," he tweeted, without directly referencing the report in question. "That being said, I'm truly flattered by your jump to such glorious conclusions mr journalist!! "
Lambert previously performed with Queen at the 2009 American Idol finals as well as a November gig at the MTV EMAs.
In the Daily Star's report, he added that he'd love to head to the studio with the iconic band.
"It'd be cool to record with Brian [May] and Roger [Taylor]," he said. "Being asked to front Queen is the best thing that can possibly happen."
A rep for Queen's label, Hollywood Records, said that the pairing hasn't been set in stone quite yet.
"The Daily Star item only mentions that Adam may perform with Queen at Sonisphere. This is not confirmed. Nothing has been signed," the rep told Rolling Stone. "However, if this were to happen, Queen would be returning to the setting of their final concert with Freddie Mercury, which took place in 1986."
Lambert's sophomore album, Trespassing, is due in March.
Queen songs are strong, but Lambert does nothing voice wise to make this must watch or must listen.
Full 2 Hours Queen + ADAM LAMBERT Concert Kiev Ukraine 6-30-12
On Saturday, Queen and former American Idol star Adam Lambert teamed up for the first of what will be six concerts the two will do together this summer -- and now you can watch it all online.
All two hours of Saturday's performance -- at an AIDS awareness concert in Kiev, Ukraine on the same bill as Elton John -- is now available on YouTube in good quality. The set list includes such Queen classics as "Fat Bottomed Girls," "We Will Rock You," "Radio Ga Ga," "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," "We Are the Champions" and, of course, "Bohemian Rhapsody."
The members of Queen didn't let Lambert have all the fun -- they sang some numbers themselves. Roger Taylor took on "A Kind of Magic" and "These Are the Days of Our Lives," and duetted with Lambert on "Under Pressure," while Brian May tackled "Love of My Life" and "Tie Your Mother Down."
After the show, Lambert tweeted, "What an amaaaazing evening! I'm humbled and honored. The energy in the crowd was beyond! Thank you Kiev!"
Queen and Lambert will next perform in Moscow on Tuesday night, followed by a show Saturday in Poland, and then three concerts in London the following week.
Here's the set list:
"Flash"(intro)
"Seven Seas of Rhye"
"Keep Yourself Alive"
"We Will Rock You" (Fast)
"Fat Bottomed Girls"
"Don’t Stop Me Now"
"Under Pressure" (Roger/Adam duet)
"I Want It All"
"Who Wants to Live Forever"
"A Kind of Magic" (Roger)
"These Are Days of Our Lives" (Roger)
"Love of My Life" (Brian)
"‘39" (Brian)
"Dragon Attack"
Drum Battle/Guitar Solo
"I Want to Break Free"
"Another One Bites the Dust"
"Radio Ga Ga"
"Somebody to Love"
"Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
"The Show Must Go On"
"Bohemian Rhapsody"
"Tie Your Mother Down" (Brian)
"We Will Rock You"
"We Are the Champions"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuihnDJiDOc
For a limited time
Normally I wouldn't even want to go there, especially given my past opinions about anyone trying to replace Freddie. But since this is free, I will check this out and see how it plays.
I need to break out my Queen CD's
Quote from: Mac on July 03, 2012, 11:52:17 am
I was thinking about doing a marathon.
I just need my fix
« Last Edit: July 03, 2012, 12:15:51 pm by Mac »
That smiley is more appropriate in the Doobie Brothers Thread.
Queen (Live In Budapest 7/27/1986 - Magic Tour)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TMy7GkI3v8
Tie Your Mother Down
In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited
Tear It Up
Who Wants To Live Forever
I Want To Break Free
Tavaszi szél vizet áraszt
Is This The World We Created?
(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care
Hello Mary Lou
Hammer To Fall
I've never seen this one before. I hope the audio isn't too bad given how old this is.
Queen + Adam Lambert add tour dates
I didn't even know Queen was touring, much less with Adam on vocals. Not interested one bit.
Queen +Adam Lambert Live At Madison Square Garden New York 7/17/2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKxygJ5glDA&index=9&list=PLp2e7UfInEgmB-5r4rtQOEsq-H-mNmQhk
1. Now I'm Here
(Queen cover)
2. Stone Cold Crazy
3. Another One Bites the Dust
4. Fat Bottomed Girls
5. In the Lap of the Gods... Revisited
6. Seven Seas of Rhye
7. Killer Queen
(Queen cover) (with Adam Lambert on a couch/... more)
8. Somebody to Love
9. I Want It All
10. Love of My Life
(Queen cover) (Brian May on solo 12-string ... more)
11. '39
(Queen cover) (acoustic, on center stage, ... more)
12. These Are the Days of Our Lives
(Queen cover) (Roger Taylor on lead vocals, ... more)
13. Bass Solo
(with Neil Fairclough)
14. Drum Solo
(with Roger Taylor on center ... more)
15. Under Pressure
(Queen & David Bowie cover) (Roger Taylor and Adam Lambert ... more)
16. Love Kills
(Freddie Mercury cover)
17. Who Wants to Live Forever
18. Guitar Solo
(with Brian May, possibly a medley of Last Horizon /Brighton Rock /Bijou (?))
19. Tie Your Mother Down
(Queen cover) (with unknown woman behind the ... more)
20. Radio Ga Ga
21. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
22. The Show Must Go On
(Queen cover) (followed by extended call-and-response with Adam Lambert and audience)
23. Bohemian Rhapsody
(Queen cover) (minus the opening vocal ... more)
24. We Will Rock You
25. We Are the Champions
I was very curious to see what Adam could bring to the table. I only watched the first two songs and it was good. Still need to watch it all the way through and see what the verdict is. He's got a lot to live up to.
Queen + Adam Lambert - Rock Big Ben Live - New Years Eve 2014 - Full concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWCNokFWrrQ
1. Don't Stop Me Now
2. I Want To Break Free
5. Under Pressure (Adam & Roger)
7. Radio Gaga
9. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
11. Bohemian Rhapsody / Killer Queen medley
So, I just sat down to watch an entire show with Lambert on lead vocals (I never got around to finishing the previous post as the clip was pulled). This New Years show was good and I do think he is a much better fit for Queen than Paul Rodgers. I have nothing bad to say about Rodgers at all and I do like his singing, but lets be honest here, he wasn't a good fit vocally because he couldn't hit a lot of notes that Freddie could in his sleep. Adam on the other hand can. With that said, I'm still bias toward anyone that steps into Mercury's shoes. I found it very telling that the biggest crowd reaction comes as soon as Freddie's image is displayed on the jumbo tron during Bohemian Rhapsody. Overall, a solid show none the less. Check it out. Brian looks happy to be playing on stage as does Roger, who did a great job on sharing lead vocals during Under Pressure.
Queen & Jessie J's London 2012 - We Will Rock You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzoyDILKlhY
Wow, I see that it has been 3 years since posting anything in this thread. Time to rectify that with a stand out performance by Brian May and Roger Taylor. Yes, even Freddie Mercury gets to shine a bit in the opening here. I'm so looking forward to seeing the new movie Bohemian Rhapsody.
LONDON, ENGLAND Green Day Crowd Singing Bohemian Rhapsody - Hyde Park July 1st, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZnBNuqqz5g
This is cool as f*ck!
Is This The Real Life? The Untold Story Of Queen - Mark Blake
Started by Chiprocks1 Books
Queen The Ultimate Illustrated History of the Crown Kings of Rock - Phil Sutclif
Roger Taylor and Queen Extravaganza... and news
Queen - Discography
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PLAYLIST: NINEBULLETS RADIO 02.23.12
Ninebullets Radio is a radio extension of the blog ninebullets.net that airs every Thursday night in Tampa, Florida on WMNF 88.5 FM at 10pm Eastern. The show is archived for one week after it’s original air date and is available for streaming here. Also, don’t forget to head over to Facebook and like the Ninebullets Radio page.
Below is the playlist for February 23, 2012
01. Todd Farrell – Ninebullets Radio Intro
02. Justin Townes Earle – Look The Other Way
03. Moot Davis – Fade To Gold
04. Have Gun Will Travel – Dream No More
05. Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires – Centreville
07. Wess Floyd – Record Player
08. Otis Gibbs – Big Whiskers
09. Poor Man’s Poison – Crown Vic Headlights
10. Anais Mitchell – Young Man In America
11. The James Low Western Front – Whiskey Farmer
12. The Steeldrivers – If It Hadn’t Been For Love
13. Strawfoot – The Lords Wrath
14. The Gaslight Anthem – God’s Gonna Cut You Down
15. Woody Guthrie – This Land Is Your Land
Author Autopsy IVPosted on February 24, 2012 February 8, 2018 Categories Ninebullets RadioTags Gaslight Anthem, Have Gun Will Travel, Justin Townes Earle, Lincoln Durham, ninebullets radio, Otis Gibbs, Strawfoot, The Gaslight Anthem, The Steeldrivers, wmnf, woody guthrie
Ninebullets Radio is a radio extension of the blog ninebullets.net that airs every Thursday night in Tampa, Florida on WMNF 88.5 FM at 10pm Eastern. The show is archived for one week after it’s original air date and is available for streaming here. Below is the playlist for March 03, 2011.
Todd Snider – Is This Thing Working?
Otis Gibbs – The People’s Day
Chet O’Keefe – Take Me To The Liquor Store
Whitey Morgan & The ’78’s – I Ain’t Drunk
Lucero – Drink Till We’re Gone
Shooter Jennings – Hair of the Dog
Austin Lucas – Darkness Out Of Me
Grayson Capps – Ol’ Slac
Have Gun Will Travel – Sons & Daughters of the Guilded Age
Hellbound Glory – Why Take The Pain
Left Lane Cruiser – Pig Farm
James Leg – Drowning In Fire
Builders and the Butchers – All Away
Strawfoot – Cursed Neck
Old Crow Medicine Show – Tell It To Me
Author Autopsy IVPosted on March 4, 2011 February 8, 2018 Categories ReviewsTags Austin Lucas, grayson capps, Have Gun Will Travel, Left Lane Cruiser, ninebullets radio, Old Crow Medicine Show, Otis Gibbs, Strawfoot, Todd Snider, Whitey Morgan and the 78's, wmnf2 Comments on PLAYLIST: NINEBULLETS RADIO 03.03.11
CHASE FIFTY SIX – ALLATOONA RISING
Sometimes ninebullets can be work, albeit enjoyable work, but work nonetheless. Then there are times where it’s fun, where you get to write about a band you really think folks will like once they’ve had a chance to hear them. The first time I wrote about The Fox Hunt it was like that, same as the first time I wrote about Strawfoot, and I’m getting that same feeling as I sit here getting ready to tell y’all about this little unsigned band from a town in Georgia you’ve never heard of (hell, I got all sorts of family in Georgia and I’ve never heard of it) that goes by the name of Chase Fifty Six.
Chase Fifty Six, like certain other notable Georgia-based bands, has a three axe attack, featuring Kenny Mac, Brent Griggs and Chris Stalcup (who is also the singer). The outfit is rounded out by Jared Cobb on drums and Jim Vollrath on bass. Their new album, Allatoona Rising, was recorded in a shack in the Georgia woods during the summer of 2009. The album features 11 tracks of something they’re calling “Georgia Rock.” Now, honestly, I’ve never heard of the Georgia Rock until now and I’m not sure Georgia has a defined enough sound to get their own genre yet, but you know, whatever. When I told my wife about the album I explained it as such, “It’s like early Drive-By Truckers. Think pre-Southern Rock Opera minus those bad attempts at being funny that the Truckers experienced from time to time. The singer sounds sort of reminiscent of Cooley, but there’s no “Love Like This” on the album. I hope no one feels like it’s a slam to say that the songwriting here isn’t on par with Cooley’s. I mean, IMO, Cooley is one of the best songwriters I’ve had the pleasure to grow up with, watch play and witness grow. So, songwriting comparisons aside, I’d like to say that Allatoona Rising is a fantastic effort from a band worth paying attention to.
Chase Fifty Six – Mary Jane
Chase Fifty Six – Goodbye Princess
Chase Fifty Six – Devil’s Bed
Chase Fifty Six’s Official Site, Chase Fifty Six on myspace, Buy Allatoona Rising
Author Autopsy IVPosted on July 8, 2010 February 8, 2018 Categories ReviewsTags Brent Griggs, Chris Stalcup, Drive-By Truckers, fox hunt, Georgia Rock, georgia woods, jane chase, Jared Cobb, Jim Vollrath, Kenny Mac, Southern Rock, Strawfoot11 Comments on CHASE FIFTY SIX – ALLATOONA RISING
THE POOR WAYFARING STRANGER:
It’s been a while since I just wrote about a song (the others are here and here), and even though this won’t actually get posted for a week or more, tonight is made for a night of meditating on “Wayfaring Stranger”. This weekend was horribly overshadowed by death with an internet/real life acquaintance losing his wife many decades before he should have, and our tech guru, Trevor, losing a pet. I know some of you have no idea how sad losing a pet can be, but anyone who’s ever lost a household pet knows how dark that grieving process can actually be. To both Don and Trevor I offer my deepest condolences, and in my own weird way I’m writing about this song for y’all.
“The Wayfaring Stranger” or “Poor Wayfaring Stranger”, like most traditional folk songs, is of an unknown and oft-disputed origin. Depending on who you ask, the song’s origins are Appalachian Folk, Old Irish, or Catskills Folk, with some even theorizing that its origins rest in the Negro Spirituals and that there was a deliberate concealment of the song’s origins. Based on my own limited knowledge and experience from researching other traditional folk songs, I get the feeling that it either started in the slave fields of the old South or came to the Appalachian people via the Irish. Like most other traditional American folk songs there are thousands of variations of “Wayfaring Stranger”, which take great liberties in title, melody, harmony and lyrics. The version we’re most familiar with now was popularized in the middle of the twentieth century by musical researchers and performers such as Pete Seeger and Burl Ives.
The song tells of a wayfaring stranger’s hardships and struggles on this mortal coil and the final reward of reuniting with their loved ones in the afterlife. It has been covered by more people than you can shake a stick at, but here are some of my favorites:
The Standard:
Burl Ives – Wayfaring Stranger
Scott H. Biram – Poor, Wayfaring Stranger
Laura Love – Poor Wayfaring Stranger
Strawfoot – Poor Wayfarin’ Stranger
Eva Cassidy – Wayfaring Stranger
The Best of the Rest:
16 Horsepower – Wayfaring Stranger
Doc WatsonMerle Watson – Wayfaring Stranger
Emmylou Harris – Wayfaring Stranger
Greenland is Melting – Wayfaring Stranger
Jack White – Wayfaring stranger
Johnny Cash – Wayfaring Stranger
Natalie Merchant – Poor Wayfaring Stranger
Neko Case – Wayfaring Stranger
Author Autopsy IVPosted on April 23, 2010 February 8, 2018 Categories ReviewsTags 16 Horsepower, Burl Ives, Emmylou Harris, Eva Cassidy, Greenland Is Melting, Jack White, johnny cash, laura love, Natalie Merchant, neko case, Poor Wayfaring Stranger, Scott H. Biram, Strawfoot, Wayfaring stranger18 Comments on THE POOR WAYFARING STRANGER:
HAPPY HALLOWEEN (STRAWFOOT GIVEAWAY)
That is a picture of the meathand I made yesterday for my wife’s Halloween party. I was supposed to post that picture and this contest yesterday but all of my plans were derailed by a bad hamburger the night before. Anyhow. Last night was the official release of Strawfoot’s new album, How We Prospered (review), and in celebration they’ve given my a prize pack to award to the ninebullets faithful. So, the first (3) people to email me and tell me what they dressed as last night will win a prize. First person will win a copy of the new album, How We Prospered, the Second person will win a copy of the first album, Chasing Locusts and the first person to email a picture of themselves dressed up last night will win a copy of both cds. GIVEAWAY IS OVER.
Strawfoot – Churchyard Cough
Strawfoot – Independence Day
Strawfoot – Seven Ways
Strawfoot’s Official Site, Strawfoot on myspace, Strawfoot on Facebook
Author Autopsy IVPosted on November 1, 2009 February 8, 2018 Categories 30 Day Song ChallengeTags contest, halloween party, happy halloween, Strawfoot2 Comments on HAPPY HALLOWEEN (STRAWFOOT GIVEAWAY)
STRAWFOOT – HOW WE PROSPERED
I first found Strawfoot via the Rodentia compilation released by Devil’s Ruin Records. Being more than blown away by their contribution to that cd, I bought their debut album, Chasing Locusts, and the rest is history. Since writing about Chasing Locusts, Marcus (singer) and I have had numerous email exchanges and he was kind enough to send a copy of their newest cd, How We Prospered, my way a few weeks ahead of its fitting Halloween release date.
In the time between Chasing Locusts and How We Prospered, the band lineup found itself in flux by losing a harmonica player and having to replace a bassist and drummer. These changes have done little to lighten the mood of these “foul-mouthed heathens” accompanying a particularly angry preacher. In fact, one could say the new additions have brought the simmering anger of Chasing Locusts to the surface. The album features 10 original tracks and a cover of Hank’s “Ramblin Man”, plus the track “More Of Dread” whose lyrics were taken from a poem written by Honest Abe Lincoln (yes, the former President). Turns out that in addition to being arguably one of America’s greatest presidents, Abe also fancied himself something of a poet, so in honor of his 200th birthday the band turned one of his poems into song. Think of it like the Old Crow/Bob Dylan co-write of “Wagon Wheel“, only darker.
The words of Strawfoot are something that should be discussed as well. I’m always happy when a band is proud enough of their lyrics to actually include them in the cd insert, but Strawfoot takes that one step further by making a book (available for free download here) that includes the lyrics from Strawfoot’s songbook. It also should be noted that when Marcus isn’t penning songs for Strawfoot, he manages to write books from time to time.
Extracurricular activities aside, a band is ultimately judged on its music and I think Strawfoot’s blend of gospel, folk, country and attitude will leave you feeling wholly satisfied. I came into it with enormous expectations, and after getting over my typical uneasiness with new albums from bands I like I’ve fallen in love with it. Hell, I like it better than Chasing Locusts and I had the nerve to dub that Essential Listening, so I think you already know where this one falls.
Check out the samples and buy it come Halloween.
Author Autopsy IVPosted on October 27, 2009 February 8, 2018 Categories Essential ListeningTags Bob Dylan, Strawfoot, wagon wheel3 Comments on STRAWFOOT – HOW WE PROSPERED
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draft. 2020 vision, change the world leaflet, full spectrum cooperation.
Posted on September 27, 2018, 5:58 am By admin
The Peace Table, Megiddo Peace Project
an open letter by Odile Hugonot Haber and Alan Haber
Dear Friends in the Peace movements
This introduction letter is an invitation into a hopeful peace initiative long percolating… The action begins circulating a one page,”change the world,” leaflet (draft.3, at the end, adapted from “Greetings” circulated at the 2018 Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom International Congress, Accra, Ghana.)
The intent is a 2 year strategic plan to identify “the war system” as a “system,” and to introduce into politics a high-drama of the “people of the world” calling the “powers that be,” the war powers, to the table to negotiate peace, “a new social-political-economic contract” ending the war system.
Naming the System is a beginning
In 1965, at the first US national demonstration against the Vietnam war, organized by the Students for a Democratic Society, our keynote talk challenged that we “name the system.”
In the 1980’s, peace activists working the United States suffered “solidarity whip-lash” shifting from calls for help from El Salvador, South Africa, Nicaragua, while it was clear the same system and dynamics underlay all these wars.
Naming the system… remains a challenge, capitalism? patriarchy? corporatism? neo-liberalism? imperialism? empire? military-industrial-complex? what?
This initiative urges that we roll these all into one and call it what, in effect, it is: a “war system.” and to demand it be ended.
The war system […another telling of the sorry story. skip ahead if need be] The people of the world have suffered under the war system for at least the last 5000 years. The boundaries of our countries are drawn in blood and the agonies of soldiers contending in violence, and of the innocents swept in its tides.
History, (his story,) is often taught pre-war, post-war, between the wars, cold war…the war of roses and a hundred years. Entertainments tell its glories and horrors, Wall Street records its profits.
States are defined by Constitutions and Laws often imposed by violence and sustained by pacifications of uprisings and the umbrellas of “protection” like old feudal barons lording it over vassals and serfs.
A culture of war has permeated all aspects of our common life.
The War System is a system of power based on domination, hierarchy, command, imposition, impunity, and ultimately violence to keep in power those who often got into power by those means, including aggression, corruption, deceit, bullying, and manipulations of democracy and fear..
The war system exists in a concurrent consensus among the powerful on the divisions of resources, terms of trade and alliances to keep things relatively stable,… until there is a rift in the fabric and arms are called to re-establish order.
The war system is a siphon that sucks money and wealth and the fruit of labor from the poor and the working many to the coffers of the gun makers, financiers and politicians who profit from the mayhem.
The war system is hot now in 40 plus places on this planet., and simmering in many more. creating sufferings beyond measure. Nations have bonded into huge coalitions and are making war in some of the poorest nations like Yemen.
So it has been, beyond memory. People endure, persevere People resist, organize, protest all over the world, on a thousand and ten thousand local fronts…advances are made, humanity keeps hope alive.
However, even in our victories the war system has maintained itself and two looming realities send alarms that make perseverance and steadfastness not enough.
First: Alarm The destructive capacity of the weapons of war and the instability of power, and people in power, pressed by distress everywhere, make urgent a reversal of increasing militarization… and a ban against the bomb and weapons of mass destruction.
And Second Alarm, The planetary climate change consequences of human activity, threatening the life system as a whole, require economic and political shifts in policies and cooperation hardly conceivable in the world of war, with the war system itself contributing mightily to the fossil fuel dependence and pollution.
The peace movements are rising, reasons for hope. Often our movements have been separated and siloed in different specialties, localities and vocabularies…(and ideologies, identities and egos, too.) No longer need it be so,
The basis of unity in the Call of Life for Peace is far deeper than the particulars of difference, and cooperation is a way differences are resolved.
First, the movements for peace and justice and freedom and liberation have never been more diverse, extensive, stronger, active. Every identity has become more conscious of itself and its history and dignity. Increasingly, every facet of repression and oppression is resisted and challenged. People inspire one another across boundaries. Incredible work has already been done.
Second, the capacity for communication with the world wide web, internet and social media allows a degree of cooperation, information sharing and thinking and planning together, never possible before.
Third, this is a new time in the whole human story. Now, for the first time since humans first came out of Africa and populated the world, or however it happened, for the first time since the old book said, “the sins and iniquities of the fathers are on to the 3rd and 4th generation,” that there are actually 3 and 4 generations active and conscious and trying to figure out our human predicament and to extricate ourselves from the consequences of the actions of the past generations which we have inherited. The opportunity for four intergeneration thinking might point a strategic path that does not reproduce the problems that got humanity to this mess in the first place.
Fourth, there is a new generation of courage and honesty, individuals who have it together and speak authentic truth… and challenge power right in its face, and have compassion and understanding too. Women and those schooled in the worlds of oppression and carriers of the ancient wisdoms are in new prominence.
Fifth, there are the continuing movements of consciousness and spirit and human potential, general systems thinking, trauma recovery and healing, and permaculture that allow a wider global life system perspective in political work.
Six, almost everyone, in every country feels an apprehension…people are alert. not yet enough, but more than ever, restless, like animals before a storm, possibly receptive.
And Seventh: a viable alternative exists. A set of policies and best practices that could set in motion a transition out of the economy and culture of war, into a culture of peace and non-violence, reproachement and a wider justice and freer life for all.
And Eight, war is not anywhere necessary. It is not good for children and other living things. Everyone could be better off if the whole enterprise were closed down, money reallocated, swords beaten into plowshares, and people set to doing better things for human needs. Past belligerents can agree on mutual recognition.
So, given the necessity imposed by the First and Second Alarm, , and the strengths and potentialities suggested by 1 through 8, what can be done….
System change
Challenge the war system as a system.
every way we have, and are doing
and adding one new way: provide the warriors an exit option, and the people a way of participating.
Stage, choreograph and act out a mythic meta-drama of the “people of the world” challenging the “old powers that have been,” to give up their wars, put down their guns, to let their hearts be touched, and turned, and come to the table to talk…to face the people of the world
Every person, every human in the world, to the extent we can, is invited to the peace table, to become a living character in this drama, a passion play for our time, to put their voice in the “one human voice”…(or taking on the voice of the masters of war and makers of the big guns,) …or to be spectators, … or perhaps members of a chorus of lamentation, or silent.
On the everyday level of organization actions and missions, everyone keeps doing what we do, …forward on all fronts. Resisting and proposing. Advancing coordinated direct action demonstrations and non-violent civil disobedience. Struggling for the commons and democratic space.
On the meta level of system change: First, create an open public process to invite the self expression of the “one human voice,” and, then, compose out of the particulars of response, a draft of a “new social-political-economic contract,” for after the wars, and for the transition time to after the wars, that the “people of the world” call the “powers that have been” to the table negotiate…. and to agree..
Make it “News” and loud by the 2020 political campaigns, in America, and all over the world, wherever there are elections..
Challenge in the United States the wars powers long announced plan of “full spectrum dominance” with the people power plan of “full spectrum cooperation,” beginning now with cooperation among peace organizations in sharing in “crowdsourcing” the peoples’ voice, and in composing a document —and video and song and whatever in its expression.
Create a bank of win-win solutions that have occured. Problems versus solutions so all could access possibilities that have worked and won the day lessening dispute or wars, that help also to create long term decisions.
“Time Line” 2 year plan
Now through Peace Day, 2018:
>send out draft “leaflet” and introductory letter for responses. and rework for better expression, WILPF, WBW, others 2 questions:
What would help make peace in the world where you live, from what you know? Who are the people and powers you are up against?
>invite a “reception committee” to design a way of receiving, organizing and sharing responses
>invite a “software committee” to help
September 2018 through February, Presidents Day, 2019
>open Megiddo web site portal as initial reception point of responses
>seek co-initiators, and proliferators and pollinators
>begin general distribution, promotion of the initiative,
Meeting in the Fall: Nuclear Accountability Boulder meeting
World Beyond War Toronto meetings
Women’s March Washington
Armistice Day veterans rallies Washington November 9-11
1400 organizations in Housemans World Peace Directory
Presidents Day 2019 through Summer 2019
> reception committee continues to receive and organize responses
> invite a “presentation committee” to undertake reading, synthesis, writing and other expressions to present the Demand
considering:
207 country codes, and “world citizens”
40 war zones and displaced persons, and people without documents
recurrent questions: land, water, security, privilege, power,
care of life system, traditional enemities and historic memories
whole system elements: justice, governance, infrastructure, economics environment, science, education, media, health, relations, spirituality, arts
“revolution of values:” racism, materialism, militarism nationalism
questions of morals, bigotry, greed, brutality, arrogance…
what peace looks like …actual on the ground projects and pieces of the peace,
next system economic transition policies
gender and transgender perspectives
4 generational perspectives, young and youth, and old and elder, and two generations between.
Peace Week 2019 Sundays September 15 to 22. International Day of Peace Saturday September 21. Peoples of the World Convocation.
To receive and discuss the work of the “presentation committee.” emulating the aspirations of the 1999 Hague Appeal for Peace, plus 20, and the First Hague conference, 1899 plus 120…
Invent a beautiful way of doing it, with music art and ideas, broadcast everywhere
An inclusive peace circle with its center everywhere and circumference surrounding, embracing the whole world
>invite a “convocation planning consortium,” all organizations that want to cooperate
>choose a central meeting site, or multiple inter-connected sites
>create a computer world wide web interconnect design so any one or group at any peace table in the world can have a presence in the world convocation
>present “the Presentation,” seek consensus and identify continuing questions
>issue the Demand.
> Address the Powers that have been, the Masters of War: those identified as the ones we are up against.
End of the War System, your part a the whole system.
put down the guns, come to the people’s peace table to talk. consider to accept a “new social-political contract,” articulated in minute particular at this convocation, a better system, where everyone wins: “full spectrum cooperation.” partnership, generosity, caring, sharing, healing, helping, truth and reconciliation, demanding all governments become “governments for peace.”
In the United States, for instance, formulate a 4 year economic, political diplomatic transition program to demobilize the military industrial complex and convert to the peace system and an alternative global security system.
Peace Week 2019 to Election Days 2020, November 3, 2020 in the United States
> introduce the peace demand in political debates,
> challenge all political candidates to read and endorse the Demand and the “new social-political-economic contract.” …Press National House and Senate candidates, State and Local candidates, and especially those contending for the Presidency
> challenge the Democratic and Republican Conventions Seek to introduce and end the war system platform Summer 2020
> consider options for independent political action
after the elections 2020:
> re-evaluate
>press the 4 year plan on congress
>prepare for 2022 and 2024.
To the End Game
A conscious social political evolution can happen.
Awakening is possible, especially when alarms are sounded
People can choose to change old habits, especially when help is at hand
Learned behaviors and beliefs can be unlearned, especially when teachers are at hand
It is also true, not to be denied, as one woman said:
“nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom
by appealing to the moral sense, of the people, who were oppressing them”
Yet ending the war system, creating a world beyond war is changing history, and changing the world as it has been since before memory.
One human voice speaking truth to power Circulating this leaflet, asking people to respond and to pass it on, listening, working to synthesize one human voice of the many, …the actions here…undertakes to create an articulated public voice of the ”people of the world”, speaking directly to the powers of war and politics, demanding they come to the table to talk, demand they consider “transformational surrender,” going through the eye of the needle, accepting a new social-political-economic contract, ending the whole war system and beginning the next age of humanity, after the wars, becoming heros for the future..
Asking them to change…each of them, . identified by the people who respond to the question, “who are the people and powers you are up against?” Personalize the system, by names and deeds, named by the people on whose neck is their war system foot.
It is an appeal to the heart, and reason, and care for the children, their own, and grandchildren, and the next generations, and for the polar bears too.
Look for splinterings in the ruling class concurrent consensus that keeps the war system in place.
The Demand, distilled out of all the”Reception Committee” was able to receive, is intended to be policy specific, —local, state, national, regional, global — with links to sources, for peace in the world and in all and each of the wars now hot and simmering. “What is needed for peace where you are?” our first basic question.
“The Presentation” will likely be in many media forms…more than words. The words though are important, hoped to be beautifully said, clear and in big print, explicite about the minute particulars, in multiple languages. Other forms of presentation may be videos, songs, dances, tweets, who knows how the people of the world, if asked, would express it themself.
20/20 clear vision : full spectrum cooperation. End the war system.
In the political campaigns of 2020, the universal inclusive demand can be put to every politician in the political process, country by country, reinforcing itself across borders—changing the terms of debate globally, and helping all of us better work together.
And ideally, too, it will help stir an increasing awakening, and a way for people, wherever they are, to participate in a conscious social evolution.., to be characters in the drama.
This initiative projects a two year process, also ideally, that we become more the “we” that we can be, a big us…world wide…collaborating in both intentional action, and in a big hug, of mutual recognition around the world, across boundaries of class and race and gender and age and organization and religion… to a common purpose, broad enough to embrace all our purposes.
In this effort toward full spectrum cooperation, no organization loses its autonomy or independence in what it does.
Each “co-initiator organization” keeps connection with the responses that come through its portal to the “reception committee” All organizations can spread the initiative invitation leaflet in their own outreach and program efforts
This work is also hoped to increase our knowledge of one another and opportunities to cooperate.
>a “collaboration consortium” of participating organizations will figure out how to proceed as we go along to the Peace Table
The Megiddo Peace Project, the organizing “lets do it,” of this initiative, has, since its inception in 1986, focused on “the peace table.” Peace requires a meeting, (or many, but one to seal it,) and a meeting requires a table, and peace requires putting down the gun and coming to the table to talk, and people have to agree on the shape of the table at which to sit and see eye to eye. The project began with a physical table, family size, designed to be receptive to all outstanding questions, –artistically representing the coming together of the 4 corners of the square of our earthly dilemmas, rising through the eye of the needle transformed to support the circle of community— and it was given to the movement to do with what we can. Tel Megiddo is an archeological site in the Holy Lands, the foretold place of “Armageddon” the bloody war at the “end of days”… which it is our purpose to preempt and prevent and transform. and make peace instead.
We are long time activists, Odile Hugonot Haber, a nurse, and Alan Haber a woodworker, We call this effort an “initiative” because without our initiative it would not have been talked out, presented at the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) international congress in Ghana, and now in our world of friends and colleagues in the movements… and to you.
We hope what we do produces a positive response and generates the momentum and spread necessary for success.
Scale of this ,endeavor:
There are 7 billion people in the world and almost all of them would include their voice for peace in the one human voice, if they heard they were asked. In the short run this would overload any capacity to receive the responses.
So practically speaking, how many people responding are enough?
As many as we get is the best we can do. Looked at another way, a psychologist of visual perception told me, there were 1.2 million neural fibers in the optic nerve, carrying information about what is out there to what is seen in the mind, giving the clarity of the human eye.
If we could among us receive 1.2 million inputs, and integrate them, we could perhaps see together. adequately enough to approach true human vision. …of the one human family.
>We invite information engineers to join the “software committee” to help design a receiver, adequate to receive a wider world web of inputs.
Run the whole project on voluntary donations of work, love and knowledge.
Money needed for postage and printing
Money needed for the Peace Week meeting 2019
Each committee and consortium would develop its own budget and fundraising plan
REPLY: Megiddo Peace Project megiddo@umich.edu PO Box 7213, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48107, usa
( ) I am interested
real name, email address, country code, age, gender and other self identification.
my answer to the questions, now ( ) or ( ) later
what would help make peace in the world, and my life where I live, from what I know?
who are the people and powers you are up against?
I am willing to help
( ) Software Committee: help design reception portals, ways to share information
( ) Co-Initiating Organization: establishing a partner portal
( ) Reception Committee: to receive responses
( ) Presentation Committee:to integrate and to present what is received
( ) Convocation planning consortium , peace week 2019 conference
( ) Collaboration consortium…figuring it out as we go along.
copy of draft .3 leaflet
adapted from “Greetings” circulated at the 2018 Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom International Congress, Accra, Ghana
Women, and men, of every country, and the world, are enmeshed in the war system.
System change is what we need.
Eleanor Roosevelt said, after the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948
“It is for the people of the world to make the peace”
The states can’t do it. They define the war system.
>power concedes nothing without demand<
The Inclusive Demand is Ending the whole System of War.
This Demand needs to be put at the center of the political agendas in 2020.
Wars kill, mutilate, rape, pollute, starve, do not increase human security,
and cause horrendous moral injury.
The war powers have many nuclear bombs –and weapons and violences proliferate.
The people of the world need to transform this war worn system into a system of peace making and healing
moving forward in economics and culture to support life on our planet.
…the inclusive we …need to bring together our knowledges from our organizations and struggles and to craft a presentation of comprehensive demands that express in one voice the peace call of the human family
offering solutions, and putting system change demands to the politicians and powers that be.
We are inviting a cooperative endeavor to harvest from the knowledge of the movements
a clear program statement of what it means, in specific policies required, to end the war system…
and to transition, retrain and repurpose to build what will be the new, next system that serves,
life and humanity, all species, full spectrum cooperation …the peace system.
We invite you to join this 2020 20/20 clear vision initiative.
What would help make peace in the world where you live, from what you know?
The Megiddo Peace Project is undertaking to provide an initial “portal” to help gather these particulars of demand and solution, calling the war powers to the peace table Much help is needed.
Please write and send your responses as part of your part in the composite one voice for Peace. send: your “statements of demand,” what is needed, and ideas and questions .
We will share what we receive. We hope many organizations will become co-initiators, and a cooperative process will be invented to sort out what we learn and write what needs to be said.
An aim of this initiative is to stimulate the broad peace and justice and freedom movements in every country to become more coordinated and to press common policy programs for each government…expressing an ideal,…to become a “government for peace.”
We are both WILPF members of Ann Arbor, Michigan US Section. Odile Hugonot Haber is a nurse, long active in the US section, and Alan Haber, a carpenter, made a peace table receptive to all questions. As the first president of Students for a Democratic Society (sds), Alan participated in the collective drafting of the 1962 sds Port Huron Statement, a manifesto of the New Left..
Contact Megiddo Peace project PO Box 7213 Ann Arbor Michigan 48107.
e-mails: Megiddo@umich.edu, odilehh@gmail.com www.personal.umich.edu/~megiddo
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Jury Slams Monsanto for Corporate Malfeasance in Roundup Cancer Trial, Awards $80 Million in Damages
Posted on March 27, 2019, 11:15 pm By admin
Photo credit: livelovefruit.com
SAN FRANCISCO – Today, a second jury in less that 8 months found Bayer-Monsanto’s signature weedkiller Roundup responsible for causing cancer.
The verdict in the case Hardeman v. Monsanto before a federal district court in San Francisco found exposure to glyphosate, the signature ingredient in Roundup, caused plaintiff Edward Hardeman’s non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Jurors awarded $80 million in damages to Hardeman.
“Clearly, the testimony that informed the jury’s decision was Bayer-Monsanto hiding Roundup’s carcinogenic properties, manipulating the science and cozying-up with EPA so it would not have to warn consumers of its dangerous product,” said Environmental Working Group (EWG) President Ken Cook. “Bayer-Monsanto has known for decades the cancer-causing properties of Roundup and I applaud the jury for holding the company accountable for failing to warn consumers of the known danger.”
“This verdict puts Bayer’s back firmly up against the wall as the cost of litigation mounts and its stock price gets pummeled once again,” said Cook.
The World Health Organization, in a March 20, 2015 report, stated that glyphosate is a “probable” human carcinogen. In 2017, the European Parliament voted to ban glyphosate in 28 countries. Currently, countries around the world are considering banning glyphosate or have already banned it.
Glyphosate has also been identified as a leading cause of the loss of 90 percent of the population and the threat of extinction of Monarch Butterflies in North America. Monarch Butterflies are a major crop pollinator. The herbicide kills milkweed, which is the sole source of food for Monarch caterpillers.
Monarch Butterfly on native milkweed.
Glyphosate is the most heavily used herbicide in the world. Even people who are not farm workers or groundskeepers, widely including home gardeners, are being exposed to the cancer-causing chemical.
A 2015 EWG analysis mapped the year-to-year growth in glyphosate use on American farmland from 1992 to 2012. According to the Department of Agriculture, in 2014, approximately 240 million pounds of glyphosate were sprayed in the U.S. As a result of widespread spraying, glyphosate has now been found to contaminate air, water and soil across vast expanses of the U.S. It also shows up in the food Americans eat every day.
Biomonitoring studies in a number of states, especially in the Midwest, found glyphosate in the bodies of children and pregnant women. According to initial data from a study in Indiana, women who were more heavily exposed to glyphosate during pregnancy were more likely to give birth to premature babies who weighed less than average.
Although the vast majority of glyphosate is applied to genetically modified corn and soybeans, it is increasingly being sprayed on oats just before harvest as a drying agent, or desiccant. Glyphosate kills the crop, drying it out so it can be harvested earlier than if the plant were allowed to die naturally. This allows easier harvesting but also increases the likelihood that the pesticide makes it into food. The herbicide is now being sprayed on more than 70 types of crop.
Crops sprayed with glyphosate. Source: Live, Love, Fruit blog, livelovefruit.com .
Two separate rounds of laboratory tests commissioned last year by EWG found glyphosate in nearly every sample of popular oat-based cereals and other oat-based food marketed to children. The brands in which glyphosate was detected included several cereals and breakfast bars made by General Mills and Quaker.
Material for this article is from EWG and other sources. For more information please contact The Environmental Working Group (EWG), Monica Amarelo (202) 939-9140, monica@ewg.org EWG is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization that empowers people to live healthier lives in a healthier environment. Through research, advocacy and unique education tools, EWG drives consumer choice and civic action.
High School Students Strike Worldwide Demanding Emergency Climate Action
“We’re not striking because we want adults to give us hope. We’re striking because we want them to panic, to act like we have the emergency that we have.” Greta Thunberg, March 15, 2019
Photo from Montreal, Quebec via Greta Thunberg@GretaThunberg
On every continent and in more than 125 countries, more than one million students in high schools and younger went on strike on Friday, March 15, 2019. There were more than 2,000 different protests. The first global school strike day is to be followed by persistent Friday school strikes, until governments and businesses everywhere take the emergency actions needed to avert the worst global warming results now projected by scientists.
Photo: Hordago@Hordago_org
The people of Earth only have 11 more years to avoid disastrous levels of global warming, according to a 2018 report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
In its newest report, The Living Planet Report 2018, the World Wildlife Fund found that human beings have wiped out 60 percent of all mammals, birds, fish and reptiles on Earth since 1970.
ScienceDirect just released a report on the decline of insect species concluding that 40 percent of all species worldwide face extinction in the next few decades, and the number of threatened species is increasing each year:
“As insect biodiversity is essential for the proper functioning of all ecosystems, the current trends are disrupting – to varying degree – the invaluable pollination, natural pest control, food resources, nutrient recycling and decomposition services that many insects provide (Aizen et al., 2009; Davis et al., 2004; Kreutzweiser et al., 2007)) …The pace of modern insect extinctions surpasses that of vertebrates by a large margin…Since the declines affect the majority of species in all taxa, it is evident that we are witnessing the largest extinction event on Earth since the late Permian and Cretaceous periods (Ceballos et al., 2017; Raup and Sepkoski Jr, 1986). Because insects constitute the world’s most abundant and speciose animal group and provide critical services within ecosystems, such event cannot be ignored and should prompt decisive action to avert a catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems (May, 2010).”
Photo from Prague, Czech Republic via Greta Thunberg@GretaThunberg
The Student Global Climate Strike demands vary somewhat, from country to country. Students in the USA have issued these demands:
Our Demands
An equitable transition for marginalized communities that will be most impacted by climate change
An equitable transition for fossil-fuel reliant communities to a renewable economy
100% renewable energy by 2030
Upgrading the current electric grid
No creation of additional fossil fuel infrastructure (pipelines, coal plants, fracking etc.)
The creation of a committee to oversee the implementation of a Green New Deal
That has subpoena power
Committee members can’t take fossil fuel industry donations
Accepts climate science
A halt in any and all fossil fuel infrastructure projects
Fossil fuel infrastructure disproportionately impacts indigenous communities and communities of color in a negative way
Creating new fossil fuel infrastructure would create new reliance on fossil fuels at a time of urgency
All decisions made by the government be based on the best-available and most-current scientific research.
The world needs to reduce GHG emissions by at least 50% by 2030, and by 100% before 2050.
We need to incorporate this fact into all policymaking
Declaring a National Emergency on Climate Change
This calls for a national emergency because we have only a few years to avoid catastrophic climate change.
Since the US has empirically been a global leader, we should be a leader on climate action
Since the US largely contributes to global GHG emissions, we should be leading the fight in GHG reduction
Compulsory comprehensive education on climate change and its impacts throughout grades K-8
K-8 is the ideal age range for compulsory climate change education because:
Impressionability is high during that developmental stage, therefore it’s easier for children and young adults to learn about climate change in a more in-depth manner, and retain that information
Climate change becomes a nonpartisan issue, as it truly is because it’s based solely on science from the beginning
Preserving our public lands and wildlife
Diverse ecosystems and national parks will be very impacted by climate change, therefore it’s important that we work to the best of our abilities to preserve their existence
Keeping our water supply clean
Clean water is essential for all living beings, when we pollute our water supply, or the water supply of someone else, it’s simply a violation of an essential human right
Photo by Jamie Tehonica. Alexandria Villasenor, 13, California, United States.
NLG Condemns Secret US-Mexican List of Journalists, Advocates Documenting & Providing Humanitarian Aid at Border
Posted on March 8, 2019, 11:47 pm By admin
(Photo: A portion of the documents leaked to NBC San Diego listing targeted journalists, activists, and an attorney.)
by National Lawyer’s Guild
TIJUANA, Mexico—Leaked US-Mexican government documents revealed both governments are maintaining a secret database targeting at least 59 journalists, activists, and an attorney as part of an intelligence-gathering mission under “Operation Secure Line,” based on their work reporting on and offering humanitarian aid to the recent caravans of migrants fleeing from violence and poverty. The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) condemns this practice as a blatant violation of civil liberties and attempt to intimidate those seeking to provide necessary, legal and legitimate aid to migrants and their families.
An NLG delegation was in Tijuana investigating violations of migrants’ rights by US and Mexican authorities when the documents, titled “San Diego Sector Foreign Operations Branch: Migrant Caravan FY-2019, Suspected Organizers, Coordinators, Instigators and Media,” were uncovered. Prior to the leaked report, the delegation heard stories of hours-long interrogations, harassment, confiscation of electronic devices, and intimidation of activists and lawyers by immigration authorities on both sides of the border related to their humanitarian work, including members of the group Pueblo Sin Fronteras (PSF). Many activists who felt singled out by CBP correctly suspected that they were on a government watch list due to their association with the migrant caravan, especially following the of two journalists and US attorneys with Al Otro Lado who were denied entry into Mexico earlier this month, who were held and faced questioning for up to 10 hours.
Alex Mensing, a US citizen living in Tijuana who helped coordinate the delegation’s meetings with domestic and international NGOs, as well as Mexican human rights and immigration authorities, chose not to accompany the delegation to San Diego on Wednesday for meetings with the ACLU, Border Angels, and the International Rescue Committee. Mensing has been repeatedly stopped for secondary questioning by US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) on a clear effort to intimate PSF and other volunteers. “It’s worrisome, but not surprising,” Mensing told Telemundo yesterday. “I was taken into a concrete cell for interrogation and they took my phone, scanned all my notebooks, all the papers I brought… It angers me that the government is using taxpayer funds to create a database meant to intimidate people.” For the last four months, Mensing has attempted to obtain information directly from CBP about his repeated questioning to no avail.
Pooja Gehi, Executive Director of the NLG and member of the Tijuana delegation, said, “We witnessed migrants who had traveled days fleeing violence and persecution, only to be denied their right to claim asylum at the border, in contravention of international law. Instead, they were required to put their name on a handwritten list, then wait indefinitely while trying to find food and shelter, dodging violence and deportation, in hope that their names would be called to start the arduous process that is the US asylum system.”
It is also important to note that Mexico has previously operationalized their surveillance of activists and journalists through practices such as Pegasus malware, and the leaked list also delegitimizes the Democrats’ offer of a “technological wall” as an acceptable compromise to Trump’s border wall that would be any more lawful or based in human rights principles.
While government surveillance of activists is nothing new, and an issue the NLG has a long history of fighting, we are particularly concerned that binational surveillance of activists will not only deter people from engaging in humanitarian action but will also leave migrants in need of humanitarian and legal support with neither, thereby exacerbating human suffering at the border.
Since last year, NLG lawyers, legal workers, and law students have been on the ground in Tijuana volunteering legal support, training, and observation in coordination with other organizations such as Al Otro Lado. The NLG urges deepened investigation into this report and demands an immediate termination of the illegal practice of targeting activists and journalists.
The National Lawyers Guild, whose membership includes lawyers, legal workers, jailhouse lawyers, and law students, was formed in 1937 as the United States’ first racially-integrated bar association to advocate for the protection of constitutional, human and civil rights.
1/8/19: Open Letter to the President of the United Mexican States, Mr. Andrés Manuel López Obrador
12/10/18: Hunger Strike Demands by Central American Migrant Exodus
12/6/18: Demands by Central American Refugees at Border
12/5/18: Refugee Caravan: A Legal Observer’s Report from Tijuana
11/29/18: “Deployed to the Border: A Test of Conscience for GI’s” Military Law Task Force of the NLG
11/28/18: WEBINAR: Why Do Refugee Caravans Exist? A Lesson in Geo-Political History of Central America
11/20/18: NLG & Al Otro Lado Mobilizing Legal Support for Central American Refugee Caravan at Mexico-US Border
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“Let’s use Bernie’s 2020 Campaign to Launch a Mass Working Class Fightback”, an open letter from Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant
Posted on February 20, 2019, 9:58 pm By admin
[New Indicator presents here Kshama Sawant’s open letter and we make an invitation to all left groups to engage in a public dialogue around Sawant’s proposal for how we might use the Sanders campaign. This is NOT the same as asking people to merely talk about their views about the Sanders campaign itself. We will publish here statements about the Sawant proposal from left organizations, without editing. New Indicator does not endorse any political party nor any political candidate. New Indicator does support building a “new society” in which working people democratically control the economy and our own destiny. We do not usually publish what one left organization thinks about any other left organization or left individual. The Sanders campaign is a rare exception to our rule. With over 13 million votes in the 2016 primary elections, the Sanders campaign offers us all a larger audience for talking about “socialism”. Please send all response statements to info@newindicator.org ]
Yesterday, Bernie Sanders formally launched his 2020 run for the U.S. presidency, vowing to mount “an unprecedented and historic grassroots campaign that will begin with at least one million people from across the country.”
In the first 24 hours, he had already raised $5.9 million in donations and has more individual donors than all other current presidential candidates combined.
Certainly, Bernie’s new campaign has a far higher starting point than when the Vermont Senator first called for a “political revolution against the billionaire class” in the spring of 2016 and was overwhelmingly ignored by the corporate media. While it is still early, Sanders is well poised to politically define the coming Democratic primary.
Sanders’ video announcement yesterday began with the declaration: “Real change never takes place from the top on down, but always from the bottom on up.” I fully agree. And that is why Socialist Alternative and I will be working with others to launch grassroots campaigns in communities, unions, schools, and workplaces across the U.S. to build a mass working class fightback around Sanders’ campaign.
There is a great deal at stake in this election. Trump urgently needs to be driven out, and socialists and the left must take full advantage of the potential to organize alongside the millions already moving into struggle and who now will be mobilized around Bernie.
But we should also heed the lessons from 2016, when the Democratic primary was rigged against Bernie: with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) actively organizing against him, maneuvers in a series of state caucuses and primaries, the threat of the undemocratic superdelegate system, and with the corporate media and “progressive” Democratic figures leading waves of blistering attacks.
Working people need our own party, independent of corporate money and power, and that fights alongside our movements rather than against them.
I think Bernie should run as an independent socialist, as I have, and use his campaign to launch a new mass party for working people, instead of running inside a corporate party whose leadership is determined to stop him at all costs. Bernie unfortunately has made his decision and is running in the Democratic primary, but it is not acceptable that our political movement becomes imprisoned in this process. The 2016 election had terrible political consequences. Prior to launching his first campaign four years ago, Sanders said he was considering running either as an independent or as a Democrat and that he wanted to hear what people thought. This time he has bypassed that discussion and is making a fundamental mistake, though undoubtedly many people agree with him on a pragmatic basis or out of hope that the Democratic Party can somehow be remade into a people’s party.
While it is certainly true that Bernie will gain an enormous platform in the Democratic primary, declaring now that he was running as an independent and using his campaign to lay the basis for a new party would create a massive earthquake in American politics. In a column in the New York Times today entitled “Is America Becoming a 4-Party State?”, Thomas Friedman attacks the new left around self-described democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez but correctly points out that “political parties across the democratic world are blowing up” and that there is the basis for a real left party as well as a far right party.
If the Democratic establishment succeeds in once again blocking Bernie, he should continue his run as an independent candidate all the way to November, 2020. History doesn’t offer an unlimited number of opportunities to build the kind of political force working people need, and we must learn from the past. If the Democratic leadership again succeeds in ramming through another status quo candidate, there is a risk Trump could win re-election in spite of his unpopularity and poor standings in the polls at present. Certainly an establishment candidate may also be capable of defeating Trump, as many such candidates won in last fall’s midterm elections, which were essentially a referendum on the administration’s right wing agenda. But we do not in any way accept that the politics of Joe Biden or Kamala Harris are an asset in defeating the right or that their bankrupt corporate politics represent the views or needs of working people – it is quite the opposite.
Sanders today is the most popular politician in the country, and the working class demands at the center of his 2016 campaign – Medicare for All, free public college, and a federal $15 minimum wage – have been thrust to the center of American political discourse. While long popular, they now have overwhelming support in the polls as a result of Sanders and grassroots forces backing them. Many establishment Democratic Party politicians have had to at least pay lip service to them, including candidates like Kamala Harris.
In 2016 and since, Sanders’ self identification as a “democratic socialist” has played a big role in creating a mass discussion about socialist ideas, a process primarily driven by the failure of capitalism and its inability to provide decent living standards for the working class or a future for young people. As Sanders pointed out in his recent response to Trump’s State of the Union address, in the U.S. working people are making less than they were in 1973, adjusted for inflation, and 80% of Americans are now living paycheck to paycheck.
Now polls show a majority of millennials view socialism positively.
In recent months, Sanders joined, Ocasio-Cortez, in the call for a “Green New Deal.” This enormously popular demand has the potential to rally millions of young people and working people, in the face of a string of new reports emphasizing the looming climate catastrophe.
When asked by CBS how his new campaign would be different, Sanders responded “We’re going to win.” But as my organization, Socialist Alternative, and I have emphasized, none of these working class demands – nor Bernie Sanders himself – are at all acceptable to the ruling class. Sanders will face an uphill fight every step of the way, and all sorts of maneuvers and vicious tactics will be deployed if seen as necessary to stop Sanders from winning the Democratic Primary.
The echo for Bernie’s call in 2016 for a “political revolution against the billionaire class” caught the Democratic establishment and ruling class by surprise. Entirely out of touch, they expected him to be totally marginalized. My organization was one of very few who recognized the potential to build the working class politics Sanders represented. But this time if Bernie’s campaign gains momentum, he will face a more immediate and decisive pushback from the elite.
The crowded field of candidates in the Democratic Primary is also a different situation than the clear contrast created in 2016 with Sanders v. Clinton.
Many working people and youth will take some time to assess the different candidates running on progressive platforms, including Elizabeth Warren and Beto O’Rourke. This is understandable, but we should be clear that in spite of Sanders’ political weaknesses, which are real, none of the various candidates running as progressives represent a stronger or more reliable force for working class politics or are prepared to stand up to the billionaire class.
Elizabeth Warren, the most consistent progressive after Sanders among the field of current or likely candidates, has her own serious political weaknesses. Foremost among them, Warren does not point toward building movements of the working class, without which the key demands in her progressive platform cannot be won.
Warren also has shown less willingness to stand up to the Democratic establishment than Sanders. Bernie supporters will remember that Warren sat out the 2016 primary, when she was well positioned to impact the fight for working class politics by endorsing and campaigning for Bernie. It was only when Sanders was clearly defeated that Warren stepped in – to fully and uncritically endorse Hillary Clinton. This contributed to the situation where the main candidate facing the right populist Trump was an unpopular corporate Democratic nominee.
As working people have seen in Seattle, where I sit on the City Council, few elected representatives are prepared to stand up to big business and the political establishment. What will really be needed to win our demands and defeat the coming onslaught of the ruling class against Sanders’ is a broad independent grassroots campaign of millions of working people, with grassroots democratic structures, independent of the Democratic Party, and aimed at mobilizing the strongest possible force.
As a City Councilmember in Seattle, I have fought alongside social movements and labor to help win the $15 minimum wage, millions of dollars for affordable housing, and a series of landmark renters rights victories. All of these gains were won in spite of the fierce opposition of the Democratic establishment, which has long run Seattle City Hall. My organization, Socialist Alternative, has been the backbone of our progressive victories. Even the most well meaning of the Democratic Party Councilmembers bow to huge pressures from big business and the leadership of their own party, as we saw again with their betrayal of working people in capitulating on Seattle’s Amazon Tax last spring.
Sanders’ website opens with the familiar but powerful theme of his 2016 campaign: “Not Me. Us.” We need to make this real – not just in the fight for Bernie’s campaign and against the corporate political establishment – but in the struggle for a fundamentally different kind of politics.
Rather than wait and see what’s in store in the Democratic Primary, let’s start now.
Let’s begin building independent grassroots campaigns in our communities and workplaces, introduce resolutions in our unions to support Bernie’s campaign, and launch student groups on our campuses. Let’s use this historic moment to launch an all-out working class fightback.
But to really defeat the right wing and win the struggle for a society based on the needs of working people and a sustainable environment, we need to fight for a socialist alternative. I hope you will consider joining my organization.
Lastly, if you’re in Seattle (or even if you’re not) you should sign up to support the fight for socialist politics in Seattle, by going to our 2019 re-election campaign website. With big business furious over the Amazon Tax and other progressive struggles, we will face a huge battle this year over who runs this city – Amazon and big business, or working people.
Councilmember Kshama Sawant can be reached at:
Email: votesawant.org
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 85862, Seattle, WA 98145-1862
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Democrats Support another $1.375 Billion for Border Racism
Posted on February 13, 2019, 3:25 am By admin
None of the major corporate news media are reporting that zero funding is proposed for any border wall with Canada. Why? Racism. Yes, news reporters and editors are cheer-leading a massive propaganda campaign of racism.
The conference committee of top congressional Democrats and Republicans has announced late last night their proposal of a “compromise” on “border security”. Politicians of both big capitalist political parties and news reports have repeatedly used the phrase “border security” as a code to manipulate public opinion to fear immigrants with brown skin. The proposal must be approved by both houses of congress and not be vetoed by the president. The proposal includes funding for 55 miles of new wall on the U.S.-Mexican border.
None of the major corporate news media are reporting that the entire history of U.S. immigration laws is based upon racism. Immigration is not the problem. Racist immigration laws are the problem. Racism in America is the problem.
If these facts are in any way surprising, try a little homework study starting with Wikipedia: History of laws concerning immigration and naturalization in the United States.
Mr. Trumpachev, Tear Down This Wall!
New UCSD Coalition Forming
Posted on January 28, 2019, 8:44 pm By admin
Dear UCSD Faculty, Students, and Workers,
We would like to invite you to the first meeting of a UCSD wide coalition involving UC unions, student groups, and faculty members. As most of you are aware, there was a strike by campus workers late last November for a fair contract. Unfortunately, all signs point towards the necessity of a second strike this upcoming spring. We believe that a united campus paves the way for positive social change, and would like to help faculty, students, and workers come together to form a broad base in order to address not only issues like the upcoming strike, but other problems that might arise in the future.
We will be holding the first meeting on Tuesday, January 29th at noon in the Groundwork Books Store, located in the Student Center. If you are able and willing to attend, please RSVP here so we have an idea of how many people will be attending.
Groundwork Books Collective
9500 Gilman Dr (UCSD Student Center)
#notmyUAW
Posted on January 13, 2019, 5:40 am By admin
Illustration by Hannah Kagan-Moore| Special to the Daily Cal
by Disillusioned Grad Student
[United Auto Workers Local 2865 represents graduate teaching and research assistants employed by nine University of California campuses statewide. — NI]
The UAW 2865, representing Grad students all across the UC system, does not have the best interests of its members in mind.
Over the past year I have joined this union, fought for this union, dedicated countless hours to this union, made friends in this union, and watched as one by one these wonderful, radical people were manipulated, pushed to burnout, or otherwise silenced into alienation and disillusionment.
I have watched the UAW prioritize itself over membership to the extent that basically every passionate and radical organizer who was a head steward when I joined has now resigned, and some have even revoked membership.
Those who remain are admin sympathizers and/or career unionists who care not very much at all about actually winning good contracts. Our most recent contract doesn’t match inflation or account for skyrocketing rent.
Policies and best practices were bent and circumvented all throughout the summer, and even now there are issues with due process and democratic measures not being followed. When the state level’s priorities clashed with on-the-ground membership, the paid organizers were used as paid pawns to push through a bad contract. Radical organizers are consistently dropped from list servs and not told about official meetings, and are otherwise silenced–and eventually, as the higher ups no doubt want, they take their organizing power elsewhere, or just burn out entirely.
Below are a few articles for further reading. They explain better than I ever could, but I couldn’t witness what I have and not spread the word about what’s really going on.
– http://www.dailycal.org/2018/09/14/recent-uc-student-workers-contract-is-regressive/
– https://workeducationresistance.blogspot.com/2018/09/organizing-malpractice-uaw-2865.html?m=1
– https://lavozlit.com/statement-on-the-uaw-2865-contract-settlement/
A New Workers International is Born!
Posted on January 7, 2019, 3:06 pm By admin
Photo credit: Portside
IWW Affiliates to International Confederation of Labour
CHICAGO—In its annual referendum, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) North American Regional Administration voted overwhelmingly to officially join the recently formed International Confederation of Labour (ICL). The ICL is an international organization linking together revolutionary unions in eight different countries in Europe, Latin America, and North America.
The focus of the ICL is building a visible model for revolutionary unionism, a way to build unions that are based on solidarity, direct action, and which prefigure a world which has shaken off capitalism. ICL unions have already begun to coordinate their activity among app-based workers, such as those working for Deliveroo and Foodora, leading to coordinated strikes against Deliveroo in multiple countries.
The IWW brings to the table our growing experience organizing in prisons through the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC). The ICL and its member unions endorsed the U.S. #PrisonStrike earlier this year, which was co-led by IWOC. Through the ICL, the IWW has begun to make contact with unions of prisoners in other countries.
Aside from day-to-day organizing practice, the ICL allows member sections to share experience about mass working class struggles. Earlier this year, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT – the Spanish section of the ICL) played a major role in coordinating a Feminist General Strike on International Women’s Day on March 8, which the CNT and ICL will try to build on for 2019.
The IWW’s vote to join the ICL culminates several years of joint work between these unions to bring the new international into existence. We hope to continue to develop our mutual projects and build relationships in other parts of the world. The IWW will share its experience and learn from the experience of others – to inspire and be inspired. With the continual economic, ecological, and political crises that capitalism is bringing on to us and intensifying, we need a vibrant and internationalist revolutionary unionist movement now more than ever.
Long live the international!
Industrial Workers of the World – North American Regional Administration
Affiliated to the International Confederation of Labour
Foundation of the International Confederation of Labour (CIT-ICL) in Parma
Cheers and applause greeted the international trade union confederation ICL that was founded in Parma, Italy, on 13 May 2018. For days, delegates from seven countries had discussed statutes and priorities, paving the way for a new militant International of syndicalist unions, to counter globalized capitalism and the authoritarian developments in Europe and the Americas.
Besides the CNT (Spain), USI (Italy) and FAU (Germany), IWW (USA and Canada), ESE (Greece), FORA (Argentina) and IP (Poland) are founding members of the International Confederation of Labour. Other unions expressed their interest by participating as observers in the congress, among them the CNT-F (France), FOB (Brazil), Vrije Bond (Netherlands and Belgium), GG/BO (Germany) and UVW (UK).
The union International aims to unite the struggles of workers, particularly to enable the cooperation across borders between branch groups in the same sectors and companies. Joint workshops will create opportunities to learn from each other how to win. The initial focus of the ICL will be on the food, logistics and education sectors. A joint day of action and strike on 8 March will highlight feminist struggles.
Long live the confederation!
International Confederation of Labour
Introductory Letter from the ICL Liaison Committee
Dear Comrades,
The Inaugural Congress of ICL (International Confederation of Labour) was held in Parma, Italy, between 11 and 14 May 2018. As a result, we are happy to announce the formation of the ICL, an international working class organisation.
The ICL brings together a number of anarcho-syndicalist and revolutionary unions from around the world. It is born out of their desire for closer collaboration and to add an international dimension to their local work, which will allow them to coordinate with comrades around the world and make their struggles visible to a global audience.
Its main goal is to contribute to deep social and economic transformation worldwide.
The ICL understands that any development on the international level must be based on sound local foundations in the territories of the respective unions. This International aims to be a tool to coordinate this work and to further the growth and expansion of its member organisations and of their initiatives. In the years to come, the ICL’s primary objective will be to foster the development of working class struggles around the globe.
The ICL and its member organisations understand that there is an urgent need in the world today, as always, for a revolutionary project aiming at deep social, economic and political transformation. In the face of a looming environmental collapse, of a permanent crisis of capitalism, and of the upsurge of sectarianism, fundamentalism and the rejection of diversity in many societies and cultures across the globe, it seems obvious that a radical project for social transformation is required to overcome these evils. Any such development can only be of a revolutionary nature.
However, the ICL does not pretend to be the sole agent of such a transformation. Considering the nature of the crisis of civilisation that we face, the ICL acknowledges that these changes can only be carried out by a broader grassroots, non-hierarchical movement. The ICL’s intention is to contribute to this development, according to our means, from our field of action, which is economic and labour related. We look forward to cooperating with those active in other fields, such as ecologists, feminists, workers’ collectives, squatters and antifascists.
In order to define who we are and what we stand for, the ICL and its member organisations have agreed upon a number of principles, such as solidarity, class struggle, internationalism, horizontality and federalism, independence and anti-parliamentarianism, direct action, antifascism, and the protection of the environment.
We welcome all anarcho-syndicalist and revolutionary unions to join us who are willing to be bound by our federative agreement, which is based on our principles and defines minimum standards member organisations adhere to. Those organisations wishing to join ICL but that have not reached the stage of being a formal union yet, can do so as initiatives.
The ICL does not recognise the artificial limits set by the borders of states. Therefore, more than one organisation per country can join the ICL, as we acknowledge that there can be many geographical, cultural or historical issues behind any given situation. At the same time, organisations that are active in more than one country, for whatever the reason, can also become sections.
In any case, all member organisations of the ICL have the autonomy to decide what other organisations they will work with, even on an international level. That is, they can and will develop working relationships with any group, member of ICL or not, that they consider opportune to achieve the goals required to carry their struggles forward.
As such, it is foreseen that the ICL and its member organisations will develop a wide range of contacts and working relationships in the near future. These can involve unions that are not part of ICL or any other organisations that share our revolutionary aims and our fundamental principles but that are active in a different field than ours.
We sincerely hope that the foundation of ICL, which we enthusiastically welcome, will encourage the development of a movement that is both revolutionary and transformative for workers across the planet. Without a doubt, this is the main goal of our International.
We invite all those who share our aims and principles to joins us in building this movement, and we hope to develop a collaborative and working relationships with all of you in the near future.
The future is ours! We are the future!
Miguel Perez, acting secretary, on behalf of the Liaison Committee of the International Confederation of Labour.
UC Student Demands in Solidarity with UC Workers
Posted on December 9, 2018, 6:07 pm By admin
Photo by Arlene Banuelos // The Triton
Statewide student demands have been presented to the UC Regents, system-wide president, and campus chancellors at the UC campuses. The demands are in solidarity with 3 UC workers’ unions trying for the past several months to get contract renewals with the Regents. The demands also address immigration, Palestinian rights, policing of First Amendment activity and other issues.
According to the news report in The Triton, the demands were presented to the UCSD Chancellor on December 4.
Student Protestors Demand Chancellor’s Solidarity with UC Laborers
The UCSD Labor Commission is a student organization.
Justice for the Workers of the University of California!
JANET NAPOLITANO, PRESIDENT OF THE UC; PETER CHESTER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE SYSTEMWIDE LABOR RELATIONS OFFICE; ALL CHANCELLORS OF THE UC SYSTEM
The students of the University of California demand respect, dignity, and fair contracts for the frontline workers who make our campuses function!
AFSCME 3299, UPTE-CWA 9119, and UC-AFT – labor unions which represent workers at the University of the California – have been in contract negotiations with the UC for many months. Throughout the bargaining process, the UC has continuously denied our workers the respect, dignity and fair contracts they deserve.
The UC system claims to champion the virtue of equality, and it has even described itself as a “pioneer” in the struggle to create a more equitable society. Meanwhile, it is denying our workers basic job security, living wages, racial and gender pay equity, and more. The University of California must stop exploiting its workers and honor its purported commitment to equality with a fair contract for UC workers.
Us students of the UC system have thus come together to declare our support for our UC labor unions and to demand for the UC to provide our workers with the respect, dignity, and fair contracts they deserve. We urge you to sign on and join us in the struggle for campus labor justice!
UC STUDENT DEMANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH UC WORKERS:
We, the students of the University of California, in order to promote social and economic justice, demand that our UC system: (1) Provide livable wages and stable benefits and retirements to all UC workers; (2) End subcontracting practices; (3) Terminate all direct and secondary ties with federal immigration agencies unless legally required; (4) Divest from companies complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights; (5) Prohibit the deployment of UCPD to on-campus actions; (6) Guarantee academic freedom to academic librarians; and (7) Satisfy the bargaining demands of all UC labor unions. We request an official public response to these demands by January 15th, 2019.
PROVIDE LIVABLE WAGES AND STABLE BENEFITS AND RETIREMENTS TO ALL UC WORKERS: The UC will increase wages for all UC workers to meet and keep pace with the real cost of living in California as well as in areas within a reasonable commuting distance (no more than an hour drive) from the workplace in order to decrease time spent away from families, contributing to pollution, and contributing to highway congestion, and to be competitive among UC’s peer institutions; protect existing healthcare benefits by freezing healthcare premiums and co-pay costs for workers, and make no increases to healthcare costs; protect existing pension benefits by rescinding all 401(k) style/403(b) retirement opt-out plans from any and all contract proposals to UC labor unions;
END PAY INEQUITIES: redress disparities – specifically in hiring, promotion, and resultant pay levels – between workers who are white men and workers who are women of color, people of color, womxn and non-binary folx — with particular attention to the racial and gendered pay disparities that affect Black women employees represented by AFSCME 3299; compensate all currently subcontracted employees with wages and benefits that equal the wages and benefits of their in-sourced counterparts, with compensation provided from the date and time of first employment to date and time of acceptance of demands; increase wages for student workers to equal that of their career worker counterparts;
END SUBCONTRACTING PRACTICES: UC will stop outsourcing jobs to unprotected third-party companies/corporations/students; hire in all currently subcontracted employees, then end all subcontracting agreements with third-party companies/corporations; UC will hire 100% in-sourced, unionized labor for all new on-campus housing construction projects including Public Private Partnerships (P3’s); UCs will not hire student workers to replace campus career workers in campus jobs;
ADDRESS UNDERSTAFFING ISSUES: redress understaffing issues in campus dining halls and all other UC workplaces by hiring more full-time career workers;
MEET OTHER JOB SECURITY DEMANDS: Offer full-time work to
part-time employees; end emergency layoffs; retrain workers for vacant positions instead of instituting layoffs;
NO COMPLICITY, NO COLLABORATION: University of California and its police departments will not comply with nor be placed under the supervision of the federal immigration agencies and authorities regarding investigations, raids, detentions and/or deportations, unless mandated by a judicial warrant, a subpoena, or a court order; UC will establish and enforce policies that prohibit immigration enforcement and deportation activities on grounds and premises under UC jurisdiction; every UC will enshrine the UC’s “Statement of Principles in Support of Undocumented Members of the UC Community” in their official policies; apply AFSCME 3299 immigrant rights provisions to all workers and expand provisions related to Social Security “no-match” letters; prohibit the use of E-Verify;
DIVEST FROM THE U.S. DEPORTATION REGIME: Every campus, medical center, and property managed by the UC – and every UC official – will withdraw from all contracts and agreements with any company, corporation, and organization that participates in or profits off of the detention, deportation, and/or surveillance of immigrants and asylum seekers, including, but not limited to, General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), Maxim Healthcare Services, and ABM Industry Groups; end all investments in financial institutions that are linked to immigrant detention centers, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Customs and Border Protection (CBP);
DIVEST FROM COMPANIES COMPLICIT IN THE VIOLATION OF PALESTINIAN HUMAN RIGHTS: The University of California System will disinvest all tuition dollars, investments, and stocks from the following companies that have violated the universal right “to life, liberty, and security of person;” “to education;” to “privacy, family [and] home;” “to own property, and …[not to] be arbitrarily deprived of property” and consequently violate Palestinian human rights including, but not limited to, Lockheed Martin, United Tech, Boeing, G.E., HP, Caterpillar, Ford, Hyundai,Cemex, Raytheon, 3M, Northrop Grumman, Perrigo Company, and Atlas Copco;
END THE DEPLOYMENT OF POLICE TO ON-CAMPUS ACTIONS: Prohibit use of all police and militarized forces, including UCPD, surveillance, and task forces against student and/or worker protests, rallies, sit-ins, walkouts, strikes or civil disobedience; aggressively pursue justice and accountability in cases of excessive use of force against Black people, other people of color, and queer and trans people; where related to aforementioned on-campus actions, drop existing student conduct charges, drop existing charges against workers, and going forward do not pursue punitive paths against historically policed students and workers; disarm the UCPD, and specifically prohibit the use and possession of riot gear by any police force on grounds and premises under UC jurisdiction; do not bring in additional police outside of UCPD, including, but not limited to, California Highway Patrol;
GUARANTEE ACADEMIC FREEDOM TO ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS: Amend Article 1 in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for UC-AFT bargaining Unit 17 to articulate that librarians are afforded the same protections under the principles of academic freedom as currently granted to senate faculty, lecturers, and students, and do so to the satisfaction of the union UC-AFT;
SATISFY THE BARGAINING DEMANDS OF ALL UC LABOR UNIONS: This includes, but is not limited to, the entire set of bargaining demands from AFSCME 3299, UPTE-CWA 9119, and UC-AFT; and
ADDRESSING THE CHANCELLORS OF THE UC SYSTEM: For all of the listed demands whose implementation lies outside of the jurisdiction of individual UC campuses, each UC Chancellor shall publicly endorse these demands; vocalize their support for these demands to the University of California Office of the President, to the University of California Labor Relations Office, and to all relevant statewide UC bodies; perform all actions within their power to ensure the passage of these demands on a statewide level; and create and implement policies at each UC campus that are commensurate with each proposed statewide demand, and will do so to the furthest extent of each Chancellor’s jurisdictional power.
CAMPUS SPECIFIC DEMANDS
These demands, though specific to each campus, are endorsed by the entire list of signatories disclosed at the end of this document.
JUSTICE FOR UCD WORKERS & STUDENTS: Honor and meet the coming student demands by those directly impacted from the assault inflicted on students and workers from a UC Davis official on October 25, 2018, the last day of AFSCME 3299’s strike.
STOP OUTSOURCING:
LONG RANGE DEVELOPMENT PLAN & CURRENT P3 HOUSING: Public Private Partnerships must not outsource UC jobs at P3 developments such as the newly anticipated long range development plan at West Village & Orchard Park and move to insource currently outsourced workers at P3 housing developments. UCD Administration must add workforce housing to their housing Long Range Development Plan. This housing must be made available to and staffed by university union workers. Students demand that housing shouldn’t come at the expense of workers quality of life.
AGGIE SQUARE: UC Davis construction of the new innovation hub in Oak Park, Sacramento will outsource many UC jobs including some of those who are already employed at the UC Davis Medical Center. These workers will be let go and will need to apply at the new UC Davis Rehabilitation Center lead by Kindred Healthcare if they wish to continue work. We demand that UC Davis puts a stop to outsourcing of UC jobs at Aggie Square which contributes to the income, race, and gender inequality.
CHANCELLOR MAY MUST COMPLETELY DISAFFILIATE FROM LEIDOS AND ALL OTHER OUTSIDE COMPANIES. This is in accordance with demand 3a above general. Outside board seats take time away from serving student and worker needs which should be the sole job of a university chancellor. They also frequently lead to conflicts of interest as we saw with former Chancellor Linda Katehi’s outside board seats. More specifically, Leidos is part of the militarized surveillance state on the U.S.-Mexico border and directly benefits from Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.
REALLOCATING FUNDS TO WORKER & STUDENTS NEEDS. Redirect resources away from administrative compensation, policing, and surveillance, including the $5 million recently allocated to surveillance measures, and use them to meet student and worker needs instead.
CONTINUE MEETINGS BETWEEN STUDENT COMMUNITIES AND CAMPUS ADMINISTRATORS: These meetings were implemented after a multi-day sit-in on the first floor of the administration building, Mrak Hall, last year to protest a proposed tuition hike while demanding a more democratic structure which would give students and workers more direct control over the decisions that affect their everyday lives. Implement the proposals that were brought up in these meetings last year.
EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK FOR UC DAVIS SUMMER INSTRUCTORS.
A summer session course is supposed to be the equivalent of a course that happens during the normal academic year. Undergraduate students get full course credit, and they pay for a full course.
However, graduate students hired as instructors to teach these courses only get a fraction (about 2/3rd) of the pay they would get for teaching the same exact course during the normal academic year. Often, these graduate student instructors actually put in more in-class hours. In many situations courses that would normally have a Teaching Assistant don’t, which puts more instructional and grading duties on these summer instructors who are making less than what they make during the normal academic year with a TA to assist them.
We demand that UC Davis recognize the amount of work that graduate student summer session instructors put into these courses, and that UC Davis compensate them as such – by paying them the amount they make for teaching the same course during the normal academic year.
UC Los Angeles
JUSTICE FOR THE VALETS: Hire in all the subcontracted valets at Ronald Reagan Medical Center (RRMC) who were displaced from their jobs after UCLA ended its contract with ABM; provide permanent, adequate ventilation in the parking garages of RRMC, in compliance with OSHA standards;
PROVIDE HOUSING STAFF WITH A PROPER BREAK ROOM: Recently UC Merced service workers had their break room taken away to allocate the space for a food pantry. UC Merced students experience food insecurity which led to the opening of our first food pantry in TC 131 through Basic Needs Security.
Although students needed a food pantry, students also demand that service workers be given an adequate break room fit for all employees to use.
REINSTATE RAFAEL FLORES: This university continued its campaign against Rafael Flores, a service worker who worked for housing, MAT leader, and union activist, by retaliating and preventing him from due process. Labor Relations must hold supervisors accountable for injustices and retaliation. We must hold Labor Relations accountable for circumventing worker protection and not allowing Rafael Flores a fair and just procedural hearing. The UC continues to suppress union activity and the outspoken voices of workers here on campus.
Students demand a proper investigation with full access to all testimonies, names, and statements.
TITLE IV INVESTIGATION: Supervisors at UC Merced are overly exerting their power and breaking policies. After multiple conversations, labor relations has been asked to open up an investigation due to the misconduct of the supervisors primarily the night shift (graveyard shift). Graveyard supervisor relentlessly harasses multiple workers during their shift. There was a specific situation this school year in which a police report was taken with key witnesses, one of them being a student.
Students demand that investigations of Title IV are opened and that supervisors are fired and held accountable. Students demand that service workers who experience any violence/harassment are to be protected by the university so that they will not be retaliated against while a full investigation is being conducted.
PROVIDE BASIC NEEDS FOR WORKERS: UC Merced service workers lack some of the basic needs resources and information to ease their jobs responsibilities.
All service workers should have access to park on Scholars Parking lot without having to pay for a car registration pass.
Educational services.
In the event that campus is closed, service workers should be given the option to also evacuate campus.
UNDERSTAFFING WORKERS: Since the establishment of UC Merced in 2005 there has been a continual understaffing of workers. It has been known and made aware that one or two workers is not enough to clean buildings or dorms. The night shift (graveyard) has less than 10 workers cleaning the entire campus which is not sufficient. With the continual understaffing of workers and the growth of UC Merced, with the 2020 project, it has resorted to the exploitation of these workers with inadequate support and pay. This campus is growing every year and expected to double in size to ten thousand students by 2020 while not engaging in efforts to hire more service workers. Understaffing has continued for years and there has been no remedy to this ongoing issue. There has not been any efforts by supervisors, hiring agents, chancellors, or even the president of the UC system to address these concerns and remedies to alleviate these issues.
Students demand that the UC hires more service workers to reduce the stress enforced on the current service workers.
Students demand that the University hire more service workers after every expansion, therefore as the number of the students increase the number of service workers hired will also increase.
All temporary (temp) workers in Facilities Services and Custodial Grounds Department shall be converted to full time employment.
For all new buildings and developments on campus – including but not limited to, the buildings on Aberdeen Drive, the renovations to The Barn, and new dining halls that are under development – there shall be no outsourcing and all employment positions should be filled by career UC workers.
Hire only unionized workers for Student Housing West and all other future P3s;
Stop under-staffing workers;
Endorse and implement action demands presented on Friday, November 16th, 2018 by students addressing the chancellor search.
SIGNATORY ORGANIZATIONS:
ASUC Office of the External Affairs Vice President (EAVP) at UCB
CalSERVE (Cal Students for Equal Rights and A Valid Education) at UCB
United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) at UCD
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UCD
S.P.E.A.K for Undocumented & Immigrant Rights at UCD
Muslim Student Association (MSA) at UCD
ASUCD Ethnic & Cultural Affairs Commission at UCD
Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA) at UCD
Pan Afro Student Organization (PASO) at UCD
IGNITE at UCD
Peruvian Student Association at UCD
Davis College Democrats
United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) at UCI
ASUCI Office of the External Vice President Labor Organizing Commission
Central Americans For Empowerment (CAFE) at UCI
Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlan (MEChA) de UCI
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UCI
Black Psychology Student Association (BPSA) at UCI
Students Advocating for Immigrant Rights and Equity (SAFIRE) at UCI
South Asian Student Union (SASU) at UCI
Kababayan (Kaba) at UCI
Black Crypto Scholarz at UCI
Office of the External Vice President ASUCI
Student Labor Advocacy Project at UCLA
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UCLA
Muslim Student Association (MSA) at UCLA
Improving Dreams, Equality, and Access (IDEAS) at UCLA
Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA) at UCLA
Afrikan Student Union (ASU) at UCLA
Eagle and the Condor Liberation Front (ECLF) at UCLA
Indus at UCLA
UC Student-Workers Union (UAW 2865), UCLA Unit
Labor Commissioner of the External Office of ASUCM
External Office of ASUCM
ASUCR Highlander Action Coalition
Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) de UCR
Teatro Quinto Sol de UCR
LaFamilia de UCR
Providing Opportunity, Dreams, and Education in Riverside (PODER) at UCR
Underground Scholars Initiative at UCR
Mujeres Unidas de UCR
Hermanos Unidos de UCR
United Student Labor Action Coalition (USLAC) UCSB
Improving Dreams, Equality, Access, and Success (IDEAS) UCSB
Mujeres Unidas por Justicia, Educacion, y Revolucion (MUJER) de UCSB
Mesa Directiva de UCSB
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) UCSB
Congreso de UCSB
Student Activist Network (SAN) at UCSB
Raices de Mi Tierra UCSB
unaffiliated students at UCSC
United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) at UCSD
Black Student Union (BSU) at UCSD
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International Day of Solidarity with Central American Refugees
Posted on November 29, 2018, 5:48 am By admin
The Migrant and Refugee Solidarity Coalition in San Diego made an International Call to Action for a Day of Solidarity with the Refugee Caravan and Central American Exodus. Dozens of organizations around our region and worldwide endorsed the Call to Action and demonstrations were held in eleven cities across the USA on November 25, 2018. Emergency support for the temporary shelters in Tijuana and in San Diego is being mobilized.
Information about making donations to support the temporary refugee shelters:
for the shelters in Tijuana
https://www.facebook.com/SDMRSC/photos/a.2137167843204479/2137163909871539/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/SDMRSC/photos/a.2137167843204479/2137163926538204/?type=3&the ater
for the shelter in San Diego
http://www.rapidresponsesd.org/documents/Migrant-Shelter-Press-Release.pdf
See more information also at http://www.rapidresponsesd.org/
Cities which participated in the November 25 Day of Solidarity with Central American Refugees
Vigil to Support Refugee Caravan (National Day of Action)
Sun 4:30 PM · 1,221 guests
Westlake Park
Defend the Caravan | Athens, OH
Sun 5:30 PM EST · 266 guests
Athens County Courthouse
Denver: Rally for the Refugee Caravan!
Sun 3 PM MST · 1,223 guests
LA Solidarity With The Migrant Caravan
Sun 2 PM · 572 guests
Los Angeles Federal Building
International Call to Action for the Refugee Caravan
Sun 3 PM MST · 402 guests
Wallace Bennett Federal Building
Sun 5 PM EST · 373 guests
Schenley Plaza
Solidarity march for Central American asylum-seekers
Sun 3 PM CST · 3,220 guests
Citlalin Gallery
DFW Solidarity with Asylum Seekers – UNITY In Struggle
Sun 2 PM CST · 724 guests
City of Dallas – City Hall
Refugee Caravan Solidarity Day of Action
Sun 2 PM EST · 1,432 guests
New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
International Day Of Solidarity with the Refugee Caravan
Sun 10 AM · 586 guests
Fruitvale Village, 34th Ave, Oakland
San Diego March in Solidarity with the Refugee Caravan
Sun 9 AM · 536 guests
Larsen Field
San Ysidro, CA
Over 600 people demonstrated solidarity on the San Diego side of the border wall and demanded demilitarization of our border communities and respect for the human rights of refugees and immigrants. Simultaneously thousands of people protested on the Tijuana side of the border wall, demanding that the Trump regime obey international and U.S. refugee law and stop blocking asylum seekers from entering the USA.
International Call to Action for the Refugee Caravan and Central American Exodus
As thousands of our refugee relatives—children, elders, brothers, sisters, LGBTQI+ siblings and people with disabilities—make their way to the border, we are calling for an International Day of Action in Solidarity with the Caravan and Exodus from Central America on Sunday, November 25th, 2018. We, the San Diego Migrant and Refugee Solidarity Coalition, composed of migrant rights and social justice groups, invite individuals and organizations across the country and globe to organize demonstrations in their cities, and if they have the capacity, to join our rally and march to the border.
We call for an action on November 25th to commemorate the anniversary of the 2017 Honduran election stolen by the US government-backed, right-wing military dictator Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH). We are demonstrating on this day to acknowledge and draw attention to the current social and political crises driving the exodus from Central America. We understand that these crises—drug wars, military coups, destruction of indigenous lands for the benefit of corporations, and environmental catastrophe in the region—are all symptoms of US foreign policy, corporate profiteering and war-making.
Moreover, we see that the Trump administration is creating a warlike atmosphere against the caravan. It should be clear that they are not just acting with the support of a cabinet of white supremacists and a majority GOP in the Senate but are also emboldened by the last few decades of bipartisan militarization of the border, mass raids, expansion of for-profit detention centers, and mass deportations—with more than 2.5 million migrants under Obama and Trump alone. Further, these policies are a continuation of a long history of anti-Indigenous colonial violence and genocide.
These attacks have been complemented by decades of pushback against the migrants’ rights movement and years of terror against all who participated in the mega marches for Migrant’s Rights back in 2006 and since. We must continue to build and consolidate our gains no matter how large or small.
Legal precedent, “civility,” regard for life: the administration has no respect for any of it. The only thing that it responds to is resistance from below.
The US government, as with all governments, and the people of the United States have a choice: We can reject the humanity of the refugees and buy into the racist anti-migrant rhetoric of the Administration and the media. OR, we can do what humans have an obligation to do and what the US government owes the people of Central America: insist on allowing all the refugees the right to seek asylum!
Respect for the right of asylum for all members of the Central American Exodus. Stop the profiling and criminalization of refugees; lift the executive order limiting access to asylum.
Process all asylum claims made at Ports of Entry with expediency. We reject Custom and Border Protection’s claim that Port of Entries lack capacity to let in refugees. We also reject the shift away from decades of international asylum agreements that allow for requests to be made anywhere on the border.
The US government must publicly acknowledge a) its role in Honduran Coup in 2009, b) that the Honduran government is a US supported dictatorship, and c) recognize the political and social crises throughout Central America as caused by US foreign policy.
Call for international solidarity beyond the US and Mexico. The United Nations and Red Cross must also recognize the Humanitarian crisis at the US/Mexico Border.
We demand freedom for incarcerated migrants now and free movement for asylum seekers. No incarceration of migrants in shelters or for-profit detention centers.
No impunity for governments that violate international asylum agreements and processes. Prosecute officials who violate the human right to seek asylum in any country of their preference.
Endorsing Organizations:
Activist San Diego
Af3irm SD
AIM OTIPEMISIWAK
American Federation of Teachers, Local 1931
American Indian Movement Southern California
Anakbayan San Diego
Alíanza de Salvadoreños Retornados
Asamblea de Solidaridad con México – País Valencià
Binational Conference Organizing Committee
Binational Conference on Border Issues Organizing Committee
Border Angels, San Diego
Brown Beret National Organization and all Texas Brown Berets
Caravan Support Network
California for Progress
Campus Antifascist Network
CARECEN
Centro Cultural De la Raza
Center for Interdisciplinary Environmental Justice
Center for the Advanced Study of American Institutions and Social Movements
Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft
Coalición Fronteriza de Centro Americanxs
Colectivo Zapatista
Colectivo Somos Migrantes – España
Colectivo Ollin Calli Tijuana
Defend Boyle Heights
Democratic Autonomous Federation
Democratic Socialists of America- San Diego Chapter
Democrat Socialists of America
Employee Rights Center (ERC)
Enclave Caracol
Enclave Caracol TJ
Halifax in Solidarity with the Migrant Caravan
Honduro-Canada Solidarity Community
Human Rights Alliance for Child Refugees and Families
Immigrant Justice League
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) San Diego Local 13
Indivisible (Normal Heights/Hillcrest, San Diego)
John Brown Prisoner Solidarity Project
La Diáspora Hondureña
Las Luchonas
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
Legalization 4 All
Mark Brazil
Migrante San Diego
Movimiento Cosecha
Mujeres en Resistencia Chicago
Mujeres en Resistencia- San Diego
New Indicator Collective – newindicator.org
No Space for Hate
Otay Mesa Detention Resistance
Our Revolution SoCal OC
Palestinian Youth Movement-San Diego
Party For Socialism and Liberation
PSL Salt Lake – Party for Socialism and Liberation
People over Profits- SD
Pueblo Sin Fronteras
QTPOC colectivo
Raices sin Fronteras
Racial Justice Coalition
San Diego Committee Against Police Brutality
San Diego County Central Committee of the Peace and Freedom Party
SAN DIEGO BORDER DREAMERS
San Diego Workers World Party
San Diego Ground Zero Players
School of the Americas Watch-L.A.
Showing Up for Racial Justice, San Diego
Students for Justice in Palestine, San Diego
Students for Justice in Palestine @ UCSD
The Coalition to Free Mumia Abu Jamal and All Political Prisoners
The Freedom Socialist Party
Transfronterizx Alliance Student Organization (TASO) UCLA
UMAS y MEXA de CU Boulder
Union Del Barrio
Union de Vecinos
Undocutravelers
Uaptsd San Diego Copwatch
Veterans for Peace, San Diego
Veterans for Peace, Chapter 72 Portland, OR
Veterans For Peace (national)
Women’s Labor Network
Women Occupy San Diego
43 San Diego
Map: Imperial Valley Press
The current international border between Mexico and the USA actually runs through the middle of the land of the Kumeyaay Nation. No treaty has ever been ratified by the U.S. Senate regarding any land being ceded by the Kumeyaay Nation.
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State Solutions
Statewide Assessments Don’t Just Help Students
Each fall, as we approach the end of the season for statewide score reporting, I find it helpful to reflect on trends in how students performed across the country and lessons learned from another year of testing. This year’s results may be an early indicator that historical progress in mathematics is at risk.
Roughly 27 million students took a statewide summative assessment last spring, spending about four hours—or less than one percent of their academic year—demonstrating their mastery of grade-level learning standards and their readiness to take on the challenges of this new school year.
Statewide assessments serve an important purpose beyond helping individual students and their families gauge how well they are meeting grade-level expectations. We use state assessments not to evaluate the students but to evaluate ourselves. Are we as educators meeting the sacred charge that we have been given to prepare students for the future—to build an equitable society and face the global challenges that lie before us? Certainly, one test score cannot possibly measure such an important commitment—but statewide assessments are the best measure we have to ensure every school is doing its utmost to serve our students, and our future.
So how did we do this year? Twenty-seven million students means 27 million stories. Some students found inspiration from a great teacher, had the opportunity to engage with rich curriculum and thrived—and their test scores reflected that. Teachers like Michael Dunlea, a third-grade teacher in Tabernacle, New Jersey, who helped write both the state standards and the district’s curriculum in math, make math accessible. Mr. Dunlea won a Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching this month. “As an early elementary teacher, I try to foster a love for mathematics by making the learning interactive, relevant, and fun,” he said.
Other students did not have access to an inspiring teacher like Mr. Dunlea or access to advanced coursework because teacher shortages in their state made it impossible for principals to hire the effective teachers these students need and deserve. A thousand different variables impact the learning opportunities students had last year—and that’s just within the school setting.
Overall, however, students generally improved last year in their English language arts proficiency and held steady or declined in math. These trends appear to hold generally for states working both with New Meridian and with Smarter Balanced—the only states that still are able to compare how well they are preparing students to meet international benchmarks for college and career readiness beyond locally developed expectations.
The continued improvement in English language arts is encouraging: Students are learning to critically read meaningful, important texts, develop a point of view, and make compelling arguments based on evidence and facts—all critical skills we need students to develop as they prepare to address the challenges of the future.
We have to ask ourselves, however, why are more students not mastering the language of mathematics and statistics to model and solve real-world problems in ways we know will be critical for addressing the challenges of an increasingly quantitative world? From coding and artificial intelligence, to medicine, business, economics, climate science and public policy—all of these fields increasingly require a mastery of mathematics and mathematical thinking to engage, define, and solve complex problems quantitatively.
As Michael Kirst, the former State Board of Education president, reviewing this year’s Smarter Balanced results in California acknowledged, “We’re doing better in English language arts than I predicted and worse in math. The problem is serious.”
The lack of progress in mathematics suggests at a minimum that we have likely harvested the “low hanging fruit” on the pathway to preparing students for college and career readiness, and that we have to deepen student engagement in more meaningful and challenging tasks if we are going develop students’ critical thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving skills to meet the more rigorous expectations of college and career ready standards.
This is especially true in mathematics. Experts cite the fact that development in mathematics builds sequentially across the grades, and gaps in foundational understanding taught in elementary grades have a large impact on students’ readiness to grapple with more advanced concepts and skills in middle school and beyond. Declining proficiency rates from grade 3 to Algebra I reflect this snowballing effect as expectations rise and students fall behind.
The importance of high-quality classroom tasks was highlighted in a recent study published by TNTP, The Opportunity Myth. Researchers observed and analyzed nearly 1,000 lessons over two years and found the majority of classroom assignments are not aligned to grade-level expectations. “Students spent more than 500 hours per school year on assignments that weren’t appropriate for their grade and with instruction that didn’t ask enough of them—the equivalent of six months of wasted class time in each core subject,” the study said. Students in lower income neighborhoods were twice as likely as those from higher income neighborhoods to spend their days working diligently on low-level tasks that neither challenge or engage them to meet grade-level standards.
To help address this epidemic of mis-aligned, low-level curriculum, New Meridian is making available exemplar classroom tasks aligned to grade-level standards and assessments to help teachers and students calibrate their expectations of what is required to master grade-level standards. This is only one piece of the puzzle we face in deepening instruction to improve student learning outcomes, but an important one. Together with trained teachers who know how to structure meaningful and engaging learning opportunities, quality tasks are at the heart of the instructional core that has been shown to accelerate and deepen student learning.
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bons mots June 12, 2013
Father of Edward Snowden’s Girlfriend Is Kind of Shocked, Kind of Not
By Dan Amira
Jonathan Mills, the father of Lindsay Mills who dated the man who leaked details of a secret National Security Agency surveillance program, talks to reporters outside his home in Laurel, Md., on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Mills says his daughter is doing “as well as could be expected.” He described leaker Edward Snowden as shy and reserved who “always had strong convictions of right and wrong.” Photo: Brian Witte/AP/Corbis
“He’s always had strong convictions of right and wrong, and it kind of makes sense. But still shocked.” —Jonathan Mills, father of Edward Snowden’s (former, we guess?) girlfriend Lindsay Mills.
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Baltimore After Freddie Gray: A Laboratory of Urban Violence
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells Follow @benwallacewells
A year after his death, murders in the city have soared, and the relationship between violence and policing has never been more complicated.
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April 25, 2015: Six days after Freddie Gray’s death. Photo: Devin Allen/New York Magazine
Baltimore, the laboratory city.
Photographs by Devin Allen
▲April 25, 2015 Six days after Freddie Gray’s death.
On the clear April afternoon when the Freddie Gray riots escalated, most members of the city’s political Establishment were inside the New Shiloh Baptist Church in West Baltimore for the funeral of Gray himself. They might as well have been in a box. Gray, the 25-year-old man whose spine had snapped after he was handcuffed and allowed to bounce around inside a police transport van, had been anonymous in life, but in death his invisibility had made him a symbol of the vulnerability of African-Americans in Baltimore and beyond. The police commissioner did not attend the funeral, but the Reverend Jesse Jackson did. So did Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Nearby was Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake — young, a modernizer, the president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. There too was her popular predecessor, Sheila Dixon, removed from office amid scandal but contemplating a run to reclaim City Hall.
It was obvious already that Gray’s death had revealed a rupture in Baltimore — since he had fallen into a coma, there had been protests or vigils just about every day, small at first, then growing larger — but its extent was not yet clear. Many of the first protests had been led by an unknown 26-year-old storefront preacher named Westley West, who presided over street funerals at no charge, and so the initial images of the movement centered on a young man of no reputation and no direct relationship to the Gray family marching toward the Western District police headquarters with purpose, a huge crucifix swinging from his neck and his brother shouting in his ear. By the time of the funeral at New Shiloh Baptist, some members of the Gray family were relegated to the balcony, and behind them sat Gray’s neighbors from the Gilmor Homes housing project. The balcony, though, turned out to be a good place from which to see what happened next: everyone surreptitiously checking their cell phones for news of the insurrection growing outside.
Among the mourners in the church was a man named Ted Sutton, once a close associate of the legendary West Baltimore gangster Little Melvin Williams and now a youth pastor and an anti-violence advocate. He left the funeral and gathered a group of men to try to locate the protesters. They traveled first to Mondawmin Mall, but it was quiet. Then they came closer to the center of the city, to the corner of Fulton and North Avenues, which wasn’t quiet at all. The police had massed in riot gear, but then they had fallen back, unsure about what their posture ought to be. The protests during the past week had been organized, with slogans and signs, but here there was more chaos and confrontation. Sutton remembers seeing an Asian liquor-store owner being beaten; he intervened and called an ambulance and the man’s son. But within this disorder, Sutton, a student of the relationship between power and violence, also noticed signs of intent. He saw a cluster of small businesses on North Avenue (a hardware store, a dry cleaner) that belonged to his old mentor, Williams, who had long ago sworn off crime. None had been touched. The targets seemed mostly to be chain stores or those owned by outsiders. Sutton thought this was a good sign; it meant the protests had some discipline and direction.
Anywhere in the world, anytime police line up in riot gear across from a crowd of citizens, the space between them becomes a stage. A teenage boy walked into the middle with his arms out. The police had been firing pellets into the crowd. “Shoot me!” the boy was crying out. “Shoot me!” Sutton became alarmed. He recognized the boy, whose name was Nehemiah; he was a student whom Sutton had mentored at a West Side middle school. Sutton, six-foot-four and broad, pushed through the crowd and ran out to the boy. “Nehemiah, this isn’t a game! They’ll kill you!” he yelled. Together with one of his men, Elder G, Sutton pulled Nehemiah back from the stage and returned him to the crowd. Then
a police officer fired a tear-gas canister toward the protesters, and it became difficult to see.
April: A prayer circle outside the burned CVS. Photo: Devin Allen/New York Magazine
Everyone in Baltimore seemed to get arrested that day, April 27. By the end of the evening, the city jail was packed — eight-man cells held 16, two-man cells held four. A nursing home being built on the East Side was torched, though no one was ever arrested for the arson, and the motives remain inscrutable; crowds looted pharmacies and clothing stores up and down the West Side; late into the night, cars full of young men circled slowly in prosperous neighborhoods; the television cameras were ubiquitous, unmissable symbols of the broader world’s interest. No one went home and no one died.
Each of the American cities where high-profile police killings have inspired demonstrations these past three years has had a different experience of violence, of political protest, of social change — each is part of a composite. Baltimore’s has been the most prolonged: After Gray’s killing, and then after the protests, there was a third phase, more devastating than anywhere else, in which the police seemed to retreat and then the largest wave of homicides in a quarter-century overwhelmed the city. That wave has still not fully subsided; the disturbance that became visible with Gray’s death continues.
There was something else unique to Baltimore’s experience that deepened its tragedy and mystery. Baltimore’s political leadership is composed almost entirely of progressive African-Americans, many of whom had marched in Black Lives Matter protests. Under their watch, zero-tolerance policing had been curbed, and, for the first time in many years, the city had grown more prosperous and inviting and people had been moving in rather than out. Even so, there was no large personal distance between these figures and street violence. Representative Cummings spoke at Gray’s funeral about his own nephew, murdered at college, whom he memorialized at Victory Prayer Chapel in Baltimore: “Every day I mourn what could have been.”* The nephew of the City Council president, Bernard Young, had recently been murdered, too. And so what followed the demonstrations in Baltimore was more complicated than what happened in Sanford, Florida, after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by a neighborhood-watch volunteer; or in Ferguson, Missouri, after the police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown: outrage, but also self-doubt. The gaze in Baltimore went inward, not just to the politics of race and violence, not just to the social structures that shaped those politics, but to the emotional terrain underneath.
Why Is Freddie Gray Dead? Last Night There Was a Riot in My Neighborhood — Today There’s Mostly Just Sadness
On the afternoon of April 28, a senior police official named Melvin Russell took an unusual call from a friend. A private meeting of rival gang leaders, who had themselves been disturbed by the violence within the protests, was about to begin, and the friend thought Russell would want to be there. Russell, a lieutenant colonel who runs the department’s community-relations division, grew up in Baltimore and has been an officer in the city since 1981. Since the protests began, he had spent far more time in meetings than he would have liked, and so his experience had a nightmarish quality, “like I was watching someone dying in the street, a few feet from me, but could do nothing about it.” The friend gave an address — a church in Northwest Baltimore — and said not to tell the press. Russell called some members of Gray’s family to encourage them to come too. Then he went.
Someone told the press. As Russell arrived, there were camera vans out front, so he slipped in the back door. “We lost the members of the Gray family at that time, because they pulled up and saw the cameras,” Russell told me. They lost a few gang members, too. But eventually the reporters left. Inside the church, there were representatives from the three major Baltimore gangs: the Bloods, the Crips, and the Black Guerrilla Family. They looked at Russell — a tall African-American man in his 50s who wore his authority heavily —“cross-eyed.”
The gang leaders had arrived with a specific grievance. As the first protests had unfolded, someone in the police department had told a reporter that they had been organized by Baltimore’s gangs in order to attack cops. The report spread: It was broadcast on Fox and made headlines in several papers. The gang leaders were furious. One man from the Crips faction relayed a story: When the teenagers were coming down Pennsylvania Avenue, some Crips saw a cop outside his car. “And they said, ‘Get in that business quick,’ because he wasn’t close enough to his car,” Russell said. The crowd destroyed the car, but the officer had heeded the Crips’ warning and hid. “So this guy”— the Crip —“was emotional about this. He said, ‘How are you saying we tried to kill cops when we were saving their lives?’ ” This went on for a while. Russell said, “They were absolutely right.”
The meeting lasted an hour and a half. Eventually conversation turned to what might be done. Russell asked that representatives of the gangs meet him at the corner of Pennsylvania and North each evening at nine to help disperse the crowds. Each night that week, Russell saw them out as promised: the Crips in their blues, the Bloods in their reds. The Black Guerrilla Family doesn’t wear colors, but he recognized their faces.
The violence that first week was often symbolic, but because the cameras were everywhere, it was all on television. Not far from where Ted Sutton had waded into the crowd, and not long after, a CNN reporter was interviewing a street activist named PFK Boom. “The people in my city are not happy,” he declared. Then, in the background and on live television, a tall man in a bright-pink hoodie sliced open a hose that firefighters were using to put out a blaze. For a few seconds there was pandemonium — it was hard to tell what had happened — and then the camera focused on the same man, his face covered by a gas mask, as he stabbed the fire hose again with a knife and water spurted into the air. The young man bounded away.
According to the police account, that same man was arrested a few hours later when he walked into a corner store while possessing a weapon. (The police believed he was there to loot the place, though his lawyers would argue that he intended to help protect it.) His name was Gregory Butler Jr., then 21 years old and from the East Side, and he had been a basketball star headed out of the city until an administrative detail cost him an athletic scholarship: Baltimore’s schools, unlike most, give no extra weight to the honors classes Butler had taken, and so his GPA was too low to qualify. Since graduating, he had generally stuck close to his own neighborhood, but the Gray protests had loosened something in him. He had attended most of them, shouting alongside young men from other neighborhoods he would have usually avoided, sensing the familiar fears of street violence dissipating. Even after his arrest, in the city jail, he found that “most of the conversation was political. There was no fear.” Later in the summer, Butler would attend youth-activist forums, speaking with feeling of the “hopelessness” of the children in his neighborhood, of the necessity that someone mentor them.
It says something about the sheer confusion of the moment, of the ways violence upended all of Baltimore’s normal moral categories, that during the last days of April, Greg Butler Jr. was the force of nihilism and chaos and the Bloods and the Crips the forces of order.
This confusion of categories was everywhere. It was hard to distinguish between the rioters and the protesters, or discern whether these grievances were simply part of the national activist wave. But from up close, there was less surprise; the events had a specific, local history. “You could see this coming,” Russell said, “for about two years.”
The summer of 2013 had a particular significance to many activists in Baltimore, because that was when an unarmed 44-year-old man named Tyrone West died after being beaten by at least eight Baltimore cops, according to a lawsuit his family later filed. West had been pulled over while driving his sister’s Mercedes-Benz; police would later say he’d been moving furtively inside and that they’d found cocaine tucked in his sock. Told to sit on the curb, West got angry, stood up, and started fighting the police, according to the account of a passenger in his car. It took ten minutes for him to succumb.
The city prosecutor declined to charge any policemen; a key component in West’s death, the coroner eventually ruled, had been a heart condition. To West’s family, this seemed like an evasion. His sister, Tawanda Jones, organized a vigil seven days after his death, and then another one seven days after that. The vigils became small weekly demonstrations against police brutality, and soon she began moving them around the city, into its most violent neighborhoods. West’s name resonated across the city. (PFK Boom would mention him on CNN.) So did that of Anthony Anderson, a 46-year-old man killed in 2012 when a police officer tackled him from behind, rupturing his spleen. Anderson collapsed in front of his mother, sister, son, and daughter and died minutes later. Like West’s, his death had come in an everyday setting.
Jones was unrelenting. “We went to every public meeting,” she said. But as the weekly protests continued, West and Anderson became not just examples of police brutality but evidence that the city’s leadership could not be trusted to correct it. And then came Freddie Gray.
A similar unease, a worry that terrible things could happen to ordinary people, moved through the police department after six officers were charged with killing Gray. His death was different from Brown’s, or Tamir Rice’s in Cleveland, because it was caused not by the violent action of a single officer but by an accumulation of negligence. Gray, who had five pending drug charges against him, had bolted when a bicycle cop turned toward him, and he’d been chased down, subdued, and handcuffed. Then he was placed in a paddy wagon without being seat-belted. Gray allegedly called out for a doctor, but by the time the paddy wagon stopped and a sergeant opened the back door, he did not respond. The sergeant did nothing, and within 12 hours Gray was in a coma.
That sergeant’s name was Alicia White, and when it was announced, the leader of a local community group where she had once patrolled expressed her astonishment to reporters, saying that White had been a model cop, that she had volunteered her off-duty time to community cleanups and events. When the news of White’s involvement hit Russell’s department of community–policing evangelists, he found himself comforting several crying members of his own staff, “women and men both.” The normal moral categories had collapsed for them, too. The usual line, that police brutality was the work of a few bad cops, was harder to accept without reservation when you knew one of the officers involved and she seemed like a good cop.
Photo: Devin Allen/New York Magazine
Thursday evening, just before the citywide curfew, a tractor-trailer driver was found dead, slumped behind the wheel of his rig parked on Pennsylvania Avenue, less than a block from the burning CVS. Police roped off the crime scene, said the death was suspicious, and for a moment it looked like the symbolic, politically fraught mayhem of the riots might have turned into something else. But an investigation found no signs of foul play. False alarm.
On the evening of Gray’s funeral, as Pennsylvania and North burned, Mayor Rawlings-Blake held a press conference, in part to plead for order. “It is very clear,” she said, “that there’s a difference between what we saw last week between the peaceful protests ... and the thugs who only want to incite violence and destroy our city.” That single word — thugs — stood out right away as a mistake. In setting the streets against the community, Rawlings–Blake misunderstood the basic shape of the outrage, which was that the distance between the streets and the community had collapsed. Rawlings-Blake also missed something even larger: The entire city had been upended.
For most of the past decade, Baltimore has averaged about a homicide every other day, and that had been the pace for the first four months of the year. After the demonstrations, the violence escalated immediately. On Tuesday the 28th, as the protesters progressed at Pennsylvania and North, there had been two incidents in short succession in Park Heights, in Northwest Baltimore, just west of Pimlico racetrack: First, a 31-year-old woman was shot; shortly thereafter, two men were shot, one fatally, leaving a trail of blood outside the shops on Park Heights Avenue. The next day, five people were shot, three of whom died; the day after, there were three more shootings and two more homicide victims. The shootings were all over the city, but as they accumulated, they clustered in West Baltimore near the sites of Freddie Gray’s death and the riots. That Thursday, there had been a brief media scrum on Mosher Street, where the police van carrying Freddie Gray made a previously unreported stop before traveling on. Shortly after the journalists left, a 19-year-old man was shot on the same block. The next day, another man was murdered two blocks from the Gilmor Homes, with protests going strong on North Avenue nearby.
The killings continued. On May 3, there were two; on May 4, two more, one of them a stabbing witnessed by a technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal and his fiancée, who lived in the area and were biking to Whole Foods. On May 7, two people were killed; on May 10, four more; and on the 14th, four more still. On the 20th, a rapper called Nazty was killed, one victim in a quintuple shooting, and Westley West, the young street preacher, prepared for the funeral sermon by reading Nazty’s lyrics, trying to piece together the personality of a man he did not know. On the last day of May, three men were killed, two of them in a shooting as a cookout ended. One victim was a 22-year-old man named Ronnie Thomas III whose 14-year-old brother had been killed 13 months earlier. In ordinary times, Baltimore is a very violent place, but this was exceptional. Forty-two people were killed in the city in May, the most in a calendar month since the peak of the crack epidemic. In July, there were 45 more murders.
The most intense demonstrations, the ones that provoked the city to establish a curfew and the state to send in the National Guard, lasted only a week, and they broke soon after Marilyn Mosby, the city’s young and politically connected chief prosecutor, announced charges against the six officers involved in Gray’s killing that ran up to second-degree murder. They were indicted three weeks later. That Sunday, Russell was at his in-laws’ house when his mother-in-law congratulated him, having seen his name in the Baltimore Sun. The police commissioner, Anthony Batts, had said that Russell would be sent to the Western District to repair the relationship between the police and the most violent neighborhoods in the city. Russell said he had not heard of this before. He was to be the police department’s olive branch. “I said, ‘Well, ain’t this but a butter biscuit.’ ”
Russell was in his own way as suspicious of police culture as Tawanda Jones was, though his suspicion was more surprising since he helped to run the department. “I’m so discontented with the police,” he told me. Russell had been the first African-American valedictorian of the city’s police academy in 1981; though Baltimore is nearly two-thirds black, it took two more decades before there was a second. He worked narcotics for most of his career, and his rise through the ranks was slow. At one point, Russell failed the lieutenant’s exam. “I come to find out that all the Anglo officers had been given the exam questions beforehand,” he told me. Russell has six sons and two daughters. When one of them was “accosted and jacked up by police — would have been abused if he didn’t blurt out my name,” Russell and his wife, Lolita, decided to move their family out of the city. “I couldn’t protect my six African-American boys in Baltimore,” he said, from either violent crime or the police.
They considered Pennsylvania, but too many Baltimore cops lived there already. “When I retire, I don’t want to see any police,” Russell told Lolita. They settled on Delaware. “I knew only one other [Baltimore] policeman in the state, and he lived in a different city,” Russell said. “So I felt safe.” Then he had a change of heart. Probably he was too energetic to retire. There was another lieutenant’s exam coming up, and Russell took it, passing easily, and he considered this a sign. The zero-tolerance policing of Mayor Martin O’Malley’s administration, which in one year saw more than 100,000 arrests in a city of 640,000, had been scaled back. Russell became deputy commander of the city’s Northwestern District, then commander of the Eastern. When violent crime declined in both places, he had the attention of the then–City Council president, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, and, through her urging, a citywide post.
Once Batts sent him to the West Side in May, Russell was there almost all the time, mostly alone. It was a hostile place. West Baltimore has always been the city’s heart, the center of the old fights over residential segregation, the site of the biggest heroin markets, and, on its periphery, still home to much of the remaining urban black middle class. “East Side’s the least side — West Side is certified,” the saying goes. But the Western District had been transformed by the time Russell arrived. The six indicted officers had been suspended from their shifts. Among those who remained, Russell said, there was a feeling that “the whole world was against us.” On the streets, patrolmen told Russell that when they tried to make routine traffic stops they’d be surrounded by dozens of people holding up cell-phone cameras and shouting, “Don’t Freddie Gray him!” When Russell himself walked through the Gilmor Homes, people would shout at him, “Fuck the police!” He heard it from men, women, and children. Russell had been working in Baltimore since before the crack epidemic. He’d never heard anything like that. “I was so freaked out by the lack of communication,” he said.
Russell made a few phone calls to his old contacts all over the city — to pastors, to community activists, to sergeants he trusted — and heard that what he saw on the West Side wasn’t happening elsewhere. He spent most of his time in a small West Side area he came to think of as ground zero: Pennsylvania and North, the Gilmor Homes, the intersection of Carey and Cumberland. At Pennsylvania and North, people were dealing drugs in the open. There were illegal dice games running 24 hours a day. Twenty-seven pharmacies and two methadone clinics had been looted during the rioting, and an old colleague of Russell’s who now ran the Baltimore DEA office had concluded that there were enough new pills on the street to keep Baltimore high for a year. (Ted Sutton was getting calls from people trying to figure out what they had. “They couldn’t pronounce ‘OxyContin,’ ” he said. Some callers wondered if it was a vitamin.)
At Pennsylvania and North, it felt as if the police had simply abandoned the intersection. Russell began to suspect that they had. “There would be times I would go hours without seeing a single police coming through,” he said. “And these were high-traffic areas. Not only that, I was made aware that there were no police coming through because people would say, ‘Colonel, you’re the only police we’ve seen here today.’ Sometimes, ‘You’re the only police we’ve seen all week.’” In the first four months of the year, Baltimore’s police had arrested a monthly average of 2,630 people. In May, that number dropped almost in half, to 1,557. The uniformed police, Commissioner Batts would later say, had “taken a knee.”
The shape of public order changed. Russell met a man who ran a West Baltimore halfway house for recovering addicts, most of them heroin abusers, and the counselor called him one day with a comically outsize problem. Streetside dealing had so flourished, the man said, that his residents had to walk past 17 separate locations where dealers were actively selling heroin just to get to the methadone clinic.
Russell went out to talk to the dealers. Would they be willing to relocate? They seemed exasperated. “‘You think we like selling drugs?’” they said to Russell. “‘You think we like being out here selling poison to our own people? That’s the only thing we have to do to survive.’ ” One of the dealers suggested the city turn to them to clean up the Inner Harbor, a tourist destination that has recently been filled with trash. “You can’t get the Inner Harbor clean?” he asked Russell. “Put us in some fricking little rowboats, and we’ll get the debris out of the water if you let us.” Russell found this remarkable. “They said, ‘No one will hire us to do anything.’”
In West Baltimore, everyone understood what was happening. At one point, Russell found himself in conversation with a Gilmor Homes drug dealer he knew as Freezer, who asked if he could send a message back to the commissioner. “‘We know they still mad at us. We pissed at them. But we need our police.’” Russell shook his head. “Now, this is a criminal element talking.”
Baltimore, in its poverty and violence, is a laboratory city, its poorest neighborhoods subject to constant social-science observation and experiment; there are data sets reaching back years that detail the number of chicken bones left discarded on select city blocks (as a measure of social disorder) and the number of men clustering outside liquor stores on weekend nights. Many of these records are maintained by a professor at Johns Hopkins named Debra Furr-Holden, and she could see the data change almost immediately. With so many stores burned or closed, simply conducting your daily business — commuting, shopping — meant you had to travel farther, often outside your neighborhood, sometimes into places you would not have considered safe. The people who had come out of their houses during the protests did not go back inside; for the first part of the summer, something like double the ordinary number of people were outside in the evenings. “Everything about daily movement changed,” Furr-Holden told me.
Much of the city seemed utterly isolated. During the evenings, groups of men from churches and charitable organizations would pass through the affected neighborhoods, seeing what they could do to help. Among them was a pastor from North Baltimore named Heber Brown III, and as he moved through the city with his small group of church volunteers he noticed that many corner stores were boarded up. Some had been burned, and others had been abandoned. “These were food deserts already, and people were starving,” he said. Brown put in a call to a black-owned farm that operated on the eastern shore of Maryland on what had been Harriet Tubman’s ancestral land. They had already been working together to bring vegetables to Brown’s church. Now he set up a food-distribution warehouse in the church’s lobby, where they divided up bags of sweet potatoes and onions and drove packages around the city. Soon Brown’s church had set up a regular farmstand farther east on North Avenue, at Aisquith, on Wednesdays at noon. “That food was a lifeline to a lot of people,” he said. It seemed to him there was a limit to what his community could expect from the outside. “Self-sufficiency for our people — that is where my mind is right now.”
Even more urgent was the need for safety. “People weren’t calling 911,” Brown said. Instead, they called his church. Parents called, worried that their children would have to pass through a phalanx of police on their way from school to the bus stop, and so Brown put together a group of men to walk the kids past the police and onto their bus. There, he worked alongside a group of Bloods who were also serving as escorts. The calls began to come regularly for mundane problems: Children were fighting on the corner or a situation was tense. Brown formed a patrol. Men from the church would canvass the neighborhoods each night from seven to ten.
One night, when a big fight broke out among teenagers along Northern Parkway a couple of miles east of his church, Brown got panicked calls asking for help: “There’s a whole lot of children fighting, and the police are on their way.” Teachers called when they noticed a large police presence outside their school and worried that their kids would need protecting. “To have teachers and principals calling us and saying the cops are here, we need your help — it really shows you what the mood was,” Brown said. What they needed from Brown was very basic: adult bodies, and the order they implied.
Every Tuesday and Thursday, all through the summer, Lieutenant Colonel Russell and his patrol toured the Western District’s ground zero with a trailer he’d borrowed from the Parks and Recreation department called the Fun Wagon. It came with basketballs, Hula-Hoops, jump ropes. He thought that if people could just see a uniformed officer playing with children, it would do a lot of good. When he first wheeled out the Fun Wagon, he found it drew out the kids, but everyone else still held back. If a police car came by, Russell would walk over and plead with the beat cop to get out and play. He’d call the Western District commander. “I’d say, ‘Just send someone over here for five minutes, it’ll do a world of good.’”
For several weeks, no one came. But by the middle of the summer there was a detectable thaw. The police seemed to return to the Western District, and to work. In July, there were nearly 2,500 arrests citywide, and in August a little more than 2,300, totals that were within the range of what the city had come to experience as normal. Russell noticed another change: Now, when he brought out the Fun Wagon, beat cops would stop when they drove past, stay for five minutes, throw a basketball around.
The spring had been for outrage. The summer was for activism. The NAACP opened a satellite office in Sandtown–Winchester in West Baltimore, and soon it seemed like every church and family foundation was hosting a youth summit, or extending a summer program, or holding a teach-in about the civil-rights era. The megachurch pastor Jamal Bryant was staging protests that shut down highways. Rawlings–Blake established a panel to rename monuments and streets dedicated to figures from history who had supported slavery or opposed civil rights, and momentum gathered in the City Council to reopen recreational centers in the city’s poor neighborhoods that had been closed. Rawlings-Blake’s support among voters had weakened, and the speculation was over who would challenge her from the left: perhaps the councilmember Nick Mosby, or Sheila Dixon. In July, Rawlings-Blake fired Batts as police commissioner and elevated a community-policing proponent named Kevin Davis to replace him, and the question in the Sun the next day was what had taken her so long.
Meanwhile, the events of late April were undergoing a nomenclature revision. Where first they had been called the Riots or the Protests and then — at least by some — the Uprising, now a new term emerged, almost militantly banal: the Unrest. It was employed with particular savvy by Mosby, who represents much of West Baltimore in the City Council and is married to prosecutor Marilyn Mosby, and who therefore needed to stand on all different sides of the negotiation between power and violence and safety in the city. The Unrest was euphemistic, nearly meaningless, but it had an air of willed resolution. The violence, the radicalization, the police abdication — this had all happened in a discrete point in time, now confined to the past. On September 11, Rawlings–Blake held a press conference to announce that she would not run for reelection, she made a particular point of defending her cool mien. “I don’t hear a lot about elected officials that are men talking about whether they smile
a lot,” she said.
All of the public talk in the city was about unity. The pleas to end the violence were by that point ubiquitous. But just as all of Baltimore pondered the mystery of how a progressive city could produce such a despotic police force, a second mystery had presented itself: If everyone was organized to prevent violence, why did it continue to happen? The cops were back at their posts. The whole city had been politicized. The poorest streets were filled with activist group meetings and sermons. The gangs were professing nonviolence. Still, the murders continued.
There are four neighborhoods in Baltimore in which ex–gang members are employed to interrupt street disputes before they mature into slaughter. The program, called Safe Streets, uses a protocol developed in Chicago, and its theory is that violence acts like a contagion, in cycles of revenge, and that it can be stopped before it spreads. The men who work for Safe Streets are not police, and their motives can be complicated: It is said that when a new hire starts work as a violence interrupter, an old friend of his always seems to soon be killed, and he has to endure an internal dialogue between his old ways of reacting and the new ones that he has been professing. This summer, a handgun that had been used in a shooting was found stashed in a Safe Streets office, causing a minor scandal and a temporary closure. But the program also offered another aperture into the closed network of violence in Baltimore, and so in September the Park Heights Safe Streets office hosted visitors from Johns Hopkins and the Centers for Disease Control, each inquiring about the rash of homicides.
Some theories had been suggested: Maybe the drugs stolen from the pharmacies had fueled a free-for-all. Maybe a few bad apples were to blame. Neither of these ideas had purchase among any of the violence interrupters, whose views were more systemic. They were focused not just on the men who ran the corners but the kids who sat watching, ready to come up behind. Any 8- or 9-year-old boy on a given block, said Dante Barksdale, an outreach worker at the Park Heights Safe Streets office, could tell you that block’s outlaw history: “Who used to be the big man, who was his lieutenant, who he killed, who got sent off to prison, going back to the 1980s, the 1990s.”
Murders are emotional matters, and they betray an emotional history. Often, after the violence interrupters heard that some young man was angry, once they inserted themselves physically into his path and took him out for a drink, they found that his basic trouble was not with another drug crew but with some domestic humiliation: an inability to pay the rent, or to support a child. There was an element of self-loathing. “He might be ready to take it out on someone else,” said a Safe Streets staff member named Paul Frazier. “That’s a lot of my mediations. Happens all the time.”
The kind of information that the violence interrupters seek is different from what the police usually solicit, because they are interested in crimes that have not yet happened: Who in the neighborhood was agitated, and how badly, and at whom? Who had lost hope? This meant they were especially attuned to the psychological currents that followed the protests. “This summer, during the Uprising, I saw young people more frustrated than I’ve ever seen them,” said James Timpson, Barksdale’s superior. The emotional conditions in which a distraught young man walks toward a police line crying, “Shoot me! Shoot me!” are the very same ones that would catch the notice of Timpson’s men.
Barksdale mentioned one source of tension the interrupters were working to defuse. A man had just been released from prison, where he had served more than a decade for murder, and had returned to his old neighborhood. The victim’s son, now in his early teens, had become aware that his father’s murderer was in the neighborhood and had mentioned the fact to some friends of his. One of the friends had a family connection to the paroled murderer, and so the murderer knew that the son knew that he was around.
The interrupters had met both the man and the boy. Barksdale believed that the man wanted to go straight, and the boy was a good kid, by nature given to following rules and heeding advice. Nevertheless, it had become a situation. The expectation that the boy might try to avenge his father’s death meant that both the man and the boy had reason to believe the other might try to kill him. To live in a place with a memory of violence makes it possible to be incarcerated in someone else’s past.
One idea that circulated nationally this summer was that places like these, with a history of violence, need more policing, not less. The Los Angeles Times journalist Jill Leovy’s book Ghettoside argued that these communities feel abandoned by the police because the crimes that occur within them are often left unsolved. The historian Michael Javen Fortner’s Black Silent Majority explained that the initial push for a heavier police presence in minority communities often comes from residents, who need protection. Baltimore could seem an experiment that confirms the thesis: The police pulled back, and in the void there was slaughter.
But in Baltimore, the murder rate did not drop much even after the police returned, which complicated the thesis. Russell told me that he believes 15 percent of the city’s police force are what he called “vocational,” people who see themselves as serving rather than containing their communities. Another 15 percent are problems. The remainder, seven in ten, could go either way. A neighborhood might get lucky in the cops it draws, or it might not. Many people in Baltimore, from many walks of life, told me that the city would benefit from more policing. They were not always so sure that it would benefit from more police.
Not every city starts from the same place. The homicide tallies reset each January, but the memories don’t. Baltimore was in one of the few Union states that permitted its citizens to hold slaves, the seat of the John Wilkes Booth conspiracy, the rare northern city in which housing discrimination was codified by the City Council in laws that mapped out block by block which race could live where, a place where the great cultural institutions (the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, the Goldseker Foundation) are named after real-estate tycoons who built their fortunes in racial blockbusting. The city still has only one subway line, though six were once planned, the ambitions collapsing amid strenuous suburban opposition. Many neighborhoods, far from jobs, have withered. In Freddie Gray’s Sandtown-Winchester, about 30 percent of the houses are vacant.
The main civic action in Baltimore right now — the movements against violence by the police, the protesters, the pastors, and the interrupters — is not aimed at this legacy, because they can seem too distant to control. The present work takes place along a different plane, of mentoring and preaching and intervening. These are exercises in emotional management.
Things had accrued during the summer: not just crimes but, in their wake, grievances. All of those robberies and shootings, unresolved by the police, were causes for retaliation. “There’s a lot of beefs in Baltimore right now,” a Safe Streets worker observed. There were 27 murders in September. There were 34 in October. The pace was still one a day. As Thanksgiving approached, homicides totaled more than 300, up more than 50 percent over the previous year and the highest since 1993. Shootings had increased by 80 percent. In chronological terms, the Unrest was a blip, but it created a long line of powerful events. It came from one, too. Memory is the mood in which violence takes place. Often it is also the mechanism. To pacify a violent community is to persuade it to forget.
November: Melvin Russell on patrol at Pennsylvania and North. Photo: Devin Allen/New York Magazine
All through the fall, Russell kept up his vigilance. On Thursdays, he supervised training for police chaplains, a program that he had greatly expanded; he wanted neighborhood pastors and imams riding with beat cops all over the city in order to strengthen the connections between the people and the police. Russell sat in the back of a classroom while an instructor quoted Malcolm Gladwell, discussed implicit bias, and explained how well-meaning young police officers become accustomed to violence and how the tension can make them violent, too. On as many Friday evenings as he could, Russell walked the West Side. On Saturdays, he spoke at community-violence summits, and on Sundays, he preached, sometimes at his church and sometimes at others. At night, he drove back to his home in the suburbs. When Freddie Gray died, Russell had had fewer than a dozen police to work with; now he had several times as many.
Russell is more certain now than he was then that the city could be fixed and that he knows how to do it. The problem of police violence echoes the problem of street violence: Memory matters there too. “I think there’s a lot of undiagnosed trauma,” Russell told me. He recalled the first time he saw a homicide victim: “a 16-year-old kid with his head blown open, brain splattered. I looked at one officer, my partner, and he looked like he was fine. I looked at the other one, he looked like he was fine. I wasn’t fine. But because they appeared to be fine, if I wanted to be a part of this police family, I better get fine real quick. And before I could even process it, I was at my next trauma situation.” Russell continued: “We live in a city that has learned to coexist with trauma. The problem is all of us coexist with it poorly.”
Russell had grown more optimistic. The expansion of his unit and influence, and the training he presided over, suggested to him that the number of vocational cops might one day expand, that the trauma can be interrupted. “If they had let us go to the Western District from day one,” he said, “we would never have had the Freddie Gray incident.” Russell believes that the police can be taught to be conscientious. He also knows that violence moves in ways that are beyond even a conscientious cop’s control.
On the last day of August, I called Russell on his cell phone. When he picked up, he sounded strained. “It’s a very bad time,” he said. “Family emergency.” One of the colonel’s sons, Melvin Russell Jr., had been arrested and charged with stabbing a 49-year-old man earlier in the day, killing him.
It fell to Russell to tell his wife and all of their other children. Something like this had not been expected, but it was not entirely a surprise. “Schizophrenia skips a generation,” Russell said eventually. For his whole life, his own father had been a distant, introverted figure. Often, he’d worked more than one job, packing boxes or working as a janitor, and whenever he lost one he’d get another. In 1998, when he died, Russell discovered that his father had been a diagnosed schizophrenic. “Certain things started to make sense.” Russell had several sons of his own by this point. Eventually Melvin Jr. was exhibiting all the signs: pacing late at night, laughing without reason. At 19, the boy was diagnosed and went to live with a succession of relatives. Within a few years, he was hearing voices. From then on he was medicated, under the care of doctors. He “had all those advantages,” Russell said. The man Russell Jr. had killed was his roommate; they lived together in an apartment in Southwest Baltimore. The victim, Theophilus Ruffin, was the 34th and final homicide statistic in Baltimore that month.
*This article has been corrected to show that Elijah Cummings's nephew was murdered when he was attending school in Virginia.
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Savanna holds fourth annual "Best in Craft" event at 60 Tenth Avenue; Firm celebrates valued partners and friends
July 27, 2015 - Front Section
Chris Schlank, managing partner at Savanna, and his mother, Joan
Robert Knakal, Cushman
& Wakefield and Christopher
Schlank, Savanna.
Shown (from left) are: Nick Bienstock, managing partner at Savanna, Chris Schlank, managing partner at Savanna and Jeffrey Gural, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank.
Savanna celebrated its valued partners and friends at its fourth annual "Best in Craft" event on June 11 at 60 Tenth Ave., a Savanna property located underneath the High Line in the Meatpacking District. The event was attended by over 500 of New York City's real estate industry professionals who have made an impact on Savanna's growth and success over the past year.
The guests were treated to a fun filled evening full of great company, food, drinks and music, while enjoying the space and one of the warmest spring evenings of the season.
Savanna, the New York-based institutional real estate private equity firm and asset management company run by managing partners Chris Schlank and Nick Bienstock, hosts its "Best in Craft" event every year to honor its partners and friends for the work they accomplished throughout the year.
Savanna pursues opportunistic real estate equity and debt asset investments throughout the northeastern United States, with a particular focus on New York City. The firm's equity investments target superior risk-adjusted returns by adding value through asset management and/or property development, redevelopment, and repositioning. Savanna's "Best in Craft" event allows the opportunity to honor those in the NYC area that helped Savanna achieve its growing success. FIRST PHOTO:
Shown (back row from left) are: Joe Travato, Eric DeSimone, Andrew Kurd, Andrew Fichte, Steven Schulman, Tom Farrell, Chris Young, Ian Moore, Justin Oates, Kevin Hoo, Brian Reiver, George Perry, Liza Rodiger, Amy Watkins; Shown (second row from left) are: Alysha Bowen, Jana Berthel, Kim McCafferty, Olga Sokhar; Shown (kneeling row from left) are: Casey Richardson, Ripley Nielsen, Peter Rosenthal, Nick Bienstock and Chris Schlank.
SECOND PHOTO: Shown (from left) are: Richard Wagman, Madison Capital; Laurie Golub, HFZ Capital Group; J. Joseph Jacobson, Madison Capital; David Falk, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank and Robert Morris, The Rampart Group.
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Pleasant Ridge Celebrates 100 Years, New Patio Space
Pleasant Ridge, MI- As Pleasant Ridge residents sipped beer and wine, mingled with neighbors, and lounged in the new patio seating behind the Community Center, nature gave the freshly opened space a warm sunset glow. Walled off from the buzz of the freeway next to it, the newly renovated space has tables with umbrellas, chairs, and a wall that is the perfect size for sitting. The “Big Room” now has garage doors that give the Big Room an even bigger feel for gatherings of all seasons.
On the wall outside is a mural of multiple flowers, with warm tones that matched the colors of the sky. The mural was commissioned by the city from LA-born and raised artist Ouizi who now lives in the Detroit area. The space itself was designed by Pleasant Ridge resident Patrick Thompson, who also designed Axle Brewery in Ferndale.
Also in the quaint space in a rolling green lawn leading to a children’s play scape so parents can relax at a healthy distance while still keeping an eye on their little ones.
A mural inside, plus the black ceiling with red beams, hint of municipal infrastructure while still looking bright and trendy.
And of course the people and the groups that filled the walls of the Big Room were really the story of the evening, as the community was celebrating more than just the space. It was the city’s 100th birthday!
City Manager James Breuckman read the words from city leaders 100 years ago, “Situated as we are on one of the most traveled thoroughfares of America, we have a wonderful opportunity of advertising our charms to potential home-seekers. We would like to see the entire village beautified by intentional public improvement, streets scaped perfectly unlike so much of the amateur works in evidence, trees planted were ever needed and properly cared for, and wide, well-kept grass plots between sidewalks and gutter line. The public can well-afford to devote as much time and money to beautifying the public property as we individually devote for private property. Money so spent will benefit us all in the higher value of our homes.”
That mindset is one that has kept the 2,400 person, .56 square mile community looking good, and full of active citizens. “We punch above our weight,” Brueckman said. “We accomplish so much here that larger communities don’t.”
Lining the walls of the Big Room were several of the groups and departments that do their part for the city. The Historic Commission was on hand with a file box showing examples of the files kept on every address. Inside are photographs and histories of the home. Some have news clippings, personal stories, and other memories.
When Amber Herrick moved to Pleasant Ridge from Clio in 2002 she knew she wanted to be part of a tight-knit community. “I love history and I wanted a way to be involved in Pleasant Ridge,” she said. The Historic Commission preserves the tiny historic museum which is inside a former police booth.
In addition to keeping historic records, the group has fundraisers including the Home and Garden Tour, which takes place this year on September 21.
The Pleasant Ridge Foundation and the Garden Club had tables near each other, with members of both celebrating improvements being made to the fountain and surrounding landscaping in Stephenson Park. The fountain had been there since the 1940s but stopped working several years ago. Residents and resident groups got together to raise money for repairs. The fountain should be up and running again by the end of the month.
“The water gave serenity, and it buffers the busy-ness of Woodward,” said Kathi Snow. “It’s a nice feature to honor veterans.”
Robert Campbell is a fourth generation Pleasant Ridge resident. “We’ve always had a fountain, as long as I can remember,” he said. “The greenbelt defines our city, and it’s our responsibility to keep it up.”
Pleasant Ridge Mayor Kurt Metzger said he was “thrilled to see all these people,” and added that it really is the residents that make Pleasant Ridge special.
Learn more about the City of Pleasant Ridge at https://cityofpleasantridge.org/
Check out the Oakland County Times Pleasant Ridge page!
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Portuguese Vowel Tuning
Compared to other Latin languages such as Spanish or Italian, Portuguese has a relatively rich menu of vowel sounds. These vowel sounds are the same for the most part across all dialects of Portuguese.
What actually differs between dialects is the organization of these sounds. In other words, you can easily tune your ear to different dialects of Portuguese by knowing the sound menu and figuring out what the changes are.
I am familiar with all the major European, Latin American and African dialects of Portuguese, and I have the most experience with Brazilian Portuguese. This course will focus on Brazilian music and the primer below discusses the 10 Portuguese oral vowels from the Brazilian context.
Portuguese has both oral and nasal vowels. We will go over the nasal vowels in a later section of this primer. For now, it suffices to know that the vowel sounds you are used to as an English speaker are all oral. To understanding of these Portuguese oral vowels, I have divided them into three sets.
The 1st set uses symbols that exist in English
The 2nd and 3rd set use symbols that do not exist in English
The First Set
As an adult, you will associate certain letters with certain sounds. But many of these same letters represent completely different sounds in Portuguese.
You may have a strong tendency to mispronounce Portuguese words simply because you learned them through writing. To prevent this from happening, The Flow of Portuguese relies little on writing. When it does, a given letter will always represent one sound. A given vowel letter below will ALWAYS represent the same vowel sound.
The vowels occur in the following order:
a...i...u...e...o
Listen to Portuguese Oral Vowels (First Set) byThe Mimic Method on hearthis.at
This sound is slightly more OPEN (tongue lower in mouth) and FRONT (tongue closer to teeth) than the vowel sound in the American English words "not", "pot", "hot", and "tot" .
There is a strong English tendency to close this vowel, since English "a" is more closed. So be sure to always exaggerate its openness by lowering your jaw as much as possible when saying this sound.
Listen to Portuguese a versus English a byThe Mimic Method on hearthis.at
This sound is slightly more OPEN (tongue lower in mouth) than the vowel sound in the English words "so", "go", "toe", "know" etc.
Typically, when this sound occurs in English, it is combined with the vowel /u/. You must learn to create this sound without the /u/ at the end (listen to audio).
Listen to Portuguese o vs English ou byThe Mimic Method on hearthis.at
This sound is similar to that of the English words "hey", "bay", "say", "lay" etc.
The English vowel in the words "hey", "bay", "say" and "lay" is actually two vowels combined: /e/ and /i/. You must learn to pronounce the /e/ sound without adding the /i/ to the end (listen to audio)
Listen to Portuguese e versus English ei byThe Mimic Method on hearthis.at
In English, we typically "round" our lips and move our tongue when we make the /u/ sound. You do NOT do this in Portuguese.
Listen to the difference between the rounded /u/ sound from English in words like "who" and "two", and compare it to the UNROUNDED /u/ sound from Portuguese.
When making this sound, be sure to maintain your lips COMPLETELY STILL and relaxed.
Listen to Rounded vs Unrounded u byThe Mimic Method on hearthis.at
The Second Set
Even if you are more experienced, you still may have a habit of conceptualizing these sounds in relationship to vowels from the first set (e.g. /ɔ/ is conventionally taught as "open /o/").
This is just a writing convention and not based on the acoustic reality of the language. Every vowel sound is unique is its own right and must be thought of uniquely.
If you think of the /ɔ/ as "open o", you're going to have trouble distinguishing between the two. Instead, develop the habit of thinking of /ɔ/ as one vowel, and /o/ as another. Always associate these symbols with their actual real sound. This way, when you hear Portuguese speech, you will have an easy time separating the two sounds in your mind.
The second set contains three vowels. All of these vowel sounds exist in English. They just don't have their own specific letter to represent them in English (nor in Portuguese).
Portuguese Oral Vowels (Second Set) by The Mimic Method on hearthis.at
/ɐ/
This is the same vowel sound as in the English words "the", "mud", "fuzz" (American pronunciation).
The pronunciation is more closed than /a/ sound (i.e. tongue higher in mouth).
This is the same vowel as in the English words "bed," "met", "red".
The pronunciation is more open than /e/ (i.e. tongue is lower in the mouth).
This is the same vowel as in the English words "awe", "saw" and "raw" ("hot" and "not" too for British English).
The pronunciation is more open than /o/ (tongue is lower in the mouth).
Dissecting ɔ by The Mimic Method on hearthis.at
Third Set
The third set contains the two vowels that most Portuguese learners and native speakers do not even know about. Both of these vowels exist in English, but you most likely did not know about their existence either. In general, you will not encounter these vowels often but you will still need to learn them for a more authentic accent.
This is the same as the vowel sound in the English words "bit", "sit", and "hid".
It is slightly more OPEN and BACK than the /i/ sound.
/ʊ/
This is the same as the vowel sound in the English word "good", "would", and "took."
It is slightly more OPEN and FRONT than the /u/ sound.
Listen to Dissecting ʊ byThe Mimic Method on hearthis.at
To review, there are ten vowel sounds in Portuguese, with only two of them (/a/ and /o/) being slightly different from those of English. So the challenge with oral vowels isn't in their pronunciation; the challenge is in developing your awareness of them.
As you progress through the song lessons, you should refer to this page often. When you receive feedback on your pronunciation, it is likely that your error will have already been explained on this page.
As you gain more practical experience with Portuguese sounds, these explanations will become more clear, so don't let this be the last time you visit the page. Move on to the next lesson on consonants.
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Below the Mainstreaming: A Review of Beyond Psychedelics
by Robert Dickins · Published October 5, 2016 · Updated December 2, 2016
At the end of September the psychedelic community gathered together in Prague, Czech Republic, for the Beyond Psychedelics conference. Over three days, numerous speakers and psychedelic enthusiasts shared their revelations, insights, hopes and beliefs in what was a brilliantly delivered event – one that expertly combined cutting-edge research and an engaging community atmosphere.
Beyond Psychedelics took place in an industrial area of Prague in an old waterworks plant, the main hall of which resembled the high ceilings of a church, and which was adorned with slowly turning lights, shaped as cogs, rolling across the tall white walls. Two enormous water tanks flanked the projection screen in the centre, and doors led off from one side to delicious food and book stalls next door. There, stairs led up to a secondary track room upstairs and the walls were covered in eye-popping visionary art.
The event began with a Slovakian ceremony in a green field behind the waterworks. It involved an evocation of the local god of the underworld, and prayers to the cardinal points. Salt and bread were passed around the conference neophytes, along with water from a local sacred spring. Then from old magic, we made our way to a particular vision of the future in the main hall, where hundreds of people from the international psychedelic community sat patiently for the opening talk.
Opening Ceremony at Beyond Psychedelics
It began with Rick Doblin of MAPS giving his polished story about his own personal journey, along with his organisation’s particular view of a potential psychedelic mainstream. He described the dangerous world that psychedelic discourse was born into—the holocaust, Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam, and eventually the War on (some people who possess and supply some) Drugs. For Doblin, introducing psychedelics into the mainstream is a political act to help establish a safe world. In the US, MAPS has made an economic alliance with the military as part of their strategy to bring psychedelics back into mainstream medicine, and as part of “global psychedelic change”. Returning military personnel with PTSD cost the American taxpayer approximately $15 billion a year, which of course might potentially be averted by MAPS’ original raison d’être; MDMA-assisted psychotherapy.
Along with the rapprochement with the Establishment, a number of other intentions that have developed in the MAPS vision over the last decade or so were discussed by Doblin. For instance, if they successfully move into Phase 3 of their plan later this year through meetings with the FDA, they intend to have clinics open within a few years wherein people can pay for their psychedelic treatments. Due to legal rules, it is likely only MAPS trained clinicians will be able to deliver this treatment initially, although they do intend to develop a licence system for psychedelic drug use. In this way the regulatory system will be extended out from simple healthcare, into the lives of individuals and perhaps worryingly into the festival arena as well. Licensed drug taking at festivals? I, personally, am not convinced that this is a particularly healthy development, but time no doubt will tell.
Outside the psychedelic top-down model, it was particularly engaging to see the meeting of so many psychedelic societies in Prague, groups which have begun to spring up all over the world, and many of whom gathered together for the first time at Beyond Psychedelics. There was talk of this grassroots movement working together for the global good, and it certainly has the power to invigorate. In one talk, Stephen Reid and Stefana Bosse discussed the incredible growth of Psychedelic Societies in the UK; a clever combination of education, political action and experience weekends. In a world without non-medical drug licenses, experience weekends appear to work out just fine.
It was great to see the UK faces like Drs. Ben Sessa, Robin Carhart-Harris, and David Luke, and was also wonderful to hear about the work being done in the Czech Republic by organisations such as the National Institute of Mental Health. Prof. Jiří Horáček, Deputy Director of the institute, gave a fascinating talk discussing the similarities and dissimilarities in the results of fMRI brain scans with psilocybin, ketamine, and cannabis – one interesting point he made was that the more psychedelic ketamine was, the more its therapeutic qualities appeared.
Coming from the UK, and largely having been involved with the history of psychedelics in that country and the US, the track discussing the research history in the Czech Republic and former Czechoslovakia was very enlightening. A long and venerable tradition! Iker Puente discussed its most famous psychedelic son, Stanislav Grof, who began his career in the former communist state, before emigrating to the US. And Ross Crockford gave an excellent talk on the Sdaská Hospital and the LSD research that was conducted there, including work with artists and the creative process.
Danny Nemu at Beyond Psychedelics
Later in the conference, Dr Wendy Kline gave a very intriguing talk about the effect of Grof’s Transpersonal Psychology on countercultural medicine and the home birth movement of the 1970s – examining how the emphasis of Grof’s perinatal matrices helped galvanise new understandings about the methods employed around childbirth. Elsewhere, while dosing his audience on frankincense, author Danny Nemu examined the use of drugs in the Bible, and described the use of the tabernacle as a hot box and the way in which the herbs and spices affect the transmitters in our heads. More about this can be read in his forthcoming book Neuro-Apocalypse.
Other Psychedelic Press contributors Vladimir Stepan and Mike Crowley were also in attendance. Stepan discussed his nine day darkness retreat and the various psychedelic components that arose in his mind during the course of the experience. And Crowley looked at the hidden symbolism of magic mushrooms in Buddhism which is communicated through a curious secret language – he also has a book on the subject coming out shortly. What all these previously mentioned researchers and experiential psychonauts had in common was the ability to look below surface discourse and reveal numerous approaches and cultural effects; Beyond Psychedelics facilitated this uncovering beautifully over the three days.
Beneath the waterworks building of the conference, laid a complex network of rooms and tunnels, which to some degree came to reflect the mainstreaming of psychedelics in my mind. Psychedelic substances have now been a part of the underground network, and reimagining the foundations of our culture, for over fifty years – the sounds from above ground are warped and reinvented sublimely in the unseen world of tunnels and hidden rooms, and replayed afresh in the raves of the everyday world.
Regulatory frameworks, as gatekeepers of this transaction, have the power to either facilitate or stifle this on-going process. Mainstreaming has the power to bring psychedelic medicine above ground, but it conversely risks taking industry regulation deep down into the heart of culture. Beyond Psychedelics quite brilliantly explored this tension with its quality selection of speakers, and I hope future events in the Czech Republic continue to navigate this changing psychedelic discourse as brilliantly as it did with this conference.
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Raised in the Catholic tradition, Pat early on recognized the difference between religion and spirituality. At the age of 10, Pat's grandmother began teaching her yoga postures and introduced her to the world of metaphysics and spirituality. Pat quickly realized that holiness, health, and healing were intimately related. True spirituality is an experience of a whole and integrated body-mind-spirit. The world of spirit--though invisible--was tangible, and she sought to experience that 'hidden' world.
Pat's quest led her to study/experience a variety of spiritualities and healing modalities, among them: tui-na (Chinese acupressure), Swedish massage, Reiki, laying on of hands, hesychastic prayer, acupuncture, qi gong, Jungian dream work, guided imagery meditation, the Relaxation Response, herbal medicine and holistic nutrition. While living in Minnesota, Pat studied and experienced Native American spirituality and rituals with an Ojibwe pipe carrier. She later spent five years living in a yoga ashram and has a 14-year meditation practice based on the teachings of Kashmir Shaivism.
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Waxahatchee Maps Out 2019 West Coast Tour with Bonny Doon
The trek will hit Vancouver early next year
Waxahatchee delivered the Great Thunder EP earlier this year, and now the Katie Crutchfield-led project has announced some supporting tour dates for early next year.
Crutchfield will be joined on the west coast jaunt by Bonny Doon, who will serve as her backing band, as well as the opener.
The run of dates begins in Tacoma on February 21 and will make a single stop north of the border on February 24 in Vancouver. The remaining dates will wrap up on March 3 in San Diego.
In a statement, Crutchfield also acknowledged that these would be her last shows for a little while, so she could take some time to write.
See those upcoming shows listed below.
02/21 Tacoma, WA – Alma Mater*
02/23 Seattle, WA – St. Mark's Cathedral*
02/24 Vancouver, BC – Wise Hall*
02/25 Portland, OR – Aladdin*
02/27 San Rafael, CA – Terrapin Crossroads*
02/28 Visalia, CA – Cellar Door*
03/01 Los Angeles, CA – Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever*
03/02 Pioneertown, CA – Pappy & Harriet's*
03/03 San Diego, CA – Irenic*
* with Bonny Doon
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Following their debut self-titled album in 2017, Bonny Doon are back with Longwave and the laidback and existential undertone of this album...
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Roman buildings north of the Danube
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Initially, Romans were only building temporary camps for their troops in the territory of the Roman Empire. This changed after the great expansion of Caesar and then Augustus before the turn of the millennium. Conquered territories and new boundaries had to be secured. Construction of permanent camps was concentrated along the new empire boundary on the Danube and Rhine. The inner development included barrack buildings, house for the commander and officers.
Romans almost did not build any permanent camps (castrum), smaller fortifications and camps (castellum) or strongholds (arx) beyond the empire boundaries. An exception includes the Kelemantia citadel (today's Iža, Slovakia) built in the 70s of the 2nd century beyond the Danube empire boundaries, opposite the Brigetio legionary camp (I. Adiutrix legion). Another military point included Děvín in Slovakia, controlling the Morava river outlet to the Danube. The structure of these fortifications has all the characteristic features of similar objects on the limit.
In addition to the military installation, there are some foundations of buildings north of the Danube built in a Roman manner. They are objects the Romans built and used by themselves such as the trading post near Stupava (Slovakia) or related to German settlements. We can presume they were stately homes of the German aristocracy. We know of some buildings in Slovakia: Cífer-Pác, Bratislava-Dúbravka and Velký Kýr (formerly Milanovce). In the territory of Moravia, brick architecture is documented indirectly by the building material – bricks and roof tiles. Fractions of these materials have been found during archaeological researches in Staré Město near Uherské Hradiště, Mikulčice and Pohansko near Břeclav in the context of Great Moravian religious buildings. In Olomouc, it is in the place of expected religious buildings from the 10th or 11th century (Church of our Lady of the Snow, Theresian Armoury). The building material is expected to come from Roman objects not localised so far.
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It’s EASY RIDER‘s 50th birthday, and the Rio Theatre will be celebrating with screenings of the newly remastered icon of cinema starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson which Time Magazine hails as, “one of the ten most important pictures of the decade.” Upon its release in 1969, Dennis Hopper‘s groundbreaking directorial debut became both a pop-cultural touchstone and a box office hit, punching through to a mainstream film scene previously dominated by Westerns and musicals. Experience the real, uncensored ’60s counterculture in this compelling mixture of drugs, sex and armchair politics (not to mention a killer soundtrack) on the big screen – in glorious 4K!
Nicholson portrays an alcoholic attorney who hooks up with two part-time, drug-dealing motorcycling (Fonda, Hopper) in search of their “American Dream.” Heading from California to New Orleans, they sample the highs and lows of America the beautiful in a stoned-out quest for life’s true meaning. Nominated for an Academy Award® (1969) for Best Screenplay (written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern).
Following its debut at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, this beautifully remastered 50th Anniversary edition of EASY RIDER is the 4K restoration by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
“‘Easy Rider’ is very likely the clearest and most disturbing presentation of the angry estrangement of American youth to be brought to the screen.'” (Hollywood Reporter)
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EASY RIDER (Dennis Hopper, 1969 / 95 mins / 18A) After scoring cocaine in Mexico, then re-selling it in California, two hippie bikers set off on a collision course with small-town prejudices on a cross-country trek to New Orleans.
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Scottish Junior FA International Squad 2017
Junior internationals were played as early as the late 1880’s. The first Junior International taking place against England on 11 May 1889 and against Ireland on 15 February 1890. Thoughts of challenging sides from other home countries arose early in the SJFA's history and the Association Secretary at that time stated:
"Having now fully established our position in the football world, and feeling strong in football talent, it was proposed that we measure our strength with some of the junior organisations of England or Ireland. This was agreed to, and the secretary communicated with the secretary of the Lancashire Junior Association with the view of arranging a match between the two associations. The lateness of the season, however, prevented satisfactory terms being come to, and it was shelved till some future season. At the same time endeavours were made to arrange a match with the juniors of the North of Ireland, but for the same reason this also fell through. No doubt, by taking the matter earlier in hand next season, arrangements might be made whereby we would have a chance of upholding Scottish football."
1912 saw new opponents introduced at International level with the North Wales Coast F.A. in the guise of Wales. The first match took place at Bangor on 13 April 1922 with Scotland winning 2 - 1. The series of games was suspended upon the start of the First World War and resumed in 1922. Arrangements for an extensive tour of Norway were arranged by the Scottish Junior League in 1920 - the first representative Junior side to travel to the continent with an extensive tour of Norway.
Matches against the Republic of Ireland are not reckoned to have commenced until 1947 but we have found a match Scotland played on 9th March 1929 against the Irish Free State in Dublin. There may have been more games in this series sat this time but none can be found. Scotland won 2 - 1 in front of a 20,000 crowd with the following side: Maxwell (Denny Hibs), Sutherland (Grange Rovers), Bulloch (Law Scotia), Gray (Edinburgh Emmet), McDougall (Burnbank Ath.), Wright (Aberdeen East End), Blair (Saltcoats Vics), Aitken (Edinburgh Emmet), Hillan (Maryhill Hibs), Meikleham (Rosslyn Juns.), Ferguson (Maryhill Hibs).
After 1958, matches against Wales and the Republic of Ireland lapsed and through until 1967 Scotland's only opponents were Ireland. Scotland were unbeaten by them in this period - winning six and drawing two matches. They began this run with a 5 - 0 win at Firhill in 1959 with the following team: Cumming (Johnstone B.), Graham (Shotts), Mackie (Carluke), Dickie (Irvine Meadow), Little, Capt. (Glencairn), Johnstone (Muirkirk), Scott (Bo'ness Un.), Chalmers (Ashfield), Reid (Luncarty), McLean (Cambuslang R.), Hume (Rob Roy).
Matches against England resumed on Sunday 16th April 1972 at Saracen Park, home of Ashfield, with the game ending in a 2 - 2 draw. Keith Nelson and Rab Prentice got the goals and the side was: Robertson (Whitburn), Ross (Carluke Rovers), Lapsley (Linlithgow), Crooks (Kello Rovers), Corrigan (Whitburn), Aitchison (Arniston Rangers), Christie (E. Kilbride Thj.), Cochrane (Kello Rovers), Meechan (E. Kilbride Th.), Nelson (Cambuslang Rangers), Prentice (Newtongrange Star). Left back John Lapsely had a long career with Airdrie and Rab Prentice played for Hearts.
In 1973 Willie Pettigrew, later to play for Motherwell, Dundee United, Hearts, Hamilton Accies and Scotland scored twice in a 5 - 1 win over England at Nuneaton. England were again beaten in 1974 at Glenrothes by 4 -1 with Ian Wallace (Yoker Athletic) amongst the scorers. Ian of course later played with Dumbarton, Covenrty City, Notts. Forest and Scotland. Wales were also beaten 3 - 0 that year. In 1975 Scotland drew 1 - 1 with England at Fellows Park, Walsall, then lost 2 - 3 to Wales at Denbigh.
In September 1975 a tour of West Germany was undertaken by manager John Binnie with a squad of 14 players. Scotland played against the BAOR in three matches and recorded two good wins and one defeat in their final match against a stronger BAOR select which had beaten Crystal Palace 4 - 1 in a pre-season tour match in West Germany. Results of the matches were, with all played in Osnabruck, Monday 1st Sept. Bunde 7 - 0, (Dailly (3), McGill (3) & Gray). Wednesday 3rd Sept. Army Select 5 - 1 (Dailly (2), Donnelly, Gray, Ure). Friday 5th Sep. Army Select 1 - 2 (Gray). Lindsay Kidd was reportedly the star performer of the tour.
In recent years the Juniors have competed against their counterparts in Southern Ireland, Northern Ireland and Isle of Man initially in the Guinness Cup and now the Umbro Trophy. Click here for the history of the Quadrangular Tournament.
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Craig Pettigrew with his son.
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2010 Quadrangular Squad - Gavin Collins
2010 Quadrangular Squad - Graeme Mclaren
2010 Quadrangular Squad - Grant Anderson
2010 Quadrangular Squad - Iain Ross
2010 Quadrangular Squad - JC Hutchison
2010 Quadrangular Squad - Jimmy Lister
2010 Quadrangular Squad - John Ward
2010 Quadrangular Squad - Keith Burgess
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The history of the Umbro Quadrangular Tournament.
I'm convinced to this day that my spell in junior football, helped me further my career in a beneficial way. I'll always remember the team spirit and the great lads I played alongside.
Billy McNeill MBE, Blantyre Vics
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In the 2016-2017 season, baritone Jonathan Hays will be heard on the stage of National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY in the production An die fernen Geliebten: Monodramas by Beethoven and Jeremy Gill, he will join the Harrisburg Symphony for performances of Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem in D minor, and perform in recital with pianist Rachelle Jonck at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, where he is a member of the voice faculty. Recently, Mr. Hays has been heard as Reverend Gruffydd in the world premiere production of How Green Was My Valley by Roger Ames and Elizabeth Bassine at the Central City Opera, as the Narrator in the world premiere of Martin Bresnick’s and J.D. McClatchy’s My Friend’s Story at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas at Yale University, and in a performance of excerpts from World Enough and Time by Robert Pound and Carol Ann Johnston at the Phillips Museum of Art in Lancaster, PA.
Renowned as an interpreter of contemporary music, Hays has been involved in the creation and performance of many new operas and song cycles. He essayed the role of Shadow Grendel in Julie Taymor and Eliot Goldenthal’s Grendel for a co-production with the Los Angeles Opera and Lincoln Center Festival, he originated the role of Isaiah Berlin in Mel Marvin and Jonathan Levi’s Guest from the Future for Bard’s Summerscape Festival, and he was a Texas Ranger in the world premiere production of Jean-Michel Damase’s Ochelata’s Wedding for the OK Mozart Festival. In recital, he has performed The Wound Dresser by John Adams with pianist Jennifer Blyth at Dickinson College, Helian by Jeremy Gill with the composer at the piano for Music with a View (NYC), Delaware County Community College, and Susquehanna University, and the world premiere of Robert Pound’s Muldoon and Heaney songs for the Stellfox Foundation. In 2011, Hays was presented with the Big Easy Foundation’s award for Best Performance of New Classical Music for his duet recital with soprano JeAnne Moniz Swinley, An Unquiet Spirit: Madams, Madmen, and Other Unsavory Characters.
An artist with a growing discography, Hays recorded Robert Pound’s Stellfox songs in August of 2016 for release on compact disc. His recording of Jeremy Gill’s Helian for Albany Records ranked fourth on Philadelphia City Paper’s list of Top 10 Classical Albums of 2011. In a review of the recording for Fanfare Magazine, Peter Burwasser said, “Jonathan Hays conveys the words, not just the music, with intelligence and careful diction, not to mention a splendidly lush baritone.” Hays’s Avery Fisher Hall performance of Henry Cowell’s Atlantis with the American Symphony Orchestra is available on iTunes and emusic.com.
No stranger to the standard repertory, Hays has been hailed by Opera Magazine for his “commanding authority” and “sheer vocal excellence” in the Mozart repertoire. He has sung Don Giovanni with Cape Town Opera, Bel Canto at Caramoor, Syracuse Opera, and Chattanooga Opera; Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with Greensboro Opera, Cape Town Opera, Bel Canto at Caramoor, Opera Roanoke, and the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra; Papageno in Die Zauberflöte with Portland Opera, Central City Opera, and Connecticut Opera; and Guglielmo in Così fan tutte with Bel Canto at Caramoor, Eugene Opera, Yale Opera, and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
Other notable performances include Achilla in Giulio Cesare with Washington National Opera, Belcore in L’elisir d’amore with Opera de la Colombia, Taddeo in L’italiana in Algeri with Central City Opera, Don Fernando in Fidelio and Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette with the Connecticut Grand Opera and Orchestra, Donner in Das Rheingold with the Eos Orchestra, and Fenice in Deidamia and Fernando in La gazza ladra for Bel Canto at Caramoor. Of this Caramoor performance, Paul Griffiths of The New York Times wrote, ‘In all his contributions, the nobility of his voice matched the nobility of his bearing and his singing was consistently strong, lucid, direct and bang on the note. His was a magnificent performance’.
Mr. Hays has performed in concert with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, American Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Boston Musica Viva, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Alabama Symphony, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Harrisburg Symphony, and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, among many others. He holds opera degrees from the Yale School of Music (M.M.) and the Hartt School of Music (B.M.), and he serves on the voice faculty of Dickinson College as Visiting Instructor in Voice for 2015-2017. He has previously taught on the faculties of Susquehanna University and Brooklyn College and Conservatory of Music.
Jonathan Hays, Baritone
As “Friedrich Bhaer” in LITTLE WOMEN with Dayton Opera.
Der unsühnte Orest (Schubert)
Brahms Requiem
Song of Black Max (Bolcom)
Ballade que Villon (Debussy)
Beethoven Fidelio Don Fernando
Bernstein Candide Maximilian
Bizet The Pearl Fishers Zurga
Britten Billy Budd Billy Budd
Donizetti Don Pasquale Malatesta
Donizetti L'Elisir d'amore Belcore
Donizetti La favorite Alfonso
Gounod Faust Valentin
Gounod Romeo et Juliette Mercutio
H�ndel Giulio Cesare Achilla
Leoncavallo I Pagliacci Silvio
Mozart Cosí fan tutte Guglielmo
Mozart Don Giovanni Don Giovanni
Mozart Le nozze di Figaro Count Almaviva
Mozart Die Zauberflote Papageno
Puccini La boheme Marcello/Schaunard
Rossini La cenerentola Dandini
Rossini La gazza ladra Fernando
Rossini L'italiana in Algeri Taddeo
Strauss, R. Aradne auf Naxos Harlekin
Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin Eugene Onegin
Tchaikovsky Pique Dame Yeletsky
Verdi Falstaff Ford
Bard SummerScape – Cheryomushki
“Lauren Skuce and Jonathan Hays were graceful and vivid in the romantic leads”
– The New Yorker, September 6, 2004
Louisiana Philharmonic – Carmina Burana
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“Commendable diction from a fine voice also distinguished baritone Jonathan Hays’ strong performance as the reticent but complaisant vicar, another well-studied and complete realization of a difficult role and in marked contrast to Hays’ previous bravura performances at Yale.”
– New Haven Register, March 3, 1996
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The candidate or the party? Which factor would Seri Setia choose…
Halimey Abu Bakar – Pakatan candidate for Seri Setia State Assembly
PETALING JAYA — Which factor would the voter consider, the candidate or the party?
This question would arise on every election. A survey by Bernama in the Seri Setia state constituency by-election this Saturday shows that the decisive factor could be the party.
A strong party is seen as an important factor to care for the people as well as being the voice of the people at the state assembly sitting.
Among the many who opted for the party was housewife Che Lat Aring, 57, as she felt that the overall strength of the party was more important than the candidate factor.
“I am more inclined to choose the contesting party as the support, trust and loyalty to the party were the factors for me to vote,” she said.
Dr Halimah Ali – PAS candidate for Seri Setia
A housewife, R. Maggeswery, 47, said she would consider both the candidate and the political party represented by the candidate.
“If we are looking for a real change, only a strong party would be able to hold the responsibility (to bring that change) for the people. A candidate would only represent a small part of the party,” she pointed out.
Although the party factor is a popular choice among voters, the ability of the candidate is also a factor that could not be overlooked.
A self-employed youngster Hanif Wardi, 28, said he preferred to look at the credibility of the candidate to improve the future of society and the government for better reforms in development.
“Since Malaysia has been revamped, it is necessary for us (as the voters) to think about the fate of the local community, in terms of the location we are residing.
“Hence, we need to choose a candidate who is able to provide inputs to the people and outputs to the government,” he said when met by Bernama.
For a registered voter Shafika Mihat, 28, from Taman Dato Hormat Park, she would be considering the candidate’s leadership skill as well as the candidate’s ability to practice the ‘walk the talk’ principle after being given the mandate.
“For me, credibility is an important factor and they should be able to walk the talk. Also, this time the candidate has to be committed to resolving issues related to this area (Seri Setia constituency),” she added.
Universiti Malaya political analyst Professor Awang Azman Awang Pawi concurred that the party factor could bring great opportunity to the Pakatan Harapan (PH) candidate to win the by-election, although the popularity of the PAS candidate seems to be in the forefront.
“In this by-election, the voters on average, would consider the stability of the party to choose from, and certainly the PH logo because it is the current government of the day. Also, the Seri Setia constituency is the stronghold of the party,” he added when contacted.
According to Awang Azman, the two rivals would try to woo the voters from the B40 group because most of them had not decided on who they would choose.
“Meanwhile, most of those from the middle-class group are already decided who they would vote for this Saturday,” he said.
However, he also predicted that the percentage of voter turnout would be reduced or not as much as the turnout of the last 14th General Election (GE14).
“The voters are still tired from the last election and they have also expected PH to win,” he said.
PH candidate Halimey Abu Bakar is contesting against PAS candidate Dr Halimah Ali in the Seri Setia by-election following the death of its incumbent Prof Dr Shaharuddin Badaruddin on Aug 2 after a battle with colon cancer.
— BERNAMA
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December 13, 2016 christian esquevin 14 Comments
It was the smallest big studio in Hollywood. Owned in succession by the likes of Joseph Kennedy, David Sarnoff and RCA, Howard Hughes, and finally Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. RKO was once home to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Orson Wells, David O. Selznick, and King Kong. Katharine Hepburn made her first movies there, and it was equally known for Val Lewton horror movies and films noir. For a small studio it produced outstanding period costumes. Its wardrobe department had top talent and its costume designers were among the best in the 1930s. At RKO’s creation in 1928 it amalgamated a vaudeville theater circuit with Kennedy’s Film Booking Office and Sarnoff’s, RCA . RKO stood for Radio Keith Orpheum. There were high hopes for it: RCA (Radio Corporation of America) was interested in sound film; Kennedy in making money. The studio was located on Melrose and Gower in Hollywood. It also included Pathé withinin its holdings, and its lot in Culver City, once the studio of Thomas Ince and later home of Selznick International Pictures. Today as a working studio RKO is long gone, its lot having turned into the Desilu Studio and now absorbed by Paramount Pictures.
At its beginning, RKO’s predecessor FBO (Film Booking Office) was owned by Joseph Kennedy. It made films, mostly westerns, and had hired a new costume designer named Walter Plunkett. When FBO was amalgamated into RKO in 1928, Plunkett became the de-facto costume designer for the new studio. As film production began to speed up, Plunkett had to organize an entire wardrobe department, as well as designing costumes for the principal cast of its films. RKO’s first major production was Rio Rita starring Bebe Daniels. The film was a big hit and Walter Plunkett made a name for himself. But working hard and launching his reputation still didn’t give him adequate pay, and so Plunkett walked off the job to work at Western Costume. He was finally lured back in 1932, just as Katharine Hepburn had started making pictures there. this was also when Ginger Rogers was about to make RKO famous dancing with Fred Astaire, and there was King Kong and Fay Wray too.
RKO Costume Designer Walter Plunkett is shown above. He is pictured with my-great-aunt, RKO’s Head Cutter-Fitter Marie Ree. In this staged photo they are inspecting fabric for an upcoming movie with Helen Mack. The Cutter-Fitter’s job was to take the designer’s costume sketch and fabric selections and make patterns from which the fabric pieces could be cut. She would also do the fitting on the star, where the designer was usually present. In the photo below, a pattern cut from muslin is laid upon the satin fabric, which will then be cut and later sewn by seamstresses. The muslin pieces were actually pinned together on a dress form made to the star’s measurements, prior to the actual costume being sewn. Patterns would have to be made by the cutter-fitter whether the costume was a bathing suit, a 1930’s glamour-gown, or an Elizabethan garment.
Below Marie adjusts a shoulder detail onto a custom dress form for an unknown production in the mid-1930s. This work was done for one shoulder piece for one costume for one movie at the studio. One can imagine the labor for 30 movies a year, even if only a dozen or so were “A” pictures.
In the photo below, Marie examines an embroidered decoration for fit on a velvet gown. The embroidery would be later cut and sewn onto the gown. The beaded and sequined decorations always drew attention as they flashed under studio lighting in the film. Photo taken for an unknown production in 1940.
Walter Plunkett became a specialist in historical costume. As the only costume designer at RKO at its beginning, he had to design for everything: contemporary; historical; for men as well as women. But he excelled at designing historical costume and found great success with that specialty. He stated later that he prefered designing period costumes because directors seldom knew enough about them to argue with him. But he also had expert assistance from Marie Ree. She was a stickler for detail and correctness, and had a keen knowledge in historical French folk costume. She also had the trade skills from having worked in the atelier of Jeanne Lanvin.
Under David O Selznick as producer, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, was turned into a film starring Katharine Hepburn. In the Depression year of 1933 this movie about the thrifty but loving March family, and its struggles while the father is off fighting in the Civil War struck a chord. It was a big hit and made Hepburn a star. The calico and gingham fabrics and Victorian styles were nostalgic, yet like a breath of fresh air to movie-goers. Surprisingly, the costumes influenced fashion as well, and were even noted by couturier Marcel Rochas, as “so pleasing.”
“Little Women” 1933 with Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Frances Dee, and Jean Parker
RKO was also finding a big success in the dance team of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. They had second billing in the movie Flying Down to Rio, but with The Gay Divorcee it was all about Fred and Ginger. With this movie Walter Plunkett designed the quintessential Ginger dance gown – form-fitting at the waist and hips to accentuate her figure and free-flowing at the ankles to twirl during her dance moves.
But soon Walter Plunkett was again dissatisfied. Bernard Newman was brought in as a second costume designer from New York’s Bergdorf-Goodman. He was now dressing Ginger Rogers, and according to Plunkett, getting all the plum assignments. So Plunkett resigned again. He said if New York designers could come to Hollywood he would go to New York, and he did, with a new job there. Below is Bernard Newman’s costume for Ginger Rogers for In Person from 1935, The gown is made of silver bugle beads sewn onto turquoise-colored chiffon. The bugle beads provided brilliance under the lights and hugged her figure and the chiffon provided some transparency.
Ginger Rogers loved Bernard Newman’s gowns. One of his famous gowns was the ostrich-feather and blue satin gown from Top Hat. The gown was backless. Ginger loved this gown and had to fight to keep it in the movie as Fred hated it. As they danced the feathers would come loose and stick to his tuxedo and lay on the polished dance floor. Wardrobe was challenged as well as they would repeatedly have to re-sew the feathers back onto the gown. Despite these issues, their dance scene and Ginger’s dress were amazing.
Bernard Newman is shown below with French opera singer Lily Pons. Miss Pons starred in two RKO films with Newman designs: I Dream Too Much andThat Girl From Paris. Newman had a great fashion hit in the movie Roberta, with Irene Dunne, remade in 1952 as Lovely to Look At, with designs by Adrian.
Costume designer Edward Stevenson came to RKO as Bernard Newman’s sketch artist. He had already been a designer at First National for several years but lost that job when they merged with Warner Brothers. Bernard Newman didn’t sketch his designs, and his method was rather slow. In fact he wasn’t well suited to the Hollywood studio production pace and was soon gone. Stevenson stayed at RK0 for many years and designed the costumes for dozens of films including Citizen Kane, Suspicion, It’s a Wonderful Life, Out of the Past, and others. He went on to design the costumes for the I Love Lucy shows. Edward Stevenson is shown below at right in 1940 with director George Abbott amidst his costume sketches for Too Many Girls.
But meanwhile Katharine Hepburn was unhappy that she had lost her friend and expert in historical costume design Walter Plunkett. This was especially the case since the hit movie Little Women had RKO casting her in more historical films. The next one coming up was Mary of Scotland, to be released in 1936. For this she demanded that Walter Plunkett be brought back to design the costumes. Walter was in New York, and employed. He responded that he could get a leave of abscence, but only for eight weeks. If the movie ran longer than that he would have to be paid double. So Plunkett came back to Hollywood, but the script kept getting revised and most of his eight weeks were used up before he began his designing. Thus he was earning double his initial salary, and soon had to resign his New York job.
Although the film was in black and white, most of the costumes were in glorious color. Katharine’s sleeves and upper bodice were in rich red Lyon velvet, with gold thistles. The actual costume is pictured below as it was shown at the Debbie Reynolds auction of 2011..
Plunkett was now on a movie-by movie contract with RKO. But that would soon come to an end in 1936 as he sought and got the job of designing the costumes for Gone with the Wind.
Marie’s RKO book of film costumes and fabric samples, usually with cost notations. is shown below. The red velvet fabric at left was used on Katharine Hepburn’s sleeves and upper torso. Fabric samples in book were for one of Queen Elizabeth’s costumes.
Costume designer Renie Conley, who just went by the name Renie joined RKO in 1936. She had a very long career, having started as a sketch artist at MGM in the 1920s and designed her last film in 1981. Renie’s portrait is shown below.
Renie’s design’s for Ginger Rogers appeared in Ginger’s only Academy Award for Best Actress. This was her win for Kitty Foyle, 1940.
Renie’s costume design shown above made a strong statement in the film with it’s colonial accents of the tri-corn hat and ruffled collar. It was also a fashion hit at the time. Below is Renie’s original costume sketch.
RKO continued making movies through the 1940s, making particularly excellent films noir. The great costume movies, whether historicals or musicals, were now a thing of the past. When Howard Hughes bought out the studio in 1948, it started going down-hill. Eventually Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz bought out the lot and turned it into the Desilu Studio in 1957. Paramount later bought the lot in 1967, and virtually nothing remains denoting RKO’s physical presence today. Gone, but not forgotten.
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Kenneth Brock says:
Bernard Newman stopped designing for RKO in 1947. He lived to 1966. What happened to him after 1947?
christian esquevin says:
Hi Kenneth. Bernard Newman’s last design credit for RKO was in 1938, After that he designed a couple of films at Warner Brothers in the 1940s and a couple more movies, his last being “Hazard” at Universal in 1948.
After that there is no trace of him designing film costumes. Perhaps he re-entered the fashion world where he started.
Bethany Spencer says:
I’m wondering if this may be of interest to you….I found a very old wooden coat hanger. On the front it says: The Cannan Co. Cleaners – 123 W. Woodruff Ave., Phone Main 9151.
On the back, there’s a stamp that says: Ginger Rogers, RKO Studios, Hollywood, CAL.
I thought it was so exciting to find! Do you know if anyone would be interested in something like that? As a collective piece?
The Lady Eve says:
My apologies for my late arrival to this post, Christian.
Quite thrilled to learn more about your great-aunt while discovering the history of the RKO studio. I’ve known little about it, though I’ve always enjoyed RKO’s movies. I also knew little about RKO’s costume design history and enjoyed having my eyes opened in that regard.
Great stuff, Christian.
No apologies necessary Lady Eve. There is so little written about the wardrobe departments, beyond a few designers. But then there is so much lost to history. I am lucky to own these scraps, literally, pieces of muslin fabrics cut for costumes for Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball, Maureen O’Hara, and others. It’s a pleasure and a duty to honor those who worked there with so little recognition.
kutea nicoll says:
,would you be able to reconize a Edward stevenson design for lucille ball ? i own a piece (apokadot coatdress with lime/pink irredecent shot lining and jet buttons and have been trying to authenticate it for years now it was bought from a vintage shop in late 70’s in california (pre trendy vintage )who said they purchased wardarobe from Deselu studio i can send pictures
Thanks for contacting me. Possibly I could. Stevenson used a sketch artist at RKO so the style of the rendering may be different and therefore tricky. He did his own sketch rendering years earlier
so that may be helpful but that was in the 1920s during the art deco period. I don’t have any of his Lucille Ball designs to compare with but possibly I could track some down through the web. You can send photos to me at c.esquevin@coronado.lib.ca.us
Heather Leigh Sonrisa says:
Fantastic! Thank you for sharing.
Inge Gregusch says:
This is quite possibly my favorite of your many wonderful posts! Reading about your great-aunt and her career is an honor. Fabric swatches from the Golden Age; draping muslin on dress forms; and of course your knowledgable commentary. Thank you for a glimpse into that bygone world. Happy New Year, Christian!
Thank you Inge and Happy New Year to you. Yes, I am fortunate to have inherited this book of notes and swatches. I didn’t show them but I have many muslin pattern cut-out sections with names of the stars that they were for: Joan Crawford; Katharine Hepburn; Ginger Rogers; Maureen O’Hara; Lucille Ball, etc At the time I imagine these were all routinely dumped in the trash after the costumes were completed. Now they are relics of that Golden Age era.
So you inherited your knowledge of costume design 🙂 Loved this post…I never knew Head Cutter-Fitter was. Love that red velvet fabric!
Thanks for your comment Rick. Well, I got an early appreciation and appreciation of fabris and style. Unfortunately I didn’t take full advantage of it by
more questioning and exploration of her work while my great-aunt was alive. It is amazing that all these vividly colored fabrics were used in black and white films.
Patricia Nolan-Hall (Caftan Woman) says:
Fascinating. I see the names in the credits and marvel at the artistry and skill. The contemporary to 30s and 40s fashions retain a freshness today. The line about directors being ignorant of the actual historical periods is funny and quite telling.
Thanks for your comment Patty. As you know I mostly focus on the costume side of the production process, but all of the artists and artisans were hard at work in the old studio days making sure that movies and movie stars looked there best. Sometimes the movie may have been a stinker but the craft people still did their best to make it look great.
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St Mirren (@1.86) vs Hamilton (@4.6)
St Mirren will win
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However, they only lasted until the 62nd minute when Ross Stewart smashed the ball into the back of the net inside the box. Tony Andreus bouncing free-kick brought the Buddies level 10 minutes later, but their hosts ultimately took all 3 points in the dying minutes of the game through Marcus Fraser. St Mirren did well to keep a clean sheet during the first half.
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This game has the potential to be a relegation battle clash a few months down the line, and both teams will be used to that after the end of last season. Were going to back the hosts to narrowly win here, with a final score of 1-0. The same can be said for Rice, who has been at the club since January. St Mirren havent done all too well under Jim Goodwin since he took over at the start of the summer, and the Buddies manager needs to start picking up points soon.
St. Mirren vs Hamilton Academical Prediction & Match Preview
Their last clash at home with Rangers turned out no different after their foes managed to slot the only goal of the game to deprive St Mirren of all three points. Things have not been going well for St Mirren who are sporting a very dismal losing streak. The hosts have been on the road for the past two weeks, both of which saw them lose by a 2-1 scorecard.
This would be the fifth such occasion for St Mirren in a row as well as the fourth in five for Hamilton, which does add to such a claim. We have seen both sides struggling to keep it together at the back and with that in mind, we also expect goals as we back a Yes on Both teams to score at 19/20 with bet365.
Brian Rices side narrowly lost to the Hoops on Saturday, in an overall boring game. The latter 45 minutes saw no change in the scoreline, but that didnt stop Hamiltons belief of pulling one back- which they werent able to do. Celtic would go on, unsurprisingly, to dominate the first half. James Forrest opened the scoring in the 4th minute and the score would remain the same.
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They have been scoring and conceding goals on the regular along the way, which does promise an exciting game on Monday too. St Mirren have enjoyed a similar contest as they snatched a 1-3 win at Livingston and held off both St Johnstone (1-1) and Motherwell (1-1), keeping hold of their chances to escape the relegation play-offs very late in the campaign.
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British Students in the United States: motivations, experiences and career aspirations
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King, Russell, Findlay, Allan, Ahrens, Jill and Geddes, Alistair (2013) British Students in the United States: motivations, experiences and career aspirations. In: Alberts, Heike C and Hazen, Helen D (eds.) International students and scholars in the United States: coming from abroad. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. ISBN 9781137024466
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Twelve years ago, the British educational press, and indeed the mainstream media, were consumed by the story of Laura Spence, a super-bright pupil from a Newcastle comprehensive school who, despite having five straight-As at ‘A level’ (the final secondary school exams), had been refused a place to read Medicine at Oxford after an interview there. General outrage at Oxford’s snobbishness ensued, with politician Gordon Brown, amongst others, weighing in with the criticism that Oxford favored applicants from the UK’s fee-paying independent schools (which include the elite but perversely named ‘public schools’), thereby excluding excellent applicants from state schools like Laura – especially if they come from deprived parts of the country with strong local accents. Laura instead went to the US to Harvard on a funded scholarship, completed her biochemistry degree there and returned to do postgraduate medical training at Cambridge – the other UK university which constitutes the top duo known collectively as ‘Oxbridge’.
How typical is Laura’s story? Are there many British students who, as Oxbridge ‘rejects’, or fearful of being turned down for a place at the UK’s two most ancient and prestigious universities, apply abroad to widen their chances of success at other globally recognized institutions? Brooks and Waters (2009a) argue that there are indeed those like Laura who apply to US universities as a ‘second chance at success’; but our research suggests that there are many other explanations of the upward trend in favor of international study. Since the US is the most important destination for people from the UK studying abroad, the findings of this chapter are particularly important in producing a more robust understanding of the key drivers of international student mobility between one advanced economy and another. We suggest that there are some movers for whom study abroad is part of a carefully strategized plan of international career enhancement, while for others it is a product of their class habitus and family networks (see Bourdieu 1977). We would also argue that there are those who are looking for ‘something different’ yet, at the same time, desire a ‘knowable’ destination, familiar to them for example from film and television and without any great linguistic challenge.
In the next section we describe our research project and its aims and methods. The main body of the chapter is made up of three sections which correspond to our three key research questions: about motivations for study in the US, about experiences there, and about future career plans. The conclusion emphasises the motivational and strategic nature of UK student migration to the US, targeted especially at universities perceived to be of high international standing. In terms of the link between study abroad and future career plans, fears about a putative British ‘brain drain’ are shown to be largely unfounded, since most students plan to return to the UK.
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Ryan Giggs | Manchester United & Wales
Giggs' golden ambitions
Posted by Steven Tan | Source from Skysports.com -
As Ryan Giggs prepares to lead Team GB at the Olympics, he claims a gold medal would be comparable to his UEFA Champions League wins.
The Manchester United midfielder has a vast collection of honours including 12 Premier League titles and two Champions League medals.
But the 38-year-old has never played in a major international finals with Wales and is relishing the thought of leading out Team GB against Senegal at his beloved Old Trafford on Thursday.
"As a footballer, you don't start out in your career hoping to win the Olympics. You want to win leagues, FA Cups and European Cups," said Giggs.
"I'm still disappointed I never got to a major finals with Wales, but we weren't good enough to get to a European Championships or World Cup.
"But to get the chance to play in a tournament at such a late stage of my career is one I'm excited about and really looking forward to.
"Of course, you want to win every game and win the tournament. We know it's going to be tough, but having seen the quality of our team over the last few weeks, we are hopeful of going a long way.
"An Olympic gold would be up there with my European medals.
"I don't like to prioritise any medal or trophy, as it's always a good feeling when you win. It's always a challenge, no matter what you win, and this is a big challenge.
"But it's going to be difficult. There's a lot of quality in the tournament, but there's quality in our dressing room as well."
Giggs also revealed he has the blessing of his Old Trafford boss Sir Alex Ferguson - a man who has not always been so keen to release the Welshman for international duty.
"Right from the start he was very supportive, which was great," added Giggs.
"I wanted to be a part of it and the manager wanted me to be a part of it."
Giggs is in the extraordinary position of being at least 14 years older than all but one of his team-mates and yet he is as wide-eyed as any of them to be part of the Olympic experience.
He said: "The onus is on me as captain and most experienced player to help the younger lads as well, something I'm at ease with as I've done that with United for years.
"I've enjoyed every bit of the preparation. All the lads have embraced it.
"Even the kitting out, which took two hours, the walk round the Olympic Village and seeing other athletes from other sports have been good experiences.
"That day we were chatting with the divers and swimmers - you get a chance to speak to other athletes who normally you would not get the chance to spend time with.
"Kelly Holmes gave us a welcome speech and she gave us a great insight as to what the Olympic experience is all about.
"We couldn't have had anyone better speaking to us. It's not something that will come around every year. But the bottom line is we are playing football matches.
"You want to win games and that's what we are trying to do."
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Salvia carnosa
Common Name: Purple Sage
Salvia carnosa is an evergreen shrub that can grow up to 0.75 metres tall.
It is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and medicine
A California Flora.
Munz P.A. & Keck D.D.
University of California Press; Los Angeles
An excellent flora but no pictures. Not for the casual reader.
South-western N. America.
Dry slopes and flats, 1000 - 1500 metres in California[
Medicinal Rating
Habit Evergreen Shrub
Pollinators Bees
Requires a very well-drained light sandy soil in a sunny position[
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]. Soils rich in nitrogen encourage excessive leaf growth at the expense of flowering[
Trees and Shrubs Hardy in Great Britain. Vol 1 - 4 and Supplement.
Bean. W.
A classic with a wealth of information on the plants, but poor on pictures.
Plants can be killed by excessive winter wet[
Members of this genus are rarely if ever troubled by browsing deer[
Perennial Garden Plants
Thomas. G. S.
J. M. Dent & Sons, London.
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A concise guide to a wide range of perennials. Lots of cultivation guides, very little on plant uses.
Seed - cooked. Ground into a powder and used to thicken soups etc or added to cereal flours when making bread etc[
Tanaka's Cyclopedia of Edible Plants of the World.
Tanaka. T. & Nakao S.
Keigaku Publishing; Tokyo
The most comprehensive list of edible plants I've come across. Only the briefest entry for each species, though, and some of the entries are more than a little dubious. Not for the casual reader.
A decoction of the seeds and stems is used to treat colds[
A decoction or infusion of the leaves has been used in the treatment of fevers, coughs, colds and stomach aches[
Native American Ethnobotany
Moerman. D.
Timber Press. Oregon.
Very comprehensive but terse guide to the native uses of plants. Excellent bibliography, fully referenced to each plant, giving a pathway to further information. Not for the casual reader.
]. A poultice of the crushed leaves has been applied tot he chest to treat congestion[
]. A decoction of the leaves and stems can be drunk, used as a wash or as a steam bath in the treatment of headaches[
A decoction of the flowering stems has been used as a poultice and a wash to treat swollen leg veins[
The plant is much valued as a treatment for an epileptic or faint person, either administered as a drink or prepared like tobacco and the smoke blown into the patients face[
Ethnobotany of the Hopi
Whiting. A. F.
North Arizona Society of Science and Art
A very good guide the the plant uses of the N. American Hopi Indians.
Seed - sow early to mid spring in a greenhouse[
]. Germination usually takes place within 2 weeks. Prick out the seedlings into individual pots when they are large enough to handle and plant them out in early summer. In areas where the plant is towards the limits of its hardiness, it is best to grow the plants on in a greenhouse for their first winter and plant them out in late spring of the following year.
Cuttings of half-ripe wood succeed at almost any time in the growing season[
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Valte is a flibbertigibbet! CROSSROADS Jonathan De la Cruz 06/11/2012
Valte is a flibbertigibbet!
An old respected teacher of mine who read my column “Syndicated hypocrisy” last Monday, June 4, wrote me a note advising that indeed it is the height of hypocrisy for administration officials, especially those within P-Noy’s inner circle to suddenly develop amnesia and start issuing out all kinds of excuses to shield them from the growing clamor for proper and responsible ‘”transparency and accountability” in public service. No less than P-Noy himself has been asked to abide by his campaign pledge to disclose his assets and issue an unconditional waiver for the Ombudsman and related agencies to look into his bank accounts.
“This volte face, “my teacher insisted, “is not only in complete disregard of P-Noy’s daang matuwid platform but a shameful demonstration of the administration’s tendency to flip flop on matters of critical concerns. It is disheartening and certainly does not augur well for the “new beginnings” which P-Noy and his crew have been trumpeting since day one of this administration.
A gentleman of the old school who has spent most of his years in the academe is especially critical of P-Noy’s spokesmen who have been issuing all kinds of excuses and half baked statements not only about this latest turn around but on such subjects as the imminent increase in power rates as well as the “sin tax” bill..... MORE
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THE MODERN APPROACH of caravans closer to houses as regards electrical installations is reflected in the withdrawal by the Institution of Electrical Engineers of its brochure on recommended caravan practice. Instead, a 6-page section on caravans and sites is introduced into a completely revised edition of the general wiring regulations.
This emphasises that caravans should conform to the regulations for buildings, subject to the qualifications in the new section. The complete regulations are obtainable from The Institution at Savoy Place, London WC2, for 17s 6d post paid.
Site installations as well as caravan electrical equipment are covered, and both high and low ~c1tages. and residential and touring caravans. Points of special importance are:
If the site wiring does not lead directly into the caravan, it should end at terminals or a socket outlet inside a weatherproof box, with means of isolation in the form of a switch, circuit breaker or other automatic cut-off. There must also be means of earthing the caravan installation. The socket outlet must be rated for 15, 30 or 60 amperes and be so designed so that the plug can be inserted only the right way and cannot accidentally be withdrawn or incompletely pushed home. If it is intended for a touring caravan it should bear a notice stating the voltage, frequency and maximum load.
The type of cable to be used between the caravan and the socket outlet, individual meter, or other installation on the pitch is specified, and the method of connection to a caravan inlet, where the cable is not integral with the caravan wiring.
That applies to all touring caravans. They should have a single inlet with recessed pins and provision for earthing, accessible only from outside the caravan and located where it will not be damaged in travel or by weather. The inlet must not allow the plug on the cable to be withdrawn accidentally or incompletely pushed home. There must be not more than 6ft of wiring between the inlet and the main switch inside the caravan.
Instructions on what to do when arriving at or leaving the site end this section of the regulations, which should be studied in full by every caravanner and site operator concerned.
The increasing use of electricity for various purposes in touring caravans and the inadequacy of many mains connections to tourer's have been subjects of comment in more than one recent issue of THE CARAVAN.
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The Word of Faith Heresy
Heath Henning
After studying the Word-Faith movement, Hank Hanegraaff, determined the Faith movement was considerably a cult, saying, “Given these definition of a cult, it is completely justified to characterize particular groups within the Faith movement as cults – either theologically or sociologically or, in some cases, both….Copeland Ministries, headed by Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, for example bears all the marks of a cult.”1)Hank Hanegraaff, Christianity In Crisis, 21st Century, Thomas Nelson, 2009, p. 10 But because of the diversity of teachers and teachings within the Faith movement, Hanegraaff concludes, “Thus, while certain groups within the Faith movement can be properly classified as cults, the word cultic more aptly describes the movement as a whole.”2)Hank Hanegraaff, Christianity In Crisis, 21st Century, Thomas Nelson, 2009, p. 10 There have been various opinions about the Word-Faith movement over the years. Judith Matta considers “the Word-Faith teaching is perhaps the most subtle, heretical system to emerge in our own times.”3)Judith Matta, The Born Again Jesus of the Word-Faith Teaching, Spirit of Truth, 1987, p. viii Rod Rosenbladt, wrote, “Virtually all of the leading American TV ministers have drunk at the trough of the esoteric, Swedenborgian, theosophical speculations of the late E. W. Kenyon.”4)Rod Rosenbladt, “Who Do TV Preachers Say That I Am?” in The Agony of Deceit, Michael Horton editor, Moody, 1990, p. 112
Many other who have researched this movement would agree with Rosenbladt considering Word-Faith occultism. For example, Hanegraaff’s predecessor Walter Martin added quotations from a leading proponent of Word-Faith doctrines, Kenneth Copeland, in his last published book before his death entitled The New Age Cult.5)Walter Martin, The New Age Cult, Bethany House Publishers, 1989, p. 76 Evidently, Dr. Walter Martin considered Copeland and the Faith movement part of the New Age movement. Albert Dagger compares Copeland’s doctrines with “theosophists,”6)Albert James Dagger, Vengeance Is Ours: The Church in Dominion, Sword Publishers, 1900 p. 25 and equates positive confession as “a tenet of witchcraft.”7)Albert James Dagger, Vengeance Is Ours: The Church in Dominion, Sword Publishers, 1900 p. 76 After quoting Yonggi Cho, another Word-Faith teacher, Mark Haville asks, “Is this a model for prayer or casting a spell?”8)Mark Haville, Chris Hand, Philip Foster, Peter Glover, edited by Peter Glover, The Signs and Wonders Movement – Exposed, Day One Publication, 1997, p. 34 John MacArthur wrote, “Word Faith theology has turned Christianity into a system no different from the lowest human religions – a form of voodoo where God can be coerced, cajoled, manipulated, controlled, and exploited for the Christian’s own end.”9)John MacArthur, Jr., Charismatic Chaos, Zondervan Publishing House, 1992, p. 324 Robert Bowman proposed, “Of all the critics of the Word-Faith teaching who regard it as heretical, John MacArthur seemed to labor the hardest at striking a balance… issuing his judgment…”10)Robert M. Bowman Jr. The Word-Faith Controversy: Understanding the Health and Wealth Gospel, Baker Books, 2001, p. 19 In McArthur’s more recent book Strange Fire, he wrote of the Word-Faith movement: “They are promoting crass superstition blended with false doctrines purloined from assorted Gnostic and metaphysical cults, cloaked in Christian terms and symbols.”11)John MacArthur, Strange Fire: The Danger of Offending the Holy Spirit with Counterfeit Worship, Nelson Books, 2013, p. 9
The core teaching of Faith theology is properly identified in the following assessment. “Faith as an external force and human ability to manipulate the supernatural by words are beliefs common in pagan magic, but are entirely foreign to biblical faith.”12)G. Richard Fisher and M. Kurt Goedelmon with W. E. Nunnally, Stephen F. Cannon and Paul R. Blizard, The Confusing World of Benny Hinn, Personal Freedom Outreach Publication, sixth edition, Expanded, 1997, p. 154 Johanna Michaelsen, a former occultist, explains the history behind this thought. “In ancient Egypt, the followers of the Egyptian god Thot (the master of all knowledge and originator of alchemy) believed that thoughts were real things, with vibrational and energy levels of their own which could be manipulated to produce physical effects. In other words, what you think is what you get.”13)Johanna Michaelsen, Like Lambs To The Slaughter, Harvest House Publishers, 1989, p. 121 She further asserts, “Put aside all critical faculties, enter an altered state of consciousness, have faith in your faith, and allow the Force to work through you. Nothing shall be withheld from you if only you believe! Herein lies the basis of all occult power. This is how channelers become channelers, how occultists develop occult powers, and how millions of our school children become open to demonic beings.”14)Johanna Michaelsen, Like Lambs To The Slaughter, Harvest House Publishers, 1989, p. 226 John Ankerberg and John Weldon, acknowledged in Facts On False Teaching In The Church:
Some of those stressing the power of the mind, “faith” or Positive Thinking include: Robert Schuller – “Possibility Thinking”; Clement Stone – “Positive Mental Attitude”; Norman Vincent Peale, the modern “founder” of positive thinking; Oral Roberts’ “Seed-Faith” principles; the teachings of Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth Copeland, also known as “Word-Faith” teaching; Paul Yonggi Cho, who stresses a health and prosperity gospel; and Charles Capps and many others who stress “Positive Confession.” The terms Positive Confession, Prosperity Thinking, Theology of Success Movement, or “name it and claim it” are all terms used to describe those stressing the power of faith as a force to influence the environment of God.15)John Ankerberg & John Weldon, Facts On False Teaching In The Church, Harvest House Publishers, 1988, p. 14
Word-Faith preacher Pat Robertson admits his principles are the same used by occultists such as Napoleon Hill. “I began to realize… the Bible is not an impractical book of theology, but rather a practical book of life containing a system of thought and conduct that will guarantee success [with] principles so universal they might better be considered as laws…such people as Napoleon Hill, who wrote Think and Grow Rich, have gleaned only a few of the truths of the kingdom of God…. Some of the metaphysical principles of the kingdom, taken by themselves, can produce fantastic temporal benefits.”16)Pat Robertson with Bob Slosser, The Secret Kingdom: A Promise of Hope and Freedom in a World of Turmoil, Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1982, p. 43-46, 69 Commenting on this statement from Pat Robertson, Dave Hunt distinguishes that,
Napoleon Hill was an occultist who learned his “metaphysical principle” from demons who came to him from the spirit world posing as masters of a “temple of wisdom.”
Peale, Schuller, Robertson, Hagin, Copeland, and others, have brought into the church ancient occultism as part of the “signs and wonders” and “prosperity” movement foretold for the last days.17)Dave Hunt, Countdown to the Second Coming: A Chronology of Prophetic Earth Events Happening Now, The Berean Call, 2005, p. 62-63
Constance Cumbey criticizes Pat Robertson‘s book, observing:
There are disturbingly strong parallels in them with Rosicrucianism, Theosophy, including the Alice Bailey teachings, and even Russian occultist George Gurdjieff. Robertson’s Law of Reciprocity sounds amazingly like Gurdjieff’s “Law of Reciprocal Maintenance.”18)Constance E. Cumbey, A Planned Deception: The Staging of a New Age “Messiah,” Pointe Publishers, Inc., 1985, p. 150
Further alerting the influence of Robertson‘s television show, Cumbey mentioned, “While he has denied Biblical inerrancy, he has at the same time given important New Agers such as Jeremy Rifkin and Alvin Toffler access to his 30 million plus Christian viewing audience. He has done likewise for promoters of questionable, even blatantly New Age oriented – theologies, including Richard Foster, Bruce Larson, Robert Schuller, and Dennis Waitley.”19)Constance E. Cumbey, A Planned Deception: The Staging of a New Age “Messiah,” Pointe Publishers, Inc., 1985, p. 149 And, “Rifkin has boasted to interviewers that Robertson’s program has been one of his chief entry points to the Evangelicals.”20)Constance E. Cumbey, A Planned Deception: The Staging of a New Age “Messiah,” Pointe Publishers, Inc., 1985, p. 150
Leaders of the Word-Faith movement have admitted the similarities of their teachings with metaphysics, but try to deny it. E. W. Kenyon, the forefather of Faith theology wrote, “We are not dealing with mysticism, philosophy or metaphysics. We are dealing with realities. …we are dealing with the basic laws of man’s being, the great spiritual laws that govern the unseen forces of life.”21) E. W. Kenyon, The Hidden Man: An Unveiling of the Subconscious Mind, Kenyon’s Gospel Publishing Society, 1970, p. 35 Assessing this statement, D. R. McConnell explains:
Kenyon claims that his teaching is not metaphysical and then immediately follows his disclaimer with a central dogma of metaphysics. For example, when he speaks of “the great spiritual laws that govern the unseen forces of life,” he is espousing deism, the metaphysical world view that the universe is governed by impersonal, spiritual laws rather [sic] that a personal, sovereign God.22)D. R. McConnell, A Different Gospel: A Historical and Biblical Analysis of he Modern Faith Movement, Hendrickson Publishers 1988, p. 45
Kenyon again applies this method of disclaiming his metaphysic doctrine prior to teaching it. “This is not a new metaphysics of philosophy. This is reality. This is God breaking into the sense realm.”23)E. W. Kenyon, The Hidden Man: An Unveiling of the Subconscious Mind, Kenyon’s Gospel Publishing Society, 1970, p. 74 And again, McConnell points out the obvious.
When Kenyon refers to “God breaking into the sense realm,” he is espousing dualism, which is the metaphysical view of reality that the spiritual realm and the physical realm are mutually exclusive and even opposed to one another.24)D. R. McConnell, A Different Gospel: A Historical and Biblical Analysis of he Modern Faith Movement, Hendrickson Publishers 1988, p. 45
Kenyon‘s frequent disclaimers, such as: “This is not psychological or metaphysics,”25)E. W. Kenyon, The Hidden Man: An Unveiling of the Subconscious Mind, Kenyon’s Gospel Publishing Society, 1970, p. 137 have been repeated by Kenneth Hagin who wrote: “When I preach on the mind, it frightens some congregations. They immediately think of Christian Science.”26)Kenneth Hagin, Right and Wrong Thinking, Faith Library, 1966, p. 18-19 Vinson Synan reported:
Hagin insists “Kenyon’s influence on my ministry has been minute. Only his teachings on the name of Jesus have much to do with my theology. I absolutely deny any metaphysical influence from Kenyon. I teach not Christian Science, but Christian sense.”27)Vinson Synan, “The Faith of Kenneth Hagin,” Charisma & Christian Faith, 15:11, June 1990, p. 68
Here we find an interesting admission from Hagin; he considers Kenyon’s teachings in line with Christian Science and metaphysics, yet, D. R. McConnell documented extensive plagiarism of E. W. Kenyon by Kenneth Hagin.28)D. R. McConnell, A Different Gospel: A Historical and Biblical Analysis of he Modern Faith Movement, Hendrickson Publishers 1988, p. 8-12 While Hagin has always attempted to separate himself from anything to do with metaphysics, he has now placed himself in that very camp as he has endorsed Kenyon’s writings, even calling it revelation from God. “I began to look around to see what I could find written on the subject. For others, you see, have revelations from God. I was amazed how little material there is in print on this subject. The only good book devoted entirely to it that I have found is E. W. Kenyon’s The Wonderful Name of Jesus. I encourage you to get a copy. It is a marvelous book. It is revelation knowledge. It is the Word of God.”29)Kenneth Hagin, The Name of Jesus, Faith Library, 1981, preface When accused of plagiarizing Kenyon, Vinson Synan related Hagin response: “the Holy Spirit gave him the same words as Kenyon without his having prior knowledge of the sources.”30)Vinson Synan, “The Faith of Kenneth Hagin,” Charisma & Christian Faith, 15:11, June 1990, p. 68 If we allow Hagin the benefit of the doubt, consider how the Mormons and Irvingites had no contact but they received revelations with correlating doctrines. Hank Hanegraaff also documents a number of Kenneth Copeland’s teachings with “striking similarities” of Mormon theology.31)Hank Hanegraaff, Christianity In Crisis, 21st Century, Thomas Nelson, 2009, p. 25, 408 P. Atkinson’s doctorate thesis on the “Jesus died spiritually” doctrine of the Word Faith movement stated, “Copeland can now be regarded as the unofficial leader of the wole Word-faith movement.”32)William P. Atkinson, The Spiritual Death of Jesus: A Pentecostal Investigation, Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, (The Netherlands) 2012, p. 23
If you liked this article, you may also be interested in Crept In Unawares: Mysticism by Heath Henning is available for purchase here.
1, 2. ↑ Hank Hanegraaff, Christianity In Crisis, 21st Century, Thomas Nelson, 2009, p. 10
3. ↑ Judith Matta, The Born Again Jesus of the Word-Faith Teaching, Spirit of Truth, 1987, p. viii
4. ↑ Rod Rosenbladt, “Who Do TV Preachers Say That I Am?” in The Agony of Deceit, Michael Horton editor, Moody, 1990, p. 112
5. ↑ Walter Martin, The New Age Cult, Bethany House Publishers, 1989, p. 76
6. ↑ Albert James Dagger, Vengeance Is Ours: The Church in Dominion, Sword Publishers, 1900 p. 25
8. ↑ Mark Haville, Chris Hand, Philip Foster, Peter Glover, edited by Peter Glover, The Signs and Wonders Movement – Exposed, Day One Publication, 1997, p. 34
9. ↑ John MacArthur, Jr., Charismatic Chaos, Zondervan Publishing House, 1992, p. 324
10. ↑ Robert M. Bowman Jr. The Word-Faith Controversy: Understanding the Health and Wealth Gospel, Baker Books, 2001, p. 19
11. ↑ John MacArthur, Strange Fire: The Danger of Offending the Holy Spirit with Counterfeit Worship, Nelson Books, 2013, p. 9
12. ↑ G. Richard Fisher and M. Kurt Goedelmon with W. E. Nunnally, Stephen F. Cannon and Paul R. Blizard, The Confusing World of Benny Hinn, Personal Freedom Outreach Publication, sixth edition, Expanded, 1997, p. 154
13. ↑ Johanna Michaelsen, Like Lambs To The Slaughter, Harvest House Publishers, 1989, p. 121
15. ↑ John Ankerberg & John Weldon, Facts On False Teaching In The Church, Harvest House Publishers, 1988, p. 14
16. ↑ Pat Robertson with Bob Slosser, The Secret Kingdom: A Promise of Hope and Freedom in a World of Turmoil, Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1982, p. 43-46, 69
17. ↑ Dave Hunt, Countdown to the Second Coming: A Chronology of Prophetic Earth Events Happening Now, The Berean Call, 2005, p. 62-63
18, 20. ↑ Constance E. Cumbey, A Planned Deception: The Staging of a New Age “Messiah,” Pointe Publishers, Inc., 1985, p. 150
19. ↑ Constance E. Cumbey, A Planned Deception: The Staging of a New Age “Messiah,” Pointe Publishers, Inc., 1985, p. 149
21. ↑ E. W. Kenyon, The Hidden Man: An Unveiling of the Subconscious Mind, Kenyon’s Gospel Publishing Society, 1970, p. 35
22, 24. ↑ D. R. McConnell, A Different Gospel: A Historical and Biblical Analysis of he Modern Faith Movement, Hendrickson Publishers 1988, p. 45
25. ↑ E. W. Kenyon, The Hidden Man: An Unveiling of the Subconscious Mind, Kenyon’s Gospel Publishing Society, 1970, p. 137
26. ↑ Kenneth Hagin, Right and Wrong Thinking, Faith Library, 1966, p. 18-19
27, 30. ↑ Vinson Synan, “The Faith of Kenneth Hagin,” Charisma & Christian Faith, 15:11, June 1990, p. 68
28. ↑ D. R. McConnell, A Different Gospel: A Historical and Biblical Analysis of he Modern Faith Movement, Hendrickson Publishers 1988, p. 8-12
29. ↑ Kenneth Hagin, The Name of Jesus, Faith Library, 1981, preface
31. ↑ Hank Hanegraaff, Christianity In Crisis, 21st Century, Thomas Nelson, 2009, p. 25, 408
32. ↑ William P. Atkinson, The Spiritual Death of Jesus: A Pentecostal Investigation, Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, (The Netherlands) 2012, p. 23
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Dr Pantelis Georgiades is an Associate Professor and head of the ‘Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Lab for Biomedical Research’ in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Cyprus. His research interests center on understanding the molecular and cellular basis of early mammalian development and stem cell function.
Dr Georgiades trained in the United Kingdom and Canada. He first attended the University of London [BSc Hons in ‘Molecular Biology’ from 'Queen Mary’ and PhD in ‘Developmental Biology’ from 'UCL’, while receiving scholarships from the ‘Wellcome Trust', 'A.G. Leventis Foundation' and the ‘Gatsby Charitable Foundation']. He then joined the University of Cambridge where he undertook postdoctoral training in the Department of Anatomy with Prof. A.C. Ferguson-Smith and Prof. G.J. Burton, while being a recipient of a 'Wellcome Trust' fellowship. His further training took place in Canada, as a research fellow at the 'Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute' of 'Mount Sinai Hospital' with Prof. J. Rossant.
He has received several research grant awards from national and international funding agencies including Research Promotion Foundation', the 'University of Cyprus' and the 'Wellcome Trust'. He is an editorial board member of various international scientific journals such as 'Scientific Reports' and has been an evaluator of research grant applications from international funding agencies such as the Medical Research Council (MRC) of the United Kingdom.
Dr Georgiades has published in several peer-reviewed scientific journals including “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)”, “Development”, “Placenta” και “Nature Communications”.
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Our research centers on understanding the molecular and cellular basis of mammalian development (embryonic and extraembryonic) using molecular, cellular and embryological techniques on mouse embryos and stem cells. Our discoveries have been published in international scientific journals such as “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)”, “Development”, "Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications", “Placenta” and“Nature Communications”.
Our research is expected to contribute to:
(a) The understanding of the extraembryonic causes of common pregnancy complications such as unexplained miscarriage, intrauterine growth retardation and preeclampsia.
(b) Advancement of Regenerative Medicine. This involves the understanding of how organs form (using placenta formation as a model) and how the embryonic germ layers form (an important prerequisite for organogenesis within the embryo).
We are currently focused on 3 poorly understood, but medically important, research areas:
(1) Early development of the epiblast (progenitor of the fetus) in vivo and in vitro:
The emphasis here is on investigating the formation and early differentiation of the three embryonic germ layers (the progenitors of all organs of the newborn) from the epiblast (the undifferentiated progenitor of the newborn). These germ layers are the ectoderm (progenitor of brain/spinal cord and epidermis), mesoderm and endoderm. The experiments here include molecular and cellular investigations of cultured whole embryos (with or without microsurgical tissue ablation), cultured microsurgically isolated epiblast explants, cultured embryo-derived stem cells and in vivo developed embryos (with or without specific gene manipulations).
(2) Organogenesis of the placenta (the major extraembryonic organ) in vivo and in vitro:
We view placenta formation as a model of organogenesis. We focus on early aspects of its formation (patterning within the early trophoblast compartment) and late events during its maturation (e.g. trophoblast invasion and its interactions with maternal tissues). We are investigating this in vivo(using gene knockout embryos and culture of whole embryos or trophoblast explants) and in vitro using trophoblast stem cells (with or without genetic manipulation of these stem cells).
(3) Influences of extraembryonic tissues on embryo development:
Our main aim here is to investigate the ill-defined influences of extraembryonic tissues (mainly the early trophoblast and visceral endoderm) on the patterning of the epiblast before and during gastrulation. To this end, we are employing several experimental approaches including the use of gene knockout embryos and the culture of trophoblast-ablated embryos (using microsurgery).
For more information please visit the "Georgiades lab" website: http://pantelisgeorgiades.wix.com/thegeorgiadeslab
Επιλεγμένες Δημοσιεύσεις
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Nikolaou, S., Hadjikypri, X., Ioannou, G., Elia, A. and Georgiades P* (2018). Functionaland phenotypic distinction of the firsttwotrophoblast subdivisions and identification of the border between them during early postimplantation: A prerequisite for understanding early patterning during placentogenesis. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications,496.1 (2018): 64-69
Birol, O., Ohyama, T., Edlund, R. K., Drakou, K., Georgiades, P.,& Groves, A. K. (2016). The mouse Foxi3 transcription factor is necessary for the development of posterior placodes. Developmental biology, 409, 139-151.
Drakou, K., & Georgiades, P* (2015). A serum-free and defined medium for the culture of mammalian postimplantation embryos. Biochemical and biophysical research communications,468(4), 813-819.
Polydorou C, Georgiades P* (2013). Ets2-dependent trophoblast signallingis required for gastrulation progression after primitive streak initiation. Nature communications, 4, 1658.
Charalambous C, Drakou K, Nicolaou, S, Georgiades P*(2013). Novel spatiotemporal glycome changes in the murine placenta during placentation based on BS‐I lectin binding patterns. Anatοmical Record296, 921-932.
Charalambous F, Elia A, Georgiades P*(2012) Decidual spiral artery remodeling during earlypost-implantation period in mice: Investigation of associations with decidual uNKcells and invasive trophoblast. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun.417, 847-852.
Elia A, Charalambous F, Georgiades P*(2011) New phenotypic aspects of the decidual spiral artery wall during early post-implantation mouse pregnancy. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun.416, 211-216.
OdiatisC, Georgiades P*(2010) New insights for Ets2 function in trophoblast using lentivirus-mediated gene knockdown in trophoblast stem cells.Placenta31, 630-640.
Georgiades P*, Cox B, Gertsenstein M, Chawengsaksophak K, Rossant J (2007) Trophoblast-specific gene manipulation using lentivirus-based vectors. BioTechniques42, 317-325.
Georgiades P and Rossant J (2006) Ets2 is necessary introphoblast for normal embryonic anteroposterior axis development. Development 133, 1059-1068.
Georgiades P* (2004) The possible clinical relevance of mouse placental research. SICC(Invited expert section), 17-12-2004.
Georgiades P*, Ferguson-Smith AC, Burton GJ (2002) Comparative developmental anatomy of murine and human definitive placentae. Placenta23, 3-19.
Georgiades P, Ogilvy S, Duval H, Licence DR, Charnock-Jones DS, Smith SK, Print CG (2002) VavCre transgenic mice: a tool for mutagenesis in hematopoietic and endothelial lineages. Genesis34, 251-6.
Georgiades P, Watkins M, Burton GJ, Ferguson-Smith AC (2001) Roles for genomic imprinting and the zygotic genome in placental development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 98, 4522-4527.
Ferguson-Smith AC, Tevendale M, Georgiades P, Grandjean (2001) Balanced translocations for the analysis of imprinted regions of the mouse genome. Methods in Molecular Biology181, 41-54.
Georgiades P, Watkins M, Surani MA, Ferguson-Smith AC (2000) Parental origin-specific developmental defects in mice with uniparental disomy for chromosome 12. Development127, 4719-28.
Takada S, Tevendale M, Baker J, Georgiades P, Campbell E, Freeman T, Johnson MH, Paulsen M, Ferguson-Smith AC (2000) Delta-like and gtl2 are reciprocally expressed, differentially methylated linked imprinted genes on mouse chromosome 12. Current Biology 10, 1135-8.
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Assessing the structure of a Neotropical bat community using acoustic monitoring techniques
Estrada-Villegas, S, Meyer, CFJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9958-8913, McGill, B and Kalko, EKV 2015, 'Assessing the structure of a Neotropical bat community using acoustic monitoring techniques' , The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), 138 (3) , p. 1905.
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Determining the structure and composition of tropical communities is challenging because some species are rare or hard to detect. Within Neotropical bats, aerial insectivores have been systematically undersampled because they avoid mist nets, the traditional sampling tool. Advances in bioacoustic monitoring techniques have allowed the study aerial insectivorous bat (AIB) communities across various spatial scales and habitats. We present two studies that assessed the underlying mechanisms that structure an AIB community across the Isthmus of Panama. First, we evaluated how habitat fragmentation affected two guilds of AIBs and found higher species richness in islands than in continuous forests. Background clutter aerial insectivores showed compositional differences due to effects of isolation, area, and forest complexity, whereas open space bats were not affected by fragmentation. Second, we determined how climate and forest complexity affected AIB community structure at different spatial scales. We found that most of the variation in bat richness, abundance, and feeding activity occurred at the smallest spatial scale (10×10m) and was explained by habitat structure. In contrast, at large scales, climatic differences explained most of the variation in individual species’ abundances. Interestingly, species richness peaked at intermediate levels of precipitation, while total abundance was very similar across sites.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA)
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Dr Christoph Meyer
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all grounds AUS: Adelaide Oval AUS: Bellerive Oval, Hobart AUS: Berri Oval AUS: Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane AUS: Cazaly's Stadium, Cairns AUS: Devonport Oval AUS: Docklands Stadium, Melbourne AUS: Eastern Oval, Ballarat AUS: Harrup Park, Mackay AUS: Lavington Sports Oval, Albury AUS: Manuka Oval, Canberra AUS: Melbourne Cricket Ground AUS: North Tasmania Cricket Association Ground, Launceston AUS: Perth Stadium AUS: Sydney Cricket Ground AUS: Tasmania Cricket Association Ground, Hobart AUS: TIO Stadium, Darwin AUS: Tony Ireland Stadium, Townsville AUS: W.A.C.A. Ground, Perth BDESH: Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka BDESH: Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah BDESH: MA Aziz Stadium, Chattogram BDESH: Shaheed Chandu Stadium, Bogra BDESH: Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium, Khulna BDESH: Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka BDESH: Sylhet International Cricket Stadium BDESH: Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram CAN: Maple Leaf North-West Ground, King City CAN: Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club ENG: County Ground, Bristol ENG: County Ground, Chelmsford ENG: County Ground, Derby ENG: County Ground, Hove ENG: County Ground, New Road, Worcester ENG: County Ground, Northampton ENG: County Ground, Southampton ENG: Edgbaston, Birmingham ENG: Grace Road, Leicester ENG: Headingley, Leeds ENG: Kennington Oval, London ENG: Lord's, London ENG: Nevill Ground, Tunbridge Wells ENG: North Marine Road Ground, Scarborough ENG: Old Trafford, Manchester ENG: Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street ENG: Sophia Gardens, Cardiff ENG: St Helen's, Swansea ENG: St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury ENG: The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton ENG: The Rose Bowl, Southampton ENG: Trent Bridge, Nottingham HKG: Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok, Hong Kong INDIA: Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi INDIA: Barabati Stadium, Cuttack INDIA: Barkatullah Khan Stadium, Pal Road, Jodhpur INDIA: Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati INDIA: Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow INDIA: Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai INDIA: Captain Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior INDIA: Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam INDIA: Eden Gardens, Kolkata INDIA: Gandhi Sports Complex Ground, Amritsar INDIA: Gandhi Stadium, Jalandhar INDIA: Greater Noida Sports Complex Ground, Greater Noida INDIA: Green Park, Kanpur INDIA: Greenfield International Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram INDIA: Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala INDIA: Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore INDIA: Indira Gandhi Stadium, Vijayawada INDIA: Indira Priyadarshini Stadium, Visakhapatnam INDIA: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi INDIA: JSCA International Stadium Complex, Ranchi INDIA: K.D.Singh 'Babu' Stadium, Lucknow INDIA: Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur INDIA: Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad INDIA: M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru INDIA: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai INDIA: Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground, Rajkot INDIA: Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune INDIA: Moin-ul-Haq Stadium, Patna INDIA: Moti Bagh Stadium, Vadodara INDIA: Nahar Singh Stadium, Faridabad INDIA: Nehru Stadium, Fatorda, Margao INDIA: Nehru Stadium, Guwahati INDIA: Nehru Stadium, Indore INDIA: Nehru Stadium, Kochi INDIA: Nehru Stadium, Pune INDIA: Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh INDIA: Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Dehradun INDIA: Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad INDIA: Reliance Stadium, Vadodara INDIA: Sardar Patel (Gujarat) Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad INDIA: Sardar Vallabhai Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad INDIA: Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot INDIA: Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur INDIA: Sector 16 Stadium, Chandigarh INDIA: Sher-i-Kashmir Stadium, Srinagar INDIA: University Stadium, Trivandrum INDIA: Vidarbha C.A. Ground, Nagpur INDIA: Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Jamtha, Nagpur INDIA: Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai IRE: Bready Cricket Club, Magheramason, Bready IRE: Castle Avenue, Dublin IRE: Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont, Belfast IRE: The Village, Malahide, Dublin KENYA: Aga Khan Sports Club Ground, Nairobi KENYA: Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi KENYA: Jaffery Sports Club Ground, Nairobi KENYA: Mombasa Sports Club Ground KENYA: Nairobi Club Ground KENYA: Ruaraka Sports Club Ground, Nairobi KENYA: Simba Union Ground, Nairobi MAL: Bayuemas Oval, Kuala Lumpur MAL: Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur Moroc: National Cricket Stadium, Tangier NAM: Affies Park, Windhoek NAM: Wanderers Cricket Ground, Windhoek NL: Hazelaarweg, Rotterdam NL: Sportpark Het Schootsveld, Deventer NL: Sportpark Thurlede, Schiedam NL: Sportpark Westvliet, The Hague NL: VRA Ground, Amstelveen NZ: AMI Stadium, Christchurch NZ: Basin Reserve, Wellington NZ: Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui NZ: Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln NZ: Carisbrook, Dunedin NZ: Cobham Oval (New), Whangarei NZ: Eden Park, Auckland NZ: Hagley Oval, Christchurch NZ: McLean Park, Napier NZ: Owen Delany Park, Taupo NZ: Pukekura Park, New Plymouth NZ: Queenstown Events Centre NZ: Saxton Oval, Nelson NZ: Seddon Park, Hamilton NZ: University Oval, Dunedin NZ: Westpac Stadium, Wellington OMAN: Al Amerat Cricket Ground Oman Cricket (Ministry Turf 1) PAK: Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar PAK: Ayub National Stadium, Quetta PAK: Bugti Stadium, Quetta PAK: Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore PAK: Ibn-e-Qasim Bagh Stadium, Multan PAK: Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad PAK: Jinnah Stadium, Gujranwala PAK: Jinnah Stadium, Sialkot PAK: Multan Cricket Stadium PAK: National Stadium, Karachi PAK: Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad PAK: Pindi Club Ground, Rawalpindi PAK: Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium PAK: Sheikhupura Stadium PAK: Sports Stadium, Sargodha PAK: Zafar Ali Stadium, Sahiwal PNG: Amini Park, Port Moresby SA: Boland Park, Paarl SA: Buffalo Park, East London SA: City Oval, Pietermaritzburg SA: Diamond Oval, Kimberley SA: Kingsmead, Durban SA: Mangaung Oval, Bloemfontein SA: Newlands, Cape Town SA: Senwes Park, Potchefstroom SA: St George's Park, Port Elizabeth SA: SuperSport Park, Centurion SA: The Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg SA: Willowmoore Park, Benoni SCOT: Cambusdoon New Ground, Ayr SCOT: Grange Cricket Club, Raeburn Place, Edinburgh SCOT: Mannofield Park, Aberdeen SCOT: Titwood, Glasgow SGP: Kallang Ground, Singapore SGP: Singapore Cricket Club, Padang SL: Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy SL: Galle International Stadium SL: Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium, Sooriyawewa, Hambantota SL: P Sara Oval, Colombo SL: Pallekele International Cricket Stadium SL: R.Premadasa Stadium, Khettarama, Colombo SL: Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium SL: Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo SL: Tyronne Fernando Stadium, Moratuwa UAE: Dubai International Cricket Stadium UAE: ICC Academy, Dubai UAE: Sharjah Cricket Stadium UAE: Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi USA: Central Broward Regional Park Stadium Turf Ground, Lauderhill WI: Albion Sports Complex, Albion, Berbice, Guyana WI: Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's, Antigua WI: Arnos Vale Ground, Kingstown, St Vincent WI: Bourda, Georgetown, Guyana WI: Darren Sammy National Cricket Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia WI: Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados WI: Mindoo Phillip Park, Castries, St Lucia WI: National Cricket Stadium, St George's, Grenada WI: Providence Stadium, Guyana WI: Queen's Park (Old), St George's, Grenada WI: Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad WI: Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica WI: Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound, Antigua WI: Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts WI: Windsor Park, Roseau, Dominica ZIM: Bulawayo Athletic Club ZIM: Harare Sports Club ZIM: Kwekwe Sports Club ZIM: Old Hararians, Harare ZIM: Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo
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England in Australia ODI Match, 1970/71 Prudential Trophy, 1972 Pakistan in New Zealand ODI Match, 1972/73 Prudential Trophy, 1973 Prudential Trophy, 1973 Australia in New Zealand ODI Series, 1973/74 Prudential Trophy, 1974 Prudential Trophy, 1974 England in Australia ODI Match, 1974/75 England in New Zealand ODI Series, 1974/75 Prudential World Cup, 1975 West Indies in Australia ODI Match, 1975/76 India in New Zealand ODI Series, 1975/76 Prudential Trophy, 1976 New Zealand in Pakistan ODI Match, 1976/77 Pakistan in West Indies ODI Match, 1976/77 Prudential Trophy, 1977 England in Pakistan ODI Series, 1977/78 Australia in West Indies ODI Series, 1977/78 Prudential Trophy, 1978 Prudential Trophy, 1978 India in Pakistan ODI Series, 1978/79 England in Australia ODI Series, 1978/79 Prudential World Cup, 1979 Benson & Hedges World Series Cup, 1979/80 West Indies in New Zealand ODI Match, 1979/80 Prudential Trophy, 1980 Prudential Trophy, 1980 West Indies in Pakistan ODI Series, 1980/81 Benson & Hedges World Series Cup, 1980/81 England in West Indies ODI Series, 1980/81 India in New Zealand ODI Series, 1980/81 Prudential Trophy, 1981 Benson & Hedges World Series Cup, 1981/82 England in India ODI Series, 1981/82 Australia in New Zealand ODI Series, 1981/82 England in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 1981/82 Sri Lanka in Pakistan ODI Series, 1981/82 Prudential Trophy, 1982 Prudential Trophy, 1982 Sri Lanka in India ODI Series, 1982/83 Australia in Pakistan ODI Series, 1982/83 India in Pakistan ODI Series, 1982/83 Benson & Hedges World Series Cup, 1982/83 England in New Zealand ODI Series, 1982/83 Sri Lanka in New Zealand ODI Series, 1982/83 India in West Indies ODI Series, 1982/83 Bushfire Appeal Challenge Match, 1982/83 Australia in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 1982/83 Prudential World Cup, 1983 Pakistan in India ODI Series, 1983/84 West Indies in India ODI Series, 1983/84 Benson & Hedges World Series Cup, 1983/84 England in New Zealand ODI Series, 1983/84 Australia in West Indies ODI Series, 1983/84 New Zealand in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 1983/84 England in Pakistan ODI Series, 1983/84 Rothmans Asia Cup, 1983/84 Texaco Trophy, 1984 Australia in India ODI Series, 1984/85 India in Pakistan ODI Series, 1984/85 New Zealand in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 1984/85 New Zealand in Pakistan ODI Series, 1984/85 England in India ODI Series, 1984/85 Benson & Hedges World Series Cup, 1984/85 Pakistan in New Zealand ODI Series, 1984/85 Benson & Hedges World Championship of Cricket, 1984/85 New Zealand in West Indies ODI Series, 1984/85 Rothmans Four-Nations Cup, 1984/85 Texaco Trophy, 1985 India in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 1985 Sri Lanka in Pakistan ODI Series, 1985/86 Rothmans Sharjah Cup, 1985/86 West Indies in Pakistan ODI Series, 1985/86 Benson & Hedges World Series Cup, 1985/86 England in West Indies ODI Series, 1985/86 Pakistan in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 1985/86 Australia in New Zealand ODI Series, 1985/86 John Player Gold Leaf Trophy (Asia Cup), 1985/86 John Player Triangular Tournament, 1985/86 Austral-Asia Cup, 1985/86 Texaco Trophy, 1986 Texaco Trophy, 1986 Australia in India ODI Series, 1986/87 West Indies in Pakistan ODI Series, 1986/87 Champions Trophy, 1986/87 Sri Lanka in India ODI Series, 1986/87 Benson & Hedges Challenge, 1986/87 Benson & Hedges World Series Cup, 1986/87 Pakistan in India ODI Series, 1986/87 West Indies in New Zealand ODI Series, 1986/87 Sharjah Cup, 1986/87 Texaco Trophy, 1987 Reliance World Cup, 1987/88 England in Pakistan ODI Series, 1987/88 West Indies in India ODI Series, 1987/88 Benson & Hedges World Series Cup, 1987/88 Indian Board Benevolent Fund Match, 1987/88 Australian Bicentennial Match, 1987/88 England in New Zealand ODI Series, 1987/88 Pakistan in West Indies ODI Series, 1987/88 Sharjah Cup, 1987/88 Texaco Trophy, 1988 Texaco Trophy, 1988 Australia in Pakistan ODI Series, 1988/89 Champions Trophy, 1988/89 Wills Asia Cup, 1988/89 Benson & Hedges World Series, 1988/89 New Zealand in India ODI Series, 1988/89 Dunedin Test Replacement Match, 1988/89 Pakistan in New Zealand ODI Series, 1988/89 India in West Indies ODI Series, 1988/89 Sharjah Cup, 1988/89 Texaco Trophy, 1989 Champions Trophy, 1989/90 MRF World Series (Nehru Cup), 1989/90 India in Pakistan ODI Series, 1989/90 Benson & Hedges World Series, 1989/90 England in West Indies ODI Series, 1989/90 Rothmans Cup Triangular Series, 1989/90 Georgetown Test Replacement Match (2), 1989/90 Austral-Asia Cup, 1990 Texaco Trophy, 1990 Texaco Trophy, 1990 New Zealand in Pakistan ODI Series, 1990/91 West Indies in Pakistan ODI Series, 1990/91 Benson & Hedges World Series, 1990/91 Sri Lanka in India ODI Series, 1990/91 Sharjah Cup, 1990/91 Asia Cup, 1990/91 Sri Lanka in New Zealand ODI Series, 1990/91 England in New Zealand ODI Series, 1990/91 Australia in West Indies ODI Series, 1990/91 Texaco Trophy, 1991 Wills Trophy, 1991/92 South Africa in India ODI Series, 1991/92 West Indies in Pakistan ODI Series, 1991/92 Benson & Hedges World Series, 1991/92 Sri Lanka in Pakistan ODI Series, 1991/92 England in New Zealand ODI Series, 1991/92 Benson & Hedges World Cup, 1991/92 South Africa in West Indies ODI Series, 1991/92 Texaco Trophy, 1992 Australia in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 1992 India in Zimbabwe ODI Match, 1992/93 New Zealand in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 1992/93 Benson & Hedges World Series, 1992/93 New Zealand in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 1992/93 India in South Africa ODI Series, 1992/93 Pakistan in New Zealand ODI Series, 1992/93 England in India ODI Series, 1992/93 Wills Trophy, 1992/93 Total International Series, 1992/93 Pakistan in Zimbabwe ODI Match, 1992/93 England in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 1992/93 Australia in New Zealand ODI Series, 1992/93 Zimbabwe in India ODI Series, 1992/93 Pakistan in West Indies ODI Series, 1992/93 Texaco Trophy, 1993 India in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 1993 South Africa in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 1993 Pepsi Champions Trophy, 1993/94 C.A.B. Jubilee Tournament (Hero Cup), 1993/94 West Indies in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 1993/94 Benson & Hedges World Series, 1993/94 Zimbabwe in Pakistan ODI Series, 1993/94 Sri Lanka in India ODI Series, 1993/94 England in West Indies ODI Series, 1993/94 Australia in South Africa ODI Series, 1993/94 Pakistan in New Zealand ODI Series, 1993/94 India in New Zealand ODI Series, 1993/94 Pepsi Austral-Asia Cup, 1993/94 Texaco Trophy, 1994 Pakistan in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 1994 Texaco Trophy, 1994 Singer World Series, 1994 Wills Triangular Series, 1994/95 West Indies in India ODI Series, 1994/95 Wills World Series, 1994/95 Sri Lanka in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 1994/95 Benson & Hedges World Series, 1994/95 Mandela Trophy, 1994/95 West Indies in New Zealand ODI Series, 1994/95 New Zealand Centenary Tournament, 1994/95 Pakistan in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 1994/95 Australia in West Indies ODI Series, 1994/95 Sri Lanka in New Zealand ODI Series, 1994/95 Pepsi Asia Cup, 1994/95 Texaco Trophy, 1995 Sri Lanka in Pakistan ODI Series, 1995/96 Singer Champions Trophy, 1995/96 South Africa in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 1995/96 New Zealand in India ODI Series, 1995/96 Pakistan in New Zealand ODI Series, 1995/96 Benson & Hedges World Series, 1995/96 England in South Africa ODI Series, 1995/96 Zimbabwe in New Zealand ODI Series, 1995/96 Wills World Cup, 1995/96 New Zealand in West Indies ODI Series, 1995/96 Singer Cup, 1995/96 Pepsi Sharjah Cup, 1995/96 Sri Lanka in West Indies ODI Match, 1995/96 Texaco Trophy, 1996 Singer World Series, 1996 Texaco Trophy, 1996 Sahara 'Friendship' Cup, 1996 KCA Centenary Tournament, 1996/97 Titan Cup, 1996/97 Zimbabwe in Pakistan ODI Series, 1996/97 Singer Champions Trophy, 1996/97 New Zealand in Pakistan ODI Series, 1996/97 Carlton & United Series, 1996/97 Mohinder Amarnath Benefit Match, 1996/97 England in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 1996/97 Standard Bank International One-Day Series, 1996/97 India in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 1996/97 England in New Zealand ODI Series, 1996/97 Sri Lanka in New Zealand ODI Series, 1996/97 Australia in South Africa ODI Series, 1996/97 Singer-Akai Cup, 1996/97 India in West Indies ODI Series, 1996/97 Pepsi Independence Cup, 1997 Texaco Trophy, 1997 Sri Lanka in West Indies ODI Match, 1997 Pepsi Asia Cup, 1997 India in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 1997 Sahara 'Friendship' Cup, 1997 India in Pakistan ODI Series, 1997/98 New Zealand in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 1997/98 President's Cup, 1997/98 Wills Quadrangular Tournament, 1997/98 Carlton & United Series, 1997/98 Akai-Singer Champions Trophy, 1997/98 Sri Lanka in India ODI Series, 1997/98 Silver Jubilee Independence Cup, 1997/98 Zimbabwe in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 1997/98 Zimbabwe in New Zealand ODI Series, 1997/98 Australia in New Zealand ODI Series, 1997/98 Pakistan in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 1997/98 England in West Indies ODI Series, 1997/98 Pepsi Triangular Series, 1997/98 Standard Bank International One-Day Series, 1997/98 Coca-Cola Cup, 1997/98 Coca-Cola Triangular Series, 1998 Texaco Trophy, 1998 Singer-Akai Nidahas Trophy, 1998 Emirates Triangular Tournament, 1998 Sahara 'Friendship' Cup, 1998 India in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 1998/99 Wills International Cup, 1998/99 Australia in Pakistan ODI Series, 1998/99 Coca-Cola Champions Trophy, 1998/99 Zimbabwe in Pakistan ODI Series, 1998/99 India in New Zealand ODI Series, 1998/99 Carlton & United Series, 1998/99 West Indies in South Africa ODI Series, 1998/99 South Africa in New Zealand ODI Series, 1998/99 Pakistan in Bangladesh ODI Match, 1998/99 Pepsi Cup, 1998/99 Meril International Cricket Tournament, 1998/99 Coca-Cola Cup, 1998/99 Australia in West Indies ODI Series, 1998/99 ICC World Cup, 1999 Aiwa Cup, 1999 Coca-Cola Singapore Challenge, 1999 DMC Cup, 1999 DMC Trophy, 1999 LG Cup, 1999/00 West Indies in Bangladesh ODI Series, 1999/00 Coca-Cola Champions Trophy, 1999/00 Australia in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 1999/00 New Zealand in India ODI Series, 1999/00 Sri Lanka in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 1999/00 West Indies in New Zealand ODI Series, 1999/00 Carlton & United Series, 1999/00 Standard Bank Triangular Tournament, 1999/00 Sri Lanka in Pakistan ODI Series, 1999/00 England in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 1999/00 Australia in New Zealand ODI Series, 1999/00 South Africa in India ODI Series, 1999/00 Coca-Cola Cup, 1999/00 Cable & Wireless One Day International Series, 2000 Australia in South Africa ODI Series, 1999/00 Asia Cup, 2000 Singer Triangular Series, 2000 NatWest Series, 2000 South Africa in Australia ODI Series, 2000 Godrej Singapore Challenge, 2000 New Zealand in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2000/01 ICC KnockOut, 2000/01 Coca-Cola Champions Trophy, 2000/01 New Zealand in South Africa ODI Series, 2000/01 England in Pakistan ODI Series, 2000/01 Zimbabwe in India ODI Series, 2000/01 Sri Lanka in South Africa ODI Series, 2000/01 Zimbabwe in New Zealand ODI Series, 2000/01 Carlton Series, 2000/01 Sri Lanka in New Zealand ODI Series, 2000/01 Pakistan in New Zealand ODI Series, 2000/01 England in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2000/01 Australia in India ODI Series, 2000/01 Bangladesh in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2000/01 ARY Gold Cup, 2000/01 South Africa in West Indies ODI Series, 2000/01 NatWest Series, 2001 Coca-Cola Cup (Zimbabwe), 2001 Coca-Cola Cup (Sri Lanka), 2001 West Indies in Kenya ODI Series, 2001 South Africa in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2001/02 England in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2001/02 Standard Bank Triangular Tournament, 2001/02 Khaleej Times Trophy, 2001/02 Zimbabwe in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2001/02 LG Abans Triangular Series, 2001/02 VB Series, 2001/02 England in India ODI Series, 2001/02 Pakistan in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2001/02 England in New Zealand ODI Series, 2001/02 Pakistan v West Indies ODI Series, 2001/02 Zimbabwe in India ODI Series, 2001/02 Australia in South Africa ODI Series, 2001/02 Sharjah Cup, 2001/02 New Zealand in Pakistan ODI Series, 2002 India in West Indies ODI Series, 2002 New Zealand in West Indies ODI Series, 2002 Pakistan in Australia ODI Series, 2002 NatWest Series, 2002 Bangladesh in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2002 Morocco Cup, 2002 PSO Tri-Nation Tournament, 2002 ICC Champions Trophy, 2002/03 Bangladesh in South Africa ODI Series, 2002/03 West Indies in India ODI Series, 2002/03 Pakistan in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2002/03 Sri Lanka in South Africa ODI Series, 2002/03 West Indies in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2002/03 Kenya in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2002/03 Pakistan in South Africa ODI Series, 2002/03 VB Series, 2002/03 India in New Zealand ODI Series, 2002/03 ICC World Cup, 2002/03 Cherry Blossom Sharjah Cup, 2002/03 TVS Cup (Bangladesh), 2003 Bank Alfalah Cup, 2003 Australia in West Indies ODI Series, 2003 Sri Lanka in West Indies ODI Series, 2003 NatWest Challenge, 2003 NatWest Series, 2003 Bangladesh in Australia ODI Series, 2003 Bangladesh in Pakistan ODI Series, 2003 South Africa in Pakistan ODI Series, 2003/04 TVS Cup (India), 2003/04 England in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2003/04 England in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2003/04 West Indies in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2003/04 New Zealand in Pakistan ODI Series, 2003/04 Pakistan in New Zealand ODI Series, 2003/04 VB Series, 2003/04 West Indies in South Africa ODI Series, 2003/04 South Africa in New Zealand ODI Series, 2003/04 Australia in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2003/04 Bangladesh in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2003/04 India in Pakistan ODI Series, 2003/04 England in West Indies ODI Series, 2003/04 Sri Lanka in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2004 Bangladesh in West Indies ODI Series, 2004 Australia in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2004 NatWest Series, 2004 Asia Cup, 2004 South Africa in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2004 Videocon Cup, 2004 NatWest Challenge, 2004 NatWest International, 2004 ICC Champions Trophy, 2004 Paktel Cup, 2004/05 New Zealand in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2004/05 BCCI Platinum Jubilee Match, 2004/05 England in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2004/05 Chappell-Hadlee Trophy, 2004/05 India in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2004/05 Sri Lanka in New Zealand ODI Series, 2004/05 World Cricket Tsunami Appeal, 2004/05 VB Series, 2004/05 Zimbabwe in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2004/05 England in South Africa ODI Series, 2004/05 Australia in New Zealand ODI Series, 2004/05 Zimbabwe in South Africa ODI Series, 2004/05 Pakistan in India ODI Series, 2004/05 South Africa in West Indies ODI Series, 2005 Pakistan in West Indies ODI Series, 2005 NatWest Series, 2005 NatWest Challenge, 2005 Indian Oil Cup, 2005 Afro-Asian Cup, 2005 Videocon Triangular Series, 2005 Bangladesh in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2005 ICC Super Series ODIs, 2005/06 New Zealand in South Africa ODI Series, 2005/06 Sri Lanka in India ODI Series, 2005/06 South Africa in India ODI Series, 2005/06 Chappell-Hadlee Trophy, 2005/06 England in Pakistan ODI Series, 2005/06 Sri Lanka in New Zealand ODI Series, 2005/06 VB Series, 2005/06 India in Pakistan ODI Series, 2005/06 West Indies in New Zealand ODI Series, 2005/06 Sri Lanka in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2005/06 Kenya in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2005/06 Australia in South Africa ODI Series, 2005/06 Pakistan in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2005/06 Kenya in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2005/06 England in India ODI Series, 2005/06 DLF Cup, 2005/06 Australia in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2005/06 Zimbabwe in West Indies ODI Series, 2006 ICC Tri-Series (in West Indies), 2006 India in West Indies ODI Series, 2006 England in Ireland ODI Match, 2006 NatWest Series [Sri Lanka in England], 2006 Pakistan in Scotland ODI Match, 2006 Sri Lanka in Netherlands ODI Series, 2006 Bangladesh in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2006 European Championship Division One, 2006 Kenya in Canada ODI Series, 2006 Bangladesh in Kenya ODI Series, 2006 India in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2006 Bermuda in Canada ODI Series, 2006 ICC World Cricket League Americas Region Division One, 2006 NatWest Series [Pakistan in England], 2006 DLF Cup, 2006/07 Zimbabwe in South Africa ODI Series, 2006/07 ICC Champions Trophy, 2006/07 Bermuda in Kenya ODI Series, 2006/07 India in South Africa ODI Series, 2006/07 ICC Tri-Series (in South Africa), 2006/07 Zimbabwe in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2006/07 West Indies in Pakistan ODI Series, 2006/07 Scotland in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2006/07 Sri Lanka in New Zealand ODI Series, 2006/07 Commonwealth Bank Series, 2006/07 Associates Tri-Series (in Kenya), 2006/07 West Indies in India ODI Series, 2006/07 ICC World Cricket League Division One, 2006/07 Pakistan in South Africa ODI Series, 2006/07 Bangladesh in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2006/07 Sri Lanka in India ODI Series, 2006/07 Chappell-Hadlee Trophy, 2006/07 Associates Tri-Series (in West Indies), 2006/07 ICC World Cup, 2006/07 India in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2007 Warid Cricket Series, 2007 Afro-Asia Cup, 2007 India in Ireland ODI Match, 2007 South Africa in Ireland ODI Match, 2007 Future Cup, 2007 NatWest Series [West Indies in England], 2007 Netherlands in Canada ODI Series, 2007 Quadrangular Series (Ireland), 2007 Bangladesh in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2007 India in Scotland ODI Match, 2007 Bermuda in Netherlands ODI Series, 2007 NatWest Series [India in England], 2007 South Africa in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2007 Australia in India ODI Series, 2007/08 England in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2007/08 Canada in Kenya ODI Series, 2007/08 South Africa in Pakistan ODI Series, 2007/08 Bermuda in Kenya ODI Series, 2007/08 Pakistan in India ODI Series, 2007/08 New Zealand in South Africa ODI Series, 2007/08 West Indies in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2007/08 Chappell-Hadlee Trophy, 2007/08 Bangladesh in New Zealand ODI Series, 2007/08 West Indies in South Africa ODI Series, 2007/08 Zimbabwe in Pakistan ODI Series, 2007/08 Commonwealth Bank Series, 2007/08 England in New Zealand ODI Series, 2007/08 South Africa in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2007/08 Ireland in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2007/08 Bangladesh in Pakistan ODI Series, 2007/08 Sri Lanka in West Indies ODI Series, 2007/08 Kitply Cup, 2008 NatWest Series [New Zealand in England], 2008 Asia Cup, 2008 Australia in West Indies ODI Series, 2008 Bermuda in Canada ODI Series, 2008 Associates Tri-Series (in Scotland), 2008 European Championship Division One, 2008 Bermuda in Netherlands ODI Series, 2008 Kenya in Scotland ODI Series, 2008 England in Scotland ODI Match, 2008 India in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2008 Scotiabank Series, 2008 Kenya in Netherlands ODI Match, 2008 NatWest Series [South Africa in England], 2008 Kenya in Ireland ODI Series, 2008 Bangladesh in Australia ODI Series, 2008 New Zealand in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2008/09 Tri-Nation Tournament in Kenya, 2008/09 Kenya in South Africa ODI Series, 2008/09 Bangladesh in South Africa ODI Series, 2008/09 Pakistan v West Indies ODI Series, 2008/09 England in India ODI Series, 2008/09 Sri Lanka in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2008/09 West Indies in New Zealand ODI Series, 2008/09 Tri-Nation Tournament in Bangladesh, 2008/09 South Africa in Australia ODI Series, 2008/09 Zimbabwe in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2008/09 Sri Lanka in Pakistan ODI Series, 2008/09 Zimbabwe in Kenya ODI Series, 2008/09 India in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2008/09 Chappell-Hadlee Trophy, 2008/09 India in New Zealand ODI Series, 2008/09 England 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by Stephanie | Jan 10, 2019 | motherhood | 1 comment
I am angry today. A fellow mother writer (guys, I still refuse to use the diminishing, irritating, patronizing moniker “mommy blogger”), Christie Tate, wrote about why she won’t stop writing about motherhood and she is being slammed big time all across the internet. And it has me furious today.
When I saw my On Parenting from The Washington Post email digest in my inbox last week, I bookmarked her piece to read later, as the title alone resonated with me immediately: “My Daughter Asked Me to Stop Writing About Motherhood. Here’s Why I Can’t Do That.” I’m not going to pull quotes from her piece– take three minutes and read it now. If you’re a parent who is also a writer, there’s no way this topic hasn’t come up for you. I’ve discussed it innumerable times in writing communities and online courses, and with friends who also write about their motherhood experiences.
Her piece struck a chord with me for sure, as I have been writing about motherhood online for nearly seven years. Basically, Tate’s 4th grader found articles and pictures of herself on the internet after searching her mom’s name, and was outraged at what she discovered. She asked her mom to take it all down and stop writing about her. I had a similar conversation with my oldest child after she did a Google search of me this year. Fortunately, her reaction was much milder—she has supported my writing and knows I write about my experience as a parent, not to mention produce a show (Listen To Your Mother Boulder) dedicated to stories about motherhood.
Although I have her tentative “blessing,” I’m sure her feelings about my writing topics will evolve over the years. In the past two years, I’ve already significantly and mindfully modified the amount and details I feel comfortable sharing about my children, who are now much older than when I was writing about tantrums and poop explosions. I am extremely sensitive to protecting their privacy.
Many mother writers have struggled with this balance, and a number of us have embraced the grey area of “writing about our motherhood experience, rather than writing about our children.” You can see the challenge here, as the overlap is undeniable and complex. There is no clear-cut, graceful way to do it.
I would like to think that if my children cried and begged me to take my entire blog’s worth of stories about them off the internet, I would acquiesce. But I am beyond empathetic with Tate’s plight. Writing about motherhood is a huge part of who I am. Motherhood is what gave birth to my own creativity, it is what reignited my love of writing. Writing about my ambivalence, my frustration, my delight and heart-exploding moments, my grief/relief at their growing, my self-doubt, laughing about the absurdity of our daily lives—it has saved me in a thousand ways.
If we can’t laugh, we’ll cry.
But it’s not just about me. Writing about motherhood means you are willingly extending a lifeline to any other person who needs it. To other parents who feel isolated and confused, to other women who are second guessing themselves, who are hurting, or who feel unimportant. Writing about motherhood is how we come together in community. It is powerful and healing. In the seven years that I’ve been blogging, I’ve created a community of readers and moms who support each other and find comfort, validation, knowledge, and entertainment by reading my blog. And I’m of course not the only one; I’ve also joined the communities of many other mother bloggers, and I too gain insight, support, and lots of humor from reading their work. Their words save me, too.
As I’ve read the criticisms of Tate’s article, it’s not an exaggeration to say that I’ve been disgusted and horrified. Let me break it down for you.
Enough with the “selfish mom” business
The response articles I’ve read were filled with harsh personal accusations. Of course “SELFISH” was one of the first words I saw blasting Tate’s article. Not just her, but all “awful mommy bloggers.” The trolls came out in full force, throwing their stones, the usual variety: designed to shame, humiliate, and cause guilt. Guess what? Mothers don’t need any more of that in their lives. At all. We are used to being called selfish all the time. We feel guilt daily. These commenters are hitting this writer where it hurts most: in the guilt spot.
But I believe that Tate’s open, honest writing about motherhood—and not just her, any and all of us who share our parenting experiences—serves a higher purpose of connecting mothers and alleviating a sense of isolation and failure. She is not selfish, and her decision to keep writing about her motherhood journey was not undertaken hastily.
I also believe that her daughter, in time, will come to understand and respect what her mother is doing, rather than require immediate therapy as one snarky commenter suggested. Our kids go through phases. If my kids suddenly insisted we stop sending out holiday photo cards with their pictures in them, I would probably tell them “too bad.”
Enough with the online hostility in general
Tate has been referred to as insensitive by her critics, but her actions pale in comparison to the shitstorm that has been unleashed at her. Tweets referenced in the article referred to her as a “terrible person” and “garbage human.” One article, titled “Christie Tate: 5 Fast Facts You Need To Know” (I’m sorry, but that is creepy AF.) is basically a montage of mean tweets about her. I was appalled by the complete strangers who felt compelled to attack this mother, cloaked in the power of internet anonymity. This horrifies me more than almost anything else. The ugliness and vitriol people spew without giving it a second thought. What are THOSE people teaching their children? “Honey, I respect your privacy so much that I’m going to verbally eviscerate this complete stranger whose beliefs don’t line up with mine.” The hypocrisy and ignorance is bone-chilling. If you disagree with Tate, so be it. But if you feel compelled to write hateful, ugly words to her in public, you might want to take a good, long look at yourself and your motivations. And if you have children, consider what you are teaching them about compassion and self-control.
This new era of parenting is no joke
As those of us with tweens know, navigating this new digital era of social media, the internet, and everything that goes along with it is tricky. It’s difficult to know how to guide our children, as it feels like some sort of grand experiment. But let’s not forget that as mothers, we are also charting a new course. We are the first generation of mothers grappling with the comfort and drawbacks of having the internet at our fingertips and raising our children in a much more public way than we grew up with. The struggle of writing about our children publicly is magnified by our social media and Google culture. The hostile exchange on this subject is the end result of living in this digital age that comes with so many price tags. Parents are also feeling our way through this mess and doing the best we can.
Bloggers or not, the majority of moms are regularly sharing details and photos of our children’s lives, whether to connect with other moms or celebrate proud moments, laugh at their own family chaos, or reach out for help. This is what we do. I have several friends who do not share their children’s names or photos anywhere on the internet, even in their private Facebook account. I completely respect and understand that. But the majority of my friends have at least dipped their toes into this new territory. And let’s face it, we are raising children whose lives are going to be far more public than ours ever were, for better or for worse.
There is absolute vulnerability sharing our motherhood stories.
Find the middle ground, find compassion
Is there a line? Yes, of course there is. As mother writers, we must evolve. We must consider our children’s needs and privacy and weigh in their wishes. But our children are also children. They are still growing and evolving, and like Tate, I believe there is middle ground while we sort these things out. Just because they’ve suddenly stopped liking PB&J doesn’t mean they won’t change their mind again in two weeks, and just because our children may squirm a bit knowing we are writing about them doesn’t mean they won’t see a bigger picture someday. But in the meantime, if they are squirming, we should absolutely stop and think about whether we are violating any boundaries or breaking trust. There is a way to do this; like I said, it may not always be graceful and it won’t be perfect, but it is ridiculous to imply that mothers should never write about motherhood.
When I announced my intention to write more about my personal health journey and women’s health in general, stepping back a bit from writing about my growing daughters, one reader slammed me for “selling out” and deviating from my original parenting humor and stories. I mean, we really can’t win, can we? While we certainly don’t owe anyone anything, there are countless parents who rely on the words and stories of other writers to help them feel less alone, to make them laugh, to help them understand something. I can’t imagine if that went away.
I stand with Christie Tate. Even if our philosophies deviate in minor ways, I respect her efforts and intentions as a fellow writer attempting to navigate motherhood. She is a mother doing her best, like the rest of us, and she does not deserve public condemnation. Let’s reexamine how quickly we turn on one another, and ultimately, what we want to teach our children about co-existing in this murky new online world.
I worried about writing this blog post. It’s obvious that anyone who disagrees with me could easily dig up a picture I shared five years ago of my kid riding in a car, covered with chocolate ice cream and picking her nose, and call me a monster. But I think it’s wrong for us to be afraid to speak up. I will always believe that connecting through shared motherhood stories is a beautiful thing, and I’ve had enough readers contact me over the years to thank me that I know I’m not the only one who believes that. So I’m going to stand up for that today, and for all the “mommy bloggers” who have been dragged through the mud. We are learning, too, we are doing our best, and we deserve compassion.
Vickie Craver on January 10, 2019 at 2:38 pm
Stephanie, I applaud you for being transparent in an age where being vulnerable and open can be social suicide. I Iove that there is a community of mothers that have come to support one another. My personal challenge is that I am raising children without a mother with experience for whom I would question “how would you handle this”. I often wish I could talk or share stories with her or wish she would have left journals that I could pour through for reference but that is not the case. Therefore I appreciate your candor and to hell with the rest. Keep doing what you do! One day your daughter too will become a mother and she will know just how you handled it. With grace, realism and class!
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Apparel Correspondent : The National Board of Revenue has set a target of reducing the time for completing import procedures to two days and that for export procedures to one day by 2022.
The National Board of Revenue has set a target of reducing the time for completing import procedures to two days and that for export procedures to one day by 2022. On average, releasing imported goods currently takes eight days while it takes five days for completing export procedures at ports.
The revenue board has set the target under the National Single Window (NSW) project being implemented with the support of Bangladesh investment Climate Fund (BICF) of International Finance Corporation (IFC).
NBR member and NSW project director Khondaker Muhammad Aminur Rahman revealed the information at a workshop on the NSW, held in Habiganj on 20 October. The IFC organised the workshop where representatives of 39 government and private agencies participated.
Aminur said that the current results of time release study (TRS) on release of export and import goods were not satisfactory.
He said that the time and cost of doing business would be reduced significantly once the project would be implemented. Then, Bangladesh will be considered as a lucrative destination for investors. He expected that the NSW would begin full-scale operations within two and a half years. A total of 39 agencies, both public and private, would be interconnected with the NSW online platform to deliver speedy services to exporters and importers.
NBR chairman Md Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan in a video conferencing speech said that all of the trade portals of 39 agencies would be interconnected through the NSW.‘A trader can use it as a single platform,’ he said. He also instructed the project officials to complete the project within the stipulated time. The implementation of NSW project with the estimated cost of around Tk600 crore is scheduled to expire in December, 2020. The project, however, will be extended for two years up to 2022 due to slow progress in implementation. NBR member (VAT audit and intelligence) Masud Sadiq said that the major objectives of the project were reducing the cost and time of business, expediting business and removing complexities.
IFC private sector specialist Nusrat Nahid Babi also spoke at the workshop presided over by Sylhet customs commissioner Golam Md Munir. The NBR adopted the NSW project in 2017. Later in August 2018, the revenue board signed memorandums of understanding with 39 government and private sector agencies which will be connected with the NSW system meant for providing all services related to export and import from an electronic and online platform. A single window is defined as a facility that allows parties involved in trade and transport to lodge standardised information and documents with a single entry point to fulfil all import, export and transit-related regulatory requirements. Traders will have to submit the relevant documents only once to the platform for export and import purpose instead of submitting sets of documents to various agencies.
The agencies include Prime Minister’s Office, finance, commerce, industries, agriculture, fisheries and livestock, health and family welfare, shipping, power, energy and mineral resources, civil aviation and tourism, posts, telecommunications and information technology ministries, Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association, Bangladesh Shipping Agents Association, Bangladesh Freight Forwarders Association and Bangladesh Customs Clearing and Forwarding Agents Association.
According to the NBR, 3.19 lakh importers and exporters are expected to be benefited from reducing the time and cost for trade once the system becomes operational.
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