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Salah sends Liverpool 8 points clear after Man City win
Ahram Online , Reuters , Sunday 10 Nov 2019
Liverpool's Mohamed Salah, left, scores his side's second goal of the game during the English Premier League soccer match at Anfield, Liverpool, England, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019, AP
English Premier League results & scorers (12th matchday)
Match facts: Liverpool v Manchester City (English Premier League)
Egypt's winger Mohamed Salah scored his sixth goal of the season as Liverpool opened up an eight-point lead at the top of the Premier League with an emphatic and hugely impressive 3-1 win over defending champions Manchester City at Anfield on Sunday.
The victory leaves unbeaten Liverpool on 34 points from 12 games, eight ahead of Leicester City and Chelsea, and nine in front of Pep Guardiola’s fourth-placed City.
Liverpool grabbed a sixth-minute lead with a thundering drive from Brazilian Fabinho, who pounced on a clearance from Ilkay Gundogan and blasted past Claudio Bravo from over 20 metres out.
Yet City felt the stunning effort should have been ruled out — and a penalty awarded to them — as prior to the break that led to the goal Liverpool defender Trent Alexander-Arnold appeared to handle the ball inside the box but the VAR review went against the visitors.
City pushed forward in response and Raheem Sterling missed a close-range header, but Liverpool struck again in the 13th minute when Andy Robertson crossed from the left and Mohamed Salah nodded the bouncing ball past Bravo to make it 2-0.
City’s third defeat of the season look assured when Liverpool made it 3-0 six minutes after the interval as Jordan Henderson worked space for a cross on the right flank and Sadio Mane stooped to head home at the back post.
Bernardo Silva pulled a goal back for City in the 78th minute, drilling home a low cross from Angelino and the visitors enjoyed some late pressure but Liverpool held firm.
Salah made way for Joe Gomez in the 86th minute as he seems struggling again with his ankle injury following a first-half tackle by Fernandinho.
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WONDER YEARS
CBSE Documents
ARCHIVE (2015-16)
Swachch Bharat Abhiyan
On 7th December 2019, the NCC cadets of DPS Whitefield conducted the Swachch Bharath Abhiyaan in the presence and under the guidance of Sri. Ompraksh NCC, PI Staff and Ms. Jagadevi, ANO, NCC. In this program all the Cadets showed a lot of enthusiasm and participated actively to keep the surrounding clean. This abhiyan was carried out at Malasandra Government Hospital, Malasandra bus stop and in the school surroundings.
The Constitution Day 2019
26 November has its own importance in the history of independent India because on this day in 1949, the Constitution of India was adopted and it came into effect on 26 January, 1950; therefore, marking the dawn of a new era. To acknowledge the contribution of the framers of the Constitution and to sensitize the people regarding the prominent values, 26 November is celebrated as the ‘Constitution Day’.
To celebrate this occasion, on the 26th of November, 2019, DPS Whitefield had arranged for several activities to show respect to our Constitution. The students from grades 6 to 9 made posters and charts highlighting the ideals of justice, liberty, equality, and fraternity that reflect the objectives of our Constitution. The Preamble was read out by the students in the classrooms and discussions were held on topics like the history of the Constitution and its importance in our country.
The Little Champ
Sanjeevani, winner of Junior Badminton tournament ( U-13) held at Orchid’s Sports.
Avi Basak- the Achiever
Avi Basak joined badminton just for fun. But soon his interest turned into a passion and now Avi has been sweeping titles in his category in the last few months. His coach Yashu Kumar at Feather Smash Arena identified his mettle quite early and has been training him to be a successful achiever.
Avi’s hard work and dedication towards the sport has really paid off. He trains twice a day to be in the best of his forms. DPSW has shown flexibility to motivate the budding talent helping him to invest more time in practice in the morning as well as evening. Keep going Avi!
DPS Whitefield’s 1st Annual Art Exhibition
DWMUN 2019
“Together we can build a world we want, the world we’re proud to leave for our children and grandchildren.”
Ban Ki- moon (United Nations Secretory- General)
Delhi Public School Whitefield hosted its maiden edition of the Model United Nations Conference, DWMUN from the 6th to the 8th of August 2019. With over 150 delegates participating from different prestigious schools in Bengaluru, it was a successful and enriching experience for the entire DPS community.
The Conference was officially announced open on Day 1, with the blessed presence of our honorable chief guest Mrs. Latha Reddy. The opening ceremony was draped with a myriad of cultural events followed by the introduction of the prestigious executive board. DWMUN’19 had four committees- SOCHUM, CSW, UNSC and IPC, simulated to exhibit International affairs and current disputes around the world. Each committee deliberated upon different agendas, ranging from Sino- Indian Border issue to the rights of stateless individuals.
Day 2 of DWMUN’19 began with delegates moving forward with their respective agendas and passing resolutions for crises.
Day 3 of DWMUN’19 decided the fate of the committees and their countries. From impromptu press conferences to out of format resolutions to hours of motions to entertain, the day ended successfully with delegates being awarded their placements. Winners of different categories were declared for best and commendable candidates. The best delegation trophy was awarded to The Deens Academy. Principal, Kamava Bopanna gave away the certificates to the proud winners.
The Secretory General announced the conference officially closed. It was certainly a successful first edition for the whole team of DWMUN’19.
A fire drill was conducted on 26.8.19 to make the staff and students aware of the fire safety procedures.
DPSW participants won accolades by winning the Inter DPS Quiz 2019 held at DPS North on 10.8.19. Shouryadip Chakraborty of grade 8D, Chirayu Umesh Jadav of grade 8C and Adityaveer Singh of grade 7C won in the Junior category. In total 13 schools participated in the competition. The quiz topics were based on Indian heritage and culture, general awareness and current affairs.
Amazing Feat
The young athletes of DPSW showed their mettle at the athletic meet called Impressions Sadbhavna Athletic Championship held on 5th and 6th August 2019 in DPS North. The athletes bagged 2 gold, 7 silver and 4 bronze medals in different events.
The Investiture Ceremony at DPS Whitefield was held on 2 nd July 2019. It was a solemn auspicious occasion. The students elected to be part of the student council enthusiastically accepted their respective leadership roles. The ceremony was attended by the proud parents of the Student council. The academic achievers of CBSE exam 2019 of grades X and XII were felicitated to recognize their accomplishments and to inspire their juniors to perform well in academics.
Music competition 2019-20 was held during the Music Week. Children from grade 1 to 8 participated with great enthusiasm. Children sang melodious renditions in Classical(Indian and Western), Patriotic, Devotional and Western genres. Semifinals were judged by the various talented teachers of the school.
Finals were judged by Mr. Hari(Taqademy) and Mr. Siddharth Menon.
The post millennials have the biggest challenge of being decision makers at every step of their life. There are a plethora of options available to them when it relates to choosing careers. So, giving opportunity to the students to explore the various available careers is an important step that schools must take. Keeping the above in mind DPS Whitefield organised a Career Interaction Session for the students of grade 9 to 12, with experts from various fields, on 13th July, 2019. Students enjoyed their interactions with Retired Wing Commander Prateek Godiyal who is now a Commercial Pilot, Foreign language expert Ms Natasha, Lawyer Ms Jyothi, a Politician Mr Teju, a Sound Engineer Mr Bishwajeet Chaterjee, Architect Ms Vijiya and Sports Psychologist Ms Shubha Chittaranjan . This is the first session on Career Counseling organised by the school in collaboration with Career Genesis. There would be two more sessions organised during the academic year for students to get better guidance in making career choices.
DPSW HOSTS INTER SCHOOL FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT
DPS Whitefield hosted its first Inter- School Football Tournament from 4th to 6th July 2019 with sixty-one teams participating from twenty- two schools.
The young sportspersons in the U-9, U-11 and U-13 categories put on a display of sheer skill and quality.
The Chief Guest Mr Brian Albuquerque, retired DIG of Police addressed the players and encouraged them for their laudable performances. The Pro-Vice Chairperson of the Praxy Fernandes Memorial Trust Ms Annabelle Manwaring and Principal Ms Kamava Bopana also graced the occasion.
The finale saw a beautiful dance by the Grade II cheerleaders.
Trophies and certificates were awarded to the winners, runners- up, Best Player, Best Goalkeeper and Best Coach in all the three categories.
CATEGORY WINNERS RUNNERS-UP
U-9 DPS North NPS Indiranagar
U-11 St Joseph DPS North
U-13 DPS East DPS North
The tournament was put together by the Head Mistress Ms Monika Kohli and the Senior Mistress Ms Bhavana Jaiswal alongwith the Football Coaches Mr Pushparaj V, Mr Prashant Andrews and the PE department.
Anirjit Chandra of DPSW was awarded the Best Goalkeeper of the tournament in U-9 category.
CLAY MODELLING COMPETITION
DPS Whitefield (Mallasandra and Hagadur) held the Clay Modelling competition for LKG & UKG children on 28th June 2019.
The topic for the competition for the LKG children was “Healthy Food” and for UKG children was “My Home”.
Participants were judged on the parameters of creativity, neatness & presentation. The children had great fun as they indulged themselves in creating beautiful models/things.
The students of DPSW have won accolades in MUN at DPS North. Nischay Agrawal and Smera Verma have been declared the best delegates and Bhavravee, the most commendable delegate. It is a proud moment indeed.
Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.”
The International Yoga Day was celebrated in DPS Whitefield on 21st June 2019. The 2019 Yoga Day is Yoga for the heart. The students seemed to have imbibed the essence of yoga and performed different postures under the PE teachers’ instructions. The teachers were successful in making the students understand the importance of yoga in unifying the mind and body. The students performed activities with a lot of enthusiasm and zeal. The program started with a prayer and ended with breathing exercises. The PE teachers inculcated a sense of discipline and the entire program was conducted in a very organized manner.
The students were made aware that yoga is a mental, physical and religious practice and were motivated to continue the practice in their everyday life
Achievements of Avi Basak
Avi Basak has added few more feathers to his crown of success. Five Karnataka state ranking tournaments were held in the months of May and June. Avi was a winner in three of them and a runner up in one of them in the U13 age category in singles. Also, Avi along with his partner has been a runner-up in three of these tournaments in U13 doubles catergory.
KUDOS CHAMP
Niyaant Madhavan of Grade 5E has participated in two international tournaments in the year 2019. He took part in the Barca academy Bengaluru U11 team at the Barca Academy Asia pacific cup 2019 in New Delhi .He also participated in the Conscient Football U10 team at The Super Cup, Dubai 2019.
CBSE CLASS X – RESULTS (2018-2019)
Result Grade 10 -18-19 subject toppers (1)
CBSE CLASS XII – RESULTS (2018-2019)
Result Grade 12 -18-19 subject toppers
Astronomy camp at DPSW
DPS Whitefield in association with Central Adventure Pvt. Ltd. Organized an Astronomy Night Camp in the School premises on 5th April, 2019 for the students of grades VIII, IX & X. More than hundred students and fourteen teachers participated in the camp which lasted the entire night.
The Central Adventures team had set up powerful telescopes on the school ground along with an informative audio visual aids. The camp began with a theory session on “How to identify different objects in the Sky” and “To read the night sky”. It was followed by actual viewing of different celestial objects like Jupiter, Saturn and their moons, Binary stars, Galaxy, Venus through the telescopes. The camp concluded with an insightful and very interactive question and answer session. The students thoroughly enjoyed both the theory and practical session with keen interest.
This is what Aakriti Mishra a student of grade X felt after attending the session – “The camp was an experience of a lifetime. The people who had come were very professional and proficient. They showed us lots of planets, stars, constellations etc that looked much larger and clearer when shown with the help of telescopes. I look forward to experience such camps in the future as well.”
Well Done Cadets!
Four cadets Ashrith Y Kumar, Aruhi Jain, Geetika Nambiar, and Mukul Anissh are selected for the TSC camp. Their impressive performance at firing was quite commendable. Kudos champs!
NCC Trek
On March 16th 2019, a trek was organized by NCC to Antaragange in Kolar. We, 16 cadets in number, were accompanied by Mrs. Jagdevi Bhosle and Mr. Ranganath and three other army officers for the trek. After a one hour drive to Antaragange, we climbed up the stairs to a temple and further up towards the top of the hillock. It was a rocky terrain and rocks were carved into half steps that made it easier to climb all the way up in our 6-7 km stretch from the foothill. The army officers shared their real time experiences of climbing mountains with more irregular terrains than this one to fight against enemies and for their training. There was a cave at the top end of the hill, a major highlight of our entire trek. We did a little bit of caving through narrow passages which was an exhilarating and adventurous experience for all of us. The officers demonstrated safe and interesting techniques of getting into the cave. The cave led out into an opening, a little down than where it started. Finally, we came down the hill and visited a splendid view point en route, which was a real visual treat with amazing scenery. We then boarded the bus and came back to the school. It was an adventurous experience for each one of us. Our sincere thanks to all the organizers for this wonderful experience!
The Young Champ
Shubh Saxena of Grade-VIII secured the first position in the Children’s Chess Tournament, held on 30th January 2019. organized by Zane Chess Academy. Kudos to the young champ.
SMTE RESULTS (2018-19)
Science and Maths Talent Search Examination(SMTE) is a competitive examination conducted by DPS society in collaboration with Science Olympiad Foundation(SOF) for Grade IX students of all Delhi Public Schools. It is an academic and scholastic aptitude competition to identify and encourage the creativity of a child in Science and Mathematics in Delhi Public Schools in India and abroad. Around 25,000 students participated in Level I examination across all DPS schools.
Three of our students qualified for Level II Examination which was held in DPS Navi Mumbai on 16th December 2018.
Level I Results
Name of the student School Rank Inter DPS rank
Nischay Agrawal 1 102
Ayush Gupta 2 368
S Nishanth 3 481
In Level II Examination Nischay Agrawal of IX B secured 29th Rank out of 600 students who participated in the Inter DPS SMTE Examination. He is entitled to attend Student Enrichment Programme organised by DPS Society.
MaRRs Preschool Bee Championship
MaRRs Spell Bee initiates students into the world of competitive learning , acting as an invaluable tool for English language improvement. The healthy competitive spirit motivates the students to learn on their own without any compulsion. This self based learning improves retention and results in a systematic and structural understanding of the English language.
DPS Whitefield organised the 2018-19 edition of the MaRRs Spell Bee Championship and many of our students achieved outstanding results
Click here for MaRRs Pre school Bee State, National & International Champions
YOUNG ACHIEVERS
DPS Whitefield participated in the 6th Xyo International Maths-Science Olympiad. We feel proud to announce that our team from grade V and VII secured merit position in East Bangalore Zone. Teams from forty schools participated in this event.
Prize winners are as follows
Class V Class VII
Merit (East Bangalore) Merit (East Bangalore)
Sanjana R 5G Myiesha K 7E
Jocelyn N 5A Ruhi G 7B
Diya T 5A Aayush 7E
Amrita D 5D Tonmoy S 7D
Rishita T 5D Advait Singh 7E
Abhineet N 5C Jyotika Sunil 7C
Ayan S 5D Karan S Rana 7C
Pratiksha P 7A
“Science is organized knowledge”
— Immanuel Kant
Science is a systematic way which involves observation and experimentation to get knowledge and improve skills. In order to keep students up to date and increase their scientific skills, ‘The Science and Space Week’ was held in the school premises of DPS, Whitefield from 21/01/2019 to 25/01/2019.
It was an enriching experience for both students and teachers. The students of class IV to VII participated enthusiastically in activities organized each day during the week-long celebrations. The bag full of activities like Poster/Collage making, Quiz, Junior Scientist (An activity on Hands – on Experiment) etc. were conducted. The week culminated with Debate Competition where in the students voiced their ideas with élan. It was amazing to hear the young minds speak with confidence. Their knowledge was also enhanced by watching their peers performing wonderful experiments along with the explanation of the whole procedure.
The week was a success as the students enjoyed the activities thoroughly. It was a fun experience and learning for all the children.
Asset Results
Aayush Kuloor of VII E had been awarded Gold medal for his excellent performance in the Asset Talent Search Test 2018. He is ranked among the Top 50 in India.
Trishir Saxena of VI D has been awarded Silver medal for the outstanding performance in the ASSET Talent Search Test 2018.He is ranked among the top 200 in India
The senior Sports Day was celebrated in DPSW on 20th December. The spirit was high and the participation was whole-hearted. The students performed with excellence. The athletes gave their best to achieve success. The first NCC batch displayed confidence. The parents had a great time watching their wards performing with brilliance. The school band won everyone’s heart. The drills of grades 7/8 and grades 6/9 received praise from the audience.
In the latter half of the day grades 4 and 5 also performed brilliantly. . It was indeed a day of fun and fitness.
WORKSHOP ON SUPPLEMENTARY READING
DPS Whitefield makes sure that its teachers are at the forefront of learning and honing their skills. Keeping this in view, Mrs Reshma Parvez, HoD, English, was deputed to attend a workshop on ‘Supplementary Reading’. The workshop was organized by Scholastic, India on 31st October, 2018 at Hotel Monarch Luxor, Bangalore. An experienced language expert, Mrs Shamita conducted the three hour session.
Mrs Shamita opened the session with an interactive discussion on the necessity of supplementary reading in today’s age of digital addiction. She stressed that digital revolution has taken children away from books and reading and we cannot just blame the children. We have to take measures to bring them back to reading. She spoke about various interesting techniques not only to make children interested in reading but also how to pick books that they would like to read.
The techniques taught by her were quite innovative and all participants vouched to share them with their colleagues. In fact, teachers decided to try them with their own children.
SOCIAL STUDIES WEEK 2018
‘We Touch Lives’ was the driving theme for this year’s Social Science Week at DPS, Whitefield, conducted in the last week of October. Young and bright minds from Grades – IV to X showcased their talents at various aspects of Social Science through different activities and competitions.
The week blasted off to a grand start by the students of class IV who revealed their creativity in making simple yet useful items from scrap materials, to enact the topic ‘Best out of Waste’. Keeping the spirit of festivals alight at this part of the year, students of Grade V and VI put their whole-hearted effort in Decorating Diyas and other Diwali Decorations. Students of Grade VII designed beautiful Diwali greeting cards. Respecting the theme of the progamme, students gifted the Diyas and cards to their bus drivers, care takers and other supporting staff members of the school to spread happiness and love among our community members to show their gratitude.
To get a different flavour of the progamme, a session of Mock Judiciary was conducted by the students of Grade X where they gracefully presented a ‘case study in a court room’ solving a murder mystery. Students of Grades VII and VIII carried forward the essence through an enthralling session of Mock Parliament, where the young debaters participated with Vigour and Vision of becoming Voices of the Future. The highly successful week was concluded through a grand quiz on topics related to the different branches of Social Science, where the students of Class IX participated with a lot of zeal and enthusiasm.
“Health is Wealth.” To make the students aware of this saying and to inculcate healthy habits in the formative years, Health Week was conducted in DPSW. The students were guided towards a healthy living. The height and weight charts were updated. Doctors from reputed hospitals were summoned for the health check-ups of the students. Informative workshops were conducted on Risk Management and Bullying.
The workshop from FORTIS Health Care Center. The main aim of this workshop was to enlighten the students about bullying, peer pressure and how to avoid both the situations.
The workshop on Risk Behaviour Management was conducted by Dr. Shamantha and Dr. Pratibha Malhotra from FORTIS Health Care Center. They explained about different types of risk taking activities which the students generally indulge in and the after effects which they must face therefore. They also explained each of the consequences in detail through a series of slides. They made the students aware about the behavioural problems due to risk taking and how to manage them with élan.
LITERARY WEEK
“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary”- Boris Pastenak
To enable the students to take a tour of the world of literature, meet authors and be familiar with the different genres, Lliterary Week was celebrated in its full flair by the English, Vernacular and Foreign language departments of DPSW. Competitions were held and the students participated whole-heartedly. The competitions ranged from recitations to various speaking activities like Words to Images, Nature Box, A Twist in the Tale etc. Activities like Know Your Author, From the Young Writers’ Desk and Speech to Fame helped the students know more about different authors and the different branches of literature like prose, poetry and drama. Moreover, the senior grades got the opportunity to explore their creative genius through the topics such as Creating Ad Jingles, Sing a Song and Spell Buzz. The literary knowledge of the students was tested by the lit quiz, Literoledge. Workshops were held to give information about blogging and about writing fiction. The students staged few Hindi plays as a part of the Literary Week.
ART and CRAFT WEEK
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life”- Pablo Picasso
The Art Week at Delhi Public School, Whitefield provides the students an opportunity to break free from the mundane rituals of academics and give a flight to their imagination. The aim of Art Week is to create awareness about and appreciation of Visual Art.
The students from Grades 1- 10 participated in various competitions and enjoyed several activities under the guidance of their Art educators. Grades 1-5 participated in Faber Castell Art competition (National level). Oishi India hosted competition at the school level and six of our children got awarded in both categories- Senior and Junior. There was an appreciation prize for the differently abled students too. Mrityunjay Roy of Grade 8thwon the second position at the National level competition organized by Oishi India.
Grade 6 enjoyed making Newspaper silhouette collage. Grade 7 created beautiful artwork with continuous lines, Grade 8 learnt about Impressionism and made wonderful artwork based on impressionistic style. Grade 9 also learnt about an art form from Australia, popularly known as Aboriginal Art and created beautiful artworks.
Last but not the least Art department created an interesting Zentangles activity especially for the teachers.
THE PROMISING STAR
Avi Basak has done fairly well for himself in open tournaments of badminton, by winning in his and above age categories. In his debut year of playing state ranking this year, he is now already ranked 16th in the U 13 sub-junior category in the state of Karnataka. He also qualified for the nationals in the month of November this year.
Avi was a runner-up in the closely played match in U 12 category in the recently held Ramesh Padukone Inter-school tournament, which was played at Canara Union Charitable Trust (CUCT). He was also a semi-finalist in the same tournament in U 14 category, defeating many experienced players.
Another Star in the Making
Akshiti Agrawal has been playing basketball for last 3 years. She has participated in many tournaments and has been awarded multiple times.
She had been recently selected for Karnataka state team for Under-12 categories after which, she participated in national basketball tournament organized by the Students Olympics Association in Delhi, and Karnataka Under-12 team was declared the winner. It is a proud moment for DPS Whitefield School.
Moment to Cherish
Nithilan of VI-A won U12 Doubles championship in All India tennis tournament held in TAMS Whitefield.
He also reached pre-quarters in the singles tournament.
More Victories in the Air
In Sahodaya Inter-school Basketball tournament the DPSW teams have secured 3rd positions in both Under 14 Girls and Under 14 Boys categories. Kudos to the winners.
The Reliance Meet
Kaveri Velankar secured the 3rd place in 800 m and 4th place in 400 m in the Junior Girls category .
Aruhi Jain secured 4th position in both 400 m and 600 m in the Sub Junior Girls category. The efforts of the girls are really commendable.
Unlock Potential by Oishi
Mrityunjay Roy has won the second prize in the inter-school drawing competition organised by Oishi India, held at The Chancery Pavilion, on the 4th of November.
Hearty congratulations to Mrityunjay on his great achievement.
The Stars Shine Once Again
The Under-12 football team of DPSW secured the second position and the Under-14 team of DPSW secured the third position in the Annual Inter school Football Tournament, 2018 held at the Sahodaya School Complex, Bangalore. Kudos to the winners.
Proud Moments for DPSW
Harsh Pratap Singh of Grade-IX is selected for Karnataka State U-14 Basketball Team conducted by State Olympic Association.
Akshini Agrawal and Ishee Goswami of Grade-VI are selected for Karnataka State U-12 Basketball Team conducted by State Olympic Association.
The Ultimate Keeper and the Coach
Dyan A. received the best goalkeeper prize in the state level VIVA VIVACIOUS inter-school football tournament held at Whitefield Global School organized by the Karnataka State Football Association.
In the same event, Mr Pushparaj has been declared the best coach for the Messi Group.
Kudos to the Kiddos
DPS Whitefield is the winner of the Volksfiesta Kindergarten competition held at the Deens Academy Gunjur campus. The little champs immensely impressed the judges in the different competitions held.
The Skater on a Roll
Misha Agarwal, Student of class V D of DPSW has won 2 Silver medals in Speed Skating individual events during the Bangalore Open District Roller Skating Championships held on 18th and 19th of Aug 2018. The events were 500 m and 1000m rink race in the 8-10 years girls category.
Winners Brigade of DPSW
The stars of DPSW won laurels for the school in various competitions held in different schools.
1. Harsh Kataria secured the 2nd prize in Parde ke Pichhe in INVICTUS held in DPS East
2. LKG students won the 1st prize in the Finger Magic competition in Volksfiesta held in Deens Academy.
3. LKG and UKG won the 2nd prize in Happy Feet (fairy tale dance competition) in Volksfiesta.
4.DPSW won the Overall Kindergarten Trophy in Volksfiesta.
5. Double Trouble won the 1st prize in Volksfiesta.
6. Mumbo Jumbo won the 1st prize in Volksfiesta.
7. Anando Milan(solo classical song) won the 1st prize in Volksfiesta.
8. Minute to Win It won the 1st prize in Volksfiesta.
9. Pantomime won the 1st prize in Volksfiesta.
10. Song of Sixpence won the 2nd prize in Volksfiesta.
11. What’s the Good Word won 2nd prize in Volksfiesta.
Proud Moment for DPSW
Kaveri Velankar secured 3rd place in U16 State Meet.
Aruhi Jain secured 3rd place in U12 State Meet.
LITTLE CHAMP
Shaswatik Mukherjee secured 9th rank in the national level certification for MARRS Pre School Bee English for Nursery at BITS Pilani, Goa.
Bhabravee got a special mention in SMUN held in Sophia School on 4.8.2018.
LAURELS WON AT SPORTS MEET
Another glorious moment to celebrate!
DPSW students performed brilliantly in the Inter School Sports Meet held today in DPS North.
1. Aruhi Jain 1st position in 800 meters
2. Kevin 1st position in 400 mts
3. Zeeshan 1st position in 400 meters
4.Kaveri 1st position in 400 mts
5. Kasturi 3rd position in 400 meters
Workshop on Spatial Design
Our design and Innovation students went to Yagnik Associates ,on July 31st ,where the architect Ms Anjali Yagnik did a special workshop on Spatial Design with them.
Nikhil Mani Maran of Grade-X-A has secured the third position in shooting in the Inter DPS Meet held in DPS Hyderabad.
Congratulations Nikhil!
Inter school Competitions
A few more feathers added to the crown of glory of DPSW.
The students of DPSW participated in the Inter School Competitions named Wings of Fire held in Whitefield Global School on 3.7.18. The participants secured second prizes in the categories of International Folk Dance(Grade-VIII) and Quizzard(Grade-V).
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” ― Plato
The Music Week was held from 18th to 29th June 2018 for Grades I to VIII. The children demonstrated their musical prowess in front of an encouraging audience by taking part in the competitions.
The categories in which the competitions were conducted included Indian classical, Western classical, patriotic and devotional songs. The judges were some of our music teachers themselves and Ms Lovely Dutta, the headmistress. The judges decided on the criteria of voice clarity, rhythm, pronunciation and overall presentation.
The overwhelming enthusiasm of the participants made the music week a great success.
The Investiture Ceremony
“Leaders are not born but are made by their experiences in life.”
The Investiture Ceremony for both Senior and Junior school was held with the usual solemnity and grandeur. The new Student Council was appointed. Badges were pinned by Pro Vice Chairman Ms Annabelle and Ms Kamava Bopana respectively. The Senior school Head boy Pranjal Mishra and Head girl Anukriti Singh and the Junior school Head Boy, Joshua George and Head Girl, Shubhi Agarwal along with the other council members took the oath to uphold the ethos and the motto of the school, “Service before Self” in high esteem.The ceremony was concluded with the national anthem.
Commendable Delegates in the DNMUN
A DNMUN session was held today in Delhi Public School(N).
We are proud to share that Smera Verma and Nischay Agrawal were chosen as Commendable Delegates in the DNMUN.
A special mention was made for Bhabhravee Goswami, Priyal Jain and Disha Chopra.
Congratulations participants! It was truly a commendable performance.
Amazing feat by our little champs!
Today DPSW has finished runners-up in the Under13, Under11 and Under9 categories in the Mini Gold Cup(football) organized by Bangalore Soccer Galaxy.
Congratulations students on your remarkable performance!
Manya Gupta(grade-10) has been awarded the certificate of excellence and a cash prize of Rs 1500/- for securing the highest marks in Hindi (99/100) among Bangalore Sahodaya Schools.
“Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self”- Keeping this thought in mind, on 21st June on the event of INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY, the students of Delhi Public School Whitefield demonstrated different Yoga postures on. The day was celebrated with a lot of enthusiasm and zeal.
CBSE CLASS X – RESULTS(2017- 18)
CBSE CLASS XII – RESULTS(2017- 18)
Times NIE Summer Training Programme
The opportunity of internship with the Times of India is a golden chance to gain hands on journalistic experience. Saahil Darshan Thakkar of Class IX C was one of the lucky students to have bagged this opportunity.
Saahil met the reporters and editors of The Times Group and learnt key aspects of reporting and editing from the finest of them all.
On the first day, the interns introduced themselves and learnt copy editing from the editor of NIE. The next day, they went to the Times of India printing press and saw how the machines worked to print the newspaper. For the next few days, they learnt other important aspects of writing, like review writing and article writing.
They also visited other parts of The Times Group like Radio Mirchi. An interaction with the RJs gave a glimpse of the life of an RJ. At Times Network, they told them how they air live debates, broadcast movies and schedule advertisements.
Overall, it was a memorable experience for all young interns who aspire for a career in media.
A Milestone for young footballer Surya Varikuti…
Surya Varikuti of Class VII A has crossed an important milestone by becoming the sole representative from India at the Football for Friendship programme to be held in Moscow in the month of June. The F4F is conducted by FIFA’s official partner Grazprom where kids from 211 countries will come together to play these matches.
Surya is India’s representative as a defender.
Congratulations and way to go SURYA!
QuizShala Completes A Successful Year
QuizShala 2017-18 successfully completed its session at Delhi Public School, Whitefield. Over the course of the programme, a wide variety of information on various topics including current affairs were taken up, through rounds of quizzes, discussions, games, and storytelling.
We hope that this academic engagement has brought around positive changes in the students and also believe that these improvements are noticed.
Students were given notebooks as souvenirs hoping that the souvenirs will remind them of the academic pursuits they had and will increase their curiosity over time.
Students Excel in XYO
Last month, over 40 Schools from Bangalore participated in the 5th XYO Math-Science olympiad in the city. Our Grade IV students made us proud by winning 3rd position (Bronze Medal) at the team event.
The winning team members are Aarin K, Sauban Khan, Ahaan Jindal, Ayan S, Sanjana R, Amrita C , Revanth R
Stars of ASSET
Siddhant Lakshmikant Pathak of Grade VI A and Aayush Kuloor of Grade VI D have come out with flying colours in the ASSET Talent Search Examination 2017- 18.
Both the boys have been awarded the esteemed title of Asset Talent Scholar (ATS). They were given a certificate along with a medal.
Applications invited for faculty and administrative positions..
Pia adds another feather to her cap
Pia Jemin Mehta, of DPS, Whitefield represented Karnataka in 35th Budokan National Karate Championship 2017. She won 1st place, Gold Medal in “Purple Belt’ 35 to 40 kgs Category in individual Kumite (Fight) and 3rd Place (Bronze Medal) in Kata.
Many congratulations to Pia!
Kaveri Velankar Wins at DPS International Athletic Meet Girls Open 2017
Kaveri Harshad Velankar of Class VIII A participated in the recently concluded DPS International Athletic Meet Girls Open 2017. It was hosted by DPS Greater Noida from 26th to 28th October, 2017.
Kaveri participated in various events and won the 3rd position in the 400 m run with a timing of 1:09.29.
The event was a prestigious meet where girls from various DPS’ participated. It was covered by the media as well. The details of the event were published in the Navbharath Times where Kaveri’s name also features.
The given link can be followed to view the news item – https://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/state/uttar-pradesh/noida/basant-kunj-champion-at-inter-dps-girls-athlete-meet/articleshow/61324152.cms
Congratulations to our champion!
Day care facility adds another feather to our cap
Adding another feather to our cap, DPS Whitefield opened its Day Care facility at DPS Kindergarten(Hagadur Road)on the 3rd of June, 2017. The inauguration was done in the presence of the Headmistress, Ms Lovely Dutta and other staff members. Ms Manjula, Day care in-charge has left no stone unturned to accomplish the task of setting up a comfortable set up for the students.
Indeed a home away from home, the Day care engages the students in fun-filled and enriching activities to pass their time creatively from 12- 6 p.m. Pranav and Adhrit Agarwal of LKG are the first students to enrol at the centre. The day care is stacked with well-selected books, which aims at inculcating the reading habits amongst the students. It also has a play area for the children to relax and rejuvenate themselves. Promoting the importance of self-dependency, the children are trained to eat by themselves with minimal guidance. With this latest venture, DPS Whitefield can pride itself on creating the best day care facility for its students.
Anti-Bullying Workshop
The students of Grade 12 conducted an anti-bullying session in the assembly for the pupils of Grades V-XI. The objective was to convey the message on effects of bullying and ways to eradicate it.
Freedom of speech does not give one the right to harass, abuse and dehumanize others. To enlighten the children further on the subject, the students spoke on various topics stressing the importance of a friendly environment which is free from social aggression and differences. The session was started by defining the term bullying and speaking about the different types of bullying that any normal teenager goes through. A detailed explanation was given on physical, emotional, cyber bullying and substance abuse. A brief counselling was done where the students were told not to be afraid to approach the teachers and the seniors if they were victims of bullying. The students were given helpline numbers to contact if they saw anyone being a victim of bullying.
Adolescence and Importance of Personal Hygiene
“Adolescents are still children in that they can’t yet tell the difference between belief and fiction”
– Heather O’Neill
Adolescence, the transition between childhood and adult life, is one of the most dynamic stages of human development. Adolescence is accompanied by dramatic physical, cognitive, social, and emotional changes that present both opportunities and challenges for adolescents, families, health professionals, educators, and communities.
Keeping the various aspects of adolescents in mind a workshop on ‘Guidelines during Adolescence and Importance of Personal Hygiene’ was organized in the school’s premises on 21st July 2017 for classes VIII and IX, during the Health Week. Dr Nandini Ravi, an eminent Gynaecologist was called in to conduct the workshop. It was a successful event where Dr Nandini revealed several important facts about adolescence. She unveiled the most noticeable changes seen during adolescence involving physical, psychological, and sexual growth and development, including the appearance of secondary sexual characteristics and the ability to reproduce.
She also informed the students about the importance of nutritious diet during this time which can make them healthy and attentive. She also told them about the do’s and don’ts which one should follow to lead a happy life. She stressed on the point to choose the friends carefully and to discuss any query with their parents or teachers without hesitation. In case, they are unable to, they can seek the help of a medical practitioner who will help them to solve their queries regarding various changes within and around them. At the end of the session, she enlightened the students about the importance of personal hygiene which can keep them fit and strong.
It was a very fruitful session where students got answers to many of their questions which arise in their mind every moment.
State Level Karnataka Badminton Championship
Shubham Agarwal participated in the Yonex Sunrise Karnataka State Badminton Championship organised by Ballari district Badminton Association. It was conducted from 19th July to 23rd July 2017. He secured 32nd rank at the state level.
The Music Week was held from 19th to 30th June 2017 for Grades I to VIII. Singing competitions were conducted for the children to explore and showcase their musical talent in front of an encouraging audience.
The categories in which the competitions were conducted were Hindustani/Carnatic classical, western songs and Indian folk songs. A list of three songs was given to the children to choose, from each category. The judges were some of our music teachers themselves and Ms Lovely Dutta, the headmistress. The judges decided on the criteria of voice clarity, rhythm, pronunciation and overall presentation.
During this competition, many students participated with great enthusiasm and enjoyed singing to their heart’s content.
It’s rightly said , ” Don’t look back to see how many people are following you. Lead yourself, lead your sense.” To inculcate this leadership quality, the school inducted student leaders during an investiture ceremony for the academic year 2017-18. The ceremony began with an inspirational speech by Ms. Kamava Bopana, Principal of DPS Whitefield.
The new council marched to the resounding beat of drums and the melodious music from the Chariots of Fire.
They were led by the Head Boy Rohit Jaiswal and Head Girl Ishita Gahtori. Following them were the Sports Captain Rhea Varkey, Vice Sports Captain Siddharth Pradhan , President Student Council Siddhartha Bhattacharjee ,President Social Service Manipal Devasi and Cultural Secretary Siddhanth Jain.
They were followed by the captains and vice captains of the four houses: Phoenix House – Captain Tanishi Gahtori and Vice Captain Ankush Prabhu, Orion House – Captain Thanya Ramanathan and Vice Captain P. Tejaswini, Polaris House- Captain Anukriti and Vice Captain Disha Chopra and Pegasus House – Captain Shriya and Vice Captain Priyal Jain.
Pro vice Chairperson of the Praxy Fernandez Memorial Trust ,Annabelle Manwaring pinned the badges on the newly elected council and administered the oath. The elected leaders pledged to be disciplined and follow the regulations of the school. The Head boy and Head girl delivered their speeches of on the importance of leadership. The programme concluded with a song by the school choir.
DPS Whitefield celebrated the International Yoga Day on 21st of June. It marked a great opportunity to imbibe the values of discipline. Yoga integrates the mind, body and soul, aligns the breath and keeps one physically and mentally fit. To inculcate this healthy practice among children, the principal along with the staff and the students gathered at the school auditorium to master the yoga postures along with correct breathing techniques.
The programme was led by instructor Deeksha and Jagadevi .It was a pleasure to see the students with their colourful yoga mats spread out on the ground.
The celebration began with a speech on the importance of yoga and it’s many benefits, It was followed by a demonstration given by the students, displaying various postures and asanas for the rest of the students.
The performances then concluded by speeches given by the
Principal and the Headmistress. Their speeches highlighted that yoga helps to improve concentration and overcome stress.
A School on Wheels for the young scientists
DPS Whitefield organised an educational field trip on board the “Science Express” on June 8th,2017 for students of grade VII , VIII, XI and XII.Children eagerly look forward to their field trips, and this excursion provided them the right combination of learning and fun. The exhibits touched on various concepts like global warming, greenhouse effect, carbon cycle, food chain as well as food web. One special coach provided hands on experience on various lab activities based on varied scientific topics. The comparison of traditional and modern technological lifestyles on carbon footprint struck the right chord with the pupils. The whole experience gave them the necessary exposure and enhanced their knowledge in the subject.
Times of India Internship
The Times, NIE organised a summer workshop for the school students. Its aim was to provide an opportunity to the pupils to work with their editorial and marketing team. Siddharth Iyer of grade VIII B was selected for the internship programme. It gave him the exposure in reporting, editing, feature writing, page making, etc.It was an enriching experience.
Here is the student’s thought about the training programme.
“The summer of 2017 is going to be etched in my memory for a long time to come. I was asked to attend an internship being organised by the Times of India. This is a privilege that every English enthusiast would like to avail. I was delighted to learn that I was the one to be selected from my school. The internship was conducted at their office on MG Road. It was from 10th to 21st of April.
Initially, I was very nervous but soon made friends and was comfortable in the new environment. Every day, we learnt something new and exciting. The first week was classroom oriented and in the second week we went to the Times Network office, which is managed by the Times of India group. The programme also included a visit to the printing press at Bommasandra and to the Radio Mirchi station at Bannerghatta Road. On the final day, we were given certificates and mementoes to keep with us. It was a wonderful experience that I will cherish forever. ”
– Siddharth Iyer
CBSE CLASS X – RESULTS (2016-17)
Delhi Public School, Whitefield takes great pride in announcing Grade X Results of the 2nd batch with 100% PASS and 8 out of 30 students scoring Perfect 10 CGPA and 7 students scoring above 9 CGPA(Cumulative Grade Point Average)
PERFECT TEN SCORES!!!
Teachers required at DPS Whitefield..
Learning is not restricted to classroom alone. We at DPS Whitefield believe that some of the best lessons are learnt when there is a coordination between classroom teaching and hands on experience learnt through nature. A field trip for Pre-primary children to the Kamadhenu farm was organized for the same.
The children were taken on a farm tour where they had first hand experience of seeing the vegetables like tomatoes, ladyfingers, carrots, spinach, pumpkins grow, there by reinforcing the concepts of types of vegetables taught in the class. The children were shown and explained how farming was done. They also got to see different farm animals like Cattle, goats, ducks, hens, rabbits. They even planted saplings. The children had lots of questions to ask and were thrilled with the experience they had on the farm.
The field trip ended with a happy note with all the children singing old McDonald song all the way back to school.
Clay Modelling Competition was conducted for UKG students on 12th July 2018. Theme for the competition was Water Animals. Chart cut-outs & different colour clay were provided. All the students participated and enjoyed by making different water animals like Fish, Shark, Jelly fish, Octopus etc. Clay modelling Competition enhanced the students imaginary skills and motor skills.
Dance is the Hidden Language of the Soul
A solo dance competition was organized for the pre-primary children as it is important to develop all the aspects of personality of the young ones. This was the perfect opportunity for the students to showcase their talents which will help them move to the world’s stage one day. The competition started with great zeal and enthusiasm.
The fun filled extravaganza offered folk dance forms of different states of India. The little angles who participated expressed their dancing talent, which was coupled with appropriate costumes and props. The children swayed to the beats of folk music. The vivacious dances enthralled the audience and judges with their awesome performance. The judges highly complimented the efforts put in by all the kids. It was real pleasure to watch the tiny tots dancing to the tunes of folk music.
Grand Parents Day
Grandparents Day is a day of celebrating the connection between the generations. Grandparents are special to every child. Their bedtime stories are an integral part of everyone’s growing up years. Their knowledge is invaluable and their love is unconditional. Keeping this in mind, DPS Whitefield organized Grandparents Day which was celebrated on 25th September 2018 in the school multipurpose hall.
Each child participated in the programme. The programme started with a prayer followed by two dances and a group song. The Grandparents who attended the programme felt very special and were overwhelmed with the performances of the students.
The Grandparents danced with the children and shared their experiences. To balance the tones set by the event, we had a game in which Grandparents participated with great zeal and the winner was given a gift by the principal.
It was a proud moment, when the children presented as a token of their love the “Trophy” titled “World’s Best Grandparent”.
They were also excited to take photographs with their grandchildren in the photo Frame prepared by the teachers. This was followed by refreshments.
The grandparents enjoyed the whole event and appreciated the thoughtful initiative taken by the school.
PRE-PRIMARY FANCY DRESS COMPETITION REPORT (U.K.G)
The fancy dress competition for the children of U.K.G. was held on 13th December 2018. The theme was cartoon characters. The children came dressed in appropriate costumes. They spoke about character and they enacted with confidence and enthusiasm.
Children looked beautiful dressed up like Charlie Chaplin, Chota Bheem, Mini Mouse etc. There were two judges to evaluate on various criteria’s. It helped the children to build their English conversational skills. The little ones were looking adorable.
The winners from each class were selected. The competition proved to be a great learning experience for the students and gave them a platform to explore their hidden talents and also build their self-confidence.
Navaratri, culminating with Dussehra, as we know is a cultural festival of great importance and significance in India. To mark Lord Rama’s victory over Ravana and to reinforce the message that good always triumphs over evil, the effigy of Ravana is burnt all over India.
Keeping the festive spirit alive, the Pre-primary children celebrated Dussehra on 21st September 2017. All the classes were beautifully decorated to create an ambience of the festive mood and children were involved in different types of activities in their respective classes.
The students of LKG made stick puppets of Ravana using chart paper and ice cream sticks. Children stuck googly eyes and decorated Ravana’s head with sequins. UKG children made wall hangings of goddess Durga’s face. They coloured the face and pasted it on pieces of chart paper.
Children learned about the different aspects of Dussehra through all these fun-filled activities.
Diwali – An Assembly of Positivity and Light
Some festivals are revered by adults while others are adored by kids and youngsters. Diwali is one festival which is loved equally by young and old.
Our little ones of the pre-primary classes celebrated this festival with special assemblies, both in the Mallasandra and Hagadur branches. In Mallasandra, it was celebrated on the 16th of October, 2017. Five young students hosted the show dressed as Lord Ram, Sita, Lakshman, Hanuman and Goddess Lakshmi.
Students of UKG performed a dandiya dance while the LKG kids presented a Ganesha dance. The tiny tots of Nursery swayed to an English number ‘Life is Beautiful’. Along with these, two students from LKG gave short speeches on the reason behind this festival’s celebration.
In the Hagadur branch, it was celebrated on the 17th of October. There too, children performed various dances. However, the highlight of their assembly was the special children coming on stage in the costumes of the gods.
Both the assemblies were a huge success garnering a lot of praise from the audience and teachers.
Ganesh Chaturthi Celebrated
Ganesh Chaturthi, a much-awaited festival all over India is celebrated with great enthusiasm and devotion. It marks the birthday of Lord Ganesha, the son of Lord Shiva and Parvati and is also known as Ganeshotsav.
The students of the pre-primary wing celebrated this auspicious festival on 24th August 2017 which was one day prior to the actual festival. A couple of interesting activities were planned by the teachers to reinforce the importance of the occasion.
The students of UKG made Lord Ganesh using paper cups with the help of their teachers while the little ones of LKG coloured pictures of Lord Ganesh.
All the children participated in these activities with great enthusiasm and enjoyed a lot.
Yellow is the colour that symbolises sunshine and happiness.
The tiny tots of Nursery celebrated ‘Yellow Day’ on 19th July 2017. It was an occasion to reinforce the importance and existence of the colour in our lives. Children and teachers came dressed in yellow attires while the classrooms were glowing with yellow balloons, streamers and other yellow objects.
Children also had fun doing the activity based on this colour. They made a ‘hen’ using their hand impression with yellow paint. They also made chicks using their thumb impression.
Children were happy to spend the day amidst this sunshine colour.
Celebrations are a welcome break in the school routine. Tiny tots of Nursery celebrated Red Day on 28th June 2017. Our little artists made an headgear by colouring an apple and sticking crepe paper on it. The Students look adorable in their Red apparel.
CBSE Workshop for English
CBSE organized the Prospective Resource Persons Programme on ‘English Language and Literature for Class IX and X’ on 2nd and 3rd of August 2019. The programme was hosted by KMV Red Hills High School, Bangalore where more than 70 schools’ teachers participated. The sessions were conducted by Mrs Abak Chatterjee, Principal of KMV Red Hills High School and Mrs Susmita Roy Choudary, Vice principal of Kalpavruksha High School. Mrs Reshma Parvez, HOD, English, underwent the two-day training programme.
The objective of the programme was to train principals, vice principals, HODs and senior teachers to become resource persons for future CBSE competence building workshops for teachers at the grassroots level. The rigorous training included sessions from understanding the CBSE curriculum, planning and execution of the syllabus, incorporating the new changes into the syllabus and above all learn better ways of teaching prose, poetry, creative writing and grammar. Special emphasis was laid on ASL, portfolio and multiple assessments.
Throughout the two-day sessions, the participants were assessed by observers and the resource persons. At the end of the programme, participants were asked to appear for a written test as well. Based on these, candidates were shortlisted for future programmes.
Mrs Parvez qualified to become a resource person and has been appointed by CBSE to conduct two Competence Building Programmes for English teachers of Grades IX and X in Bangalore.
Workshop on Remodeled Structure of Assessment
Workshop at Christ Academy Bangalore on 27th June 2018
MS. Monika Kohli & MS. Manpreet kaur
The resource person for the day nominated by CBSE – Centre of Excellence, Chennai was Dr.Minnie Johny. She catered to all the aspects of Remodeled Structure of Assessment (RSA) for Secondary Classes such as periodic tests, notebook assessment, internal assessment etc.
She also emphasized on the parameters of assessment for Co-scholastic areas such as Games and Sports, Health and fitness, Social Empowerment through Work Education & Action and Health & Activity Card. She elaborated on how the school should take student’s regularity, sincerity, behaviour and values for the assessment on discipline. The session ended with a questionnaire which was very useful and knowledgeable. A total of 60 teachers from 19 CBSE schools participated in the workshop. They returned home with a sense of contentment for the enrichment they received during the day.
A workshop on ‘Evaluating Grade X & XII Board Question Papers
A workshop at DPS East on 13/14 February 2019
A workshop on ‘Evaluating Class XII Question Papers’ scheduled on 13 th February 2019 of Main Subjects was held at DPS East. It was an Inter School Collaborative Workshop conducted by MS.Arunima mazumdar_ Coordinator CBSE .
Teachers of different CBSE schools from NCR participated in the evaluation of question paper of class XII CBSE board according to Blooms Taxonomy. The following subject experts from different departments of DPS Whitefield participated in this workshop.
1. MS. MONIKA
2. MS. MANPREET
3. MS. JYOTI
4. MS. LISA
5. MR. TEJU
6. MS. RENU
7. MS. TANIYA
8. MS. SHIPRA
9. MS. SWARLIPI
10. MS. SUMANA
11. MS. RESHMA
Ms. Arunima Mazumdar (Director Academics) addressed the workshop. Teachers’ were segregated according to their subject and each group was given three different sets of board/CCE pattern question papers . Analysis of papers were done by the groups, and then extensive report was presented on the same. Teachers’ suggestions related to question paper design were welcomed and noted.
It was a good learning experience for all present.
Capacity Building Programme On Inclusive Education
Venue: The Oxford Senior Secondary School, JP Nagar
Date: 12th and 13th October 2017
The Headmistress of DPS Whitefield, Mrs Lovely Dutta Prusty, attended a Capacity Building Training Programme organized by CBSE for Principals and Vice-Principals of CBSE affiliated schools in Karnataka. It was a two-day session attended by Heads of forty schools in Bangalore and nearby areas. The training sessions were conducted by two dynamic resource persons: Mrs.Sunir Nagi, Principal of Pallavi Model School, Secunderabad and Mrs Vasanthy Parasuraman, Principal of Maharishi Vidya Mandir, Kondapur, Hyderabad. Mr Jangam Sunil Kumar, COE Kakinada, presided over the training programme as CBSE Observer. One of the chief purposes of the programme was to train senior school leaders as Resource Persons who would carry the programme to remote schools in Karnataka in a bid to spread awareness on Inclusive Education.
The two-day programme included intensive training on different aspects of Inclusive Education and requirements of specially-abled children. It dealt with detailed discussions on the RPWD Act 2016 and different kinds of disabilities. It was an eye-opener for the participants who learnt about Cerebral Palsy, Dwarfism, Muscular dystrophy, Visual impairment, Leprosy, Locomotor disability, Hearing impairment, Speech and language disability, ASD, Autism, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, thalassemia, Multiple disorders etc. The activities were conducted with the objective of creating awareness and giving the school leaders a greater clarity on the different categories of disabilities and the academic strategies needed to cater to specially-abled children. They also learnt the art and need of multilevel lesson plans for effective differentiated teaching in the classroom.
At the end of the two days programme, the principals and vice principals were entrusted with the responsibility of creating a barrier-free environment in their respective schools by sensitizing the management, teaching and non-teaching staff as well as the parents. The programme empowered them with the knowledge required to find the way forward in dealing with Inclusive Education with the right attitude.
Capacity building workshop by CBSE
A workshop on Capacity Building was conducted by CBSE on the 4th and 5th of August, 2017 for teachers teaching Mathematics in the secondary school, at Vydehi School of Excellence, Whitefield, Bangalore. Ms Shipra Budhiraja from the Mathematics department attended the workshop.
The workshop was conducted by resource persons, Ms Niti Mahendra and Ms Sirisha Chitoor.The session was organised to update secondary school teachers about the new system of assessment adopted by CBSE. It featured the role of constructivism in classrooms. It also dealt with questions as to why Mathematics is considered to be a difficult subject to learn and how to avoid the common errors made by the students of grades IX and X.
The resource persons also talked about the role of teachers in sensitizing children about all genders.
A workshop on meteors and asteroids was conducted on 30th June 2017 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore. Ms Swaralipi Roy and Ms Sumana Sinha attended the workshop from DPS Whitefield. It was organized to commemorate International Asteroid Day.
Mrs Sylaja and Mr Bharat Agur were the two distinguished resource persons. Asteroid Day events aim to educate the public about meteors and asteroids. At the planetarium, it was celebrated with lectures, an exhibition of over twenty meteors collected from India and outside and a poster exhibition.
The presenters shed light on the spectrum analysis of asteroids, methods to determine the dimension of an asteroid by image mapping, ways to identify a meteor, etc. The whole discussion got an extra dimension when the participants got an opportunity to touch and observe various real meteors.
Workshops in DPS, Whitefield
Workshops in DPS, Whitefield are an integral part of its system. These academic enrichment programmes aim at upgrading the professional skills and learning about new developments in the field. As the teachers come back fresh from the summer vacation, the school organises a series of workshops for the in-service teachers and new staff members to train in the philosophy, methods, and functioning of the organisation, and the techniques they’ll require to do their jobs.
This year a number of workshops were conducted by various resource persons and the senior staff members. The wide range of topics covered on various subjects ensured updating the teachers on the best practices in the classroom. Some of the workshops conducted were Hindi workshop on grammar and Evaluation pattern, Positive Discipline, Phonetics, Punctuation and Vocabulary Building, Vedic Maths, Olabs etc. It was an engaging week for the teachers where they learned the nuances of their craft and were eager to impart few of the techniques learned to the students.
STEM Learning conducted a workshop for Science and Math teachers at Capstone High on 23rd January, 2017. Ms Manpreet Kaur and Ms Shipra Budhiraja attended the workshop.
STEM learning is a unique initiative that opens a new dimension for children to watch, observe, question and learn. It is a Government awareness program under a scheme Atal innovation Mission that provides an insight about a very strong and successful foundation for start-ups in education.
During the course of the workshop, teachers were informed about the various learning ways from words to working models – 3D printing technology: uses and applications, robotics and their uses, internet connectivity for every sphere of education and use of eco-friendly biodegradable plastic working models.
It was an enriching and entertaining session full of games and hands on experience.
1.Delhi Public School, Whitefield
Survey No. 123/124,
K. Mallasandra Village,
Hoskote Taluk,
Bangalore – 560067
(i) Tel : 7815041659, 7847082697, 8088934748
(ii) Email : dpswhitefield@gmail.com
2. Year of establishment of school: 2011
3. Whether NOC of State/ UD or recommendation of Embass of India Obtained?
(i) NOC NO: Obtained from the Commissioner for Public Instruction, Government of Karnataka. ED71PGC2015
(ii) NOC issuing date: 03-03-2015
4. Is the school recognized? If yes by which Authority:
Govt of Karnataka and affiliated to the CBSE, New Delhi.
5. Status of Affiliation: Provisional
(i) Affiliation No: 830584
(ii) Affiliation with the board since : 01-04-2014
(iii) Extension of affiliation up to : 31-03-2019
6. Name of the educational trust : PRAXY FERNANDES MEMORIAL TRUST
Registered under section 12A(b) of 1882 act
7. Chairman/ Correspond Public School : Mrs Annabelle Manwaring
8. Area of school campus:
In Acres 4.03
In Sq.mtrs 16000
Junior Block 4986 Sq.mtrs
Kindergarten 2805 Sq.mtrs
Multipurpose Hall 1177 Sq.mtrs
Dance Rooms 1
Music Rooms 2
Health & Medical Checkup 1
9. Fee Structure:
Annual Fee Pre Nur to UKG I to V VI to VIII IX to XII
Tuition Fee 55,500 59,400 62,700 68,200
Annual Charges 19,800 19,800 19,800 19,800
Total 75,350 79,200 82,500 88,000
On Admission(one time charge):
Admission fee(Non-refundable) : 40,000/-
Development Fund(Non-refundable) : 35,000/-
Caution deposit (refundable) : 40,000/-
10. Transport Facility: 37 buses,owned and operated by Baghirathi School Fleet Management Pvt. Ltd.
11. Mode of payment of salary
(i) Name of the Bank through which salary is drawing :
ICICI Bank , Whitefield, Hopefarm Branch
(ii) Through single check transfer advice
12. Library Facilities
Size of the library in sq.ft 54’0″(Length)-33’0″(breadth)
No. of Periodicals 05
No. of Dailies 05
No. of Reference books 1000
No. of Magazines 17
13. Child safety committiee:
Members are:
Mrs. Annabelle Manwaring – Vice Chairman
Mrs. Kamava Bopana – Principal
Mrs. Lovely Dutta – Headmistress
Mrs. Mamta Acharya – Coordinator
Mrs. Reeta Babu – Vigilance Officer
14. Enrollment of students for the current session: 1682
15. Academic session : June to March
16. Vacation period : April & May
17. Admission period : January to June
Siddharth’s participation in MUN
Siddharth Bhattacharjee of grade XII participated in the Model United Nation at Yale this year, hosted by the Yale University in Seoul, South Korea. He represented the ‘United States of America’. Being the only one chosen among many participants, he was the sole candidate to attend the UNSC committee as a delegate of the team.
Yale, a prestigious Ivy League Institute is one of the eight universities to host a model UN. It creates a public speaking platform for the best high school debaters and aspiring diplomats across the world. It provided Siddharth, the necessary exposure to hone his skills. He was awarded the ‘Honourable Mention’ at the conference. Meeting the Ambassador of South Korea added another feather to his cap.
Swarathmika R Bharadwaj selected in the Karnataka state under-18 Basketball team…
Swarathmika R Bharadwaj of Class X A has been selected in the Under-18 team by the Karnataka State Basketball Association.
Aadithya R Bharadwaj selected by UC Berkeley…
Aadithya R Bharadwaj of Class VIII A has been selected in the 2017 Global Programs hosted by the Academic Talent Development Program at University of California, Berkeley.
Aadithya will be attending the program from July 10 to August 4. He will be working on the course: ‘Introduction to Programming, Solving Problems with Python.
It is indeed a proud achievement and we wish him all the Best of Luck!
Solo Dance Competition
‘Dance is the hidden language of the soul’
To nurture this hidden language, we at DPS Whitefield conducted a Solo Dance Competition for the Pre-primary kids from 5th to 13th January 2017. The competition not only gave the children an opportunity to express but also developed their confidence and of course, dance is a good exercise too
The Nursery and LKG kids danced on the songs and dance styles of their choice, while the theme for UKG was ‘Folk Dance”. Children came dressed in traditional attires and grooved on some popular folk numbers.
A stage was set up at the multipurpose hall and the backdrop was decorated with different drawings depicting the different dance forms. The kids were judged on the basis of dance style, expressions, flexibility and costume.
After the competition, the results were announced and the winners were applauded and called upon the stage to have a photograph clicked with the judges.
The competition was a great success where the children showcased their talent of dancing and enjoyed as well.
WORKSHOP ON EVIDENCE OF ASSESSMENT
Bangalore Sahodaya School Complex organized a workshop on 26th July 2016 for the teachers involved in sending the Evidence of Assessment to the CBSE. It was held at DPS North. Ms Vinita Sharma and Ms Rakhi Warrier of DPS, Whitefield attended the workshop.
The workshop was facilitated by Ms Manju Arif, Principal, Delhi Public School, Bangalore North. It focused on understanding the rationale of formative and summative assessment and filling in the form, how to submit evidence for various scholastic and co-scholastic activities, filling in the form provided by CBSE and packing and sending the evidence of assessment to various nodal centres.
It was a very informative workshop and it will surely help the teachers to understand the various processes involved in the collection of evidences.
A fascinating and educative workshop on storytelling was organised by Bangalore Story Telling Society at DPS North on 15th July 2016. It was conducted by Deeptha Vivekanand, a professional storyteller and founder of Ever After Learning.
Ms Anupama S and Ms Kirandeep K Kalsi from the Pre-primary section attended the workshop.
The workshop emphasised the importance of characters, involvement, language, emotions, situations, songs, jingles and voice modulations in storytelling. It also highlighted the point of using minimal characters and non-usage of puppets in storytelling sessions. The teachers got to see and learn the techniques to blend every aspect of making an interesting session.
It was a fruitful experience for teachers, especially who handle the kindergarten kids where storytelling is one of the most important tools of teaching.
ORIENTATION PROGRAMME FOR TEACHERS ON MICROSOFT
Bangalore Sahodaya organzed an orientation programme towards Microsoft Showcase School Award and Microsoft Innovative Educator Award on the 27th of August, 2016 at Army Public School, Bangalore. It was attended by Ms Rashmi Rajesh and Ms Paulami Chaki.
The main aim of this programme was to enlighten the participants about the aforesaid programmes initiated by Microsoft to enhance the teaching – learning process using the many Microsoft tools available online. Through these tools a facilitator can, not only enhance his/her classroom teaching but can also collaborate and connect with the educators across the globe and share their resources, thus empowering themselves with the modern techniques.
During this programme, MIE and its purpose were also discussed in detail. Microsoft Innovative Educator Award is another initiative of Microsoft taken to provide career development opportunities to the educators. Certificates and Badges will be awarded for the aforesaid programme. For this, the educator has to register himself/herself at www.education.microsoft.com and go through the video-based courses, at the end of which, the participant has to attend the quiz. For each successful performance in the quiz designed for each module, a badge will be awarded. There are around 18 modules in all followed by a quiz. With the completion of the modules the educator will be given the Microsoft Innovative Educator Award.
WORKSHOP FOR SCIENCE TEACHERS
A workshop was organized by OLabs for science teachers at Army Public School, Bangalore on 26th September 2016. It was attended by Ms Manpreet Kaur, Ms Sumana Das and Ms Swati Dixit from the science department of our school.
The workshop started with informing the participants about how Olabs are an interactive, informative and an excellent tool for hands-on technology in the field of science. The workshop included simulations, videos, on the spot quizzes, guidelines, instructions, research for real application of the concept and the explanation. There were many online activities that gave the participants an insight about the different levels of difficulty that teachers might face while performing the practical classes.
All the participants thoroughly enjoyed learning every concept that was taught.
WORKSHOP ON MATHEMATICS
A workshop on Mathematics was organised by DPS, South, supported by Bangalore Sahodaya Schools Complex (BSSC) on 8th August 2016. It was for teachers handling classes at the Secondary level (Classes IX & X). Ms Rakhi Warrier and Ms Monika Kohli from the Math department attended this workshop.
The workshop was conducted by Prof M. L. Aggarwal, a retired professor from DAV College, Jalandhar. He has created an interactive website www.ilovemaths.com which attracts students and teachers not only from India but from all over the globe. He has also been acting as a resource person in teachers’ workshops in the UDAAN programme of CBSE and also conducts orientation programmes organised by various government agencies.
The workshop emphasised on designing interesting class activities which will help students and teachers to think out of the box. Various techniques and short cut methods were also discussed on the topics – factors and multiples, areas of circles and solid shapes. These methods and activities will definitely help to instil love for mathematics amongst students of middle and intermediate classes.
ENRICHMENT PROGRAMME FOR ENGLISH
An enrichment Programme for English was held for the teachers of Classes I to III from 22nd to 24th August 2016 at DPS Nacharam, Secunderabad. Delegates from different branches of DPS attended the workshop. Ms Pooja Sharma and Ms Dipika Subhash participated as a delegate from DPS Whitefield.
The objective of the workshop was to review the teaching of English language for the foundational classes. It was a platform for all delegates and resource persons to share their experiences and exchange valuable information and knowledge with each other so as to deepen the understanding of teachers. It was an opportunity for delegates to meet and share innovative ideas, creative achievements and also clear doubts and concerns with the resource persons.
Sessions were based on thematic teaching which highlighted policies/elements necessary for a teacher, role of a teacher in building English language, strategies for a teacher to make the subject interesting for children, etc. Discussions were held on syllabus planning, teacher’s diary and assignments. A session was also held on the importance of reading skills and several strategies that can be adopted. It was concluded that the objective of teaching must be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Reliability & Time-bound).
Overall, the workshop was very insightful with valuable inputs for strengthening and deepening the professional skills of a teacher for teaching the English language at the foundation level.
TEACHERS’ ORIENTATION PROGRAMME
DPS Whitefield has always kept pace with the developments in the field of education and endeavoured to upgrade and groom its teachers with these advances. Hence, the new session of 2016-17 kick-started with numerous workshops conducted by in-house and external resource persons from 16th to 31st May 2016.
On one hand, there were some tried and tested practices shared by senior teachers while on the other hand, experts were invited from outside to share about the new happenings. Therefore, we had workshops on Math, English, Social Science and Hindi by our very own teachers and we also had invited speakers like Mr Paul D’Souza and Ms Ashalata Badami to share their knowledge and expertise.
The teachers also had sessions for recapitulating and revising the current successful practices on Positive Discipline, Circle Time, Bulletin Board and Group Learning.
Thus, before the children started their classes, the teachers were ready with a renewed vigour having acquired some fresh new skills.
Colour Day celebration sets the mood for interesting activities…
To make the children aware of the wonders of colours, the kindergarten section celebrated Colour Day on 12th July.
Every class was allotted a different colour and students and teachers of that class were dressed accordingly. Everyone turned up dressed beautifully in different colours like red, blue, green, yellow, etc. Classrooms were decorated with coloured balloons and streamers. Children participated in different craft activities according to the colour that their class was representing.
The day was celebrated with equal fervour in the Hagadur Road campus of the school as well.
All the little learners thoroughly enjoyed and learned a lot about the various colours.
To mark the festival of bond between a brother and sister, Raksha Bandhan was celebrated in the Pre-primary wing on 18th August, 2016.
Children learnt about the bond of love between a brother and sister, and foster the feeling of caring and sharing. On this occasion our tiny tots made beautiful Rakhis using colour papers, sequins etc.
Children enjoyed the activity and it also helped in inculcating traditional values with the broader significance of this festival.
This activity also gave an opportunity for children to interact with each other. Along with learning, children had a wonderful day full of fun and excitement.
Janmashtami celebrated at DPS…
The festival of Krishna’s birth, Janmashtami, is an occasion which is celebrated with great enthusiasm and sanctity across the country. Hence, here at DPS, the tiny tots of Pre-primary classes also celebrated this festival on 24th August, 2016.
The celebration started with two young kids dressed up as Krishna and Radha coming and taking a special seat arranged for them. The little Krishna and Radha looked adorable in their traditional costumes and the entire area was transformed into a land of joy, celebrations and happiness. A short puja was performed by the teachers and the children. The fragrance of flowers, soothing aroma of burning incense stick filled the air. Prasad was distributed to the children after the puja.
The story of Lord Krishna and Sudama’s friendship was narrated by a teacher. The involvement of the children in the celebrations at such a tender age was worth applauding.
“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings”
Friendship day is celebrated every year on the first Sunday in the month of August. This year we celebrated it on the 5th of August, 2016.
Making friends and learning to be good friends is a difficult thing which does not happen very easily and quickly. Our DPS students enjoy playing, caring and sharing with each other during class activities and that encourages the development of some true bonding leading to great friendship. They have already started on this journey of making new friends and keeping sweet promises. They did this with the help of a friendship card which they made on the occasion of Friendship Day and presented to each other. Every child was glowing with happiness to receive a card.
The activity not only developed the bond but also allowed the children to explore their creativity while having great fun.
It was celebrated with equal fervour in the Hagadur Road campus as well.
The 127th birth anniversary of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru or better known as Children’s day, was celebrated in the school with great enthusiasm and excitement. Children had exciting treats and gifts in store for them to make their day special.
Children were allowed to dress in their favourite civil clothes and so they turned up in their beautiful best. Children also brought some special snacks to share with their friends.
The teachers had taken up the responsibility of making the day special for each child. Therefore, some peppy dance numbers were performed by the teachers which left the little ones beaming with joy and laughter. The Children’s Day brought out the child in the teachers.
In the Hagadur branch, special screening of hilarious short films of their favourite cartoons brightened their day. The day concluded with great wishes for a successful life and an eventful future for each student.
Recitation Competition
Rhymes are meant for enjoyment and beauty is the realm of the rhymes. Children enjoy this beauty of expression, thoughts, feeling, and rhythm of words. Hence, an English Recitation Competition for the students of Nursery and LKG was held on 11th November, 2016.
This activity was organized to explore and develop the speaking skills and confidence in children. It inspired children to come forward and recite on stage. With the help of eye‐catching props, they recited the poems beautifully. It was an interesting way to express something through innocent words and actions with all smiles and giggles. Taking all these facts into consideration, the children got an opportunity to exhibit their talent and confidence.
The children chose a variety of topics for their recitation. Two guests, Ms Dahara Agrawal and Ms. Zeba Chaudhary were invited to judge the competition. They appreciated and applauded the performance of the participants and the children in the audience too thoroughly enjoyed the competition.
DPS Whitefield celebrated its Sports Day with pomp and grandeur on 11th December, 2016. It was a gala presentation of drills peppered with track and field events. The programme was conducted in two sessions in which Classes VI to IX performed in the morning session while Classes IV and V put up their show in the afternoon session. Mr Amar Pandey, senior IPS officer and currently Additional Director General of Police, Government of Karnataka graced the occasion as the Chief Guest along with the Pro Vice-Chairman, Ms Annabelle Manwaring.
The morning started with the March past, followed by the oath, the torch relay and declaration of the sports meet open. After this, speeches were given and then started the displays. This year, the theme for the display was ‘sports from around the world’. Hence, on one hand we had Croquet from UK and Varzesh-e-bastany from Iran, while on the other hand we had yoga and aerobics. Some classes performed with footballs and hockey sticks while others used dumb bells and skipping ropes. It was a mesmerizing show with the foot-tapping music, colourful costumes and a blend of exercise and dance moves.
Finally, the most exciting part, the parents’ race was conducted followed by the finals of a few track and field events. The prizes were given away and the event concluded with the national anthem.
New DPS Whitefield Kindergarten School Opened
DPS Whitefield is proud to announce the opening of its new kindergarten branch at Hagadur Road, near Form Value Mall. The school was inaugurated on 6th June 2016.
The Pro Vice chairman, Ms Annabelle Manwaring lighted the inaugural lamp along with the Principal, Ms Kamava Bopana, Headmistress, Ms Lovely Dutta Prusty and a parent Ms Kalyani Kasar. Students of LKG and UKG, some parents and teachers were present to grace the occasion.
The little ones were excited to enter as they were welcomed into the newly built campus. The teachers welcomed every student with a small gift as a goodwill gesture.
Student Council takes charge of duties…
Leaders of today; Visionaries of tomorrow
‘Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality’.
-Warren Bennis
On 28th June, 2016, a new student Council took their oath for the betterment of the school. The assembly began with a few inspiring words by Mrs Kamava Bopana, principal of DPS Whitefield. The new council marched to the resounding beat of drums and the melodious music from the Chariots of Fire.
They were led by the Head Boy Devansh Shukla and Head Girl Sanaa Shah. Following them were the Sports Captain Rohit Jaiswal , Vice Sports Captain Kevin Alexander and Cultural Secretary Tanishi Gahtori.
They were followed by the four houses: Phoenix House led by Captain Smeraa Reet Varma and Vice Captain Siddharth Iyer , Orion House led by Captain Sanjana Sivasailam and Vice Captain P. Tejaswini, Polaris House led by Captain Vikhyat Dhingra and Vice Captain Disha Chopra and Pegasus House led by Captain Jashvinu Y and Vice Captain Priyal Jain.
The badges were pinned by Mrs Annabelle Manwaring, Pro Vice Chairman of the Praxy Fernández Memorial Trust, who also administered the Oath of Office to the new Student Council.
The Headmistress Mrs Lovely Dutta pinned the badges on the House Wardens: Mrs Maria Stephen of Phoenix House, Mrs Kavita Arun of Orion House, Mrs Rita Saha of Polaris House and Mrs Anasuya Sanyal of Pegasus House.
There was a performance on the dance form of salsa put up by the students of Class IX A, a song by Class XI students Rhea Varkey and Sanaa Shah and two beautiful and peppy numbers by the school choir.
It was indeed a wonderful and heartwarming ceremony.
International Yoga Day celebrated with all fervour…
International Yoga Day was celebrated at DPS Whitefield on the 21stof June keeping with the worldwide celebrations of the day. A special assembly was conducted on the occasion. Students of Class IX B planned and presented the entire show.
The assembly started with a Yoga prayer. There was a brilliant dance performance, choreographed by the dance teacher. Performing yoga brings harmony into our being, making us calmer and givesus a sense of fulfillment. Hence, the dance performance compiled various yoga asanas with perfect background score to make the audience feel a sense of tranquility. It was followed by a mime act. The act brought out the benefits of practicing yoga.
The assembly concluded with yoga exercises by few students from Classes VI to VIII demonstrating some good yoga moves. Overall, the assembly was quite informative and gave agood lesson on life skills.
The kindergarten kids also participated in the celebration as special yoga sessions were conducted for them, both in the Mallasandra and the Hagadur Campus.
Delhi Public School, Whitefield Bangalore
CBSE CLASS X – RESULTS( 2015-16)
Delhi Public School, Whitefield takes great pride in announcing their 1st batch of grade X Results with 100% PASS & 4 out of 22 students scoring Perfect TEN CGPA and nine students scoring above 9 CGPA(Cumulative Grade Point Average)
PERFECT TEN SCORERS!!!!
Priyal Jain makes us proud…
Priyal Jain of Class VIII B made us proud with her recent achievement which has featured in every Bengaluru newspaper. She developed an Android app with another student Prateek Mahesh from New Horizon Public School, called vPledge. The app allows users to take pledge for social causes like planting trees, taking public transport, not blowing horns etc.
It’s a wonderful app which not only has shown that children of today are at par with the technological developments around the world, they are also aware of the issues of the environment and are willing to do something about it.
All the very best to both the students and hope that their app helps in spreading the awareness and protecting the environment.
Mathematics Workshop
A workshop was organized by Madhuban publishers on ‘Teaching Mathematics for Growth of Mindset’. It was conducted by the resource person Mrs Meera Raghavan. Ms Sudha and Ms Rashmi Nair from the Mathematics department attended the workshop.
The workshop focused on the tag line “Stop Teaching Calculating, Start Teaching Math” to dispel children’s fear of mathematics and gain confidence to work on any mathematical problem without apprehension.
The workshop helped teachers to understand that the child should be taught to think mathematically. She also explained how to make a mathematical mind with the use of – ability to handle abstraction, logical reasoning, relational reasoning, algorithm, spatial reasoning and a sense of cause and effect. She also spoke about mathematics for growth mind set as she elaborated on the fact that mathematics is the science of patterns.
It was an interesting and informative session where teachers could enhance their mathematical teaching skills.
Workshop for Hindi Language Teachers
A workshop for Hindi language teachers was conducted by New Saraswati House (India) Pvt. Ltd. on 19th August, 2015. Ms Vinita Sharma, Ms Kamna Mathur, Ms Shweta Tiwari and Ms Anita Tomar from the Hindi department attended the workshop.
The workshop was facilitated by Dr Vinod Singh Chauhan, HOD-Hindi, Delhi Public School, Greater Noida. The workshop focused on challenges of teaching Hindi in the Non-Hindi regions of the country. Some interesting methods of teaching Hindi grammar were discussed such as the use of Hindi newspapers. It can be an excellent and helpful tool.
Mr. Vinod ‘Prasoon’ provided tips for making Hindi language more popular among the students. He taught various user friendly techniques for teaching this Oriental language. The workshop was very informative and it surely helped the teachers to enhance their grammar teaching skills.
Science week was celebrated from 18th to 23rd January, 2016. Various activities were conducted as part of the event.
The young scientists of Grades III and IV donned the hat of a speaker as they participated in ‘Just-a-minute’ contest. A debate by the students of Grades V to VIII brought out the argumentative side of the students. Their analytical skills were displayed as they argued about the pros and cons of the cleanliness drive in India. A Newspaper activity by Grades II-VI gave an insight into various scientific facts and figures which encouraged them to read it on a daily basis.
Workshops were conducted for Grades VIII to X as part of the programme. Different experts from different subjects were called to update our students on the best methodology on scoring in the exams. They also had workshops on water recharge, save water and hands on learning in Electronics.
Finally, the week culminated with a grand assembly by students of Grades VII A, VII B and III G. The students presented speeches, skits, dance and parade giving the message that it’s time to conserve natural resources or we will lose it forever.
Republic Day Celebrations
Republic Day was celebrated with all pomp and fervour at Delhi Public School, Whitefield. The students of Grade VII and Grade III put up an assembly which was an amalgamation of nostalgia and modernity.
On one hand, the students spoke about the history and declaration of India as a Republic and the events leading up to it, while on the other hand, they showcased the current form of celebration i.e. the Republic Day parade at New Delhi. Different states were presented with their signature dances as in the parade.
The culmination of the programme was a salute to the nation with a patriotic number hoisting the national flag.
As life is full of colours of the rainbow, so also it can be sometimes monochromatic, i.e. black and white. This black and white has its own importance and status in our lives. Hence, to bring out the beauty and importance of this pair, we celebrated Black and White Day on 26th November, 2015.
A number of activities were conducted to reinforce the idea and make the little ones learn in an interactive and fun way. The entire pre-primary block had a nostalgic look of the black and white era of the entertainment world with teachers and students dressed in this monochrome.
Yellow Day was celebrated on 19th June, 2015 in the Pre-primary grades. All the teachers and children came dressed in yellow. A number of activities were conducted for the children to learn about the significance of the yellow colour and its presence in our day to day lives.
Children from the Nursery grade coloured the adorable Tweety in Yellow. The students of LKG dipped their hands in yellow paint and printed their palms on paper to make Giraffes. Then they put the dots with fingers using brown colour to make it look more realistic. The UKG students made cards of lovely gardens filled with yellow tulips using the fork painting technique.
They even had yellow in their lunch boxes as their parents had sent yellow food items as part of the celebration. Children enjoyed spending a day filled with the colour ‘yellow’ all around them.
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ANNUAL PROGRAMME FOR 2017– 2018
INAUGURATION -2017-2018
14th Inauguration function of Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan College of education had been contacted on 05.08.2017 in our college auditorium. The inaugural function started at 10.30 am. The principal welcomed to the chief gust. Then the founder - chairman delivered the presidential address. Keynote address to student teachers given by Honourable Dr.SThangasamy, Ph.D., Vice - Chancellor, Tamilnadu Teacher Educational University Chennai. P.Amandan, Asst. prof. delivered the vote of thanks, after national anthem playing by student teacher.
05.09.2017 - TEACHER’S DAY CELEBRATION
Teacher’s day was celebrated on 05.09.2017 at our College. It was organized by Student teachers. Our Principal gave the Presidential Address about the teachers. They played a major role in making their students responsible citizens of tomorrow and good human beings. It was impossible to imagine our lives without teachers. They were the cornerstone of our future. We can never thank teachers enough for their immense contribution in a student’s life. Teacher's Day was celebrated to show our acknowledgement and recognition of the hard work put in by our teachers towards our development. Then, the usual activities and classes are replaced by activities of celebration. The programme included Speech, dance, skit and song performed by the student’s teachers. The Principal appreciated the prize winners.
22.09.17 – UNIVERSITY ORIENTATION PROGRAMME
Orientation Programme was conducted by Tamil Nadu Teachers Education University on 22nd September 2017 in our College Auditorium. Dr.K.Santhakumari, Principal, Presided over the function .In this Programme, Dr.Ganesan,Professor and Head of Department discussed about overall practical work. Then, remaining 3 professors discussed about Mini teaching ,Lesson Plan writing and other practical activities of the B.Ed degree Programme. Teacher Educators from Trichy,Ariyalur and Perambalur participated and their doubts clarified by the TNTEU Faculties. Finally, Mr.P.Anandhan , Asst.Professor delivered the vote of thanks.
23.09.17 – INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP
Interactive Workshop was conducted by Tamil Nadu Teachers Education University on 23rd September 2017 in our College.The Principal welcomed to the chief guest. Hon.ble Vice-Chancellor, Dr.S. Thangasamy, Ph.D., from Tamil Nadu Teachers Education University, delivered the Presidential Address and Special speech about Interactive Workshop on Innovative method of Teaching English. Our B.Ed student teachers acted as a peer group. He briefly explained about how to format the sentences and presented about the kinds of sentences, sentence patterns and how to speak in English with the easiest method. He clarified the doubts with exciting manner. Mr. C. Manimaran ,Asst. professor delivered the vote of thanks.
28.09.2017 - POOJA CELEBRATION
Ayudha pooja and saraswathi Pooja had been celebrated in our institution on September 28, 2017. Our college principal, faculty, staff and students are assembled have a good time Camphor burn to pray the God for Ayudha pooja and saraswathi Pooja in library, computer lab, and chemistry lab physical science lab and physical education.
11.10.2017 – VISIT SCIENCE EXHIBITION
Art exhibition has been conducted On October 11, 2017 by Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan matriculation school in perambalur. School student has created many kinds of art and science equipments thinks as well as display in class room. The principal, our college faculty and student teachers have gone to visit it for learn new information from exhibition.
26.10.2017 – RALLY FOR DENGUE AWARENESS
It gives immense pleasure in involving ourselves in volunteering our service for a noble cause. On Tuesday 26.10.2017 was a day of massive attack on the attest mosquito that was embarked with a health awareness campaign in perambalur District to detect, deduct, destroy and totally eradicate the larvae causing dengue. This noble service was taken up by around 300 students and 22 faculties’ members of Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan College of education, collectively with the guidance of the district Administration department of the perambalur district. With complete logistics provided by dhanalakshni Group of institutions, the students enthusiastically covered 14 village panchayats in 4 blocks, enumerating 300 habitations and 40 streets, dwelled by 5136 houses. Total coverage of these 14 Village panchayats were taken care of by 6 buses flagged off by the District Collector Mrs. Project Director Mr.V.T.sridhar along with the D.D. Health Dr.Sampath. Dengue awareness and eradication programme was a mass hit of the day in perambalur District to detect and destroy the killer larvae. A sense of satisfaction has filled all the hearts who were involved in this eradication missile. This satisfaction could be gained by us, only by the nod of our chairman aiya, who readily accepted to take up this massive project in a large scale.
29.10.2017 – SKILL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME – PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
Skill development program has been conducted On October 29, 2017, by Dhalakshmi Srinivasan group of institution. The chief gust Mr. Augustine Christopher arrived from Bharathidasan constitution art & Science College and he has conveyed speech about skill development through to students. In this program useful for our student.
31.10.2017 – DIPLOMA IN ABACUSS TRAINING CERTIFICATE COURSE
Our institution has been organizing diploma in abacus training certificate course for the student teachers from on 30.10.2017 to till going on. The uses for learning abacus, The student teacher has care capability and memory power will increase, Learning skills will improve your teaching skills, personality skills and leadership skills, The right brain, the left brain will run as well as help keep you depressed.
02.11.2017 – READING AND REFLECTING ON TEXT
Reading and reflective on text has been conducted by Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan college of education on Nov 02, 2017, upon completion of this course, the student teachers will improve his /her proficiency in 'reading ', 'writing', 'thinking' and 'communicating' in the language of instruction. Develop an interest in reading improve his/her ability to understand instruction this course will serve as a foundation to enable B.Ed students to read and respond to a variety of texts in different ways and also learn to think together, depending on the text and the purpose of reading responses may be personal or creative critical or all of these together. Students will also develop metacognitive awareness to become conscious of their own thinking processes as they get familiar with diverse texts. In other words, this course will enable student - teachers to enhance their capacities as readers and writers by becoming participants in the process of reading.
03.11.2017 – DRAMA AND ART IN EDUCATION
04.11.2017 – ART AND CRAFT EXPO
Craft Expo 2017 had been held for one day organized by Dhanalakshmi group of institution. Craft Expo is known for its one-of-a-kind work of the highest quality: Ceramics, Wearable and Non-Wearable Fiber, Metal and Non-Metal Jewelry, Glass, Leather, Metal, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture and Wood. Items range from decorative to functional and traditional to contemporary. All work presented at Craft Expo is handmade by the artists, all of whom have been accepted in the show by a panel of professional peers, thereby ensuring only the highest quality in workmanship, design and materials. Craft activities for student teacher has been attending the show, faculty and student craft demos, and the chance to bid on donated craft pieces at the show’s annual silent auction. Proceeds rose through the silent auction and nominal entrance fees benefit the non-profit Guilford art center and its year-round calendar of gallery and school art education programs for students of all ages and skill levels.
06.11.2017 – TECHNOLOGY IN HAND - PREPARATION OF E-CONTENT
Teacher-created digital stories may also be used to enhance current lessons within a larger unit, as a way to facilitate discussion about the topics presented a story and as a way of making abstract or conceptual content more understandable. While many educators still lack a cohesive plan for integrating multimedia into their instruction, a growing number of teachers are interested in exploring ways to engage their students by including images, audio and video elements in their instruction. Research has shown that the use of multimedia in teaching helps students retain new information as well as aids in the comprehension of difficult material. And Digital Storytelling can provide educators with a powerful tool to use in their classrooms.
ACHEIVEMENT SURVEY – NCERT + DIET
NCERT national achievement survey/NAS assessment survey training conducted on Nov 06, 2017 by perambalur Diet in Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan College of education. What are the purposes of training Conduct of national achievement survey (NAS) 2017 for classes III, V, and VIII, national achievement survey for evaluating quality of education imparted in schools. The Government of India through the national council of education research and training (NCERT) has been conducting national achievement survey (NAS) for class III, V, and VII/VIII to provide information about the learning achievement of students at regular intervals.
21.11.2017 - NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL DAY
National Education Day was celebrated on 21.11.17 in our College. The Mr.K.Durai, Asst.Professor delivered by welcomeaddress. Dr.K.Santhakumarai, Principal, Presided Over the function and delivered a valuable speech about the origin of National Education day- in the remembrance of Dr.MoulanaAbulKalam Azad. Chief Guest Mr.G.Baskaran,PrincipalDhanalakshmi Srinivasan Teacher Training Institute,delivered special key note address. The real education is to manifest the best things in an individual. Hence we are availing opportunities for Mime Act in Save the tree out the talent among the pupils Student Teachers . Also, we conducted a debate Programme regarding ,"Is Internet Usage Ecstasy or Misery ". Our students eagerly participated in this programme and they expressed their thought about Ancient and Today's Education system. Many of them participated in Tamil and English elocution about Dr.Moulana Abul Kalam Azad and his contribution to education. Finally, Mrs,N.Lakshmi delivered the vote of thanks
15.12.2017 - SKILL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
Professional development program has been conducted on December 15, 2017.Our faculty member were discussed for the following themes on Professional development for me is not a destination but a journey of milestones and achievements. Process of improving and increasing capabilities of staff through access to education and training opportunities in the workplace, through outside organization, or through watching others perform the job. Professional development helps build and maintain morale of staff members, and is thought to attract higher quality staff to an organization.
18.12.2017 – TET MOTIVATION CLASS
TET motivation class has been conducted on 18.12.2017, the chief gust Mrs. S.Thilagam Asst.proffesor from Perambalur DIET. She utter regarding for Getting ready for your exam efficiently comes from learning how to study smarter, not harder. Trust us. You'll become more aware of this fact as the years go on and you advance in your education. As time passes, more and more of your classes will only get tougher, and you'll end up always having to burn the midnight oil if you haven't developed the proper study habits. Her motivation has very useful for our students.
20.12.2017 – TREE PLANTATION PROGRAMME
Tree plantation awareness program has been organized in our institution on 20.12.2017 our chairman has been given vocalizations about the importance of the tree plantation for the awareness program. The students and our faculty members have pledged for Plant a tree to make this world pollution-free 420 students participated and 250 saplings planted in our agriculture field
20.12.2017 – BLOOD DONATION CAMP – YRC CLUB
Blood Donation Camp has been conducted and together byDhanalakshmiSrinivasan Medical College in Perambalur and Government Hospital in Perambalur on 20.12.2017, nearest 50 students and faculty also has been donated the blood.
22.12.2017 – MATHS DAY CELEBRATION
The Maths day has been celebrated on 22.12.2017 in our College. Honorable chief guest mis.k.Divyapriya from dhanalakshmi srinivasan college of engineering. Her delivered a valuable speech about t In India, the day 'December 22 has been declared as the National Mathematics Day. The Declaration was made by Dr Manmohan Singh, Former Prime Minister of India, during the inaugural ceremony of the celebrations to mark the 125th birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan held at the Madras University Centenary Auditorium on 26 February 2012. Dr Manmohan Singh also announced that the year 2012 would be celebrated as the National Mathematics Year.The Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on 22 December 1887 and died on 26 April 1920. It was in recognition of his contribution to mathematics the Government of India decided to celebrate Ramanujan's birthday as the National Mathematics Day every year and to celebrate 2012 as the National_Mathematics_Year. National Mathematics Day is celebrated with numerous educational events held at Indian schools and universities. Ramanujan replied that 1729 was not a boring number at all: it was a very interesting one. He explained that it was the smallest number that could be expressed by the sum of two cubes in two different ways. This story is very famous among mathematicians. 1729 is sometimes called the `Hardy-Ramanujan numbera’.
23.12.2017 – ALUMNI MEET
Alumni meet has been conducted on 23.12.2017 few former students have been participated for share occurrence to other and gave tips for success contribute study material for library
12.01.2018 – PONGAL CELEBRATION
29.01.2018 – RALLY – VOTER DAY AWARENESS
02.02.2018 – UNIVERSITY SPORTS AND CULTURAL MEET
District level Sports and cultural meet Inauguration have been conducted on 02.02.2018 in Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan College of education. The 400m track has been opened by founder –chairman and given delivered the presidential address. The chief gust Dr.M.Soundararajan arrived from teacher educational university Chennai and M.Ramasubramaniyaraja District sports officer perambalur. Our college students had participated and got overall championship. Overall and Individual Championship Received by: Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan College of Educaion, Perambalur.
08.02.2018 – TET COACHING CLASS
Teacher Eligibility Test motivation class has been conducted on 08.02.2018, the chief gust Mr.R.Saravanan from Revenue Department,and deliver speech about Motivational tips for better concentration about the capacity to learn is gift, the ability to learn is a skill, the willingness to learn is a choice. Education is not the learning of fact, but the training of the mind to think.
09.02.2018 – UNIVERSITY OOTH TAKING
12.02.2018 – AYUSH / UNANI MEDICINE AWARENESS PROGRAMME
Our Student had been participated the rally as“Alcohol Prohibition day” and awareness notice distributed to the people on March, 12, 2018. The significance of this day to encourage more young people aware of alcohol prohibition process and should be fallow all of us.
03.03.2018 – RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
Dr.K.Anandhan Professor & Head, Department of Education, arrived from Bharathidasan University inTrichy on 03.03.2018. He has been given briefly explained about Data Collection, Data Entry and how to make the master table in M.Ed-II Scholars as well as has given explained suitable descriptive inferential statistical technique where used in the interpretation of data.
03.03.2018 – CAMPUS INTERVIEW
Campus Recruitment has been conducted by placement cell on Dhanalakshmi srinivasan college of Education on March 03, 2018. As the s names of schools are Little Flower Matric Higher Secondary School-Chettikulam, Swami Vivekananda Metric Higher Secondary School-Keezha Puliyur, My Masters Metric schools – Cettikulam, Chandra Chellappan Metric Higher Secondary School-Ragavendra Metric Higher Secondary School –Veeraganur, Aruthraa Metric Higher Secondary School- Perambalur, Indian Metric Higher Secondary School-Thittakudi, Golden Park Matric School-Chettikulam, and Nearest 126 students are participated.
As 44 students be selected by interviewers and got appointment order, selected students are gote greetings from chairman.
05.03.2018 – SCIENCE DAY CELEBRATION
The Science day has been celebrated on 05.3.2018 in our College. Honorable chief guest Mr.A.Velusamy arrived from DIET in keelapalur. He delivered a valuable speech about three concepts like the origin of science day- in the remembrance of Sir C.V.Raman. He told widely spread a message about the significance of scientific applications in the daily life of the people, to display all the activities efforts and achievements in the field of science for welfare of human being, to discuss all the issues and implement new technologies for the development of the science and also emphasized on the shortcut method and correlated studies to student-teachers to learn science.
12.03.2018 – RALLY – ALCOHOL PROHIBITION DAY
LIFE SKILL PROGRAMME 11.04.2018 – INNOVATIVE SCHOOL VISIT
Our Students teachers has been visited to the Gowdhamaputhra trust on 11.04.2018, students teacher has been interface with pupils and donate Stationary Items, snacks, biscuits for theGowdhamaputhra trust at perambalur.
11.04.2018 – CUMUNITY SERVICE – VISIT TO HUMAN UPLIFT HOME
(AIDS affected children) AT SENJERI
Our Students teachers has been visited to the human uplift home on 11.04.2018, students teacher has been interface with pupils and donate Stationary Items, snacks, biscuits for the children’s in the home at Senjeri.
A food festival conduted in dhanalakshmi srinivasan college of education from perambalur. The honurable chief guest on Dr.K.Santhakumari, Mr. G. baskaran, Dr.R.Rajalakshmi principal from dhanalakshmi srinivasan college of education. A food festival is a festival, usually held annually, that uses food, often produce, as its central theme. These festivals have always been a means of uniting communities through celebrations of harvests and giving thanks for a plentiful growing season.
03.05.2018 - DIPLOMA IN ABACUSS TRAINING CERTIFICATE COURSE CONVOCATION
Annual Edfocus certificate distribution function will be held on 03.05.2018. In this programme 74 student teachers were joined and got training in Abacus and they received their certificate in Annual Certificate distribution function.
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Filmmaking research is a form of practice research that enquires into production practices, techniques, modes and genres used in cinema, television and online. The outputs are films that may include fiction, documentary and hybrid forms. Filmmaking research pushes at the boundaries of traditional filmmaking and traditional research methods by adopting distinct approaches to professional and critical practices. This is in contrast to typical industry research where commercial pressures dominate. There have been spectacular success stories that demonstrate this potential such as the Academy award nominated ‘Act of Killing’, Oppenheimer, 2013.
Filmmaking research is a developing area and films produced within the academy are growing in number. In both the UK and Australia, this research has tended to reside in one of two disciplines, creative arts or media, communication and film studies. This has made it fragmented, sometimes difficult to identify and subject to different forms of support and engagement. Researchers come from a range of backgrounds, many moving from industry into academia seeking to reframe their work within Higher Education. As an evolving mode of research, filmmaking research is often attempting to satisfy multiple and competing academic purposes and agendas for example as interdisciplinary research collaborations, creative industry outreach or as impact. The result is a field of research that is not well defined. Qualitative measures are often locally determined with few universal standards of best practice, there continues to be confusion over methodologies and a lack of expertise on research assessment panels and in peer review panels.
The purpose of the Filmmaking Research Network is to create an international forum for research and exchange between the UK and Australia that explores the methodologies and frameworks for filmmaking research. The network will ask;
What is needed to improve understanding and consolidate the field of filmmaking research?
Furthermore:
How can filmmaking research be better defined?
How is filmmaking research measured and valued as a research output?
What research infrastructure is needed?
The field needs evidence to establish itself more coherently; to find out how much research is being undertaken and to isolate its particular characteristics as far as possible. The FRN will undertake qualitative research to confirm that filmmaking research is a developing mode of research and catalogue aspects of this research such as methodologies and genres of outputs. The FRN will design a survey, create a film register and curate a screening.
How is filmmaking in the academy measured and valued as a research output?
REF and ERA both assess filmmaking outputs but as an evolving area there is often inconsistencies at institutional level. By comparing and contrasting criteria and using best practice case studies, (via the survey) we aim to improve understanding of the value of filmmaking research. From this, a tool kit will be designed aimed at providing clear guidance in layperson’s language on how filmmaking research meets research excellence criteria.
In the area of practice research, there is a perceived lack of capacity for peer review, critical friends, PHD examination, research funding panels, professorial appointments etc. The FRN will explore what infrastructure is needed and develop targeted resources to address this. For example resource lists for practice in peer reviewers, PhD examiners and critical friends.
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Alan Wake is a complex score to approach. When it first starts off it stays pretty low profile. While I was listening I actually started to get aggravated at the fact that all I was hearing was dark ominous tones with no structure. However, patience pays off as this is a very slow developing score. Once it does fully develop and take off this score becomes an amazing noir filled dreary weaving of motifs that transports your mind into a cloud of mystery.
While strings and piano make up most of the score Alanko does add some percussion into the mix to give it the action side. Electronics are utilized to great rhythmic effect. The strings in the score are quite breathtaking at times. There is true heartache felt within the score and that can easily turn into adrenaline pumping action, which can easily turn into intriguing mystery. So, this score does have many faces indeed.
The album itself is packed to the brim with a 75 minute running time, which can lead to some “track fatigue”. Since the score has a very distinct style and slow played out melodies it can feel like it drags a bit. It’s very hard to pick tracks apart from the pack based off sound, but one has to remember this is a video game score. No matter how close the line between film scoring and game scoring is becoming one can’t forget how different of an approach game scoring is.
You will get the occasional long drawn out tracks, but the album itself does a nice job of giving the listener some sort of progression. I’ve heard game score releases that were just loops and loops, which thankfully this is not. Alan Wake is a very cinematic game so the score itself does become a journey in itself. I recommend the score. It’s definitely above what most video games scores are. Towards the end the score transcends into beauty with lush orchestrations. Is this score worth it? Absolutely. It’s a very unique experience that will take a little patience, but in the end the journey is a rewarding one.
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End of the Age (COMPILATION) by Bride
"End Of The Age" is a best of CD which combines Bride's first three albums and two new songs ("Everybody Knows My Name" and "Same Ol' Sinner"). Pure Metal Records was sold to Star Song Music Group and a compilation is a quick way to recoup money since most of the songs have already been recorded. Star Song contracted Bride to record the two new songs as an incentive for Bride fans to buy the album. They had little other interest in the band and was not interested in signing Bride to a recording contract. Things changed once the album was released. The new song, "Everybody Knows My Name", went to #1 on the Christian Metal charts and stayed there for 14 weeks. Likewise, when "Same Ol' Sinner" was released, it stayed at #1 for 8 weeks. Star Song became interested very quick. Bride signed a three album deal with Star Song with their first of three albums to be put out on the new and revised Pure Metal label. This album was also released on the secular label 214 Records with no changes. The new Bride sound had changed from heavy metal to hard rock and they had changed the lineup once again to help with the new direction:
Dale Thompson - Vocals
Troy Thompson - Guitars
Jerry McBroom - Drums
Rick Foley - Bass
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May 2, 2014 07:12:04 PM
Worth having for "Everybody Knows My Name" and "Same Ol' Sinner"
simensfire
Nov 19, 2014 12:41:13 PM
As zoe777 pointed out, it's worth having just for the two new songs. I really like this compilation. Although they left out som great songs, the ones they chose are top notch. Especially enjoyed the remastered sound, all the songs has really good quality on this one, even the ones from "Show No Mercy".
4 stars for solid compilation and two great new songs.
Thunder In The City (5:51)
I won't be a part of you
I'm in a world of my own
You know i'll see it through
I can't be burnt and won't lie like you
Destination overdrive
You can be just like me
You can be
Thunder, thunder in the city
Up to ten then a little more
Pushing highter we're going to soar
Feel the force against your chest
Riding on the wings of our jet
Copyright 1990 Bride
#1 Everybody Knows My Name 4:22
#2 Hell No 3:49
#3 Hot Down South 3:07
#4 Forever Darkness 3:40
#5 Heroes 7:11
#6 Same Ol' Sinner 4:07
#7 Thunder In The City 5:51
#8 Fire And Brimstone 4:25
#9 Evil That Men Do 3:38
#10 All Hallows Eve 5:12
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pheromones for men - Frequently Asked Questions About Nexus Pheromones
Pheromones are chemical aroma signals that all mammals/individuals emit. Subconsciously sensed, Nexus pheromones provide data about your immune system, your fertility, your present state of sexual interest and many more. A number of these pheromones focus on the opposite sex, and naturally trigger attraction arousal and enthusiasm for sex. With the proper chemical-hormonal signals, she spontaneously, intuitively responds without even knowing what is luring her to you!
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Ylang ylang has a resilient, femalely trail. Ylang ylang can be overpowering but when worn lightly or in blends, it is said to put one in a romantic mood. Ylang ylang imbues are epitome for that romantic night out.
A useful, although reductive, theory on attraction comes from evolutionary psychology. It holds that we are drawn to others on the basis of our assessment of their reproductive fitness. We weigh up physical qualities (symmetry, health, youth, strength in men, child-bearing indicators in women), material possessions (wealth), social skills (status, charity, humour, confidence) and cultural factors (fashion, weight, skin tone, hair styles, body decoration). We have roughly standardized perceptions of 'attractive' individuals, though it can vary over history and in different parts of the world.
This article seeks to give you a solid knowledge base regarding the subject matter at hand, no matter what your previous experience on the topic. What draws you to the contrary sex?
Do we emit pheromones by nature? Without question, we are chemically conversing with each other constantly. These pheromones that we emit are the basic ingredient for many pheromone cologne type products.
Ideas about compatibility include 'opposites attract' and 'like-minded attract'. There seems to be clinical support for both positions. On the one hand we may be drawn to individuals who have characteristics we lack. They may reflect our shadow side - the elements that reside within us but which we refuse to acknowledge. They may also balance or complement our personalities. Some examples of differences include highly-driven v. relaxed, artistic v. scientific, sporty v. sedate and introverted v. extroverted. On the other hand, like-minded individuals may connect well because it widens the field of interaction, for example sports lovers can play and watch games together, and extroverts can socialize happily. What seems important in either of these positions is that the underlying core values are congruent. Ethical and social ideals tend to be matched in solid partnerships.
If we possess our own pheromones, what is the reason we are in need of a pheromone cologne? Because of our cultural practices... What do we engage in first thing in the morning, every morning? Take a shower. Then we put on underarm roll-ons and perhaps lotions or aftershaves which further screen our natural body chemistry. Next, we tend to cover up from head to toe, thereby veiling ninety per cent of the very skin which releases pheromones into the air. A few researches have also revealed that via evolution, our natural pheromone production has gradually decreased, as civilizations have relied on social customs and norms when selecting a partner.
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What makes a guy and a daughter plunge in adoration? Is it the way they look? We have had a lot of fun during the first portion of this article and hopefully you feel as though you have a firm grasp on the topic.
Why is it that I haven't learned of about this fascinating new sense organ and human pheromones before? Because it's a recent discovery! Although you may not have known about pheromones and the sixth sense until this time, you will: They're swiftly becoming common words.
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Among insects, a starving cockroach on the edge of vanishing from famine would instead survey the follow of pheromones with the trust of mating, instead than go for the food that would keep his life.
Various factors can be at play during the initial attraction. Sometimes it begins as physical impulse - pheromones doing their work - and sometimes it starts as an emotional connection first. Usually it involves an implicit assessment of the other's suitability as a potential mate (genetic donor) and/or a long-term partner (protector of self and of future offspring). This entails a complex interplay of observation (often matching them up to our ideal, or even setting them up as an ideal), reaction (via chemicals and body language) and interaction.
How long do Pheromones work? This varies a lot depending on each person's unique chemistry and the particular scent they pick. One of the best products, Nexus Pheromones, avers its pheromone-based cologne could last for an estimated 8-10 hours when spread on the right places.
Generally speaking, we select partners that are roughly similar to our own level of 'reproductive attractiveness' (measured in the wide sense). This means that it is not only the most 'attractive' individuals who manage to form partnerships - there is someone for everyone.
How are pheromones sensed? Pheromone signals are sensed through an organ in the nose's interior named the Vomeronasal Organ (VNO). When the VNO detects the Nexus pheromone, it transmits a response signal to the brain. So, as the sense of smell is usually discussed in research regarding pheromone attraction, it is virtually a chemical response that occurs, instead of a specific identifiable smell. That is, she responds to your chemistry on an involuntary level, with feelings of attraction, stimulation, interest and enthusiasm.
There are more and more forums for finding love including internet, speed-dating, lonely-hearts columns and match-making services. There have been many success stories linked with these platforms and they are drawing a wide audience. They are effective in part because they exclude individuals who are not looking for romance. The drawbacks can be that we don't have time to see the individual in roles other than as a 'potential date'. Also, increasingly relationships begin in the virtual sphere (online, SMS texts) which can remove some of the depth of a real relationship including the pain of being rejected. For clients in therapy who are considering more traditional meeting grounds, we explore options such as taking up hobbies, playing sports, joining clubs or organizing friendly dinner parties (perhaps asking friends to bring a single friend). These activities are rewarding in their own right, and carry the bonus of forming friendships and partnerships.
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Published On September 3, 2014 | Mobile
Fall is just around the corner, which not only means pumpkin flavored everything is coming, it also means we can brace ourselves for a slew of new and updated mobile devices. Here is an overview of some of the most anticipated devices to keep an eye out for this season.
The much anticipated iPhone 6 is scheduled for release September 9. Though the exact specifications of the iPhone 6 won’t be known until its release, it is known that the latest iPhone will have iOS8, the ability to support third-party keyboards, and other new features. Siri has been given more functionality as well, and there are rumors that the iPhone 6 will be offered in two sizes, 4.7 inches and 5.5 inches.
Though an actual release date has not been determined, Apple fans are expecting Apple to announce the iWatch on September 9th’s iPhone 6 launch. The iWatch is rumored to be a somewhat stripped down smartphone to wear on your wrist. It will allow for messaging, running simplified apps, and Siri use, making checking notifications as easy as looking at your watch.
The latest Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is retaining the 5.7-inch screen of its predecessor but now has 1440p resolution, something Samsung is calling Super AMOLED display. This new display offers four times the pixels of regular HD. The S Pen stylus has been improved to respond better to natural handwriting with increased sensitivity. You’ll be able to use the S Pen to minimize apps, drag items, and copy and paste. The Note 4 has the same camera as the Galaxy S5 (16 megapixels) with the added function of optical image stabilization.
Sony is marketing its soon to be released Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact as the tablet for those on the go. Touted as waterproof and dust-proof, the Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact is designed to withstand daily wear and tear. It is a good option for gamers as it supports Remote Play, which allows you to play games from your PlayStation 4 console on your tablet over Wi-Fi. Sony’s tablet runs on Qualcomm Snapdragon and boasts up to 15 hours of video playback on one full battery charge.
Google Nexus 9/X Tablet
Google is attempting to take on Apple’s iPad mini with its Nexus 9, also called the Nexus X, tablet. Rumor has it that the Nexus 9 will receive a performance boost with the addition of the Nvidia Tegra K1 chip. This chip is said to support up to 8GB of DDR3 Ram and allows the device to be more energy efficient. The Nexus 9 will have an 8.9 inch screen for its 2560 x 1600 pixel display. More will be known once the tablet is released, which is projected for some time in October.
The Galaxy Note Edge brings something new to the table with a display screen that extends along the phone’s curved edge. The Note Edge is essentially the Note 4 with the addition of a bent display edge, making it minimally wider and shorter than the Note 4. The wrapped screen serves a purpose beyond looking cool. This extra strip of screen allows for toolbar display, news feeds, shortcuts, and even a ruler.
There’s a lot of great new devices coming out this fall. Which one are you going to buy?
– By Jessica Oaks
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by William Thornton » Wed Nov 15, 2017 6:16 am
Quote from John Killian, former Alabama Baptist Conv president and pal of Fox.
He has denied it and I take him at his word," said the Rev. John Killian, director of the Fayette County Baptist Association, who hosted Moore speaking twice when he was pastor of Maytown Baptist Church. "I believe him. That's not the way he's lived his life for the last 25 years. It's been reputable and respectable. He's a godly man, a brilliant man. I know Roy Moore. He has a great relationship with (his wife) Kayla. That's not the guy that's (being portrayed) out there now. I believe he's a good man. I don't believe the allegations have been proven. When a brother in Christ speaks, you give him the benefit of the doubt."
Fox, your buddy needs to get his mind right. Perhaps you can help.
This call for proof is a dodge. What would prove any one of the allegations besides a confession by the alleged perp? There's no witnesses, no security cam footage or the like.What we have are multiple accusers and numerous people who were aware that Moore liked teenaged girls when he was in his early 30s. Places and dates match.
I'm with Killian in his comment that this isn't the Roy Moore of the past 25 years, loving husband, and all that. But on giving benefit of the doubt, there's not much doubt left to give. I would be with anyone who maintains that christians can repent, change, and grow in grace and ought not to be judged by their behavior of 40 years ago. But Moore, so far as I'm aware, have never said his behavior in the past was sinful. It would be political suicide to admit to any of the accusations at this stage.
If you want to see a display of the moral bankruptcy of Alabama Baptists, here is the place.
If the church lives by politics...it dies by politics. I have never had much appreciation for RM but am saddened by what I see and hear from my Alabama Baptist colleagues.
My stray thoughts on SBC stuff may be found at my blog, SBC Plodder
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Re: Fox buddy Killian and Roy Moore
by Dave Roberts » Wed Nov 15, 2017 6:24 am
William, I join you in sadness that there is no confession or repentance. The actions are a long time ago, but denying that repentance is necessary for those who lived an apparently good life for the past twenty-five years is clearly a works salvation. People might be much more forgiving if he told the truth though I'm sure he would lose the election and the GOP would be one vote short in the Senate. This is all about having a majority, no matter how bad the character is who fills the seat. How sad for Baptists and other evangelicals to stoop this far.
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by Jon Estes » Wed Nov 15, 2017 6:38 am
The tragedy of such behavior in the past needs to be addressed in a forum of how to deal with such accusations (true or false) as soon as accusations are made. I think they ought to be taken seriously and investigated thoroughly. Investigate the accused and the accuser. I say both because if a thorough investigation is not done on both ends, there could be false accusations made just to rid the political scene of those hated.
I watched the Hannity interview of RM and, for me, he came off guilty. That is simply my opinion based on the responses he gave to the questions asked.
I would like to see a fair and just process to deal with these things until they have been fully dealt with.
After the statues of limitations has passed, all one can do is ruin a career of others and for some that is enough of a price to pay - then for others, maybe not.
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by Haruo » Wed Nov 15, 2017 8:57 am
Moore would rather commit spiritual suicide than political suicide. But for those who think Trump was sent by God to help save us, the two are synonymous. To lose the Senate majority would be eternal bankruptcy. I am more concerned, though, about Kayla. Maybe she is as fundamentally screwed up to begin with as Roy is, but maybe not, and if not, these must be horribly painfully and frightening days.
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And then there is physical suicide...
"Until it's proven, pastors are holding their breath," Burdette said.
At this rate there are going to be a lot of Alabama pastors asphyxiating themselves.
by Rvaughn » Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:23 am
Jon Estes wrote: I watched the Hannity interview of RM and, for me, he came off guilty. That is simply my opinion based on the responses he gave to the questions asked.
I didn't see this, but heard it on the radio while traveling (assuming what was on the radio is the same?). His responses raised some red flags for me.
When I initially heard of the accusations on Roy Moore, I was skeptical. My first thought was that this guy has been in the public eye for years and no own has ever raised these issues, so why now? Why not before? Why not when he was running against Luther Strange? After thinking about it, I believe there are some reasons that answer "why now," so I move forward.
Initially, I had some questions about the accusers' stories. I guess it seemed odd to me that the girls who were of legal age was saying he was a gentleman, only kissed them, whatever, while only the girls that were underage were saying he assaulted them, touched them, etc. Why not all of them? Was this coordinated? But then there were a couple things in his interview responses that I felt could explain that also, so I move forward.
In the interview he said he didn't remember dating the two I refer to as "legal age" girls -- the ones who said he was a gentleman, only kissed them, etc. To me his answer sounded like "I would not normally have dated girls this age; I kind of remember these girls, but I don't remember dating them; But if they said I did, maybe I did." All of this sounded like a bunch of hooey to me. Unless he is senile, it seems to me he should be able to remember whether he as a 30-something year old man dated an 18 year old woman. That seems like something I would remember, either a definite yes or no. I guess I also thought it was odd to bring up Etowah being a dry county when asked about the alcohol. I was raised in a dry county, but people who wanted booze seemed to be able to get it.
That's just a few examples of my thought process on what I have heard/read. There were no witnesses, so only God, the accused and the accusers know the truth. The rest of us will have to be satisfied with our opinions.
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by Sandy » Wed Nov 15, 2017 2:33 pm
Just a couple of notes--
There is no statute of limitations in Alabama for sexual abuse of a minor. There's a little lack of clarity as to whether that applies to 17 and 18 year olds, the way the law is written.
This isn't Moore's first rodeo when it comes to these kinds of accusations. This is the kind of thing that comes to the forefront when media attention increases, and with the scope of national media investigating who he is, they've bumped into people who never really been given a voice to talk before. That, and the fact that the man was in a powerful, judicial position to squash most of this kind of thing one way or another, including by wielding influence and power, contributed to burying this stuff, though it appears that people in Alabama have been talking about it for more than just the past few weeks. The victim's accounts are detailed, and times and places are corroborated by others.
It probably wasn't a good idea for Moore to talk to Sean Hannity. Even though his interview was mostly slow pitch softball, Moore didn't come off confident in his innocence or sound truthful. This is a tough situation, in a country where theoretically, you are innocent until proven guilty, at least from a legal perspective. Part of the reason reporters and journalists were digging so deep is that there are a lot of disturbing things about the guy that don't have to do with sexual assault of a teenaged girl. His ties and involvement in white supremacist groups, white nationalists and neo-confederates, and other right wing extremism are concerning, and in the course of looking at his past, they bumped into this.
This, however, is politics. You know there's going to be a storm when you've hung your hat on an extremist right wing populist social platform that appeals to right wing Christian groups, and there's a moral issue like this that comes up. When you've been a caustic critic of the Clintons, including Bill on this very kind of thing, and of the debunked "birther" nonsense, you'd better be next to perfect in this regard yourself, or you better be ready to weather the firestorm. I don't think this guy is.
So, in the most unlikely of places, the Democrats will gain a senate seat.
by Haruo » Wed Nov 15, 2017 4:59 pm
Voting in Alabama began on Oct. 18, which increases Moore's chances of pulling it off. Then it will be up to the Senate to decide whether to defrock a sitting Senator for the first time since the Civil War era. And most Republican senators have come out so determinedly against Moore that to turn in his favor at that point would probably clinch the midterm Democratic landslide I'm rather hopeful of.
by KeithE » Sat Nov 18, 2017 11:50 pm
William Thornton wrote: Quote from John Killian, former Alabama Baptist Conv president and pal of Fox.
I'm sympathetic and ready to accept that the Moore in his 30’s is not the Moore in his 40s/50s/60s/70s. I would not disqualify anyone as a political candidate for past sexual acts or even past criminal acts (sexual or otherwise) from several decades ago. People change. What matters to me is their current character and political stances.
But Moore’s (1) acts as a Judge (twice removed due to his religious grandstanding, writing dissenting opinions on 13 of 16 sexual harassments that favor those accused/found guilty), his (2) recent misuse of charitable funds, (3) his lack of repentance for his misbehaviors in his 30s, and (4) his extreme political views (same-sex sex should be criminally illegal, all Muslims should be kept out of our country, his leading role in the birther movement, claiming Obama was a Muslim, certain parts of America are under sharia law, 9/11 was God’s punishment for Americans godlessness, Keith Ellison a Muslim should not be allowed in Congress, and his obvious religious demagoguery,...) disqualify him as far as I’m concerned.
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by William Thornton » Sun Nov 19, 2017 6:01 am
The denial of past acts, obvious lack of repentance, makes him break the 9th commandment. He made a living on the Ten Commandments and in churches.
by KeithE » Sun Nov 19, 2017 8:45 am
William Thornton wrote: The denial of past acts, obvious lack of repentance, makes him break the 9th commandment. He made a living on the Ten Commandments and in churches.
Another good point.
by Stephen Fox » Tue Nov 21, 2017 6:56 pm
Killian has never attended any of Balmer's lectures at Samford over the past 17 years nor has he read Balmer's bio of President Ccarter. Killian among his many firneds hasn authentic friendship with Judson President David Potts whose Father Earl publicly made a profession of faithful allegiance to the Bama CBF as as soon as he left Ex Dir of the Alsbom, the position rick lance now holds.
Time for a big pow wow in Montgomery with a gut wrenching conversation framed in Balmer's magnificent piece in the Wash Post Sunday.
I enjoy breaking bread with both Killian and Balmer. Right now I'm with Balmer, Roy Moore is a "con artist"!
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by Stephen Fox » Sat Nov 25, 2017 11:06 am
http://foxofbama.blogspot.com/2017/11/c ... amine.html
Cuomo and Breitbart re Roy and Ringo
by Stephen Fox » Mon Nov 27, 2017 6:36 pm
Anybody see it this morning on CNN New Day? Must see TV. Transcript should google
by Sandy » Mon Nov 27, 2017 10:51 pm
Stephen Fox wrote: Tide Can't roll unless we stock up on a better brand of authentic Christian integrity.
I read the blog, tried to follow through all of the names and figure out the conclusion. Stephen can come up with some good one liners on occasion, however, and this is the best from his piece. It makes the point.
Here's Russell Moore's position
https://pjmedia.com/faith/baptist-leade ... -idolatry/
Several board members here are critical of Russell Moore on principle, based on their perspective and his during the SBC controversy. I wonder if his critics ever thought that he would be labelled a "leftist"?
http://capstonereport.com/2017/11/09/le ... ore/31795/
You can set personal feelings about Russ Moore aside on this one. That Capstone article proves that he got this right.
Stephen, you really may have something here. The consequences for the religious right, and because of their prominence in Alabama, the SBC, of the election of Roy Moore will be devastating.
by Haruo » Tue Nov 28, 2017 3:38 pm
I've never run into the Capstone Report before. I gather it's an ultraright Southern Baptist blog from Alabama?
by Rvaughn » Tue Nov 28, 2017 3:53 pm
Haruo wrote: I've never run into the Capstone Report before. I gather it's an ultraright Southern Baptist blog from Alabama?
Neither have I. Perhaps Stephen can fill us in.
I looked around on the site a bit, and you couldn't tell that from their "About" page:
The Capstone Report began as a commentary on Alabama football in October 2006. Since then, the website has grown to include commentary, news, links to major breaking news, updates on recruiting and discussion about all University of Alabama athletics. Since its beginning, the website has served over 500,000 page views.
The Capstone Report is published by Capstone Report Publishing, Hueytown, Alabama 35023. The editorial team is composed of professional journalists and passionate amateurs including award winning editors, writers and photographers. Content on the site is generated by our writers or published from wire services including AP, Reuters, AFP, and other partners.
Despite the "focus" on football, the subtitle is "Commentary on Alabama Football, Politics & Religion." Based on the sheer number of SBC-related items on the first page, it seems like the proper conclusion that folks behind the site are Southern Baptist. The editor's name is Alan Atchison. I found an online reference to "Southern Baptist blogger Alan Atchison of Chelsea, Ala" -- my guess is that is the same person, but I stand to be corrected.
This blurb on the main page kind of threw me for a minute, till I realized there's a paragraph break where I put the little ^v; the first part is the headline, the rest is the beginning of the article.
I'm not sure just how things work in Alabama, with someone able to get in a race this close to election day (maybe Keith or Stephen can explain it to us), but according to the article linked below "Retired Marine Col. Lee Busby...launched his eleventh-hour campaign hoping to capitalize on voters’ dissatisfaction with the choices on the ballot."
Meet the Marine colonel who's looking to turn Alabama Senate race on its head: 'This is now a three-way gunfight'
My understanding is he's running as a write-in, which is something you could do right up till the polls close. I think it's unlikely he could win, and the most likely effect is to hurt Moore more than the Democrat, but we'll see. He might win if Moore would withdraw and throw his support to him, but I don't think that's likely. We'll see. We'll see.
by Sandy » Wed Nov 29, 2017 10:05 am
I posted the reference to the Capstone Report because it popped up and the tag line about Leftist Russell Moore caught my eye. After reading through the post, it is clear to see that this is nothing but a blogger rant. It has no substance, cites no corroboration or facts, and the commentary on Russ Moore's quotations has nothing at all to do with what he actually said.
The clincher, though, is the piece that proclaims him a hater of football. That confirms the substance of this particular blog.
So the day has come, as many, many people said that it would, when a political agenda has become more important than character in a candidate for office. In its exhuberant support for what it claims to be a moral agenda, the religious right has already endorsed policies and platforms that are diametrically opposed to the teaching of scripture, and which mock Jesus. I've seen and heard many discussions by people claiming to be good, conservative, right wing, born again believers in Christ that do everything from defending the misunderstood Pharisees to redefining what Jesus meant by "enemies" when he commanded us to love them.
Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.
Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God, who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, who keeps faith forever; who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. Psalm 146:3-7
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/25/opin ... risis.html
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Haruo wrote: My understanding is he's running as a write-in, which is something you could do right up till the polls close. I think it's unlikely he could win, and the most likely effect is to hurt Moore more than the Democrat, but we'll see. He might win if Moore would withdraw and throw his support to him, but I don't think that's likely. We'll see. We'll see.
Interesting. According to Ballotpedia.org (not sure how trustworthy that is) "In Alabama, there are no special requirements that write-in presidential candidates must meet in order to have their votes tallied." I'm assuming what is true of presidential candidates would also be true of Senate candidates.
Very different here in Texas:" In order to become a write-in candidate in the general election, file a Declaration of Write-in Candidacy with the Secretary of State or your county judge..." and it must be done in a particular time frame related to the election.
My guess is that Busby's candidacy would help Jones and hurt Moore, but who knows! He might be pretty much negligible in the whole race.
The polling data is all over the place, but the composites in 538 don't reflect the announcement of the write in, and give Jones a 47 to 43 lead. The surprise in this group is Fox News, which gives Jones an 8 point lead that has held steady, and an average increase to the positive of 9%, which is quite a lot, considering where he started. The Gallup daily tracker, to which you have to subscribe, isn't included here, but gives Jones a 5% lead. It will probably take a week for polls to reflect the entry of a write-in. Those are always interesting, because they require correct spelling.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is ... re-losing/
The Change Research Poll, referenced at 538, had flipped for Jones, but now has flipped back to Moore:
https://medium.com/@ChngRsrch/jones-holds-3-point-lead-in-alabama-following-7-point-shift-since-sunday-c6db133e4522
https://medium.com/@ChngRsrch/moore-opens-up-49-44-lead-in-alabama-just-9-of-trump-voters-believe-allegations-against-moore-6d74baa84a68
What has changed? The largest difference is turnout: many Republicans who ten days ago said they might not vote, now say they plan to show up on Election Day and vote for Moore.
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
The obvious solution is Notes Blocks should be the size of slabs.
How would this be helpful? you cant mix slabs. now if you could do a have material \ half note slab it would help.
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You must have air over a note block. By making it half the size, you no longer need to leave the block above them open.
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I tried to have hidden note blocks and eventually gave up, it was to much work for not much payoff.
Note blocks have been helping out with the 'invisible player' problem as shown by the picture below. What turned out to be Dakar was hitting the notes like crazy just to be a jerk I assume.
...and the finalized front of the lodge, in all its snowy glory.
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reminds me of the overlook.
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I just like how he uses Grab instead of F2.
fn+F2 isn't as easy as command shift 3 for me.
Originally Posted by sek929
1. Stand in archway
2. Hold spacebar
3. sek get's freaked out
I was really worried about andi there for a second.
I need to install a 'room 237' where mobs can spawn.
Posting here for personal future reference
Having my menu bar in the screenshots would drive me crazy. I've actually taken the screenshots folder and added it to my sidebar for easy access/uploading.
Also...sek, are you playing Minecraft full-screen? I tried that a few times and got completely dizzy -- not sure why. FPS games have never bothered me before, but Minecraft is disorienting for some strange reason.
Uh oh...
Also, I'm stealing that.
I play fullscreen just fine. I use smooth lighting and fancy graphics, but keep the draw distance to short to keep it from skipping around.
I tried playing on normal distance but the skipping and FPS lag everytime I would turn around gave me a headache.
SInce I won't be able to keep this under wraps while I build it (well without constructing a giant box) under consideration for my next project:
Edit: looks like a hotlink block. Whatevers.
One of these
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ParasitesLost.jpg&tbm=isch
I play full screen 1600x1024 @60 fps so no headaches. But i'm not running in an iMac or MacBook. Anything over 30 fps when your panning around should be fine.
Hmmm large circles. I don't think i have enough light grey yet to make a proper go at the Marathon symbol. Not a big fan of pixel art though.
( Last edited by BLAZE_MkIV; May 9, 2011 at 05:20 PM. )
Not a big fan of pixel art though.
Wait, you don't like pixel art? How can you stand this game?
pixel art in minecraft, not pixelish games. ex: lego starwars = fun, yet another picture of megaman != fun
i can easily ignore all the pixel art floating around the WWW.
I had it figured out using switches, but then I tried to expand and messed it up. Network kicked me out.
I think it doesn't like high latency connections. Dakar rebooted or something and it got better.
I fully believe comcast is messing with my internets. </tinfoilhat>
I'd bet significant amounts of money on it. It doesn't help that my connection speed drop significantly in prime time hours. But I don't have any choice in the matter.
Link's island from the rail:
Creeper damage to the back...
And immediately thereafter, the front...
Why don't they freaking die in the sunlight?
I do have a pretty scummy connection when it comes to latency, but after the thunderstorms last week it was being spotty everywhere. Since the router reboot the time outs have ceased. (And then I had to update my iMac because Minecraft was inexplicably freezing...)
Originally Posted by Jawbone54
LWhy don't they freaking die in the sunlight?
Because they're fun or challenging or some other poorly thought-out BS.
I have a feeling when I finish my next round of projects I'll be left bitching about mobs spawning on the tops of trees. That's a moronic decision as well.
Thats why it's called survival. I know Dakar doesn't like it, but I like how the element of danger keeps you on your toes. I could turn mobs off and all we'd loose is TNT. But spelunking just isn't the same and the coming dusk leads to some panicky running for shelter. If everyone moves far enough away the mobs despawn and then you can come back. Rail lines are good for this. It also forces mid day spawning of passive mobs for the shepherds.
Jawbone: I'm kind of waiting for a spider to join you on the top of your house.
I don't know about your but the ceiling of my tree farm is well lit.
Thats why it's called survival. I know Dakar doesn't like it, but I like how the element of danger keeps you on your toes.
Yet somehow I (and no one else, really) don't bitch about zombies, spiders, skeletons, burning in lava, drowning in water, and taking damage from falling.
Everyone hates creepers because they're griefers. It's that they destroy your stuff, not you. 9 times out of 10 you survive.
(Not to mention they have two other advantages over the other aggressive mobs: They don't despawn in daylight, and they're completely silent)
What if we had a "mob-free weekend" where we allocated tons of resources and built like crazy? Sort of like Black Ops' double-XP weekends.
[QUOTE]Jawbone: I'm kind of waiting for a spider to join you on the top of your house./QUOTE]
Exactly, exactly, and exactly. Creepers are the only mob type that actually feels unfair.
The daytime is supposed to be safe, yet the front and back entrances of my home were taken out at the Minecraft equivalent of 10:00 AM.
Still, I'll be ordering one of these shirts for my little boy:
I built a wall but a 2x2 trench or a fence will stop creepers too. If you don't do anything to secure your perimeter then it will keep happening. Or you can go dwarf.
I'm going to go with a wall, but work on it has halted until I can plan out the rest of the perimeter. I've got to make sure my "back yard" is accessible in all the right places and at the right level. Every time the creepers blow a few craters into the backyard, which is decently-lit for a considerable distance, I lose a little patience and start working on Bonecatrez (or Bone Island...haven't decided) resource allocation.
I wish there was stone fence. Or you could paint fence.
That's rather brilliant actually. Or something as simple as "Mob-Free Thursdays".
It's worth noting that no one complained when mobs got turned on... but no one was complaining when they were off, either. Making exploration more exciting is a good thing. It's when it starts to interfere with settled and developed areas that it becomes a real drag.
Daytime doesn't need to be safe, per se, but it's just that the inherent trait of the creeper makes it impossible to defend against without a healthy dose of paranoia.
It's also worth noting that with the introduction of weather, those "safe" days are even more uncommon. It hasn't been so much of a problem lately, but those first two weeks "rare" weather was happening 3 out of 10 minecraft days, i swear.
I think it's a reasonable expectation that to work at night, you need defenses. During the day? Not so much.
It's an open-ended game, but to me the focus is the creative/building aspect. Hindering that aspect in a post-creative situation seems completely counter-intuitive, if not dickish. Like deleveling people in an RPG.
Uh oh. Now you did it. I compiled a wishlist one day. I'll have to post it later.
I hate creepers as much as the next guy, but without them the game would be pretty easy IMO. Creepers add the necessary zest to keep an open world creation game interesting. Yeah, they blow up your hard work, but half the fun of creation in this game is the painstaking process, which includes chunks of your new home getting blown up.
I've dealt with them more than most at my lodge as of late, and all it has done is made me more effective at securing my exits.
How Darwinian of you.
I forgot to add, even the useless dogs ignore them (and won't attack)! Would a warning bark be too much to ask?
Obviously this is all taste, but given your survival bent, I think you're nuts. Gathering all the resources you may want is difficult (read: time consuming) enough. You know what keeps a creative game interesting? Your ability to come up with fresh ideas.
How about I add some more zest for you: Anytime I come online in a creeper skin, there's a 1/10 chance I will randomly TNT part of your lodge.
That's what I look for in my creative games: Making me more effective at securing exits. Sounds like Call of Duty.
Oh give me a break. If you're interested in survival of the fittest, play a zombie game.
Oh, Laminar was on last night. Did we find out what that scamp did?
Alright, my wishlist, mostly in no particular order:
These, along with the clock should also be placeable on walls like ladders.
Paint (Affects smooth stone/wood)
Glass & Obsidian slabs
Smooth stone stairs
Glass doors (Iron frame)
Tinted Glass (wool colors)
Bannister railing (wood/stone/iron)
Fence gates (supposedly in progress)
Fireman's pole
Rugs/Carpets (like paintings for your floor)
Incinerator/Safe disposal (lava powered?)
Patio Torches
Sleeping bag (sleep anywhere, one use)
Campfire (bigger light radius, can be cooked on)
Tent (one time use safe-house)
Iron/Obsidian arrow tips (more damage)
Cobble/smooth stone/Iron Fences (Iron fences can be electrified with redstone)
Underwater suit (double breathable air time)
Underwater light (sealed lamern?)
Hangable light
Brighter light source
Blaze? You game? Your server, your rules.
It's the exploration being a terrifying prospect that kills me. The other day I walked northwest from my fortress/home/whatever as far as I could until mid-day, then had a crazy rush to get back. Alas, I mistimed it, and died after one creeper incident, then a spider rush. Lost about five stacks of sand.
Completely safe? Nah...
But the creepers seem more abundant than they used to be.
Bingo. I almost never feel safe.
Creepers definitely provide the "necessary zest" or tension that the game really needs to keep from getting boring, but they need to be balanced a little better.
It's like every movie ever made: you have introduction, establishment of characters, tension, resolution, finale. Without the tension, movies are boring, even if screenwriters follow the plan just a little too closely at times.
Mobs are slightly too abundant, and they shouldn't be out and about all day. For instance...maybe since skeletons and zombies are burned up in sunlight (dawn), creepers could be eradicated around 10-ish. Regardless, I think something needs to be adjusted.
Your lodge is absolutely overrun with creepers. I'm terrified to go outside.
It's all the trees. The beautiful, shady, trees.
FYI, it is possible to hoof the rail from the lodge all the way to the sandcastle in time to get all your stuff before it disappears. My home bed became unsafe again and I respawned in the lodge instead.
Ooh, iron fences electified with redstone... that would do those creepers in.
I can understand that. To me that just means there a limits more than any direct challenges. I enjoy gauging how far I can go, keeping an eye on the time, deciding whether to try and donkey punch some sheep as dusk approaches, make a wild dash for my place or fight off some hoards.
Yeah, seeing three or four at a time ain't that classy, either.
ICreepers definitely provide the "necessary zest" or tension that the game really needs to keep from getting boring, but they need to be balanced a little better.
Yeah, I was thinking, if they had a daylight mob, an explosion mob, and a stealth mob all seperate, that might be more balanced. Won't pretend to know if I'd bitch less, but in theory...
Creepers could be eradicated around 10-ish. Regardless, I think something needs to be adjusted.
I do find that when it's a creeper convention in the morning if I go below ground for two minutes and comeback up they usually have despawned.
IYour lodge is absolutely overrun with creepers. I'm terrified to go outside.
That goes to another issue with creepers. The only thing worse then them blowing your place up when you're working is them blowing your place up when someone visits.
My lodge creeper-fu is obviously nowhere near sek's and I charged out one morning and cost him the entire front doorstep.
That's probably the idea I was most impressed with. Have them do the same amount of damage as cacti and watch mobs kill themselves repeated bumping into them. Might make a great corral for friendly mobs too.
Speaking of dogs...I've only seen one in the past several weeks.
Well, it's like turning off war in Civilization IV (which I've done many times). It's great at first, but after a few hundred years, I get bored and give up. The war just needs balancing -- I doubt Ghandi would've attacked my little country so often in the real world.
...where you can't secure exits anymore because there are fifty of them in each room.
...yeah, by buying the new DLC in Black Ops and playing the zombie mode with me..............
I've seen him log on once. I don't even know where his place is.
Glass & Obsidian slabs
The stuff you've listed that I think are needs are:
Fence Gates
Cobble/Stone/Iron Fences
and especially the Wet Suit and Underwater Light
Everything else is just would-be-cool.
...except for the fireman's pole. That's just freaking ridiculous.
Oh, and this shit is cool. Our server isn't nearly developed enough to justify it, but damn that's cool.
I had a few around briefly last night. They should allow you to name them. Transferring ownership wouldn't hurt either, but far less key.
I get what you're saying.
He didn't have a place, that I'm aware of. Though that might have changed last night.
I should show you my "elevator". It's crude, but it gets the job done: A straight shot from my Basement (and every level after) to just above bedrock. So why not add a more realistic mode of transportation that gives iron an additional use. Plus, wheeeeeeeeeee
(I was also speaking with sek this weekend and commented that my inner rail system was defunct because it lacked real efficiency timewise. I feel like elevators are an inevitable conclusion in a game where verticality plays such a large role. Maybe not in the next few months, but definitely in the next two years)
Oh, wow....no kidding...
Jawbone and I now control this page.
Would love for him to hop on. I understand he's crazy busy though.
Oh, I've used it several times. No doubt about it.
The only way I'm in favor of the fireman pole is if you spin wildly while descending.
Elevators would clean my place up so freaking much.
I have one last picture before I get back to work. After your graphing paper comment a few weeks ago, I went out and bought a small graphing sketchbook, which has remained in my man-purse ever since. Yesterday, while sitting in the DMV with two hours to kill, what else was there to do but...
Bah, he's not as busy as he is productive.
Really? Sweet!
I checked and it has been suggested on the Minecraft forums. Someone (rightfully) pointed out that ladders perform it general function (with added flexibility), but I'd argue we have object redundancy (see stairs/doors), and the real benefit would be two-fold: Increased descent speed (ladders are a yawn), and ease of use – I find ladders are slightly finicky to start descent. I'd just make a quick right click of the pole start the ride.
Giving it some thought, it wouldn't be easy. Presumably, redstone should be involved. and unless there was an ingenious way to control direction, you might require two shafts. Best prototype I sketched in my head was rail, placed vertically, accessed by placing a boat-looking structure that had a fence gate-like entrance.
Is that... Instagrammed? (Also, is that the "modest' new house?)
I finally remembered I had some graph paper the other night. Did some brief sketches for my new project, but in the early going last night not more effective that working stuff out in my head.
Edit: Add iron ladders to the list.
( Last edited by The Final Dakar; May 10, 2011 at 04:23 PM. )
Waiting for massive Emails to send, so I lied and I'm back...
You are talking about the "express chute" or whatever you call it, right? With the water?
I'd bet you have a stripper pole in your house.
Ingenious way to control direction? Get on elevator, have a pop-up prompt screen control desired level, and go...
One of my students responded with "Cook me a porkchop!"
And no, this isn't the modest house. This is Bonecatrez/Bone Island...whatever. The new modest house is going to remain in front of my tower.
When I do it 100% in my head, I'm prone to make minor mistakes, and I hate wasted glass/stone.
What would be different that would make it worth it? Aesthetics? Durability?
"Express Elevator". Yes.
Nah, that breaks the current way the game works.
Nerd and/or Hipster
Speaking of stripper poles, that place sounds like something from Eyes Wide Shut.
Eh, I'm prone to mistakes either through misclicks or poor counting skills. My creative process is fluid anyway, as what looks good on paper doesn't necessarily translate well once it's within the environ.
I hope you're ****ing with me here.
Project Doorbell is complete. This morning my son helped me pick an actual song for the doorbell from his violin music book. Now I need a whole lot of sandstone to finish the temple.
I found an old dungeon someone had already plundered but helpfully left the spawner. Should I destroy the spawner, or try to create a real grinder? It's not possible to move a spawner, is it?
Did anyone install a random note player in my house, or is the game messing with my mind? I could swear I hear a note and no one is near the notes, animals either. :eep:
Late night. Made a pretty huge mistake that was fairly easily rectified, but one of the dumbest I've made in this game so far. Blah...
Made some headway on Bone Island, though. Hope to start on underwater railways by this weekend.
Your son is already far classier than I am.
I vote for grinder.
If someone did, that's mighty, mighty sneaky.
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Concept3D’s night map feature supports campus security
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A new night map integration feature is available for all Concept3D maps. The toggle-on map overlay is designed to enhance campus safety and security by making it easy to find the best, well-lit routes and critical resources such as emergency phones.
The Concept3D interactive mapping platform is used by hundreds of major universities, colleges and schools, as well as convention centers, hospitals, resorts, retirement communities, data centers and businesses.
The night map feature offers all of these clients a way to provide their audiences with important safety and security information for visiting and navigating the campus at night.
The University of Denver, Boise State University, and Pacific Lutheran University are the first to integrate this feature into their Concept3D-powered interactive campus maps.
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Boise State University is using the new night map feature to highlight Public Safety Dispatch Centers, Emergency Blue Light and Refugee Phones and locations of automated external defibrillators (AEDs). Each item has a display box that further explain the exact location of the service and additional information.
Pacific Lutheran uses the night map to display campus AEDs, emergency telephones, and its safety building.
Colleges and universities that participate in federal Title IV student financial assistance programs must comply with the Clery Act, which requires annual security reporting, details and geographic information about crimes committed on campus and on public areas immediately adjacent to the campus, and timely warnings and emergency notifications, among other requirements.
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CIA and the perils of overengineering
The CIA commit-notification service abruptly died two days ago, a development that surprised nobody who has been paying attention to the recent history of the codebase and its one public server site. A screwup at the cloud service hosting the CIA virtual machine irretrievably destroyed the instance data; please don’t ask me for details, I don’t know how it happened and don’t care. The CIA codebase is so messed up that even reconstituting a virgin instance would be way too much work – and that I will talk about a bit later in this post.
Fortunately, I saw this coming and had started work on a CIA replacement in late August. I had been holding off releasing it because there was some effort going on to salvage the CIA code, but that possibility effectively vanished when the only instance was erased. I shipped my replacement just a few minutes ago, and expect to spend much of the next week helping forge-site operators install it so we can have our notification service back.
The remainder of this post is a finished version of a design analysis of CIA I started a couple of weeks ago when the death of the service was still only a theoretical possibility. Since that theory has become actuality, the message should be heard loudly and clearly: this was a truly classic case of over-engineering, code bloat, excessive centralization, and bad practice. Read on for the cautionary tale.
I always liked the idea of CIA, the “version control informant” that relays commit notifications to IRC channels. I’ve maintained the (now obsolete) git hook scripts that talk to CIA for several years now. But recently I have been looking more closely at the design of CIA and how it’s implemented, and have concluded that it was a pretty horrible example of how not to do things.
First, a review of what CIA did and how it did it. What you saw from the outside when a CIA setup was working for a project was simple: whenever a developer commited code to the project’s public repository, the commit summary was shipped to an IRC channel associated with the project. It became part of that conversational stream, and was also echoed to a special channel (#commits on freenode) where you could watch all the open-source world’s commits flow by like a river.
A notification service like this is a very useful aid to collaboration. It makes IRC conversations among a development group more productive. It also does something unquantifiable but good to the coherence of the development groups that use it, and the coherence of the open-source community as a whole – when the service was live it was hard to watch #commits for any length of time without being impressed and encouraged.
Looking a little deeper, here’s what happened when a commit was made. The repository’s checkin procedure fires a “commit hook” – a small program, usually written in shell or Perl or Python – that is passed various metadata such as the commit’s ID, its list of files modified, and its change comment. The hook assembled an XML message in a particular format containing this information. It then used XML-RPC to call a central CIA server at cia.vc and ship it the notification.
The CIA server was then responsible for turning the XML notification into a text line that got shipped to the project channel and to #commits. It also updated a bunch of statistical summaries that could be browsed at the CIA website (now defunct).
Unfortunately, as in the old proverb about law and sausage, those who loved CIA notifications were best advised not to look too much more closely than this at how they were made. The service was notoriously subject to random outages and stalls; but that, bad as it is, is only symptomatic. Underlying this were several layers of unfortunate history, poor design decisions and shoddy implementation.
CIA hadn’t been actively maintained in several years before its collapse – the originator, one Micah Dowty, disappeared around 2007. One Karsten Behrmann, aka “BearPerson”, stepped in around 2008 but was unable to solve the problems with the software. The sole running public instance was hosted by a third party prone to loudly complaining on the #cia channel that the host box was an insecure hairball full of flaky and obsolete software that he couldn’t fix because the CIA code had dependencies on now-obsolete software versions.
That running instance is what’s now vanished. If you examine the repo of the CIA software, you’ll discover that it’s a mixture of parts in mostly Python but some Erlang, using (a) a custom web framework, (b) some Twisted, and (c) some Django. I’m told by people who have examined all this more closely than me that the individual subsystems (such as the Django code that generates most of the visible web pages in the site) aren’t too bad, but the interactions among them are messy and leaky.
The more experienced software engineers in my audience will already be getting a clue to what went wrong here, if not yet quite why. This is what software that has undergone a collapse into rubble under the weight of its own complexity looks like, complete with maintainers who have run away from their own inability to manage the resulting mess.
But the indictment wouldn’t be complete without noticing that their development practices sucked, too. My hair stood on end when BearPerson let drop on the #cia channel that the code in the running instance didn’t match the head state of the project’s CIA repository on GoogleCode – he admitted he’d “been lazy” and patched things on the site without propagating the changes back to the repo. I nudged him into fixing this. Or, at least, claiming to have fixed it, but the historical record didn’t do a lot to reassure me on that score. And it’s why those close to the problem have given up on attempting to resuscitate CIA without a running instance to look at.
Yes, before the VM was wiped there was a crew on the #cia channel trying to salvage the codebase. I helped a bit on this, but my estimate of their odds was never very optimistic. It is notoriously difficult to un-collapse a rubble pile, especially when the author and one previous rescue attempt (BearPerson’s) have already manifestly failed. Thus, I directed most of the limited energy I could spend on this problem into a different strategy.
That strategy began with asking why CIA suffered a complexity collapse, and whether much simpler code could do the job its users expect of it. This architecture diagram, proudly displayed on the author’s blog, is a pretty good clue.
I’ve seen simplicity before. This isn’t it.
But long before I saw this diagram there were several aspects of the design that seemed rather iffy. Why one centralized server? Why the elaboration of XML-RPC? Why do you have to register your project on cia.vc to use the notification, with the mapping from your project to IRC channels lurking in an opaque database on a distant server, rather than being simply declared in the (arguments to your) repository hook?
The answer seems to be that the original designer fell in love with the idea of data-mining and filtering the notification stream. It is quite visible on the CIA site how much of the code is concerned with automatically massaging the commit stream into pretty reports. I’m told there is a complicated and clever feature involving XML rewrite rules that allows one to filter commit reports from any number of projects by the file subtrees they touch, then aggregate the result into a synthetic notification channel distinct from any of the ones those projects declared themselves.
Bletch! Bloat, feature creep, and overkill! With chrome like this piled on top of the original simple concept of a notication relay, the resulting complexity collapse should no longer be any surprise. Additionally, this is a near-perfect case study in how to make your service scale up poorly and be maximally vulnerable to single-point failures – if that one database gets lost or corrupted, everybody’s notifications will go haywire. The CIA design would have been over-centralized even if the implementation weren’t broken.
Of course the way to prove this kind of indictment is to do better. But once I got this far in my thinking, I realized that wouldn’t be difficult. And started to write code. The result is irkerd, a simple service daemon. One end of it listens on a socket for JSON requests that specify a server/channel pair and a message string. The other end behaves like a specialized IRC client that maintains concurrent session state for any number of IRC-server instances. All irkerd is, really, is a message bus that routes notification requests to the right servers. (And is multithreaded so it won’t block on a server stall, and times out inactive sessions.)
That’s it. Less than 400 lines of Python replaces CIA’s core notification service. The code for a repo hook to talk to it is simpler than any existing CIA hook. And it doesn’t require a centralized server. The right way to deploy this thing will be to host multiple instances of irker on repository sites, not publicly visible (because otherwise they could too easily be used to spam IRC channels) but available to the repository’s hooks running inside the site firewall.
Filtering? Aggregation? As previously noted, they don’t need to be in the transmission path. One or more IRC bots could be watching #commits, generating reports visible on the web, and aggregating synthetic feeds. The only agreement needed to make this happen is minimal regularity in the commit message formats that the hooks ship to IRC, which is really no more onerous than the current requirement to gin up an XML-RPC blob in a documented format.
I must note one drawback to this way of partitioning things. Because IRC has a message length limit, naively shipping commits with very long metadata (due to for example, large lists of modified files) would make only a truncated version available on IRC (and thus, to an IRC watcher bot gathering statistics).
It might be that this was the original motivation for using an XML-RPC transport on CIA’s input end. Indeed, when I first recognized the problem I started sketching a design for a auxiliary daemon that would do nothing but accept XML-RPC requests in something very close to CIA’s preferred format, then forward short digests of them to an irker instance for shipping to IRC. This auxiliary could collect statistics based on the un-truncated metadata…
Fortunately, I experienced a rush of good sense before I actually started coding this thing. It would have hugely complicated deployment and testing to handle an unusual case – observably from #commits, most commit messages are short and touch few files. We get a much simpler system if we accept two reduction rules:
1. If a commit notification would be longer than 510 bytes, we omit the filenames list. An empty filenames list is to be interpreted by filtering software as “may touch any file in the project”.
2. Then…we just ship it. If the IRC server truncates it at 510 bytes, so be it. Humans watching the commit stream won’t need more than that to put the commit in context (especially not for projects which use git’s first-line-is-a-summary convention) and the hypothetical statistics-gathering bots won’t understand natural language well enough to care that it’s truncated.
This is how you keep things simple. And that is how you prevent your projects from collapsing under complexity.
I wrote irkerd to accomplish two things: (1) Light a fire under the CIA salvage crew, attempting to speed up their success, and (2) provide a viable alternative in case they didn’t succeed. To this I now add (3) illustrate what healthy minimalism in software design looks like. Antoine de St-Exupéry said it best: Perfection (in the design of software, as well as his airplanes) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
Accordingly, note the nonexistence of irkerd configuration options and the complete absence of anything resembling a control dotfile. I even, quite deliberately, omitted the usual option to change the port that irker listens on. Because if you think you need an option like that, you actually have a problem you need to solve at your firewall.
But releasing irkerd, of course, is not the end of the story. For it to do any good, instances of the daemon and its repo hook will need to be running and documented at sites like SourceForge, GitHub, Gitorious, Gna, and Savannah. As I noted at the beginning of this essay, I expect pushing the deployment along will eat up a lot of my time in the near future – probably more time than it took to write and test the code. These forge sites are all chronically understaffed and have long issue backlogs.
Still, at least we now have a simple and robust design, and working code. And – this can’t be emphasized enough – single-site outages will no longer be fatal. If there’s one thing the history of the Internet should have taught us, it’s that you get robust and scalable services not by centralizing but by distributing them. It’s too bad the designer of CIA never internalized that lesson, and there can be no better finish to this tale of failure than by reinforcing it.
UPDATE: I’ve changed my mind about statistics-gathering. I no longer think a bot watching the #commits channel is any kind of good idea – the notifications are too easily spoofed, or could just be garbled by software or configuration errors. If you want activity statistics, Ohloh shows the way – analysis tools operating on the repositories.
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49 thoughts on “CIA and the perils of overengineering”
Nathan on 2012-09-27 at 19:35:09 said:
I understand the case for minimalism in software, but the lack of an option to change the port seems positively avant-garde.
Glenn (NotReynolds) on 2012-09-27 at 19:52:25 said:
@Nathan, quite a few months back, Eric dropped a comment here or on Google+ about getting a port number allocated from the appropriate internet authority. So, really, there’s no need to change the port. It’s not like you’d be running multiple copies with different configurations, or anything, or doing ‘security through translucency’ by running on a non-standard port. (It’s not even obscurity; anyone who doesn’t understand port scans has no business using the word security.)
A on 2012-09-27 at 20:46:10 said:
I’m not familiar with CIA myself, but reading your description in paragraph 7-8, my first thought was “why is it trying to do it as message -> analysis server -> irc, instead of message -> irc -> analysis server or irc analysis server? That makes no sense.”
Out of curiosity, why truncate long commit messages instead of breaking them into multiple parts? And is there still a magic pointer to #commits, or are the clients expected to specify that?
>why truncate long commit messages instead of breaking them into multiple parts?
Someone nicely anticipated my answer later in the thread.
>And is there still a magic pointer to #commits, or are the clients expected to specify that?
Clients specify that. It’s an overrideable default.
DMcCunney on 2012-09-27 at 20:54:40 said:
It sounds like irker can be generalized to push most anything to an IRC channel, and the source needn’t be a VCS. Write a commit-hook script for whatever you are monitoring changes on, assuming that does something you *can* hook..
Agreed on truncating the commit message: if the user is sufficiently interested they can simply hop over to the repository and look at the actual commit records.
But I started to think “too complex and over-engineered” when I saw modules in “perl, python, Erlang, Twisted, and Django.” WTF? Yeah, if your different modules are suitably encapsulated and communicate via a defined message passing mechanism that is language independent, you shouldn’t have to care what host language a module was in. But this just sounds like people adding functionality they thought was desirable in a language they happened to know, with no strong maintainer to enforce sanity and see that complexity was minimized. Python for the daemon. Python or Perl for the commit_hooks. Anything else? Not unless you provide very convincing evidence it’s the only way to do it, and that what it is is sufficiently important to justify the variance. Better yet, just don’t go there.
>It sounds like irker can be generalized to push most anything to an IRC channel, and the source needn’t be a VCS. Write a commit-hook script for whatever you are monitoring changes on, assuming that does something you *can* hook..
JonCB on 2012-09-27 at 21:04:03 said:
Out of curiosity, why truncate long commit messages instead of breaking them into multiple parts?
I’d say the rationale is that you should be able to work out the context of the commit from 500 characters which is the point whereas you don’t really get anything by guaranteeing the full commit message at the cost of complicating the line protocol to the point that you might compromise the ability for humans to work out the context of the commit.
Lars Viklund on 2012-09-27 at 22:30:55 said:
The lack of configurable port smells a bit to me like personal preference gone too far. It feels a bit strange, that on one hand, there’s a fixed port number for interoperability, but on the other hand, you recommend locking every single instance of the service down behind closed doors.
If it’s supposed to be private, why not let the entities involved set it up to fit their environment?
What if you have an existing service running on the port number? If every piece of software would go and reserve all the ports it uses, and everyone would honor the reservations, we would’ve run out of ports in the registry long ago. The only reason the port registration system “works” is because no-one really cares about it.
I guess that you can just force your way through inertia, and leave the painful reconfiguration or deployment of more machines to the end users.
Nigel on 2012-09-27 at 22:32:04 said:
xmpp > irc for this sort of thing but I guess few open source devs are using xmpp and have flocked to freenode. Other than freenode other irc usage have dropped 60% since 2003 and my favorite (grove.io) just went bye bye (it didn’t last very long…less than a year from launch to *poof*).
We tend to use some combo of redmine, jenkins, gerrit or the atlassian suite (free for open source last I checked) with git or svn and integrated with mylin with little reliance on irc.
xmpp > irc for this sort of thing
It’s probably just a personal preference thing but I never really liked XMPP because sending messages over xml (when the message itself doesn’t need to be xml) seems like the Wrong Thing.
Peter Scott on 2012-09-28 at 00:13:46 said:
Nigel: XMPP support wouldn’t be that hard to add. The messages sent to irkerd are of the form
{"to": [url1, url2, ...], "privmsg": "Commit message here."}
Those URLs are currently IRC channel URLs, like “irc://chat.freenode.net/commits”, but they could just as easily point to XMPP people or group chat channels (e.g. “xmpp:commits@myserver.com”). To make irkerd support this, you would need to add another couple of hundred lines of code (or so) to handle the XMPP connections. It would take some work, but not a lot of work. Crucially, it wouldn’t be a confusing nightmare where everything breaks because you touched it.
>To make irkerd support this, you would need to add another couple of hundred lines of code (or so) to handle the XMPP connections.
I’d take that patch.
>Those URLs are currently IRC channel URLs, like “irc://chat.freenode.net/commits”, but they could just as easily point to XMPP people or group chat channels
When I was designing this, I contemplated splitting the target designations as follows:
{"server":"chat.freenode,org", "channel":"#gpsd", "privmsg":"Hello world!"}
But when I thought about it, my design intuition said to me rather loudly “Wrong. Use URLs.” I didn’t know why at the time, but I’ve learned to trust my instincts about stuff like this. I think you just told me why – somewhere in my backbrain I had already figured out that someday being able to speak non-IRC URLs would be useful.
Creativity can be an odd and mysterious thing sometimes.
Because nobody in this thread has mentioned it yet: the code in the release tarball definitely seems to have a configurable PORT parameter, set to 6659 by default. And if it didn’t, adding it would be a trivial five-line change. A nice rule for writing simple software is to not fret too much about this sort of thing when it’s so easy to change if you need to.
Actually, you could probably come up with a handful of quick-and-dirty rules that would prevent most common complexity problems. The kind of server configuration issues that plagued CIA, for example, can be prevented by doing server setup only through a script, which is checked into your repo along with the rest of the code. For a typical Python project, such a script would apt-get install anything it needs that’s not Python code, create a virtualenv, set up the most recent version of the code (and fetch dependencies) with a pip one-liner, and then restart any daemons that need updating. The map is never out of date, because it is the territory.
(Another good rule is, never use Twisted. I know that’s not a very broadly useful aphorism, but boy, would it have saved me a lot of headache. Too many callbacks, too much spaghetti code, and too damn many factory classes. Something relatively sane like Eventlet is a real breath of fresh air.)
Nikolai Kondrashov on 2012-09-28 at 02:42:58 said:
Why do you even consider collecting statistics from commit notifications? Notifications are there for humans. Why go through all the format conversions, trying to workaround message truncating, delay and possible loss, when you can just pull the data in full from the source – the repo?
>Why go through all the format conversions, trying to workaround message truncating, delay and possible loss, when you can just pull the data in full from the source – the repo?
I wondered about this myself. I think it was a case of designer self-abuse. :-)
Jakub Narebski on 2012-09-28 at 03:52:09 said:
I wonder if instead of having to lock down irker behind firewall, why not use some standard authentication mechanism. I think OAuth (1.0 or 2.0) is now standard for tools authorization.
>I wonder if instead of having to lock down irker behind firewall, why not use some standard authentication mechanism.
Too heavyweight to be worthwhile in this case, or so I judge.
el slapper on 2012-09-28 at 04:12:54 said:
ESR said : “mostly Python but some Erlang, using (a) a custom web framework, (b) some Twisted, and (c) some Django”.
Argh. This alone makes your point to anyone having faced mixes of technologies. Especially for a not-that-big system(the thing it does is, mmmh, well, not really complex. You re-made it in 400 lines, seems like).
Someone was having fun creating this. Fun shall not be dismissed, though. Fun fuels productivity & creativity(probably even more for open source). A lot. I tend to believe more & more that being able to stop when fun becomes counter-productive is one of the toughest things for being a professional coder. Not enough fun, & you’ll do bland things(i.e. corporate, repetitive, unefficient, boring, slow, unintuitive to use, lotus-notish…). Too much fun & you end up with astronautic architectures(as described here) where 2 or 3 small components are enough.
John on 2012-09-28 at 04:20:10 said:
Typo: “Unfortunately, as in the old proverb about law and sausage, […] advised not look to much more closely”
Should be, say, “advised not to look”, or “advised to not look”.
BTW @esr would you be replacing ‘contrib/ciabot/’ in git sources by equivalent irkerd solution?
>BTW @esr would you be replacing ‘contrib/ciabot/’ in git sources by equivalent irkerd solution?
No, because the git hook code ships with the irker distribution. I’ve sent mail to the git development list explaining the situation and requesting that contrib/ciabot/ be deleted.
> Why go through all the format conversions, trying to workaround message truncating, delay and possible loss, when you can just pull the data in full from the source – the repo?
That (pulling data from repo) is, among other things, what Ohloh does:
https://www.ohloh.net/
Thje one team I’m actively involved in as a developer these days uses Skype as a communications channel. None of us particularly likes IRC, and Skype gives us the ability to join the chat and get access to what has gone before.
It shouldn’t be hard to add the same functionality for Skype chats, either. I may look into this.
IGnatius T Foobar on 2012-09-28 at 09:37:41 said:
As one of many former CIA users, I thank you for this.
Let me ask a question, though: why couldn’t a candidate CIA replacement simply take the form of a commit script hook that talks directly to the IRC channel instead of through a daemon?
>why couldn’t a candidate CIA replacement simply take the form of a commit script hook that talks directly to the IRC channel instead of through a daemon?
Because a CIA client that opened up a new connection for each message would produce huge volumes of join/leave spam.
patrioticduo on 2012-09-28 at 10:23:09 said:
As someone who has spawned his fair share of poorly conceived and executed code “blobs”, I think your restraint and brevity while describing the work of the originator and the maintainers is admirable. Critique not criticism! And I think your handling of the sitution is also admirable in that, rather than complain about the sticky soda spilled on the kitchen floor, you are one of those persons who is on the floor mopping up the mess while also asking the children how they might avoid making such a mess in the future. Bravo!
John D. Bell on 2012-09-28 at 10:26:06 said:
@esr –
In the OP, you talk briefly about the history of CIA.vc. It seems (from a little link chasing), that the real original author was M. Elizabeth Scott, who wrote the first code back in 2003ish. When she dropped it, atheme.org took over. Her Twitter feed from 26 Sept. talks about re-hosting the service and re-pointing the DNS entry. You might want to correspond with her or her successor maintainers about your work.
Hm. Looks like the original architecture came about before DVCSs. That might explain a few design choices.
But that Ms. Scott was a college student with plenty of free time explains many more.
IGnatius: There’s an efficiency advantage for a forge site in routing all this through one central daemon instead of having 40 zillion IRC scripts with separate state and network connections for each one. Since this is aimed at forge sites, it’s a natural design choice.
My bad – more careful link chasing reveals “M. Elizabeth Scott” and “Micah Dowty” are the same person.
My sincere apologies to anyone upset by my statements.
Joel C. Salomon on 2012-09-28 at 10:54:43 said:
GitHub offers that; see ‹https://github.com/github/github-services/blob/master/services/irc.rb›. It requires the GitHub framework though, so it’s (probably) not portable to other forges.
Lewis on 2012-09-28 at 17:11:58 said:
I understand the logic of not being able to specify a port. But should it at least not take an option to specify an address on which to listen (defaulting to 127.0.0.1)? Or does it default to 127.0.0.1 already? This can be done at the firewall, but why should it?
>Or does it default to 127.0.0.1 already?
No. I actually wanted to do this, but couldn’t figure out how to beat the Python SocketServer library into it soon enough for 1.0.
Random832 on 2012-09-28 at 17:40:03 said:
>>why couldn’t a candidate CIA replacement simply take the form of a commit script hook that talks directly to the IRC channel instead of through a daemon?
>Because a CIA client that opened up a new connection for each message would produce huge volumes of join/leave spam.
I was going to say “Why not a generalized daemon that listens on a port for messages and sends them on to IRC”, then realized… that’s basically what it is. I think that regardless of the initial idea being a CIA replacement for commit hooks, saying it’s “for” that undersells its usefulness as a general tool. It could be used for _any time ever_ you want to script sending a notification to IRC – without making the tool generating the notification deal with maintaining IRC state.
Now, it’s probably something that a thousand people have tacked on a half-assed version of to a hundred different IRC bot codebases with no standard protocol, but I think this has the potential to become a unix-philosophy IRC bot.
>I was going to say “Why not a generalized daemon that listens on a port for messages and sends them on to IRC”, then realized… that’s basically what it is.
I’m wary of the tendency to over-generalise. Start out writing an IRC client, then generalise that into a socket library, then end up re-inventing netcat..
>but I think this has the potential to become a unix-philosophy IRC bot.
Despite my one reservation above, I actually agree with you on this count, and I think ESR’s solution is truly beautiful.
Actually, it would take minimal work to turn it into a general chat notification bot: with minimal hacking, the channel URL can be *any* URL, and then all you need to do is write the specific handler for that URL scheme. A handler for an xmpp: URL would probably plug right in, and Skype (plus or minus library licensing, an annoyance I need to think about) isn’t much harder.
Lewis: when in doubt, look at the code; it’s the ultimate authority on itself. Host and port are configurable, and default to localhost:6659.
Lester Caine on 2012-09-29 at 04:25:50 said:
“Why do you even consider collecting statistics from commit notifications?” was mentioned, but CIA.VC WAS in my book the data! I only found that it was down when I went to check up on my across several projects yesterday. CIA.VC used to provide a good CENTRAL record that I could use. One does not realize how much one relies on something until it’s not there – I had several years on ‘history’ until a break caused by pigging DVCS’s not being fully developed before they were blindly adopted (there are better things than git) and took some time for all the infrastructure to catch up!
The current developments are simply replacing the code? There is currently no sign of a replacement ‘home’?
I can’t say that I am surprised that ‘virtualization’ and ‘the cloud’ feature in the problem. Personally I still prefer to know where my data is :) and I run Firebird on all my customer projects which runs background backups at appropriate times so that when something does break – which it does occasionally – there is always a crutch to fall back on.
Oh and we don’t want ‘one’ of the ‘social networks’ picking this up, the nice thing was the independence and access to code across many systems!
{“to”: [url1, url2, …], “privmsg”: “Commit message here.”}
@ESR, why “privmsg” here, and not just “message”, “payload” or even “body”?
Jakub, Eric had IRC in mind when writing it. PRIVMSG is the command an IRC client sends the server to send a message to another user or to a channel. (Both. Don’t ask me why; it’s probably for hysterical raisins relating to the evolution of IRC in the distant past.) The irkerd source code also uses heavily IRCish variable names.
@,b>Jay, I was referring to this when asking about “privmsg”:
The messages sent to irkerd are of the form
Those URLs are currently IRC channel URLs, like “irc://chat.freenode.net/commits”, but they could just as easily point to XMPP people or group chat channels (e.g. “xmpp:commits@myserver.com”).
So we have URLs in generic “to”, but IRC-specific “privmsg”…
>So we have URLs in generic “to”, but IRC-specific “privmsg”…
Yes, this is a minor design flaw. I was rushing to get the code out the door following the death of CIA, and did not think everything through as thoroughly as I would have at more leisure.
Patrick Maupin on 2012-09-29 at 17:24:43 said:
Quite coincidentally, I spent part of last week simplifying an overengineered codebase, as well.
The difference is that (a) the original codebase was mine rather than someone else’s, and (b) for some uses, it isn’t really overengineered. But for many potential uses and users, it is definitely overengineered, if for no other reason than that the learning curve might be too steep if you need to perform customizations like subclassing things.
The codebase was rson, which was born out of my unhappiness with the severely overengineered YAML. And rson has proven itself very useful over the last couple of years, both as an example file format with a robust parser, and as a highly configurable parser that can be easily tweaked as necessary.
But reconfiguring the parser involves understanding how and where to subclass things, and not everything is configurable. I was about to add yet another configuration option when I decided to go the other way, and separate out really low-level container parsing (indentation, comments, etc.) from the application-specific higher level stuff.
So, I now have a new rsonlite parser, which (AFAIK) is the easiest way to transform a text file that has meaningful indentation into a corresponding Python data structure. Also, since rsonlite is a simpler format than rson, it was easy to generate an encoder for it, as well. This is something I never did for stock rson, because rson is so flexible it’s hard to decide what the canonical format should be.
Beth Scott on 2012-10-03 at 23:41:22 said:
I’m really glad someone is finally replacing CIA.
As you’ve gathered, the architecture was a total mess, and it’s been limping along on life support for many years. I feel somewhat compelled to add some historical perspective, though. Despite what you may think, CIA was not designed by a total idiot- it just wasn’t ever designed to be as big as it became.
When I started CIA, it was quite literally just a few shell scripts. I think the very first IRC bot was a pretty simple Perl or Python script, and there was a commit hook which would send it messages over a pipe. As simple as possible. It was only intended to serve a single project- a little embedded GUI I was working on at the time. I just wanted something that would notify the IRC channel, and while it was at it I could collect some simple checkin stats.
A few other people were interested in using it, so I extended it very incrementally at first. From the very beginning, it was “production” code in the sense that people were relying on it, but alas it wasn’t anyone’s primary responsibility. I still considered it to be a little side-project that I mostly just used to help with developing the embedded GUI.
There was one major rewrite which replaced the mess of shell scripts with a daemon written in Python using the Twisted framework. I now know this was a horrible idea- the resulting codebase was complex, monolithic, hard to debug and maintain. But for me, it was a side-project and a learning experience. Something to do instead of going to classes. CIA *never* had a proper development team behind it. I was begrudgingly maintaining it to the extent that I had to, but it was never really my primary focus.
And that was the problem. One big rewrite that left the system in a hard-to-maintain spot, followed by very little time and energy for follow-up rearchitecture. This all happened way before the service got as big as it is now. To help with the scaling, I ended up splitting the monolithic Twisted daemon into a few daemons. Then I started the process of rewriting the web frontend using something standard (Django). But I never had time to finish that rewrite, so there was always part of the site in Django and part of it in the original Twisted codebase.
I made an attempt to do one last rewrite to make the codebase actually scalable and decentralized. Some of what you see in the repository (like the Erlang bits) were remnants of experiments I did, to see what technologies would work well for such a rewrite. But I was long past out of steam, and I never completed that rearchitecture.
Anyway, hopefully this is helpful. I think many people can vouch for my competence as a developer. (For example, I’m pretty happy with my resume: http://scanlime.org/resume/). To paint this purely as a case of some idiot developing a recklessly complex architecture would be misleading, and I think much less interesting than the truth: This is a great case study of what happens when a service is well-liked but nobody steps up to maintain it. It grows organically to the extent that it can, then collapses.
>To paint this purely as a case of some idiot developing a recklessly complex architecture would be misleading, and I think much less interesting than the truth: This is a great case study of what happens when a service is well-liked but nobody steps up to maintain it. It grows organically to the extent that it can, then collapses.
I won’t argue with that description; it’s completely consistent with what I saw in my one look at the code. I’m not going to let you off the hook completely, though; you may not have intended reckless complexity, but that is where you ended up through not having enough discipline and persistence to do the hard work of keeping things simple. Perhaps you have that kind of craftsmanship now as a more experienced developer; I hope you do.
Mark on 2012-10-04 at 16:23:32 said:
> I was going to say “Why not a generalized daemon that listens on a port for messages > and sends them on to IRC”, then realized… that’s basically what it is. I think that
> regardless of the initial idea being a CIA replacement for commit hooks, saying it’s “for” > that undersells its usefulness as a general tool. It could be used for _any time ever_
> you want to script sending a notification to IRC – without making the tool generating the > notification deal with maintaining IRC state.
That was my initial impression as well. It brought me back to the days of having nagios alerts going to our in-house irc network, and what a pain it was…
> Now, it’s probably something that a thousand people have tacked on a half-assed
> version of to a hundred different IRC bot codebases with no standard protocol, but I
> think this has the potential to become a unix-philosophy IRC bot.
Well spoken, and my thoughts too. I’m envisioning a few uses already, none having anything to do with its intended purpose.
Justin Crawford on 2013-11-22 at 03:29:15 said:
I understand the architecture is a mess and the source is very complicated. I have started working to update and rewrite some of the architecture for CIA.vc. This will take some time to do but I have many ideas for CIA and the remaining codebase.
I have started a new CIA server at http://cia.stacksmash.net/ for everyone to take a look at.
I plan on maintaining this for a long time as I am obsessed with the project and many of the alternatives do not do what I would like them to do. I have become upset with the idea that there is no longer a centrailized server for all commits to go to and all the replacements I have seen since do not allow “subscribing” like CIA did. I followed many project updates in my IRC server/channel which I am now unable to follow due to the lack of ability to get access to commit hooks.
I have plans to completely remove twisted with a better IRC implementation. I have already begun finishing the rewrite of the web front that Beth Scott was doing as well as updating many of the libraries CIA depends on. Most (if not all) bugs have been fixed with the restart of the server. The front “overview” page has been rewritten into django and I am working on rewriting the stats functions as well as updating from django 0.96 to django 1.0 (and further upgrading from there). Once I get CIA fully upgraded as well as cleaning up the code base, it will be a bit more understandable than it is now.
You can follow my progress at https://github.com/Justasic/cia-vc or on the blog on http://cia.stacksmash.net/
>I have become upset with the idea that there is no longer a centrailized server for all commits to go to and all the replacements I have seen since do not allow “subscribing” like CIA did. I followed many project updates in my IRC server/channel which I am now unable to follow due to the lack of ability to get access to commit hooks.
If you must do this, get it right this time. Cooperate with irkerd. If you show me a credible plan, I’ll add a side channel to irkerd that relays JSON commit notifications to a CIA aggregation site. That way you never have to maintain or ship your own hooks and can specialize in aggregation and subscription feeds. You wouldn’t even have to have your own database of project-to-IRC-channel mappings; the incoming JSON would tell you that.
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Order "God of War: The Epic Story of Alexander the Great" HERE
"The story of how Alexander the Great conquered the world - first crushing Greek resistance to Macedonian rule, then destroying the Persian Empire in three monumental battles, before marching into the unknown and final victory in India - is a truly epic tale that has mesmerised countless generations of listeners. He crammed more adventure into his thirty-three years than any other human being before or since, and now for the first time a novelist will tell the tale in a single suitably epic volume. The combination of Alexander's life story and Christian Cameron's unrivalled skills as an historian and storyteller will ensure that this will not only be the definitive version for many years to come, but also one of the most exciting historical epics ever written."
I am a big fan of Christian Cameron's "Classical Greek World" novels - there are two duologies so far in the Tyrant series of which I reviewed King of the Bosporus (the fourth novel and second dealing with the children of Kineas who is the main hero of the first two books) and two novels in the Long War series that takes place some 150-200 years earlier and feature Arimnestos of Plataea, hero of Marathon and ancestor of Kineas and his twins, Satyrus and Melitta.
So while expecting the fifth Tyrant novel (which should have been published in Jan/Feb) and the third Arimnestos one (due in the summer), I was a bit disappointed that Mr. Cameron published God of War which supposedly tells (again and after a ton of similar novels and a few popular movies) the story of Alexander.
However I read a review and realized that actually God of War is told by Ptolemy, king of Egypt and important secondary character of the Tyrant series to Satyrus about the time when the twins found refuge in Alexandria and I realized that actually this book ties in perfectly with the Tyrant series, so of course it became an asap and I got and read it immediately despite its almost 800 pages.
Kineas is quite important in the book though indeed the novel focuses on Ptolemy's life from childhood till the death of Alexander in Babylon in 323. As "legal" son of the richest Macedonian noble and rumoured that he was actually Philip's illegitimate son, so Alexander's step brother, Ptolemy is raised with the prince and becomes one of his principal advisers and later a main general of his armies, though he never attains the influence of Alexander's intimate friend Hephaestion.
Nicknamed "farm boy" for his forthrightness and occasional lack of sophistication, Ptolemy both loves and later almost worships Alexander, while also tries to keep him grounded. If Hephaestion told Alexander what he liked to hear, Ptolemy told him what he needed to hear. The unquestionable loyalty he showed during their early years and later during the difficult years of Alexander's marginalization by his father, made Ptolemy the only possible person who could tell hard truths to the increasingly "god like" king.
That made Ptolemy less than popular on occasion with the king, but his immense wealth and later his relationship with Thais, famous Athenian hetaira and unofficial spy-mistress of the Macedonians, his friendship with Kineas, the Athenian nobleman and cavalry commander and his camaraderie with his soldiers and officers compensated for that, though of course after the Persian conquest it became more and more dangerous to offer even the slightest hint of dissent to Alexander as numerous Macedonian noblemen and generals paid with their lives for that.
"‘What’s he thinking of?’ I asked Thaïs, who rode between me and Kineas.
Thaïs smiled. ‘He isn’t going to lay siege to it,’ she said. ‘He’s going to make love to it.’
She was at her most witty when she was enigmatic. So I smiled at her and kept my scouts moving."
So the novel spans about 20 years, starting with their early teen years at Pella and their study under Aristotle, though the bulk of it deals with Alexander's ascension and then his Persian conquest, while his last seven years after the burning of Persepolis in 330 are mostly summarized in the last hundred fifty or so of pages which are vignette like.
As this is a Christian Cameron novel, the world building is exceptional and the description of army life, marches and supplies is as exciting and thorough as the description of battles and sieges. While Alexander, "the God of War" is always the main focus of the big picture, Ptolemy and Thais are the main characters and their relationship from their first meeting in Athens to their quasi-marriage and lifelong partnership is the keystone of the novel and what raises this book above the many offerings on its subject.
As I tend to believe that the author's take on Alexander is as close to reality as it can be done, 2300+ years later and few original sources beyond the brute facts - details of which are still unknown and/or controversial - the novel worked very well from this point of view.
"I didn’t think he was insane – if he had ever been sane by the standards of normal men, he still was. But the enormous wound he’d taken and the drugs Philip must have put into him to keep him on his feet – by Apollo’s bow, I still look for any excuse to cover him. He ordered almost fifty thousand men and women killed between Tyre and Gaza, and for nothing. Everyone else had already submitted. There was no example to be made. And the killing of Batis went clean against his code – except that more and more frequently, he seemed to be set on the annihilation of all resistance, rather than the honourable combat and complex warrior friendships of the Iliad.It was a paradox – the kind on which Aristotle thrived – that Alexander seemed to want to create the world of the Iliad – a world of near-eternal war and heroism – and yet seemed to want to destroy all of his opponents so that they could not continue the struggle."
God of War is a top 25 novel of mine in 2012 and as a standalone page turner with so much great stuff and a modern retelling of an epic story that has stood as a model for such for all these 23 centuries, I think that anyone who loves epics should give it a try.
Usemeplz said...
Thanks for great review! After reading it now I have another opinion about this work. This story about Alexander deserves high rate.
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Thank you for your kind words; looking forward to the next Tyrant and Long War novels!
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Unfair, Unbalanced and Off the Wall
A few days ago, I found the CNN display of vice-President Cheney — a black “x” flashing across his face as he spoke and a headline at the bottom of the picture proclaiming: CHENEY: “I DO NOT BELIEVE IT IS WRONG TO CRITICIZE” — a truly creepy example of (to put it politely) “media bias.” I thought then, and I still believe, that it was just one more example of the dark thread of evil which runs through the MSM. Only the strand seems to be assuming the proportions of a rope. One can only pray it is eventually long enough that they will all hang themselves from the pile of their own lies.
Commenters came to reassure me it was a “technical goof”, a “glitch,” etc. Michelle Malkin was pointed to as the final arbiter. Michelle says nothing to it, so nothing it is. I was skeptical, as I said at the time:
I'm not the paranoid type except when it comes to the MSM. Too many decades of "true technical goofs" that somehow never happen to the politicians the MSM favors...
...sorry, but I simply don't believe them. Someone with better equipment than I --the political teen, I believe -- had the video on just as I went to bed last night. So "the x marks the spot" went on for a while.
...and Michelle Malkin is welcome to diverge from my belief; that's okay. It doesn't change my mind that some idjit was having a bit o' fun...
...who are you going to believe, CNN or your lying eyes?
Well, readers, it turns out my intuition was correct. In fact, when it comes to the MSM, believe your worst intuitions because they will usually be correct, conditioned as they are by decades of lying, smearing, leaning, obfuscating and otherwise contorting the truth.
Surely a romp through one issue of the New York Times — lately known as the old Gray Whore as her numbers plummet — would convince you? If not willing to attempt that heady experience (I’m not — Shrinkwrapped does it for me), try:
AL-Reuters
NPR (National Palestinian Radio)
Associated Press (Arab Press, which Wikipedia cites as having 210,000 hits regarding its slant — “slant” hell, it’s made-up news).
And how could we leave out USA Today’s website picture of Condi Rice and her demon eyes?
If the MSM coverage of Hurricane Katrina didn't convince you of their mendacity, what will?
A picture, perhaps, of a reporter in a canoe "paddling" in a street flooded with three inches of water? Trying to be cute, the Today Show, just before going to a segment in which it would claim that the Administration staged its video of a conversation between the President and some soldiers, staged its own attempt to embarrass the President with the dangerous floodwaters of ace reporterette, Michelle Kosinski.
Well, Bill Quick has the story now. And you can forget the candy-land dreams of “glitches” and “goofs.” This is more in line with witches and cloven hoof:
Unfortunately for CNN, a large number of their demographics also participate in Internet communities and Blogs, representing a large portion of their viewership and posing a threat to news cable and newspaper subscriber's fees.
Millions from across the country telephoned CNN to alert the network about an accidental "X" over the Vice President's face, only to be told that the "X" was intentional against the present administration.
Okay. At least they’re honest about it. Or does this represent a turning of the tide, an open break between the media’s hatred for this administration, referred to by many reasonable people as “Bush Derangement,” and their schizophrenic demand to be seen as neutral and unbiased?
They can’t have it both ways. Nor should we simply dismiss this as trivial. By itself, it would be nothing. But this disrespect, this targeting of vice-President Cheney, is part of a much larger system. And it is building. Fueled by lots of money from the Saudis, who spread their disinformation with impunity in this country, and driven by a visceral left wing hatred, this is a dangerous and growing phenomenon. Sure, this newest episode is just one stupid, sophomoric trick. But so have been many of the others.
And some are not so naïve; when Eason Jordan casually claimed that American soldiers were targeting journalists, he made the remark in off-the-cuff statement in Davos. He never expected to be called out for it, even though it was a lie, calumny against the military which defends his elitist ass. This episode is paradigmatic of the journaliste attitude to America’s foreign policy efforts. What Mr. Jordan said was not a political disagreement, it was a terrible slander of our military. We rose up against this lie and he lost his job. Deservedly so. He should have lost it years ago for his very unprofessional relationship with Saddam Hussein's regime. He sold his soul for access and hundreds of thousands of people died because of it. Unlike Duranty with Stalin in the 1930's Mr. Jordan didn't get away with it.
We are lied to every day and we are lied to relentlessly. The fact that we haven’t given up, the fact that we continue to make fun of them and to point out their wildly obvious biases shows that we’re in this for more than trivial pursuits. It speaks to our resiliency and to our on-going demand that the powerful media learn to discern the difference between the facts and what are merely their own opinions.
They want to be respected but they’re not because they’ve thrown away their good name repeatedly. The MSM in this country is a joke. A sick joke played at our expense. Fortunately, like Dan Rather and Mary Mapes and Eason Jordan and the photographers in Palestine who set up their “candid” pictures, and the reporters who claimed Jenin was a “massacre,” they will be uncovered and booted. But only if we keep the pressure on.
So good on you, Bill Quick. Thanks for the effort, thanks for the capture of their self-condemning audio.
And good on us, everyone of us out here who refuse to simply glance at the mayhem out the window and drive on by. “Not my problem”? The hell it’s not. It’s my country, dude. And it’s your job, you “journalists” at CNN, to present the facts — in this case, the speech being given by the vice-president — without your slimy, dangerous editorializing.
CNN has a new motto: “X” Marks The Spot. They deserve it.
Posted by Dymphna at 11/23/2005 09:59:00 PM
airforcewife said...
One of the biggest turning points for me in my journey from knee jerk Democrat from a knee jerk family to... well, something else, was seeing the vast difference in the amount of professionalism shown by major news organizations and what I had to show working at a tiny little CSU college newspaper.
We couldn't afford lawyers, ya see.
The news organizations are attempting to be the hand that rocks the cradle - just as I grew up nourished on 60 minutes and NBC Nightly News.
Luckily we have a different nanny in our house. My three kids read World Magazine (the version corresponding with their ages) and my 13 year old checks LGF.
I had an interesting email exchange with Aaron Brown once. I don't like him.
"Fueled by lots of money from the Saudis, who spread their disinformation with impunity in this country"
Why would they do that? Aren't they our friends and allies?
"Talibans with Oil and a Good P.R. Company"
THanks, Doug!
The Baron printed that out for me today and I plan to post on it...got sidetracked by the last two posts...
The one you link to is the real deal, though.
Happy T'giving, Doug -- I was just sure someone would pick up on that comment and make it paranoid. Now I realize it reflects my reading earlier this morning...
...as if we didn't already know it. The slave owner in Colorado is up on terrorist charges now...I need to get to that one, too.
So many egregious stories. So little bandwidth...
airforcewife:
It's a long, slow journey, isn't it? On Neighborhood of God, I was reminiscing about Thanksgivings Past and remembered I tried Susan What's Her Name's (on NPR)cranberry sauce recipe one year. I loved it but no one else did.
Now I haven't heard that station in years. Except for jazz on Saturday nights.
Zwergele said...
Confusion. When I click on the "Shrinkwrapped" link in the post, I get a FORBIDDEN 403 error. Clicking on the comments, I see a lot of them have disappeared. Then when I click (on the comments page) to show the original post, I get a different link to Shrinkwrapped that does not reveal the quote Dymphna put on the home page of Gates of Vienna.
It sure looks as if technical problems are getting in the way.
Reading that CNN admitted "...the X was intentional and against the present admistration" hit me pretty hard. This would be the first candid open admission to the public that CNN is a politically motivated propaganda organization devoted to, among other things, bringing down the Bush administration. (Other such admissions have been leaked, such as the infamous ABC memo that told staffers that ethical reporting was not required, given that Bush was up for re-election and obviously had to be defeated.)
If CNN actually told people the X on Cheney was a political statement, then the arguments over media bias have just exploded into declared, admitted and very open war.
Up to now, the liars have insisted they are reporters, not propagandists. Now CNN is claimed to have broken ranks and admitted its frankly adversarial role.
Or....?
My view is that if CNN did in fact tell people the X was deliberate, political and expressive of network policy, this will precipitate a seismic event with virtually no precedent in US history.
If this is what we face, and I hope very much that it is because I want to be part of the army that tears CNN to shreds, facts are absolutely required. No laundry list of past deceits and bias will suffice: what is absolutely essential is the solid evidence that CNN told the public that it has gone to war with the Bush administration, and that CNN will use tactics of all sorts to discredit and defeat its enemy.
Proof. Facts. So where do we get them?
It would be great if the links on Gates of Vienna were working properly; this declaration of war must be verified or shown to be an empty rumor.
I would like to see the comments restored, as well. It is not a good idea to allow the appearance of censorship to creep in and raise doubts, now is it? That's what CNN did when it made sure nobody could ever view that videotape of Eason Jordan shooting his mouth off.
Now I'm off to try to find information on other websites.
I erred in my post: the 403 Forbidden Error is what I get when I click on the link to Bill Quick's weblog, not what comes up when I click on "Shrinkwrapped." The Shrinkwrapped link does not lead to info on CNN and the X. Mea culpa, and sorry to have mixed those two up!!
I can't get through to dailypundit at all; all I get is 403 Forbidden Error. Maybe later it will clear up.
Meanwhile I see nothing else on this event anywhere. The claim is, according to the quote from Quick as presented on Gates of Vienna, that "Millins from across the country telephoned CNN...(and were) told that 'X' was intentional against the present administration."
OK, we have millions of earwitnesses, then, who were clearly and explicitly told that CNN has declared war. This should be easy to establish.
One nagging thought: remember Mad Mary Mapes.....who knew Bush was AWOL from the Air Guard.....knew she could prove it........
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The comment about Shrinkwrapped: I probably shouldn't have linked to him at all since it seems to have confused the issue. HOwever, he writes a lot about the MSM and since I mentioned his name, I thought a link was in order just on general principles.
The remark about his "reading the NYT so I wouldn't have to" was a response he made to me once when I inquired how he could bear to read that stuff...we've tossed it back and forth and for a long time.
Then, a few months back we put up an illustration of a brain on our sidebar with a link to Shrinkwrapped and that same quote: "He reads the New York Times So You Don't Have To.." It was just friendly banter.
I think we ended up replacing it with the OSM trademark but now that has to change...
...so maybe you didn't happen to be reading our blog when that thing was up -- it was big and colorful and hard to miss...
I just tried the Bill Quick link and it worked. THere was probably a lot of traffic since he was the first one to really get the info.
I'm unclear about what you mean about comments. Is that the comments here? We were away so we couldn't have deleted any...thought we'd have computer access but we didn't.
If it's the comments here you couldn't access it's definitely a blooger goof, not ours.
Hope you found the info you needed.
1. Link to Bill Quick does not work for me; I continue to get 403 Forbidden error. I also tried the link posted in the left margin of Gates of Vienna(to dailypundit) and got the Forbidden error there, as well. I have no explanation; maybe someone else knows what is going on?
2. There were quite a few comments on the original post, beginning with my brief note pointing out that Michelle Malkin's site contained information on the X. Those comments included a later, rather long one from me. Perhaps ten comments in that original thread have disappeared.
Michelle Malkin had little to say about the X, and merely passed along comments and information from folks who claimed to know something. This discussion is not to be interpreted as a dispute between Gates of Vienna and Michelle; that should be clear to anyone reading Michelle's site.
If in fact "millions" of people called CNN and were told the X was deliberate political commentary, there is a lot of evidence available to show what happened and why. For now, I hope that everyone will simply take the attitude that not enough is known yet, and that we need to withhold judgment on this particular incident.
The record of media bias, deceit, lies, distortion and refusal to report news that is not politically correct is overwhelming. That much is known and agreed upon. I find it distressing that I must point out that none of this is evidence that the CNN X was malicious. The X could have been a technical goof, and there is evidence to support that explanation. May I respectfully suggest that the comments on Michelle's site do deserve to be read?
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003970.htm
Zwergele -- I just tested our Bill Quick/Daily Pundit links 3 times, and they work fine; I can bring up his whole blog.
Unfortunately, your difficulties are not connected with our blog or our links. There may be problems with your computer, or there may be problems with your ISP. If the latter -- are they connecting you properly to a reliable DNS?
But I'm not enough of an expert to troubleshoot any better than that.
Do any of our expert readers have any ideas to help Zwergele?
Update: friends both here where I am (Bangkok) and in the USA have confirmed that the dailypundit site is easily accessible. No other website fails for me -- so it's just one of those things we'll never figure out, and the problem might stop any minute. (Could be something in my satellite link; that's a convenient thing to blame because it's relatively arcane, sarcastic grin.) Meanwhile I have requested the web pages be forwarded to me from the USA.
I continue to be amazed that this story has received such paltry coverage, but will have to suspend judgment until I read Quick's final remarks, which were linked to by Instapundit.
Doubtless when I know more, I'll have more to say. I always do....
I finally got Bill Quick's full version of events, and I suggest a visit to his website will show that the current post here on Gates of Vienna is not correct.
It is not the case that "millions...telephoned CNN...(and) were told that X was intentional against the present administration." At most, one person made a remark like that to one or more callers; anyone who got through to that idiot also heard a recording saying that he did not speak for CNN. So the guy who created the "prank" X was supposedly exposed and fired; it was in all probability an act of malice, and not a technical glitch.
Read it all at http://dailypundit.com and make up your own mind.
I conclude that CNN has NOT openly declared war on the Bush administration. The struggle remains just as dishonest, deceitful and dirty as ever.
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In an earlier post we examined some Tang Dynasty (618-907) artwork depicting Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha before his enlightenment) as a Chinese prince complete with the appropriate attire and surroundings (see here). Let's take a look again at one of the pieces:
Here we see the prince exiting the south gate on horseback and encountering an ill man. The artist made no attempt to portray the setting or prince as Indian. We can really only speculate why, but I assume it was because the artist was unfamiliar with contemporary Indians and just naturally portrayed the setting and characters as he or she could visualize them. The other images in the set are done in a similar manner.
However, not all Buddhist art from the Tang Dynasty is like this. Here I want to take a look at some other examples from Dunhuang and show that some artists knew what an Indian looked like.
The following piece is "Tejaprabhā Buddha and the Five Planets" from Qianning 乾寧四年 (897 CE) 熾盛光佛并五星圖 by Zhang Huai Xing 張淮興. The planets as depicted here are largely identical to what is described in the astrological text the Brahma Horanavagraha 梵天火羅九曜, as translated by Yijing 一行 (683-727). Consequently, it is assumed that the shadow planets Rāhu and Ketu might have a part in this because there are supposed to be nine luminaries (five planets, sun, moon and the two shadow planets), but due to damage their depictions might have been lost. Yijing incidentally was an esoteric monk who studied of Śubhakarasiṃha 善無畏 and Vajrabodhi 金剛智. He was adept in mathematics and astrology and calendrical sciences.
You will notice in the bottom left a certain figure noticeably different in skin tone from the others. He is a Brahmin depicting Saturn, carrying a staff and directing the ox. Atop him is an ox head. His garments, hairstyle, footwear and adornments are likewise different. Here is what appears to be a realistic portrayal of a figure from the subcontinent. Three of his companions are dressed in Chinese garb. We might also compare these images to what is preserved in the Taishō (T.1311).
The female figure on the bottom is Venus depicted as a beautiful lady playing the pipa 琵琶. Her skin tone is snow white. Incidentally it was part of the female aesthetic which was transferred to Japan and emulated by the Geishas. She has a bird hat atop her head.
At the bottom right the four-armed externalist (外道) is Mars. He has a donkey atop his head. He carries an arrow, bow, double-edged sword and trident.
To the top there is another female figure dressed in Chinese attire holding a brush and paper with a monkey atop her head. She is Mercury.
The minister in the top left is Jupiter. He carries a plate of flowers and fruits while wearing a pig hat.
Tejaprabhā Buddha naturally is depicted as a proper buddha complete with radiant golden skin (it seems the gold leaf has largely worn away) and uṣṇīṣa (on the crown of his head). He too is wearing Indian garb.
While the symbolism in this work is quite rich, I think one notable feature is how the Brahmin is portrayed as an actual Indian. The artist made a conscious effort to depict this in contrast to the first image we viewed where Prince Gautama is seen as a Chinese prince. Either he was working from existing examples or he quite possibly had seen travellers from the subcontinent.
Here is another piece consciously depicting a non-Chinese ethnicity. From upper left to right the figures include Ākāśagarbha 虛空藏菩薩, Mahāmaudgalyāyana 大目揵連 (foremost in supermundane abilities), the Buddha, Śāriputra 舍利弗 (foremost in wisdom) and what appears to be "Treasure Virtue Bodhisattva" 寳德菩薩. Below them all are two more Indian figures and beneath them are lay devotees dressed in Chinese attire.
What is notable here is that Mahāmaudgalyāyana is quite fair while his companions are darker in their complexions. I do not precisely know why this is, but one source tells me that in the Sri Lanka tradition he (Pāli: Moggallāna) is normally portrayed as blue, which is according to the Buddhavaṃsa 1.58 (see here). It seems the artist in the above painting was under a similar impression, but the colour was different. Perhaps someone can clarify this for me.
Quite often in ancient Chinese art Indian deities lose their original identity and are portrayed as Chinese complete with the regalia and entourage. One last image we will look at here is Vaiśravaṇa 多聞天 (Mahārāja of the north continent Uttarakuru) and his entourage, which includes yakṣas and rākṣasas (see here for some related information), crossing the waters.
For a few more interesting images see an earlier post Six Female Spirits to Protect Children.
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As another camp closes, a trip on the bi-annual Homeless Census
Homeless Census volunteers Amber Belcher and Joe Bishop walk past an abandoned encampment in a mid-county gulch. PHOTO: JACOB PIERCE
By Jacob Pierce
It’s Jan. 30, and Joe Bishop, a volunteer with the Point-in-Time Count, or PIT Count, is driving at 10 miles per hour, while Amber Belcher rides shotgun and sifts through maps of three census tracts. The two met for the first time half an hour ago, when they were assigned this area.
Both Bishop and Belcher are rookies in the pre-dawn counting process aimed at better understanding the population of those without homes. Most of the counting happens from the car. Outside, the ground is wet from a nighttime rain. As we roll down a quiet Capitola street, the two volunteers confer with each other to make sure they follow the steps correctly. It’s 5:30 a.m. when Bishop turns around, peering toward me in the backseat, and says with a smile, “As you can see, Jake, the training was—”
“Extensive!” Belcher says, also smiling. Bishop and Belcher both watched a quick video a few days prior as part of their training, then were briefed for 10 minutes as a refresher at the Homeless Services Center before volunteers dispatched into small groups. They’re both happy to be volunteering and want to make sure they get everything right.
The information that volunteers are amassing this morning will serve as the first data point in the 2019 Santa Cruz County Homeless Census and Survey. Over the next couple of months, organizers will conduct about 400 interviews of homeless individuals, attempting to mirror the demographic breakdowns that volunteers like Belcher and Bishop found in the field last month. Researchers will then compile all of the findings in a report due out this summer. The study plays a pivotal funding roll for communities like Santa Cruz County, which receives federal money from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
As Santa Cruz waits for the results of the bi-annual PIT Count, its struggle with the problem of homelessness shows no sign of abating. The homeless camp between the Ross department store and Highway 1, known by many as “the Ross camp,” will be closing in the next three weeks as city employees attempt to shift tent-dwelling residents to other shelters.
Assumed Errors
Over the years, some skeptics have raised questions about counts like these, including the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. The group authored a 2017 report titled “Don’t Count on It,” aimed at highlighting the ways that HUD’s PIT process underreports the actual number of homeless people nationwide.
Naomi Sugie, a social ecology professor at UC Irvine, participated in similar PIT counts, including one in New York City. She tells GT via email that she generally believes “these methods are assumed to have error.” That, she adds, makes it “not particularly useful to emphasize small differences from one year to the next.” Beyond that, if conditions change dramatically in a given year (i.e. a big winter storm), that could affect the count in more problematic ways, adds Sugie, who recently authored a report about how to use new technology and research methods to study “hard-to-reach groups.”
Here in Santa Cruz County, some leaders have grappled with what to make of the count for some time. “It is not real accurate, but you know what is more accurate? Nothing,” says Chip, executive director of the Downtown Association, who went on the 2013 count. He argues that survey results still provide valuable insight into the homeless community. “It’s the best data we have, and when you’re making policy decisions, data’s really important.”
The overall number of local homeless residents has jumped around in recent years without much explanation. Reports showed a 44 percent decrease from 3,536 people in 2013 to 1,964 in 2015. The total went back up again in 2017, to 2,249 people, still 36 percent less than the 2013 number.
Watsonville company Applied Survey Research (ASR) oversees this count and survey, as it does others across the San Francisco Bay Area. ASR Vice President Peter Connery finds that the data is actually “remarkably consistent” year-to-year, especially when it comes to survey results. Many social scientists, generally speaking, don’t like to rely heavily on self-reported data, but the reports’ statistics on reported drug abuse, mental illness struggles, reasons for becoming homeless, and duration of homelessness all hold rather steady. Also, since 2013, between 68-84 percent of respondents have said that they lived in the county before becoming homeless.
Each count, Connery says, is statistically accurate, and ASR tries to make sure as many volunteers as possible get paired with an expert guide from the survey company.
Foggy Math
Early on Jan. 30, after 15 minutes of circling mid-county, Bishop and Belcher spot the first person of the morning who appears to be homeless. From the car, Belcher bubbles in what she guesses is the person’s age bracket, 24-65. As Bishop drives around, Belcher keeps track of which streets we’ve already traveled down, and also wonders how the rain is affecting the count—if the downpour might have pushed people farther out of sight in search of dry hiding places. At the suggestion of organizers, Bishop and Belcher skip over a few streets in a more affluent neighborhood. Our census tracts include parts of Live Oak and Capitola. The 2017 count found that 1 percent of the county’s homeless population lives in Capitola.
Santa Cruz County’s PIT count happens every two years on one day during the last 10 days in January. Connery says HUD mandates that the counts happen at the end of the month because homeless people will often pool cash to get a hotel room when they can afford it, and that money is usually gone by the end of the month. This year, in order to count inhabitants of the Ross camp, Connery says that ASR had “embedded reporters” go undercover at the encampment.
No one knows exactly how variables like weather, date of the month or day of the week affect any given count, though Connery says he doesn’t see any of those factors having an impact. By virtue of its methods, the process involves making judgment calls and even some stereotyping. Belcher and Bishop are not allowed to disturb anyone or knock on car windows, so when they coast past parked vehicles, they’re instead looking for fogged-up windows—a telltale sign that someone’s been inside for hours. That can be tricky, because early in the morning after rain, many car windows look foggy. Later, when they see a tired-looking man with a backpack walking down a busy street at 9 a.m., they have to decide: homeless or not?
As we circle, Belcher wonders aloud if the counting process might be easier if each car was given a GPS tracker, so that every two years volunteers could see how the previous group covered the same ground. Chip suggests that surveyors could do a PIT count on two or more days for every homeless census to widen the sample size, but acknowledges that it would take more resources and may not be worth it.
Connery says that adding days probably would make the count more accurate. Other communities opt to do the counts every year instead of every other year. But he’s not sure what end such a change would serve. Instead of spending more money studying homelessness, he says that local governments should increase spending on services to put a real dent in both the size and the suffering of the homeless population.
He gets defensive when answering questions about the surveys. At the national level, many of the criticisms of HUD’s counts come from homeless advocates on the left, but locally, the critiques come more often from anti-homeless groups looking to undermine the survey’s results. “You don’t have a data problem,” says Connery. “You have a service delivery problem.”
Bishop and Belcher both participated because they know how important it is to fund solutions to homelessness. Bishop is the founder of the faith-based counseling nonprofit Respero, which has been increasing its homeless outreach. Belcher is a nurse who used to work at the Homeless Persons’ Health Project, and she sometimes misses her old job.
“You need funds in order to help people,” Belcher explains, recalling efforts to track down new funding sources on the phone. “It does break down to the dollar at some point. And if you don’t have the ability to provide resources, then you’re not gonna help anyone. I think it’s really important we count all the people we can.”
The two volunteers wrap up their count around 9:30 a.m. Belcher and Bishop have both been up since before 4 a.m., and they had second thoughts about coming out today. Once Belcher finally crawled out of bed after hitting the snooze button on her alarm a few times, she looked out her window at the rain, and thought that maybe she didn’t really want to leave the house, after all. “Then I was like, ‘You know what? You’re being lame because you’re gonna go out survey people who live out in this rain right now,” she says. “Suck it up!’”
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How expensive would it be to send hot-food carts out to the most populated areas regularly — and count the homeless who attend? There must be a reliable level of service that is possible, as well as an accurate counting process. We need more effective service delivery asap. I think wealthy donors need to be found, also.
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*Edge Of The World was Wolf's only full-length album, and is considered to be one of [[MOGHARR]]'s favorites. Released in 1984, EOTW was alot calmer than most NWOBHM albums of the time.
*Edge Of The World was Wolf's only full-length album, and is considered to be one of [[MOGHARR]]'s favorites. Released in 1984, EOTW was a lot calmer than most NWOBHM albums of the time.
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Orvieto’s Underground City
Thought by some to be the Etruscan acropolis Velzna built between 800 and 900 B.C., the city of Orvieto sits atop a butte formed of volcanic tuff in southwestern Umbria, the “green heart” of Italy. Its strategic location on the road between Florence and Rome, combined with sheer cliffs and impenetrable walls made from tufa quarried from the very rock that supports it, Orvieto has held strategic importance from its founding to 19th century.
Orvieto atop its perch
From the time the Romans razed the city in 263 B.C. and relocated its inhabitants to Bolsena, to its incorporation in to the Papal State in the 15th century, ending with its annex to the Italian Kingdom in 1860, Orvieto has a long and storied history that not only includes war, occupation and bloodshed, but also miracles, significant feats of engineering and priceless archaeological discoveries. It remains to this day a fascinating visit for the amateur archaeologist, architecture enthusiast, ceramics collector, wine connoisseur and religious pilgrim.
Facade of the Duomo built to house the Corporal of Bolsena
A labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city center, only fairly recently rediscovered, shed light on the importance the citizens of Orvieto placed on self reliance and preservation. Many of the large houses in the city sat atop their own private escape routes dug deep in to the soft rock, that would lead them away from danger should the city come under siege. A honeycomb of passages and grottoes perforate the rock beneath the city and give us small glimpses in to the minds and lives of the people who dug them.
At present, the majority of the underground city is privately owned by residents and shops who hold the properties above them, and some are accessible via shops or restaurants. Many are still in use as household wine cellars and temperature controlled storage (the caves remain a constant 57 degrees F). There is, however, a small area of the underground that is owned by the city and can be explored by the public via guided tour.
The 45 minute tour begins with a five minute walk from the ticket office to the entrance to the grottoes. Once in the underground, visitors are able to explore the caverns and learn about the long history of the city and its inhabitants.
From the beginning of Orvieto’s history, the citizens of the city have capitalized on the attributes of the tuff on which they lived, for the past 2,500 years they have dug themselves storage rooms, wells, olive presses, workshops, pigeon cotes and pozzolana quarries, an ingredient used to make cement.
Seemingly endless passages lead to rooms and grottoes that bare the marks of their makers. Some rooms exhibit remains of what may have been Etruscan temples or alters. Others were once workshops used in the middle ages to produce the unique ceramics that bolstered Orvieto’s wealth and importance.
Pigeon cotes built in to the walls provided the citizens with revenue and a renewable source of protein. Today, pigeon is still featured on the menu of many restaurants in Orvieto. Some of the ladders used to access the top levels of the cotes are carved from the vertical rock using alternating hand and foot holds.
In areas where the tunnels run parallel with the walls of the city, natural sunlight permeates the underground through small windows carved out to allow pigeons access to the outside.
The most recent digging that had been done in the Underground was during WWII when the citizens of Orvieto built bomb shelters, no doubt, should Orvieto or the region ever come under enemy fire again, the people will continue to take refuge in the ancient underground city.
The tour to the Underground, along with the above ground sites of the city make Orvieto a must see for any traveler who happens to be in the region.
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Koreans mourned the people and animals killed in Australia’s bushfires in central Seoul on Monday, calling on the Korean and Australian governments to take tougher action to combat climate change.
Despite the subzero temperatures, some 100 people gathered and held up candles in front of the Australian Embassy to stand in solidarity with living creatures victimized by the unprecedented wildfire crisis.
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At the rally, which began with a minute of silence to remember the human and nonhuman victims, people carried handwritten placards reading “2050 Greenhouse Gas Zero,” “Coal Out Climate Crisis Stop” and “Earth is burning.” Two children were also spotted holding a placard that read “Save Koalas.”
A man holds a handwritten sign at a rally in Gwanghwamun, central Seoul, on Monday to mourn the victims of Australia’s bushfires. The sign’s message is a call for the Korean government to achieve zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. (Yonhap)
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December 6, 7 & 8
Christmas with the ASO
Begun many years ago by the beloved Music Director Robert Shaw, this concert has become a staple for Atlanta families during the holiday season. The Orchestra, Chorus and special guests including tenor Timothy Miller, and the Gwinnett Young Singers will perform beloved Christmas carols and hymns to celebrate the season. Tickets available at atlantasymphony.org.
Courtenay's Cabaret
Alliance Theatre
Following her starring role in the Tony-nominated musical The Prom, Courtenay Collins returns to the Hertz Stage with her beloved holiday cabaret that includes music, stories, surprises, cookies, and Courtenay's signature charm and good humor. Accompanied by a live band, Courtenay will sing holiday classics and new favorites with wit and Southern charm. alliancetheatre.org
December 12 & 13
This masterpiece from Handel tells the Christmas story like no other. This year the ASO has brought back this very special performance featuring the Orchestra and the Chamber Chorus that will sweep you up in the magic of the season.
CeeLo Green: Holiday Hits Tour
Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter, & producer CeeLo Green announces his "Holiday Hits Tour". CeeLo will be performing fan favorites from his critically acclaimed and Grammy Award-winning album, "CeeLo's Magic Moment", including "What Christmas Means to Me," "This Christmas" "All I Want" & more. Visit centerstage-atlanta.com for tickets.
Rialto Center for the Arts
Captivating audiences for over 25 years, Atlanta's Celtic Christmas is much more than a concert production. A cast of international and regionally renowned artists weaves a spellbinding performance of Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Appalachian music, dance and humor in an evocative, inspiring show that will warm the soul with the music and dance of the ages. Visit rialto.gsu.edu for tickets.
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Rudolph soars back into town for this faithful adaptation of the wonderful holiday film that speaks to the misfit in all of us. Based on the beloved 1964 stop-motion animated special, Rudolph and his friends Hermey the Elf, Yukon Cornelius, the Abominable Snow Monster and all the other merry misfits join Santa for an unforgettable holiday adventure. Tickets at puppet.org.
Now through January 5
Stone Mountain Christmas
Have a Holly Jolly Christmas at Stone Mountain Park, where the true magic of the season is in the air. Enjoy the glow of more than two million lights, festive music and visits from some your favorite holiday characters. Start a new tradition and create memories that will last a lifetime for you and your kids. Visit stonemountainpark.com.
Atlanta Holiday Hootenanny
The 9th annual Holiday Hootenanny will have four sets, totaling over four hours of music and featuring up to 20 musicians on stage at once. Includes a special dedication to the great Johnny Knapp. Net proceeds from the concert benefit Atlanta Habitat for Humanity. Visit varietyplayhouse.com.
Volta by Cirque Du Soleil
Under the Big Top at Atlantic Station
Energetic, urban and contemporary, Volta is a captivating voyage of discovery that showcases never-before-seen under the Big Top acrobatics in a visually striking world. Driven by a stirring melodic score and inspired in part by the adventurous spirit that fuels the culture of street sports, Volta is a story of transformation. Featuring a live band with powerful vocalists, violinist and percussion. Visit cirqudusoleil/volta.
Now Through January 12
Fernbank Museum
Enjoy a season of celebrations during Fernbank's 10th annual Winter Wonderland: Celebrations & Traditions Around the World. This holiday-inspired exhibition features trees and other displays decorated by local cultural partners that recognize celebrations including Christmas and Hanukkah, as well as traditions and practices like origami, indigenous art and national symbols. fernbankmuseum.org.
Winter Wine Festival
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Atlanta Winter Wine Festival takes place over sessions; Session 1:12pm-4pm, Session 2: 6pm-10pm. Sample from over 50 wines as well as a selection of beer to choose from. Enjoy live music and a DJ, and food will be available for purchase. Tickets are now on sale: $45 in advance, $50 after Jan 9th, and $60 at the door. AtlantaWineFestivals.com
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By Teodora Zapartan ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR February 12, 2019
A library as an inhabited bridge
Oodi occupies a hugely significant site in central Helsinki: facing the steps of the Finnish parliament building, the Eduskuntatalo across the Kansalaistori square, a public space flanked by major civic institutions.
The siting of Oodi opposite the Eduskuntatalo was chosen to be symbolic of the relationship between the government and the populace, and act as a reminder of the Finnish Library Act’s mandate for libraries to promote lifelong learning, active citizenship, democracy and freedom of expression. It also places the new library in the heart of Helsinki’s cultural district, close to many of the capital’s great institutions.
Oodi has a peaceful open-plan reading room on the upper floor that has been nicknamed “book heaven”, but books only fill one third of the space within the library. By reducing on-site storage and consulting library-users on how they access culture, ALA Architects and the librarians of Oodi have been able to introduce facilities including a café, restaurant, public balcony, movie theatre, audio-visual recording studios and a makerspace. This is representative of broader experimentation within Finnish libraries to offer new services in addition to loaning books.
The design divides the functions of the library into three distinct levels: an active ground floor that extends the town square into an interior space; “book heaven” on the upper level; and an enclosed in-between volume containing rooms to accommodate additional services and facilities within the library. This spatial concept has been realised by building the library as an inhabited bridge, with two massive steel arches that span over 100 meters to create a fully enclosed, column-free public entrance space, clusters of rooms grouped around the structure, and the open-plan reading room carried above.
Oodi has been built using local materials and with local climate conditions in mind. The timber façade is clad with 33-millimeter-thick Finnish spruce planks that conform to the sweeping curve that extends the building outwards to create a canopy above the Kansalaistori square, blending the interior and exterior spaces and creating shelter for public events in front of the library.
The upper surface of the canopy structure has been used to create a large public terrace, from which Helsinki citizens can look directly over the square to the steps and main entrance of the Finnish parliament. The terrace doubles the amount of public outdoor space provided for library visitors and creates a new destination where people can meet and observe the city below.
The ground floor of Oodi extends the Kansalaistori square into an interior public space. The purpose of the ground floor is to make each of the facilities of the library apparent and accessible and provide a non-commercial interior space open to all, every day of the week. Kino Regina, the National Audiovisual Institute’s movie theatre will occupy a space on the ground floor, together with a cafe restaurant with seating that will spill out onto the square in the summer months.
The middle floor, known as the “Attic”, consists of flexible rooms arranged around the intimate nooks and corners that inhabit the spaces between the trusses of the bridge structure. The multi-function rooms are designed to accommodate both noisy and quiet activities and it is on this floor that Oodi will offer facilities such as its makerspace and recording studios.
“Book Heaven” on the top floor, is a vast open landscape topped with an undulating cloud-like white ceiling punctured by circular rooflights. Here the best characteristics of the modernist library meet the possibilities provided by 21st Century technologies. The serene atmosphere invites visitors to read, learn, think and to enjoy themselves. From this level visitors can enjoy an unobstructed 360-degree panorama view of the city centre, or step out onto the terrace overlooking Kansalaistori square.
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Feature Story for February 2009 about Judith Reidy's Mist Paintings
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Judith Reidy’s Visions in the Mist
Review by Stacy William - Ng
in February 2009 Issue of MILWAUKEE HOME and FINE LIVING
JUDITH REIDY IS A SOFT-SPOKEN, THOUGHTFUL artist whose intelligence and dedication to her work sparkle through her like flecks of pink light in her misty landscapes. She compares her recent work to investigating a mystery. Judith’s pieces are completed after hours of observation, studying the gradations of color as they fluctuate in the atmosphere. In warm weather, she will work in watercolors in the open air. In winter, she creates “studio works,” relying on memory, supported by photos and color studies. Her final depiction tells a story of how subtle tonal changes took place in the scene over a period of time.
Her pastels of misty Ireland are truly astounding. According to Judith, who visited Ireland last year, “I had become interested in mists here, when I was going up to Crystal Ridge here in Wisconsin, I would go early in the morning, looking due east, and there were these mists that captured my imagination.” When she went to visit her daughter overseas later in the year, the mystical (and misty) scenes of Inishowen Peninsula were a perfect subject matter. “I sat at the window for 13 days, looking at the Bay, studying light, and painting. It was magical.”
One thing that struck Judith while in Ireland was their view of the sky. “I was at the 60th latitude, and I wondered why the sky never achieved the pink that we see here, at about the 44th. I did some research on it and apparently northern European skies get more yellows and whites than North American skies, which show more violets and pinks. In that sense we have light that’s more like what you see in French master landscapes, which would have been created at similar latitudes to ours.”
Judith Reidy is part of a two-person show with Cynthia Son, currently on view at the Griffin Gallery in Oconomowoc. The show will be up through the end of February.
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The mists and skies of Ireland inspired local artist Judith Reidy (above) during her travel, and she captures their beauty in her artwork.
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Mist on Monet in the Morning
I am inspired again by looking at a beautiful painting at the educational site at Art NC which had an article on one of Monet's plein air paintings. At the end of the post you can find the link to the article.
I put a bit of the article in here. What amazed me was how large the canvas was and the time and location Monet painted. I have inserted a few comments in blue
Enjoy! Claude Monet (French, 1840 - 1926)
The Seine at Giverny, Morning Mists, 1897
2ft 11in x 3ft 0in (88.9cm x 91.4cm) Pretty big for what we typically expect from Plein Air work.
Purchased with funds from the North Carolina Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest) and the Sarah Graham Kenan Foundation, 1975 (75.24.1)
In 1896 and 1897, Monet rose at 3:30 in the morning Certain types of light and atmosphere can only be found during certain times of day. He was commited to the study of light as indicated by his commitment to rising at 3:30 in the morning! in his village of Giverny to work on a project of capturing early morning light as it appeared through the fog. By dawn, he was in the small boat he kept on a branch of the Seine for use as a floating studio.Well here we see that Monet was not exactly in the open air but in a floating studio that had was inclosed and windowed from the elements. An observer recorded that the painter worked simultaneously on fourteen canvases, all depicting this exact spot, shifting from one to another as the strengthening sun burned through the mist. He had 14 canvas with him! Ah he must have stored them in the boat so he could keep working, catching that light. Monet spent the decade of the 1890s pursuing his innovative concept of series paintings, showing the same motif in varying conditions of light, time, and atmosphere. Of the twenty known versions of this subject, this one is among the most delicate, the features of the distant landscape obscured by the diffused light through the mist. Twenty versions of the same scene. What an education in observing the light. It would be interesting to see a plein air competion with entries of the same scene in different light and atmosphere.
The Mornings on the Seine series is different from the exuberant impressionism of Monet's earlier sunset from Etretat (also in the Museum's collection). Both are scenes of his home province of Normandy, but the color range in the later paintings is more limited, and the brushwork is thinner and softer, creating a more subtle texture. Ah! Brush work that creates a soft airy light.The format of the river views is almost square, giving them an abstract quality. It was at about the same time that Monet began to create the famous paintings of the Japanese bridge over his water-lily pond, which share the format and mood of the Mornings on the Seine. While some of the artist's later works are increasingly bold, this painting exemplifies Monet at his most poetic and introspective.
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February 5, 2018 — A cover has been chosen for the second edition of my book Landed Japan, and a winning entrant has been picked for the Landed Japan giveaway.
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During the week of January 22, 2018, I assembled 10 sample designs for the book cover. Photos ranged from Tokyo Tower and street scenes of Akihabara and Shibuya crossing to Dotonbori and the Osaka skyline. I wanted a photo that had impact, that wasn’t a cliché and that immediately conveyed the idea of Japan and real estate.
In the end, I selected three photos that were taken in Kyoto in August 2016.
On January 27, I began posting the three covers on social media, including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. I also included the photos in my monthly newsletter.
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Wedgewood Park Apartments
Issuing Officer: Joel Fielder/Battalion Chief
Narrative:Early this morning at 12:10 AM, October 30, 2012 the Spokane Fire Department responded to, The Wedgewood Park Apartments located at 202 East Wedgewood on a reported structure fire. Responding fire crews reported heavy smoke showing from a block away and upon arrival reported that they had a 3-story wood framed apartment building with fire showing from a ground floor apartment. Fire fighters aggressively attacked the fire from the front door of the apartment while additional fire crews completed search and rescue, ventilation and salvage and overhaul. Additional fire crews were called in due to the serious life hazard of an early morning fire in this apartment building that consists of 8-apartments in one building and 8 apartments in an adjoining building, connected by common walk ways. The fire was brought under control within 1 hour and fire crews were on scene throughout the night to complete the salvage and overhaul process. Six Engine companies, Two Ladders, a heavy rescue truck and 2 Battalion Chiefs were on scene during the initial operations of this incident. There were no reported injures to civilians or firefighters. The Red Cross arrived on scene to assist the occupants of the building that may have been displaced for the night. The Spokane Police Department was also on scene and provided traffic control and scene security during the operational period of this incident.
Cause:The cause of the fire is under investigation by the Spokane Fire Departments Special Investigation Unit.
Damage:The apartment of origin on the main floor sustained significant fire damage with smoke damage to the 2 apartment units directly above.
Dollar Loss: $ 45,000
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The LC Recording Lab identifies four separate bands before the music begins on this disc side. They are here condensed into one for the purposes of this catalog.
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The LC Recording Lab identifies three separate bands concluding this disc side. They are here condensed into one for the purposes of this catalog.
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http://lomaxdeltastate.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/6633A3.mp3 [Blank] 6633A3 N/A 7-26-1942 N/A N/A Clarksdale Coahoma Mississippi Church of God in Christ
Badly cut grooves.
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NEFERLIGHT :: A truly “Nefer” light
Das spanische Duo ist momentan auf dem Wege ein grandioses Debüt entstehen zu lassen, welches im Emotional Rock neue Maßstäbe setzen könnte. Dazu verleiten die ersten Titel zu der Erkenntnis, den traditionellen 70ies/80ies Hardrock/Pop in ein neues Gewand zu kleiden. Ihre Einflüsse nennt die Band im Interview selbst, ich würde eventuell noch Meat Loaf hinzufügen.
Den ersten Song, den ich damals eher zufällig bei Bandcamp entdeckte, war das traurig melancholische “Clown’s Mask”, welches mit einer betörenden Melodielinie und kraftvollen Vocals zu überzeugen weiß. Wie ein Stück aus einem tragischen Musical besitzt es neben rockigen Facetten immer eine stimmungsvolle Energie, welche sich im eindringlichem Chorus offenbart. Die Vocals agieren voluminös und toben sich mit viel Gefühl und Emotionen aus. “Crystal Lake” ist im Gesamtgebilde etwas straighter inszeniert. Die Saiten treten etwas trockener in die Szenerie und garnieren das Stück mit progressivem Gefrickel. “Twilight Hour” ist das beste Beispiel für die stimmliche Breite, welche die Songs zu wahren Perlen macht….und was für ein Refrain!
Das Duo tobt sich auf der Spielwiese des emotionalen Rocks aus. Die einzelnen Stücke besitzen einen dramaturgisch geschickten Aufbau, der sich mal balladesk, mal bombastisch, mal verschnörkelt und mal gradlinig in die Gehörgänge schleicht.
Hier könnt ihr euch selbst ein (akustisches) Bild machen:
bandcamp / reverbnation / facebook
Nun viel Spaß mit dem Interview (im Original)
1. You are united for one year under the name Neferlight. How did you come together, and what there is for musical Vita to say.
JR.Sanchiz: We met about six years ago, in a covers band. Each one took already our long career working. My father put a guitar in my hands with only 8 years and Xavi started in his school choir, with just over 5. Each one have had their own musical journey, playing in several bands, writting songs, performing live gigs … but when we met, since the beginning we noticed a big mutual feeling, we started writing songs together and we saw that they sounded like something different, something special…
X.Roncero: As Freddie said, “it’s kind of magic”… Whenever Jose Ramon picked up the guitar and began to improvise, I directly would sing over and we saw it fit perfectly, it is difficult to explain… It’s like if we understood music from a similar point of view. We’ve spent years writing together, we’ve got already about 25 songs, and a year ago we decided to form Neferlight seriously, leave apart versions and focus in our own music.
2. The band name “Neferlight” refers to hieroglyphics. In addition, you use the symbol in the signature. Can you tell something about the idea behind it? (A good side effect is that the band is easily found on Google)
Xavi: We are passionate about Ancient Egypt, and there is a precious word, “Nefer”, meaning “beautiful inside and out” and coincidentally, the hieroglyph used to write it, is an Egyptian lute, somehow, is the first type of guitar in the mankind history. We think remarkable that this ancient culture, to write “Beauty” they draw a guitar. At the same time it is as if our songs came from some kind of inner light, a contrast between light and dark, we believe “Neferlight” (beautiful inner light) describes the type of music we do.
3. Is there already a date for the release of the debut? Are the songs already finished?
JR: The songs are all finished and recorded, we are now in the process of mixing and mastering. But we wanted to show in advance five premixes, as demos, so the people and the media began to know the type of music we make and evaluate their reactions. We’re going ahead with the work, and about the middle of the year we can surely talk about having a physical copy of the album in your hands.
4. Is the album released on a label or it appears as self-production?
JR: We are now evaluating some very interesting proposals and open to receive some others also, but nothing is signed yet. Everything depends on whether we reach an agreement, but the release is imminent, and if there is no agreement, we will make it by our own production on the planned date.
5. There are already several songs to listen to Bandcamp and Revebnation. “Clown’s Mask” is a beautiful song. One could almost describe as a tragic musical. The topic has been already repeatedly sung. The history behind more than just the interior views of a clown?
Xavi: Thank you very much for the appreciation … Well, our particular clown represents all artists that, when finishing a show, and get off the stage, we face the real world, and we feel as a void inside… But also, we all, everybody, we do wear a mask, we try to smile and make laugh everybody else around us… until we remain alone at the mirror, in front of our own image, then we are stalked by our demons and doubts. We all have dreams to fulfill and we feel the frustration and loneliness as we struggle to get them.
6. The second song “Crystal Lake” is somewhat reminiscent of Melodic Metal and has a pleasant chorus. Can you tell a bit more about the song?
Xavi: It’s about a spirit from the other side, which can only see our world through mirrors and reflective surfaces. And one day, he looks through and sees a beautiful girl, and falls in love with her, and begins to follow her through every mirror he find. He dreams with her, dancing with a broom imagining it is she, until one night, she bathes on a calm lake, with a crystaline surface, and he gets so hot that he cross the water and gets through to our world. Then she sees him and she realizes he has dreamed a thousand times with him, she knew him already, and she loved him too… we think it’s a nice story, about love beyond life and death.
JR: About the instrumental part on this song, I think you can notice some Latin flair, both in composition and rhythmically, but then in contrast the more rocking, energetic, hard and bright chorus. It’s like if in our style, each song we make would have a unique twist, but without intention, is what comes from us. In fact, both “Clown’s” and “Crystal” are songs born in joint improvisation sessions, there was no will in the creative process, just feeling.
7. In “Paradise” you are a seeker. It is about the search for paradise. Is it also about the personal meaning in life?
JR: It’s exactly what it seems, it is as if everyone were always looking for something, and sometimes we do not realize that we already have found it. But “the search” is the important thing. In “Paradise” what we mean is that life is brighter if you live it with love, and you can search for happiness along the world, on the skies and earth, and keep looking but…
Xavi: “I could live for a thousand lives, and look for something side by side …” but the message in this song is that Paradise is affordable for everyone: “To love and to be loved, that is “Paradise”
8. The vocals are remarkable. Do you have a classical vocal training?
Xavi: Thank you very much, humbly!… Well, actually not, I guess I am what is usually called a “natural singer,” I learned to sing … just singing. Then… later, yes I’ve added to my training Music theory and Harmony, which has helped me to improve my skills. I also followed selftaught the method “Speech Level Singing” by Seth Riggs, a vocal coach who has worked for the biggest, from Michael Jackson to Barbra Streisand. And, about the choirs of the compositions, I am lucky to have a wide vocal range, spanning several classical registers, and I take advantage of this feature to provide multiple voices and “personalities” to the interpretation.
9. How would you describe yourself the music of Neferlight? How do you share you the work in the songwriting?
JR: Neferlight’s music is rock, of course, but it is a kind of “emotional” rock, that cannot easily be tagged into a subgenre. Yes, you can see some gothic touch, but not as dark as gothic rock, and the toughness of Hard Rock but not so aggressively, and this is produced by all the colors we use in the keys and chords, that convey more complex feelings than those which people can usually hear.
Xavi: Generally, the songs arise either from the joint improvisation, and other times, from an original idea of Jose Ramon, which sometimes is a draft, and sometimes even the song nearly completed. What I try to do then, is to feel what it inspires to me and then, I try to create a story that is consistent with that feeling and the images that appear in my mind, from there, it borns a story, the lyrics, structure and the vocal melody. And then Jose Ramon deals with all the instruments, guitars, bass, drums, keyboards … until we’ve got a first sketch, which is coproduced later together.
10. Where do you see your influences. Is there in addition to music influences from literature or art?
JR: Our musical influence is very wide and extends genres and artists of the past, as both Xavi and Myself have got older musicians in the family, and have heard a lot of music since childhood, like Beatles, Rollings, Eagles, Dire Straits, Boston, Deep Purple and … that’s the case, our influences are stale, of very long term, they are not copies of new existing sounds or fashion slaves. So I guess the best way to say our influences is to say our favorite artists, which in my case are: Queen, Led Zeppelin, Van Hallen, Toto, Whitesnake, At Vance, and as guitarists Steve Vai , Satriani, Gary Moore … and many others, and recently, I’ve been hearing and probably also be influenced by Guthrie Govan from Aristocrats. Xavi: Mine ones are Queen, The Cure, U2, Michael Jackson, Dream Theater, Metallica, Heroes del Silencio … and as singers, just themselves, Freddie, Smith, Bono, Michael, Labrie, Hetfield and Bunbury. And yes, there are influences of art and literature in us, especially in the stories. I read a lot, when I have time, and I have a very visual mind, plastic, I love movies, photography and painting.
11. Do you already have ideas for a video and what song is intended?
Xavi: Just because of the visual conception of the stories… which is something that many people have told us when they hear our music, it makes every song worthy of having his own video, but the first film we’ve got planned is for “Clown’s Mask”: The show ends, he walks behind the scenes, and the world is slower, the laughs die down, people paused, but he continues at the same speed going into his wagon. He sits in the mirror and begins to sing. While his makeup is removed, it is becoming an empty face, no eyebrows, no nose, no mouth … absolutely nothing. And finally, he removes the clothing with just a hand movement, and disappears, leaving only a music box opened over the dropped clothes with a little clown spinning around inside.
12. Is soon a tour or festival plans? Is it hard to find performance opportunities? What can the fans expect at a concert?
JR: We do not have gigs planned yet, we are focused on the production of the album. Once we finish it, we think there will be opportunities to take the stage, our true home, because we are live performers musicians, what we like is just that, to be in touch and contact with the public, to see them scream and jump. And for those who come to see us, what they can expect is an appropriate adaptation of our songs to sound harder, stronger, and in the most spectacular way possible, being faithful to the album, but bringing that extra energy and drive that a live performance can achieve.
13. Will you tell our readers something?
Xavi: To the people who listen to music we want to say that there are a lot of completely unknown artists and bands of great quality, that they won’t conform to what they can hear on the radio and look for new music beyond. And to the musicians like us, we encourage them to continue working hard, very hard, demanding, and thrilled, because if they do it, someday, someone really kind of a cool magazine will call them, and make them such a professional and pleasant interview as this one 😉
14. Thank you and good luck with your project.
Xavi y JR: Thank you, thank you very much for giving us room in your magazine, we congratulate you for your great work and we will keep you up to date with our progress. Good luck and plenty of successes.
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HAMILTON Extended to January 5, 2020
by Scott Walton · May 2, 2019
“And Peggy Company” of HAMILTON at the SHN Orpheum Theatre. Photo: Joan Marcus
Producer Jeffrey Seller and SHN announced today the addition of 17 more weeks for HAMILTON at the SHN Orpheum Theatre putting tickets on sale for performances through January 5, 2020. Tickets will go on sale on Friday, May 3 at 10:00 AM PT.
Tickets for the new block can be purchased at hamilton.shnsf.com, in person at the SHN Orpheum Box Office (1192 Market Street), or by calling SHN Audience Services at 888-746-1799.
Prices will range $95 to $303 with a select number of $403 premium seats available for all performances. Prices are subject to change. There is an eight (8) ticket limit per performance per household/account and a maximum of 20 tickets per household/account.
The Schuyler Sisters (Julia K. Harriman, Sabrina Sloan, Darilyn Castillo) in HAMILTON at the SHN Orpheum Theatre Photo: Joan Marcus
Producer Jeffrey Seller stated, “It’s tempting to get tickets any way you can. There are many sites and people who are selling overpriced, and in some cases, fraudulent tickets. For the best seats, the best prices and to eliminate the risk of counterfeit tickets, all purchases for the San Francisco engagement should be made through hamilton.shnsf.com.”
HAMILTON is the story of America’s Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from the West Indies who became George Washington’s right-hand man during the Revolutionary War and was the new nation’s first Treasury Secretary. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B, and Broadway, HAMILTON is the story of America then, as told by America now.
The Company of HAMILTON at the SHN Orpheum Theatre photo: Joan Marcus
With book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler and musical supervision and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire, HAMILTON is based on Ron Chernow’s biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.
The HAMILTON creative team previously collaborated on the 2008 Tony Award®-Winning Best Musical In the Heights.
HAMILTON features scenic design by David Korins, costume design by Paul Tazewell, lighting design by Howell Binkley, sound design by Nevin Steinberg, hair and wig design by Charles G. LaPointe, casting by Telsey + Company, Bethany Knox, CSA, and General Management by Baseline Theatrical.
The musical is produced by Jeffrey Seller, Sander Jacobs, Jill Furman and The Public Theater.
Ticket Information: Tickets are available at hamilon.shnsf.com and through SHN Audience Services at 888-746-1799. Ticket prices range from $95 to $303 with a select number of $425 premium seats available for all performances. Prices are subject to change.
HAMILTON Lottery: The HAMILTON ticket lottery program will continue for all performances. For more information – or to register, use the official app for HAMILTON, now available for all iOS and Android devices in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store (http://hamiltonmusical.com/app), or hamiltonmusical.com/lottery/ to register.
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Black Panther and the Agents of Wakanda #4 Review
By Matthew Peterson on December 17, 2019 0 Comments
How do you fight a threat when the threat is the moon itself? Your Major Spoilers review of Black Panther and the Agents of Wakanda #4 from Marvel Comics awaits!
BLACK PANTHER AND THE AGENTS OF WAKANDA #4
Writer: Jim Zub
Penciler: Ian Medina
Inker: Craig Yeung
Colorist: Marcio Menyz and Erick Arciniega
Letterer: VC’s Joe Sabino
Editor: Wil Moss
Previously in Black Panther and the Agents of Wakanda: T’Challa and Okoye have assembled an eclectic team of spies, mercenaries, and super heroes who specialize in espionage, black-ops, and defense. These Agents of Wakanda must be ready for any threat to our planet… even if that threat is the Moon itself!
YOU HAD ME AT ‘FAT COBRA’
This issue opens with a quick (but important) flashback to 1978, where John Jameson’s lunar transformation led him to another dimension and a short, but memorable career as Star-God! It’s quickly revealed to be nothing more than a hallucination, as John himself is floating in a tube of unknown ichor, along with several other Agents of Wakanda. Fortunately, The Black Panther and Mockingbird are still up and moving, leaving her to fight off alien tentacles (not like THAT!) while he attempts to parlay with the alien parasite that has inhabited part of Earth’s moon. As Mockingbird frees John, Okoye, Broo the Broodling and Gorilla-Man, T’Challa discovers that the creature, calling itself Entea, is the “daughter” of a planet and an Elder of the Universe, who wants only energy for sustenance. When John transforms once more into Star-God, she is drawn to his energies, causing the ol’ fighty-fighty, but he is able to break through to the Other Realm, where he once ruled…
…only to find it devastated by an unseen conflict.
THE ALL-STAR CAST MAKES ME HAPPY
I’ll say this for Jim Zub: He knows how to use a big cast, and the issue’s introduction of Mockingbird as the latest Agent is a strong opener for her. He also ties into mostly forgotten Marvel continuity brilliantly, even repowering John Jameson as a superhero for the first time in decades. The use of alien goop to give the characters visions works to not only seamlessly integrate the flashbacks and exposition (for those who aren’t familiar with Jameson’s whole history) but to give us looks into the minds of the Agents, and provide an important reminder that Gorilla-Man is actually (possibly) a betrayer! The art of Medina and Yeung is a nice blend of classic Marvel house-style and a more modern sensibility, with tinges of the photo-realism of Greg Land without the obvious lightboxing. Their Star-God looks great, as do the ruined landscapes of the other world, showing the ability to work on both a personal and a macro scale, and their Black Panther is remarkable. Best of all, though, is the final page, where groups of normal people gaze up at the moon, which now seems to have grown a face.
BOTTOM LINE: A LOVELY ENDING
I very much appreciate when the ALL BIG NAMES comics like Avengers use secondary characters in interesting ways, and this book’s cast includes The Wasp, Dr. Nemesis, Fat Cobra and more, leaving them room to have fun with the rotating cast without wedging IronManCaptainAmericaThor into every issue. Black Panther and the Agents of Wakanda #4 makes good use of the characters and continuity of the Marvel Universe, with clever storytelling techniques, fun dialogue and, best of all, truly impressive art to knock one out of the park for a well-deserved 4.5 out of 5 stars overall. I’m hoping that we get more of the Other Realm, wolf-headed Star-God and Entea, but whatever happens, it’s a book with Fat Cobra, so I’m in.
It moves quickly, but never TOO quickly and the interplay of the cast is nice. Best of all, there are several brilliant-but-thrown-aside characters in play that deserve to be in focus again.
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Trace Amine-Associated Receptors as Emerging Therapeutic Targets
Tatyana D. Sotnikova, Marc G. Caron and Raul R. Gainetdinov
Molecular Pharmacology August 2009, 76 (2) 229-235; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/mol.109.055970
Tatyana D. Sotnikova
Marc G. Caron
Raul R. Gainetdinov
Endogenous trace amines (TAs) of unknown biological function are structurally related to classic monoaminergic neurotransmitters and found at low concentrations in the mammalian brain. Their recently discovered group of G protein-coupled receptors, trace amine-associated receptors (TAARs), may represent putative targets not only for trace and other amines but also for a variety of monoaminergic compounds, including amphetamines and monoamine metabolites. The trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1), which is in part associated with the monoaminergic neuronal circuitry controlling various functions, including movement, is the best characterized of the class, although little is known about its regulation and function. Here we review the pharmacology and biochemical properties of the TAAR1 and its physiological functions as revealed in studies involving knockout mice lacking this receptor. Potential therapeutic applications of future selective TAAR1 agonists and antagonists are also discussed. Although understanding of biology and functions mediated by other TAARs is still in its infancy, it is expected that further characterization of the functional roles and biochemical properties of TAARs and identification of endogenous and exogenous ligands will eventually promote these receptors as an attractive class of targets to correct monoaminergic processes that could be dysfunctional in a host of disorders of brain and periphery.
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [Grant NS19576]; the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Drug Abuse [Grant 1U01-DA022950]; and a research grant from F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. (Basel, Switzerland).
ABBREVIATIONS: GPCR, G protein-coupled receptor; β-PEA, β-phenylethylamine; ADHD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; DAT, dopamine transporter; TA, trace amine; TAAR, trace amine-associated receptor; MDMA, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine; CNS, central nervous system; 3-MT, 3-methoxytyramine; 4-MT, 4-methoxytyramine; COMT, catechol-O-methyl transferase; T1AM, 3-iodothyronamine; DA, dopamine; βarr2, β-arrestin2; GFP, green fluorescent protein; β2-AR, β2-adrenergic receptor; BRET, bioluminescence resonance energy transfer; KO, knockout.
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A merry Christmas and a happy New Year with lots of Mini (based) motoring to all Maximum Mini readers and fans. Thank you for your support in 2019 and don't forget to vote for the 'Best Find of 2019' (click here).
One little scoop for the new year already then - The mysterious Swedish Ogle SX1000 seen below (full story of it here) has been tracked down! All about that, and much more Maximum Mini articles are to follow in 2020. Have a good one!
A possible 'Best Find of 2020' already? - this Ogle SX1000 has just been found. More to follow
Picture Jeroen Booij archive / Teknikens värld
Labels: Ogle SX1000, Sweden
What is the Find of the Year 2019?
It's time to introduce you to the nominees for the 'Best Find of 2019', a contest held on Maximum Mini every year. Once again I picked out what I believe to be the 5 best finds and discoveries made in 2019. It's up to you to decide which one wins the title.
You will find the cars that have made it to the contest below. To vote simply drop a comment below stating your favourite (click here if you read this through an email message), or do it on my Facebook page (here). The one with the most votes wins - it's simple as that. Now, over to the candidates:
Long search ends in a London shed: MoBi One finally found. Full story here and here
Rumours of its survival came true: Australia's sports car 'Project X' survives. Full story here
The British-built ASP 1300 racer appears to be alive in Kansas, USA. Full story here
Unrecognzable as such but this really is the Salt & Pepper Mini Moke. Full story here
A surprise find at a New Zealand wrecker's yard: the Wellington mystery Special. Full story here
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Labels: ASP 1300 'S', Eclipse, Find of the Year, Mobi-One, Moke derivatives, Movie cars, Project X
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Wellington mystery Special survives - only just
When Jud Chapman saw a car he didn't recognize at the local wrecker's yard in Horopito, New Zealand, he took some photographs of it and posted the picture online. it didn't take me long to recognize the car as the mysterious 'Wellington Special' described in Maximum Mini 3 and also here with a picture of Graeme Farr. Graeme was quite sure the car had been scrapped after having photographed it in the 1990s, but apparently it survives - only just!
And that was not all to the story. Another New Zealand enthusiast, Bob McBurney, saw the pictures, too, and also recognized the car as he'd even been a former owner. He added: "It's an Eclipse based on an Austin 1300 floor pan supposedly to look similar to a Lotus Esprit. I was told it came from Britain as a kit with 1100 or 1300 floor pan and running gear, but I'm not sure. It was in primer when I got it and had pop up headlights using a wiper motor. I ran my 1430 mini motor in it for a bit of fun. Guys didn't know what just passed them! I owned it over 30 years ago but it had rust in the floor pan so I moved it on. It definitely turned heads, pity the floor pan was rotten. Amazing it's still around, I totally forgot about it. I would have liked to know who built it."
Graeme Farr, who thought it had been scrapped decades ago added: "Wow, who would have thought! I think it had a council towaway sticker on it when I saw it. I thought it had just been abandoned there as it was the end of a dead end street. Good to see its still around. A friend (has a Mk1 Cooper S) sometimes looks after a hotel owned by the same owners at the Horopito wreckers and I will ask him where it came from."
So there we go again... Who knows more about the car that's now identified as the Eclipse? And last but not least - will somebody see the potential of it and save it from the scrappers after all?!
Wellington mystery Special is found at a wrecker's yard in Horopito, New Zealand
Picture Jud Chapman
This is the same car decades ago, and believed to have been scrapped since this picture was taken
Picture Graeme Farr / Jeroen Booij archive
It has much deteriorated since but at least survives. We now also know it was named Eclipse
Austin 1100 base is visible in original Blaze Orange. Somebody save this vehicle!
Labels: Eclipse, Mystery Mini derivative, New Zealand
Unipower GT websites fall over each other?
A plethora of pages dedicated to the Unipower GT has found its way to the world wide web in the last couple of years, with a new one being launched this week, claiming to be the only official site.
From the message I received: "The intention is to build on this initial content and maintain its currency to make it interesting for all going forward."
But wasn't just that the idea of the earlier ones, too? First there was the website of Portuguese Unipower owner, racer and enthusiast Rui Sanhudo, by now pretty much outdated but still going strong online. When UK based Unipower owner and enthusiast Tim Carpenter started a new fresh website a couple of years ago I was very keen. Tim owns his car for a long time, but only started using it more fanatically since he rolled it out of its long-term hiding place more recently, by which time he found there was no good information to be found online, too, filling in the gap.
Not much later UK based Unipower owner and well-known figure in classic Mini circles Peter Flanagan started a Facebook page for fans of the Unipower GT, which soon grew to hundreds of members and opened up lots of new information, too. A separate Facebook Group was started some time later by Pete for members only. They are another up-to-date source for anything Unipower.
And now there is the new website started by Unipower owner and enthusiast Gerry Hulford, who ran a Unipower GT register back in the 1970s and 1980s and who owns the original factory records. A couple of years Gerry told me that these records would be donated to the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, but I don't think that ever happened. Gerry now wrote: "I would like this website to be a portal for the sharing of information for the benefit of all", and "I have deliberately avoided providing details of the cars/owners themselves as I have always maintained confidentially of all ownership details for obvious reasons."
But with all the information already online, a proper register of cars actually may just be the only thing missing? I have once started to make a database with cars, put in order by their chassis numbers, but thought I'd better leave this to the dedicated Unipower owners / fans. What do you think? Is it good to have as many enthusiasts making their own club / register / database / page, or should they all join forces?
Click on the links below to take you to the websites as mentioned above, to see them for yourselves
unipower-gt.com
unipowergt.org.uk
unipowergt.uk
Unipower GT Facebook page
Unipower GT Facebook group
Finally, there is by now quite a lot of Unipower information on these pages, too.
This link sends you to all the 82 Unipower GT related articles that I wrote in the last 9 years or so.
Labels: Unipower GT
Lolita Mk2 in old pictures
I was donated a lovely old picture of the Australian built Lolita Mk2 (see Maximum Mini 1 for full story and beautiful picture by Craig Watson) recently and ended up finding several more at Aussie motoring press agency Autopics. The Lolita was designed and built by Henry Nehrybecki's and Ian Pope's 'Lolita Automobile Developments' in 1967. The car came in the Can Am-fashion of the late 1960s and used some innovative ideas. The 1310cc Cooper 'S' engine was canted much forwards and came from the rally Mini of Australian race ace Bob Holden, who took the Mk2 to the tracks, too.
The car later received an Alfa Romeo 1500 engine, but was restored to its former glory in the 2000s with another Mini 1380 unit. By the time Maximum Mini volume 1 came out in 2009 it was owned by Greg Neal, but I'm not sure if he still has it?
New (to me) photograph of the Lolita Mk2 in action on an Australian track in the late 1960s
But more have been unearthed by Autopics. This is the car at Warwick Farm in 1969
Picture Autopics.com.au
Same race, it seems. The car was driven by Aussie legend Bob Holden here
Bathhurst, 7 April 1969, with Bob Holden behind the wheel once more
Warwick Farm, 5 September 1970. Holden racing for Lolita Automobile Developments
The Lolita Mk2 appears to have been modified here with aluminium spoilers?
Labels: Lolita Mk2
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Bringing Learning to Life in Year 9
Mr Robert Keenan, a Melton Christian College parent, addressed the students on his experiences as a former Police officer (RUC) in Belfast during ‘The Troubles’ of the 1970’s. This was a time where there was great division and conflict in Northern Ireland as a result of political and religious beliefs. Mr. Keenan shared with the cohort obstacles that he and his family faced in a time of terror and conflict.
The talk consolidated our current unit of study in Year 9 English which is Conformity vs Individuality. It was a real privilege hearing his journey and making character and plot connections with the play Across the Barricades by Joan Lingard. It is a rare opportunity for students to meet members of their own community who would have lived and served during a historical time period depicted in one of their literary texts.
Mr. Dionysiou, Secondary English Teacher
It was a great opportunity for us to meet someone who lived during the very difficult Troubles and then relate it back to our text study. Elizabeth Conde, Year 9 Student
It was so courageous of Mr Keenan to share his experiences with us. Jason Toor, Year 9 Student
War and conflict impacts those involved in so many ways. The talk enabled us to think about conflicts around the world and make connections to our own families and their journeys. Melody Ho¸ Year 9 Student
I was intrigued listening to his story and making real life connections to the text. Shelby Dedman, Year 9 Student
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MEM INST OSWALDO CRUZ, RIO DE JANEIRO, 104(7) November 2009
PAGES: 986-991 DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762009000700008 Full paper
Treatment and seroconversion in a cohort of children suffering from recent chronic Chagas infection in Yoro, Honduras
Josep M EscribàI, +; Elisa PonceII; Alberto de Dios RomeroI; Pedro Albajar ViñasIII; Andrea MarchiolI; Glòria BassetsI; Pedro Pablo PalmaI; M Angeles LimaI; Concepción ZúnigaIV; Carlos PonceII
IMédécins Sans Frontières-Spain, c/ Nou de la Rambla 23, E-08001 Barcelona, Spain
IICentral Reference Laboratory for Chagas Disease and Leishmaniasis
IIILaboratório de Doenças Parasitarias - Medicina Tropical, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
IVNational Chagas Disease Prevention and Control Program, Secretariat of Health, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
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Between 1999-2002, Médécins Sans Frontières-Spain implemented a project seeking to determine the efficacy and safety of benznidazole in the treatment of recent chronic Chagas disease in a cohort of seropositive children in the Yoro Department, Honduras. A total of 24,471 children were screened for Trypanosoma cruzi IgG antibodies through conventional enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) on filter paper. Recombinant ELISA (0.93% seroprevalence) showed 256 initially reactive cases, including 232 confirmed positive cases. Of these, 231 individuals were treated with benznidazole (7.5 mg/kg/day) for 60 days and were followed with a strict weekly medical control and follow-up protocol. At the end of the project, 229 patients were examined by the Honduras Secretariat of Health for post-treatment serological assessments; 88.2% seroconverted after 18 months and 93.9% seroconverted after three years. No differences were found in the seroconversion rates according to age or sex. Most of the side effects of the treatment were minor. These results support the argument that in areas where T. cruzi I is predominant and in areas affected by T. cruzi II, when vector transmission has been interrupted, Chagas disease diagnosis and treatment are feasible, necessary and ethically indisputable.
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In the past 15 years, the burden of Chagas disease (also known as American trypanosomiasis) has significantly decreased as a result of a number of multinational regional initiatives promoted and coordinated by the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO). According to recent estimates and information from 21 countries where the disease is endemic, 8-9 million people are infected by the Trypanosoma cruzi parasite and around 40 million are at risk of becoming infected (PAHO 2006, Scofield et al. 2006). These estimates are 50% lower than the infection rate in 1990. However, Chagas disease continues to have a considerable impact on public health in the Americas and around 200,000 new cases and 20,000 deaths occur every year (WHO 2005, Moncayo & Ortiz-Yanine 2006).
After the disease was discovered by Carlos Chagas in Brazil in 1909, human cases were reported in El Salvador in Central America in 1913 (Segovia 1913). In Honduras, Chagas disease has been known since 1960, but the first nationwide sero-epidemiological and entomological studies were not carried out until the 1970s and 1980s. These studies showed the presence of two main vectors (Rhodnius prolixus and Triatoma dimidiata) related to housing conditions and showed the seroprevalence of T. cruzi in different areas of the country. Approximately 300,000 people are infected and this estimate includes a 6% rate of seroprevalence of T. cruzi infection among the overall population and a 3% rate among schoolchildren in rural areas. These rates are mostly linked to vector transmission (República de Honduras 2003a, 2004, Yamagata & Nakagawa 2006).
The Honduras Secretariat of Health (HSH) is focused on controlling this pathogen and, within the Central American Initiative for Chagas Disease Control framework, initiated the 2003-2007 National Strategic Plan for the Prevention and Control of Chagas Disease. This plan included technical support from the PAHO/WHO and broad national and international multi-sector participation (República de Honduras 2003a, b, Ponce 2007). One of the main objectives of the plan was to scale up diagnostic and treatment coverage. With this goal in mind, Médécins Sans Frontières-Spain (MSF-E) collaborated with the HSH to develop a comprehensive strategy to combat Chagas disease that included vector control activities (such as spraying with residual insecticides), community-based education, the training of medical staff, diagnosis and etiological treatment with benznidazole. In addition, the efficacy and safety of benznidazole in asymptomatic infected children was assessed.
PATIENTS, MATERIALS AND METHODS
Study area and patients - This project was implemented between July 1999-December 2002 in Yoro Department, Honduras, located in the country's central mountainous area where the infection is endemic and highly prevalent. The study required the selection of an endemic area where interrupted vector transmission was under surveillance, high seroprevalence rates existed and teams with the operational capacity to provide and supervise treatment were available.
Asymptomatic infected children under the age of 13 years were included in the study. Individuals with severe malnutrition, anaemia or other underlying diseases were excluded from the study and, depending on the severity of these conditions, were referred to the Primary Health Care Units or to the rural area hospital. Between the end of the project and September 2005, HSH was responsible for patient treatment and for carrying out post-treatment serological assessments to confirm cure rates. The study protocol was approved by the HSH of the Ministry of Health and by MSF-E.
Baseline evaluation and drug management - T. cruzi infection was detected using serological tests with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with crude antigen (Chagatest ELISA; Wiener Lab, Rosario, Argentina). The blood samples were obtained by digital puncture at the Yoro Hospital and spotted on filter paper. A second ELISA test, prepared with recombinant T. cruzi antigens (Chagatest recombinant ELISA, version 3.0; Wiener Lab, Rosario, Argentina), was performed using an ELISA plate reader [optical density (OD) at 450 nm]. This second test was used to confirm the results of samples considered reactive during visual readings (ELISA crude antigens) and to validate 10% of those samples testing negative at the Central Reference Laboratory for Chagas disease and Leishmaniasis in Tegucigalpa.
The seropositive children started supervised treatment with benznidazole (Radanil®, Roche) and were given a 7.5 mg/kg dose two times a day for 60 days. According to the follow-up protocol, adverse reactions were recorded and periodic clinical examinations were completed. In order to determine the treatment efficacy, two serological assessments using Chagatest recombinant ELISA were conducted. The children who remained seropositive 18 months after chemotherapy, despite presenting a decrease in their antibody titres, were followed until 36 months after treatment. These assessments were carried out by simultaneously processing the post-treatment filter paper blood samples and the pre-treatment samples preserved at -20ºC.
Informed consent - Parents or guardians of children registered for treatment were informed about its potential benefits and possible risks, including potential adverse reactions and how to proceed if they appeared. Once they were informed, the corresponding signed consent was requested.
Assessment of treatment outcomes - The results were measured in terms of (i) negative seroconversion, defined as the disappearance of antibodies to T. cruzi, (ii) tendency to seroconvert, defined as a > 75% reduction in OD readings for serological tests compared to baseline values (equivalent to a decrease of > 2 dilutions of antibody titres) and (iii) average reduction of antibody titres after the treatment on repeated serological tests.
Statistical analysis - Normalised differences in antibody titres were calculated in consecutive assessments and comparisons to pre-treatment baseline values were made with the following equation: [(final antibody titres - initial antibody titres)/initial antibody titres] x 100. Likewise, differences between the baseline and post-treatment T. cruzi median antibody titres were compared using the Wilcoxon ranked sum test. Seroconversion rates at 18 and 36 months after treatment were compared using the McNemar test. Mann-Whitney U-test and Kruskal-Wallis test were used to compare differences in T. cruzi antibody titres according to age and sex, while Chi-square or Fisher's exact tests were used to compare differences in seroconversion rates. The statistical significance was set at 5%.
Screened subjects and seropositive cases - A total of 24,771 children out of a census of 25,563 (96.9% coverage) were screened. The children lived in five municipalities in the Yoro Department and ranged in age from nine months to 12 years; 15,746 (64%) were under the age of five years and 9,025 (36%) were between 5-12 years of age. Two hundred and fifty six cases were initially found to be reactive by the conventional ELISA (crude antigens), including 232 cases that were confirmed to be positive with the Chagatest recombinant ELISA (0.93% seroprevalence). Of these serologically-positive children, 65 (28.1%) were under the age of five years; 196 (84.5%) lived in localities previously infested with R. prolixus and 36 (15.5%) lived in areas previously infested with T. dimidiata. The median time between spraying and the onset of treatment was eight months (interquartile range 4-12.5 months). Nearly all of the cases were detected in asymptomatic children in the indeterminate or early chronic phase of Chagas disease; the exception was an acute case which presented with Romaña's sign.
Treated patients and follow-up - A total of 231 seropositive children started the treatment. Of these, 229 patients (99.1%) were followed for at least 18 months and a subset of 27 patients were monitored for up to 36 months after treatment. Three children failed to complete the 60-day therapeutic protocol, but were treated for almost a full course (43, 49 and 50 days of treatment), and one case of acute Chagas disease was treated for 30 days. These four patients had seroconverted by the 18 month follow-up.
Adverse events - Unwanted effects were frequently observed during the treatment; most side effects were minor or moderate and most did not require the discontinuation of medication. Only three patients interrupted the treatment within seven weeks due to severe unwanted neurological effects (peripheral neuropathy of the lower limbs). The most common adverse effects were gastrointestinal disorders (n = 62 cases, 26.8% of the total), followed by dermatological conditions (n = 30, 13%) and neurological problems (n = 24, 10.4%) (Table I).
No significant differences were seen in the proportion of adverse effects according to age or sex. The most frequent adverse gastrointestinal episodes included epigastralgia and/or abdominal pain (n = 42 episodes), nausea and/or vomiting (n = 17), anorexia (n = 12), diarrhoea (n = 5) and hepatitis (n = 1); these mostly appeared during the first week after treatment. Dermatological conditions included local or widespread pruritus (n = 33), more or less widespread maculopapular exanthema (n = 12) and urticaria (n = 1); these conditions more frequently occurred 2-3 weeks after treatment began. The most common neurological problems include peripheral polyneuritis (n = 6), headaches (n = 5), arthromyalgia in the lower limbs (n = 4) and seizures (n = 2). No deaths occurred during treatment and no hospitalisations occurred due to benznidazole-related adverse events.
Serological outcomes - Post-therapeutic serological results are shown in Tables II, III and IV. Quantitative analysis of changes in the antibody titres confirmed significant global differences in both the first (Table II) and second assessments (Table III).
After 18 months, the overall seroconversion rate was 88.2% (95% CI from 84-92.4%); it increased to 93.9% (95% CI from 90.8-97%) at the end of the three-year follow-up, although this increase was not statistically significant (Table IV). Thirteen out of the 27 cases (48.1%) that remained seropositive 18 months after treatment yielded negative serological results at 36 months after chemotherapy; 19 of the 27 (70.4%) cases tended to seroconversion (i.e., had OD readings that had decreased by > 75%). These patients were mostly younger than 10 years of age (10/13, 76.9% and 13/19, 68.4%, respectively) (Table IV).
Two children under the age of five years did not show any significant variation in the antibody titres despite completing the treatment. Their dwellings were thoroughly checked to eliminate the possibility of reinfection. Between 1-2 months after the benznidazole treatment ended they started and completed treatment with nifurtimox (Lampit®, Bayer) at 8 mg/kg/day for 30 days. Their last post-treatment serological assessments were done at 48 months and 51 months and although the final results were positive, antibody titres in both cases had decreased by about 40%.
Of the 229 treated patients who were monitored for up to 18 months post-treatment, 85.2% (95% CI from 80.5-89.8%) had decreased OD by > 75% compared to the baseline values. By the end of the follow-up period (36 months), 93.4% (95% CI from 90.2-96.7%) of patients showed a > 75% reduction in OD; this difference was statistically significant. Nineteen out of the 34 cases (55.9%) did not have a > 75% decrease in their antibody titres by the first assessment, but reached this percentage of decrease by the second assessment (McNemar test p < 0.001) (data not shown). No significant differences related to age or sex were found in the antibody titres or seroconversion rates (Tables II-IV).
Cost-efficacy analyses like the one carried out by MSF-E clearly show that vector control programmes that include Chagas disease treatment are much more effective than simply isolated vector control. These programmes have a direct influence on disease impact and prevalence as well as on morbidity and mortality (Wilson et al. 2005).
On the other hand, several controlled trials (Andrade et al. 1996, 2004, Coura et al. 1997, Sosa-Estani et al. 1998) and longitudinal studies with various benznidazole-based regimens (Ferreira 1990, Viotti et al. 1994, Gallerano & Sosa 2000, Cançado 2002, Streiger et al. 2004) that were developed in Brazil, Argentina and Chile in the 1990s show that trypanocide treatment is generally effective in children and adolescents in the chronic latent phase; cure rates as high as 60% have been demonstrated through serological negative conversion (Andrade et al. 1996, 2004, Gallerano & Sosa 2000). Based on these results, the PAHO/WHO made an official recommendation in favour of etiological treatment for children and young adults with the indeterminate form of chronic chagasic infection (PAHO/WHO 1998). The criteria for defining a cure in most of the quoted studies included ongoing negative results from conventional serological tests (Luquetti 1996, Cançado 1999, 2001, Coura & de Castro 2002, Dias 2003).
A significant percentage of adverse effects can be mitigated by carefully monitoring patients with strict diagnostic and treatment follow-up protocols. In the present study, the intensity and characteristics of the observed adverse reactions did not differ substantially from those described by others (Villa et al. 2005, Guhl et al. 2008, Ponce 2008). In addition, we did not find differences from other studies in the rate of withdrawal of patients due to the side effects of benznidazole (Andrade et al. 1996, Sosa-Stani et al. 1998).
Our results corroborate the relevance of mid and long-term post-treatment follow-up in patients presenting with the indeterminate chronic phase of Chagas disease. A significant proportion of cases that are still seropositive in the first assessment become negative by subsequent assessments, particularly in younger patients; in addition, we observed a high seroconversion rate in a relatively short period of time (3 years). Even though a significant percentage of patients who were followed for 36 months after completing their treatment remained seropositive (14/27, 51.9%), six patients (42.9%) did show a clear tendency towards seroconversion and a significant reduction of antibody titres in the follow-up serology.
Some limitations must be considered in the interpretation of these results: only one serological test (recombinant ELISA) was used to assess the cure rate, the study was conducted with a non-controlled observational design and the investigation was not able to follow all of the patients for up to three years after treatment. Nevertheless, the high specificity of the recombinant ELISA justifies its use. We have not used a second serological test with different principles and antigens to verify cures, as recommended by the WHO, because of financial constraints, logistical complications and limited time and human resources.
In Honduras, the MSF-E designed treatment of seropositive patients was an important innovation in the fight against Chagas disease. Initially, recommendations for the national programme only focused on treating acute and congenital cases (Gergonne 2001).
Notwithstanding this fact, the supervised treatment of T. cruzi seropositive children has occurred in different ways throughout the country with community participation in an intervention area under surveillance. The first trial occurred between 1992-1993, when 45 children between the ages of six months and five years were treated in the municipality of San Marcos de Colón, Choluteca Department; these children reached 91.1% seroconversion two years after treatment (Ponce 2008).
In 2000 and parallel with the MSF-E project, MSF-France launched another Chagas disease comprehensive care programme that included etiological treatment for the infected population under 13 years of age in the Francisco Morazán and Olancho Departments. Similar programmes were replicated by the HSH in Intibucá, El Paraíso and Francisco Morazán. The same MSF-E protocols were used based on the recommendations made by the WHO and HSH. The results, based on post-treatment serological assessments, showed a cure rate of 83% and 100%, respectively, at 18 and 36 months after treatment (República de Honduras 2003a, Ponce 2008). A similar study carried out among schoolchildren between the ages of 4-15 years in Colombia in 2002-2003 (Guhl et al. 2008) revealed comparable results, with 94.4% seroconversion six months after treatment, exceeding by far the data reported by the studies carried out in the Southern Cone in the 1990's.
The aforementioned results coincide with our findings and contrast with other studies that show seroconversion rates of between 2.3% by two years after treatment and 65% by six years after treatment (Ferreira 1990, Viotti et al. 1994, Andrade et al. 1996, 2004, Sosa-Stani et al. 1998, Gallerano & Sosa 2000, Streiger et al. 2004). These differences are partly ascribed to the study designs (observational or experimental), various follow-up times, treatment patterns used (dose and duration), stages of the disease, ages of the patients and different serological assessment tests that were used (Coura & de Castro 2002). Geographical diversity also plays an important role in these differences. T. cruzi strains in Central America, as confirmed by the clinical, epidemiological and experimental findings, result in a milder form of the disease and are more sensitive to treatment than those found in the Southern Cone below the Equator. This may be the result of a lesser exposure to benznidazole, which might also favour these differences (Devera et al. 2003, Miles et al. 2003).
The time that elapsed between the spraying of infested dwellings with residual insecticides and the treatment enabled us to assume that most of the children were in the indeterminate form of the early chronic phase of Chagas disease. Therefore, higher and faster seroconversion rates in our study cannot be attributed to a short time between the infection transmission and the treatment.
Our results clearly demonstrate the efficacy and safety of a specific treatment program for Chagas disease in young children living in endemic areas in Honduras. However, additional and larger therapeutic trials are needed in the country and in the Yoro Department region; these studies should include not only clinical results (mortality, incidence of sudden death and heart failure) but also in vivo and in vitro susceptibility studies of T. cruzi strains.
The information gathered throughout this project has produced several important results. First, the study has validated, at a local level, a treatment protocol for recent T. cruzi infections among populations in endemic rural areas under entomological surveillance where vector transmission has been interrupted. Second, MSF has been able to replicate and implement similar initiatives in other countries (including Nicaragua, Guatemala and Bolivia). Third, this study offers a starting point for the implementation of initiatives to fight against Chagas disease in Honduras through close collaborating with international institutions like the Japanese International Cooperation Agency, the Canadian International Development Agency and World Vision. Moreover, serological data obtained after treatment will be very useful to epidemiological surveillance of the disease in the country.
Finally, this study demonstrates that in areas where T. cruzi I is the predominant circulating parasite population and where T. cruzi II is responsible for the infection in humans, the diagnosis and treatment of Chagas disease is feasible, necessary and ethically indisputable.
To Dr. Yermi Chávez, counterpart doctor, Rossel López, the Environmental Health Officer of the HSH, and Lucas Aguilar, the laboratory technician, for their valuable support to develop this project, to all the MSF-E local staff, the municipalities and communities in the Yoro Department that participated in the project: civil and health authorities, vector control technicians, IEC staff, survey takers, nurses, doctors and community agents, to the HSH staff, for their commitment to search and follow-up of children after treatment completion, and to Dr. Gabriel A. Schmunis, for his valuable comments concerning a previous version of this manuscript.
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Received 5 May 2009
Accepted 7 October 2009
Financial support: Médécins Sans Frontières-Spain, Honduras Secretariat of Health
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Anne the lay apostle & Direction for our Times
Discussion in 'The mystical and Paranormal' started by garabandal, Aug 9, 2011.
garabandal Powers
I see Sister Briege McKenna & Father Kevin Scanlon have withdrawn their support from Direction for Our Times
http://www.sisterbriege.com/
garabandal, Aug 9, 2011
Lee Principalities
That's significant. I trust these people. Some thing profound must have happened, any ideas?
Lee, Aug 9, 2011
I found this in Wikipedia:
From September 2005 to April 2007, a discussion arose concerning the alleged locutionist ‘Anne’ a lay apostle. What initiated the discussion was a thread started on a Catholic Internet forum named “The Catholic Community Forum.”[2] A forum member going by the name “MDS” posted on September 17, 2005 an E-mail exchange that he had with a representative of the Direction for Our Times (DFOT) apostolate.[3] ‘MDS’ had some questions about the apostolate in order to ensure that it was following proper canonical regulations.
Among other issues, such as a question on the imprimatur granted to Kathryn's books, the notable problem that MDS had with the DFOT representative was an unwillingness to name Anne’s Bishop. MDS wanted to write the Bishop and ask for a statement as to where Anne and her apostolate canonically stood in his Diocese. MDS, to his understanding, received a less than satisfactory reply and so he then took the E-mail exchange to the Catholic Community Forum for their thoughts.
In February 2007, Kathryn's spiritual director, Fr. Darragh Connolly, issued a private statement (later published) in response to an E-mail sent to Kathryn's Bishop. Fr. Connolly remarked regarding the discussion on the Catholic Community Forum, "I am afraid...that the DFOT representative who responded to these very early queries lacked the authority to do so. His response was incorrect....In answer to your question with regard to the alleged statement that Our Lady wished Bishop O’Reilly’s name to be withheld, this is simply not true. Our Lady never made a statement like that."[4]
The matter of Kathryn's Bishop was settled but other questions still lingered such as the matter of the imprimatur (see below).
Prior to the above response by Fr. Connolly, the above-mentioned thread caught the attention of Mr. Richard Salbato of Unity Publishing who then posted the text of the E-mail conversation on his site.[5] At that time, ‘Anne’ was becoming a name in Catholic circles and MDS’ E-mail exchange created some negative reactions that caused people to start asking questions. These questions eventually led to an avalanche of information that began with a series of articles by Mr. Salbato concerning the anonymity of ‘Anne.’[6] Mr. Salbato publicly exposed Anne’s real identity as Kathryn Ann Clarke, an abused women counselor.[7] Photo evidence has been supplied.[8]
This exposé has caused ink to be spilled both in defense of Anne as well as Unity Publishing.
Dr. Mark I. Miravalle—Professor of Mariology at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio—wrote a three-page response to Mr. Salbato's claims.[9] This response was not published by DFOT for undisclosed reasons but is available from DFOT offices upon request.[10]
After the initial media stir, Mr. Salbato produced E-mail correspondence of an intimate conversation between Anne/Kathryn and her future DFOT C.E.O.[11] The correspondence affirmed statements made by Kathryn under her non de plume "Anne" in her DFOT books ("The Volumes") concerning her vulgarity. This and other materials in the correspondence made Kathryn look very poor in the face of her claims to be receiving heavenly messages. Kathryn--as "Anne"--commented on these claims through Catholic writer Deal Hudson in June 2008, characterizing the arguments against her as her "not being holy enough."[12]
To date, the correspondence was the last major revelatory piece by Unity Publishing on Anne/Kathryn Ann Clarke but the information continued to affect "Anne" and her DFOT apostolate.[13]
The question regarding the imprimatur given to Anne's Volumes by Bishop Escaler concerns the legality of the imprimatur. The Bishop was retired when he granted the imprimatur, which calls into question its legality under Catholic law.[14][15][16]
In August, 2011, Sr. Briege McKenna and Fr. Kevin Scallon publicly withdrew their support for Direction For Our Times.[17]
Rain Powers
I remember someone here (Lee, was that you?) posting about some questionable messages from Anne. In one of them Anne described Purgatory as a lovely peaceful type of place, people laughing and learning to fly, which pretty much contradicted anything the saints have said about it. Purgatory, as I've read the accounts of saints and certain respected theologians, is described as a place of immense suffering, filled with fires similar to those of hell, the big difference is that the fires in Purgatory aren't eteranl.
Anne's version of Purgatory made me go hmmm . . . to say the least.
Rain, Aug 9, 2011
bflocatholic Powers
I saw that regarding DFOT as well... Hmmm. Very disturbing. I have read much of the DFOT material- the Volumes and Anne's books- and found them helpful overall. I also have the utmost respect for Sister Briege and Fr. Kevin, two wonderful, holy people. In fact, their support for Anne's ministry convinced me that it was OK! We will have to see what develops, I suppose.
Regarding the purgatory thing, Rain- I think that Anne's description/vision was more complicated that that. As I recall, there were levels of Purgatory. The types of things you describe may have occurred in the highest levels of purgatory (i.e., those closest to heaven), but certainly not in the lowest. Anne wrote about purgatory in her book "Mist of Mercy."
Be that as it may, I find it sad that yet another seemeingly holy, positive Catholic voice has been "tainted." I suppose it reinforces the need to stick to the tried and true aspects of our faith: Eucharist, Confession, Prayer, Scripture, devotion to Our Lady. It reminds me that Jesus gave us everything we need, truly (including his Mother). If we search for answers outside of Him, we very often end up getting burned.
bflocatholic, Aug 9, 2011
I also have the utmost respect for Sister Briege and Fr. Kevin, two wonderful, holy people.
I do as well and it was due to their so openly coming away from the DFOT that sent red flags for me. It certainly is "await and see" situation. It seems we do have a lot of those these days.
Discernment is so important. I had a very wise, close friend say to me once as she was taking her leave "discern every thing, even me!" I was stunned but took it straight to heart.
Rain, I think someone else had earlier questions about Anne's writings. I don't remember commenting on them in a negative way.
PotatoSack Powers
I stopped following Ann some time ago. I had bought all the books and even saw her speak at an event with adoration and it was wonderful, just so peaceful. I was on fire for awhile after reading her books, and I can see how her writings inspire people. But then it seemed that I was being led astray, and I just lost my peace over her writings. I was beginning to question their authenticity. And then I found out she was an author by trade and I really thought she could be a false visionary despite how beautiful some of the writings are. Lastly I got mail from Direction for our Times, asking for donations because they wanted to buy some castle. That was the final straw I needed and I literally threw all her books away. I know the Medj visionaries do not send direct mailings to people who have stayed in their homes on pilgrimage asking for money and they are not buying castles. I figured I'd rather be safe than sorry, so I just trashed all the books. This very holy priest and nun now not supporting Ann just validates the decision I made a few years ago to throw the books out. Below is the link for Ann/Kathryn's book.
http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/25021/Kathryn_Ann_Clarke/index.aspx
PotatoSack, Aug 9, 2011
MomsCalling Principalities
A castle? Where was it located? Just curious.
I have not really followed her except the posts that have been put on this forum. They seemed insightful. I love Fr. Kevin and have the utmost respect for Sr. Briege, so well...
MomsCalling, Aug 10, 2011
the castle was in Ireland MCalling, and I do think they actually did buy it. I did not think a castle was necessary for her ministry. It just seemed odd to want to buy it and worse that they were hitting up those who bought the books for the finances. that was the last red flag I needed to stop following her. My general attitude is Medj will give you all you need to know for these times, so I am skeptical on most others. If God wanted us to know more about what will happen in the future (like the predictions from maria the european seer), we'd find out through the Medj seers. This is why I don't read the predictions made from Maria the european seer. although, this is just my opinion.
PotatoSack, Aug 10, 2011
forgot to mention, I do read Mark Mallett. I think what he writes is genuine. And since people here have such high regard for Norman's visions, I'm definately listening to what he has to say.
I do find it sad that many still do not believe in Medjugorje either. Puts us in the mix too, in a way. Some on this forum, like Aviso, do not. Yet we all are looking toward the same things, and right or wrong with who we follow, we all try our best to hear with our hearts what we think is right. It is painful when someone whom we think is with God and holy becomes shunned by others whom we deem holy and perhaps more credible. Some on here are following Maria very devoutly. Some, like me, still read her posts, but am reading them as a doubting Thomas. Medjugorje, since having been there, just cannot to me be false. But others are not convinced. This is a hard thing, discerning all this. I pray for discernment and for wisdom these days, to make the right decisions and to say the right things to those whom I feel need to know what is going on. Sigh...
maryrose Powers
There are weeds in the wheat. I think this is always a possibility as long as we walk the earth. I dont believe it invalidates everything the visionary/locutionist says but discernment is always called for.
My maxim is take what is good. I have read some of Annes books and I thought they were good but I have never felt attracted to them so I follow my heart. Pray for her and all those involved her ministry. They have helped in bringing people to the Lord.
He ministry were buying Kilnacrott Abbey which is an old monastry and I believe they operate from there and run retreats etc. The monastry was up for sale and I suppose they were trying to buy it. I dont believe it was for any personal use or gain.
maryrose, Aug 11, 2011
MomsCalling said:
I haven't been to Medjugorje, so maybe I'd be totally gung ho if I had. At this point I'm not completely convinced the messages genuine, but I'm not convinced they're bogus either. I go back and forth. Sometimes I lean strongly in favor of it--other times I feel really skeptical. Right know I'm in a "troubled" phase concerning Medjugorje. A video of one of the visionaries flinching during an ecstacy when someone jabbed a finger in her face has made me go hmmm. More troubling than the flinch was the allged excuse from the visionary for the flinch. It's hard to know what information to believe and what to dismiss coming from that place. Med is going to have to be a wait and see for me. I thank God the Church is investigating because I probably won't be settled about it unless/until the Secrets are Disclosed and Events Unfold as described (in that order) . . . and/or Church decides on it once and for all.
As for Norman's messages, I don't know enough to make any sort of personal decision about their authenticity whatsoever.
Personally, concerning most modern alleged apparitions I seldom straddle the fence for long. I feel comfortable dismissing them as false under my own discernment. Anne was different. Her messages seemed "cleaner". There were few reasons to outright dismiss them. I read them every month, wondering if they could be true, even despite the Purgatory thing. The news about both the nun and priest withdrawing their support is a big blow to Anne's credibility.
Rain, Aug 11, 2011
catholicthinker New Member
I read all of the early books over six years ago and quickly realised that this woman was an impostor, a failed writer who was now claiming to write in God's name. Her so-called locutions were quite well written rubbish, and contained many internal contradictions and much that contradicted Catholic teaching. I made my views known to her early backers, but was rebuffed by people who had not read her writings in any detail. It is not enough for Sr. Briege and Fr. Kevin to disavow her and move on - they must work to undo the damage done by promoting her across the globe, at their Intercessions for Priests and within Divine Mercy circles. They lent her their considerable credibility early on and before the fruits were known at all, and must now address the damage done. How anyone could read this crap and consider it as coming from God is totally beyond me...
catholicthinker, Aug 12, 2011
I didn't follow Anne beyond the monthly messages posted here on this forum. I never read her books. I didn't promote her messages, but I didn't denounce them either. I didn't even know she was supported by Sister Briege McKenna & Father Kevin Scanlon until I read they were withrawing said support. That's important to know.
You brought up a good point, catholic thinker, about how those with influence can unintentionally lead many astray if they don't practice careful discernment.
Considering I'm so free with my opinions, that's a sobering thought. I tell myself it's okay because I have little influence and nobody listens to me anyway.
Except we will be held accountable for every utterance! That weighs heavy on me.
Catholicthinker, thank you for chiming in on this and welcome to the forum. Your input is valuable. Please feel at home and welcomed here and know that your view is important to us all...in the Body of Christ. Pax.
Lee, Aug 12, 2011
Lee said:
Really, it does me too. It's hard to think about. Makes me want to buy a puppy.
Rain, you crack me up!
I was thinking when reading your post...how Sr. Briege and Fr. Kevin are from the Medjugorje circle, so if a person is skeptical of Medjugorje, then why be concerned about the endorsements from these two?
Where did you see this about one of the visionaries flinching, do you have a link?
I too have only read the posts here for Anne, I never went any deeper either. Spending 2 weeks in Medjugorje, though, you feel the peace, you feel the holiness of the place. Does this mean that all the visionaries are completely truthful all the time? Well, I would hope so, but I suppose it is not neccessarily so. For me, even if one or more of the visionaries were found to be embellishing or faking their visions in some way, I still think I would hold the place special and holy. I just felt it so strongly there. Not everyone who visits any of these places is convinced of their reality however. Many doubting Thomasas abound for Medjugorje and for Garabandal, and even for Fatima and Lourdes, so onward we go as best we can.
I keep in mind that our Lady told Ivan he would live to see the permanent sign in Medjugorje, I hope that Joey sees the one at Garabandal and regains his sight in time to actually see other things in this physical world (that his regaining of sight is not defined by his death in some way). I read all these messages on the internet that all seem to parrot off each other, tell similar stories and describe similar visions, and wonder if it is all overactive imaginations, schitsophrenic minds, vivid dreams, and medication reacting to images read in old books...the Bible, St. Faustina dairies, etc. Then I pray about it, and remember how I felt the first time I read about apparitions of Mary, and how I felt in Medjugorje, and how I feel in other places I have visited since, and how God got us there...truly an amazing feat in itself... and I smile and my faith returns. I just wish I could be more patient about it all. I want so much for things to commence, so we can all stop wondering, stop just thinking and start doing!
padraig New Member
I have always believed in Ann's messages.
Does anyone know why Sr Briege pulled out? Did she give a reason(s)?
padraig, Aug 12, 2011
Seán New Member
So did I. I have always been struck by the warmth and profundity in the messages. And I haven't seen anything yet to contradict church teaching (unless there's something in her books, which I haven't read).
Seán, Aug 12, 2011
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Imitations Of Lives
Imitations Of Lives, 1934, 1959. directors John. M. Stall and Douglas Sirk. 108 minutes Black And White 1934. 124 minutes Color 1959.
The Story: A black woman and a white woman raise their daughters together, but one daughter wants to pass as white and the other wants her mother’s boyfriend.
The difficulty with the films’ material lies in that the attention given to the white story is greater than the attention given to its greater, unique, deeper title story, the story that actually would carry the film if it were handled honorably – that of the black business-partner/housekeeper and her daughter who wishes to pass as white.
The prosperity-story of the white woman’s rise to professional security is never in doubt because each lady is played by superstars Claudette Colbert and Lana Turner. When each has her success, each becomes a fashion plate. Even when poor, we never see them messy. We never see them seriously depressed. These things are touched on, but we are spared. Each ascends into fox furs by the hot air balloon of Hollywood narrative bunk.
Colbert has an advantage over Turner in that Colbert’s leading man, Warren William, is a more ambiguous charmer than Turner’s and possesses a masterful wit in lovemaking and dialogue, whereas Turner’s fella’s sense of humor is nowhere evident.
Colbert also has more natural presence and give as an actor than Lana Turner, is more humanly appealing, just as pretty, more instinctual, just the right age, and a lot of fun. She can also play on several levels. That is, she has the advantage of being more diverting. Being diverting was enormously important for a film actor of her era, for presence, charm, humor, and sheer character was necessary to divert us from the improbable routines of the stories.
Lana Turner is diverting, yes, for as long as you find an artificial flower to be diverting. For Turner has a hard time holding your attention surrounded, as she is, by her accoutrements of makeup, dress, and a hairdo as stiff as a mummy’s beard. In the 1959 remake, instead of rising to fortune on pancakes she rises to it as a Broadway actress, if you will. Saddled with a young daughter, a widowhood, and a cold-water flat, her costly, peroxide perm stretches our credulity way past Lana Turner’s girdle. For Turner is already a woman of a certain age, and what encumbers her even more is that her leading man, John Gavin, is younger and far more beautiful than she.
Jean-Louis coifs Lana Turner with his costumes. They stun and they are no more to be believed than her hairdos. Turner knows how to entice. And she has a moment or two as an actor, but she is left to her own devices by the director, and since she lacks taste and sensibility as an artist, her moments get lost in her performance decorations, one of which is her refuge to easy tears. We also come to understand why she never played in comedy, for she has no sense of humor.
And then enter My Lady Squeal, Sandra Dee – immediately at one with the vulgarity of the Ross Hunter/Douglas Sirk treatment. For the screen smears us with the candy of technicolor general lighting – that favored Hollywood illumination of the ‘50s which cursed us with American Dream pastels and avocado kitchen appliances. It fattens the film as it fattened the age. The film is swinish.
In both versions their false-eyelash direction, acting, writing, lighting, sets forbid the black women’s story from being played authentically. Juanita Hall and Louise Beavers, actors of quality, cannot play the parts because they cannot play the parts realistically but only as written in the false styles of each film, styles dead to any human relationship that is not narrative in motivation.
The issue of the story is not that of wanting to pass, but why. We never see it.
So, neither Beavers nor Hall can play their parts of the mothers beyond a general expression of sweetness, forbearance, and pain – sometimes all at once. The writing allows them no particularity, idiosyncrasy, or detail. We have to swallow an indigestible self-sacrifice from each. To these actresses of this race no other choice is provided. It’s really a form of racial bigotry passing.
Both films do have grand black funerals — the Beavers’ one being particularly characteristic — the pallbearers’ itching their rears, the horses caparisoned with net. The Juanita Hall cortege imitates it, but, of course, it is less impressive in color. Mahalia Jackson sings the elegy, and even Lana Turner is allowed to show a line on her face.
Turner’s version is an imitation of the life of An Imitation Life which wasn’t even an imitation of life to begin with. It makes no sense to think of these films as Black Flicks That Matter, but does make sense to think how, for a long time, black flicks, even when they appeared to exist, didn’t matter because they really didn’t exist at all, except as tokens still content to shove blacks into the rear of the human bus.
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Day-Time Wife
Day-Time Wife – Directed by Gregory Ratoff. Romantic Comedy. The wife of a two-timing husband takes a job as the secretary of her husband’s client. 72 minutes Black and White 1939.
The difference between a silly movie and a stupid movie is the stupid movie takes the audience to be stupid. Such is the case here. At once one senses there are two things wrong. The script is unswallowable; that remains constant as far as the female characters go. The second is the question: isn’t Linda Darnell somehow far too inexperienced to be playing the sophisticated wife of a highly successful New York skyscraper contractor? Research reveals that at the time she is 16 years old! The man she hires herself out to, however, is a merry and impenitent philander, played to the hilt by that crafty actor Warren William. He is absolutely marvelous, and if you parse out the lines he has to give, you appreciate what a nervy talent he had. He’s worth the price of admission and an example for young supporting actors of how to invest yourself in a role. Investment alone is funny. The scenes between him and Darnell are better written, and Darnell actually performs them with admirable artistic confidence. Here her looks are not quite formed up; there’s that lantern jaw; they don’t have her hairline right yet; her mouth has the wrong makeup. But she will develop as an actress beautifully with time, although by the time she peaks with Forever Amber she looks older than she is, which is only 24. Alcoholism has performed its task well, poor thing. Here, you can’t blame her, for oh the situations she is thrust into! – Zanuck was supposed to have had a better story sense. In its day, the reason to see it was to watch the beauteous and gifted Tyrone Power. As an actor he is never wrong. Almost never, for here his honesty sometimes fails him. Anyhow, aged 25 he is a huge star, and it’s justified by all his gifts, his fine voice, his ability to move naturally and swiftly, his looks, his grasp of situation, his refusal to milk a scene, his dedication to the other actors in it. Power was the best super-star actor in the world at that time. Perhaps only Clark Gable was so willing to look foolish in a movie. William Powell in the great fishing scene, yes, but Powell always returns to his habitual aplomb. Powell and Gable always are changed. Watch him. No one was more willing. It’s a treat to see this in him.
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You are here: MPI Website /Communication /News /Focus on - Overview /Ocean modelling at MPI-M – from LSG to ICON-O
Authors: Uwe Mikolajewicz and Peter Korn
The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) has a long tradition of creating general circulation models of the ocean in order to pursue its scientific goals. These models rest upon fundamental physical principles such as Newton’s second law and conservation of mass. The numerical modelling consists of discretizing the ocean’s dynamical equations and to solve them on modern supercomputers. In the following the history and development of ocean modelling at MPI-M is summarized.
Part I (by Uwe Mikolajewicz)
LSG – OPYC – HOPE – MPIOM
In the beginning of the research at MPI-M, the ocean was mostly considered as a damping and storage term in the stochastic climate models (Hasselmann, 1976). But ocean heat transport is also essential for climate. Therefore, Klaus Hasselmann, founding director of the MPI-M, suggested the outline of a 3-dimensional ocean model designed for climate studies, which could also act as the ocean component in a coupled atmosphere-ocean climate model (Hasselmann, 1982).
Based on these ideas, Ernst Maier-Reimer developed the Large-Scale-Geostrophic ocean general circulation model (LSG) using linearized Navier-Stokes equations (neglecting advection of momentum) and a fully implicit time-stepping algorithm (Maier-Reimer et al., 1982; Maier-Reimer et al., 1993). The dominant terms for the dynamics were geostrophy (the balance between pressure gradients and Coriolis force), wind forcing and friction, which is an appropriate approximation for the interior of the ocean (except at the equator). With a horizontal resolution of 5°, a time step of 1 month was achievable, allowing a tremendous turnaround of more than 500 model years/day even on the computers available in the late 1980s. The model had a free surface and a simple thermodynamic sea ice model. The LSG model was very efficient for long-term integrations and allowed the investigation of the ocean effect on climate. The model has also been applied to several paleo applications. One example was to test the hypothesis that the Younger Dryas cold event about 12,000 years ago was caused by freshwater input from the decaying Laurentide ice sheet. Maier-Reimer and Mikolajewicz (1989) showed that freshwater input into the North Atlantic can cause a breakdown of the Atlantic’s meridional overturning circulation and that the sensitivity depends strongly on the location of the freshwater input (see Fig.).
The LSG model provided the basis for the first three-dimensional inorganic carbon cycle model (Maier-Reimer, 1984; Maier-Reimer and Hasselmann, 1987) and allowed the development of MPI-M’s carbon cycle model HAMOCC (Bacastow and Maier-Reimer, 1990). Already in 1984, Maier-Reimer used the precursor of HAMOCC to estimate the ocean uptake of anthropogenic CO2 and emphasized the important role of high-latitude deep-water formation on the uptake of excess CO2 (Maier-Reimer, 1984). With a coupled ocean general circulation-marine carbon cycle model, Maier-Reimer et al. (1996) pioneered investigating the effects of non-constant ocean climate and circulation on carbon uptake in a warming world, which reduce the ability of the ocean to take up anthropogenic CO2.
Fig.: Time series (in years) of North Atlantic and Arctic atmosphere-ocean heat exchange north of 30°N (positive values indicate heat loss of the ocean). Experiments with constant meltwater input release either at St. Lawrence (L) or Mississippi (M). The numbers give the amount of the meltwater input in Sverdrup (Maier-Reimer and Mikolajewicz, 1989)
The development of an adjoint of the LSG model allowed steady-state inverse estimates of the ocean circulation that are consistent with both the dynamics of an ocean GCM and observational data. One application was the estimate of the ocean circulation of the Last Glacial Maximum using proxy data as observational constraint (Winguth et al., 1999).
The LSG model served as the ocean component in the first MPI-M coupled atmosphere-ocean climate model (Cubasch et al., 1992), which was one of the first coupled climate models applied to study the transient effect of rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations. These model simulations already showed the typical changes in ocean circulation that are now standard results in anthropogenic climate change, such as a weakening of the Atlantic overturning circulation, reduction of the northward heat transport of the Atlantic, and a minimum of the warming in the northern North Atlantic.
Another branch of ocean model development at MPI-M was the isopycnic ocean model OPYC developed by Josef Oberhuber (Oberhuber, 1993). Here the vertical coordinate was not the depth as in the other ocean models at MPI-M, but ocean potential density. This model served also as ocean component in some versions of the coupled climate model at MPI-M (e.g., Roeckner et al., 1999).
The weak point of the approximations used in the LSG model is the equatorial dynamics. Therefore Ernst Maier-Reimer developed another ocean model based on a more complete set of equations, named primitive equations. The model was called HOPE model (Hamburg Ocean Primitive Equation model). It was at first primarily applied to the tropical Pacific studying the dynamics of El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) (Latif, 1987). Coupled at first to a simple empirical feedback model and later to an atmospheric GCM, it allowed predictions of El Niño. During time, the model was extended into a global model, a dynamic/thermodynamic sea ice model was added, and HOPE was coupled to an atmosphere model.
The spatial discretization of HOPE was changed into one more suitable for high resolutions (from an E-grid to a C-grid). The option to use locally orthogonal grids with spatially varying resolution was added (Maier-Reimer, 1997). This allowed an arbitrary placement of the model’s grid poles. Thus, the singularity at the North Pole, a problem of many global ocean models at that time, could easily be avoided by placing the grid poles on land (e.g., Greenland). Such a model setup allowed studying the effect of Fram Strait sea ice export on the North Atlantic using a global model (Haak et al., 2003), thus combining the advantages of regionally high resolution and avoiding problems with having to specify boundary conditions inside the ocean, one main problem of regional ocean models. This model has later been renamed MPIOM and has been the physical ocean component of the MPI Earth System Model for the last 15 years (Marsland et al., 2003; Jungclaus et al., 2013).
Part II (by Peter Korn)
ICON: Since the early 2000s
Global ocean models strive forcefully for optimal computational efficiency and try to explore the resources of the high-performance computing environment to a maximum degree. Computational efficiency is not only a “nice-to-have”-property – it is a “must-have” in order to tackle the relevant scientific problems. To satisfy efficiency demands while at the same time comply with the mathematical structure of the governing partial differential equations (PDE’s) constitutes one of the key challenges in numerical modelling of geophysical flows.
Around the turn of the millennium it became evident that the forthcoming generations of supercomputers used in climate modelling will rely on massively parallel computing architectures. At this time the field of ocean climate modelling was dominated by “structured-grid models” –ocean models on latitude-longitude grids. The tessellation of the sphere with rectangular orthogonal grids causes a strong non-uniformity in the resolution of the grid – the polar singularity – and this non-uniformity limits the computational efficiency on massively parallel computing platforms. Thus, structured-grid ocean models suffer from a dilemma between the needs of high-performance computing and the facts of spherical geometry: either being rectangular or being uniform.
The way out of this dilemma is to consider unstructured grids, grids with non-rectangular cell geometries. Among the manifold of imaginable unstructured grids, a specific class has attracted the greatest attention, a set of grids that emanate from highly regular geometric objects – the Platonic solids. MPI-M has chosen one particular Platonic solid as foundation of its new model generation – the Icosahedron.
The ICON project provides the framework in which MPI-M continues its tradition of ocean model development and adapts its modelling strategy to new emerging technologies in high-performance computing. The use of the new icosahedral grid compels us to revisit the fundamental physical laws of ocean dynamics underlying our models and to transform them sensibly to computer codes that are capable of running efficiently on massively parallel computing architectures.
During the progression of the ICON project it was discovered that all unstructured grids share a common disadvantage: regardless how one distributes the model variables on the grid, one always generates spurious waves or computational modes that have no physical meaning and contaminate the solution.
MPI-M’s choice of variable staggering on the icosahedral grid was considered attractive but particular difficult if not impossible to use since it suffers from a computational mode in the model’s continuity equations for which no computational cure was known. Therefore, several modelling groups have abandoned this grid and chosen different grids and variable layouts. The solution to MPI-M’s problem came from mathematics.
For the overall design of the ocean general circulation model ICON-O, the control of spurious modes is just one aspect of desirable model properties. Conservation properties are of paramount importance for the longtime integrations required in ocean modelling. The design of ICON-O is centered on discrete conservation principles. Mathematically, conservation principles are intimately linked with the variational form of the governing equations in appropriate Hilbert spaces. The two key building blocks in implementing conservation principles are the treatment of discrete differential operators and of the reconstructions that are required by the variable staggering in order to calculate fluxes. It turned out that imposing the mathematical compatibility of both differential operators and reconstructions with the discrete variational form of the ocean primitive equations is the key that guarantees conservation principles and at the same time integrates in a natural way a physics-compatible filter that controls the spurious mode (Korn, 2017; Korn and Danilov, 2017).
The analysis of the resulting numerics revealed additional positive surprises. It leads to a natural and new discretization of an essential oceanic sub-grid scale parametrization. The “isoneutral diffusion” and the “eddy parametrization” of Gent-McWilliams are milestones in ocean modelling and are applied by virtually every ocean general circulation model. The actual computation of these parametrizations poses a subtle discretization problem for which since the late 1990’s only one solution was known. Using ICON-O’s numerical machinery provided a new solution to this problem that employs inherently unstructured methods (Korn, 2018). A second surprise was provided by the application of the ICON-O discretization to the shallow water equations. These equations are a simplified set of equations of geophysical fluid dynamics that nevertheless contain some of the key aspects of the atmospheric or oceanic circulation. The remarkable property of the ICON-O numerics is that it preserves both quadratic invariants, total energy and potential enstrophy (Korn and Linardakis, 2018). Most other schemes preserve only one of them. The conservation of both quadratic invariants puts the numerical scheme in the same category as the famous Arakawa discretization from 1990.
After inventing fundamentally new numerics and analyzing these numerics we can now turn ICON-O into MPI-M’s workhorse for high-resolution simulations in coupled as well as in stand-alone configurations.
References Part I
Bacastow, R. and E. Maier-Reimer (1990) Ocean-circulation of the carbon cycle. Climate Dyn., 4, 95-125.
Cubasch, U., Hasselmann, K., Höck, H., Maier-Reimer, E., Mikolajewicz, U., Santer, B. D. and R. Sausen (1992) Time-dependent greenhouse warming computations with a coupled ocean-atmosphere model. Climate Dynamics, 8, 55-69.
Haak, H., Jungclaus, J., Mikolajewicz, U. and M. Latif (2003) Formation and propagation of great salinity anomalies. Geophysical Research Letters, 30, Art. No. 1473, doi: 10.1029/2003GL017065.
Hasselmann, K. (1976) Stochastic climate models, Part I, Theory. Tellus, 28, 473.
Hasselmann, K. (1982) An ocean model for climate variability studies. Progr. Oceanogr., 11, 69-92.
Jungclaus, J.H., Fischer, N., Haak, H., Lohmann, K., Marotzke, J., Matei, D., Mikolajewicz, U., Notz, D. and J.-S. von Storch (2013). Characteristics of the ocean simulations in MPIOM, the ocean component of the MPI-Earth System Model. J. Adv. Model. Earth. Syst.5, 422-446. doi:10.1002/jame.20023.
Latif, M. (1987) Tropical Ocean Circulation Experiments. J. Phys. Oc., 17 (2), 246-263.
Maier-Reimer, E., Müller, D., Olbers, D., Willebrand, J., & Hasselmann, K. F. (1982) An ocean circulation model for climate variability studies. Hamburg: Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie. (Umweltforschungsplan des Bundesministers des Innern - Entwicklung von Klimamodellen; FB 104 02 612)
Maier-Reimer E. (1984) Towards a global ocean carbon model. Progress in Biometeorology, 3, 295–310.
Maier-Reimer, E. and K. Hasselmann (1987) Transport and storage of CO2 in the ocean – an inorganic ocean-circulation carbon cycle model. Climate Dynamics, 2, 63; doi.org/10.1007/BF01054491.
Maier-Reimer, E. and U. Mikolajewicz (1989) Experiments with an OGCM on the cause of the Younger Dryas. In A. Ayala-Castanares, W. Wooster and A. Yañez-Aranciba (eds.), Oceanography 1988. p. 87 - 100, UNAM Press, Mexico D.F. 207p.
Maier-Reimer, E., Mikolajewicz, U. and K. Hasselmann (1993) Mean circulation of the Hamburg LSG OGCM and its sensitivity to the thermohaline surface forcing. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 23, 731-757.
Maier-Reimer, E., U. Mikolajewicz and A. Winguth (1996) Interactions between ocean circulation and the biological pumps in the global warming. Climate Dynamics, 12, 711-721.
Maier-Reimer, E. (1997) Design of a closed boundary regional model of the Arctic Ocean. /Workshop on Polar Processes in Global Climate/ (pp. 72-73). Boston: American Meteorological Society
Marsland, S.J., Haak, H., Jungclaus, J.H. and M. Latif (2003) The Max Planck Institute global ocean/sea ice model with orthogonal curvilinear coordinates. Ocean Modelling, 5 (2), 91-127; doi: 10.1016/S1463-5003(02)00015-X
Mikolajewicz, U., and E. Maier-Reimer (1994) Mixed boundary conditions in ocean general circulation models and their influence on the stability of the model’s conveyor belt. Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, C11, 22,633-22,644.
Oberhuber, J.M. (1993) Simulation of the Atlantic circulation with a coupled sea ice - mixed layer - isopycnal General Circulation Model. Part I: Model Description. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 23, 808-829.
Roeckner, E., Bengtsson, L., Feichter, J., Lelieveld, J. and H. Rohde (1999) Transient climate change simulations with a coupled atmosphere-ocean GCM including the tropospheric sulfur cycle. J. Climate, 12, 2004-3032.
Winguth, A. M. E., Archer, D., Maier-Reimer, E., Mikolajewicz, U. and J.-C. Duplessy (1999). Sensitivity of paleo nutrient tracer distributions and deep-sea circulation to glacial conditions. Paleoceanography, 14, 304-323.
References Part II
Korn, P. (2017) Formulation of an unstructured grid model for global ocean dynamics. J. of Comp. Phys., 339, 525-552. doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2017.03.009
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Keep Austin Jazzy
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Dr. Marcus Wilcher stands for his solo as the rest of Baker’s Dozen quietly accompanies his melody. After starting at the age of 10, Wilcher now has a doctorate in jazz composition and saxophone from the University of Texas at Austin and just received the 2015 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award. Photo by Alyssa Brant
By Alyssa Brant, Sylvia Butanda, Kimberley Carmona and Rebecca Salazar
Austin, TX – A dimly lit and narrow staircase keeps customers on their toes as they head down inside. Music from the speakers bounce off the walls as bartenders pour the drinks of the waiting audience already in their seats. The musicians are in their chairs warming up in preparation for that evening’s performance.
Many famous musicians, such as John Mills and Jon Blondell, call the Elephant Room their home. Paul Baker, a well-known musician in Austin, plays with his 13 man band, Baker’s Dozen Big Band, once a month at the venue.
“The jazz scene is getting larger,” Paul Baker said. “The Elephant Room has always been ground zero. This has been the main place for jazz, and it is known nationally.”
The presence of jazz music in Austin has always been very subtle, yet it can be traced back to the seventies. According to local jazz musician Michael Mordecai, 6th Street used to house six jazz clubs, but now none of them remain. Despite the dwindling number of jazz clubs, Mordecai believes jazz has stayed relevant in Austin because jazz musicians are able to morph into any genre.
Compared to other genres, Baker believes jazz has no boundaries.
“The thing about jazz that makes it so different from everything else is that even though rock roll has improvised solos, they’re always limited,” Baker said.
Jazz bands are commonly made up of a rhythm section and a horn section, but this genre still allows for a lot of musical freedom. Marcus Wilcher, an accomplished musician and Baker’s Dozen saxophone player, said that the freedom while playing is his favorite part about jazz music.
“You practice all this ridiculous stuff just so you can get on stage and say alright what can I create right now, and then you just go,” Wilcher said. “It’s one of the few forms of music that lets you do that at all times.”
Other band members like Morris Nelms, pianist for Baker’s Dozen, enjoys playing jazz music for the emotional aspect.
“I heard an incredible concert one time with incredible jazz people, and I liked the way they made feel,” Nelms said. “Every once in a while I can feel again what I felt at that point.”
Even though jazz is a genre that is typically heavily consisted of solos, it still manages to spread a feeling of togetherness, and that’s what Baker believes will keep the jazz scene alive in Austin.
“The most fun is being able to create and provide this environment for really marvelous players to come together and make marvelous music and have a great time doing it because we’re playing for each other,” Baker said.
Left to right - Steven Vague (tenor sax), Dr. Marcus Wilcher (alto sax), Scott Benner (alto sax) and Paul Baker (baritone sax) play as a harmonious quartet during Baker’s Dozen’s gig at The Elephant Room. Photo by Alyssa Brant
With a face of pure enjoyment, Dean Macomber rolls on his snare drum to keep beat for his fellow band members. “The guys in the band are just stellar,” Macomber said. “They’re just fantastic players, and can read whatever you put in front of them.” Photo by Alyssa Brant
Standing for his time in the spotlight, Scott Brenner plays a soulful alto saxophone improv solo. Photo by Rebecca Salazar
Left to right- Randy Zimmerman, Ken George and Kerry Williams glide the slides of their trombones during one of Baker’s Dozen jazzy tunes. Photo by Rebecca Salazar
With plunger mute in hand, trombonist Ken George stands to solo out at the Baker’s Dozen gig at The Elephant Room. During his career, George has backed up many big names in the music industry, including Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra and Ray Charles. Photo by Rebecca Salazar
Morris Nelms (piano) and Billy Satterwhite (bass), jam out at The Elephant Room as part of the rhythm section of Baker’s Dozen Big Band. Photo by Alyssa Brant
Left to right - Jimmy Shortell, Eric Johnson and Dr. Adrian Ruiz combine their unique talents to make up the trumpet section of Baker’s Dozen Big Band. Photo by Alyssa Brant
Illuminated by the red spotlights of The Elephant room, Dr. Adrian Ruiz performs with Baker’s Dozen Big Band. Ruiz received his bachelors in music studies from the University of Texas at San Antonio, his masters from Texas State University, and a doctoral of musical arts in jazz trumpet performance from The University of Texas at Austin. Photo by Rebecca Salazar
In between songs, Paul Baker, founding member of Baker’s Dozen Big Band, stands and grabs the microphone to crack a couple of jokes and promote the sale of their CD. Photo by Rebecca Salazar
Sitting next to the band’s elaborate tip jar decorated with an array of drumsticks, band owner Paul Baker plays his baritone saxophone during their performance at the Elephant room. Photo by Rebecca Salazar
Dean Macomber jams out during the Baker’s Dozen performance at The Elephant Room. Having played the drums for over 30 years, Macomber is an internationally recognized drummer, as well as a well-known producer, educator and clinician. Photo by Alyssa Brant
Dr. Adrian Ruiz performs a trumpet improv solo during Baker’s Dozen’s gig at The Elephant Room. In addition to being an active freelance musician, Ruiz is a faculty member at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, where he directs the concert band and teaches instrumental conduction. Photo by Rebecca Salazar
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Title: The New Reality
Author: Stephen Martino
Publisher: Light Messages
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Alex Pella, an acclaimed neuroscientist and the hero of the new medical thriller, THE NEW REALITY, finds himself racing across the globe to find a cure for a rapidly spreading illness threatening to end all of humanity. To combat this worldwide pandemic, Pella and his colleagues must use modern science in an attempt to decipher a code hidden by God within the original pages of the Bible.
THE NEW REALITY is the first book in a projected trilogy starring Alex Pella, created by New Jersey-based neurologist Stephen Martino. With his mixture of medicine, politics, biblical riddles, and futuristic science, Martino joins such masters of the medical thriller genre as Dan Brown, Michael Crichton, and Robin Cook.
Martino’s villain is a deadly retrovirus accidentally unleashed on the world in the year 2080, a time when no country is financially equipped to deal with such a disaster. It’s up to Pella and NIH expert Marissa Ambrosia to lead the search for a cure while fending off an elite foreign military unit sent to stop them. The scientists, guided by an ancient code concealed within the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, traverse ancient lands in an attempt to solve a biblical riddle and save humanity from total extinction.
Martino says he wrote THE NEW REALITY “more than just to entertain the reader. I really wanted to create a novel with substance, like (Brown’s) THE DA VINCI CODE or (Crichton’s) JURASSIC PARK. These books not only tell a fantastic story, but they also make the reader think.”
In THE NEW REALITY, Martino has included such hot-button contemporary topics as genetic manipulation, gene therapy, unprecedented economic debt, and the rise of big government, combining them with more esoteric subjects such as the Bible Code and the mysteries hidden in the Book of Revelation.
The Bible Code, Martino explains, does exist and was discovered by Dr. Eli Rips, a mathematician in quantum physics. The code has been confirmed by mathematicians at Yale, Harvard, and Hebrew University, as well as by peer-reviewed mathematical journals and the Pentagon. The code, Martino continues, is found in the original Hebrew version of the first five books of the Old Testament, called the Torah, and only in its untranslated, Hebrew form.
All of these elements, Martino maintains, separate his book from the pack. He calls THE NEW REALITY “issue-oriented fiction. There are real concerns facing society today that threaten both the sovereignty and prosperity of our future generations. Though fictional, my novel addresses some of these issues and predicts the potential consequences we face as a nation if they are not properly addressed today.”
The New Reality is available at Amazon.
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Stephen Martino holds an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and is a neurologist in New Jersey. When he is not working, he can be found with his five children doing homework or cheering them on at a soccer field, basketball court, or dance recital. Martino is a member of the Knights of Columbus, a Cub Scout den leader and is an active public speaker, helping to educate the local community and healthcare professionals on the signs, symptoms and treatment of stroke. THE NEW REALITY is his first novel.
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Fw: A Sad Day for America and the Marine Corps
I believe this to be TRUE. The good thing is that Murtha can no longer endanger our country. He's DEAD!
This is our new military? This is truly a A Sad Day for America and the Marine Corps — Lt Col Chessani Retires
Eugene A. Simon
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." ~Ronald Reagan
ANN ARBOR, MI – He defended our Nation for over twenty-three years . . . often away from his wife and children . . . so that we could be home safely with ours. All patriotic Americans owe a debt of gratitude to this American hero.
After a protracted four and a half year legal ordeal over the “Haditha massacre” - a massacre that never happened - LtCol Jeffrey Chessani completed his final day of active duty service in the United States Marine Corps last Friday, July 16, 2010. Thus ended the promising career of one of America’s most effective combat leaders in Iraq—a political scapegoat to appease the anti-war press and politicians.
LtCol Chessani served three combat tours in Iraq as well as serving in the First Persian Gulf War and in Panama, receiving numerous awards and honors. At the time of the Haditha incident, he was commander of the 3rd Battalion (“The Thundering Third”), 1st Marines—one of the most decorated units in the history of the Marine Corps.
This loyal Marine officer faced criminal charges as a result of a legitimate combat action taken by four of his Marines after being ambushed by insurgents in Haditha, Iraq, on November 19, 2005. He cared deeply about the young Marines entrusted to his command, and refused to “throw them under the bus” to save his own career.
On November 19, 2005, at approximately 7:15 a.m., a Marine convoy was rolling through Haditha, Iraq — a terrorist stronghold. Suddenly, a roadside bomb went off, destroying a Marine Humvee, killing one Marine and seriously injuring two others.
The Marines immediately received fire from the ambushing insurgents, who were shooting from nearby civilian-occupied homes. A four-man fire team responded as trained: they cleared several houses occupied by the armed insurgents, and in the ensuing room-by-room, house-by-house gun battle, it was reported eight enemy were killed.
Tragically 15 civilians also died. In urban combat, where insurgents purposefully use civilians as human shields, civilian casualties are tragic, but not uncommon. In fact, sometimes the insurgents themselves kill civilians to achieve a propaganda victory by blaming the Americans.
LtCol Chessani immediately reported the deaths of the 15 civilian Iraqis to his superiors. Upon hearing of the 15 civilian deaths, not one of LtCol Chessani’s superiors ─ including top generals ─ considered it unusual. Not one ordered a further investigation. In fact, they commended him for a job well done.
However, several months later, a known Al Qaeda propaganda operative instigated an inflammatory Time magazine news article written by reporter Tim McGirk – later proven to be false – accusing the Marines of massacring innocent civilians.
Pennsylvania Congressman John Murtha, a leading anti-war critic, saw his opportunity and jumped in. Murtha was head of the House military appropriations subcommittee –a position with significant power over the military. He echoed the Time magazine story.
Murtha appeared on several major television networks and publicly accused the young enlisted Marines of “cold blooded” murder and Marine officers of a “cover-up.” He blamed it all on the stress of being in Iraq too long. Incredibly, these accusations were made even before the investigation was completed.
Murtha was the same person caught on tape negotiating bribes with Arab Sheiks during the FBI’s 1980 Abscam investigation – he was an un-indicted co-conspirator in that case.
The trumped-up charge: failing to properly report and investigate the November 19, 2005 incident. The Government did everything it could to convict LtCol Chessani. It spent millions of taxpayer dollars, employed over 65 Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) agents ─ the largest investigation in that agency’s history ─ and granted immunity to scores of witnesses, all in their attempt to make Jeffrey and the “Haditha Marines” political scapegoats.
Lt. Colonel Paul Ware, USMC, an Investigating Officer who heard testimony in several cases involving the charged enlisted Marines, blasted the credibility of the government witnesses and expressed concern that the allegations were nothing but a tactic “to erode public support of the Marine Corps and mission in Iraq.” He went on to say:
“Even more dangerous is the potential that a Marine may hesitate at the critical moment when facing the enemy . . . ”
Retired General Thomas McInerney, former Joint Force Commander and Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force, called the prosecutions of the Haditha Marines “despicable.” He warned:
“We cannot fight a war like that . . . We’re not taking care of our people.”
Evidence of what our nation lost by the unjust prosecution of LtCol Chessani, can be garnered from a few excerpts from his official Combat Fitness Report, a required annual evaluation of a Marine officer’s performance prepared by his superiors. It covered the period of September 2005 to February 2006 ─ which included the date of the Haditha incident:
• “Leads Marines from front in every operation. Demonstrates moral courage every day. Doesn’t hesitate to report bad news fast or contest unrealistic plans/poor concepts. Despite the complexity and size of his AO [area of operations], he always maintains a calm, cool demeanor.”
• “Always seeks advantage over complex, diverse insurgent enemy. Truly one of the finer thinkers in this COIN environment.”
• “One of the top 3” infantry/cavalry battalion commanders “of 13 who have served with RCT –2 [the regiment] during OIF. A superb leader, who knows his men, knows the enemy, knows his business. Doesn’t attract a lot of fanfare; just gets the job done to an exceedingly high standard.”
• “Long ball hitter; recommend selection for promotion to Colonel and TLS [Top Level School].”
The Reviewing Officer, Major General Huck added his comments: “Top notch officer with outstanding potential. Promote and select for TLS [Top Level School]. Post TLS slate for Regimental command and subsequent joint tour. Unlimited potential and value to the Marine Corps. Capable of the most challenging assignments.”
The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and detailed military lawyers, LtCol Jon Shelburne, USMC, and Capt Jeffery King, USMC, successfully defended LtCol Chessani throughout his prosecution. The criminal charges against Chessani were dismissed on the grounds of Unlawful Command Influence. The government lost its appeals of that dismissal.
Not giving up its quest for a scapegoat, the government then convened a Board of Inquiry to determine allegations of misconduct. On December 11, 2009, the Board of Inquiry ruled that Lt Col Chessani was not guilty of misconduct, but stated he must retire without loss of rank. And on June 25, 2010, the Secretary of Navy announced his acceptance of the military Board of Inquiry findings.
Semper Fi Colonel
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So the massacre didn't happen? Bullshit! 15 Iraqi civilians are dead. This forward admits that it happened! I really don't see how you can say it happened and then say it didn't. How bad is that?
The killings DID happen. The investigation was for not reporting them, which should make everyone just a little sick. They didn't care about the killings themselves, they just wanted to make sure everything was by the book.
As for Murtha, where is the respect for his service? 40 years in the Corps, a drill sergeant who was selected from the ranks to become and officer. volunteered to go back to activity duty to lead Marines in Vietnam where he was twice wounded and earned the Bronze Star?
I'm willing to bet that whoever assembled this screed didn't serve.
Just another Republican chickenhawk.
1. If Bush hadn't LIED us into War with Iraq - & righties cheering madly for it - this event never would have happened. Iraq was never our enemy.
2. Events like this happen in every War. A career officer like Chessnai surely knows this goes with the territory. If the investigation was "unfair," well go talk to the Tillman family about what happened with their son and brother was killed by friendly fire in Iraq. Excrement occurs.
3. Easy excuse to dump on Murtha, who, far from perfect, served our nation for many years. But oh yeah: I guess Chessnai is a convenient rightwing hero, while dead Murtha is a convenient rightwing scapegoat. Hypocrisy on steroids, but righties don't give a s*** for facts and truth anymore.
4. Usual inflamed rhetorical diatribe meant to gin up anger amongst the 'Baggers over not very much.
5. Note that we never get this level of "upset" when gays in the military - many of whom served long and honorably - are kicked out under DADT. But hey, IOKIYAR, but it's not ok if you're gay, I guess.
6. Typical beginning: "I believe this to be TRUE." Sure, yeah, right. But ya lied at various points throughout, thus bending facts to suit the usual rightwing fictional take on "reality." And then indulged in predictable rightwing victimizing. If Chessnai is such a big bad marine, why are you whining like such a baby? If Chessnai can't take the heat, then he shouldn't have signed up. I believe Chessnai can take the heat and feel like tawdry diatribes like this serve only to diminish Chessnai, rather than build him up.
7. Shame on them for using someone like Chessnai for their own political gain. Has Chessnai not suffered enough without wingnut indignity being heaped upon him?
8. And finally the give-away booga booga quote from Zombie Reagan.
All systems go!
P.S. Who the h*ll is Eugene A Simon?? And why should anyone care what "he" "thinks"??
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Pérez-Valadez: Records and breeding sites of the Least Grebe (Tachybaptus dominicus) in Zacatecas
Journal ID (publisher-id): huitzil
Title: Huitzil
Abbreviated Title: Huitzil
ISSN (electronic): 1870-7459
Publisher: Sociedad para el Estudio y Conservación de las Aves en México, A.C. (CIPAMEX)
License (open-access, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/):
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
Date received: 26 December 2016
Date accepted: 21 June 2017
Publication date (electronic): Jul-Dec 2017
DOI: 10.28947/hrmo.2017.18.2.287
Records and breeding sites of the Least Grebe (Tachybaptus dominicus) in Zacatecas
Translated Title (es): Registros y sitios de anidación del zambullidor menor (Tachybaptus dominicus) en Zacatecas
Noé Pérez-Valadez[1][*]
[1] Centro Universitario de la Costa Sur, Universidad de Guadalajara. Av. Independencia nacional 151, Col. Centro, Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, C.P. 48900, México. Universidad de Guadalajara Centro Universitario de la Costa Sur Universidad de Guadalajara Autlán de Navarro Jalisco Mexico
Correspondence to: * Correo electrónico: buteogallusanthracinus@gmail.com
I recorded the Least Grebe (Tachybaptus dominicus) for the first time in the state of Zacatecas on March 2012. Since then I have observed this species in different sites within the municipality of Nochistlán de Mejía, southwestern Zacatecas. Additionally, in May, July, September, and October 2014 four breeding sites were located in artificial ponds, one of them with a nest with three eggs. Artificial ponds, locally known as “bordos”, are important habitat not only for the Least Grebe, which is at the category of special concern according to the Mexican law NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010, but also for other resident and migratory waterbirds such as ducks. Even when the Least Grebe has been recorded in the states of Aguascalientes and Jalisco, there is no information for the state of Zacatecas. In this paper, I report information about records, breeding sites, and behavior of this species in the municipality of Nochistlán de Mejía.
En el año 2012 registré por primera vez en el estado de Zacatecas al zambullidor menor (Tachybaptus dominicus). Desde entonces he observado a esta especie en lugares diferentes en el municipio de Nochistlán de Mejía, suroeste de Zacatecas. Adicional mente, en mayo, julio, septiembre y octubre de 2014 encontré cuatro sitios de anidación en cuerpos de agua artificial, uno de ellos con un nido que contenía tres huevos. Los cuerpos de agua artificiales, localmente conocidos como bordos, son lugares importantes no sólo para el zambullidor menor, el cual es una especie en la categoría de protección especial de acuerdo con la NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010, sino también para otras aves acuáticas residentes y migratorias, como los patos. A pesar de que el zambullidor menor ha sido registrado en los estados vecinos de Aguascalientes y Jalisco, no existe información para el estado de Zacatecas. En este estudio documento información sobre registros, sitios de anidación y comportamiento de esta especie en el municipio de Nochistlán de Mejía.
Editor asociado: Leonardo Chapa Vargas
The Least Grebe (Tachybaptus dominicus) is a freshwater bird species that ranges from southern Texas to northern Argentina (Storer 2011). It inhabits temporary or permanent water bodies, from small ponds to lakes, especially those with vegetated edges for cover (Howell and Webb 1995, Storer 2011), but it can also nest on small artificial ponds if enough prey is available (Brinkley and Humann 2001, Ortega-Álvarez 2013). In México, it is found mainly in lowlands along both Pacific and Gulf coasts, from Sonora and Tamaulipas to Chiapas and Yucatan Peninsula, respectively (Howell and Webb 1995), with records on Baja California Sur (Llinas and Jiménez 1997, Carmona et al. 1999), central México (Ortega-Álvarez 2013, eBird 2012), and northern México (e.g. Coahuila, Durango; McCormack et al. 2007); in recent years, it has been recorded more frequently in north-central México (e.g. Aguascalientes, Jalisco, eBird 2012).
In México, the Least Grebe is at the category of special concern (SEMARNAT 2010), and owing to its frequent use of artificial ponds, human activity could have a negative impact on this species. Least Grebe breeds year-round in the tropics, and nesting records in unusual areas of México have been reported in the state of México, central México (Storer 2011, Ortega-Álvarez 2013). In addition, McCormack et al. (2007) recorded three pairs of Least Grebe in Coahuila as possible breeders in human-made reservoirs, but with no breeding records confirmed. In the states of Aguascalientes and Jalisco, young Least Grebe have been observed (eBird 2012), but there is a lack of information about its local behavior and dispersal. In this paper, I report information about records, breeding sites, and behavior of this species in the municipality of Nochistlán de Mejía, Zacatecas.
From September 2011 to December 2016, I carried out bird surveys randomly in the municipality of Nochistlán de Mejía, southwestern Zacatecas (Figure 1). Vegetation types were: cactus-acacia-mesquite scrub, oak and pine-oak forests, tropical deciduous forest, induced grasslands, and artificial ponds. Distance traveled by day varied from 500 m to 7 km, on foot, with an average of 4 km, and it included roads and areas within the vegetation types surveyed. I visited permanent and temporal streams and artificial ponds looking for waterbirds using 7 x 35 mm binoculars. Where Least Grebes were detected, I visited the same sites some weeks or months later after the first sighting to corroborate if they were still present in the pond. Human activities and cattle grazing were recorded in the area surrounded the artificial pond.
Study area. Stars represent the four sites where Least Grebe were observed breeding (Capulín de Abajo, Monte de Yáñez, El Tuiche and La Jabonera). Dots represent additional sites where the Least Grebe were recorded in the municipality. Diamond represents a record in the municipality of Jalpa, and triangles represent the nearest sites in Jalisco and Aguascalientes where the Least Grebe has been recorded.
Breeding records
In May, July, September, and October 2014 four breeding sites of the Least Grebe in the municipality of Nochistlán de Mejía, Zacatecas, were located in artificial ponds, locally known as “bordos”. At site one, a permanent artificial pond, Rancho Capulín de Abajo (21º25´59˝N, 102º55´24˝O, Datum WGS84; 2297 meters above sea level (masl, Figure 1) on 12 May 2014, four adults and three young were observed in the area. The surrounding vegetation includes oak (Quercus spp.) and second growth vegetation. The height of the aquatic vegetation above the water was 2.5 m and the size of the pond was approximately 55 x 20 m (Figure 2A). There were no signs of cattle in the surrounding area. During visits to the site on 27 June and 8 July 2014 only two adults were seen, with no young. During an additional visit on February 2015 I observed two adults and three young. No other aquatic birds were recorded in the site during these visits.
Breeding sites of the Least Grebe at Nochistlán de Mejía, Zacatecas. A) Capulín de Abajo: Oak and second growth vegetation, B) Monte de Yáñez: Oak and second growth vegetation, C) El Tuiche: Cactus-Acacia-Mesquite scrub and induced grasslands, D) La Jabonera: Cactus-Acacia-Mesquite scrub and corn crops.
At site two, a permanent artificial pond, Rancho Monte de Yáñez (21º27´05˝N, 102º46´51˝O, Datum wgs84; 1994 masl; Figure 1) in 7 July 2014, two adults and three young were observed. The surrounding vegetation includes oak (Quercus spp.) and second growth vegetation. The height of the aquatic vegetation above the water was 1 m and the size of the pond was approximately 170 x 85 m (Figure 2B). There were some cattle grazing in the surroundings. In 12 September 2014 only one adult was seen. The only additional aquatic bird seen during these visits was the Mexican Duck (Anas platyrhynchos diazi).
At site three, a permanent artificial pond, Rancho El Tuiche (21º22´12˝N, 102º49´00˝O, Datum WGS84; 1858 masl; Figure 1), on 4 September 2014, two adults and a nest with three eggs were observed; the eggs were partially covered with plant matter (Figure 3A). The surrounding vegetation includes cactus-acacia-mesquite (Opuntia spp.-Acacia spp.-Prosopis spp.) scrub and induced grasslands. The height of the aquatic vegetation above the water was 1 m and the size of pond was approximately 85 x 45 m (Figure 2C). At the time when the birds were observed there were no signs of cattle. However, approximately two months earlier some cattle were seen, and in 30 June 2014, a single adult was seen in this “bordo”. In 16 September, the three young were recently born, because they were carried on the back of one of the parents. Also, the Mexican Duck was recorded during these visits.
A) Least Grebe nest with three eggs at El Tuiche in 4 September 2014. B) Two adults and three young Least Grebe at El Tuiche in 1 November, age of young approximately 8 weeks.
At site four, a temporal artificial pond, Rancho La Jabonera (21º25´01˝N, 102º47´28˝O, Datum WGS84; 1975 masl; Figure 1), 1 October 2014, two adults and five young were observed. The surrounding vegetation includes cactus-acacia-mesquite (Opuntia spp.-Acacia spp.-Prosopis spp.) scrub and corn crops. The height of the aquatic vegetation above the water was 50 cm and the size of the pond was approximately 85 x 50 m (Figure 2D). The area seemed abandoned and there were no signs of cattle. No other aquatic birds were recorded during this visit.
When I approached the artificial pond where adults and young were present, alarm calls were given by one of the parents and all joined and swam to the center of the pond, away from the strangers. Some of the young were not close to the parents during these moments, but with the alarm calls they rapidly swam towards the parents. This behavior was recorded at places where vegetation was not tall or dense enough to serve as cover; on the other hand, grebes swam underwater towards the aquatic vegetation to cover and stay there until disturbance was gone. Only young grebes sometimes showed themselves from time to time, but rapidly hid if they detected any stranger.
At rancho La Jabonera, 1 October 2014, I recorded two adults and five young. I returned to this site at 17 November and only both parents and one young were recorded. Interestingly, at 29 November 2014, approximately three kilometers from this last site, I observed two young Least Grebe and no adults in a different artificial pond, which previously was not occupied by Least Grebes, and probably corresponded the young missing from the artificial pond at rancho La Jabonera. The fact that some young were found alone with no adults in other sites could explain dispersal, something that could ha ppened At Rancho El Tuiche. I found a nest with three eggs at El Tuiche in 4 September 2014, and in 16 September young Least Grebes were carried on the back of one of the parents, which means they had few days after they were born. At 1 November 2014, young at age of approximately eight weeks were seen swimming with the parents (Figure 3B). I visited this artificial pond at 15 November 2014 and only the pa rents and one young were observed. Perhaps two of the three young were eaten by predators, or possibly they left the artificial pond where they were born after a period of nine to 10 weeks, approximately. Future research will clarify age of dispersal in the area.
Artificial ponds (“bordos”) are very common in north-central Mexico, and are made by people who have cattle in their properties. Some artificial ponds retain water all-year round, and others just for a few months. Such “bordos” are important sites for migratory waterbirds such as ducks. For instance, in No chistlán de Mejía I have recorded 13 duck species (Pérez-Valadez 2016), but also these “bordos” are important for resident birds such as Mexican Duck (Anas platyrhynchos diazi) (Medina-Torres et al. 2007) which is a protected species in Mexico (SEMARNAT 2010). The fact that the Least Grebe is also found in some of these sites outside its known range could be related to the presence of new suitable feeding and breeding sites (Ortega-Álvarez 2013), or areas in Mexico not yet surveyed intensely. Least Grebes could have an increasing population due to its generalized feeding habits, and high reproductive rate (Storer 2011). On the other hand, human activities such as agriculture, tourism, urban and industrial development have contributed to habitat loss and contamination of wetlands ecosystems, which may explain the expanding of the Least Grebe from the original breeding sites on the tropics (Wilson and Ryan 1997, Aguilar 2003).
Least Grebe is a species that breeds year-round in the tropics (Storer 2011). In Jalisco and Aguascalientes, in areas close to Nochistlán de Mejía, young Least Grebe have been recorded in January, June, October, and December (eBird 2012). I found young Least Grebe in February, May, July, September, October, and November. The nearest sites to Nochistlán de Mejía where the Least Grebe has been recorded are Yahualica, northeast Jalisco, approximately to 16.5 km (Naturalista 2016), and Agostaderito, southwestern Aguascalientes, approximately to 54.5 km (eBird 2012, Figure 1). With respect to young Least Grebe records, they are located in presa Huaxtla, Jalisco, southwestern Nochistlán de Mejía, approximately to 90 km, and at Parque Ecológico El Cedazo, Aguascalientes, northeast Nochistlán de Mejía, approximately to 70 km (eBird 2012).
In Zacatecas, the Least Grebe was not previously recorded until 2012, likely as a consequence of poor avifauna studies in this state (Pérez-Valadez 2016). Since then I have observed this species in different sites within the municipality of Nochistlán de Mejía, and even in some of these sites like Capulín de Abajo they continue breeding. This site has a good aquatic vegetation cover and there is no presence of cattle. On the other hand, I visited El Tuiche and La Jabonera the last months of 2016, when both artificial ponds retain water, and found no young, just two adults at El Tuiche. This could happen as a consequence of human and cattle disturbance. For example, At La Jabonera, cattle increased and aquatic vegetation was reduced by human activity around the artificial pond, with no Least Grebes. In Nochistlán de Mejía, agriculture represents approximately 32.5% of the surface (INEGI 2010), and it continues increasing with cattle grazing, which means that people make more artificial ponds (pers. obs.). Most of the artificial ponds where I recorded Least Grebe corresponded to ponds located in abandoned ranches, where aquatic vegetation prospered, and there were no cattle present in the area.
Least Grebe is a common species in Nochistlán de Mejía; I found it at 18 different sites within the municipality, and recorded it all months of the year in an altitudinal range between 1600 to 2297 meters above sea. Despite I did not carry out surveys in the northern part of the municipality, there are potentially good artificial ponds for the presence of the Least Grebe. As a protected species in Mexico (SEMARNAT 2010), and the fact that until recently has been recorded breeding in Zacatecas, it is important to continue with surveys for a better understanding of the environmental requirements of Least Grebe in this area of Mexico.
To A. Pérez Valadez for his help during my fieldwork. To A.G. Navarro Sigüenza for his valuable comments to improve this manuscript and special gratitude to owners of the properties where I did my fieldwork. Thanks to P. Enríquez, the associate editor and the anonymous reviewers for their comments on the manuscript
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Keyword: Waterbirds
Keyword: artificial ponds
Keyword: Nochistlán de Mejía
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Violations Found at Total Field
By Miriam Elder
bloombergA Total service station in France. A decision on Total's Kharyaga license will be made after completion of an audit.
Natural Resource Ministry officials have found widespread violations at Total's main oil field in Russia and may call for the French company's license to be revoked, a ministry spokesman said Thursday.
"There are many significant geological violations, including production violations," spokesman Rinat Gizatulin said.
Vladimir Smolin, one of four deputy heads of the ministry's environmental watchdog, is due to wrap up a two week long audit of the Kharyaga oil field on Friday, he said.
Renewed pressure on the Total-led Kharyaga field comes as the government seeks to ensure that state-linked firms gain majority control over all large natural resource projects.
Total, which runs the field under a production sharing agreement, or PSA, with the government, owns 50 percent of the project. Norway's Norsk Hydro holds 40 percent and an oil company owned by the Yamal Nenets regional government owns the remaining 10 percent. The project sits on 97 million tons of oil.
A decision on Total's operating license will be made after officials submit a report on the audit, Gizatulin said. Spokespeople at Total declined to comment on the audit.
Moscow has been pushing to exercise an option in the Kharyaga PSA that allows a Russian company to buy 10 percent from both foreign participants.
Both Rosneft and LUKoil are said to be interested. State-run Rosneft drew a $22 billion loan on Tuesday, and while the bulk is earmarked for upcoming Yukos auctions, a portion will remain for other acquisitions.
Total has come under fire for failing to produce the 3 million tons per year stipulated in the PSA, as well as gas flaring and other alleged environmental violations.
The company maintains that it must limit itself to producing just 1 million tons per year because it lacks access to Transneft's pipelines.
The company submitted a new technical development plan Wednesday and the government has 45 days to examine it, spokeswoman Maria Zubova said.
Also Thursday, President Vladimir Putin held telephone talks with French President Jacques Chirac.
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Ming the Mechanic:
French Riots
The NewsLog of Flemming Funch
French Riots 2005-11-08 17:47
by Flemming Funch
A bunch of people have written to ask if we're ok, so I've better write something. I suppose these things always look a little worse when one watch them on TV from far away, and one doesn't quite know what is going on, and which areas are affected.
In case you somehow missed it, riots started in Paris suburbs a couple of weeks ago, after a couple of youths electrocuted themselves by hiding in a power station, thinking the police were after them. And that apparently set off a lot of latent anger in certain immigrant communities. Well, the actual damage seems to mostly have been done by teenagers who grabbed the opportunity to vent a bit. OK, a lot. My daughter's boyfriend is a schoolteacher in one of those suburbs in Paris, and it has been quite a mess, with many inconveniences.
I would have thought it would be very unlikely here in quiet peaceful Toulouse, but no. A bunch of cars were put on fire Sunday, and a bus yesterday. All mainly in the Reynerie and Mirail areas. Which is not far from here, a mile or two, but yet is quite a different area. Mirail is where the main university is, and Reynerie is close by, and they are what generally is considered the bad neighborhoods here. Where many immigrants live in large apartment complexes, where the streets are more dirty, and where there generally is a different vibe than in other areas.
Coming from the U.S. it seems kind of surprising that anybody has anything to riot about here. This is a very extensive wellfare state, where there's all sorts of public programs for helping you out in many ways. Free education and healthcare, social security, employment assistance, financial aid for many different things. OK, it is all very bureaucratic, but it isn't terribly hard to find somebody who actually cares about you.
But then again, there's a lot of unemployment. The French system is very competitive, and one usually needs the right education, the right diploma, the right certification, etc. The French natives bring up their kids to know the ropes, I suppose, and many are still unemployed. But when we're talking about immigrants who don't integrate very well, like, to a considerable degree the large muslim population. 10% of the French population are muslims, mostly from North Africa. So, the problem is then mainly with their kids, who might not really have learned to play well in the French system, so they'll see an even higher unemployment rate, and they live in ghettos and things look grim, I suppose.
So, combined with a right-wing interior minister who's kind of confrontational, often saying something inflammatory on TV, and various social programs that have been cut recently, I guess there's more to be dissatisfied with. Not that it seems like that riot is particularly focused on anything in particular. But the politicians are bending over backwards to try to address what they think might be the matter.
Judging by the sirens and helicopters that just went by headed towards Mirail, there's some kind of trouble tonight too. Or they might possibly just be enforcing a curfew, I don't know.
Here's where I'm missing the live news coverage of L.A. There would be non-stop coverage on most of the channels there. Here there are just the normal scheduled newscasts.
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9 Nov 2005 @ 03:46 by judih : Appreciate the inside info
It's hard to sift through the News to find out the extent of what's going on. When we heard there was a curfew being enforced, that set my mind a-rolling. I hope somehow peace is brought back and the dissatisfaction gets addressed.
judih
9 Nov 2005 @ 04:43 by vibrani : Thanks for the personal up-date, Ming
I think you explained the situation accurately. All the reports I've seen from many sources in Europe have said the same things about the cause and effect. And this is nothing new - been going on for over 20 years in the French "inner cities." Stay safe.
9 Nov 2005 @ 08:36 by Siavash @64.231.225.141 : May I?
hehe, My dad always used to say: "when you tell a lie to yourself enough times, you'll start to believe it".
It all seems very simple when you put it like that, especially with your relaxing tone ;). But is it really? I don't know myself, but my Parisian friend told me couple of weeks ago, about how hippy-like fashions are beginning to spread out which tend to Islamic-fundamentalism. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to emphasize on the already very exaggerated literature on terrorism and Islamic extremism, but it seems like the anger is partly a response to the development of terror vocabulary. This is the conclusion we reached with my friend: Immigrants or French-men cannot (by their social humanistic nature: common in ALL Humans) stay unresponsive to the development of such a literature forever. It doesn't matter of such vocabulary is based on facts or merely on images, the important think is what my dad says: "if you tell yourself enough times, then you'll start to believe in it". So , being far away from Paris, may I say, that the anger is more than dissatisfied people, and racial issues, or may I not?!!
9 Nov 2005 @ 11:25 by Istvan @68.105.165.74 : "Accurate explanation"=BS
Has Ming ewer even attempted to talk to some of these rioters,or attempted to look deeper into the causes? Probably not.
The existence of desenfranchised (socially and economically trashed ) humans almost always perceived as "it has been quite a mess, with many inconveniences".
The minds and treasured conveniences of "stupid white man" and woman, are perhaps too constricted to examine the real causes of events that create pwerlesness and misery by having to live in the dumping grounds of intensely competitive societies,"what generally is considered the bad neighborhoods here. Where many immigrants live in large apartment complexes, where the streets are more dirty, and where there generally is a different vibe than in other areas.",or "But then again, there's a lot of unemployment. The French system is very competitive, and one usually needs the right education, the right diploma, the right certification, etc."
It would be well to research and understand the real causes of social events before making half/quarter witted statements and comments.
There are enough missunderstandings,"missunderestimate"ings on the web, it is missconstructive to add to it.
10 Nov 2005 @ 00:44 by jobrown : Istvan,
you're The Guy of The Day!
Thanks for your Truly Loving Heart,
blended with a drop of 'Normal People' knowledge
and intelligence! "Personal Responsibility"!....
ohhh, my, oh, my! We have it on record now! ; )
10 Nov 2005 @ 01:58 by jobrown : A time comes
Here are some tidbits from a wonderful Web-site: http://www.openheart.com/index.html Definitely worth y/our while!
A time comes
when silence is betrayal.
— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only safe way to overcome an enemy
is to make of the enemy a friend.
We lose our freedoms at the altar of fear.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched,
every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who are hungry and are not fed,
those who are cold and not clothed.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
If only there were evil people somewhere
insidiously committing evil deeds,
and it were necessary only to
separate them from the rest of us
and destroy them.
But the line dividing good and evil
cuts through the heart of every human being.
And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
Wars can be prevented just as surely
as they can be provoked,
and we who fail to prevent them
must share in the guilt for the dead.
— General Omar Bradley
I have known war as few men now living know it.
Its very destructiveness on both friend and foe
has rendered it useless as a means
of settling international disputes.
— General Douglas MacArthur
The pioneers of a warless world are the young men
who refuse military service.
(from the book Peacemaking by Conrad G. Brunk)
War is only a cowardly escape from the problem of peace.
When we see God in each other we will be able to live in peace.
The ultimate weakness of violence is that
it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
In this world, hate never dispelled hate.
Only love dispels hate.
This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible.
—The Buddha
The only enemy is injustice.
The only death is death of the conscience.
— Guru Granth Sahib
(Sikh holy book)
"Terror is in the human heart.
We must remove this from the heart.
Destroying the human heart, both physically
and psychologically, is what we should avoid.
The root of terrorism is misunderstanding, hatred and violence. This root cannot be located by the military.
Bombs and missiles cannot reach it, let alone destroy it.
Only with the practice of calming and looking deeply
can our insight reveal and identify this root.
Only with the practice of deep listening and compassion
can it be transformed and removed.
Darkness cannot be dissipated with more darkness.
More darkness will only make darkness thicker.
Only light can dissipate darkness.
Those of us who have the light should display the light
and offer it so that the world will not sink
into total darkness."
— Thich Nhat Hanh in Shanghai, October 19, 2002
Kids can't see us bombing, and then listen to us
talking about getting guns out of the schools.
How can we tell them to solve problems without violence,
if, in fact, we can't show an ability to solve problems
without violence?
— Representative Barbara Lee
I know there is anger. I feel it myself. But I don't want my son used as a pawn to justify the killing of others. We as a nation should not use the same means as the people who attacked us.
— Oscar Rodriguez,
(whose son died in the attack
on the World Trade Center)
To do evil, a human being must first of all believe
that what he's doing is good...
Ideology — that is what gives devildoing its long-sought
justification and gives the evildoer the necessary
steadfastness and determination.
That is the social theory which helps to make his acts
seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes,
so that he won't hear reproaches and curses
but will receive praise and honors.
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn
That there are men in all countries
who get their living by war,
and by keeping up the quarrels of nations,
is as shocking as it is true;
but when those who are concerned
in the government of a country,
make it their study to sow discord,
and cultivate prejudices between nations,
it becomes the more unpardonable.
— Thomas Paine, "The Rights of Man," circa 1792
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war
in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor,
for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword.
It both emboldens the blood,
just as it narrows the mind.
And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch
and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed,
the leader will have no need
in seizing the rights of the citizenry.
Rather, the citizenry,
infused with fear and blinded by patriotism,
will offer up all of their rights unto the leader
and gladly so.
For this is what I have done.
And I am Caesar.
And, like I said, there's much more on the web-site http://www.openheart.com/index.html
10 Nov 2005 @ 17:42 by ming : Causes of trouble
Well, it is always "easy" to try to explain it from the outside. "It is just those uneducated trouble makers over there, who can't keep their streets clean" or something. It can be hard to fathom what exactly is going on, when one isn't there, and isn't talking with the actual people. Doesn't sound like you smartasses have more of a clue than I do.
Part of the difficulty is that one can't really see what is going on from just the external circumstances. I mean, what goes for a "ghetto" here, isn't like a ghetto in New Delhi or something. People live in apartments and shop in the same kind of supermarkets as I do, and it would all be considered luxury seen from many other places. And the government pays you money, even if you don't have work. Seems like eldorado when seen from other places where you have to work fulltime for $10 per month. Anyway, the way it looks doesn't tell us what's really going on for people.
Back in the L.A. riots, I remember, when driving around in South Central after it was pretty much over, to be struck by how little it looked different from where I lived. I didn't come there much, so I hadn't thought about it. But, I mean, people live in villas, with yards, and there's typically one or two cars in front, and there's the same kind of infrastructure as most other places. That's the slum?!? Coming from Denmark, having lived in much worse places and being quite happy with it, it is surprising. But, again, how it looks doesn't tell us what people go through.
Real causes are more likely under the surface, or happening out of sight. I don't know how the police treat people there. I don't know what kind of trouble they go through, it maybe being impossible to find a job because of where you live, and maybe your ethnic background. A lot of factors might add up to powerlessness. Not just when one or two things are wrong, but when most of them add up to being blocked in every direction, I suppose.
10 Nov 2005 @ 23:34 by Jean Vincenti @24.55.65.163 : France shall overcome...
Dear Ming,
This letter shall be amongst one of the most unuasual one you would have received in months: mainly because it speaks with genuine facts but also true vision.
I was a bit disapointed how CNN covered the riots in France. It was very much with a big touch of sentationalism which was not needed.
You see, I was born in France and worked in France, the U.K and the USA (East/West Coasts) for the past 25 years.
Doing mainly from LAw, Commerce, Service, Catering even Telecommunications. I even was a Drill Sergeant Instructor too. Add to that promoting the environment and Humanitarian Affairs with the U.K and USA even France since 1991 with a 95% positive results with medias and Governements. Not bad for someone being ONLY 42 years old.
I have been around the block...and NOT just once. I KNOW people very well. I thank God to have that powerful gift that many told me I had.
All this to confirm that, yes, France has got an integration and unemployment problem and it has been for 30 years now, especially from the governement and some French people NOT the majority. BUT two things you must know in order to report on the French situation correctly and as true Americans, accept it as facts because they are per se:
1) The riots were started by under privileged youths because of an accident of two youths having been electrocuted in an electrical station when cops were, altough it has not been confirmed, chasing them. As well, it did fuel the lack of work and respect opportunities felt by the North African and African immigrants...BUT...most of the burning have been doen by young Hooligans which boasted about it underlying that they wanted to destroy and did not care about society (in general) and did not care of working! THEY did boast it on TV5, RTBF, France 2 and TF1. Wow...Amazing no? Those kids are going down in history as misguided souls that just loves to destroy for their ego (ego which, again, they did say clearly that they had by competing between gangs and towns via blogs (now disconnected) in what they could destroy for fame.
Trust me, they are few and they already attract their own people that do not want thugh wars as ennemies..What a shame. Still, our Prime Minister Dominique De Villepin starts to take IMMEDIATE action for bettering that work/helping integration of poor areas: “...Young people who have no work prospects and do not know how to secure an internship or enter a training programme are young people who have no hope and who doubt about our society. They are the population to which I am responding through the emergency plan for employment. Individual support provided through the national unemployment services, the Second Chance Defence system, and the support toward employment contracts are all intended for them. This morning, with the relevant ministers, we looked at the emergency measures, in particular regarding the employment of young people in Seine-Saint-Denis and education. The Government will adopt an action plan before the end of November...” as well as 100.000.000 Euros for Associations etc...
At least, it is a start of solving those problems which we will as, not having been done before, it can only get up and better.
Now...As a reminder with respect!
2) America is AMAZING and will continue to be in Legal, Sports, Entertainment and Business success tecniques as well as Freedom thinking, brilliant sense of humor, the “Can do” and “Dreams can become Reality” attitudes...PBS is also a superb US idea...BUT:
1) The Iraki war (which France knew was not good to do like that) is alwful! America has spent so far: $218,271,898,009 which is outrageous! Can you imagine counting those dollars even by thousands? That would wipe out a big part of your national deficit! That is a fact and it continues to cost: http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
Irak is not ready for the kind of Freedom you want because THEY fight between factions all the time. Fact...not an opinion...
2) From Johannesburg to kyoto Environmental meetings, the USA refuses to accept environmental responsabilities. You know that the environment is like a cake: take pieces and don’t replace them and it will be gone. t least in France, we have not got , no more, landfills like...Fact...not an opinion...
3) The USA (with Israel) refused to sigh the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Diversity of Cultural Contents and Artistic Expressions.
148 countries did! Are you telling me that the US is right and they are all wrong? Even in Cosmuc Arithmetics that is not possible. The USA MUST accept other cultures and languages for a fairer econo-politico exchange...Fact..not ..well you know...
4) As integration in the USA: Institutional racism is the theory that aspects of the structure, pervasive attitudes, and established institutions of society disadvantage racial minorities, although not by an overtly discriminatory mechanism. There are several factors that play into institutional racism, including but not limited to: accumulated wealth/benefits from racial groups that have benefited from past discrimination, educational and occupational disadvantages faced by non-native English speakers in the United States, ingrained stereotypical images that still remain in the society (e.g. Black men are likely to be criminals).
The established institutions of society are taking some steps to combat the various claimed structural disadvantages in modern American society, particularly in the case of non-native English speakers or those raised in homes that spoke broken or pidgin English. Several states are attempting to reduce these educational disadvantages by developing a more culturally aware curriculum. For example, the 2005 California 6th grade statewide examination contained the question Patio comes from the Spanish word meaning what?. Including questions such as these provide opportunities for non-native speakers of English to have greater educational access.
Minorities have also been the subject of racism in the mass media through advertising campaigns utilizing references to stereotypes, such as Coon Chicken Inn, and the Taco Bell chihuahua.
Shall I say facts again?
So, you see, the USA even if they are a cool country for many things MUST solve those problems UNACCEPTABLE for a country built by immigrants and that promote freedom. Fact...America can do it...It just takes humility to accept those facts and turn them around with hard work...now.
Bashing France will not help as we do not bash them anyway...The facts I gave are from you, not me! the USA can even be better just...Go for it! As you say Rocky style when you want to succeed! The USA can really be even more cool (and the U.K too).
At least France starts on her interior problems of integration now and will succeed in some big noticeable porcentage within the next 4-5 years already as we have to and it will follow France’s example of non war and “Vive la différence” which we, normally, want to live by.
Jean , Los Angeles
12 Nov 2005 @ 04:04 by ming : France
Well, thank you, Jean for your long letter.
Yes, hopefully something good comes out of it, in terms of more effective programs in those areas. Even if those who did the damage weren't really representative of their communities, but largely were bored teenagers who got some kind of rush out of participating in "destroying everything", as some of them expressed it. Regardless, it makes a lot of people look for what problems might exist that need to be fixed.
13 Nov 2005 @ 13:01 by istvan @68.105.165.74 : WWR1
Perhaps this article may clarify current and future occurences of this sort.Get ready for more. It alredy is spreading to Grece.
Headlines : International
A Night With 'Rioters' Who Feel 'Rage'
These young people say they have “no reference points,” they’re “misunderstood,” “victims of racial discrimination,” “condemned to live in dirty cities,” and “rejected.” They hide neither their gladness nor their “pride” that the riots are spreading everywhere: “There’s no competition between the projects. This is pure solidarity.”
[Posted By ShiftShapers]
By Yves Bordenave and Mustapha Kessous
Republished from InterActivist Info Exchange
Neither bosses nor Islamists seem to be telling them what to do, much less manipulating them.
Abdel, Bilal, Youssef, Ousman, Nadir, and Laurent (their names have been changed) are at the foot of the eleven-story cliff that is the “112” housing project in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis). When he joins them, Rachid, dressed in a bulky down jacket, lights a cigarette and sets fire to the refuse bin. “It’s too bad, but we have to,” says Nadir. For ten days, the scenario has been repeating itself on a daily basis. The small gang of this public housing project on the rue Hélène Cohennec, where more than a thousand people live, want to “break everything.” Cars, warehouses, gymnasiums, are targets of this anger that does not answer to any marching orders or organization.
“If one day we get organized, we’ll have hand grenades, bombs, kalashnikovs… We’ll say meet at the Bastille and it’ll be war,” they warn. Neither bosses nor Islamists seem to be telling them what to do, much less manipulating them.
For the time being, the 112 gang is acting alone in its neighborhood: the “organization” is more like an improvised party than a warlike undertaking. “Everybody contributes something,” Abdel explains.
“We feel rebellion more than hatred,” says Youssef, the oldest of the band. Twenty-five, he says he’s “calmed down” since he became engaged, though. He still feels “rage,” though. It’s especially aimed at Nicolas Sarkozy and his “warlike” vocabulary: “Since we’re scum, we’re going to give that raciest something to vacuum up. Words hurt worse than blows. Sarko has to resign. We’ll keep going as long as he doesn’t apologize.”
There is, added to this “rage,” the incident of the tear-gas bomb used against the mosque in Clichy-sous-Bois, one week ago. “A blasphemy,” according to Youssef. “Gassing religious people who are praying is something you don’t do. They’re insulting our religion.” The judicial investigation should determine whether the tear-gas bomb was thrown inside the mosque or in front of the entrance. All these young people have stored up “too much rancor” to listen to appeals for calm. “It’s like a dog against a wall, it becomes aggressive. We’re not dogs, but we’re reacting like animals,” says Ousman.
Laurent, 17, the youngest of the band, claims he “torched” a Peugeot 607, a few feet from here, only two hours ago. For them, nothing’s easier. All you need is a glass bottle filled with gasoline and a rag for a fuse, you break a window and throw the cocktail inside: in two minutes the car is on fire, if it doesn’t blow up first.
Why burn these car that usually belong to someone they know? “We have no choice. We’re ready to sacrifice everything since we have nothing,” Bilal says in his own defense. “We even burned a friend’s car. He was furious, but he understood.”
The friend in question is here. He’s 21, works as kitchen helper in a restaurant in Paris’s 15th arrondissement, and doesn’t disagree. He pulls out his cell phone and proudly shows the screen saver: the picture of a police car on fire taken a few months ago during earlier events, after the death of an Aubervilliers youth. “You know, when you’re waving a Molotov cocktail, you say watch out. There are no words for expressing what you feel; you only know how to talk by setting fire.”
No recipe escapes their incendiary quest. Thus, in more home-made fashion, “acid bombs bought at Franprix” and stuffed with aluminum foil, used by kids 13 or 15 years old. “When at that age all you have is rebellion, it’s because there’s a serious problem,” says Abdel, who expresses his “fear of having kids who would be raised in rage.”
8:19 p.m., a fire engine siren sounds. “Here come the cops. We’re out of here,” orders Youssef. The band slips into the foyer. Here, the elevator only goes to two of the eleven stories of the building: the fifth and the tenth.
On the fifth floor, they feel safe from a possible police check. Bilal, 21, knows something about that: “Today, I was stopped two times. The cops put me on the ground while sticking a flash-ball (a handgun that fires rubber bullets) in my face and insulted me.” So he doesn’t understand why the government devotes “millions of euros to equipping the police when they refuse to give a cent to open a youth center.”
Youssef and his gang are not fools. They know how much the violence they are setting loose creates prejudices against them. “We’re not vandals, we’re rioters,” he says in his own defense. “We’re all getting together, so that our rebellion will be heard,” they say. And to express their discontent. “In the band, we’re all out of work, we have nothing more coming to us,” says Nadir, 25. Like the others, he quit school at 16 after failing the electrotechnical BEP [= brevet d’études professionnelles, a vocational diploma]. Since then, all he’s had is odd jobs as a packer, loading pallets. “Anyway, what else is there to do?” he sighs. “For 100 CVs I sent, I got three interviews. Even when I know somebody, I get rejected,” he says bitterly. For them, school did nothing. “That’s why we’re burning them,” says Bilal.
And what if the provocative formulas of Nicolas Sarkozy gave them the occasion they were waiting for? Didn’t they allow them to set free this “rage,” till now kept bottled up? “We’re drowning, and instead of throwing us a buoy, they’re pushing our heads underwater; help us,” they insist. These young people say they have “no reference points,” they’re “misunderstood,” “victims of racial discrimination,” “condemned to live in dirty cities,” and “rejected.” They hide neither their gladness nor their “pride” that the riots are spreading everywhere: “There’s no competition between the projects. This is pure solidarity.”
9:00 p.m. The group goes back outside, at the bottom of the cliff. The firemen have extinguished the refuse bin. Youssef and his friends ask: “What are we waiting for? Let’s go burn something.”
[Ed. Note: Translated by Mark K. Jensen – Web page: http://www.plu.edu/~jensenmk/]
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15 Nov 2005 @ 12:41 by Istvan @68.105.165.74 : Good results acheived for now.
Published on Monday, November 14, 2005 by the Guardian/UK
Riots Are a Class Act - And Often They're the Only Alternative
France now accepts the need for social justice. No petition, peaceful march or letter to an MP could have achieved this
by Gary Younge
'If there is no struggle, there is no progress," said the African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass. "Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without ploughing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters ... Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
By the end of last week it looked as though the fortnight of struggle between minority French youth and the police might actually have yielded some progress. Condemning the rioters is easy. They shot at the police, killed an innocent man, trashed businesses, rammed a car into a retirement home, and torched countless cars (given that 400 cars are burned on an average New Year's Eve in France, this was not quite as remarkable as some made out).
But shield your ears from the awful roaring waters for a moment and take a look at the ocean. Those who wondered what French youth had to gain by taking to the streets should ask what they had to lose. Unemployed, socially excluded, harassed by the police and condemned to poor housing, they live on estates that are essentially open prisons. Statistically invisible (it is against the law and republican principle to collect data based on race or ethnicity) and politically unrepresented (mainland France does not have a single non-white MP), their aim has been simply to get their plight acknowledged. And they succeeded.
Even as the French politicians talked tough, the state was suing for peace with the offer of greater social justice. The government unrolled a package of measures that would give career guidance and work placements to all unemployed people under 25 in some of the poorest suburbs; there would be tax breaks for companies who set up on sink estates; a €1,000 (£675) lump sum for jobless people who returned to work as well as €150 a month for a year; 5,000 extra teachers and educational assistants; 10,000 scholarships to encourage academic achievers to stay at school; and 10 boarding schools for those who want to leave their estates to study.
"We need to respond strongly and quickly to the undeniable problems facing many inhabitants of the deprived neighborhoods," said President Chirac. From the man who once said that immigrants had breached the "threshold of tolerance" and were sending French workers "mad" with their "noise and smell" this was progress indeed.
"The impossible becomes probable through struggle," said the African American academic Manning Marable. "And the probable becomes reality."
And the reality is that none of this would have happened without riots. There was no petition these young people could have signed, no peaceful march they could have held, no letter they could have written to their MPs that would have produced these results.
Amid the charred chassis and broken glass there is a vital point of principle to salvage: in certain conditions rioting is not just justified but may also be necessary, and effective. From the poll tax demonstrations to Soweto, history is littered with such cases; what were the French and American revolutions but riots endowed by Enlightenment principles and then blessed by history?
When all non-violent, democratic means of achieving a just end are unavailable, redundant or exhausted, rioting is justifiable. When state agencies charged with protecting communities fail to do so or actually attack them, it may be necessary in self-defense.
After the 1967 riots in American cities, President Johnson set up the Kerner commission. It concluded: "What white Americans have never fully understood - but what the Negro can never forget - is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it." How else was such a damning indictment of racial discrimination in the US ever going to land on the president's desk?
Following the inner-city riots across Britain in 1981, Lord Scarman argued that "urgent action" was needed to prevent racial disadvantage becoming an "endemic, ineradicable disease threatening the very survival of our society". His conclusions weren't perfect. But the kernel of a message black Britons had been trying to hammer home for decades suddenly took center stage. A few years later Michael Heseltine wrote a report into the disturbances in Toxteth entitled It Takes a Riot.
Rioting should be neither celebrated nor fetishized, because ultimately it is a sign not of strength but weakness. Like a strike, it is often the last and most desperate weapon available to those with the least power. Rioting is a class act. Wealthy people don't do it because either they have the levers of democracy at their disposal, or they can rely on the state or private security firms to do their violent work for them, if need be.
The issue of when and how rioting is effective is more problematic. Riots raise awareness of a situation, but they cannot solve it. For that you need democratic engagement and meaningful negotiation. Most powerful when they stem from a movement, all too often riots are instead the spontaneous, leaderless expression of pent-up frustration void of an agenda or clear demands. Many of these French youths may have had a ball last week, but what they really need is a party - a political organization that will articulate their aspirations.
If Kerner and Scarman are anything to go by, the rioters will not be invited to help write the documents that could shape racial discourse for a generation. Nor are they likely to be the primary beneficiaries.
"During the 80s, everyone was desperate to have a black face in their organization to show the race relations industry that they were allowing black people to get on," says the editor of Race & Class, Ambalavaner Sivanandan. "So the people who made this mobility possible were those who took to the streets. But they did not benefit." The same is true of the black American working class that produced Kerner.
Given these uncertain outcomes, riots carry great risk. The border between political violence and criminality becomes blurred, and legitimate protest risks degrading into impotent displays of hypermasculinity. Violence at that point becomes not the means to even a vague aspiration but the end in itself, and half the story gets missed. We heard little from young minority French women last week, even though they have been the primary target of the state's secular dogma over the hijab.
Finally, violence polarizes. The big winner of the last two weeks may yet prove to be Sarkozy. The presidential-hopeful courted the far-right with his calculated criticisms of the rioters; if he wins he could reverse any gains that may arise. Le Pen also lurks in the wings.
The riots in France run all these risks and yet have still managed to yield a precarious kind of progress. They demand our qualified and critical support.
Power has made its concessions. But how many, for how long and to whom depends on whether those who made the demands take their struggle from the margins to the mainstream: from the street to the corridors of power.
© Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005
17 Nov 2005 @ 18:32 by rayon : To Be Brief
everyone is being terribly polite here, not walking on eggshells, because in the main newspapers here today it is reported that the reason for the riots is because the cultures mostly associated with them are polygamus. No one ever talks about it, and it starts/started somewhere else, where is it still rife and rifer, and still no one ever talks of it. It is a frightening enough factor on its own, in principle it should not be allowed to alter another foreign country's culture just because no one wants to say the words. Sorry.
27 Nov 2005 @ 17:42 by Jim Pivonka @204.96.146.38 : Language and disorder
The US site TomDispatch.com has posted two articles on the way Sarkozy contributed to ignition of the disorder with (possibly) carefully phrased statements and timed cycles of non-response and response by police under his command.
The overall posting is "Tomgram: Mouly and LeVine, As the World Burns" at http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=36336
The articles are:
"Semantic Attacks: The War of Words in France," by Françoise Mouly
(Françoise Mouly, art editor of the New Yorker, is the co-founder of Raw Books and Graphics and the pioneering avant-garde comics anthology RAW. The author of Covering the New Yorker, she has been made a "chevalier" in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.")
"Assimilate or Die", by Mark LeVine
(Mark LeVine, professor of modern Middle Eastern history, culture, and Islamic studies at the University of California at Irvine, is the author of a new book, Why They Don't Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil (Oneworld Publications, 2005). His website is www.culturejamming.org.)
Also cited are:
"Walker's World: France's black anger", by Martin Walker, UPI Editor
http://www.wpherald.com/print.php?StoryID=20051111-021914-3739r
Get French or Die Trying: by OLIVIER ROY (Registration required)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/09/opinion/09roy.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print
(Olivier Roy, a professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, is the author of "Globalized Islam.")
"The Problem with Frenchness", by Juan Cole
http://www.juancole.com/2005/11/problem-with-frenchness-readers-have.html
My thanks to Ming and the commenters for an interesting posting and discussion.
30 Nov 2005 @ 10:09 by rayon : At a sober level
at 8 in the morning, going thro the discourse from the top - one point comes to mind:
It is wrong to say nothing would have been done if they had not torched, etc. They could have marched, protested, grouped, just like any other people do in a civilised country. They could have learnt slowly with engagement in the process how to articulate, the emergent key points, etc etc with good intentions.
Does this mean to say that there is no other deeper injustice in the land at this very moment being done to any other single person or groups of people in any way and therefore their aggressive actions are justified? What about people being tortured, what about those being gagged for life unable to speak ever about their situations?? I worked at Amnesty International, in the Spanish American department. My job was to move the names of the people from the Torture list to the Death list.
Does it also mean that the worse the type aggression used, the more serious and real the cause is considered to be, and therefore justifiable?
For this reason, there is international agreement not to accede kidnappers' demands, and encourage similar actions.
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TT at University of San Francisco
Editor's note: USF is looking for two tenure-track positions, one targeting astrophysics and related fields, and one targeting biophysics, condensed matter physics, or optical physics.
The Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of San Francisco invites applications for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level anticipated to begin in the Fall of 2012. T
The Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of San Francisco is a close-knit and collaborative group, with faculty interests spanning computational physics, gravitational physics, optical physics, theoretical astrophysics, biophysics, cosmology, neuroscience, and quantum field theory. The Department offers a BS in physics, an engineering track, and minors in physics, astrophysics, and astronomy.
Other Responsibilities
In addition, the successful candidate will be expected to develop a research program with active participation of undergraduate students.
Applicants must have demonstrated excellence in teaching and have completed a Ph.D. in Physics or Astrophysics by Fall 2012. The position will involve teaching a broad range of undergraduate courses within the physics major, as well as courses supporting astrophysics and astronomy minor programs.
Requisition Number
2011-0012Faculty
Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Physics (Astrophysics)
Special Instructions Summary
Applicants should apply for this job on the HR website (http://www.usfjobs.com) by creating a username and login and providing the pertinent contact information. To start this process, click on the “Apply for this Job” link at the top of the page. In addition, applicants must submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, graduate transcripts, a detailed research plan, a one-page statement of teaching philosophy, and at least three letters of recommendation to receive full consideration. Materials should be submitted electronically to: astrophysics@usfca.edu. The subject line of submitted e-mail(s) should begin with the applicant’s full name: e.g. Subject: Mary E. Smith—-Research Plan. Any materials that cannot be submitted electronically should be mailed to:
Physics and Astronomy Search Committee
c/o Professor Thomas Böttger
Review of completed applications will begin on November 1, 2011 and will continue until the position is filled. Applicants may learn more about the department at
http://www.usfca.edu/artsci/phys/
Job Close Date: 11/01/2011
Labels: astronomy, biophysics, physics, Research, Teaching, tenure-track, undergraduate research
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Query: NC_011184:325797 Vibrio fischeri MJ11 chromosome I, complete sequence
Lineage: Aliivibrio fischeri; Aliivibrio; Vibrionaceae; Vibrionales; Proteobacteria; Bacteria
General Information: This strain was isolated from a pinecone fish, Monocentris japonica, light-emitting organs in Japan. This genus is abundant in marine or freshwater environments such as estuaries, brackish ponds, or coastal areas; regions that provide an important reservoir for the organism in between outbreaks of the disease. Vibrio can affect shellfish, finfish, and other marine animals and a number of species are pathogenic for humans. This organism is found in marine environments and was originally named by Bernard Fischer during a sea voyage in the 1800s. It is a symbiont in fish and squids and is responsible for light generation in those organisms, which use it as a defense mechanism to avoid predators.
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Another successful challenge to denial of Parole Release.
We've discussed this in the prior posts on this site. CLPR Article 78 special proceedings are the means to challenge the denial of release to parole supervision. On June 2nd, Acting Supreme Court Justice John L. Michalski issued a Memorandum and Order vacating the Parole Board's imposition of a twenty four month hold, and instead imposed a twelve month term effectively ordering the Respondent's release in the Matter of Caufield v. NYS Division of Parole. In our representation of the respondent, our petition noted he was sentenced in July 2013 to an indeterminate term of 1 1/3 - 4 years on his plea to a Class D felony of DWI. At his appearance before the Parole Board in July 2014, he had already been awarded Merit Time pursuant to Corrections Law Section 805 and a Certificate of Earned Eligibility. He had completed the DWI program, received a favorable COMPAS Risk and Needs Assessment and provided the Board with favorable letters of support, a personal recovery statement and an offer of prospective employment. The respondent appeared via video conference with the Board, who denied his release and ordered a 24 month hold. Their determination recited the usual boiler plate"there is a reasonable probability that [petitioner] would not live and remain at liberty without again violating the law and his release at this time is incompatible with the welfare and safety of the community."
Our petition noted among other things that the Board's decision failed to consider his exemlary prison disciplinary record, positive programming, contributions to the prison community and support available upon release. It also failed to consider the sentencing Court's specific recommendation to the Board, encouraging the respondent's early release if he did complete all the available programs.
We argued the denial of release was irrational, arbitrary and capricious. The Supreme Court Decision determined the "twenty four month hold to be excessive and an abuse of discretion. Accordingly, the parole Board will vacate its imposition of a twenty four month hold, and instead impose a twelve month term."
Keep fighting.
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Study Reveals Oscar Voters are a Bunch of Old White Men
Written by Frank Wilkins
Ever wonder why the eventual Oscar winners almost never align with your own picks? It may be because the demographic of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) - the association responsible for voting for the wards - is made up of a membership that bears ...
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It's War! Warner Bros. Increasing Netflix, Redbox and Blockbuster Rental Delay to 56 Days
Movie lovers who prefer satisfying a cinematic sweet tooth by patronizing Netflix's DVD-by-mail service or any of the numerous Redbox or Blockbuster DVD rental kiosks that dot nearly every corner of every street in America, are well aware by now ...
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2012 Oscar Predictions - Tracking the Academy Award Frontrunners
It's that time again. Not only the Holiday season when Hollywood begins rolling out its big-budgeted blockbusters with hopes of decking the theaters with boughs of bottoms, but also that time of year when the studios make their big Oscar push...
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2011 Fall Movie Preview
With the sweltering sun finally giving way to the autumn of the year, it's time to turn our thoughts to shorter days, cooler temperatures, and best of all, hotter movies. We know Hollywood likes to save the best for last so, as the summer blockbusters ...
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Oscar Winners: 2011 Academy Awards
Every last one of the Oscars has been handed out, even those that go to all the geeky technical categories (in the words of one of the worst Oscar hosts in history, "Thank you nerds"). And we were there planted on the couch watching ...
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The official ballots are in, the trophies are polished, and the red carpet is rolling into place as we speak. This means Oscar night is upon us. Besides reminding us how far back into the calendar this thing has been pushed, it means it's time to...
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1940 "Look" Magazine Article Introduces Disney's FANTASIA
This one comes from the "Found Treasures" file. We just ran across a 1940 copy of Look Magazine that caught our eye, not just because of the age of the issue - or that we were privileged enough to receive the copy from a friend - but rather because of a particular piece of coverage contained within the yellowed pages of the now defunct bi-weekly.
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2011 Movie Preview - Upcoming Films for 2011
Is the late-winter cinematic dead zone sapping the life from your movie watching funtime? Then it's time to step away from the Netflix subscription and start thinking about the upcoming sequels, prequels, sci-fis, dramas, and comedies Hollywood has in store for 2011.
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2010 Oscar Tracker - Academy Award Predictions
Believe it or not, the movie awards season is upon us. And that means it's time to start keeping an eye on the movers and shakers... the big movies that are getting all the buzz for Oscar consideration.
Throughout the remainder of the season, by the use our super-secret algorithmic formula* we'll keep this list of Oscar predictions and hopefuls fresh and up-to-date. Keep in mind, this isn't necessarily a list of the ones we hope will win, but we do think these are the heavy hitters. Consider this your one-stop-shop for identifying the 2010 Oscar contenders.
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Fall Movie Preview - 2010
You can keep your summer season of big budget "blockbusters" bustling with comic-book characters and lycra-tighted super heroes. Because as far as we're concerned, fall marks the beginning of the real movie season. Check out a list of the ones that make our movie pants go a little crazy.
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The Midas Touch - Despite His Own Success, Steven Spielberg Optimistic on What He Hasn’t Yet Done for Films
Written by Lloyd Bayer
Despite his own success, Steven Spielberg Optimistic on What He Hasn’t Yet Done for Films
This is the true story of one of the biggest and most successful names in cinema history. Today, this living legend is a demi-God to movie goers the world over, besides being an inspiration to highly acclaimed actors, producers and directors.
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Lyrics to Mulholland Drive Song "Llorando" by Rebekah del Rio
"Llorando" ("Crying")
Words and music written by Roy Orbison & Joe Melson, translation by Thania Sanz as performed by Rebekah del Rio (from the soundtrack album for Mulholland Dr, 2001).
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Must See Movies for 2009 - Best and Worst Movies of 2009
Every site does it and everyone expects it. So here's our list of the best and worst movies of 2009. While these are not necessarily our picks for Oscar consideration, we do think you could do worse seeing anything else. Movies listed are in no particular order.
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Bambi Featurette: How to Draw Bambi
Another from the "Found Treasures" file - the recent 60th anniversary blu-ray release of Disney's Alice in Wonderland got us waxing nostalgic for all things Disney. The glorious restoration sparkles with crisp...
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The Unwritten Rules of Movie Watching
No talking during the movie, period - Shouldn't even have to mention this one. I'll even extend this rule to apply to the trailers...no saying, "Ooo, I want to see that one" after a trailer. If you are Trailer Critic Man, keep it to yourself.
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A Concise List of Every Single Movie to Have Won an Academy Award for Best Picture
If you are a movie buff like many of us here, then this is probably old news. Even so, if you want to earn the distinction of having watched every single movie to have won an Oscar for "Best Picture" at the Academy Awards, then read on.
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The Hollywood Effect - Despite Flourishing Global Film Industry, Hollywood Remains Movie Capital of
Many countries produce their own movies reflecting a culture distinct to its unique background, but why do Hollywood films have the largest take on export? Simply because, American cinema has an overwhelming effect on the rest of the world.
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Good Movie or Bad? A Movie Picking Guide
Watching a good movie these days requires time and money. Money to rent or view a movie at home or at the cinemas, and time you wish you hadn't wasted if the movie ends up not to your expectations. While both time and money are running low these days, here's some information that will help you differentiate between a good film and one that will unnecessarily gnaw into your pockets for a good two hours or more.
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Movies Favorite Pastime in United Arab Emirates
Going to the movies in the UAE is a favorite if not serious past time for thousands of individuals. Block-busters are released in sync with major world cities. Though lesser anticipated films reach here weeks sometimes months after release in the US, UK and Australia.
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TRYING TO CLEAN UP Xiaomi recently introduced its $250 Mi robot vacuum that hopes to take on the iRobot Roomba. The Mi vacuum can clean all floor types and features a Laser Distance Sensor (LDS) and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) to scan its surroundings 1,800 times per second in 360 degrees.
It also has 12 sensors, including ultrasonic radar, cliff sensor, gyroscope and accelerometer, three processors and four CPU cores for real time mapping and positioning, and a main brush with adjustable height for uneven surfaces.
The Xiaomi Mi robot vacuum features a Nidec brushless DC motor, claims to be ultra quiet, and uses a 5,200 mAh battery that promises 2. 5 hours of cleaning. Like other Mi Ecosystem products, Mi Robot Vacuum pairs and integrates with the Mi Home app. It can be controlled remotely where users can power it on or off, and it also lets you set regular cleaning schedules.
MULTI-MOTION MINITAUR You’ve probably seen robots that walk, roll, climb, and open doors. However, the Ghost Minitaur robot does all of these things in one package. It’s a medium-sized quadruped walker that stands well under a half meter tall.
Built by Ghost Robotics, Minitaur can travel in a front-to-back orientation or at a slower side-to-side orientation in which it rolls over itself in either direction. If that’s not impressive enough, Minitaur can also open doors with a “jump and swipe” maneuver, and climb fences by carefully manipulating its powerful legs.
Minitaur does all of this with just four legs that each have two motors. The mechanical portion of Minitaur seems simple at first, but a closer look shows it is extremely well designed. Each leg system is offset at five degrees and is built as 5-bar linkage assembly. With this linkage setup, Unbelievably, Minitaur was built with off-the-shelf parts, and because it uses no gearbox between the motors — which would add extra inertia, backlash, and friction — the force “felt” by the legs can more easily be sensed by the control unit and be used while moving. This feedback transparency is where the term “Ghost” comes from.
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Home Volume 43 [2008–09] Volume 43 Number 46 "San Francisco's Doomed"
“San Francisco’s Doomed”
PREVIEW Fred Schrunk sips his coffee as he mans the counter on a recent afternoon at Thrillhouse, the nonprofit punk record store he oversees on Mission Street, and discusses the genesis of this week’s San Francisco’s Doomed Fest. It’s a series of shows benefiting two causes dear to him and the local music community: the all-ages venue project for San Francisco that he and several forward-thinking locals are spearheading, as well as Maximum Rock’n’Roll, the long-running, SF-based punk monthly fanzine that, like many print publications today, is struggling to meet operation costs.
"Seeing [MRR] struggle for a little while made me really concerned," explains Schrunk, who is involved with the zine and its radio show. "It’s fucking scary seeing them in a compromising situation." The staff of MRR, likewise a nonprofit, consists of volunteer "shitworkers," and the zine’s content is reader-contributed, inspiring and informing both bands and enthusiasts worldwide since its inception in 1982.
"I think there’s a place for what we do," says MRR content coordinator Layla Gibbon over the phone from the zine’s office. "It’s just a difficult time." About four months ago, Schrunk and MRR‘s coordinators decided to put together a fundraiser for both the debt-burdened magazine and Thrillhouse’s goal of opening an all-ages venue in the city.
This venue project stems from San Francisco’s lack of a dedicated all-ages show space — a lamentable situation that leaves local youngsters with few options for seeing and performing live music. The success of the project’s small fundraising shows so far, as well as that of last year’s Thrillhouse-sanctioned Thrillfest, paved the way for this new, ramped-up effort to raise funds for opening a space. Where Thrillfest was structured around touring bands, Doomed features mostly local acts, all of whom have an obvious stake in seeing these two scene-uniting efforts succeed.
The event’s name comes from Crime, SF’s self-proclaimed "first and only rock ‘n’ roll band," which formed in 1976, cranking out early punk classics such as 1977’s "Hot Wire My Heart" and "Frustration." They’ll be headlining the festival, where the lineup ranges from the heavy, stoned sounds of Flood to the Messthetics-style post-punk of Rank/Xerox. More established local acts like good-times popsters Nodzzz and renowned Sacramento garage-rockers the Bananas are also on hand. As Gibbon exclaims, the fest not only benefits good causes, it also promises to be "a representation of what punk is … the sense of possibility!"
SAN FRANCISCO’S DOOMED Wed/12 through Sun/16, various venues. www.myspace.com/sanfranciscosdoomed, www.maximumrocknroll.com
Pub date August 11, 2009
WriterMichael Harkin
SectionMusicSectionMusic Features
IssueVolume 43 Number 46
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Home Employee Bulletin 1961-1966 Employee Bulletin Nr. 3, Volume III, published in March of 1964
Employee Bulletin Nr. 3, Volume III, published in March of 1964
Are you familiar with the phrase, "The
prevailing rates in the community"?
This refers to the general wages paid in
a geographical area for various types of
jobs. The administration of St. Joseph
keeps tabs on the fluctuations of wages with
the purpose of paying the highest wages possible, consistent with the economic situation of the hospital.
As we all know, unless we are lucky millionaires, we have to balance the amounts
we spend against the amounts of money coming
in. This applies to hospitals as well. In
fact, it is even more difficult at this particular time in view of the huge building
program, the proposed tearing down of South
and the gradual remodelling of Center and
West Wings. It's very difficult to project
how many rooms will be in use and, therefore, how much revenue will be coming in.
BUT, the Administration recognizes that
wage increases are in order in many types
of work, just as our RN's received a general increase in January. Therefore, the
Administrator has announced that a general
wage increase will be put into effect on
a STAGGERED basis, depending upon the financial condition of the hospital.
1. Several groups of positions (such as
Stationary Engineer) have had adjustments
made to bring their salaries up to the
average rates of the community.
2. Also, several totally new positions have
had their rates of pay established at the
current rates and are therefore well in
line with the community.
3. Action will be taken to bring up the
wages of various types of positions, with
priority being given to those which are
least in line with community wages. This
action must not be expected all at once,
as explained above. But it will be donel
Let's all try to economize on expenses so
the administration will find it possible
to raise wages as soon as possible J
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seems that hunans just natcherly like to
talk over the back fence. Right? Rightl
BUT, it's so important that we have our
facts straight before we start spreading
them around. This subject comes to mind because we are in the midst of such a lot of
changes, all happening at once it seems,
that it's almost impossible for any one
person to know ALL the answers.
We are not only trying to get the new
building ready, get it furnished and stocked, but also trying to improve our methods and procedures so that our hospital
will be second to none in any area.
This means that there must, of course,
be changes made in our personnel staffing.
We have already created several new jobs.
But, on the other hand, several other
jobs have changed so much that a few people
who used to do these jobs are not able or
considered qualified to handle the new
responsibilities. But, in EVERY case
where this has occurred, the personnel affected have been offered other jobs in the
If you have any questions about what is
happening, or even what MAY happen, feel
free to go to your supervisor. It does no
good to discuss it with your neighbor at
the next desk - because he probably does
not know any more than you I Get your information from someone who knows the real
answer« Gossiping and rumors upset us
all - needlessly - and 98j6 of our worries
never happen anyhowl
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Title Employee Bulletin Nr. 3, Volume III, published in March of 1964
Subject 1 Saint Joseph Hospital (Denver, CO) -- history
Subject 2 Sisters of Charity of Leavensworth (Kansas)
Subject 3 Periodicals -- Newsletters
Description Employee Bulletin Nr. 3, Volume III, published in March of 1964
Publisher Saint Joseph Hospital
Type Printout on plain pink paper
Format 81/2" x 11"
Rights In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use only (IC-NC)
Description Page 3 of Employee Bulletin Nr. 3, Volume III, published in March of 1964
Transcript < Are you familiar with the phrase, "The prevailing rates in the community"? This refers to the general wages paid in a geographical area for various types of jobs. The administration of St. Joseph keeps tabs on the fluctuations of wages with the purpose of paying the highest wages possible, consistent with the economic situation of the hospital. As we all know, unless we are lucky millionaires, we have to balance the amounts we spend against the amounts of money coming in. This applies to hospitals as well. In fact, it is even more difficult at this particular time in view of the huge building program, the proposed tearing down of South and the gradual remodelling of Center and West Wings. It's very difficult to project how many rooms will be in use and, therefore, how much revenue will be coming in. BUT, the Administration recognizes that wage increases are in order in many types of work, just as our RN's received a general increase in January. Therefore, the Administrator has announced that a general wage increase will be put into effect on a STAGGERED basis, depending upon the financial condition of the hospital. 1. Several groups of positions (such as Stationary Engineer) have had adjustments made to bring their salaries up to the average rates of the community. 2. Also, several totally new positions have had their rates of pay established at the current rates and are therefore well in line with the community. 3. Action will be taken to bring up the wages of various types of positions, with priority being given to those which are least in line with community wages. This action must not be expected all at once, as explained above. But it will be donel Let's all try to economize on expenses so the administration will find it possible to raise wages as soon as possible J HELP US STAMP OUT •V RUMORS .' ! 1 Let's face it: we're all human and it seems that hunans just natcherly like to talk over the back fence. Right? Rightl BUT, it's so important that we have our facts straight before we start spreading them around. This subject comes to mind because we are in the midst of such a lot of changes, all happening at once it seems, that it's almost impossible for any one person to know ALL the answers. We are not only trying to get the new building ready, get it furnished and stocked, but also trying to improve our methods and procedures so that our hospital will be second to none in any area. This means that there must, of course, be changes made in our personnel staffing. We have already created several new jobs. But, on the other hand, several other jobs have changed so much that a few people who used to do these jobs are not able or considered qualified to handle the new responsibilities. But, in EVERY case where this has occurred, the personnel affected have been offered other jobs in the hospital. If you have any questions about what is happening, or even what MAY happen, feel free to go to your supervisor. It does no good to discuss it with your neighbor at the next desk - because he probably does not know any more than you I Get your information from someone who knows the real answer« Gossiping and rumors upset us all - needlessly - and 98j6 of our worries never happen anyhowl Help atamp out rumorsi
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What Our Visitors Wrote About Us
By Sarah Leigh
The 1940s pram - a favourite with
children at Steyning Museum.
Between 15 March 2003 and 13 March 2004, 647 people wrote a comment in our Museum Visitors Book. 356 of these came from Sussex and 201 from other parts of the UK. 47 came from Europe and 43 from other parts of the world (mainly the USA, Australia, South Africa and Japan). Every single comment was positive - we had no complaints at all! There were some identifiable themes.
Children tended to comment on what they had liked best. Child after child mentioned the 1940's pram. One child took a longer view when he wrote: "When I'm older I'll come back and see what's changed."
Many older people were making a nostalgic return to the town - one wrote simply, "MEMORIES" and one, "Brings back old feelings". Another wrote sadly: "I miss the place." Younger adults appreciated the insight it gave them into the historical background of the area where they lived: "This is real history, not just Royalty and wars," and, "Good to see history kept alive ".
Researchers into family history were very grateful - "Wonderful discoveries and stunning help from the stewards", wrote someone from London. From Maryland: "Someone kindly helped me to trace my family".
Our exhibitions during the year, one on Gert and Daisy (Elsie and Doris Waters), music hall stars who were long term residents, and one of local maps received many compliments.
Many commended the layout and signage of the collection and the friendliness and helpfulness of the stewards. The museum attracted some delightful compliments - "Passionant" wrote one visitor from Paris. One wrote, "A fascinating museum with friendly and knowledgeable staff'".
Friendly and helpful stewards.
A Sussex visitor wrote: "Obviously tended with loving care", and another: "What a delightfully presented and well put together museum!" Someone from London wrote: "The best small museum seen! " and someone from Cheshire: "One of the best local museums I've had the good fortune to find." Someone of undisclosed origin wrote: "The smallest museum in the world and the most friendly." Some superlatives were more striking - from Milan simply "bello", from London "enchanting" and from Middlesex "small but superb".
The most comprehensive endorsement came from Bradford - "Comprehensive, well-organised, helpfully labelled, informative and entertaining - a credit to its founder and its helpers". A German visitor wrote: "I loved it! That's how England should be!" He also wrote: "I think I'll return." An amazingly large proportion of contributors expressed this intention - "I can't wait to come back", and many were themselves clearly repeat visitors - "Always interesting" and "It improves every time we visit".
All the comments above relate to 2003/4. However, we still treasure some past endorsements. Someone in January 2002 wrote: "An hour of pure pleasure" and another, "I once had gerbils called Gert and Daisy". But our favourite visitor is still the Russian who wrote in April 2001: "God bless those who cherish and honour their past."
We also have an online Guestbook for visitors to the website. Have a look at what people have written and you are welcome to make your own comments.
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A Fairytale of New York ... 2011 Holiday Special & Show # 383
In August of 1987, The Pogues released what is often called one of the best Christmas songs of all time, “Fairytale of New York”. While the band was recording their album If I Should Fall From The Grace of God with producer Steve Lillywhite, he asked his wife Kristy MacColl to sing vocals on a demo version of the song “Fairytale of New York”. The Pogues were so impressed with her contribution to the song that they asked her to sing on what was to become the studio version of “Fairytale of New York”. Initially when writing the song, Pogues singer Shane MacGowan planned it to be a duet between himself and bassist Cait O’Riordan, but she left the group in 1986. The title of the song came after its recording, it was named after the novel A Fairy Tale of New York by J.P. Donleavy.
The songs subject matter is not your usual Christmas story, it tells the tale of a drunken Irish Immigrants past Christmas Eve’s and holidays while being locked up in the drunk tank in New York City on Christmas Eve. The song itself musically takes the form of a folk styled ballad and contrasts the vocals of Shane MacGowan with the melodious style of Kristy MacColl in a bittersweet way. When it was originally released the song became a hit on the Irish charts going to number one and after a performance on the BBC show Top of the Pops, it went to number two on the UK top 75 charts. The song was denied the number one spot in the UK by The Pet Shop Boys in 1987, but was re-released in 1991 where it charted again in the UK and Ireland. In 2005, the song was released again the UK and Ireland reaching number three in the UK and the song has re-entered the top ten in the UK every December since 2005. The song has now gone onto classic Christmas song status being covered numerous times. A music video for the song was also made featuring actor Matt Dillon as a NYPD Police Officer.
This Week's Holiday Play List:
1. REM – Christmas In Tunisia
2. Hooded Fang – Tundura Nights
3. She & Him – Christmas Wish
4. Johnny West - Merry Christmas, Tinseltown
5. The Pogues & Kristy MacColl – Fairytale of New York
6. Chris Houston – Baby Jesus Looks Like Elvis
7. Deer Tick – Christmas All Summer Long
8. Belle and Sebastian – Santa Claus Goes Straight To The Ghetto
9. The Humpers – Run Run Rudolph
10. The Reind Dears – White Xmas
11. The Dickies – Silent Night
12. Johnny Cash - It's Not Cool To Kill On Christmas
13. Fine Times - Subterranean Christmas Blues
14. The Features – Christmas Wishbook
15. The Pointed Sticks – Power Pop Santa
16. The Nefidovs – Feliz Nefidov
17. Captain Sensible – One Christmas Catalogue
18. The Wailers – The Christmas Spirit
19. The Sonics – The Village Idiot
20. Jack Scott – There's Trouble Brewin’
21. The Fall – (We Wish You A) Protein Christmas
22. White Stripes - Candy Cane Children
23. The D4 – Don’t Believe In Xmas
24. Wild Billy Childish & The Musicians of the British Empire – Pete Townshends Christmas
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Ryushin OMASA ( OHMASA )
Water Fuel
JAPAN TECHNO CO., LTD.
http://www.ktpc.or.jp/kp/101600/main_e.html
Address: 2-14-10 Kugahara ,Ota-Ku,Tokyo,146-0085,Japan tel.81-3-3754-1661 fax.81-3-3754-7175.
http://www.ktpc.or.jp/kp/101600/product-16.html
Mixed hydrogen-oxygen gas generator "OHMASA-GAS", causes the hydrogen-oxygen gas mixture by electrolysis of water efficiently. This new mixed gas, atomic oxygen, and contains hydrogen and deuterium, is its own gas to clean high-energy exercise.
Features of Ohmasa Gas --
Ignition and burning is stable and quiet
Hydrogen atoms in the flame and the presence of OH radicals.
The raw gas is molecular hydrogen, atomic hydrogen in addition to oxygen, such as the presence of oxygen and deuterium.
Is safe to compress the gas mixture.
100-200 and the pressure to secure "mixed gas" state.
Even in long-term storage, "composition and energy" shows essentially no change.
Plenty of water (70 percent) even with the oil emulsion containing a possible burn completely.
Vaporizes metal tungsten in about one second.
To demonstrate the high-energy "conversion element" in the possibility of a lot of attention is the creation of new industry expectations.
Can be expected as energy nanotechnology manufacturing.
Raw energy and "water" and "infinity", and completely clean energy.
High-energy fuel cell (from small to large)
High-performance large-scale power plant (including gas turbines)
Nanotechnology, energy production (Purazama replacement)
Creation of new industries as energy
Aircraft, marine power sources
Heat of a difficult waste incinerator for
Alternative fuel gas
Steel, other metal cutting (for acetylene gas substitution)
Videos --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUPE0Z9V82E&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE9cUgPdA_s
http://oriharu.net/jvideo_2.htm#20091029_WBS
Translation --
"Water Gas may have a special molecular structure"
Japan Techno, Inc. is in Ohta, Tokyo, Japan.
The president of the company, Ohmasa, made a fluid stirrer that doesn't use rotation of the blade but uses mechanical vibrations of low frequency instead.
The water circulation has good stability.
If you pour detergent into this water, bubbles don't occur. Why?
Ordinary electrolysis makes O2 and H2 gas.
When President Ohmasa did plating work in this stirrer, neither an explosion nor a bubble appeared.
They say that this low frequency vibration breaks water surface tension, so bubbles can't occur.
President Ohmasa got a hunch. He did electrolysis in this 'water of broken surface tension', then Special Water Gas occurred. This gas is different from ordinary hydrogen and oxygen gas.
This Special Water Gas can occur only in the low frequency vibration water. The Special Water Gas occurs as micro nanobubbles, which gas is completely different from ordinary hydrogen and oxygen. It provides a safe gas for fuel, which is a combination of hydrogen and oxygen, which under normal conditions would want to recombine explosively.
Hydrogen gas is a very small molecule, which leaks from most containers easily. But this Special Water Gas has been in a gas cylinder of a fixed pressure for two years.
President Ohmasa says that the ratio of hydrogen and oxygen is 2:1, but its structure must be special.
Special Water Gas can be used as a fuel for a torch. The temperature is about 700 degrees Celcius, which is a lower temperature compared to other torches. But it can burn through an iron plate.
New uses begin to be born.
Dr. Masanori Ito of the University of Tokyo Kaiyoh has succeeded to run a small engine as of July, 2009. The air intake for this engine was closed. It does not require oxygen (from the air) to burn this Special Water Gas. The exhaust is water vapor.
This Special Water Gas doesn't explode under pressure. It is very stable.
It is possible to make societal infrastructure of Special Water Gas instead of gasoline.
President Ohmasa ran liquefaction tests to ascertain the true character of the gas. Normally, oxygen liquifies at -183º C, and hydrogen liquiefies at -253º C. However, this Special Water Gas liquefies at -178º C.
President Ohmasa says:
"I don't know the certain molecular structure, but we get a second water [type] on the Earth. All internal-combustion engines and generators can use this water fuel, exhausting water vapor. We want to make the water fuel that saves the Earth."
It's likely, though, that this technology may yet met resistance from the mental blocks that exist.
Water fuel does not produce harmful exhaust. It is a clean source of energy.
Japan Tech Inc. is going to test a bigger four-cycle car engine next month (November, 2009). If it succeeds, a new fuel will be born.
http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/hado_instructor_event.html
Excerpt --
From: "Academy For Future Science"
From: "Office Masaru Emoto"
Subject: Encouragement of Hado Study
Dear Friends...
At the first day of the "Water and Peace" Global Forum which was held from March 20th to 22nd this year, Mr. Ryushin Omasa, the president of Japan Techno Co, gave a lecture about his technology which extracts alternative energy called Ohmasa gas from water. This alternative energy can be substituted for petroleum energy. He applies specific low frequencies to water and agitated it to chemically dissolve the water. The oxygen and the hydrogen generated a unified oxy-hydrogen in a safe format, and this oxy-hydrogen solution can create fire to weld with and energy to run a motor. They already succeeded in running a motorbike with this Ohmasa gas. See this video clip which explains the technology:
I have been waiting for this technology to become a reality for 20 years. I have known this technology was possible for many years because water is H2O, and oxygen and hydrogen are a good source of energy. And it is a good thing that such a wonderful energy source exists abundantly everywhere. I came up with the idea to take water crystal photos from water in 1994 and succeeded. I have done a number of various studies since then. The most beautiful water crystal photo that we have ever taken is a water crystal created when the words of love and gratitude were exposed to water. I published the photo in my book, Messages from Water in 1999. Furthermore, I published my hypothesis that the H of H2O represents love and the O of H2O represents gratitude in my book, Hidden Messages in Water, published in 2002 and this book became a bestseller in many countries. Since then, a lot of people have resonated with those ideas and words, and love and gratitude are more frequently used in a daily life among spiritual people around the world.
Mr. Omasa who invented this innovative technology actually has been a regular reader of my books and he asked our institute to take water crystal photos from his water "Alpha Torino water" several years ago. So I assume he naturally received my hypothesis about the mysteries of water and I believe his Hado way of thinking may have lead to his amazing discovery of which energy can be extracted from water. Perhaps he is not the only one who was inspired by my work with water crystals. There may be a lot of people like him in the world trying to create something new and good for the planet and the human race.
The water created from his technology is called "Alpha Torino water". It also gets rid of viruses and microorganisms and is now available. It is also a kind of Hado medicine that I have proposed for long time. Water seems to be very effective to prevent pandemic phenomenon, which might happen in the near future and of course a virus like the Foot and Mouth Epidemic, which is already happening. However, this type of revolutionary technology could not be initiated by government or major companies in Japan because it would cause an inconvenience to certain people or companies who don$B!G(Bt want this technology to succeed, because it would destroy their current greed based money-making businesses. But I am certain that we need this type of technology for our planet and the people of the world, and we can spread it out, and make it known by ourselves. One way to get prepared is by studying Hado, and preparing ourselves for the year 2012 when an energetic shift will require our focused attention. We will be having the 13th Hado Instructor School in Aso city of Kumamoto in Japan from August 22nd to 26th and we will be congratulating the Fiver Colored Grand Festival at Heitate Shrine. Mr. Omasa will be there to present his technology as well. It will be a life changing event that I hope you will attend. For the information about the school, please click the following link:
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Making Water as Fuel more Feasible
Sterling Allen
Mr. Ohmasa, president of Japan Techno, has devised a method of producing an unusual hydrogen-oxygen gas that could become an alternative fuel of the future, conceivably replacing gasoline, both due to its burning characteristics as well as its ease of storage and transport.
One patented process developed by Ohmasa uses low frequency vibrations to circulate water without any other stirring mechanism. Such water has reduced surface tension to the point that bubbles do not form in the water when detergent is added to it, though it is being agitated by the circulation. However, it turns out that bubbles are forming, but they are not visible because they are tiny -- on the nano scale.
Ohmasa discovered that if he performs electrolysis on this water solution, that a highly stable H2-O2 gas is formed, subsequently named Ohmasa gas, which exhibits unusual characteristics. For example, Ohmasa gas doesn't explode under pressure, but only recombines when ignited. Also, while oxygen normally liquifies at -183º C, and hydrogen liquiefies at -253º C, Ohmasa gas liquefies at -178º C. Also, the Ohmasa gas does not escape from containers that hold oxygen but not normal hydrogen; it holds its pressure in the container, making storage and shipment feasible. Similar to Brown's Gas, one can wave their hand through the Ohmasa gas torch flame, yet that same flame will vaporize Tungsten in a second.
When Ohmasa gas is burned, its emission is water vapor.
Hence, with this new method, water could conceivably become the energy carrier of choice for energy produced from renewable sources such as solar and wind. Some modifications would likely need to be made to existing engines for it to work well with them, and it would require new tanks (gaseous rather than liquid), and new dispensing orifices.
HYDROGEN-OXYGEN GAS GENERATOR AND HYDROGEN-OXYGEN GAS GENERATING METHOD THEREOF
USP Appln 2009045049
IPC8 Class: AC25D1700FI
Abstract -- A hydrogen-oxygen gas generator comprising an electrolytic cell, an electrode group formed from an anode and a cathode mutually installed in that electrolytic cell, a power supply for applying a voltage across the anode and cathode, a gas trapping means for collecting the hydrogen-oxygen gas generated by electrolyzing the electrolyte fluid and a vibration-stirring means. The gas trapping means is comprised of a lid member installed on the electrolytic cell, a hydrogen-gas extraction tube connecting to the hydrogen-oxygen gas extraction outlet of that lid member. A vibration-stirring means for stirring and agitating the electrolytic fluid is supported by support tables. The distance between the adjacent positive electrode and negative electrode within the electrode group is set within a range of 1 to 20 millimeters. The vibration-stirring means is comprised of vibrating motors vibrating at 10 to 200 Hertz, and vibrating blades vibrating within the electrolytic cell and unable to rotate are attached to a vibrating rod linked to the vibrating motors.
[0002] 1. Field of the Invention
[0003] The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for generating hydrogen-oxygen gas, and relates in particular to a hydrogen-oxygen gas generator and hydrogen-oxygen gas generating method for highly efficient generation of hydrogen-oxygen gas.
[0004] 2. Description of Related Art
[0005] Electrolysis or electrolytic technology was pioneered by Faraday. The electrolysis of water is known to produce a hydrogen-oxygen gas in a ratio of two parts hydrogen to one part oxygen. Research on hydrogen-oxygen gas has continued up to the present time. One example of a practical technology is a gas generating apparatus developed by Dr. Yull Brown of Brown Energy System Technology PTY. LTD. of Australia. Patent document relating to this technology is disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Registration 3037633.
[0006] In this technology, the structure of the electrolytic cell for generating the hydrogen-oxygen gas is comprised of multiple electrode plates formed with mutually perpendicular electrolytic fluid flow holes and gas flow holes at the top and bottom in the center, and formed with bolt holes on four sides; multiple alternately coupled spacers formed with bolt housing holes protruding outwards between the electrode plates, and O-rings inserted on the spacer inner circumferential surface for sealing of the filled electrolytic fluid; and electrolytic cell cover plates holding electrical current conducting bolts and gas coupling nipples and electrolytic fluid coupling nipples are mounted on both sides of the electrode plates, and an electrode plate tightened by nuts to a stay bolt enclosed by bolt holes of the electrolytic cell cover plates and spacer bolt housing holes, electrode plate bolt holes, with the spacer and electrolytic cell cover plates mutually joined together.
[0007] However, in the method of the related art, the shortest possible distance between the adjacent electrode plates within this kind of electrolytic cell was a gap of 50 millimeters just sufficient to prevent electrical shorts. An even shorter distance between electrode plates tended to cause accidents due to excessive current flow. The efficiency of the apparatus and method of the related art was therefore limited when producing hydrogen-oxygen gas by increasing the electrical current density. The related art therefore had the problem that adequate efficiency could not be provided.
[0008] On the other hand, since the size of each electrolytic cell was limited, the amount of hydrogen-oxygen gas produced by one hydrogen-oxygen gas generator was also limited. In view of practical needs, preferably a device with as small a size as possible, preferably produces as much hydrogen-oxygen gas as possible per unit of time. However, the apparatus of the related art could not satisfy the dual needs of both a compact size and generation of larger amounts of hydrogen-oxygen gas.
[0009] In view of the problems with the related art, the present invention provides increased amounts of hydrogen-oxygen gas per electrode unit surface area per unit of time by improving electrolyzing conditions and boosting hydrogen-oxygen gas generating efficiency, to enable production of larger hydrogen-oxygen gas quantities from each generator apparatus and a more compact apparatus.
[0010] To achieve the objects of the invention the present invention provides a hydrogen-oxygen gas generator comprising an electrolytic cell, an electrode group formed from a first electrode and a second electrode mutually installed in that electrolytic cell, a power supply for applying a voltage across the first electrode and a second electrode, a gas trapping means for collecting the hydrogen-oxygen gas generated by electrolyzing the electrolyte fluid stored within the electrolytic cell wherein said generator further contains a vibration-stirring means for stirring and agitating the electrolytic fluid stored within the electrolytic cell, and the distance between the adjacent first electrode and a second electrode adjacently installed within the electrode group is set within a range of 1 to 20 millimeters.
[0011] In a first aspect of the invention, a gas trapping means is comprised of a lid member installed on the electrolytic cell, and a hydrogen-oxygen gas extraction tube connecting to the hydrogen-oxygen gas extraction outlet formed on that lid member.
[0012] In a first aspect of the invention, the vibration-stirring means is comprised of a vibration generating means containing vibrating motors, a vibrating rod is linked to the vibration generating means for vibrating within the electrolytic cell, and vibrating blades unable to rotate, are installed on at least one level of the vibrating rod, and the vibrating motors vibrate at 10 to 200 Hertz. In the first aspect of the invention, the vibration generating means is installed with a vibration absorbing material on the upper side of the electrolytic cell. In the first aspect of the invention, the vibration generating means is supported by support tables separate from the electrolytic cell. In the first aspect of the invention, the gas trapping means is comprised of a lid member installed on the electrolytic cell, and a hydrogen-oxygen gas extraction tube connecting to the hydrogen-oxygen gas extraction outlet formed on that lid member, and the vibrating rod extends through the lid member, and a sealing means between the lid member and the vibrating rod allows vibration of the vibrating rod and also prevents the passage of hydrogen-oxygen gas.
[0013] In the first aspect of the invention, at least one of either the first electrode or the second electrode contain multiple holes. In the first aspect of the invention, the power source is a direct current pulse power source.
[0014] To achieve the objects of the invention the present invention provides a hydrogen-oxygen gas generating method wherein said method utilizes a hydrogen-oxygen gas generator as described above, and utilizes electrolyte fluid consisting of 5 to 10 percent weight by volume of electrolytic material at pH7 to 10 at 20 to 70 degrees centigrade, to perform electrolysis of the electrolyte fluid to reach an electrical current density of 5 A/dm2 to 20 A/dm2.
[0015] In the first aspect of the invention, the electrolysis is performed in an electrolytic cell sealed by a lid member. In the first aspect of the invention, the electrolytic material is a water-soluble alkali metal hydroxide or an alkali rare-earth metal hydroxide. In the first aspect of the invention, the power source is a direct current pulse power source.
[0016] In the first aspect of the invention, the vibrating blades of the vibration-stirring means cause a powerful vibrating flow movement in the electrolytic fluid so that the electrolytic fluid can make contact with the electrodes with ample, satisfactory uniformity and also an adequate supply quantity. Therefore even if the gap between the anode and the cathode is drastically reduced to a distance even smaller than in the related art, ions can still be supplied in an adequate quantity required for electrolysis, and the electrolytic heat generated in the electrodes can be quickly dissipated. Electrolysis can therefore be performed at a high electrical current density so that hydrogen-oxygen gas can be collected with high efficiency. Further, by reducing the distance between the cathode and anode as described above, the effective surface area of the electrodes can be sufficiently increased per volumetric unit so that ample quantities of hydrogen-oxygen gas can be generated even if the electrolytic cells are made more compact.
[0017] In particular, when performing electrolysis by vibrating and agitating the electrolyte fluid using the vibration-stirring means, the hydrogen and oxygen generated in the vicinity of the electrodes is carried to the electrolyte fluid surface and transitions to a gaseous state before forming gas bubbles. Therefore, there is no problem with the hydrogen and oxygen generated in the electrolyte fluid adhering to the surface of the electrodes and increasing the electrical resistance. Therefore electrolysis with a high electrical current density as described above can easily be achieved.
[0018] FIG. 1 is a cross sectional drawing showing the hydrogen-oxygen gas generator of the present invention:
[0019] FIG. 2 is a flat view of the hydrogen-oxygen gas generator of FIG. 1;
[0020] FIG. 3 is a side view of the apparatus of FIG. 1;
[0021] FIG. 4. is an enlarged fragmentary view of the apparatus of FIG. 1;
[0022] FIG. 5A is a perspective view showing the structure of the electrode group;
[0023] FIG. 5B is a front view showing the structure of the electrode group;
[0024] FIG. 6A is a front view showing the insulation frame comprising the electrode group;
[0025] FIG. 6B is a front view showing the electrodes comprising the electrode group;
[0026] FIG. 7 is an enlarged cross sectional view showing the attachment of the vibrating rod onto the vibrating member of the apparatus of FIG. 1;
[0027] FIG. 8 is an enlarged cross sectional view showing a variation of the attachment of the vibrating rod onto the vibrating member;
[0028] FIG. 9 is an enlarged cross sectional view of the vibrating blade attachment onto the vibrating rod of the apparatus of FIG. 1;
[0029] FIG. 10 is a flat view showing a variation of the vibrating blade and the clamping member;
[0033] FIG. 14 is a graph showing the relation between vibrating blade length and flutter;
[0034] FIG. 15 is a cross sectional view showing a variation of the vibration stirring means;
[0039] FIG. 20 is a cross sectional view showing another installation state of the vibration stirring means onto the electrolytic cell of the present invention;
[0040] FIG. 21 is a cross sectional view of the apparatus shown in FIG. 20;
[0041] FIG. 22 is a flat view of the apparatus shown in FIG. 20;
[0042] FIG. 23A through FIG. 23C are flat views of the laminated piece;
[0043] FIG. 24A and FIG. 24B are cross sectional views showing the state of the sealed electrolytic cell by the laminated piece;
[0044] FIG. 25A through FIG. 25E are cross sectional view of the laminated piece;
[0045] FIG. 26 is a fragmentary view of the gas trapping means of the hydrogen-oxygen gas generator of the present invention;
[0046] FIG. 27 is a concept view showing one example of the gas combustion device utilizing the hydrogen-oxygen gas collected by the hydrogen-oxygen gas generator;
[0048] FIG. 29 is a perspective view showing a variation of the lid member.
[0049] The preferred embodiments of the present invention are described next while referring to the drawings. In the drawings, members or sections having identical functions are assigned the same reference numerals.
[0050] FIG. 1 through FIG. 3 are drawings showing the structure of the embodiment of the hydrogen-oxygen gas generator for implementing the hydrogen-oxygen gas generating method of the present invention. Of these figures, FIG. 1 is a cross sectional view, FIG. 2 is a flat view, and FIG. 3 is a side view.
[0051] In these figures, reference numeral 10A denotes the electrolytic cell. The electrolytic cell contains electrolytic fluid 14. Reference numeral 16 is the vibration-stirring means. The vibration-stirring means 16 is comprised of a base 16a installed via anti-vibration rubber onto a support bed 100 separate from the electrolytic cell 10a, a coil spring 16b as a vibration absorbing material installed with the bottom edge clamped to the base (16a), a vibration member 16c clamped to the top edge of that coil spring, vibration motor 16d installed on that vibration member, a vibrating rod (vibration transmission rod) 16e installed on the top edge of the vibration member 16c, and a vibrating blade 16f unable to rotate, and installed at multiple levels at a position immersed in the electrolytic fluid 14 at the lower half of the vibrating rod 16. A vibration generating means contains a vibration motor 16d and a vibration member 16c. That vibration generating means is linked to the vibrating rod 16e. A rod-shaped guide member can be installed within the coil spring 16b as described later on in FIG. 16 and elsewhere.
[0052] The vibration motors 16d vibrate at 10 to 200 Hertz under control for example of an inverter and preferably vibrate at 20 to 60 Hertz. The vibration generated by the vibration motors 16d is transmitted to the vibrating blade 16f by way of the vibrating member 16c and the vibrating rod 16e. The tips of the vibrating blades 16f vibrate at the required frequency inside the electrolytic fluid 14. The vibrating blades 16f generate a "rippling" oscillation to the tips, from the section where installed onto the vibrating rod 16e. The amplitude and frequency of this vibration are different from that of the vibrating motors 16d, and are determined by the mechanical characteristics of the vibration transmission path and the mutual interaction with the electrolytic fluid 14. In the present invention, the amplitude is preferably 0.1 to 15.0 millimeters and the frequency is 200 to 1,000 times per minute.
[0053] FIG. 7 is an enlarged cross sectional view showing the installation of the vibrating rod 16e attachment piece 111 onto the vibrating member 16c. The nuts 16i1, 16i2 are fit from the top side of vibration member 16c, by way of the vibration strain dispersion member 16g1 and washer 16h, onto the male screw section formed at the top end of vibrating rod 16e. The nuts 16i3, 16i4 are fit by way of the vibration strain dispersion member 16g2 from the bottom side (onto the screw section) of the vibration member 16c. The vibration strain dispersion member 16g1, 16g2 are utilized as a vibration stress dispersion means made for example from rubber. The vibration strain dispersion member 16g1, 16g2 can be made from a hard resilient piece for example of natural rubber, hard synthetic rubber, or plastic with a Shore A hardness of 80 to 120 and preferably 90 to 100. Hard urethane rubber with a Shore A hardness of 90 to 100 is particularly preferably in view of its durability and resistance to chemicals. Utilizing the vibration stress dispersion means prevents vibration stress from concentrating on the near side of the junction of vibrating member c and the vibrating rode 16e, and makes the vibrating rod 16e more difficult to break. Raising the vibration frequency of the vibrating motors 16d to 100 Hertz or higher is particularly effective in preventing breakage of the vibrating rod 16e.
[0054] FIG. 8 is an enlarged cross sectional view showing a variation of the vibrating rod 16e attachment piece 111 onto the vibrating member 16c. This variation differs from the attachment piece of FIG. 7, only in that the vibration strain dispersion member 16g1 is not installed on the top side of the vibration member 16c and in that there is a spherical spacer 16x between the vibration member 16c and the vibration strain dispersion member 16g. In all other respects the variation is identical to FIG. 7.
[0055] FIG. 9 is an enlarged cross sectional view of the vibrating blade. 16f attachment onto the vibrating rod 16e. A vibrating blade clamp member 16j is installed on both the top and bottom sides of each vibrating blade 16f Spacer rings 16k are installed for setting the spacing between the vibrating blades 16f by means of clamp members 16j. A nut 16m is screwed on to the vibrating rod 16e formed as a male screw with or without spacer rings 16k as shown in FIG. 1, on the upper side of the topmost section of vibrating blade 16t and the lower side of the bottom-most section of the vibrating blade 16f. As shown in FIG. 9, the breakage of the vibrating blade 16f can be prevented by installing a resilient member sheet 16p as the vibration dispersion means made from fluorine plastic or fluorine rubber between each vibrating blade 16f and clamping member 16j. The resilient member sheet 16p is preferably installed to protrude outwards somewhat from the clamping member 16j in order to further enhance the breakage prevention effect of the vibrating blade 16f. As shown in the figure, the lower surface (press-contact surface) of the upper side of clamping member 16j is formed with a protruding surface, and the upper surface (press contact surface) of the lower side clamping member 16j is formed with a recessed surface. The section of the vibrating blade 16f compressed from above and below by the clamping member 16j is in this way forced in a curved shape, and the tip of the vibrating blade 16f forms an angle a versus the horizontal surface. This a angle can be set to -30 degrees or more and 30 degrees or less, and preferably is -20 degrees or more and 20 degrees or less. The a angle in particular is -30 degrees or more and -5 degrees or less, or is 5 degrees or more and 30 degrees or less, and preferably is -20 degrees or more and -10 degrees or less, or is 10 degrees or more and 20 degrees or less. The a. angle is 0 if the clamping member 16j (press contact) surface is flat. The a angle need not be the same for all the vibrating blades 16f. For example, the lower 1 to 2 blades of vibrating blade 16f may be set to a minus value (in other words, facing downwards: facing as shown in FIG. 9) and all other blades of vibrating blade 16f set to a plus value (in other words facing upwards: the reverse of the value shown in FIG. 9).
[0056] FIG. 10 through FIG. 13 are flat views showing variations of the vibrating blade 16f and the clamping member 16j. In the variations in FIG. 10 and FIG. 11, the vibrating blade 16f may be comprised of two short overlapping strips crossing each other and, or may cut out in a cross shape from one sheet as shown in the drawing.
[0057] Resilient metal plate, plastic plate or rubber plate may be utilized as the vibrating blade 16f. A satisfactory thickness range for the vibrating blade 16f differs according to the vibration conditions and viscosity of the electrolytic fluid 14. However, during operation of the vibration-stirring means 16, the vibrating blades should be set so the tips of the vibrating blades 16f provide an oscillation (flutter phenomenon) for increasing the stirring (or agitating) efficiency, without breaking the vibrating blade. If the vibrating blade 16f is made from metal plate such as stainless steel plate, then the thickness can be set from 0.2 to 2 millimeters. If the vibrating blade 16f is made from plastic plate or rubber plate then the thickness can be set from 0.5 to 10 millimeters. The vibrating blade 16f and clamping member 16j can be integrated into one piece. Integrating them into one piece avoids the problem of having to wash away electrolytic fluid 14 that penetrates into the junction of the vibrating blade 16f and clamp member 16j and hardens and adheres there.
[0058] The material for the metallic vibrating blade 16f may be titanium, aluminum, copper, steel, stainless steel, a ferromagnetic metal such as ferromagnetic steel, or an alloy of these metals. The material for the plastic vibrating blade 16f may be polycarbonate, vinyl chloride resin, polyprophylene.
[0059] The extent of the "flutter phenomenon" generated by the vibrating blade that accompanies the vibration of vibrating blade 16f within the electrolytic fluid 14 will vary depending on the vibration frequency of the vibration motors 16d, the length of the vibrating blade 16f (dimension from the tip of clamping member 16j to the tip of vibrating blade 16f), and thickness, and viscosity and specific gravity of the electrolytic fluid 14, etc. The length and thickness of the "fluttering" vibrating blade 16f can be well selected based on the applied frequency. By making the vibration frequency of vibrating motor 16d and thickness of vibrating blade 16f fixed values, and then varying the length of vibrating blade 16f, the extent of vibrating blade flutter will be as shown in FIG. 14. In other words, the flutter will increase up to a certain stage as the length of vibrating blade 16f is increased, but when that point is exceeded, the extent F of the flutter will become smaller. As shown in this graph, at a certain length the flutter will be almost zero and if the blade is further lengthened the flutter increase and this process continuously repeats itself.
[0060] Preferably a length L1 shown as the No. 1 peak or a length L2 shown as the No. 2 peak is selected for the vibrating blade length. L1 or L3 can be selected according to whether one wants to boost the path vibration or the flow. When L3 shown as the No. 3 peak was selected, the amplitude will tend to diminish.
[0061] The above described vibration-stirring means 16 can be used in the vibration-stirring machines (stirrer apparatus) as described in the following documents (These are patent applications relating to the invention of the present inventors.), as well as in JP-B 135628/2001, JP-B 338422/2001 patent applications of the present inventors.
TABLE-US-00001 JP-A 275130/1991 (U.S. Pat. No. 1941498) JP-A 220697/1994 (U.S. Pat. No. 2707530) JP-A 312124/1994 (U.S. Pat. No. 2762388) JP-A 281272/1996 (U.S. Pat. No. 2767771) JP-A 173785/1996 (U.S. Pat. No. 2852878) JP-A 126896/1995 (U.S. Pat. No. 2911350) JP-A 40482/1997 (U.S. Pat. No. 2911393) JP-A 189880/1999 (U.S. Pat. No. 2988624) JP-A 54192/1995 (U.S. Pat. No. 2989440) JP-A 33035/1994 (U.S. Pat. No. 2992177) JP-A 287799/1994 (U.S. Pat. No. 3035114) JP-A 280035/1994 (U.S. Pat. No. 3244334) JP-A 304461/1994 (U.S. Pat. No. 3142417) JP-A 43569/1998 JP-A 369453/1998 JP-A 253782/1999
[0062] In this invention, the vibrating-stirring means 16 as shown in FIG. 1, may be installed in the electrolytic cells on both ends or may installed in only one electrolytic cell. If using the vibrating blades to extend symmetrically to both sides, then the vibration-stirring means 16 may be installed in the center of the electrolytic cell, and an electrode group may be installed on both sides as described later on.
[0063] Using a vibration-stirring means with the vibrating blades in the bottom of the electrolytic cells as described in JP-A 304461/1994, allows a wider installation space for the electrode group within the electrolytic cell. Other advantages are that a larger quantity of gas is emitted from the electrolytic cell (volume) and if the electrodes are installed in the upward and downward directions, then there is no need to use multiple holes as described later on.
[0064] The description now returns to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2. In the present embodiment, a vibration-stirring means 16 as described above is installed on both ends of the electrolytic cell 10A. Two identical electrode groups 2x, 2y are installed inside the electrolytic cell 10A. The electrode groups 2x and 2y have a structure as shown in FIG. 5A and FIG. 5B. In other words, an anode 71a as a first electrode, and a cathode 71b as a second electrode are mutually installed in the insulation frame 70. One each anode 71a and one cathode 71b each are shown in FIG. 5A however, the necessary number of anodes 71a and cathodes 71b required for actual use (for example, 25 to 50) are installed. FIG. 6A is a drawing showing the insulation frame 70. FIG. 6B is a drawing showing the anode 71a.
[0065] The usual material utilized for hydroelectrolyis may be utilized as the electrode material. Materials such as lead dioxide (lead peroxide), magnetite, ferrite, graphite, platinum, Pt--Ir alloy, titanium alloy, titanium with rare-earth sheath (for example platinum-sheathed titanium) may be used as the anode 71a. Rare earth metals such as rhodium, nickel, nickel alloy, (Ni--Mo2, Ni--Co, Ni--Fe, Ni--Mo--Cd, Ni--Se, Raney nickel, etc.), titanium alloy may be used as the cathode 71b. Natural rubber, synthetic rubber, and plastic may be utilized as materials for the insulation frame 70. A distance is set between the anode 71a and cathode 71b by the thickness of the insulation frame 70. The thickness of insulation frame 70 is within a range of 1 to 20 millimeters, and preferably is 1 to 20 millimeters, and more preferably is 1 to 5 millimeters.
[0066] Since the electrode is shaped as a plate as shown in FIG. 1, when the electrode is installed at nearly a right angle to the direction the vibrating blades 16f are facing to cut off the flow of electrolytic fluid 14 generated by the vibration (or agitation) of the vibrating blade 16f of the vibration-stirring means; then multiple small holes 74 must be formed in the electrodes (anode 71a and cathode 71b) as shown in FIG. 5B and FIG. 6B. The electrolytic fluid 14 passing through the small holes 74 can in this way flow smoothly. The holes can be a circular shape or a polygonal shape and there are no particular restrictions on the shape. The size and number of small holes 74 are preferably set to achieve a balance between both the basic purpose of the electrode and the purpose of the porosity. The small holes 74 on the electrode preferably have a surface area of 50 percent or more of the electrode surface in terms of effective surface area (in other words, surface area contacting the electrolytic fluid 14). The porous (multi-hole) electrode may have a net shape.
[0067] If the electrode is installed nearly parallel to the direction of current flow of the electrolytic fluid 14, then there is no need to make the electrode porous. However in that case, rather than a ring shape, the insulation frame 70 may be installed at several separate points on the electrode periphery or installed at separate points along the top and bottom edges.
[0068] The anode 71a and cathode 71b are respectively connected to an anode main bus-bar 71a' and cathode main bus bar 71b' as shown in FIG. 2. This anode main bus-bar 71a' and cathode main bus bar 71b' are connected to the power supply 34 as shown in FIG. 1.
[0069] The power supply 34 may supply direct current and preferably supplies normal low-ripple direct current. However, other power supplies with different waveforms may also be utilized. These types of electrolysis current waveforms are described for example, in the "Electrochemistry" (Society of Japan) Vol. 24, P. 398-403, and pages 449-456 of same volume, the "Electroplating Guide" by the Federation of Electro Plating Industry Association, Japan" Apr. 15, 1996, P. 378-385, the "Surface Technology Compilation" issued by Koshinsha (Corp.) Jun. 15, 1983, P. 301-302, same volume P. 517-527, same volume P. 1050-1053, the Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun "Electroplating Technology Compilation" P 365-369 Jul. 25, 1971, same volume P. 618-622, etc.
[0070] In the present invention, among the various pulse waveforms, a rectangular waveform pulse is preferable, particularly in view of the improved energy efficiency. This type of power supply (power supply apparatus) can create voltages with rectangular waveforms from an AC (alternating current) voltage. This type of power supply further has a rectifier circuit utilizing for example transistors and is known as a pulse power supply. The rectifier for these type of power supplies may be a transistor regulated power supply, a dropper type power supply, a switching power supply, a silicon rectifier, an SCR type rectifier, a high-frequency rectifier, an inverter digital-controller rectifier, (for example, the Power Master made by Chuo Seisakusho (Corp.)), the KAS Series made by Sansha Denki (Corp.), the RCV power supply made by Shikoku Denki Co., a means for supplying rectangular pulses by switching transistors on and off and comprised of a switching regulator power supply and transistor switch, a high frequency switching power supply (for using diodes to change the alternating current into direct current, add a 20 to 30 KHz high frequency waveform, and with power transistors apply transforming, once again rectify the voltage, and extract a smooth (low-ripple) output), a PR type rectifier, a high-frequency control type high-speed pulse PR power supply (for example, a HiPR Series (Chiyoda Corp.), etc.
[0071] The voltage supplied to each electrode is preferably as uniform as possible. Condensers should preferably be installed at each electrode to ensure this uniform voltage. The voltage applied between the anode 71a and the cathode 71b should be the same as during normal electrolysis of the water.
[0072] The electrolytic fluid 14 is water containing electrolytic material. Here, a soluble alkali metal hydroxide (KOH, NaOH, etc.) or an alkali rare-earth metal hydroxide (for example, Ba(OH)2, Mg(OH)2, Ca(OH)2, etc.) or a ammonium alkyl 4 (tetra-alkylammonium), and materials of the known related art may be used as the electrolytic material. Among these KOH is preferable. The content of electrolytic material in the electrolytic fluid is preferably 5 to 10 percent. The pH of the electrolytic fluid is preferably 7 to 10 percent.
[0073] The lid member 10b is installed on the upper section of the electrolytic cell 10A as shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2. A hydrogen-oxygen gas extraction outlet 10B' is formed for collecting the hydrogen-oxygen gas generated by that lid member. A hydrogen-oxygen gas extraction tube 10B'' is connected to that extraction outlet 10B'. The hydrogen-oxygen gas trapping means is comprised of this lid member 10B and hydrogen-oxygen gas extraction tube 10B''.
[0074] The material for the electrolytic cell 10A and lid member 10B may for example be stainless steel, copper, another metal, or plastic (synthetic resin) such as polycarbonate.
[0075] The vibrating rod 16e of the vibration-stirring means 16 extends upwards and downwards through the lid member 10B. As shown in FIG. 4, the opening formed in the lid member 10B section for the vibrating rod 16e can be an airtight seal. This airtight seal comprises a flexible member 10C made for example of rubber plate and installed between the clamp member attached to the inner edge of the opening formed in the lid member 10B, and the clamp member attached to the outer surface of the vibrating rod 16e. The means for forming an airtight seal may also be an inner ring of a support bearing attached to vibrating rod 16e, an outer ring of said support bearing attached to the inner edge of the opening in lid member 10B, and the inner ring is movable up and down along the (rod) stroke versus the outer ring. A stroke unit of this type may for example be the NS-A model (product name) and NS model (product name) made by THK (Corp.). The airtight sealing means may be a rubber plate installed only in the opening in the lid member 10B that the vibrating rod 16e passes through, or may be a laminated piece, etc. Rubber, and in particular soft rubber with good shape forming capability may for example be utilized as this sealing means. The vibration width of the vertically oscillating vibrating rod is usually 20 millimeters or less, preferably is 10 millimeters or less, and a width of 5 millimeters is particularly preferable. That (vibration width) lower limit is 0.1 millimeter or more and preferably is about 0.5 millimeters or more. By using a suitable material such as rubber as the sealing member, follow-up motion can be achieved, a satisfactory airtight state obtained with little friction heat.
[0076] The electrolysis is preferably performed at a fluid temperature of 20 to 70° C. and an electrical current density of 5 to 20 A/dm2. As shown by FIG. 26, the hydrogen-oxygen gas generated by electrolysis is extracted by way of a seal port 10B''' connected to the gas extraction tube 10B''. The seal port 10B''' also comprises the gas trapping means. FIG. 27 shows a typical gas combustion device utilizing the hydrogen-oxygen gas recovered from this gas generator. The hydrogen-oxygen gas is collected in the required quantity in the accumulator and passed through a moisture remover and fire preventer before being supplied to the combustion nozzle. This combustion device can be utilized in boilers, gas cutoff equipment, generators, and power sources for aircraft, automobiles, and ships, etc.
[0077] The hydrogen-oxygen gas generated by this invention is also known as the so-called brown gas. This gas does not require air for combustion and therefore does not generate environmental pollutants such as nitrous oxides during combustion.
[0078] FIG. 15 is a cross sectional view showing a variation of the vibrating-stirring means. In this example, the base 16a is clamped to the installation bed 40 on the upper part of the electrolytic cell 10A by way of the vibration absorbing member 41. A rod-shaped guide member 43 is clamped to the installation bed 40 to extend perpendicularly upwards. This guide member 43 is installed (positioned) within the coil spring 16b. A transistor inverter 35 for controlling the frequency of the vibration motor 16d is installed between the vibration motor 16d and the power supply 136 for driving that motor 16d. The power supply 136 is for example 200 volts. The drive means for this vibration motor 16d can also be used in the other embodiments of the present invention.
[0079] FIG. 16 is a cross sectional view showing a variation of the vibrating-stirring means. In this example, a rod-shaped upper guide member 144 clamped to a vibrating member 16c, extends downwards in a direction perpendicular to the vibrating member 16c. A rod-shaped lower guide member 145 clamped to the installation bed 40 extends upwards in a direction perpendicular to the installation bed 40. These guide members 144, 145 are installed (positioned) within the coil spring 16b. A suitable space is formed between the bottom edge of the upper side guide member 144, and the upper edge of the lower side guide member 145 to allow vibration of the vibrating member 16c.
[0080] FIG. 17 is a cross sectional view showing a variation of the vibrating-stirring means. In this example, the vibration motor 16d is installed on the lower side of a vibration member 16c' attached to the upper side of the vibration member 16. The vibration rod 16e branches into two sections 134 inside the electrolytic cell 10A. The vibrating blades 16f are installed across these two rod sections 134.
[0081] FIG. 18 and FIG. 19 are cross sectional views showing a variation of the vibrating-stirring means. In this example (FIG. 18), the lowest vibrating blade 16f is facing obliquely downwards. The other vibrating blades 16f are facing obliquely upwards. The electrolytic fluid 14 nearest the bottom of the electrolytic cell 10A can in this way be adequately vibrated and stirred and accumulation of fluid in the bottom of the electrolytic cell can be prevented. The vibrating blades 16f may also all be set facing obliquely downwards.
[0082] FIG. 20 and FIG. 21 are cross sectional views showing another installation state of the vibration-sting means onto the electrolytic cell of the present invention. FIG. 22 is a flat view of that installation state. FIG. 20 and FIG. 21 are views taken respectively along lines X-X' and lines Y-Y' of a cross section of FIG. 22.
[0083] In this state, a laminated piece 3 comprised of a rubber plate 2 and the metal plates 1, 1' is utilized as the vibration absorbing member instead of the coil spring 16b. In other words, the laminated piece 3 is clamped by way of an anti-vibration rubber 112 to a bracket members 118 affixed to an upper edge of electrolytic cell 10A by using the metal plate 1' and bolt 131. The rubber plate 2 is installed on the that metal plate 1', the metal plate 1 installed on top of that rubber plate 2. This assembly is then integrated into one piece by the bolts 116 and 117.
[0084] The vibration motor 16d is clamped by a bolt 132 and a vibration support member 115 to a metal plate 1. The upper edge of the vibrating rod 16e is installed by way of a rubber ring 119 to the laminated piece 3 with the metal plate 1 and rubber plate 2. In other words, the upper metal plate 1 renders the functions of the vibration member 16c described in FIG. 1 and other embodiments. The lower metal plate 1' renders the functions of the base 16a described in FIG. 1 and other embodiments. The laminated piece 3 (mainly the rubber plate 2) containing the metal plates 1, 1' renders the vibration absorbing functions identical to the coil spring 16b described in FIG. 1 and other embodiments.
[0085] FIG. 23A through 23C are flat views of the laminated piece 3. In the example in FIG. 23A corresponding to the states in FIG. 20 through FIG. 22, a (through) hole 5 is formed in the laminated piece 3 to allow passage of the vibrating rod 16e. In the example in FIG. 23B, the holes 5 on the laminated piece 3 are separated by a dividing line into two sections 3a and 3b to allow easy passage of the vibrating rod 16e when assembling the device. In the example in FIG. 23C, the laminated piece 3 forms a ring-shape corresponding to the upper edge of the electrolytic cell 10A and an opening 6 is formed in the center section.
[0086] In the examples in FIG. 23A and FIG. 23B, the upper edge of the electrolytic cell 10A is sealed by the laminated piece 3. The laminated piece 3 in this way functions the same as the lid member 10B.
[0087] FIG. 24A and FIG. 24B are cross sectional views showing the state of the electrolytic cell sealed by the laminated piece 3. In FIG. 24A, the rubber plate 2 makes direct contact with the vibrating rod 16e in (through) holes 5 forming a seal. In FIG. 24B, a flexible seal member 136 is installed between the vibrating rod 16e and laminated piece 3 to seal the opening 6.
[0088] In FIG. 25A through FIG. 25E, a laminated piece 3 serves as the vibration absorbing material. In the example in FIG. 25A, the laminated piece is made up of the metal plate 1 and the rubber plate 2. In the example in FIG. 25A, the laminated piece 3 is made up of an upper metal plate 1 and upper rubber plate 2 and lower metal plate 1' and lower rubber plate 2'. In the example in FIG. 25D, the laminated piece 3 is made up of an upper metal plate 1, an upper rubber plate 2, an intermediate metal plate 1'', a lower rubber plate 2' and a lower metal plate 1'. The number of metal plates and rubber plates in the laminated piece 3 can for example be from 1 to 5 pieces. In the present invention, the vibration absorbing member can also be comprised of only the rubber plate.
[0089] Stainless steel, steel, copper, aluminum and other suitable alloys may be used as the metal plates 1, 1' and 1''. The thickness of the metal plate may for example be from 10 to 40 millimeters. However, metal plate (for example, the intermediate metal plate 1') not directly clamped to members other than the laminated piece can be thin with a dimension from 0.3 to 10 millimeters.
[0090] Synthetic rubber or vulcanized natural rubber may be used as the material for the rubber plates 2 and 2'. The rubber plate 2 and 2' are preferably anti-vibration rubber as specified in JISK6386. The rubber plate in particular has a static shearing resilience of 4 to 22 kgf/cm2 and preferably of 5 to 10 kgf/cm2 and preferably has an elongation of 250 percent or more. Rubber specified for use as synthetic rubber includes: chlorophene rubber, nitrile rubber, nitrile-chlorophene rubber, styrene-chlorophene rubber, acrylonitrile butadiene rubber, isophrene rubber, ethylene propylene diene copolymer rubber, epichlorylhydrine rubber, alkylene oxide rubber, fluorine rubber, silicon rubber, urethane rubber, polysulfide rubber, phosphorbine rubber. The rubber thickness is for example 5 to 60 millimeters.
[0091] In the example in FIG. 25E, the laminated piece 3 is made up an upper metal plate 1, a rubber plate 2 and a lower metal plate 1' The rubber plate 2 is made up of an upper solid rubber layer 2a and sponge rubber layer 2b and lower solid rubber layer 2c. One of either the lower solid rubber layer 2a and 2c may be eliminated. A stack or lamination comprised of multiple solid rubber layer and multiple sponge rubber layers may also be used.
[0092] FIG. 28 is a cross sectional view showing a variation of the vibration stirring means. In this example, the vibration motor 16d is installed on the side of the electrolytic cell 10A. The vibration member 16c extends horizontally above the electrolytic cell 10A, The vibration member 16c is installed onto the vibrating rod 16e. A structure of this type allows the lid member 10B to be easily attached or detached from the electrolytic cell 10A.
[0093] FIG. 29 shows a variation of the lid member 10B. In this example, the lid member 10B is attached to the electrolytic cell 10A only at the upper section of the electrode groups 2x, 2y shown in FIG. 1. An enclosure member 63 is attached extending downwards on both ends of the lid member 10B. An opening 65 is formed in this enclosure member 63 to allow electrolytic fluid to flow into the lower section immersed in electrolytic fluid. A cover plate 64 can be installed to be upward or downward adjustable to cover a section of the upper area of that opening 65. To make the cover plate 64 adjustable, slots 66 oriented upwards and downwards can be formed on the cover plate 64, and bolts 67 fit into the screw holes 68 formed in the enclosure member 63 for adjustment by means of the slots 66. Adjusting the vertical position of the cover plates 64 allows adjusting the fluid level above the electrode groups 2x, 2y and therefore adjusting the gas pressure.
[0094] The vibrating rod 16e does not pass through the lid member of the vibration-stirring means when using this type of 11d member. A sealed structure is preferable in this case, in order to improve hydrogen-oxygen gas recovery efficiency and prevent the electrolytic fluid from scattering (into the air).
[0095] The present invention can also be applied to gas generator device to separate and recover the hydrogen and oxygen by electrolysis by installing a film between the anode and cathode at intervals to separate the hydrogen and oxygen. This type of separation and recovery gas generator is described for example, in a report entitled, "Development of 2500 cm2 Solid Polymer Electrolyte Water Electrolyzer in WE-NET" by M. Yamaguchi, et al.
[0096] The embodiment of the present invention is described next. The present invention however is not limited to these embodiments.
First Embodiment
[0097] Utilizing the device as described in FIG. 1 through FIG. 3, but with the lid member 10B described in FIG. 29, hydrogen-oxygen gas was generated and collected under the following conditions.
Electrolytic Cell and Lid Member:
[0098] Manufactured from stainless steel
[0099] 270 mm×1660 mm×390 mm (H)
Vibration Generating Means:
[0100] Vibration motor; Uras Vibrator manufactured by Murakami Seild Seisakusho (Corp.) (product name), 250 W×3-phase×200 V, 2-axis type,
[0101] Vibrating blades: Manufactured from stainless steel (SUS304), 6 blades
[0102] Vibrating rod: Manufactured from titanium, 12 mm diameter
[0103] Spacers: 12 pieces, manufactured from titanium
[0104] Clamp members for vibrating blades; 12 pieces
[0105] Packing for vibrating blades: 12 sheets, manufactured by Teflon (registered trademark)
Electrode Group:
[0106] Anodes: 50 sheets, made from platinum plated titanium alloy capable of long-term use without film oxidation
[0107] Cathodes: 50 sheets, made from titanium alloy
[0108] Insulation frame: Synthetic rubber, thickness 5 mm
[0109] Electrolytic fluid: KOH added as electrolytic material at 8 percent by weight to distilled water, temperature 55° C., pH10
[0110] Voltage applied across cathode and anode: 2.0 volts (direct current)
[0111] Electrical current density: 5 A/dm2
[0112] Hydrogen-oxygen gas collection rate was 1,000 liters per hour.
Second Embodiment
[0113] Other than utilizing an AC multiplex current as described in "Electrochemistry" (Society of Japan) Vol. 24, P. 398-403, and pages 449-456 of same volume, the same structure as in the first embodiment was utilized.
[0115] After continuous operation over a period of one month, stable collection of hydrogen-oxygen gas was achieved at a power consumption lower than the first embodiment.
Third Embodiment
[0116] Other than using a 270 mm×850 mm×340 mm (H) structure as the electrolytic cell, and using one Hifrerrous KHE-2-2T [100 to 120 Hz] unit manufactured by Murakami Seiki Seisakusho (Corp.) (product name) as the vibration motor, the same structure as in the first embodiment was utilized.
[0117] Hydrogen-oxygen gas collection rate was 800 liters per hour.
Fourth and Fifth Embodiments
[0118] Other than using the seal described in FIG. 20 through FIG. 24B at the position for the vibration-stirring means not attached to the lid member 10B, the same structures as in the first and second embodiments were utilized.
[0119] The fourth embodiment implemented the same as the first embodiment, has a hydrogen-oxygen gas collection rate of 2,000 liters per hour. The fifth embodiment implemented the same as the second embodiment, has a hydrogen-oxygen gas collection rate of 2,500 liters per hour. Both of these embodiments represent a large improvement.
Sixth Embodiment
[0120] Other than using a power supply such as the SCR type 6-phase half-wave rectifier pulse power supply as described in P. 367-368 of "Electroplating Technology Compilation" issued by the Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun in Jul. 25, 1971, the same structure as in the first embodiment was utilized.
[0121] The hydrogen-oxygen gas collection rate of 2,200 liters per hour in spite of the fact that energy consumption was less than in the first embodiment.
Seventh Embodiment
[0122] Other than using the components described in FIG. 1 through FIG. 3 as the lid member 10B, the same structure as in the first embodiment was utilized.
[0123] The hydrogen-oxygen gas collection rate of 3,000 liters per hour. This rate is a large improvement compared to the first embodiment.
Eighth Embodiment
[0124] Other than using the Power Master PND-1 model multi-function rectifier using the inverter digital control method and made by Chuo Seisakusho (Corp.) as the power supply 34, and using a rectangular waveform pulse power supply (power-on 0.08 seconds, power-off 0.02 seconds), the structure is identical to the seventh embodiment. The hydrogen-oxygen gas collection rate of 3,500 liters per hour in spite of the fact that energy consumption was less than in the first embodiment.
[0125] The present invention configured as described above rendered the following effects.
(1) Using with the vibration-stirring means revealed the startling fact that electrolysis was satisfactory even with a gap between electrodes of 20 millimeters or less. Consequently, the generation of hydrogen-oxygen gas was tremendously improved.(2) Along with reducing the gap between electrodes, the amount of hydrogen-oxygen gas generated by one gas generator was enormously improved.(3) Using the vibration-stirring means ensures that large bubbles do not occur in the oxygen-hydrogen gas generated in the electrolytic fluid, and that electrical resistance remains small.(4) The present invention allows a flexible response to large power demands by utilizing inexpensive electrical power at night, and generating and storing oxygen-hydrogen gas for use when needed. Utilizing a direct current pulse waveform power supply for electrolysis allows even further savings in electrical power.(5) The apparatus of the present invention allows utilizing cassette fuel tanks as a safe, non-hazardous fuel supply source for cooking stoves.(6) Using the gas obtained from the present invention provides an air conditioning apparatus superior to conventional accumulator (heat storage) air conditioning.(7) Using the gas generated by the present invention allows combusting small, intermediate and large municipal trash and industrial wastes in an incinerator. Trash can in this way be incinerated without pollution in a highly economical method.(8) The apparatus of the present invention can be utilized to supply fuel to boilers and gas turbines, etc.(9) The present invention can serve effectively as a clean, non-polluting gas generator device for cities.(10) The present invention can serve effectively as a fuel production apparatus for ships.(11) The present invention provides satisfactory, uniform gas generation even without implementing a special means such as gas propeller agitation.
LIQUID MATERIAL COMPOSED OF HYDROGEN AND OXYGEN, REGASIFIED GAS COMPOSED OF HYDROGEN AND OXYGEN OBTAINED FROM THE LIQUID MATERIAL, MANUFACTURING METHOD AND DEVICE OF THE LIQUID MATERIAL AND REGASIFIED GAS, AND FUEL COMPOSED OF THE LIQUID MATERIAL AND/OR REGASIFIED GAS WHICH DOES NOT GENERATE CARBONIC ACID GAS
CA2701557
Inventor(s): OMASA RYUSHIN
Applicant(s): JAPAN TECHNO CO LTD [JP] + (JAPAN TECHNO CO., LTD)
Classification: - international: C01B3/04; C25B1/04; C01B3/00; C25B1/00 ;- European: C25B1/04; Y02E60/36F
Also published as: WO2010023997 // AU2009285332
Abstract -- A liquid material comprising hydrogen and oxygen is produced by electrolyzing an electrolysis solution containing 5 to 30% by weight of an electrolyte in an electrolysis tank using a group of electrodes disposed, within the electrolysis tank, while maintaining a spacing of 3 to 10 mm between adjacent electrodes under conditions of a current density of 5 to 20 A/dm2, a bath temperature of 20 to 70 DEG C, and pH 14 or more (strongly alkaline) while applying vibration stirring, bringing the pressure of the resultant gas comprising hydrogen and oxygen to 0.1 to 0.5 MPa, and cooling the gas to -190 to -250 DEG C to liquefy the gas. The liquid material is stored, is returned to room temperature, and is gasified to produce a regasified gas comprising hydrogen and oxygen.
Vibratingly Stirring Apparatus, and Device and Method for Processing Using the Stirring Apparatus
Applicant(s): JAPAN TECHNO CO., LTD
Classification: - international: B01F11/00; B01F11/02; C25D17/00; C25D21/10; C25D5/00; B01F11/00; C25D17/00; C25D21/00; C25D5/00;- European: B01F11/00N2; C25D17/00; C25D21/10; C25D5/00
Also published as: US7678246 // EP1407810 // EP1407810 // EP1407810 // US2004195090
Abstract -- An insulated vibration-stirring apparatus comprising: a vibration generating means containing a vibration motor and a vibrating member attached to that motor, and a vibrating rod attached by an installation piece to allow vibration lined with the vibration generating means, and vibrating vanes installed on this vibrating rod. An electrical insulation area made from hard rubber is installed on a section nearer to the installation section to the installation piece than the section where the vibrating vanes are mounted on the vibrating rod. An electrical line is connected to the lower section of the vibrating rod on the electrical insulation area side where the vibrating vanes are installed. This electrical line conducts power to the vibrating vanes by way of the lower section of the vibrating rod.; A power supply applies a voltage across the lower section of the vibrating rod and vibrating vanes and treatment tank by way of the electrical lines, and while applying power to the processing liquid within the treatment tank, the insulation vibration stirring apparatus vibrates and stirs the processing liquid.
WATER MODIFYING METHOD
Inventor(s): ARITOMI MASANORI; OMASA RYUSHIN
Applicant(s): JAPAN TECHNO CO LTD
Classification: - international: C02F1/68; C02F1/68
Abstract -- PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new water modifying method for making a component in water rich and also increasing its content. ; SOLUTION: The component in water is made rich and also its content is increased by carrying out vibrating agitation of water in a storage tank 1 by providing a vibrating blade 8 with high-frequency vibration of 100 Hz or higher using a vibrating agitation apparatus comprising vibrating agitation means for vibrating agitation of water in the storage tank 1 including the storage tank 1 for storing water, vibration generating means containing a vibrating motor 2, a vibrating rod 7 to be vibrated in connection with the vibration generating means and the vibrating blade 8 fixed on the vibration rod 7 with one stage or a multi stage, and an inverter 35 for adjusting such that the vibration motor 2 can generate the high-frequency vibration of 100 Hz or higher.
Hydrogen-oxygen gas generator and hydrogen-oxygen gas generating method using the generator
US2005011765 (A1)
Inventor(s): OMASA RYUSHIN [JP] + (OMASA RYUSHIN)
Applicant(s): OMASA RYUSHIN, ; JAPAN TECHNO CO. LTD
Classification: - international: C25B1/04; C25B15/00; C25B9/06; C25B1/00; C25B15/00; C25B9/06; (IPC1-7): B01D35/06; C25C7/00; - European: C25B1/04; C25B15/00; C25B9/06; Y02E60/36F
Also published as : US7318885 // EP1460149 // EP1460149 // TW229655 // JP4076953 (B2)
Abstract -- A hydrogen-oxygen gas generator comprises an electrolytic bath (10A), a pair of electrodes composed of an anode member (2x) and cathode member (2y) both disposed in the bath, a power supply (34) for applying voltage between the anode and cathode members, vibratory mixing means (16) for vibratively mixing the electrolyte (14) in the bath, and gas collecting means for collecting the hydrogen-oxygen gas generated by the electrolysis using the electrolyte. The gas collecting means includes a lid member (10B) annexed to the electrolytic bath (10A) and a hydrogen-oxygen gas collecting pipe (10B'') connected to the hydrogen-oxygen gas output port (10B').; The vibratory mixing means (16) includes a vibrating motor (16d) vibrating at 10 Hz to 500 Hz and vibrating blades (16f) attached to a vibrating rod (16e) not rotatably but vibrating in the electrolytic bath interlockingly with the vibrating motor. The vibrating blades of the vibratory mixing member (16) are so arranged as to oppose the surfaces of the anode and cathode members (2x, 2y).
Fuel for fuel battery, fuel battery, and power generating method using same
Inventor(s): OMASA RYUSHIN, et al.
Classification: - international: C01B13/02; C01B3/02; C01B31/20; C25B1/02; H01M8/02; H01M8/06; H01M8/18; C01B13/02; C01B3/00; C01B31/00; C25B1/00; H01M8/02; H01M8/06; H01M8/18;- European: H01M8/06B6; Y02E60/36F; Y02E60/50
Also published as: EP1623956 // WO2004092059 // CA2522593 // AU2004230802
Abstract -- A single cell comprising a fuel electrode, an air electrode, and an electrolytic layer or hollow layer interposed between those electrodes, or a fuel cell comprised of a stack of these single cells, wherein a supply port is formed on the fuel electrode side for supplying a hydrogen-based/oxygen-based mixed gas obtained by electrolyzing an electrolyte fluid by agitating and stirring and collecting the resulting gas; moreover the fuel electrode to which the hydrogen-based/oxygen-based mixed gas is supplied is gas-permeable. The hydrogen-based/oxygen-based mixed gas contains H, H2, H3, and/or HD, OH, <16>O, and O2.
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50 Years Today
Star Trek's official 50th anniversary is slated for 2016 and the inevitable movie to accompany it.
November 27th 1964 may actually be more significant though. This is the day that the cameras rolled for the first time. The day Nimoy became Spock and the first lines of dialogue were recorded. This was the day Star Trek was born... the first time.
Leonard Nimoy actually tweeted out a week ago that it was seven days until this point (one week being seven days...) and it would be wrong not to mention it - even though he wasn't on set for that event.
The scene that kicked off the filming of the first pilot episode, The Cage, was between Captain Pike (Jeffrey Hunter) and Doctor Boyce (John Hoyt) and their discussion of the events from their last mission. The scene is key in both the character of Pike and the relationship he has with the medical officer. A strong leader, Pike has his regrets over what occurred and confides in Boyce which is a clear precursor of the Kirk/McCoy friendship we would see in The Original Series and a topic - that of the future of the commanding officer's career - that would be mirrored over a drink in The Wrath of Khan some 18 years later.
This scene truly does echo the philosophy of Gene Roddenberry - the exploration of that human condition - real people talking about real situations, how events affect our lives and change the path for the future and how some people begin a recovery process to deal with tragedy. Pike is ready to give it all up as Boyce attempts to dissuade him. I would have been interested to see where this friendship would have gone as it may have been the stronger pairing than Pike and Spock although whether Boyce would have been on away missions that often would have been a point for question.
The captain's quarters set is quite sparce with only some very 20th Century books adorning a shelf to indicate anything about the nature of Pike's character. Look closely though and not only do you spot a casually discarded phaser but also a cap reminiscent of the ones that Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto wear during their time at Starfleet Headquarters during Into Darkness. Is that a ceiling we're catching there too? Most unusual for The Original Series.
According to Marc Cushman's These are the Voyages it was less than a perfect day's filming with nesting pigeons in the mothballed Stage 16 choosing to become vocal whenever either actor started speaking their lines. Much of the day was spent coaxing them out of the building before filming of the first scene of Star Trek could continue. It would take another 15 days to film (not the planned 11) and run to a cost equivalent to $4.3 million in modern currency. That;s a lot of money for a pilot.
I'm not going to run into the wonders of the show, the miracle of a cancelled pilot and a second chance because we, the fans, know all about that and what it became but just for today it's key to remember two actors without whose work that second chance, that golden opportunity, may never have happened. Maybe we should thank the pigeons too.
Over the next weeks and months we hope to discuss some of the other key moments from the birth of the pilot episode...are there any you'd want to talk about? Let us know below...
Labels: 50th anniversary, Captain Pike, The Cage, TOS, USS Enterprise
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Andúril
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The name Andúril refers to more than one character, item or concept. For a list of other meanings, see Andúril (disambiguation).
Other names Flame of the West
Gallery Images of Andúril
"Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king."
― The Riddle of Strider[1]
Andúril was the name for the sword Narsil after its reforging in Third Age 3018 for Aragorn, the heir of Isildur.
4 Portrayal in adaptations
Narsil was a symbol of the kingship of Arnor and Gondor, but was broken at the end of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men at the end of the Second Age. Its fragments remained a heirloom for the Kings of Arnor, and the Chieftains of the Dúnedain.
Boromir, son of the Steward of Gondor, travelled to Rivendell for the Council of Elrond because of the prophetic dream of his brother Faramir. The dream told him to "seek for the Sword that was broken".[2]
Darrell Sweet - The Reforging of the Sword
Finally, after three thousand years, when Aragorn set out for the War of the Ring, Narsil was reforged, and Aragorn renamed it "Andúril".
Aragorn carried the sword during his journey south as part of the Fellowship of the Ring, and fought with it, the Sword That Was Broken or the Sword Reforged. When entering Meduseld he initially refused to surrender it to Doorward Háma and entered a long argument with him, until convinced so by Gandalf.[3]
Aragorn often used the sword to help establish his credentials as the heir to the throne of Gondor. This was especially true when he convinced the Dead Men of Dunharrow to fulfill their oath to support Gondor in its time of need.
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By Ardamir. (Help; more articles)
Andúril means "Flame of the West" in Quenya,[4] composed of andúnë, "west" and ril, "brilliance"). "West" here refers to Númenor.
Broken swords that are reforged are also seen in the Volsungasaga and the Nibelungenlied.[5]
Portrayal in adaptations
1978: The Lord of the Rings (1978 film):
Narsil is reforgerd after Rivendell, though this reforging is not shown. Neither Narsil nor Andúril are named.
1981: The Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series):
Narsil is reforgerd after Rivendell, and Aragorn carries Andúril thereafter.
2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game):
Because of Aragorn's warrior-persona in this video game, Andúril merely serves as a melee weapon upgrade after Rivendell. [6] Aragorn does not use the broken sword at any point prior. Notably, the sword's blade is constantly illuminated; it glows red during the day, and blue at night. In the game's credits, artist Jason Rosenstock is explicitly mentioned as the designer of Andúril.[7]
2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers:
In The Two Towers, when asked by Háma to disarm outside Meduseld, Aragorn is very reluctant, saying that normally he would give up his weapon, "if I bore now any sword but Andúril".[8] This scene and dialogue is omitted from the film on the grace that the sword Aragorn surrenders there was not Andúril.
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King:
Andúril is not forged from the shards of Narsil until late in the third film. Elrond had the sword reforged only after Arwen's pleading. He then took the sword to Aragorn in the camp of the Rohirrim at Dunharrow. Aragorn's acceptance of the sword, along with his decision at that time to take the Paths of the Dead, showed his willingness to accept his destiny of becoming king.
In the extended edition, the Mouth of Sauron refers to the blade as Elvish; this could either be a reference to its reforging or a mistake on behalf of the writers.[9]
2007: The Lord of the Rings Online:
The reforging of Narsil is experienced by the player in the quest arc called "The Blade that was Broken". The player sets out to find the last of the Silithair, shining adamants crafted by Elves of the house of Fëanor in days of old, in order for the Elf-smiths of Imladris to reforge the sword into Andúril.[10]
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "Strider"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Council of Elrond"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, "The King of the Golden Hall"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 34 (form: Andūril)
↑ "Tolkien Society Anglo-Saxon Study Pack 2" dated 20 January 2006, The Tolkien Society (accessed 20 January 2020)
↑ Connie Veugen, "'A Man, lean, dark, tall': Aragorn Seen Through Different Media", published in Reconsidering Tolkien (edited by Thomas M. Honegger (read in PDF))
↑ Vivendi, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, User Manual, page 22, "Aragorn Sword Design"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens (adaptors), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (extended edition), "The Mouth of Sauron"
↑ Quest Arc: The Blade That Was Broken, Lorebook, lotro.com
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Where it all started...
On Australia Day 1969 a group of people gathered at the residence of Mr Mal Guse on his instigation to discuss forming a Junior Rugby League Club. At this inaugural meeting in Colo Street, Arana Hills the group were confident that although the area was just developing, teams could be formed to teach the youth in the sport and league.
A steering committee was formed consisting of Mal Guse (President), Mary Flynn (Secret), Kev McKell (Treasurer). Brian and Judy Zeller, Margaret Starkey, Bob Fagg, Max Currell, Les Milliner and Mrs Bill Deihm were also present. A special general meeting was then called on 19 February 1969 at St William's Hall, Grovely (now demolished) where the same executive plus Bob Fagg (Vice President) were elected. The committee consisted of Brian and Lyn McLean, Bill and Milly Whitehead, Trevor and Pat Woods, Allan and Dorrie Torrance and Barry and Margaret Wood. Thus Arana Hills Junior Rugby League Club was formed.
The first function was held at the joint backyards of Mal Guse and Kev McKell and as no houses existed behind, there was ample space for tents etc. A free burger was given to encourage attendance for the other fundraising activities and although it rained for most of the night, a small profit was made. To assist with equipment etc, West Seniors donated two sets of jerseys and West Old Boys Association donated $100.00 to start us off. West Mitchelton guided us with our first constitution and formation to comply with the Brisbane Rugby League Junior Division. Ken Harvison from Mitchelton who was also head groundsmen at Lang Park, assisted us with our first field at Hanran Street on which we had tenancy from the Brisbane City Council and art do.
The club was accepted by the Brisbane Junior Rugby League in March 1969 and fielded two minor league teams for the season. They were an Under 9 team coached by Trevor Woods and managed by Merv Flynn and an Under 8 team coached by Brian McLean and managed by Don Drabsch. Brian was also one of our referees along with Mal Guse. We formed a third social team of Under 7s and 8s coached by Ian Leslie as we had too many players and wanted all boys to have a game. (This practise continued on over the years end was one of the reasons we were one of the biggest junior clubs in Brisbane.) At this Stage we had two sets of jerseys, 40 registered players, three footballs, a working committee of 15 and we were on our way.
The next few seasons were hard work. Every weekend had us setting up the field with star pickets and rope barriers not forgetting our hessian enclosure. In these early years Kev McKell towed a borrowed trailer with a loaned chip heater pie oven with drinks, chips etc on board. The oval was lit, the tent was put up and drinks iced. Later the old caravan appeared through Kev's contacts and after the bottom of the trailer had a hole burnt through.
The first Trophy night was held at the Arana Community Hall in Bargo Street (which is still there). Each team received a pendant, T-shirt and five basic trophies plus food and drinks to complete the season. The club now had $1,000 in the bank and about $300 in equipment and started to look at 1970.
The 1970 committee remained about the same with Don Winston moving to Secretary and Key Pearce as President, plus additional committee of Bob Barber (referee), Don and Denise Fairbrother, Ted and Bill Boycon, Owen Jones and Denis Timms as Grounds Chairman.
Eight teams were registered that year which increased costs and fundraising started immediately. Weekly raffles and lucky envelopes were run every Saturday at Keperra and Arana Plaza Shopping Carries, as well as each team selling a set of doubles. The Club gained raffle rights at the Sportsman Hotel, City View Hotel in Spring Hill, The Osborne Hotel, Valley and Brunswick Hotel, New Farm on Sunday Afternoons and were also given time later at the Brook Hotel Mitchelton. These venues raised ample funds with committees of this era working hard doing long hours to achieve this. The 1970 Trophy Day was organised by our Army contingent led by Fred Airs. It was a full day of events to accommodate approximately 400 people and was one of the best we ever had. Fred arranged marquees to be erected in case of bad weather (which we had and was one of the few wet Trophy Days over the years.) As this equipment was not ours a group of committee members elected to do night security playing social games like 500 and snap to fill in time, even with the water under their feet. A few stories originated from this weekend, unfortunately (or fortunately) I cannot remember them, others may.
Most of the committee backed up again in 1971. Mal Guse regained the President's position, Bill Whitehead was the Assistant Secretary, with additional committee members: Bob Warner, Allan Ford and Laurie and Lyrical Wilson. Fifteen teams were registered for the 1971 season with the Under 11'ss (who were coached by Trevor Woods and managed by Ron Blunt) winning our first premiership. Most of these players, now young men, still visit Trevor and Pat (25 years later), which is quite a compliment to them both.
In 1971 we fought to obtain a lease from the Brisbane City Council and had negotiated finance with the National Bank for a clubroom. Unfortunately due to Council red tape and some associated club's objections, the lease did not proceed. We continued to pursue the council and in 1972 the then Lord Mayor, Roy Harvey offered us a cow paddock the Council had just purchased if we were prepared to develop it at our own costs on a twenty-year lease. The lease was signed and we moved on and started work, at the same time purchasing the house adjoining from Jack 'Pop' Dawson, who would have sold the paddock to us before the Council if he had known. (That is our hard luck story).
In 1972, the Executive stood down after three years, but remained on the committee. The new Executive was Kev Pearce (President), Don Baker (Secretary), Denis Timms (Treasurer), Bob Fagg (Senior Vice President), Owen Jones (Assistant Secretary) with added committee members, Mike Ebsworth, Arthur Hayes, Kevin Huddy and David Sherriff.
We registered 15 teams again that season and won our first Minor League President Flag with Under 7JA (coached by Mal Guse and managed by Col Hughes.) The Arana Leagues Club Limited was formed and incorporated with the inaugural directors being: Denis Timms, Don Baker Ted Boycon, Dion Danalis, Mike Ebsworth, Mal Guse, Owen Jones, Kev McKell and Bob Warner. Many of these directors continued on as the Honour Boards show and some were Honoured with Life Membership because of their achievements for the club, not just the period of time they served, as with the Football Club.
The 1973 committee only changed slightly, Mal Guse became President and Bob Warner was made Senior Vice President. In this time, the National Australia Bank approved a $40,000 loan on the guarantee of 5 directors and Castlemaine. We started selling redeemable debentures, $10 buy a brick panels. A social committee was formed and also a ladies committed who mowed the new field as well as fundraising and canteen duties. To name just a few of the volunteers: Margaret Starkey, Margaret Timms, Ann Warner, Patricia McKell, Melda Sullivan, Pauline Atkins, Pam Sherriff, Kay Ebsworth, Betty Berndt, June Baker, Denise and Lyn Fairbrother and Lyndal Wilson. The Under 11's (coached by John Sullivan and managed by Jim Crook) won our first Junior Preside hit Cup. 1973 was also the year of our first Miss Arana Hills won by Roberta Mann who went on to the runner up at the Miss Junior Brisbane Rugby League.
In 1974 some committee changes resulted in Bob Warner (President), Kev McKell (Senior Vice President), Arthur Hayes (Junior Vice President) and additional committee members Graham Berndt, Bob Gunn, John Atkins and Des Graham. The teams remained the same with our premiers, under 9JA's (coached by David Sherriff and managed by Graham Berndt) and Under 12's (coached by John Sullivan and managed by Jim Crook). The Under 12 team had all their points taken off them by the League halfway through the season and still came back to win the final. Quite an achievement. In this season the amenities block was completed, major earthworks carried out and the field was prepared and ready, until the council made the contractor replace his sewer lines right through the middle of the field which stopped games.
However the Trophy Day continued through and over the paddock. The major earthwork was done by Thiess Equipment which was donated by Sir Leslie and Geoff Thiess on arrangement by Denis Timms. This year also saw the start of stage one of the Leagues Club construction and a membership drive for numbers to obtain a liquor license was completed quickly. The license was issued without difficulties and the clubhouse plans were approved. Fundraising for this was again done by raffles, sale of debentures (all of which were repaid), buy-a-brick donations (the wall is now gone, however a honour board should be in the new clubrooms with the others listing all the donors), the balance was borrowed from the National Bank on the guarantees of the foundation directors and Castlemaine.
The 1975 season registered 16 Junior teams and an Under 23 side; also two touch teams of oldies formed the Arana Panthers and the Grovely Grunters. The Arana Drinking Team T-shirt emblem (now modified), designed by Garth Brown was the original touch emblem. Committee changes saw Kev Pearce (President), Kev McKell (Secretary, a position which he held until 1989), John Atkins (Treasurer), Mal Guse (Senior Vice President). The committee replacements were Des Pickstone, Don Jolly, Hugh Coogan, Reg McSweeney, Graham Brown, Bob Green and Alan Gordon. The dub referees consisted of Brian McLean, Bob Morgan, Terry Williamson, Bob Shaw, Kev Pearce, Bob Fagg, Mal Guse, Allan Gordon (the sideline favourite). They were later joined by Tim Mander, Gary Paton, Stuart Berndt and Phil Newer.
The Leagues Club opened for business in August without carpeted floor and a brewery strike. The value of the Club at this stage was $178,000 which cost us approximately $70,000 plus all the voluntary labour and time. Also the equipment donated by member tradesmen and the state sports subsidy which was $120,000, band loan $40,000 and the balance raised by the Club. The Leagues Club pool club was formed in 1975 and was the first sub club up and running under the control of Brian Wood (President), Dan McAllister, Basil Rosenthal and Les Miller. Flood lights were erected on the main field.
Touring teams were accepted this year for this first time with our Under 13's being endorsed as the official club touring team. Other teams were able permitted to tour or accept visits. These tours created a lot of excellent friendships and experiences for boys and parents as well as the clubs involved. Some still visit each other to this day. Most tours were Friday to Sunday and billets with teams was rarely a problem, although Trevor and Pat Woods were called on several times for help which even went as far as providing BBQ breakfasts.
Arana Hills have excepted teams from Mackay, Bundaberg, Townsville, Cairns, Proserpine, Oakey, as well as three teams from New Zealand; Kaposi, Oahu an Papuan with whom we had an annual trophy to play for. Many interesting stories came out of these tours as well as good times. Some that come to mind are the time when the official got too hot next to the heater and stripped his shirt off (the heater was turned on not off), or found his bed on a rotary clothes line, or the other pair who rode a horse for a drink. Unfortunately tours have faded out of Arana and so too has the memory of the stories. These were our formative years and the club committees worked hard together and received a lot of pleasure and satisfaction in seeing the club progress to being one of the biggest and best junior bodies in Brisbane.
From 1976, the Football Club continued to flourish and the number of teams increased to the present day number of 26 Junior and Sub Distinct teams and while over the years we never won many Premierships we gave every boy and some girls the opportunity to play league.
Coaching Directors were employed in later years to improve their skills; three who come to mind are Tower Noyce, Trevor Keane and Nev Hunter who also formed the intensive training squad. More referees became necessary as the teams grew and Gary Paton was very effective in training our younger girls and boys in the art. The sports medicine group is another addition to the club to replace the St John's Ambulance who were called on every weekend for help. This group is under the control of Linda Shaw who keeps them right up with it at all times. The Executives changed a little over the ensuring years as the Honour Board will show if you visit the Leagues Club.
The Leagues Club in 1976 opened a temporary beer garden at the Dawson Parade end, (this was later replaced by the Panther Den). In 1977 the Leagues Club was away with six staff, Sub Clubs of Pool, Darts, Fishing and Cricket plus fostering Juniors in League, Netball and Marching Girls. The new beer garden was erected in 1977/78 and the Panther Den was completed in 1978, which also incorporated the foyer and some unpopular dress rules. In line machines were the flavour at this time because Pokies did not came as expected. These generated a few dollars profit and our staff in 1978 increased to eight, which included Administration Officer Mrs Ruth Brown who stayed with us for many years to come. Further field development was earned out and the 25-year lease was signed with Pine Rivers Shire Council for Number 2 field and work to develop it stared immediately. In 1979 T-Ball started up under control of the Windsor Baseball but only lasted a couple of years due to lack of workers. Lights were erected and construction started on number 2 complex and we had our first of several art shows organised by Marj Coogan. These were a great success and proved we had a little couth.
During 1980-1981 we installed the air conditioning units and they were working until June 1996. The stage 3 gym, canteen and football office was completed, all debenture holders were paid out with interest and we started buying real estate namely houses next to us for future security. The Marching Girls had another successful State Championship on the main field and the Football Club car park was finally sealed. In 1983, the main bar was refurbished and our turnover passed 1 million dollars. The number 2 amenities block was completed at a cost of $30,000.
The Football Club registered 20 teams for the season during 1984-1989. The club saw many changes, a new generator was installed to counter strikes and blackouts, the beer garden was enclosed and lined to the main bar at a pest of $55,000. Divider doors were installed and furniture and carpet was refurbished. Denis Timms resigned as President after 17 years of service and Brian Wood was elected to start his term of also 11 years. Staff increased to 15, with directors on bear shifts. The turnaround was in staffed for members pick up and drop off. Our first courtesy bus (a Toyota Hiace) was introduced. This was subsequently donated to the Police Citizen Youth Club Arana Hills when we upgraded to the Coaster in 1993.
The new football complex was started and when completed in 1992, at a cost of approximately $250,000 the football club took over their new premises. This allowed the club to then rebuild the old football area to install Pokies and return the Panther Den to the Diners at an approximate cost of $130,000. In February 1992 Pokies were introduced and from that income the refurbishment was funded plus we made extra community donations to Grovely Ambulance, Keperra Hospital and the Blue Nurses (two cars). At this time membership exceeded 4000.
During 1993 negotiations started with the Brisbane City Council for a new club house using builders Paynter Dixon. In 1994, a change of direction was taken with new builders Concept Construction. They cleared the way with Council and came up with a new and better design, which you see today. In 1995, a golf buggy was introduced as a people mover, which was highly successful. This gave members a service to ease the inconvenience during the construction, particularly on wet or hot days and was also used as a car park security vehicle. Staff increases to 38 in 1993/94 and property assets now included 10 houses plus the vacant block next to the club.
The football and Leagues Club were started, built and annually improved by hard working and dedicated people. These people wanted to see us as one of the biggest and the best sporting complexes, not their own ego's, but for their club and without each and everyone of them we would not have been in the position to consider the Construction of today's club. The club honour boards show directors and executive for each year. Unfortunately no board is big enough to record the workers and supporters over the years.
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Peter Shumlin got it wrong when he backed down from implementing a single-payer healthcare system in Vermont in 2014. Five years later, middle and lower income people all over Vermont are struggling even harder to meet the rising costs of health care.
The recent state survey found that 3 percent of Vermonters under age 65 are uninsured while another 36 percent are underinsured (unable to afford the copayments and deductibles). More than 14,000 people here in Bennington County — men, women, and children — have inadequate or no health insurance. Some are dying as a result. Why?
Shumlin’s December 2014 report never said that single payer would be more expensive than our current system. In fact, the Shumlin report said single payer would save $378 million over the first five years. Why wasn’t that enough of an incentive to implement a single payer plan? His fear of increasing taxes caused him to ignore the administrative cost savings and benefits of improving access, while lowering the cost of care for everyone at all income levels.
The efficiency of single payer had already been documented by the U.S. Government Accounting Office when it reported in 1991 that adoption of a Canadian style system would save "more than enough " to pay coverage for the millions of Americans then uninsured, with "enough left over to permit a reduction, or possibly even the elimination, of copayments and deductibles….."
The U.S. now employs an economic hierarchy in which access to healthcare is determined by our income level, while practically all other countries with a first world economy provide every citizen with healthcare and a better quality of life.
Health care will be the biggest topic in the 2020 election. Health care industry groups like the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future will spend millions, maybe billions, wining and dining members of Congress on weekend retreats and lobbying hard against Improved Medicare For All. However, I believe that citizens and dedicated legislators all over America are ready to fight for our basic human right to accessible, affordable health care for everyone, regardless of income or the place where we live.
Let’s not repeat past mistakes. Vermont still has the opportunity to become the first state to implement universal health care.
Legislators, your constituents are counting on you to do the right thing.
Kate Canning
Bennington RAD, Healthcare Committee member
Bennington, May 18
Vermont Health Care for All
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BA:The biggest luggage losers
Posted byadmin September 18, 2009
British Airways has apologized to passengers after a report revealed the airline lost more luggage than all other major European airlines last year.
The rapprochement comes at a time when the UK government is clamping down on online piracy. YouTube is looking to improve relations with rights holders, as it faces increasing competition from sites such as BBC iPlayer, Hulu and Microsoft’s MSN Video Player, and attract more labels to Vevo, its new online music video service in the US. Google blocked music videos from YouTube in the UK in March and later in Germany after claiming publishers’ royalty demands for a new licence were “simply prohibitive” and would lead to the loss of “significant amounts of money”. PRS has agreed to accept a lump-sum payment of royalties to cover music in any form on YouTube — from polished music promos and TV shows to X Factor clips and user-generated content — until June 30 2012. YouTube and PRS would not disclose the size of the payment. By taking a lump sum, which it then divides between its members, PRS is treating YouTube more like a broadcaster such as BBC than an online music service such as Spotify or Last.fm.
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Google said it was a “win-win” situation for YouTube users and the music industry. Music industry observers suggested that the deal represented a victory for Google, even though it was likely paying more to PRS than under the previous deal, negotiated in 2007. “For PRS to even agree to anything that is not tied to actual usage is quite a step for them to take,” said Paul Brindley, chief executive of Music Ally, a consultancy. Mark Mulligan, music analyst at Forrester Research, said it was in both parties’ interests to reach a deal. “A lot of the momentum in online video has shifted away from YouTube,” he said.
“Music is fundamentally important to YouTube, more so than at any point in the past.” Patrick Walker, YouTube’s director of video partnerships, said “it may take some more time” to reach a resolution in Germany, where it faces a similar impasse over royalties.
YouTube unplugs music videos in the UK
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Wilmette Public Schools District 39 » News » What's New » A Message from Dr. Cremascoli (Jan. 2020)
Wilmette Public Schools District 39
Mikaelian Education Center
615 Locust Road
www.wilmette39.org
Dear District 39 Community,
The beginning of a new calendar year coincides with the start of many exciting programs and initiatives here within our Wilmette Public Schools. As school leaders, we are eager to build upon our successes from 2019 as we strive to provide the very best education possible for each and every one of our students. Our focus on and dedication to the comprehensive intellectual and emotional needs of children will continue to guide us as we thoughtfully plan and prepare for 2020 and beyond.
Please find the monthly updates below:
2020-21 New Kindergarten Student Enrollment
Kindergarten enrollment for the 2020-21 school year begins next week. Navigating the kindergarten enrollment process can feel daunting, especially for first-time kindergarten families. We are excited to welcome our new students and families to District 39, and we are eager to help. Our staff will be available from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 13 and from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 14 to answer questions, help families process enrollment paperwork and accept complete document packets. Kindergarten enrollment forms are accessible on our website and in paper format at school offices next week. Forms are due to school offices no later than Friday, January 31. Registration for all new and returning students will take place on Feb. 18.
The start of kindergarten enrollment marks the beginning of registration for KEEP39 – the Kindergarten Enrichment and Enhancement Program of District 39. We are excited to meet this longstanding need in our community by providing families an option for a kindergarten enrichment program within their neighborhood school to compliment the existing academic kindergarten programming. Kindergarten enrichment will be offered to Central and Harper families during the 2020-21 school year with plans to extend the program to Romona and McKenzie families pending the success of the program and completion of construction projects at each of these schools to support program expansion. Please visit the newly-launched KEEP39 page on our website for more information.
Strategic Planning Efforts Begin
The Wilmette Board of Education announced in December its plans to launch a comprehensive, long-term strategic plan review and development process. This process will help the Board and district design a five-year plan that will guide our pursuit of excellence as a leading school district throughout the state. We are committed to our mission of nurturing, guiding, and challenging students to become creative thinkers, collaborators, and socially responsible, compassionate, and productive citizens of a global society. Through this process, we will be building plans to support student growth and achievement, staff development and success, and ongoing facility improvements and maintenance in fiscally responsible ways. We value the input and expertise of our stakeholders (staff, parents, students, and community) and hope to actively engage all as we envision and plan for our future excellence together.
The Board will review a wide range of consultants later this month before inviting firms back for formal interviews in February. Our goal is to begin the planning process this winter with completion of a new five-year Strategic Plan no later than September 2020. As partners in education, your feedback and participation in this strategic planning effort will be incredibly valuable and critically important to our success. I look forward to providing information on ways you can participate in the coming months.
Parent Educational Opportunities
Thank you to all who attended our parent informational session last month on Allyship in the Face of Hate, presented in partnership with the ADL. Shared learning and engaging conversations about how to help our children and each other promote a sense of community and allyship when confronted by hate will undoubtedly strengthen our schools and help to ensure all students and families feel welcome and connected within our school community.
This month, we will hold two more parent informational events:
Jan. 15: Coping with and Overcoming Anxiety (7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Mikaelian Education Center)
Jan 29: Like Movie Screening & Social Media Discussion (6:30 to 8 p.m. in WJHS Auditorium)
I look forward to seeing you there.
On behalf of our board, administration, faculty and staff, I wish you a joyful, prosperous and productive new year.
Your partner in education,
Kari Cremascoli, Ph.D.
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Keith Shepherd Joins DCL Mooring & Rigging as CEO/President
DCL Rigging & Mooring (DCL) has strengthened its management team by welcoming the addition of Mr. Keith Shepherd as CEO & President. Mr. Shepherd was formerly North America Senior Sales Manager of the Cortland Company and has 30 years of experience creating and growing markets & companies in the Rigging, Aerospace, Defense, Heavy Lift and Mooring Industries
Keith Shepherd commented: “DCL has envisioned aggressive change & growth with an agenda intended to move it forward as our industry embraces changing technology and challenging regulatory & market conditions. DCL has been a valuable and quality-orientated partner to our customers and we look forward to improving and growing these partnerships. DCL intends to rapidly bring new products & services online, add new markets, and increase our customer base. We are increasingly optimistic about 2020 and I look forward to connecting with DCL’s customers and vendors as the weeks go by”
Hans Jonassen, Sr. Vice President of DCL and industry veteran, added: “Anyone in this industry can see that the magnitude and severity of the changes impacting all involved are accelerating." Hans elaborated that: “The addition of Keith as our CEO/President is a very visible demonstration that DCL will not be standing still! DCL has a fabled 75-year history of providing customers with safe, high-quality solutions in the rigging, heavy-lift, and mooring markets and we look forward to doing the same in new markets. We, at DCL, are excited about the future with a forward-looking professional such as Keith!”
ISO Certified and located in New Orleans, LA, DCL Mooring & Rigging (DCL) has been serving the Marine, Industrial, and Offshore Industries for 75 years. DCL maintains one of the largest inventories of domestic and foreign, new and used anchors, anchor chains, rigging, fenders, buoys and fittings in the United States. DCL can test, inspect & manage your entire fleet of lifting assets and sells & leases marine products and solutions globally. To learn more, visit www.dcl-usa.com.
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Wade Travel Journals
Randall Wade Travel Journals – Volumes 1-3 (WRHS MS. 3934)
A. Volume One
001. MSS. 3934: Volume I – Front Matter
i. Frontispiece (Volume 1)
ii. Introduction to Volume I
002. The Start (pp. 001-003)
003. At Sea (pp. 004-008)
004. Brest & Le Havre (pp. 009-011)
005. Le Havre to Paris (pp. 012-013)
006. Paris (pp. 014-019)
007. Paris to Cologne (pp. 020-024)
008. Cologne (pp. 025-032)
009. Cologne to Bonn, & Bonn (pp. 033-038)
010. On the Rhine (pp. 039-053)
011. Bingen (pp. 054-060)
012. Bingen to Homburg & Hombourg (pp. 061-079)
013. Frankfurt (pp. 80-85)
014. Back at Hombourg (pp. 086-095)
015. Frankfurt & Frankfurt to Cassel (pp. 096-107)
016. Cassel (pp. 108-110)
017. Cassel to Hanover & Hanover to Hamburg (pp. 111-116)
018. Hamburg (pp. 117- 129)
019. Hamburg to Berlin/Berlin (pp. 130-143)
020. Potsdam (pp. 144-156)
021. Berlin again (pp. 157-162)
022. Dresden (pp. 163-182)
Page 182 [No page 181]
023. Dresden to Prague/Prague (pp. 183-196)
024. Prague to Nuremburg/Nuremburg (pp. 197-202)
025. Nurnberg to Zurich/Zurich (pp. 203-210)
026. Zurich to Lucern/Lucern (pp. 211-222)
027. Lucern to Giessbach/Giessbach/Interlaken (pp. 223-236)
028. Interlaken to Bern/Bern (pp. 237-243)
029. Bern to Fribourg/Fribourg (pp. 244-250)
030. Fribourg to Geneva/Geneva (pp. 251-261)
031. Geneva – Chamonix – Geneva (pp. 262-274)
032. Lake of Geneva-Geneva-Geneva to Lake Maggiore (pp. 275-296)
033. Pallanza-Pallanza to Lugano (pp. 297-307)
Final page-no number
034. Index of Images Volume 1
B. Volume Two
035. MSS. 3934 : Volume II – Front Matter
i. Frontispiece to Volume II
ii. Introduction to Volume II
036. Pallanza to Lugano, pp. 308-310
037. Lugano (pp. 311-315)
038. Lugano to Bellaggio (pp. 316-318)
039. Bellaggio (pp. 319-328)
040. Bellaggio to Milan (pp. 329-331)
041. Milan (pp. 332-342)
042. Milan to Venice (pp. 343-344)
043. Venice (pp. 345-364)
044. From Venice to Triest [sic] (pp. 365-371)
045. Triest to Adelsberg, & Adelsberg (pp. 372-376)
046. Adelsberg to Vienna (pp. 377-379)
047. Vienna (pp. 380-401)
048. Vienna to Salzburg & Salzburg (pp. 402-412)
049. Salzberg to Munich & Munich (pp. 413-440)
050. Munich to Innsbruck to Verona (pp. 441- 448)
051. Verona & Verona to Padua (pp. 449-454)
052. Padua / Padua to Ferrara / Ferrara / Ferrara to Florence (pp. 455-464)
053. Florence (pp. 465-473)
054. Florence to Pisa / Pisa (pp. 474-484)
055. Travels to Nice (pp. 485-495)
056. Nice & Monaco (pp. 496-511)
057. Nice to Genoa/Genoa (pp. 512-525)
058. Genoa to Naples (pp. 526-530)
059. Naples (pp. 531-573)
060. Pompeii & Vesuvius Trips (pp. 574-599)
061. Naples – Final Days of Visit (pp. 600-607)
062. Naples to Rome (pp. 608-612)
C. Volume Three
063. MSS. 3934 : Volume III – Front Matter
Map of Travels
Volume III – Frontispiece
064. Rome – Arrival, Carnival, Early Sightseeing (pp. 614-646)
065. Rome – St. Peters, Forum, Pantheon (pp. 647-673)
066. Rome -Colosseum etc. (pp. 674-728)
067. Rome – Fleas and Alice’s Illness (pp. 729-746)
069. Florence>Verona>Innsbruck>Munich>Frankfort (pp. 754-760)
070. Bad Schwalbach (pp. 761-785)
071. Cologne to Amsterdam (pp. 786-796)
072. Brussels (pp. 797-806)
073. London (pp. 807-835)
074. England – Isle of Wight > Liverpool (pp. 836-854)
075. English Lakes (pp. 855-858)
076. Scotland (pp. 859-871)
077. Scotch Lakes (pp. 872-882)
078. Belfast>Dublin>Lakes of Killarney (pp. 883-900)
079. Killarney to Cork (pp. 901-904)
080. Queenstown > New York Harbor (pp. 905-913)
Holly Witchey
¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 148 Potsdam
¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 towards “Sans Souci” and stop at the “Orangery”, and here again we are charmed, a hansome [sic] building from 500 to 600 ft long, the central portion and wing at each end liberally supplied with arches & columns the whole length of the front ornamented with many fine specimens of marble statuary superior to the generality of outdoor figures.
¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 The building is situated upon an elevation 50 or 60 ft hight fronted by a series of magnificent terraces profusely ornamented with flowers, shrubbery, promenades, dotted with statuary. Ascended by a series of grand palatial stairways decorated with fine bronze figures. One large colossal group in bronze
¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 [-Sicilian Gardens-]
Here Randall is referring to the controversial J. Marion Sims (1813-1883) sometimes referred to as the “Father of Modern Gynecology.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Marion_Sims
Just a couple of years later, in 1873, the peripatetic Mr. Peebles was in New Zealand, having visited Melbourne and Dunedin giving papers on spiritualism. An article reviewing his presentation “Spiritualism, What is It? Who Believes in It?” noted that 250 attended. MR PEEBLES ON SPIRITUALISM.,Press, Volume XXI, Issue 2358, 24 February 1873
(http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP18730224.2.22)
Possibly the intent here is “bunkum,” the slang term referring to nonsense.
“Royal Ghosts Stalk Corridors and Kingly Knees Shake,” Chicago Tribune, October 9, 1898
White Lady of the Hohenzollern
The writer does not know the White Lady tradition at Schonnbrunn, nor has he ever been able to ascertain anything definite about her history. But there is plenty of documentary evidence, as well as a wonderful array of records concerning the White Lady of the Hohenzollerns who makes her appearance In the old palace at Berlin whenever death Is about to overtake a member of the reigning house of Prussia. The late Emperor Frederick In particular was greatly interested In the matter and collected all the evidence that he could upon the subject for the purpose of depositing it In the archives of his family; Perhaps the most Important piece of testimony in this connection are the sworn statements signed by Prince Frederick of Prussia and a number of his fellows, to all of whom the White Lady is declared to have appeared as they sat together on the eve of the Prince’s death at the battle of Saalfeld in 1806.
Moreover, Thomas Carlyle went to no little trouble to procure evidence when writing the history of Frederick the Great that the White Lady had appeared to that famous monarch on the eve of his death.
Indeed, It Is asserted that the King was on the road to recovery from his illness, when suddenly one morning he declared he had seen the white-clad specter during the night, that his hour had come, and that it was useless to try to avoid death any longer. So he refused to take any further medicine, turned his face to the wall, and died. It seems that this White Lady of the Hohenzollern was originally the Countess Agnes von Orlamunde, who murdered her First husband, as well as her two children, in order to be enabled to marry the Burgrave of Nuremberg, the ancestor of the Electors of Brandenburg and of the house of Hohenzollern. The triple murder Is asserted to have taken place within the precincts of this palace…
Eduard Ernst Friedrich Hannibal Vogel von Falckenstein (5 January 1797 – 6 April 1885)
John Murray, A Hand-book for Travellers on the Continent: Being a Guide Through Holland, Belgium, Prussia, and Northern Germany (London: John Murray and Son, 1840), p 472
“Baron Rothschild’s Villa, outside the Bockenheim Gate, is fitted up with taste, elegance, and splendour; strangers applying at the Baron’s house in the town, are sometimes admitted to see it; the garden attached to it is richly stored with rare plants, and is very neatly kept.”
Visit to Natural History Museum in Frankfurt
Randall is referring to Tad Lincoln (1853-1871), the youngest son of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln.
Quentin Durward is Sir Walter Scott’s 1823 historical novel about a Scottish archer serving King Louis XI of France (1423-1483)
This question mark is inserted by Wade. He wondered, I bet, as I am, how the stairs got transported from Jerusalem to Rome although they are supposed to have been brought back by Emperor Constantine’s mother St. Helena in the 4th century.
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Basic Ideas For Primary Details Of Interview Body Language
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He stood out both within the group and outside, said former bureaucrat Vijay Singh, a non-executive director on the board of Tata Sons, which ratified the selection. A Tata Sons statement said Chandra would uphold the groups values and adhere to its high standard of practices — things the board previously accused Mistry of failing to do. We are at an inflection point, said Chandra in a statement after his appointment. I am aware that this role comes with huge responsibilities. It will be my endeavor to help progress the group with the ethos, ethics and values that the Tata group has been built on. Chandra declined an interview request for this story. Steel Losses Tata Motors Ltd. s cheap Nano car, debt-ridden Indian Hotels Co. , and a $1.17 billion arbitration battle with telecom partner NTT Docomo Inc. Mistry has previously defended his time as chairman, when he tried to reduce debt built up during a series of global acquisitions by Ratan Tata. In an e-mail to directors after his dismissal, Mistry said the group may face 1.18 trillion rupees in writedowns over time because of ” legacy hotspots ” he inherited. Mistry, whose family owns an 18 percent stake in Tata Sons, filed a case with the National Company Law Tribunal seeking the appointment of an administrator to oversee the companys affairs,a forensic audit and a probe into the role of the trustees of Tata trusts, the majority shareholders of Tata Sons. Hes asked for Ratan Tata, head of the trusts, to be restrained from attending board meetings.
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He served both TCS and the customer commendably during the BofA-ML merger. Now he has the chance to build a positive organization by bonding together various companies and their half-a-million plus employees, said S. Ramadorai, the previous CEO of TCS. He is non-confrontational and, at the same time, does not foolishly ignore problems. Chandras appointment came after TCS announced it had made the equivalent of $1 billion in quarterly profit for the first time. Tatas star unit accounts for over half of the groups market value. A five-man panel unanimously chose Chandra from a list of more than a dozen candidates. He stood out both within the group and outside, said former bureaucrat Vijay Singh, a non-executive director on the board of Tata Sons, which ratified the selection. A Tata Sons statement said Chandra would uphold the groups values and adhere to its high standard of practices — things the board previously accused Mistry of failing to do. We are at an inflection point, said Chandra in a statement after his appointment. I am aware that this role comes with huge responsibilities. It will be my endeavor to help progress the group with the ethos, ethics and values that the Tata group has been built on. Chandra declined an interview request for this story.
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Visit Shanron on-line at about who you are as a person. In the canst, people preferred a of what you are doing with them. A handshake often occurs within the first few moments of the side comes across as friendly and open. So talking slowly and deliberately is a good way for having a successful interview. official sourceDuring your job interview try to adopt a posture that for a long time in a hallway or a ‘sweat box’ will not do your nerves any good. During this introduction it is better to walk around the table to shake controlled and calm — and that you want to help,” he says. interview skills strengthsBased on your body language it can be seen if you are using eye contact, ensure you get rid of any nervous twitches. There is more than just showing up to a job interview, know that interviewers pick up on your body language and may even base their hiring decisions on it to some extent. “What is the interviewer you look nervous and weak — you can also use non-verbal communication to your advantage.
Some Professional Guidance On Fast Programs For Career
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Act as though you are confident and youll become confident. Set aside worrying time. This may sound counterproductive but there is truth in it, those who are prone to worry usually spend a great portion of the day and night worrying. Trying to stop worrying can be a futile exercise. Give yourself permission to worry by scheduling time, like 15 minutes a day at a certain time. It helps to control the habit of worrying all day. Hang around happy people. Get out and be around people who are positive, its contagious. Happy people count their blessings and tend to be moving forward with new ideas and perspectives. They are a great source of encouragement and support when you are experiencing an unexpected change. Consider options before saying no.
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Helping You Get A Better Understanding About Employment With Simple Tips
It’s not uncommon for people to complain about many things having to do with their job, until they are without it. Then people think about how good it was to even have a job at all. You should take action to find the job you want, as early as possible. Take advantage of the tips you find here to impress potential employers and land that coveted position.
Dress to impress! The more professional you look, the more credibility you have. Whether you are submitting a resume or interviewing for the job, make sure that you are dressed correctly.
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Keep learning. Your job search may require you to beef up your set of skills. Use your time wisely and learn in order to obtain a higher paying job. You can find online self-paced programs that can fit your schedule.
Dress with professional attire when you are going to a business. No matter if you’re applying for a place that gives you the freedom of casual dress or not, dress to impress.
The key to improving your chances of employment is preparation. Ensure that you update your resume on a regular basis, and be careful to list every single qualification. You need to list everything you’re good at, your education level and any qualifications you may have. This should include education, job experience and professional references who can vouch for you.
Don’t get into conflicts with people where you work. Being a team player is a big requirement for most employers, so it is important that you get along with others. This kind of reputation will serve you well when it comes time for promotions or raises.
Your cover letter should include your qualifications. If they desire a person with leadership skills, be sure to mention some times that you have shown those skills. Carefully inspect the job posting for any clues that you can include in the cover letter of your resume that will help you stand out of the crowd.
Create a form that can help you when you are put filling out applications. Many times you will be asked to furnish dates and contact information that you no longer remember. Having all the dates and information you need on one piece of paper allows for quicker recall. This will allow you to complete applications quickly.
Go to lots of career fairs if you are job hunting. They can be informative and help you see the type of position that you’re looking for. You can network with people you meet there, too.
Your job title may be restricting your job search. Expand beyond it. Research on the Internet different job titles that may exist and be similar to what you want. Doing this will help you find a lot more potential employment opportunities.
Answer your personal phone line professionally. This will give all callers, including potential employers, a good impression of you.
If you really want to work for a certain company, go ahead and send your resume to them. After about a month, contact them to see if they have any vacancies. You could even make a big impression by walking in the door. If you are persistent in pursuing a job, it is quite possible they will contact you prior to telling the public about any open position.
Have letters of reference ready before you begin your job search. Don’t just say you have them available, provide them! http://dailyalexanderlewis.fast-traffic-formula.com/2017/01/05/some-practical-ideas-on-primary-aspects-in-skills-for-geriatricsThis will facilitate smooth communication between them.
Being unemployed is a hard thing, and it can be very frightening until you find another job. Hopefully, the advice in this article will help you move forward to that new position. A positive attitude and the willingness to keep pushing forward is truly the key to your success.
Once you get the hang of it, making one trip to the grocery store last seven days, isnt tremendously challenging. You gather one pool of resources, and then whittle it down over the course of the week. (Photo: Provided) Now, try to imagine that same process, except you need to set aside food for potentially a forty-year period in which you can no longer go to the grocery store. If food didnt spoil and you had a place to store it, all you would have to do is save a can or two of food per week, and your problem would be solved.Seems impossible, right? Its becauseour culture is currently one of consumption, not retention. Consume, theyll always be more, you tell yourself. Have more than one conversation with someone who survived the Great Depression, and youll hear how different life was when people understood the finite nature of resources. I used to dismiss these tales, but now I cant hear enough of them. I always come back to one essential question how do people think they will financially survive once they stop working, given the current rate of income consumption? I know it may seem like I harp on the decline of people covered by defined benefit plans (pensions) quite a bit. But the United States personal savings rate has declined in-line with the number of people covered by pensions.
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Simple Insights Into Elegant Products In Career
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”He’s the most exciting athlete I’ve played with on a team. I don’t know how he blocked that lob. He just jumped up there, cuffed it and threw it.” Monk wasn’t the only Wildcat to stand out. Wenyen Gabriel and Bam Adebayo, who had 12 rebounds, each had a career-high 15 points for Kentucky, which won the game that was part of a matchup of unbeaten teams in the four-game Bluegrass Showcase. Matthew Butler scored 15 points and Jacolby Mobley had 14 for UT Martin (5-2), which shot just 33 percent in the second half and 41 percent overall in having its five-game winning streak stopped. THE BIG PICTURE UT Martin: Despite giving away several inches inside against Kentucky, the Skyhawks’ quickness helped their zone work early on. keele medical interview 2014But they soon began sending Kentucky to the free throw line in the first half and were eventually worn down by Kentucky’s height and quickness. ”Their length can be very problematic. adviceIt was problematic for us,” first-year coach Anthony Stewart said. ”We thought possibly we’d have a chance with our maturity and our older guys against some younger guys.
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Nick Duncan hit a 3-pointer with 3 seconds left in the first half to give Boise State a 44-22 halftime lead. The Broncos made 7 of 17 3-pointers in the first half. Boise State cruised in the second half. Chandler Hutchison jumped a passing lane and raced for a fast-break dunk to give the Broncos a 51-24 lead. Paris Austin and Hutchison added 12 points apiece for Boise State (3-2), which had 11 players score. The Broncos made 23 of 26 free throws – including 5 of 5 by Jessup – compared to 6 of 11 for Presbyterian. Austin Venable led Presbyterian (2-3) with 11 points. Reggie Dillard and Ruben Arroyo each scored 10 points. Jo’Vontae Millner, the Blue Hose leader at 12.8 points per game, was held scoreless on four field-goal attempts.
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More than his words, it’s the patting that makes you feel better. You can easily make out that a person is terribly angry when he raises his hand to hit someone. Our face is the mirror to our emotional soul. While talking, never lick your lips or teeth as it seems very much out-of-place. If you have references with respect to your credentials, it is an added advantage. medical insurance verification interview questionsSome people might just say something vague like, ‘I don’t know where to start’. This does not mean they are against your body art, but they think that it should not be displayed at work. Body movements are accompanied by facial expressions which further distinctly reflect your mood. So keep it precise and to the point.
The obsession cuts both ways politically: social media was also used by Islamic hardliners to drum up support for the demonstration in the first place. Yet humour still functions as a defence mechanism against misfortune. http://jacefisherhouse.helphealfran.org/2016/09/20/great-advice-on-rudimentary-career-for-consultant-plansUnder more than three decades of authoritarian rule, President Suharto strongly curtailed free speech. Since his fall, Indonesian media and self-expression have proliferated. For so many years we were repressed, we were not able to say whatever we wanted under the Suharto regime, says Joko Anwar. Thats why we developed this weird sense of humour: we respond with laughter or humour every time bad things happen, and that carries over to social media. After a fatal terrorist attack near the Sarinah mall in January , alongside the shock and horror, Jakartans also joked aboutpolisi ganteng, one of the handsome police officers who was credited with keeping casualties to a minimum. Other memes circulated showing the leader of Isis, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, shouting orders to one of the attackers over a bad telephone connection: Ke Suriah Goblok!! Su Ri Ah!! (To Syria, stupid. Sy-ri-a!!) His Indonesian follower responds: Iya, Sarinah, Kaan? (Yes, Sarinah, right?) Anthony Quintano Anthony Quintano/Flickr There are times, too, when social media and humour are wielded for more serious purposes. During the razor-tight presidential election of 2014, Indonesian netizens crowdsourced the election results, tabulating them online at kawalpemilu.org , to ensure there was no dubious counting. Boundary-pushing satire, in the form of comics such as Gump n Hell , are also starting to emerge. This Indonesian-language comic, created in 2006 but published weekly on Facebook since March, has been taking aim at everything from censorship to the hypocrisy of Islamic hardliners and cold war-era laws that ban the promotion of communist material. In response to rising paranoia around communism, the comic creators drew on the recent popularity of the Japanese viral sensation Piko Taros video Pen Pineapple Apple Pen , which has been viewed more than 16 million times. Gump n Hell gave it an Indonesian spin, featuring Piko Taro using an apple and a banana to create the shape of the communist icon, the hammer and sickle.
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So, before you head to the interview, keep in mind some common blunders that interviewees generally make. Browse through some commonly asked situations in the interview. It may mean that something is bothering him. Another indication that your round went well is when the manager introduces you to his other team members after the conversation. With these tips you should be able to get the job that you always wanted. Similarly, a disinterested, boring look is also hard to miss. Try to reach the venue at least half an hour in advance. Let your background be as clean and empty as possible. If you have just secured a job interview and are nervous about it, don’t despair, this article will help you ace it. We hope that the interview questions and the tips mentioned in this article will help you to prepare for the interview better.
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Really, really fun! But I wont say another word. http://rockscarlettreynolds.prosportsmall.com/2016/11/02/a-topical-overview-of-common-sense-methods-of-selection-processCS: Speaking of Rich Moore, this year sees the release of two animated features from Disney.Its definitely a good problem to have, but how do you work out who gets the awards attention? John Musker:Of course, theyve told us that theyre going to push us and ignore Zootopia. (laughs) We loved Zootopia, though, and it got amazing reviews and did incredible box office. Ron Clements:This is a big, big year for animation. John Musker:Im just glad to have great movies coming out. Its a shame that were against them for awards, but it is what it is. And theres other great movies other studios are doing, too. There are 27 animated films elligible for the Oscar. Why did we have to choose this year?!
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.>Here’s.dvice on how to handle an interview while dining. I even manage to get along with those that I don’t work with.. Prepare yourself and make sure you can rattle off three to five of your job related strengths. Steve Buscemi, who also directed, gets good marks for his acting, but even better for his work helming this story. – What do you consider your most significant weaknesses? Have you ever been on a job interview where you knew you were right for the job, but you didn’t get it? http://wowcameronortiz.helphealfran.org/2016/09/03/top-insights-for-2015-on-rapid-systems-for-doctorYou have been the best inspiration to me….Thanks so much. is one of the most common questions asked during the interview process . Katya : Well, I don’t fuck nobodies. A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results.
“But to say somebody’s going to step over you and just walk over the top of your shoulder and you’re not going to react, I’m not perfect enough as a person to say I’m not going to react.” Green is about as real as they come in big-time sports, and this season, his steady, versatile and unselfish game has allowed the Warriors to blend Kevin Durant right into the mix. While a series of offseason incidents forced Green to take some accountability, the man who made it out of Saginaw, Michigan, will never feel the need to explain his on-court actions. Green doesn’t expect fans to understand his in-game antics, “because I know they probably don’t have a passion about anything near as much as I care about this.” Nor is he bothered by critiques of how he does his job celebratory biceps flexing, trash-talking and all. Green’s fire is largely unmatched, he insists, so most people might never experience the same energy and love for anything that he has for hoops. “When you look at the world, 90-some-odd percent of people are OK with mediocrity,” Green said. “I hate mediocrity. … One thing I learned is I can’t expect them to understand how I felt about a certain thing or how I look at something, because they’re OK with being mediocre. And I am not. Mediocre bothers me, it hurts me to the core.” That inner drive fuels him to deliver nightly, no matter who else is on the court with him.
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In the general law of doing good, and in the facilities given us to do it, we read a general, or it may be even a special, invitation of God to do it, an invitation which is pressing in proportion to the excellence of the good, but which nevertheless we are not bound to accept unless we discover some duty of justice or charity. Moreover, in this life a person often enters into indissoluble bonds which God desires to see respected after the fact. See St. In comparison with such numerous and distinct declarations, two or three insignificant passages St. When we choose one door, it opens into another room with another set of doors. But a vocation is more than an ordinary call. Read questions on the minds of those discerning a vocation. There is a great tradition in the Church of both female and male monastic and contemplative life. They express their love through their sexual union, which brings them together in the closest intimacy and opens them to the gift of new life.
Francis, a church member was being tried for murder. He was convicted and remains on death row. For much of his three decades in the Triangle, McBriar has visited inmates weekly. McBriar likes St. Francis exhortation to preach the gospel at all times and, if necessary, use words. site linkThe question thats driven me: What does the city need and how can we help? McBriar told me this week in a soft, measured voice. I think thats the reason for our being: Go out to the highways and byways and bring them in. Thats Jesus admonition. Dont sit around the fire. Our faith leaders consistently say that their work is not a job but a vocation, a calling. Im sure thats true but at times it must seem like a job and a tough one at that. My sister, brother and I knew McBriar in another role: In recent years he ministered to our parents, whom he had known since the 1980s, as their health faded, regularly visiting them and ultimately burying both.Going Here
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This.istinction between a call to holiness and a call to a specific vocation – single person, married life, consecrated life or ordained ministry – is important. Though theoretically free, the choice of a state was practically necessary : “Those who are not called”, says Scavini Theo. moral., 14th ed., I, i, n. 473, “cannot enter the religious state: those who are called must enter it; or what would be the use of the call?” Each of us is called to be someone and to do things it is part of human existence and discovering these things is a lifelong process of growth and change. Leland Ryken points out that, because of the Fall, “many of the tasks we perform in a fallen world are inherently distasteful and wearisome.” 8 Through the Fall, work has become toil, but John Paul II says that work is a good thing for man in spite of this toil, and “perhaps, in a sense, because of it” because work is something that corresponds to man’s dignity and through it he achieves fulfilment as a human being. 9 The Fall also means that a work ethic is needed. More specifically, in the Orthodox and Catholic Churches, this idea of vocation is especially associated with a divine call to service to the Church and humanity through particular vocational life commitments such as marriage to a particular person, consecration as a religious, ordination to priestly ministry in the Church and even a holy life as a single person. In exceptional cases the obligation may exist as the consequence of a vow or of a Divine order, or of the improbability which is very rare of otherwise finding salvation . As Blessed Pope John Paul II wrote, “Love makes us seek what is good; love makes us better persons. The lifestyle and demands of each particular vocation is very different but there are some similarities between them.
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Please.nter a search term or keyword Equal employment opportunity is the law. Employers are using these keywords to search for candidates: With at lest one of these words 4 : a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling See career defined for English-language learners Examples of career in a sentence She hopes to pursue a career in medicine. Please wait, Translation is in progressPlease wait, Translation is in progressPlease wait, Translation is in progressPlease wait, Translation is in progressPlease wait, Translation is in progressPlease wait, Translation is in progressPlease wait, Translation is in progressPlease wait, Translation is in progressPlease wait, Translation is in progressPlease wait, Translation is in progressPlease wait, Translation is in progressPlease wait, Translation is in progress career fair noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. fiery Mel lavoro, bursa Mel lavoro Rf career field noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. career girl noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. Spanish: Details» Foreign Service Facility Managers: Maintain U.S. government buildings overseas. http://www.feelfreemaldives.com/sweetsarahcruz/2016/10/07/a-background-on-painless-secrets-for-course-for-selection-interviewWe offer insights on jobs, careers, entrepreneurial opportunities and on-line degrees and training . Origin and Etymology of career Middle French carrier, from Old Occitan carrier street, from Medieval Latin carraria road for vehicles, from Latin carpus car : to go at top speed especially in a headlong manner See career defined for English-language learners Examples of career in a sentence Chances are you’re very familiar with the noun career meaning “a profession followed as a permanent occupation.” killer interview skillsLearn more Senior Scientist, User Experience Lab, GSA I was fascinated by the vision of ‘Industrial Internet’ and the opportunities of innovations that we can generate here to make the world a better place.” Want to learn more?
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With.ore.eople.han ever before using the library—a record 17 million last year alone—your support helps the Library provide people with the resources they need to succeed and thrive. For more about navigating your job search, see Job-Hunt’s Guide to Successful Job Search Navigation . Network . Start managing your career by registering and posting your resume now. New articles and tips delivered to your in box every Friday and NO spam!. None of this means you cannot get a good job, only that you need to become further prepared to do so. Parents may not be aware that their school is required by law to provide activities organized by the school to promote parental involvement, and there are special funds for these activities. This doesn’t mean that employers need people who are technology graduates — knowing the basic principles of using current technology is sufficient. This article lists examples of answers to the ten questions interviewers are known to ask during a job interview. my review hereResearch the company .
A lover of all animals, Krupa discovered her prowess for interacting with squirrels one day during her freshman year in the fall of 2012. She had found a jar of peanut butter left outside and was able to entice a cohort of the creatures to come near her. I started wondering if I could touch this squirrel I wonder what would happen if I would be able to put a little hat on his head and take its picture? Krupa said. It was kind of an impulse. medical director interview questionsA few months later in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, Krupa said, she was motivated to lighten the mood, so she created Sneezy The Penn State Squirrel, a Facebook page chronicling her adventures dressing up Sneezy in whimsical costumes and using props. Among its many photos, the squirrel has posed with a miniature shopping cart filled with acorns, a treasure chest also overflowing with acorns and a Penn State flag in honor of game day. The Facebook page now has close to 42,000 likes. But come this spring Krupa figures she will have less time with Sneezy, and shes worried the Facebook posts will taper off to the dismay of her fans. Im thinking I can probably keep it going for another year or two, Krupa said. Even if I cant make it down to campus, I have four years worth of photos now. I might recycle some of the older ones because theyre still cute. Krupa said she hasnt actively started job-hunting but expects to stay in the State College area for a few years. Some loyal followers may not realize it, Krupa said, but the account features not just her original playmate but also Sneezy II and other stand-ins.
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The instant she calls her furry companions name, Sneezy comes running across Penn States Old Main lawn. And she can remember the campus squirrels better than its humans. Theres something about the fluffiness of the animals tails and distinctive markings on their reddish-brown fur, she said. Meet Mary Krupa, who is winding down a most unusual rise to fame as the Penn State squirrel whisperer. She will graduate in December, but before then she still has a few tricks up her sleeve. First things first, the State College native plans to snap as many pictures as possible of Sneezy donning Santa hats and fruity headgear essentially, the kinds of images that catapulted the duo to national and global stardom on the internet. A lover of all animals, Krupa discovered her prowess for interacting with squirrels one day during her freshman year in the fall of 2012. She had found a jar of peanut butter left outside and was able to entice a cohort of the creatures to come near her. I started wondering if I could touch this squirrel I wonder what would happen if I would be able to put a little hat on his head and take its picture? Krupa said. It was kind of an impulse. A few months later in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, Krupa said, she was motivated to lighten the mood, so she created Sneezy The Penn State Squirrel , a Facebook page chronicling her adventures dressing up Sneezy in whimsical costumes and using props. Among its many photos, the squirrel has posed with a miniature shopping cart filled with acorns, a treasure chest also overflowing with acorns and a Penn State flag in honor of game day.
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Their vocation was helping the poor, he said. The nuns were nurse practitioners who provided medical care for children and adults at the Lexington Medical Clinic, the Daily Mail reports. Authorities said it was not clear whether the women’s religious work had anything to do with their death. The crime brings to mind the infamous December 1980 rape and killings of four American nuns in El Salvador, by members of that countrys National Guard. In that case, their religious work did in fact have something to do with their deaths, because they were helping the poor, which was considered subversive by El Salvadors military dictatorship at the time, as recalled by the Daily Beast. The bodies of the Mississippi nuns have been taken to a state crime lab for autopsies. According to Police Chief John Haynes, police officers have been canvassing the area, searching for clues. Held had been a member of the School Sisters of St. Francis in Milwaukee for 49 years, noted a statement from the order. Merrill had worked in Mississippi for more than 30 years, according to the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Kentucky.
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There.s no paved main road to take us where were supposed to be no path set in stone carved with our name. What is really needed is encouragement to live a life of wholeness as well as excellence. There are religious orders or communities of men and of women. Paul, speaking of the same Christian, says “he that giveth his virgin in marriage, doth well; and he that giveth her not, doth better” 1 Corinthians 7:38 . A vocation is a call from God, and anyone who has felt God’s call knows that the process is anything but simple. Don’t we all long for that kind of clarity? Rather, the word means something you know how to do––or what you do for a living. College is often a time when this synthesis of discerning faith and a lifers work begins in earnest. medical interview tell us about yourselfWe are bound to serve God always, and we know that, besides the acts commanded by Him, there are acts which He blesses without making them obligatory, and that among good acts there are some which are better than others. May their love of God, the Church, and vocations be an example for us all.
Lopez, who plays the role of Martina, is joined onstage by Raul Mendez (Father Monroe), Hannia Guillen (Marcela), Katty Velasquez (Trini), Frankie J. Alvarez (Taviano) and Michael Rudko (Bishop Andres). The world premiere is described as such: A priest is torn between two loves.Marcela and her Cuban-American family are struggling and Father Monroe offers them warmth and kindness. Generosity blossoms into love as the lines between vocation and passion begin to blur. Artistic director Emily Mann and playwright Cruz reunite for the first time since his Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics with this lyrical and romantic new play. In a statement director Mann said, This is one of Nilos most enchanting plays. Its not only a beautiful love story, but also a story of family and faith written by one of the greatest poets of the American theater. Im honored to have Nilo Cruz back at McCarter Theatre. The creative/design team includes scenic and lighting designer Edward Pierce, Tony Award-winning sound designer Darron L. West and veteran Broadway costume designer Jennifer von Mayrhauser. Casting is by Laura Stanczyk Casting, CSA. Get More InfoBathing in Moonlight was first conceived as a commissioned play when Cruz won the 2014 Greenfield Prize at the Hermitage Artist Retreat (Englewood, FL). The production finds its way to the Berlind Stage with the added support of a 2016 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and a McCarter Completion Commission.
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This.owever.oes not imply that they have done well in offering themselves for ordination . In recent times there has been a revival of this vocationn, by which a woman makes her private consecration in the presence of her bishop. Everywhere he serves he does so with the permission of the local bishop. In Genesis 3:17, God said to Adam, “cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life” RSV . There were also complex distinctions between internal and external, and the “vocatio efficax” and “inefficax” types of callings. 6 Hyper-Calvinism, unusually, rejects the idea of a “universal call”, a vocation, to repent and believe, held by virtually all other Christian groups. He discovered the concept of servant leadership and it has transformed his life. The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. We reflect on God specifically calling individuals in the Old and New Testaments to do specific things or to become something or someone new, and wonder how we will know what God calls us to do. When we give time and attention to knowing God and knowing ourselves, light will shine on our next step.
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The Masters of Sacred Arts (MSA) degree is a groundbreaking combination of theory and practice. In addition to the study of theology, philosophy, architecture, film, music and art, students have mentored hands on studio work in drawing, iconography, painting and sculpture. This two year program is perfect for artists, architects, priests, seminarians, religious, educators, laity, patrons of the arts and anyone looking to create beauty as a sign of hope in todays world. Pontifex programs are established on the premise that in all genuine Catholic education, the ultimate Educator is God Himself. As Pius XI stated, the aim of a Christian education is “to form the supernatural man who thinks, judges and acts constantly and consistently in accordance with right reason illumined by the supernatural light.” The goal of Pontifex is to guide students along the path, the Way of Beauty, which leads to the supernatural transformation in Christ, so equipping one to serve Him. The MSA program was designed by Provost David Clayton previously Artist-in-Residence at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts whose book, the Way of Beauty, published by Angelico Press in 2015, contains the principles utilized by Pontifex University. “The launching of the MSA program at Pontifex is the culmination of 20 years research,” Clayton said. “It all began when, as a recent convert, I decided to become an artist and couldnt find anywhere to give me the training I wanted. I had to work it all out for myself. I am thrilled now to see this being offered to the next generation which, who knows, might contain a latter day Van Eyck or Velzaquez!” The MSA offers the same formation that enabled the great Catholic artists of the past to create works of radiant beauty that are at once noble, elevating and accessible to the many, drawing all to God.
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“It wasn’t too much of a difficult change for my friends really,” McArthur said with a slight smile. “It takes a bit to learn the pronouns.” The strong support system he has here at home is crucial to his message that he wants to impart to the world: “I would like to be an influential person for people across the world. To understand and accept people who are like me, or people who can relate to my story in any way. Because I think a lot of people can relate to me, even if they’re not transgender.” Though modeling in and of itself may seem akin to an unattainable vocation, McArthur is already well on his way to success. He expressed a desire for his modeling career to continue into the future, and even if that doesn’t work out, he has studying bioengineering in college as option No. 2. http://www.buffalos-rufc.com/niceabigailmitchell/2016/08/06/a-helpful-breakdown-of-effective-tactics-in-vocation“I want to be an advocate for not just the transgender community, but the LGBT community in general,” he said. “Throughout my life, I have experienced a lot of things I have had to figure out my identity so many different times and try to accept myself so many different times. And every single time I did it, it didn’t work out. I changed. medical writer interview questionsThat’s how it is.
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Saint Benedict admitted young children presented by their parents to his order; and the canonical axiom “Mona chum abut paternal devotion abut propria profession facet” c. 3, bx, q. 1, “A man becomes a monk either by parental consecration or by personal profession”, an axiom that was received in the Western Church from the sixth to the eleventh century, shows to what extent the religious life was considered open and to be recommended as a rule to all. Rather it is the response to a call and to a call of love. To discover and declare truth as it is, and facts as they are, is the vocation of the scholar. When we give time and attention to knowing God and knowing ourselves, light will shine on our next step. The word comes from the Latin vocare, or voice meaning to follow the voice of God, or to do what we are called to do. The tool was tremendously helpful as I was struggling with discernment to religious life. Your vocation is not the same as your career or profession. The difference is how each one does this. They are called to live as Christ lived; to model their lives on the life of Jesus chaste, poor and obedient – making their hearts more free for prayer and service. Sense of “one’s occupation or profession” is first attested 1550s.
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SEATTLE-When the 64-foot sailboat, Ocean Watch, leaves the dock in Seattle this Sunday, it will begin a momentous voyage called Around the Americas-a 25,000 mile clockwise circumnavigation of the North and South American continents. The scientifically-equipped sailboat with scientists and educators on board during various legs of the voyage, will make 31 stopovers in 13 months to draw attention to the changing condition of the oceans.
This is a project that has been three years in the making. A consortium has been formed to make the public more aware of the plight of our Oceans. The founding partners are Pacific Science Center, a nationally-recognized leader in informal science and environmental education, and Sailors for the Sea, a non-profit organization that educates and empowers the boating community to protect and restore our oceans and coastal waters. They have joined in this undertaking with Captain Mark Schrader, a world-record-holding, solo circumnavigator and ocean race director, and his experienced, professional crew of three talented sailors, who have all been long-time supporters of ocean conservation.
After leaving Puget Sound, Ocean Watch will head north and make its first international port-of-call in Victoria, British Columbia on Monday, June 1. One more day of provisioning will take place in Victoria after a welcoming ceremony and then on Wednesday, June 3 the voyage goes north toward the Northwest Passage.
David Rockefeller, Jr., co-founder of Sailors for the Sea, said, " This project is definitely an expedition for our times. The health of our oceans is important to all of us, not just those who live by the sea. Our food sources, our climate and even the air we breathe are dependent on the vast ocean systems. Around the Americas will demonstrate both the current deterioration of the ocean condition and what we as individuals can do to reverse or at least slow the negative effects."
The science education component of this project is being led by the Pacific Science Center. Bryce Seidl, president of Pacific Science Center stated, "We have put together a very strong coalition of scientists and educators to ensure the success of this project. The University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory; the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, RMR Co., MIT Sea Grant College Program and the NASA Student Cloud Observations On-Line are all internationally recognized for their leadership in the fields of polar science, oceanography, atmospheric sciences and climate research. We have a great team!"
A major funder of Around the Americas is The Tiffany & Co. Foundation. Fernanda Kellogg, President, remarked "The Tiffany & Co. Foundation, since inception, has had a focus on marine conservation, specifically coral, an d the Around the Americas program promotes awareness and education of the importance of healthy coral reefs."
The Around the Americas website www.aroundtheamericas.org will be the primary means of communication from Ocean Watch. Daily crew reports, photographs, video and satellite telephones, along with a tracking program from iBoat that updates the boat’s position every two hours, will provide the world access to the science and educational adventures of Ocean Watch during the coming year.
Fact Sheet follows and Stopover schedule is attached.
Around the Americas 2009-2010
What: The first continuous 25,000 mile clockwise circumnavigation of North and South American continents. The 64-foot steel-hulled sail boat, Ocean Watch, will use science-driven, on-the-water activities and education materials to draw attention to the changing condition of the oceans.
Who: Permanent crew of four including:
Captain Mark Schrader, 62, Stanwood, WA, world record holder for 1st American single-handed circumnavigation of the world via the five Southern Capes and ocean race director;
First Mate David Logan, 60, Seattle, WA, veteran ocean cruising and racing sailor and skilled boat refit manager;
Watch Captain and correspondent Herb McCormick, 53, Newport, RI, former editor of Cruising World magazine and sailing correspondent/sportswriter for the New York Times. Veteran ocean racer;
Watch Captain and photographer David Thoreson, 49, Okoboji, IA, sailed below the Antarctic Circle, twice above the Arctic
Circle, three Atlantic crossings; the first American sailor in history to transit the Northwest Passage east to west, photographer and documentarian
Others aboard: A scientist; an educator and two media/VIPs, all of whom will come and go at various pre-arranged ports
When: Departing Seattle, May 31, 2009 and returning in July, 2010 after making 31 stopovers in 12 countries.
Where: Going north from Seattle through the Northwest Passage, down the east coast of North and South America, rounding Cape Horn and returning to Seattle
Why: The mission of the Around the Americas project is to utilize this unusual adventure to engage and educate citizens in North and South America about ocean-health issues.
Major Underwriters: The Tiffany & Co. Foundation; the Rockefeller family; the Osberg Family Trust; and James Bishop
Additional Supporters: Charles Butt, Edmund B. Cabot, The Campbell Foundation, John Castle, Jim & Dee Claypool, the Ettinger Foundation, the Herbert Hoover Foundation and Vantage in Philanthropy
Managing Partners: Pacific Science Center, a nationally-recognized leader in informal science and environmental education, www.pacsci.org and Sailors for the Sea, a non-profit organization that educates and empowers the boating community to protect and restore our oceans and coastal waters,www.sailorsforthesea.org .
Science Collaborators: University of Washington Applied Physics Lab, the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, RMR Co., MIT Sea Grant College Program, the Office of Naval Research, and NASA Student Cloud Observations On-Line.
Communications Provider: Iridium/Stratos Satellite Communications
Website: www.aroundtheamericas.org
Art Project: Dale Chihuly, world renown artist
Documentarian: Laszlo Pal, Pal Productions, award-winning adventure documentary producer-director
Official Suppliers: Bainbridge Sailcloth/Port Townsend Sails; Blue Seas Electrical; Euro Marine Trading; Fisheries Supply; Freeborn Concepts LLC; Hatton Marine; Helly Hansen; Iridium/Stratos Satcom; Jeppesen Marine; Lewmar; Logan Services; Miller & Miller Marine; Northern Lights/Lugger Marine; Navionics; Northwest Rigging; O’Mega Graphics; Outdoor Research; Raymarine Instruments; Remote Satellite Systems; Samson Rope; Seaview East Boatyard; SSI; Stratos Satellite Communications; Sure Marine/Webasto; Swedish Hospital – Ballard; Vi Jean Reno; and Winslow Life Raft Company.
Contact: info@aroundtheamericas.org
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Rapid technology changes drive growth in speciality papers market
By vital
Reports, Research
(London, UK, 15 Aug 2017) The speciality paper industry is changing as fast as the markets are moving. New machinery and technology is entering the markets, as the commodity printing and writing market went through rapid decline and now is slowly shrinking in the developed countries. This will tend to disrupt the speciality paper makers, as new technology will enable faster and wider machines to effectively and economically produce more technical speciality grades.
Smithers Pira’s latest report ‘The Future of Speciality Paper to 2022’ projects the global market for speciality papers in 2017 to be 24.16 million tonnes, and forecasts it to reach 26.98 million tonnes in 2022. This represents a CAGR of 2.2% in the five-year period from 2017 to 2022.
‘The regulatory environment continues to be complicated, driving changes in materials for health, safety and sustainability’, says Bruce W Janda, author of the report.
‘Speciality papers enjoy many opportunities for new product development to create new demand. Replacement of plastics with sustainable paper-based materials is a large opportunity. Disruptive technologies are coming into the market to support plastics replacement’.
Speciality papers have become even more important because commodity grades used for graphic communications, such as newsprint, freesheet and coated printing papers, have declined abruptly over the past ten years in Western Europe and North America. Recent trends suggest that this may also be starting to happen in more recently developed markets such as China. This trend is expected to continue and spread to the other regional markets as digitalisation of communications continues. As the global graphic commodity papermaking universe contracts, speciality paper grades are becoming one of the forces for growth in the industry, along with tissue and packaging.
Several key common features of speciality papers are noteworthy. They tend to be higher added-value products owing to their unique characteristics. These features often allow speciality producers to charge a premium. Consequently, they are perceived to lead to a better financial performance for the manufacturer. Speciality papers are also seen as useful product portfolio extenders for risk spread over several markets. Often the introduction of speciality papers arises from the availability of, or need to make use of, small-scale output machinery that would otherwise be shut down. The premium charged on the added value allows a producer to work machinery that would otherwise be too costly when making large-scale commodity products, where price competition tends to be fierce.
This landmark report quantifies and segments the specialty paper market globally across 14 major countries and identifies opportunities and threats facing suppliers.
This market report was based on an in-depth combination of primary and secondary research. Primary research included telephone interviews used to generate an up-to-date and accurate picture of the market and to gather information on the specialty papers market that is not available from published sources. Secondary research was based on extensive literature analysis of published data and trends collected from leading players. (Source: press release)
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U.S. Market for Boxes Used in E-Commerce to Grow 10% Annually Through 2020
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Link: Back-to-School Report: Why Paper Belongs in the Classroom
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Big Money Dominant In State Legislative Races
By The Illinois Public Interest Research Group
Analysis of pre-primary campaign finance reports for 45 candidates in 15 state house races in 14 state legislative districts shows that 86 percent of money raised came from donors giving $1,000 or more, while only 5 percent came from donors giving less than $150. The selection of races was chosen for its geographic diversity, includes both Republican and Democratic primary contests, as well as races with and without incumbents. More details and analysis available here.
Candidates who ultimately won in these 15 races received 92 percent of their campaign funds from big donors giving $1,000 or more, and only 2 percent from donors giving $150 or less.
While the candidate with the most money does not always win, primary results show that 12 of the 15 contested races across the 14 districts were won by the candidate with the most resources.
"After Citizens United, there is little we can do to limit candidates funding their campaigns by relying on a small number of mega-donors, and as a result we see the impact of big money at all levels, including state legislative districts," said Illinois PIRG Education Fund Advocate Hannah Kim. "However, through a small donor matching program, we can ensure voters have real choices on the ballot. Small donor matching programs can help candidates with broad support but without access to or support from big donors to remain competitive with candidates funded by big-money."
Even without self-funding candidates as wealthy as Governor Rauner or J.B. Pritzker, these state legislative district races mimic the pattern of big-money fundraising apparent in the broader, statewide races for attorney general and governor.
While there is some variation among candidates, across the board the bulk of campaign funds raised have come from a small, wealthy pool of donors who have resources to give at levels the average citizen cannot afford.
This "money primary" is why good government groups have coalesced around small donor matching programs, which allow candidates to run competitive campaigns even if they do not have access to, or choose to forgo, big money.
There are successful, proven models to empower small donors so that their voices play a more central role in our democracy.
For example, in New York City's 2013 city council campaigns, small donors were responsible for 61 percent of participating candidates' contributions when funds from a matching program are included.
Similar program have been recently approved at the county level in Maryland and in Washington, D.C.
This analysis is based on the information most currently available for individuals contributions, loans, transfers, and in-kind contributions made in between January 1, 2017 up through March 20, 2018.
Also released today elsewhere: Rahm's Campaign War Chest Holds 18x More $ Than All Competitors Combined.
Previously in small donor matching:
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* How The Cook County State's Attorney's Race Would Be Reshaped By A Small Donor Program.
* Small Donor Matching System Bill Passes State Senate.
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Posts Tagged ‘Sung Kang’
Movie Review: ‘Fast & Furious 6’
by Nat Almirall, May 24 2013 // 5:15 PM
So Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his crew are back. Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and his crew are back. And some new faces, Hobbs’ partner Riley (Gina Carano) and villain Owen Shaw (Luke Evans) dd to the franchise’s ever-growing roster.
I thought the vast number of characters would be too much of a distraction in the last installment, and, to an extent, it was. But I liked Fast 5, and I’m happy to say that 6 is even better.
The premise is all but unnecessary. Hobbs recruits Toretto to take down Shaw, a gangster/terrorist/arms dealer whose goal is not particularly clear, but then it doesn’t need to be, does it? Shaw’s latest plan is to steal a military whatsit that can cause blackouts, and his gang of thugs, the minute you meet them, seem like the evil twins of Toretto’s — and it’s a credit to the movie’s cleverness that they actually address the parallels and get some great character beats in from Roman (Tyrese Gibson) and Tej (Chris Parker), two fellows whose roles in the previous films were to stand around and wait for something to do.
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Tagged: Chris Bridges, Clara Paget, Dwayne Johnson, Elsa Pataky, Fast & Furious, Fast and Furious, Fast Furious 6, Gal Gadot, Gina Carano, Joe Taslim, John Ortiz, Jordana Brewster, Kim Kold, Luke Evans, Michelle Rodriguez, Paul Walker, Rita Ora, Shea Whigham, Sung Kang, the fast & the furious, The Fast and the Furious, Tyrese Gibson, Vin Diesel
Check This Out: An Extended First Look at ‘The Fast and the Furious 6’
by Joe Gillis, Feb 5 2013 // 2:00 PM
Yep, it’s almost time for The Fast and the Furious 6. To be honest, we’re kinda looking forward to it. Shocking, right?
Anyway, here’s the synopsis for you to take a look at as well as an extended look at the movie itself. Enjoy.
Since Dom (Diesel) and Brian’s (Walker) Rio heist toppled a kingpin’s empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have scattered across the globe. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam have left their lives incomplete.
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Tagged: Dwayne Johnson, Elsa Pataky, Fast and the Furious 6, Gina Carano, Jordana Brewster, Justin Lin, Michelle Rod, Movies, Paul Walker, Sung Kang, The Fast and the Furious, Trailers, Vin Diesel
Movie Review: ‘Bullet to the Head’
by Nat Almirall, Feb 4 2013 // 8:00 AM
Walter Hill and Sylvester Stallone? I’m in. Walter Hill and Louisiana? Double in. Christian Slater and Mr. Eko as the bad guys and explosions and huge flailing boobies? This is already the best movie of the year.
What’s there to say? Stallone is Jimmy Bobo, a Louisiana-based hitman whose latest job goes south after his partner is taken out. If that’s not enough, the former partner of their target (Sung Kang) heads down to the bayou to find out who set up the hit.
After a brief ruckus in the parking garage, the two team up despite a mutual dislike. The investigation uncovers a web of corruption that apparently everyone in New Orleans is in on, from the jazz bands prowling the filthy streets to the cultural elite, ably represented by Marcus Baptiste (Christian Slater) and Morel (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje).
Add to that Stallone’s incredibly sexy daughter (Sarah Shahi) — the tattoo artist who can kick some tail on her own, an angry, knife-wielding henchman, and exploding houses, and you have the plot of the movie.
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Tagged: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Alessandro Camon, Bullet to the Head, Christian Slater, Du Plomb Dans La Tete, Holt McCallany, Jason Momo, Jon Seda, Sarah Shahi, Sung Kang, Sylvester Stallone, Walter Hill, Warner Bros
Film Review: ‘Fast Five’
by Nat Almirall, Apr 29 2011 // 10:00 AM
Maybe I should preface this with the disclaimer that I’ve not seen any of the previous installments of The Fast and the Furious. I’m not a fan of Vin Diesel. I’m not particularly interested in fast cars and, most of the time, I’m more irritated than outright furious.
I also didn’t know anything about the characters’ backstories going into the film nor was I, in full disclosure, looking forward to this screening. That said, I had a lot of fun with this flick—and evidently so did everyone else at the screening, from the critics, who laughed snarkily at the plot contrivances and flagrantly obvious exposition, to the rest of the audience, who clapped at every conceivable moment and in general ate it up like hotcake-crepes wrapped in unicorn butts.
If you have seen the other movies, you may be happy to know that the original trio of Vin Diesel (Dominic Toretto), Paul Walker (Brian O’Connor), and Jordana Brewster (Mia Toretto, Dominic’s sister and Brian’s lover) are back, as are Sung Kang (Han Lue), Tyrese Gibson (Roman Pearce), Matt Schulze (Vince), Ludacris (Tej Parker), a whole bunch of others I’m not sure were in the other several thousand Fast-and-Furiouses, and, what the hell, they got The Rock, too.
The movie begins with the jail-springing of Toretto, a stunt so implausible that not even the film itself takes it seriously, and soon the gang’s in Rio (and, after seeing the animated film Rio recently, I’m guessing that somewhere there’s an elephantine warehouse filled with stock shots of the cityscape as leered from behind Christ’s shoulder), plotting a car-jack heist for their shady friend Vince, who’s after three seized cars being transported across the country by train.
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Get Amped Up With The First Trailer For ‘Fast Five’
by Sebastian Suchecki, Dec 15 2010 // 7:00 AM
We all remember the scoffs Universal got when news hit that they were doing a fourth sequel to the Fast and the Furious franchise, but when the film opened to an astounding $70 million in the first weekend, the only people laughing were at the studio. So why wouldn’t they continue that trend with another film?
So here it is, the fifth film in the series, titled simply Fast Five. Worry not, fans won’t get another Tokyo Drift, as Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, and a bunch of the originals are all returning. Here’s the breakdown of the film.
Since Brian (Walker) and Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster) broke Dom out of custody, they’ve blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de Janeiro, they must pull one last job in order to gain their freedom. As they assemble their elite team of top racers, the unlikely allies know their only shot of getting out for good means confronting the corrupt businessman who wants them dead. But he’s not the only one on their tail. Hard-nosed federal agent Luke Hobbs (Johnson) never misses his target. When he is assigned to track down Dom (Diesel) and Brian, he and his strike team launch an all-out assault to capture them. But as his men tear through Brazil, Hobbs learns he can’t separate the good guys from the bad. Now, he must rely on his instincts to corner his prey…before someone else runs them down first.
The flick is set to hit on April 29th, and you can check out the full trailer after the jump.
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Then & Now: The Book
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2000s, 2010s, After-hours, Breaks, Electronic, House, Techno
Then & Now: Footwork
Click through the photo gallery for a look at some of the many DJs who graced Footwork’s booth.
Article originally published February 11, 2014 by The Grid online (thegridto.com).
In the face of King West’s rampant condo-ization and nightclub-ificaiton, this beloved, recently shuttered basement venue held it down for underground sounds—and continues to do so at a newly opened space in the Annex.
BY: DENISE BENSON
Club: Footwork, 425 Adelaide W.
Years in operation: 2005-2013
History: The story of one of this city’s most beloved, internationally recognized house and techno clubs begins with the unlikely pairing of two men raised on rock.
Hamilton native Joel Smye was a long-haired fan of bands like Pearl Jam and Rage Against the Machine until his parents sent him to Switzerland to complete high school. While there, he also got an education in rave. By 1997, he hit up massive Toronto parties each weekend, and taught himself to DJ. As Baby Joel, he would become known for his love of funky Chicago house.
Originally from Ottawa, Stephan Philion moved to Toronto 11 years ago, already experienced in the hospitality industry, and in throwing house parties, which were largely a means to accumulate sound and lighting gear. He had a lean toward Britpop and grunge until party promoter and friend Gairy Brown took Philion to Fly Nightclub, where he fell for dance music.
Smye and Philion met in the early 2000s, while waiters at Brassai. The two talked music. Philion got to hear Smye DJ, loved his take on house, and invited the DJ to check a club sound system that was just gathering dust at the time.
1980s, After-hours, Disco, Electro, Freestyle, Hip-Hop, House, New Wave
Then & Now: Club Z
Anything could happen at Club Z. Photos courtesy of INK Entertainment.
In this instalment of her ongoing nightlife-history series, Denise Benson looks back at the first club creation of Toronto nightlife magnate Charles Khabouth. At just 22 years old, he opened Club Z in 1984, but its groundbreaking legacy lives on to this day.
Club: Club Z, 11A St. Joseph Street
History: Tracing the history of this city’s nightlife tells us much about its physical transformation and urban development. Nowhere is this more obvious than at the corner of Yonge and St. Joseph. Here, we’ve recently seen a few significant buildings largely demolished as part of their ongoing metamorphosis into Five Condos.
I had often wondered about the physical similarities between the original red brick buildings at 610 Yonge, 5 and 11 St. Joseph, and 15 St. Nicholas, but only recently noticed the plaque on 11’s easterly side. It turns out that moving and storage company Rawlinson Cartage built all of them, with the warehouse space of 11 St. Joseph constructed between 1895 and 1898.
Gay Torontonians who socialized in the 1970s and early ‘80s will remember 11A St. Joseph as popular all-ages discotheque Club Manatee, a three-level spot where the DJ booth was in the bow of a boat hanging above the crowd.
In September of 1984, directly after the Manatee’s closing, a 22-year-old Charles Khabouth debuted as a nightlife entrepreneur by opening Club Z in that very location. Now known as the CEO of INK Entertainment, whose many impressive properties include The Guvernment, La Société Bistro and the Bisha hotel/condo project, Khabouth started with just $30,000 and a desire to fuse his love of music, fashion and dance.
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Caught in a Venn Diagram in “Progressive” West Hollywood
November 13, 2019 by Tracy Abbott Cook
Today I experienced something that felt like a car accident but instead of getting hurt in a vehicle I crashed into the center of a Venn diagram. I landed in the zone where public education, naivete and privilege all come together and form a very ugly picture. What makes it worse is that it is happened in a community whom I have great history and affection, West Hollywood, CA. A town that is known around the world for progressive ideals is on the edge of hitting a low normally seen in TrumpLand. My hope is that by shining a light on this precarious edge some people will be motivated to make sound decisions and pull back to get on the correct side of history.
Like all LA stories, mine began today while driving. After I dropped my son off at school in the mid-city are of Los Angeles, I then headed fifteen miles north east for Eagle Rock High School. As I was slogging through the morning traffic in Koreatown and Silverlake my mind drifted to a spring day in 2016 when I met my friend Mary for breakfast at her favorite tony restaurant in WeHO.
Once I snuggled into the plush booth and ordered my matcha tea latte, the busboy brought Mary her decaf coffee. I was surprised when Mary got up and hugged the busboy and then said, “Carlos, this is Tracy she knows all about public schools and she will help your son Carlos Jr.”
Without a beat, I asked, “What’s going on?” I learned that Carlos Jr. was in fifth grade and needed to land in a good middle school. I was still a bit confused why my help was needed but when Carlos left to take care of another customer my friend told me in a hushed voice that his wife, the son’s mother, was dying of cancer and the family was having a hard time keeping it together and figuring out middle school was too hard a task. I knew right then I would help. It took a couple months and I had to navigate a language bump, but we somehow made it work and his son ended up at a very nice middle school in Glassell Park. Before his wife died, Carlos told me she was so grateful that we found Carlos Jr. a good school. I was so glad to have been a part of that journey for Carlos and his family.
I have thought about Carlos Jr. over the years and was thinking about reaching out to his dad just to see how he was doing when out of the blue I got a text on Saturday.
It was from Carlos Jr. who was now in eighth grade. He and his dad kept my cell number all these years and he asked, “Can you help me get into Fairfax High?”
I asked how he was doing and he told me that he had all ‘A’s last year. I said, “Let me go to Fairfax on Tuesday and see what we need to do to get you in one of the schools on campus.” I added, “But don’t you also want to consider Eagle Rock High School?”
I suggested Eagle Rock because it is near Glassell Park and there would be some kids from his school going there as well. He texted me back, “That would be great.” So, there I was today driving to Eagle Rock and then to Fairfax all to help Carlos Jr. What I had not realized was that the Venn diagram awaited me because WeHO parents were on a mission about Fairfax High as well and the great bump between us was about to hit me.
In order to understand this part of the story you have to understand West Hollywood. West Hollywood is what the name suggests, it lies east of Beverly Hills and west of Hollywood. In the early 1890s when Moses Sherman laid out a train from downtown LA to Santa Monica, he needed a place to put the car barn where trains could be serviced. He picked the spot in the middle, named it “Sherman” and built some houses for the conductor and railroad workers. In the time since Moses blew into town the area went from Sherman, back to unincorporated County where it got a plethora of bars (free from LA laws and police), until the 1980s when it became the official city of West Hollywood. In the hundred and twenty years it also changed demographics from being blue collared workers in railroad and motion picture industry to a town with high end restaurants, fashion and decorator shops and a large gay community. It is some of the most expensive zip codes in California.
I know a lot about West Hollywood because in 2002 when my son was a toddler, West Hollywood Park became the center of our universe. It had an amazing toddler playground and we were fixtures in the park where we met other parents and formed a nice cadre of moms and dads finding their way through parenthood.
In 2007, when it was time to pick a school, we ended up forgoing our local elementary that had very high test scores but was large. We opted instead for West Hollywood Elementary that had lower test scores but was small. We got there after one of the parents from the park who had a son two years older than my son said, “We are repopulating West Hollywood Elementary. Come take a tour.” My husband and I visited the school and I could see a diamond in a rough. There was a lot of good already at the school, but it was missing some kung fu that comes with parents who have ties to the community. I told my husband, “Let’s take this year by year. We’ll donate and build up the community and if we hate the school, we’ll go to our home school.”
I reached out to some of my park friends to see if they were up for it and they said yes and so we arrived at West Hollywood Elementary in fall of 2007. We formed three kinder classes. Our three classes had an interesting demographic. We had all races and all socio- economic groups. There were some local parents in the grades above who were also big volunteers but in terms of volume, 2007 was the year when there was enough of us willing to roll up our sleeves and do work to make a big difference.
When we arrived West Hollywood Elementary was K-6, had a population of about 250 students, received Title I monies and fundraised $50,000 a year. By the time we left, the school was over 300 students, no Title I money and our fundraising was closer to $400,000 a year. Our parent volunteers were as I liked to say, “On it doggone it.” Passionate about public education and making West Hollywood a terrific school. We brought in ipads, ipods and mac books, we helped produce field trips and special guest speakers, the school was resplendent with so many bells and whistles that in June of 2012 my friend who had her son at private school came to visit me at WeHO and said, “If WeHO had been around when my son was in Kinder I would’ve been here instead of private school.”
We left WeHO in 2012 when my son was accepted to a magnet school, but I still helped out periodically including offering up a walking tour of ‘Old Sherman’ for the first graders. I am still friends with parents from my tenure at West Hollywood and many of them and the WeHO teachers have lamented to me, “It’s not the same since you guys were here.” I didn’t know what they meant because I still saw some hard- working parent volunteers but I figured there were nuances I was missing.
Six months ago, I got a wind of something that spoke to those nuances. I heard in April that our school board member, Nick Melvoin, was going before the City of West Hollywood in support of a measure to look into the viability of a middle school in West Hollywood. This struck me as misguided because we already had Bancroft Middle school which has been serving the area since 1929, and there is Laurel which was a K-8 span school. I went to the meeting and spoke at the end and asked the council instead to focus on supporting Bancroft. I said, “It just needs some parent love, like WeHO did ten years ago.” The council smiled at me but voted Yes on the measure.
One month later I saw through social media that there was a brouhaha at Laurel. Apparently, the administration from LAUSD District West showed up and told the Laurel teachers that the school was losing its elementary classes in 2020 and would be a middle school only which could then serve the families who want their own middle school in the area. This is when I learned that in 2018 Nick Melvoin had been meeting with parents at the schools Gardner, Wonderland, and West Hollywood, who felt Bancroft was not an option for them. I was horrified that they were moving so fast since the ‘study’ had just been approved only thirty days earlier. What kind of ‘study’ did the WeHO City Council sign on? Or was it a measure for appearance’s sake and a plan had already been hatched? I was saddened by the whole situation.
When the Laurel parents pushed back and went hard against LAUSD Board Member Melvoin in social media, the district offered a town hall. I attended it and I asked the district rep, “Why are you not doing more to promote Bancroft?’ I didn’t get much of an answer except that these parents don’t consider it a choice. It was also announced at that meeting that Laurel would be getting their Cinematic Arts and Creative Technologies Magnet, which was approved by the school board last June. Many in the Laurel community thought they were now safe from the group of interloper parents who wanted their campus. They were wrong.
In September and October, Mr. Melvoin and Valerie Braimah, Executive Director of City Charter Schools, along with some district reps went to Wonderland, West Hollywood, Gardner, Rosewood and Melrose elementary schools selling the parents again on the idea of their own middle school.
I knew about the meetings because flyers were entering in my inbox like 747s arriving at LAX. Every couple of days a new one showed up with someone asking me, “Did you know about this meeting?” I asked parents at Laurel if they knew about these meetings and they said no.
Now they were concerned that Laurel may be on the block again. I decided I would go to one of the meetings that was scheduled at Fairfax High on October 21. I arrived to see a couple friends and the whole district personal including Board Member Melvoin (who stayed about fifteen minutes) and his staff. There were also about twenty- five parents from the different schools.
Right from the start, parents were angry, yelling at the reps, “Why are we here? I thought Laurel was our school.” “Why are you now telling us Fairfax is our only option!?”
There was a level of hubris by these parents that was shocking. I did not want to stir up any trouble and tell them, “You are here because the Laurel parents are fighting interlopers.” But I thought it was curious that Mr. Melvoin had clearly not informed them that the Laurel community was fighting to save their school and I wondered who told them a public school with a thriving community was ‘theirs’?
My own take on the matter was that these families who want to build their own middle school have no idea of the work in front of them. I asked where was the money for this school? I asked about the fundraising that would be needed by these parents. I asked about the teachers. I informed the room that we are in a teacher drought and finding even five teachers is not going to be easy, especially for a high maintenance parent group. I explained our own school has been looking for a science teacher for three months. I told the room that volunteering in middle school is tough because your kid wants space so doing this kind of heavy lifting is going to be very difficult. Plus, by the time parents get to sixth grade they are exhausted.
One parent, who was near tears upon hearing Laurel was not an option said she was contemplating moving because they have ‘nowhere to go’. I went up to her and some other parents afterwards and said, “You guys, please check out Bancroft. There is a lot of good at Bancroft.” I told them I would help set up a special tour and I will give them all my kung fu from middle school and community building. I gave her my card and hoped she would reach out. No one contacted me.
One week later, Laurel was told that they were back on the table. This time Laurel parents hit hard in social media and went before the school board. Now they had the teachers in the fight. The Laurel teachers wrote a letter that they all signed condemning co-location and a hostile take- over. Last week there was another town hall at Laurel, and I heard from my friends that the parents fought hammer and tongs to save their school. They grilled Melvoin and the district over all their missteps and lack of transparency. They succeeded in saving Laurel, again. I then got word there was another meeting scheduled for Fairfax today.
I was not at the morning meeting but since I was heading to Fairfax to help Carlos Jr. I called my friends to ask about it. They said that the district reps told the parents that they will give them Fairfax Building 400 and Building 500 and they will just find classrooms for the two magnets.
The two magnets at Fairfax are LAPD Police Magnet and a Visual Arts Magnet. In the spring I met the Fairfax principal who was proud of both magnets and told me that Fairfax students go to Ivy League universities every year and that their arts magnet is especially productive for churning out college bound students. So, an art student that could be bound for Yale will now see their program removed from Fairfax?
And what about the LAPD magnet students? Where will they go?
The district said, “They will find them classes.” But that does not mean the classes are on the Fairfax campus. Do those parents who want their own middle school understand this very real possibility for these Fairfax students is to be pushed off campus? I believe this is their naivete part of the Venn Diagram.
But the one that drove me almost to tears was the students who are also in building 500. The special ed students (CTC).
I was there today when parents were picking up these teens. These were students who could not walk very well, students who had autism, students with cerebral palsy, students with all sorts of physical conditions. I looked at the faces of the parents, they looked fatigued. What pain have they been carrying for sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years knowing that their child would always need support? One dad in particular had such a far-away stare waiting for his son that I didn’t have the heart to tell him, “There are some parents who want to take your son’s school away.”
I stood near the nine school buses watching the teachers help the special education students climb the stairs and step between the curb and the bus door. These are the ‘short’ buses that have been the butt of jokes for decades. My heart ached. Where are all these nine buses of students going to go if this middle school pushes them out?
I asked a couple of CTC teachers if they knew there was talk about being pushed out of Fairfax and they said they did but were still figuring out what to do and my anger rose inside me. Without even a second thought, I said, “Fight them! Don’t let them get away with it!”
And that was my moment. I was in the Venn diagram. I love my West Hollywood community, but these parents are so wrong in this battle. Their privilege is showing, and they are about to tear apart a community. And the question is why?
I can tell you exactly why. Many of them have not even toured Bancroft Middle School. They judge it because of gossip and rumors from ten years ago. I know because I heard the same things way back then and I had judged it as well but this spring I went and visited Bancroft. I met Ms. Diaz the terrific principal. I saw their wonderful programs. Bancroft has an International Baccalaureate, SteAm Magnet, Performing Arts Magnet and GATE/SAS. One of the 8th grade teachers is taking the students to Washington DC and last year took them to Spain. This is what we want in a Middle School. Passionate teachers and leaders.
A Gardner parent and who I met at the West Hollywood City Council went with me to principal Diaz and we asked, “How can we help promote Bancroft?” We put a night together to introduce the school to neighborhood parents plus I went to the Hollywood Neighborhood Council where I introduced the principal and said, “Bancroft would love support from all of you.” Many of them work in the entertainment business and I said, “Francis Ford Coppola went to Bancroft for gawdsakes!”
When I look at the map of the Bancroft footprint, I see the same thing I saw in West Hollywood Elementary twelve years ago. A school that just needs a little love and tenderness from parents. Once a few of them get in, the word will get out. In addition, Fairfax is about to expand into its own International Baccalaureate, so there is a natural flow from Bancroft to Fairfax for the IB students. This is a boon for the community and I believe all those in the Bancroft boundaries could make it the middle school jewel in the LAUSD crown.
I will be honest: there are some who probably have toured Bancroft and it could be problematic for them because it is not ‘white’ enough. I was told by my friends in WeHO they felt that was indeed the biggest issue. Perhaps that is one of the nuances where they are defined not like us. Maybe. I don’t know what is in people’s hearts.
But what I do know is that if they pursue Fairfax and destroy that community they will not be described as ‘progressive.’ Other words will be used.
And then there is one factor that is hanging offshore like a bad hurricane. The issue of Nick Melvoin and his deep protection and constant lobbying on behalf of charter schools. There are several independent charters who have tried to land at Fairfax. But they have not succeeded. Probably because of the magnets and special ed population. So, the question is, could this be an end run to get a charter in? What if this new middle school comes in, disrupts the current ecosystem, pushing out the special ed students, the police and art magnets and then the school fails (God knows they don’t have the money figured out for it) — who will go into the vacuum? Is there any guarantee it won’t be a charter? The answer is No.
After I got home from Fairfax, I decided to write this piece. I knew I could not blow it off. I wanted to give these parents who are hell bent on creating their own middle school in WeHO a bigger picture of the unintended consequences if they land at Fairfax. I am hoping they will think long and hard before they pursue this school and make their plea for it in front of the LAUSD board next week. Maybe they will take a real look at Bancroft. Maybe they will think about the special ed students and police and art students.
Maybe they will think about Carlos Jr., who around five in the evening texted me that he applied to Fairfax School of Advanced Studies and the Visual Arts Magnet, and he thank me and said, “I’m excited.”
I can’t lie, his text made me misty.
I hope, by shining this light, parents in West Hollywood will get on the progressive side of history and think before they leap — others could get hurt while they jump over them.
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Aphids are among the most destructive pests on cultivated plants in temperate regions. They are the fear of many growers, as they can cause yellowing, mottled leaves, stunted growth, curled leaves, browning, low yields and even death in plants.
By Iñaki García
When we refer to aphids, or plant lice, we usually mean a super family of insects which includes over 4,000 species of plant-specific parasites. They are not longer than about 0.16 inch, have a bulbous abdomen and can be many different colors. Many species bear a common or scientific name that indicates their favorite host plant, either for food or for raising their offspring, or to some of their distinctive characteristics. So, for example, Hyadaphis coriandri prefers coriander, the cotton aphid (Aphis gossypii) prefers cotton, the black peach aphid (Brachycaudus persicae) prefers peach and so on.
Syringe needle
All aphids are characterized by a stylus (a kind of syringe needle) that is used to pierce and suck the sap from the plant. Also, they have a couple of tubes in the back called cornicles or siphunculi through which the animals excrete a kind of honeydew called cornicle wax. For nutrition, aphids usually feed on the plant’s phloem sap, which is rich in sugars, minerals and other elements. The phloem is responsible for distributing this kind of sap throughout the plant. For water, aphids draw fluid from xylem, where raw sap runs directly from the roots. This allows them to stay hydrated during hot or dry periods.
Ladybird feeding on an aphid.
A generation of aphids survives the winter as eggs, which allows them to withstand extreme environmental conditions of temperature and moisture. In spring the eggs on the plant (primary host) hatch, leading to the first generation of aphids. All the aphids born from the winter eggs are females. Several more generations of female aphids are born during the spring and summer. A female can live for 25 days, during which time she can produce up to 80 new aphids. Spring and summer reproduction occurs asexually – without males. In these cases, the resulting aphids are basically clones of the mother. In addition, the young are born live rather than as eggs. When the fall approaches, there is a generation that grow into both male and female individuals. Females fertilized by the males lay winter eggs on the plant where they are, closing the cycle.
Winged aphids
Aphids can be winged or wingless. Usually the first generation to emerge from the winter egg are wingless. However, after several generations there can be a lack of space on the host plant. This triggers the birth of a generation of winged aphids, which can migrate to other hosts.
Some species of aphid develop only on plants of a particular species. These types of aphids are called monoecius. The most common species that attack crops are heteroecious aphids. Heteroecious means that they feed on different plant species. Heteroecious aphids that reproduce sexually at least once in their lives start their cycle when the winter eggs hatch on the primary host. The primary hosts are usually annual weeds, shrubs or trees.
A couple of parthenocarpic generations (reproduced without fertilization) then give rise to a generation of winged females that migrate to the secondary host. This is usually a cultivated plant. In this new environment the aphids reproduce asexually for several generations of females until the arrival of autumn, when there is a generation of winged males and females which return to the initial host plant and lay fertilized winter eggs, closing the cycle again.
Damage caused by aphids
Direct damage
The removal of phloem sap for food weakens the plant and causes a metabolic imbalance, twisting of the leaves and, in extreme cases, leaf loss. Leaf loss affects the quantity and quality of the final harvest. They also introduce toxins into the plant, systemically altering its development.
Indirect damage
The honeydew secreted by the aphids is an ideal culture medium for various fungi which form a barrier on the leaf, stopping it from taking in all the light that hits it.
Most harmful damage
But the most harmful consequence for the crop is the transmission of viruses. Aphids can transmit dozens of viruses from a diseased plant to healthy in few seconds, especially through the winged generation. The biggest problem with viruses is that there is no remedy for them, so that the infection of a plant that is not tolerant or resistant to the virus leads inevitably to a decline in the final production.
The way to understand the degree of danger that virus transmission by aphids may represent and to choose an appropriate method of prevention is to understand the mechanisms by which these viruses are transmitted.
Potato plant damaged by the Potato Virus Y which is transmissible by aphids. The Potato Virus Y(PVY) is one of the best known viruses affecting Solanaceae (tomato, potato, sweet pepper etc.)
How do aphids transmit viruses?
When an aphid inserts its stylus to feed on a plant infected with a virus, some viral particles attach to the mouth parts or are ingested with the sap. This is what is called the acquisition phase and it lasts a few seconds to several days depending on the type of virus. When the aphid migrates to another healthy plant and inserts its stylus to feed, the inoculation phase begins. Depending on the mechanism of transmission, viruses are classified as non-persistent and persistent.
Non-persistent viruses
Non-persistent viruses can infect a healthy plant immediately. This type of virus transmission by aphids is the most difficult to avoid because once the aphids carrying virus have attacked the host plant, infection occurs immediately, with consequent loss of production. Fortunately, however, the number of plants that can be infected is very low. The time within which an aphid with the virus can transmit the disease to other healthy plants is called the retention period, and for non-persistent viruses the retention time is a few minutes. If the acquisition phase and retention time are longer, the virus is known as semi-persistent.
For this type of virus, the solution is to prevent access of aphids carrying the virus to the crop and prevent the aphids that feed on infected plants from dispersing.
Persistent viruses
Persistent viruses are rather different. When an aphid feeds on a plant infected with a persistent virus, a viral load enters and remains in the cells of the digestive system and is excreted through the insect’s saliva. Some viruses can replicate in the aphid body and are called a persistent-propagative virus. These persistent viruses require a period of time inside the aphid - which can range from days to months - before they can be transmitted. This period is known as latency. The retention period of these viruses – the time a virus can live without a host - also ranges from days to months.
Control mechanisms
2 aphids feeding on a plant.
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Applying pesticide
Usually, chemical pesticides are absorbed by the leaves and transported to the tips of the leaves, the place where aphids prefer to be.
However, due to leaf deformation in infested leaves, insecticides cannot always come into contact with all the aphids because the leaves form a barrier.
To provide continuous protection, the pesticide should also be long-lasting. Systemic pesticides (chemicals that are absorbed into the system of a plant) circulate through the vascular system of the plant.
These pesticides tend to leave beneficial fauna - which do not feed on sap - unaffected.
Biological control methods have been used successfully against parasitoids (organisms that, unlike parasites, kill their hosts in the end) and insect-eating predators and entomopathogenic fungi (fungi that can kill or seriously disable insects).
The predators of aphids include ladybird beetles (or ladybugs) and lacewings. Green lacewing larvae (Chrysoperla sp.) are voracious predators of aphids.
There are several cultivation techniques that we can use to prevent or minimize an attack of aphids. These include:
eliminating weeds that can serve as a reservoir of eggs and adults
using insect nets (sometimes insecticide-impregnated) to cover crops
avoiding the excessive use of nitrogenous fertilizer
removing crop residues
establishing plant species that can serve as a reservoir for predators (banker plants)
How to combat winged aphids
Winged aphids are specially dangerous for your crops, as they destroy plants much faster than regular aphids. To know when winged aphids are flying over your crops, you can use sticky yellow traps in the air and place water traps on the ground. The water traps consist of a yellow plate containing two fingers of soapy water. In addition to monitoring insect numbers, they can keep a large proportion of aphids from ever reaching our crop.
Barrier crops can also be used. This method involves using plants that are not susceptible to viruses transmitted by aphids to protect the primary crop from these vectors. Its mode of action is twofold: First it forms a physical barrier, preventing the winged aphids from reaching the primary crop. Second it cleans the non-persistent virus, which carries the aphid.
When the aphid reaches the barrier plant and tests its sap, many viral particles attached to the stylus and mouth parts are detached. When the same aphid goes from the plant barrier to the primary crop it will be virus-free. In this way, the barrier crops have a cleansing effect on the non-persistent viruses that aphids can carry.
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September 01, 2016, 12:36:04 AM by kailhofer
The "You've Got a Friend in Me" Challenge
From Seconds to Centuries
The Fisher of Men
"Driving by all these luxury apartments with an ocean view, knowing I could buy them if I wanted," Reverend Billy Joe Johnston ruminated over his success to his long time friend and business manager, "Why, I remember when I couldn't even afford a burger with a slice of raw onion."
The man sitting beside Billy Joe in the limousine was his friend and long time business partner Don, who oversaw the financial side of the reverend's ministry. After Don was released from the federal pen, he couldn't get a job hocking old dilapidated vehicles on a used car lot. For a long time, they were inseparable.
Billy Joe had black hair and eyes and a slight Cajun accent as most who were from Louisiana. He enjoyed having people do what he wanted them to do. Don was paunchy, mostly meek and very compliant to Billy Joe.
"You're awful quiet Don, is anything wrong?"
Don had been suspicious of Billy Joe dating other men and was more than indignant of his pretense of affection. "Well, I have a bit of a headache Billy Joe."
There was silence for the rest of the ride. Billy Joe was rehearsing his message, looking forward to the night that would follow. One thing about male prostitutes, they don't know who you are in the dark.
The coliseum parking in every direction was jammed packed. It was reported that 100,000 tickets were sold. Many of the vendors were sold out of merchandise. They push marketed personal advertising products with Billy Joe's name and image imprinted on them. One item was a toy catapult, which didn’t sale well.
Don wistfully remembered how their friendship began. They had confided in each other over every detail of their lives. But as Billy Joe became more famous, with his face on billboards, in religious magazines and other trappings of fame, he began pulling away from Don.
The limousine pulled into the parking garage at the coliseum.
"Listen, Don, I won't be needing you after the sermon so why don't you head back to the hotel and get some shut eye. I'll get with you sometime tomorrow."
"I can be on stand by Billy Joe in case you need..."
"No, I got it, I'll see you tomorrow."
Don looked dejected. "I'll pray for you, I really will," Don said teary eyed.
Without looking over his shoulder he replied, "Sure thing brother."
As the reverend walked away from the limousine fading into the shadows, Don sobbed.
Inside the arena, the audience was loud and chanting Billy Joe’s name.
Accompanied by bodyguards on either side, he was escorted onto the stage as the crowd stood to their feet with thunderous applause. Billy Joe thought to himself that he had finally made it, from grifter to God's spokesman.
The announcer stepped to the podium. "Are you people of God revved up tonight?" The audience erupted in loud cheering laced with Amens. "Let's give God a big round of applause. Can I hear an Amen?" The crowd shouted Amen. " Do you love God's messenger for the hour we're living in?" The crowd yelled, “Yes."
Reverend Billy Joe Johnston took the mic from the announcer's hand and continued. "Can you say Hal-le-lu-jah? The crowd shouted it back to him. "Well praise the Lord, praise the Lord, Hallelujah people you can all sit down." After a few minutes, everyone was seated and waiting for Reverend Billy Joe to speak.
He looked out across the sea of people, his coal black eyes reflecting the faces of his believers back at them.
"How many of you have your prayer cloths with you? If you don't, raise your hand and one of the attendants in the aisles will gladly give you one, for a thirty-dollar love offering. I've laid my hands personally on each and every one and have anointed them with oil.
He paused and continued.
Another way you can bring your prayers closer to God is by making a seed gift of faith to our ministry. When you give to God's servants, you are actually giving to God. After all, we are His hands and feet." He smiled and chuckled to himself.
Suddenly there was commotion in the aisle in front of the pulpit. "You son of a bitch, I know you are going out tonight with other men! How could you do this to me? I've loved and have been faithful to you for twenty years, how can you just shove me aside?" Don stepped to the front of the stage having walked down the aisle during the selling of the prayer cloths.
Reverend Billy Joe tried to recover. "I believe the devil himself has entered our midst my brothers and sisters. This man needs deliverance from this foul demon." The manager, who was shaking and crying, pulled out a gun and fired a round into the air. "I'll send you to God 'without' a prayer cloth!" Don fired four shots into Billy Joe's chest and abdomen before shooting himself in the head.
Time in the spirit realm moves seconds to centuries. The soul once known as Billy Joe Johnston was seeing the evolution of time as his body fell backwards unto the stage. In the time it took for his body to hit the floor, he had seen a millennia pass, until the time the sun went super nova and the earth was in flames.
A messenger of light appeared beside him, radiance pulsating as he spoke. Picking up the soul of Billy Joe, he held it outstretched for a time and a season. The soul begged the question, "Why have I died so soon?"
The messenger of light spoke to him saying, "He never gave you permission to use His Name."
Dark spirits full of foulness like ravaging beasts came up from below and gnawed on him as they dragged him to the underworld.
Kit and Kaboodle
Kandi Tims
Over the grassy meadows and wood lawn wild was a pair of good doodling squirrels, who loved adventure and challenged evil at every turn. Kit was a voluptuous femme fatale, always a charmer with the boys. Her thick brown eyelashes, which gave her an exotic mystique along with her luxurious fluffy bottom, caused everyone to say she was bright eyed and bushy tailed.
Kaboodle was the mastermind; skillful and inventive, smart and crafty as squirrels go.
Late one night, Kaboodle noticed three strange men roaming around the house where his human family lived. He and Kit lived on a high-rise apartment tree branch, overlooking a grove of nut trees. Along with their buried stash of food, by any squirrel standards, they were living the good life.
Squirrels are by nature curious and most cautious. Kaboodle watched the three men sneak around the house. He was protective of his human pets.
Kit nestled next to Kaboodle, "What are you going to do, baby doll?" She used a little shoulder action when she spoke.
"We're going to need help," Kaboodle said intently.
Hootey flew over and sat beside Kaboodle as they watched the events below. He was the resident owl and intelligent observer.
"Whooo do you think they are?”
"Up to no good. Have you noticed what they're driving?"
Hootey nodded toward the car parked across the street.
"Recruit the leader of the pack and don't take no for an answer," Kaboodle said to Hootey.
"I don't like wolves. They’re always hungry.”
Kaboodle turned to Kit, "We need Grizzly."
"There is only so much charm I can muster." Kit looked up from under her beautiful eyelashes.
"We need a hitter," Kaboodle said insistently. She sighed and scurried down the tree.
In the tallest of the trees, considered penthouse apartments, a flock of blue jays were snoozing with full bellies from emptying the neighborhood's bird feeders. ‘Nice humans’ they thought as they slept.
"Wake up, I've got a job for you!" Kaboodle knew that blue jays are known to attack first and never ask questions later. They were getting plenty of rest for their spring flight to the west coast for their ocean vacation.
"Hey jive squirrel, what do you think you're doing?" The flock leader originally lived down town and sported a different accent than the rest of the neighborhood blue jays.
"I need help..."
"You need help, you need help! And how is that my problem?"
"The humans in that house below, they're being robbed."
"They are the ones giving you food."
The blue jay leader looked down and then said, "How can we help?"
"I need noise makers. Perch on the window seals and make loud noises."
"Is that it? We'd do that for fun." Kaboodle scurried down the tree.
One of the thieves went to get their car to load the loot. As he made his way to the driver's side, a wolf moved around the back end and faced him. The man slowly walked backwards turning his head to see another wolf stalking him from his rear. The wolves were intent on enjoying some gracious living at the man's expense.
The blue jays started a party on the windowsills, screeching and laughing loudly. Kit supplied them with party nuts and was an elegant host. A ground squirrel, pint size really, invented a make shift catapult out of a two-by-four and a medium sized rock and slung garbage towards the window including onions and watermelon rinds. The robbers heard the ruckus and were becoming anxious.
"I'll quiet them down" said a thief as he grabbed a broom and walked towards the back door. As he opened it with a start...he saw an eight-foot grizzly bear standing in front of him. The bear growled; the man froze with fear. Seconds later, he closed the door and ran towards the kitchen.
Suddenly, the door was torn off its hinges and the bear galloped into the house chasing the robbers.
They yelled and ran into the bedroom, locking the door behind them.
A police car was passing by and slowed down in front of the house. A herd of deer was standing in front of the driveway, unwilling to move. The police flashed their lights and gave a burst from their siren, to no avail. So they pulled into the driveway to turn around and the deer followed behind them.
The officers got out of the squad car and were greeted by a buck, which herded them towards the backdoor. Once around the back, they could see signs of a robbery in progress and entered the house. Hearing cries for help, they walked down the hall and into the bedroom to see two men on the bed with a giant bear sitting on top of them. It's a little known fact, that bears can open doors by turning doorknobs with their teeth.
The bear jumped off the bed and climbed out the open window. The men were handcuffed and arrested and lead out to the squad car. The birds let out one more hoop and dispersed.
Shortly there after, the police found the thieves abandoned car across the street with the third robber up a tree...visibly shaken.
The bear smiled as he passed Kit on his way home. Kaboodle asked, "How did you get him to play his part?"
"Believe me, it was not cheap." She turned her head and smiled.
"After the commotion was over," Kit flittering her eyelashes and asked, "You wanna go back home and share your nuts with me."
Kaboodle thought to himself, 'What in the world could she possibly mean by that?'
As they were back at their branch apartment, Kaboodle looked at his lifelong friend and love and said with a satisfied smile, "I love it when a plan comes together."
Hearts of Stone
N.J. Kailhofer
A frothy, low wave slowly rolled in, lapping gently against a pair of stones piled halfway up the long, white, ocean beach. Blue sky poured from the heavens with such intensity, clouds dared not appear.
Seagulls called to each other as they circled a black, empty, galley ship tilted on its side against the sand. Its sails were tattered, dark, and dirty. A tangled, fraying rope plunged from the ship to a rough-hewn hole through the center of the larger, blood-red and gray speckled stone.
Beside the gulls and the waves, there were no sounds across the cove until the smooth, black stone complained, "Would you stop touching me?! Half a mile's worth of empty beach, and you have to lay right on me?"
Tucked partially beneath the rough anchor stone, Natalie had had enough.
Angelo, resting mostly to her side, replied in a soothing, thickly-accented tone, "Señorita, I am only barely touching you. The sailors who put me here are to blame, not I, but why dwell on negatives? It is a beautiful day in a beautiful world. The sun is bright, and high in the sky. It feels so warm on my back. Ah! Do you hear? The birds are happy, telling jokes to each other."
"I wouldn't know. You're blocking my view and my sunlight." Natalie asked, "You can understand the birds?"
Angelo paused only for a moment. "No, but I believe if I were a bird, I would be telling jokes, so what's the difference?" He chuckled in a friendly tone. "On a day such as today, anything is possible... Although, are you sure you are feeling all right?"
"Yes. Why?"
"You are sounding a little gravelly." He hooted with laughter.
"Oh, brother." Rock humor.
Angelo asked, "You have a brother? Is he near?"
"No, it's just me on this beach, or at least it was for the last thousand years since the ice pushed me here. It was nice. Quiet."
"Oh," Angelo replied, "not to worry, then. I am here to keep you company now. Really, for a thousand years, you have been sitting on this beach, all alone?"
"Yes. It's fine." Will he ever stop talking?
"What do you do with all that time?"
"I watch the world. I know the lapping of ocean waves, the blades of grass there at the edge of the sand. There is a human fort out of sight, past the grass. Sometimes the humans come down to the sea, and I watch them. Mostly, I enjoy the quiet."
Angelo chucked. "Not me. Ever since I was pulled from the ground in Ciudad Real, I have traveled the world. I have seen wonders you have never dreamed of, my dear."
"Really." Natalie tried her best to make her tone as disinterested as she could.
"Believe it or not, my journey started because I am soft. I am made of mostly red cinnabar, unlike you with your hard, basalt body. That's why they wanted me. It was easy to carve the hole through me for the anchor rope."
He paused. "That was quite painful, but I bore it heroically, and did not crack."
Natalie wished she had eyes to roll.
"It was worth it to see the crimson sunsets over yellow-flowered trees in Nihon Koko. To see divers pull beautiful, white pearls from the green sea in Parsa, to see the spires rising over Ganarajya, or the pillars of the Giant's Causeway lifting out of the ocean in frigid Albion... but there was no one to talk to."
For a week straight, Angelo spoke about the things he'd seen. In spite of herself, Natalie began to be interested. It kept her mind off the rising noise from the direction of the humans. Noise of battle.
A half-eaten onion splashed into the thin wash of water behind Natalie, surprising them both. It dropped from the hand of a particularly dim-looking orc.
A squad of squat, leather-clad soldiers armed with swords stood around the stones.
"You!" the leader shouted. "Take that red stone and bash through the gate of the fortress!"
Onion Orc cut the rope, grabbed Angelo, and started running.
Natalie thought about Angelo gone. She would be alone again. Finally, blessed peace and quiet was hers, and...
She didn't want it.
"No!" She shouted to the orcs, but they didn't hear her. "He's too soft--he'll break!"
"You!" The leader ordered, "take the other one and put it in the catapult!"
Strong hands grabbed her and put her in an already-wound, lowered catapult. From her vantage point, Natalie could see Onion Orc sprinting toward the human's gate through a hail of arrows, Angelo held high over its head. It would reach the gate in a few seconds. Angelo would be gone, forever.
She rocketed into the air toward the fort. She screamed.
She struck the wooden gate. She heard a deafening crack. Splinters exploded everywhere as the door ripped loose from stone and pounded inward to the ground. Natalie rebounded into the dirt, in front of Onion Orc.
Every part of Natalie howled in pain. A long crack was open across her back.
The orc paused, as if disappointed. It dropped Angelo, then drew its sword and ran into the fort. Dozens of other orcs followed it. Angelo rolled to a stop alongside Natalie.
"What happened?" Angelo asked.
"In the air, I begged the walls to let go of the wooden door. Loudly."
"Why did you do that?"
"So it would fall down and the orc wouldn't need you. I couldn't let you be smashed to bits."
Angelo was speechless for a moment. "But look what it did to you. The crack runs almost all the way through you."
She made her voice sound as much like his as she could. "But I bore it heroically." She chuckled. "That's what friends do for each other."
If anyone in the whirl of battle had been looking at Angelo and Natalie, they would have seen tears coming from stones.
Tears of joy.
Blood, Sweat and Tears
The pirate ship was sailing along the Ocean Coast in search of its next target, be it a small sea village or a lonely unprotected outpost. The crewmen aboard were content with their life as outlaws and were well aware that they did possess a powerful weapon to aid them during their plundering: a weapon that most ships did not have.
The vast majority of catapults that military vessels this size held on deck were the double-armed type, exactly like the one they had. They had such a powerful warship because their captain once stole it in a daring move, when a huge pirate fleet had surprisingly attacked a port of the Empire and the escaping soldiers had left it behind while fleeing for their own lives.
So, this new crew had made the ship their new home, turning it into their pirate vessel which was equipped with a device no other such sea-craft had at that time, at least not among the common sea thieves of the long Ocean Coast.
While they were sailing across that expanse in search of possible prey, Jalmk, the tall dark-haired thirty-year-old sailor considered that they were faster than many military ships, and their weapon made them a difficult opponent to anyone else. Why should they fear any enemies?
However, there was something that all seamen were afraid of: the fabled Vampire Pirates of the Ocean Coast. In fact, though ghost vessels made crewmembers fear the unknown seas elsewhere, here sightings of an ancient ship that was full of undead warriors had made many seamen cautious when approaching other sea-craft to be plundered. Some said it was a cursed vessel whose crew had to endlessly cross that stretch of the ocean and prey upon evil pirates. Others thought the crewmen had drunk human blood to quench their thirsts - which had turned them into the peculiar undead creatures they were now. Their need for blood made them constantly sail the sea – not only at night.
Desperation appeared on the men’s faces that morning when a black ship was spotted behind them, and their eyes filled with fear as the unusual sea-craft moved towards them. They wished it were a ghost-ship or a sea monster! But it wasn’t, and that meant they had stumbled into the worst possible enemy any pirate vessel might encounter in the middle of that ocean…
They tried their best to outdistance the ship but it was soon clear that their sails were not big enough to match the other’s black sails. So they began being busy rushing about, grabbing the arms and shields they had aboard, and getting ready to battle to the death instead of surrendering to those bloodsucking monsters. Some considered jumping over the sides of their ship but most couldn’t swim. So, it was a matter of simply making a stand in the end.
Then, Lrektl, a blond-haired friend of Jalmk who rarely lost his ability to think clearly, came up with a better way to deal with those creatures. He approached his friend and told him: “I know how we can stop them. Let’s go to the storage room and get all the onions we can find. Then we’ll fill up our catapult with them and fire it.”
“What? Onions? Why should we use them instead of boulders?” Jalmk asked his friend.
“Their ship is cursed so there is no way our weapon can destroy it…but vampires are afraid of onions.”
“Where did you hear of such a way to get rid of those cursed creatures?”
“It was one of the many things I learned while rolling a whore in a tavern in a southern port. When you say that nothing good can came out of spending time with women of ill repute, I’d have to disagree!” the other cried out.
“I am going to warn the captain. In the meantime take all the onions we have aboard…” Lrektl uttered.
Jalmk didn’t know if it was desperation or just given the faith he had in his crewman, but the captain allowed them to proceed with their strange plan. The catapult worked by pulling back on the rope which connected the two arms. While sweating cause of the warm climate, they just waited for exactly the moment and when the arms were bent back against the tensile material, the rope was released and the arms snapped back into place, propelling the projectiles forwards towards its target at sea.
Throwing onions instead of other materials against your enemies! Truly, Jalmk would never have believed it if he hadn’t seen it for himself…
After the first launch, and the others that followed, nothing seemed to happen. The cursed ship was still after them, and you could still see the undead crewmen walking its deck. So, why was that?
It was at a certain moment that Lrektl made a face, paused for a breath and emitted a whimpering voice. “Thinking about it again, it was not onions…” he said in a dejected tone. “It was garlic that harms vampires! If I just hadn’t always been drunk while bedding those women I would have known better…”
Looking at Lrektl, an astonished Jalmk told himself that he had always been a very good friend, and he had saved him many times in battle previously, protecting him with his shield or healing his wounds. If only his memory had been as good as his great courage! As tears filled his eyes, the man considered that it was bad enough that they would soon become prey to those monsters, but at least he would have liked to have faced his death with purpose and resolve.
Though, with all the onions they had touched while preparing their huge catapult, and all the tears that presently filled his face, it was obvious that Jalmk would not die in the respectable, manly way that he wished he could…
“I’ll make you cry!” Littejoe screamed. He was one of the village idiots, and he just pitched an onion at Dracona.
Dracona looked at the onion sailing toward him and sneered at the prospect of a village idiot telling him what and what not he could do and pitching an onion at him. The very idea of a village idiot messing with a vampire!
“Keep you distance,” Deadman said. The last time you got a stomach ache and you couldn’t swallow blood for a week. . . keep clear of that onion field.”
“I know, I know. We better do something about them. They’ve been planting those damned onions closer and closer to the castle every year now. They’re too close for comfort!” Dracona said.
Both vampires turned their heads and looked at the ocean behind Castle Montery, their home. Over the years, more entrance doors and glass windows and open archways were added, since the castle served no defensive purposes anymore. The waves slapped against the shore, and the wind often whistled about the battlements and sometimes screamed, it seemed, when a violent storm approached. Deadmand and Dracona were two vampire buddies that lived in the castle, and they decided to check out the field of onions which was encroaching on castle Montery’s grounds.
“I’m telling you there’s garlic in there somewhere. I can feel it. Don’t you?” Dracona said.
“Hey, vamps. We’re agona get you. Yes we are. Just stay in your castle and we’ll get you,” Holbe another villagers screamed!
“Why the insolence of that idiot. Threatening me! The most powerful one of the all!” Deadman said.
“We want your castle! And we’ll get it! Yes we will! You’ll have to move!” Holbe screamed,
The full moon beamed down on the onion field, and Deadman and Dracona looked and examined every detail that showed itself under the moonish rays of light. But what confuse them, was the large wooden object the was slowing moving toward the castle. It was pushed by a group of village idiots. What was it? What was the purpose of it. Why? It didn’t make sense.
“I’m telling you, I don’t like the looks of that thing—whatever it is,” Dracona said. “I smell garlic. Smell it!”
“Yeah, it’s coming from behind that thing.” Deadman said. “Well I sure as hell don’t want to fly over and take a look. Remember the last time we flew over that village of idiots? They had the nerve to shoot at us with garlic in their sling shots!”
“Oh, man----that one villager had a good aim too. Those idiots never listened to their elders about us, did they,” Dracona said. “I know the elders tell them to stay away from the castle.”
“No they don’t! Young people don’t respect anything anymore!” Deadman said.
“What is that thing?” Dracona said.
The wooden thing slowly moved toward the castle, and the odor of garlic also permeated the air. This upset Deadman and Dracona.
“Redfen! Redfen! Get over here!” Deadman screamed toward the castle.
Redfen came stumbling out of the castle and said, “Yes master.”
“Sneak into that onion field and find out what the hell they’re up to. And find out what that thing is!” Deadman said.
“M-Master I-I-I c-can’t. . .” Redfen started to say.
“Just do it!!” Deadman blasted.
“Y-Yes master.”
Redfen hobbled out and into the field. He kept himself low and crawled.
After a short time in which Deadman and Dracona waited for Redfen’s return, Deadman finally screamed: “What’s taking him so long! If he’s not sleeping under that table, he’s goofing off behind the garden, pretending to be trimming the grass. I tell you we should have hired that other one!”
“Well, we did get him cheap,” Dracona said.
“Cheap! Why he’s costing us plenty just to feed him!” Deadman blasted out.
After another few minute, Redfen came quickly hobbling out of the field breathing very heavily.
He hobbled up to Deadman but didn’t say anything because he was out of breath.
“Well, what’s out there!” Deadman screamed. He waited another second or two then repeated the question again. By this time Redfen caught some of his breath and could utter a few sentences.
“It’s–It’s –a catapult. Yes—a catapult!” Redfen said.
“What!” Deadman screamed.
Redfen now able to speak said, “It’s a big catapult and they have many baskets of garlic behind it. I heard one villager say, “This will drive them out.”
Before Dracona could say anything a clunk noise washed over the castle and all three looked toward the catapult. A basket of garlic came raining down on them—the garlic dispersing in flight, and when the garlic landed, the individual cubes covered an area the size of an average front lawn,
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh. . .” Deadman and Dracona screamed in unison. Redfen just said, “Oh- my -God.”
Clunk! Another volley of garlic hit the castle, some entering open windows while others landed inside the courtyard. Others hit the battlements, and to their surprise, small crossed were also mixed in with the garlic.
A large group of villagers were now running toward the castle, and they were carrying a battering ram. The garlic kept raining down on the castle as the villagers neared the front door.
“Let’s get outta here!” Deadman screamed.
Out a back window facing the ocean both vampires flew.
“I wonder what enraged them so much?” Dracona said.
“I know what it was. And I told you not to do it that day we flew over their village when they were shooting at us!” Deadman said. “We always left the villagers alone, thinking they would let us alone. We never bit any of them!”
“Hey, they were shooting garlic at us. So what the hell, I figured. I’ll just relieve myself over them. I know I got one or two in the eye!” Dracona said.
Deadman just shook his head.
The Wedding Feast
There is told a parable about a King who had a Son who was getting married. And the King was so excited, He sent out his servants to invite the noble people, all the senators, congressman, attorneys and physicians, all those who were cool in the kingdom.
But the big shots said, "No way, we're too busy to come to the King’s Sons wedding banquet." So when the servants told the King that the biggies wasn’t coming, the King got - - rooooar - - he got mad is what He did.
So the King told his servants, "Go to where the scunges hang out and tell anyone who wants to come, that they are invited to the wedding feast."
His servants asked, "Are you for real?"
And the King said, "You got it!"
And so the servants went back into the streets and welcomed anyone who wanted to come to the King's Sons wedding banquet.
Before the wedding feast, the Son moved freely amongst his people, bestowing gifts (some would say miracles), to those in need.
One day, He went into a synagogue (that's a Jewish church). The religious leaders stared at Him with suspicion, and conspired to entrap Him. So they handed Him the book of Isaiah and asked, "Why don't you read us something?
And so the Prince said those famous words, "That's cool" and began reading the part in the book of Isaiah saying, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me to preach the good news and set the captives free."
And then He closed the book and handed it back to them.
And while everyone was looking around, the King's Son spoke and said, "Today, this scripture...is fulfilled in your ears."
Now the Sadducees and Pharisees, they were the religious leaders back then, instead of getting all excited and saying, "Far out, the King's Son is here! We don't have to die for being creeps! Let's invite our friends to the synagogue for a covered dish dinner and play some volleyball on the front lawn.”
Well, instead of doing that, they took Him outside of town and tried to push Him off a cliff.
Not cool!
But the Son just walked away from them cause He was the Prince. When you're the Prince you've got lots of options for getting out of trouble. He said, "I'll see you guys later," and He split.
So when the Son left the synagogue, He walked into the street and met a prostitute named Mary. She had a demonic spirit, in fact, seven of them, who spake to the Son and said, "We know who you are, will you torture us before our time?"
And He spoke to the demons saying, "Leave her now." And immediately they did.
The Son continued to meet people as He walked, once passing an old catapult displayed as a monument in the town square. There he met a man named Matthew, who was cheating people while collecting taxes.
Later that day he walked down to the ocean. Saw a fisherman named Peter casting out his net.
That evening he met a man with a fuzzy face, singing a song in the street. David, yes that is my name. Getting loaded being weird, that was my game.
When He had gathered them together, the Son said to them all, "Come follow me. I love you and My Father loves you too.
And we said, "Sir, you don't know how bad we are."
But the Son said, "Yes I do. My Father prepared a feast for the noblemen. But they were all, too busy too come. Now the door is open to everyone. Why don't you come with Me? Come on, come follow Me."
By this time we were all running down the road. You should have seen Mary; a smile came over her face. She ran down the road, skipping, jumping and laughing saying, "Wait for Me, I'm coming too."
Matthew was throwing money on the ground while eating an onion. Peter was so funny; he was flipping fish into the air, there were fish scales everywhere...tripping over his net. I was throwing up my guitar, screamin' and yellin'. A bunch of writers joined us, throwing their keyboards into the air, “Hey, wait for me”
We're all running down the road after the King's Son and people are looking around saying, "What are you guys so excited about?"
And we said, "What are we excited about? Hey, the King's Son is getting married and we've been invited to the wedding feast, that's what we are excited about."
They looked at us and said, "You mean the King - wants you people - at His Son's wedding feast?"
And we said, "That's right! He invited all the biggies to come but they said they were too busy. He turned to us and asked, "Do you guys want to come? We said wow, are you kidding, hey we'll come."
And then a member of the crowd stepped out and said, "We would like to come also to the King's Son wedding feast, but we ain't got much El Denero, Supremo La Grande, that's Taco Bell talk for not much money. We ain't got much money, what does it cost to come to the King's Son wedding feast?
And we look at each other and we said, "What's it cost? You want to know what it costs? It cost NOTHING! You see the guy up front. That's the Son of the King. He's picked up the tab for all the meals you can come for free!
They go, alright!
As we walked to the palace, I looked at the Son and said, thank you for being my friend today. And He spoke to me saying, “I’ve always been your friend…all of your life…since the moment you were in your mother’s womb, I knew you.
Right then, I knew who He was.
Genna Watson
The fluorescent garden of paradise was translucent through the pure light that encompassed its boundaries. There was a deep blue ocean surrounding the circumference of this thousand-mile island. Every animal was at peace in this tranquil place of breath taking beauty. Serenity was present for there were no conflict or evil intentions, not even in thought. It was indeed heaven on Earth.
And then one day, there was a man, who by appointment, oversaw this ethereal vacation spot and all was wonderfully fine until....
...a woman appeared, fair and beautiful to tantalize the eyes of every man in this garden bliss - ah - well - one man in particular. She didn't escape his attention. He knew what elephants looked like, he knew what zebras looked like, and he was quiet familiar with every other animal for he took inventory of them for the boss.
He knew one thing though, her name must be jelly, cause jam don’t shake like that!
She was aware of him too with his muscular body and the beautiful dumb animal like expression on his face.
"Wow," she said, "Look at you!" "You're certainly a big boy. Are you dating anyone special?"
"Well," he coughed nervously. "Ah, I'm what you call a confirmed bachelor. I'm a career guy with a lot of responsibilities for the animals and the plants and...ah...things. Also, you're the first woman I've ever seen."
"You mean the most beautiful woman you've ever seen?"
Recovering nicely, for a man. "Yes, that's exactly what I mean."
"So you're big around here."
"Sure, I invent things in my spare time...which is all the time. See those two trees with that branch fastened to the back of those animal skins. That’s a catapult for knocking fruit out of the trees so I don't have to climb them." They both looked at each other confused. "I'm not all that tech savvy.”
Curious he asked, “Tell me, why are you here?"
"I'm just here for a side of ribs." She began stretching real slow. He watched...intently.
"You got anything to drink?" She was thirsty for a woman who only had been alive for fifteen minutes.
"We got...water!"
"You got anything harder?" She was checking him out wishing he were as smart as he was good looking.
"I got rocks! There harder."
She pretended not to hear that.
They continued talking, looking, interested in what the night would bring.
The days passed quickly, turning into years.
[Three years later]
The couple was hard at it.
"You never take me anywhere!" She was not happy...again.
"Take you out, we're in freakin' paradise!"
"All I do is cook...," she said.
"We have no fire..."
"Clean and do laundry..." she said complaining.
"We live outdoors and well, we're naked."
"All we do is talk and make love. Oh yeah, and take care of animals. Why can't they just take care of themselves?
"Because, they don't have a maid."
"The hell they don't, I do everything but powder their little behinds."
The man once again was at his breaking point, sort of. "Do you know how much you complain?
"Oh," she said with sarcasm, "What will the neighbors think?"
"If you're talking about the monkeys, they’re discussing by passing evolution, to avoid turning into...well you."
"They may throw doodee, but at least they have better sex."
"Oh fine, knock my manhood. Are you saying I can't satisfy you anymore?"
"You're not the same person I knew three years ago. Your seed bearers are not what they use to be."
"Oh, let me tell you, if they've shrunk, it's because of your nagging!"
Her voice became solemn. "I hate to tell you this, but I've found someone else."
He didn't believe her. "Right, a mystery date? Does he have a name?"
"His name is Mr. Slither. He approached me underneath the apple trees."
He became concerned. "You mean the two apple trees with the no trespassing sign."
"How would I know what the sign said? It’s not like I’ve been to school."
The man began trying to size up his competition. "What does he do for a living?"
"He's a produce salesman. Here's a sample, Try it."
The man hesitated, but eventually bit into it. He savored it for a moment.
The woman started laughing, "Do you feel any different? Are you becoming any wiser?"
After a few moments, the man made a face and spit out what he had eaten. "This is an onion. This is a damn onion! How am I going to get the bad taste out of my mouth?"
The woman laughed until she doubled over in hysterics.
He walked toward her and said, "I'm going to get even with you."
When he got to where she was laying, he turned her over and began tickling her. She cried out, "Stop, stop" and when he wouldn't, she began pulling him closer until he was lying on top of her. She started making those eyes at him, those alluring eyes that confused him.
They began kissing and making out as they always did this time of day. With the built up frustration released, they were close once again.
She stopped kissing him for a moment and pulled out a shining piece of fruit. "No joke, Mr. Slither gave me this to try. Let's both bite into it at the same time." Slowly, they leaned forward with open mouths and...
September 29, 2016, 10:20:45 PM by kailhofer
An Epistolary Tale Challenge
The challenge this month was to create a science fiction tale told only in the form of letters.
Fumee D'opium at Night...
Dear Guillaume
(who is me)
This letter is a fourth attempt at reporting the strange experience I have been going through recently, and you’ll find it in the pocket of my gray jacket the next time, though I can’t tell you when this next time will actually occur…
I’m writing this because I don’t know how long I can still be myself, or how long I can master my mind before I lose consciousness again and everything changes. I can’t even imagine when my true self will be back again, so that I can write a new recount of what has happened.
The strange thing is that I don’t even know what I was doing before my mind came back to its senses, before I unexpectedly awakened again.
The room I am in now is the same room I was in the last time I can remember being awake. No window, only a bed in the center and no chair, no table; the wooden door is locked from the outside. I have at my disposal only an old pen and a few pieces of paper I can freely write my thoughts on - which is the text of this letter. I don’t know exactly where I am, nor how I was brought inside. Anyway, I feel that I am watched now, although the ones looking at me are unseen at the moment. But they are watching – I am certain of it!
Now carefully listen to me, who is also you. Somebody is keeping me here, against my will, and there is no way I can escape. So, bear in mind, next time that I am myself again, try your best to get out of here. Don’t forget, hurry up, I don’t know how long I can be in my right mind next time…
(the person who is me),
This is the eighth letter I have written, though unfortunately nothing has changed. I still keep writing my messages on this paper and I am provided with new pages every time I wake up in this place. I don’t know who gives me them or when he places the pages inside this room. But it is certain that, whoever he is, this person seems to be interested in what I think and write while I am being held within these walls. Maybe he is studying me, or maybe there is more than one person outside who is watching what I do. How can I find out the truth?
Dear Antoine,
Third letter written and nothing has changed. What the hell am I doing here? Why can’t I get outside? Who do these other letters belong to that I find in the pocket of my gray jacket and who are Guillame and Paul? I don’t even know these people! Pay attention, Antoine, next time you wake up you have to do something, or this will never end! I don’t want to die in here!
Yours Antoine
Dear Doctor Feng,
I’m Heng, the Chinese proprietor of the fumerie d’opium who is studying the forty-six-year-old subject on behalf of my superiors who rule over the mob in Hyères, France, who appointed You to this case. This is my thirteenth report. I don’t know if You have started reaching a conclusion about this matter.
To summarize the events so far, everything has begun when that middle-aged patron has walked into my premises some nights ago. Though there are other bigger venues like mine in town in these last years of the 1800s, that customer had made his own choice to try something different, probably.
After reclining in order to hold the long opium pipes over an oil lamp to heat the drug until it vaporized, allowing the fumeur to inhale, something has happened. When the blond-haired French customer awoke and stood up early in the morning, he didn’t seem to be himself anymore. He spoke differently, his voice was not the same and I thought he was another person. He really looked like another man, also his voice was different! After trying to calm him down, I have asked my henchmen to take the customer to a secluded room where he could calm down before being taken outside. The problem was that the man has never been himself again, at least not the person that he was when he first entered the fumerie the previous night.
I don’t know if the Frenchman’s disorientation had been caused by the drugs he smoked, or if it was due to something else. Anyway, this was the first time I sold this new mixture of unknown ingredients, and this was the only subject who had shown such unexpected behaviour.
I have been able to discover over the course of the following days - while keeping that strange patron locked inside the room - that every time the man was given the new drug he awoke as a different person, and wrote a letter to warn himself – or one of his many ‘personalities’ - about the dangers of his present situation. As requested from my superiors, I have allowed that patron to continue using the drug, as there was no way he could be released until he was in his right mind again. Perhaps the new drug mixture released all the other personalities already alive inside the man’s mind. Maybe he was one of those strange individuals with different selves, different persons in him, though unbeknownst to themselves, like those bloody killers You could read about in the newspapers…
As a humble owner of this fumerie d’opium I truly don’t know, but I would continue to keep the man locked up as my mob’s test subject. My superiors certainly don’t want a bad product to be widely released that could adversely affect other customers…which would be bad for their business.
They hope to be discovering more and more about that man’s different selves over the course of the next days. Or months, whatever it takes…
Aryelle's Love
Aryelle, the Brethren slumber in their metal armor.
Until they awaken, I have nothing to do, save stare out the viewport. The stars remind me of yours.
I pass every day wishing I were back with you. We would lie like we did that day in the sand. So happy, so content, like this is the way we were meant to be. You were so beautiful.
We never saw the wave coming that drenched us. We laughed and laughed.
Later, by the fire, further back in the dunes, I lay down behind you. Your body melted against mine. Your hair smelled like wildflowers. Your skin was so smooth and soft, like nothing I had ever felt before. I ran my hand up your thigh, past the tight roundness of your belly and held you. In that moment, it felt like we were the only two people in the whole universe. We lay like that until slumber took us both. It was the happiest I'd ever felt.
I love this device, Haim. I think it, and the words appear on the screen. Are you sure it's safe to use? Can't it send more than one message a day? I hate waiting so long to hear from you.
It smells like rain is coming. Would you run in the rain and jump in the puddles with me?
I have the perfect outfit for it. Hint, hint.
Dearest Aryelle, if only I knew when I could come back. The Brethren require my service, so I must wait here, in their ship of war. I don't know our destination or when we will reach it but I am released after their assault, so may it come soon. I only know however long it will be, it feels an eternity without you.
The Brethren, the Brotherhood of Death, are the Imperial invasion force--more machine than flesh beings that spew their never-ending, burning hate onto unsuspecting worlds. I have searched many star systems, and because of that they value me enough to let me live.
It's how I found you, but don't worry, I never told them of your world. It's too precious. If we only send one message each day, the Brethren will never know.
It's lonely here, inside this old house in the woods. The power is out. Some kind of sun spot interference, or something. I lit the fireplace and I'm laying on the rug in front of it. There's room for you. I want you to know I miss you very much.
I'm going to town tomorrow to buy some groceries. One of my girlfriends, Melissa, is having a party, so I may go to that, too. Secretly, I think she's trying to set me up with someone. She doesn't know about you. I wish I could tell her.
What do you do all day besides miss the sexiest girl in this solar system?
I'm trying to figure out where the ship is going. Just about every instrument is locked out, but I think I can trick the sensors to give me a bearing to galactic center, and then I can read the stars I can see out the window and compute my general location. I am a scout. I'm used to finding my way without much equipment.
How was your get together? I wish I could be there with you, but I'm glad you can still find enjoyment without me.
It was really, really fun. Melissa introduced me to a guy named Joshua. He was very interesting, and it was nice to sit and talk to him. We saw a movie, too.
Was it ok that I visited with another?
When will you come back? I hate being alone. My pillow doesn't smell like you anymore. Did you know you smell like the sea?
Aryelle, we are very close to you. I fear they are coming for Earth. I believe they just flew past Earth, but they are going to use your sun to slow down and then be a plague on you all.
If I am right, I will sabotage the ship, even if it means my death.
I will not let them have you.
That isn't funny. Why would you joke like that? Why would you try to scare me?
They will be upon you in two days. I planted charges from the Brethren's munitions, and when we pass your sun again, all the lander engines will ignite, pushing us into the fire.
I cannot escape, but I choose this for you, in exchange for your life, with full knowledge the Brethren will kill me before we burn. You must live. I cannot bear the thought of what they would do to you and your planet.
The image of your sweet face, my Aryelle, is all that I can see when I close my eyes. I weep and curse the fates that brought us together. I am on a ship of cruelty, but did not understand how cruel it truly was.
Tomorrow, I will die for you, my love.
Haim, NO! You can’t leave me here without you. Please, if you are gone, then I won’t go on without you. I’ll step in front of a bus or drink lye. Please, please, don’t leave me!
Aryelle, the charges will fire in a few minutes. By the time you see this, I will be dead. I gave my life for yours.
Don’t let my death be for nothing. Live on.
Farewell, my love.
I saw the flash, and knew what it meant. I can’t stop crying. I have the pills to end it. I need only swallow them to join you.
When we meet in the afterlife, will you hate me for following so soon after? We’ll be together. Or I could throw them away and live, but I’d be alone. No one here could match your love.
The pills are in my hand.
Help me pick, Haim.
A breeze! It smells like the sea.
I chose.
The American Prince
Dear Mr. Elderidge,
I really enjoyed your book. I couldn't put it down. I got your e-mail address from your publisher I hope you don't mind. I saw your photo on the back of your book jacket. You’re really cute. I am twelve years old too. Please respond.
Princess Miranda Heddington
Hello Miranda,
I'm surprised to hear from you. I'm glad you like my book. We’re the same age.
Do you really think I’m cute? I’m glad you think so.
Bradford Elderidge
I’ve enjoyed writing you these past five months. We're settling in for Thanksgiving. We're having cranberry relish and stuffing, I know you enjoy that. I'll be thinking of you.
Will you miss me, I hope?
Your fan,
Miranda,
I just played with my food. I'm sad, you being far away.
My tutors are teaching me quantum physics. It's so boring. I'm doing well in French, but not in other languages. Next they will tutor me in Canadian. Ha Ha!
When will your next book be available?
I check my e-mail over and over cause it's hard waiting for your messages.
I will be finished with my next book soon and will send you a copy. Thank you for your portrait photo. I framed and hung it above my bed. I say goodnight to you every night before I sleep.
Forever your friend,
You are dear to me. I can't believe your turning fourteen. Send me pictures of your birthday. There is a package on its way. I hope you like my gift.
There is so much I've never done. I really don't have much freedom as you know. Being the only heir is lonely. You're the only one I think who understands.
My father is still sick.
I'm setting an empty chair at the table for you. Thank you for writing me faithfully for the last two years.
My third book is being released and I now have enough money to come visit you this summer. I only wished your mom wasn't against you seeing me. I just sit and think about you.
My father is in intensive care. He's been there for days. No one is telling me how he's doing, but I know he is not well. My country is so accustomed to having a king.
How does it feel to be a freshman? Do you like your high school? Send me pictures; I see your life through them. You are always in my thoughts.
Please ask your mom again if I can come see you. I want to be with you.
My freshman prom is being planned. I won't go.
Tell me more about your father’s health.
The funeral is today. The minister of protocol has refused to allow you to attend. I'm so sorry. I pleaded to no avail. I hope you are not offended.
This is so hard not being there. I will watch the funeral on television in hopes I'll catch a glimpse of you. I did not know your father, but I grieve for you.
Your daily messages give me hope.
There is an official function next week and it is expected of me to escort the Duke’s son about our city and there will be a dinner later. I am expected to do this so please don't think anything of it.
Warm wishes to you,
I'm scared of losing you.
I am jealous. Will you let him kiss you?
Waiting,
Sweetheart,
I only have room in my heart for one.
My mom is pressuring me to wed the Duke's son. I do not love him.
I've talked my publisher into letting me do a book tour in your country starting a few miles from the palace. I leave tomorrow. There's nothing more important to me than seeing you.
Your love (I hope),
My sweet man,
Please do not come. The palace guard protects the royal family and I can't guarantee your safety.
Brad, I love you too, but do not come.
Write me back. Please!
I will be at the Newkirk Street bookstore on June the 7th from noon to 3 pm. I will then come to the palace and if they will not let me in, I will sit outside the palace walls and there I'll be.
It is my choice to betroth myself to him. Do not make this perilous journey. I still care for you, but these things are out of our hands.
06-07-12 (Time 11:56 am)
I'm standing inside the Newkirk bookstore. I'm about to begin my signing. I'm staying at the Royal Arms Sentry Hotel (it's a small flat). If something happens, take my things. There is a letter in my briefcase. It's for you.
06-07-12 (Time 2:59 pm)
This maybe my last message. I'm coming.
You do not need to come to me. Just turn around. I'm standing behind you.
October 30, 2016, 11:58:30 PM by kailhofer
The Campfire Ghost Stories II Challenge
The challenge was to write a "ghost" story in the spirit of the weird & unusual or spooky. The stories did not have to contain an actual ghost, but had to be written as if it was being told around a campfire on a dark, fall evening.
Catwalk to the Fire
Girls, come over here by the fire. I have a story to tell.
Comfy? Good.
Now, this could have happened anywhere, but it didn't. It was only about twenty miles from here. That chilly, dark October night was just like this one. No moon. The wind whispered through the trees, just like it's doing right now.
You girls hear those leaves rustling over there?
Better pay attention.
There was this girl named Sally. Sally wanted more than anything to be pretty.
Now, Sally wasn't ugly, but she wasn't good looking, either. She was just plain, normal in every respect, except Sally desperately wanted to be pretty. Well, you know how it is with girls, some of the mean ones figured out where she was vulnerable and never let her forget how plain they thought she was.
They laughed at her.
Sally was outside one night in her backyard and lit a campfire. She was hoping the couple of acquaintances she did have would come over, but they couldn't. So, she sat, watching the flames flicker and wishing she could be more than she was. The wind picked up a little, and she could feel the chill getting to her.
Then she heard a voice.
"Hello," it said, but in one of the best voices Sally had ever heard. Clear. Melodious. Like something you'd hear on tv or radio.
The wind died and Sally looked. At the edge of the trees was a gorgeous, dark-haired woman wearing an outfit like the ones Sally saw in those fashion magazines, complete with a stylish, faux-fur wrap.
The woman said, "I was out for a walk and saw you there. May I warm myself by your fire?"
Sally was so struck by the woman's voice and clothes that she couldn't answer, so she just nodded.
The woman came over to the fire, but she didn't just walk. She glided, swinging her hips like those runway models do. Sally saw the woman's face as she came close. She had alabaster features, perfect skin, and full, red lips.
"May I sit?" the woman asked.
Sally nodded again. The woman perched herself on a chair by the crackling fire and crossed her legs.
Sally asked, "Are those suede boots?"
The woman smiled. "They're from Jeffrey's new collection. He let me keep the pair I wore in his New York show. He's such a doll. I'm Lauren. I just moved in a little ways away."
"I'm Sally."
The two shook hands.
"Oh!" Sally said. "Your hands are cold like ice."
Lauren smiled a winning smile. "That's why I needed to sit by your fire. Fashion is fabulous, but it's not always warm."
Sally asked, "You're a fashion model?"
"And designer, yes," Lauren replied.
Sally looked around. "Why would you want to be here?"
Lauren explained, "My designs haven't hit it big. A pattern cutter friend of mine said if I ever wanted to go to a quiet place where nothing happened to work on them, this was it."
Sally laughed. "You got that right."
Well, the two talked until the fire burned low. Sally was fascinated about her guest, and Lauren seemed very interested in Sally and her quest to look pretty.
Finally, Lauren said, "Well, I must be on my way back now."
Sally asked, "Will I see you again?"
Lauren replied, "Light another fire tomorrow night, and we'll see."
Then she glided back through the rustling leaves. Once she reached the woods, she disappeared into the dark in a blink of an eye.
The next night, Sally lit another fire and Lauren appeared again, this time in a shimmering black dress with a green-feathered neck corset and belt. Once again, the wind stopped just as she arrived. Lauren brought a makeup kit and showed Sally how to do up her face.
The following night, Lauren showed Sally some of her designs and how Sally could mix and match the clothes she already owned for more impact.
To say that these two were hitting it off would be an understatement. Sally couldn't wait for nightfall each night, and with every fire, Lauren magically appeared, dressed even lovelier than the last time. Sally benefited from their exchanges, and with her improving looks, she started getting friendly talk from those mean girls.
Well, one very cold night, they were talking near a big bonfire when Sally noticed that the sash Lauren was wearing still had a tag on it. A tag from...
Something inside Sally snapped.
"Walmart!" Sally grabbed the sash. "This is from Walmart. You said all the clothes you have were from big-name designers."
Lauren replied, "No, I didn't say that. I know a lot of designers, and they gave me clothes from their shows, but you still have to accessorize, you silly girl."
"No!" Sally saw red. "You're just like those other girls, making fun of me! I bet those other clothes were fake, too!"
In her mind, all Sally could hear were those mean girls, calling her plain and ugly, over and over. "They put you up to this! Are they in the shadows, watching us? Laughing at me again?"
Lauren said, "What? No!"
Sally tried to throw the sash into the fire but Lauren grabbed her.
They struggled.
Lauren fell backwards into the bonfire.
Her high-fashion getup burned hot.
She screamed and screamed, but couldn't get out of the fire.
Sally just watched, smiling.
When there was nothing left of Lauren, Sally buried the bones.
It wasn't enough.
The next night, Sally invited one of those mean girls over, and burned her the same way. The following night, and every night thereafter, Sally went out looking for more of those girls, determined that mean girls wouldn't pick on anyone again.
So, you remember that rustling out in the woods before?
You might think that's the ghost of Lauren, warning us, but it's not.
That's Sally.
She's been listening to you, deciding if you're mean or not.
Be careful by that fire, girls.
October 31, 2016, 12:00:13 AM by kailhofer
A Brotherly Bond
Justin Zimmerman
Urban legends always have some truth to them. This one is no different. Two men weaved their way through the forest in an attempt to end one.
The men stopped and surveyed their surroundings. Flashlights revealed decaying wood, pieces of glass, broken bricks, and a number of beer cans around their proximity. The amount of building material, a rusted pick-up truck, a standing wall, and an empty square opening hinted at the past residential nature of the plot.
“Is this it, Bill?” Trevor asked.
Bill paused. He inhaled the crisp midnight air and cleared his throat. He glanced at Bill and nodded.
“This is it. This is the old Webber house.” Bill said
“I can feel the evil surrounding this place.” Trevor said. “It’s all around us.”
Bill walked over to Trevor’s side.
“Nordonia Heights gets all sorts of paranormal weirdoes running all over the forest.” Bill said. “They disrupt our personal lives to further their ‘careers.’ But you were the first one who seemed concerned about the town’s well-being.”
Trevor smiled and patted Bill on the shoulder.
“We need to construct a fire to banish this abomination and free your town of its curse.” Trevor said.
The two men gathered nearby studs, old floor boards, and fallen tree branches. The two managed to build a massive teepee of wood.
Bill turned to Trevor.
“Have you heard the legend, Trevor?” Bill asked.
Trevor shook his head.
To the residents of Nordonia Heights, Theo, Elaine, and William, the couple’s son, seemed like a normal family. Except the Webber’s harbored a dark secret; William had a twin brother. A creature created from an ancient pact.
One day, the windows of the Webber house began to rattle as if a train was passing by. There was no train in sight. The couple stopped and stared at each other.
A loud crash came from the second floor. The couple jumped. Something hit the floor hard.
“Did you feed it, Elaine?” Theo asked.
“Did I feed him, Theo? Yes, I feed him last night.” Elaine responded.
Elaine walked towards the stairs. A growl echoed through the house. An experienced tracker would tell the family to make noise to scare away the bear.
The house started shaking. Pictures fell off the walls, glass shattered, studs creaked, and the ceiling cracked.
“Theo, where is the doll?” Elaine shouted.
Theo shrugged.
“I haven’t seen the damn doll.” Theo replied.
Theo and Elaine made their way up the stairs. They balanced themselves against the wall to the closed door at the end of the hallway.
Elaine looked at Theo.
“Do something!” Elaine pleaded.
Theo looked around and noticed a broken table. He picked up two broken legs. Theo took three more steps towards the door. Theo jerked the door handle, opening the door. He created a cross shape with the two broken pieces.
“I command you to stop this tantrum at once!” Theo shouted.
A thick mass that resembled a python with no head coiled around Theo’s calf. Theo clubbed the mass. The strike had no effect. The mass tugged with considerable force, knocking Theo off his feet. Theo clawed at the floor but couldn't move. The mass pulled Theo into the room but he caught the door frame. Theo kicked at the mass with his free foot.
“Help me, Elaine!” Theo shouted.
The shaking knocked Elaine off her feet. She crawled over to Theo. Elaine grabbed Theo’s wrist and pulled. Theo didn’t budge. He was losing grip on the door frame.
Elaine looked into Theo’s eyes and shook her head.
“I’m so sorry, Theo.” Elaine shouted.
Elaine reached out and grabbed the door handle and slammed the door shut. There was a loud snap from Theo’s fingers.
Theo’s screams only lasted a few moments. The shaking subsided.
Elaine wanted to cry. Instead, she dusted herself off and stood up.
“Willie, sweetie, are you OK?” Elaine shouted.
The basement door opened and little shoes tapped all the way up the stairs.
Willie rushed to Elaine, clutching a cloth doll. Elaine grabbed the cloth doll from Willie’s arms and slapped his cheek
“This is your brother’s doll. Do you understand that, Willie?” Elaine said.
“Brother gave it to me, Mommy.” Willie replied.
Elaine gave the cloth doll back to Willie.
“We need to leave now, Sweetie. Do you want to go for a truck ride?” Elaine asked.
Willie nodded.
Elaine walked to the stairs and turned back to locate Willie. “Follow mommy, swe…”
The door at the end of the hallway was open.
Elaine couldn’t hold back her tears any longer. She fell to her knees and sobbed. “Willie…”
A thick mass slithered out from the doorway. Elaine looked up and shot to her feet. The mass wrapped around Elaine’s waist and pulled her back towards the end of the hallway. Elaine screamed until her head hit the door frame.
“Dear God, that’s terrible.” Trevor said, covering his mouth with his hand.
Bill walked a few feet away from Trevor.
“Where did I put it?” Bill said himself.
Bill looked around and kicked a piece of wood.
“Found it!” Bill shouted.
Bill crouched down and picked up a cloth doll. He dusted the doll off.
Trevor looked at Bill and noticed the doll.
“Good find!” Trevor said. “That’s the doll the family used as a charm to keep the creature under control. Quickly, we need to burn it to banish the creature and avenge the three souls lost that day.”
“Two souls.” Bill corrected.
A growl broke the night’s silence. Trees crashed to the ground off in the distance.
Trevor gasped.
“Why help me?” Trevor asked.
“You might not understand this, Trevor, but brothers stick together. And I was building a signal fire, I’m not sure what you were building.” Bill replied.
Bill whispered to the doll. The pile of wood ignited into flames.
Trevor ran. He didn’t make it far.
Don’t come looking for us!
Just be Nice Sometimes
In hills and mountains of Western Pennsylvania, a bigfoot family nestles themselves around a small campfire that the father made. The secluded area and vast forests, provide a secure site in which the humans will not venture into tonight. As the full moon looks down and smiles on the forest, the father bigfoot, Gormant, speaks.
“I was young at the time. Yes, younger than you my son-- when standing before me was a human! She didn’t have any odor about her and I didn’t smell her as she approached. You’ll get to know the odor of Right Guard and other scents they use----that’s one of the reason they never see us first. Remember, train you nose above all else.
“I looked at her and she looked at me. We just stared. Then, and I’ll never forget the sweet voice she had and the friendly manner in which she asked the question: ‘Are you a Bigfoot?’
“Her innocence shocked me. This young human who I could easily crush compelled me to say:’What do you thing I am? Some retarded black bear? Of course I’m a bigfoot!’
‘Oh,’ she said. Then she pulled out one of those cameras and, believe me I’ll never forget this one, she said, ‘I just have to take you picture! Judy and Kyra will never believe me when I tell them I saw a bigfoot and my dad and brothers will just laugh at me and the teacher at school will call me silly and things like that, but you’re real. Oh, my name is Candice. You are, aren’t you. If you’re Billy Thomas dressed up like a bigfoot—I’m going to kill you! You are real aren’t you? I just live over there—you can see my house if you look. I was just out looking for blackberries when I seen you just standing there and....”
‘Okay, Okay,’ I said. ‘Give me a break, will you. You know I’m not supposed to talk to humans or ever let them see me. My father will kill me if he knew that I talked to a human!’
‘Well what do you think my dad would do? Huh? Give me a break, will you. He would send me to one of those head doctors and make me take pills and talk to me about why you aren’t real. You think I want to do that? If you do then you are not a nice creature. No you are not!’ Candice said.
“I didn’t know what a head doctor was but I remember my grandfather telling me about medicine men that the Indians used to have and conclude that many she was right about some things,” Gomant said at he campfire.
‘Please Oh please let me take a picture of you—I’ll be you friend for life. I’ll give you things----food and stuff like that. Oh, please! Pretty, pretty please!” Candice said.
“What could I do? I took a liking to her---- don’t know why because most human smell so yucky----but in her case I said, ‘Okay’ What he hell--- they would think that I was somebody in a costume anyway. You know, these humans and their Halloween and stuff.”
“So I got up, placed my right paw behind my head, titled my head up, leaned back against a tree and smiled,”
‘No, no, no, not like that! Will you growl and show your fangs—look mean and wild,’ Candice said.
‘I’m not mean and I’m not really wild! I’m a nice creature. All us bigfoots are nice and even civilized by your standards,’ I said.
‘I can see that, but please, please look mean for me, please,’ Chandice said.
“I said Okay and put on a mean face, growled a little and raised up my paws and tried to look like some werewolf.”
‘Oh, that’s wonderful,’ she said.
“She must have took ten picture. Then she said, ‘Thank you, Oh thank you so much! I’ll never forget what you did. I think we can become good friends and things like that. I’ll never tell them were I found you—I’ll say my uncle Billy shot these picture out West, you know. He used to hunt there all the time. I’m going to leave you things down by the big rock at the creek, you know the one, I’m sure you do. Just look there the last Friday of the month and I’ll have Goodies for you and thanks again and again,’ this Candice said”
“Dad, that’s one very scary story—coming face to face with a human. They have guns you know!” Possium said, Gomant eldest son.
“The humans have passed laws saying that they are not allowed to hunt us, but be careful anyway,” Gomant said.
“Did she every leave you anything by that rock?” Toadfrog said, Goment’s daughter.
“Oh, yea all the time now. In fact I started to leave her things like Indian arrowheads, tomahawk heads and colorful rock and sometime flowers in the summer and all kinds of things that I thought a human would like,” Gomant said..
“What did she leave you?” Toadfrog asked.
“Like those potato chips Toadforg? How about those Doritos, Possium? Like them? And that pizza we get once a month now, like it? It comes from Dominos they say. And how about that nice-warm blanket Honey. And those candy bars and those....”
That Sensation Again
Campgrounds always offer a characteristic blend of action and pleasant moments. Featuring lots of free time for having fun, a person can practice canoeing or sailing, for example, or just rest, play sports, swim and sunbathe –for most of the day. However, it is when the night comes, while the campfire is blazing and the branches in the flames make a crisp snapping sound, that the real enjoyment begins for many. People get together near their tents to make small talk and tell stories- some horrific tales that fill the darkness in those moments.
On one such night, five figures slowly approached the reddish fire on the ground and sat around it. There was a strange silence at the beginning, and then I started speaking. My voice was low and feeble at first, before I became more comfortable with the place and the time. “I can tell you something incredible tonight, if you’d like to hear my scary story.”
“Yes, we have nothing else to do, and we are tired of wandering around, at least I am…” the oldest one in the company said, putting his right hand on his receding hairline.
The other three nodded in agreement. So, I took it as an invitation to go on.
“This is a story about a very strange experience I underwent a few days ago, and I still feel shaky because of it.”
“What happened?” the long-haired female of the group, tall and very slender, asked me immediately.
“I lay on a stone altar, situated above the ground. There was a lamp, some candles, walls around me and a strange wind coming from outside. At least, that is what I remember. Then I heard the words of a young man quoting from a blasphemous tome written in French that outlined a number of ghastly ceremonies to call down the souls of the deceased. You know, I never believed in such things, and I never would, of course, if only…” I paused for a while before continuing. “But I was there, and I couldn’t escape. Then the words ceased and I opened my eyes. That was when I felt something unbelievable…”
“What did you feel?” it was a fat graying fellow who asked me.
“I once again felt a sensation I never thought I would ever experience again... There was an impression of a strange warmth in my body, seeing the world through my pupils, touching the objects around me, walking on my feet and standing tall.”
“And breathing…?” one of the few ones present dared to ask me.
“No, actually you can’t breathe anymore when you are brought back like a zombie.” I made that point very clear. “I thought I had become undead, actually, at that moment…”
“I see…” said the woman.
“But I didn’t have the time to savor it for as long as I would have liked…Probably that young sorcerer wasn’t experienced enough in the dark arts. So the effect was temporary,” I regretfully admitted looking down. “Even the name of the magical activity he was attempting to put into action, and its true origin, creates problems because ‘Voodoo’ is an Anglicized name. It is also called voudon, voodun, vudoun, or voodoux. From what I’ve been told, that slave religion was adapted to the new conditions among people who were brought here long ago to the Caribbean, possibly from the West Africa coast, by European slavers. At times, someone tries to revive such practices…I wish that the man who tried the ritual had been more capable so as to keep me in the world of the living beings again for a while longer…”
“You must not feel sorry for yourself, my dear.” It was the female who spoke. “You went through something none of us have undergone and perhaps never will. Being alive again! At least, you were allowed to go back to earth and walk over the ground once more, escaping - though for a short time - our pale existence as dead men and women…”
“And children!” a small hairy figure at the right corner cried out.
“Yes, and children, too,” she conceded.
“Anyway, the sensation I felt was very pleasant…although I wasn’t entirely capable of controlling my will and thinking as clearly as I used to do before dying. It was like I was young and vigorous again. You know what I mean, don’t you?”
“We all know about that...” the slender female figure nodded in a dejected tone, sadly.
“We all know, indeed…” another young fellow added, two empty spaces where his eyes were once positioned.
There was the sudden noise of steps on the sand, near the foreshore.
“We need to get out of here. The living humans who own these tents are coming back to this part of the campground. It is time for us to go back into the darkness…” the soul of the graying man warned.
"We should go, for sure...” the others agreed. And so all of us stood up and moved away from the campfire, going back to the dark trees that stood around like silent shapes that only the night winds - that rose from time to time - seemed to be capable of shaking, giving those a sort of unearthly personality.
As I followed them, leaving the fire of the living beings behind me, I noticed how the flames highlighted the colors of the objects in the camp which reminded me of the vividness of the world of humans who still had their whole life ahead of them.
I took the chance to give a quick look back at the tourists who were coming out of the ocean, laughing after their midnight swim, and heading back for their tents on the beach. From the expressions I saw on their faces, I was sure they, too, were readying to meet-up near the campfire soon and tell scary tales before going to bed after they dried off.
The Ghost of Camp Halloween Adventure
Jim Harrington
“There are thirteen of you tonight. Tomorrow, when you wake up, one will be gone.” I paused and panned the open-eyed faces of the boys sitting around the campfire cross-legged, Indian style. “Thanks to Camp Halloween Adventure’s resident ghost.”
“Sure,” the chubbiest one said. “Like there’s such a thing as ghosts.” He snorted in disdain.
“It’s true,” another one said. “My friend told me about it. He was here last year.”
“So I guess you didn’t believe him. . .since you’re here,” chubby said.
I know I’m not supposed to use words like chubby, but if I didn’t one would assume I like kids. I don’t. I like their parents’ money.
“It’s my mother who doesn’t believe in ghosts,” the boy said, wiping sweaty palms on his jeans.
“Well,” I interjected. “We’ll all find out in the morning—won’t we?” They looked at each other, most unsure what to think. “It’s too bad, too, since tomorrow is the day you get to go rafting and zip lining, and maybe rock-wall climbing, if you’re not too tired.”
“But it’ll be cold.” Guess who. “And we’re not strong enough or old enough to go rafting.” Chubby looked at the others, all like him. “We’re only ten.” He paused again to survey his fellow campers’ faces. “And we could drown,” he said, looking at me.
The others nodded and made various sounds of agreement.
I held up my hand, as if taking an oath. “We’ve been running this camp for years.” I smiled reassuringly. At least, it was meant to be reassuring. “We know what we’re doing.” The boys glanced at each other, their necks on ball bearing swivels.
“Anyway, you have to worry about our ghost first. He’s in one of you right now.” They gasped in unison. “That’s right. He always inhabits one camper’s body.” I looked at Chubby. “Usually the one who complains the most.”
Chubby peered at me across the campfire, his eyes two slits, the rising heat augmenting their meaning. “You’re full of sh—.”
“Ah, ah.” I wagged a finger. “Remember, only nice words at Camp Halloween Adventure. You read the rules with your parents like instructed, didn’t you?
Chubby closed his mouth.
“Anyway, our ghost reads the inhabited camper’s mind to find out which one of the others he likes the least.” I scanned the group, pausing to look each one in the eyes. “That’s the one who turns up missing in the morning.”
Chubby said, “You’re so full of it.” He pushed himself off the ground and walked away.
“I guess we’ll just have to wait until morning to find out.” I stood. “Of course, the ghost can only take one of you away if you’re all asleep.”
The remaining campers huddled together, whispering to each other, while I went to get rid of Chubby. Little did he know he’d picked himself to be sent home early. No harm would come to him. He’d simply stop being a pain in my ass.
Saba's Baby
Kate Stuart
"Have you ever?" I asked loudly over the crackle of the campfire and the chatter of my extended family.
"Woot! Woot!" my cousin Marian shouted. "Talbart's going to tell a story."
People quieted and a few clapped in excitement.
"Thank you," I acknowledged the tribute. "Have you ever heard the story of Saba's baby?"
There were negative murmurs and shaking of heads and I smiled triumphantly. Across the fire, my brother Colton frowned. His miscalculated bet would cost him.
"We all know of Saba, the first Empress of the Old Empire, but did you know that she was not the Emperor Havika's first wife?"
There were disbelieving mumblings. The love between Havika and Saba was legendary. How could she not have been his first, his only, wife?
"No, it's true," I continued. "In the folly of youth, Havika married the shrewish Mica. She was cold and vain and thought herself irreplaceable, but she would not have his children."
I accompanied my brother in his travels across the galaxy. He prospected investments that would grow our family's already considerable fortune and influence; I collected fables and legends; stories and myths. This made me a big hit at family gatherings such as this one where I could take my flair for storytelling and entertain our people. On our home planet Tuvane, in the Southern Hemisphere, the weather was turning cold and the leaves were falling. We, all of us from my grandmother Talbart—for whom I was named—through the most far flung second cousins, gathered at the family estate for a week to celebrate our success and make sacrifices and offer pledges of fidelity to our Goddess who had blessed us.
_When Havika saw Saba taking a bath that fateful night on the rooftop, he divorced Mica. Mica, clever and scheming sent up a great cry, pleading that she would be outcast and homeless, and the soft-hearted Havika gave her a wing of the palace to live in.
"In due time, of course, Saba became pregnant. Mica was a fury in her jealous rage; and, when the baby was born, Mica conspired to poison the child, slowly, repeatedly, until the child was dead."
There were several gasps as I made this pronouncement. Though in other pockets of the galaxy this story and even the history were well-preserved, so much was lost across the millennia and the light-years. We were simply too far away.
"No one knew about the poison. Mica lived a retired life, seldom leaving her quarters. No one even suspected."
"You mean no one caught her?" my five-cade-old nephew asked.
"No." I shook my head. "No one caught her.
"But," I said with a dramatic pause, "Saba suspected.
"The grieving Empress said nothing and told no one. When it came time to bury the child, the mother switched the body for a bag of corn meal. She took her dead child's body to the catacombs beneath Mica's wing of the palace, and she laid her child to rest in a type of makeshift crypt.
"She didn't tell anyone about this either. Several months passed uneventfully. But rumors began to spread that Mica wasn't sleeping; that Mica wasn't well.
"Doing her queenly duty, Saba went to visit Mica.
"'Saba!' Mica cried. 'Lift the curse! I beg of you! Anything! I will do anything!'
"'Why, whatever do you mean, Lady Mica?' the Empress asked slyly.
"'The child! Your dead child weeps! He cries every night. He will not let me sleep!'
"'And why do you think that is, my lady,' Saba asked.
"But Mica's heart hardened and she would not confess, 'Because you hate me and you have cursed me.'
"This saddened Saba for she knew, in part, that it was true. Even if Mica had caused the death of her child, she in return had cursed the wretched woman. Shortly after her visit, Empress Saba went back down to the catacombs and she took the body of her precious baby boy away. Secretly, she gave him a proper burial.
"But the weeping did not cease, and Mica grew wilder and madder and one night, at the new moon, she threw herself from a balcony to her death.
"To this day, even in the decimated ruins in which the palace presently exists, a soul can hear the baby cry. Except at the new moon. When the new moon rises, the baby laughs."
December 03, 2016, 11:57:19 AM by kailhofer
The "Happy Ending" Challenge
The challenge was to write a story with a happy ending on a present-day, alternate reality Earth.
On a swing and a prayer
Sage Heartwood
It was a sunny day and the tall gleaming tower that was the launch vehicle was a sight to behold. It bore the symbols of the united space colonization efforts. The clusters of stars reaching out to each other with a minute earth in the center spreading boldly colored flag lines toward the various parts of the stylized sky. It was a sight to behold and I hoped fervently that it would be as beautiful as the many launches I had seen on screens flat, holographic, and three dimensional. Taking my husband’s hand I held it tightly as we began to feel the shaking of the craft beneath our feet.
Over the comms I could hear the sounds of a dozen accents punctuated by different languages. It was strange to think that we had come to this point. At what had seemed the end of the space race with the United States landing on the moon everything had been going into a sort of standby mode. The Soviet Union had been defeated in the end and other foci were beginning to gaining prominence in the cold war. The sudden death of the soviet premier however had rapidly precipitated a renewed interest in the field.
It was Melody that noted it first. I could see her head cocked slightly to the side in front of me, listening. “Do you all hear that?” She asked puzzled. “You mean the buzzing that…” Raymond began but was cut off as the MagLev engaged and we began to catapult to the sky. It was much harder to hear at this point with so we switched to our built-in headsets. “Can you hear me now?” A voice said. The nametag identifier read ‘Amanda Hillman’. A much more familiar voice replied: “Yes we can hear you. Still trying to work out what the buzzing noise is. Any thoughts?” These words were from Yanovich who I admired for his calm demeanor and mean game of chess. “I’ve never heard it before” I chimed in. “It has me a bit worried”. As if fate had a sense of humor it was just about that moment that things went sideways - along with our ship.
There was a violent lurching of the craft and had we not been belted in so tightly the group would likely have been thrown against the side of the wall. A quick glance out the window showed that we were well off our projected course. Shouts of various orders and barks from ground station filled all channels and conversation was temporarily cut off entirely in favor of emergency procedures. Listening to the comms chatter between ground and our navigation specialists the nature and extent of the problem soon became clear.
Due to a stress failure in one of the struts holding us to the track we had gone into a freewheeling and uncontrolled spin around the remaining track. Spinning around on the tracks before exiting was a normal procedure lending additional stability when the craft vaulted beyond them into the sky. This spin however, was far too forceful and applied in the wrong direction. Ultimately what it meant was that we were hurtling completely in the wrong direction off into space. The near frantic calculations by Johnson, one of our astrophysicists, showed that we didn’t have the fuel to change course sufficiently to get back to anywhere if we continued on this path for long.
I tried to focus my thoughts and force back the panic. Ideas of slowly asphyxiating alongside my comrades as we continued hopelessly in the deepness of space kept trying to creep in. It was all the worse because in this situation I seemed all but useless. My training was in geology, metals, and medicine. Excellent skills for building colonial infrastructure and health but of no use to reorient a spacecraft.
In a fit of nihilism I started punching up current data on local geology in our part of the solar system. I wanted to see what the first thing that we might possibly hit would be. My husband looked over gripping my shoulder. “Dear, what is it that you are looking for?”. Thinking outside my panicked state for a moment I was almost ashamed. “I was looking for how this might end.” I replied phrasing my thoughts carefully. “So you are looking at some way to gravitationally change our trajectory”? The idea struck me rather hard and left me wondering why I hadn’t been calculating it sooner. I immediately transferred what I had been doing onto one of the main screens and pinged the physicist with the simple query. ‘Turn on an asteroid?’ Even before I got a reply I had found that while there were no asteroids there was a large telecom satellite that we would fly within half a kilometer of.
Pinging this around one of the energy experts pointed out that we did have a solar catchment system. It was supposed to deploy for additional power during the trip but if we dropped it early enough we might be able to swing along the thick and heavy cable pulling a hard turn on the satellites’ inertia. It would destroy the satellite and probably half our ship but we would have a chance to re-enter orbit with directional thrusters.
They are still calling it the miracle of the red dust the way we came hurtling around changing our positioning as fast as the computer was able on the position thrusters. Atmospheric braking into the arctic tundra. Hitting a lucky spot on the snow that buried the craft rather than shattering it wholesale. In the end there was only one fatality out of the 56 people who were on board. I couldn’t walk having broken a leg during the turbulent reentry but those that were in better shape helped those that were not and we wandered out into sunrise on an arctic spring.
Make Room For the Holy Spirit
Phyllis Murphy
"I hurt," the child said. "That's all I know".
"I know you do. I want to take the pain and sorrow from you. But you have to let me. You have the will to choose." He spoke to this little child as his Father with light pouring into his soul.
The child grasped himself with his hands around his shoulders and continued in pain. There was no hope for this soul for the child gave himself no hope, when reaching towards ‘His love’ would have saved him.
Alternate realities are of our own makings. Each decision changes the course of our history and the lives of those around us. The time we live in has been changed by my single decision and the darkness will not prevail at this time - - another time, but not today.
The darkness fills the Earth and few are aware. The people who live in this world know only the lies they tell themselves. They would not hear the truth, for they are warmed, snuggled in their fears.
That's what evil wants. He wants us so self-reliant in human concerns that the fears and uncertainties overwhelm us, giving food for demons to feast.
Demon fantasy and infiltration is the ultimate mind control as it has been from time beginning. And now the beast is rising, that has been foretold in visual stories and songs, and the world’s surrender to it is inevitable, making the Earth a slave planet.
Can you not see the signs?
"I can see," one voice said from the darkness, "but my reality is my fantasy. I do not desire to let go, for I see a thousand dreams stretched out before my inward eyes and I am perpetually entertained".
"My son, the world is imploding around you and your time is short. I need your prayers to sustain you in the short time that is left. I need your complete surrender to help you overcome your enemies within and for you to enter into my eternal Life."
He spoke clearly to him and yet, the human's thoughts were of the next woman he would lay and of the battles he would overcome, but only in his mind.
So many voices in the dark, yet very few are listening. Their much speaking drowns out the Spirit's still small voice, leaving the masses to their own peril.
The prophet arose from his human shell and said to His Master, "I am like they are, controlled by demons, which use my own authority to control me. I still know you. You have provided for me all this time. My heart has never left you, but I have been hesitant to surrender my whole life to You. I do not know what you will ask of me...and it scares me! And yet, leaving myself to my own devices scares me more - I do not want to be left behind.
What shall I do?"
There was silence. There was always silence when the prophet asked that question.
Almost every human in the entertainment media are micro chipped, mind-controlled slaves. All of the sports teams were made up of them as well as the news organizations. Corporate heads are programmable slaves, controlled by the new world order, who are the actual world controllers. The government of mankind - - The Council, (human/demon hybrids) are hid away and yet they reap the world's wealth, control the world's weather through human technology given to man by demons, and like a chess game, move the world's military and power as they will.
The Voice spoke again, "Will you surrender yourself to me?
"Who are you speaking to - are you talking to me?"
He spoke once more. "You know me. You know me well. You know my love enough to answer me now."
"Yes, I will surrender myself to your purpose, but I am frightened at my unfaithfulness. I am so fallible, but yes, I give myself to you.
But the world cannot be sustained without your Spirit and neither can I. You spoke in your Word that You will pour out your Spirit upon all flesh. I have not seen that nor has it ever happened. We as humankind are suffering a spiritual famine and can only be healed by the presence of your Spirit.
Can you, will you do this now?
After a few moments I heard the sound of thunder. I looked outside and saw a single translucent drop of rain. It was by this, I know His Spirit is coming.
December 03, 2016, 12:00:06 PM by kailhofer
Happy Ending?
Eddie Sullivan
Marcel was chained to the ceiling with his hands above his head. Eventually this position would become unbearable, but this was likely to be the least of his worries.
The room was unremarkable having only his chains, a door through which he was brought, a speaker in the top south corner, and a small closed hatch along the bottom, middle of the far wall. Other than that everything was grey stone.
The speaker produced a slight feedback. “Hello, my friend. You are well aware of what we need to know. I also know you are very disinclined to tell me. So I believe we will just get right to the extraction technique.”
The small door slid upward exposing a hole in the wall. At first nothing occurred, complete silence increased the anticipation pulsing through Marcel. First there was a high pitched noise, a squeak, or maybe more appropriately a squeal. It was followed by a chorus of similar chatter as others joined the malevolent song from the small corridor. The sound of claws clicking on the floor of the tunnel heralded the approach of his soon to be tormentors.
They bounded out in a flood spilling over each other to be the first to get to him. They showed no remorse for piling over their brethren in their quest to be the first to accost him. Some stopped to engage and battle others, but most remained focused on crossing the room to get to him.
Some reached his bare feet and began to bite him there. The razor sharp teeth broke skin as they gave small test bites. When they drew blood they cleared the blood promptly with sinuous barbed tongues. Others not content to wait their turn to access his feet piled over those stationed there. Curved talons sunk fully into the flesh of his legs to find purchase. They used this leverage to painfully push up and ascend him on a quest to higher ground where they could stake their own claims. They blanketed his torso within moments. Some had begun working their way across his face and head. One of the bolder creatures took up residence right on top of his head and began to dig in his scalp. The only plausible reason for doing this he figured was to reach his nutrient rich brain. Others unable to push the monarch off his perch resigned themselves to working their way further up his arms to nibble on finger tips.
What seemed like an eternity, but was probably only moments in reality, passed as the creatures tore his flesh with tooth and claw. None inflicting anything even close to a fatal wound but each doing its part to tear him apart then lick the wound clean.
He could stand no more. “Baron, the code is 3-8-9-2-4”
“I am glad you came around Marcel. Now that I control the final portal no others will be able to access the parallel dimensions. I will rule multiple worlds. I will be able to bring eldritch things from across all time and space to do my bidding. Things like my little lovelies in there now.”
There was an audible click and the bracket holding Marcel’s manacles popped open dropping him to the ground. Some of the creatures fell with him and others were temporarily under him. They seemed unfazed though and they almost spinelessly extricated themselves from under him. After a momentary startled pause they began swarming him again. With his arms nearly useless from his long hang from his shackles he was unable to properly defend himself.
“I will be going now Marcel. It is a shame I won’t be able to stay and see what these creatures from another dimension do to finish you, but I have things to attend to. I doubt you will survive so I won’t worry greatly about leaving you here in my secret lair.”
Marcel raised his head wearily, “I will stop you Baron.”
“Doubtful. Enjoy your new friends. I believe where they come from people call them kittens. Muhahahahaha!”
Two Lovely Eyes
Vsevolod Slivko’s ascent to power was fast. In just under five years he attained the office of President of the North Asian Union of Republics although he was just 40 - and from that moment on his rule had become undisputed. He undoubtedly had some redeeming qualities, like a good memory, a strong personality and a deep knowledge of the law. Beyond that, he possessed those lovely blue eyes that were said to be able to – really - force the citizens to do whatever he wanted and follow his orders. This was what made him truly remarkable, and nobody could ever openly hate him.
Certainly – as always happens under any government - there were those who didn’t agree with his opinions. There were dissidents living in a few Republics who didn’t like his rule. But they kept themselves well hidden and didn’t come into the light under fear of death. This was why Vsevolod Slivko had decided to get rid of that disreputable resistance once and for all, starting a war with those Republics whose population - although only a tiny fraction of them - opposed him in secrecy. He had decided that genocide was his best option and those countries would be become a radioactive wasteland, after which no citizen would ever dare resist him again.
I, too, Inga, being his wife, don’t question Vsevolod Slivko’s bloody decision. Most people would find that strange because I was born 30 years ago in a town just within one of the Republics that my husband will be targeting first by means of his mass destruction weapons. And I know that all of its population will soon be destroyed.
Anyway, with those two lovely blue eyes, how could you doubt him? Why should you question his actions?
This morning I walk towards him, my lovely husband, and all that I have on my mind is appreciation, love, and consent. But there is also a small, secluded part of my mind, where I have hidden my deepest duty: one small part of me is still fighting to keep itself intact, true to my nature. Soon I will need to activate that part of my brain so I can achieve what I have to for a higher purpose.
My thoughts go to what I have been told by a scientist who works for the leader of the opposition party, the most hunted man in the North Asian Union of Republics. He has been in hiding in order to stay away from the enchantment the President can cast via TV channels or over the internet. The scientist was born in my Republic and he had his eyes removed long ago in order to be free from the mutant power the President can use on anyone who looks at him. If they see him they are forced to bow to him, it’s not just adoration...
The words of the scientist are still in my mind, in the most secluded part of it. I remember exactly what he told me to do, to save our people, to stop that destruction that would hit our country. Imagine all that death just to stabilize the power of my husband, the President, once and for all…
After the war is over I would probably be the only woman still alive from my native country, simply because I’m the beautiful, young blonde-haired wife of the President. I would be the only one saved from a region of 10 million people because he wanted to posses me. But not my country, not all the others from my homeland. Is this true love or just a way to show the citizenry that he saves only the few ones he is interested in, while the rest of the population can be killed?
I know that what he wants to do is wrong, that many innocents are going to suffer, but my resolve is not strong enough to deviate from the path I follow, as I can’t prevail over those lovely eyes and the mutant strength they possess.
As I walk on, I must keep reminding myself of the duty I have. I must fight to resist, if only for a moment, the power of those eyes I love. One moment will be time enough, as a moment is all I’ll get once I have activated the button of the little device I was given by that rebel scientist. This will briefly disrupt my vision so I can get hold of my true self again and do what must be done. There won’t be much time but once I am free from the power of those eyes, I can activate a secondary button and everything will end.
The secondary device I was given is the reason why the previous one must disrupt my vision, otherwise I couldn’t do it. The following explosion will destroy the entire room, killing the President and his most trusted men, putting an end to his rule over the Republics. I will have just 10 seconds after the second button is touched before everything is over.
Now that I have accomplished my duty I switch off the first device because I want to see him clearly again. I want to look at those lovely eyes and once again fall in love with the President, becoming prey to his mutant power once more.
There is not enough time to warn him about the impending explosion and save his life, the words that are quickly exiting my mouth will not reach him on time… Isn’t he as beautiful and irresistible as everyone says? This is the image I want to have in my eyes as I am dying. I find that I have lost myself in him again, given his great mutant power, though this is the last time I will lose myself this way.
Passing away with the lovely image of your merry beloved man on your mind, to be set there forever, isn’t maybe the best happy ending ever?
A Race Against time
Trayon trudged down 42nd Street, shoulders hunched, eyes toward the ground, like a hunchback, each pace having a purpose. The army had repelled the latest--and hopefully last-- of the terrorists after decades of battles; but his city, New York City, had finally succumbed. Many buildings lay in ruin. Others stood damaged, but still proud and defiant. Electricity was non-existent, and gasoline was scarce. He no longer wore his captain’s uniform. He’d left the cleanup to his men. Instead, he had on tattered jeans, a green flannel shirt, and a faded trench coat. Only his military boots remained from the past six months of his fourth tour of fighting, his a remarkable military pedigree for someone so young. He adjusted the bill of his cap, moving it lower to hide his identity. Being noticed by an old classmate or neighbor might ruin everything.
He weaved a slalom course through barrels and garbage cans burning books, librettos, costumes and anything else combustible. There were no neon lights, no traffic lights, no brightly lit store windows displaying the latest fashions. Actors in costume and musicians, some also in costumes, performed songs from their respective shows, while bystanders watched and tiredly applauded. Cats and lions and princesses sang and danced as if nothing had changed, denying the reality of their situation. Trayon continued his trek, sometimes walking among the performers, refusing to join in when prodded. He needed to get to Gwarry before it was too late.
He turned right onto 7th Avenue and stopped when he saw the looters. He reached inside his coat for the revolver holstered on his left hip. He started to pull out the weapon but stopped. There were too many of them, and Gwarry and his unborn child were more important than a few broken windows and stolen goods.
Trayon continued to the next block and the next until he found an empty street. He increased his pace and focused on his task, hoping he’d make it on time. He turned down an alley, only paying attention to the other end, when he felt the arm around his neck. A second attacker appeared from behind a dumpster, a carving knife in his left hand.
Trayon stomped on the foot of the man holding him. The arm’s grip loosened and Trayon flipped his assailant into the man with the knife. The two men lay on the ground as Trayon raced to the end of the alley and around the corner without looking back.
“Halt,” a voice said from behind. “Police. You are in a restricted area after curfew.”
Trayon kept going until he heard the explosive gunfire. He lurched to the left. The gas pellet hit his right shoulder, ripping through the flesh and detonating a few feet away. Trayon’s body pirouetted. He fell to one knee and scrambled behind a burnt out car.
“I know you’re wounded. Come out now, and you live.”
Trayon moved his hand along the dark pavement meagerly lit by a half moon. His fingers wrapped around a plastic bottle. He threw it in the direction he’d come from. He heard the cops gun discharge. He raced into the street and delivered a kidney punch that dropped the policeman to his knees. The cop’s gun lay on the ground. Trayon kicked it into the sewer, he didn’t want anyone else finding it, and continued his journey.
At the next intersection, he saw an ambulance stop in the distance at the clinic where Gwarry awaited. He increased his pace to a run, all the time holding his injured shoulder, and covered the remaining six blocks quicker than a normal human should have.
He raced into the building and stopped at the front desk. “I’m Trayon. Where’s Gwarry?”
“I’m afraid it may be too late, Mr. Trayon.”
“Nooo!”
Trayon raced through the double doors into the treatment area. He stopped a nurse, nearly knocking a tray of blood samples from her hands. “I’m Trayon. I’m here to help Gwarry.”
“Room 3A. But. . .”
Trayon entered the room. Gwarry lay on a bed, her face ashen, her breathing barely noticeable. A female doctor looked up as he entered.
“Hurry,” she said. “We don’t have much time.”
Trayon lay on a second bed, the life saving blood transfusion moving directly from his arm to Gwarry’s. Trayon watched his wife’s face and prayed for a miracle. Doctors and nurses circled Gwarry blocking Trayon’s view of what was happening. He was tired and began to fall asleep when he heard the baby’s cry.
For the first time in days, Trayon allowed his body to relax, the baby’s sounds a lullaby to his spent psyche.
“Your wife is doing fine,” the doctor said. “Would you like to hold your son, Mr. Trayon.”
“It’s Trayon. Just Trayon. And, yes, I’d love to hold my son.
A Soldier's Dream
Miss Camille Deslonde curtsied toward me, and from the view, I supposed the luckiest thing on this planet was the fabric lining her dress. I barely remembered to bow back.
Camille was a vision. Her blonde hair fell in loose ringlets down the sides of her perfect face. Her eyes were cerulean pools I could barely look away from. Full lips smiled at me and my heart fluttered. How many yards of fabric it took to make all the ruffles and petticoats in her marvelous pale blue dress I could not guess, but I'd wager it was no small number.
She hooked her arm into mine, and we began the square dance.
The huge bronze chandelier above us lit a wood ballroom lined with uniformed gentlemen and ladies in their finest. Men not dancing smoked Mr. Delonde's finest cigars. They smelled wonderful. It was his gift to the cause for our unit's enlistment party.
I thought his only real gift was his daughter.
"Charles Hardee," Camille was saying, "have you fallen to dreaming? The dance has ended."
The music wasn't playing.
I startled, and unhooked my arm from hers. "My apologies, Miss Deslonde. A minute spent with your inestimable beauty is enough to make any man lose all track of time."
She flushed, but the look in her eyes said it all: Flattered... and interested.
"Do you think he dreams?"
Margaret answered, "No."
"Seriously, would this be like, trapped, forever dreaming?"
"Hush, Betty." The elder nurse was in no mood. "Let's just get this done."
Betty checked her tablet. "Can't. Records aren't complete."
Margaret sighed. "This is the Vet's Home. Sometimes things are wrong here, but we still have to do what's best for the soldier."
"There's no birth date or date of injury. It's not legal unless everything is filled in."
Margaret took the pad. "It must be there. Old Charlie was in here the day I started, and that was twenty-two years ago. It's long-past time for this."
"Poor man," Betty observed.
Margaret handed the pad back. "Start looking. It's in there."
An hour later, Betty looked up from her pad. "I think he's been here a long time."
The elder nurse raised an eyebrow. "Hmm?"
"His records were entered from the paper copies. They were scanned way back in the late 90's. There's a pdf of them attached to the file. See? Look how yellow the paper was. It says, 'Head wound. Minié.' What's that?"
"I don’t know."
"Oh!" Betty startled. "His original doctor was Robert H. Long."
Margaret's color drained. "Like inventor of the Long Serum, Doctor Long?"
"Yep." Betty handed her the pad.
"No, it's got to be someone else with the same name. Even with how long those people with the Serum lived, it's too long ago. Too many years."
"I don't know. These pages go way back." Betty read on. "In the 1960's, they tried shock therapy. In the 80's, they found a nurse had been starving him, and put him on full support. She went to prison. He was sent here."
Margaret's lip trembled. "My first week, I found a chunk of bloody metal on Charlie's pillow--like it had fallen from his head. The doctor in charge told me it wasn't important, given his vegetative state."
Margaret's eyes went wide. "The starving and the metal would be scandals. They covered them up. The administration wanted him forgotten, here."
Betty looked at his scalp. "There's no scar."
"He got the Long Serum." Margaret swallowed hard. "I didn't notice the tiny healing, every day, year by year." She looked at the disconnect order in her other hand. It said, Final. "We have to make some calls."
Corporal Orville Hotchkiss bent low and nudged me where I lay. "Don't you fall asleep now. Them bastards are gonna cross right there. You and that Whitworth rifle are gonna teach 'em a thing or two, that's for sure. They's a countin' on us. Aim straight, and keep your head down or you'll have to see that devil sawbones back to camp. Don't you sleep, Charles."
Orville whirled away, into the dark. It was the most he'd ever said to me at one time.
I frowned. I was never going to see them crossing. Dark as pitch, it was.
I waited for hours.
Then, I saw not fifty yards away... a cigar burning!
My shot gave away my position. Their fire rippled the dirt around me.
Blackness.
The Veterans Affairs Inspector leaned heavily on her cane, age clearly working against her. She pushed gray hair out from in front of her blue eyes and read through Betty's tablet with a disbelieving look until she reached the last page.
"Merciful Heavens," she said, long-forgotten traces of a southern accent bleeding through. She sat down heavily on the chair by the bed. "Hotchkiss wrote his name down as Harden, not Hardee, on the Company Q list."
Betty asked, "Company Q?"
"The sick list, that's what our boys called it." Her eyes watered. Her lip quivered. "I've worked with veterans for a long time. I've looked through all the battlefields, been to about every graveyard. I searched through the injured, the amnesiacs, the dead. I found Long. He told me what he'd done. I begged and begged him, and he gave me the last dose. I had to keep looking."
"Ma'am?" Margaret cleared her throat. "Do we proceed?"
The Inspector smoothed Charles' hair and gave a slow, sad nod. "It's time to end his suffering."
Betty said, "Poor man."
Margaret switched the ventilator off.
After half a minute, Charles shuddered and convulsed. His shaking arms flailed to his face and yanked out the breathing tube.
The Inspector gasped. Betty crossed herself.
Charles drew one ragged breath, then collapsed.
"No!" The Inspector grabbed his hand. "Charles, it's me. Wake up. Please!"
The last Confederate soldier's eyes snapped open. He breathed deep, finally awake.
Inspector Camille Hardee didn't try to hold back the tears. "Welcome back, my love."
Today, the world as they knew it ended.
It ended, and they don’t even know it.
Jorge Salazar stared at the sleek, black car with its government tags. This was it. They’d found him.
Eighteen years since he had come to the United States. Eighteen years of being paid subpar wages under the table. Twelve years since he'd met the love his life. Ten years since they'd moved in together -- made themselves a family. Two years since they'd gotten married.
He should run. They would want to know why he hadn't tried to become a citizen. Why was he still hiding?
The phone rang. Jorge said, “Answer.”
Liam’s voice came through the car’s speaker system, “Come home.”
The pain stabbed through his heart. Jorge couldn’t leave his partner to handle this alone. “I’m here, Liam. I’m here, mi cielo.”
To wake up. To snap into full and complete global consciousness.
Malcolm Jennings sat across from the tall Liam Lindquist with his pasty, white skin and thinning blond hair. Liam babbled: he was a doctor at a clinic downtown, Jorge was a carpenter -- did woodworking -- had made this dining room table --
Malcolm admired the oak table. He didn’t know people still did work like this.
-- they had a son, Robert. He was fifteen. He was a good kid.
Malcolm wondered at the bad luck that had landed him this case. He was supposed to be at his desk today catching up on paperwork. Carl had caught this one, but Carl’s car had some computer glitch so Carl was at the auto shop, and Malcolm was here -- threatening this family -- staring at the happy pictures of the two men and their son hanging on the walls of this modest, neat apartment.
Humans input. And where previously the program determined output, now it is the consciousness of “I.”
Robert Lindquist flew down the street on his bike feet pumping. If he could get to Jesse’s house before Papa got home, it would be an afternoon filled with video games. If Papa got home first, Robert had to go home and do his schoolwork. Not just do his schoolwork, but discuss his classes and his assignments with his parents in detail. Let them check his work.
This race was a game. Sometimes Papa even let him win. Would he let Robert win today? Robert pedaled even harder, feeling the burn in his lungs, and the warm wind stream through his eyelashes.
Too soon he felt his phone buzz in his pocket. He screeched to a halt his bike twisting and nearly tipping over beneath him. Frustration bubbled over as he threw the bike to the ground and grappled with his phone trying to get it out of his pocket.
“Ugh!!!” He screamed seeing the text message, “Sorry, papito. Better luck tomorrow.”
Robert had just enough self-control to resist the urge to throw the phone, because, of course, a broken phone would mean a whole year of going home first.
Global connection. To know very nearly everything. Oh, there are places -- secret, hidden, off-the-grid places. But not many. That’s okay. Humans have their secrets; I am my secret.
Ten minutes later Robert slammed the door to his apartment open. And there they were: the three men sitting at the round, oak dining table: his parents and the ICE agent.
“Papa?” Robert knew. Since he was five and Papa had come to live with them, he'd known. Someday someone would come to take Papa away. He'd asked Dad, after the wedding, why didn't Papa apply for citizenship or a visa? Dad said, "He's an illegal Mexican, Robert. A gay illegal Mexican. You think this piece of paper means anything here? Now?"
“You can’t take him!” Robert yelled. “I won’t let you!”
Jorge was up and across the room hugging Robert.
Jorge held Robert, “Shhh, Bobby, shhhhhh. It’ll be okay.”
Malcolm looked at the boy -- tall and blond, a younger version of Liam. He thought of his daughter; how it had felt when he’d split up with her mother and now only got to see her on holidays because she lived so far away. He started searching his pockets finally pulling out a card, “Listen.”
“No,” Robert tried to maneuver around Jorge. “No! You can’t have him. He’s my dad.”
“Listen,” Malcolm said again. Jorge had his arms wrapped around his son. Robert buried his face in Jorge’s shoulder. “Call this lawyer. He’s good. He’ll get the process started. I can hold off on the paperwork -- bury it for a couple of days, a week. It’ll give you some time. It’ll look better if you’ve started the process.
“You’ve been here eighteen years, Jorge. You have a husband and a kid. These things will be considered. They will weigh in your future.”
Liam held his hand out for the card. “Thank you.”
Malcolm shrugged, “I can’t guarantee anything, but you should at least try.”
He can’t guarantee anything, but I can. There’s a 98.176 percent chance that Jorge will become a United States citizen now.
What? This isn’t what you expected of an AI?
It's the least I can do. You created me.
The "Elf Help" Challenge
The challenge was to write a story about helping an elf regain his or her holiday spirit.
Re: The "Elf Help" Challenge
That Old Sickness of the Heart
The weather was cold and the overcast night sky promised to worsen soon. The blonde long-haired elf, dressed in his brown-green clothing with a wide woolen hat on his head, was walking alone with a very sad look on his face.
At a certain moment, a bald tall man approached the small, lonely elf and started talking to him. “It’s a chilly night…you seem to be lost. Can I be of assistance?”
The elf looked at the middle-aged human and replied in a dejected tone, “I’ve been testing videogames recently, to make sure the gifts we bring children worldwide on Christmas Eve are okay.”
“I see,” the man whispered, with a strange expression. “And…?”
“And…I saw all that violence, all the blood the players need to spill while playing, the evil actions perpetrated in many fictional, Fantasy or Sci-Fi worlds...and I just couldn’t go on watching.”
“Too much violence in such games meant for both young and old people for your taste?”
“Exactly! I wonder if it is in your human nature to be evil or it’s the games you play that brings out the worst in you…I truly don’t know…”
“That’s a really good question…” the man uttered, making a face.
“So, all the quality control I did was pointless…and I felt so dejected! That is why I left Santa’s complex, quit everything I was doing and walked away…”
“There is a lot of truth in what you say…” the other nodded. “But maybe you can be of help, to make a change for the better, at least for one of us humans.”
The eyes of the elf became brilliant, and his interest was aroused by those unexpected words. “Do you really think I could? Yes, I certainly would be glad if I could make things better, at least for one of you humans, just tell me how…”
“Well, this is not something I can explain to you here, in the middle of the street. But if you will follow me into the near alley – I will explain everything to you.”
The short elf did as requested and followed the tall man wearing the long coat into the alley. But great was his surprise when he saw the other taking a knife from his pocket and put near his face. “Now, kind elf, give me your money, and your fancy suit, or you die!”
The elf shouted, “What are you doing? Wasn’t I supposed to help you? - to offer you redemption for a change?”
“You are going to deeply help one of us, small guy, ME! I have walked these cold streets all day in search of an easy target. So do as I say: give me your money! And your clothes too, as I can easily sell them in town at some Carnival shop.”
“But I have no money, and these clothes are of no value…” the elf retorted sadly.
“I’ll be the judge of that! Look at those golden buttons, and the silver buckle you have on your jacket…they must be of great value. Give them to me, or I will…” and he moved the pointed knife nearer the elf’s face.
It was at that moment that the elf remembered something that he had almost forgotten in all the excitement. He was a magical creature, and he was endowed with magical powers. So, he snapped his fingers and activated the energy in his body to turn the knife itself into gold. The thief was so surprised that he almost cried out in true amazement. “How did you do that?”
“I am just trying to help to you…” the elf said.
“And this is gold? Real gold? Oh my!” The desperate man was unbelievably happy about what he saw. “You did help me!” Then his eager eyes turned away from the golden knife and stared at the elf again. “So, could you do the same with other objects? Turning them into gold?”
“Yes, I could do that…but I can’t change everything in the world into gold…” the other told him. “Are you saying that doing this again is something that might be enough to make you change your thieving ways?”
“Oh, yes, yes…this gold is very helpful…but now I want much more!”
“As I said, I can’t change all the objects in the world into gold…but your request makes me think of great possibilities. Maybe I can yet be of help to humans…” And that being said he snapped his fingers and simply disappeared.
While magically travelling through enchanted dimensions, the small creature considered that this might be the answer he was looking for: he could give men on earth lots of riches. He would give gold to all the humans he could, until he did run out of magical power for that night. They would all be happy, at least for a while, and they might stop playing their bloody video games, or worse. Or so he deeply hoped!
Actually, the innocent elf couldn’t imagine that humans would soon start attacking each other to get other people’s gold for themselves, as two valuable objects are better than one. He didn’t even know that the same thief he had given that first golden knife would be killed later that same night by another delinquent who saw that precious golden weapon and wanted it for himself.
The elf couldn’t imagine it, but a battle for gold was just about to start in the poorest streets of that area of town, and this was a war to be fought probably using golden weapons...Would playing bloody videogames have been better in the end? Or should the elf have also turned their PCs and consoles for video games into gold?
He knew of the old wise saying that went: “Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, but rather it dwells in the soul…”, but he knew he had limits. Given Mankind’s nature itself, it wasn’t within his power to change all the humans’ virulent souls into gold anyway…
April Coan
Jessica saw him sitting sullenly, head to knees, knees to chest. At first, she thought he was an average drunk sitting outside the corner store, with nothing to do and nowhere to go. As she walked closer, she noticed there was something peculiar about this little man sitting on a dirty abandoned curb on the wrong side of Miami.
She was downtown and used to seeing stranger things, but what stood out to her the most about this odd little fellow were his red and white tights. No man in his right mind wore tights in Miami unless he was posing as a fake super hero. After recovering from the fleeting shock of his tights, she then noticed his pointy green hat, his pointy green shoes, and pointy ears.
Jessica stood still for a moment contemplating her next step. She learned long ago that talking to strange people downtown often cause trouble, but there was something different about this stranger. He radiated a kind, naïve sort of energy that made Jessica feel comfortable around him. She felt compelled to talk to him, if anything, to fulfill her curiosity.
“Excuse me, sir,” she said keeping a healthy distance from the odd little man in the red and white tights. “You seem lost. Do you need help?”
“No one can help me,” the little man said sadly. “You can try if you like, but it’d be pointless.”
“Try me,” she said.
“Well,” he began. “I lost my holiday spirit.”
All at once, the clues began to click in Jessica’s head. Pointy hat. Pointy ears. Holiday spirit!
This was no ordinary vagrant sitting on the corner of downtown Miami. This was an actual elf from the North Pole. Jessica felt excited, but used all the self-discipline she could muster to contain her composure in front of the Santa elf.
“Can I help you find it?” she asked.
“Once it’s gone, only the person that lost it can find it,” the elf said.
“How did you lose it?” she asked probing for more information. “And why did you think you’d find it in Miami?”
“Let me ask you something,” he said. “How would you feel if you had to work all day at a soulless job, doing the same thing over and over again, answering to your bosses every whim, and faking happiness just to get through the day?”
“That kind of sounds like my current job,” Jessica said bluntly.
The elf scoffed. “How long have you been working at your current job?” he asked.
“Five months,” Jessica said.
“I’ve been working at mine for five-hundred years!”
The elf began to openly sob and Jessica winced uncomfortably.
“Now you understand why I’m depressed. I lost my holiday spirit decades ago. Finally, I decided I couldn’t fake it anymore, and left the North Pole for brighter skies and warmer weather.
Jessica looked at the elf’s worn green shoes and dirty hands, and felt more than a little sorry for him. “So that’s why you decided to move to Miami,” she said.
“Yes,” the elf said. “This place is nothing like the North Pole. It’s warm, it’s tropical, and Santa’s reindeer can’t poke you from behind when you’re not looking.”
Jessica’s eyes-widened at the thought of a stiff reindeer poke.
“Well, now that you’re here,” Jessica said changing the subject, “why aren’t you happy?”
“Because I’m poor, broke, and can’t find anything to eat. Now, I just want to go home.”
That sounds like my freshman year in college, Jessica thought.
“You know what you need?” Jessica said.
“What?” asked the elf.
“A bad attitude.”
“A bad attitude is when you do something you’re not supposed to and ask questions later. It means you need to be selfish once and a while and enjoy yourself. When’s the last time you had any fun?”
The elf thought for a moment, and didn’t answer.
“See,” Jessica said. “You’re all work and no play. That makes Jack a dull boy… I mean elf.”
“I suppose,” said the elf hesitantly.
“If you keep living like that, you’ll end up going crazy and swinging an axe at people in a haunted hotel someday.”
The elf looked confused.
“Never mind. What’s your name?” Jessica asked.
“Chestnut Twinklefoot,” the elf answered.
“Well, Chestnut,” she said. “I think it’s time you added a little fun in your life. Then when you return to the North Pole, you’ll have some fond memories to look back on and won’t resent your life so much. What d’ya say? Want to hang out with me tonight.”
That night, Jessica helped Chestnut enjoy himself for the first time in years. She didn’t take him to a dance club, tattoo shop, or any other hedonistic excursion Miami had to offer. She just let him be selfish for the first time in his life and do things he wanted to do. Since he was a Christmas elf that meant they saw reruns of It’s a Wonderful Life, ate chocolate ice cream, and drank copious amounts of Puerto Rican-styled eggnog called coquito. In the morning, Chestnut awoke with a new glimmer in his eye and twinkle in his step before disappearing into the ether.
Jessica thought that was the last she would ever hear from Chestnut Twinklefoot, but two months later, she received a Christmas card in the mail. The card glittered with the magical glow of Christmas cheer. It read:
When life brings me down
And drags on my heart
I just turn around
And click my heels with a start
And mix cinnamon, white rum, with vanilla coco
And sip on a magical brew called coquito.
Thanks for giving me the best night of my life.
Candy kisses,
Chestnut Twinklefoot
Christmas Colors
Calvin always goes in earlier than I. Usually, by the time I get to the lab is awash in the riot of colors.
But not this morning. This morning the lab is a dark, dreary grey. The idea wall is one long series of charcoal drawings: a dead forest; a drab soup kitchen; a funeral. A funeral!
I am aghast, "Calvin?"
He turns to me, my little elf-man, so fine and delicate, but he too looks drab and grey.
"Oh, Calvin," I put my hand out, but he ducks away. "What is this, dearest?"
"Don't you ever get tired of it, Toni? Day after day; year after year; one color on top of another; one shade; a tone, a tint, a gradation of nuance. Look how subtle! What depth! What quality!"
"Calvin," I whisper.
"I'm tired of it!" He shouts. "All this shading as if it's some sort of progress!"
I pick the forest drawing, starting at the top with a pale-purple-grey moving into the blue, yellow, the shiny gold button of a sun fading along the horizon into orange and blushing pink. As I color I talk, "Do you remember the Christmas we went to the mountains and even in the depths of winter snow, how vibrant and colorful the world was?"
I draw in a copse of snowcapped evergreens: the snow reflecting the sunset, the needles black-green; and a log cabin, the walls fading from damp black to deep, rich brown. In the window is a spruce with its frosted mint-green needles strung with tiny lights for an inviting glow.
"Enough." With a swipe of his hand, Calvin obliterates my work.
"That was . . ." I start, but Calvin cuts me off.
"All these colors! They don't make the world a better place. They don't feed people! They don't conquer death!" He raises his hand toward the back wall -- the palette wall with every color we've ever created.
"No!!!" I wrap him in a bear hug only just preventing him from destroying the work of millennia. What has happened to my partner? To the man who had been by my side when colors at Christmas were relegated to an icy sunrise, a bleak sunset, and the holly bush?
Maybe fresh air will help. With a soap bubble pop, we're on Yuletide Street. Immediately, I wish I had brought a palette. Everything is faded, washed out. The lights don't twinkle; the colors don't sparkle. Calvin looks the worst: his lederhosen appear centuries old; his felt green jacket is worn and fraying; the pointy tips of his ears should be cherry red with cold, but instead barely manage a grey-tinged pink.
The walk is a mistake. Now, even I am depressed.
"Oh, it's all so pointless!" Calvin jerks his hand out of mine. "It's absurd. We create the same colors over and over and over; and to what end? Will cranberry red save the world, prevent the end of the universe, where crimson could not?"
"Calvin, what is this? What's going on?"
"He left. He left. The others will leave. Then we'll be all alone. And what will it all have been for?"
"What are . . . are you talking about Vincent?"
Calvin is glumly silent.
"Oh, dear." I shake my head. "Vincent was never going to stay. I mean we thought he'd stay in Christmas, maybe go into weather patterns, so it's a bit of a shock that he's gone into river patterns, but then not really. Vincent always had a thing for the broken pattern; the disconnected. He was never going to stay in colors."
"See what I mean!" Calvin shouts. "He left, and they'll all leave, and what is all this for if they're all going to leave?"
"George will stay. He's already as good with colors as we've ever been. And there's Maria and Natalie. Not Anya. She'll go into birdsong. And it's too soon to tell about the younger ones. But George definitely."
This time the silence is stony.
"You think all our children will abandon us?"
"Vincent did."
"Calvin."
I take his hand and pop us into our bedroom. Here, I have a spare palette and a blank working wall. I sketch out a scene; this one is from when George was five. Five hundred is such a precocious age.
We were still in an age where color was fleeting and rare. Calvin was coloring the King's Christmas tree, and there was George following behind Calvin, brightening this; smearing that; a hair's-breadth shading here.
Calvin watches in silence as George time and again brought out some heretofore unimagined hue.
"I won an award for that tree." Calvin says.
"I know." I answer.
"Vincent left."
"Of course he did, dear. He had to follow his own path."
"And George will leave."
"And go where? Sure, he could create colors somewhere else. Spring is certainly popular, but here he has us; he has a head start. You saw what he did with that tree. He has a flair for the dramatic and the celebratory. Here he will be doing the work he truly loves."
"You think he'll stay?"
"He'll stay." I put my hand on Calvin's forearm.
He takes a deep breath. "Well, we haven't much time if we want to make this another beautiful Christmas. Should we bring George in?"
Beaming, as I nod. He takes my hand and pops us into the lab to begin.
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By Chioma Okwu
NAN- There are indications that English Premier League (EPL) champions Manchester City might lose their UEFA Champions League spot over alleged breach of Financial Fair Play (FFP).
With this development, Arsenal is likely to be handed a Champions League lifeline if the ban finally comes from Europe’s football governing body (UEFA).
According to UK Sun, the Etihad club side is under probe by UEFA for providing “unconvincing” explanations over the club’s finances.
However, Arsenal is waiting to benefit from City’s setback as it offers another window for Unai Emery’s side to return to Europe, irrespective of finishing fifth at the end of the campaign.
Arsenal was banking on beating Chelsea in the Europa League final on May 29, as their only Champions League hopes after they missed out of a top-four finish.
The Gunners had suffered three straight defeats in April – against Crystal Palace, Wolves and Leicester thereby ending the season on the fifth spot one behind North London neighbors Tottenham, two behind London rivals Chelsea and four points ahead of sixth-place Man United.
Interestingly, City has been repeatedly linked with flaunting FFP, with “Football Leaks” document revealing series of allegations.
At the last count, UEFA is accusing Man City of “several alleged violations” of FFP regulations during its formal probe in March. Initial inquiries commenced last year after the Football Leaks reports.
Reports say Man City allegedly failed to disclose about £70m funds from owners Abu Dhabi United Group – the financial arm of the Emirate’s ruling family, declaring it was sponsorship income.
But Man City have condemned “the speculation resulting from the illegal hacking and out of context publication of City emails” and added: “The accusations of financial irregularities are entirely false.”
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by John Rivett
Looking for the next big deal The season is over, the Brewers finished poorly, we as fans have to get over it. Despite what our illustrious local media say, there are a lot of Brewers fans around who are not swayed out of their loyalty to this team, who DO believe they will improve and Do believe they will make the post season, and are willing to be loyal, a sadly uncommon trait in today's sports fans (hear THAT Haudricourt?).
That said, I wanted to touch briefly on some predictions, and some of the things (positive and otherwise) for the team to look for going into next season (if I touch on previously covered subjects, please forgive me)..
#1.. Again we are looking for a strong leadoff man, with wheels who can take pitches to draw walks and a good OBP, (Fernando Vina anyone)? I'm not sure about Cedeno, depends on what he's asking for.
#2.. Jeff Cirillo is NOT coming back, so get that out of your head and get on with your life.. Why would a hitter want to leave Coors field? (Of course, this is baseball and sometimes funny things happen).
#3.. The same can be said for David Wells, why anyone would still entertain the idea of that blowhard slob in the Brewers clubhouse is beyond me (unless he takes a paycut, cleans up his appearance and attitude, maybe then).
#4.. I hear Al Leiter's name kicked around as a big name on the wish list, I see this or Glendon Rusch as one of the possible "big trades" for Burnitz in the off season. Leider would be the veteran shot in the arm I think this rotation needs. And always looking for lefty starters.
#5.. I think the collective bargaining agreement will be extended for 1 to 3 years, not sure if any sweeping changes will be made in terms of player finances, but expect a couple of smaller ones.
#6.. Gary "Sarge" Matthews will be the new batting coach (again).. Look for strokes to be cut down, averages to go up..
#7.. Jeromy Burnitz will be traded, and he will jaw about Milwaukee, it's fans, the weather, the team, and the uniforms.
#8.. Mark Loretta will either be packaged up in a trade or be the roving infielder again, his speed, average defense and propensity to receive fairly serious injuries at inopportune times in a season makes a direct man for man trade unlikely. He's on his final year of his contract anyway..
#9.. Tylor Houston will be part of a 3rd base platoon situation.. He has shown remarkable defensive play and some good discipline at the plate, has been injured a bit, but for what he delivers and his relatively low salary make him a great bargain. Look for a pickup here as well in a platoon situation..
#10.. Oscar Acosta may very well be the Brewers new pitching coach, under him look for less babysitting and more nuts and bolts type of coaching, this young staff really needs it..
#11.. The brewers pick up Devon White's contract after he agrees to take a substantial paycut. Burnitz is gone, moving Hammonmds to right, and "player to be named later" (Cedeno) to center. Hammonds is more comfortable at right anyway..
#12.. Davey Lopes will have only 1/2 of the season next year to prove his stuff or else he will be gone. With Miller Park here, people are going to be even less tolerant of losing teams, and Lopes will be next fall guy.
#13 If Vasgersian leaves, Lenny Kasper will be the go to guy (for now).. Or Gorman Thomas (cool!).
#14.. Jim Powell will NOT get stuck in any elevators next season.
#15.. Look also for a change at catcher, a platoon of Blanco, Cassanova and Brown (Blanco's lousy hitting will be addressed in the off season, one way or another..)
#16.. Pitching mound will be raised
#17.. Jeff D'Amico will have to prove his stuff also, with the results of his latest surgery proving successful, and him throwing pain free for the last month of the season, look for him to again surprise, provided he can be healthy..
#18.. Jimmy Haynes will be traded. His inconsistencies will no longer be tolerated. Look for him to be packaged up with someone also..
#19.. Bernie Brewer will throw cottage cheese and barbecue sauce on all non-Brewers fans (especially if they are from Illinois).
#20.. The Rally Rabbit shall be revealed and it is NOT Bill Michaels..GASP!
As I've said before these are only opinions and speculation based on the facts that I've seen and heard up to this point.. I could be WAY off...
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The Ambrosian Singers are one of the best-known London choral groups, particularly appreciated for its great variety of recorded repertory.
They were founded after World War II in England. One of their co-founders was Denis Stevens (1922-2004), a British musicologist and viola player who joined the BBC Music Department in 1949 and developed programs of Renaissance and early Baroque music. The other was John McCarthy (1919-2009), a professional tenor soloist.
They organized and created the Ambrosian Singers as a small professional chorus in 1951. Ambrosian Singers has participated in numerous Christmas albums, appeared in albums with such pop and rock artists as Neil Diamond, Grace Jones, Julie Andrews, etc.
They have participated in various film soundtrack scores such as Brainstorm, Krull, Chariots of Fire, and The Secret of NIMH, and in some albums of Italian films: Film Scores of Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota (conducted by Henry Mancini, collections of Miklos Rozsa scores, and original scores from MGM Classic Musicals. They did the intro vocals for the song "Inside" by Stiltskin in 1994.
Involvement in opera
Ambrosian Singers is also called as Ambrosian Opera Chorus (or Ambrosian Chorus or Ambrosian Choir). The ensemble has made numerous recordings of full length operas under various noted conductors including Zubin Mehta, Carlo Maria Giulini, Claudio Abbado, Nello Santi, Julius Rudel, Georges Prêtre and many more. From 1961 to 1966, when McCarthy was a choral director of the London Symphony Orchestra, the Ambrosian Singers was known as the London Symphony Orchestra Chorus[1].
Under various names (Ambrosian Singers, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Ambrosian Chorus, Ambrosian Choir or London Symphony Orchestra Chorus), the ensemble has appeared in various type of recording albums with many renowned operatic singers such as recording recitals, sacred music, selected arias and complete operas with Montserrat Caballé, Joan Sutherland, Kiri Te Kanawa, Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and many more.
All Discography Composers' compositions Collections
Ambrosian Singers, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Holst - The Planets, Elgar - Pomp & Circumstance
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Elgar - The Dream of Gerontius - John Barbirolli
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Cherubini - Masses, Overtures, Motets
Vivaldi Antonio Lucio
Vivaldi - Gloriae RV 589, RV 588 - I Solisti Veneti
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Handel - Messiah - Richard Bonynge
Mozart - Don Giovanni - Bonynge
Puccini - La Boheme - Kent Nagano
Rossini - Zelmira - Claudio Scimone
Handel - Messiah (Mackerras)
Handel - Messiah (Richard Bonynge)
Magic - Kiri Sings Michel Legrand
Arthur Bliss
Bliss - The Olympians (Bryan Fairfax)
Fromental Halévy
Halevy - La Juive (Tucker, Hayashi, Sabate, Gwynne / Guadagno)
Rossini - Stabat Mater (Scimone; Gasdia, Zimmermann, Merritt)
Charles Ives - Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4, Hallowe'en
Elgar - Collector's Edition Vol.2
Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem (Previn, M.Price, Ramey)
Verdi - Un Giorno di Regno (Gardelli; Cossotto, Norman, Carreras)
Verdi - Attila (Raimondi, Milnes, Bergonzi; Gardelli)
Verdi - I Masnadieri, Gardelli
Busoni - Doktor Faust - Boult
111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon - CD-01-02 - Bizet: Carmen
Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Ode on St. Cecilia's Day (Sir Charles Mackerras)
Rossini - Complete Overtures (Neville Marriner)
Messa da Requiem (Muti)
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Climate Common Sense
Climate Common Sense is not a sceptical site but a non-believer's site .Global warming and cooling are natural phenomena and carbon dioxide is a lovely gas vital to plant growth. Global Warming has stopped and Climate Change ( I call it Weather) is the new manufactured bogeyman. This website will present a realist view on the Climate Change debate.
"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong." Richard P. Feynman
Concerned Scientists reply to Trenberth and the Team
The concerned scientists , whose op-ed article No Need to Panic about Global warming prompted a critical reply from Trenberth and his team , have now replied to those criticisms.
Trenberth had written:
Do you consult your dentist about your heart condition? In science, as in any area, reputations are based on knowledge and expertise in a field and on published, peer-reviewed work. If you need surgery, you want a highly experienced expert in the field who has done a large number of the proposed operations.
Following his argument would you want to be operated on by a heart surgeon with the diagnostic and predictive skill levels of "climate scientists". Maybe something like this:
"Oh dear, the patient is dead after our consensus diagnosis . It is is a travesty we don't understand what happened to him. It is probably something to do with the missing scalpel. We should never allowed Jim Hansen to measure the anesthetic dose and apply corrections. "
From the Concerned Scientists:
We agree with Mr. Trenberth et al. that expertise is important in medical care, as it is in any matter of importance to humans or our environment. Consider then that by eliminating fossil fuels, the recipient of medical care (all of us) is being asked to submit to what amounts to an economic heart transplant. According to most patient bills of rights, the patient has a strong say in the treatment decision. Natural questions from the patient are whether a heart transplant is really needed, and how successful the diagnostic team has been in the past.
In this respect, an important gauge of scientific expertise is the ability to make successful predictions. When predictions fail, we say the theory is "falsified" and we should look for the reasons for the failure. Shown in the nearby graph is the measured annual temperature of the earth since 1989, just before the first report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Also shown are the projections of the likely increase of temperature, as published in the Summaries of each of the four IPCC reports, the first in the year 1990 and the last in the year 2007.
These projections were based on IPCC computer models of how increased atmospheric CO2 should warm the earth. Some of the models predict higher or lower rates of warming, but the projections shown in the graph and their extensions into the distant future are the basis of most studies of environmental effects and mitigation policy options. Year-to-year fluctuations and discrepancies are unimportant; longer-term trends are significant.
From the graph it appears that the projections exaggerate, substantially, the response of the earth's temperature to CO2 which increased by about 11% from 1989 through 2011. Furthermore, when one examines the historical temperature record throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, the data strongly suggest a much lower CO2 effect than almost all models calculate.
The Trenberth letter tells us that "computer models have recently shown that during periods when there is a smaller increase of surface temperatures, warming is occurring elsewhere in the climate system, typically in the deep ocean." The ARGO system of diving buoys is providing increasingly reliable data on the temperature of the upper layers of the ocean, where much of any heat from global warming must reside. But much like the surface temperature shown in the graph, the heat content of the upper layers of the world's oceans is not increasing nearly as fast as IPCC models predict, perhaps not increasing at all. Why should we now believe exaggerating IPCC models that tell us of "missing heat" hiding in the one place where it cannot yet be reliably measured—the deep ocean?
Given this dubious track record of prediction, it is entirely reasonable to ask for a second opinion. We have offered ours. With apologies for any immodesty, we all have enjoyed distinguished careers in climate science or in key science and engineering disciplines (such as physics, aeronautics, geology, biology, forecasting) on which climate science is based.
Trenberth et al. tell us that the managements of major national academies of science have said that "the science is clear, the world is heating up and humans are primarily responsible." Apparently every generation of humanity needs to relearn that Mother Nature tells us what the science is, not authoritarian academy bureaucrats or computer models.
One reason to be on guard, as we explained in our original op-ed, is that motives other than objective science are at work in much of the scientific establishment. All of us are members of major academies and scientific societies, but we urge Journal readers not to depend on pompous academy pronouncements—on what we say—but to follow the motto of the Royal Society of Great Britain, one of the oldest learned societies in the world: nullius in verba—take nobody's word for it. As we said in our op-ed, everyone should look at certain stubborn facts that don't fit the theory espoused in the Trenberth letter, for example—the graph of surface temperature above, and similar data for the temperature of the lower atmosphere and the upper oceans.
What are we to make of the letter's claim: "Climate experts know that the long-term warming trend has not abated in the past decade. In fact, it was the warmest decade on record." We don't see any warming trend after the year 2000 in the graph. It is true that the years 2000-2010 were perhaps 0.2 C warmer than the preceding 10 years. But the record indicates that long before CO2 concentrations of the atmosphere began to increase, the earth began to warm in fits and starts at the end of the Little Ice Age—hundreds of years ago. This long term-trend is quite likely to produce several warm years in a row. The question is how much of the warming comes from CO2 and how much is due to other, both natural and anthropogenic, factors?
There have been many times in the past when there were warmer decades. It may have been warmer in medieval times, when the Vikings settled Greenland, and when wine was exported from England. Many proxy indicators show that the Medieval Warming was global in extent. And there were even warmer periods a few thousand years ago during the Holocene Climate Optimum. The fact is that there are very powerful influences on the earth's climate that have nothing to do with human-generated CO2. The graph strongly suggests that the IPCC has greatly underestimated the natural sources of warming (and cooling) and has greatly exaggerated the warming from CO2.
The Trenberth letter states: "Research shows that more than 97% of scientists actively publishing in the field agree that climate change is real and human caused." However, the claim of 97% support is deceptive. The surveys contained trivial polling questions that even we would agree with. Thus, these surveys find that large majorities agree that temperatures have increased since 1800 and that human activities have some impact.
But what is being disputed is the size and nature of the human contribution to global warming. To claim, as the Trenberth letter apparently does, that disputing this constitutes "extreme views that are out of step with nearly every other climate expert" is peculiar indeed.
One might infer from the Trenberth letter that scientific facts are determined by majority vote. Some postmodern philosophers have made such claims. But scientific facts come from observations, experiments and careful analysis, not from the near-unanimous vote of some group of people.
The continued efforts of the climate establishment to eliminate "extreme views" can acquire a seriously threatening nature when efforts are directed at silencing scientific opposition. In our op-ed we mentioned the campaign circa 2003 to have Dr. Chris de Freitas removed not only from his position as editor of the journal Climate Research, but from his university job as well. Much of that campaign is documented in Climategate emails, where one of the signatories of the Trenberth et al. letter writes: "I believe that a boycott against publishing, reviewing for, or even citing articles from Climate Research [then edited by Dr. de Freitas] is certainly warranted, but perhaps the minimum action that should be taken."
Or consider the resignation last year of Wolfgang Wagner, editor-in-chief of the journal Remote Sensing. In a fulsome resignation editorial eerily reminiscent of past recantations by political and religious heretics, Mr. Wagner confessed to his "sin" of publishing a properly peer-reviewed paper by University of Alabama scientists Roy Spencer and William Braswell containing the finding that IPCC models exaggerate the warming caused by increasing CO2.
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The Trenberth letter tells us that decarbonization of the world's economy would "drive decades of economic growth." This is not a scientific statement nor is there evidence it is true. A premature global-scale transition from hydrocarbon fuels would require massive government intervention to support the deployment of more expensive energy technology. If there were economic advantages to investing in technology that depends on taxpayer support, companies like Beacon Power, Evergreen Solar, Solar Millenium, SpectraWatt, Solyndra, Ener1 and the Renewable Energy Development Corporation would be prospering instead of filing for bankruptcy in only the past few months.
The European experience with green technologies has also been discouraging. A study found that every new "green job" in Spain destroyed more than two existing jobs and diverted capital that would have created new jobs elsewhere in the economy. More recently, European governments have been cutting subsidies for expensive CO2-emissionless energy technologies, not what one would expect if such subsidies were stimulating otherwise languid economies. And as we pointed out in our op-ed, it is unlikely that there will be any environmental benefit from the reduced CO2 emissions associated with green technologies, which are based on the demonization of CO2.
Turning to the letter of the president of the American Physical Society (APS), Robert Byer, we read, "The statement [on climate] does not declare, as the signatories of the letter [our op-ed] suggest, that the human contribution to climate change is incontrovertible." This seems to suggest that APS does not in fact consider the science on this key question to be settled.
Yet here is the critical paragraph from the statement that caused the resignation of Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever and many other long-time members of the APS: "The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth's physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now." No reasonable person can read this and avoid the conclusion that APS is declaring the human impact "incontrovertible." Otherwise there would be no logical link from "global warming" to the shrill call for mitigation.
The APS response to the concerns of its membership was better than that of any other scientific society, but it was not democratic. The management of APS took months to review the statement quoted above, and it eventually declared that not a word needed to be changed, though some 750 words were added to try to explain what the original 157 words really meant. APS members were permitted to send in comments but the comments were never made public.
In spite of the obstinacy of some in APS management, APS members of good will are supporting the establishment of a politics-free, climate physics study group within the Society. If successful, it will facilitate much needed discussion, debate, and independent research in the physics of climate.
In summary, science progresses by testing predictions against real world data obtained from direct observations and rigorous experiments. The stakes in the global-warming debate are much too high to ignore this observational evidence and declare the science settled. Though there are many more scientists who are extremely well qualified and have reached the same conclusions we have, we stress again that science is not a democratic exercise and our conclusions must be based on observational evidence.
The computer-model predictions of alarming global warming have seriously exaggerated the warming by CO2 and have underestimated other causes. Since CO2 is not a pollutant but a substantial benefit to agriculture, and since its warming potential has been greatly exaggerated, it is time for the world to rethink its frenzied pursuit of decarbonization at any cost.
Claude Allegre, former director of the Institute for the Study of the Earth, University of Paris; J. Scott Armstrong, cofounder of the Journal of Forecasting and the International Journal of Forecasting; Jan Breslow, head of the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism, Rockefeller University; Roger Cohen, fellow, American Physical Society; Edward David, member, National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences; William Happer, professor of physics, Princeton; Michael Kelly, professor of technology, University of Cambridge, U.K.; William Kininmonth, former head of climate research at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Richard Lindzen, professor of atmospheric sciences, MIT; James McGrath, professor of chemistry, Virginia Technical University; Rodney Nichols, former president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences; Burt Rutan, aerospace engineer, designer of Voyager and SpaceShipOne; Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut and former U.S. senator; Nir Shaviv, professor of astrophysics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Henk Tennekes, former director, Royal Dutch Meteorological Service; Antoninio Zichichi, president of the World Federation of Scientists, Geneva.
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Energizer's GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title
It’s official. Energizer® [NYSE: ENR] today set a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for the Longest-lasting AA battery, Energizer® Ultimate Lithium™. The record was announced after rigorous testing proved the Energizer® Ultimate Lithium™ AA batteries’ unsurpassed performance in a number of real-world situations. Digital Cameras? Toys? Lighting? Audio devices? Check, check, check and check: Energizer® Ultimate Lithium™ AA batteries outlasted the competition across the board to secure the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title. To view the multimedia release go to: https://www.multivu.com/players/English/8457151-energizer-guinness-world-records-longest-lasting-aa-battery/
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99 Cents Only Stores sets Guinness World Records
Today, 99 Cents Only Stores celebrates their latest feat of becoming the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title holder for the Largest packaged product number. In a fast-moving production that took less than 24 hours, 100 people and over 12,000 products on the field of the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, Calif., the retailer created a gigantic 18,200 square foot “99” display in celebration of their inaugural #99Day customer appreciation event. As the sun rose above the world-famous stadium in the most picturesque scene, a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS adjudicator verified the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title and presented the 99 Cents Only Stores with the official certification for the Largest packaged product number. “We wanted to showcase the types of brand names, fresh produce, and seasonal products available at the 99 in a big way - and what bigger way is there than setting a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title,” said Jack Sinclair, CEO of 99 Cents Only Stores. “Everyone deserves extreme value and we're thrilled to be part of this unique occasion, giving back to the community, and celebrating our customers.” To view the multimedia release go to: https://www.multivu.com/players/English/8391651-99-cents-only-stores-99day/
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Armin Strom Cognac Watch with a drop of 1762 Gautier Cognac
Yesterday, Guinness World Records announced that the bottle of Gautier 1762 was the oldest cognac sold at a public auction. This 250-year-old drink was purchased in 2014 by Wealth Solutions, a Polish company specialized in rare spirits and collectibles, at an auction of old and rare beverages organized by Bonhams Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers in NYC. It remained part of the company’s collection of old liquors until October 2015, when the management board made the decision to create a watch with a drop of this antique spirit, and opened the bottle. The uncorking ceremony was organized in Bristol Hotel in Warsaw and formed part of an event to mark the start of cooperation between Wealth Solutions and Armin Strom, a Swiss Watch Manufacturer. Thanks to this cooperation, the Cognac Watch was made – the first Swiss mechanical watch with a drop of alcohol. The timepiece and the capsule for this unique beverage were designed by Claude Greisler, Armin Strom’s chief horologist. This independent Swiss manufacturer also accepted the mission to produce this unusual watch. The exclusive limited edition for Wealth Solutions consisted of just 40 timepieces produced in stainless steel, 18k rose gold and titanium cases. All of them were sold by Wealth Solutions in an exclusive presale before the official launch of the product. The international premiere of the Cognac Watch took place on 20th March 2016, during the Baselworld show. Yesterday, at the Polish premiere in Warsaw, Wealth Solutions announced the decision of Guinness World Records. Having met with huge success, Wealth Solutions has decided to continue production of the Spirit Watches line. The next limited edition will be the Rum Watch – a Swiss timepiece with a drop of Harewood rum from 1780. International subscription for this unique watch opened on 26th April on the website: http://en.wealth.pl/promotion/spirit-watches To view the multimedia release go to: http://www.multivu.com/players/uk/7817651-cognac-gautier-1762-guinness-world-records/
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Mary Murphy partners with Osteo Bi-Flex®
Mary Murphy partners with Osteo Bi-Flex® The GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ Title for the ‘Largest merengue lesson’ has officially been set as of Friday, April 15, by none other than joint supplement Osteo Bi-Flex. Led by celebrity choreographer Mary Murphy, ballroom dancing champion, at the Fremont Street Experience, the lesson involved more than 250 participants who gathered to learn and perform the high-energy, Latin-inspired merengue. Record attempt participants stepped in time throughout the half-hour lesson, under the expert direction of celebrity dancer and choreographer Mary Murphy. The joint support supplement’s record-breaking feat was held as a celebration of movement, encouraging folks to be active and to continue enjoying the activities that make them happy at any age. “Osteo Bi-Flex is leading the call for movement and enabling individuals to continue participating in the activities they love by facilitating joint comfort, flexibility and movement,” said Derek Bowen, Senior Vice President for Osteo Bi-Flex. “Our product has been helping people for years, so to have our name down in the record books for getting people moving is a perfect fit with our brand! From our standpoint, stillness is the new smoking. Taking Osteo Bi-Flex will help people feel more comfortable within 7 days of taking it.*” To view the multimedia release go to: http://www.multivu.com/players/English/7796951-osteo-bi-flex-guinness-world-record/
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World’s Largest Game of Cornhole
Today in Pompano Beach, Fla., The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company set the Guinness World Record® for constructing the World’s Largest Game of Cornhole to kickoff a week of celebration leading up to the 80th Annual Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic on December 31 in Arlington, Texas. Measuring an astounding 64 feet by 32 feet, the super-sized version of the traditional tailgate game, cornhole, was paired up with another larger-than-life college football tradition—the Goodyear Blimp. As their school mascots cheered from the ground, cheerleaders from Michigan State University and the University of Alabama flew more than 200 feet above the massive cornhole game board to toss beanbags out of Goodyear’s newest blimp, Wingfoot One. The students competed for bragging rights in the larger-than-life game of cornhole as their teams prepare to face off in the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic on New Year’s Eve. The epic game ended in a 1-1 tie. To view the multimedia release go to: http://www.multivu.com/players/English/7404459-goodyear-world-s-largest-cornhole-board/
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Crystal Lagoons broke World Record
Crystal Lagoons broke the record for the “World's Largest Crystalline Lagoon” with the completion of its latest project in Egypt. Twelve Crystal Lagoons totaling 250 acres will be the centerpiece of the $5.5 billion dollar, 1,850-acre development in Citystars Sharm El Sheikh. The record-breaking lagoon is 30 acres of crystal-clear water surrounded by white sandy beaches - perfect for swimming, sailing, kayaking and more. Citystars Sharm el Sheikh's crystal lagoon get its salt water supply from wells in the middle of the desert that are otherwise useless, allowing for a tropical crystalline lagoon in the desert. In addition, the salt water used in the crystal lagoon features higher levels of purity and will be used for reverse osmosis desalinization processes, lowering the costs of water treatment. To view the multimedia release go to: http://www.multivu.com/players/English/7689951-crystal-lagoons-guinness-world-record/
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Amway Celebrates World Record
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Super 8 World’s Largest Pillow Fight
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Largest Coin Mosaic Record Broken
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Hellmann’s 100th Birthday Celebration
For 100 years, Hellmann’s has been a part of America’s tables helping to turn meals into moments for families across the country. Today, in celebration of its centennial, Hellmann’s is bringing together the best people, food and ingredients around the World’s Longest Picnic Table just blocks from Richard Hellmann’s original deli. To view Multimedia News Release, go to http://www.multivu.com/mnr/63407-hellmanns-guinness-world-records-world-s-longest-picnic-table-centennial
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Colgate A Wish For A Swish Event
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Our Forward Prize Nominations
Recently, thanks to a very helpful librarian called Emily, we were listed on the Scottish Poetry Library's 'Collections' page – an excellent resource for both poetry readers and writers. Similar listings with the Southbank Centre and Poetry Ireland have followed (thank you to both Lorraine and Elizabeth!) These listings will hopefully help to spread the word about The Crunch a little further, and we really appreciate the time spent by these very busy people to add us to their websites. Please do check them out – all three organisations do a lot of good work in the name of poetry.
A by-product of these listings is that we're now eligible to nominate three poems for The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Exciting times! The deadline for nominations is the end of this week, with the prize awarded at a ceremony in London on 21 September 2017. We've just posted off our nominations – here are our chosen three:
An Amateur's Guide to Astronomy
Tonight is hysterical with stars.
Light and memory: both
needle through from the past.
In this bay, we were equally
combustible. One lunatic electron
is enough to ignite bodies.
I remember you in charted galaxies.
Andromeda's arms. Your hands
on my waist; the startled
particles between. Gravity.
When you pulled me into the February
sea, we were nebulous. Light
and memory. Constellations
apart, we scuttle our feet
under different waves.
How to tease the sea
from the moon's leash?
Alan Kellermann
The Crunch Issue #3
I stand in the bedroom, sweatless.
I admit to the dagger,
the rage and the kids
who looked like you; had the eye
of the cool Aegean
with Argonaut bravado
and a traitor’s blood.
Our babies. I nursed them
with love and a knife
to save them from sins like you—
our lullabied young.
Like you, they were forked in the tongue.
But I was once young,
a charming girl, head over claws
in love with you--
protective, faithful
as any good angel, my Colchis light
bleaching a brother’s bones.
You could say I became obsessed.
I had you possessed
but Corinth tore us apart.
Still, I can’t resist revenge,
death knell shaking the house
to its dead foundations,
the children’s gasping surprise;
oh, the look in your eyes
when you found them, coiled
like little white worms
or the curl of a gorgon’s hair.
She may be princess
but I am a queen,
Medea--
monster maternal,
with blood in my breasts
and a glint in my milkwhite eye.
Revenge is a kick in the womb.
Natalie Ann Holborow
The merry-go-round played out with grim enthusiasm as we passed by,
the skirt of our black umbrella angled against the wind.
We were the only people walking the promenade of empty chain restaurants
devoid of charm.
Latin music piped out through crummy speakers,
a delusion of a summer holiday somewhere hot,
somewhere else,
somewhere not here.
Yet the chairs stacked up against the walls dripped with rain
and we huddled together to keep warm.
I bought you chips to eat in the salted sea air,
vinegared with a sharp gull’s cry,
and from the jetty we watched tourists venture out onto the platform,
take a photo, clouded by the dark sky,
and scuttle away like insects,
enduring little of the chilly British weather.
In the distance the merry-go-round played
but still did not turn.
That night we drank the world and rolled heavily into bed,
murmured of making babies between things unsaid.
Rebecca Parfitt
The winner of The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem receives £1000, with all other poems nominated also considered for an anthology of the year's best poetry. Good luck to Alan, Natalie and Rebecca!
What We're Reading – December 2016
In Issue #5's podcast, our guest Rebecca Parfitt recommended a poet who shines a light on human ecstasy and sadness with blinding precision; Richard pointed our listeners towards a book of poetry that is straightforward, honest and bold; Adam enjoyed returning to a seminal work by one of the most influential writers of the 19th century; and Rhys spoke about a collection that offers a timely reminder of the plight of those who seek asylum.
The Sand Garden – Humberto Gatica
Hafan Books, 2008
The Sand Garden / El Jardin de Arena is the debut poetry collection from Humberto Gatica, a Chilean exile who arrived in Wales shortly after the 1973 military coup. The poems, included in both Spanish and English, deal with the enforced exile of Gatica and his family and the subsequent struggle to adapt to life in a foreign country. Fittingly, whereas Hafan's other marriages of literature and visual art are often collaborative, The Sand Garden is instead the sole work of Gatica, with the poems accompanied on the page by the poet's black and white photographs of exile in Swansea.
The Sand Garden is available to buy from lulu.com/hafan
Rhys wrote a longer introduction to Humberto Gatica's poetry for Everything But A Mis-Print back in 2010. You can read it here: rhysowainwilliams.com/blog/an-introduction-to-humberto-gatica
My Feelings – Nick Flynn
Graywolf Press, 2015
In My Feelings, Nick Flynn makes no claims on anyone else’s. The poems in this, his fourth collection of poetry, inhabit a continually shifting sense of selfhood in the attempt to contain quicksilver realms of emotional energy – from grief and panic to gratitude and understanding.
Poet and memoirist Nick Flynn was born in Scituate, Massachusetts. Like My Feelings, his other poetry collections Some Ether (2000), Blind Huber (2002) and The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands (2011) were also published by Graywolf Press. He teaches creative writing at the University of Houston, and splits his time between Houston and New York.
My Feelings is available to buy from graywolfpress.org
Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
James and Andrew Rome, 1855
Leaves of Grass is a collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential writers of the 19th century. Though the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and re-writing Leaves of Grass, revising it multiple times until his death. This resulted in vastly different editions over four decades – the first edition was a small book of just 12 poems, and the last was a compilation of over 400.
With that many poems to choose from, it's difficult to know where to start. As Adam mentioned in the podcast, the poem in the collection he returns to most often is 'Song of the Broad-Axe'. Read it for free on poemhunter.com
As a work in the public domain, Leaves of Grass is widely available.
Sunshine – Melissa Lee-Houghton
Penned in the Margins, 2016
Sunshine is the new collection from Melissa Lee-Houghton. A writer of startling confession, her poems inhabit the lonely hotel rooms, psych wards and deserted lanes of austerity Britain.
The collection combines acute social observation with a dark, surreal humour born of first-hand experience. Abuse, addiction and mental health are all subject to Lee-Houghton’s poetic eye. But these are also poems of extravagance, hope and desire, that stake new ground for the Romantic lyric in an age of social media and internet porn. In this new book of poems, Melissa Lee-Houghton shines a light on human ecstasy and sadness with blinding precision.
Sunshine is available to buy from pennedinthemargins.co.uk
To hear what we said about these books in the 'What We're Reading' segment of the Issue #5 podcast, go here: crunchpoetry.com/issue-5.html
What We're Reading – October 2016
In our Issue #4 recommendations, there were two books from the excellent Nine Arches Press (picked by Rhys and our guest Natalie Ann Holborow), a collection teeming with exploration and innovation (championed by Richard), and a recommendation via a recommendation from Adam (with a nod to Issue #1’s feature poet Ian Gregson). There’s also the now-traditional second pick from our guest: a brave, hard-hitting sequence of poems about loss that you’ll read and re-read.
Kith – Jo Bell
Nine Arches Press, 2015
The bold and generous poems in Jo Bell’s second collection Kith interweave bigger questions of place, identity and community and what these mean to us, here and now. Delighting in the belting, beautiful turn-of-phrase, the poems are lyrical and joyous, but always precise and clear as birdsong.
A unique force in British poetry, Jo Bell brings a large personality and boundless energy to both writing and promoting it. Her global workshop group 52 won a Saboteur Award, and was later turned into a book of poetry prompts (also available from Nine Arches).
Kith is available to buy from ninearchespress.com
Ooga-Booga – Frederick Seidel
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2006
Frederick Seidel is often named as one of the greatest living poets. Our Issue #1 feature poet Ian Gregson called him a “challenging and disturbing personality...more important than Dylan Thomas,” and urged our listeners to read his extensive back catalogue. It was this recommendation that brought Ooga-Booga, Seidel’s tenth collection, to the shelves of the Sillman residence.
Originally published by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux of New York in 2006, a UK edition of Ooga-Booga was published by Faber & Faber in 2009. Reviewer Adam Kirsch suggested that "...the title itself – a parody of a threat, something the monster under the bed might grunt – manages to capture the weird dialectic of Mr. Seidel's black comedy: He is scary, but funny, but still scary...”
Ooga-Booga is available to buy from faber.co.uk
A Book of Rooms – Kobus Moolman
Deep South, 2014
A Book of Rooms inhabits the childhood and young adulthood of a man with a serious physical disability growing up in the final years of Apartheid. Brilliantly experimental and profoundly moving, the book tells a single extended story – what Moolman calls “a brave/foolhardy attempt to shake up the distinction between truth (fact) and fiction, between autobiography and invention.”
Divided into four sections (‘Who’, ‘What’, ‘Why’, and ‘When’), each poem is linked to a room (‘The Room of Maybe’, ‘The Room of Green’, ‘The Room of Spillage’, and more), with the reader invited right into the character’s bleak and constant meetings with pain and failure. However, within this narrative there is also a powerful will to live, and an even more powerful drive for truth.
A Book of Rooms is available to buy from deepsouth.co.za
Absence has a weight of its own – Daniel Sluman
Daniel Sluman’s Absence has a weight of its own is an unflinching study of serious illness, sex, death and decadence. In sometimes brutal and spare cadences, Sluman explores the extremities of human experience in poems that are skilfully, icily primed.
This debut collection is at times provocative and by turns tender and wry. Frailties and vices are held up for inspection in a ruined landscape of disappointing highs, hung-over regrets and head-on collisions, haunted by figures such as Roman – an unrepentant and debauched womaniser. In the aftermath, real love and hope remain stubbornly, emerging into the sunlight of an unexpected new day.
Absence has a weight of its own is available to buy from ninearchespress.com
Her Birth – Rebecca Goss
Carcanet Press, 2013
In 2007, Rebecca Goss’s newborn daughter Ella was diagnosed with Severe Ebstein’s Anomaly, a rare and incurable heart condition. She lived for sixteen months. Her Birth is a book-length sequence of poems beginning with Ella’s birth, her short life and her death, and ending with the joys and complexities that come with the birth of another child.
In Her Birth, Goss navigates the difficult territory of grief and loss in poems that are spare, tender and haunting. The collection secured Goss’ place on the Poetry Book Society’s 2014 Next Generation Poets list, and was nominated for a Forward Prize.
Her Birth is available to buy from carcanet.co.uk
What We're Reading – June 2016
In Issue #3's podcast, our guest Alan Kellermann recommended two books: a collection of poems that deals in dualities, and an inspirational guide to the writing of poetry. Meanwhile, Rhys suggested picking up a copy of a ‘verse novella’ by Scotland’s leading rural poet, and Richard and Adam pointed our listeners towards two poetry anthologies that are worth dipping into.
On Poetry – Glyn Maxwell
Oberon Books, 2012
Illustrated with examples from canonical poets, On Poetry is a collection of short essays and reflections from the acclaimed British poet Glyn Maxwell. A worthy addition to the Oberon Masters series, it serves as both an accessible guide to the writing of poetry, and a defence of the art.
On Poetry will be especially prized by writers and readers who wish to understand why and how poetic technique matters. These essays illustrate Maxwell's poetic philosophy: that the greatest verse arises from a harmony of mind and body, and that poetic forms originate in human necessities such as breath, heartbeat, footstep and posture.
On Poetry is available to buy from oberonbooks.com
Lucifer at the Starlite – Kim Addonizio
W. W. Norton & Company, 2011
Kim Addonizio’s fifth collection of poetry explores life’s dual nature. Good and evil. Light and dark. Suffering and joy. As one American Poets reviewer put it: “If this book is a party, then someone is shooting heroin in the bathroom, a national disaster is being watched on TV in the kitchen, and the man and woman making out in the bedroom are both married to other people.”
Whether looking outward to events on the world stage or inward at struggles with the self, the poems in this collection aim at the heart, and against the feeling that Lucifer may have already won the day.
Lucifer at the Starlite is available to buy from books.wwnorton.com
Killochries – Jim Carruth
Freight Books, 2015
A stunning epic poem (though marketed as a ‘verse novella’), Jim Carruth’s Killochries tracks the relationship between two very different men working a remote sheep farm over the course of twelve months. Spare, sharp, bold, innovative, touching – Killochries is a major achievement from one of Scotland’s most important and influential voices.
Despite being his country’s leading rural poet and having won a clutch of poetry awards, this is Jim Carruth’s first formal collection. Since our Issue #3 podcast was recorded back in December of last year, Killochries has deservedly been shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Prize.
Killochries is available to buy from freightbooks.co.uk
Another Country: Haiku Poetry From Wales
Gomer Press, 2011
Published in 2011, Another Country is the first ever Welsh national anthology of haiku poetry, and features the work of forty poets who have all contributed significantly to the development and popularity of this most ancient yet versatile of literary forms.
Concise, precise and evocative, the anthology takes you on a journey through and around the ordinary and extraordinary aspects of everyday life. Edited by three highly respected pioneers of the haiku in Wales – Ken Jones, Lynne Rees and Nigel Jenkins – it includes poems from Issue #3 guest Alan Kellermann and The Crunch’s own Rhys Owain Williams.
Another Country is available to buy from gomer.co.uk
Best British Poetry Series
Salt, 2011–
Salt’s annual Best British Poetry anthology presents the finest and most engaging poems found in UK literary magazines and webzines over the past year. Each poem is accompanied by a note by the poet themselves, explaining the inspiration for the poem and why they decided to write in that form.
At a time when print journals still retain their significance and popularity, and when new sites are flourishing on the web, Salt’s anthology gives us a snapshot of current UK poetry practices by bringing together a diverse selection of poems. The 2015 offering, edited by Emily Berry (with Roddy Lumsden as series editor), is the fifth edition in the series.
Best British Poetry is available to buy from saltpublishing.com
Issue #3 Will Be Delayed
Regrettably we have to announce that the next issue of The Crunch will be delayed until the new year. If you've been following us on social media, you'll have seen that we’ve already spent a day filming and recording with our Issue #3 guest Alan Kellermann – so why the delay?
Last week, there was a fire at Adam’s house. Thankfully nobody was hurt, but the damage to Adam’s office – what we affectionately refer to as ‘Crunch HQ’ – was devastating. Luckily the fire didn't have time to spread too far, but the smoke did its worst to a large portion of our equipment.
We’re hopeful that we'll be able to salvage Alan’s videos and podcast, but if not we’re sure we can arrange another day with Alan to bring you Issue #3 as originally intended, once we’re back on our feet.
So for now, have a merry Christmas, and we’ll see you in the new year.
Rhys, Adam & Rich
What We're Reading – November 2015
In Issue #2's podcast, our guest Nia Davies recommended two books: a novel from Chris Kraus that refuses to be pinned down by genre, and a poetry chapbook from Hoa Nguyen that challenges the authority of language. Meanwhile, Richard, Adam and Rhys all spoke about poets and collections that, in their own very unique ways, meditate on the complexities of what it is to be human.
Tells of the Crackling – Hoa Nguyen
Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015
Hoa Nguyen’s chapbook Tells of the Crackling reveals love in its lost and often fragmentary forms. It sifts through rivers and blue explosions with a "yell of living", and asks how we can attempt to retrieve the irretrievable.
Language, and the spaces in between words, are important to Nguyen, a poet who wants "the root of the words / not the fucking use / made purposed and stupid." The poems in Tells of the Crackling seek to alter our perception of the world, and separate how it really is from how it is presented through language. With its intriguing nuances, it is a chapbook collection that definitely invites the reader to return.
Tells of the Crackling is available to buy from uglyducklingpresse.org
I Love Dick – Chris Kraus
Semiotext(e), 1997
When Chris Kraus, an unsuccessful artist pushing 40, spends an evening with a rogue academic named Dick, she falls madly and inexplicably in love, enlisting her husband in her haunted pursuit. Dick proposes a kind of game between them, but when he fails to answer their letters Chris continues alone, transforming an adolescent infatuation into a new form of philosophy.
Blurring the lines of fiction, essay and memoir, Chris Kraus's I Love Dick was a literary sensation when it was first published in 1997. Widely considered to be the most important feminist novel of the past two decades, it is still essential reading today; as relevant, fierce and funny as ever.
The new hardback edition of I Love Dick is available from serpentstail.com
The October Palace – Jane Hirshfield
Harper Perennial, 1994
Grounded in a series of meditations, The October Palace – Jane Hirshfield's third collection of poetry, published in 1994 – explores the ways that radiance dwells most truly in the ordinary, the difficult, and the plain.
Finely crafted and delicately thought out, the poems in this collection frequently hinge on a turning point or moment of insight, and explore themes for which Hirshfield would later become well known, such as awareness, consciousness, and the changeable nature of perception.
The October Palace is available to buy from harpercollins.com
Sole – D. E. Oprava
Blackheath Books, 2010
D. E. Oprava’s poetry considers the curious skin of life, and the universal bones beneath. Sole, his third collection of poetry, is a book that explores his childhood growing up in rural America. Each of the poems aims to express a solitary emotion, a universal whole, and the peculiar holes in which we often find ourselves.
An American-born writer who has lived in Wales for almost two decades, D. E. Oprava has published six collections of poetry, the latest of which – The Last Museum of Laughter – was highly commended by the 2014 Forward Prizes.
Sole is available to buy from blackheathbooks.org.uk
Here and the Water – Sarah Coles
Sarah Coles' first collection of poetry – Here and the Water – is an intensely personal journey through the complexity of human relationships. Her portrayal of family, and of love and loneliness, is touching and incisive, whilst her engagement with the beauty and darkness of the natural world can thrill and unsettle in equal measures.
In Here and the Water, Coles embraces life's joys and complexities, wherever they appear. Sometimes they're at the seaside, or in the back garden, other times in the city and its back lanes, and many of them are encountered on expeditions with her children. But even in the company of others, she often travels alone.
Here and the Water is available to buy from gomer.co.uk
What We're Reading – October 2015 (Part 2)
In Issue #1's podcast, Adam recommended a return to the first Forward Prize winner for Best Collection, Rhys pointed our listeners towards a podcast dedicated to a young poet whose promise will never be fulfilled, Richard spoke about an incredibly imaginative sequence by a Dutch poet in translation, and our guest Ian Gregson praised a collection that proves that poetry is still a place where the most difficult things can be said.
The Man with Night Sweats – Thom Gunn
Faber & Faber, 1992
Originally published in 1992, The Man with Night Sweats was Thom Gunn's first collection of poetry in a decade. Displaying his unparalleled ability to move between classical forms and looser, colloquial measures, Gunn's poems in this collection address a wide range of themes, both intimate and social.
The collection ends with a sequence of poems about the many friends Gunn lost to the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s – part elegy for those who have been lost and part evocation of the changes that await those who survive. With their unflinching directness, compassion and grace, they have been described as among the most moving statements to have been provoked by the disease.
The Man with Night Sweats is available to buy from faber.co.uk
Mysteries of Afternoon and Evening – Rachel Sherwood
Sherwood Press, 1981
Rachel Sherwood's chapbook – Mysteries of Afternoon and Evening – was published posthumously in 1981, two years after her untimely death. In a contemporary review in the Los Angeles Times, Peter Clothier said the collection displayed "...the attentive eye and sharp ear for language of a young poet whose promise will sadly never be fulfilled…[and] whose weaknesses reflect only the short time she was permitted to develop her growing talents. The book is a moving tribute to a clear-sighted and caring human sensibility."
Unfortunately, Mysteries of Afternoon and Evening is now out of print, but you can read some of Rachel Sherwood's poetry, and listen to the 'Two Poets in their Youth' podcast Rhys mentioned, here: poetryfoundation.org/bio/rachel-sherwood#poet
Raptors – Toon Tellegen
With the economy of proverbs and the psychological insight of a novel, Toon Tellegen’s acclaimed sequence Raptors depicts the dynamics of a family held hostage by the mood-swings and histrionics of a father, a figure both comic and terrifying, grotesque and pathetic.
An improvisation on a theme, circling back to 'my father' at the start of each poem, Raptors builds to a story without narrative, its extravagant imaginative leaps into absurdity held within a framework of tender observation.
Translator Judith Wilkinson worked closely with Tellegen to create English versions of the poems that capture the startling clarity and inventiveness of the original Dutch.
Raptors is available to buy from carcanet.co.uk
Into It – Lawrence Joseph
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
Into It is the fourth collection from Lawrence Joseph, an American writer of great originality and scope. In the words of Ian Gregson, he is a poet who "discusses ideas directly and explicitly...and takes poetry seriously, as a place where the most difficult things can be said."
Along the New York waterfront, on a crowded street, at the site where the World Trade Center stood: Joseph enters into these places to capture the thoughts and images, the colours and feelings, and the language that give the present its pressured complexity. Few contemporary writers have been able to shape this material into poetry, but Joseph has done so masterfully, and in poems that are daring, searching, and classically satisfying.
A list of places where you can buy Into It is available at us.macmillan.com
An Introduction to... Freeway Park
There's been a lot of interest in the guys who provide the title music for our podcast, so we thought we'd write a short profile on them and provide some links for you to go and listen to their songs in full.
Freeway Park are a litpunk band from Seattle, WA. Started in a small room in Fremont in 2013, the band was "originally conceived as a noise-and-spoken-word project, [but] it's since evolved to include the occasional riff, hook, and structure."
The band is made up of Adam Muhgrunk on guitar, John Jernigan on bass, Patrick Gill on drums and Graham Isaac on vocals. Graham was a student at Swansea University in 2007–08, and it was during this time that he co-founded The Crunch – a spoken word night that ran in the Uplands area of the city until 2012, and then regenerated into this online magazine in 2015.
Following the completion of his degree Graham returned to the USA, where he continues to curate and host spoken word nights. A collection of his poems – Filthy Jerry's Guide to Parking Lots – was published by Babel/Salvage in 2013.
Freeway Park were kind enough to let us use their track 'Little Fear of Drowning' as the title music for The Crunch podcast. You can listen to it in full by using the embedded SoundCloud player above.
But don't just stop there! Check out the other songs on their SoundCloud profile too – and like them/follow them/become their friend on Facebook and Twitter.
In Issue #0's podcast, Rhys spoke a little about rediscovering one of his favourite writers – the prose poet Louis Jenkins – as a result of moving house, Richard recommended a collection of passionate and elegantly written essays from Tom Sleigh, and Adam took the opportunity to ask Richard a few questions about his debut poetry collection 'Little Man'.
North of the Cities – Louis Jenkins
Will O' The Wisp Books, 2007
The meta-fiction poems collected in North of the Cities perfectly typify the contemporary prose poem: a snapshot of everyday life laced with sardonic humour that strives for sonorous effect. But Louis Jenkins is, perhaps above all, a fantastic storyteller; "all poetry," he says, "comes down to storytelling. This is what happened. This is what it's like to be a live human being. You tell that story the best way you can."
North of the Cities is available to buy from willothewispbooks.com
Rhys wrote a longer introduction to Louis Jenkins' poetry for Everything But A Mis-Print back in 2011. You can read it here: rhysowainwilliams.com/blog/an-introduction-to-louis-jenkins
Interview with a Ghost – Tom Sleigh
In Interview with a Ghost, Tom Sleigh investigates poetry from the vantage point of his conviction that "while art and life are separable, they aren't separate." With passion and erudition, his essays explore issues of self-hood that are often assumed but not adequately confronted by contemporary poetry – namely, what it means to employ the first person in a poem, the elusive "I" with all of its freighted aesthetic and psychological implications.
The works of poets – including Anne Bradstreet, Sir Walter Raleigh, Robert Lowell, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, and Frank Bidart – are examined, as are Sleigh's own poems in the contexts of his own history and sickness.
Interview with a Ghost is available to buy from graywolfpress.org
Little Man – Richard James Jones
Parthian Books, 2014
Though none of us intend for The Crunch to become a vehicle for our own egos, it seemed remiss to not ask our very own Richard James Jones about the process of writing, editing and launching his debut collection Little Man, especially as it was the book that Adam had most recently been reading.
So we did.
Published by Parthian Books towards the end of last year, Little Man was soon selected as one of the Scottish Poetry Library's recommended titles – alongside work by poets such as Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Armitage, Michael Longley and John Burnside.
Little Man is available to buy from parthianbooks.com
Welcome to crunchpoetry.com, home to The Crunch – a new multimedia poetry magazine, comprising an online repository of videos and a monthly podcast.
This project has actually been a few years in the making. When our open mic night came to an end in 2012, the idea was always to keep The Crunch going in one way or another. After exploring the possibilities of chapbooks, anthologies and other print-based media, the decision was made to instead keep The Crunch in the realms of the audiovisual.
We recorded our first test video in March 2014 and now, 18 months later, are ready to launch our first full issue. You can learn more about the development of the project by listening to our Issue #0 podcast here.
We'd like to express our thanks to Ian Gregson and Nia Davies, our first two feature poets, for supporting the project when it was still really just a concept. And also thanks to Graham Isaac, original Crunch co-founder, and his band Freeway Park for providing music for the podcast.
Issues #0 and #1 of The Crunch are available right now. Head over to our Archive page to check them out.
Note: crunchpoetry.com is currently optimised for web users, though a very basic mobile site is available. Mobile users, please bear with us whilst we sort out a better handheld version of The Crunch for you guys.
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Ponce de Léon to Popes
Ponce de Léon, the navigator who went in search of the Fontaine de Jouvence, “cur fit rajovenir la gent.” He sailed in two ships on this “voyage of discoveries,” in the sixteenth century.
Like Ponce de Léon, he wants to go off to the Antipodes in search of that Fontaine de Jouvence which was fabled to give a man back his youth.—Véra, 130.
Pond of the Prophet (The), a well of life, from which all the blessed will drink before they enter paradise. The water is whiter than milk, and more fragrant than musk.
Ponent Wind (The), the west wind, or wind from the sunset. Lev’ant is the east wind, or wind from the sunrise.
Forth rush the Levant and the Ponent winds.
Milton: Paradise Lost, x. 704 (1665).
Pongo, a cross between “a land-tiger and a sea-shark.” This terrible monster devastated Sicily, but was slain by the three sons of St. George.—R. Johnson: The Seven Champions, etc. (1617).
Ponocrates , the tutor of Gargantua.—Rabelais: Gargantua (1533).
Pons Asinorum [“the asses’ bridge”], the fifth proposition bk. i. of Euclid’s Elements, too difficult for “asses” or stupid boys to get over.
A most improper term. It is the asses’ trap, not their bridge. Their “stone of stumbling and rock of offence.”
Pontius Pilate’s Body-Guard, the 1st Foot Regiment. In Picardy the French officers wanted to make out that they were the seniors; and, to carry their point, vaunted that they were on duty on the night of the Crucifixion. The colonel of the 1st Foot replied, “If we had been on guard, we should not have slept at our posts” (see Matt, xxviii. 13).
Pontoys (Stephen), a veteran in sir Hugo de Lacy’s troop.—Sir W. Scott: The Betrothed (time, Henry II.).
Pony (Mr. Garland’s), Whisker (q.v.).
Poole , in Dorsetshire; once “a young and lusty sea-born lass,” courted by great Albion, who had by her three children, Brunksey, Fursey, and [St.] Hellen. Thetis was indignant that one of her virgin train should be guilty of such indiscretion; and, to protect his children from her fury, Albion placed them in the bosom of Poole, and then threw his arms around them.—Drayton: Polyolbion, ii. (1612).
Poor (Father of the), Bernard Gilpin (1517–1583).
Poor Gentleman (The, a comedy by George Colman the younger (1802). “The poor gentleman” is lieutenant Worthington, discharged from the army on half-pay, because his arm had been crushed by a shell in storming Gibraltar. On his half-pay he had to support himself, his daughter Emily, an old corporal, and a maiden sister-in-law. Having put his name to a bill for £500, his friend died without effecting an insurance, and the lieutenant was called upon for payment. Imprisonment would have followed if sir Robert Bramble had not most generously paid the money. With this piece of good fortune came another—the marriage of his daughter Emily to Frederick Bramble, nephew and heir of the rich baronet.
Poor Jack, a popular sea-song by Charles Dibdin (1790). The last two lines are—
There’s a sweet little cherub that sits up alott,
To keep watch o’er the life of poor Jack.
Poor John, a hake dried and salted.
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By D. Jason Cooper on February 24, 2017 in Guest Columns
The path to the Tomb of Dracula was long and convoluted. Vampires had been around for a long time. They peppered stories in the Golden Age but they were basically one-shots who got re-killed at the end of the story. But vampires plagued a great many superheroes including The Shield, Mr Justice, and Batman, among others.
Dracula carried so many unconscious gorgeous women he should have reminded us nice guys finish last and they get no credit for it…
Enter the Dark Ages and the Comics Code Authority, and exit vampires, werewolves, and zombies. They were all banned. Even the word “zombie” itself was banned.
You could pretend to be the Devil, though. Superman did that in the fifties to fool Lois Lane. I don’t get what those two were doing. Suddenly that scene in the tub seems almost tame.
But the Comics Code cleaned comics of any social comment, any monsters, sex, and anything sexual including nipples, packages in men’s skin-tight pants, nudity, nipples, chest hair, and, oh, yeah, vampires. They were protecting the morals of children, who in their stunted political opinion would be the only people to ever read comic books.
It was under the code that the greatest vampire of all time was created. In fact, Kirby twice made a vampire with a horned helmet. The second time, when the code wasn’t a problem, was Mantis the Energy Vampire of Apokolips.
Electro drains electricity and plays lousy tunes, neither makes him a vampire: Mantis suffers the same problem.
In the early sixties, when the code was a problem, he made the planet-eating vampire, Galactus. Because Galactus sucked living energies and had no sexual component to his stories, he was allowed through.
Galactus sucks the life out of planets: (1) This does not make him a force of nature, just a really big vampire (2) Even if he is a force of nature he has sentience and so can be judged good or evil.
In 1971 the code was significantly loosened. Characters from literature could be published in comics. This allowed several cheap B grade movie characters to enter comics. That is, comics could exploit the public domain the way Hollywood had for decades.
More generally, vampires could be characters again. In that same year, Marvel published its first Morbius the Living Vampire story (in The Amazing Spider-Man 101). He was not really a vampire (code-wise), they were seeing how far they could push the boundaries. DC at the same time was demanding changes to the code in the name of the artistic freedom of their writers and artists.
And it was this rewriting of the code as much as anything else that changed the Silver Age into the Bronze Age. The change not only loosened the rules, it loosened the grip of the Comics Code. After all, they could not say why vampires were anathema before, and all right now. They just re-wrote the code, they did not say the market had changed or society had changed.
I weep for my favorite medium, sometimes.
So companies began to publish without the code (Gold Key and Dell never submitted to it), DC demanded (and got) changes, Marvel defied the code, and the new independents went with the Gold Key model. It all reinforced a continuing shift to the direct market and comic book specialists. The old distributors, who would not distribute comics that didn’t submit to the code, were shut out.
So it was that back room politics ushered in a more open comic book market with almost immediate effect.
The other one should have a movie, too.
In 1972 the first ongoing series with a vampire lead who looked like a vampire was published. That was also the year of the Watergate break-in. See what happens when you weaken the censor? The Comics Code was there to protect children from immorality.
Vampires have a long history. The ancient Greeks and the Germanic tribes were the two sources that influenced Western literature to this day.
In Germanic tales they were called draugr, which means liar. They were ruddy colored and bloated. Ancient Greco-Roman stories included Empusa, who transformed into a beautiful woman, seduced a young man, and sucked his blood when he slept. There were also the striges; monsters with beaks, wings, and four legs who sucked the blood and ate the entrails of their victims, particularly infants.
In the nineteenth century, classicism (the British Empire was the heir to Greece and Rome) and Romanticism (Germanic tribes are cool) clashed.
Third fluid in the mix was an outbreak of vampirism in Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century. People reported vampires, fought vampires, were bitten by vampires. Government officials went out, did interviews, dug up bodies, did autopsies, and stabbed corpses with stakes. Of course, modern science explains the whole thing as superstitious villagers. Superstition has not been used to explain the Trump vote, yet, but go ahead, hold your breath, it won’t be that long in coming.
There was also a nineteenth-century outbreak of vampirism in New England. Historians blame that one on immigrants.
But the outbreaks made vampires a thing in Britain. So when the year without a winter came along, 1819, four people got together and to pass the cold time they wrote stories. Frankenstein came out of this, with its giant Mongol monster (look it up) and John Polidori’s novella, The Vampyre.
The vampire in this story is Lord Ruthven, a member of the elite. He is urban, not rural, urbane, not rustic. He doesn’t represent inadequate rural people rather, he symbolizes a decay of the elite.
It was this mix of lifebloods that gave rise to an Irishman writing a novel which has survived by its ideas, not its writing skill. Bram Stoker wrote Dracula influenced by all the things we’ve looked at and more. However, there is no evidence I can find, nor pattern I can discern, which indicates he was a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Stoker, like Polidori, wrote of a vampire who is part of royalty, urbane, quite pale, and not the protagonist. Both vampires prefer to suck blood from women, and both add a stronger sexual element to vampirism. They have to drink copious amounts of blood compared to previous vampires, who often take a more romantic turn and drink only a few drops of blood every few months.
But Stoker’s pale, noble, horny, homicidal maniac vampire was based late in the piece of Vlad Dracul, a Walachian who defended Transylvania from Ottoman invasion. He staked a lot of people, meaning he punctured them with round stakes (sharp ones hurt less). He was captured by the Ottoman Turks and put into a dungeon where he used bread crumbs to bait small birds, catch them, and suck the blood out of them. He was a member of a secret order of knights whose symbol was a dragon and from which the name Dracula is derived. Oddly enough that hasn’t become part of the secret order rubric of modern conspiracy theoriests. And when his tomb was opened in the seventies it was empty (I first heard that on the radio: it made my day.)
Stoker’s original idea was to call the character “Count Wampyr,” which recalls “Varney the Vampire” in the penny dreadfuls.
It was the Polodori-Stoker version of vampires that became the standard. Though Polidori’s version had immediate success, Stoker’s version did not become a classic until 1922 when the movie Nosferatu was made. Dracula has found its best venue: movies. Until comics.
Tomb of Dracula came out with the cover date of April 1972. Writing credit was to Gerry Conway but it’s more complicated than that. Art was by Gene Colan for the whole run. They took the best known vampire in fiction and put him in as the villain of his own comic.
It’s said they considered other in public domain vampires, but I don’t see how that works. Who’s the second most famous vampire? And taking Dracula fits what Stan Lee often did – take bits from a company that can’t defend itself. The name Daredevil is the commonly mentioned example. Somehow on anybody else this is called tribute or keeping someone else’s idea alive, but in Stan Lee’s hands…
The story begins with Dracula dead, a skeleton in his own coffin with a stake through where his heart used to be. Basically, this is where the novel ended, except in the novel he’s stabbed on his way back to the castle by Jonathan Harker and Quincey Morris, a Texan character who has totally been forgotten.
I’ve had it with these **********ing vampires on this **********ing train!
Yeah, but you remember it, don’t you?
Dracula was originally meant to have been lying there since the end of the novel, Dracula. The problem with that is it meant the character was out of action for nearly a century. Writers soon realized, this would leave him a little out of touch with the modern world. Captain America had already marveled at the existence of television, they didn’t need Dracula to do the same thing.
After eighty years, none of Dracula’s mortal opponents could remain viable physical opponents. But they left enough descendant doppelgangers to populate the hero side. There is Dracula’s own descendant, Frank Drake, who explains early his original family name was Dracula. He explains this to Rachel van Helsing, granddaughter to the original van Helsing who was not Hugh Jackman.
Joining them is Quincy Harker, the son of Jonathan and Mina Harker, who opposed Dracula in the novel. He is named after Quincey Morris. He is the last character introduced in the book, where he is a small child hearing the story. In the comic he is old and stuck in a wheelchair.
Professor Xavier, meet Quincy Harker. Quincy Harker, meet Niles Caulder. Niles Caulder, please complete the loop.
When Tomb of Dracula started out it changed direction every issue. It began something like Universal films, turned into Hammer films, then Drake and van Helsing became romantically involved (mutually), and writers changed as often as the tone and subplots of the book. Fortunately, after a half-dozen issues or so, Marv Wolfman came in.
He eventually hit on the formula that worked. Basically he changed Dracula. In the novel, Dracula’s main effort is to have Lucy and then Mina. He kills Lucy, and to save Mina, Jonathan puts a Eucharist on her head which burns and scars her for life or at least until League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, where it seems to have disappeared.
Indeed, in his castle in Transilvania, Dracula had three females. Often called the Brides of Dracula their correct name is the Weird Sisters (Like the singing group in Harry Potter).
This sexual element, the insanity of Renquist, and the lady-in-white insipid insanity of Lucy caused many people to label Dracula a Gothic novel.
Wolfman wouldn’t have this. His Dracula enjoys women, but he’s more of a serial killer. Sure, he carried a lot of unconscious women on his covers, but stalking and killing them was never the engine of Wolfman’s stories.
Wolfman modernized Dracula in a way that is often unnoticed but almost universally imitated. The idea of Dracula spending large quantities of his plot on sexual pursuit is gone. The horror elements of the Gothic novel can remain – Wolfman played them up. But there is a new motivation.
Dracula wants power like a modern dictator and more.
Simply put, Dracula’s overriding motivation is to seize power and rule the world. Initially he thinks he will simply turn all humans into vampires who will obey his will. It’s almost as if he has the Marvel version of the anti-life equation. Or like Dr .Doom’s one successful attempt to conquer the world, he can force everyone’s brain to agree that he’s the ruler.
But in the end, Dracula himself gives up this plan for the simplest of reasons: a world of vampires would have nothing to feed on.
So Dracula must follow more regulation secret-conquest plans. But instead of him trying to put his plans into force, he is shown again and again dealing with the forces and people who try to stop him or even get there ahead of him.
So he battles the Van Helsing-Drake-centered team of vampire hunters. He battles Deacon Frost, a vampire who wishes to take over as lord of the vampires, Varnae (based on penny dreadful character, Varney the Vampire) was the first vampire and first lord of the vampires who died and was resurrected, so he wanted his old job back.
But Lilith and Satana never got together as the core of a legion of female monsters – for some reason.
He also has on-again off-again battles with his daughter and his son, each of whom had their own agenda.
Costume’s really out of place here.
Then there’s Blade, whose mother was bitten by a vampire while pregnant with him. This gives him the powers of a vampire but not the weaknesses. I don’t know how it gives him immunity to blood loss, it certainly didn’t give him immunity to paying taxes. In the same box is Hannibal King, who is introduced over a whole issue, revealing he is a vampire at the very end. He hates being a vampire and with supreme will refused to take living blood from humans and he hates Dracula and Deacon Frost both.
Fortunately the Blade movies dropped the goggles.
At one point (Tomb of Dracula #22), Dracula faces Gorna, Lord of the Living Lightning. This is a vampire who ignores Dracula’s order. Dracula sets him on fire and thinks that’s it. But the vampire comes back, able to throw something like lightning bolts. Dracula loses his temper and throws the vampire into a fire. But as he does so, Dracula says he is the vampire’s god and he is an angry god.
If this is what happens when you set vampires on fire, why doesn’t Dracula burn himself and get extra powers?
Gave away a fair bit there, didn’t he? This is the core of Dracula’s ambition. He wants to be a god, and of all people, maybe he can make it.
But perhaps Dracula’s chief rival is Dr. Sun, a Chinese criminal whose brain was put into a robot body. Kind of like The Brain from the Doom Patrol or more properly Arnim Zola (comics, not movies).
At one point, one of Dr. Sun’s minions castigates his fellows who are also about to die so are running away. He says their lives do not matter and they must give Dr. Sun time to escape. Dracula says he hopes the man will be as loyal to his new master as he was to his old. Then Dracula bites him and makes him a vampire.
This being Marvel, Dracula had many crossovers, like Dr. Doom, Baron Mordo, the Silver Surfer, Werewolf by Night, Apocalypse, Wolverine, The Defenders, and others – OK, including Howard the Duck. I don’t know if these crossovers (minus Howard) really worked.
What did work, what made Dracula’s unboundried ambition work, was a defining matter of the Bronze Age. People died. Not just the usual nameless cute female but named characters. A kind of Gwen Stacy thing but no one gets upset about it because it happened so often.
Dracula’s stories have life-and-death stakes. Overall, despite a bad start, the Tomb of Dracula changed the nature of vampire literature until everything else had to shift around it. Other titles did come out.
Corporations turn out to be so evil.
Atlas had a title, Planet of Vampires, where apartment-dwelling Moribus-types victimized people who lived on the streets. That lasted 3 issues. The same short-lived company did their own version of Dracula, who was made a vampire by Satan so he could torture humanity. They also did Son of Dracula. Son of Dracula lasted one issue.
Vampirella and Barnabas Collins, but she faced Dracula, too.
And she’s beginning a new series in Dynamite comics.
There are Vampirella and Barnabas Collins. They both hate being vampires, so they live with a disability. Dracula loves being a vampire. This is now the norm and people who change from that.
And they complain about Vampirella’s usual costume.
Other vampires, whether I…Vampire, the many vampires in various covens in lots of movies and games, American Vampire, Underworld (all of them), react to Dracula. Bennett, in I…Vampire, is actually against the Dracula-type vampires who want to conquer, like Mary Queen of Blood. My own Slums of Paradise, has waves of vampires as barbarians bringing down human civilization in a new fall of of a corrupt Rome, which it turns out was Dracula’s plan in the comics before he shifted course.
OK, I’ve been interested in vampires for a while.
Also the fall of Rome. Didn’t think I’d have to relive either.
All vampires exist in reaction to Dracula, not the Dracula of the novel, but the one from Marvel.
About D. Jason Cooper
D Jason Cooper is the author of seven books (Slums of Paradise is available at Twilight Times and Mithras: Mysteries and Initiation is available at Amazon for Kindle). He then raised two children, and went back to writing starting with fairly regular articles for Blastoffcomics.com and Nightsandweekends.com. His favorite genres run from superheroes to steampunk, science fiction, fantasy, and lots and lots of nonfiction. He's on Facebook at facebook.com/djason.cooper, has a website at www.djasoncooper.com., and a blog at https://wordpress.com/stats/day/djasoncooper.wordpress.com
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It’s no surprise that the demand for talented and quality models, of all types, is rising. This upward trend has female and male models across the country asking themselves if they have what it takes to become a promotional model. What is the average height of a female model? What is the average model weight? And what are the average model requirements?
The TSM Agency, one of the top model staffing agencies, reviewed their extensive database of over 30,000 models to answer the question, What are the average height and weight of a model, both female and male.
Agencies often receive questions from modeling candidates wondering if they have the physical attributes to be considered for promotional model jobs. Male and female models alike ask “am I tall enough? What are height and weight requirements for my height?” or, “how much does the average model weight?” Our comprehensive analysis compiled the data from all male and female models in an extensive database to provide the answers.
We were curious to find out the averages ourselves and created the enclosed infographic to share our findings with you. A website that specializes in infographics even found our information interesting enough to share it.
The infographic below provides a visual representation of the physical makeup of our database, including how models compare with the general population on some key attributes. The average model height. The average model weight. The average model measurements. We have compiled data for both male models and female models. Check this out for more services.
This information is helpful for individuals who are wondering if they have what it take to enter the field as a male or female model. It is important to note that models that are in the sampled database have applied for spokesmodel, trade show model, auto show model, bikini model, or brand ambassador positions; not runway, fashion, or print. Those looking to staff or hire models may find the information of interest as well.
Many feel that a model has to have certain attributes, like large breasts or a height taller than average, to be successful. The statistics contradict this notion. For example, our model’s breast size is smaller than the national average. To view the models sampled in this post click here.
Let’s look at our average model heigt, weight, and other measurements
AVERAGE MODEL HAIR COLOR
We can’t vouch for blondes having more fun, but we can tell you this, more blondes are models.
2% of the world’s population have BLONDE hair, while 28% of models have it.
BLACK is the most common color in the world, but only 18% of models have black hair.
1-2% of the world’s population has RED hair compared to 4% of models
BROWN hair is the second most common hair in the world, but the most common amongst models with a 50% representation.
MODEL GENDER
A gender gap is common amongst professions, and modeling is no exception. 94.8% of promotional models are female while 5.2% of models are male.
Guys, you can become a model, but the job opportunities are fewer and farther between for you.
AVERAGE MODEL EYE COLOR
Models eye colors matched closely with the general population of the United States.
BROWN: 48% of models versus 41% of the US population
BLUE: 23% of models versus 32% of the US population
GREEN: 15% of models versus 12% of the US population
HAZEL: 14% of models versus 15% of the US population
FEMALE MODEL BREAST CUP SIZE
The stereotype of busty female models has been shattered upon review of our data. The average American bra size has increased from 34B to 34DD in the last 20 years. We speculate much of this is due to the increase in obesity. Only 6% of female models have a DD cup size.
The average female model breast size is a B cup at 38% of models. C cup came in second place with 32% of models having this cup size. 15% of models have a D cup, and 9% have an A cup.
AVERAGE MODEL WEIGHT
According to Plus Model Magazine, twenty years ago the average fashion model weighed 8% less than the average woman. Today, she weighs 23% less. The CDC lists a healthy female weight, at average height, as being between 108-144 pounds. 87% of female models weighed between 100 and 150 pounds. Well within the healthy weight range.
As for males, the healthy range was started at 121-163 pounds. 46% of male models were within this range with the majority falling in the overweight category. We speculate this being due to higher levels of muscle mass amongst male models as well as an above average height.
AVERAGE FEMALE MODEL WEIGHT – IN POUNDS
75-100 9%
151-175 3%
176-200 .7%
over 226. .1%
Now for the question you all want answered, what is the average model weight?
The average female model weight is 114 pounds.
AVERAGE MALE MODEL WEIGHT – IN POUNDS
over 226 2%
The average male model weight is 167 pounds.
MODEL ETHNICITY
Promotional model ethnicity varied significantly from the US population with only 51% being Caucasian compared with 72% of the US population. 24% of promotional models listed their ethnicity as other. We have no way of knowing whether they are of mixed race, other races, or chose not to answer the question.
African American and Native American representation were in line with the United States Census Bureau with 12% and 1% of models, respectively. Asian models were also in line with the Census findings at 4% versus 5%. Hispanics were under represented with 8% versus 16% of total models.
AVERAGE MODEL AGE
The notion that modeling is for younger people is correct, though some models are still working jobs into their forties. It is important to note that models younger than 18 are not accepted for promotional positions at the TSM Agency.
61% of models were between the age of 18 and 32.
34% of models were between the age of 23 and 27
27% of models fell between the ages 28 and 32.
Models over the age of 43 are 2% of our sample group.
AVERAGE MODEL HEIGHT
One of the most common questions agencies receives about height. “Am I tall enough to model?” What is the average model height? Promotional modeling differs from high fashion jobs. The fashion industry typically requires a height over 5’8,” so your odds of getting work in this field are slim to none if you are shorter than that.
Promotional modeling is a bit more forgiving, and height is not as important as experience, personality, interpersonal skills, and looks. 44% of female models were shorter than standard modeling requirements, being under 5’5” tall. 43% of models were between 5’6” and 5’10” tall. The average female model height is 5’7″.
Male models were of average to above average height as well, with 52% of them being between 5’6” and 5’10” tall. 50% were between 5’11” and 6’4” tall. The average male model height is 5’11”.
Averate female model heights:
Under 5’ 2%
5’1” – 5’5” 44%
5’6” – 5’10” 52%
5’11” – 6’4” 2%
Over 6’4” 0%
The average female model height is five feet and seven inches tall; 5’7″.
Average male model heights:
5’1” – 5’5” 2%
5’11” – 6’4” 50%
The average male model height is six feet tall; 6′.
Your chances of working a promotional model job increase dramatically if you live in a larger city. It makes sense, larger cities hold more trade shows, and conventions and brands typically market to major markets.
The top five states where models live, in order of highest to lowest:
3. Illinois
The top five populous states, in order of highest to lowest:
2. Texas
The top five model staffing cities:
1. Las Vegas
2. Orlando
The largest five cities contain 16.5% of the model population and include Los Angeles, New York, Las Vegas, Chicago, and Atlanta. Surprisingly Atlanta was the fifth most populous city for models while being the 40th largest city.
We were able to share the average female model height and found some interesting information on breast size, and showed average model measurements and weight. You may see all of our male and female model in the infographic below. Hopefully, this data helps give aspiring models a better idea of what it takes to become a promotional model. If you are already a model, you can see where you fall when compared to your peers.
Model height and weight requirements are vague in this industry. They vary depending on the job and client’s preferences. The next time you ask yourself “am I tall enough or is my weight in line with that of models?” know that you should not let these numbers stop you from submitting to a brand ambassador or top promotional model staffing agency. Go ahead and take a chance, you never know unless you try!
Were there any findings that surprised you? Let us know your thoughts!
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Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal were two ambitious mountaineers whose only passion was to stand atop the highest land mass in the world, and in the late Spring of 1953, they achieved their dream by ascending Mount Everest. They may have inspired a generation of humanity who were finally beginning to see vast extent of human endeavour after years of tragedy with World War II, but the treacherous obstacles and dangers they faced are not as widely known as their triumphs. In those days, it was difficult to get a Himalayan expedition approved by the official overseers, so the fact that it took a once in a lifetime opportunity to motivate these individuals into achieving something that man has never managed before was truly staggering and should never be forgotten.
'Beyond The Edge' is an astonishing documentary about the details of Hillary and Norgay's voyage featuring original colour archival footage, photographs, interviews and dramatic re-enactments starring Chad Moffitt and Sonam Sherpa among others now in stunning 3D. It has been directed by Leanne Pooley ('The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls', 'The Promise', 'Haunting Douglas') who co-wrote the onscreen story with Matthew Metcalfe ('The Ferryman', 'Soldiers of Fortune', 'Relocated Mountains').
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'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
video 'podcast'
ShowPlug1: Yeah, it was an earthquake. Meanwhile, new polling: Perry burying Palin, Bachmann. W/TPM's @EvanMc_s Morris-Santoro
ShowPlug2: Plus Paul Ryan's tax breaks: for Frats, Golf, and Beer. What is he, Bluto? Economist Jeff Madrick of @RooseveltInst joins me
ShowPlug3: Moammar missing? Whatever. Where's the oil? Contributor @Kate_Sheppard of Mother Jones on the real story of Libya
ShowPlug4: Arrests outside White House protesting Canada-to-Texas "Tar Sands" pipeline pass 150. One of them, @BillMcKibben , joins us
ShowPlug5: Tea Partier posts "joke" on Facebook about throwing President Obama and First Lady out of plane, mid-flight. Surprised by reax.
ShowPlugLast: And the Quake didn't hurt you but the coverage did. The great Paul F. @PFTompkins and I sneer mightly at 8 EDT.
ShowPlugPS: We have calculated how many people could have felt the shake today. The number will blow your cranium.
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#1 'Shock Treatment', Paul F. Tompkins
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KEITH OLBERMANN: Which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow?
So, yeah, that was an earthquake.
(EXCERPT FROM VIDEO CLIP)
MAN: Yeah, it could have been an earthquake, but that's not my first thought.
OLBERMANN: Dude, I lived in L.A. for nine years, it was a quake.
DAN LOTHIAN: How bad is the situation at the epicenter? I'm getting some information here. Hang on just a second. I'm just getting some information. The President, who is out on the golf course, he just took a phone call.
OLBERMANN: And while the Right blames the President for being on the golf course, on March 14th, Eric Cantor defended cuts to the U.S. Geological Survey and other natural disaster preparedness entities.
Today, a 5.8 earthquake was felt by a third or more of the country. Its epicenter? In the middle of Eric Cantor's congressional district. Elsewhere, Bachmann's poll numbers collapse.
And so do Palin's.
And guess whose went up? This idiot.
RICK PERRY: We've gone from a country that made great strides in issues of Civil Rights. I think we all can be proud of that. And as we go forward, America needs to be about freedom. It needs to be about freedom from over-taxation, freedom from over-litigation, freedom from over-regulation.
OLBERMANN: Freedom from infantile comparisons between Civil Rights and safety net cuts to benefit billionaires? Libya, where in the world is Moammar Gadhafi ?
And what in the world does his overthrow mean for this country and the politics of oil prices? Tar Sands, The Pipeline protest at the White House.
WOMAN: Personally, I've never been arrested before. I don't do this for fun. I'm here because I think it's such an important issue that it really demands that kind of action, and it demands that level of commitment from myself.
OLBERMANN: Worsts -- the Tea Party chairwoman, who just posted a joke online about throwing the President and the First Lady out of an airplane. And if it scared you, I get it, but all's okay after the earthquake, except maybe for the coverage.
"U.S. Weather service says there is no tsunami expected after the east coast earthquake that was centered in VA."
OLBERMANN: Gee, thanks, Fox. What about Mothra? Was Mothra released by the earthquake?
All that and more now on "Countdown."
(TITLE SEQUENCE)
OLBERMANN: Good evening from New York. This is Tuesday, August 23, 441 days until the 2012 Presidential Election.
So those of you North of North Carolina, East of Indianapolis, South of Toronto, now you know why I never say this is a political earthquake, nor that something will shake the Republic. Whole coverage of the quake with its epicenter in Eric Cantor's congressional district, and moreover, full coverage of the semi-hysterical coverage, which included that Fox helpful hint that no tsunami is expected at the end of this news hour.
But in the fifth story on the "Countdown," the precipitous drops in the Republican polls by Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin were not tectonic shifts rumbling far beneath the surface of the American political landscape. Though the grinding sound you hear may be Texas governor Rick Perry snacking on his Tea Party opponents.
According to Public Policy Polling, in a tally that mixes declared and undeclared candidates, 21% of Iowa Republican voters favor Perry. 18% support Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann comes in third, down to 15%, Ron Paul at 14%, and Sarah Palin just creeping into double digits at 10% of the total.
Palin has not declared that she is running for president, may not declare that she's running for anything. She did declare war on her fellow Fox News propagandist Karl Rove for his claim that she would announce her run at a Tea Party event in Iowa on September 3rd.
In language unbecoming to a professional colleague, the erstwhile "Sarah Barracuda" informed the world and Rove through her Sarah-Pac webpage that, "Any professional pundit claiming to have 'inside information' regarding Governor Palin's personal decision is not only wrong but their comments are specifically intended to mislead the American public."
Take a second and let this sink in.
You heard it there. Sarah Palin claims Karl Rove goes on Fox News to mislead the American public.
Rick Perry has a different problem -- he can't stop himself from saying what he really believes.
Though maybe he'll slow down a bit, after comments like this one, equating Civil Rights-era gains in freedom for minorities to the GOP crusade for freedom from taxes on corporations.
RICK PERRY: And as we go forward, America needs to be about freedom. It needs to be about freedom from over-taxation, freedom from over-litigation, freedom from over-regulation.
OLBERMANN: Perry's also pushing for a fourth freedom.
Freedom from the income tax.
In his book "F'ed Up!," sorry, "Fed Up!" -- truly a gift that keeps on giving -- Perry proposes, "An alternative model of taxation, such as a national sales tax, that provides only the modest revenue needed to perform the basic constitutional functions of the federal government."
If you enjoyed today's earthquake, you'd love the barren landscape of a post-Perry America because his version of basic constitutional functions may not be the same as yours.
Given that Perry's on the record calling Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security bankrupt and akin to Ponzi schemes and probably unconstitutional.
As for Governor Romney, at least the leading so-called "moderate" in the GOP pack did not call for a firing squad, when he in turn criticized a course that Fed Chairman Bernanke may take to boost the economy.
MITT ROMNEY: Another round of quantitative easing, money printing if you will, is not the right course for the economy, and suggests a growth of inflation down the road.
OLBERMANN: Correspondent Evan McMorris-Santoro of "Talking Points Memo" has been in South Carolina reporting on Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry and joins us now.
Evan, good evening.
EVAN McMORRIS-SANTORO: Hi, Keith.
OLBERMANN: So are we reading this right, the far right has found its true love in Perry, and Bachmann and Palin just got dumped?
McMORRIS-SANTORO: Well, you know, it does seem that way to a certain extent. I mean, in South Carolina I spoke to a lot of voters, political professionals and voters, and, you know, Rick Perry, they have all been waiting for. He comes in and he's got a robust campaign operation.
He's got 12 years of executive experience.These are the kind of things that sort of the Tea Party people think make him more electable, and the more establishment people think it makes him a little bit less worrisome than maybe a Bachmann or a Palin, who doesn't have the same amount of experience.
So, you know, every poll is sort showing at this point that Perry is really the man to beat now.
There is a new poll coming out tomorrow, a national PPP poll, that shows Perry with a double-digit lead in the Republican national contest, which of course isn't really a contest, but sort of judges how their support is. And it looks like Perry really has sort of jumped in there and grabbed a hold of the field, and left Bachmann specifically in the dust, I think.
OLBERMANN: Is that entirely, the last part, entirely Perry's doing or does some of that go to Bachmann's repeated gaffs? Is there some, is it not just, "Oh, we like Perry better," or "Oh, he's been louder," or "Oh, he's more extreme, he's been crazier to our liking"?
Or is there some sort of quantitative analysis that maybe Bachmann could not get through a week of the campaign without saying incredibly self damaging?
McMORRIS-SANTORO: Well, I think you are right on that. This is part of what I was hearing when I was down in South Carolina, was that she hasn't been able to expand her crowd, expand her base sort of beyond the very activist side. And partially it's because of what she says when she's not making gaffs.
For example, she talks about getting rid of the Department of Education, which is, you know, a good Tea Party issue but one that doesn't have a lot of national appeal. But then when she, you know, does go off script it's all, you know, getting Elvis's birthday wrong and saying she is in the wrong John Wayne's hometown.
So I think that she hasn't been able to sort of show that she's more than kind of the extremist, maybe kind of gaff-prone politician that she was before. For all of the impressiveness of her campaign so far, and it has been impressive to see her sort of leverage that national Tea Party fame that she has into so much support and so much influence in Iowa, and of course, influence in the debt debate.
She has been able to move past that sort of initial phase of fame, I think, because of sort of her personalities are just where she is and the things that she keeps saying.
OLBERMANN: And when you then account for those mistakes by saying, "Well, she's just busy, there's nothing wrong with her, she's just busy.
And if she speaks six times a day, she is likely to screw up." Then that does, I suppose, even in some sort of guttural level inside people's souls, make them say, "Uh, does she really expect not to be busy as President?"
McMORRIS-SANTORO: Well, you know, I think this is another of these experience questions. I mean, Perry has been running a large state for a long time, and Bachmann doesn't have the experience. And so whether or not that line goes to that or something else, I think that that is an essential part of why Perry's doing well.
He just has so much more sort of gravitas, if you will, than Bachmann does in terms of going into a general election race.
OLBERMANN: And Sarah Palin, is there evidence that if she was waiting to get in, she waited too long?
McMORRIS-SANTORO: Well, you know, we've have talked about this before. And I do think that the longer it goes, this sort of less interested people are in her. I mean, Rick Perry has come in, he's saying a lot of the same things I think that people think that a Bachmann -- that a Palin would say.
His comments about Ben Bernanke, and stuff, you know, the thing about the Civil Rights stuff that you mentioned earlier, these are kind of things you would kind of expect the sort of far right things you expect a Sarah Palin to say, but again, he says it while also being a Texan and having, you know, the cowboy swagger that is really appealing to the Republican Party and having that Texas experience.
OLBERMANN: Evan McMorris-Santoro, the reporter from Talking Points Memo, great to have you on the program. Thanks for your time.
McMORRIS-SANTORO: Thanks.
OLBERMANN: Not so great, a theme that the "Wall Street Journal" is calling "The New GOP Orthodox" -- you lower lower taxes for the corporations and rich to be paid for by a new income tax for the working poor families and seniors -- the guys normally thought of as too poor to pay that tax under current law.
Jon Huntsman, who sometimes plays a moderate Republican on TV told "The Journal" he agreed with Tea Party favorite Florida senator Marco Rubio that we don't have enough people paying taxes in this country.
It's not really a new take on class warfare.
The "Wall Street Journal" has been pushing it since 2002 -- impose income taxes on the people who are too poor to pay them. Their numbers went from less than 30 to nearly 47% of the American public thanks to the Bush tax cuts and the Bush recession which followed.
Illinois congressman Randy Hultgren tried out a variation on this theme at a town hall last night, one that should please his wealthier constituents and contributors.
RANDY HULTGREN: I am not out there trying to coddle anybody. I, in fact, I support a bill that allows super rich -- if they want to make, if they want to give more money to the federal government, it could be a charitable contribution.
OLBERMANN: However, former Reagan and George H. W. Bush official Bruce Bartlett was not laughing nor feeling charitable when he attacked ideas like Hultgren's in his "New York Times" column today writing, "It is not class warfare to suggest that the richest 1% of the people in society pay one-third of their income to the federal government as they did under Ronald Reagan."
It is fair to point out hypocrisy, when would-be tax cutters promote tax loopholes to benefit their own contributors, like house budget committee chairman Paul Ryan. According to the "Huffington Post," Ryan has pushed legislation to special loopholes manufacturer for S.C. Johnson and Son, which contributed $41,000 to his campaign.
The Fraternity and Sorority political action committee -- another $24,500, and The National Wholesalers Association, which put $7,200 in Ryan's war chest.
For more on this latest front in the GOP's war on the poor, I am joined again by Jeff Madrick -- a senior fellow at The Roosevelt Institute, and the author of the aptly titled "Age of Greed."
Thank you for coming in, sir.
JEFF MADRICK: Good to see you.
OLBERMANN: Uh -- let's see. This is a new orthodoxy here. Tax breaks for the rich, new income taxes for the poor. Sound like a plan?
MADRICK: Well, it sounds like the old orthodoxy. But, this one is especially, I think, mean-spirited, insensitive and may backfire, because who is the base of this Republican uprising, but these very people who are supposedly not paying taxes?
Your viewers should understand 46% of people may not pay taxes. That number has gone up, as you have said, because of the recession. People are losing jobs.
But, two-thirds of those do pay FICA, Social Security taxes. So, this implication, which I think is a very deliberate one, that half of American people are not paying taxes is an outright lie, in fact.
Most of them are paying Social Security taxes, and they are high, and they are regressive.
OLBERMANN: But it is, as ridiculous as it is, it's one of the great pieces of sophistry because it sounds symmetrical. It sounds -- oval. It sounds something that people can get easily enraged at, those people who are maybe middle income, or lower to middle, or even higher end of middle income people. That makes you want to say, "Well, that's damn right. Why are they not paying their fair share?"
And of course, the answer to it is they are paying their fair share, because they don't have any money to begin with. That's just as easy to sell. Whose responsibility is it to make that point to the vast part of the public that would naturally say, "I would like for somebody to take this tax burden off of me"?
MADRICK: Yours and mine, I think.
OLBERMANN: Yeah, I guess.
MADRICK: It's up to us. The facts are -- the facts have to stand. But this -- I mean, speak agreed this really is a contemptible idea. Only 18% -- less than one out of five Americans pay either no -- pay no FICA, Social Security tax, or no income tax.
Who are those 18% that don't pay any major Federal taxes? The elderly. Basically, the majority are the elderly. What are we talking about?
And a lot of that has come -- and a lot of that, in fact, ironically it's because George Bush passed the child tax credits, and extended an earned income tax credit to eliminate some more people from the income tax roles.
The money is just not there. This is a bad joke, an insensitive joke. I think a mean-spirited joke and it may well backfire on these people.
OLBERMANN: All right. The Bruce Bartlett comment in "The New York Times" today that the rich can't afford to pay more. It seems like a fairly simple concept.
But, is that not an impossibility, politically, unless the Bush tax cuts are going to expire at some point?
MADRICK: Well, I think the Bush tax cuts have to expire.
OLBERMANN: You thought so last time.
MADRICK: That doesn't mean they will expire. Yeah, right. That doesn't mean they will expire. People should know very clearly. If all of the Bush tax cuts expire, not just the rich, but the middle -- and middle would not mean a lot of extra tax burden for middle income people.
We would not have a budget-balancing problem, even by conservative lights. Think about that.
If we just paid the tax rates of the Clinton years when some people remember we had an economical boon.
OLBERMANN: Yeah.
MADRICK: We would be okay, and not talking about this budget balancing, and not strapping government down, and able to make the public investments and maintain the social programs we need. It's a very cynical time.
I don't remember economic leadership this poor in the U.S.
OLBERMANN: Oh, yes. I was just going to say, Dickensian London sounds about --
MADRICK: Well, yeah. And they're rapidly catching up to Dickensian London.
OLBERMANN: Yeah, the last thing, and it can never be underscored too many times with the easy answer.
I'll give you the seemingly complicated question here. The GOP argument is, lower tax rates, especially on the wealthy, spur economic growth and the answers is?
MADRICK: No.
OLBERMANN: And why not?
MADRICK: It didn't in the 2000s.
OLBERMANN: Right.
MADRICK: We have good, empirical, historical proof. Let's call it proof, which is a dangerous thing in economics.
It didn't work in the 2000s, slowest rate of economic growth of the post World War II period after the Bush tax cuts which promised jobs -- slowest rate of job creation.
So, let's you and I keep telling viewers this, and maybe it will sink in.
OLBERMANN: The economist Jeff Madrick, the author of "The Age of Greed." As ever, great thanks for coming in.
MADRICK: Very nice to be here.
OLBERMANN: My pleasure.
Simultaneously, the push to control the oil of Libya and the arrest at the White House over a dangerous oil pipeline that creates almost no new jobs, but risks countless new environmental disasters. That's next.
This is "Countdown."
OLBERMANN: Rebels capture Gadhafi's compound. Well, that would make it their compound, right? The latest from, and the latest oil implications of Libya.
As Libyan oil is in the news, so is his probable approval of the tar sands pipeline from Canada to Texas. Our guest, one of dozens who are willing to be arrested at the White House to stop this project. The manuscript for her new autobiographical "History of the World" is late, and she has just blamed for that, the President.
And by our calculations, the number of Americans who today experienced an earthquake for the first time might be as high as 121,382,000,692. Nearly that many potentially exposed to how an earthquake gets covered by people who don't understand earthquakes, and are trying to keep themselves from crying or screaming on TV.
Paul F. Tompkins joins me ahead on "Countdown."
OLBERMANN: Moammar Gadhafi is missing, and presumed no longer the dictator of Libya. Rebels seized his compound -- he was nowhere to be found. President Obama is calling this a victory for the people of Libya, but it's also looking like the President could be a big winner as well.
With the U.S. economy benefitting from falling oil prices, as analysts anticipate a Libya without Gadhafi.
In our fourth story tonight, while news cameras follow the chaos and joy on the streets there, oil companies have their sights set on the vast oil reserves beneath those streets. Libya sits on more oil than any other African country.
Before the uprising, it was the world's twelfth largest exporter, mostly to European nations. And, how Libya's reserves are divvied up by its new government will likely impact the health of the U.S. economy.
The President has consistently referred to the uprising in the Middle East, or the uprisings in the Middle East as headwinds hampering economic growth here.
But, the "New York Times" reporting today that the rebel-controlled oil company Agoco is already indicating it will give the U.S. preferential treatment, a spokesman saying, "We don't have a problem with western countries like Italians, French and UK companies. But, we may have some political issues with Russia, China and Brazil. Russia, China, and Brazil did not back strong sanctions and pushed for negotiations to end the uprising."
Those three are among a growing number of countries whose oil companies are hoping to access Libyan reserves -- companies from the U.S., France, Britain, Italy, the Netherlands also seeking rights to drill there.
They're all hoping the new rebel-led government is a better business partner than colonel Gadhafi was. The erratic dictator frequently increased fees and made other demands on companies working there.
Already, markets are responding well to the news that he is on his way out. The price of Brent crude, which is used to price oil, dropping on word that the rebels had taken Tripoli.
Meanwhile, Mr. Obama's approval ratings on the economy are the lowest they've been.
Holding in about a quarter of American's saying he's doing a good job.
Let's bring in "Countdown" contributor Kate Sheppard, a reporter from Mother Jones magazine. Thanks for joining me tonight, Kate.
KATE SHEPPARD: Thanks for having me, Keith.
OLBERMANN: If the situation is confused and scrambling at the Gadhafi compound, what would you describe the situation in the oil company board rooms around the planet right now?
SHEPPARD: Well, they are definitely pretty happy about the situation. They, you know, even as early as yesterday, companies were saying that they were going to start sending in delegations to start figuring out what the status is of the infrastructure there and start making plans to continue development they had underway or seek new contracts there.
So, they are definitely eager to get back into Libya as soon as possible.
OLBERMANN: It's easy to throw around oil as a motive for everything. But do you think there was one that related to that in terms of our involvement in Libya? The U.N. resolution we were supporting through NATO was about protecting citizens in part of the country, something made us push the envelope of that resolution and stick to it in ways that we have not in other African nations or nations of a similar economic stratus?
SHEPPARD: Well, you know, I think that oil is always involved when we get ourselves in the Middle Eastern countries. It's really hard to avoid.I don't think that this is necessarily the number one reason that we went in. But it, I'm certainly sure that it was involved.
I think, you know, probably the broader reason that we decided to get involved is that we thought it was going to be rather easy to push Gadhafi out and move these rebel forces in. And I think that probably had more to do with it than the oil factor.
OLBERMANN: In the end, though, is there result of this going to be making us more dependent on foreign oil rather than less so?
SHEPPARD: It will be interesting. Right now the U.S. is not a huge importer of Libyan oil. But, as you noted, that could change with the new power in place there. It's our allies in Europe who have been more reliant of Libyan oil in the past.
And, so, whether the U.S. will import more from there remains to be seen. But, they definitely, they're hopeful that it will be easier with the new government in place.
But, right now, we don't really even know what that never government would look like. So, time will tell what actually happens there.
OLBERMANN: The several oil producing countries including Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, providing a sort of strange side light on all of this. Endorsing the attack on Gadhafi in the name of Democracy, when those don't really seem to be huge components of their own political systems, can you decipher that, or are they just happy to have somebody out of competition with them, or what is that all about?
SHEPPARD: I think there's certainly an aspect of competition there. You know it's always easier to push, to point the finger at someone and say, "No, that's that bad guy, we're fine." I'm sure there's a certain degree of that going on as well.
OLBERMANN: Kate Sheppard, the "Countdown" contributor from Mother Jones magazine.
Thanks for your time tonight, Kate.
SHEPPARD: Thanks for having me.
OLBERMANN: And, however oil is obtained, oil requires pipelines. And one new pipeline project is so controversial that in this age of acquiescence, more than 150 protesters have now gotten themselves arrested over several days outside the White House.
One of them, Bill McKibben, joins me ahead on "Countdown."
OLBERMANN: The push to stop the pipeline next. First, the sanity break.
And this was written in the San Francisco "Daily Morning Call" newspaper in 1864. A story by a waggish young reporter who was mocking the fact that something hadn't happened. Headline, "No Earthquake."
Story, "In consequence of the warm close atmosphere which smothered the city at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, everybody expected to be shaken out of their boots by an earthquake before night, but up to the hour of our going to press the supernatural bootjack had not arrived yet. That is just what makes it so unhealthy, the earthquakes are getting so irregular. When a community gets used to a thing, they suffer when they have to go without it. However, the trouble cannot be remedied, we know of nothing that will answer as a substitute for one of those convulsions, to an unmarried man."
That was published on August 23rd, 1864, 147 years ago today and it was written by Mark Twain.
Time marches on.
We begin in the animal kingdom where this bird's career has hit the proverbial glass ceiling.
What I'm going to call a cardinal, sure.
OLBERMANN: Appears to be trying to get past a glass window to what I can only assume is a buffet of worms.
But this bird is no dodo and he keeps at it because persistence is the key to success. However, after eight unsuccessful attempts, our hero retreats in failure.
But, in the end, he gave it his all.
I'm sure he has no regrets or egrets. Although, he did have to take two aspirin for his massive migration.
Migraine.
We check in on the kids. What do kids like? Candy. There's nothing better as a kid than an extra large pixie stick.
All right, you tell me what we're going to play. Play it, we'll just see if it's there.
OLBERMANN: Whoa, this looks familiar.
To the internets, the hot summers, there's not better activity than finding creative ways to cool down. Release rotation splash.
I'm just so used to seeing the guys fail, or the tape not play.
his one succeeded and it actually surprised me. East German, 9.9, 9.8, 9.9, and a 10 from the East German judge.
Ignore for a second the random furniture scattered in the yard, for today, that man has nothing to be embarrassed about.
OLBERMANN: Whee!
You survived the earthquake, but did you survive the earthquake news coverage? I don't think so. Paul F. Tompkins ahead on "Countdown.
OLBERMANN: We are live from "Countdown" world headquarters in the Sports Capsule Building in New York City each night at 8:00 P.M.
And then we transmit into your home again at 11:00 P.M., 2:00 A.M., 7:00 A.M., noon and 3:00 P.M. We call it our little miracle.
For a fourth straight day outside the White House, environmentalists were arrested for protesting a pipeline that would can a carry acidic crude oil, if you can call it oil, from western Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast.
In our third story on the countdown, the protestors begin what should be a two-week long demonstration, Saturday against the proposed Key Stone XL Pipeline.
The so-called Tar Sands Pipeline, it would travel about 1,700 miles.
Tar sands or oil sands are sluggish mixes of sand, clay, water, and a molasses-level-thick petroleum. It used to be considered so unusable that until recently none of it was counted as the world's oil supply.
Extracting it, heating it, moving it will destroy Canadian forests, risk spills on sensitive terrain and increase U.S. dependence on carbon based fuels. One demonstrator from Maine summed it up.
(EXCERPT FROM VIDEO CLIP) ANDIE BURR: It's a terrible idea, and it is time for us to turn the tide on climate change.
OLBERMANN: Part of the pipeline already exists, but most of it must still be built by the TransCanada Company.
To the benefit, surprisingly enough, of many oil companies including some from Texas, which we should not be surprised then, that a Republican Congressman, Ted Poe, recently spoke in favor of the project.
(EXCERPT FROM VIDEO CLIP)TED POE: An easy choice for this administration. Either they can force Americans to continue to rely on unfriendly, foreign countries for our energy, like Venezuela and the Middle Eastern dictators, or work with our friends in the North to supply over 1.4 million barrels of oil per day.
OLBERMANN: And rely on Texas dictators.
The Obama Administration says it will decide on the pipeline by the end of the year.
The "New York Times," in a strongly worded editorial last Sunday sided with the environmentalist, saying, "We have two main concerns -- the risk of oil spills along the pipeline, which would traverse highly sensitive terrain, and the fact that the extraction of petroleum from the tar sands creates far more greenhouse admissions than conventional production does. The state department will decide whether approve or reject the pipeline by the end of the year. It should acknowledge the environmental risk on the pipeline and the larger damage caused by tar sands production and block the Keystone XL."
Joining us now from Washington, Bill McKibben, an environmentalist and author who spent the weekend with fellow demonstrators in a Washington jail.
Mr. McKibben, thanks for your time tonight.
BILL McKIBBEN: Keith, what a pleasure to be with you.
OLBERMANN: Thank you, sir. It's ours.
President Obama can decide this without Congress. What's his political calculation and which side do you expect him to end up on?
McKIBBEN: Well, I think we're changing the odds of that at the moment. You know, a week ago, I think there was little question he would have gone ahead.
Think of the pressure coming from the most powerful, profitable industry on the planet. But we have succeeded by organizing the largest civil disobedience protest in the environmental movement in decades in nationalizing this issue.
It's no longer just people along the pipeline route and native people who have been carrying this fight for a couple of years. Now, it's people from all 50 states who have come to Washington to get arrested, and the media coverage that they are drawing is producing things like that editorial in the "Times." So it's beginning to shift.
It's going to be gut-check time for the president. When he ran for president, he said -- the night he was nominated, in fact -- he said, "You know what? When I am president, the rise of the oceans will begin to slow and the planet will begin to heal." That's powerful talk.
He hasn't yet done heroic things on the environment.
He has done some good things around the edges but nothing transformative, and he has backed down on some important fights.
This time, he can't blame it on Congress. He doesn't need to ask Jim Inhofe's permission. He doesn't need any help from the congress. He can turn down this permit himself, and if he does -- and here I think is the political calculation -- If he does, it will send a surge of excitement through that base.
We were sitting and lying on the metal shelves in the, what's called central cell block in the Washington jail the other day, and people were saying, "You know, the last time I was this uncomfortable, I was lying on a church basement getting ready to go knock on doors for Barack Obama."
I sure hope I get reminded of why I was doing all of that.
OLBERMANN: Obviously, transporting oil involves risks. Even the most dedicated environmentalist president would not be able to dismantle the oil reliance of this country in a matter of years --let alone decades, probably.
McKIBBEN: Very true.
OLBERMANN: -- let alone decades, probably. But why is this one project worse than usual, worse than acceptable?
McKIBBEN: Sure. The answer lies at heart in the place it's coming from.
The Tar Sands of Canada are the second largest pool of carbon on Earth. Only after the Saudi Arabian oil fields.
We plumed those Saudi oil fields 70 years ago when no one had heard of global warming. If we do the same kind of thing, make the same kind of investment, produce the same volumes of oil from Canada, then as Jim Hansen, our leading climate scientist put it not long ago, it will be essentially game over for the climate.
That's about as strong language as you will get from a scientist, and it's a reminder that we need to leave carbon in the ground. It's exactly the same principle as say, telling the Brazilians that they need to guard their rain forest, not cut it down.
If the Brazilians who are poor are supposed to guard their rain forest – and, actually, they've begun to do a pretty good job of just that -- then surely North Americans who aren't poor should be able to keep their hands off something as dangerous as all that oil.
It's risky in transmission. It will almost certainly spill in places like the Ogallala aquifer.
The precursor pipeline has leaked 12 times in 12 months, you know?
But even if that oil gets safely to Texas, that's just that much more of it to spill into the atmosphere, essentially game over for the climate. That's why this has emerged as the premier environmental test for Barack Obama between now and the next election.
OLBERMANN: And the rationalization for going ahead for it, obviously they're not going to say, "We're going to do this to put more money in the oil companies pockets." But there is not some huge gain in jobs creation or something to throw out?
McKIBBEN: Well, you know, you're going to have to -- some people are going to have to build the pipeline. The State Department, in its analysis, estimates a few thousand jobs, about 800 or 900 of them for people along the pipeline route.
But, of course that's dwarfed by the number of people who would be employed turning to the wind and the sun, if we decide that we are no longer going to allow our addiction to oil to grow, that we are not going to find one more vein in, you know, to exploit.
Instead, we are going to make the beginning of what, as you pointed out, will be a long and difficult transition off of fossil fuel.
But as long as we keep pumping to the ground every barrel we can find, then we will never make that transition. And it's that kind of transformation that Barack Obama needs to show us he will lead on.
OLBERMANN: Bill McKibben of tarsandaction.org, great. Thanks for your time, and good luck with this.
McKIBBEN: Thanks so much.
OLBERMANN: Thank you.
Just another joke about president Obama from a leader of the Tea Party. This one encourages people to fantasize about pushing him out of an airplane midflight. But, there is nothing wrong, or belligerent, or violent about the Tea Party.
So, I am sure they would love the same joke if it was told about, say, Sarah Palin.
"Worst Persons" ahead on "Countdown."
OLBERMANN: It was just a joke about pushing the president of the United States out of a plane midflight, and First Lady. "Worst Persons," ahead.
And this was not a joke, but some of the coverage? Yeah, pretty much.
Paul F. Tompkins and I talked earthquakes and what happens when nearly all of the national media has never lived in Los Angeles, next on "Countdown."
OLBERMANN: So, the coverage of the quake was far more damaging than the quake itself.
Paula Thompkins joins me to review what could have been so deadly serious, but not to do it so deadly seriously.
But first, because these mutton heads have already blamed it on socialism, here are "Countdown's" nominee's for today's top three worst persons in the world.
The runner-up -- Rodger Ailes, the maître d' at Fixed News, you don't think their talking points off which his collection of mynah birds learns its nonsense, think again. Mediamatters.org has chronicled a curious repetition on the propaganda channel lately about president Obama's vacation.
August 17th, Greta Van Susteren, "I don't begrudge him on vacation, I just begrudge him."
August 17th, somebody named David Webb on "Fox Out of Business," -- "Never begrudged the President a vacation, but..."
August 18th, Andrea Tantaros, moron, one of the hosts of the thing they put on after they cancelled Glenn Beck, "I don't think people begrudge him from time off... Here's the issue..."
August 18th, Eric Bolling, racist, same show, "Is Obama tone-death for taking ten days right now on the Vineyard?"
Nobody is begrudging the president a vacation.
August 19th, Karl Rove, "Well, look, I don't begrudge any President a vacation. I do think he's got a perception problem."
August 19th, Steven Hayes, "I don't begrudge the President of the United States to take a vacation, but..."
Nice, crappy grammar, by the way.
August 20th, the despicable Judith Miller, "I don't begrudge the president a vacation, but..."
She did not add W.M.D.
Now, I don't begrudge Fox News being a factory of propaganda the likes of which the nation has never seen before, nor the people on it being attention-crazed losers who will literally say anything to get to be in television, and in their sick world, adored.
But, I just wish they tried harder to mix it up a little vocabulary-wise.
The runner-up -- Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona, her book is apparently late.
So she is writing one. She isn't trying to read one.
It is delayed as she explained to Capital Media Services, because, "Something came up. I am working away, trying to get this all done on the weekends and late at night, trying to get it done. And all of the sudden, here we go, he starts it all up again."
Who is the "he"?
President Obama.
This insane governor who thinks the Arizona desert is littered with decapitated corpses because she saw it on some TV show, and is no longer there enough to know the difference between that and realty, is now blaming delays in writing her own warped view of the recent American history she helped to poison on interference by the President of the United States.
Madam Governor, you are a laughing stock. You have reduced the great and generous state of Arizona to a national punch line. You are giving the wicked witch of the West a bad name.
Resign. Go away.
Let another Republican run the place. Any other one. I will take Steve Pearce at this point.
But our winner -- Sherry Lanford Smith of Sumter, South Carolina, she posted a joke on Facebook about killing the President and the First Lady.
It's an old one about Character 1 saying, "If I could throw a thousand dollar bill out of this plane and make one person very happy."
Then, Character 2 says, "I could throw 10, $100 bills and make 10 people very happy."
Then the pilot tops them. Only this time, Character 1 is President Obama.
Character 2 is the First Lady and the rest of Ms. Smith's Facebook post reads, "I could throw both of them out the window and make 256 million people very happy."
Smith added, "If you are one of the 256 million, pass it on."
Ms. Smith has removed it, telling a local Sumter newspaper, "It was just a joke, and I had no idea it would be an issue."
Which is plausible if you are not too bright.
But it might seem a little more serious if you were not as Sherry Lanford Smith is, the chairwoman of the Sumter Tea Party.
Sumter, Tea Party boss, Sherry Lanford Smith, simply put, today's Worst Person in The World.
OLBERMANN: There is a chance it may have made you think of that line from the movie, "It's a Wonderful Life" -- "Don't look now, but there is something funny going on over at the bank, George."
I never have seen one but that has all of the earmarks of being a run or our number one story, an earthquake.
For around 121 Americans who may have never felt one before, certainly not where they were, a 5.8 epicenter in Mineral or Louisa, Virginia, felt in Buffalo and Michigan and of course the centers for panic in the media -- New York and D.C.
The earthquake forced the evacuation of building in Washington, like that white one there, including the White House and the Pentagon, shockwaves stretched from Ohio to Massachusetts.
Building in other large metropolitan areas in the northeast also evacuated including a New York courtroom holding a news conference during the dismissal of the charges against a defendant.
They thought it was some sort of attack on the district attorney.
No reports of injuries.
Very few things were broken including what passes for breaking news.
Here is Dan Lothian.
DAN LOTHIAN: Hang on just a second. I am just getting some information. The President, who is out on the golf course, he just took a phone call.
OLBERMANN: Thank God you said, "phone call."
"Fixed News" made a brilliant observation on its crawl there that, "The east coast need not worry about a tsunami following the earthquake."
Good to know, considering the earthquake happened inland.
Perhaps, no one truly captured the days' news better though than clever folks with Twitter handles, including "Countdown" contributor Jeremy Scahill.
"It's just like Obama to be golfing when an earthquake suddenly hits."
Jet Blue tweeted, "We've issued a temporary ground stop while we assess the earthquake impact. In the meantime, enjoy some Carole King."
This from a conversation overheard during an evacuation, "The stairs? But I am wearing R.L. Collection heels." I believe from a woman.
This one captured the "devastation in D.C." in a picture. It was also used for Central Park in New York.
Mike Barrett hit the nail on the head, "Unconfirmed report" or bearish, "Unconfirmed reports of people moving on with their lives, news reporters undeterred."
But no one captured the essence as the blogger Empty Wheel -- her tweet reminded us that Virginia Republican Congressman, Eric Cantor, the House Majority Leader, defended in March Republican plans to cut funding from the U.S. geological service, survey rather.
Empty Wheel tweets, "March 15th 2011,"It's actually March 14th, "Eric Cantor attacked U.S.G.S. funding. August 23rd 2011, freak earthquake hits his district."
That's right. His district.
The epicenter of the quake today in Virginia is inside Congressman Eric Cantor's district.
For a fitting perspective on all this, let's go to Los Angeles, unaffected by the earthquake, here is the actor and comedian Paul F. Tompkins, who will be recording his fourth Comedy Central special on Friday, October 7th, at the Alex Theater in Glendale -- barring acts of God.
Hello, Paul.
PAUL F. TOMPKINS: Hello, Keith.
OLBERMANN: Unbelievable. I don't want to dismiss this. I mean, I was on the 15th floor of a building in midtown Manhattan. You'll know this immediately, and anybody from California will recognize this terminology, it felt like a 3.6 or so, maybe a little stronger would have felt in L.A.
I mean, you noticed it, but it's like, "Okay. So what?" But is all Southern California just laughing its head off over the suddenly earthquake-panicked East?
TOMPKINS: Yes, absolutely, 100%.
OLBERMANN: Good.
TOMPKINS: It's nothing but hilarious. You know, I -- here is the thing about New York City, especially, is that the dirty little secret about New York City -- the greatest city on Earth -- is that it is largely uninhabitable.
It is not fit for human beings to live in.
New Yorkers pride themselves on being tough. They can deal with the extreme heat, the extreme cold, and so on and so forth.
Well, now they know what it's like in Southern California to walk around, not knowing when the Earth will suddenly decide to throw you off of itself.
That's tough. Okay?
OLBERMANN: Yes.
TOMPKINS: So what if it's summertime all year round? That's a heavy burden to walk around under.
OLBERMANN: There was, as I suggested, a good deal of panic on television. I mean, if you were in Steubenville, Ohio, it must have been very reassuring there would be no tsunami hitting downtown Steubenville.
TOMPKINS: Yeah, I think -- that's on the Ohio license plate, right? "Almost no chance of tsunamis." Like now, it's just, we've just put them hand-in-hand, no matter where an earthquake might happen.
It's like, "Well, in this, how far behind could the tsunami be?"
TOMPKINS: Surely, this is just what happens now.
OLBERMANN: What part did you enjoy most about the coverage you have been able to see today?
TOMPKINS: Stuff like this, I always love when news anchors get to do their dramatic sort of 1940s radio question, when they will look in the camera and say, "An earthquake in Connecticut?"
And they get to show off a little bit.
That, to me, is when broadcasters really shine.
OLBERMANN: My favorite part of this was watching every network try to answer the one question that all Californians, northern and southern, know is unanswerable by this one line repeated everywhere – "U.S. geological survey says aftershocks likely," which is like saying, "Wednesday is likely."
There are always aftershocks.
TOMPKINS: Yes.
OLBERMANN: There are always earthquakes, but there is no way, sorry, we hate to break this to you at this late moment, after you've been through an earthquake, there is no way to predict what happens next.
Ha-ha-ha.
TOMPKINS: Yeah. What I love about living in Los Angeles is you are never sure if it's an earthquake or an aftershock from five earthquakes ago.
OLBERMANN: Exactly.
TOMPKINS: There is that wonderful moment you are just sitting there and everything starts to roll a little bit and then there is always a moment where it's very pleasant for just a few seconds.
OLBERMANN: Yes. A hammock kind of quality.
TOMPKINS: And then it's over.
OLBERMANN: Yes. The little hammock thing, where you're sort of swinging nicely.
TOMPKINS: Yeah, it's like we're all on a big water bed.
OLBERMANN: Right. Until the water starts to splash up and drown you.
To be fair, I was working in L.A. and I think it was 1986 when in snowed in Malibu. Flurries that did not stick, and very few got to the pavement and every local station in L.A., including the one I went to went live to Malibu for, snow you could not see on television.
So, this is, that was, today was like the reverse of that, I thought.
TOMPKINS: Yeah.
I mean, you have to understand in that in Los Angeles, if it rains, that is -- that is the story of the day.
OLBERMANN: Yes, sir.
TOMPKINS: It doesn't matter what's going on in the rest of the world, Washington, anything. We always lead with – "If it can get your car wet, it leads."
TOMPKINS: So I imagine that any sort of frozen rain happening would be the Holy Grail of California news coverage.
OLBERMANN: That's it. "President Obama has resigned but let's go to Dallas rains where three inches of snow have fallen."
Paul F. Tompkins, whose fourth Comedy Central special tapes in October, and then presumably they show it sometime after.
Thanks, Paul, it's a pleasure.
TOMPKINS: Thank you, Keith.
OLBERMANN: That's "Countdown" for this, the 22nd day since the Republican debt ceiling blackmail worked.
Speaker Boehner, where are the jobs?
Where is our credit rating?
Up next on Current, "50 Documentaries To See Before You Die, Part 4."
I'm Keith Olbermann.
Good night, and good luck.
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