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Home » Christine Leuenberger
Christine Leuenberger
cal22@cornell.edu
Science & Technology Studies profile
Dr. Christine Leuenberger's research is specialized in Science & Technology Studies, qualitative methods, sociology of medicine, classical and contemporary sociological theory, sociology of knowledge, interactional sociology, sociology of culture, transformation studies of Eastern Europe, Middle Eastern Studies, Peace Studies, and the sociology and history of the human and behavioral sciences. Her current research is on the social impact of borders and barriers in a global context and the history and sociology of cartography in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. She is also engaged in peace and educational initiatives in conflict regions in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Classical and contemporary sociological theory
Sociology of science
Transformation studies of Eastern Europe
History and sociology of the human and behavioral sciences
Border Studies
STS 4451 : Making Science Policy: The Real World
STS 4721 : Peace Building in Conflict Regions: Case Studies Sub-Saharan Africa Israel Palestinian Territories
The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine (with Izhak Schnell) forthcoming with Oxford University Press, 2020.
“The Politics of Maps: Mapping the West Bank Barrier”, The Brown Journal of World Affairs 25/2, Spring/summer 2019. http://bjwa.brown.edu/25-2/the-politics-of-maps-mapping-the-west-bank-barrier/.
“Mapping Divided Cities: Berlin and Jerusalem”, in 25 Years Berlin Republik: Reflections on/of German Unification (1990-2015), edited by Todd Herzog, Tanja Nusser and Richard Schade, Wilhelm: Fink Verlag, 2019.
"First we take Berlin then we take Jerusalem: The Geopolitics of Mapping Divided Cities and their Separation Walls," Geoforum Perspektiv 27.2016: 14-32. https://issuu.com/geoforum5/docs/perspektiv_27_screen?e=18179681/36679450
"Maps as Politics: Mapping the West Bank Barrier," Journal of Borderlands Studies. 2016: 1-26 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08865655.2016.1174601
"The West Bank Wall" (with Emily Wills and Reece Jones), Journal of Borderlands Studies. 2016: 1-9. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08865655.2016.1174599
"Knowledge-Making and its Politics in Conflict Regions: Doing Research in Israel/Palestine" Special Issue on Contributions from European Symbolic Interactionists: Reflections on Methodsfor Studies of Symbolic Interaction, 44 (2015): 19-41. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/S0163-239620150000044003
"Building a Neo-liberal Palestinian State under Closure: The Economic and Spatial Implications of Walls and Barriers" (with Ahmad Al-Atrash), Economic Sociology European Electronic Newsletter 16/2, 2015: 21-31. http://econsoc.mpifg.de/downloads/16_2/leuenberger_16_2.pdf
"Mosquitos don't carry Visas: Walls, Environments and the Hope for Cooperation in Palestine-Israel" (with Ahmad El-Atrash), Palestine-Israel Journal: Natural Resources and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Vol.19 No.4,&Vol.20 No.1, 2014. http://www.pij.org/details.php?id=1579
"Technologies, Practices and the Reproduction of Conflict: The Impact of the West Bank Barrier on Peace Building", in Elisabeth Vallet (eds.) Borders, Fences and Walls: State of Insecurity? Ashgate (Burlington, VT). 2014: 211-230
"Mapping Genres and Geopolitics: The Case of Israel" (with Izhak Schnell). Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. Article first published online: 20 Mar 2014. Available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tran.12052/abstract
"The Rhetoric of Maps: International Law as a Discursive Tool in Visual Arguments", in Law & Ethics of Human Rights (2013) 7/1: 73-107. Available at: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/lehr.2013.7.issue-1/lehr-2013-0002/lehr-2013-0002.xml?format=INT
"On Fences and Neighbors", in Olivia Snaije and Mitchell Albert (eds.) Keep Your Eye on the Wall: Palestinian Landscapes (London: Saqi Books): 2013. Also available in French Keep your eye on the Wall (Garde un oeil sur le mur): Paysages Palestiniens (Editions Textuel, France): 2013.
"Map-Making for Palestinian State-Making", Arab World Geographer / Le Géographe du monde arabe, Vol 16, no 1 (2013) 54-74.
"Mapping Israel/Palestine: Constructing National Territories across Different International Newspapers", Bulletin du Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem [En ligne], 23 | 2012, mis en ligne le 20 janvier 2013, Consulté le 15 avril 2013. URL: http://bcrfj.revues.org/6859
"Building Walls in August: Psychological Constructions of the Berlin Wall and the West Bank Barrier", in special issue: "The Semiotics of August in the 20th Century", New Literary Observer (in Russian). 116/4. 2012. Кристин Лойенбергер, "Стены воздвигаются в августе, Новое" литературное обозрение №116 (4/2012). Семиотика августа в XX веке. URL: http://www.nlobooks.ru/node/2531
The Self as Project: Politics and the Human Sciences. Osiris, 22, (co-edited with Greg Eghigian and Andreas Killan). Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2007.
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/osiris/2007/22/1
Erving Goffman. Rede-Weisen: Formen der Kommunikation in sozialen Situationen (co-edited with Hubert Knoblauch and Bernt Schnettler). Konstanz: UVK Verlagsgelsellschaft, 2005.
"From the Berlin Wall to the West Bank Barrier: How material objects and psychological theories can be used to construct individual and cultural traits", in Katharina Gerstenberger and Jana Braziel (eds.) (2011) After the Berlin Wall: Germany and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan).
http://us.macmillan.com/aftertheberlinwall/KatharinaGerstenberger#toc
"The West Bank Wall as Canvas: Art and Graffiti in Palestine/Israel," Palestine-Israel Journal: Jerusalem - In the Eye of the Storm, 17 (1&2), 2011.
http://www.pij.org/details.php?id=1350
"The Politics of Maps: Constructing National Territories in Israel" (with Izhak Schnell), Social Studies of Science, 2010: 40/6: 803-842. Also published Online First, September 1, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0306312710370377.
http://sss.sagepub.com/content/40/6/803.abstract
Cultures of Categories: Psychological Diagnoses as Institutional and Political Projects Before and After the Transition from State Socialism in 1989 in East Germany," Osiris, 22. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2007.http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/521748
"Introduction: The Self as a Political and Scientific Project in the 20th Century" (with Greg Eghigian and Andreas Killan), Osiris, 22. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2007. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/521740
"Constructions of the Berlin Wall: How Material Culture is used in Psychological Theory", Social Problems. 53/1. February 2006: 18-37. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4488150
Christine Leuenberger comments in BBC News Mundo about borders and walls
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Eva Jablonka: Evolutionary Origins of Experiencing
Eva Jablonka Evolutionary Origins of Experiencing
Abstract: An approach focused on the evolutionary transition to experiencing -- to the first organisms with phenomenal consciousness -- “can enable the identification of fundamental organizational principles involved in experiencing. Based on the heuristics of the origin-of-life research, we outline a parallel approach to experiencing, and suggest that just as function emerged with the transition to life, felt-needs emerged with the transition to experiencing. We argue that experiencing is a facet of open-ended associative learning in neural animals with a CNS, and that the evolution of associative learning was a key factor in the metazoan diversification during the Cambrian. It endowed animals with motivation and increased their discrimination powers on the basis of systemic reward systems. Tracking the molecular and neural correlates of associative learning as they emerged during evolutionary history may therefore shed light on the dynamics that underlie elementary forms of experiencing.
Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka (2010) Experiencing: a Jamesian approach Journal of Consciousness Studies 17:102-124.http://www.openu.ac.il/Personal_sites/download/Simona-Ginsburg/Experiencing-A-Jamesian-Approach2010.pdf
Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka (2007) The Transition to Experiencing: I. Limited Learning and Limited Experiencing Biological Theory. 2(3) 218-230.
Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka (2007) The Transition to Experiencing: II. The Evolution of Associative Learning Based on Feelings. Biological Theory 2(3) 231-243
Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka (2010) Associative learning: a factor in the Cambrian explosion. Journal of Theoretical Biology 266:11-20.
MODES OF BEING?
(1) "Experience" is (another) weasel-word: Is it felt experience or unfelt experience? If it's felt, it's feeling. If it's unfelt, it's a teapot (doing).
(2) The analogy with life, vitalism, and the eventual functional and evolutionary explanation of life -- doings: causal and complete -- does not work for feeling, because with life there is nothing more, and never was anything more, that could be its "vital force" that (allegedly) made it a "hard" problem to explain life causally in the usual way (doings). With feeling there is something more, and each one of us knows exactly what it is.
(Probably the reason vitalists were vitalists was because they were actually animists, and the "vital force" they had in mind (literally) was feeling.
(1) I don`t think that experience is a weasel word. She defined it as feeling at the beginning of her talk. Dr. Jablonka decided to use a different word to put forward her theory.
in your words feelers.
(2) How do you know that if we explain all the doings that we won`t get feeling? How do you know that there is not some neural mechanism that converts information into a feeling? What we have yet to discover is that mechanism. And if I understood correctly Dr. Jablonka is interested in finding exactly that mechanism using her approach of studying very simple experiencers. Or in your words feelers.
eva 8 July 2012 at 20:45
Eva Jablonka:
1. "Feeling" , for most people, captures mainly the affective aspect of experiencing, so we decided to use the word experiencing, which we think works better and includes both affective and perceptual aspects. Our teaching experience suggested that feeling misleads the students while experiencing does not, and is intuitively understood as phenomenal consciousness. Experiencing is not the simple unqualified equivalent of information processing. It is a very special type of information processing, just as living is a very special type of chemical reactions
2. The analogy to vitalism is far stronger than you and Chalmers suggest. Read for example: "What the History of Vitalism Teaches Us About Consciousness and the “Hard Problem” BRIAN JONATHAN GARRETT Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Vol. LXXII, No. 3, May 2006.
Evan Thompson (2007) has a long and very good discussion of this issue in Mind and Life (especially chapter 8-10).
I missed the logic behind how unlimited associative learning necessarily requires consciousness. Can anyone summarize?
Carey YL Huh 8 July 2012 at 16:42
I am with you in not getting this point. I agree with one of the people that asked questions at the end, that it is a bit of a circular logic. Dr. Jablonka looked at which organisms COULD potentially have consciousness, put together a behavioural function these animals can do in common, ie. 'unlimited assoc. learning' as she defines it. And called that a criterion for consciousness and listed a bunch of neural correlates that could serve this function. She does stress this is her attempt at some type of criterion and that she doesn't t know if she is right... it is just a theory, a bit like the global workspace theory except that the workspace can now do learning!
Eva Jablonka
We propose that the core property of unlimited associative learning in neural animals is the formation of rich, memory-dependent, ontogenetically-constructed, integrated sensations and coordinated actions. The relation between unlimited (that' is very flexible) associative learning (UAL) and experiencing is evolutionary: we argue that in biological organisms, the evolution of associative learning entailed experiencing because UAL involves a set of dynamic processes and organizational properties of the embodied nervous systems, that led to what we call categorizing sensory states (CSSs). That is why UAL is a good indicator of experiencing in animals (not in robots). In our papers we explain this position in some detail and point to the biological preconditions that enabled it, and the properties that are facets of UAL: binding, memory at several level, temporal synchronization, hierarchical mapping and meta-representations, compensatory and inhibitory mechanisms, embodiment, etc. (see ppt). The functions of UAL in animals, as well as the organizational dynamic properties enabling UAL are in line with what we see as the functions and basic characteristics of phenomenal consciousness (experiencing).
Of course our suggestion is a theory – but it has interesting predictions and suggest new avenues of research, for example, identifying the physiological (not just neural…) of UAL, and experimenting with this aspect of "doing" , to mention just the most obvious ones.
Martha Shiell 17 July 2012 at 07:38
CORRELATION VS CAUSATION
Eva Jablonka lists a number of functions that are correlated with the capacity to feel in organisms:
-- unlimited [i.e. very flexible] associative learning
-- rich, memory-dependent, ontogenetically-constructed, integrated sensations and coordinated actions.
-- categorizing sensory states (CSSs).
-- binding, memory at several level, temporal synchronization, hierarchical mapping and meta-representations, compensatory and inhibitory mechanisms, embodiment, etc.
But there is no explanation of why or how those functions cause or entail feeling in order to do what they do. So far they are just functions that are correlated with (hence predictive of) feeling:
"in biological organisms, the evolution of associative learning entailed experiencing [feeling]" (how? why?)
"UAL is a good indicator of experiencing in animals (not in robots)" (why in organisms and not in robots? and as we scale up toward T3 robots?)
"functions of UAL… are in line with… the functions… of experiencing [feeling]" ("in line with" does not explain how or why: feeling that an object is getting heavier is in line with the object getting heavier, and with being able to do what we can and can't do with objects as they get heavier; but where is the explanation of the fact that the function feels like anything at all?)
Shaun Maxwell 8 July 2012 at 15:01
On the question of the simplest type of systems that can have goal: the identity of some kinds of systems depends on their own activity. The identity of a (token) wave, for example, rests on how matter and energy pass through it, as with a flame, or the red spot on Jupiter. Unlike a rock, such process structures are distinguished from their surroundings by a characteristic pattern of activity. If the pattern ceases, so does the system. This is a necessary but of course not a sufficient condition for a system to have a telos. Other conditions include that the system be auto-catalytic (thus unlike regular waves, but not standing waves, self perpetuating under certain conditions), but not, perhaps, that it be able to replicate or evolve.
When we attribute any sort of telos to the simplest living systems, we presume these are un-represented, and of course unconscious goals. We say things like "the bacteria is trying to maintain a certain concentration of x within its membrane". If we make the same sort of claim about a self-organizing process structure (such as the Bernard phenomena, the red spot, or a star) are we making a claim that is more ontologically problematic than when we do so in the case of simple living systems? Some sort of information transfer system (e.g) may also be necessary condition for a system to have a goal, but this was not made clear in the talk (perhaps due to lack of time), and it is certainly a claim that needs explicit support if we are to draw the line between non-living process structures, and those that are alive.
I did not indeed have time to discuss the complex issue of teleological systems. However, there is no doubt that self-organization is not the same as teleological processes at least not according to the way most philosophers of biology think. A very good book about this is: Juarrero, A. (1999). Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
See also: Thompson Evan 2007 Mind in Life, Harvard University Press.
GOALS: FELT AND UNFELT
A thermostat has a "goal": Keep the temperature at 22 degrees.
A cold organism has a felt goal: Do something to make you feel warmer.
Goal is a weasel-word, insofar as discussions of consciousness are concerned, because it comes in both varieties: felt and unfelt (as in a teapot).
eva 11 July 2012 at 15:29
Goals, like feeling are loaded words. All the words we use need to be qualified. Systems exhibiting life and mind behave in an intentional, goal-directed manner. Dennett's intentional stance is a way of expressing this property of dynamic organization, which is applicable to all living organisms and to all products of organisms (such as robots) that show a goal-directed behaviour. Mayr (1982, The growth of Biological Thought, p.47) suggested that when an entity has a goal which is guided by a plan it displays teleonomic activities. Hence a robot has telonomic activities, just as does the amoeba, or the thirsty dog, since it is designed according to a plan or a program. So the intentional stance and the ascription of teleonomy applies to robots as well, and of course to thermostats. However, there is a big difference between living organisms and entities designed by living organisms like thermostats: the goal is not intrinsic to the robot or the thermostat, so there is a fundamental distinction between these entities with extrinsic and intrinsic goals (Kant' s third critique of teleological judgment was devoted to this issue). The books to which I referred provide an in-depth analysis of these issues which are central to the philosophy of biology. Felt needs are new types of goals, which appeared in living biological organisms in the context of the evolution of learning (open-ended, flexible associative learning). At later stage of evolution, with the evolution of symbolic language, new goals emerged, the kind of values to which humans (sometimes) strive.
Yes, robots are designed by people and organisms are designed by evolution. But what difference does that make, and how does it explain that organisms feel (e.g., goals) and robots don't (if they don't, even at T3 level!).
If we have a functional mechanism that can do certain things, what difference does its origin make -- i.e., whether it grew on a tree or was crafted on a workbench?
Thanks for the references Eva. I have read some of Thompson, but had not heard of Juarrero or looked at Mind in Life, which looks to be right down my ally.
I agree that self organization does not, in and of its self, directly engender teleological properties. But I have argued (drawing on likes of Maturana and Varela, Prigogine, and Millikan) that such properties only arise in systems whose identity is maintained over time by a characteristic cyclical exchange of matter and energy with the local environment. Such systems cease to exist if they fail to control this exchange. It is in their need to do so that, I think, we find a necessary (but perhaps not sufficient) basis for the attribution of the most basic sort of normative properties, in the form of homeostatic goals or values.
Crucially though, such properties are only apparent when one take the system's "point of view", and thus conceive of it as a kind of agent. As Searle has argued, part of what makes the problems of both intentionality and consciousness so difficult to tackle with objective, scientific methods is that we are dealing with properties that result from the existence of particular, and therefore necessarily subjective, points of view. I think the explanation of origin of normative properties suffers from a similar sort of conundrum, and that finding the right way to conceive of this dilemma will be crucial to any satisfactory account of the evolution of consciousness. Thus, while I agree that the capacity to integrate information from multiple sources is, plausibly, necessary for conscious experience to occur, we won't understanding why this may be the case until we have a better grasp of how all forms of information are agent dependent, and that this integration is integration by and for individual agents and or their progeny.
is being made by and for understanding of information odinformation itself is an agent dependent property
Maxwell J. D. Ramstead 15 July 2012 at 09:02
I think Doctor Jablonka’s approach is extremely interesting. I am partial to enactive and autopoietic conceptions of cognition and experience; IMHO, she gives an excellent account of how something as complex as representational cognitive states could emerge from inanimate matter.
However, I do find that it shows the same incapacity to address the mechanisms of felt experience. It is not at all obvious to me why associative learning should be felt. Indeed, if one postulates that felt sensations arose, and thereafter were retained for adaptive purposes, one nevertheless has to address the question of why and how such felt experience should occur in the first place. In answer to my question, Doctor Jablonka said that feeling is a kind of doing. Such a doing would be an overall, integrated, persistent, embodied, and categorizing sensory state, that has evolved as a facet of associative learning. It is interesting to speculate, as she does, that once feeling becomes commonplace, it should become the “new telos” of biological systems; however, this is not an explanation of how or why feeling evolved.
I believe Doctor Jablonka gives an intriguing explanation of how complex cognition could evolve from an autopoietic point of view, but that she doesn’t address the problem of how and why felt experience arises per se.
To which extent associative learning would be related to consciousness? or in other words, would associative learning be possible without any kind of phenomenal consciousness?
Associative learning (AL) and even unlimited (i.e. very flexible) associative learning (UAL) does not entail experiencing. Clearly we can make robots who can manifest UAL and they are not experiencing being. Nor are genetic algorithms, which are implemented in some computer programs, making these programs living entities. Such programs are indeed unlimited heredity systems, but only in a biological system, in the context of the actual evolutionary history of life, they are (according to Maynard Smith and Szathmary ) a criterion for living. Similarly UAL entails experiencing in the context of the evolution of animals, animals that are endowed with various precondition characteristics (such as multicellular organization nervous system, possibly cephalization, adaptive plasticity at several levels including basic learning mechanisms etc.). Only in the context of such organization, in which we argue UAL had actually evolved, does it make sense to argue that UAL entails experiencing; in other words, for UAL to evolve in animals, a lot of complex biological features have to be presupposed; the same is true for unlimited heredity – in a biological system, unlimited heredity can only evolve which has certain autopoitietic properties. The fact that we can technologically implement some process (such as unlimited heredity or UAL) which is formally analogous to a biological process in artificial systems can be (sometimes) quite illuminating, but it is certainly not telling us how analogous process occurred in biological evolution. Searle is making the same point in his talk.
We realize that the dynamical description of experiencing we can offer is at present rather limited, and it is our job to flesh it out. However we think that the difference between experiencing/feeling and neural-embodied dynamics is not a category difference that cannot be bridged. Just as living is not categorically different form certain organizational autopoieitic (e.g. chemoton) dynamics. We think that once the dynamical organization that entails experiencing will be clarified we shall understand experiencing in these terms. What we suggest is not such a model but we believe that UAL is a good tool with which we can try and progress in constructing such a model, because we think that it is a good candidate for a complexity threshold. Note that complexity threshold is a criterion not a model. Moreover, there is a big gray area, and it may well be the case that experiencing in a very limited sense appeared earlier (for example,. already in cnidarians), but the early version were limited and could not evolve any further without additional evolutionary innovations involving new memory processes, which led to UAL to the global yet specific categorizing sensory states we call CSSs which enabled animals to discriminate, predict and be motivated to act. We shall be able to say more when we have better embodied dynamic models of experiencing.
THE LOGIC OF ENTAILMENT
"UAL entails experiencing [only] in the context of the evolution of animals… endowed with various precondition characteristics (such as multicellular organization nervous system, possibly cephalization, adaptive plasticity at several levels including basic learning mechanisms etc.)"
Laurence 29 July 2012 at 16:40
It is a shame Dr. Jablonka's talk didn't come sooner in the summer school. I found that having her ideas in mind as a framework while going through my notes and watching some of the talks again really put things back in place.
I do have a question regarding the possible consciousness of "not alive" entities that show associative learning. How can we be sure that biological beings are the only ones that can feel? Maybe I am getting something wrong or not understanding though...
I.D 30 July 2012 at 20:07
I really like the idea of comparing the search for the defining criteria of consciousness with the historical search for the defining criteria of life. Perhaps, when we define all the ‘doing’ , ‘feeling’ will be explained, the same way there is no vital force. It is hard for me to think that consciousness would be more than a or multiple neural event. But I suppose even if we do fully define it, we have still not explained the why or how, just the what.
When rethinking about this talk, I also was wondering along the same lines as Laurence: What would it take to attribute consciousness to a non-biological being? Is life/being alive a criterion of consciousness? Could a robot achieve unlimited associative learning? Is there any reason to believe it couldn’t?
Izabo Deschênes
What would it take to attribute consciousness to a non-biological being?
Is life/being alive a criterion of consciousness?
No, but so far it's an invariant correlate
Could a robot achieve unlimited associative learning?
Is there any reason to believe it couldn’t?
Felipe 22 April 2013 at 18:35
I like this approach very much but conscioussness is the most heavy loaded word of all the other mentioned before. I think we just don't need it, James's "specious present" has been effectively deconstructed. As long as we have memory and trace or "remembered present" as in Ebelman's work we son need to invoke such a metaphysically loaded word. There is no Hard problem at all. Memory constitutes our sensation of "the present" and makes us belive we do have a thing or "experience" called conscioussness.
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The conclusion of Replica Rolex Yacht-Master Sizes
At Baselworld 2019, the big news from Rolex was that, the brand new 18k white gold Yacht-Master 42 ref. 226659 with a bigger 42mm case size was released, which is the first time the Yacht-Master collection over the 40mm size mark. However, there are also several sub-40 mm Yacht-Master models made by Rolex. Today let’s make a conclusion of how many Rolex Yacht-Master sizes in totally there are.
At present, Rolex has three sizes of the Yacht-Master, including the new Yacht-Master 42 we mentioned above, the Yacht-Master 40, and the Yacht-Master 37. While the largest model is exclusively offered in white gold, the other two sizes are made in Everose, two-tone Everose and stainless steel, and two-tone platinum and stainless steel separately.
What should mention is that, the Yacht-Master is the only Rolex collection that offers a functional bezel on a case that’s smaller than 40mm. For someone who has smaller wrists hunting for a Rolex sports replica watch the Yacht-Master 37 (a size first introduced in 2015) is a wonderful choose.
In early 1992, Rolex first announced the Yacht-Master collection with the yellow gold Yacht-Master ref. 16628, which sported a 40mm case size. Two years later in 1994, two more sizes were unveiled by Rolex: the mid-size Yacht-Master ref. 68628 with a 35mm case and the ladies’ Yacht-Master ref. 69628 with a 29mm case. Rolex offered these three different sizes within the Yacht-Master collection from then on until 2015.
In 1999, Rolex released the Rolesium edition of the Yacht-Master. For those who may not know, “Rolesium” is Rolex-speak for marrying platinum and steel on one watch, which is a combination still available in the Yacht-Master collection currently.
Eventually, the Rolesor (Rolex’s term for gold and steel watches) versions of the Yacht-Master introduced two models in yellow gold and stainless steel in 2005. This particular metal configuration is not produced by Rolex any longer, the Everose gold and stainless steel Rolesor watches have been the replacement. Rolex finally dropped the 29mm and the 35mm sizes of the Yacht-Master and kept the 40mm size as well.
In brief, there are five available different sizes of the replica Rolex Yacht-Master collection if the discontinued sizes are included: 42mm, 40mm, 37mm, 35mm, and 29mm. Additionally, if we include the Yacht-Master II model (fairly speaking, which is a completely different watch despite the shared name) with its massive 44mm case, that’s six sizes totally. No other Rolex Professional collection can offer such assortment of sizes like Yacht-Master.
How Many Rolex Yacht-Master Sizes Are There Now?
Introduction of the Rolex Cosmograph Daytona
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Throngs of community residents flocked to the new Paddler’s Landing access for the official ribbon-cutting ceremony and release of 100 lake sturgeon.
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A wide concrete stairway, bordered by protective boulder rip-rap, the Paddler’s Landing structure offers safe access to and from the river, even when water levels fluctuate. It includes a wooden-rail watercraft slide, as well as a transfer seat and step system to allow those with limited mobility to safely access the water.
“As part of our official ribbon-cutting ceremony Sept. 21, participants released 100 young lake sturgeon supplied by the DNR,” said Scheitler. “There were dozens of people, young and old, standing on the access during the release. After all the work everyone has done, it was both exciting and gratifying to see how easily and safely people could reach the water’s edge.
“Until the UAW made this connection for us, we had not had a relationship with the USA,” Scheitler noted. “And we were amazed by their ability to raise funds. The group’s $7,000 donation essentially became $14,000 with the matching MEDC grant, which was a bit more than 10 percent of the total project budget. It was a substantial donation with which we were thrilled. And we’re eager to work with the USA again on future projects.”
Though the landing is already in use, one final piece remains to be placed, according to UAW Local 659 community service representative and CAC board member Dale Snyder.
“Under the USA’s Work Boots on the Ground program, our UAW local is proud to be part of this fabulous project,” he said. “As soon as possible, union volunteers have plans to fabricate and install a metal handrail along the downstream side of the stairway.”
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Kentucky Auto Worker Pursues High Plains Ringnecks on Union Sportsmen’s Alliance Brotherhood Outdoors TV
September 27, 2019 in Articles, Brotherhood Outdoors TV, Hunting, Press Release
Jeff Braun chases South Dakota ringnecks on an episode of Brotherhood Outdoors TV airing the week of Sept. 30.
Diehard dogman, upland gunner and conservationist Jeff Braun pursues ringnecks across the plains of South Dakota on an episode of the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance’s (USA) Brotherhood Outdoors television series airing the week of September 30 on the Sportsman Channel.
Braun, of Hawesville, Kentucky, heads to Bad River Bucks & Birds Outfitters on the prairie outside Draper with four-legged hunting partners Swale, Lure and Ruffian in tow. The late-season hunt is marked by snow, cold and wild-flushing pheasants as he and USA Public Relations Manager Dan Johnson tramp miles of frozen fields and cattail sloughs.
A member of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 3044, Braun has been training and field trialing bird dogs for 15 years. It’s a passion that took hold after purchasing his first dog, a 3-year-old shorthair, years ago.
“For Jeff, a hunt’s success isn’t measured by the number of birds put into in the air or onto the ground, but by the experience of working cover with his dogs and seeing their excitement at the scent or sight of a gamebird,” explained Johnson. “His complete devotion to his hunting dogs, in terms of care, commitment and compassion, is amazing. In fact, one of the trip’s high points was watching his 5-month-old pup Ruffian point her first wild ringneck.”
Braun (left) is joined on the hunt by USA Public Relations Manager Dan Johnson.
Brotherhood Outdoors viewers also get a glimpse of the Kentucky Auto Worker in his home environment, upholding the union spirit of giving back to the community.
“He’s a shining example of the countless American labor union workers who volunteer their time and talents,” said Johnson, a proud past UAW member. “Not only is Jeff extremely active in wildlife conservation projects and youth outreach events, he also helped organize his UAW local to improve the job security and working conditions of his coworkers—then served as union secretary and was a member of the first contract negotiation team. It was an honor to get to know Jeff on this trip.”
Join Braun’s quest for Dakota cackle-rockets when his episode airs on the Sportsman Channel Tuesday, Oct. 1 at 4 p.m. Eastern, or re-airs on Wednesday at 11:30 a.m., Saturday at 1:30 a.m. and Sunday, Oct. 5 at 11 a.m. Eastern.
Produced by Rusted Rooster Media, Brotherhood Outdoors invites hardworking and deserving union members on fishing or hunting adventures of a lifetime. Throughout the season, viewers tag along with guests in pursuit of black bears on Vancouver Island, permit and bonefish in Mexico, waterfowl and whitetails in Saskatchewan and more.
CLICK HERE for a complete listing of all upcoming episodes. To watch episodes online, visit www.myoutdoortv.com.
Presented by Bank of Labor, Brotherhood Outdoors is also sponsored by the following unions, contractors and corporate partners: Buck Knives, Carhartt, International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, National Electrical Contractors Association, and United Association/International Training Fund’s Veterans in Piping Program.
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Union Volunteers Introduce 200 Spring Hill Youth to Fishing
April 15, 2019 in Conservation News, Fishing, Press Release, Work Boots On The Ground
UAW Local 1853 President Tim Stannard was among the 32 UAW volunteers introducing kids to fishing at the Spring Hill Area Take Kids Fishing Day.
Despite early morning rains, 200 young anglers and their families lined the pond at the Tennessee Children’s Home Spring Hill Campus Saturday, April 13 for the Spring Hill Area Take Kids Fishing Day.
A joint effort by the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance (USA), United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 1853 and UAW Region 8, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) and other supporters, the free event was aimed at introducing the next generation of anglers and conservationists to the joys of fishing.
The Spring Hill-area event was the latest in series of free, community-based youth outreach activities held as part of Work Boots on the Ground – the USA’s flagship conservation program. It was produced with support from USA national conservation partners Provost Umphrey Law Firm, Pure Fishing and the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation.
Many youngsters reeled in fish, which were plentiful and in a biting mood after the TWRA donated and stocked 400 pounds of catfish into the pond earlier in the week.
Each of the young anglers received a free fishing rod and reel courtesy of Pure Fishing, to ensure everyone had the chance to participate and hopefully continue fishing for years to come. Along with the rods and reels, prizes were given out at the end of the day for the largest fish–including three tackle boxes and a bait bucket.
UAW Local 1853 President Tim Stannard reported 32 volunteers—all from Local 1853–donated 150 hours toward planning and holding the event at no cost to the participants or their families. Volunteers provided instruction and assistance, including rigging the participants’ new fishing poles and offering sage advice on how to hook the big one.
Stannard said volunteers enjoyed sharing their love of fishing with those in attendance. “They had a blast getting to see how much fun the kids were having,” he said.
He also noted that holding such events helps non-union residents see the many ways unions and their members benefit the community. “These events help build bridges by showing people that union members are friends and neighbors who enjoy giving back to their communities,” he said.
“A lot of people don’t know much about unions or have heard bad stuff about them,” Stannard continued. “This shows that union members are normal, next-door neighbors who work together to provide living wages and benefits for our families—and we also care about getting kids out in nature, away from the video games.”
USA Conservation Coordinator Cody Campbell was elated at how many families tried fishing for the first time. “The event was phenomenal, especially given the cool, rainy weather,” said Campbell. “Everyone had a great time. A lot of kids who never held a fishing pole prior to Saturday got to experience the thrill of fishing. The parents loved it, too. There were just as many excited moms and dads as there were kids.”
Tags: fishing, Provost Umphrey Law Firm, Pure Fishing, Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation, Spring Hill Tennessee, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, UAW, UAW Local 1853, Union Sportsmen's Alliance, union volunteers, United Auto Workers, Work Boots on the Ground, Youth fishing, Youth Outdoor Events No Comments »
Spring Hill, Tennessee, Youngsters Invited to Free “Take Kids Fishing Day” April 13
March 19, 2019 in Conservation News, Fishing, General, Press Release, Work Boots On The Ground
Register youngsters now for the free Spring Hill Area Take Kids Fishing Day.
Boys and girls ages 2 to 15 are invited to learn about the outdoors and experience the joys of fishing firsthand Saturday, April 13 at the free, fun-filled Spring Hill, Tennessee, Area Take Kids Fishing Day.
The nonprofit Union Sportsmen’s Alliance (USA) is teaming up with United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 1853 and UAW Region 8, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) and other supporters to host the family-friendly event from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Tennessee Children’s Home Spring Hill Campus, located at 3375 Kedron Road.
Youth ages 2 to 15 are invited to join the fun and learn about fishing and conservation.
The event is free and open to the public, but kids must be pre-registered to participate. The first 300 registrants will receive a free fishing rod and reel courtesy of Pure Fishing. To register, CLICK HERE or contact USA Conservation Manager Rob Stroede at: (615) 831-6770; email: roberts@unionsportsmen.org.
Volunteers from local labor unions will provide youngsters with instruction and assistance, and prizes will be awarded for the largest fish.
Youths must be accompanied by an adult chaperone, although adults are encouraged to bring multiple youngsters to the event. All attendees are invited to enjoy a free picnic-style lunch.
The Spring Hill area event is part of a series of free, community-based youth outreach activities organized under Work Boots on the Ground—the USA’s flagship conservation program. It is produced with support from USA national conservation partners Provost Umphrey Law Firm, Pure Fishing and the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation.
Tags: Conservation, Fishing with kids, Provost Umphrey Law Firm, Pure Fishing, Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation, Spring Hill Tennessee, UAW, UAW Local 1853, Union Sportsmen's Alliance, United Auto Workers, Work Boots on the Ground, Youth fishing, Youth Outdoor Events No Comments »
Union Sportsmen’s Alliance Volunteer Labor Donations Top Million Dollar Mark
February 12, 2019 in Articles, Conservation News, General, Press Release, Work Boots On The Ground
USA volunteers building educational kiosks in Michigan recently pushed the total value of labor donated through the organization’s Work Boots on the Ground program over the $1,000,000 mark.
Fueled by a flurry of project completions and strategic partnerships, the value of volunteer labor donated by Union Sportsmen’s Alliance (USA) members to community-based conservation projects through the Work Boots on the Ground (WBG) program has topped the $1,000,000 mark.
The milestone was reached as a crew of union volunteers from the United Auto Workers (UAW) Ford Community Service Ramp Program put the final touches on five informational kiosks for the USA’s conservation partners at Pheasants Forever. The kiosks will be placed on game management areas around Michigan to educate the public on the benefits of habitat, conservation and hunting.
The project exemplifies the WBG program, which unites union workers to complete critical conservation, public access, education, youth outreach and adult mentorship projects in communities across the country.
The USA celebrated its 100th WBG project in late 2017 and to date has coordinated the completion of 156 projects in 30 states and the District of Columbia. USA volunteers have logged 29,937 hours on these efforts, which include 63 outreach campaigns, 85 infrastructure projects and eight support projects.
WBG kicked off in 2010 under the guidance of program manager Jim Klatt. The first project saw union volunteers craft supersize mesh-and-metal live traps for Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) researchers to use in buck mortality and fawn recruitment studies. As has since been the case in many WBG projects, the work would not have been possible without union volunteers. The DNR had secured funding to purchase building materials for the live traps but lacked the skilled labor and workspace to build them.
The USA’s Work Boots on the Ground program kicked off in 2010, when union volunteers created live traps like this prototype for Wisconsin DNR whitetail deer research.
“We are extremely proud of our volunteers for reaching this milestone,” said USA CEO and Executive Director Scott Vance. “They are without a doubt our greatest asset. Their willingness to freely donate time and talents to benefit their neighbors and protect our outdoor heritage continually propels us to new heights in mission delivery and impact.
“Our volunteers are also what make us so unique as a non-profit conservation organization,” he added. “They are the most well-trained and skilled volunteers in the world because of their unique apprenticeship and trades experience. Providing skilled and trained volunteers who can do things that other volunteer groups cannot is clearly our unique niche among the conservation community.”
The USA already has plenty in the works for 2019, including projects and events in communities coast to coast. In what promises to be the largest project to date, the group rallied a coalition of public, private and union partners to construct a wheelchair-accessible boardwalk and fishing pier at the Suncoast Youth Conservation Center (SYCC) in Apollo Beach, Florida.
Part of the Florida Youth Conservation Centers Network (FYCCN), the marine-focused conservation education center serves more than 11,000 youth and adults annually. Union volunteers are expected to donate in excess of 1,000 hours of skilled labor valued at more than $50,000 to complete the pier and boardwalk, while the USA also contributed $20,000 and Southern States Millwright Council donated $50,000. National union contractor Ben Hur Construction is providing an additional $100,000 of in-kind donation to the project.
A large-scale enhancement project is also planned for the William Powers State Recreation Area in southeast Chicago, which includes construction of an ADA-compliant fishing pier. Additional projects range from the construction of a weigh station-pavilion on the shores of Smith Lake near Jasper, Alabama, to the refurbishment of a public pier at the Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge just outside Liberty, Texas. Union volunteers are also gearing up to build a pedestrian walkway in Prineville, Oregon, that will open access to 70 acres of public property, and install a handicap accessible fishing pier in Harrison County, Mississippi.
The USA is also organizing a pair of Get Youth Outdoors Day events in concert with the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s (NSSF) First Shots program, which introduces first-time shooters to firearms respect, safety and the shooting sports. A number of youth fishing events are also on the docket. The USA’s 2019 Take Kids Fishing Day schedule kicked off in Minnesota in January, with additional events set for Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
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Zugshunstite-(Ce) (Ce,Nd,La)Al(SO4)2(C2O4) Approved IMA 1996 (Dana # Added)
NAME ORIGIN: Named for the Cherokee Indian term for the Great Smoky Mountains.
Zunyite Al13Si5O20(OH,F)18Cl Valid Species (Pre-IMA) 1884
NAME ORIGIN: Named for the locality. LOCALITY: Zuni mine, Anvil Mountain, Silverton, San Juan County, Colorado, USA.
Zussmanite K(Fe++,Mg,Mn)13[AlSi17O42](OH)14 Approved IMA 1964
NAME ORIGIN: Named for Jack Zussman (1924-), crystallographer and emeritus professor of geology, Manchester University, England.
Zvyagintsevite Pd3Pb Approved IMA 1966
NAME ORIGIN: Named for Orest Evgenevich Zvyagintsev, who did geochemical research on the platinum metals.
Zwieselite (Fe++,Mn)2(PO4)F Valid Species (Pre-IMA) 1841
NAME ORIGIN: Named for the locality. LOCALITY: Rebenstein, Zweisel, Bavaria, Germany.
Zykaite Fe+++4(AsO4)3(SO4)(OH) Approved IMA 1978
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What to do with the Monarchy?
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Should we keep the monarchy?
by GG on Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:14 pm
Clue is in the title really.....
Re: What to do with the Monarchy?
by Josiah Maiestas on Sat Jun 23, 2012 12:58 pm
Give them a 9 to 5
Put them in Big Brother
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by Jennifer1984 on Fri Jun 29, 2012 8:34 am
liverbnz wrote:
Show me proof that the increased tourism has anything to do with the Royals? Tell you what, save your energy, because there is none. It's all hearsay, vagueness and beating around the bush when it comes to the Windsors.
"Of course, the Olympic Games are a factor in this year's figures, but I think that is an additional, rather than an alternative reason." Well that settles it then, if you think it then you must be right. Lets ignore all the actual facts there are out there if you care to delve a little deeper. Lets ignore the costs to local economies due to lost business from tourism due to the jubilee. Lets also ignore the cost to the economy of taking an extra day off to watch Lizzys miserable gub getting soaked on a barge. Lets ignore the cost to business of a days lost revenue yet still having to pay their staff - businesses who are struggling already whilst we subsidise this family.
That's wonderful news that 'estimates' have shown the economy had been boosted by 1.5bn. (An impact assessment calculated break-even but sure we'll go with the estimates that have no reference to how they came about). Only another 3.5bn to go to cover the costs of that other extra day off we had last year because of the fraudsters. And that's not including the hidden costs I've mentioned above.
Oh, I am so sorry that I didn't realise I was posting on a topic that I clearly know nothing about and am not entitled to have an opinion on. After all, I was only born and raised in Greenwich, the most tourist-visited borough of London outside of the centre and City. I've never met a visitor to London in my life, have I..? What would I know about London and it's visitors..? My sister works in tourism in the City and talks to visitors. A LOT. What would she know..? Obviously she and I should bow to somebody who comes from a completely different island but who clearly knows it all.
No doubt, the poll at the top of the page, showing around 2 - 1 support for the monarchy isn't a matter of public approval, it's all royal arse licking and a multinational corporation, that has absolutely no vested interest in the monarchy, except in how exploiting Royal popularity could make them a profit, and was conducted by a highly qualified and respected analyst is easily dismissed on the "Putting My Fingers In My Ears And Going La-La-La" principle.
So that's that, then.
I suppose you will completely dismiss anything like this, which gives statistics for 2010 (the year before the period covered by the Mastercard report): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/tourism/8587231/UK-Tourism-facts-and-figures.html
Snippet from link:
The Royal family generate close to £500 million every year for British tourism with The Tower of London, Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace the most popular Royal destinations. And that was in a year when there was NO Royal wedding or Jubilee.
I'm sure you will consider that as being not admissible as evidence because it doesn't agree with you, but I've put it there, just the same.
There have been many, many visitor polls to London conducted over a long period of time and the one thing that they have been completely consistent about is that they all put royal occasions and sightseeing of royal sites as a major attraction. It would be a waste of time me taking that further though, as reading all you have written so far suggests to me that you would simply dismiss them out of hand.
Of course it's difficult to conclusively prove the actual amount that Britain benefits from Royal tourism because we don't ask people to fill in a form every time they spend their money. But ask any native Londoner who makes a living out of tourism. Ask them if they would want to see the monarchy abolished.
The Mastercard report I linked to drew a clear connection to the Royal Wedding and Jubilee for London's success in the last two years. Why would they do that..? They are a business who are making an analysis, the purpose of which is planning their future sales and marketing strategies. There would be no business advantage to be had from "Royal Toadying". Businesses are in business to make money. And that is the bottom line. If they draw a link between royal celebrations and increased tourism it's not unreasonable to conclude that they do so because the former is advantageous to the latter.
When the Mastercard report talks about London, it is talking about that city... not Britain... not England.... London. London has been the world's most popular city to visit for the last two years during which time, there has been the Royal Wedding of Prince William and the Royal Jubilee.
But of course, that's just a coincidence, isn't it..? Nobody came here to see those events, did they..? Perhaps (to parody an old Monty Python skit), those people came here to marvel at the wonderful telephone system or see the majestik Moose. That must be it then. Of course, why didn't I think of that before..!!
Pish and pah..!! Of course the tourist numbers were swelled by the Royal celebrations. To suggest otherwise is simply sticking your head in the sand.
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by GG on Sat Jun 30, 2012 1:59 pm
The Royal family generate close to £500 million every year for British tourism with The Tower of London, Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace the most popular Royal destinations.
But the royal sites would still exist if we got rid of the royals.
by The Galveston Giant on Sat Jun 30, 2012 2:11 pm
This is true, you don't exactly get to meet them when you visit.
The Galveston Giant
by Jennifer1984 on Sat Jun 30, 2012 3:37 pm
The Galveston Giant wrote: This is true, you don't exactly get to meet them when you visit.
Of course not. The Royals are not a tourist attraction in themselves. That is not their primary role, it is a consequence of having them, as they are, that attracts visitors. Without them, the buildings would have no meaning, they would be anachronisms.
A large part of the attraction for visitors is the fact that what they are seeing is living history.
If the monarchy were abolished, what reason would there be to keep the crown jewels in the Tower of London..? Luddite Republicans would want them sold to raise their cash value and whilst they would raise a large sum of money, what then of British history, culture and tradition once that money was spent..?
.http://www.chacha.com/question/what-is-the-us-dollar-value-of-the-crown-jewels-of-england
The cash value of the Crown Jewels is around £20 million pounds. What will that buy these days..? It would fund a moderate sized hospital for about six months. A worthy expenditure, but when the money is gone, what then..? What would we have left to sell..?
The anti-monarchists recurring theme is money.... specifically, how much it costs to maintain the Royal Family. It is true that the Civil List is raised from public taxes, but this is a miniscule amount in the wider disbursement of public funds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_list
Only the Queen officially receives direct funding from the Civil List. The Queen's consort (Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh) receives £359,000 per year. The Queen, as head of state, receives £7,900,000 from the Civil List to defray some of the official expenditure of the monarchy.
compare this to the budget for the overseas aid:
http://www.channel4.com/news/britains-foreign-aid-budget-money-well-spent
The government ringfenced and raised DFID's budget by 34.2 per cent, to £11.5bn over the next four years. That outruns Britain's current record spend of 0.56 per cent GDP on overseas aid and will see it rise to 0.7 per cent of GDP in 2013.
How about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan..?
.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2046334/Afghanistan-war-10th-anniversary-invasion-half-way-there.html
The headline figure in the article says £258 BILLION but the charts in the article put the US expenditure at US$ 4 TRILLION. These unpopular wars have come at a time when Britain is in recession, and yet we never hear anything from the Republicans about the cost of those. Some estimates said that at their peak, the wars were costing Britain £400 million a week. At that rate, the sale of the Crown Jewels would have funded the war for about 8 hours or so. Puts it into perspective, doesn't it..?
By such comparisons it is easy to see that the Civil List is but a miniscule amount of GDP, and yet it is the only thing that Republicans keep returning to. By their argument, this country would ditch more than a thousand years of history, culture and tradition and do away with the one thing that the rest of the world has any sort of admiration for in this country in return for an amount of money that is quite paltry in the bigger scheme of things.
The Queen is also the glue that holds the Commonwealth together. Without the monarchy, it is probable that the Commonwealth would crumble in a very short period of time, losing Britain valuable friendships all over the world, not to mention breaking the ties between us and those countries that are so beneficial in trade and business.
When abolitionists look at the Monarchy, they see only cost and privilege. They are not imaginative enough to look further and realise the history and traditions of this country. They have no idea of how the Crown is symbolic of so many of our national institutions. They don't propose what they would put in it's place. They simply say: "Elected Official". Well, what sort of elected official..? A President..? And what if, once elected, he decided not to leave office but instead, did what Mugabe has done in Zimbabwe and decides to stay, using the police and armed forces to oppress the people...? We start with a President and end up with a Generalissimo.
Without the monarch, the Army would no longer be under the nominal command of the crown... it would be under the command of the "elected official"... That official would be the Commander in Chief. As things stand, our armed forces are absolutely loyal to the crown. No politician could use them to oppress the people. But what happens when the crown is not there, and the army are loyal to a political master..? Just think on the political stability of Britain, and how it could be compromised by destroying its head.
The Monarchy was abolished in Britain by Oliver Cromwell, after the English Civil War and the execution of Charles I in 1649. The folly of that was soon realised and the crown was restored in 1660 after Cromwell's death. The English Republic (or Cromwellian Commonwealth) lasted a mere 11 years. 11 years of mismanagement, civil disorder and puritanical oppression by rulers who, drunk with power, behaved excessively.
The abolitionist view is narrow and blinkered, and gives no consideration to anything other than behaving like Luddites, smashing that which they despise and giving no consideration or thought to what it is they really destroy, or what they would replace it with.
by GSC on Sat Jun 30, 2012 4:15 pm
I'm not sure getting rid of the queen turns us into Zimbabwe
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by Jennifer1984 on Sun Jul 01, 2012 8:28 am
Graeme Swann's Cat wrote: I'm not sure getting rid of the queen turns us into Zimbabwe
It doesn't.
The point I'm making (and which I suspect you realise full well) is that the country could be destabilised, and a power vacuum created into which any kind of ill disposed individual could find himself gaining power that he is unwilling to give up.
Can't happen here..? Why not..? It can happen anywhere that power is given to an individual who decides to abandon the democratic principles under which he was elected, and uses the military for his own ends. I'm not going to take this argument further down the road as I feel I've explained the outline scenario well enough for your own imagination to do the rest.
Could it happen here..? You betcha.
by GSC on Sun Jul 01, 2012 12:09 pm
Will it ever happen.
There are numerous countries that seem to be doing alright without a monarchy. And to suggest that a women who holds no influence over what the army does anyway in real life, is the difference between current Britain, and David Cameron being PM for the next 60 years is laughable.
by Jennifer1984 on Sun Jul 01, 2012 5:01 pm
Graeme Swann's Cat wrote: Will it ever happen.
Your opinion is your opinion, and as a, no doubt, ardent abolitionist, you're bound to say that.
As for your assertion that countries who do away with monarchies do just fine, I'd remind you of what happened when Germany deposed Kaiser Wilhelm.... It allowed a nasty little Bohemian Corporal to rise to power. His name..? Adolph Hitler. Q.E.D.
Of course, any speculation on what could happen in the future is entirely that.... speculation, but to say it could not possibly happen is burying your head in the sand simply because you lack the imagination to think beyond your own petty prejudice.
I suggest it is possible that a corrupt politician could come to power and with absolute authority in his control, and with the right promises made to the right generals, a military backed coup d'etat could be possible.
As things stand, Britain has one of the most stable democracies in the world and although the Queen herself has no political power, the Crown (I won't spell out the difference between "The body politic and the body corporal" as once detailed by Elizabeth I. Look it up for yourself and learn something) is the head of all the major state institutions. To abolish them would cause a massive upheaval and it would take many years to re-organise all these things along republican lines.... time in which politicians would consider they had a completely free hand to do pretty much as they pleased.
If you have that much trust in politicians, that's fine for you, but I think the currrent political structures, with their various democratic balances, checks and controls, work pretty darned well all things considered.
You'd destabilise the entire country just because you don't like an insignificantly small amount of public money being spent on the very institution that ensures the stability we enjoy and sometimes take for granted.
Sheesh. You'd do a better job of destroying the country than Al Qaeda could ever dream of.
by GSC on Sun Jul 01, 2012 6:41 pm
Well actually I never voted against abolitioning them as long as they bring in more money than they take, so try not to label.
I'm actually arguing because your point that power that the Queen could not actually use anyway, is all that stops us becoming the latest dictatorship is frankly laughable.
by GG on Sun Jul 01, 2012 7:20 pm
Getting rid of the monarchy doesn't mean there'd be no head of state though does it? There could still be an apolitical head of state that's elected.
by drsambo1928 on Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:49 am
Jennifer1984 wrote:
Prince William. Future totalitarian dictator
drsambo1928
drsambo1928 wrote:
It's not clever to alter another poster's message for your own ends, drsambo.
Please make your own points outside of the quotation and don't manipulate my words to make it look as if I said something that I didn't.
GG wrote: Getting rid of the monarchy doesn't mean there'd be no head of state though does it? There could still be an apolitical head of state that's elected.
Apolitical..? And who might that be..?
British politics operates on a party system. How could a President who came from the Conservative or New Labour (or any other) party be apolitical..?
It is possible that a private individual could seek election but what ticket would he campaign on..? What manifesto would he put to the public to convince them to vote for him..? If he told us he would be apolitical and actually got elected (which is extremely unlikely, but I'll run with it), then all that would have been achieved from abolishing the monarchy would be to replace an apolitical monarch for an apolitical commoner. Abolition would have changed nothing at all.
Having a President means electing a party political figure, possibly one with the authority to overrule Parliament which could put us at the whim of a dictator.
Some people blithely say it couldn't possibly happen, but as I pointed out, it does and it has in other countries. With our democracy destabilised the likelihood of this happening is greatly increased.
by Doon the Water on Mon Jul 23, 2012 8:29 pm
I think The Duke of Rothesay would make a very good President.
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Location : South West Scotland
by Corporalhumblebucket on Mon Jul 23, 2012 10:37 pm
My suggestion for President would be Vic Marks, who is suitably whimsical.
Corporalhumblebucket
Location : Day's march from Surrey
by TopHat24/7 on Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:50 am
Monarchy is one of the best things about this country. Pomp and ceremony is the only thing (apart from cycling now) that we're any good at.
They make millions upon millions as well as paying tax on all their earnings and are our greatest and hardest working embassadors.
And from 2013 they'll no longer be tax-payer funded so all you grumpy bitter Republicans can shove that in your pipes and smoke it.
TopHat24/7
Location : London
by WhiteCamry on Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:57 pm
You mean like in Ireland? Germany? Israel? Italy? Poland? Switzerland? Portugal? The Czech Republic? Greece? Austria? Slovakia? Slovenia? Croatia? Iceland?
WhiteCamry
Location : Here
by Jennifer1984 on Wed Jul 25, 2012 1:46 pm
WhiteCamry wrote:
Erm..... Yes. When Kaiser Wilhelm was deposed in Germany, it allowed Hitler to rise to power. Austria was an ally of Germany and was effectively suborned. 800'000 Austrians served in the Wermacht and 150'000 served in the Waffen SS.
Israel as a State has militarily occupied the territories of West Bank, Sinai, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights, behaving quite despotically towards the native Palestinians. You may have noticed this if you read the news. On the face of it, they are a democratic state, but tell that to a Palestinian.
Poland ceased to be a kingdom in 1795 when it was split up in a process of territorial seizures and partitioned between Prussia, Austria and Russia. Later it was subjected to Nazi rule and then after that, overrun by the Red Army in World War II and cemented into the Soviet bloc until 1989. Similar events took place in Czechoslovakia and the areas now known as Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia were once a part of either the Soviet Empire or the Yugoslavian State, run by Tito, a military dictator.
In Greece, in May 1973, a planned coup by the Hellenic Navy was narrowly suppressed, but led to the mutiny of the HNS Velos, whose officers sought political asylum in Italy. In response, military junta leader Papadopoulos abolished the monarchy and declared himself the unelected President of the Republic. Republican Greece was effectively founded by a military coup d'etat.
Italy was governed by Victor Emmanuel III but it was his ineffectiveness as King that allowed Benito Mussolini to rise to power as a fascist dictator. Although he handed the crown onto his son, Umberto II, it was the fact that he had been unable to stop Mussolini that caused him to lose the 1946 referendum in Italy that led to the abolition of the crown. His was not so much a case of political instability following abolition, rather, during it. An ineffective monarchy is as bad as no monarchy at all.
Shall I go on...?
I notice in your message you conveniently neglected to mention Spain, and Russia where stable monarchies were overthrown by civil war and revolution which resulted in the deaths of many millions of people.
What you did in your message was to simply throw names of countries into the air without giving any thought of what you were actually saying. You're going to have to do much better than that.
by WhiteCamry on Wed Jul 25, 2012 6:30 pm
Sorry, Jenny, but you'll have to do much, much better than citing poorly-interpreted historical factoids. Each republic which I mentioned is today and will for the foreseeable future be a stable, multi-party democracy.
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The Rooney Conundrum
Published on March 29, 2016 April 6, 2016 in Opinion by Hugh Van de L'Isle
For the first time in what seems like forever I actually enjoyed watching England play a game of football. Gone were the overhyped prima donnas of Terry, Cole, Lampard and Gerrard, as a fan of a small club I found it difficult to get behind the media hyped men who were clearly awful people off the pitch. Furthermore these players who were supposedly world class could do no better than scrape through a group containing Algeria, Slovenia and the USA before being given a master class in football by the Germans (no now is not the time to debate Lampard’s goal). Now 6 years later a young England side has gone to Berlin and won 3-2 against a Germany side of reasonable strength. Yet one shadow still looms over this team of young stars in the form of Wayne Rooney.
Wayne Rooney to his credit is England’s record goalscorer of all time; however looking closely at those figures he has scored 6 goals at International tournaments. 5 of those were when he first burst onto the scene at Euro 2004, since then his solitary tournament goal was a tap in against Uruguay in a 2-1 defeat at the 2014 world cup. Obviously we shouldn’t forget all the goals against San Marino that make for vital preparation before taking on Europe’s finest this summer, but my opinion is that Rooney’s international career has been rather disappointing since the impressive burst onto the scene.
Here is the conundrum though, to Roy Hodgson, Wayne Rooney cannot be dropped when fit, Roy loves to wax lyrical about his captain. When he broke the record if you watched in HD you could almost see the glisten of a tear in Roy’s eye like a proud father of Rooney’s. To the credit of Mr.Hodgson, Wayne was the top goalscorer in qualifying however the campaign begins almost 2 years before the first ball is kicked in France this summer. The team must be picked on not just the best individuals but making this team look cohesive.
Now I don’t intend to make this article purely about Rooney’s abrasive character although I am of the belief he is a thoroughly unlikeable character that isn’t why he should be left out. Let us look tactically at the England team and how they should start at the Euros. It has become clear recently that a flowing 4-3-3 that changes into a 4-2-3-1 at times is the system suited to England. On an International stage the very best teams will over power you in the midfield if you start with a 4-4-2 system, with each of the best nations boasting strength in depth in midfield, for France see Pogba, Matuidi, Germany see Kroos and Khedira, Spain see Iniesta and Xabi Alonso. Now the conundrum begins, is Rooney a number 9 furthest forward spearheading the three or is he the number 10 as the creative one of the midfield three?
Let us first look at the midfield, against Germany, the team sheet showed Eric Dier sat at the base of the midfield (a job he did brilliantly removing Ozil’s presence from the game), Jordan Henderson provided the leg work as he has done superbly at Liverpool for the last two seasons and most importantly Dele Alli in the number 10 role. Alli for me was the second best performer against Germany after Eric Dier, he looked to create, his first thought was always to be in the right place to not just receive the pass but to also move the ball forwards. Furthermore and this could be invaluable at the Euros his partnership with Harry Kane is immense. I could stroll happily down hyperbole lane describing how well suited their games are to each other. How many times have we seen on Match of the Day this year the pundits go into detail about another brilliant through ball without even looking played by Alli and Kane rarely misses the target. If Alli should get injured in his place we have the tenacious Ross Barkley waiting in the wings, described by many as a young Wayne Rooney, yet he has a hunger in him to prove himself. If you were to take 2 number 10 players on the plane to France my picks currently would have to be Alli and Barkley.
The issue with Rooney in the number 10 role is quite often he is found out of position and his passing is rather suspect. Too often he will look to shoot and when he isn’t shooting an issue he has had throughout his career is the way he hares around the pitch. He has been praised often for winning the ball back in unlikely situations, but if I was a manager I wouldn’t want my striker or creative midfielder winning the ball back 40 yards from my own goal, I want him ready to run onto the through pass for the counter attack providing an advanced option. For Manchester United what’s the point in Rooney winning the ball all the way in defence if Michael Carrick would have achieved the same result five seconds later, and for England Eric Dier and Jordan Henderson will put the foot in to win the ball.
Now the number 9 role, the main striker, the focal point of attack. Any sane man can surely see that Harry Kane is the perfect outlet, he has all the attributes of the perfect modern day striker and has recently become a 20-goal a season striker for the second year running. If Roy Hodgson picks Rooney over Kane then I despair for the power the media and the captain’s armband plays. Making a striker captain always seems a foolish choice to me and Rooney has never shown the greatest leadership qualities, and the armband has this power at times to prevent a player from being dropped which should never be the case. Furthermore as the striker off the bench no one has shown a hunger for goal quite like Jamie Vardy this season, a man who looks possessed behind the eyes in front of goal. His subtle flick against Germany just oozed quality, factor into the argument that Daniel Sturridge is regaining fitness and coming back into form then we have to say maybe don’t start packing your luggage just yet Wayne.
Feel free to debate or argue with anything I’ve said about Rooney though any suggestions that he could start on the wing may be laughed away. As Bob Dylan sang “the times they are a-changing” and perhaps now Wayne Rooney should make way for the new, hungry generation of England players and we might actually enjoy the Euros.
by Hugh Van de L’Isle
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Why I think Zidane is destined to fail
Published on January 7, 2016 January 11, 2016 in Opinion by Hugh Van de L'Isle
Warning: the following contains controversial viewpoints: The news on Monday at first didn’t come as a shock, Rafa Benitez sacked. Despite a record in the league that would see Real Madrid top of the Premier League and easing into the Champions League, their manager had lost the dressing room with rumours that Ronaldo had told Isco not to join Man City because Rafa would be sacked soon. Well Cristiano you got your wish, adios Rafa. The shock came an hour later when the maverick legend Zinedine Zidane was announced as his replacement.
Now it is public knowledge that Perez has been looking to emulate Barcelona in moulding Zidane the way the Catalan club did with Guardiola. Zidane has spent the last few seasons at Real Madrid Castilla carefully managing the youngsters, just as Guardiola took the students of La Masia before taking on the top job. However Zidane has immediately claimed he is nothing like Guardiola, and I believe he is spot on to say this., Guardiola won everything there was to win in the game with Barcelona and then he won it all again before leaving for Bayern Munich. In my opinion Zidane will last two years at best with a potential Copa Del Ray as his legacy.
There’s the controversy out of the way then let me justify this with a broader statement: Flair players do not make great managers. Think of the best 5 players who have excited fans with skill and ability that are now retired off the top of your head. Most people’s lists will contain Pele, Maradona, Cruyff, Zico, Platini, Rivaldo, Zidane, Henry etc, yet of the players I’ve listed only one can be called a successful manager and Cruyff studied the game throughout his career essentially developing a brand of football while playing, the rest have avoided management like the plague, with Maradona having an abysmal spell as Argentina manager.
Now think of the top 5 current managers in the world: Guardiola, Diego Simeone, Jurgen Klopp, José Mourinho (stop sniggering) and Arsene Wenger. What do their playing careers all have in common; they all played in a position where their job was to read the game. Zidane may have spent 3 years preparing for this role as Castilla manager, Guardiola spent 11 years at Barcelona observing the game around him, thinking about the exact position he should be in. Is it any surprise that the unsung hero of the modern Barcelona team is Sergio Busquets. Busquets was a nobody who forced Yaya Touré out of the squad but his reading of the game is superb, he knows exactly where to be to stop the forwards and allows Alba and Alves to go on mazy runs.
What does this have to do with Zidane though? Well think about the role of Zidane on the pitch: receive the ball, ignite the game, do something special with it, see the run. Now players like Ronaldo, Bale and Rodriguez don’t need coaching on how to produce something special. Take the Rodriguez volley at the World Cup against Uruguay, that’s as close to art as football can achieve, that cannot be coached. What can be coached and drilled into players is defensive positioning, how to counter from a corner, runs to make from throw ins, attacking set pieces etc you get the point, and this is why flair players do not glide into management the way for example Klopp went from captain at Mainz to manager at Mainz in Germany.
On the pitch flair players don’t have to read how their opponents are going to set up, Lionel Messi doesn’t need to know who he’s playing, the full back is still going to get nutmegged. Whereas the defensive leaders who marshal the team have to know exactly what they’re facing and focus for 90 minutes, they have to live and breathe the game.
Before I conclude I’ll use an example closer to home, the good old English Premier League. Now at this point you might be thinking surely there are some flair players out there who’ve made it as managers but you’re scratching your head to get to 5. Looking at the “Prem”, 19 of the current managers played the defensive enforcer role as a player, be that in midfield or in defence. The one who bucks the trend? Mark Hughes at Stoke – a target man throughout his career playing with his back to goal again observing always what was going on throughout the match. Furthermore none of these managers will be remembered for having illustrious careers except one or two, Ronald Koeman immediately springs to mind as a legend on the pitch, but without the aid of Wikipedia could you tell me who Steve McClaren or Mauricio Pochettino played for?
Contrast this to the Sky Sports Studio, the shining beacon to the retiring moths of football, on a Saturday you can listen to Paul Merson and Matt Le Tissier squeal with delight as Bradford equalise at Colchester United, both exquisite footballers in their day, particularly Le Tiss who did unimaginable things from free kicks. On a Monday you can watch Jamie Redknapp and Thierry Henry debate the finer points of the game, the same Henry who terrified defences for years. Not fancy a role in the dugout Thierry? To top it all off we have Michael Owen commentating (if you’re awake to watch) a brilliant attacker in his day but no desire whatsoever to go into management.
Therefore to succeed Zidane isn’t just going to have to succeed where no other has, he’s going to have to succeed where many haven’t even bothered to try in the first place. Why don’t the flair players need coaching though? Well Henry said it better than ever I could on Monday Night Football: “Guardiola told us: My job is to get you to the final third, your job is to finish it”. Therefore I wish you luck Zizou, you were a fantastic player to watch but for now I’ll keep that slice of humble pie chilled for if/when you can prove me wrong and lift the Champions League with Real Madrid, and with Perez presiding even that might not be enough.
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“The Lone Eagle, January 1934″ by Eugene M. Frandzen
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Eugene M. Frandzen painted the covers of The Lone Eagle from its first issue in September 1933 until the June 1937 issue when Rudolph Belarski took over with the August issue of that year. At the start of the run, Frandzen painted covers of general air action much like his Sky Fighters covers. Here, for the fourth issue from January 1934, Frandzen has a German Halberstadt smashing into the undercarriage of a French Breguet—with dire consequences.
The Story of the Cover
SMASH! A crackup in the air! That is the picture on this month’s cover.
A shaved second before the collision there were two trim ships battling each other high above the war-torn fields—two ships piloted by airmen intent on blasting each other into oblivion. Vickers, Lewis, and Spandau slugs have slashed back and forth across the heavens.
The big Breguet with its wing span of forty-seven feet is not as maneuverable as the small Halberstadt scout with a span of only twenty-eight feet. But the Breguet’s handicap is offset by its rear gunner, who has an office unequalled for visibility. On either side of his pit he has Cellon windows.
There is a hole in the floor that he can see through and fire through if necessary. Therefore the blind spot under his tail is not as vulnerable as in ordinary two-seaters.
A Dangerous Opponent
The small Halberstadt has had a taste of the observer’s fire when sneaking in from behind to make the hoped for kill. The ship the German pilot thought was an easy victim has turned out to be a dangerous opponent.
Twice the German pilot has barged in from in front. Each time a stream of Vickers’ slugs drenched his ship. One of those hot, whistling messengers of death has slashed into his shoulder. Not a fatal wound, but a painful one. A wound that causes his flying to become jerky and erratic.
Another Angle of Attack
Mad clear through from being bested in a sky duel with a lumbering two-seater the German pushes the nose of his ship down. He starts to slither out of the fight, then he suddenly changes his mind. There is one angle of attack he has not tried; that one is coming up under the blunt nose of the Breguet. Coming up with a brace of Spandaus churning out hot steel.
His Halberstadt shudders as he pulls it out of its dive into a loop. Up swings the nose. He presses his gun trips. A short stutter from one gun, then it jams.
The other gun is silent—its ammo exhausted. Then directly in front of his blazing eyes looms the undercarriage of the Breguet; six husky steel members holding the axle and wheels—the strongest under construction of any Allied two-seater. Too late the German yanks on the stick to pull out of danger.
And This Is What Happens
Smash—his prop chews into the tough steel struts. His top left wing snaps—rips off—his prop flies to pieces, as does the undercarriage of the Breguet.
Both ships will get to earth; but one will be a wingless fuselage holding a doomed German pilot. The Breguet, minus wheels, can come down under its own power, flatten out and take the ground on its chest. It will be a rough landing but it is a ten to one chance that those two Yanks will be in the air again in a few days. They will be on the job—looking for trouble and overconfident Boche pilots.
The Lone Eagle, January 1934 by Eugene M. Frandzen
(The Story of The Cover Page)
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“The French Breguet” by Frederick Blakeslee
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Editor’s Note: This month’s cover is the nineteenth of the actual war-combat pictures which Mr. Blakeslee, well-known artist and authority on aircraft, is painting exclusively for BATTLE ACES. The series was started to give our readers authentic pictures of war planes in color. It also enabled you to follow famous airmen on many of their amazing adventures and feel the same thrills of battle they felt.
THE story behind this month’s cover —which shows an exploit of two brothers, Captains Jean and Charles Ranconcour—had its origin five years before the beginning of the War, when the Frenchmen were visiting Berlin. One evening, while they were dining in a crowded restaurant with a friend, a Prussian officer approached their table and without warning flung a glass of wine into Jean’s face. The three leaped to their feet; Charles demanded an explanation in behalf of his brother. The Prussian turned to him, surveyed him from head to foot, then slashed him across the face with a pair of heavy gloves. Jean promptly knocked him down.
By this time, of course, a large crowd had gathered and it was with considerable difficulty that order was restored. First Jean, then Charles, challenged him to a duel and the Prussian accepted, telling them to await his seconds. They waited for two hours, only to learn then that their strange enemy had been seen leaving the city—hurriedly; he had heard, no doubt, that both brothers had a reputation as expert duellists.
From that moment the two brothers swore to obtain satisfaction for this cowardly assault—but their opportunity did not come until nine years later high above the battlefields of France.
The outbreak of the War found Jean and Charles officers in infantry regiments. Late in 1917 they received word that the Prussian officer was in a certain Boche aviation squadron. The brothers immediately transferred to aviation and through influence they were both attached to the same French squadron—Jean as pilot and Charles as his gunner.
They got the reputation of being careful fighters. Although they never avoided a combat, neither did they go out of their way to get into one. But as they did their work and were popular no one accused them of cowardice. The more astute among the squadron guessed the truth. From the name they had christened their Breguet and the fact that Charles scrutinized all enemy planes with binoculars, they guessed the brothers were hunting a particular enemy.
One day early in 1918, the brothers were returning from a mission with two other bombers when they sighted a group of enemy ships escorted by battle planes. Charles examined the flight through his field glasses, as usual; then suddenly he dropped the binoculars, spoke rapidly to his brother. Much to the astonishment of their fellow flyers, Jean’s plane turned and with throttle wide open, hurtled straight for the enemy.
The two other French pilots, realizing something unusual was about to happen, and knowing also that Jean was helplessly out-numbered and had need of every possible gun, turned and followed.
In the scrap that ensued the Frenchmen shot down a two-seater L.V.G. and routed the rest, then looked around for the brothers. They were engaged in a fight to the finish with an L.V.G. that turned, sideslipped and looped but could not shake this French terror on its tall. If Jean and Charles had been careful before, their tactics now were completely changed. They fought like fiends.
In trying to escape, the Boche ship turned and came screaming back just as Jean’s plane dove across it. There was a crash as the landing gear carried away the tip of the L.C.G.’s wing. At the same moment Charles poured a murderous— and fatal—fire into the cockpit.
The L.V.G. dove and crashed. When he had seen it hit the earth, Charles cooly climbed down onto the landing gear and disentangled the wreckage. A few minutes later all three French ships landed near the shattered Boche plane. The body of the German was dragged from the wreckage; Jean and Charles bent over it, looked closely, then straightened and shook hands. The duel to which they had challenged this enemy 9 years ago, had been waged—and won.
The brothers transferred to a combat squadron soon after and both piled up a formidable score before the war ended.
The German ship shown on the cover is an L.V.G. type D single-seater scout.
The French ship is a Breguet type 14B-2 with a 300 h.p. Renault engine. It was designed as a day bomber, but carried one gun in front (synchronized) and two guns aft. Only the upper planes were provided with ailerons. The part of the lower plane lying behind the rear spar was hinged along its total length and pulled downward by means of twelve rubber cords fixed on the under side of the ribs. An automatic change of aerofoil corresponding with the load and speed thus results with an easier control of the airplane with and without a load of bombs. Its span was 14.364 meters; length 9 m; speed low down 185 kms per hour. It climbed to 5,000 m. in 47 m. 30 sec. Ceiling was 5,750 m.
“The French Breguet” by Frederick M. Blakeslee (December 1932)
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Lieutenant-Colonel Robert B Satterwhite of the 388th Bomb Group presents a plaque of behalf of the United States Eighth Air Force to the Mayor of Thetford, HR Watling, historian Professor Frank Dobie and Sir William Gentle to commemorate Thomas Paine. Image stamped on reverse: 'Associated Press.' [stamp], 'Passed for publication 25 Oct 1943.' [stamp] and '289762.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: Printed caption on reverse: 'AMERICAN SERVICEMEN'S TRIBUTE TO TOM PAINE. A Plaque in memory of Thomas Paine, one of the founders of American independence and author of "The Rights of Man" was unveiled recently at his birthplace at Thetford. The plaque was purchased by American Servicemen in this country some of whom, fighting men of the 8th Air Force, have named a Flying Fortress in his honour. Associated Press Photo shows: Left to Right: The Mayor of Thetford, MR HW Watling, JP (Receiving the plaque); Professor Frank Dobie, professor of American History at Cambridge University and an authority of Thomas Paine; Alderman Sir William Gentle, of Thetford Council and Lt Col Robert B Satterwhite, of Sebring, Florida, who presented the plaque on behalf on the US 8th Air Force Group.'
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A Dream Weekend...
DreamWorks Animation cleaned up at the box office this weekend...
"Monsters Vs. Aliens" ended Sunday with a monstrous take of $58.2 million dollars. Katzenberg's little firm has been delivering quite a bit of a challenge to the Mouse and Lamp with its stream of hits over the last couple of years. Granted, the quality of stories haven't been as high as Pixars, but the box office has more than equaled Emeryville.
I saw MvA over the weekend and fully enjoyed it. While the story was good, it ain't "Kung Fu Panda," but was a fun escapist night at the movies. Those of you that are fans of old sci-fi 50's films or cheesy monster films of that era should really enjoy it. But as it stands for me, Panda is still the only Pixar-quality film they've produced. From what I hear the sequel is working out very good, story-wise.
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Posted by Honor Hunter at 5:24 AM
Labels: Animation, Dreamworks, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Kung Fu Panda, Monsters vs. Aliens, Pixar, Truckers
Caught a 3D viewing with the kids on Saturday. Didn't care for it much. Aside from the eye candy, it felt like Saturday Morning Cartoon-quality.
When the president went up to address the alien ship, I new we were in trouble. The theater was practically full--late arrivals couldn't find 3 seats together. But when the president started playing a few bars from Beverly Hills Cop, you could have heard crickets in the theater.
That character was just a complete waste of space. Identical buttons for nuclear missiles and cappuccino. Hmmmmmm...wonder where this gag is headed... Ugh!
I'm not a Dreamworks 'hater' and the big box office was inevitable. (Great concept & marketing.) But the execution was less than mediocre, IMO.
I agree with tjkraz. The concept of Monsters Vs. Aliens has a ton of potential... in the hands of any other studio. This was an extended big budget Saturday Morning Cartoon that went for the absolute most obvious gags (with a few adult skewing jokes that weren't even funny and just came out abrupt, crass, and innappropriate. Yes, we get it, the 50 foot girl has giant boobs).
As far as parodying monster and alien movies. It had a few shots and a few sounds and a few music cues that parodied them, but, really, there wasn't much there. It was a huge missed oppurtunity.
The action set pieces were big cool fun but the "monsters" didn't do crap. Susan was the only threat to the Alien. The others were there to make stupid jokes and get knocked to the side. Anyway, it's still Dreamworks 4th best movie in my opinion. But that's REALLY not saying much.
Disneytom said...
Sorry, but Kong-Fu Panda is not Pixar quality, I think it lacks story and heart, it's just a kids movie... Sorry to say, but I really did not enjoy it at all...
Brian Griffin said...
I wish to add here as well I too believe Kung fu Panda to be very much beneath the Pixar product level, and I watched the movie on this website's recommendation.
Pixar is making amazing movies - one after another; Dreamworks is making film.
Sheriff Buzz said...
I agree with Honor. Kung Fu Panda was a film that rose about the normal DreamWorks production line. I actually liked it better than Wall-E and I didn't think I would. I was hoping it would continue with Monsters, but it appears that although it's pretty good, it's not as good as Panda.
Took our girls to see it yesterday and thought it was just ok. Great visually but the story and execution left a bit to be desired. Overall it just couldn't keep mine, or the kids, attention for the full time.
poole said...
DW just seems to hire whoever is famous to do voices and then market the crap out of that. Most of the time the voices are either terrible, or take you right out of the movie. At least pixar goes for VOICES, even when they DO hire a celeb (tom hanks).
elite medium said...
You mean like Reese Witherspoon who is playing the princess in The Bow and the Bear for Pixar?
Oh wait, that's the same person whose VOICE is in Monsters Vs. Aliens.
Reese Witherspoon was the only person in the cast that was mediocre. Everyone else was great! Well, except that the movie wasn't very good.
I really enjoyed this movie. It wa sa fun diversion ona Saturday afternoon. it's not Pixar quality as it lacks the heart. That said, i feel like Dreamworks has really foudn their niche. They do amazing pop culture pieces well. You can expect some well-designed characters, and funny pop-references and enjoy an hour and a half. I'm really looking forward to Master Mind and Crood (Sp?0 for this reason. Theyf ill a hole that Disney and Pixar can't which makes it awesome.
Rodan said...
What is the matter with simple escapist fun? Why does a 3-D cartoon have to be this well-written saga. It is a glorified cartoon and that's ok.
There's nothing wrong with 3-D escapist fun. But wouldn't you rather see high-quality 3-D escapist fun instead?
Also, I'm not so sure I agree with your detective work there Honor, you said the box office of Dreamworks films has more than equaled Pixar (i.e. Emeryville, where their studios are located) but that's really not true.
Average gross of Pixar's films = $236 Million
Avgerage gross of Dreamwork's CG films = $180 Million
The fact is, aside from the Shrek franchise, Dreamworks has never had a film break the $200 million mark whereas every single one of Pixar's films in the past decade has.
In other words, even Pixar's least successful films make more money then the most Dreamwork's best non-Shrek films. Of course Pixar's films would probably make even more money if it wasn't for Dreamworks but I really don't think they lose any sleep over them. Of course it's another story if you compare the grosses of Dreamworks and actual Disney films.
I liked the first Shrek and I liked Kung Fu Panda. But MvA looks awful. I used to rush out and see just about every movie toon that came out.
Dreamworks has cured me of that.
Enough with the Dreamworks bashing, time for some people to breath deeply into a brown paper bag. There's room for Pixar, Disney and Dreamworks and guess what, competition makes for better product. Just enjoy the fact we get to see these movies in the theater and let the rest of the baggage go. This is the same type of rhetoric tossed around long ago when Don Bluth Studios was making animated features along side Disney, history repeating.
Opinions are just that, opinions and you know what they say, “Opinions are like (fill in the blank), everyone has one but we think everyone else’s stinks”.
"The fact is, aside from the Shrek franchise, Dreamworks has never had a film break the $200 million mark"
Uh, Kung Fu Panda made $215 Mil domestic Luke, and the rest of your numbers and logic could use some double checking as well.
I really enjoyed MvA, it was a lot of fun and my kids really enjoyed it too.
MvA was meh. I never need to see it again. It was a big budget Saturday Morning cartoon. Enjoyable for a little bit. But hey, did anyone see that Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs trailer with it??? Oh man, that looks so great! My kids were bouncing off the walls over that trailer. They are more excited about that movie than Monster Vs. Aliens (Yes, even AFTER the movie they were still talking about the trailer and not the silly sludge they just saw)
And Pixar has never had a film break the $400 million mark, unlike Dreamworks. But why mention that little statistic huh Luke?
Sorry, it should have said "The fact is, aside from the Shrek franchise, Dreamworks never had a film break the $200 million mark until Kung Fu Panda".
The rest of the math is spot on, heck if you don't believe me check the numbers for yourself. As for why I didn't mention that Pixar has never had a film top $400 Mill. it's the same reason why I didn't mention how Pixar's lowest grossing film still made $160 Mill, which is about what Dreamworks films make on average, I simply couldn't mention every statistic out there.
However, my whole point was that on average Pixar films make significantly more than Dreamwork's, which is absolutely true. The numbers prove it: $236 vs. $180.
I'm not saying that they're crappy movies or that Dreamworks should stop making them or anything just that they don't usually make as much money as Pixar's.
Luke your numbers are still wrong, Box Office Mojo puts DW's films at an average of $149 Mil and Pixar at $236. I'll include the links at the end...
And what kind of logic is "Of course Pixar's films would probably make even more money if it wasn't for Dreamworks." So what! The opposite of that is true too, if Pixar wasn't around Dreamworks would make more too. It's a non-sequitur.
And you should rephrase "even Pixar's least successful films make more money then the most Dreamwork's best non-Shrek films," to read "Pixars least successful film made more money than the Dreamworks films that made less money than Pixar's worst film." Because that is what you are saying and that is about how logical it sounds.
I graduated in the top 80% of my class. Do you know what that means?
DW's BO: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=dwanimation.htm
Pixar BO: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=pixar.htm
I didn't include Dreamworks 2D films, that's why Box Office Mojo's averages are different from mine. Heck, my Dreamwork's average was more generous than their's. Go ahead and use the lower figure if you want, it just makes the discrepancy even more glaring.
A Man Called Horse said...
"I graduated in the top 80% of my class. Do you know what that means?"
That you graduated from public school?
I just added up the numbers for myself and if you omit their 2D films then Dreamworks' films earn an average of $183, 194, 906. Which is $53, 673, 216 less than Pixar's. If you guys are arguing over who's films do better at the box office it's pretty clear that Pixar has the edge.
elite medium, I said pixar hires people for vocal talent, whether they are celebrities or not. My point is that DW focuses their marketing on who is doing the voices, where pixar focuses on stories. This is because DW are so sucky that they have to market the fact that "hey that seth rogen kid is in it!, he's cool right? come see this movie then because the cool guy is in it!" They did the same thing with Kung Fu Panda and Jack Black.
Pixar does have better numbers, no argument there. I even corrected his figures in favor of Pixar. That wasn't the point, it was the way Luke was "reporting" them.
If you are talking about a studio's average BO for films, but excluding half of them you need to say so from the start. It's like saying "Ford makes more money on cars than Chevy does." And then saying well I wasn't counting SubUrbans.
Throwing inaccurate numbers and vague statements around to sell your point- dude come on.
"There are lies, damn lies, and then there are statistics."
... and to clarify, just in case... I'm not inferring that Luke was lying. I don't think he was.
Well, I thought it was pretty clear we were comparing CG films here, and I don't see how using a more generous figure for Dreamworks, which actually works against my argument amounts to "throwing inaccurate numbers and vague statements around to sell your point." I mean you say your problem was "with the way I reported things" yet there you go complaining about how the numbers being innaccurate again even though others have agreed they're quite accurate.
LOL, I like how he suddenly changes the topic to cover up the fact that he was too dumb to realize why the numbers didn't match BOM's.
I think poole summed it up very well. Pixar has always focused on the story, it is the heart of their films, and the reason they make them to begin with. For Dreamworks, however, story is simply one more hurdle to jump over before they can get all these stars together to make them piles of cash. I believe this is reflected, more often than not, in the quality of their films.
The numbers (besides your original mistake of KFP #'s) are accurate, if you only count CG. Which you never said in the original post.
I knew exactly why your numbers didn't match BOM's. That's what I pointed out, you need to say what you are comparing or not comparing.
I like how you suddenly change the argument to an ad hominem "too dumb to realize," approach.
Don't get me wrong the Shrek films suck artistically but why do you feel the need to compare DW's only on a non-Shrek film basis? It doesn't seem relevant to compare the two, money wise, while leaving out the most lucrative property? That's what I meant logic wise.
Those averages I gave actually did include the Shrek films. I just stated that they'd be even lower without them. So while part of my argument did center on Dreamworks without Shrek, I wasn't comparing them only on a non-Shrek basis.
Anyway, it sounds like we're more or less in agreement that Pixar's movies typically make more money, so I think we can effectively end this debate.
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The diversity of images and media in Barbara Levine's recent exhibition showed her highly refined and personal approach to color and design. The major works are tapestries, and they are executed with such a high degree of technical control that we know she is saying exactly what she means. Gouache and watercolor paintings show the intermediate stage in her color explorations, before she makes the commitment to thread. All her images relate to her feeling for nature, formulated in both abstract and realistic terms.
The centerpiece of the exhibit is the tapestry Salamis Temora, the first in a series of eight on butterflies and moths. The butterfly Salamis Temora, an African species, is rendered accurately from photographs, but the image seems abstract since only a small section of the wing is shown. By enlarging the image Barbara Levine sacrifices recognition of form to focus on blending and contrasting color, materials and texture.
Soul, a tapestry that rivals Salamis Temora in size and importance, is shocking in its juxtaposition of hues. Movement on the roughly woven surface is intense in the swirling blues and lilacs that surround an orange form. The image is unnerving and looks like an upside down fetus. The title suggests that it is about that inner self that needs to be expressed.
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The only sound intruding into the quiet of weaver Barbara Levine's home workshop is the tinkle of a woodchime from the deck outside.
Levine is at work on her 48-by-30 inch tapestry triptych of Dogwood Trees. Progress is slow because she is inlaying most of the yarn by hand, using a technique called Russian weave. The tapestry elongates at the rate of about one inch every three hours.
Levine was commissioned by the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company to create Dogwood Trees for an annex to the company's headquarters on State Street in Springfield. The tapestries were installed there last week. This is the artist's fourth major corporate commision in Massachusetts.
Many of the paintings are reminiscent of the floral abstractions of Georgia 0'Keefe, but are most closely related to Levine's own flower gardens. Certain of her designs - such as an abstraction that turns out to be an expanded detail from a butterfly wing - she has both painted and woven. Often what she paints small she weaves big. This is the case with "Dogwoods." She worked from a miniature, meticulous version propped up beside her loom in her downstairs workshop. Levine regards herself as a fine artist in various media. One challenge she sets for herself in her tapestries is to create a painting's three-dimensionality. One way she does this is by making ever so slight variations in color tones and shadings. This she accomplishes by constantly mixing her palette of yarns.
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Barbara Levine shows a great variety of pieces, each revealing a particular approach and style. The Dancers of Senegal is a wonderful gouache with colorful, geometric forms stretching and bending to create motion. They at times appear to dip into the recesses, below the surface of the paper, while at other times seem to move forward, reaching out to grab the hand of someone who might want to join the dance. This floating scene continues in Giotto's Lily Tower, where numerous soft architectural forms, created in a more translucent watercolor, lean and point up toward the center. It is as if they are separating and floating upward, supporting the clouds.
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Northern Cai Luong inspires southern audience
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Dao Duy Tu drama
The Cao Van Lau theater in Bac Lieu province has attracted a large audience to Cai Luong (reformed opera) performances during the Cai Luong competition 2015. For many people in Bac Lieu, this is the first time they watched northern artists performing Cai Luong. The performances created a chance for both artists and audience to share their passion for this traditional theatrical genre.
The opening ceremony of the national Cai Luong competition 2015
Bac Lieu audience have been waiting for these performances by northern artists to see how the northern performance style and culture of Cai Luong are incorporated in southern folk art. Vuu Long Vy, Director of the Bac Lieu Culture Center, said he had watched Cai Luong performances of northern artists with great surprise. “Northern Cai Luong troupes have carefully prepared for the competition. Bac Lieu audiences had earlier doubted whether northern Cai Luong was attractive or not. After the very first interesting show, the theater has become full for the following shows.”
One of the performances is “Mai Hac De” by the Vietnam Cai Luong Theater. The audience appreciated the use of modern theatrical effects which breathed new life into the traditional theatrical art.
A scene in "Mai Hac De" Cai Luong drama
The play features Mai Thuc Loan, a national hero, who defeated the Chinese Tang dynasty in the 9th century, and the legends around him. Deputy Director of the Vietnam Cai Luong Theater, Emeritus artist Trieu Trung Kien says: “Mai Hac De” play is the most carefully arranged performance by the Vietnam Cai Luong Theater. We want to make a drama embracing historical theme while conveying messages about contemporary life, such as national unity and national defense. The performance featured advanced sound and visual effects, including an LED screen and smoke machines. A large number of actors and actresses participated in the performance.”
A scene in "Dao Duy Tu" drama
Southern artists say northern Cai Luong plays have been set to several different scenes, singing and dancing styles, costumes, and effects. Cai Luong troupes joining the competition brought their performances to 5 districts in Bac Lieu province. The Hai Phong Cai Luong troupe performed “Black-Red Face” for audience in Hong Dan district. Emeritus Artist Nguyen Dang Toan said: “Bac Lieu audience warmly welcomed northern Cai Luong troupes.We had good experiences. In Hong Dan, people came to the theater much earlier before the performance began. Many of them have never watched northern Cai Luong plays. We received a lot of applause from the audience.”
Cai Luong troupes from across the country have brought to the competition high-quality performances showing the artists’ devotion to the art form and brought Cai Luong closer to contemporary audience..
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Fascinating Primer on the Dedicated Single Vocation Published by Sophia Press
BOSTON, Jan. 7, 2020 /Christian Newswire/ -- There are more single people living in the United States now than ever before, according to a 2017 report from the (U.S. census). What is the typical experience of those choosing to live out an intentional single vocation? Does the unmarried, unconsecrated path tend to lead to fulfillment...or loneliness? What are the keys to obtaining peace in the single state of life?
A new book in stores now from Sophia Press, "Single for a Greater Purpose," takes an in-depth look at the dedicated single vocation. Author Luanne Zurlo, herself a dedicated single, sheds light on this little-understood vocation, discerned and embraced by a growing number of single persons who are neither marrying nor entering religious life.
"A married person gives his heart to his spouse, while priests and religious give their hearts to Christ," explains Zurlo. "For single people, it can be quite easy to lack peace. But in my experience and that of many others, a profound sense of peace came once I gave my heart to Christ."
Zurlo refers to the dedicated single life as the "Martha and Mary" vocation because it combines both the active and contemplative life. "Dedicated single people have much more time for consecrating their work and cultivating contemplative prayer lives, which together make the vocation fruitful."
"Single for a Greater Purpose" has earned high praise from Cardinal Timothy Dolan, George Weigel, Kathryn Jean Lopez, Fr. Paul Murray O.P, and other leaders for its informative and insightful exploration of this unique vocation.
The vocation, which in most cases develops over time, is enriching lives and filling both the Church and the world with special graces that God provides souls who deliberately remain single for Him — in the world but not of it.
"In the face of mounting challenges in our world and our Church," says Zurlo, "God is calling for an army of dedicated singles — lay men and women – for His Kingdom, to be nourished from within and empowered in a special way by an authentic, personal encounter with Him alone."
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Census • Person • Arthur Kelton
unknown 1549/1550
an author who wrote in rhyme about Welsh history. Kelton, whose date of birth and ancestry are unclear, is credited with Book of Poetry in Praise of Welshmen (1546) and A Chronicle with a Genealogie declaring that the Brittons and Welshmen are linealiye dyscended from Brute (1547), which was dedicated to Edward VI. He dealt with early British history after the uncritical fashion of Geoffrey of Monmouth, and made no serious effort at scholarship.
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John Madden the wine critic...
Football season is finally upon us. For many of you (including me), yesterday was spent parked in front of the TV with a beer in hand. The entire state of Colorado is bursting with anticipation for a Super Bowl run after Peyton Manning and the Broncos thrashed the defending champions on Thursday. However, I grew up in Wisconsin so naturally I'm a Green Bay Packers fan. In fact, ever since 1998 I have actively rooted against the Broncos. If the Broncos aren't going to finish 0-16 this year, I'd like nothing more than to see the Packers beat the Broncos in the Super Bowl in New York. I'd be in a better mood today had the Packers beaten the 49ers, but thinking about a Green Bay Super Bowl victory over the Broncos keeps me smiling.
You may be wondering what football has to do with wine. Bear with me as I get there. Along with the beginning of the NFL season, perhaps the most popular sports video game, Madden 25, was released recently. In the game, every single player is given a numerical rating - from 1 to 100. Sound familiar to wine yet? Thinking about how and why human beings are given such subjective ratings got me thinking about how the video game is like the wine review game. Is Calvin Johnson equivalent to a bottle of 2009 Château Latour (WS 99)? Is Anquan Boldin like a bottle of 2007 Canyon Wind Cellars IV (WS 88)? Which bottle of red blend or which receiver would you rather have had yesterday?
Now, giving a wine a numerical rating is akin to rating the sunrise every morning. Rating NFL players might be just as equally as asinine as is evident in my example above. A CNN article explored how the video game ratings are assigned. While it was a bit more informative than James Suckling's explanation from Tuscany, it still left a lot unsaid. The author clearly and articulately stated that football is a game of intangibles. Funny thing that wine is a product of intangibles, too! Sure, you can directly measure pH, TA, alcohol and a whole host of other technical attributes. Those would be akin to the 40-yard-dash times, bench press reps, height and weight of NFL players. Just as with NFL players (i.e., height-challenged Russell Wilson), sometimes a wine provide qualities that the raw data don't support.
Another interesting article on the Madden 25 ratings investigated the worst player in the NFL. Denver Broncos' Aaron Brewer was rated as a 39. Have you ever seen a score that low for a wine (from any source other than John Gilman)? Wine Spectator's wine ratings database showed 20 wines rated the lowest possible 50 points (amongst that illustrious group were a 1920 Château Latour and an 1865 Château Lafite-Rothschild). Almost all of the 20 wines were pre-1990. The only wine receiving a 50 from a vintage starting with a 2 was the Cantina del Taburno 2000 Greco Taburno. James Suckling's review stated, "Repulsive. Totally flawed." Is this wine equivalent to one of the worst wines in the world?
The CNN article stated something quite interesting, and new, to how EA Sports assigns ratings. That advent of online updates has allowed developers to change player stats based on their real-life performance throughout the season. The example given was how Alfred Morris' ratings were adjusted from an initial rating of 65 to 89 by the end of the NFL season. This way of rating is more like the method used by CellarTracker users and less like Wine Spectator or Wine Advocate. Sure every year Madden ratings change just like new wine releases get new scores. But a new vintage is more akin to rookies coming in the league than player revisions. Wine scores, for the most part, stick with a wine forever. Just as NFL players change throughout a game, the season and their careers, so too does wine. Yes, Wine Spectator and Wine Advocate do retrospective tastings where they re-evaluate wines previously rated. But real people taste, drink and assess wine more than twice a decade. Can you imagine gamers' outrage if Tom Brady were rated in a video game prior to his rookie season and then again ten years into his career?
Of course it is all the intangibles that make critiquing wine so subjective. That's why I think giving wines precise numerical ratings is so silly. How a specific bottle of wine tastes on a specific day has as much to do with the taster and the setting as how the performance of specific players is determined by his teammates' and opponents' performances. Sure, Calvin Johnson may be one of the most dominating wide receivers ever, but his 37 receiving yards yesterday were not how a 99-pt player should perform.
I'll leave you with one final thought to ponder. Why are there no 100-pt players in Madden 25?
Labels: 100-pt system, Alcohol, Canyon Wind, CellarTracker, Château Lafite Rothschild, Chateau Latour, Critics, James Suckling, Ratings, Scores, Wine Advocate, Wine Spectator
Tom Wark September 11, 2013 at 11:36 AM
Kyle,
Fascinating stuff. One thing. A review from the Wine Spectator or the Wine Advocate is a review of the wine at a specific moment in time. This is akin to ranking a play for a specific season. Both work.
kschlach September 11, 2013 at 9:45 PM
Tom, thanks for chiming in! Yes, a professional rating is akin to rating the route running of a wide receiver on a single play. So why do you think there are no 100-pt players but 100-pt wines are relatively common?
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Published: 12 September 2019 - Victoria White
In its latest report, Health and Safety Executive (HSE) noted a general reduction in the number of claims for work-related hearing loss over the last ten years. This could be down to the widespread use of ear protectors and other personal protective equipment (PPE), minimising the consequences of occupational noise. However, overusing PPE can lead to other problems, such as workers feeling alienated and being unable to communicate with each other and to hear safety alarms. Here Jonathan Wilkins, director at industrial automation parts supplier EU Automation, explains why reducing noise at the source is a better long-term solution.
Prolonged exposure to ear-splitting decibel levels can jeopardise the physical wellbeing of an individual. Interestingly, the complete absence of sounds can also be distressing. Sensory deprivation that includes isolation from sounds for extended periods is currently categorised by Amnesty International as white torture, since it may lead people to a deep feeling of isolation and ultimately to depression.
The impact of noise—both its excess and its complete absence—in the workplace can have serious consequences on workers’ wellbeing and must be accounted for by plant managers. Sound is not only a key factor in job satisfaction, but also a costly matter: the World Health Organisation estimates that the yearly cost to Europe from excessive noise is £30 billion, including healthcare expenses, sick leave and reduced productivity.
The traditional approach: PPE
Employers have a legal obligation under the Control of Noise at Work Regulations (2005) to safeguard the hearing of their employees. Disregarding this can lead to compensation for claims of industrial deafness, which results in loss of profit and reputation. To minimise this risk, the general tendency has been to overprescribe PPE, both in terms of how long they should be worn—generally every day, all day long—and in the isolation level they provide.
Using PPE has contributed to reducing job-related hearing loss claims of almost 50 per cent in the last ten years, but overusing them has several shortcomings. The main one is that ear protectors reduce workers’ ability to communicate with others, which can lead to a feeling of alienation and consequently poor job satisfaction. Another problem is that workers may be unable to hear fire alarms and other sounds that should alert them, such as those produced by an approaching vehicle. Lastly, with PPE there’s always the risk that workers might choose not to wear it for reasons of comfort and hygiene, or that they might fail to alert the manager if their PPE is broken or doesn’t fit properly.
Minimising noise at the source
To avoid the many shortcomings of ear protectors, the best thing is to try and control the noise produced by your equipment. Reducing noise at the source is not only a smart choice but also a legal requirement. The Control of Noise at Work Regulations (2005) determines in fact that employers should not only provide workers with appropriate personal hearing protection, but also act to reduce noise exposure in the first place.
There are many cost-effective ways of doing so and every business, no matter its size, should implement an appropriate noise control programme. The first step for creating one is conducting a comprehensive noise assessment survey to determine the noisiest areas of your facility and identify which employees are at risk of hearing damage.
Noisy machines can then be isolated in a variety of ways. Enclosing equipment is one of the most commonly used noise-reduction strategies in manufacturing. In an enclosure, air gaps must be reduced in number and size and any duct for fresh air and exhaust gases must be silenced. The enclosure’s walls should also be lined with sound-absorbing materials such as PVC sheets. Finally, plant managers should check barriers and enclosures regularly and schedule appropriate maintenance if needed.
However, the most effective tool for sound reduction is a low-noise purchasing policy. When purchasing a piece of equipment, noise data should be considered alongside other characteristics. Also, remember to ask your supplier about the best mounting techniques and locations for your equipment, so that it operates as quietly as possible.
Finally, manufacturers should perform proper and regular maintenance of their machinery that takes noise into account. It can be necessary to upgrade equipment or substitute parts of it, since worn out materials or loose cables often produce excessive vibration.
Being at work shouldn’t be a torture and workers shouldn’t have to choose between ear-splitting noise or alienating ear protectors. With the right sound-control method, noise can be effectively kept under control without compromising on your employees’ safety and comfort.
EU Automation supplies a range of new and obsolete parts that can help you upgrade your equipment for a quieter and safer workplace. They can be contacted on +44 (0) 1785 30 33 00 or via their website.
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On 9 May 2018, at the 39thBoard Meeting of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (hereafter referred to as the Global Fund) in Skopje, Macedonia, a new policy was approved to enable the provision of support to non-eligible countries in crisis. This decision could result in concrete investment to help alleviate the HIV, TB and malaria crisis in Venezuela, among other countries.
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After having met the fund replenishment goal, The Global Fund’s Board will meet in few days to discuss the allocation of financial resources and define the Sustainability, Transition and Co-financing Policy. This article poses a critical view on such transition process and the role that civil society must play.
Claves: GLOBAL FUND, Latin America, Reach funding, sustainability, transition
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Transition, the buzzword
Transition is the buzzword that has gained a boost after the recent approval of the Global Fund policy. It is no more than a euphemism for a less guilt-ridden exit of the funding mechanisms. Transition is a process, not an end in itself. It includes endless diagnoses, but the central issue should be how to resolve what comes out of these diagnoses, which is basically a question of ensuring sustainability.
Claves: Argentina, Brazil, CBOs, civil society organizations, community systems, CSOs, GLOBAL FUND, México, sustainability, transition
Latin America provides feedback to the development of the Global Fund Strategy
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Global Fund proposals review under the spotlight
At the 33rd meeting of the Board of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria the Technical Review Panel (TRP) submitted its report with an analysis of the concept notes and regional proposals. The role of this mechanism has been widely criticised lately and is being scrutinised by the Fund.
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31 de marzo | 2015
The Board of the Global Fund holds its first annual meeting
Today the Board of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria opened its 33rd meeting in Geneva. The meeting will be an opportunity to start the process to develop a new strategy.
Claves: 33rd Board Meeting, GLOBAL FUND
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To provoke is to prevent
In Ecuador, Corporación Kimirina introduced to the public the new prevention website for men who have sex with men, using an explicit language and making the most of new technologies in order to reach that population.
Claves: Ecuador, Gay, GLOBAL FUND, Kimirina, LGTBI, MSM, prevention, social networks
The New Model in Latin America
The Regional Workshop on the Global Fund´s New Funding Model to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was held in Quito, Ecuador, on April 2-4, with a very diverse audience made up of national and regional partners.
Claves: Ecuador, GLOBAL FUND, NFM, OMS, ONUSIDA, OPS, Paho, Reach funding, Resources mobilization, UNAIDS, WHO
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Fondo Mundial en la República Dominicana: prevención o tratamiento, ese es el dilema…
Soy de la opinión de que la respuesta al VIH/sida en cada país debe descansar sobre los hombros del Estado o Nación representados en el gobierno de turno. Sin embargo, los programas destinados a prevenir las infecciones por VIH y tratar a las personas que viven con el virus siguen siendo ejecutados casi exclusivamente con financiamiento externo.
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July 24, 2016 Jonathan Keefe Sunday Selections 8
If you need us, we’ll be where our reputations don’t precede us.
Which is a way of saying that we’re listening to Miranda Lambert’s new single, “Vice,” on a loop right now. The single shot to #1 on the all-genre iTunes sales chart upon its release, indicating that fans were clamoring for new music from Lambert, an effect that may have been heightened by the fact that the last three singles from Platinum all petered out at radio. Whether or not radio gets on board with the single remains to be seen, but it’s great to have Lambert back with new music.
Other new music from the past two weeks includes the latest from Bluegrass supergroup The Earls of Leicester, new albums by Confederate Railroad and David Nail, a previously unreleased album by folk hero John Gorka, and… the solo debut by Steven Tyler.
New Releases & Reissues, 7/15/2016
Jessica Andrews, Greatest Hits: More Than Miles. (Jessica Andrews Music)
Angie & The Deserters, Blood Like Wine. (Topanga Canyon)
Big Star, Complete Columbia: Big Star Live at the University of Missouri. (Volcano / Legacy)
Confederate Railroad, Lucky to Be Alive. (BFD)
Cowboy Mouth, The Name of the Band Is… Cowboy Mouth: Best Of (So Far!). (CM, LLC)
The Earls of Leicester, Rattle & Roar. (Rounder)
Neal McCoy, You Don’t Know Me. (DMI Soundtracks)
David Nail, Fighter. (MCA Nashville)
Steven Tyler, We’re All Somebody From Somewhere. (Big Machine)
Various Artists, Classic Folk Songs for Kids. (Smithsonian Folkways)
The Allman Brothers Band, 9 albums including The Allman Brothers Band Album (1970) and Idlewild South (1970). (Mercury / UMe)
Big Smo, We the People. (Elektra Nashville)
Matt Brown, Walk Into the Light. (Rock Ridge Music)
Patsy Cline, Patsy Cline’s Greatest Hits (1967). (MCA Nashville / UMe)
John Gorka, Before Beginning: The Unreleased I Know – Nashville, 1985. (Red House)
Charley Pride, Songs of Pride… Charley, That Is (1968), Charlie Pride In Person (1969), & Sweet Country (1973). (RCA / Legacy)
Cody Webb, Cody Webb EP. (Monument)
Billboard Country National Airplay:
#1: Carrie Underwood, “Church Bells”
Most Increased Audience: Jason Aldean, “A Little More Summertime”
Debuts: Jason Aldean, “A Little More Summertime” (#30); Tim McGraw, “How I’ll Always Be” (#39); LANCO, “Long Live Tonight” (#57); Luke Bryan, “Move” (#58); Aaron Watson, “Bluebonnets” (#60).
Most Added: Jason Aldean, “A Little More Summertime” (55); Tim McGraw, “How I’ll Always Be” (28); Maren Morris, “80s Mercedes” (16); Granger Smith, “If the Boot Fits” (12); Dustin Lynch, “Seein’ Red” (12)
Notes: Eric Church’s “Record Year” continues to inch upward, moving from #5 to #4; for the moment, Church has been able to hold off an aggressive promotional push for Chris Lane’s still unlistenable garbage single, “Fix,” which lands at #5; in its 50th chart week, David Nail’s “Night’s on Fire” finally loses steam at a peak of #14; also losing its bullet after only 10 weeks on the chart is Brad Paisley’s much-hyped duet with pop star Demi Lovato, “Without a Fight,” which holds at #17, just ahead of an even worse duet, Dierks Bentley’s & Elle King’s “Different For Girls,” which moves up to #18; Drake White appears to have picked up a bit of momentum with “Livin’ the Dream,” which is up to #26; Maren Morris’ second single, “80s Mercedes,” is already up to #31 after just a month on the chart; Chris Stapleton’s “Parachute” (from #39 to #37) and Chris Janson’s “Holdin’ Her” (at #41 for a second week) two of the best songs on the lower part of the chart, both logged gains in their overall audience this week; Brandy Clark’s “Girl Next Door” has dropped off the chart, and her label has begun testing for a follow-up single .
Elsewhere on Billboard‘s radio charts:
The Avett Brothers’ “Ain’t No Man” spends its fifth week at #1 on the AAA chart; “I Know” by Shovels & Rope is being spun by 16 AAA stations with exceptional taste; Butch Walker’s new single, “East Coast Girl,” scored 3 station adds; Florida Georgia Line’s “H.O.L.Y.” has moved up to #31 at Hot AC in just its second week on that chart; Tim McGraw’s “Humble and Kind” lost total spins on the Adult Contemporary chart but still managed to inch up to a new peak of #15; continues its ascent, reaching a new peak at #15 in its 9th week; “Thy Will” by Hillary Scott & The Scott Family has the most increased plays at Christian radio this week, breaking into the top 10 at #10.
“Unfortunately, there just hasn’t been enough such expression from women inside the mainstream. On the flip side, any given year could yield a mountain of songs by men singing about sex as well as its intersection with heartbreak — some written with women in mind, others clearly intended for guys (see Jason Aldean’s ‘Burnin’ It Down’). Not that every breakup song by a female artist should be some retread of “Vice,” mind you, but history shows incredible commercial potential for women audacious enough to speak their minds — and reveal some glimpse of human frailty. When the idea of women singing about sex is so normalized in country that no one blinks an eye when Lambert describes her carnal weakness — ‘another call, another bed I shouldn’t crawl out of’ — it’ll be a sure sign of progress.”
— Jon Freeman of Rolling Stone, in an editorial titled, “What Miranda Lambert’s ‘Vice’ Says About Sex in Country Music.” It’s an interesting read that places Lambert’s (fantastic) new single in both current and historical contexts, and it draws the much-needed comparison between “Vice” and Dierks Bentley’s & Elle King’s “Different for Girls.” And, in other Lambert news, she performed as part of the Pistol Annies for the first time in nearly a year. (JK)
“I’ve always been a very happy person, but I hit a real state of depression about a year and a half ago, and I wouldn’t leave my house for a while… I literally had a hard fight. It was a tough time in my life. There were a lot of days where it was hard for me to get out of bed.”
— Kip Moore gave a candid interview with ET Canada during which he disclosed his struggles with clinical depression. Moore also released an inspiring video regarding the ways that racism is learned. (JK)
Ryan Adams was joined by The Infamous Stringdusters for his set at Newport Folk Festival, where he performed bluegrass-infused versions of his songs along with hoedown-ready covers of songs by Black Sabbath and Slayer. (JK)
“I don’t know this for sure, but I would bet money that Iris must’ve listened to a lot of early Loretta Lynn records when she was learning guitar and singing around the house. Because when I pitched this song to her, ‘Who’s Gonna Take The Garbage Out,’ she knew it right away. And she has those nuances in her voice like Loretta Lynn, but she doesn’t sound like Loretta. Iris sounds like nobody but Iris.”
— John Prine gave a dead-on assessment of the inimitable Iris DeMent as part of a wonderful interview with Jewly Hight. In the interview, Prine revealed that he will release a new duets album on September 8th. As with his 1998 duets project, his partners will all be women, including Miranda Lambert, Kacey Musgraves, Lee Ann Womack, Amanda Shires, Morgane Stapleton, and, once again, DeMent, among many others. (LMW)
Speaking of Amanda Shires, she has released the lead single from her upcoming album (produced by Dave Cobb), “Harmless.” (JK)
“So for the past three years, it’s been, ‘Look at these females.’ Let’s get with them, start from the beginning, develop with them, hear what they’re doing while they’re doing it, bring them in on the air. And we’ve done that with a bunch of them. Now you’re starting to see it pay off. We’re better than we were 12 months ago. And hopefully in 12 months we’ll be better than we are now. But everything goes in cycles. And people are like, ‘Oh, it sucks.’ OK, there are many cycles that have sucked over time.”
— Radio personality Bobby Bones considered the cyclical nature of trends in an interview with Rolling Stone and claims that the radio climate for women has improved over the past 12 months. (Sidebar: This week’s top 40 includes 4 solo women plus 2 women who are duet partners). It’s an interview that’s more interesting than it is coherent, in that Bones contradicts himself several times throughout. (TS / JK)
Alt-country stalwarts Wilco announced the release of a new album— titled Schmilco, because of course it is– on September 9th. (JK)
While their single “Castaway” continues to climb the country radio chart, Zac Brown Band released a long-form music video for their album track, “I’ll Be Your Man.” (JK)
Josh Schott of our friends over at Country Perspective made a sharp-eyed discovery in the music video for Eric Church’s “Sinners Like Me,” which Church released to mark the 10th anniversary of his debut album. It’s a concise, to-the-point statement on images that matter. (JK)
”I’m not a political person when it comes to making statements. But I was dismayed by a number of things: the reaction to (Little Big Town’s) ‘Girl Crush,’ how few women were being recognized in the Entertainer of the Year categories, how few women were being played on the radio.”
— Keith Urban talked contemporary feminism in a terrific interview with Holly Gleason of Hits Daily Double. In addition to delving into the stylistic diversions he takes on his latest album, Ripcord, and into his overall style, Urban spoke at some length about how the influence of different women on his creative process. (JK)
“It felt good to go into outer space, and it feels good to come back down. I feel so proud of Venus, but if that took you for a left turn, I want people to know I’m still on the path, and I haven’t forgotten where I came from. ‘All those who wander are not lost’ is the famous quote.”
— Joy Williams considered the direction of her solo album, Venus, and her upcoming Venus Acoustic, which will recast some of the tracks from the previous album in a stripped-down style more akin to her work as one half of The Civil Wars. (JK)
Charles Kelley released a music video for his single, “Lonely Girl,” but it’s hard to see how the model in the video could be lonely with Kelley all up in her personal space bubble. (JK)
That will do it for this week! Be sure to check out Kevin’s rave review for Brandy Clark’s Big Day in a Small Town, and check back soon for the last entry in our Dixie Chicks: Revisited series!
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Album Review: Brandy Clark, Big Day in a Small Town
Single Review: Miranda Lambert, “Vice”
Regarding Kip Moore’s issues with depression, I read a similar article about David Nail dealing with this as well. We always think of performers and entertainers as having such a charmed life. But they deal with similar issues that everyone else does. And in their case, it’s usually a lot more public than your average person.
I sometimes try to imagine what it must be like to be expected to create great art repeatedly. It’s never enough to have one successful song or album. You’re expected to repeat it over and over. What enormous pressure that must bring.
And in Nail’s case, he was also dealing with infertility as he and his wife were trying to have a baby. The good news is that Nail and his wife recently had twins – a boy and a girl.
Moore is such a good looking guy and has had some nice success in his career. You’d think he would be on top of the world. But he’s human and goes through tough times just like all of us. Hope things continue to improve for him.
You mention that “Brandy Clark’s “Girl Next Door” has dropped off the charts, and her label has begun testing for a follow-up single.” At the end of his review of Brandy’s “Big Day in a Small Town” album, Kevin recommended the Heaven, 3 Kids, Broke and Homecoming Queen tracks. Picking a song that will be a successful single is not easy. I’m not good at it and quite a few of my favorite songs over the years were never released as singles. It would be interesting to see what song some of the writers here at CU think would help Brandy make a significant impact on the charts. My wife thinks it should be “Homecoming Queen”. I’ll go with her pick. What do other readers think?
Jonathan Keefe
The three songs that the label is testing are “Three Kids, No Husband,” “Love Can Go to Hell,” and “Broke.” Of those three, I would say “Broke” has the production that sounds most in-line with what’s being played at radio at the moment, but its hard-times message doesn’t really jibe with the all-party-all-the-time mentality that some programmers still won’t let go. What could work in its favor is the complaint that many programmers have had recently that most artists have been pushing ballads or mid-tempo tracks, even though playing it might mean that they would have to play a song by a woman.
Thanks for the prompt response. I wonder if the line “And we’re secretly wishing that grandma would croak” would be an impediment to the selection of “Broke”.
My only issue with “Vice” is the melody; it seems all over the place. Her vocal and the lyrics are good, though.
Dana M
I’m pretty obsessed with Brandy Clark’s “Love Can Go to Hell” so I hope that’s the next single. Would be nice to hear that on The Highway.
Are you guys going to review Vice? I would interested in any more thoughts that you have about it.
Erik North
In terms of Steven Tyler’s alleged “country” album–well, it’s a sight-and-sound gag that, if there is any justice in this world, should be placed on the ash heap of history (IMHO).
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About the CSA
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We met up with Alexis Nutini in his airy South Philadelphia studio, a third floor walk-up in a renovated 19th century factory. Alexis’s printmaking space is beautifully organized without being fussy. He works with reduction printing, carving into blocks of wood before inking them up and running them through a large, manual press. The tools of his trade are arranged like a chef’s mise en place – inks, paper and brayers set out in advance to allow for responsiveness and innovation. After speaking with the artist, it becomes clear that there is real freedom (and playfulness) in his uncluttered approach.
The walls are packed with prints in progress - over one hundred – gridded to reveal a noticeable color shift on each individual print. As they move around the walls, the geometric prints gradate from yellow to orange to red… working their way around the color wheel. This preliminary staging highlights what makes Alexis distinctive as a printmaker. Instead of making traditional editions of exact facsimiles, his prints within a series are each perfectly unique.
“For a printmaker, the best moment is when you pull a print. That’s the magic – you never know what’s going to happen. So for me, it’s like that every time. It’s not just repeating it… it’s not just a craft. I learn as I go.”
“Why not get a lot more out of it? Why repeat it? Then, it just becomes this task. I’m still inking [the plate] properly; I’m just changing the color each time. I learn a little bit more every time this way. What to do… what not to do… how to get some of these aberrated colors. It takes a lot of discipline; it’s more clean-up. But you just learn more.”
“The benefit is to see these together; it’s like –wow, there’s so much in between! What happens when I do 140?!”
For his Community Supported Art project, Alexis is creating an edition of fifty related but unique prints. Each shareholder will get a woodcut reduction print featuring six to eight layers of integrated color pulled from the same, altered block. When talking about his approach for this special 2017 CSA edition, Alexis’s excitement is palpable:
“I’m going to do my math for the first two or three layers and then just go for it! It will start off with the primary colors, which you can see [gesturing to the wall of prints behind him.] But every single one will be different. Even if the method were to breakdown after that, the prints will still be related. But even if you printed the same colors, it’d be different because they’d be printed in a different order. It’s already happening! Look here….”
We left Alexis’s studio on a complete art high! Alexis Nutini’s enthusiasm for his process –and this project– is infectious. We hope that you have a chance to speak with him in person at an upcoming event.
-- Cindy Stockton Moore, 2017 Community Supported Art Organizer
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Lazarus #1
“Family, Part One”
Writer: Greg Rucka
Artist/Letters/Cover artist: Michael Lark
Colors: Santi Arcas
Price: $2.99 US
I haven’t been watching advance solicitations as of late. Often, new titles will turn up on the shelves of my local comic shop and take me by surprise. “I can’t believe So And So had a new book out and I didn’t know” or “Wow, that comic is out already? I thought it was months away.” I was vaguely aware of the approaching release of Lazarus #1, but I had absolutely no idea what it was about, and I honestly, I didn’t care. It was a new comic by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark, creators whose past works I’ve enjoyed, notably their previous collaboration on Gotham Central. I was eager to sample a new creator-owned work from them, and the notion they might disappoint never entered my mind. And they didn’t disappoint, but they did take me off-guard. I was expecting something else, something more grounded, something more rooted in or at least connected to the crime genre, given their previous projects. But Lazarus is, if described in broad terms, a science-fiction book, or, more specifically, a dystopian book. It’s certainly a smart book, and it has some strong messages.
June 26, 2013 Don MacPherson 2 Comments
Ultron Legacy
Age of Ultron #s 1-10
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Pencils: Bryan Hitch, Brandon Peterson, Carlos Pacheco, Alex Maleev, Butch Guice, David Marquez & Joe Quesada
Inks: Paul Neary, Brandon Peterson, Roger Martinez, Roger Bonet, Alex Maleev, Butch Guice, Tom Palmer, David Marquez & Joe Quesada
Colors: Paul Mounts, Jose Villarrubia & Richard Isanove
Letters: Virtual Calligraphy
Editor: Tom Brevoort
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Price: $3.99 US per issue
I’ve made a point of avoiding big super-hero event books in recent years, and given that DC hasn’t really done one since launching its New 52 line two years ago, that means I’ve steered clear of Marvel’s big event books. I ended up reading the first two issues of Age of Ultron, though, because my local retailer offered them for a buck apiece a few months after their release, and I borrowed the remainder of the series, mainly because I was interested in writing about the book rather than seeing how things turned out. One of the biggest complaints about these event books is how they ultimately don’t matter in the long run, how they promise big, sweeping, universe-altering changes, but those are undone or reversed in short order. Well, Age of Ultron takes that approach to the extreme, hitting a cosmic reset button in the final issue. The events of this apocalyptic and time-travel story really don’t matter. They serve to set up other stories and characters in Marvel’s line of titles that didn’t need this particular catalyst. Ultimately, it’s a waste of time and money. And it suffers from the same flaw so many people are complaining about in regards to the recently released Man of Steel movie: there’s nothing fun about it.
June 22, 2013 Don MacPherson 1 Comment
Stained Steel
Actors: Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Christopher Meloni, Richard Schiff, Laurence Fishburne, Antje Traue, Harry Lennix & Ayelet Zurer
Writers: David S. Goyer & Christopher Nolan
Studios: Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures
Reaction to the new Man of Steel movie online has been rather divided, from what I can see. Some viewers have applauded it, while others have criticized it for its excesses. Having viewed it in 2D in a rather sparsely attended Friday matinée, I can see validity in both points of view. On one point, I think all would be able to agree that Man of Steel is definitely a spectacle, a huge special-effects extravaganza. In many ways, it’s a tale of two movies, clearly striving to appeal to as wide an audience of blockbuster movies as humanly possible. Ultimately, I appreciated the movie for how it offers an unconventional and unexpected new take on the title character. I love to be surprised, and to come away from a Superman origin flick surprised is something I would have thought to be next to impossible. One flaw with the film is how, in its effort to achieve maturity and legitimacy, it’s failed to leave much room for any sense of fun or joy.
June 16, 2013 Don MacPherson
Quick Critiques – June 15, 2013
Batman #21 (DC Comics)
by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo & Rafael Albuquerque
Because apparently, I’ve created the impression I pan Marvel and DC super-hero comics so I can impress “hipsters”, I thought I’d share some thoughts about this new story arc in DC’s main Batman title. I was quite disappointed in Superman Unchained, not only due to the art, but surprisingly due to being let down by Snyder’s plot. Fortunately, it appears that was an aberration, because his new take on Bruce Wayne’s journey to becoming the Batman here is fantastic. As he did with the Court of Owls, Snyder is building a new mythology and history for Gotham City, and he’s doing so by incorporating and reinventing some familiar characters and concepts. In Batman: Earth One, writer Geoff Johns explored the maternal branches of Bruce Wayne’s family tree by transforming Martha Wayne into a member of the Arkham clan. Here, Snyder does something similar, making her maiden name Kane and giving some of those tree limbs a bit of rot. The opening scene, set six months ahead of the main action, just after Bruce took on the Batman persona, hints at an ambitious story arc, one that promises to be much more over-the-top and tumultuous than what we’ve seen before. I look forward to it. The backup story is solidly executed. It should appeal to the Fast and the Furious fans out there, but peppered in the high-octane, high-speed action is a clever and peppy script that barrels ahead as quickly as the car the protagonist is driving throughout the sequence.
This Unchained Melody Is Out of Tune
Superman Unchained #1
“The Leap”
Writer: Scott Snyder
Pencils: Jim Lee & Dustin Nguyen
Inks: Scott Williams
Colors: Alex Sinclair & John Kalisz
Letters: Sal Cipriano
Cover artists: Jim Lee & Scott Williams (regular edition)/Brett Booth & Norm Rapmund; Bruce Timm; Dan Jurgens & Rapmund; Dave Johnson; Jerry Ordway; Jose Luis Garcia Lopez; Lee Bermejo; and Neal Adams (variants)
Editor: Matt Idelson
Publisher: DC Comics
The manager at my local comic shop today noted instead of a $5 Jim Lee comic book, I could pick up Gerard Way’s new comic or maybe something more offbeat such as Boom!’s new Six-Gun Gorilla. While I’m interested in those comics, I told him I saw it as spending five bucks on a new Scott Snyder comic, and I pointed to the strength of his work on Batman and, more recently, The Wake. He acknowledged Snyder’s name was a better reason for buying a comic book than Lee’s. But damn, I should have listened to him. I definitely could have done better with my fin than this exercise in excess and confusion.
Astro City #1
“Through Open Doors, Part One”
Writer: Kurt Busiek
Artist: Brent Anderson
Colors: Alex Sinclair
Letters: Comicraft
Cover artist: Alex Ross
Publisher: DC Comics/Vertigo imprint
Price $3.99 US
The 1990s wasn’t a good time in the world of comics — and to be specific, in super-hero comics. It was an era that emphasized style over substance. It was an era that celebrated dazzle over storytelling. It was an era of gimmick covers, countless crossovers and a bunch of new publishers and imprints, all chasing the speculator craze. A lot of money was made from short-term gains leading to long-term losses of readers and black marks on an entire genre. On the other hand, the 1990s also gave rise to Astro City (or as it was originally and appropriately known, Kurt Busiek’s Astro City). Busiek’s title was and remains a celebration of comics and the people who crafted icons for us. It’s also a deconstruction of super-hero archetypes, and it offers some strong social commentary. But ultimately, what makes Astro City work, what makes it such an engaging read and what’s allowed it to last for almost two decades (yes, you read that right) is the strong character work Busiek brings to each and every issue.
And it’s back. That’s awesome.
Quick Critiques – June 2, 2013
The Bounce #1 (Image Comics)
by Joe Casey & David Messina
I haven’t read any promotional material about or reaction to The Bounce, so I have no idea if it’s a reworked pitch for Marvel’s Speedball character, but it certainly reads like one. To be fair, though, that’s mainly due to the specific power set of the main character here, so I feel a bit bad about dismissing the origin of this story as something originally designed for another character. I mean, if the lead hero had invisibility powers, I wouldn’t have blown it off as a failed and retooled Invisible Woman proposal. Either way, the storytelling here stands up fine on its own; nothing feels lacking as a result of it being set outside an established shared super-hero continuity. But there is a problem: the hero isn’t terribly likable. The broad concept of a pothead super-hero might have worked as a purely comedic satire, but Casey plays it straight here. As a result, I found it hard to get behind Jasper. There are a couple of intriguing concepts, but by the end of the story, I wasn’t all that interested in what happens next. And when it comes to episodic fiction, getting the reader care about that is key.
David Messina’s artwork tells the story clearly — except when it doesn’t, but that’s OK, because there’s a psychedelic component that comes into play at the end of the issue. Overall, though, he boasts a fairly generic super-hero style. Beyond the apparent influences in his work (I see touches reminiscent of such artists as Terry Dodson and Bryan Hitch here), there’s nothing all that distinct to be found here. The designs for the superhuman characters are rather ho-hum as well. The Bounce is OK, but it’s also quite forgettable. 6/10
June 2, 2013 Don MacPherson
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The renowned hand surgeon and the popular evangelical journalist reflect together on the role of pain in a fallen world, observing that it maybe a gift from God, alerting us to illness and more. They call it “the gift nobody wants.” Very useful for anyone, but essential for those called to ministry to the ill or hurting.
Called to Care: A Christian Worldview for Nursing
Judith Allen Shelly & Arlene B. Miller (InterVarsity Press)
Although this is obviously written for nurses, nearly anyone in any field of health care could benefit from these foundational teachings on the nature of the body, a vision of health, the role of medicine, the meaning of caregiving, the characteristics of healing and the ethics of prayer and spiritual conversations between patients and health care providers. This is a splendid, foundational work for nearly anyone who works in health care, making it a must-read.
Transforming Care: A Christian Vision of Nursing Practice
Mary Molewky, Ruth Groenhout, Kendra G. Hotz (Eerdmans) A profound and mature study for nurses, but, as with the previous listing, this is so, richly conceived and finely written, it will certainly prove useful for nearly anyone serving in any capacity in health care professions. With worldviewish reflection on our understanding of the human person and the meaning of health, the authors then explore the contexts of health care delivery, looking at : acute care settings, mental health facilities, and community care contexts. The authors teach at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI and include a professor of nursing, a theologian and an ethicist. Very impressive.
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What an extraordinary book, co-written by a practicing pediatrician and a poet, each who have thought deeply about the role of medicine in our culture and the task of health care providers. This perhaps was written for anyone who wants to think about medicine in our time or who wants to work for health care reforms, but it is essential for doctors or others who work in health care.
The Scalpel and the Cross: A Theology of Surgery (Ordinary Theology
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Although this is a very small book, it is a powerful and poignant reflection by Christian leader who is both a surgeon and who underwent heart surgery. Here, he offers a practical theology about this important aspect of contemporary life, in a new series called “Ordinary Theology.
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Two of the leading medical ethicists, devout Roman Catholics, here offers great insight about the proper role of faith and spirituality in contemporary medical practice. By reflecting on how professionals can embody religious commitments, effecting the relationships between patient and practitioner they show how that can help in recovery and healing, this points to a profoundly spiritual philosophy of medicine.
Health-Care Ethics: A Comprehensive Christian Resource
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A major contribution to the field, lively and interesting, broad and multi-disciplinary, this work starts with a mature theological anthropology and leads eventually to good reflections on bioethics. Some reviewers have called it “incarnational” and “missional” as well as “masterful and pertinent.”
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ASIA/IRAQ - Tensions on the Nineveh Plain: new appeal of the Iraqi Bishops for dialogue
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Telkaif (Agenzia Fides) - The "Babylonian Brigades" have attributed to the Kurdish Peshmerga troops the responsibility of military operations that in the evening and night of Tuesday, October 24, pushed the inhabitants of Telkeif - the urban center of the Nineveh Plains, inhabited by Christians - to escape from their homes and to find shelter in nearby towns and villages. According to the leaders of the "Babylonian Brigades" - armed formation led by Rayan al Kildani (Rayan the Chaldean), and includes Christians in its ranks, too - artillery shells that reached a neighborhood of the city, wounding some children and provoking the immediate exodus of more than 600 families, who managed to return to their homes after the defeat of the jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh), were launched by the Peshemga. Other anonymous sources, cited by the media, argue that the evacuation was implemented on the basis of indications from army government emissaries, in view of an increase in the level of clashes with the Peshmerga. There are only Chaldeon priest Salar Kajo and some of his collaborators in the deserted city.
Meanwhile, the Catholic Bishops of Iraq, at the end of their annual meeting - held in Baghdad on October 24 and 25 - again expressed concern over the tensions and new conflict threats that lie in one of the areas of traditional roots of local Christian communities. In the final document of the meeting, sent to Fides, Iraqi Catholic Bishops have called on national political leaders "to engage in peace through dialogue", and have asked that the cities on the Nineveh Plain do not become the object of division among opposing military forces. (GV (Agenzia Fides, 26/10/2017)
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Field Energy Services (FES) is Iraq’s leading oil and gas service provider, offering comprehensive, high-valued technical, industrial, trading, logistical, life support, training, construction and engineering solutions. We operate in an environment where employee and customer safety are our top priority and are recognized as a benchmark for quality and integrity. FES headquartered is in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Strategically located in North Rumaila, Burjessia, Al Majal Business Park “AMBP”, a fully integrated, secured business enviro...
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Fully equipped mobile workshop and qualified engineers provide expertise for turnkey solutions and individual project activities.
Strategically located in North Rumaila, Burjessia, Al Majal Business Park “AMBP”, a fully integrated, secured business environment.
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Field Energy Services is pleased to announce the signing of a new distribution agreement with Gates Engineering & Services company; as Field Energy Services is now officially an approved...
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Field Energy Services Chairman & CEO, Mr. Ali Agha Jaffar, was recently a keynote speaker at the “Basra Mega Projects – Oil, Gas & Environment" which was held October 9-10, 2018 in I...
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Field Energy Services (FES) has become the latest member of the Iraq Britain Business Council (IBBC). IBBC is delighted to welcome one of the Iraq’s leading oil and gas service prov...
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Field Energy Services (FES) joins the Basra Mega Projects conference as a supporting Sponsor. hashtagCWCBasra takes place in Istanbul, Turkey on 9-10 October 2018 and organised by The CWC Gr...
Sulzer Appoints Authorized Repair Partner in Iraq
Sulzer, the Swiss-based specialist in pumping solutions, has appointed Al Majal Technical Services (AMTS) as their authorized repair partner in Iraq AMTS was founded in 2015 to provide ...
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On November 8, 2017, AMBP implemented procedures of Fire Drill Exercise in its camp "North Rumaila", with a complete evacuation of its employees, tenants, and clients. All AMBP facilities ar...
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Field Energy Services "FES" hosted a group of students from Al-Basra Geological Union as a part of its commitment to the community and the environment. Among a group of several initiatives...
Field Energy Services is committed to its tradition of giving back to the community and the environment it operates in. We believe each of our operations – directly or indirectly – impact...
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People are at the heart of our culture. A diverse set of professionals that positively influence our work environment. Individuals who understand the impact of shared professional success – ...
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On January 19, 2017, a Ministry of Electricity delegation visited Al Majal Business Park-North Rumailia as a part of an introduction and cooperation initiative. During the visit, AMBP gav...
On January 19, 2017, a Ministry of Electricity delegation visited Al Majal Business Park-North Rumailia as a part of an introduction and cooperation initiative. During the visit, AMBP gave a presentation and tour of its facilities including the training center, workshops, and the integrated business spaces.
People are at the heart of our culture. A diverse set of professionals that positively influence our work environment. Individuals who understand the impact of shared professional success – and personal goals – on an organization that is committed to growth and recognition based on performance. Professionals at Field Energy Services are equipped with knowledge, experience, and values that match FES’ core belief system. We are committed to building long-term relationships with our people while de...
Field Energy Services is committed to its tradition of giving back to the community and the environment it operates in. We believe each of our operations – directly or indirectly – impacts our surroundings and the people in our surroundings. Therefore, their support is integral to our growth. And it is our responsibility to create an environment where we help and protect the community and the environment. Among several CSR initiatives, the most recent initiative Field Energy Services was inv...
Field Energy Services "FES" hosted a group of students from Al-Basra Geological Union as a part of its commitment to the community and the environment. Among a group of several initiatives hosted by FES, the most recent initiative was a Geo-technical training course which took place at Al Majal Training Center in August 2017. During this training course, FES opened its training center doors to Al-Basra Geological Union students to have their course in a professional and productive environme...
On November 8, 2017, AMBP implemented procedures of Fire Drill Exercise in its camp "North Rumaila", with a complete evacuation of its employees, tenants, and clients. All AMBP facilities are in full support of fire alarm systems in order to meet such requirements and during this exercise, the instructor explained some initial steps should be taken in such emergency cases which involve assessing the hazard, evacuating personnel from the area, identifying any resources and delegating priority act...
Sulzer, the Swiss-based specialist in pumping solutions, has appointed Al Majal Technical Services (AMTS) as their authorized repair partner in Iraq AMTS was founded in 2015 to provide a full spectrum of Oil and Gas services including rotating equipment. The AMTS workshop, located in North Rumaila, is a 3000 m2 state-of-the-art facility, equipped with a comprehensive set of machine tools and balancing equipment required to maintain and repair rotating machinery of all manufacturers. AMTS i...
Field Energy Services (FES) joins the Basra Mega Projects conference as a supporting Sponsor. hashtagCWCBasra takes place in Istanbul, Turkey on 9-10 October 2018 and organised by The CWC Group http://cwcbasraoilgas.com. "We are delighted to partner with Field Energy Service across CWC's Series of Iraq Oil and Gas focused events and look forward to further collaborations" FES are a Service Provider Offering Advanced, Comprehensive Products & Services to Iraq's Oil & Gas Industry and ha...
Field Energy Services (FES) has become the latest member of the Iraq Britain Business Council (IBBC). IBBC is delighted to welcome one of the Iraq’s leading oil and gas service provider, to join its Oil & Gas services sector table.
Field Energy Services Chairman & CEO, Mr. Ali Agha Jaffar, was recently a keynote speaker at the “Basra Mega Projects – Oil, Gas & Environment" which was held October 9-10, 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey, and was attended by prominent officials from the Government of Iraq and leaders from across the oil and gas industry. Through his speech, Mr. Jaffar presented the value proposition of Field Energy Services and its subsidiaries and showcased the most significant contributions of FES to major e...
Field Energy Services is pleased to announce the signing of a new distribution agreement with Gates Engineering & Services company; as Field Energy Services is now officially an approved authorized distributor of Gates services and products in Iraq. Gates Corporation is a leading USA manufacturer of application-specific fluid power and power transmission solutions, with more than 13,500 employees and over 100 locations in 30 countries.
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Apple is reportedly launching a mini version of the iPad this month, as the firm looks to fend of increasing competition from the likes of Amazon, Google and Samsung in the growing mini-tablet market. Apple is expected to introduce the iPad mini on October 17th - just a week before arch rival Amazon launches its [...]
Apple is reportedly launching a mini version of the iPad this month, as the firm looks to fend of increasing competition from the likes of Amazon, Google and Samsung in the growing mini-tablet market. Apple is expected to introduce the iPad mini on October 17th - just a week before arch rival Amazon launches its Fire range of tablets in the UK. The device is said to be available in shops on November 2, according to Fortune magazine.
Apple is expected to introduce the iPad mini on October 17th - just a week before arch rival Amazon launches its Fire range of tablets in the UK.
With a launch date set for October 17 and the device available in shops on November 2, according to Fortune magazine, Apple is now set to break into the market of smaller tablet devices.
The device is believed to have similar hardware to last year’s iPad 2, but reduced to an almost pocket-friendly seven or eight-inch form.
Fortune reports that Apple will send out invites for the launch on October 10, gathering tech journalists and stakeholders together to unveil the device.
If Apple follows previous form, the event will be held in San Francisco, with a simultaneous launch on London.
Images purporting to show the iPad Mini suggest a device measuring 7.85inches, with an aluminium back-cover similar to the most recent iPad.
It is likely to sport a rear-facing camera and come with Apple’s newest ‘lightning’ connector, a controversial re-design which made previous accessories and chargers obsolete without an adapter.
If Apple follows its usual design styles, it is likely to come in white and black versions, with a choice of WiFi only, or a 3G option. However this unconfirmed.
The device, while still likely to garner a premium price-tag, will help Apple compete with the burgeoning smaller tablet market.
The 7-inch Google Nexus tablet sells for £159 for the cheapest version, while Amazon is also producing a budget tablet range.
In his life, Steve Jobs was unconvinced that a smaller tablet would be a success, seeing it as a poor compromise between a tablet and a phone. However Apple appears to have had a change of heart,
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Meanwhile, Apple has reportedly placed an order with suppliers for 10 million “iPad minis,” according to a report recently published by The Wall Street Journal.
It has also been suggested that this order is double that of current Amazon Kindle Fire orders.
The WSJ notes that some component suppliers to Apple in Asia say they have received orders to make more than 10 million units of the smaller tablets in the fourth quarter. That is roughly double the order that were placed for Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets in the same quarter, these suppliers say.
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The Commercial Compliance and Consumer Protection (CCCP) sector in the Department of Economic Development (DED) in Dubai permanently closed down almost 14,000 social media accounts in 2018 after they were found to be selling counterfeit goods.
Out of a total of 13,948 accounts closed down, 96.9 % were Instagram accounts and 3.1% were Facebook and had a combined total of 77.9 million followers.
In addition to social media accounts, DED also shut down 45 websites for selling fake goods.
Ibrahim Behzad, Director of Intellectual Property Rights Protection in CCCP, said, "The Department of Economic Development does not tolerate any kind of commercial fraud and we enforce the laws and regulations applicable against such practices, including imposing fines.
Consumers should stay away from outlets and channels that offer counterfeit goods as such practices are detrimental to the rights of trademark owners as well as consumer health.”
Consumers can report any negative practices by calling on 600 54 5555, or on the @dubai_consumers account of CCCP on Instagram and Twitter.
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A friend of mine asked me about Deuteronomy 22:22, a bible passage about the civil laws ancient Israel had in the time of Moses. She was bothered that such a legal system might allow “rape with benefits”, where in order to get out of the punishment of rape, a male rapist can pay to marry the victim, and the victim didn’t have any choice in the matter. The harsh penalty for adultery and rape (death by stoning) didn’t seem to bother her nearly as much as the potential injustice toward women.
I created this animated info graphic to explain my interpretation of the law as it’s described in the passage.
My friend said: Although consent or non-consent doesn’t seem to come up at all in the last fork of the flow-chart. So maybe not as shocking, but still a bit disturbing.
To which I reply:
(12:31:12 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: Right, there was something I didn’t include explicitly in the flowchart though, at the end, the purple question mark implies it
(12:31:12 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: Why isn’t there another consent fork for non-engaged women?
(12:31:18 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: We’re left with no answer
(12:31:40 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: But I was thinking about how a lot of the law seems to have come out of the Moses judging various situations as they came up
(12:31:56 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: And if he’s out there making these flowcharts for his judge lieutenants
(12:32:18 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: As he’s explaining the stuff from left to right
(12:32:58 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: By the time he gets to the right most branch, we’ve already talked about her not giving consent and we’ve said that she’s innocent and it’s the man who’s at fault
(12:33:19 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: And his punishment is rape
(12:33:31 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: Or atleast, that’s how I think a judge lieutenant would reason
(12:33:38 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: although it’s not based on anything in the text
(12:34:37 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: And looking at Exodus, we see the precedent for a virgin who had sex with a man to not marry him
(12:34:43 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: but even in that case the dowry must be paid
(12:35:16 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: It certainly weakens the “rape with benefits” reading.
(12:37:48 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: So there’s some things I still want to know about what I’ve just said
(12:39:09 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: The first of them is how this affects your life, how you feel about the feminist issues raised by the verse, how strong you think the rape with benefits reading remains … how any of this impacts you.
There are also interesting discussions to be had about such severe punishments for having an affair. In modern American law, there are no legal consequences to an affair, so punishment by death seems very foreign to us. But are there benefits to discouraging cheating on a spouse? It’s not so dissimilar to recreational drug use, which we punish without much hesitation.
Also, why doesn’t this passage prescribe a punishment for two consenting unmarried adults? Many people perceive pre-marital sex as one of the most severe sexual impurities. But in this passage, it isn’t even an offense worth clarifying.
These questions may seem anciently irrelevant, but by exploring them we can learn what God values in ways that are not heavily influenced by our own perspectives and cultural backgrounds. What timeless morality was this ancient legal system wrapped around? How do we learn to cherish both our own sexualities and eternal virtues in ways that are more constant and meaningful than only what our cultural norms offer?
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The brief from Working Woodlands Trust was to rejuvenate their existing website, while keeping their existing information and images, and adding a number of new content managed sections.
After reviewing the existing site to get a feel for the required site structure and general content, we built a number of templates for members of the trust to review. These were presented at an open evening to gather feedback and from this a final design template was created. The original site information was then brought across to populate the new site. At various stages during this process we sat with the client to allow them to try out different ideas and layouts.
The new content mananged sections allow Working Woodlands Trust to enter news articles, upcoming events and maintain a photo gallery. The news and events allow title, summary and article bodies to be edited and images related to the articles to be included. The photo gallery is fully managed, allowing staff to create new categories for different events and upload thumbnails, full size images and information about each image.
"Robin Wood of Freedom Software transformed our website. The site is now visually appealing, with a consistent style, and easy to navigate. The addition of the edit suite has given us the opportunity to use the website as the functional communication tool it should be. As soon as the website was launched I was able to put upto date news stories on the website. This is now the main tool that I use to communicate with the members of Working Woodlands Trust."
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A striking contemporary conversion of a large, classically proportioned ground floor flat in Weston, Bath. A sensitive approach to retaining and enhancing the grand Victorian features, results in a light and airy two bedroom flat with an opulent contemporary feel throughout.
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This spacious, classically proportioned ground floor flat in Weston, Bath was greatly in need of some special attention, having been poorly refurbished many years ago.
The new clever layout, coupled with a sensitive approach to retaining and enhancing the classic Victorian features, results in a light and airy two bedroom flat with an opulent contemporary feel throughout. Our client was closely involved in every design decision resulting in a stunning contemporary conversion.
This spacious, classically proportioned ground floor flat in Weston, Bath was greatly in need of some special attention, having been poorly refurbished many years ago. The new clever layout, coupled with a sensitive approach to retaining and enhancing the classic Victorian features, results in a light and airy two bedroom flat with an opulent contemporary feel throughout. Our client was closely involved in every design decision resulting in a stunning contemporary conversion.
“[Suzanne] was brilliant – working from inception to the finish on my project. A total, complete and full-on flat refurbishment in Bath. The property had been empty since 2009 and over time, the interior had deteriorated so much that it was totally uninhabitable. Added to which, the layout of the flat was ill thought-out and poorly converted.
The brief was, on paper a simple task, refurbishment of a poorly converted 3 bedroom flat within a grand Victorian House into a roomy, 2 bed/2 bathroom flat. I had two very clear objectives, firstly, to ensure the flat had a large, “live-in” kitchen that had direct access on to the rear private garden and to open up and reinstate the fabulous drawing room with its floor to ceiling bay windows and working shutters. The previous alterations were ill thought through and made little of the grand Victorian building’s ceiling heights and original features which were sadly either removed or damaged in the first phase of changing the building from large house to individual flats. Suzanne and her team were able to take my rough design ideas and translate them into a fantastic, well thought through plan. In addition, Suzanne’s keen eye for detail and technical expertise was invaluable from start to finish. She was particularly pivotal in securing a superb builder after seeking 5 tenders for the work and has been central to the project’s success, regularly visiting the site to sign off work and for calmly dealing with the inevitable ‘surprises’ that crop up on all building projects. The project came in on time, on budget and client, architect and builder are still all firm friends. I am ecstatic with the result and would work again with Suzanne and her team in a heartbeat.“
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Significant changes affecting the UK tax status of non-domiciled individuals (non-doms) take effect on 6 April 2017 – and have far-reaching consequences for the majority of those who have previously enjoyed the tax breaks associated with non-dom status, regardless of whether they were initially born overseas or in the UK.
The remittance basis and the new 15/20-year rule
Under the new changes, non-domiciled individuals who have been a resident in the UK for 15 of the past 20 financial years will now be considered domiciled in the UK for all associated tax purposes, regardless of when they arrived.
This legislative change, known as ‘the 15/20-year rule’ effectively means that such individuals will no longer be entitled to claim the remittance basis for Income Tax or Capital Gains Tax (CGT) purposes. This means that those affected will be subject to UK tax on their worldwide income and gains.
Furthermore, for those who previously had a domicile of origin in the UK and later moved abroad, thus acquiring a domicile elsewhere, their UK domiciled status will be immediately reinstated if they return to the UK.
Non-doms’ residential property subject to UK Inheritance Tax
As of 6 April 2017, non-doms who hold UK residential property indirectly through an overseas intermediary, such as an offshore trust, will see such properties subject to UK Inheritance Tax (IHT).
Previously, residential property held in such structures would be overlooked as ‘excluded’, but under the new rules, such property – however held – will be within the scope of IHT. This means that UK IHT will be payable upon any significant IHT event, including a death, gift or ten year anniversary of a trust.
Grace period for ‘mixed funds’
Non-doms with offshore funds made up of untaxed foreign income and gains will be granted a grace period of two years from April 2017’ to rearrange these mixed funds, sell any assets and separate any funds into their constituent parts of foreign income, foreign gains and clean capital. The latter can then be remitted from their segregated clean capital account in line with previous rules.
This gives an opportunity for people to reorganise their affairs to benefit more from the remittance basis where this is still available, or where it has been used previously, as those old unremitted monies remain liable to UK tax under the remittance basis, even if they are now subject to tax on an arising basis.
Under these rules, excluded property trusts can be used as an important planning tool as they will remain an effective way of sheltering assets from UK Inheritance Tax before an individual becomes domicile.
This will also apply to those who are newly ‘deemed domiciled’ under the 15/20-year rule.
If you are concerned that these important changes to the taxation of non-doms are likely to affect you, please contact us. If you are able to get in touch sooner rather than later, our experts can determine the wider implications of these tax changes, how you will be personally affected and how we might be able to help you to mitigate any potentially heavy tax charges.
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Stolen Space Gallery Present ‘Going Against The Grain’ with OKER
StolenSpace is very proud to present ‘Going Against The Grain’ the inaugural solo show by one of the most prolific writers of the London graffiti scene, OKER.
OKER has been painting for over 20 years. His throw-ups were all over South London, and with trains running across the city, he has made an incredible contribution to the London scene, influencing many of the younger generation of writers throughout the years. He is one of the very few graffiti writers in England who can call themselves ‘all city’, having been up in every area of London.
OKER claims he turned to graffiti as a form of self medication in his difficult early teenage years. When he walked along the tracks with other like minds, no one was interested in his personal life, this world was purely about him as a graffiti artist, as ‘OKER’.
After a short spell of living in New York and building relationships with the Kings of New York, he then returned to London bringing NYC’s bombing style with him, gaining the respect from artists such as Eine, Barry McGee, KR and Banksy to name a few…
In 2000 he was sentenced for graffiti and again in 2013 for 2 years for painting on trains. This lead him to rethink his practice, ‘Going Against The Grain’ shows not only OKER’s artistic development, but also a development in the way he thinks about his art and an important step in his artistic practice. He can now safely move forward without the worry of being arrested on his opening night. He’s served his time, and this inaugural solo show will show how far he has come.
Stolen Space Gallery, 17 Osborn Street, London, E1 6TD.
The exhibition opens with a private view on the 4th August from 6 - 9pm, the exhibition will continue at the space until the 28th August 2016.
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Brothers & Sisters | Brothers Of The Stripe Collective Show
After 3 busy years working with everyone from the V&A to Glastonbury, the 13 strong collective Brothers of the Stripe descend on London once more, each member coupled with one of the best female illustrators on the UK scene.
Brothers of the Stripe (BOTS) are a collection of illustrators, graphic designers and image makers from all corners of the UK. With many major cities represented, we are able to support each other in presenting our collective works to the various regions. The collective also offers us a soundboard through which to gain brotherly support, collaborative projects and a shoulder to cry inky tears.
The BOTS are made of all an all male team of movers and shakers, all picked for their devotion to their style and craft. An important factor to the dynamic of the team is not only our ability but our philosophies and commitment to the cause, our support for each others and our willingness to play outside our comfort zones.
Private View: Thursday 4th August, 7-10pm, free entry
SlothBoogie playing all night .
Opening times: 5th-29th August, 9am-5pm daily, free entry
Stour Space, 7 Roach Road, E3 2PA London.
Catagories: Art News, Exhibitions, Illustration
D.I.Y. Art Market in Peckham, London
The D.I.Y. Art Market is a celebration of London’s independent publishers, and emerging/established artists, championing original items, an art market for lovers of all that is D.I.Y. and self published.
Showcasing a curated selection of over 50 artists, it’s a great place to discover a new wave of publishers/artists, all exhibiting and selling an eclectic range of original items.
Entrance to DIYAM is FREE ! We want you to save money to buy artwork and books from our exhibitors.
Items for sale will include, art prints, ceramics, zines & independent publications, illustration, photography, jewellery, sewn items, comics, custom tees, homemade cassettes, screen prints, records, and artist books.
Website: hackneyfleamarket.com
Twitter: @diyartmarket
Instagram: @diyartmarket
Email: hackneyfleamarket@gmail.com
Train: Peckham Rye, Queen's Road Peckham
Bus: 12, 37, 63, 78, 197, 343, 363, 484
Copeland Gallery, 133 Copeland Road, London, SE15 3SN.
Saturday 16th July 2016, 11:00–18:00.
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Kaleidoscope Exhibtion At Fold Gallery, London
FOLD is pleased to present a show that will bring a short, sharp shock of colour to the holiday season.
In Kaleidoscope they are presented with seven artists whose practices tackle intense colour in radically different ways. The use of Colour can be approached in an arbitrary manner but artistic development can only occur when the many variables are controlled and understood. Each of the artists shown here have developed their own inherent sense of the ‘right’ colour choice. From monochromatic coolness to explosive rainbow-like palettes, they each present a unique vision of how to liberate colour to stimulate and energise the viewer.
Curated by Dominic Beattie
FOLD, 158 New Cavendish St, London W1W 6YW.
Private View Thursday 4th August 2016, 6 - 8pm.
Exhibition is on show until the 27th August.
Catagories: Art News, Culture, Exhibitions
Profile of Spanish Street Artist Pejac by FithWallTV
Ahead of his London show, Law of the Weakest, FithWallTv have put together a short beginner's guide on the Spanish artist Pejac.
Covering some of his most memorable projects over the last few years this video will hopefully give you an insight into one of the most exciting artists in the street art game just now.
Pejac's Law of the Weakest exhibition opens in London on the 22nd July running until the 31st July at London Newcastle Space, Redchurch St, Shoreditch, London.
Catagories: Art News, Culture, Exhibitions, Street Art, Videos
Dotmasters presents "Rude Kids"
Graffik Gallery hosts the Preview of “Rude Kids” a collaborative exhibition showcasing new works by this year’s breakthrough artist, Dotmaster, featuring fashion brand Pills and $ Bills new ‘street art’ wear collection.
Launching on 14th July 2016 @ 6.30pm
RSVP via email: art@graffikgallery.co.uk
The Pièce de résistance will be the reveal of a brand new, two-storey mural by Dotmaster on West London’s very first street art gallery – Graffik Gallery Ltd. situated on the iconic Portobello Road.
Graffik Gallery, 284 Portobello Road, W10 5TE London, United Kingdom
Catagories: Art News, Culture, Exhibitions, Street Art
Yann Le Bec, Launch Party At KK Outlet, Hoxton
Yann Le Bec’s exhibition, Dog Days is a collection of new paintings that play out like the stills from a French thriller. Yann's monochromatic paintings depict seemingly innocuous scenes, many from the French countryside; a naked torso moist with perspiration, a lone walker on an isolated road, a swimmer and a man looking through trees.
Beneath the surface of this postcard-like scenery there is a slight feeling of unease, a sense of longing and in some scenes fear. Why is the swimmer reaching for a knife? What is the sad figure on the bed contemplating? Will the girl make it out of the way of the car coming round the bend?!
Come down to the launch at KK Outlet and find out...
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KK Outlet, 42 Hoxton Square, London, N1 6PB.
Launch party: Tuesday 12 July, 7-9pm
Exhibition runs: 12 – 30 July
Catagories: Art News, Culture, Exhibitions, Illustration
Art In My Mouth at Moosey Art Gallery
Art In My Mouth is back, Moosey Gallery's flagship group exhibition bringing in some of the worlds greatest urban artists to Norwich. This year the celebration is bigger and better, gathering 25 artists both international and homegrown to pull together the biggest exhibition to date.
To keep with tradition our neighbours The Alley will be hosting a live drawing event on the launch evening, featuring some of the exhibiting artists. 2 walls, 10 artists, one night. Enjoy all this whilst listening to live music from Heith Karing. To top it off they are hosting a Cote Escriva pop up print shop featuring a vast selection of exclusive screen prints.
Artists Include: Gregmike (USA), Millo (Italy), Pez (Spain), Muretz (Brazil), Anmar Mirza (Norwich), Penny, Okuda San Miguel (Spain), Toasters, Lilly Lou, Carl Cashman, Jon Burgerman, Enjoy Daniel (USA), Fanakapan, Don't Fret(USA), Masagon (Japan), Henry Boon (Norwich), Yasmin Sartin, James Oliver, RTMone (Greece), Daniel David, Nadia Stansinou (Greece), Uncle Strawberry (USA), Cote Escriva (Spain) and the legendary DOODLEMAN
Doors open from 6:30pm on Friday the 22nd of July with help from their show sponsors www.verynearlyalmost.com and www.stupidkrap.com.
Moosey Art. 22 Bridewell Alley, Norwich, NR2 1AQ, UK.
Launches Friday 22nd July Ends 13th August 201.
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'The Miracle Worker' Review: A Wonderful Portrayal of a Timeless Piece
By Jacqueline Malcolm
Historically, when America faces recession, the entertainment industry pulls out masterpiece messages of humanities ability to rise above the greatest of challenges. Messages of enduring hope in the face of great adversity, and in this modern day recession, Director, Joel Daavid has once again answered back by bringing to the stage a play that depicts the very heart of the American soul – a story of triumph, a story of hope, a story of faith, a story of impossibilities becoming possible; The amazing story of Anne Sullivan, preciously known as ‘The Miracle
For anyone attending The Matrix Theatre to see this play, you will be captivated by all of the characters. With staging and costumes of luxurious lace, hard earth-brown wood and completely fitting the times, your attention is immediately focused on the plot at hand, a child’s sickness creating devastating consequences, with the wonderful, Julie Austin Felder playing mother, Kate Heller, alongside Stuart Howard, playing the stoic Captain Keller, both giving impassioned performances of parents realizing the greatest of fears, the sickness of their beloved child, Helen Keller.
To bring to life the character of Helen Keller is no easy task but, without a doubt, Carlie Nettles rises to the occasion with beauty, maturity and discipline as she successfully brings meaning without the use of words; shares a connection with the other characters whilst showing every word they speak has been totally lost on deaf ears, and moves gracefully on stage whilst stumbling and grasping in an unspoken darkness. Miss Nettles captured moments of stillness, where regardless of whatever else was taking place on stage, your eyes were transfixed on her, as she beautifully communicated her own inner story without moving a muscle.
And just as you think things have come to a plateau and you settle back in your seat to leisurely follow the plot, Erin Christine Shaver explodes onto the stage as the notorious and determined Anne Sullivan. Such is the fullness of her character and the brilliance of her performance, its almost as though what was previously being watched in black and white, has just been sprayed in wonderful Technicolor. The stage, the characters, the story just comes alive and for any other play, this may have been seen as a negative, but for William Gibson’s, ‘The Miracle Worker’, it is perfect. Miss Shaver is to the audience what Anne Sullivan was to the Keller’s, a burst of new life and new hope and an exciting, enchanting presence that literally fills the room with an electric energy.
Yes, this is a very well known story, which has been performed many times around the world, by a mélange of actors and directors and producers, both for theatre and film. But praise again to Director, Joel Daavid, who has brought to The Matrix Theatre a timely message in a very challenging time. Indeed, true applause goes to the cast and crew of this wonderful portrayal of a timeless piece.
'The Miracle Worker' will be playing at The Matrix Theatre in the heart of Hollywood until March 8th, 2009. You can catch this tremendous show on Thursday, Friday or Saturday at 8:00pm and Sunday's at 2:00pm. The Matrix Theatre is located at 7657 Melrose Avenue, CA 90046. For reservations call 323 960 7863 or you can reserve on line at www.plays411.com/miracleworker.
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VIRAL: OPEN SESSION | JULY 2018
WOMEN IN MUSIC TODAY
BRIGHTON, BN1 4AJ
STRENGTHENING DIVERSITY IN BRIGHTON’S FUTURE CREATIVE COMMUNITIES
Lighthouse’s Viral Open Sessions are an opportunity to hear first-hand from professionals working in the creative industries. Our Open Sessions speakers share their career-defining moments and advice for getting started in a creative field. It is also an opportunity to make new connections and meet like-minded people.
Venue: Lighthouse, Brighton, BN1 4AJ
Time: Door at 6.30pm, talks start at 7pm
Tickets: Free, register here
OPEN SESSIONS #8
The Music Producers Guild estimates only 6% of its members are women.
Of the top 300 songs of 2017 on the Billboard Charts in the U.S, 12% of songwriters were women. Only 2% of all producers are women but more importantly, this is a ratio of 49 males to every one female. Across 300 songs, only two female producers of colour appear across the sample.
In 2016, Womens Audio Mission a non-profit that supports women in audio production stated 5% of people who work in music, television, news and film are women.
In this special edition of Open Sessions we’re teaming up with Audio Active to complement their music production programme Equaliser, aimed at young women (13-25). Equaliser is now fully booked and this Open Session is a chance to hear from Cate Ferris who is leading the programme.
We will also be joined by local artist Bobbie Johnson, singer/songwriter Cate Ferris and Debbie Clare, agent at LittleBig International. This Open Session looks at what it means to be a woman in music today and will include performances and a panel discussion featuring music producers and songwriters. Our speakers will be offering a broad perspective on the industry, both in the UK and beyond.
BOBBIE JOHNSON
Bobbie Johnson is a Brighton rapper and producer. After gracing the stage of SlipJam she went on to support Roots Manuva and toured with Rag ‘N’ Bone Man.
CATE FERRIS
Cate Ferris is a Brighton based singer/songwriter. Folk and dark soul lie at the heart of her sound, and the largely acoustic instrumentation is tinged by hard hitting lyrics and intricate harmonies. Cate is running the Equaliser programme with Audio Active.
DEBBIE CLARE
Debbie is a partner and agent at LittleBig International Booking Agency, and handles bookings for Aphex Twin, Jon Hopkins, Battles, and many more.
She has over ten years experience of working as an agent, but has also worked as a vocalist, writer and performer, collaborating with artists including Massive Attack, 65daysofstatic and DJ Format.
ANNA MOULSON
Anna works in the live music industry, having promoted live music in Brighton and beyond for over 20 years.
Her company Melting Vinyl is one of the largest music promoters in the south east, working with a stylistically diverse range of local, national and international artists. She has toured Europe as a Tour Manager, and is passionate about the development and promotion of both new local talent and established artists.
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lisa / 22nd March 2019
Review: Diary of a Drag Queen by Crystal Rasmussen
Title: Diary of a Drag Queen
Author: Crystal Rasmussen
Publisher: Penguin Random House/Ebury Publishing
Life’s a drag… Why not be a queen?
‘Stories like the one where you shagged a 79-year-old builder and knocked over his sister’s ashes while feeding him a Viagra. Or the time you crashed your car because you were giving a hand job in barely moving traffic and took your eye off the car in front. That’s the kind of dinner-party ice-breaker I’m talking about.’
Northern, working-class and shagging men three times her age, Crystal writes candidly about her search for ‘the one’; sleeping with a VIP in an attempt to become a world famous journalist; getting hired and fired by a well-known fashion magazine; being torn between losing weight and gorging on KFC; and her need for constant sexual satisfaction (and where that takes her).
Charting her day-to-day adventures over the course of a year, we encounter tucks, twists and sucks, heinous overspending and endless nights spent sprinting from problem to problem in a full face of make-up.
This is a place where the previously unspeakable becomes the commendable – a unique portrayal of the queer experience.
I have always wanted to be a drag queen. I know it sounds strange and inherently being a drag queen is mainly a male role but dammit drag queens get to have so much fun. They are so glamorous and it just seems like an amazing element of performance.
This is why I was drawn to the memoir Diary of a Drag Queen by Crystal Rasmussen. Rasmussen is so very candid when explaining the life of a drag queen, about his life as a gay man – whether this be the difficult relationship with love, random hook-ups and how gay men are still victims of hatred.
It is hard not to like Diary of a Drag Queen. It is dry, funny, warm and endearing. My favourite thing was the little asides littered within the text – they were often hilarious.
Diary of a Drag Queen is a wonderful read and I fully recommend it.
Diary of a Drag Queen by Crystal Rasmussen is available now.
For more information regarding Crystal Rasmussen (@TomGlitter) please visit clippings.me/tomrasmussen.
For more information regarding Penguin Random House (@PenguinRHUK) please visit www.penguinrandomhouse.co.uk.
lisa / 18th March 2019
Review: Help by Simon Amstell
Title: Help
Author: Simon Amstell
Publisher: Vintage
COMEDY. TRAGEDY. THERAPY.
Simon Amstell did his first stand-up gig at the age of thirteen. His parents had just divorced and puberty was confusing. Trying to be funny solved everything.
HELP is the hilarious and heartbreaking account of Simon’s ongoing compulsion to reveal his entire self on stage. To tell the truth so it can’t hurt him any more. Loneliness, anxiety, depression – this book has it all. And more.
From a complicated childhood in Essex to an Ayahuasca-led epiphany in the Amazon rainforest, this story will make you laugh, cry and then feel happier than you’ve ever been.
(AMAZON BLURB)
I like Simon Amstell. I liked him on T4 and on Never Mind the Buzzcocks and I won’t lie I miss his acerbic wit on television.
I downloaded his audiobook Help because I thought it would be funny and entertaining and it was but it was also honest and revealed more about the star than I knew before.
It was raw and it showed a vulnerable side to Simon Amstell. It is only about 3 hours long but I recommend it to anyone who misses this curly haired fellow on our screens.
Help by Simon Amstell is available now.
For more information regarding Simon Amstell (@SimonAmstell) please visit www.simmonamstell.com.
For more information regarding Vintage (@vintagebooks) please visit po.st/VintageHomepage.
lisa / 26th July 2018
Review: Blood, Sweat and My Rock ‘N’ Roll Years by Steve Katz
Title: Blood, Sweat, and My Rock ‘n’ Roll Years – Is Steve Katz a Rock Star?
Author: Steve Katz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
On paper Steve Katz’s career rivals anyone’s except the 1960s’ and ’70’s biggest stars: the Monterey Pop Festival with the legendary Blues Project, Woodstock with Blood, Sweat & Tears, and even producing rock’s most celebrated speed addict, Lou Reed. There were world tours, and his résumé screams “Hall of Fame” — it won’t be long before BS&T are on that ballot. He has three Grammies (ten nominations), three Downbeat Reader’s Poll Awards, three gold records, one platinum record, and one quadruple platinum platter (the second Blood, Sweat & Tears album), not to mention three gold singles with BS&T. All together, he’s sold close to 29 million records. He had affairs with famous female folk singers, made love to Jim Morrison’s girlfriend Pam when Jim was drunk and abusive, partied with Elizabeth Taylor and Groucho Marx, dined with Rudolf Nureyev, conversed with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Tennessee Williams, hung out with Andy Warhol, jammed with everyone from Mose Allison to Jimi Hendrix, and was told to get a haircut by both Mickey Spillane and Danny Thomas.
But his memoir is more Portnoy’s Complaint than the lurid party-with-your-pants-down memoir that has become the norm for rock ’n’ roll books. It’s an honest and personal account of a life at the edge of the spotlight—a privileged vantage point that earned him a bit more objectivity and earnest outrage than a lot of his colleagues, who were too far into the scene to lay any honest witness to it. Set during the Greenwich Village folk/rock scene, the Sixties’ most celebrated venues and concerts, and behind closed doors on international tours and grueling studio sessions, this is the unlikely story of a rock star as nerd, nerd as rock star, a nice Jewish boy who got to sit at the cool kid’s table and score the hot chicks.
Steve Katz was a founding member of The Blues Project and Blood, Sweat & Tears. He became a record producer, working with rock renegade Lou Reed, among others. Now, Katz and his wife, Alison Palmer have a ceramics shop, Alison Palmer Studio, in South Kent, Connecticut.
I can’t lie to you and say I knew much about Steve Katz before reading his memoir. I had heard of Blood, Sweat and Tears but being born in the 80s BS&T were a bit before my time. It was nice to go into a book without any preconceptions about an artist. That is exactly what I got as I read Blood, Sweat, and My Rock ‘n’ Roll Years – Is Steve Katz a Rock Star?
What I was treated to was a biased version of events of what happened – oh, don’t argue, we all see things from our own biased perspective. This was actually a pleasant element to the book because it seemed to make Steve Katz appear more candid and he didn’t seem to care if people too offense to what he said about them.
Overall, Blood, Sweat, and My Rock ‘n’ Roll Years – Is Steve Katz a Rock Star? is a really intriguing rock memoir. It is filled with musical highlights that spanned several different years, roles and interpretations of events. I loved it.
And in my opinion, yes, Steve Katz is a rock star.
Blood, Sweat, and My Rock ‘n’ Roll Years – Is Steve Katz a Rock Star? By Steve Katz is available now.
For more information regarding Rowman & Littlefield (@RLPGBooks) please visit www.rowman.com.
lisa / 14th June 2018
Review: The Last Act of Love by Cathy Rentzenbrink
Title: The Last Act of Love – The Story of My Brother and His Sister
Author: Cathy Rentzenbrink
Publisher: Pan Macmillan/Picador
In the summer of 1990, Cathy’s brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out. It was two weeks before his GCSE results, which turned out to be the best in his school. Sitting by his unconscious body in hospital, holding his hand and watching his heartbeat on the monitors, Cathy and her parents willed him to survive. They did not know then that there are many and various fates worse than death.
This is the story of what happened to Cathy and her brother, and the unimaginable decision that she and her parents had to make eight years after the night that changed everything. It’s a story for anyone who has ever watched someone suffer or lost someone they loved or lived through a painful time that left them forever changed.
Told with boundless warmth and affection, The Last Act of Love by Cathy Rentzenbrink is a heartbreaking yet uplifting testament to a family’s survival and the price we pay for love.
The Last Act of Love by Cathy Rentzenbrink is a beautifully heartbreaking story of a life cut short and how to deal with death, and indeed, life and how to carry on.
Cathy Rentzenbrink was 17 when her younger brother was knocked down by a dangerous driver. Her brother, Matty, spent eight years in a permanent vegetative state. The Last Act of Love her story of how she and her family dealt with Matty’s condition and how eventually it became clear that it was crueller to keep him alive when he wasn’t living.
I have enormous respect for Cathy Rentzenbrink. Not only for the horrible decision that she had to make along with her family but that she had the courage to do it and then write about it. She has bled her feelings onto the page and she has done so with such dignity and grace.
The Last Act of Love is so cathartic and a deeply elegant story that is a beautiful read. I must for anyone who is dealing with loss.
The Last Act of Love by Cathy Rentzenbrink is available now.
For more information regarding Pan Macmillan (@panmacmillan) please visit www.panmacmillan.com.
For more information regarding Picador (@picadorbooks) please visit www.panmacmillan.com/picador.
lisa / 21st March 2018
Review: How to Be A Grown Up by Daisy Buchanan
Title: How to Be A Grown Up
Author: Daisy Buchanan
Publisher: Headline
‘I thought that as thirty drew nearer, success and happiness were supposed to float towards me like a drink on an inflatable coaster in the Club Tropicana video.’
Who feels like a grown-up when they’re eighteen? Or even twenty-one? With thirty fast approaching, journalist and agony aunt Daisy Buchanan found herself worrying about whether or not she was a ‘proper’ grown-up yet. Her twenties had been a familiar tale of boyfriends lost, overdrafts spent, one-night stands, disastrous outfits and jobs that didn’t turn out to be quite what she hoped. But had she learnt anything on the way? In her unstintingly honest and hilarious account of a defining decade, Daisy shares the highs and the lows to show us that adulthood really is only in the eye of the beholder.
Or could it be that by surviving her mistakes she’d grown up without really noticing?
It is hard being an adult. Especially when you are in your twenties . When you think about it, you are still in your infancy of being an adult. You are still learning how to be a grown p. It is this strange paradigm that is the subject of Daisy Buchanan’s book How to Be A Grown Up.
I really related to this book and Buchanan’s struggles. I struggled through my twenties. I got myself in debt due to the dreaded FOMO. I lost friends, had dramatic romantic dalliances. I won’t lie, my twenties were awesome but they also sucked.
How to Be A Grown Up should be issued to everyone as a set text when they turn eighteen. It is definitely a book for anyone feeling a bit unsure about this whole adult life thing. If you feel like you are doing your twenties “wrong” (and at some point you probably will) then Daisy Buchanan is here to assure you that you are doing just fine.
For more information regarding Daisy Buchanan (NotRollerGirl) please visit her Twitter page.
For more information regarding Headline Books (@Headlinepg) please visit www.headline.co.uk.
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LAL Selection
Sirense and Terry Rodgers
UNE ODYSSEE LALIQUE
The truly legendary figures are those whose brilliance remains undimmed by the passage of time. In 1927, René Lalique, delving into mythological sources to decorate a vase with dancing bacchantes, depicted ten of them in glass. Ninety years on, the American artist Terry Rodgers has breathed new life into LALIQUE’s legendary bacchantes, young priestesses of the cult of Bacchus, the god of wine and pleasure. In our glassworks at Wingen-sur-Moder, in the heart of the Vosges in Alsace, France, these figures have metamorphosed into Sirènes. Terry Rodgers — renowned as a painter of realistic scenes in very large formats, a true master of color and brushstrokes, a photographer for whom light is an irresistible attraction — could not resist the appeal of crystal. It took two years, with the help of LALIQUE’s know-how, to come up with the perfect mold and capture — using ‘lost wax’ — the nine languid female forms on Rodgers’ vase. (Silvio Denz, Lalique)
You have to get close up to Terry Rodgers’ canvases to get behind the mask of erotic illusions: in the context of the Western world, which would have us believe in the miracle of youth, in the triumph of beauty and money, the artist strips reality bare and concentrates our gaze on a seemingly intimate gathering where no one appears to relate. After two years of intensive exchanges with LALIQUE, Terry Rodgers’ ‘Sirens’ emerges from the furnace. It is a contemporary reinterpretation of the legendary Bacchantes vase, created by René Lalique in 1927.
The American realist wanted these nine silhouettes sculpted in bas-relief to appear as brazen and unabashed as their ancestors, the bacchantes, the young priestesses of Bacchus, dancing around the vase in one of René Lalique’s emblematic creations: “Ninety years ago, when the master glassmaker created a mold of the bacchantes in his factory at Wingen-sur-Moder, he intended the figures as an ode to femininity. My sirens deconstruct the myth, forming a new image of the female figure. I wanted each face and hairstyle to be different; no pose should be alike. Because what interests me is the woman as individual.” In Terry Rodgers’ imagination, the bacchantes become sirens. In Greek mythology, these fantastic creatures of the sea, embody enchantment and delusion: the song of the sirens lured mariners onto the rocks.
Foto: © Estelle Rodgers, Brad-Van-Tilburgh
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Icky thump! Manchester artist Stanley Chow on going from 'anonymous illustrator' to drawing for Hollywood
17 Jun 2014 - 09:16AM | By Josh Nicholls
What do The White Stripes, McDonalds and The New Yorker magazine all have in common?
The answer is they are all clients of Grammy-nominated Manchester illustrator Stanley Chow.
After his work was discovered online by the American rock band’s management the talented illustrator’s career has gone from strength to strength.
The 40-year-old designed a caricature of lead singer Jack White for the limited edition flash drive album of Icky Thump, earning him a Grammy nomination in 2008 in the Best Boxed/ Special Limited Edition category.
While Stanley did not win the award, he admitted the nomination was a big moment for him.
THE REAL SLIM SHADY? The New Yorker's illustration of Eminem
“It kind of turned my career around,” he told MM.
“I wasn’t struggling before it but I was plateauing, I was just a jogging illustrator really.
“Nobody really knew who I was. I was just drawing pictures as an anonymous illustrator but that gave me the springboard to be an illustrator who people knew.
“Now things are going well. I don’t advertise, I just put my work up on websites and it gets seen by quite a lot of people and I’m in a fortunate situation.”
Having realised his childhood dream of becoming an illustrator, Stanley is now revisiting his youth with his latest illustrations comprising ‘The Takeaway’ exhibition, which is currently on display at Manchester’s Centre For Chinese Contemporary Art.
THE TAKEAWAY: Stanley's latest illustrative offering
Stanley grew up in takeaways in Altrincham, Marple and Burnage and recalled his memories of living such an environment for the exhibition, which will enable viewers to ‘takeaway’ their favourite pieces on its final display day of June 22.
Although as a boy Stanley could often be found drawing his fledgling illustrations on a piece of chip paper, he was in no doubt about the significance of immigrants and the takeaways they have set up, in shaping modern Britain.
“Immigrants have enriched the city,” he said. “It makes your mind more open to other things. An interesting thing for me was that the other day I had my daughter coming home asking me ‘why are we not Muslim and why don’t we go to the mosque?’
“It makes you more aware of other cultures.”
Stanley has also been delighted with the public response to ‘The Takeaway’ since it opened on April 11.
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“The staff at the centre have told me their footfall’s increased at the gallery,” he said.
“They are basically expecting a massive queue for the final day so it’s all good.”
A former DJ during his 20s at venues such as Northern Quarter’s Night And Day and Dry Bar, music is a big influence on Stanley with his recent portrait of Amy Winehouse being a prime example.
“I like the Amy Winehouse piece purely because it is so simple,” said Stanley.
“My favourite ones are those that use the fewest lines really. The ones that are less detailed at the same time show more character.
JAZZ SUPREMO: Talented songstress Amy Winehouse
“Amy Winehouse is an odd one because I never really paid much attention to her when she was alive but then I just watched a documentary on her and it blew all my pre-conceived ideas about her out of the water really.
“I’ve become a really big fan of hers recently.”
Fandom is a major part of who Stanley decides to draw when it comes to his uncommissioned work as he admits to being heavily influenced by Panini football stickers, which he used to collect as a child.
“I remember drawing little football cartoons,” said lifelong Manchester United fan Stanley.
“I was always designing football strips and drawing little ‘Roy of the Rovers’ style strips and inventing football teams and drawing players shooting.
SIMPLY THE BEST: Manchester United legend George Best
“The footballers I choose now, I’ll think ‘he scored a great goal or he did something amazing so I’ll draw him then’.”
With the ever-growing buzz surrounding his artwork following his Grammy nomination, Stanley soon found himself on the wish list of McDonalds and The New Yorker magazine.
For McDonalds he created the characters that featured on their interactive advertisement at London’s famed Piccadilly Circus.
While for the New Yorker, Stanley has designed the avatars for each of the magazine’s writers which they used on Twitter, and also illustrated film reviews, book reviews and political pieces.
Stanley, who still illustrates for the magazine now, conceded that the notion of his work being published and viewed halfway across the world took some getting used to.
POIGNANT: Stanley's fledgling illustrations were drawn on chippy paper
“I guess it was quite weird getting work in America when I was starting out,” he explained. “Talking to Americans was a weird thing as well.
“You’re kind of only used to hearing their voices on TV, so speaking to someone from America on a daily basis in the early days was really weird but I’ve got used to it now.”
With a huge portfolio of work now under his belt, Stanley finds it hard to pick a favourite piece from his creations but ultimately pinpointed an illustration that signposts one of his first loves – music.
“It’s an illustration of my record player,” he said. “It’s a very simple geometric illustration but it’s a little bit different from what I normally do but it stands out because it’s illustrating something I love.
HOLLYWOOD: Illustation for award-winning Gravity
“It’s so simple. None of my illustrations are actually drawn they are just about circles and rectangles and putting them all together and making a nice image.”
So what’s the best thing about being an illustrator? According to Stanley it’s allowing the creative juices to flow.
“It’s the fact that you are creating things,” he explained. “As a creative person you just want to see things being created and on walls and in books.
THE MAN BEHIND THE DESIGNS: Stanley Chow
“It’s a very proud feeling when you draw an image and then it is used on a poster or something and it is posted up onto a wall.”
Currently fronting Greater Manchester Transport’s branding campaign for the Get Me There and with commissions flooding in at an alarming rate, Stanley shows no sign of becoming disenchanted with his childhood dream anytime soon.
To see more of Stanley's work click here.
Illustrations, and picture, courtesy of Stanley Chow, with thanks
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Hi Stanley
The only reason I'm commenting is because it's finally good to see what you look like! I am a big fan of your work and bought one of the prints of "The Govan Boy" for my son's birthday.(We are huge Reds). Anyway, just wanted to say hi and thanks for sharing your enviable talent. Will follow with interest.
Debbie x
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Q10508 - INFO: Understanding Grouping
Spread Report Grouping functions return summary values for a variable for the specified Group Date Range. For each function (GAVG, GMAX, GSUM, GFIRST...), the VarNum parameter sets the variable to be used. The easy way to place these functions is to use Locate, Group Summary. Most Grouping Functions have two forms, one for normal data placement and one for use with variables that are setup to Allow Symbols. For example, GAVG places the raw data, GAVGZ places the data along with the <,>, or ND as appropriate.
The Offset and Grouping set which dates the statistic should be calculated for.
GroupOffset/StartDate
Used with the Grouping parameter to set the dates to calculate the stat for. Sets the number of Groups (set by the Grouping Parameter) to be added to set the dates. See examples below. If this field is a date string (i.e. "07/16/2004") or refers to a cell with a date in it, it is assumed to be the start date to calculate the stat for.
Grouping/EndDate
Used to set which dates to calculate the stat for. If the Grouping is a date string (i.e. "07/16/2004") or refers to a cell with a date in it, it is assumed to be the end date to calculate the stat for. If the variable is a daily detail variable and the end date is the same as the start date, it assumes the end date to be at 23:59:59 of that day. Valid Settings are:
"R"
Report Dates
"H"
"15M"
15 Minutes, 00:00 to 14:59, 15:00 to 29:59, etc...
"HX:Y"
Partial Days from hour X though hour Y.
"SA"
Semi-Annual
Season (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall)
"YTD"
Year to End Date of the report
"YTBSD"
Year to one day prior to Start Date of Report
"MAxx"
Moving xx number of months. IE "MA12" is a 12 month average.
"MOVx"
Moving average for the x amount of days. IE "MOV7" is the average for the last 7 days including today.
"Wn"
Week as defined by n. IE "W7" is Sunday thru Saturday. Click here for a table defining weeks and the corresponding values for n. Only returns results where the end date of the week is in the report date range.
"WSn"
Week as defined by n. IE "WS7" is Sunday thru Saturday. Click here for a table defining weeks and the corresponding values for n. Only returns results where the start date of the week is less than the report end date and the end date is greater than the report start date.
"WOn"
Week as defined by n. IE "WO7" is Sunday thru Saturday. Click here for a table defining weeks and the corresponding values for n. Returns results for any week regardless of the report dates. IE "WO7" with an offset of 53 would return Sunday thru Saturday for one year from the start date of the report even if the report date range is one month.
"A"
All data including 1970 through the end of the current date.
In the example below, the report dates are set to Jan 1, 2002 to Jan 31,2002:
=GMAX(1,"1/1/2004","01/17/04") Returns the maximum from 1/1/2004 through 1/17/2004 for variable 1.
=GAVG(1,1,”M”) Returns the monthly (“M”) average for the first month (January) of the report.
=GAVG(1,2,”M”) Returns the monthly (“M”) average for the second month, as specified by the offset of 2, (February) of the report.
=GAVG(1,13,”M”) Returns the monthly (“M”) average for January 2003, as specified by the offset of 13.
=GAVG(1,0,”M”) Returns the monthly (“M”) average for December 2001, as specified by the offset of 0.
=GAVG(1,-1,”M”) Returns the monthly (“M”) average for November 2001, as specified by the offset of -1.
=GAVG(1,2,”Y”) Returns the Yearly (“Y”) average for 2003, as specified by the offset of 2.
=GMAX(1,1,"S") Returns the Season ("S") maximum for 12/20/2001 thru 3/20/2002 (Winter)
=GMAX(1,2,"S") Returns the Season ("S") maximum for 3/21/2002 thru 6/19/2002 (Spring)
=GMIN(1,1,"MA12") Returns the 12 month minimum for 2/1/2001 thru 1/31/2002.
=GMIN(1,0,"MA12") Returns the 12 month minimum for 1/1/2001 thru 12/31/2001.
=GAVG(1,2,"MOV7") Returns a moving 7 day average for variable 1
The Offset and the Grouping can be used to get data in the future and the past.
The following tables shows the offset to use for common tasks:
Monthly Grouping "M"
Yearly Grouping "Y"
Year to before start date "YTBSD"
Year to End Date "YTD"
Wx, WSx, and WOx groupings Examples
See Tip: Get the average of the last x values for an example using a Start Date and End Date.
Download the Misc_Understanding_Grouping.ss3 for further examples. (Click here for download instructions)
Understanding Grouping, tips and tricks
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Philippe Rogier & Gery de Ghersem
[I] Philippe ROGIER (c1561 - 1596): "Polychoral Works"
Magnificat; His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts
Dir: Philip Cave
rec: June 13 - 15, 2009, London, Henry Wood Hall
Linn Records - CKD 348 (© 2011) (72'41")
Liner-notes: E; lyrics - translation: E
Giovanni Pierluigi DA PALESTRINA (1525/26-1594): Domine in virtute tua a 8 [3]; Philippe ROGIER: Domine Dominus noster a 12; Laudate Dominum a 8 [5]; Missa Domine Dominus noster a 12; Missa Domine in virtute tua [6]; Regina coeli a 8 [5]; Verbum caro factum est a 12; Videntes stellam magi a 12
[Magnificat] Anna Crookes, Sally Dunkley, Carys Lane, Helen Neeves, soprano; Dan Collins, David Gould, Kim Porter, Clare Wilkinson, Richard Wyn-Roberts, alto; William Balkwill, Simon Beston, Jeremy Budd, Kevin Kyle, tenor; Chris Adams, Ben Davies, Eamonn Dougan, Cheyney Kent, bass
[HMSC] Jeremy West, Jamie Savan, cornett; Emily White, Susan Addison, Wim Becu, sackbut
Keith McGowan, dulcian; Joy Smith, harp; David Miller, lute; Silas Standage, organ
[II] Philippe ROGIER: "Music from the Missae Sex"
Magnificat; His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts; Alastair Ross, organa
rec: Feb 21 - 23, 2011, Cambridge, St George's Chesterton
Antonio DE CABEZÓN (1510-1566): Ave maris stellaa; Cancion francesca glosadaa; Jacobus CLEMENS NON PAPA (c1510-c1556): Inclita stirps Jesse [1]; Philippe ROGIER: Da pacem, Domine a 6; Missa Inclita stirps Jesse [6]; Missa Philippus Secundus Rex Hispaniae a 4
[Magnificat] Julie Cooper, Alex Kidgell, soprano; Sally Dunkley, Caroline Trevor, mean; Jeremy Budd, Matthew Long, tenor; Ben Davis, Eamonn Dougan, baritone; Christopher Adams, Rob Macdonald, bass
[HMSC] Jeremy West, Sam Goble, cornett; Abigail Newman, Miguel Tantos Sevillano, Andrew Harwood-White, sackbut
Keith McGowan, dulcian; Joy Smith, harp; Alastair Ross, organ
[III] Gery DE GHERSEM (1573 - 1630): "Ave virgo sanctissima"
Currende
Dir: Erik Van Nevel
rec: Feb 19 - 21, 2010, Mechelen, St. Jan de Doper
Accent - ACC 24235 (© 2011) (75´46")
Liner-notes: E/D/F/N; lyrics - translations: E/D/F
Pieter CORNET (c1575-1633): Regina coelib; Gery DE GHERSEM: Missa Ave virgo sanctissima a 7 [6]; Francisco GUERRERO (1528-1596): Ave virgo sanctissima a 5 [2]; Regina coeli a 8 [4]; Salve Regina a 4 [2]; plainchant: Regina coeli; Peter PHILIPS (1560-1628): Regina coeli a 8 [7]; Salve Regina a 8 [7]; Philippe ROGIER: Regina coeli a 8 [5]
Sarah Abrams, Marina Smolders, soprano; Sabine Lutzeberger, Kerlijne Van Nevel, mezzo-soprano; Ann Baptist, contralto; Rob Cuppens, Bart Uvyn, Gunther Vandeven, alto; Wouter Bossaer, Gunther Claessens, Lode Somers, Han Warmelinck, tenor; Joachim Brack, Erik Van Nevel, baritone; Paul Mertens, Walter Van der Ven, bass; Be Van Nespen, organ [solo: b]
Sources: [1] Philip Ulhart, ed, Cantiones selectissimae quatuor vocum liber secundus, 1549; [2] Francisco Guerrero, Motteta, 1570; [3] Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Motettorum liber secundus, 1572; [4] Francisco Guerrero, Mottecta, liber secundus, 1589; [5] Philippe Rogier, Sacrarum modulationum quas vulgo Motecta apellant … Liber primus, 1595; [6] Philippe Rogier/Gery de Ghersem, Missae Sex Philippi Rogerii ..., 1598; [7] Peter Philips, Cantiones sacrae octonis vocibus, 1613
For about two centuries the music scene in Europe was dominated by representatives of the so-called Franco-Flemish school. Their influence extended as far as Spain. Here they were participating in the activities of the Capilla Flamenca. It had been founded by the Habsburg emperor Charles V, and famous masters were acting as its directors, like Nicolas Gombert, Thomas Crecquillon and Pierre de Manchicourt. The latter was appointed under the rule of Charles V's son, Philip II. The three discs to be reviewed here are devoted to two of the main figures in the Capilla Flamenca under Philip, Philippe Rogier and Gery de Ghersem. They have in common that relatively few compositions from their pen have been preserved.
It is assumed that Rogier was born around 1561. This has been the reason for the British ensemble Magnificat to start a series of recordings devoted to his music. So far three discs have been released; the present two are the second and third. In 1572 Geert van Turnhout became maestro de capilla of the Capilla Flamenca. He took a number of choirboys with him, among them Philippe Rogier. He sang for eight years under his direction; in 1580 Van Turnhout died and was succeeded by George de la Hèle. In 1584 Rogier was appointed vice-maestro de capilla, and succeeded De la Hèle in 1586.
Rogier's oeuvre consists of about 250 compositions. He was held in high esteem: the Spanish poet Lope de Vega hailed him in 1630 as "Rogier, pride of Flanders, glory and light" who "departed this life at the height of his genius". He even called him "our beloved Orpheus". The fact that the Portuguese king João IV owned 243 pieces from his pen bears witness to his high stature. Unfortunately only about a fifth of his output has been preserved. The largest part has been destroyed in the fire in the Spanish royal palace in Madrid in 1734 and in the earthquake which hit Lisbon in 1755. It is only thanks to the fact that Rogier published some of his compositions that a part of his oeuvre has come down to us.
The latest disc by Magnificat is devoted to two of the masses which were part of a collection of six, printed as Missae Sex in 1698. In his will Rogier had asked Gery de Ghersem, a singer of the chapel, to publish five of his masses, and dedicate them to Philip II. De Ghersem added a mass of his own, which is the one recorded by the ensemble Currende. All masses by Rogier are parody masses, using material from other composers as cantus firmus. The sources are motets by Gombert, Crecquillon, Morales, Palestrina and Clemens non Papa. The latter two are relevant here, as Palestrina's motet Domine in virtute tua and Clemens non Papa's motet Inclita stirps Jesse were used as cantus firmus for two of the masses recorded at the two discs of this review.
The Missa Philippus Secundus Rex Hispaniae is not a parody mass. It uses melodic material from a musical cypher turned into a cantus firmus. The Mass is based on notes derived from the solmisation syllables of the vowels in the King's title, Philippus Secundus Rex Hispaniae. An older example of such a procedure is Josquin's Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae. The musical cypher is used 29 times throughout the mass, in the way of a traditional cantus firmus.
Whereas this mass and the Missa Inclita stirps Jesse are firmly rooted in the stile antico, the Missa Domine Dominus noster and the Missa Domine in virtute tua seem to look forward to the future. Both make use of the cori spezzati technique for which Venice was famous. In his liner-notes Philip Cave mentions that there was a kind of tradition of polychoral writing in Spain; examples can be found in the oeuvre of Victoria and Guerrero. Moreover, Rogier was certainly familiar with the works of Andrea Gabrieli as in his will he bequeathed a book with motets and madrigals by the Venetian master to Ghersem. The Missa Domine Dominus noster exists in two versions, one for 12 and one for 8 voices. Here the former is performed. Interestingly a motet for 12 voices in three choirs by Rogier, Domine Dominus noster, has recently been discovered, and this could well have been used as the cantus firmus of his mass.
The Eastertide Marian antiphon Regina caeli and Laudate Dominum, a setting of Psalm 150, are for 8 voices, and so is the Missa Domine in virtute tua, whose cantus firmus is an 8-part motet by Palestrina. The responsories Verbum caro factum est for Christmas Day and Videntes stellam magi for Epiphany are for 12 voices, and include antiphonal writing, like the other polychoral pieces. Interestingly in these pieces a harp is specified for the bass part and the fact that some parts are untexted suggests the participation of instruments.
That brings to the issue of the interpretation. The line-up of the Capilla Flamenca suggests that liturgical music was performed with more than one voice per part. That is also the case in these recordings of Magnificat. The participation of instruments is plausible but nevertheless hard to prove. Philip Cave refers to the situation in El Escorial, the royal monastery and basilica. "The King spent lavishly on all aspects of El Escorial, including the installation of three large organs and provision of splendid choir books, yet the founding statutes forbade instrumental participation and polyphonic music, and no professional musicians were employed here during Philip II's reign". But there are indications of major ceremonies in which the two royal chapels, one of them the Capilla Flamenca, as well as choirs from cathedrals of other cities took part and various instruments were played. It shows that it is almost impossible to prove how this kind of repertoire was actually performed.
The use of instruments in the polychoral music is most convincing and works rather well from a musical point of view. The instruments mostly play colla voce, in the Missa Philippus Secundus Rex Hispaniae they now and then also replace the voices. The singing of Magnificat is generally very good, although some of the voices are n't always free of vibrato. It is notable that Magnificat is a British ensemble. I would prefer an ensemble which produces a different sound, but that is probably too much to ask. We have to be thankful for this fine project which sheds light on a lesser-known master of the Spanish renaissance.
The third disc is connected to the other two in that it focuses on Gery de Ghersem, who from 1598 to 1604 was assistant maestro de capilla. He went to Madrid the same way as Rogier before him. He was a pupil of George de la Hèle, and when the latter was appointed as maestro de capilla as successor to Geert van Turnhout he took Ghersem with him. When Rogier died in 1598 he was succeeded by Mateo Romero, another master from Flanders. Under his direction Ghersem became vice-maestro de capilla. In this capacity he was responsible for the choirboys. In 1604 he was given permission to return to Flanders. It is suggested that he was disappointed that Romero had become maestro de capilla and not he. He could well have cherished the hope to be appointed as he was obviously rather close to Rogier.
He also was held in high esteem, as again the large number of compositions in the archive of the Portuguese king João IV shows. But in his case the fate of his oeuvre is even worse than with Rogier: the Missa Ave virgo sanctissima which Currende has recorded is the only composition from his pen which has been preserved complete. Two other works exist only in fragments. The mass is for seven voices and based upon a motet by Francisco Guerrero. It was the mass Ghersem added to the five masses by Rogier he published in 1598.
Currende has added music from composers in Ghersem's environment: three motets by Guerrero, including the one he used as cantus firmus for his mass, and one motet by Rogier. In addition we hear music from two composers who worked in Flanders: Peter Philips, of English origin but emigrated to the continent for religious reasons, and Pieter Cornet who for the most part of his life was organist at the court of Albrecht and Isabella in Brussels. His Regina coeli is an organ work which is performed here as an alternatim composition, with verses in plainchant. It is rather odd to hear this piece on a small positive organ; it is very likely this liturgical piece was intended to be played at a much larger instrument. The organ is also used in most other pieces in supporting the vocal ensemble. This was common practice at the time, but whether it is appropriate in every piece on this disc is hard to say. The singing is fine, though, and sound-wise probably closer to the way sacred music was sung in the Capilla Flamenca than Magnificat. But that is a matter of speculation.
Anyway, these three discs are not to be missed by anyone who has a more than average interest in the polyphony of the late renaissance.
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Claire Danes hires Narciso Rodriguez
Written by My Fashion Life Published on 17th June 2009
Claire Danes is designing her wedding dress with Narciso Rodriguez.
The 30-year-old actress – who is engaged to British actor Hugh Dancy – has revealed she is ‘collaborating’ ideas with the award-winning designer to create the perfect bridal gown for the upcoming ceremony.
She said: ‘I’m so privileged. I’m collaborating a little bit, but I’m just trusting him implicitly. I’m offering my ideas, but they always pale in comparison.
‘I get weepy, more emotional than I was expecting. It’s intimate.’
Meanwhile, Narciso – whose A-list clients include Salma Hayek, Sarah Jessica Parker and Rachel Weisz – says it has been easy to design the bespoke frock because Claire is so attractive.
He said: ‘She’s an extraordinary woman inside and out… you can’t hide it. I just try to make her look more beautiful, and it’s not hard to make her look beautiful.’
This will not be the first high-profile wedding gown the 48-year-old designer has created.
He is also responsible for designing the white column dress which Caroline Bessette Kennedy wore for her 1996 wedding to John F. Kennedy Jr.
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Nicolas Claidière
Laboratoire de psychologie cognitive
Aix-Marseille University, CNRS
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Obstacles to the spread of unintuitive beliefs
November 2019 | Articles, Cultural evolution
Mercier, H., Majima, Y., Claidière, N., & Léone, J. (2019). Obstacles to the spread of unintuitive beliefs. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 1, E10. doi:10.1017/ehs.2019.10
Abstract: Many socially significant beliefs are unintuitive, from the harmlessness of GMOs to the efficacy of vaccination, and they are acquired via deference toward individuals who are more confident, more competent or a majority. In the two-step flow model of communication, a first group of individuals acquires some beliefs through deference and then spreads these beliefs more broadly. Ideally, these individuals should be able to explain why they deferred to a given source – to provide arguments from expertise – and others should find these arguments convincing. We test these requirements using a perceptual task with participants from the US and Japan. In Experiment 1, participants were provided with first-hand evidence that they should defer to an expert, leading a majority of participants to adopt the expert’s answer. However, when attempting to pass on this answer, only a minority of those participants used arguments from expertise. In Experiment 2, participants receive an argument from expertise describing the expert’s competence, instead of witnessing it first-hand. This leads to a significant drop in deference compared with Experiment 1. These experiments highlight significant obstacles to the transmission of unintuitive beliefs.
High-fidelity copying is not necessarily the key to cumulative cultural evolution
June 2019 | Articles, Cultural evolution
Saldana, C., Fagot, J., Kirby, S., Smith, K., & Claidière, N. (2019). High-fidelity copying is not necessarily the key to cumulative cultural evolution: a study in monkeys and children. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1904), 20190729. doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.0729
Abstract: The unique cumulative nature of human culture has often been explained by high-fidelity copying mechanisms found only in human social learning. However, transmission chain experiments in human and non-human primates suggest that cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) might not necessarily depend on high-fidelity copying after all. In this study, we test whether defining properties of CCE can emerge in a non-copying task. We performed transmission chain experiments in Guinea baboons and human children where individuals observed and produced visual patterns composed of four squares on touchscreen devices. In order to be rewarded, participants had to avoid touching squares that were touched by a previous participant. In other words, they were rewarded for innovation rather than copying. Results nevertheless exhibited fundamental properties of CCE: an increase over generations in task performance and the emergence of systematic structure. However, these properties arose from different mechanisms across species: children, unlike baboons, converged in behaviour over generations by copying specific patterns in a different location, thus introducing alternative copying mechanisms into the non-copying task. In children, prior biases towards specific shapes led to convergence in behaviour across chains, while baboon chains showed signs of lineage specificity. We conclude that CCE can result from mechanisms with varying degrees of fidelity in transmission and thus that high-fidelity copying is not necessarily the key to CCE.
Convergent transformation and selection in cultural evolution
February 2018 | Articles, Cultural evolution
Claidière, N., Amedon, G. K.-k., André, J.-B., Kirby, S., Smith, K., Sperber, D., & Fagot, J. (2018). Convergent transformation and selection in cultural evolution. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(2), 191-202. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.12.007
Abstract: In biology, natural selection is the main explanation of adaptations and it is an attractive idea to think that an analogous force could have the same role in cultural evolution. In support of this idea, all the main ingredients for natural selection have been documented in the cultural domain. However, the changes that occur during cultural transmission typically result in convergent transformation, non-random cultural modifications, casting some doubts on the importance of natural selection in the cultural domain. To progress on this issue more empirical research is needed. Here, using nearly half a million experimental trials performed by a group of baboons (Papio papio), we simulate cultural evolution under various conditions of natural selection and do an additional experiment to tease apart the role of convergent transformation and selection. Our results confirm that transformation strongly constrain the variation available to selection and therefore strongly limit its impact on cultural evolution. Surprisingly, in our study, transformation also enhances the effect of selection by stabilising cultural variation. We conclude that, in culture, selection can change the evolutionary trajectory substantially in some cases, but can only act on the variation provided by (typically biased) transformation.
Argumentation and the Diffusion of Counter-Intuitive Beliefs
May 2017 | Articles, Cultural evolution
Claidière, N., Trouche, E., & Mercier, H. (2017). Argumentation and the Diffusion of Counter-Intuitive Beliefs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. doi:10.1037/xge0000323
Abstract: Research in cultural evolution has focused on the spread of intuitive or minimally counterintuitive beliefs. However, some very counterintuitive beliefs can also spread successfully, at least in some communities—scientific theories being the most prominent example. We suggest that argumentation could be an important factor in the spread of some very counterintuitive beliefs. A first experiment demonstrates that argumentation enables the spread of the counterintuitive answer to a reasoning problem in large discussion groups, whereas this spread is limited or absent when participants can show their answers to each other but cannot discuss. A series of experiments using the technique of repeated transmission show that, in the case of the counterintuitive belief studied: (a) arguments can help spread this belief without loss; (b) conformist bias does not help spread this belief; and (c) authority or prestige bias play a minimal role in helping spread this belief. Thus, argumentation seems to be necessary and sufficient for the spread of some counterintuitive beliefs.
Diffusion of a counter-intuitive answer (green) in groups that initially give mostly the intuitive wrong answer (red). The size of the node represents the confidence of the participants.
Physical intelligence does matter to cumulative technological culture
August 2016 | Articles, Cultural evolution
Osiurak, F., De Oliveira, E., Navarro, J., Lesourd, M., Claidière, N., & Reynaud, E. (2016). Physical Intelligence Does Matter to Cumulative Technological Culture. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. doi: 10.1037/xge0000189
Abstract: Tool-based culture is not unique to humans, but cumulative technological culture is. The social intelligence hypothesis suggests that this phenomenon is fundamentally based on uniquely human sociocognitive skills (e.g., shared intentionality). An alternative hypothesis is that cumulative technological culture also crucially depends on physical intelligence, which may reflect fluid and crystallized aspects of intelligence and enables people to understand and improve the tools made by predecessors. By using a tool-making– based microsociety paradigm, we demonstrate that physical intelligence is a stronger predictor of cumulative technological performance than social intelligence. Moreover, learners’ physical intelligence is critical not only in observational learning but also when learners interact verbally with teachers. Finally, we show that cumulative performance is only slightly influenced by teachers’ physical and social intelligence. In sum, human technological culture needs “great engineers” to evolve regardless of the proportion of “great pedagogues.” Social intelligence might play a more limited role than commonly assumed, perhaps in tool-use/making situations in which teachers and learners have to share symbolic representations.
Universal Cognitive Mechanisms Explain the Cultural Success of Bloodletting
Miton, H., Claidière, N., & Mercier, H. (2015) Universal Cognitive Mechanisms Explain the Cultural Success of Bloodletting. Evolution and Human Behavior. doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.01.003
Figure: Bloodletting across cultures worldwide
Abstract: Bloodletting—the practice of letting blood out to cure a patient—was for centuries one of the main therapies in the West. We lay out three potential explanations for bloodletting’s cultural success: that it was efficient, that it was defended by prestigious sources—in particular ancient physicians—, and that cognitive mechanisms made it a particularly attractive practice. To test these explanations, we first review the anthropological data available in eHRAF. These data reveal that bloodletting is practiced by many unrelated cultures worldwide, where it is performed for different indications and in different ways. This suggests that the success of bloodletting cannot only be explained by its medical efficiency or by the prestige of Western physicians. Instead, some universal cognitive mechanisms likely make bloodletting an attractive form of therapy. We further test this hypothesis using the technique of transmission chains. Three experiments are conducted in the U.S., a culture that does not practice bloodletting. Studies 1 and 2 reveal that stories involving bloodletting survive longer than some other common therapies, and that the most successful variants in the experiments are also the most successful variants worldwide. Study 3 shows how a story about a mundane event—an accidental cut—can turn into a story about bloodletting. This research demonstrates the potential of combining different methodologies—review of anthropological data, experiments, and modeling—to investigate cultural phenomena.
Selective and contagious prosocial resource donation in capuchin monkeys, chimpanzees and humans
January 2015 | Articles, Cultural evolution, Prosociality
Claidière, N., Whiten, A., Mareno, M. C., Messer, E. J. E., Brosnan, S. F., Hopper, L. M., . . . McGuigan, N. (2015). Selective and contagious prosocial resource donation in capuchin monkeys, chimpanzees and humans. Scientific reports(5), 7631. doi: 10.1038/srep07631
Figure: Experimental setup with chimpanzees, capuchins and humans (adults and infants). Drawing from Jason Zampol.
Abstract: Prosocial acts benefitting others are widespread amongst humans. By contrast, chimpanzees have failed to demonstrate such a disposition in several studies, leading some authors to conclude that the forms of prosociality studied evolved in humans since our common ancestry. However, similar prosocial behavior has since been documented in other primates, such as capuchin monkeys. Here, applying the same methodology to humans, chimpanzees, and capuchins, we provide evidence that all three species will display prosocial behavior, but only in certain conditions. Fundamental forms of prosociality were age-dependent in children, conditional on self-beneficial resource distributions even at age seven, and conditional on social or resource configurations in chimpanzees and capuchins. We provide the first evidence that experience of conspecific companions’ prosocial behavior facilitates prosocial behavior in children and chimpanzees. Prosocial actions were manifested in all three species following rules of contingency that may reflect strategically adaptive responses.
Wild vervet monkeys copy alternative methods for opening an artificial fruit
December 2014 | Articles, Cultural evolution
van de Waal, E., Claidière, N., & Whiten, A. (2014). Wild vervet monkeys copy alternative methods for opening an artificial fruit. Animal Cognition, 1-11. doi: 10.1007/s10071-014-0830-4
Abstract: Experimental studies of animal social learning in the wild remain rare, especially those that employ the most discriminating tests in which alternative means to complete naturalistic tasks are seeded in different groups. We applied this approach to wild vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops) using an artificial fruit (‘vervetable’) opened by either lifting a door panel or sliding it left or right. In one group, a trained model lifted the door, and in two others, the model slid it either left or right. Members of each group then watched their model before being given access to multiple baited vervetables with all opening techniques possible. Thirteen of these monkeys opened vervetables, displaying a significant tendency to use the seeded technique on their first opening and over the course of the experiment. The option preferred in these monkeys’ first successful manipulation session was also highly correlated with the proportional frequency of the option they had previously witnessed. The social learning effects thus documented go beyond mere stimulus enhancement insofar as the same door knob was grasped for either technique. Results thus suggest that through imitation, emulation or both, new foraging techniques will spread across groups of wild vervet monkeys to create incipient foraging traditions.
Cultural evolution of systematically structured behaviour in a non-human primate
Claidière, N., Smith, K., Kirby, S., & Fagot, J. (2014). Cultural evolution of systematically structured behaviour in a non-human primate. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1797). doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1541
© Simon Kirby and Nicolas Claidière
Abstract: Culture pervades human life and is at the origin of the success of our species. A wide range of other animals have culture too, but often in a limited form that does not complexify through the gradual accumulation of innovations. We developed a new paradigm to study cultural evolution in primates in order to better evaluate our closest relatives’ cultural capacities. Previous studies using transmission chain experimental paradigms, in which the behavioural output of one individual becomes the target behaviour for the next individual in the chain, show that cultural transmission can lead to the progressive emergence of systematically structured behaviours in humans. Inspired by this work, we combined a pattern reproduction task on touch screens with an iterated learning procedure to develop transmission chains of baboons (Papio papio). Using this procedure, we show that baboons can exhibit three fundamental aspects of human cultural evolution: a progressive increase in performance, the emergence of systematic structure and the presence of lineage specificity. Our results shed new light on human uniqueness: we share with our closest relatives essential capacities to produce human-like cultural evolution.
In the media:
BBC News: Baboons may share human ability to build on work of others
Hufftington Post: The ‘Human’ Quality We Share With Baboons
In French:
Pour la Science: La culture cumulative n’est pas le propre de l’homme
Science et Avenir: Le babouin s’améliore de génération en génération
Radio Canada: La culture cumulative n’est pas unique à l’homme
Frequency of Behavior Witnessed and Conformity in an Everyday Social Context
Claidière, N., Bowler, M., Brookes, S., Brown, R., & Whiten, A. (2014). Frequency of Behavior Witnessed and Conformity in an Everyday Social Context. PLoS ONE, 9(6), e99874. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099874
Abstract: Conformity is thought to be an important force in human evolution because it has the potential to stabilize cultural homogeneity within groups and cultural diversity between groups. However, the effects of such conformity on cultural and biological evolution will depend much on the particular way in which individuals are influenced by the frequency of alternative behavioral options they witness. In a previous study we found that in a natural situation people displayed a tendency to be ‘linear-conformist’. When visitors to a Zoo exhibit were invited to write or draw answers to questions on cards to win a small prize and we manipulated the proportion of text versus drawings on display, we found a strong and significant effect of the proportion of text displayed on the proportion of text in the answers, a conformist effect that was largely linear with a small non-linear component. However, although this overall effect is important to understand cultural evolution, it might mask a greater diversity of behavioral responses shaped by variables such as age, sex, social environment and attention of the participants. Accordingly we performed a further study explicitly to analyze the effects of these variables, together with the quality of the information participants’ responses made available to further visitors. Results again showed a largely linear conformity effect that varied little with the variables analyzed.
How Darwinian is cultural evolution?
March 2014 | Articles, Cultural evolution
Claidière, N., Scott-Phillips, T. C., & Sperber, D. (2014). How Darwinian is cultural evolution? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 369(1642). doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0368
Abstract: Darwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a population of items of different types, whose relative frequencies may change over time. Three nested subtypes of populational models can be distinguished: evolutionary, selectional and replicative. Substantial progress has been made in the study of cultural evolution by modelling it within the selectional frame. This progress has involved idealizing away from phenomena that may be critical to an adequate understanding culture and cultural evolution, particularly the constructive aspect of the mechanisms of cultural transmission. Taking these aspects into account, we describe cultural evolution in terms of cultural attraction, which is populational and evolutionary, but only selectional under certain circumstances. As such, in order to model cultural evolution, we must not simply adjust existing replicative or selectional models, but we should rather generalize them, so that, just as replicator-based selection is one form that Darwinian selection can take, selection itself is one of several different forms that attraction can take. We present an elementary formalization of the idea of cultural attraction.
Social learning and spread of alternative means of opening an artificial fruit in four groups of vervet monkeys
January 2013 | Articles, Cultural evolution
van de Waal, E., Claidière, N., & Whiten, A. (2013). Social learning and spread of alternative means of opening an artificial fruit in four groups of vervet monkeys. Animal Behaviour, 85(1), 71-76.
Two-action experiments, in which observer individuals watch models use one of two alternative methods to achieve the same goal, have become recognized as a powerful method for studying social learning. We applied this approach to vervet monkeys, Chlorocebus aethiops, using an artificial fruit (‘vervetable’) which could be opened by either lifting a door panel on its front, or alternatively by sliding the panel to the left or right. In each of two groups a model was trained to lift the door and in two others the model slid it to either the left or right. Members of each group could then watch their model before the group was given access to multiple baited vervetables. Over the course of 100 openings we found a significant tendency for the lift and slide approaches to spread preferentially in the groups in which they were seeded. The same was true for slide left versus slide right, indicating these monkeys can attend to and learn from a fine level of detail in what others do. This effect cannot be explained by mere local enhancement since monkeys grasped a knob centred in the door to perform all techniques. Instead, imitation or emulation is implicated. No significant diminution of the tendency to adopt the seeded technique occurred among individuals learning later rather earlier in the study. Our results show that vervet monkeys have the capacity to learn from others by either emulation or imitation and what they learn has the potential to spread across their group.
Weak or Linear Conformity not Hyper-Conformity
Claidière N, Bowler M, Whiten A (2012) Evidence for Weak or Linear Conformity but Not for Hyper-Conformity in an Everyday Social Learning Context. PLoS ONE 7(2): e30970. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030970
Conformity is thought to be an important force in cultural evolution because it has the potential to stabilize cooperation in large groups, potentiate group selection and thus explain uniquely human behaviors. However, the effects of such conformity on cultural and biological evolution will depend much on the way individuals are influenced by the frequency of alternative behavioral options witnessed. Theoretical modeling has suggested that only what we refer to as ‘hyper-conformity’, an exaggerated tendency to perform the most frequent behavior witnessed in other individuals, is able to increase within-group homogeneity and between-group diversity, for instance. Empirically however, few experiments have addressed how the frequency of behavior witnessed affects behavior. Accordingly we performed an experiment to test for the presence of conformity in a natural situation with humans. Visitors to a Zoo exhibit were invited to write or draw answers to questions on A5 cards and potentially win a small prize. We manipulated the proportion of existing writings versus drawings visible to visitors and measured the proportion of written cards submitted. We found a strong and significant effect of the proportion of text displayed on the proportion of text in the answers, thus demonstrating social learning. We show that this effect is approximately linear, with potentially a small, weak-conformist component but no hyper-conformist one. The present experiment therefore provides evidence for linear conformity in humans in a very natural context.
The transmission of genes and culture: a questionable analogy
October 2011 | Articles, Cultural evolution
Claidière, N. and J.-B. André (2012). “The Transmission of Genes and Culture: A Questionable Analogy.” Evolutionary Biology 39(1): 12-24.
See the following comments too:
Hallgrimsdottir, H. (2012). “The GTM Analogy: The “Organismic” Metaphor Revisited?” Evolutionary Biology 39(1): 27-29.
Weiss, K. (2012). “Analogy Recapitulating Homology?” Evolutionary Biology 39(1): 25-26.
Abstract: Modes of cultural transmission are, by analogy with modes of genetic transmission, ways in which cultural information is transmitted between individuals. Despite its importance across the behavioral sciences and for theories of cultural evolution, no attempts have been made, to our knowledge, to critically analyze this analogy. We here aim at such detailed comparison and show that the fundamental role of modes of transmission in biology results mainly from two properties of genetic transmission: (i) what is transmitted generally does not influence the way in which it is transmitted; (ii) there is a limited number of simple and stable modes. In culture however, modes of transmission generally lack these two fundamental properties. In particular, in culture it is often the rate of evolutionary change that determines the mode of transmission. We offer some tentative explanation regarding the origins of such a fundamental difference and we conclude that cultural transmission modes are not causal mechanisms that govern the transmission of culture but mere descriptions of the way culture happens to be transmitted at a given time in a given community. This shows the limit of the analogy between biological and cultural evolution and suggests that evolutionary models and theories differ substantially between the two domains.
Integrating the Study of Conformity and Culture in Humans and Non-human Animals
September 2011 | Articles, Cultural evolution
Claidière N, Whiten A (2012) Integrating the study of conformity and culture in humans and nonhuman animals. Psychological Bulletin 138: 126-145.
Conformity, defined here by the fact that an individual displays a particular behavior because it is the most frequent they witnessed in others, has long been recognized by social psychologists as one of the main categories of social influence. Surprisingly, it is only recently that conformity has become an active topic in animal and evolutionary biology. As in any new and rapidly growing field however, definitions, hypotheses and protocols are diverse, not easy to organize in a coherent way and sometimes seriously conflict with each other. Here we pursue greater coherence by reviewing the newer literature on conformity in behavioral ecology and evolutionary biology in light of the foundational work in social psychology. We suggest that the knowledge accumulated in social psychology can be exploited by behavioral ecologists and evolutionary biologists to bring conceptual clarity to the field, avoid some experimental pitfalls and help design new and challenging experiments. In particular, we propose that the notions of ‘informational’ and ‘normative’ conformity that, until now, have not been recognized in recent literature can resolve some important controversies. In turn, research on animal culture should be of great interest to social scientists, because understanding human culture and human uniqueness requires an evolutionary analysis of our cognitive capacities and their evolutionary origins. Our review suggests excellent opportunities for social and natural scientists to join forces in building an interdisciplinary and integrative approach to the pervasive phenomenon of conformity.
The natural selection of fidelity in social learning
Claidière, N. and Sperber, D. (2010) “The natural selection of fidelity in social learning.” Communicative and Integrative Biology, 3:4, 1-2
Social learning mechanisms are usually assumed to explain both the spread and the persistence of cultural behaviour. In a recent article, we showed that the fidelity of social learning commonly found in transmission chain experiments is not high enough to explain cultural stability. Here we want to both enrich and qualify this conclusion by looking at the case of song transmission in song birds, which can be faithful to the point of being true replication. We argue that this high fidelity results from natural selection pressure on cognitive mechanisms. This observation strengthens our main argument. Social learning mechanisms are unlikely to be faithful enough to explain cultural stability because they are generally selected not for high fidelity but for generalisation and adjustment to the individual’s needs, capacities and situation.
Imitation explains the propagation, not the stability of animal culture
Claidière, N. and D. Sperber (2010). “Imitation explains the propagation, not the stability of animal culture.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277(1681): 651-659.
For acquired behaviour to count as cultural, two conditions must be met: it must propagate in a social group, and it must remain stable in the process of propagation. It is commonly claimed that imitation is the mechanism that explains both the spread of animal culture and its persistence. We review the literature on transmission chain studies in chimpanzees and other animals. We use a formal model to argue, that imitation, which may well play a major role in the propagation of animal culture, cannot be considered faithful enough to explain its stability. We show that adding to the capacity for imitation a relatively strong conformist tendency of the kind suggested by Boyd and Richerson is relevant but unlikely to be sufficient. We consider the contribution that other psychological or ecological factors might make to the persistence of animal culture observed in the wild.
Defining and explaining culture
Defining and explaining culture. Comments on Boyd and Richerson Not by genes alone. Dan Sperber and Nicolas Claidière. Biology and Philosophy 2008 23(2): 283-292.
We argue that there is a continuum of cases without any demarcation between more individual and more cultural information, and that therefore “culture” should be viewed as a property that human mental representations and practices exhibit to a varying degree rather than as a type or a subclass of these representations and practices (or of “information”). We discuss the relative role of preservative and constructive processes in transmission. We suggest a revision of Richerson and Boyd’s classification of the forces of cultural evolution.
The role of attraction in cultural evolution
The role of attraction in cultural evolution. Nicolas Claidière and Dan Sperber. Journal of Cognition and Culture (2007) 7: 89-111.
A critique of: On Modeling Cognition and Culture: Why cultural evolution does not require replication of representations. Joseph Henrich and Robert Boyd, Journal of Cognition and Culture, Volume 2, Number 2, 2002 , pp. 87-112
Henrich and Boyd (2002) were the first to propose a formal model of the role of attraction in cultural evolution. They came to the surprising conclusion that, when both attraction and selection are at work, final outcomes are determined by selection alone. This result is based on a determistic view of cultural attraction, different from the probabilistic view introduced in Sperber (1996). We defend this probabilistic view, show how to model it, and argue that, when both attraction and selection are at work, both affect final outcomes.
Why modelling cultural evolution is still such a challenge
Why Modeling Cultural Evolution Is Still Such a Challenge. Dan Sperber and Nicolas Claidière. Biological Theory 2006 1(1): 20-22.
The idea that cultural evolution exhibits variation, competition, and inheritance and therefore can be studied by adjusting the Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection is an attractive one. It has been argued by a number of authors (e.g., Campbell 1960; Monod 1970; Dawkins 1976; Cavalli-Sforza and Feldman 1981; Boyd and Richerson 1985; Durham 1991; Aunger 2002; Mesoudi et al. 2004) and pursued in a variety of ways, some (Dawkins and memeticists) staying close to the Darwinian model, others (e.g., Boyd, Richerson, and their collaborators) being more innovative. We agree that there are relevant analogies between biological and cultural evolution and, in particular, that cultural items do exhibit variation, competition, and cumulative modification. On the other hand, we believe that a proper understanding of the mechanisms of cultural propagation drawing on the work of cognitive and social scientists (see Sperber and Hirschfeld 1999 for a review) contradicts the idea that culture exhibits inheritance in the strict sense needed for the theory of evolution by natural selection to apply straightforwardly to it. If so, it will take more than adjusting the Darwinian model to be faithful to the Darwinian inspiration.
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House Passes Reese Charter Education Reform
HARRISBURG -- House Bill 530, which is intended to make improvements and reforms in the operation of charter and cyber charter schools in Pennsylvania, was approved 118-78 by the House this week, said Rep. Mike Reese (R-Westmoreland/Somerset), author of the proposal.
“Families choosing a different option for their child’s education should be assured that their new school is performing well,” Reese said. “In turn, all taxpayers should be provided that same assurance – that the schools funded with their tax dollars are of the highest quality.”
The bill proposes that charter schools use an academic performance matrix developed by the Pennsylvania Board of Education and that teacher evaluations be performed, which is similar to traditional public schools. It also aims to increase enforcement of current truancy laws. Charter schools meeting certain academic benchmarks will be given extended charter terms. Also included is language to improve public transparency and auditing requirements.
House Bill 530 also addresses a long-standing problem with the funding formula for cyber charter schools. It allows school districts to deduct food service costs and cyber education expenses from the previous year from their per-pupil expense paid to cyber charter schools. Combined, the deductions are estimated to save public school districts across the state roughly $27 million annually.
Also under the bill, a charter school funding advisory commission will work toward identifying further improvements. The commission will include members of the Pennsylvania House and Senate and various education professionals with equal representation from both charter entities and school districts.
“Cyber education is growing in popularity and the expense is being handed down to local school districts,” Reese said. “But the funding formula for cyber charter schools is inappropriate and needs to be re-written.”
The bill will now be considered by the Senate.
Representative Mike Reese
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Pontremoli, Italy
Where: Pontremoli, Italy, lies in the Apennine Mountains along the old Via Francigena (road to France) in northern Tuscany’s Lunigiana region.
Why: Pontremoli was an important stop on the pilgrim route from Canterbury to Rome, and it retains its look from that time. Despite its well-preserved medieval streets and buildings, a photogenic castle, and intriguing local cuisine, this quiet, quaint town is blissfully tourist-free.
Top Outing: The Castello del Piagnaro crowns a hill overlooking the town. Reached via a narrow alleyway, the castle offers views of countryside, town, and arched, stone bridges crossing the river below. In the castle you’ll find the Museo delle Statue Stele, a repository for anthropomorphic stone statues unearthed by local farmers, excavation crews, and highway workers. The most ancient of them are over 5,000 years old. Each one depicts a single, stylized human figure carved on an upright stone slab, often holding a weapon.
Also Worth Seeing: The Campanone bell tower dominates the central Piazza della Repubblica. This iconic city symbol was part of a wall built in 1322 by conqueror Castruccio Castracani. Like a frustrated parent trying to separate squabbling siblings, Castracani built a wall through the middle of town to quash a bitter war between the Guelphs and Ghibellines, rival factions supporting, respectively, the Papacy and Holy Roman Empire. The cozy piazza is best in late afternoon. Grab a gelato and join the locals on their passeggiata (stroll), walking to the accompaniment of pealing church bells.
Tasty Treats: Check restaurant menus for torta d’erbe, a savory, light-crusted pie filled with edible field grasses, leeks and spinach. Also look for dishes made with cinghiale (wild boar) or local prugnolo, grifola, or colombina mushrooms. Some experts say the regional dish testaroli was the first pasta. Thin, eggless, wheat-flour pancakes are cooked in large, terracotta or cast-iron pans called testi and then cut into pieces, boiled briefly, and served with pesto or olive oil and Parmesan cheese.
Where to Stay: Quiet, modern, three-star Hotel Napoleon is near the city center.
When to Go: Because it’s in the mountains, Lunigiana is cooler than the rest of Tuscany in summer, but wait until fall for colored foliage and the wild mushroom harvest.
How to Get There: Pontremoli is just off the A15 Autostrada between La Spezia and Parma.
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CRG and IMIM: Clinical trial opens new avenues for pharmacological therapy in Down’s syndrome
News from CRG and IMIM
A team of scientists led by doctors Rafael de la Torre at Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) and Mara Dierssen at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) have shown that epigallocatechin gallate, a compound present in green tea, together with a cognitive stimulation protocol, might improve some of the intellectual capacities in individuals with Down’s syndrome, and might modify the excitability and functional connectivity of their brains.
“This is the first time that a treatment has shown some efficacy in the improvement of some cognitive tasks in persons with this syndrome," states Dr. Dierssen, head of the Cellular and Systems Neurobiology group at the Centre for Genomic Regulation and lead author of the paper. “It must be made clear that our discovery is not a cure for Down’s syndrome and that our results have to be proven in larger populations, but it may be a treatment to improve these individuals’ quality of life,” she adds.
According to the World Health Organization, Down’s syndrome affects approximately one out of 1,000 persons in the world, and is the most common cause of genetic-origin intellectual disability. It is caused by a trisomy of chromosome 21. In other words, Down’s syndrome people have three, not two, copies of chromosome 21. This causes the genes present in this chromosome to be overexpressed. The work of the IMIM and CRG researchers focuses on the role of a compound called epigallocatechin gallate, which compensates for the excess of function of one of the genes present in chromosome 21 (DYRK1A), involved in cerebral plasticity and certain cognitive functions. The study results indicate that individuals treated with epigallocatechin gallate and a cognitive stimulation protocol had score improvements in visual recognition memory, inhibitory control, and adaptive behaviour, and that these changes might be correlated with biological changes in their cerebral connectivity.
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Reference work:
De la Torre et al. ‘Safety and efficacy of cognitive training plus epigallocatechin-3-gallate for cognitive improvement in young adults with Down syndrome (TESDAD): a double-blind, randomised controlled, phase 2 trial”. Lancet Neurology. 6th June 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(16)30034-5
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Last Friday Jason and I packed up our warm weather gear and headed to the Outer Banks of North Carolina for a long weekend with family. Jason’s sister Melissa and her long-time boyfriend Ryan decided they wanted to get married, so they rented a house near the beach and invited their immediate families to join them for the celebration. So off we went.
For an international airport, Norfolk (the closest airport to our destination) is not an easy place to get to. Connecting flights are kind of a nightmare with a kid to begin with; on our trip out we got thrown the bonus curveball of a flight delay in Charlotte that passed the three-hour mark. And after finally getting to Norfolk, there was still the task of a two-hour drive to the Outer Banks. But we eventually made it to the seaside community of Duck and got settled in for a relaxing week.
As the only person under the ago of 30 in the house, this little guy was the center of attention. The rest of the family (Jason’s parents and Ryan’s parents and sister, along with Jason’s cousin Nathan and his wife Amy, who served as wedding photographers) kept telling us what an amazing kid he was and how they’d never seen a toddler so smart and entertaining and well-behaved. I don’t know how much credit we can take for that; we do most of this “parenting” thing by the seat of our pants with our fingers crossed. But we accepted the compliments and tried to keep him from going off the rails because he didn’t get his morning glass of milk or something equally trivial.
Cheapest pedicure in the world! Not counting the airfare, rental car, and vacation house.
Most days we went out to the beach to wander around and play in the sand. Evan couldn’t navigate the sand quite as easily as pavement, and he wasn’t a big fan of the ocean (too cold, and it kept chasing him on the shore), so we often just hunkered down in a nice sandy spot to play and get dirty while the rest of the family strolled further up the beach.
I hope the kid that built and abandoned this sandcastle wasn’t attached to it, because Evan destroyed it two seconds later.
The midpoint of our visit was marked by Ryan and Melissa’s wedding. We woke up early and got dressed, and then all walked together as a family to the beach, where the happy couple found a nice spot for us to stop and form a circle for the ceremony. The bride and groom said their own vows, and then we went around the circle and each said a few words about Melissa and Ryan before we each also pronounced them man and wife. It was a sweet, intimate ceremony, and we all cried. A lot. Then we headed back to the house to make breakfast and spend the day eating our way through our grocery supplies. Best reception ever!
Courtesy Nathan Russell Photography. Shamelessly stolen off Facebook, because we’re family.
On our next-to-last day, Jason stayed behind at the house (he wasn’t feeling well) while I went out with Nathan, Amy, the bride and groom, and Jenna (Ryan’s sister) for a bit of jet skiing. I’ve only ever jet skiied on a lake, so doing it on the sound, with wind and waves, was a much different experience. And I think I swallowed a few liters of salty seawater; every wave I went over rose up and splashed me thoroughly. In the end, I don’t think my speed ever went past 30 mph. Melissa almost hit 60, and saw a shark out in the sound as well. Adventure! Excitement! After our jet skiing, we went to a nearby seafood place and ordered novelty alcoholic beverages and french fries seasoned with Old Bay. All told, it was a great afternoon.
Up. Down. Up. Down. All. Day.
We also spent a lot of time in the house pool, helping Evan in and out of the water and getting him to kick his feet while we helped him float. The pool was definitely not as scary as the ocean. Swimming often wore him out so much that he’d take a four-hour nap later in the day. Maybe that’s why we’re such great parents?
And as an additional bonus – I had my first taste of moonshine. This bottle will last about a decade, because there’s no way to drink more than a thimblefull at once.
I can actually feel the detritus being stripped from my digestive system as the moonshine goes down.
All in all, it was a very fun trip, and we were sad to head home today (especially since I have to be in the office an hour early tomorrow). But we also were happy to get home to Colorado and the arid climate. Humidity is hard, y’all!
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Title: Country Gold
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Author: Heatherly Bell
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A scandal ended the careers of the Wilder Sisters, the chart topping country rock band. But Lexi Wilder is okay with that, thanks for asking. She's been on the road since roughly forever, and even if the scandal has followed her home to Whistle Cove, California, Lexi is going to enjoy the break. After all, there's quite nothing like the beautiful sandy beaches of Monterey Bay to calm a woman's soul.
Luke Wyatt never asked to trade fame and fortune for the only woman he's ever loved.
Now that he's finished a punishing year-long national tour, all bets are off. He's coming back to his hometown of Whistle Cove for the quiet, the beaches, the inspiration, and the girl. Not necessarily in that order. There's pressure from Nashville to deliver more country gold like the #1 song he co-wrote with Lexi Wilder.
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Wonderfully written story surrounding Luke Wyatt and the love of his life, the one he had and then lost, Lexi Wilder. Two country singers, she a part of the once successful Wilder Sisters, he once part of their band, now the solo country sensation. The girls band, now away from the music scene because of an unfortunate and scandalous incident involving the youngest sister, are running their family's B&B back home. Luke, finishing a huge tour. Needing a break to recharge and write some songs, he returns home where he can have some peace and quite; and maybe, just maybe, get the heart of the woman who has always held his. After arriving to the quaint B&B, Luke soon finds that he definitely has his work cut out for him where Lexi is concerned, but it is a job that he will not quit until she tells him that she doesn't want him or until he has her right back where she belongs, beside him and in his arms.
This sweet romance will play your heart like Luke and Lexi play their guitars. Slow and steady, reaching it's crescendo only when the time is right. And their "song" is played beautifully, sung to perfection with the background singers of their family to see them through to the end. And their background singers, the supporting characters in this story, are wonderfully written with each having personalities and characteristics that make them each unique, entertaining and endearing.
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“Lexi Wilder.”
She recognized the deep voice, the smooth sound of whiskey if it could speak. Lexi whipped around to face Luke Wyatt. Her heart hiccupped at the sight of his long and lean body braced against the side of her cottage. One corner of his mouth tipped up in a half smile and he studied her with those deep and fathomless dark eyes.
Her mouth was dry. Knees? Liquid. “W-what are you doing here?”
“Wasn’t going to give you the chance to say you don’t want to see me.” He moved away from the side of the house and took a step toward her. “Tour’s over. I’m home.”
Despite her churning gut, she found her voice. “We have no vacancy. You’ll have to stay somewhere else.”
He went brows up. “Just checked in.”
When she didn’t speak, but simply swallowed and blinked, trying like hell to regain her balance, he filled in the silence.
“Still mad at me. Still won’t talk to me.”
She was so not prepared to deal with this today. With him. “Why would I be mad? You mean because you wrote an entire album all about our private life? Every single private and personal thing about us. After everything I’ve been through with Sabrina. No, why would I be mad about that?”
“Baby,” he said, squaring his shoulders. “It’s what songwriters do. We write about our life, the pain and the joy.”
“I’d rather keep my private life private.”
“I’m sorry,” he said. “I was hurting. You wouldn’t take any of my calls. You wouldn’t come see me.”
“You didn’t seem to be hurting. You were all over my TV set, cozying up to gorgeous models and reality TV stars.”
She’d seen the woman practically on Luke’s lap at a televised awards show. And he was mad she hadn’t called him back? If he’d been hurt when she stopped taking his calls, he sure in the hell got over it quickly enough.
He took a step toward her making her take one back. No, no, no. Already she felt her body buzzing from being this close to him for the first time in a year.
“Give me a break, Lex. You know what this life is like. I didn’t even know that woman.”
Lexi did an internal face palm. No, no. It would not go this way. Check her out letting loose with all her pent up hurt and anger the minute he showed up, giving Luke every indication of how much she still cared about him. If she didn’t care at all, maybe the rumors of these women wouldn’t bother her so much. So she’d already blown her cover in the first twenty seconds of seeing him. Get a grip.
She’d expected to do much better than this if she ever ran into him again, say in Nashville while visiting Miranda Lambert to collaborate on some songs. Lexi would have another hit song by then. Maybe she’d be dating another handsome country singer not named Luke Wilder. She’d be over him by then.
Chalk it up to running into him so unexpectedly but this wasn’t how it was supposed to go. He shouldn’t still look so good to her, his beard making him look like a strong mountain man. Like a man who would take care of his woman.
For Luke, it turned out his career came first. Not her.
But the thing to do here was pretend it didn’t make a difference whether he stayed or left. Pretend he had that little effect on her. Maybe it wasn’t too late to salvage what little was left of her pride.
“I’m sorry.” She shook her head. “I’m being rude.”
He quirked a single brow. “Yeah?”
Score one for Lexi. She’d shocked him. Good.
“Of course. You’re a paying guest and I’m usually not so…so…”
“Pissy?” He gave her another smile, this one lifting both corners of his mouth and demonstrating he still had the power to render her speechless when he laid on the charm.
“Yeah. Pissy.” She let out a half-hearted fake laugh and waved hand in the air. “Rough day. You know how it is. Sisters.”
His brow furrowed. “And how’s Sabrina doing?”
Luke had a front row seat to the implosion of the Wilder Sisters. He’d been performing alongside them at the stadium in Oklahoma when Sabrina had her public mini-meltdown. Even though their demise as a band had meant his opportunity for stardom, Lexi didn’t doubt he’d been sorry about the way it had all happened.
When she’d been worried about Sabrina, whose entire life from the time she’d been ten had been the stage, Luke had held Lexi every night until she fell asleep, assuring her that Sabrina would survive this. They all would. And she’d fallen even deeper for the man. Luke reminded her there would be life after all the speculation and rumors. Because Luke Wyatt knew a lot about scandal. He understood what it was like to feel like you had to apologize just for being allowed to breathe the same air as everyone else.
“She’s okay. Still walks around with ear buds in all the time, singing and dancing. It’s in her blood. But I don’t think she wants to get back up on a stage anytime soon. None of us do.”
He nodded, as if he understood all too well. “And you. Are you still writing?”
Not with you.
Never again with you.
The wall was still up and there it would stay. If anything, she’d wallpaper it. But she was a Wilder first and foremost, and yes, they could put on a show.
She shrugged and got ready to lie. “Here and there.”
“I’m supposed to write a few more hit songs.” He held up finger quotes. “They want me back in the studio next week. So I thought I’d come here and relax. See if I can find some inspiration.”
His gaze took a slow slide down the length of her body and she almost felt…naked. She was so not going to be his inspiration. Not this time. He’d taken enough material from her already.
She took a breath and went for deep sincerity. “I hope you find what you’re looking for, Luke.”
And with that she opened the door to her cottage and closed it in his face.
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Understanding the Basics of Sic Bo
Sic Bo is a casino game from Asia that has been making big splashes in western casinos and on the Internet. People may see the game as something kind of mystic since the game is centuries old. This feeling may seem intensified when a player looks at the table layout. The layout would have a lot of bets that players would choose from (kind of akin to craps and roulette with the wide array of bets).
In reality, the game is easy to play, which also explains why the game has become quite popular. The terminology is fairly easy since most of the terms used in the game correlates with the gaming action as well. The table layout may seem confusing at first but after understanding the logic behind the arrangement of the different bets on the layout all that confusion is easily cleared.
Here are other items of consideration we'll have to go through to help us along the way:
Introduction to the Game How to Play the Game Understanding the Terminology The Table Layout Players' Bets Odds of the Different Bets Playing in Your Own Home Free Game Download Tips for Playing Betting Strategies Sample Winning Strategies
One thing that will baffle a lot of players will be what bets they should make. The beauty of Sic Bo is the huge number of options available to all players when making their wagers. Players have the opportunity to mix and match the bets and make up their very own strategy.
Of course, before a player can do this, they should be able to understand what wagers can they make. They should also be able to identify high risk, medium risk, and low risk bets. After getting the necessary information on these bets players can now create a betting strategy to suit their game.
In our discussion, we'll also include different categories of strategies we'll often see used by players on the playing floor. We'll also look at sample strategies that would apply to different types of players. But like every other casino game out there, to really learn how a game works requires some practice.
Feel free to practice the game since it can be played for free without risking any money. Another option open to players is playing the game at home on your own computer on line (that is if you don't like the huge crowd on a table).
Sic Bo is a casino game that shows a lot of potential. Its potentials are reasons enough for us to play the game.
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SIFF 2013: ‘Imagine’ Movie Review
by Warren Cantrell on May 20, 2013
in Print Reviews,Reviews
Sort of a cross between Dead Poets Society and Scent of a Woman, director Andrzej Jakimowski’s newest film, Imagine, bravely delves into the world of the blind and one man’s struggle to transcend the limitations of the visually impaired. Impressive because of its unique story, but also as a result of the thoughtful way in which Jakimowski shoots it, the film works because it puts the viewer into the shoes of its characters and fastens the laces tight enough to keep them there.
Primarily the story of one man’s challenging lifestyle, and his attempts to share its secrets to those similarly afflicted, Imagine taps into basic human fears of change, and an almost automatic sentiment of disdain towards anything difficult yet still within reach.
Edward Hogg plays this lead, Ian, a British teacher who insists that a person’s mind can largely make up for any visual deficiencies that might encumber them. Utilizing echolocation, Ian navigates the thickest crowds, and even the most traffic-congested streets without the use of a cane: a tool he feels actually encumbers him. A dangerous life-choice for a man in his condition, to be sure, it’s also an empowering decision that forces Ian to sharpen his other senses to a degree that gives his abilities something akin to those of a superhero (indeed, Daredevil would be impressed).
As Imagine begins, Ian arrives at a Lisbon clinic for the blind, one which also serves as a school for similarly afflicted children of all ages. The doctor running the institution tells Ian that while the board has agreed to bring him in as a teacher, Ian’s walking sonar methods are simply too dangerous to share, and that he needs to keep his classroom lessons to the essentials. Although Ian seems happy to comply with the directive, once classes begin it’s clear that the new teacher has his own ideas about what is essential, and what isn’t.
These classroom scenes are some of the best of the picture, both for what they add to the story and its characters, but also for the way Mr. Jakimowski handles them. Ian’s classes have everyone sitting outside, in the clinic’s courtyard, where they all listen for the world’s small details. Every scrape of the shoe and click of a pruning shear offers clues to a mystery that simply looking upon a scene could solve in an instant. Ian forces the children to hear, smell, touch, and absorb the world around them, and begins to show them how a person nourished on such stimulus can get by without eyes.
These moments are a delight, for the film sets them up perfectly: keeping the camera on the faces of the blind children Ian is schooling. He talks them (and the audience) through the visual realization process, and asks about the clues that can be found from a nearby person’s clothing, or the work they’re doing. By forcing the audience to imagine the scene along with the characters, a more fully developed sense of the process begins to grow in the mind of the viewer. The foley and sound work is also exceptional, for all the details Ian speaks of rise to the surface right when he begins to talk about them, and color the scenes in magnificently. It’s a superb detail, and is something that gives one the sense that a great deal of work went into the production of background sound in Imagine.
As the film progresses, Ian challenges the preconceived notions about what a blind person is capable of, both for his students and the clinic’s administrators. In each camp, there are those that seem threatened by this new teacher’s swagger, his confidence. What he proposes as a means to navigate the darkened void before him seems impossible to those that can see, and so difficult a skill to perfect for his blind students that a rumor begins to circulate that Ian actually does possess sight. None of this seems to come as much of a surprise to Ian, however, which makes sense since he would have likely gone through a similar period when he first encountered the mentor that instructed him.
Yet Mr. Jakimowski is careful to keep things grounded, and to remind the audience that Ian is indeed a blind man, and prone to the dangers of the real world like anyone else. A few accidents befall Ian throughout the run of Imagine, and they’re sober prompts that bring the sheer audacity of this new teacher’s lifestyle into focus. The film also gives extra time to two particular students, Eva (Alexandra Maria Lara) and Serrano (Melchior Derouet), both of whom come to learn some of the nastier realities of a blind life without a cane, and proceed with their lessons differently as a result. The progression of both under Ian’s wing represents one of the themes at the foundation of this film, and that’s a person’s courage to trust in themselves and the natural abilities one can hone and sharpen with nothing more than grit and determination.
A concise film at just over a hundred minutes, Imagine is a unique picture stocked with interesting characters and a surprisingly suspenseful undercurrent that refuses to go away. A Polish film, much of the picture is in English since Ian is at the center of pretty much every scene (making this a foreign film with few subtitles: a rare treat). Currently playing at this year’s Seattle International Film Festival, Imagine should keep audiences engaged, for cinema about blind characters has never looked so good, nor felt this fresh.
Warren Cantrell
“Obvious Child” is the debut novel of Warren Cantrell, a film and music critic based out of Seattle, Washington. Mr. Cantrell has covered the Sundance and Seattle International Film Festivals, and provides regular dispatches for Scene-Stealers and The Playlist. Warren holds a B.A. and M.A. in History, and his hobbies include bourbon drinking, novel writing, and full-contact kickboxing.
Tagged as: Alexandra Maria Lara, Andrzej Jakimowski, edward hogg, Imagine, Melchior Derouet, siff, SIFF 2013
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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.102 n.6 Cape Town Jun. 2012
SATVI - after 10 years closing in on a new and better vaccine to prevent tuberculosis
Willem A HanekomI, II; Anthony HawkridgeI, IV; Hassan MahomedI, IV; Thomas J ScribaI; Michele TamerisI; Jane HughesI; Mark HatherillI; Cheryl L DayI; Gregory D HusseyI, III
IAll authors are current or previous lead investigators at the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town
IIThe current Director of SATVI
IIIThe founding Director
IVWere previous Co-Directors
The vision of the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI) (http://www.satvi.uct.ac.za) is 'A World Without TB' and our mission is 'Innovative and high-quality TB vaccine research in Africa, to impact the global epidemic'. Over the last 10 years, our focus has been two-fold: first, clinical trials of BCG and of new candidate vaccines, and second, complementary research that addresses critical questions in tuberculosis (TB) vaccine development. SATVI is now widely regarded as the leading TB vaccine clinical research site in the world.
New, better vaccines: the answer to the global tuberculosis epidemic
In 2010 tuberculosis (TB) disease occurred in an estimated 8.8 million persons globally, causing 1.45 million deaths.1 South Africa has not been spared: approximately 1% of our population develops TB disease every year.1 About 60% of our TB patients also have HIV infection, placing us at the epicentre of the TB/HIV co-epidemic.1 While the global TB incidence has dropped, including on the continent of Africa, our country's disease rates have remained relatively static over the last few years.1
Advances in TB diagnosis and treatment are needed to control the epidemic.1,2 An effective vaccine would constitute the most sustainable intervention.1 The current TB vaccine, BCG, is important for prevention of severe forms of TB in infancy and early childhood, but affords variable efficacy - mostly poor - against lung TB. Adults with lung TB, particularly those who are not infected with HIV (Middelkoop et al., personal communication), spread the pathogen. Therefore new, better vaccination strategies should primarily aim to prevent disease in this population while including other populations at high risk of TB disease, such as infants/young children and HIV-infected persons.
A brief history of SATVI
SATVI was founded in 2001. Initially known as the 'BCG study unit', it was located within the Child Health Unit of the School of Child and Adolescent Medicine of the University of Cape Town's Faculty of Health Sciences. An immunology laboratory at Groote Schuur Hospital was later added to support core clinical trial activities.
A site for conducting clinical studies was established in the Boland Overberg region, about 110 km from Cape Town. The site's research activities cover an area of about 40 000 km2, with a population of 350 000. Site selection has been critical for SATVI's success, the primary determinant being high reported rates of TB, allowing end-points of vaccine trials to be achieved with reasonable sample sizes. Additionally, good transport, telecommunications and power infrastructure, availability of qualified or trainable staff and a relatively stable local population were essential, as also the well-functioning primary healthcare services, including adequate surveillance systems.
Operations at the field site are run from Brewelskloof Hospital in Worcester, a dedicated TB hospital for the region, and Worcester Hospital, a secondary level hospital. Two satellite site offices have been established, one in Robertson and one in Ceres.
The Cape Town operations of SATVI, including its state-of-the-art immunology laboratory, are based at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine at UCT's Faculty of Health Sciences, where extensive human resource and information technology and data management infrastructure exist.
The personnel complement of SATVI has grown from 3 to more than 190 persons over 10 years, more than 20 000 participants have been enrolled into studies, funding support now exceeds R50 million a year, 80 research articles have been published in mid- to high-impact journals, and multiple PhD, MSc and MPH candidates have graduated. SATVI leadership is represented on core international policy groups involved in TB vaccine development and in related, translational immunology.
Clinical trials: BCG and new vaccines
The 'BCG Trial'
Our initial project was a phase IV randomised clinical trial intended to assess whether the route of BCG administration to newborns determined efficacy in protecting against childhood TB. The study enrolled 11 680 infants at birth, over a period of 3.5 years, and showed equivalence in TB disease rates following BCG vaccination by an intradermal route and by a percutaneous route.3 This study was critical for developing infrastructure and capacity to conduct large-scale TB vaccine trials. The results may also guide policy in respect of BCG vaccination - it should be noted that the last clinical trial of a TB vaccine in infants was conducted by Rosenthal et al. in the 1930s and 1940s, long before the randomised placebo-controlled clinical trial came to be considered as the gold standard for evaluating vaccine interventions.4
Trials of new TB vaccines
More than 40 TB vaccine candidates are in preclinical development; 14 of these have entered human trials.5 New vaccines are likely to be administered within a heterologous prime boost strategy - using different vaccines to induce a first immune response and then boosting this immunity. The prime vaccine is likely to be a whole bacterium, which contains many antigens (which our immune systems recognise and react to), and can therefore induce broad immunity.
BCG is a classic prime vaccine. Novel prime vaccines in development include recombinant BCGs and even recombinant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). These viable organisms have been modified for greater safety, and to better induce an immune response important for protection against TB.
Current boost vaccines contain limited numbers of antigens, which are delivered either within a viral vector (vehicle) or together with specific adjuvants (see below). Viral-vectored boost vaccines use a modified cold virus, e.g. adenovirus-35, or a modified poxvirus such as modified vaccinia virus, to deliver antigens. Genetic modification of the viruses renders them replication-deficient and avirulent, and allows expression of the mycobacterial antigens to which the immune system reacts.
Subunit boost vaccines contain selected mycobacterial antigens, together with an adjuvant which delivers antigens in a stable formulation, stimulates the immune system for enhancing response to the antigen, and steers the immune response in the appropriate protective direction. The viruses of viral-vectored vaccines could also be viewed as adjuvants.
Most current vaccines contain antigens that are widely recognised by immune systems of persons latently infected or diseased with MTB, e.g. Ag85A, Ag85B and TB10.4. The dominance of the immune response to these antigens is thought to indicate a role in protection. It has recently been shown that some antigens may be preferentially expressed during latency, compared with early MTB infection or disease. Therefore, vaccine candidates developed to specifically target latency contain these co-called latency-associated antigens, e.g. Rv2660c in a vaccine termed H56.6
Vaccine testing typically involves phase I - IIa trials that focus on safety and immunogenicity, first in small groups of healthy adults, followed by studies in younger persons and in those with latent TB infection and/or HIV infection. Thereafter, phase IIb and III trials focus on efficacy to prevent TB disease, and involve much larger groups of participants.
SATVI has conducted clinical trials of 5 new TB vaccine candidates,6-8 in 11 different protocols. In early trials, 2 viral-vectored vaccines, MVA85A and Aeras-402, as well as adjuvanted subunit vaccines, H4 and M72, were shown to be safe and immunogenic in various populations.7,8 A current trial of H56 is the first in humans. Because we have experience of testing multiple vaccine candidates, we have been able to observe unique patterns of adverse events and of immune induction, depending on the candidate vaccine. These comparative data are important for deciding which candidates should enter later-phase clinical trials.
We are currently conducting early efficacy trials (phase IIb) of 2 candidates, MVA85A and Aeras-402, in infants. The results of the trial of MVA85A, involving 2 797 infants, and conducted exclusively at SATVI, are expected to be available at the beginning of 2013.
Complementary research: critical questions in TB vaccine development
As a principle, SATVI uses registration-standard vaccine trials to explore other critical areas in vaccine development. These include, for example, novel approaches to informed consent,9 tools to measure the tuberculin skin test,10 approaches to diagnosing TB disease in children for late-phase vaccine trials,11 and detailed studies of the vaccination-induced immune response.7,12,13 In addition, specific clinical studies have been conducted to address additional questions (highlighted below).
Studies to define the TB epidemic
Infants and adolescents are potential target groups for novel TB vaccines. Successful conduct of late-phase trials in these populations requires reliable data about the TB epidemic at a target site. Since data from public health structures are often suboptimal, we have completed 2 large-scale epidemiological studies.
A longitudinal study involving 4 786 neonates showed that the incidence in children under 2 years of age was 1.5/100 person-years. We also wished to address whether active or passive follow-up is required for case-finding in efficacy trials: we showed that after 2 years of follow-up, quarterly home visits, combined with community-wide surveillance, detected significantly more cases, and at younger ages, compared with surveillance with only a single visit at the end of the study.14
The 'Adolescent cohort study' involved 6 363 adolescents, who were followed up for 2 years. We showed an incidence rate of 0.45 (95% CI 0.30 - 0.69) per 100 person-years. Black or coloured race, male gender, older age, household TB contact, low income and low education level were significant predictive factors for TB infection. In contrast to findings in infants, active surveillance did not significantly improve case detection.15
Immunity induced by BCG in HIV-infected infants
Our early studies focused on practical and rigorous methods for conducting sophisticated human immunology studies in rural field settings.16 These methods were further optimised for paediatric applications, such as studies aimed at gaining a better understanding of how our immune system interacts with MTB and BCG. We also applied this technology to evaluate immunogenicity of BCG in HIV-infected children: at the time that this study17 commenced, early antiretroviral therapy was not available for this population, and reports of complications from the vaccine (BCGosis) emerged. We showed that BCG induces very poor immunity in HIV-infected infants, both quantitatively and qualitatively,17 and have contributed to rational international policy regarding the use of BCG vaccination in HIV-infected infants.
Biomarker studies
SATVI's flagship immunology projects address the holy grail of vaccine development - immune correlates of protection against TB. Identification of such correlates would accelerate the screening of new, better vaccine candidates. Identification of prospective correlates of risk of TB disease would also accelerate vaccine development, by allowing smaller sample sizes in expensive late-phase trials, through targeted enrolment.
We used the 'BCG Trial', mentioned above, to determine correlates of risk of TB disease, following newborn vaccination with BCG. Host responses in blood stored from 10 weeks after newborn BCG vaccination were compared in infants who ultimately developed TB disease, and those who did not. As we know that T-cell immunity is important for protection, our first focus was on these responses. Remarkably, we have shown that this immunity, the most commonly measured in trials of new TB vaccines, did not correlate with risk of TB disease.18 Follow-up studies are focusing on unbiased approaches, such as whole-genome expression analysis, to identify novel correlates of risk of TB disease.
Cutting-edge unbiased analyses, such as RNA sequencing, are currently being used to determine correlates of risk of TB disease in samples from the 'Adolescent cohort study'. In a similar case-control design, blood products stored at 6-monthly intervals from adolescents who have developed TB disease, and those who have not, are being examined.
A definitive study of correlates of protection against TB disease is ultimately possible from our randomised controlled phase IIb trials, once efficacy has been shown.
The performance of the QuantiFERON test in adolescents
One of the aims of the Adolescent cohort study' was to evaluate the performance of the QuantiFERON Gold-In Tube test (QFT) in a TB-endemic setting. This interferon-ã release assay was developed as a replacement for the tuberculin skin test (TST), more commonly known as the 'Mantoux test'; both tests indicate the presence of latent MTB infection. Unlike the TST, the QFT requires a single visit only and is not affected by BCG vaccination or boosted by repeated testing. However, the QFT is more costly and requires some laboratory infrastructure. We completed more than 20 000 longitudinal QFT tests in the Adolescent cohort study'. We learned about variation in the QFT, and found good agreement between the QFT and TST, both of which proved good predictors of the onset of TB disease.19 Importantly, we showed that the TST does not need to be replaced by the QFT in a high-burden setting such as South Africa.
Alignment with key stakeholders
A major contributor to SATVI's success has been productive partnerships with relevant local and international academics. Our contribution has focused on what South Africa can do, and does extremely well - enrolling relevant participant populations, conducting high-quality clinical research, and bridging the gap from the participant to the laboratory bench. We have worked with partners to complement these areas in choosing, for example, not to set up high-throughput gene expression analysis locally, instead deferring that task to well-resourced laboratories overseas.
An example of a very successful partnership is the TB Vaccine Site Network (TBVACSIN), spearheaded by SATVI academics, with support from the Aeras Foundation and the European Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP). This collaboration involves a number of African sites, which work towards optimal and harmonised TB vaccine trial capacity. Aspects that are addressed include training, good clinical and laboratory practice, quality management, clinical and microbiological diagnosis of TB, and vaccine trial immunology.
Two other consortia, involving a total of 16 African and Northern research groups and funded by the Gates Foundation, under its Challenges in Global Health umbrella, have been examples of successful collaborations to address specific scientific questions. The aim of the first has been to develop a post-infection vaccine: the developed vaccine, H56, is currently in a clinical trial at SATVI. The other has aimed to develop biomarkers of TB - all samples have been collected, and plans for analysis are underway.
Community and health authorities
Successful site development emphasises the importance of community engagement and community involvement. A community advisory board has served as a voice for the local community, guiding us in our research initiatives. We have also learned about the importance of community outreach events, and optimal communications through local media. Multiple benefits for the relatively socio-economically compromised community have emerged from the site's operations, including facilitated and improved healthcare, and a decreased incidence of severe forms of TB in infancy.
Political and practical support from the Departments of Health, Science and Technology, Education, and Social Development has also been critical for success. Involvement on all levels is important - from national ministers to national, provincial and district health departments. SATVI has had a strong social commitment to the local authorities, by providing TB-specific training of health professionals and infrastructure development, and by donating equipment to health facilities and schools. In turn, local authorities and schools have facilitated communication with participants about study end-points (e.g. TB disease) reached by our study participants, and have donated space for our study procedures. We have shown that it is possible to design protocols and conduct projects that are mutually beneficial for investigators and service providers (and, indirectly, for sponsors).
Our most valuable resource - our personnel
Our research teams now include experts in clinical trial science, epidemiology, clinical aspects and immunology of TB and of vaccines, laboratory technology, training, quality assurance and quality control, regulation, information technology, data management, finance, administration and logistics.
Multiple postgraduate students are training within SATVI. In addition to formal academic learning, non-traditional training at our site was needed, as persons with specialised skills are in relative short supply. SATVI, in collaboration with the Aeras Foundation, developed a Professional Development Programme (PDP) to address these needs. As a result, each personnel member's training has been tailored to complement his/her brought experience, while addressing standards mandated by our research. The PDP has since been shared with other TB vaccine sites in Africa and India. Continued investment in our personnel has demanded that we change our approaches as new needs arise, or for efficiency. Following the PDP, our emphasis is on project-specific training, managed by project co-ordinators. We are also developing a formal human culture and capital plan.
Optimal strategy/business structures
As is the common experience of companies during rapid growth, SATVI has had to add structures on a relatively ad hoc basis from 2001 to 2011, to meet ever-increasing demands with the risk, however, of a loss of efficiency. In 2011, therefore, we conducted an academic and a strategic review, as a result of which SATVI's new strategy is based on sustainability, needs in the research environment, and a careful assessment of market forces. A new vision and mission has been devised, along with strategic objectives and a business plan, for the years ahead. This process will mark the transition of SATVI from 'adolescence' to 'adulthood'.
We are far from winning the war against TB. The emergence of extensively (and totally) drug-resistant MTB strains has highlighted the urgency for the development of better vaccines able to prevent all forms of the disease. A decade or two ago, prospects for a new TB vaccine were dim because many basic questions remain unanswered, but the last 10 years have seen rapid development. SATVI has made major contributions to TB vaccine development, and is committed to continue to work to achieve 'A World Without TB'.
The authors acknowledge contributions of every SATVI member, from 2001 to the present: our achievements would not have been possible without their superb commitment. We acknowledge also the participants who have volunteered for projects. Finally, we thank funders and sponsors, especially the Sequella Foundation and the Aeras Foundation, whose support enabled establishment of most of our infrastructure, the NIH, the Gates Foundation, EDCTP, the EU, the Wellcome Trust, the Elizabeth Glaser Paediatric AIDS Foundation, and the FDA.
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Corresponding author: W Hanekom (willem.hanekom@uct.ac.za)
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Review: Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee
REVIEWED BY ANON
Genre: YA sci fi (super hero, post apocalyptic)
Pairings: f/f
Queer Representation: cis lesbian, trans*
Warnings: none
Rating: four stars
Jess is an ordinary child of superhero parents. Powerless herself and searching for something meaningful to do with her life, Jess takes an after school job in a tech lab and (accidentally) ends up working for the ‘villains’, aside the Very Hot Love Interest (and former volleyball star). When villains across the country start going missing, it’s up to Jess and her friends to solve the mystery.
From a diversity standpoint, this book was amazing. From a pacing standpoint, it was…slow. I’m not generally a YA reader so this could just be my lack of familiarity with the genre, but nothing happened in the book until about one hundred pages in. Once things got going, they kept a steady pace, but I almost DNF. The first half of the book is spent with very high school issues – love interests, family, fitting in, clubs, and after school jobs. For a high schooler or junior higher, this is probably welcome ground and the pacing appropriate. For an adult reader, I had a hard time connecting, but I realize I’m not the target audience.
The middle of the book was strong, and I enjoyed the reveals and the romance. The setting as well, with the world, the insights into immigrant Chinese and Vietnamese culture, gave the town a refreshing face lift from the ‘standard’ near-future narrative. High school scenarios were well done and felt very real.
The end action was ‘surprising yet inevitable,’ which is exactly what you want in these types of books. My only real quibble with the book was the very cliche’ villain info plot dump at the end, but that’s in keeping with the genre and feel of the book, so it’s a minor quibble at best.
Overall, this book is a much needed diverse addition to the near-future sci fi genre, and it’s nice to see a super hero who isn’t just some rando white kid. Younger readers will no doubt find the book captivating.
REVIEW: Known Threat by Kara A. McLeod
RATING: 3.75 stars
Special Agent Ryan O'Connor is starting to get her life back together in the aftermath of a shooting and her boss's arrest. Despite scheduling incompatibilities preventing them from seeing one another, she and Allison are doing great; she's preparing to return to full duty; and she's trying to block out the voices of those who've been doubting she still has what it takes to do her job.
Ryan should've known things were never that simple. When a ghost from her past reappears without warning, blindsiding her in a way she never could have expected, Ryan’s entire existence is badly shaken. She’d always believed that the best protection any woman could ever have—aside from a gun—was courage, but now she finds herself asking a question she never thought she’d need to answer: Who protects the Secret Service?
Cover Artist: Melody Pond (Yes! This must surely be a pseudonym, but it's an AWESOME one. Gosh, I miss River Song so much).
Genres: Intrigue & Thriller
Purchase link: Bold Stroke Books
Reviewed by Rebecca
The great things that led to a high rating...
This was a rather good book, and that's coming from someone who doesn't often pick-up something that isn't sci-fi or literary fiction. The writer has a fabulous ability to convey and explore emotion. There are wonderful descriptions of our narrator's reactions to various events, many of which felt very real and believable. All of this kept me highly engaged for the majority of the story, which I finished in a couple of days. With little kids invading my space all the time, that's a quick read for me, and means I just felt myself needing to come back to the story.
Even though I hadn't read the first two books, it didn't take long to be quite familiar with the MC's personality. It isn't an easy feat to ease a totally new reader into a series in Book 3, but they've managed to do it!
The cast of characters are interesting and I enjoyed reading about most of them, including Ryan's father, and Claudia Quinn. Plus, is it just me or is there something between Quinn and the President's daughter ('Hurricane')? The characters really are a strong point, though. We get a strong sense of who everyone is, how they feel, how they react to things and why, and what tends to motivate their behaviour.
The aspects that held me back from 5 stars...
MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD
I found having nearly 30% of the book being dedicated to the running race at the start to be a little excessive for a novel presented as being about action, but the inter-agency event did a very good job of catching-up the new readers and establishing relationships and so it certainly wasn't wasted in any way. I absolutely love well-written descriptive passages, but it depends on the book's genre, cover, and blurb as to what the reader's expectations surrounding that will likely be. At times I felt their were too many metaphors on the back of one another, with some paragraphs being one metaphor about emotional state after another. BUT - they were good ones so I got over it fairly fast ;) The sex scene also went on a bit long for my taste, but plenty of other readers will appreciate the very thing I didn't particularly love. That's one of the things with reviews, isn't it? Preference. If you like explicit love scenes, it'll work well. If you're like me and not really a fan of them, you may skip a few pages in the first half - not a big deal, though, and certainly not a reflection of the writing.
It was good to see a bisexual (or pansexual, perhaps?) character in the form of Allison. Though, I did wonder at the use of the phrase "fly her freak flag" when our main character, Ryan, was reflecting on how accepting she is of Allison's sexuality. I may be being too precious on this, but the phrase stood out to me as a little less than accepting. Sometimes though, colloquialisms that are common in the USA don't quite make sense to me as an Australian, just as some phrases in my book were flagged by American readers as grammatically incorrect or nonsensical, but they're Aussie idioms that are appropriate for the character's context. I'll leave that to others to reflect on. I could've lived with out it though.
The book has, for better or worse, a lot in common with Radclyffe's Honor series. Being original is incredibly hard to do, and the book is a really easy-going read. I wouldn't recommend it if you're looking for something less formulaic when compared to super popular lesfic, something different and unique - because it isn't. But if you LOVE the formula of many popular lesfic books, this is a really competent and interesting addition to the cop-drama trope. I enjoyed reading it. I actually read 35% of it whilst getting a painful tattoo done on my back, so thanks so much for keeping me distracted, Kara. A. McLeod! :)
MAJOR SPOILER AHEAD
Okay. So here's the main thing I didn't like about the book. And I'm so sorry to the author because, you know what, this is my personal preference and something I've long disliked about lesfic.
Rape. Why does someone always have to get raped? If I were to hazard a guess, I think that a woman gets raped by a man in anywhere between 50-80% of the lesfic books I've read, especially those that fall into genre fiction like thriller/action/sci-fi action. I prefer genre fiction to romance, so that means I am working from a limited scope of books when I make this call.
I've discussed my problems with this plot device before, and so my little rant here isn't really about this book alone. But the last 15% of the story really lost me because I just thought 'Really? AGAIN?!' I want to see our writers find some other way to create drama, to explore a character's reactions to traumatic situations. When the secondary health problem that came with the sexual assault in the book was introduced in the last 10% of the book, I think I really had just had enough - it's clear that the rape will probably be used as a huge point of conflict in subsequent books and I don't know if I have the emotional energy for it. Of course I know sexual assault is highly prevalent in society, and I don't need to tell the internet why this particular issue is one I'm so tired of reading about. I don't want the issue to be ignored in any way. Nope, nope, nope. But I do want to see a more reasonable number of occurrences of it in books.
Just like some people (including me) are tired of our LGBTIQA+ characters (or their direct allies) being killed off, I'm tired of them being sexually abused in just disproportionate numbers, and for the same reasons that the Lesbian Death Trope is an issue.
But if you aren't an picky as I am about this particular plot device, please don't be deterred. For the other 85% of the book I was really enjoying it!
REVIEW: Seven-Sided Spy (#2)
Reviewed by ANONYMOUS
NOTE: This book has also been reviewed by Rebecca for this blog. At times, we will review the same novel more than once if different members of the review team read the novel. We are more likely to spotlight debut authors in this manner, or books where different reviewers had quite different opinions.
Genre: sci fi (light, semi-historical, spy)
Pairings: f/f, m/f, m/m
Queer Representation: cis lesbian, cis gay, cis bisexual
Warnings: gore
Rating: three stars
Ridiculously attractive secret agent Diana (CIA), along with a host of male colleagues, is kidnapped by the KGB, turned superhuman, and stranded in the woods of North Carolina. Another Very Hot Woman, Nikola, a secret agent for the KGB, is tasked with tracking them down. Diana and Nikola are former lovers, both very deadly, and both out for blood.
On the scifi
This was very, very light scifi, and I think that worked for the piece. Our spies have various mutations (the mechanisms by which they get them is a bit of handwavium) that, more than anything else, renders them fundamentally immune to death. One has a third eye (literally) that allows him to see the future. One is part lizard. One has blue skin (checkbox: blue skinned alien trope in scifi. Love it). All (most?) appear to be able to regenerate after extensive injury. An appropriate level of gory language was spent exploring this, which I appreciated. What good is self-regeneration if we can’t hear the bones snapping?
On the characters
The strongest part of this book was the characters, but it was the weakest part as well. When we were given the backstory snippets, the characters came alive and the story was this beautifully woven tapestry of POV and history. When we were in the ‘now’, the characters were clunky, the POV too hoppy, and none of them really seemed to connect with one another. There were too many different names (Agent A, for instance, might have two or three names used in the book, because agent names change) and too many characters in places for me to keep them straight. The lesbian couple discussed on the back blurb didn’t end up playing as central a role as I had hoped, given the book description, but what was there was very well done. They had good chemistry, I just wish there’d been more time to explore it.
In fact, the only time I really connected with the characters was during their backstory flashbacks. Ruby, the sort of unwilling heroine, was a good focal point for the ‘in the now’ parts, but she didn’t get a lot of screen time. Again, I think my connection with the flashbacks came from the lack of head hopping and fewer characters, and the… the feels the characters had in those scenes. In the forest scenes it was mostly omg we’ve got to get out of here but we can’t die so this really sucks! Yes, it does suck, Super Secret Agent Hotness, but I want to know more about your Super Secret Agent Girlfriend and why you now want to shoot her in the face.
In fact, I would pay cash money, right now, for a spinoff short that was just Diana and Nikola’s adventures in spy school.
Nikola: How do you use this watch thingie again?
Diana: Sweetheart, we’ve been through this. Turn the dial like so. *leans in*
Nikola: *punches Diana in the stomach* HAH! Gotcha! Bet you didn’t see that coming!
Diana: *sweeps Nikola’s legs and the two fall to the ground, punching and laughing* You call that a punch? Upstart! I made you!
*The duo fall to kissing*
The book lacked a through line, and it took me over half the book to figure out what the actual goal was for the characters other than ‘survive’. This made it really hard to connect with anyone, and is probably responsible for my character confusion, as stated above. I didn’t mind the flashbacks at all, and the head hopping was frustrating but manageable, but the lack of a distinct goal and focus for the characters, especially at the beginning, was hard for me. I think this potentially could have been circumvented by spending a bit more time on the relationships between the characters upfront, which would have driven the tension of the final showdown up quite a bit.
The cover is gorgeous. Natasha Snow really hit it out of the park with this one. Swoonworthy.
If you’re into mod-scifi, or spy thrillers (especially heavily character-driven ones), this book is likely up your alley. You can buy Seven-Sided Spy in ebook here and paperback here.
ABOUT C.B.
Book reviews, Author Q&As and more as shared by an Australian lesbian. My core interests lie in genre fiction: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror etc.
My aim is to help provide more exposure to those books that may not fit neatly into the usual "lesfic" boxes (EG: pansexual women who engage with different aspects of their sexuality, non-binary characters, books with very little romance etc.) or books that don't conform to the most popular tropes that tend to dominate the LGBTIQ+ publishing world.
That said, I'll put up pretty much any review that I'd like to share. Most will have some sort of rainbow content, but not all. I am a reader who likes to talk about books -- that's really what this little corner of the web is for, to talk about books.
Please be aware I am unlikely to accept ARCs of contemporary romance stories or any form of erotica.
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NSW Premier Cricket - First Grade
The Belvidere Cup
Randwick Petersham 6.0 1.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 0.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 . . . . . 49.0
Sydney University 7.0 1.0 6.0 0.0 7.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 1.0 . . . . . 46.0
Sydney 0.0 6.0 0.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 0.0 6.0 7.0 6.0 . . . . . 43.0
UTS North Sydney 0.0 10.0 0.0 10.0 0.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 . . . . . 38.0
Bankstown 6.0 0.0 6.0 6.0 7.0 0.0 6.0 6.0 0.0 1.0 . . . . . 38.0
St George 0.0 6.0 6.0 0.0 6.0 0.0 6.0 6.0 7.0 1.0 . . . . . 38.0
Eastern Suburbs 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 . . . . . 38.0
Penrith 7.0 1.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 1.0 6.0 6.0 1.0 . . . . . 34.0
Western Suburbs 0.0 6.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 . . . . . 31.0
Northern District 0.0 6.0 0.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 . . . . . 31.0
Campbelltown-Camden 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 . . . . . 31.0
Gordon 7.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 . . . . . 21.0
Parramatta 7.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 1.0 . . . . . 20.0
Blacktown Mounties 0.0 0.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 1.0 . . . . . 20.0
Manly-Warringah 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 6.0 . . . . . 19.0
Sutherland 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 6.0 0.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 . . . . . 19.0
Mosman 0.0 6.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 . . . . . 18.0
Hawkesbury 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 0.0 1.0 1.0 6.0 1.0 . . . . . 15.0
Fairfield-Liverpool 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 0.0 6.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 . . . . . 14.0
UNSW 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 0.0 . . . . . 12.0
The Belvidere Cup was donated to the NSW Cricket Association by former Australian representative, Dr Percy Charlton. The silver cup was known as the New South Wales Cricket Association Championship Cup and was won by the Belvidere Cricket Club in 1882. In 1931, surviving members of the Club, through Dr Charlton, expressed the wish that the cup should be accepted by the Association for perpetual competition connected with Grade Competitions, and at its meeting in March of that year, the Association resolved that the cup would be competed for by the First Grade teams with the condition that it should not pass from the Association`s keeping. The initial First Grade Premiership was contested in 1893/94, and was won by East Sydney.
Parramatta are the reigning Premiers
Last re-calculated: Jan 20, 2020 3:48AM (local time)
First Grade Limited-Overs Cup
Sydney University 7 . . . 7 6 . . 6 1 . . . . . 27
Sydney 0 . . . 6 6 . . 7 6 . . . . . 25
Randwick Petersham 6 . . . 6 0 . . 6 6 . . . . . 24
Penrith 7 . . . 0 6 . . 6 1 . . . . . 20
Eastern Suburbs 6 . . . 6 7 . . 0 1 . . . . . 20
Gordon 7 . . . 6 7 . . 0 0 . . . . . 20
Manly-Warringah 6 . . . 0 6 . . 0 6 . . . . . 18
Parramatta 7 . . . 0 0 . . 6 1 . . . . . 14
St George 0 . . . 6 0 . . 7 1 . . . . . 14
Bankstown 6 . . . 7 0 . . 0 1 . . . . . 14
Blacktown Mounties 0 . . . 0 7 . . 6 1 . . . . . 14
Northern District 0 . . . 6 6 . . 0 1 . . . . . 13
Hawkesbury 0 . . . 6 0 . . 6 1 . . . . . 13
UNSW 6 . . . 0 0 . . 6 0 . . . . . 12
Western Suburbs 0 . . . 0 0 . . 6 6 . . . . . 12
Sutherland 0 . . . 6 0 . . 0 1 . . . . . 7
Campbelltown-Camden 6 . . . 0 0 . . 0 1 . . . . . 7
Fairfield-Liverpool 0 . . . 0 6 . . 0 1 . . . . . 7
UTS North Sydney 0 . . . 0 6 . . 0 0 . . . . . 6
Mosman 0 . . . 0 0 . . 0 0 . . . . . 0
NSW Premier Cricket - Kingsgrove Sports Twenty20 Cup
Sydney Thunder Conference
Bankstown 3 3 . 3 3 0 . 3 . 3 18
Penrith 0 3 0 0 . 3 . 3 . 3 12
Hawkesbury 3 . 3 0 3 0 . 0 3 . 12
Northern District 3 . 3 3 . 0 3 0 0 . 12
Parramatta 0 0 . 3 . . 3 3 3 0 12
Sydney University 3 3 3 . 0 0 . 0 0 . 9
Campbelltown-Camden 3 . 0 0 . 0 0 3 0 . 6
Blacktown Mounties 0 0 0 . 3 3 . 0 0 . 6
Western Suburbs 0 0 . 0 0 . 0 3 0 . 3
Fairfield-Liverpool 0 0 . . 0 0 . 0 0 0 0
Sydney Sixers Conference
Randwick Petersham 3 3 3 0 . 3 . 3 . 3 18
Sydney 3 0 . 3 0 . 3 3 0 . 12
Manly-Warringah 3 . 0 3 . 3 0 3 0 . 12
St George 0 3 3 . 3 0 . 0 0 . 9
Sutherland 3 0 0 . 3 0 . 3 0 . 9
Eastern Suburbs 3 0 . . 3 0 . 3 0 0 9
Gordon 0 0 . 0 . . 0 0 3 3 6
UTS North Sydney 0 . 3 0 0 0 . 0 3 . 6
UNSW 0 . 0 3 . 0 3 0 0 . 6
Mosman 0 3 . 0 0 0 . 0 . 0 3
Notes: Current Premiers:
2016/2017: Northern District.
2015/2016: Randwick Petersham.
2014/2015: St George CC.
NSW Premier Cricket - Second Grade
The Albert Cup
UTS North Sydney 6.0 1.0 6.0 1.0 6.0 6.0 0.0 6.0 6.0 0.0 . . . . . 38.0
Gordon 0.0 1.0 6.0 10.0 0.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 7.0 6.0 . . . . . 36.0
Western Suburbs 6.0 6.0 1.0 6.0 6.0 0.0 1.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 . . . . . 36.0
Sydney 6.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 0.0 10.0 6.0 1.0 . . . . . 35.0
Sydney University 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 0.0 7.0 6.0 . . . . . 24.0
Hawkesbury 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 6.0 0.0 1.0 . . . . . 9.0
Fairfield-Liverpool 0.0 1.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 . . . . . 8.0
Named after the Albert Club, founded in 1852, and originally known as the Albert Cricket Club Cup, it was presented to J Rowley for the highest batting aggregate in season 1889/90. The Albert Cup was donated to the NSWCA by the son of the recipient and has been awarded to the winner of the Second Grade competition since 1940/41.
Recent Premiers:
2015/2016 - Sydney
2014/2015 - Sydney University
2010/2011 - North Sydney
2009/2010 - St George
NSW Premier Cricket - Third Grade
The Mitchell Cup
Manly-Warringah 6.0 6.0 6.0 0.0 7.0 0.0 10.0 1.0 0.0 6.0 . . . . . 42.0
Notes: The Mitchell Cup was provided from a legacy left to the NSW Cricket Association by William Henry Mitchell in 1943. The Association subsidised the amount for the purchase of the Cup, to be played for in perpetuity by teams in the Third Grade Competition. It was first competed for in season 1943/44.
NSW Premier Cricket - Fourth Grade
The Reid Cup
St George 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 6.0 0.0 1.0 . . . . . 41.0
Campbelltown-Camden 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 . . . . . 1.0
Notes: The Reid Cup, named after John Homes Reid, was presented to Mr John Forsyth by the Ivanhoe Club which won the Cup in 1890/91. It was donated to the NSW Cricket Association by the Executors of the Estate of John Forsyth, and was first competed for in the Fourth Grade competition in season 1959/60.
2014/2015 - Penrith
2013/2014 - Eastern Suburbs
2011/2012 - Sutherland
NSW Premier Cricket - Fifth Grade
The David Sherwood Cup
Sutherland 0.0 1.0 10.0 10.0 6.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 1.0 . . . . . 40.0
Blacktown Mounties 0.0 6.0 0.0 -0.4 A 0.0 0.0 5.4 A 0.0 0.0 1.0 . . . . . 12.0
Randwick Petersham 6.0 1.0 1.0 -0.9 A 0.0 0.0 -0.5 A 1.0 0.0 1.0 . . . . . 8.6
This Cup was presented by the Randwick DCC in season 1984/85 for Fifth Grade Competition. It was named after Mr David Sherwood who was scorer for the Randwick Club from 1926. He was subsequently appointed to State and International fixtures, accompanying Australian teams on seven overseas tours.
2015/2016 - Campbelltown-Camden
2014/2015 - Northern District
2012/2013 - Gordon
2011-2012 - Gordon
2010/2011 - Manly-Warringah
NSW Premier Cricket - Poidevin-Gray Shield
SIXERS CONFERENCE
Gordon 3 7 6 3 6 6 31
UNSW 3 6 6 3 6 0 24
UTS North Sydney 0 6 0 3 6 6 21
Mosman 3 0 6 3 6 0 18
Sydney 3 6 0 0 0 6 15
Sutherland 0 6 6 0 0 1 13
Manly-Warringah 0 0 0 0 7 1 8
Randwick Petersham 0 0 7 0 0 1 8
St George 3 0 0 3 0 0 6
Eastern Suburbs 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
THUNDER CONFERENCE
Bankstown 3 6 7 0 6 6 28
Blacktown Mounties 3 7 6 3 6 1 26
Fairfield-Liverpool 3 0 0 3 6 6 18
Penrith 0 0 6 3 6 1 16
Sydney University 0 0 6 3 6 0 15
Parramatta 3 6 0 0 0 6 15
Campbelltown-Camden 0 6 6 0 0 1 13
Hawkesbury 0 6 0 0 0 0 6
Northern District 0 0 0 3 0 1 4
Western Suburbs 3 0 0 0 0 0 3
NSW Premier Cricket - AW Green Shield
Eastern Suburbs 7 6 7 7 7 6 6 46
St George 0 6 7 7 6 7 6 39
Northern District 6 6 6 6 0 7 6 37
Manly-Warringah 6 6 6 6 0 6 7 37
Bankstown 6 6 6 0 6 6 6 36
Blacktown Mounties 0 0 6 6 6 7 6 31
Campbelltown-Camden 0 7 6 6 6 6 0 31
Parramatta 7 0 0 7 6 0 6 26
Gordon 6 6 0 6 0 7 0 25
Randwick Petersham 7 0 0 6 6 6 0 25
Penrith 6 6 0 0 6 0 0 18
Mosman 0 6 6 0 0 0 1 13
UNSW 0 0 7 0 6 0 0 13
Hawkesbury 0 0 6 7 0 0 0 13
Sydney 6 0 0 0 0 0 6 12
Western Suburbs 0 6 0 0 0 6 0 12
Fairfield-Liverpool 6 0 0 0 0 0 1 7
Sutherland 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 7
UTS North Sydney 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 6
Sydney University 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
The trophy, originally known as the Cush-Herford Shield, was renamed the A W Green Shield in 1936, at the request of the original donors in order to honour the memory of Mr A W Green, the NSWCA`s President from 1931-1935. The competition was for under-17 players until 1938/39 and from 1975/76-1977/78, and otherwise for Under-16 players.
2015/2016 - Mosman
2014/2015 - Bankstown
2012/2013 - Fairfield-Liverpool
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3 Tied Number of ties
4 Draw Total Matches Drawn
5 NET RUN-RATE (Runs For / Ovs Faced) - (Runs Agst / Ovs Bowled)
2 Won Total Matches Won (Outright and 1st Inns)
3 Tie Number of ties
4 Drawn Total Matches Drawn
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Points shown in red if match result is unofficial.
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This report was came from an article posted by Aging Rebel - Texas Biker Radio we responded to the report..
A Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division Investigative Report titled “Bandidos/Cossacks” written by DPS agent Christopher Frost the day after the Twin Peaks Massacre seems to provide the basis for what will be the eventual prosecution of some number of people Waco prosectutors have connected to the incident.
The report is not necessarily an accurate description of what occurred. Rather it serves the same function as Reports of Investigation written by federal police forces. It is full of assertions that magically become “evidence” by being written down. Like most of these documents it is at least as interesting for what it does not say as for what it does say.
Frost is assigned to the Waco office of the Texas DPS. The report is about 2,100 words long. It is unusually long for a police report and it is carefully worded which, together with standard techniques of internal literary analysis, betrays that the document has gone though multiple drafts. Much of it appears to have been written before May 17. It was “approved by DPS “Lieutenant Steven Schwartz” Schwartz testified for the prosecution at multiple examining trials held for Waco defendants. Both Frost and Schwartz were at the Twin Peaks during the shooting.
According to Frost and Schwartz, “in late March 2015,” Texas DPS agents “learned of an incident that occurred on March 22, 2015 on Interstate 35 in the City of Lorena.” Lorena is about five miles south of Waco. “At about 3:15 P.M. on March 22, 2015 the Lorena Police Department was dispatched to Interstate 35 southbound lanes near the 323 milepost to a fight in progress.”
Witnesses told police “that a blue Ford pickup, a green Nissan Titan and a white Dodge pickup forced a male subject on a motorcycle against the inside barrier wall and to a stop. Eight to ten male subjects exited the vehicles and began assaulting the male with a chain, a baton, and possibly a pipe. The male motorcycle rider was later identified as (Rolando Campos) a member of the Bandido (sic) Outlaw Motorcycle Gang (OMG).”
Police told the DPS that members of the Cossacks Motorcycle Club carried out the assault and that “the Bandido OMG and Cossacks MC were at odds due to the Cossacks wearing the bottom ‘Texas’ rocker on the back lower portion of their jackets.” Frost then editorializes that “the Cossacks MC is known to be involved in criminal activity, including but not limited to, narcotics trafficking, weapons trafficking, assault, extortion and murder.”
The Lorena Police
The Lorena Police Department has been mentioned frequently in official and unofficial evidence about the Twin Peaks Massacre.
According to Frost, the DPS first learned from the Lorena police “that the normal Coalition of Clubs (COC) meeting that usually is held in Austin was suddenly changed to the Waco Twin Peaks Restaurant located at 4671 South Jack Kultgen Expressway in Waco for May 17, 2015.” A Lorena policeman “explained that the COC is run by the Bandido (sic) OMG.” Lorena police told the DPS “that the COC is where other motorcycle clubs are required to join and pay dues to the Bandido (sic) OMG to be able to operate in Texas.” The Lorena police, “felt like the change of the meeting location was purposely done to show support for the Bandido (sic) OMG in the Waco area to the Cossacks MC.”
TBR: Who the hell is the Lorena Police and when the hell did they become an OMG authority? First of all no club is required to join or pay the TCOCI dues. Clubs can come and go and they do. The above statements shows ignorance on the law enforcement's part, "they felt like" which means they had no clue, guess work?
“The following week” Texas DPS agents began to collaborate with the Waco PD about the forthcoming Confederation of Clubs and Independents meeting six weeks in the future. Waco’s gang intelligence detective had heard the same thing – that the COCI was coming to Waco.
TBR: More guess work, intelligence and WPD does not work
“On April 16, 2015,” the DPS in Waco was informed by Waco police “that the Bandidos OMG was enroute (sic) to Legends Cycles located at 3201 Interstate 35 Frontage Road in Waco to confront the owner which is also the President of the local chapter of Cossacks MC.” DPS agents, including Frost, “responded to the area of Legends Cycles along with marked and unmarked Waco Police Department units. Special Agents and Officers conducted surveillance of the area; however, no threats materialized.”
TBR: More than likely undercover was miss informed by CI's. Again guess work cause them to over react... At this point we think the pressure was building between LE units for something to happen.
“On April 16, 2015 at approximately 8:00 P.M., DPS Texas Highway Patrol Trooper Jeff Wachendorf observed forty to fifty members of the Cossack MC turning into the parking lot of Twin Peaks. Trooper Wachendorf notified the Waco Police Department and the McLennan County Sheriff’s Department who responded and began monitoring the area. No known disturbances occurred.”
TBR: False reports, Innuendos, overreactions...
Frost Begins Researching
There was, however, a disturbance at the Twin Peaks on April 23 that “resulted in the arrest of a Cossack MC member for unlawfully possessing a handgun on a licensed premise. A bandana containing a padlock was also seized from the same individual during this arrest.”
Frost and other DPS agents “began researching the Coalition of Clubs meeting on May 17, 2015. Special Agent Frost located an internet domain name http://unitedclubsof waco.org/. In researching this website’s calendar of events, Special Agent Frost observed on May 17, 2015 from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM a Region 1 Confederation of Clubs and Independents meeting at Twin Peaks in Waco. This information corroborated that of (the) Lorena PD.”
“Special Agent Frost also observed that the website’s colors are that of red/yellow or gold which are consistent with that of the Bandido (sic) OMG. Special Agent Frost observed under the ‘Member Clubs’ link a laundry list of known motorcycle clubs with Bandido (sic) OMG being at the top. Special Agent Frost did not observe the Cossacks MC as being a member.”
BTR: Clearly agent Frost is clueless. There are a lot of clubs & independents that are not members of the TCOCI. This is some kind of research. Any fool could have went to the internet and see the meeting dates publicly along with contact information. Did he bother to see what United Clubs does?
The SOI
“On May 1, 2015, a bulletin was released to law enforcement detailing the escalating tension between the Bandidos OMG and the Cossacks MC. This bulletin detailed the incident in the City of Lorena as well as others throughout the State. This information corroborated information being received by (Lorena gang investigator) Rogers and Special Agents. Detective Rogers spoke with a source of information who stated the Cossacks were planning to attend the Confederation of Clubs and Independents meeting at Twin Peaks in Waco. The Cossacks planned to address the issues between the two clubs.”
The reference to a “source of information” in the Waco area with knowledge of what the Cossacks planned to do 15 days in the future is interesting. The Aging Rebel has been told the name of the SOI but has been unable to confirm it.
“On May 8, 2015, Special Agent Frost, Detective Rogers and DPS CID Lieutenant Steven Schwartz met to discuss the Confederation of Clubs meeting. During this meeting, Detective Rogers (of the Lorena police) advised that due to the rising tension between the two groups and the fact that information being received that both groups will be in attendance the Waco Police Department was planning on having a police presence in the area during the meeting on May 17, 2015 at Twin Peaks to deter criminal behavior.”
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“Lieutenant Schwartz and Special Agent Frost agreed that DPS CID Special Agents should also be in the area to conduct surveillance, gather intelligence and be able to readily respond in the event that the Waco Police Department needs assistance. It was also agreed that DPS CID Special Agents would request the assistance of the Texas Highway Patrol in performing routine patrol duties on the major roadways in the area such as Interstate 35.”
At a meeting “on May 14, 2015” Lorena, Texas gang expert Rogers, who was apparently handling an SOI inside the Cossacks, “advised that the Waco Police Department would have marked patrol units consisting of two officers each in the parking lot and around the Twin Peaks area. These officers would be Waco Police Department Special Weapons and Tactics officers. Detective Rogers further advised that the Waco Police Department Street Crimes Unit would be in the area working routine patrol duties in case assistance is needed.”
“Rogers explained that information was being obtained that someone rented Twin Peaks for this meeting. Detective Rogers explained that the Waco Police Department had attempted to contact Twin Peaks management on several occasions; however, has had little to no cooperation. Special Agent Frost agreed to attempt to contact someone in the Twin Peaks Corporate office in an attempt to gather that information.”
Final Planning
It was at that May 14 meeting that the DPS agents “decided that the use of the department’s drop camera would be beneficial to supplement Special Agents (sic) ability of physical surveillance.”
After the meeting concluded, “Special Agent Frost attempted to make contact with Twin Peaks CEO Randy Dewitt. CEO Dewitt did not answer and Special Agent Frost left a message explaining Special Agent Frost had some questions about Twin Peaks Waco upcoming event.” An hour later, “Frost received a phone call from Twin Peaks General Counsel. Special Agent Frost explained the Coalition of Clubs meeting that was expected to take place on 05-17-15 at Twin Peaks and Law Enforcement had concerns about some members of certain motorcycle gangs who may be attending. Special Agent Frosts’ question was if the entire establishment was to be rented out for this meeting. General Counsel explained that the Twin Peaks in Waco was owned by a franchise and that they would make contact with that franchise attorney to make contact with Special Agent Frost.” An hour after that, Waco Twin Peaks owner “Jay Patel called Special Agent Chris Frost and identified himself as the owner of Twin Peaks in Waco. Special Agent Frost explained to Patel that it was DPS CID’S understanding that there was to be a meeting of the Coalition of Clubs on 05-17-15 and asked Patel if the entire Twin Peaks establishment was rented out for this meeting. Patel explained to Special Agent Frost that the Coalition of Clubs had only rented out the patio area of Twin Peaks. Special Agent Frost explained to Patel that there was rising tension between two motorcycle gangs that could possibly both be in attendance at this meeting. Patel explained to Special Agent Frost that Patel was told to expect approximately four hundred (400) bikes and due to this Twin Peaks had hired three security guards. Special Agent Frost advised Patel to call Special Agent Frost if any threats are received or heard of by Twin Peaks.”
“Once information was confirmed that only the patio was rented and the main portion of the restaurant would be open to the public, a decision was made to have Special Agents working in undercover capacity to be inside the restaurant. These Special Agents would be inside the restaurant to conduct surveillance and gather intelligence from inside the restaurant. A CID Operational Plan was completed and will be maintained at the Waco DPS CID Office.”
“On the morning of 05-17-15 at approximately 7:00 A.M., Special Agent Frost deployed the DPS CID covert camera. The camera was placed in the public right-of-way and was positioned to capture the patio area of Twin Peaks.”
“On 05-17-15 at about 10:30 AM, Special Agent Frost drove by Twin Peaks parking lot and observed what appeared to be employee’s only at the restaurant. Special Agent Frost proceeded to the DPS CID briefing location which was the Flying J Truck Stop parking lot located at 2409 South New Road in Waco. Once at the Flying J, Special Agent Frost met with Special Agents Cory Ledbetter, Justin Overcast, Mark Gerik, Chris Dale and Lieutenant Schwartz. While in the parking lot, Special Agents observed a large number of unknown motorcycle club or OMG members walking around and through the parking lot conducting what appeared to be counter surveillance. Special Agents moved the briefing to another location.”
“During the briefing, surveillance observed a large group of Cossack members at Twin Peaks in and around the patio area. A decision was made during the briefing by Lieutenant Schwartz not to send undercover Special Agents into the restaurant. A decision was made for Special Agents to pair up to conduct surveillance of the area and gather intelligence. Special Agent Frost and Dale were in one vehicle with Lieutenant Schwartz, Special Agent Ledbetter and Overcast were paired and Special Agent Gerik and Detective Rogers were paired.”
“Special Agents entered the parking lot of the Central Texas Market Place and began monitoring Twin Peaks at around 11:40 A.M. on 05-17-15. At approximately 12:24 P.M. Special Agent Gerik reported gunshots from the parking lot of Twin Peaks. Special Agents responded and assisted the Waco Police Department in securing individuals, administering first aid and securing the perimeter around Twin Peaks.”
TBR: Good try Bozo! You were just there to observe and collect intel with all these other agencies. The picture they're painting doesn't work. They clearly leave out the firepower gathered for an ambush. They are not as innocent as all of this sounds.
So there is more video to come. It's incredible! All these suspicions, conjectures and undercover work. There's a lot of stuff left out here. #1 It was poor intel research at best. They left out confrontations by undercover agents embedded with the Cossacks, they left out the viist by WPD and the Cossack leader.
if they were so concerned about public safety which was not mentioned here, what was the plan? All this equipment and multiple agencies, Its clear they were hyped ready for something to happen (anything) and ready to kill.....You can figure out the rest of the story...
Not one attempt was made to the people that secured the Patio for the TCOCI meeting, which was a local club....
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Bentley Motors is planning to launch its new flagship model Mulsanne in India by 2011. The company has not revealed a confirmed launch date of the model but the production of the new model will start in the UK next year. The car will be imported as completely built unit and will attract 100 percent import duty. The car will be powered by a 6.8-litre twin-turbo V8 engine, which produces 512 horsepower and 1,020Nm of torque and will cost around Rs 1.5 crore in the UK when it finally hits the market. Thus, when the car finally arrives in
India it will carry a price tag of nearly Rs. 3- 3.5 crores.
The super luxury Bentley Mulsanne will be completely handcrafted according to the customers' wishes and will go on sale in the US and Europe by mid-2010.
Bentley models have been faring quite well in the Indian market, also as its nearest competitor Rolls Royce models were available with much higher price tag of Rs. 3.9 crore – 4.1 crore. Now Rolls Royce has launched a cheaper model Ghost priced in the lower price band. It remains to be seen how it actually affects Bentley Continental sales in India.
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As the Rolls Royce is coming in action by launching models like Ghost, Bently is ready to give the threat! Mulsanne is good alternative to ageing Arnage (which is i think discontinued now).
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What does this mean??
Such cars are not made in bulk as they have very few takers. So, When you order one, It will be completely customized of your choice, From the colors of mats to the fabric of seats. Also, It takes minimum period of 6 Months for these cars to reach in your hand after booking. Same applies to Rolls Royce as well, They are hand crafted at Good wood, UK.
Well i have heard of this before just wanted to clarify what was it exactly! Thanks for the info!
Bentley drives in Mulsanne at Rs. 2.90 cr
NEW DELHI: British luxury carmaker Bentley Motors on Saturday unveiled its flagship grand tourer Rs.2.90-crore Mulsanne and announced plans to introduce two models priced over Rs.1.crore to cater to the high-end super luxury car market in India.
Powered by a 6.7-litre V8 twin-turbo charged petrol engine, each Mulsanne is handcrafted at Bentley's Crewe (U.K.) plant that requires a whopping 660 man-hours to assemble it. The super luxury sedan will be personalised according to the each owner's requirement. In India, the car will be delivered from October-November this year.
“India is the hub of luxury, the country of the erstwhile Maharajas who were the true patrons of bespoke luxury. We have been receiving heartening response from our valued customers and I think the launch of the Mulsanne will truly delight our loyal and discerning customers,” Bentley Regional Director (Middle East, Africa and India) Chris Buxton told journalists here.
“We will start global production of the Mulsanne in the second half of the year. We will produce 600 units of Mulsanne annually for the global market and the quota for India is yet to be decided. We have received global bookings even for the year 2011,” he said. Bentley used to produce the Mulsanne between 1980 and 1992, but the new car will be entirely different from the earlier version. Mr. Buxton also said the company would launch the convertible GTC Supersport in India within next six months, which is likely to be priced Rs.1-crore plus. The GTC Supersport was launched during the Geneva Auto Expo earlier this month. Stating that the super luxury car segment in India was expected to grow again this year, Mr. Buxton said: “India accounts for around 2 per cent of our global sales. On an average we sell around 25-50 units in the country and we see volume increasing.” The Indian super luxury car segment is of around 200-300 units.
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First Driving Footage of Bentley Mulsanne which is a replacement of arnage, btw how do you pronouce mulsanne??
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LPGA schedule to begin in January for first time in a long while
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LPGA to open in the Bahamas
Perhaps you can call it a Baker’s Dozen. For the first time in 13 years, the 2014 LPGA tournament schedule will kick off in January. On Wednesday the LPGA announced that the second-annual Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic will serve as the Tour’s season-opening event when it returns to the Ocean Club Golf Course at Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas, January 20-26, 2014.
Great news — it’s beautiful 99% of the time in the Bahamas in January, so that sounds like a better date with some much more predictable weather than when the inaugural event was held this past May. As you may recall, it wasn’t the best time to be on the island as storms and a flooded golf course hampered the tournament, which was eventually shortened to a 12-hole track and 3-day event (36 holes total to make it official).
From the release:
“It will be great to start our season in Paradise,” said LPGA Commissioner Michael Whan. “Playing in The Bahamas in an East Coast time zone will be a great way for our fans to watch our season-opening event live on Golf Channel.”
The move takes the tournament from late May to late January in advance of the Tour’s traditional February Asia-Pacific swing. In 2013, Ilhee Lee became a Rolex First-Time Winner with her victory at the inaugural Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic, which was rain-shortened to 36 holes.
“We are big believers in the LPGA,” said Barbasol/Pure Silk CEO Thomas Murray. “We had a tremendous inaugural tournament last May and are thrilled to have the opportunity to kick-off the LPGA season in The Bahamas.”
The last time the LPGA played an official money event in January was 2001, when three were contested during the month.
“The Bahamas are excited to be the season-opening event location for the LPGA tour in 2014. We think there is a special relationship between golf fans and early tour events as everyone dreams of summer and imagines the joy golf will bring them,” said Mr. David Johnson, Director General of The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism. “These are certainly emotions we are happy to be associated with in The Bahamas. We fully expect that our weather will be picture perfect for this event and the players, and viewers, will get a good look at the attractions of our destination. Our islands are a year-round destination for golfers and this January kick-off for the ladies golf season will surely showcase that,”
Golf Channel will feature four-day live coverage of the 72-hole, $1.3 million tournament.
Sounds like a wonderful event to cover, as well…
Better news — the chatter around the LPGA’s 2014 season has revolved around the introduction of more domestic tournaments, according to Golfweek’s Beth Ann Baldry:
But Golfweek has learned that a new event near Grand Rapids, Mich., is close to being finalized for next August. Meijer, a hypermarket chain based in Grand Rapids, is slated to be the title sponsor, and Blythefield Country Club in Belmont the event’s host. Though not an official LPGA event, the Meijer Charity Classic Pro-Am in Grand Rapids has attracted many players for years.
Blythefield opened in 1929 and hosted the 1953 Western Amateur, 1961 Western Open and 2005 Western Junior. Dale Morey, Arnold Palmer and Rickie Fowler won those three events, respectively.
Another possibility for 2014 comes as a bit of a shock: Nantucket. There’s an island few LPGA insiders would’ve considered. But hey, no complaints here. September in Nantucket, a.k.a. “Shoulder Season,” means 70-degree temps and lower prices.
Miacomet Golf Club, the island’s only public facility, would be the future site. (Miacomet and LPGA officials met in late August.) Owned by Nantucket Island Land Bank, the course is located on a portion of the island once inhabited by Native Americans. Miacomet means “the meeting place.”
I see another common theme: Sweet destination locations. Hope these deals are finalized soon. It’ll be great for the ladies to have a more steady domestic schedule, though they do a good job of bunching the tourneys overseas so that the players aren’t recovering from jetlag.
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By Mickey 2:11 pm24 Jul 2014
Capital Chefs: Ed Witt of The Partisan
Ed Witt in the kitchen of The Partisan
We’re revisiting our Capital Chefs feature with a series by music reporter Mickey McCarter. A lot has been happening recently in kitchens in D.C. restaurants, and Mickey takes a look into them from his usual seat at the bar in this series, which runs weekly on Thursdays. This week, Mickey talks to Ed Witt of The Partisan, which is probably the only time he’ll revisit a chef previously profiled!
The best show Ed Witt has seen in recent times was Two Man Advantage, a hockey hardcore band from Long Island, in a concert last summer.
To be clear, it’s a seven-man band that play hockey-themed hardcore punk. They put on quite a show.
That the congenial Mr. Witt has a great appreciation for hardcore isn’t much of surprise considering he looks like he fits right in with the punk rock crowd—he’s thin, bald and covered in tattoos. At the moment, he would rather be watching Ceremony, the California-based hardcore punk band, at the Rock and Roll Hotel. But instead he’s talking to me at a table in the back of The Partisan.
In reality, there is nothing Witt would rather be doing than cooking and spending time in his kitchen. And you can tell by the way his eyes light up when he discusses the food at The Partisan, which he opened a little over four months ago with Nate Anda and Michael Babin. For Witt, the experience harkens back to his time at Italian eatery Il Buco in New York City nearly a decade ago.
“When I worked in Il Buco in New York, I was there for three years. And I always wanted to open a place that was similar to that in that style but more American and not so Italian and Old World. It all came together with that,” Witt told me.
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By Marissa Bialecki 3:00 pm11 Mar 2011
Capital Chefs: Ed Witt of 701 (Part 2)
‘To make a good salad is…….’
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The recipe for this week is a simple one, but can be used in variety of ways. According to Witt, these maple candied walnuts are used to garnish the red wine pear, arugula, date and goat cheese salads at 701. While that sounds delicious, I’m sure you creative and ambitious foodies could find plenty of other uses for these walnuts. Read on for the full recipe.
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‘Chef Ed Witt of 701′
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Like many chefs I talk to, Ed Witt went into the restaurant industry in a sort of roundabout way. He had cooked in high school and enjoyed it, but it wasn’t until after four majors and three years in college that he decided to really pursue being a chef.
After stints in San Francisco and New York City, Witt returned to the DC area in 2009. Although he is originally from Binghamton, New York, Witt went to high school in DC and later attended University of Maryland. In June 2010, he became part of restauranteur Ashok Bajaj’s empire when he was hired as the executive chef of 701 Restaurant in Penn Quarter.
At times working in a restaurant downtown with a largely tourist-based clientele can be challenging. But for Witt there are plenty of positives in the kitchen. “I get to be pretty creative as long as it’s within our costs,” Witt says. At 701, Witt gets to experiment with housemade charcuterie and he’s excited about getting a pasta extruder for the restaurant. For those not familiar, a pasta extruder is a machine that can make pasta in various shapes that cannot be done by hand. “We keep pushing it, keep the menu fresh and keep changing things,” says Witt. Continue reading →
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Kidepo National Park Uganda’s best park for Uganda tours, wildlife tours
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This follows the listing of Kidepo National Park in north eastern Uganda as one of the 10 best parks in Africa by CNN Travel, a US television of global repute.
According to the publication, Africa is regarded as a destination for safari, but Kidepo Valley National Park, covering 1,442 square kilometers is one of the top 10 parks where travelers can find the most outstanding trips.
Kidepo was rated highly by the CNN Travel for its spectacular landscapes and great buffalo herds. “With sprawling savannah and soaring mountains, Kidepo National Park might be the most picturesque park in Africa,” stated the publication.
This comes hot on the heels of another landmark rating of Uganda as one of the top 10 tourism destination globally in the year 2013 by the National Geographic. The National Geographic is an international travel channel affiliated to the National Geographic Society. Also, the Lonely Planet, a travel magazine, rated Uganda as the best travel destination for 2012.
Lillian Nsubuga, the public relations manager of the Uganda Wildlife Authority, told New Vision that the accolades lavished on Uganda shows the richness of the country.
A herd of buffaloes in Kidepo Valley national park
But she pointed out inadequate infrastructure, particularly roads that are undermining exploitation of places like Kidepo. “Foreigners who have been to Kidepo rate it highly because it is one place that gives you value for money,” she said, adding that poaching by the Toposa, a tribe from South Sudan, remains a challenge.
Sharing borders with South Sudan and Kenya, Kidepo is Uganda’s most beautiful, remote and least-explored park, according to the publication. Regarded as a hard-to-reach place in northern Uganda because of the poor state of the roads, Kidepo gets fewer visitors than any other grassland park in Uganda.
“Those who take the trouble to get here are rewarded with phenomenal wildlife sightings and a level of exclusivity that can rarely be got at any cost in neighboring countries,” stated CNN Travel.
“Kidepo Valley Park landscapes are never ending and simply take your breath away – and a stillness only broken by the cry from the wild,” stated a source who has visited. “The sounds of the winds sweeping through the valley, you are amazed that such a place as Kidepo Valley Park even exists.”
He added: “There is an abundance of wildlife, stunning scenery and an absence of people with no caravans of vehicles meandering down the game tracks.” Apart from huge herds of buffaloes, Kidepo is also endowed with lions, elephants, giraffes, leopards, cheetahs, wild dogs, ostriches, stripped hyenas and hunting dogs.
Others are antelopes such as eland, bush buck, bush duskier, defassa water buck, bohor reed buck, Jackson’s hartebeest and oribi. In addition to the ostriches, it also has plenty of bird life.
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American Ultra [Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD]
American Ultra is a fast-paced action comedy about Mike (Eisenberg), a seemingly hapless and unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe (Stewart), is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive.
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Proving that the power of true friendship knows no bounds, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is a uniquely funny, uplifting tale that will steal your heart and leave you laughing! Meet Greg Gaines, a quirky teenager trying to coast through high school while making hilariously mediocre film parodies with his coworker Earl. But when he is forced to spend time with a terminally ill classmate at the request of his meddling mother, Greg embarks on his most ambitious project yet: to let his guard down and connect with those around him in ways he never imagined. Bonus Features:**Theatrical Feature Blu-ray**Audio Commentary by Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon **Deleted Scenes **Abstract: Movie for Rachel **This Is Where You Learn How the Movie Was Made**A Conversation with Martin Scorsese and Alfonso Gomez-Rejon **Greg Gaines and Earl Jackson Productions **Greg s Trailer, Gallery & More!**Digital HD
Proving that the power of true friendship knows no bounds, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is a uniquely funny, uplifting tale that will steal your heart and leave you laughing! Meet Greg Gaines, a quirky teenager trying to coast through high school while making hilariously mediocre film parodies with his coworker Earl. But when he is forced to spend time with a terminally ill classmate at the request of his meddling mother, Greg embarks on his most ambitious project yet: to let his guard down and connect with those around him in ways he never imagined. Bonus Features:**Theatrical Feature**Audio Commentary by Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon**Deleted Scenes**Abstract: Movie for Rachel **Greg s Trailer **Gallery
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Intern, The (DVD)In “The Intern,†Ben Whittaker (Robert De Niro) is a 70-year-old widower who has discovered that retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway).]]>
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Robert Redford & Nick Nolte star as old friends who make the improbable decision to hike the 2,200 mile Appalachian Trail, and that is when the fun begins. Based on Bill Bryson's bestseller, the movie co-stars Emma Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, Nick Offerman & Kristen Schaal.
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Published On: Wed, Feb 23rd, 2011
Movies | By Stephen Nevets
Bill Murray talks ‘Ghostbusters 3,’ the new script on his desk
While the Howard Stern Show promoting the DVD release of Get Low, Bill Murray finally opening discussed the possibilities of a Ghostbusters 3 film, especially since Ivan Reitman confirmed the script has been written and the Murray was “sort of the holdup.”
“Yeah, I guess I’m the problem. Before I was an asset, [but] now I’m a problem. There’s a script somewhere [on my desk], but I haven’t read it yet.”
Stern threw out that “it’s a bullsh*t idea” and that “Ghostbusters has had its time and it’s time to move on.
“There’s a little bit of that. I only made one sequel and it was Ghostbusters 2 and it didn’t end up the way it was presented….About five years after we did the first one, the clever agents got us all together in a room and… we really are funny together, I mean they are funny people – Harold [Ramis] and Danny [Aykroyd] and myself, with Ivan [Reitman] and maybe one or two other people. We were just blindingly funny for about an hour or so and the agents, there was just foam coming off of them.
They had this pitch and Danny and Harold had concocted some story ideas… and it was a story, it was good story. I think I had even read one or two [scripts for Ghostbusters 2] that Danny had rolled out beforehand, but this one was a good one. I said, ‘Ok, we can do that one.’
It was just kind of fun to have all of us together… I mean [Rick] Moranis, Annie [Potts] – these people are just sterling people to begin with.”
Murray continues, confirms Reitman’s desire to make another, saying that “…Ivan wants to make it and I… I owe him, ya know. He’s puzzled that I haven’t gotten to this one.”
Robin Quivers chimes in, asking it Murray will ever get to it…read this script.
“Well, I’ll get to it… I gotta get to it – I feel bad. I got a message and I think people – I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings – it’s not the foremost thing in my mind, so I don’t think about it.
You know, the studio gets excited every 10 years or so. What they’d really like to do is recreate the franchise. I remember when the new Ghostbusters was going to be Chris Rock, Chris Farley and Chris Crane… Kris Kringle… someone [laughs] – they had it together.”
Ivan Reitman on the set of “Ghostbusters” with Dan Akroyd and Bill Murray
Stephen Nevets - Stephen is a contributor and writer on The Dispatch. Stephen is the founder and editor for the Steven Spielberg Fan Club website and contributes to pop culture stories on The Dispatch, especially upcoming movie news. Beginning in 2016, Stephen took the role of Managing Editor for the Tampa Dispatch.
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Tag archive for ‘The Global Warming Tour’
By Brandon Jones On Monday, June 25th, 2018
How the world is divided on global warming, James Hansen and climate change
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Senators plan to investigate National Science Foundation climate change grants
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Can anyone save the planet? These personalities definitely have a crucial role
What images do you have in mind when you think on how last year looked in terms of environmental issues? Do you remember the video of the polar bear who was striving to find food? Have you seen pictures with glaciers More...
By Brandon Jones On Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018
Climate change expedition halted due to ‘extreme ice conditions’
A team of scientists says it had to abandon an expedition through Hudson Bay because of hazardous ice conditions off the coast of Newfoundland caused by climate change. photo/Agrant141 per wikimedia commons “…bad More...
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American Meteorological Society’s new study on global warming reduces forecasts by 30 to 45%
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A new study published in the journal Nature by top climate scientists points to data contrasting the shocking warnings of underwater cities, extinction of polar bears and Al Gore graphs. The study’s conclusion More...
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Meteorologist Joe Bastardi on climate change: it’s ‘witchcraft’ ‘flat out inanity and deception now’
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2015 Featured Playwrights and
2015 Featured Playwrights and Plays
When a hapless traveler unwittingly sets the dreaded Red Dragon loose on Japan, there is only one hope for salvation: Silver Samurai! Danger! Excitement! Sushi! Armando Abarca-Salvador conjures visions of myths and heroes, monsters and emperors, in his play, Silver Samurai.
Armando is a student at Tubman Elementary School.
Ja’Neza Andrews-Washington’s The Confusion of Being in the Army follows Qy-fee, a recent high school graduate and Army recruit. Qy-fee’s best friends are headed to college but he is pulled in a different direction. Will Qy-fee find his happiness? Will his friends stick with him? Will they ever be reunited?
Ja’Neza is a student at Powell Elementary School.
In Aoife Butler’s play Empathy vs. Appetite, the celestial bodies wage a war for humankind’s future. The Moon wants to eat us all and the Sun wants to save us. With the help of twins Anabeth and Amanda, will the Sun prevail? Who knew the Moon could be so mean?!
Aoife is a student at Washington Latin PCS.
Everyone knows that tigers eat mice. But Tiger doesn’t want to eat the Mouse at the top of the tree: he wants to save him. Can Tiger beat his father and the conniving Eagle to reach the Mouse in time? Will he overcome his father’s oppression and live his own life? The answer is in Jabari Hicks’ play, The Tiger and the Mouse.
Jabari is a student at Savoy Elementary School.
Master Bacon has had just about enough. His friends keep getting eaten, the evil butler is always afoot and Bacontown is on the verge of collapse. Will a last-ditch alliance with the pigs be enough to stop “Butler Bacon Day”? Find out in Rachel Masterson’s The Bacon’s Revenge!
Rachel is a student at Hyde-Addison Elementary School.
In Aijah Royal’s Trip to the New World, Kathren seems like a normal girl with a normal life. She goes to high school and argues with her dad—except that Kathren does it all in High School World, inside of a cell phone! When Kathren decides to break free of the bonds of Wi-Fi and see the New World, she finds new challenges and technical difficulties aplenty!
Aijah Royal is a student at Orr Elementary School.
Don’t go out after 10pm, or Losxy Docxy will snatch you! In this chilling tale inspired by African folklore, playwright Evan Alston tells the story of a family still haunted by the mysterious man who took their father. Find out what happens when Brean ventures out after dark and comes face to face with the figure of his nightmares … you may need to sleep with the lights on afterwards!
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It’s a showdown between fairies and snowmen in The Ruler of All Worlds, when Emily and Joe face off in an election for the coveted position of “Ruler of All Worlds.” Vanessa Iglesias’ play offers a humorous look at the political process, with a twist ending!
Vanessa is a student at The Lab School of Washington.
High school student Ayo dreams of performing spoken word, but her friends and family think she’s wasting her time with “the arts.” In Ayo’s Audience, playwright Kaitlyn Murphy tells the poignant story of young person finding her voice and the courage to pursue her passion.
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Time travel, mad scientists and an unforgettable protagonist collide in Mrs. Chang, Nanichi Vargas’ tale of a spirited elderly woman who travels back to 1960s Chinatown to recapture her younger days. Along the way, Mrs. Chang learns important lessons about reliving the past and appreciating the present!
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Dominique Butler's Like Father, Like Son tells the story of Domo, whose father has been in and out of prison his whole life. After Domo has his own run in with the law, he has to decide whether he wants to follow in his father's footsteps or choose his own path—before it’s too late.
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How far would you go to protect a sibling? That's the question that Dania Canales' Sophia and Ernesto! asks. Watch as a brother and sister's bond is tested as they deal with issues of love, honesty and faith in the aftermath of a horrible accident.
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James is a student at Chelsea School.
Tim Brown just wants to be somebody, but first he has to escape the bullies that make his life at school a nightmare. Can a new student and an unlikely ally help him make his dreams a reality? Find out in Edward Wade's A Nobody!
Edward is a student at Anacostia High School.
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Communicable Diseases Intelligence, Volume 24, Number 3 - 16 March 2000 /
Factors influencing vaccination uptake
This report published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 24, No 3, 16 March 2000 contains current Australian research on factors influencing vaccination as discussed at a workshop held at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney.
Workshop Report: Current Australian research on the behavioural, social and demographic factors influencing immunisation, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney, March 1998*
Edited by Jill M Forrest, Margaret A Burgess and Peter B McIntyre, National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, PO Box 3515, Westmead, New South Wales 2141
Introduction | Discussion Topics | Conclusions | Appendix 1 | References
Current Australian research on factors influencing vaccination was discussed at a workshop held at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney, in March 1998, sponsored by the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS). The application of decision making theory to vaccination behaviour, the expectations and experiences of mothers, and reasons why parents fail to vaccinate their children were considered. Mothers' perceptions of the risks of vaccines, preferences of parents and providers for the mode of vaccine delivery, and community and social factors were all found to be part of the framework within which vaccination is accepted in Australia. Consumer considerations, media influences and overseas comparisons were discussed. Commun Dis Intell 2000;24:51-53.
* Detailed conference report available from authors at the above address.
As effective immunisation has led to the decline of many diseases,1 people have become more aware of the side effects of vaccines. Most parents plan to have their children immunised; a recent Tasmanian study showed that newly delivered mothers were willing and eager to have their babies immunised, and that incomplete immunisation was primarily due to delay.2 In industrialised countries lower vaccination uptake is associated with younger parents, single mothers, larger families, less exposure to the media, and lower socioeconomic status. In a Melbourne based study, reported barriers to vaccination included lack of detailed and balanced information, health providers not listening to or understanding mothers' concerns, service problems and concerns about minor side effects.3 In an attempt to approach the issue of vaccination uptake in a broader way the influence of behavioural, social and demographic factors was discussed in this two-day workshop. The speakers and panel members, listed in Appendix 1, included a range of health professionals and consumers. This article summarises the key points arising from discussions at the meeting.
Risk perception and decision making
Parents' beliefs influence their acceptance of vaccination, and the perception of risk is subjective. Many non-vaccinating parents believe the risk of disease is low, the risk of vaccine side effects is high, and/or vaccination is ineffective. The Melbourne based study, conducted in 1995 with 45 mothers, showed that 'complete immunisers' were fearful of the outcomes of unfamiliar diseases, and 'incomplete immunisers' considered vaccines less effective.3 Specifically, many 'non-immunisers' were fearful of unknown/long-term side effects of vaccines, mistrusted the motives of health providers, and believed vaccination was a social experiment; they felt diet and building up general immunity were viable and safe alternatives.
Except for a few highly educated mothers who make a deliberate decision not to vaccinate, most people do not make decisions about health purely on the scientific evidence. Decision making is complex.4 Focus group studies in western Sydney suggested that parental reactions to children's immediate distress are stronger than their feelings about later benefits from vaccination. It was proposed that this can be countered by strong commitments to vaccination, strong social support, and depictions of children suffering from diseases (for example, television advertisements of children with pertussis). In our society childhood vaccination is a cultural truism ('what every good mother does for her child') which many accept automatically, without thinking through the issues.
Parents' perception that the risk associated with vaccination could be increased when a child has a minor illness may delay vaccination. 'Overloading the child's immune system' is a common parental fear; many are concerned about the number and mix of vaccines, especially for vulnerable (for example, asthmatic) children. The perception that vaccines are dangerous, parents' belief that they can control a disease should it develop, doubts about vaccine effectiveness, and belief that doctors overstate the dangers of disease may all prevent or delay vaccination,5 as may decisions made under conditions of uncertainty (if you are unsure of the outcome, you are less likely to make a decision).
Consent can be difficult, especially for overseas visitors or divided families, and the age of consent varies between States and Territories. Even if parents consent, children cannot be vaccinated unless they are willing. Adolescents are difficult to reach, and have a poor perception of risk.6 Difficulties parents and vaccination providers have with consent forms are magnified in adolescents.
Improving uptake
Vaccination could be combined with other important preventive interventions for children. Flexible delivery modalities and the cultural appropriateness of the message are important, as is the relationship between vaccination and membership of ethnic communities. Health providers should listen to parents and treat their concerns seriously. In the past, minor illnesses were accepted as contraindications for vaccination; the change in policy and practice needs to be explained, and parents' wishes should be respected if they are not convinced that it is in the interests of their children to be vaccinated when they are sick.
In Victoria, home vaccination of unvaccinated children identified through the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR) was judged as cost-effective.7 Melbourne mothers favoured maternal and child health nurses vaccinating during a well-child visit, vaccination at child-care centres and opportunistic vaccination by general practitioners and mobile vans, but opposed unspecified government incentives, or withholding some of the maternity allowance until children were fully vaccinated.3 Tasmanian mothers felt that general practitioners should provide mother-friendly appointments and better information about procedures, benefits and reactions. Many favoured general practitioner based outreach programs, with home visits.2
Influence of providers
A western Sydney study found that, although parents and general practitioners preferred different regimens, 90% of parents were willing for their general practitioner to influence their decision.8 Tasmanian2 and Victorian3 mothers expressed trust in health providers, whose influence has also been noted in overseas studies.9
Information for parents and providers
Melbourne parents felt that reliable information was one of their greatest needs, and that lack of suitable detailed information was a barrier to informed decision-making.3 Recently, access to local publications about vaccination from the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care have become more easily available on the Internet (http://immunise.health.gov.au). These are The Australian immunisation handbook, 6th edition (updated 7th edition available soon), Understanding childhood immunisation, and Myths and realities (which addresses specific allegations of the anti-vaccination lobby).
Most people's understanding of vaccines, vaccination and the diseases they prevent is gleaned from the printed media, but published anti-vaccination arguments may unduly influence them. However, in a review of 40 months of Australian print media coverage, only 115 of 2,440 (4.7%) articles and letters about childhood vaccination contained statements opposing vaccination.10
It was found that financial incentives encouraged prenatal visits and childhood check-ups in France and Austria, and Britain used financial rewards to increase general practitioner vaccination rates.11 In Australia, the General Practitioner Immunisation Incentive (GPII) Scheme aims to improve low vaccination rates by monetary rewards to general practitioners and by parental financial incentives.12
The Workshop's main conclusions were: (a) decision making theory suggests that people do not make scientifically rational decisions; (b) parents find difficulty assessing the risks of vaccines and the risks of diseases; (c) communication and services should be tailored to the needs of parents; (d) improving parenting skills could be combined with improving parents' health-related behaviour; (e) different strategies are required to reach adolescents and adults (rather than parents), especially high-risk adolescents; (f) incentives need evaluation; and (g) consumers must be informed about choices and services, and their views and rights should be respected.
Suggested interventions included: (a) targeting incompletely vaccinated children using the ACIR; (b) educating parents through their children; (c) providing a wider range of information packages; (d) overcoming barriers to access; (e) involving consumers; and (f) identifying gaps in behavioural research.
Overall it was agreed that people need to be able to make informed choices about health care and that some people make unusual choices, but compulsory vaccination is unacceptable. Taking account of the social context of people's lives is extremely relevant to the concerns of the health consumer movement, and extends and enriches the medical/scientific model of research, thinking and decision making. As stated in a recent study, 'It is essential that personalised strategies are developed to assist each mother to take advantage of immunisation for her child within the context of her personal socioeconomic status, cultural beliefs and life style.'2
Workshop speakers and panel members
NCIRS: Dr Helen Achat, Mr Mark Bartlett, Professor Margaret Burgess, Dr Jill Forrest (for Dr Margaret Kilmartin, University of Tasmania), Dr Peter McIntyre
Research and Development Unit, University of Western Sydney, Macarthur: Dr Pat Bazeley, Ms Lyn Kemp
Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne: Ms Lyndal Bond
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Sydney: Associate Professor Simon Chapman
Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University: Ms Cathy Frazer
Department of Evidence-Based Care and General Practice, Flinders University, South Australia: Ms Anne Magarey
Health Issues Centre, Melbourne: Ms Merinda Northrop
Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children: Professor Kim Oates
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Adult / March 2, 2018
Author: Robin McKinley. Summary: The only daughter of a beloved king and queen, Princess Lissar has grown up in the shadow of her parent’s infinite adoration for each other—an infatuation so great that it could only be broken by the queen’s unexpected passing. As Lissar reaches womanhood, it becomes clear to everyone in the kingdom that she has inherited her late mother’s breathtaking beauty. But on the eve of her seventeenth birthday, Lissar’s exquisite looks become a curse… Betrayed and abused, Lissar is forced to flee her home to escape her father’s madness. With her loyal dog Ash at her side, Lissar finds refuge in the mountains where she has the chance to heal and start anew. And as she unlocks a door to a world of magic, Lissar finds the key to her survival and begins an adventure beyond her wildest dreams. (Published Summary) My Thoughts: I’m not familiar with the fairy tale (Donkeyskin) this springs from, but long before I got to the end and saw the author’s note I knew the story was a fairy-tale. From the fairy-tale epitaphs like “the fairest woman in seven kingdoms” to the dreamy prose, from the conscious tropes to the startling…
Young Adult / January 6, 2018
Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic. Author: Leia Bardugo. Summary: Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns. Travel to a world of dark bargains struck by moonlight, of haunted towns and hungry woods, of talking beasts and gingerbread golems, where a young mermaid’s voice can summon deadly storms and where a river might do a lovestruck boy’s bidding but only for a terrible price. (Published Summary) My Thoughts: Oh, this is very pretty. Each fairytale echoes an older, familiar tale, but they’re not retellings. Some of them are set before the story they echo, or after, and some of them just say what if. What if the girl realized that three impossible missions is an uncertain way to choose a husband, and said no? What if the stepmother wasn’t always evil, but assumptions were made and real culprits overlooked? What if the characters looked and saw the truth of life and didn’t believe in happily-ever-after, but still found a happily-right-now? Leigh Bardugo is intimately familiar with fairy tales, with their language and their rules, with their heroes and their villains, with their slide from whimsical to bloody and back again. Anyone can craft a clever what-if twist, can claim to re-write…
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Uncategorized / October 17, 2017
Not all the books I read go into reviews, for varying reasons. Because I didn’t finish them; because it would be too much work and I’m feeling lazy; because they’re just not worth it. More often than not, though, those reasons have to do with the Content Review portion, and not with my thoughts (unless it was just so bland I didn’t have any thoughts). So, I thought I’d try out a new feature: bite sized reviews. Titles that didn’t make it into normal full-info reviews, and my thoughts on them. These Children Who Come At You With Knives, by Jim Knipfel. The best comparison that comes to mind is Douglas Adams gone wrong. If you’ve read the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – or any of his books, really – you’re familiar with the random chaotic humor and odd juxtapositions. I think these ‘fairytales’ were aiming for something of the sort, but it’s a much cruder humor, and not nearly as effective. In the end, though, the Hitchhiker’s Guide has bleak, cynical undertones, despite the humor. It says quietly there’s nobody Out There after all, and it doesn’t really matter what you do, because everything is chance and nothing…
The Lost Kingdom of Bamarre
Middle Grade / Juvenile / August 31, 2017
Author: Gail Carson Levine. Summary: Peregrine strives to live up to the ideal of her people, the Latki—and to impress her parents: affectionate Lord Tove, who despises only the Bamarre, and stern Lady Klausine. Perry runs the fastest, speaks her mind, and doesn’t give much thought to the castle’s Bamarre servants, whom she knows to be weak and cowardly. But just as she’s about to join her father on the front lines, she is visited by the fairy Halina, who reveals that Perry isn’t Latki-born. She is Bamarre. The fairy issues a daunting challenge: against the Lakti power, Perry must free her people from tyranny. (Published summary) My Thoughts: Given that I’ve loved Gail Carson Levine’s other works, I was very disappointed. This didn’t work at all for me. It’s not just a ‘teaching story’, that’s blatantly focused on particular issues (racism and prejudice) and putting forth morals about them instead of telling a compelling story that leaves the reader with new thoughts on those issues. No, it’s also a teaching story that, unwittingly I’m sure, brushes away the very points it’s trying to make. Peregrine, the main character, spends a lot of the book first overcoming her own prejudice…
Red Rider’s Hood
Young Adult / August 16, 2017
Dark Fusion #2. Author: Neal Shusterman. Summary: In this second entry in Neal Shusterman’s Dark Fusion series, he twists the familiar fairy tale “Red Riding Hood” into a brooding story about a city plagued by gangs. Red, a boy famous for cruising around in a bloodcolored Mustang, takes on the Wolves after they rob his grandmother. He decides to beat them by joining them, to learn their weaknesses. After a while, however, he finds himself drawn to the pack. At the next full moon, will Red take up their murderous ways, or will he take them down? (Published Summary) My Thoughts: Quite a creepy little retelling of Red Riding Hood. I like the distance achieved, where the story is obviously fairy-tale based but far enough away to be its own story, and I think Shusterman did a good job with the rather dark, gritty city setting and atmosphere. Not sure I agree with the main character’s choices, but it’s not a story where the right/wrong sides are pinned down hard and fast – it’s fairly open-ended for the reader to decide. (Note that the Dark Fusion series is more a grouping than a series… no need to read the books…
Frogkisser!
Middle Grade / Juvenile , Young Adult / June 8, 2017
Author: Garth Nix. Summary: The last thing she needs is a prince. The first thing she needs is some magic. Poor Princess Anya. Forced to live with her evil stepmother’s new husband, her evil stepstepfather. Plagued with an unfortunate ability to break curses with a magic-assisted kiss. And forced to go on the run when her stepstepfather decides to make the kingdom entirely his own. Aided by a loyal talking dog, a boy thief trapped in the body of a newt, and some extraordinarily mischievous wizards, Anya sets off on a Quest that, if she plays it right, will ultimately free her land—and teach her a thing or two about the use of power, the effectiveness of a well-placed pucker, and the finding of friends in places both high and low. My Thoughts: It was funny for the first chapter or so, but then it got just a little bit bland. Everything was just a little too humorous and stylized for my taste, although I realize that the author did it on purpose, and the message was a little too blatant. Mostly, it felt too much like middle-grade magic, not like Garth Nix fantasy. However, the message was good, even…
Young Adult / June 7, 2017
A Twisted Tale #3. Author: Liz Braswell. Summary: What if Belle’s mother cursed the Beast? Belle is a lot of things: smart, resourceful, restless. She longs to escape her poor provincial town for good. She wants to explore the world, despite her father’s reluctance to leave their little cottage in case Belle’s mother returns—a mother she barely remembers. Belle also happens to be the captive of a terrifying, angry beast. And that is her primary concern. But Belle touches the Beast’s enchanted rose, intriguing images flood her mind—images of the mother she believed she would never see again. Stranger still, she sees that her mother is none other than the beautiful Enchantress who cursed the Beast, his castle, and all its inhabitants. Shocked and confused, Belle and the Beast must work together to unravel a dark mystery about their families that is twenty-one years in the making. My Thoughts: The prose was fairly mediocre, but I really liked the changes the author made to the Beauty and the Beast story. It’s not an easy one to pull off as a good retelling; weird enough that outside of the fairy-tale context often doesn’t work at all. But the background she built…
Middle Grade / Juvenile / June 6, 2017
Author: Kelly Barnhill. Summary: Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the forest, Xan, is kind and gentle. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster named Glerk and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, Fyrian. Xan rescues the abandoned children and deliver them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing the babies with starlight on the journey. One year, Xan accidentally feeds a baby moonlight instead of starlight, filling the ordinary child with extraordinary magic. Xan decides she must raise this enmagicked girl, whom she calls Luna, as her own. To keep young Luna safe from her own unwieldy power, Xan locks her magic deep inside her. When Luna approaches her thirteenth birthday, her magic begins to emerge on schedule–but Xan is far away. Meanwhile, a young man from the Protectorate is determined to free his people by killing the witch. Soon, it is up to Luna to protect those who have protected her–even if it means the end of the loving, safe world she’s always known….
The Silver Trumpet
Middle Grade / Juvenile / May 31, 2017
Author: Owen Barfield. Summary: In this delightful fantasy of kings and queens, a magical Silver Trumpet, a jester dwarf, and castle intrigues, English author Owen Barfield has created an enduring tale to captivate the imaginations of all readers. (Goodreads Summary) My Thoughts: Really, a lovely fairy tale in the old style. A handful of interesting metaphors for older readers to discuss, but nothing that tangles the story up or leaves it moralistic or boring. Content Review: Sexual Content: None. Language: One instance of ‘demme’. Violence: One character is killed by fright. There are two instances of planned mob-violence, but both times it is stopped.
The Wish Granter
Young Adult / May 17, 2017
Ravenspire #2. Author: C.J. Redwine. Summary: The world has turned upside down for Thad and Ari Glavan, the bastard twins of Súndraille’s king. Their mother was murdered. The royal family died mysteriously. And now Thad sits on the throne of a kingdom whose streets are suddenly overrun with violence he can’t stop. Growing up ignored by the nobility, Ari never wanted to be a proper princess. And when Thad suddenly starts training Ari to take his place, she realizes that her brother’s ascension to the throne wasn’t fate. It was the work of a Wish Granter named Alistair Teague who tricked Thad into wishing away both the safety of his people and his soul in exchange for the crown. So Ari recruits the help of Thad’s enigmatic new weapons master, Sebastian Vaughn, to teach her how to fight Teague. With secret ties to Teague’s criminal empire, Sebastian might just hold the key to discovering Alistair’s weaknesses, saving Ari’s brother—and herself. But Teague is ruthless and more than ready to destroy anyone who dares stand in his way—and now he has his sights set on the princess. And if Ari can’t outwit him, she’ll lose Sebastian, her brother…and her soul. (Published…
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Sunday "Tips Off" Mystery House: "Girl Changed Her Mind," He says
Billy Sunday in one of his characteristic sermons recently told a body of society women at the home of Mrs. Rufus Dawes in Evanston (Illinois) that God does not permit things to happen by chance. Coupled with this remark he gave an example--a suggestion of the sort of life romance one sees often in the movies or on the stage but seldom in life.
"Nothing happens by chance," he said. "We are put here for a purpose. I know of a house by the lake, beautifully furnished for a bride. But the girl changed her mind and it still stands there, all boarded up. The furniture is still in that unoccupied house--dust covered."
The great evangelist told no more. An Evening American reporter followed up this suggestion of a remarkable story of real life and found it nestling close to the little Winona lake, Indiana, not far from the home of Ma and Billy Sunday. You will find this romantic story on this page.
Cupid's Great Tragedy
Winona Lake House still awaits Bride
Love Yet Abides though Wedding Never Occurred-
Aged Couple makes Regular Pilgrimages
Here Blighted Romance Lies Buried
Winona Lake's Mystery House Which Has Stood Fifteen Years Silently Beckoning for a Bride that will not come
Under the willows that feather Bruning's Point," on the shore of Lake Winona, stands "The Mystery House" its doors locked, its windows sealed. "It has stood so for fifteen years, waiting for something," say the cottagers of Winona Lake, the little Indiana resort town. None of the scant 50 Winter villagers or the thousands of Summer visitors who gape and gossip about it know exactly what this "something" is.
They are told it is a "bride." They are told a romantic story-a real romance. They have never seen within the house and never expect to. They get the story from the carpenter, the plumber and the piano tuner, told when they returned from their thrilling assignments to repair the interior of the mysterious dwelling.
These men brought back the heart-stirring information that the house was completely and lavishly furnished, that tinder and logs stood on the hearth, ready for the match, that a silver service for two was set on the dinner table, that two leather chairs were waiting under a reading lamp, that the piano stood, top lifted, keys ready for human hands; that two sleeping rooms, beds made, combs and brushes on chiffoniers, slippers laid out, everything ready for occupancy, were arrayed.
Who Built Mansion
"And," said the favored artisans, "one of the rooms is for a woman, because there are dressing tables in it, covered with these slim, ivory backed things that women use for their hands and hair."
The townspeople know that W. H. Bruning, the wealthy President of the F. J. Bruning and Son Company, spice and tea, wholesale merchants of Evansville, Ind., and New York, built the mysterious mansion in 1903, calling it "Merbrink" because it stood on the brink of the lake and that twice every month since erecting it, fifteen years ago, he comes back to visit it.
He has never spent a night in it. The week-ends in Winona Lake he spends in the "Swiss Terrace" Hotel, which is managed by Mrs. John Cooper and her daughter, Miss Nellie Cooper.
The cottagers of the resort came in time to recognize that deep and sincere affection existed between this dignified man of the outer world and Miss Nellie Cooper. On Sunday afternoons it was the habit of the woman and her mother to accompany their guest to the "Mystery House" to enter with him via the one key for the door which he carried and on such occasions the villagers, making it their business to pass by, could hear the piano within, awakening under the younger woman's fingers.
Pilgrimages Discontinued
Only within the last year has this ceremonial been discontinued, the failure of Mrs. Cooper's health causing the daughter to remain at home while Mr. Bruning makes his pilgrimage to the closed house alone.
The cottagers long ago handed the story about that the owner of "The Mystery House" was waiting for Miss Cooper to marry him. They told visitors that it was she, for whom the bridal house had been prepared.
But time has worked to show their early prophecies were slow in coming true. Fifteen summers have passed and still no wedding occurs to satisfy the pleading silence of the house.
The onlookers have seen age creep on the three who used to listen to the piano behind the closest blinds. The mother of Miss Cooper is now an invalid, close to 90. Miss Cooper herself nearing 60, for all the beautiful frost in her hair, has youthfulness of spirit as though some strange inner peace buoyed her through the years.
Bruning, straight to, immaculate, impressive, bears seventy snows in his thick hair without bending. His charities are as numerous as his words are infrequent. Reputed a millionaire, his gifts to the religious organizations of Winona Lake have borne out in fact, the impressions of his kindliness.
He is the friend and fellow board member of William Jennings Bryan, serving as a director of the Winona Assembly and Bible Conference, of which the "Commoner" is president. His business wisdom and foresight make him the pillar upon which the clergymen in the management lean.
The Real Story
And when the women lodgers at "Swiss Terrace" grow confidential with Miss Nellie Cooper and helpless before their own burning curiosity, seek to gain the story from her, she avoids any answer with the sweet, serene smile that has earned for her the title "the best loved woman in Winona."
This then, it seems, might be all Winona Lake knows. It regards the secret with romantic affection. The house is not a forbidding spot, for all its blind windows. The townspeople recite this much of the story with pride.
The real story, which is obtained from friends and admirers of both Mr. Bruning and Miss Cooper, is far more romantic than even Winona Lake's imagination has made it.
Although all attempts to gain statements from both parties yesterday failed, owing to Miss Cooper's inability to leave the bedside of her mother, who is dangerously ill, and Mr. Bruning's absence from Evansville on a business trip, the following series of facts, establishing the story as one of the most remarkable to ever occur in real life, were substantiated by friends of both:
Forty years ago John Cooper, an educator of New York, although no longer a young man, followed the Greenley injunction, then quite popular, and came West. He brought with him his wife and daughter Nellie, then a girl of 18. Evansville, Ind., recognize his worth and made him superintendent of schools.
The Bachelor Arrives
For some three years he lived so, his family happy and the way clear before him. Then his health began to fail and his wife and daughter sought to stem adversity by taking boarders.
Among the first to come was W. H. Bruning, a bachelor of 30, and partner with his father in the town's oldest tea and spice store. It is said that he loved Nellie Cooper from the first, that she loved him and that they became engaged directly both recognized the fact. But something interposed.
Their friends believed the girl felt it her duty to remain with her parents in their difficulties. At any rate she went with them to Winona Lake in 1901 when Mrs. Cooper decided to maintain a hotel at that resort, then opening for its first season.
Their cottage was named "The Homestead," and, though small, was popular with the vacation hunters. An old-world courtesy and charm hovered around their rooms and brought local fame to them.
A year passed and John Cooper died. With the widow and daughter, Bruning grieved as a son, and to aid them in meeting the world he built a magnificent cottage, capable of housing some hundred guests, named it "The Swiss Terrace," and installed in it the two women as proprietors.
They have managed it as their own since that day and among the cottagers it is always "Cooper's Swiss Terrace" and never Bruning's''.
That same summer Bruning bought a lot on the point where the bathing harbor curves out to the more rugged shoreline. For weeks the place teemed with dredges and drays, as he built out and filled in making "Bruning's Point." When a new acre was made, he imported carpenters and on plans which he himself and perhaps another had drawn up, began the erection of the fated house.
Into it went the best timber, the most ultra-modern conveniences. In that economical day its cost, $10,000 made it the show place of the town.
Its weatherboarding was lined with mineral wool, its chimneys were bottomed with wide fireplaces. Cheveal mirrors, chandeliers, thick Brussels rugs, ensignia of luxury in those times, filled it.
Art went on its walls, a bluish gray scheme of color, subdued and beautiful, ran through its living rooms. Twenty-one rocking chairs are scattered through it. Gas lights were ready, fires were laid on the hearths, and a magnificent silver dinner set was placed beside rare china in the cupboards.
Bride never Came
Why Miss Nellie never came down to take the place, now known to have been meant for her, is known to none but herself and Mr. Bruning. No explanation was ever given. In fact their engagement was never announced. No one knows if such a pledge was ever formally given, but certain it is that true love, has throughout the years existed between them.
The lover's attitude announces this to the world, although he makes no reference to it. He is ever the suitor, the admirer, bringing at each trip (and he has never in these years missed his regular bi-weekly visit) a box of candy, presenting it to Miss Cooper with the manner of the story book swain.
He allows no decay to creep into it--"The Mystery House." Each year it is painted anew, the piano tuned, the water and gas pipes examined and any loose boards replaced. Twice in the fifteen years new draperies have been carried in. The house is as ready today for occupancy as when it was built. The stone sun-dial which Bruning set up on the lawn a few years back is kept in as perfect alignment as though there were owners to run out from the house behind at any moment to note upon its face the progress of the day.
The grass in summer is mown weekly, the snow and sleet which in winter blow across the wide veranda are cleaned away by a workman who knows no more of the building's interior than do his neighbors.
When the willow trees drop their leaves and twigs he cleans them away punctiliously, much as might a servant expecting his master and mistress home on the morrow.
When the waves cast driftwood over the concrete wall, Bruning built against the blue lake, the caretaker carries the wood away as though a lady from the house within might open her eyes in the morning and be offended by the litter. The workman is hired by Mr. Bruning to "keep the lawn clear" and nothing more. This he does and no more.
Where Lovers Meet
One thing and one only betrays time's flight. This is the names and carving on the planks that board the windows. These boards are thick and stout, for curiosity seekers are constantly prying at them, striving to see behind. Over them are scores of lovers' names, written and carved in the fashion of "seventeen."
In summer the boys and girls wander down to the point and hand in hand circle "The Mystery House" or sit on the veranda steps.
There has never been a "No Trespass" sign on the premises for such as they. At least three times these boards have been replaced so whittled were they by the knives of young lovers, carving entwined hearts, linked names and all the lazy, dreamy, totem-pole symbols to which aimless-youth-in-love is addicted.
What irony this is, graven on the house that waits for love, can only be told by the man and the woman, if indeed, they ever tell at all.
Chicago American, May 10, 1918 page 11 "Fiction Page"
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Totnes is a UK parliament constituency that is represented in the House of Commons by Sarah Wollaston of the Conservative party.
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Dr Sarah Wollaston (born 17 February 1962) is a British Conservative Party politician. Wollaston studied at King's College London School of Medicine, and after graduation was a general practitioner for two decades. Before becoming the Member of Parliament (MP) for Totnes in 2010, she was the first person to be selected as a parliamentary candidate for a major British political party through an open primary, in which she emphasised that she was an outsider to politics, who had worked a 'real job'. She won the nomination for the Conservative candidature and at the general election won the seat with an increased Conservative majority.
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Address Sarah Wollaston MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Phone Number 020 7219 4272
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Constituency Totnes
Date of Birth 17/02/1962
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Liberal-Democrat 17,013 35.6%
UK-Independence-Party 2,890 6%
Electorate 67,962
Votes 47,843
Turnout 70.4%
Conservative Wollaston, Sarah
Labour Whitty, Carole
Liberal Democrat Brazil, Julian
Green Somerville, Lydia
BNP Turner, Mike
UKIP Beer, Jeff
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The Chrysalids
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1 John Wyndham
2.1 Waknuk
2.2 Labrador
2.3 Wild Country
2.4 Fringes
2.5 Badlands
2.6 Black Coasts
2.7 "Sealand"
3 Chapter Summaries
3.10 Chapter 10
5 Keywords
Imagine living in a world where an extra toe on a newborn will automatically result in the death of the baby, a pig with more hair than normal will be put down, and corn kernels that are not in perfectly formed rows will necessitate burning an entire field. This world exists in John Wyndham’s novel, The Chrysalids.
This is the world of David Strorm, the main character in the novel. As a young child, he often dreamed of a city filled with objects considered fantastical in his world, such as flying machines and carts that move without horses. However, as David grows older, he realizes that he has the ability to communicate telepathically with certain other children. This ability means that David would be considered to be a Blasphemy in his community.
David does not understand the severity of such status until he meets Sophie, a girl who was born with an extra toe on each foot. David befriends Sophie and keeps her secret. When her secret is discovered by another boy in the district, Sophie and her family are forced to flee. As a result David realizes that, if his secret is discovered, he will suffer dire consequences.
As David gets older, he and the other telepathic children master the use of their abilities. David’s forward-thinking uncle, Axel, becomes aware of David’s telepathic power; he makes several efforts to convince David that the extra ability is something worth having, but must be concealed. The others agree to keep their secret, and they are able to live normally for some years.
The secret is threatened when one of the others, Anne, chooses to marry a normal (non-telepath) man; although Anne attempts to renounce her powers, her husband eventually discovers the truth, putting the lives and David and his fellows in danger. Another risk emerges when it becomes evident that David’s little sister, Petra, possesses far greater powers of telepathy. Petra’s thought projection is painfully strong and usually involuntary; she is young, and her powers are tied directly to her emotions. When she gets upset, she becomes a compulsive beacon, drawing the others to her. This creates a potentially dangerous situation.
Members of the community become aware of David’s powers, and he must flee with Petra and his girlfriend, Rosalind, who has also been revealed as telepathic. They must make a dangerous journey in search of a region where no one knows who they are, or why they left their home.
On their journey, Petra begins communicating with a woman in a faraway land, who promises to send help. She also promises to bring them to Sealand, a land which is populated by telepathic people. David and the girls must avoid the posse from their district that continues to pursue them, and are captured the Fringe people, a group of exiled Blasphemies who seek revenge.
Themes examined in The Chrysalids include the inevitability of change, man’s inhumanity to his fellow man, ignorance, and bigotry. Despite being over 50 years old, the ideas expressed in this science-fiction novel are still timely today. This novel is an excellent reader for individuals who are avid readers of classic science-fiction.
Waknuk
David's home town, also the name of his father's farm. It is a small agricultural community, part of the larger theocracy of Labrador. The neighbouring town is Kentak. On a present-day map, Waknuk can be identified with Wabush in south-western Labrador, adjacent to Labrador City.
A Christian fundamentalist civilisation which arose in North America centuries after a nuclear holocaust (dimly remembered as "Tribulation," and attributed to the wrath of God). In the time of the novel, Labrador society is at a technological level roughly comparable 18th-Century America - possessing sailing ships and firearms, but no heavy industry. The capital of Labrador, on the coast down river from Waknuk, is Rigo (Rigolet, in the real world). The island of Newf (Newfoundland) is also civilised, but knowledge of the rest of the world is vague and colored by religious dogma. The inhabitants of Labrador and Newf appear to be normal humans who have retained the pre-Tribulation phenotype; they believe it is their sacred mission to preserve this form, and all other species decreed by God, against the rampant mutations which have continued since the fall of Tribulation.
Frontier lands, lying south and south-west of Waknuk, where the chance of breeding true is still less than 50%. Some Offences among crops and animals have to be tolerated here.
The enigmatic land beyond Wild Country. Apparently suffered heavier radioactive contamination than the rest of Labrador, being closer to the original nuclear bombings. It is essentially a lawless land and subject to uncontrolled mutation. This is also where the unfortunate human mutants from civilised Labrador communities are exiled. Examples include Gordon (the spider-man), and Sophie. The monstrous inhabitants of the Fringes are semi-mythical among Labrador people, subjects of folk tales and cautionary children's stories.
Outside of the Fringes. These lands are still dangerously radioactive, and it is believed that anyone who sets foot there will die. Sailors who navigate along the Badlands coast south of Newf report seeing a jungle of fantastic mutations. David's uncle Axel describes tree-sized grasses, succulents like houses with 10-foot spines, cable-like climbing plants which grow directly into the sea, unnameable beasts and birds. Conventional Labrador teaching is that most of the world consists of Badlands, although explorers have discovered other populated regions further south.
Black Coasts
The sites of past nuclear detonations, at the center of the Badlands: a series of blasted, barren regions where the ground is fused into black glass, where nothing can grow, and even the waters offshore are sterile. Any close approach by ship leads to sickness and usually death; observers who survived told of city ruins which glow faintly in the dark.
"Sealand"
New Zealand, which was isolated enough to largely escape the holocaust. Advanced industrial civilisation has arisen here again, and telepathy has become universal among the populace. Zealanders were unaware of the distant Labrador civilisation, until one of their strongest telepaths picked up Petra Strorm's prodidgious thought transmissions. (The letter Z has been forgotten in Labrador, causing David and Rosalind to mispronounce the name Zealand).
In the first chapter, young David Strorm is introduced. In the first paragraph he describes a recurring dream that he remembers vividly. This dream is of a magnificent city bordered by ocean, although he has never seen the sea in waking life. Once, he recalls admitting this dream to his eldest sister and inquires about the existence of any such place, to which she replies that, although this city does not exist, it may have existed long ago, before God sent Tribulation. She also warns him to suppress such thoughts, for the other people in society did not have such images in their heads either awake or asleep. Fortunately, David has the sense to take this advice seriously. Being a considerably adventurous and independent child, he ventures forth upon a high bank he often visits, which has sand slopes he much enjoys sliding down. While indulging in this pastime of his, a little girl who we come to know as Sophie inquires if what David is doing is any fun. Upon invitation, she agrees to join him in his game. Following a few entertaining slides down the dune, Sophie suddenly catches her foot in a small crevice. While her snagged foot causes her intense pain she adamantly refuses David’s suggestion to remove the shoe to facilitate the extraction of her foot. After much convincing she obliges but makes David promise not to tell anyone of what he sees. To David’s surprise, he notices that Sophie’s foot has an extra toe, but makes nothing of the fact. David helps the injured girl back to her home, where he is uneasily questioned by Sophie’s tense mother. She pleads him not to reveal Sophie’s deformity at any cost, for if people were to discover it they would be very mean to her. David agrees solemnly, sensing the severity behind Mrs. Wender's pleas. Being confused by the seriousness of his afternoon, David wanders home in intense thought. It suddenly dawns on him the reason for which Sophie’s mother made him swear to secrecy, as the Definition of Man recites itself in his mind, "And each leg shall be jointed twice and shall have one foot and each foot 5 toes. And any creature that shall seem to be human, but is not formed thus, is not human. It is a blasphemy against the true image of God, and hateful in the sight of God." The full weight of the secret now rest heavily on David.
After meeting Sophie, David returns to his home in the fiercely religious society of Waknuk. The reader acquires a sense of the background from which David’s genealogy stems. His home is one of the eldest in the village and is decorated with multiple proverbs and quotes from ancient religious volumes such as the “Repentances” and the Bible, which are carved and burned into wood. We learn that David’s father, Joseph Strorm, is a prominent and devout community leader amongst the villagers. We learn of David’s grandfather Elias Strorm, an evangelistic pioneer from the East, who was one of the first to establish himself in the Waknuk district, along with his submissive younger wife. Joseph’s demeanor is easily explained by his father’s harsh religious views. It is also established that it is the individual responsibility of each individual citizen of Waknuk to be wary of Offenses and Blasphemies - and this often times means purging mutated livestock and crops that carry the title of an Offence. It is also mentioned that David’s father is the farmer whom has been know to purge the most Deviations in the town. It is debatable as to whether or not Joseph’s father is burdened by a surplus of Deviations in his surroundings, or whether he is one of the select few who do not have double standards. The deviations coming more into play, it is mentioned that Blasphemies are somewhat of horrific folklore and used to the advantage of the pure people as a means of disciplining young children. This may stem from the fact that on occasion, the deformed outcast Blasphemies have been know to venture into Waknuk to raid the village of crops and livestock for their survival in their unforgiving land of the Fringes.
In the beginning of chapter 3, we see that David has established a regular routine out of visiting Sophie. Once Sophie’s foot is completely healed, he brings her to one of the interesting sights in the county of Waknuk; the steam engine. Sophie is amazed and this brings forth mild debate about the technological advancements the Old People owned. Once David brings Sophie back home, David sees Mr. Wender, Sophie’s father. We learn that there is visible tension between John and David, David believes that these feeling steam from the fact that Mr. Wender does not trust him: this is understandable, since he is the son of Joseph Strorm whose reputation precedes him in the purging of Deviations. However, David understands the severity of the situation Sophie is going through. This leads to a recollection David lived through recently. While splitting wood one day, David got a splinter. Having tried to retrieve the lodged piece of wood from his hand, it began to bleed. He then went to the house to bandage the wound and everyone was too busy to assist him. Cursing under his breath, he mused at how convenient it would be to have a third arm. After this statement, there was a long pause and David’s father was visibly mortified. He harshly punished his son for wishing to be a Blasphemy. Despite his meek responses, all people present were ordered to appeal to God for forgiveness. He was then sent to his room for the remainder of the evening, where Joseph gave him a beating. That night, sleep came uneasily to David. He had a horrid dream about one of the ceremonies in which his father purges the farm Offences. However there is one distinct difference: instead of a deformed goat or an imperfect stalk of corn, Joseph Strorm is killing young Sophie. David suddenly awoke and remembers feeling terrible. He knows that if Mr. Wender had seen his horror and understood his deep fear of her secret being revealed, Mr. Wender would be much more trusting.
On one occasion, when David is not visiting Sophie, he sits in the yard talking with his half-cousin Rosalind; this conversation however is not an ordinary one. David is speaking to her with his mind (telepathically) while she is at home on her own family farm. Uncle Axel, the farm handyman, comes across young David speaking to what seems as nobody. This strikes him as odd and he decides to question the boy. David explains that he is able to speak to certain people through his mind, people far away, well out of shouting distance. Uncle Axel, being one of David’s closest and most understanding relatives, advises him to keep this gift to himself - and not to speak aloud whilst sharing thoughts remotely. David realizes now that this ability is abnormal, comparable to Sophie's extra toes; knowing full well the repercussions of a Blasphemy, he willingly abides to secrecy. Having made this connection, David hurriedly contacts all the people he is able to exchange thoughts with and explains the risk of them being discovered. They all agree to secrecy also. Incidentally, this is the first decision they make unanimously and a sort of group dynamic is established. We learn that the telepaths are all children, scattered around Waknuk and the neighbouring communities: David and Rosalind, Michael, Rachel and Anne, Sally and Katherine, and Mark. There was another who was cut off recently; Axel identifies him as a boy killed in a logging accident. Some others have a trace of telepathic ability, but too weak to be meaningful. Soon after, David hears of an impending invasion from the Fringes, expected to be much more severe that the minor raids normally inflicted by Fringe dwellers. The people of Waknuk devise a plan to counter the attackers. During the siege, the villagers succeed in capturing two of the enemy leaders, who are held captive on Joseph’s farm. David is disappointed at the normalcy of the prisoners. However, he is shocked to notice that one of the men captured looks almost identical to his father with a slightly more unkempt appearance - and the long, gangling, spider-like limbs which are his particular deviation. This spider-man soon escapes and disappears. After the attack, we meet the infamous Uncle Angus Morton, Rosalind's father, who is a considerably controversial character in the community of Waknuk. It appears that the man has very elastic principles and loves to antagonize Joseph Strorm. On this particular occasion, he brags of acquiring two great horses measuring 26 hands high. This statement ignites Joseph's suspicions that the creature are Offences. He confront the town inspector to verify the correctness of these horses. The inspector insists that the horses purchased by Uncle Angus are legitimate and government approved, the result of selective breeding and not mutation. In reaction to Joseph’s protests he refers to an embarressing incident involving the Dakers' family cat, which had never possessed a tail. Joseph Strorm was convinced that the creature was a Deviation and therefore killed the cat, before being notified that it belonged to a legitimate breed. David continues his friendship with Sophie and since she cannot attend school, David takes it upon himself to educate her in matters of Geography, Math and Ethics, which are the principal topics covered in his own schooling.
The following spring proves to be relatively “Deviance-free”. The village of Waknuk breaks the local “Purity record”. David often sneaks away to be with Sophie (David’s parents know nothing about her). They much enjoy fishing for shrimps in a secluded stream. David pursues a catch barefoot and eventually coaxes Sophie to do the same, despite her deformity. On one particular occasion, the pair are surprised by the son of the local blacksmith, Allan. David is made uneasy by his presence. Allan inquires as to who the young girl is (for Sophie has had minimal contact with other children) - and then notices something peculiar. On a rock, there is a wet footprint with the imprint of an extra toe. He then deduces that this footprint is Sophie’s and prepares to make the Blasphemy public. In an attempt to stop the boy, David attacks him. After a brief scuffle, Allan suddenly falls limp; Sophie knocked the boy out with a blow to the head. David immediately takes Sophie home; they explain what has happened, and Sophie’s parents see fit to leave town because their daughter is at risk. David asks to go with them but they reluctantly refuse, because his disappearance would raise the profile of their own departure enormously, and have them closely followed. After they are gone, David decides to sleep at the empty Wender residence. The next morning he hurries home, hoping to return to his room early enough to pretend that he was there the entire night. This, however, is not the case. David’s father is livid about his son’ absence, and is in the company of the local inspector. They question David about Sophie and David pleads ignorance. This furthers Joseph’s temper and David is once again detained in his room for a severe beating. Afterwards, David lies in his bed and sobs because of the secret he had told.
After having suffered a harsh beating from his father for sleeping at the Wender’s deserted house, he is left alone in his bedroom and he talks to his friends who share his telepathic ability he tells them about Sophie and her secret. As he attempts to find sleep, he dreams again of the once familiar Big City. In desperation, David decides to escape from Waknuk. When he awakens the following morning, He is questioned by the Inspector and David is still very evasive David’s doubts in his culture grow steadily especially with the lecturing of the Inspector about the Devil tempting us from purity during this discourse, they are interrupted by David’s father who announces that the Wender’s have been captured. David is grief stricken and guilt ridden until the Inspector reassures him that the capturing of the Wender’s was purely by chance of routine patrollers and that it was not what they had spoken about that had given them away. A few days later, David confides in his Uncle Axel and tells him of his plans to run away, Uncle Axel strongly advises against doing so. Despite David’s persistence, Uncle Axel continues to tell him of the world beyond the county of Waknuk. He explains what lies south Rigo, things that have never been taught to David in school. He then explains that the terrain outside of their familiar territory is plagued with dangerous deviations and that there are unspeakable monstrosities in areas known only as the Black Coasts. The explorer, Marther, gave this name to the lands beyond in his writings during various expeditions particularly one on the Venture, the only known ship to have returned from the land beyond the black coasts with tangible artifacts. He goes on to elaborate on the intense deviations and their nature. Uncle Axel Also attempts to comfort David about his gift and explains that there are many different races outside of Waknuk and therefore many different definitions of what the norm is and how each of these different races believe they are of the true image of God. He also points out inaccuracies in the book,Repentances and tries to break David of the mold of thought he is forced into from school and his father’s harsh teachings. The existence of other possible true forms suggests that David and the others who share his gift could just as well be closer to the true image of god as anyone else. He inquires to know exactly how many people David can actually speak to and David explains that there were formerly 8 he has been unable to reach the eighth member for some time now he worries that something bad may have happened to him and that it may come across all the others who share their gift. Uncle Axel promises to discover the reason behind the absence of their 8th counterpart. David is convinced to stay in Waknuk for the time being.
David’s mother having been pregnant for the past 9 months finally gives birth to a child. The child must obtain its certificate of normalcy before it can be addressed as alive and existing. Until the inspector does so the fact that there is new life in the household remains unacknowledged. Unfortunately, the Inspector is late and his tardiness angers Joseph Strorm. Upon his arrival, he is leisurely and unrushed which is almost as frustrating to Joseph. The new child is found to be perfectly normal and is certified. Her existence is confirmed and Petra Strorm is greeted into the world. A few days following Petra’s birth, David’s aunt whom he is very fond of, comes for a visit with her own newborn child. The sisters are thrilled at their new children until Harriet Somberly states that she has yet to certify her daughter because she knows her daughter will not meet the normalcy standards. Desperately she attempts to convince sister to allow her to borrow the infant Petra to have her certified instead of her own daughter. While pleading she says that her husband would leave her if she were to produce another Deviation and that her sister is the only chance she has to save the child she loves. Harriet’s sister is disgusted and adamant upon her refusal. She is outraged that her sister brought such filth into her home and orders her sister to leave immediately. Joseph arrives and is equally appalled by what Harriet has done. He chastises her for having sinned and for even having thought of such a devilish way to save a Blasphemy. Harriet leaves and the next day she is found dead in a river with no baby to speak of.
After having heard of Harriet’s death, she is mentioned in the evening prayer but never again. She is literally wiped from knowledge. It is implied that her death was a suicide. Scared by the recent turn of events, David develops an intense desire to become normal and never be in a position like his aunt. He begins to pray constantly to lose his ability. On one particular morning, his Uncle Axel calls him out to help him fix a plough. David confides his fears associated with the death of Harriet, however, his uncle reassures him and helps him find reason and acceptance of his ability. They move on to the case at hand and Uncle Axel reveals that the boy whom David and the others have lost contact with was unfortunately killed while cutting timber and was the victim of a crashing tree. David shares this discovery with the other people whom he can communicate with. We become aware of them each specifically.
We learn that Michael goes to school in a different area and learns things that the rest of the children do not. He is able to pass on the others what he is being taught and they in turn help him with his lessons. A sense of functional unity is found for the next six years until a 9th person is suddenly revealed.
Six years after the death of Harriet, David is one day working out in the fields and he suddenly feels an unstoppable need to run, urgent and unlike anything he has ever felt before. The mental cries are painful and persistent and continue until he reaches a river where his youngest sister Petra is about to drown. He successfully saves her and Rosalind also arrives. She also felt the cries and states that the calling was stronger than anything any of them are capable of. Upon their return they are questioned by surrounding people asking how they could have possibly known what had happened to Petra. They claim that her cries of distress were perfectly audible to anyone and that they are surprised no one had heard them. That night, David has terrible dreams of a purging ceremony where the deviation to be killed this time is not a crop or animal or even Sophie but David sees his sister Petra at the hands of her father. The next morning David desperately tries to contact his sister through thought shapes but is unable to. He attributes this to her being so young and unaware of her ability and convinced that the only reason that she was able to make such a cry of distress was because she was in a position of such intense danger. David considers openly telling her but decides against it because it would only make him more vulnerable to discovery and that he could tell her when she is older. This recent development is still very unsettling. David has felt a sense of impending misfortune for some time now. He refers to last year when there was an uncommonly high deviation level his father alone had lost 3 fields as had Angus Morton a persistent rival of Joseph’s. It is said that there were a total of 35 field burnings due to Deviations. David recalls getting an earful from Old Jacob a villager who has seen his share of years. Old Jacob attributes this recent hike in imperfections to corruption in government and carelessness of the youth. He believes that the changes are the early beginnings of a new age Tribulation. This heightens David’s self-awareness and intensifies the need to be secretive the logic being that with things going wrong, people will have a keep eye for scapegoats for imperfection. This anxiety is slowly abated over time until they discover that Anne, one of the people who can send thought shapes like David, plans to marry.
The man Anne is to wed is not only a person of the norm but the son of the local blacksmith - the same Allan who discovered Sophie Wender’s secret during childhood. At first the group take the proposed marriage seriously because of the social difference between the two families. However, the engagement is formally recognized. Despite vivid warnings against this union, Anne is determined and goes so far as blocking the others out. The remaining people of the group are understandably uneasy being aware of the vulnerability and submissiveness a bride can incarnate and the reputation of Allan based of previous acts. David shares this dilemma with Uncle Axel and he strongly agrees with where David stands. He even suggests that it way even be worth killing Anne to protect their secret. David however refuses this option. Once Anne is officially wed, she severs any ties with everyone else who share the gift of thought-shapes. During this, feelings between Rosalind and David blossom and they discover true love. However, since Rosalind is the daughter of Angus Morton, there is some familial rivalry, which complicates their love causing them to remain secretive of their bond. A mere 6 months after Anne’s marriage to Allan, he is found dead in a forest with an arrow through his neck. David and the group simultaneously attempt to reach out to Anne who is convinced that they had something to do with Allan’s death. The next day, Rachel part of the group and also Anne's sister, tries to confront her, but Anne does not answer her door. Alarmed, Rachel reaches the neighbor and they break into the house to find that Anne has hanged herself. By her corpse, there is a letter addressed to the inspector the neighbor finds but since she is unable to read, she assumes it is addressed to the deceased girl's family. Rachel opens the letter and finds that it denounces all of the people who are able to send thought shapes. The letter is destroyed. However tragic the means to an end; the tension breaks. The murder of Allan still remains unsolved. Gossip plagues Waknuk but no one is unanimously suspected.
The spring following the death of Allan is relatively Deviance free there is a grand total of only 2 fields burned none of which belong to either Angus Morton or Joseph Strorm. David’s little sister Petra grows up and develops an adventurous side on one particular occasion, she ventures off into the forest on horseback she is forbidden to visit. Once again, David is suddenly summoned by a violently powerful thought shape and follows it to the source the call also drives Michael and Rosalind to do the same and they are confronted by the sight of a terrible Deviation feasting away at Petra’s pony. The Deviation is killed and Petra is rescued. All others in the group also meet in the forest having been signaled by the cry. This is the first time they all meet in person. Suddenly a Jerome Skinner who followed them in to the forest surprises them all. They manage to evade his suspicions. As a group they each a consensus that Petra’s calls, if there are more, are to be handled strictly. David and Rosalind agree to take responsibility for responding, but if the calls become overwhelmingly intense, anyone who can reach Petra is to do so and make her lose consciousness immediately. After the incident, David makes another attempt to teach his sister thought shapes and help her control her power. She reveals that she is able to hear people further away that David cannot. David returns to Uncle Axel who asks David if he's been careless and speculates that people are suspecting things. He mentions Joe Darley. He concedes to having killed Allan because he knew that Anne had told him everything and that at the time he was killed he was on his way to tell the Inspector. When asked about Jerome Skinner, Uncle Axel says he will find out who he is. When David confers with the others, Michael suggests that they should all be on their guard and be ready to leave on short notice if things go wrong.
One night, David awakens suddenly to the signal of others telling him that some of the Chrysalids have been captured. In a panic he immediately reaches Petra and they meet with Rosalind. With nothing but a horse, they make their escape from the land of Waknuk into uncharted and dangerous territory. Soon after, David is alerted by Michael who tells them that they are being followed and should maintain constant vigilance. This warning is proven true when Rosalind kills a man threatening their surreptitiousness. The importance of secrecy is solidified by this and therefore, David and Rosalind decide to travel solely at night. On the following day, they are reached by the desperate cries of one of the captured Chrysalids; Katherine. We learn that she is being withheld against her will by the inspector. She is being tortured for information, unfortunately with success. Fortunately however, from what Katharine was forced to divulge, the inspector is only aware of the existence of David, Petra and Rosalind (and obviously Katherine). Determined, the inspector states a reward for the capture of the escaped Deviations; he is entirely committed to learning about the ability of the Chrysalids and guarantee that such a blasphemy never occurs again. David and his companions decide to venture into the land of the Fringes to lose the stalking puritans and on Michaels behalf, he says he will see as to how he can fake the deaths of the escapees in a effort to put an end to the manhunt. When Michael communicates with Petra she asks him why the messages he sends are mixed with those of another mystery person. This mystery person is found to be a girl who Petra feels she can identify with. She tells this person their coordinates and they exchange information. When Petra confers with David he realizes that the descriptions Petra’s new friends environment seems to match David’s dreams from long ago. David, Petra and Rosalind feel an elevated intensity motivating their quest.
On their journey, a man on their path confronts the group. Stranded, they resort to knocking him off his horse and ride on in a hurry. Petra continues to converse with the girls from David’s dream city. She explains to them that she is sending help to rescue them and bring them to a safe place but until then, Petra must be protected at all costs. Soon after, Michael tells the group that the pursuit is back in full force. Ironically, they are shot at while traveling and they chose to take cover in the woods. When they think all is safe, they reach a clearing and suddenly from above something unknown and solid falls upon David and makes him loose consciousness instantly.
When David regains consciousness, he notices that they have been captured by the Fringe folk and they are being taken prisoner. Despite this they notice that they are now in range with the girl from David’s dreamland (Sealand) so that now he and Rosalind can now communicate with her instead of just Petra due to her stronger power. When the Fringe people reach their destination David comes face to face with the spider-like man he once met during a raid in his hometown many years ago, the man who bore a striking resemblance to Joseph Strorm. We learn that this man is indeed David’s uncle. We learn that David’s uncle’s abnormality was not discovered until four years after his birth. Thankfully, his mother saved him from his tragic fate but however Gordon still vows revenge on the ways of the people of Waknuk, more particularly his idealist ignorant brother. In an act of brutality, the people of the Fringes decide to keep the two girls traveling with David for breeding purposes. Gordon encourages David not to protest and he is driven outside the Fringe village where he is beaten unconscious again.
Once David resurfaces, he notices he is being dragged but none other that his old time friend from Waknuk; Sophie Wender. Due to her deformity she lives with the rest of the Fringe people and we learn that she loves the Spider-Man but was rendered infertile upon her banishment from Waknuk to assure that she would not reproduce her deviation once released into the Fringes. Therefore she is jealous of the potential the new prisoners have that she doesn’t. Motivated by her own devices she chooses to help David back into the Fringes town to rescue his friends so that they may continue on with their quest. David contacts Michael and he notifies him that the team following he Petra and Rosalind are making slow progress because of the antagonizing attacks from the Fringe people. Sophie is to creep into Gordon’s tent where the girls are being held and she is to rescue them unnoticed. She therefore urges him to tell the girls to make absolutely no noise or sign of alarm once she arrives. Sophie’s plan proves successful and Petra David and Rosalind are reunited Sophie is seen cleaning blood from her hands and feet upon her exit from Gordon’s tent.
Once escaped, Sophie explains to David that they are safe with her but that they must lay low until the search is off because the Fringe people will surely seek them out once they notice that their two “breeders” are missing. Rosalind is uneasy about trusting Sophie. Jealousy and animosity are very present for Sophie is bitter about the way Gordon values Rosalind for the things Sophie lacks. She therefore wishes she could offer the gift of children to the man she loves. Michael is with the group of approaching Waknukians. Michael hopes that they can count on the help that the girl from Sealand is promising. She tells them that she is roughly 8 ½ hours away. Sophie momentarily leaves the group and upon her return, she mentions that the Fringe people pursuing them are leaving the fight from the Waknuk people to resume their original pursuit yet the Waknuk attack is still in full force. David considers the repercussions if he were to confront his father in battle. Sensing his anxiety, the girl from Sealand urges him to let go of his father because the way of life his people follow is dying and virtually obsolete. Sophie once again leaves for reconnaissance and returns roughly one hour later saying that the Waknuk group is approaching. David communicates with Michael and tells him to stay back from the forefront of the attack to avoid getting hurt so that they can reunite. The strange girl once again contacts the group to let them know that she will be able to arrive a hour earlier than originally planned. Sophie heads back out to see the progress. As she does so, the Fringe people and the Waknuk party clash. In the heat of the battle Gordon shoots Joseph Strorm in the chest with an arrow killing him. The Spiderman picks up Sophie who was by his side and they make a run for it. Soon he is pummeled by a downpour of arrows and dies. Sophie attempts to run away and is shot in the arm and neck and dies. During the culminating point in the attack, suddenly a craft appears in the sky. Looming over the combat, the violence ceases and some of the fighters flee, others watch. David calls Michael forth to rescue him for this is the craft from Sealand. The raft expels a form of cobweb-like substance upon the crowd below and paralyses them all rendering them invulnerable. This substance unfortunately also reaches David’s hands and it has the same effect on him. He becomes entirely paralyzed.
Consumed by the web-like substance, David is immobile. He feels Michael (who is also enveloped by the web) worry that perhaps he should have simply run away from the descending craft in fear that it was a trap. He is reassured the Seawoman’s soothing thoughts. The door of the fish shaped craft opens and out comes a figure. She frees Michael. The person is unrecognizable and is dressed in white garments from head to toe. The figure comes into the cave and removes the cobwebs from David, Petra and Rosalind who were also affected by the substance. The woman from Sealand is positively delighted to see Petra and gushes over her potential and explains how they will train her and endorse her gift with all the teachings they can offer. They prepare to leave when Michael asks about saving Rachel from Waknuk, this however is not a possibility seeing as how the craft runs on fuel and only has a scarce remaining supply; just enough to return them to Sealand safely. Rosalind inquires about the other web-ridden people in the field below them and the Seawoman explains that the substance killed them. She explains that is an unfortunate yet necessary price to pay for the survival of their species. Michael gets Petra to reach Rachel for him and he tells her to tell Rachel that they are all safe and that he promises to retrieve her from Waknuk and that they will go to Sealand together. David, Petra and Rosalind embark upon the vessel and watch Michael as they leave. In the midst, they see Sealand horizon and David recognizes it exactly as the land in his dream. They hear thoughts buzzing and realize it’s the entire society conversing beneath them.
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on Thursday, 14 December 2017. Posted in Archaeology
After eight years working for the Museums Service at the History Centre, I was lucky enough to be given the chance to change direction slightly and join my colleagues in the Archaeology Service working directly with the Wiltshire and Swindon Historic Environment Record (HER). This was a somewhat daunting prospect – moving from the sunny uplands of the first floor in the History Centre down to the darker, subterranean office with stellar views of the car park. However, my welcome was warm and friendly, regardless of my ignorance in the matters of tree throws, debitage and test pits….
In the august words of Historic England, ‘HERs are an important starting point for anyone interested in the archaeology, built heritage, and history of an area. They can provide information on a wide variety of buildings and sites, from finds of prehistoric flint tools to medieval castles and Second World War pillboxes.
HERs are a primary source of information for planning, development-control work, and land management.’
There are over 85 HERs held in England, maintained and managed by local authorities and often held by joint services such as district councils and national parks. Similar records are maintained by the National Trust.
The Wiltshire and Swindon HER is not only used to advise planning authorities and developers of the implications to the historic environment when a proposed development looms but is also consulted by a variety of different users. They include archaeologists, historians, community groups, students, schools and general members of the public.
One of my favourite queries was in June this year from the 12th Cambridge Scout Group, asking me for the dimensions of Stonehenge, as the troop were about to recreate the monument with cardboard boxes. You can check out some photos of their creation on their Facebook page!
Most HERs contain three types of record, Monuments (the archaeology or buildings), Events (fieldwork such as excavations or building surveys) and Sources (the associated documentary source). The records include non-designated archaeological sites and buildings, designated Heritage Assets (e.g. listed buildings, scheduled monuments, protected wrecks, registered parks and gardens and registered battlefields) and other areas such as conservation areas.
Wiltshire is obviously rich in all of these monuments (apart from the protected wrecks!) and our HER can be used as a signpost to discover further information about them. Something as splendidly evocative as the Amesbury Archer, whose grave was discovered in 2002, a Central European man suffering from an abscess and missing left kneecap who was buried with an unusually large number and variety of objects including pots, arrowheads, two bracers (archers’ wrist guards), flint tools, three copper knives, a pair of gold hair ornaments and a cushion stone (used as a small anvil during metalworking). The gold ornaments are the oldest gold objects yet to be found in Britain.
As the most recent member of the Archaeology team, I found this information fascinating and used the HER database to search for other sites and monuments in the near vicinity of the discovered burial, using the GIS layers on which the data is linked.
Having worked with the National Buildings Record many years ago, I’m also passionate about architecture, quite often post-medieval and dare I say it, 20th century, much to many archaeologists’ bemusement. The HER can also signpost the user to the built heritage and in Wiltshire we have an interesting supply of military building types with evidence at Larkhill of a First World War training battlefield and trench system (including finds of associated bottles!).
(For more information about this fascinating site see first world war tunnels, a blog by my colleague Clare King, Assistant County Archaeologist).
Our HER is constantly being added to and enhanced, with various projects also included into the database including a farmsteads project, an Extensive Urban Survey and the Historic Landscape Characterisation project, which is an overview of the modern and historic processes that have influenced the character of the landscape.
One day I may be able to persuade my colleagues that a comprehensive list of the water towers of Wiltshire should be appended to the HER - check out the Great Western Railway Water Tower in Swindon, built in 1871 and a well-loved landscape feature.
1957 concrete tower at Rodbourne near Malmesbury
One of the most wonderful aspects of the Wiltshire HER are our dedicated volunteers, Carol, Louise and Mike, who between them spend many hours enhancing our records whilst enduring various office temperature fluctuations, the occasional melt down of our IT system and frequent conversations about archaeological recording terminology!
Which brings me back to tree throws (a bowl shaped cavity created in the subsoil by a tree, often fallen, and identified during fieldwork), debitage (the collective term referring to the waste material left when a stone tool is created) and test pits (small holes excavated along a grid at equal distances and depths to discover and pinpoint archaeological areas worth investigating). I’m learning!
Jacqueline Ramsay, Historic Environment Record Assistant
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361 Capital Market Commentary | January 14, 2019
Who has it easier? This climber or a Federal Reserve Board Member? After last week’s member talks and interviews, it would seem that the Fed Board has backed their Chairman Powell and will hold firmly on rates for now. Not only has the broad macro data gotten worse, but several new bits of micro data have also come up short. And then there is the lengthening government shutdown and the missed paychecks for 800,000 federal workers, combined with the lack of economic activity and ripple effects from all of those office closings. Someone did realize on Friday that all future mortgage closings would dry up if the IRS could no longer verify income levels, so there was a late night phone call to the U.S. Treasury asking to pay a small group of employees to go back to work.
As recession odds continued to move higher, the Fed confirmed in many member talks last week that the most likely action on interest rates is hold. And, while there still is an active desire to shrink the balance sheet, this might also slow or pause if the economy loses its grip. So, we wait and watch while all new China data continues to show a major slowdown from which the rest of the world cannot escape. Sales updates from major retailers and airline companies are coming up shorter than they expected and the major California utility PG&E is going bankrupt which will only significantly increase power costs from anyone who buys from their production or grid.
So what comes next? Well, earnings season of course. Stocks are still lower going into the big 3-4 weeks of earnings reports but at least they are only 10% lower instead of 20% lower. Maybe still a good setup for those companies who can still crush it at the top and bottom line and give great forward guidance. But are there many of those companies in this current environment? I don’t think so. We will read the reports, listen to the calls and look for any good tidbits to follow up on so that we could add those stocks to our watch lists. The Government shutdown looks like it will last a while longer. The weekend polls shifted toward a Trump/GOP blame, but the numbers also show that a smaller crowd still supporting Trump have become more emboldened about wanting their Wall. This would imply that the main players in this game of tug of war will only dig in deeper. And if the shutdown cannot be solved, don’t expect anything else to get done either in the White House or Congress during the Q1.
If you thought that Washington D.C. was paralyzed, you should see the year-to-date trading volumes in the financial markets. Sure the market has had a solid rip higher, but if it only happens on a fraction of its average volumes, does it still matter? Lots of good talk about this right now among the traders and investors. One thing that we know for certain is that the stock market is trading nearly one for one with the price of Oil. Go look at that correlation. Very high. So that is what I have for now; watching earnings, economic data and waiting for some better signs to get me to let go of these stacks of cash.
China has caught an economic flu. The rest of the world is sure to be next…
(WSJ/DailyShot)
Sounds like the holiday shopping season was fine until the market melted, the government shutdown and the POTUS set a tweet record…
Macy’s Inc. and other mall-based retailers said sales petered out at the end of the year as they continued to lose customers to discounters and e-commerce, highlighting how not all chains are positioned to benefit from a strong U.S. economy.The year-end results—and a weak profit outlook from Macy’s—clouded what have been upbeat expectations for the holiday sales season with consumers showing a hearty willingness to spend.
The news Thursday spooked investors, who sent shares of Macy’s down nearly 18%, the department store’s worst one-day decline on record. Rival Kohl’s Corp. and mall stalwart L Brands Inc., the owner of Victoria’s Secret, also posted tepid holiday sales, triggering a broader selloff in retail stocks.
“The holiday season began strong—particularly during Black Friday and the following Cyber Week, but weakened in the mid-December period,” Macy’s Chief Executive Jeff Gennette said.
(WSJ)
Airline travel was also negatively impacted in December…
U.S. airlines are facing a darkened outlook as economic uncertainty threatens demand. American Airlines’ pared estimate for a key gauge of pricing power on Thursday followed a similar move by Delta Air Lines Inc. at the beginning of the year. And that was before accounting for a partial government shutdown in the country.
(Bloomberg)
So it only makes sense that small business optimism went into a quick retreat…
@bespokeinvest: The NFIB’s 4-month decline through December was the largest since December 2012.
The shifting mood also affected the number of people quitting their jobs at year end…
(@GluskinSheffInc)
More economists also had their models turn down…
On average, economists surveyed in the past week as part of The Wall Street Journal’s monthly poll said there was a 25% chance of a recession in the next year, the highest level since October 2011.
The probability was just 13% a year ago…Just over two-thirds of the economists said U.S. growth is somewhat or very exposed to a slowdown in other major economies such as China, Europe and Japan.
Forecasters are even more concerned about the outlook for 2020. More than half of the economists, 56.6%, said they expected a recession to start in 2020, a presidential election year, while another 26.4% of those surveyed expect a recession in 2021.
Is the market leading the Fed now on rates?
While the Fed may not raise the funds rate, here is how interest rates could still move higher in 2019-2020…
Jeffrey Gundlach had several good points on debt in the Barron’s roundtable…
The biggest risk is the corporate bond market. U.S. junk-bond issuance has been prolific, and the quality has been poor. Many issues have been floated with no covenants [legal agreements regarding issuer behavior]. The investment-grade corporate-bond market has also grown massive; it is much larger than it was going into the prior credit crisis. A Morgan Stanley research report suggests that, based on leverage ratios alone, 45% of investment-grade corporate bonds would be rated junk right now. The report further suggests that around 60% of corporate bonds currently rated BBB would be rated junk by the same leverage-ratio metric. That’s around $1 trillion of par value, or about 150% of the junk-bond market’s value.
There are problems with debt broadly. I keep hearing the president say that this is the strongest economy ever, which isn’t true. There was a bump up in second- and third-quarter gross domestic product, but the growth is debt-based. We have floated incremental debt when we should be doing the opposite if the economy is so strong. In fiscal 2018, we increased the national debt by $1.27 trillion. The deficit officially was nearly $800 billion. The difference is phony IOUs from the Social Security system and expenditures on purportedly one-off military operations and natural-disaster relief. U.S. GDP is $20.66 trillion, so a $1.3 trillion increase in the national debt is 6% of GDP.
In addition, the Federal Reserve has engaged in quantitative tightening, or shrinking its balance sheet, to the tune of $50 billion per month. We are talking about the creation of an ocean of debt, while the Fed has raised rates nine times in the current cycle, in addition to quantitative tightening, which, according to some studies, equates to about two more rate hikes. The Fed wants to raise rates two more times this year, based on its dot plot [individual rate projections by the members of its policy-setting committee]. This is a problem for the stock market. U.S. manufacturing data has deteriorated. Mortgage applications are near an 18-year low.
(Barrons)
Risk is bubbling among high grade corporate debt borrowers…
(KKR)
I agree with Morgan Stanley on this observation…
“From an equity perspective, we think a retest of the December lows driven by more earnings and economic data disappointments would seal the deal on our earnings recession call. We are equity strategists, not economists, and we’ve said all along that an earnings recession amounts to the same thing as an economic one for investors.”
(Morgan Stanley)
One thing that you won’t be able to spend Cash on this month: IPOs..
The partial closure of the Securities and Exchange Commission is forcing companies that were seeking to list shares in January to push back their plans, according to bankers and lawyers. They include biotechnology firms Gossamer Bio Inc., Alector Inc. and Blackstone Group LP’s Alight Solutions LLC.It now looks likely that no major company will tap the U.S. IPO market this month. Since 1995, there have been just three years that had a new-issue drought in January, according to Dealogic data. That happened as a result of choppy markets in 2003, 2009 and 2016, which went on to be some of the weakest years for initial public offerings on record, the data show.
As part of the shutdown, currently the second-longest on record, the SEC has furloughed thousands of employees and stopped reviewing and approving all new and pending corporate registration statements, including proposed IPO filings, according to the agency’s shutdown plan and other notices on its website. Dozens of SEC accountants and lawyers who review IPO paperwork are prohibited from reading email or calling deal lawyers seeking to discuss complex disclosure questions.
Want to see volatility during a market crash?
Look at the below string of swings. Just crazy! By comparison, we have had a pullback of -19.9% followed by a pop of +10.8%.
Decision time for the VIX…
(@kkernttb)
It was a great week among risky assets for the week…
Small Caps and Emerging Market stocks led gainers. Junk Bonds continued to bounce. And Oil led the way all week.
The markets have recently been trading turn for turn with oil…
This chart shows only the 3-month correlation but since Christmas Eve, the figure is closer to 0.8.
And finally, a new Junk Bond deal!
Targa Resources Corp. on Thursday ended the drought in the high-yield market in stunning fashion, drawing in enough demand to double the size of its offering to $1.5 billion. Anheuser-Busch InBev NV drew in orders quadruple the amount it initially sought to borrow, allowing the world’s largest beer brewer to up the size of its offering to $15.5 billion. Leveraged loan prices have rebounded and returns have soared, giving way to a $4.5 billion week of new supply.That’s a stark contrast to as recently as last week, when units of companies like Ford Motor Co. and Duke Energy Corp. had to pay higher risk premiums and received little demand for their offerings. Better sentiment this week allowed investment-grade companies to borrow $45 billion, and the good vibes are already shaping up to flow into next week, when a unit of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. is expected to bring a multi-billion dollar deal related to its acquisition by Walt Disney Co.
Among stock sectors, Biotech led the surge last week due to some M&A and a busy J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference…
Utility stocks will have a rough week due to the PG&E Corp bankruptcy…
Hopefully no one you know has some legacy shares of the old Utility sitting in their conservative income producing account.
Even the meltdown in the bonds is amazing for a leading major Utility…
@lisaabramowicz1: The magnitude of the move in PG&E bonds is striking. The Californian utility is a special case on many fronts, but I wonder how many other special cases will emerge after a decade of loose lending conditions.
And let the earnings season begin!
(@eWhispers)
Watch global trade tariffs hurt bike shops…
Your local bike store doesn’t make much margin selling bikes but they do well selling the accessories for your newly bought bike as well as clothing and helmets. So if the cost of new bikes is not getting people into the store, then your local bike shop is going to get hurt. Go get your bike serviced this week and help out your local store because they do not have a high priced lobbyist in Washington D.C.
Banks were given gift by the U.S. Treasury over the weekend…
So maybe they should pay it forward and help out those Government workers missing paychecks…
I think the U.K. has found it’s new leader…
If only the Remainers would have found her before the Brexit vote, they wouldn’t now be fighting over how to return to the Dark Age.
(@bbcquestiontime)
Golf courses are now a liability to homeowners as the ancient Scottish past time fails to attract younger players…
Forty years after developers started blanketing the Sunbelt with housing developments built around golf, many courses are closing amid a decline in golf participation, leaving homeowners to grapple with the consequences. People often believe a course will bolster their property values. But many are discovering the opposite can now be true—and legal disputes are erupting as communities fight over how to handle the struggling courses…
More than 200 golf courses closed in 2017 across the country, while only about 15 new ones opened, according to the National Golf Foundation, a golf market-research provider. Florida-based development consultant Blake Plumley said he gets about seven phone calls every week seeking advice about struggling courses, from course owners or homeowners’ associations. He said most of those matters end up in court, and predicted that the U.S. is only about halfway through the number of golf-course closures that will eventually occur.
When a course closes, prices for nearby homes typically fall about 25%, Mr. Plumley said. Prices can plummet 40% or 50% if a contentious legal battle arises, as potential home buyers balk at the uncertainty accompanying litigation.
(WSJ/FABIO DELVO)
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Nano Dimension, Nexa3D, XYZprinting: Catching Up with 3D Printing Businesses Linked by a Familiar Name
December 18, 2017 by Sarah Anderson Goehrke 3D Printers3D PrintingBusinessExclusive InterviewsPopular Stories
The 3D printing industry, relatively nascent as it is, is a fairly small world unto itself. With rising collaborations around the globe bringing efforts together into shared visions of what additive technologies can make possible, and a still somewhat limited talent pool of experienced industry participants, many names — company and individual alike — are often linked together, forming growing relationships, observing internal personnel changeups in executive structures, and joint efforts.
One name that has often risen to the spotlight in additive manufacturing is Avi Reichental, a storied and experienced executive who helmed industry giant 3D Systems for a dozen years until his departure over two years ago. Since that high-profile exit, Reichental’s name has certainly not disappeared from the 3D printing radar; in 2017 alone, he has joined the Nano Dimension board of directors, intially as a member and more recently as the Co-Chairman; and joined the Techniplas board of directors, where he is now the Vice-Chairman in addition to being the CEO of the company’s recently established digital unit. He is additionally the Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Nexa3D, Executive Chairman of NXT Factory, and is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of XponentialWorks, an advisory, venture investment, and product development company. Reichental is also a General Partner at Israeli early-stage venture fund OurCrowd First, sits on the board of directors of Harman International, and is the Founder and Chairman of Centaur, ElasticMedia, and Apollo Robotics.
Through his work wtih Nexa3D and XponentialWorks in particular, I met Reichental and several teams he works with at formnext 2017 last month in Frankfurt. We met at the busy XYZprinting booth on the show floor. For its part, that company had announced just ahead of formnext a new partnership with and invetment in Nexa3D, bringing the companies together at the show.
“XponentialWorks is investing in technologies that are disrupting and creating new businesses,” Reichental told me.
“We are working with five early-stage 3D printing investments, as well as others in AI, in robotics — we’re looking at Industry 4.0. We are also following, and guiding, more mature companies, including Nano Dimension, where I am on the board. We’ve started to put together early-stage companies with mature companies. We match together interesting 3D printing companies.”
Among the endeavors Reichental listed as we talked 3D printing were Digital Wax Systems (DWS) and Sicnova, with which XYZprinting announced partnerships alongside Nexa3D, and Techniplas, ShareBot, and Nano Dimension.
“We are bringing together cutting-edge additive manufacturing with experienced endeavors, all driven by experts. We are not leaving early-stage companies to figure it all out on their own; there is a hunger in the industry for this now. We have created an amazing ecosystem in which everybody wins and shares in case studies,” he said.
Nexa3D at formnext 2017: (L-R) Andrea Denaro, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer; Avi Reichental; Luciano Tringali, VP Engineering & Manufacturing
As we talked, we stood next to the speedy Nexa3D machines, which we were first introduced to in 2015. Reichental noted that they are “ending up with ultrafast 3D printing” through these systems, which feature XY resolution of 30 microns, and took around two years to develop. A print job finished as we spoke, and we all watched it rise from the machine.
“We have speed and resolution,” Reichental said. “I personally seeded the early stages…. One week ago we announced Series A funding led by XYZprinting. The agreement with XYZprinting is that we will sell under their brand, and our brand. For a sub-$20K system, this is an exiciting opportunity. We have also made an agreement with a Greman dental company, bringing their materials and creating a special dental 3D printer in the second half of 2018.”
The partnership he alluded to in our conversation was announced the week after formnext, as XYZprinting and Nexa3D signed an agreement with BEGO to focus on digital dentistry. The new machine will be from Nexa3D, made under its label and manufactured by XYZprinting, and exclusively marketed by BEGO.
XYZprinting has been expanding its reach in the 3D printing industry lately; following a recent conversation in the UK with the company focused on consumer applications, at formnext the message was all professional on the heels of the announcement of the company’s entrance into industrial additive manufacturing. Michele Marchesan, Senior Vice President Industry 4.0, noted that the company is working to put its extensive resources to best use.
“We want to leverage the incredible manufacturing capabilities of Kinpo,” he told me, referencing parent company New Kinpo Group. “They have been in the market for 12 years, and are putting together a world-class reseller network.”
The company has one of the largest machine portfolios in 3D printing, offering a broad variety of 3D printing working with extrusion-based, resin, SLS, binder jetting, and other technologies — and a major reason behind this fairly vast offering comes down to one simple point:
“We understand there is no machine that is the solution for everything,” Marchesan said.
XYZprinting is targeting disruption now that a firm foundation of experience and market-leading sales has been established. Nexa3D is “incredibly disruptive,” Marchesan said, affirming the partnering; he also pointed to Sicnova’s “industrial grade” FFF offerings.
“We want a disruptive printer and to address segments in an affordable way, over the entire cost of ownership. We’re all over the hype. We want to supply reliable, cost-effective, quality 3D printing, with industrial manufacturing quality from a company making one million 3D printers per month,” he continued.
“We are leveraging all this. We entered the market three and a half years ago, and we wanted to be industrial too. We have a full portfolio few can match in this industry. We have speed, quality, technologies from color to sintering, at a price where people can afford to go in. Companies are trying to validate if 3D printing works in their production — now this is price-accessible, with incredible productivity.”
Looking to the company’s recent industrial introductions, Marchesan noted that binder jetting is an in-demand technology — a position being reinforced with the introduction since formnext of GE’s new prototype binder jetting system. With such a company as a bellwether for industrial demand, XYZprinting’s decision to get in on this modality underscores a solid market awareness. For XYZprinting, developing binder jetting and more industrial-focused technologies to its portfolio was not a decision taken lightly.
“We have very high productivity, all with excellent quality: I want to be very clear we did not discount quality,” Marchesan told me. “We have SLA, high speed laser SLA, binder jetting, color printing, FDM, and SLS, all under one roof. We are ready to go industrial now.”
The business environment necessarily impacts decision-making, and Marchesan was clear as well about the company’s take on industry conditions.
“One thing I appreciate about working with a Taiwanese company is setting up this foundation, we are building something that will last for many years. We are in the right direction from the start. I am so grateful for this opportunity,” he said.
“It is an industry where there will be much more consolidation. We are uniquely positioned with the support we have at Kinpo. We can’t do everything ourselves; we are working with the right partners.”
L-R: Nexa3D’s Andrea Denaro, Luciano Tringali, Izhar Medalsy; Avi Reichental; XYZprinting’s Michele Marchesan; Nano Dimension’s Amit Dror
The partnerships heralded at the XYZprinting booth that day at formnext included another company that counts Reichental among its leadership, as Israel-based Nano Dimension fits into the picture. Company CEO Amit Dror was on hand to discuss the industry and some looks ahead. He had come to formnext for the day, leaving some of the team a few hours away in Munich, where the company’s DragonFly 2020 Pro 3D printer won the productronica Innovation Award; other Nano Dimension team members were showing their technology in Santa Clara, California at IDTechEx that week.
“There has been a noticeable trend [at formnext]. This event started out a few years ago, where exhibitors would say, ‘Check out my amazing technology.’ Today, though, it is, ‘Look at these applications.’ This shows that the reality is growing,” Dror told me as we discussed industry maturation.
“The entrance of big-name players has had a big impact as they have aligned with the industry over the last few years. Seeing this growth, we are past the hype, as the more established companies are showing applications, emphasizing value, and elaborating how they fit in the working environment.”
Nano Dimension CEO Amit Dror
Since formnext, Nano Dimension has been leveraging its relationship with XponentialWorks as it brings its electronics 3D printing know-how more into North America, which Dror sees as a major market opportunity for the company’s offerings. Through XponentialWorks’ presence, marketplace access, and expertise, Nano Dimension has recently opened its second Customer Experience Center in Ventura, California.
As investments and partnerships in 3D printing continue, the industry can expect to see more real-world applications and business-world collaborations designed to advance additive manufacturing.
Discuss partnerships, business strategies, and other 3D printing topics, at 3DPrintBoard.com or share your thoughts in the Facebook comments below.
[All photos: Sarah Goehrke]
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The "Council of the Federation", a meeting of Premiers, has been talking pipelines.
In a pre-emptive declaration on Wednesday, outspoken Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall condemned what he viewed as Quebec's meddling in the climate change policies of other provinces.
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard has already raised concerns about the proposed Energy East pipeline, because of its potential impact on climate change, and because his province will not benefit financially.
"Raised concerns" is a bit of a misnomer here. Couillard is a far-left anti-pipeline nutter. Along with Lesbo Wynne in Ontario, he drafted the "seven (secret) demands for TransCanada Corp.
They include an environmental assessment that examines its impact on greenhouse gas emissions as well as an outline of the pipeline’s economic benefits for the province.
Oddly, the "seven demands" are never listed anywhere. You have to do a lot of digging to find they also include "assurances to gas customers (???), public acceptance of the project, and consultation with Red Indians. Oh, and that "outline of the economic benefits" is actually " clear economic and fiscal benefits for Quebec". The Queerbec Government also demands the federal government "assess the impacts of 'upstream' GHG emissions".
In short, Philippe Couillard is an enemy of the pipeline, and totally opposed to its construction. Which is why this is the most damning thing on the topic you'll read.
"I am convinced that we have found a new ally in Ms. Notley," Couillard said in a statement after private meeting with Alberta's premier earlier this week.
Rachel Arab has been coy on the signing of a National Energy Strategy, and on Thursday we learned why: Angry Thomas Mulcair is totally opposed to construction of the Energy East Pipeline.
No wonder Rachel Arab, who has famously been exposed as being subservient to her federal party masters, has curiously been leaving any action on these pipelines she keeps claiming to support.
The NDP are anti-pipeline. They are anti-oilsands. The Alberta NDP claimed during the election to be pro-pipeline, much as Rachel Arab claimed to be pro-pipeline just two weeks ago.
She's lying. They always lie. To vote for the NDP out west is to vote for liars, and to wantonly celebrate in your own destruction.
Which is why she's so popular in Queerbec these days.
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1874 $5.00 Five Dollar Bill National Currency Value and Information
1874 $5.00 Five Dollar Bill
The 1874 five dollar bill national currency original series note was issued between 1863 and 1875.
If your 1874 five dollar note shows the month and date as 1874 then it's the charter date for the bank.
Meaning, the National bank listed in the title was given their Federal charter on that date.
The value of your 1874 five dollar bill is based on which bank issued the bill.
Notes from more common chartered banks can be inexpensive as a couple hundred dollars.
Notes from rare banks or desirable states can be worth more than you might think.
Below I have listed all banks that issued 1874 five dollar bills.
If you have a five dollar bill from 1874 and want to know more about it please send me an email
and I will be happy to let you know what you have. If you are interested selling your note I will
give you an honest appraisal and make a serious offer.
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2158 Farmers National Gold Bank of San Jose, California
2179 First National Bank of Colorado Springs, Colorado
2199 Miners National Bank of Georgetown, Colorado
2140 First National Bank of Golden, Colorado
2134 Peoples National Bank of Pueblo, Colorado
2191 First National Bank of Allerton, Iowa
2177 First National Bank of Cedar Falls, Iowa
2197 Farmers National Bank of Centerville, Iowa
2182 First National Bank of Lisbon, Iowa
2204 First National Bank of Arcola, Illinois
2154 First National Bank of Belleville, Illinois
2156 First National Bank of Farmer City, Illinois
2147 Mattoon National Bank, Mattoon, Illinois
2205 Second National Bank of Monmouth, Illinois
2212 Oakland National Bank, Oakland, Illinois
2141 National Bank of Pontiac, Illinois
2155 Peoples National Bank of Rock Island, Illinois
2170 First National Bank of Streator, Illinois
2176 Union National Bank of Streator, Illinois
2207 Boonville National Bank, Boonville, Indiana
2183 First National Bank of Crown Point, Indiana
2188 Citizens National Bank of Evansville, Indiana
2184 First National Bank of Lagrange, Indiana
2213 Lafayette National Bank, Lafayette, Indiana
2208 First National Bank of Monticello, Indiana
2166 Second National Bank of New Albany, Indiana
2202 Bundy National Bank of New Castle, Indiana
2180 Peoples National Bank of Princeton, Indiana
2173 National Bank of Salem, Indiana
2178 First National Bank of Spencer, Indiana
2201 First National Bank of Tell City, Indiana
2192 State National Bank of Topeka, Kansas
2149 National Southern Kentucky Bank of Bowling Green, Kentucky
2206 Caverna National Bank, Caverna, Kentucky
2190 Anderson County National Bank of Lawrenceburg, Kentucky
2150 Marion National Bank of Lebanon, Kentucky
2161 Merchants National Bank of Louisville, Kentucky
2164 Citizens National Bank of Louisville, Kentucky
2171 Third National Bank of Louisville, Kentucky
2209 National Bank of Union County, Morganfield, Kentucky
2185 Mount Sterling National Bank, Mount Sterling, Kentucky
2169 Logan County National Bank of Russellville, Kentucky
2148 Citizens National Bank of Winchester, Kentucky
2172 Athol National Bank, Athol, Massachusetts
2152 Home National Bank of Brockton, Massachusetts
2153 Safety Fund National Bank of Fitchburg, Massachusetts
2145 Second National Bank of Bay City, Michigan
2143 First National Bank of Hancock, Michigan
2214 First National Bank of Mount Clemens, Michigan
2159 First National Bank of Kasson, Minnesota
2135 Commercial National Bank of Charlotte, North Carolina
2138 Rochester National Bank, Rochester, New Hampshire
2136 Merchants National Bank of Binghamton, New York
2151 Wilber National Bank of Oneonta, New York
2181 Centreville National Bank of Thurman, Centreville, Ohio
2146 First National Bank of East Liverpool, Ohio
2210 First National Bank of Middleport, Ohio
2203 First National Bank of New Lisbon, Ohio
2137 National Bank of Boyertown, Pennsylvania
2195 City National Bank of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2142 National Bank of Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
2139 City National Bank of Williamsport, Pennsylvania
2167 First National Bank of Bristol, Tennessee
2168 First National Bank of Jackson, Tennessee
2157 First National Bank of Dallas, Texas
2163 First National Bank of Beloit, Wisconsin
2133 First National Bank of Depere, Wisconsin
2132 Kellogg National Bank of Green Bay, Wisconsin
2144 Peoples National Bank of Martinsburg, West Virginia
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Collateral Damage (War in Iraq)
Dan Sheehan
Here is the link for the video of "Collateral Damage" by The Dan Sheehan Conspiracy.
Lyrics & Music by Daniel Sheehan
Album: The Dan Sheehan Conspiracy
Psychedelic rap/rock hybrid about the American government's and populace's lack of concern over the injury and death non-Americans, particularly those killed in our recent wars..
"Waaaaaay before it became cool to be against the war in Iraq, I was one of the many Americans persecuted by our fellow countrymen who were still hyped up by blind patriotism into believing that the U.S. could do no wrong, and that anyone who in any way opposed the wars in Iraq and/or Afghanistan were unpatriotic people to be de facto censored and lambasted.
Anyone who was with me from the start knows how this felt, and how wrong the prevailing mood in this country was. The rest of you should have known better!
The orphaned boy referred to in verse 2 is a real boy named Ali, who lost in arms during the aerial bombings of Baghdad that began the war in Iraq, and who not only lost his arms but his parents (including a pregnant mother) and all his siblings. This is exactly the type of thing that makes me feel something along the lines of "damn us all to hell," and the type of thing that makes monsters like Bill O'Riley and the people whose names I can't even stand to utter in politics repugnant swine.. "
An army moves in to finish the job
The planes have raised their chance of survival
By dropping their bombs all over the land
On dog and man and woman and child
Now justify it! Don't just deny it!
There's no demand but..
We still supply it!
Join in the chorus before it's too late
Repeat the mantra now don't hesitate
Millions of people cannot all be wrong
Until they realize the words to their song.
An orphaned boy who's lost both arms
Is an image for the rest of the world to see
But here in the good old U.S. of A.
We only see what's chosen by the folks in D.C.
Now rectify it! I'll testify it!
You're selling cheap but..
We don't buy it
Embrace the random morals we dictate
Millions of people just can't all be wrong
'Til they discover the words to their song.
Tens of thousands of lives been lost
But we only mourn the 10%
Who met their maker in a uniform
And speak the right language with the right accent.
Humanitarian charity workers
Never the subject of our prayers and our praise
Risking their lives without taking others
Despite no applause for the hopes that they raise
Join in the chorus before it's too late (Now justify it!)
Repeat the mantra now don't hesitate (Don't just deny it!)
Millions of people just can't all be wrong (There's no demand but...)
'Til they've rewritten the words to their song (We still supply it!)
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The Princess Bride (film)
Dead Person Impersonation
True-Blue Femininity
This Was His True Form
Vulcan Has No Moon
Rugrats/Tear Jerker
Spanner in the Works
Work, Pages with broken file links, Films of the 2000s, Cradle 2 the Grave
Cradle 2 the Grave
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Cradle 2 the Grave is a 2003 action film directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak and starring Jet Li and DMX. Despite the title, it's not a sequel to anything.
The film opens with a gang of African American criminals composed of leader Anthony Fait (DMX) and his lackeys Daria, Tommy and Miles performing a diamond heist, with particular emphasis on some black diamonds that their employer, Christophe, is after. Alas, Taiwanese Intelligence Agent Su (Li), who is after the diamonds himself for unknown reasons, busts them. Despite this, Anthony manages to escape with the diamonds and bring them to a fence, Archie, for them to be appraised. That night, Christophe is murdered by henchmen of the man he was working for, Yao Ling. Ling also sends some henchmen after Anthony, in search of the diamonds. Anthony and Su meet each other and are able to repel these henchmen, but then Anthony learns that Ling has kidnapped his daughter, Vanessa, and wont release her until he gets the diamonds. They then find that gangsters under the command of jailed crime boss "Jump" Chambers came to Archie, who possessed them, and took them. Anthony and Su decide to team up to get the diamonds and Vanessa back, in addition to uncovering why Ling and Chambers want the diamonds in the first place.
This film provides examples of:
Auction of Evil: Once Ling gets the diamonds, he tries to sell them off at one of these.
Cosmopolitan Council
Battle Amongst the Flames: The final battle between Su and Ling takes place in a Ring of Fire, similiar to that in Romeo Must Die, by the same director and also starring Jet Li.
Big Bad: Yao Ling.
Designated Girl Fight: Daria and Ling's assisstant Sona, both relatively minor characters, engage in one.
Faux Action Girl: Daria.
Fight Clubbing: Chambers owns an underground wrestling club.
Grievous Harm with a Body: Su uses a midget as an impromptu weapon.
Groin Attack: Vanessa gives one to some mook in an attempt to escape (see below), and Daria gives one to some creep in a club.
Hypothetical Casting: During the end credits, two of the comic-relief sidekicks have a conversation about who would play them if somebody made a movie of what just happened.
I Have Your Daughter
Improvised Weapon: See Grievous Harm with a Body.
Letters 2 Numbers
Little Miss Badass: Vanessa attempts to escape at one point by crying until one of the mooks lets her out of the van they're keeping her captive in, whereupon she kicks him in the nuts, steals the van's keys and tries to drive off. Sure, she fails, but a pretty good effort for an 8 year-old girl.
Luxury Prison Suite: Chambers has one.
MacGuffin: The diamonds.
Narm: Ling gets killed in the end via having one of the diamonds (which are radioactive) shoved down his throat, causing his eyes and mouth to glow as though he's a jack-o-lantern. However, this quickly turns to...
Body Horror and Nightmare Fuel, as he literally burns and rots from the inside out.
Papa Wolf - Fait (DMX) has this choice quote after kicking the crap out of the guy who was threatening his daughter:
"Wrong! Kid! Definitely the wrong father."
The Stinger: Ends with Archie and Tommy discussing who could play themselves in a movie based on their experiences, and who could direct it. They suggest Andrzej Bartkowiak, the director of the movie itself.
Stuff Blowing Up: Mostly towards the end.
Tank Goodness
Uncle Tomfoolery: Tommy, although not as heavy as in some movies. Averted with Anthony and the rest of his gang.
Weapon of Mass Destruction: The diamonds (actually some form of plutonium) turn out to be one.
Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure
Techno Babble: How the diamonds work is explained via this.
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/Cradle_2_the_Grave?oldid=18527"
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Fall/Winter 2015: At the Intersection of Faith and Healing
At the Intersection of Faith & Healing
How do Catholic, Jesuit values shape Georgetown's medical education, research and patient care?
Putting Faith & Healing Into Practice
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Reaching for the Stars
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Most of the research happening at Georgetown University on any given day is taking place at the Medical Center. How does the Jesuit, Catholic tradition impact the pursuit of biomedical research on...
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2015 Black Alumni Summit Recap
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Taking a trip down memory lane is always more fun in the company of friends. More than 4,000 members of the Georgetown alumni family experienced this first hand as they returned to the Hilltop for...
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Health Notes.
Edited by H. Laing Gordon, M. D.
Volume 10, 1899, pg. 53
[Our readers will greet this new departure with interest. We believe that with Dr. Gordon as Editor, our monthly "Health Notes" will be found most useful to Parents.--Editor "Parents' Review."]
"It thus appears that at present an enormous stream of infective milk is pouring into our cities and that the matter is truly one of urgency."--(From an address by the Medical Officer of Health for Manchester at the Sanitary Institute Congress, 1898.)
This is a graphic and alarming statement. Our concern is scarcely lessened on finding that the speaker referred to only one disease--tuberculosis; for that disease is protean, its best known manifestation being consumption of the lungs. There is no longer any doubt that tuberculosis may be communicated from animals to man, and that the chief channel is the milk from tuberculous cows. We are face to face with the unpleasant fact that we all incur a serious risk. Milk laden with infective matter from tuberculous cows is daily being received into hundred and hundred of households irrespective of social conditions or other considerations.
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This fact may be demonstrated by a simple proceeding which has been frequently carried out. In Manchester, for example, 93 samples of milk were taken. In over 18 per cent. of these tubercular infective matter was found. The 93 samples were traced to their origin in 17 farms. One cow at least with visible evidence of tubercular disease was found on each of 14 out of the 17 farms.
It is very easy to say that this state of affairs must be prevented. But it is a gigantic task, affecting many interests. There are signs that before long our legislators will imitate the example of other countries and make it a matter for State interference. But meanwhile the poisonous stream continues. We must therefore act for ourselves. We must insist that we be supplied with milk from healthy cows only,--i.e., from those which have successfully passed through what is known as the tuberculin-test, which often reveals unsuspected disease; and we must be satisfied that the cows are kept under such conditions as reduce to a minimum the possibility of these animals becoming unhealthy.
It is well not to be satisfied with the attractive illustrated circulars issued by large dairy companies. The magnitude of the business carried on by these dairies renders it an impossibility for all their customers to be supplied from the nicely photographed cows and cowsheds at the "model farm." A large proportion of the milk comes from cows kept in the old-fashioned way by owners having a contract with the dairy company. It is necessary to ascertain whence the particular milk supply comes. Then it may be only a pleasant cycle ride to obtain personal knowledge of important facts.
Public opinion, manifested in this manner, would stimulate the dairy companies, and urge our Government towards the proper regulation of this most valuable of all food-supplies. Whereas in other and poorer countries this has already been done, we have scarcely emerged from the Parliamentary Commission stage.
If, however, we cannot find a dairy in which we have perfect confidence, there are certain measures to which we may trust. We must search for some means of destroying the living germs of tubercular disease in the milk. This is completely accomplished by complete boiling of the milk. But there are many objections--real and imaginary--to boiled milk. It is unfortunate that the process of boiling unpleasantly alters the taste of the milk. We do not wish to mal such an every-day food distasteful to children. By >simple household sterilisation--not the sterilisation of the laboratory--this objection, and with it practically all the others, is obviated.
The ordinary steriliser (Aymard's, of Ipswich, is a good example) is acceptable to the most crotchety cook. Without being actually boiled, the milk is raised to a temperature inimical to the life of the tubercule and other germs. The taste is not altered. The value of the milk as a food is not decreased, and no scum should be formed. Every delivery of milk may be thus quickly rendered sterile at once and set aside, carefully covered, until required. Milk treated in this manner is certainly pleasanter to drink than the bottled sterilised milk on sale in some quarters.
But sterilisation on account of tuberculosis is unnecessary if it can be scientifically guaranteed that the cows are free from disease, and that the milk has not been contaminated en route from the farm. When adequate preventive measures have exterminated the disease amongst cattle, we shall have the pleasure of a glass of raw milk restored to us.
This question is something much more serious than the periodical "germ-scare" which we find in the daily papers. It is an appalling thought, that out of the thousands in this country who annually fall victims to one or another form of tuberculosis, the majority have been infected, directly or indirectly, by the milk supply. But the mere recognition of this fact opens up the splendid possibility of checking the disease at its chief source, and the more remote possibility of entirely exterminating tuberculosis in both animals and man.
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The Regent Theatre: A Melbourne Icon Unveiled
December 18 - Creative Industries, Latest News, Venue
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State Library Victoria begins a new chapter
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Forty per cent more space has been opened to the public as part of the spectacular Vision 2020 transformation of the State Library Victoria (SLV). Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley today re-opened the SLV’s S...
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Internationally renowned architect Sir David Adjaye of Adjaye Associates and award-winning Sydney-based contemporary Aboriginal artist Daniel Boyd have been chosen to design a new public square, plaza building and public...
Theatre Royal Tender Process to Commence
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The NSW Government has reached a commercial agreement with the owners of the Theatre Royal paving the way for a tender process to secure a new theatre operator. In March 2019 the Government announced plans to reopen the ...
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One of Melbourne’s most iconic landmarks, the Regent Theatre, will re-open its doors to the public in January 2020, revealing a major refurbishment of the much-loved auditorium, foyers and amenities. Working in collabora...
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Victoria’s reputation as the creative state of Australia will be strengthened through a new Victorian Government program supporting creative spaces and co-working places in regional areas. Minister for Creative Industrie...
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Home INDIAN NEWS Delhi Kejriwal explains money for vote comment
Kejriwal explains money for vote comment
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Arvind Kejriwal during a public meeting at Nanakpura in New Delhi, on Jan 21, 2015.
AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, seeking to defend his comment asking Delhi voters to accept money from political parties but not to vote for them, said it would ultimately lead to cleansing politics.
“The biggest problem is that these parties use black money to give bribe, distribute alcohol, and buy tickets. I am saying take money but don’t vote for them. This is not bribery,” Kejriwal told reporters here.
“In a few days these parties will realise you don’t get votes by distributing money. This is how cleanliness will come in politics. So I am saying, take the money, don’t vote for them, in a few days these parties will realise there is no point in giving money, votes cannot be bought anymore,” the former Delhi chief minister said.
“What is crime? Crime is if someone takes or gives bribe. What is bribe? If I say take money from me and vote for me. If there is an exchange, it is bribe,” he said.
Kejriwal, in a public meeting, had appealed to people to “accept money doled out by both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party but cast votes for (Aam Aadmi Party) AAP” in the Delhi assembly elections Feb 7.
The comment attracted flak from opposing parties and a notice from the Election Commission — which called it a violation of the model code of conduct and asked for an explanation.
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Tribocor Technologies, Inc., v. Gansam Rai and Aircomp LLC
Thomas Britven and Douglas Ellis were asked to serve in an expert witness capacity by counsel for Aircomp LLC and Dr. Gansam Rai, in a trade secret litigation matter. Tribocor, a former supplier of polycrystalline diamond (PCD) inserts once employed Dr. Rai and supplied Aircomp with PCD inserts. When Dr. Rai left Tribocor and Aircomp began purchasing PCD inserts from a different supplier, Tribocor sued for breach of contract, tortious interference with existing contractual relations, misappropriation of trade secrets and confidential information, unfair competition, conspiracy, conversion, breach of fiduciary duty, inducement to breach fiduciary duty, fraud by nondisclosure, and unjust enrichment.
Tribocor’s damages expert opined that Tribocor was entitled to six forms of disgorgement, including Aircomp’s product cost savings, avoided research and development costs, profits Aircomp made on third party sales, royalty payments received by Aircomp on third party sales, certain costs or expenses incurred by Tribocor, and certain commissions received by Dr. Rai. These claims totaled approximately $12 million. Mr. Britven testified on the basis that even assuming Tribocor’s allegations were true, the alleged trade secrets had de minimis, if any, commercial value. Mr. Britven also testified that any benefits received by Aircomp and Dr. Rai were unrelated to Tribocor’s trade secrets and confidential information.
A jury in the District Court of Harris Country, Texas found that one or more of the Defendants misappropriated certain of Tribocor’s trade secrets, failed to comply with a duty to keep confidential any new trade secrets or confidential information learned while employed at Tribocor, and that Aircomp knowingly participated in Dr. Rai’s disclosure of Tribocor’s trade secrets and intentionally interfered with Dr. Rai’s employment agreement with Tribocor. The jury, however, agreed with Mr. Britven, awarding Tribocor $0 in damages.
The case team included Mr. Britven, Douglas Ellis, and Lauren Koester. The team’s rigorous and detailed analysis of Tribocor’s many claims provided solid support for Mr. Britven’s and Mr. Ellis’ opinions. The team’s carefully crafted damages presentation further allowed the jury to understand and distinguish Tribocor’s trade secrets and confidential information from Tribocor’s various disgorgement claims.
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Is Donald Trump facing impeachment and indictment for illegal campaign contributions?
tags: corruption, Politics, President Trump, Russia investigation, scandal
This might be the understatement of the year but Friday was not a good day for the President despite the spin his supporters tried to put on it. On Friday it was revealed that Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, admitted that candidate Trump directed hush money payments to be made to a couple of his alleged mistresses.
Democrats (who did not care when Barack Obama was fined for violating campaign finance laws to the tune of nearly $2 million but watched gleefully as Dinesh D’Souza admitted to violating laws and was sent to jail) were quick to pounce on this news, claiming the President could be both indicted or impeached.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Sunday said that President Trump might “face the real prospect of jail time” after prosecutors indicated last week that he directed illegal payments during his 2016 presidential campaign.
“There’s a very real prospect that on the day Donald Trump leaves office, the Justice Department may indict him. That he may be the first president in quite some time to face the real prospect of jail time,” he said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
Schiff’s comments come after federal prosecutors said in a legal filing Friday that referred to Trump as “Individual-1” that Trump during the 2016 campaign directed his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, to make illegal payments to two women claiming they had affairs with Trump. It was the first time prosecutors made those accusations against Trump.
Meanwhile, other Democrats were looking a little less into the future and were talking about impeachment, here is more on that:
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Sunday that it would “certainly” be an impeachable offense if it’s proven that President Trump directed illegal payments during his campaign.
“They would be impeachable offenses. Whether they are important enough to justify an impeachment is a different question, but certainly they’d be impeachable offenses because even though they were committed before the president became president, they were committed in the service of fraudulently obtaining the office,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Representative Nadler said it would have to be determined if this impeachable offence is worthy of pursuing impeachment. That seems like an odd statement to make if he truly believes this would be an impeachable offense after the Democrats have been threatening impeachment over much less. I also do not believe the Democrats would wait for proof before moving on impeachment, we have seen that in today’s America a person is guilty until proven innocent and there is no reason to think it will be different in this case.
If I had to bet I would say the House of Representatives is going to impeach the President, however I see no way the Republican controlled Senate will vote to remove him from office so that means the Democrats will have to wait until he is out of office and then hope “justice” is served with an indictment and conviction. And with this being the news New York has been waiting for I expect the liberal state to move on it as soon as possible.
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Donald Trump threatens to use the military to build the wall if the Congress doesn’t approve funding →
More ‘projection’?
“President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign was fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission for campaign reporting violations — one of the largest fees ever levied against a presidential campaign, POLITICO has learned.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/08/flashback-remember-when-obama-campaign-was-fined-375000-for-campaign-reporting-violations-and-no-jail-time/
The “projectionist” might get ‘strung up’ before they can do anything … or even after. The “yellow jacket” fad might takeover worldwide – out with the ungodly globalist.
Yeah, this was almost $2 million worth of illegal contributions and all he got was a fine and the left did not care about it at all. Now according to the left this is the worst scandal in American politics and these accusations are coming from people who have a slush fund set up in Congress to use as hush money. Hypocrites all!
I call them #BottomFeeders but even those fish have more class and ethics! they serve a good purpose – sickos don’t.
The slush fund for their ‘sexual misdeeds’ too paid off by the tax payers – rapist and thieves have to go.
#QAlert 12/10/18 Q2571https://t.co/o1MV3OA9m7📁
PUBLIC AWAKENING = GAME OVER
Q@POTUS #QAnon #QArmy #WWG1WGA #MAGA #PatriotsUnited pic.twitter.com/9wLK7OHi22
— [intheMatrixxx] (@intheMatrixxx) December 10, 2018
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That’s right Zip, bottom feeders is a term too good for them!
With no opposition party the dem’s have had and will continue to have in the foreseeable future free reign in determining right and wrong, good and bad, guilt and innocence and with the “free press” in their hip pocket broadcasting their venomous version of reality to a gullible america is a piece of cake.
Yep, God told us about the fallen world and ungodly pervs, that need to be dealt w/ or they take over like life sucking weeds – the ‘tares’ (terror-ist) of the world.
In the end they are all part of the ruling class and as the ruled we are considered their opposition and they prove it more and more every day.
This will never end for Trump. They will do their best to insure he is not a viable candidate in 2020.
Their def of ‘viable’ differs from ours – the lie to them is ‘truth’ and Truth repulsive to them and called ‘a lie.’
To them truth is subjective, it brings us back to Pilate and quid est veritas.
Ha, Mr. Latin hee hee.
Good example, the personification of Truth stood right before him but Pilate ‘couldn’t see’ it – or ‘him’.
I first read ‘subjective’ as ‘substance’ (need new glasses :), but it goes w/ this too: Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
All of the world (systems) runs on ‘faith’ (and laws), and either it’s based on ‘truth’ or their ‘lies’. We’re ‘seeing’ its been more lies, and has been going on for some time.
Jesus was the manifestation of the Law as well – and the fulfilling of it.
That is the goal Bunkerville, if they cannot get him out of office before 2010 they will damage him to the point where he will be easily defeated. And maybe he even walks away on his own at the end of his term.
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Ron Fortunato Speaks to Makers @ Amherst Media
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Makers @ Amherst Media recently hosted Ron Fortunato, president of Trillium Learning and a NASA Space Ambassador for the United States, in our studios. He gave a presentation on a teaching program he calls "A World Bridge" where teams of students take on team-based learning, flipped, service learning, problem-centered projects that involve "open science" and "making."
We are currently showing the video on channel 15 and it is available to stream on our website as part of the ongoing Makers @ Amherst Media series.
Here is the description of his approach:
“A World Bridge” Projects provide for the design and implementation of real-time, real-world projects for school districts. Projects are designed for local, statewide, national and international collaboration, and connect students as actual participants with responsibilities in ongoing research projects. Partner organizations include NASA, NOAA, U.S. Coast Guard, Intelesense Technologies, Centre for Earth Simulation, Global Merit Group, Open Source Geospatial and additional institutions.
A World Bridge is an international infrastructure for learning, technology, 21st Century Skills, and advanced pedagogy. The projects began in Alaska, USA as the “ America Bridge", where the process of developing initial models for the integration of International leadership, economic development and education occurred. This project will provide the design and implementation of real-time project-based learning into curriculum, and simultaneously develop courseware for distance learning, built from ongoing, dynamic project content for synchronous and asynchronous delivery. The planned projects utilize cooperation between state government offices, state education agencies, school boards associations including the Association of Alaska School Boards' Consortium for Digital Learning (CDL), the University of Alaska system, and business partners to develop a unique series of international models which integrate real-time economic, and educational systems, designed to accelerate both systems via international cooperation, collaboration and mutually beneficial projects.
Blender Workshop on April 22, 2018
Want to get started in 3D modeling, but don't know how? Come to our Introductory Blender workshop on Sunday, April 22.
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Fall Makers Presentations
At 2:30pm on Monday December 14, 2015, Makers at Amherst Media will hold public presentations of work by Makerspace members during the Fall. Presentations will include UMass Open Science students as well as participants of the weekly open drop-in session. We invite you to join us to see what we've been working on!
M@AM at National Makerfaire
Makers @ Amherst Media (M@AM) was invited to help kick off the "National Week of Making" on June 12th and 13th at the National Makerfaire in Washington, D.C., Christine Olson, a doctoral student of communication at UMass, Liz Pongratz, an alumna of UMass' class of 2015, and Jim Lescault, director of Amherst Media, spent Friday and Saturday at the Makerfaire discussing the evolution of M@AM with visitors from throughout the country.
Makers at Hack for Western Mass
Christine Olson represented Makers at Amherst Media at Hack for Western Mass on June 6 and 7. This annual event, a celebration of the National Day of Civic Hacking, brings technologists together with community partners to solve local problems. During the hackathon, people organize into teams and build websites, apps, and other technology projects to support local non-profits. In addition, the hackathon includes a "Youth Hackathon" with demos in Scratch, Minecraft, and our Makerspace.
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Anabaptist Dictionary of the Bible
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'''The Anabaptist Vision--Footnotes.'''
1. Reprinted from Church History (March 1944) Xlll, 3-24, with slight revisions.
1. Reprinted from ''Church History'' (March 1944) Xlll, 3-24, with slight revisions. <br>
2. Rufus M. Jones, Studies in Mystical Religion (London, 1909), 369.
2. Rufus M. Jones, Studies in Mystical Religion (London, 1909), 369. <br>
Professor Walter Köhler of Heidelberg has recently expressed a similar evaluation, asserting that the historical significance of the Anabaptists "erschöpft sich nicht in dem Duldermut, der Arbeitstreue, dem kulturellen Fleiss.... Nein, die Mennoniten dürfen ohne Uberhebung einen Platz in der Weltgeschichte beanspruchen als Bahnbrecher der modernen Weltanschauung mit ihrer Glaubens--und Gewissensfreiheit."
3. The results of this research are best found in: Mennonitisches Lexikon, edited by Christian Hege and Christian Neff (Frankfurt a. M. and Weierhof [Pfalz], Germany, 1913 ff.), now at the letter "N"; Ernst Correll, Das Schweizerishe Täufermennonitentum: Ein Soziologischer Bericht (Tübingen, 1925); Mennonite quarterly review (published at Goshen, Indiana, since 1927); Mennonitische Geschichtsblätter (published at Weierhof [Palatinate] since 1936); R. J. Smithson, The Anabaptists, their contribution to our Protestant heritage (London, 1935); John Horsch, Mennonites in Europe (Scottdale, Pa., 1942); C. Henry Smith, The story of the Mennonites (Berne, Indiana, 1941); L. von Muralt, Glaube und Lehre der Schweizerschen Wiedertäufer in der Reformationszeit (Zurich, 1938). Cf. also: Wilhelm Pauck "The historiography of the German Reformation during the past twenty years; IV. Research in the history of the Anabaptists," Church history (December 1940) IX, 335-364; Harold S. Bender, "Recent progress in research in Anabaptist history," Mennonite quarterly review (January 1934) VIII, 3-17. Only three volumes of the great source publication, Quellen zur Geschichte der Wiedertäufer (Leipzig, 1930 ff. ), published by the Verein für Reformationsgeschichte, have yet appeared.
3. The results of this research are best found in: Mennonitisches Lexikon, edited by Christian Hege and Christian Neff (Frankfurt a. M. and Weierhof [Pfalz], Germany, 1913 ff.), now at the letter "N"; Ernst Correll, Das Schweizerishe Täufermennonitentum: Ein Soziologischer Bericht (Tübingen, 1925); Mennonite quarterly review (published at Goshen, Indiana, since 1927); Mennonitische Geschichtsblätter (published at Weierhof [Palatinate] since 1936); R. J. Smithson, The Anabaptists, their contribution to our Protestant heritage (London, 1935); John Horsch, Mennonites in Europe (Scottdale, Pa., 1942); C. Henry Smith, The story of the Mennonites (Berne, Indiana, 1941); L. von Muralt, Glaube und Lehre der Schweizerschen Wiedertäufer in der Reformationszeit (Zurich, 1938). Cf. also: Wilhelm Pauck "The historiography of the German Reformation during the past twenty years; IV. Research in the history of the Anabaptists," Church history (December 1940) IX, 335-364; Harold S. Bender, "Recent progress in research in Anabaptist history," Mennonite quarterly review (January 1934) VIII, 3-17. Only three volumes of the great source publication, Quellen zur Geschichte der Wiedertäufer (Leipzig, 1930 ff. ), published by the Verein für Reformationsgeschichte, have yet appeared. <br>
4. Quoted in translation by John Horsch, Mennonites in Europe, 325, from Bullinger's Der Wiedertäufferen Ursprung, etc., Zurich, 1560.
4. Quoted in translation by John Horsch, Mennonites in Europe, 325, from Bullinger's Der Wiedertäufferen Ursprung, etc., Zurich, 1560. <br>
5. Horsch, 293, from Sebastian Frank's Chronica, Zeitbuch und Geschichtbibel (Strassburg, 1531).
5. Horsch, 293, from Sebastian Frank's Chronica, Zeitbuch und Geschichtbibel (Strassburg, 1531). <br>
6. Heinrich Bullinger, Von dem unverschampten fräfel . . . der selvsgesandten Widertouffern (Zurich, 1531), folio 2v.
6. Heinrich Bullinger, Von dem unverschampten fräfel . . . der selvsgesandten Widertouffern (Zurich, 1531), folio 2v. <br>
7. F. Roth, Augsburgs Reformationsgeschichte (Munich, 1901), I, 230.
7. F. Roth, Augsburgs Reformationsgeschichte (Munich, 1901), I, 230. <br>
8. Letter of Zwingli to Vadian, May 28, 1525, Huldreich Zwinglis Sämtliche Werke, ed. Egli, Finsler, Köhler, et al. (Leipzig, 1914) VII, 332.
8. Letter of Zwingli to Vadian, May 28, 1525, Huldreich Zwinglis Sämtliche Werke, ed. Egli, Finsler, Köhler, et al. (Leipzig, 1914) VII, 332. <br>
9. The full official text of the decree may be found in Aller des Heiligen Roemischen Reichs gehaltene Reichstage, Abschiede und Satzungen (Mainz, 1666), 210, 211. It is also edited by Ludwig Keller in Monatshefte der Comenius Gesellschaft (Berlin, 1900), IX, 55-57, and by Bossert in "Die Reichsgesetze über die Wiedertäufer" in Quellen zur Geschichte der Wiedertäufer, 1. Band Herzogtum Württemberg (Leipzig, 1930), 1°-10°. See the excellent discussion of Anabaptist persecution by John Horsch in "The persecution of the evangelical Anabaptists," Mennonite quarterly review (January 1938), XII, 3-26.
9. The full official text of the decree may be found in Aller des Heiligen Roemischen Reichs gehaltene Reichstage, Abschiede und Satzungen (Mainz, 1666), 210, 211. It is also edited by Ludwig Keller in Monatshefte der Comenius Gesellschaft (Berlin, 1900), IX, 55-57, and by Bossert in "Die Reichsgesetze über die Wiedertäufer" in Quellen zur Geschichte der Wiedertäufer, 1. Band Herzogtum Württemberg (Leipzig, 1930), 1°-10°. See the excellent discussion of Anabaptist persecution by John Horsch in "The persecution of the evangelical Anabaptists," Mennonite quarterly review (January 1938), XII, 3-26. <br>
10. Geschicht-Buch der Hutterischen Brüder, edited by Rudolf Wolkan (Macleod [Alberta] and Vienna, 1923), 142,181.
10. Geschicht-Buch der Hutterischen Brüder, edited by Rudolf Wolkan (Macleod [Alberta] and Vienna, 1923), 142,181. <br>
11. Ibid., 182-187. The following quotation is composed of extracts selected from this account without regard to the original order, chiefly from 186, 187.
11. Ibid., 182-187. The following quotation is composed of extracts selected from this account without regard to the original order, chiefly from 186, 187. <br>
12. Gottfried Keller's Werke, ed. by Max Nussberger (Leipzig, n. d.) VI, 309. See Elizabeth Horsch Bender, "The portrayal of the Swiss Anabaptists in Gottfried Keller's Ursula," Mennonite quarterly review [July, 1943] XVII, 136-150.
12. Gottfried Keller's Werke, ed. by Max Nussberger (Leipzig, n. d.) VI, 309. See Elizabeth Horsch Bender, "The portrayal of the Swiss Anabaptists in Gottfried Keller's Ursula," Mennonite quarterly review [July, 1943] XVII, 136-150. <br>
13. In Switzerland, this group was called "Swiss Brethren," in Austria "Hutterites," in Holland and North Germany, "Menists." All these groups seriously objected to the name " Anabaptists" which was a term used to designate a punishable heresy and which after the tragic Münster episode (1534-35) was a name of odious opprobrium. I use the term here only for custom's sake. The term "Mennonite" came into wider use in the seventeenth century and was ultimately applied to all the groups except the Hutterites.
13. In Switzerland, this group was called "Swiss Brethren," in Austria "Hutterites," in Holland and North Germany, "Menists." All these groups seriously objected to the name " Anabaptists" which was a term used to designate a punishable heresy and which after the tragic Münster episode (1534-35) was a name of odious opprobrium. I use the term here only for custom's sake. The term "Mennonite" came into wider use in the seventeenth century and was ultimately applied to all the groups except the Hutterites. <br>
14. Ernst H. Correll, Das Schweizerische Täufermennonitentum (Tübingen, 1925), "Allgemeine historisch-soziologische Kennzeichnung," 3-10, gives an excellent concise survey. See particularly 6, footnote 1. See also Karl Kautsky, Communism in Central Europe in the time of the Reformation (1897). Troeltsch rejected the theory of the socioeconomic origin of the Anabaptists.
14. Ernst H. Correll, Das Schweizerische Täufermennonitentum (Tübingen, 1925), "Allgemeine historisch-soziologische Kennzeichnung," 3-10, gives an excellent concise survey. See particularly 6, footnote 1. See also Karl Kautsky, Communism in Central Europe in the time of the Reformation (1897). Troeltsch rejected the theory of the socioeconomic origin of the Anabaptists. <br>
15. Albrecht Ritschl, Geshichte des Pietismus (Bonn, 1880). Cf. R. Friedmann, "Conception of the Anabaptist," Church history (December 1940) IX, 351.
15. Albrecht Ritschl, Geshichte des Pietismus (Bonn, 1880). Cf. R. Friedmann, "Conception of the Anabaptist," Church history (December 1940) IX, 351. <br>
16. Ludwig Keller, Die Reformation und die älteren Reformparteien (Leipzig, 1885). Cf. also Friedmann, op. cit., 352.
16. Ludwig Keller, Die Reformation und die älteren Reformparteien (Leipzig, 1885). Cf. also Friedmann, op. cit., 352. <br>
17. Max Göbel, Geschichte des Christlichen Lebens, etc. (Coblentz, 1848), 1, 134. Ritschl, op. cit., 22, characterizes Göbel's views as follows "Die Wiedertäuferei also soll nach Göbel die gründlichere, entschiedenere, vollständigere Reformation sein, welche als 'Kind der Reformation' Luthers und Zwinglis zu erkennen aber von Luther seit 1522, von Zwingli seit 1524 aufgegeben worden wäre." Ritschl (op. cit., 7) himself states the Anabaptist position as follows: "Nicht minder haben die Wiedertäufer sich dafur angesehen, dass sie das von Luther und Zwingli begonnene Werk der Wiederherstellung der Kirche zu seinem rechten Ziel führten."
17. Max Göbel, Geschichte des Christlichen Lebens, etc. (Coblentz, 1848), 1, 134. Ritschl, op. cit., 22, characterizes Göbel's views as follows "Die Wiedertäuferei also soll nach Göbel die gründlichere, entschiedenere, vollständigere Reformation sein, welche als 'Kind der Reformation' Luthers und Zwinglis zu erkennen aber von Luther seit 1522, von Zwingli seit 1524 aufgegeben worden wäre." Ritschl (op. cit., 7) himself states the Anabaptist position as follows: "Nicht minder haben die Wiedertäufer sich dafur angesehen, dass sie das von Luther und Zwingli begonnene Werk der Wiederherstellung der Kirche zu seinem rechten Ziel führten." <br>
18. Horsch, op. cit., 289.
18. Horsch, op. cit., 289. <br>
19. Letter of Conrad Grebel to Thomas Müntzer, Sept. 5, 1524, Thomas Müntzers Briefwechsel, ed. H. Böhmer, and P. Kirn (Leipzig, 1931), 92; English translation, Walter Rauschenbusch, "The Zurich Anabaptists and Thomas Münzer." American journal of theology (January 1905) IX, 92.
19. Letter of Conrad Grebel to Thomas Müntzer, Sept. 5, 1524, Thomas Müntzers Briefwechsel, ed. H. Böhmer, and P. Kirn (Leipzig, 1931), 92; English translation, Walter Rauschenbusch, "The Zurich Anabaptists and Thomas Münzer." American journal of theology (January 1905) IX, 92. <br>
20. Taken from an unpublished manuscript in the Staatsarchiv des Kantons Bern, (Unnütze Papiere, Bd. 80), entitled Acta des Gesprächs zwüschenn predicannten und Touffbrüderenn (1538), Copy in the Mennonite Historical Library at Goshen College.
20. Taken from an unpublished manuscript in the Staatsarchiv des Kantons Bern, (Unnütze Papiere, Bd. 80), entitled Acta des Gesprächs zwüschenn predicannten und Touffbrüderenn (1538), Copy in the Mennonite Historical Library at Goshen College. <br>
21. Karl Holl, Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Kirchengeschichte (2nd and 3rd ed. ) (Tübingen, 1923), 359.
21. Karl Holl, Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Kirchengeschichte (2nd and 3rd ed. ) (Tübingen, 1923), 359. <br>
22. Corpus Schwenckfeldianorum (Leipzig, 1911), II, 280 f. See also K. Ecke, Schwenckfeld, Luther und der Gedanke einer apostolischen Reformation (Berlin, 1911), 101 f. See also the discussion on this topic in J. Horsch, "The rise of state church Protestantism," Mennonite quarterly review (July 1932), VI, 189-191.
22. Corpus Schwenckfeldianorum (Leipzig, 1911), II, 280 f. See also K. Ecke, Schwenckfeld, Luther und der Gedanke einer apostolischen Reformation (Berlin, 1911), 101 f. See also the discussion on this topic in J. Horsch, "The rise of state church Protestantism," Mennonite quarterly review (July 1932), VI, 189-191. <br>
22a. See Luther's Deutsche Messe, translated in Works of Martin Luther (ed. C. M. Jacobs et al.) VoI VI (Philadelphia, 1932), 172, 173.
22a. See Luther's Deutsche Messe, translated in Works of Martin Luther (ed. C. M. Jacobs et al.) VoI VI (Philadelphia, 1932), 172, 173. <br>
23. " Drei Zeugenaussagen Zwinglis im Täuferprozess" in Huldreich Zwinglis Sämtliche Werke (Leipzig, 1927), IV, 169.
23. " Drei Zeugenaussagen Zwinglis im Täuferprozess" in Huldreich Zwinglis Sämtliche Werke (Leipzig, 1927), IV, 169. <br>
24. Against this interpretation of Luther (and Zwingli) it may be argued that Luther never completely and consistently adopted the concept of a church of "earnest Christians only" which is here attributed to him, but that along with it he also retained the contradictory concept of the church functioning as a " corpus regens," that is, as an institution of social control. It may be agreed that Luther held the two concepts for a time and that he finally abandoned the former in favor of the latter, but the fact nevertheless remains that the former was for a time dominant, and that it is the implicit meaning of his whole basic theological position. The retention and eventual dominance of the second concept is an evidence of the carry-over of medievalism in Luther's thought. In regard to Zwingli, Wilhelm Hadorn says: "It must be admitted that not only Zwingli but also other Swiss and South German Reformers, e.g., Oecolampad and Capito, originally held views similar to the Anabaptists" (Die Reformation in der Deutschen Schweiz. [Leipzig, 1928]. 104). Walter Köhler, the best living authority on Zwingli, says; "Es ist, wie bei Luther auch, die Kapitulation der autonomen kirchgemeinschaft vor der Obrigkeit eingetreten." (Zwinglis Werke [Leipzig, 1927], IV, 29).
24. Against this interpretation of Luther (and Zwingli) it may be argued that Luther never completely and consistently adopted the concept of a church of "earnest Christians only" which is here attributed to him, but that along with it he also retained the contradictory concept of the church functioning as a " corpus regens," that is, as an institution of social control. It may be agreed that Luther held the two concepts for a time and that he finally abandoned the former in favor of the latter, but the fact nevertheless remains that the former was for a time dominant, and that it is the implicit meaning of his whole basic theological position. The retention and eventual dominance of the second concept is an evidence of the carry-over of medievalism in Luther's thought. In regard to Zwingli, Wilhelm Hadorn says: "It must be admitted that not only Zwingli but also other Swiss and South German Reformers, e.g., Oecolampad and Capito, originally held views similar to the Anabaptists" (Die Reformation in der Deutschen Schweiz. [Leipzig, 1928]. 104). Walter Köhler, the best living authority on Zwingli, says; "Es ist, wie bei Luther auch, die Kapitulation der autonomen kirchgemeinschaft vor der Obrigkeit eingetreten." (Zwinglis Werke [Leipzig, 1927], IV, 29). <br>
25. Karl Müller, Kirchengeschichte, II, 1, 476, Müller describes the essential goal of the Anabaptists as follows: "Es bedeutete inmitten der Auflösung aller Verhältnisse genug, dass hier eine Gemeinschaft stand, die die Heiligung des Lehens allem anderen voranstellte und zugleich in dem unteren Volksschichten wirklich Fuss gefasst, sie mit selbstandiger Religiöstät gefüllt hat." (Kirchengeschichte. II, 1, 330. )
25. Karl Müller, Kirchengeschichte, II, 1, 476, Müller describes the essential goal of the Anabaptists as follows: "Es bedeutete inmitten der Auflösung aller Verhältnisse genug, dass hier eine Gemeinschaft stand, die die Heiligung des Lehens allem anderen voranstellte und zugleich in dem unteren Volksschichten wirklich Fuss gefasst, sie mit selbstandiger Religiöstät gefüllt hat." (Kirchengeschichte. II, 1, 330. ) <br>
26. Johannes Kühn, Toleranz und Offenbarung (Leipzig. 1923), 224 says: "With the Anabaptists everything was based on a central idea. This central idea was concretely religious. It was Jesus' command to follow Him in a holy life of fellowship." Professor Alfred Hegler of Tübingen describes the Anabaptist ideal as "liberty of conscience, rejection of all state-made Christianity, the demand for personal holiness, and a vital personal acceptance of Christian truth." Professor Paul Wernle says, "Their vital characteristic was the earnestness with which they undertook the practical fulfillment of New Testament requirements both for the individual and for the church." These and other similar quotations are to be found in Horsch. "The character of the evangelical Anabaptists as reported by contemporary Reformation writers." Mennonite quarterly review (July 1934). VIII, 135.
26. Johannes Kühn, Toleranz und Offenbarung (Leipzig. 1923), 224 says: "With the Anabaptists everything was based on a central idea. This central idea was concretely religious. It was Jesus' command to follow Him in a holy life of fellowship." Professor Alfred Hegler of Tübingen describes the Anabaptist ideal as "liberty of conscience, rejection of all state-made Christianity, the demand for personal holiness, and a vital personal acceptance of Christian truth." Professor Paul Wernle says, "Their vital characteristic was the earnestness with which they undertook the practical fulfillment of New Testament requirements both for the individual and for the church." These and other similar quotations are to be found in Horsch. "The character of the evangelical Anabaptists as reported by contemporary Reformation writers." Mennonite quarterly review (July 1934). VIII, 135. <br>
27. Pilgram Marpeck, the outstanding writer of the Swiss and South German Brethren, is an example. See J. C. Wenger, "The theology of Pilgram Marpeck." Mennonite quarterly review (October 1938), XII, 247.
27. Pilgram Marpeck, the outstanding writer of the Swiss and South German Brethren, is an example. See J. C. Wenger, "The theology of Pilgram Marpeck." Mennonite quarterly review (October 1938), XII, 247. <br>
28. The German (Luther) translation of 1 Peter 3:21 calls baptism " Der Bund eines guten Gewissens mit Gott."
28. The German (Luther) translation of 1 Peter 3:21 calls baptism " Der Bund eines guten Gewissens mit Gott." <br>
29. Bullinger, Von dem unverschampten fräfel (1531), fol. 75 r.
29. Bullinger, Von dem unverschampten fräfel (1531), fol. 75 r. <br>
30. S. M. Jackson, Selected Works of Huldreich Zwingli (Philadelphia, 1901), 127.
30. S. M. Jackson, Selected Works of Huldreich Zwingli (Philadelphia, 1901), 127. <br>
31. Bullinger, Der Widertäufferen Ursprung, fol. 15 v.
31. Bullinger, Der Widertäufferen Ursprung, fol. 15 v. <br>
32. Joachim von Watt, Deutsche Historische Schriften, ed. Ernst Götzinger (St. Gall, 1879), II, 408.
32. Joachim von Watt, Deutsche Historische Schriften, ed. Ernst Götzinger (St. Gall, 1879), II, 408. <br>
33. C. A. Cornelius, Geschichte des Münsterschen Aufruhrs (Leipzig, 1860), II, 52.
33. C. A. Cornelius, Geschichte des Münsterschen Aufruhrs (Leipzig, 1860), II, 52. <br>
34. W. J. McGlothlin, Die Berner Täufer bis 1532 (Berlin, 1902), 36.
34. W. J. McGlothlin, Die Berner Täufer bis 1532 (Berlin, 1902), 36. <br>
35. J. J. Simler, Sammlung alter und neuer Urkunden (Zurich, 1757), I, 824.
35. J. J. Simler, Sammlung alter und neuer Urkunden (Zurich, 1757), I, 824. <br>
36. Karl Rembert, Die Wiedertäufer im Herzogtum Jülich (Berlin, 1899), 564.
36. Karl Rembert, Die Wiedertäufer im Herzogtum Jülich (Berlin, 1899), 564. <br>
37. Ernst Müller, Geschichte der Bernischen Taüfer (Frauenfeld, 1895), 88. Müller speaks (p. 89) of the mandate of 1585 as conceiving of "das Täuferwesen" as a just judgment of God on the church and the people of Berne.
37. Ernst Müller, Geschichte der Bernischen Taüfer (Frauenfeld, 1895), 88. Müller speaks (p. 89) of the mandate of 1585 as conceiving of "das Täuferwesen" as a just judgment of God on the church and the people of Berne. <br>
38. Sebastian Franck, Chronica, Zeitbuch und Geschichtbibel (Strassburg, 1531), folio 444v.
38. Sebastian Franck, Chronica, Zeitbuch und Geschichtbibel (Strassburg, 1531), folio 444v. <br>
39. Schwenckfeld's Epistolar (1564), 1, 203.
39. Schwenckfeld's Epistolar (1564), 1, 203. <br>
40. Bullinger, Der Widertäufferen Ursprung (1561), fol. 170r.
40. Bullinger, Der Widertäufferen Ursprung (1561), fol. 170r. <br>
41. Quellen zur Geschichte der Wiedertäufer, 1. Band Herzogtum Württemberg, ed. Gustav Bossert (Leipzig, 1930), 216 f.
41. Quellen zur Geschichte der Wiedertäufer, 1. Band Herzogtum Württemberg, ed. Gustav Bossert (Leipzig, 1930), 216 f. <br>
42. Ibid., 259 ff.
42. Ibid., 259 ff. <br>
43. Complete Works of Menno Simons (Elkhart, Indiana, 1871), II, 37b.
43. Complete Works of Menno Simons (Elkhart, Indiana, 1871), II, 37b. <br>
44. Handlung oder Acta der Disputation gehalten zu Zofingen (Zurich, 1532).
44. Handlung oder Acta der Disputation gehalten zu Zofingen (Zurich, 1532). <br>
45. Böhmer-Kirn, op. cit., 97.
45. Böhmer-Kirn, op. cit., 97. <br>
46. Horsch, op cit., 386.
46. Horsch, op cit., 386. <br>
47. P. Tschackert, Die Entstehung der Lutherischen und reformierten Kirchenlehre (Göttingen, 1910), 133, says of the Anabaptists that they were "a voluntary Christian fellowship, striving to conform to the Christian spirit for the practice of brotherly love."
47. P. Tschackert, Die Entstehung der Lutherischen und reformierten Kirchenlehre (Göttingen, 1910), 133, says of the Anabaptists that they were "a voluntary Christian fellowship, striving to conform to the Christian spirit for the practice of brotherly love." <br>
48. Johannes Kühn, op. cit., 231. fol. 22v.
48. Johannes Kühn, op. cit., 231. fol. 22v. <br>
49. Ernst Müller, op. cit., 44. See Ernst Correll, op. cit., 15 f. on the attitude of the various Anabaptist groups on community of goods.
49. Ernst Müller, op. cit., 44. See Ernst Correll, op. cit., 15 f. on the attitude of the various Anabaptist groups on community of goods. <br>
51. A. Hulshof, Geschiedenis van de Doopsgezinden te Straatsburg van 1525 tot 1557 (Amsterdam, 1905), 216.
51. A. Hulshof, Geschiedenis van de Doopsgezinden te Straatsburg van 1525 tot 1557 (Amsterdam, 1905), 216. <br>
52. Bullinger, Der Widertäufferen Ursprung, fol. 129v.
52. Bullinger, Der Widertäufferen Ursprung, fol. 129v. <br>
53. John Horsch, The Hutterian Brethren 1528-1931 (Goshen, Indiana, 1931), gives the only adequate account in English of the Hutterian Brethren. It is of interest to note that Erasmus, Melanchthon, and Zwingli condemned private ownership of property as a sin. See Paul Wernle, Renaissance und Reformation (Tübingen, 1912), 54, 55, for the citations of Erasmus and Melanchthon, and Horsch, Hutterian Brethren, 132, footnote 126, for the citation of Zwingli. Wilhelm Pauck says that Bucer's ideal state was that of Christian communism, "Martin Bucer's conception of a Christian state," in Princeton theological review (January 1928), XXVI, 88.
53. John Horsch, The Hutterian Brethren 1528-1931 (Goshen, Indiana, 1931), gives the only adequate account in English of the Hutterian Brethren. It is of interest to note that Erasmus, Melanchthon, and Zwingli condemned private ownership of property as a sin. See Paul Wernle, Renaissance und Reformation (Tübingen, 1912), 54, 55, for the citations of Erasmus and Melanchthon, and Horsch, Hutterian Brethren, 132, footnote 126, for the citation of Zwingli. Wilhelm Pauck says that Bucer's ideal state was that of Christian communism, "Martin Bucer's conception of a Christian state," in Princeton theological review (January 1928), XXVI, 88. <br>
54. Not all the Anabaptists were completely nonresistant: Balthasar Hubmaier for instance for a brief period (1526-28) led a group of Anabaptists at Nikolsburg in Moravia who agreed to carry the sword against the Turk and pay special war taxes for this purpose. This group, which became extinct in a short time, was known as the "Schwertler" in distinction from other Moravian Anabaptists called the "Stäbler," who later became the Hutterites and have continued to the present. It is obvious that Hubmaier and the "Schwertler" represent a transient aberration from original and authentic Anabaptism. Bullinger (Von dem unverschampten fräfel [1531] fol. 139v. ) testifies that the Swiss Brethren considered war to be "das ergist uebel das man erdencken mag," and (Der Widertäufferen Ursprung [1561] fol. 16 r.) says "they do not defend themselves, therefore they do not go to war and are not obedient to the government on this point." See also, extensive compilation of evidence by John Horsch in his booklet, The principle of nonresistance as held by the Mennonite Church, a historical survey (Scottdale, Pa., 1927), 60 pages.
54. Not all the Anabaptists were completely nonresistant: Balthasar Hubmaier for instance for a brief period (1526-28) led a group of Anabaptists at Nikolsburg in Moravia who agreed to carry the sword against the Turk and pay special war taxes for this purpose. This group, which became extinct in a short time, was known as the "Schwertler" in distinction from other Moravian Anabaptists called the "Stäbler," who later became the Hutterites and have continued to the present. It is obvious that Hubmaier and the "Schwertler" represent a transient aberration from original and authentic Anabaptism. Bullinger (Von dem unverschampten fräfel [1531] fol. 139v. ) testifies that the Swiss Brethren considered war to be "das ergist uebel das man erdencken mag," and (Der Widertäufferen Ursprung [1561] fol. 16 r.) says "they do not defend themselves, therefore they do not go to war and are not obedient to the government on this point." See also, extensive compilation of evidence by John Horsch in his booklet, The principle of nonresistance as held by the Mennonite Church, a historical survey (Scottdale, Pa., 1927), 60 pages. <br>
55. Letter of Grebel to Müntzer, Böhmer-Kirn, op. cit., 97.
55. Letter of Grebel to Müntzer, Böhmer-Kirn, op. cit., 97. <br>
56. (Pilgrim Marpeck), Testamenterleütterung (n.d., n.p., ca. 1544), fol. 313r.
56. (Pilgrim Marpeck), Testamenterleütterung (n.d., n.p., ca. 1544), fol. 313r. <br>
57. (Peter Riedemann), Rechenschaft unserer Religion, Lehre und Glaubens, von den Bruedern die Man die Hutterischen nennt (Berne, Indiana, 1902), 105.
57. (Peter Riedemann), Rechenschaft unserer Religion, Lehre und Glaubens, von den Bruedern die Man die Hutterischen nennt (Berne, Indiana, 1902), 105. <br>
58. The Complete Works of Menno Simons (Elkhart, Indiana, 1871), 1, 170b and 81b. The quotations were revised by comparison with the Dutch editions of 1646 and 1681.
58. The Complete Works of Menno Simons (Elkhart, Indiana, 1871), 1, 170b and 81b. The quotations were revised by comparison with the Dutch editions of 1646 and 1681. <br>
59. Mennonites of Holland, Germany, France, and Switzerland gradually abandoned nonresistance in the course of the nineteenth century. The emigrant Mennonites in Russia and North America have maintained it. The Mennonites of the United States furnish 40 percent of all conscientious objectors in Civilian Public Service in the present war, and the Mennonites of Canada a still higher percent of the conscientious objectors in that country.
59. Mennonites of Holland, Germany, France, and Switzerland gradually abandoned nonresistance in the course of the nineteenth century. The emigrant Mennonites in Russia and North America have maintained it. The Mennonites of the United States furnish 40 percent of all conscientious objectors in Civilian Public Service in the present war, and the Mennonites of Canada a still higher percent of the conscientious objectors in that country. <br>
Harold S. Bender, 1944.
"The Anabaptist Vision" 1
"Judged by the reception it met at the hands of those in power, both in Church and State, equally in Roman Catholic and in Protestant countries, the Anabaptist movement was one of the most tragic in the history of Christianity; but, judged by the principles, which were put into play by the men who bore this reproachful nickname, it must be pronounced one of the most momentous and significant undertakings in man's eventful religious struggle after the truth. It gathered up the gains of earlier movements, it is the spiritual soil out of which all nonconformist sects have sprung, and it is the first plain announcement in modern history of a programme for a new type of Christian society which the modern world, especially in America and England, has been slowly realizing -an absolutely free and independent religious society, and a State in which every man counts as a man, and has his share in shaping both Church and State."
These words of Rufus M. Jones2 constitute one of the best characterizations of Anabaptism and its contribution to our modern Christian culture to be found in the English language. They were brave words when they were written thirty-five years ago, but they have been abundantly verified by a generation of Anabaptist research since that time.3 There can be no question but that the great principles of freedom of conscience, separation of church and state, and voluntarism in religion, so basic in American Protestantism and so essential to democracy, ultimately are derived from the Anabaptists of the Reformation period, who for the first time clearly enunciated them and challenged the Christian world to follow them in practice. The line of descent through the centuries since that time may not always be clear, and may have passed through other intermediate movements and groups, but the debt to original Anabaptism is unquestioned.
The sixteenth-century reformers understood the Anabaptist position on this point all too well, and deliberately rejected it. The best witness is Heinrich Bullinger, Zwingli's successor in Zurich, whose active life-span covers the first fifty years of the history of the Swiss Anabaptists and who knew them so well that he published two extensive treatises against them in 1531 and 1561. According to Bullinger, the Swiss Brethren taught that:
One cannot and should not use force to compel anyone to accept the faith, for faith is a free gift of God. It is wrong to compel anyone by force or coercion to embrace the faith, or to put to death anyone for the sake of his erring faith. It is an error that in the church and sword other than that of the divine Word should be used. The secular kingdom should be separated from the church, and no secular ruler should exercise authority in the church. The Lord has commanded simply to preach the Gospel, not to compel anyone by force to accept it. The true church of Christ has the characteristic that it suffers and endures persecution but does not inflict persecution upon anyone. 4
Bullinger reports these ideas, not in commendation but in condemnation urging the need of rigid suppression. He attempts a point by point refutation of the Anabaptist teaching, closing with the assertion that to put to death Anabaptists is a necessary and commendable service.
But great as is the Anabaptist contribution to the development of religious liberty, this concept not only does not exhaust but actually fails to define the true essence of Anabaptism. In the last analysis freedom of religion is a purely formal concept, barren of content; it says nothing about the faith or the way of life of those who advocate it, nor does it reveal their goals or program of action. And Anabaptism had not only clearly defined goals but also an action program of definiteness and power. In fact the more intimately one becomes acquainted with this group the more one becomes conscious of the great vision that shaped their course in history and for which they gladly gave their lives.
Before describing this vision it is well to note its attractiveness to the masses of Christians of the sixteenth century. Sebastian Franck, himself an opponent, wrote in 1531, scarcely seven years after the rise of the movement in Zurich:
The Anabaptists spread so rapidly that their teaching soon covered the land as it were. They soon gained a large following, and baptized thousands, drawing to themselves many sincere souls who had a zeal for God.... They increased so rapidly that the world feared an uprising by them though I have learned that this fear had no justification whatsoever.5
In the same year Bullinger wrote that "the people were running after them as though they were living saints.6 Another contemporary writer asserts that " Anabaptism spread with such speed that there was reason to fear that the majority of the common people would unite with this sect." 7 Zwingli was so frightened by the power of the movement that he complained that the struggle with the Catholic party was "tub child's play" compared to the conflict with the Anabaptists.8
The dreadful severity of the persecution of the Anabaptist movement in the years 1527-60 not only in Switzerland, South Germany, and Thuringia, but in all the Austrian lands as well as in the Low Countries, testifies to the power of the movement and the desperate haste with which Catholic, Lutheran, and Zwinglian authorities alike strove to throttle it before it should be too late. The notorious decree issued in 1529 by the Diet of Spires (the same diet which protested the restriction of evangelical liberties) summarily passed the sentence of death upon all Anabaptists, ordering that "every Anabaptist and rebaptized person of either sex should be put to death by fire, sword, or some other way." 9 Repeatedly in subsequent sessions of the imperial diet this decree was reinvoked and intensified; and as late as 1551 the Diet of Augsburg issued a decree ordering that judges and jurors who had scruples against pronouncing the death sentence on Anabaptists be removed from office and punished by heavy fines and imprisonment.
The authorities had great difficulty in executing their program of suppression, for they soon discovered that the Anabaptists feared neither torture nor death, and gladly sealed their faith with their blood. In fact the joyful testimony of the Anabaptist martyrs was a great stimulus to new recruits, for it stirred the imagination of the populace as nothing else could have done.
Finding, therefore, that the customary method of individual trials and sentences was proving totally inadequate to stem the tide, the authorities resorted to the desperate expedient of sending out through the land companies of armed executioners and mounted soldiers to hunt down the Anabaptists and kill them on the spot singly or en masse without trial or sentence. The most atrocious application of this policy was made in Swabia where the original 400 special police of 1528 sent against the Anabaptists proved too small a force and had to be increased to 1,000. An imperial provost marshal, Berthold Aichele, served as chief administrator of this bloody program in Swabia and other regions until he finally broke down in terror and dismay, and after an execution at Brixen lifted his hands to heaven and swore a solemn oath never again to put to death an Anabaptist, which vow he kept.10 The Count of Alzey in the Palatinate, after 350 Anabaptists had been executed there, was heard to exclaim, "What shall I do, the more I kill, the greater becomes their number!"
The extensive persecution and martyrdom of the Anabaptists testify not only of the great extent of the movement but also of the power of the vision that burned within them. This is most effectively presented in a moving account written in 1542 and taken from the ancient Hutterian chronicle where it is found at the close of a report of 2,173 brethren and sisters who gave their lives for their faith.11
No human being was able to take away out of their hearts what they had experienced, such zealous lovers of God were they. The fire of God burned within them. They would die the bitterest death, yea, they would die ten deaths rather than forsake the divine truth which they had espoused....
They had drunk of the waters which had flowed from God's sanctuary, yea, the water of life. They realized that God helped them to bear the cross and to overcome the bitterness of death. The fire of God burned within them. Their tent they had pitched not here upon earth, but in eternity, and of their faith they had a foundation and assurance. Their faith blossomed as a lily, their loyalty as a rose, their piety and sincerity as the flower of the garden of God. The angel of the Lord battled for them that they could not be deprived of the helmet of salvation. Therefore they bore all torture and agony without fear. The things of this world they counted in their holy mind only as shadows, having the assurance of greater things. They were so drawn unto God that they knew nothing, sought nothing, desired nothing, loved nothing but God alone. Therefore they had more patience in their suffering than their enemies in tormenting them.
. . . The persecutors thought they could dampen and extinguish the fire of God. But the prisoners sang in their prisons and rejoiced so that the enemies outside became much more fearful than the prisoners and did not know what to do with them....
Many were talked to in wonderful ways, often day and night. They were argued with, with great cunning and cleverness, with many sweet and smooth words, by monks and priests, by doctors of theology, with much false testimony, with threats and scolding and mockery, yea, with lies and grievous slander against the brotherhood, but none of these things moved them or made them falter.
From the shedding of such innocent blood arose Christians everywhere, brothers all, for all this persecution did not take place without fruit.
Perhaps this interpretation of the Anabaptist spirit should be discounted as too glowing, coming as it does from the group itself, but certainly it is nearer to the truth than the typical harsh nineteenth-century interpretation of the movement which is well represented by the opening sentence of Ursula, the notable historical novel on the Anabaptists published in 1878 by the Swiss Gottfried Keller, next to Goethe perhaps the greatest of all writers in the German language:
Times of religious change are like times when the mountains open up; for then not only do all the marvelous creatures of the human spirit come forth the great golden dragons, magic beings and crystal spirits, but there also come to light all the hateful vermin of humanity, the host of rats and mice and pestiferous creation, and so it was at the time of the Reformation in the northeast part of Switzerland. 12
Before defining the Anabaptist vision, it is essential to state clearly who is meant by the term "Anabaptist", since the name has come to be used in modern historiography to cover a wide variety of Reformation groups, sometimes thought of as the whole "left wing of the Reformation" (Roland Bainton). "the Bolsheviks of the Reformation" (Preserved Smith). Although the definitive history of Anabaptism has not yet been written, we know enough today to draw a clear line of demarcation between original evangelical and constructive Anabaptism on the one hand, which was born in the bosom of Zwinglianism in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1525, and established in the Low Countries in 1533, and the various mystical, spiritualistic, revolutionary, or even antinomian related and unrelated groups on the other hand, which came and went like the flowers of the field in those days of the great renovation. The former, Anabaptism proper, maintained an unbroken course in Switzerland, South Germany, Austria, and Holland throughout the sixteenth century, and has continued until the present day in the Mennonite movement, now almost 500,000 baptized members strong in Europe and America.13 There is no longer any excuse for permitting our understanding of the distinct character of this genuine Anabaptism to be obscured by Thomas Müntzer and the Peasants War, the Munsterites, or any other aberration of Protestantism in the sixteenth century.
There may be some excuse, however, for a failure on the part of the uninformed student to see clearly what the Anabaptist vision was, because of the varying interpretations placed upon the movement even by those who mean to appreciate and approve it. There are, for instance, the socialist writers, led by Kautsky, who would make Anabaptism either "the forerunner of the modern socialism" or the "culminating effort of medieval communism," and who in reality see it only as the external religious shell of a class movement.14 There are the sociologists with their partial socioeconomic determinism as reflected in Richard Niebuhr's approach to the social origin of religious denominations. There is Albert Ritschl, who sees in Anabaptism an ascetic semimonastic continuation of the medieval Franciscan tertiaries, and locates the seventeenth-century Pietists in the same line;15 and Ludwig Keller, who finds Anabaptists throughout the pre-Reformation period in the guise of Waldenses and other similar groups whom he chooses to call "the old-evangelical brotherhood,"16 and for whom he posits a continuity from earliest times Related to Keller are the earlier Baptist historians (and certain Mennonites) who rejoice to find in the Anabaptists the missing link which keeps them in the apostolic succession of the true church back through the Waldenses, Bogomils, Cathari, Paulicians, and Donatists, to Pentecost. More recently there is Rufus M. Jones who is inclined to class the Anabaptists with the mystics, and Walter Koehler who finds an Erasmian humanist origin for them.
However, there is another line of interpretation, now almost 100 years old, which is being increasingly accepted and which is probably destined to dominate the field. It is the one which holds that Anabaptism is the culmination of the Reformation, the fulfillment of the original vision of Luther and Zwingli, and thus makes it a consistent evangelical Protestantism seeking to recreate without compromise the original New Testament church, the vision of Christ and the apostles. This line of interpretation begins in 1848 with Max Göbel's great Geschichte des christlichen Lebens in der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Kirche, continues with the epoch-making work of C. A. Cornelius, particularly in his Geschichte des Münsterschen Aufruhrs (1855-1860), follows in the work of men like Johann Loserth, Karl Rembert, and John Horsch, and is represented by such contemporaries as Ernst Correll of Washington and Fritz Blanke of Zurich. A quotation from Göbel may serve to illustrate this interpretation:
The essential and distinguishing characteristic of this church is its great emphasis upon the actual personal conversion and regeneration of every Christian through the Holy Spirit.... They aimed with special emphasis at carrying out and realizing the Christian doctrine and faith in the heart and life of every Christian in the whole Christian church. Their aim was the bringing together of all the true believers out of the great degenerated national churches into a true Christian church. That which the Reformation was originally intended to accomplish they aimed to bring into full immediate realization.17
And Johann Loserth says:
More radically than any other party for church reformation the Anabaptists strove to follow the footsteps of the church of the first century and to renew unadulterated original Christianity.18
The evidence in support of this interpretation is overwhelming, and can be taken from the statements of the contemporary opponents of the Anabaptists as well as from the Anabaptists themselves. Conrad Grebel, the founder of the Swiss Brethren movement, states clearly this point of view in his letter to Thomas Müntzer of 1524, in words written on behalf of the entire group which constitute in effect the original Anabaptist pronunciamento:
Just as our forebears [the Roman Catholic Papal Church] fell away from the true God and the knowledge of Jesus Christ and of the right faith in him, and from the one true, common divine word, from the divine institutions, from Christian love and life, and lived without God's law and gospel in human, useless, un-Christian customs and ceremonies, and expected to attain salvation therein, yet fell far short of it, as the evangelical preachers [Luther, Zwingli, etc.] have declared, and to some extent are still declaring; so today, too, every man wants to be saved by superficial faith, without fruits of faith, without the baptism of test and probation without love and hope, without right Christian practices, and wants to persist in all the old fashion of personal vices, and in the common ritualistic and anti-Christian customs of baptism and of the Lord' s Supper, in disrespect for the divine word and in respect for the word of the pope and of the antipapal preachers, which yet is not equal to the divine word nor in harmony with it. In respecting persons and in manifold seduction there is grosser and more pernicious error now than ever has been since the beginning of the world. In the same error we, too, lingered as long as we heard and read only the evangelical preachers who are to blame for all this, in punishment for our sins. But after we took the Scriptures in hand, too, and consulted it on many points we have been instructed somewhat and have discovered the great and hurtful error of the shepherds, of ours too, namely that we do not daily beseech God earnestly with constant groanings to be brought out of this destruction of all godly life and out of human abominations, and to attain to true faith and divine instruction.19
A similar statement was made in 1538, after fourteen years of persecution, by an Anabaptist leader who spoke on behalf on his group in the great colloquy at Berne with the leaders of the Reformed Church:
While yet in the national church, we obtained much instruction from the writings of Luther, Zwingli, and others, concerning the mass and other papal ceremonies, that they are vain. Yet we recognized a great lack as regards repentance, conversion, and the true Christian life. Upon these things my mind was bent. I waited and hoped for a year or two, since the minister had much to say of amendment of life, of giving to the poor, loving one another, and abstaining from evil. But I could not close my eyes to the fact that the doctrine which was preached and which was based on the Word of God, was not carried out. No beginning was made toward true Christian living, and there was no unison in the teaching concerning the things that were necessary. And although the mass and the images were finally abolished, true repentance and Christian love were not in evidence. Changes were made only as concerned external things. This gave me occasion to inquire further into these matters. Then God sent His messengers, Conrad Grebel and others, with whom I conferred about the fundamental teachings of the apostles and the Christian life and practice. I found them men who had surrendered themselves to the doctrine of Christ by " Bussfertigkeit" [repentance evidenced by fruits] . With their assistance we established a congregation in which repentance was in evidence by newness of life in Christ.20
It is evident from these statements that the Anabaptists were concerned most of all about "a true Christian life," that is, a life patterned after the teaching and example of Christ. The reformers, they believed, whatever their profession may have been, did not secure among the people true repentance, regeneration, and Christian living as a result of their preaching. The Reformation emphasis on faith was good but inadequate, for without newness of life, they held, faith is hypocritical.
This Anabaptist critique of the Reformation was a sharp one, but it was not unfair. There is abundant evidence that although the original goal sought by Luther and Zwingli was "an earnest Christianity" for all, the actual outcome was far less, for the level of Christian living among the Protestant population was frequently lower than it had been before under Catholicism. Luther himself was keenly conscious of the deficiency. In April 1522 he expressed the hope that, "We who at the present are well nigh heathen under a Christian name may yet organize a Christian assembly."21 In December 1525 he had an important conversation with Caspar Schwenckfeld, concerning the establishment of the New Testament church. Schwenckfeld pointed out that the establishment of the new church had failed to result in spiritual and moral betterment of the people, a fact which Luther admitted, for Schwenckfeld states that "Luther regretted very much that no amendment of life was in evidence."22 Between 1522 and 1527 Luther repeatedly mentioned his concern to establish a true Christian church, and his desire to provide for earnest Christians ("Die mit Ernst Christen sein wollen") who would confess the gospel with their lives as well as with their tongues. He thought of entering the names of these "earnest Christians" in a special book and having them meet separately from the mass of nominal Christians, but concluding that he would not have sufficient of such people, he dropped the plan.22a Zwingli faced the same problem; he was in fact specifically challenged by the Swiss Brethren to set up such a church; but he refused and followed Luther's course.23 Both reformers decided that it was better to include the masses within the fold of the church than to form a fellowship of true Christians only. Both certainly expected the preaching of the Word and the ministration of the sacraments to bear fruit in an earnest Christian life, at least among some, but they reckoned with a permanently large and indifferent mass. In taking this course, said the Anabaptists, the reformers surrendered their original purpose, and abandoned the divine intention. Others may say that they were wise and statesmanlike leaders.24
The Anabaptists, however, retained the original vision of Luther and Zwingli, enlarged it, gave it body and form, and set out to achieve it in actual experience. They proceeded to organize a church composed solely of earnest Christians, and actually found the people for it. They did not believe in any case that the size of the response should determine whether or not the truth of God should be applied, and they refused to compromise. They preferred to make a radical break with 1,500 years of history and culture if necessary rather than to break with the New Testament.
May it not be said that the decision of Luther and Zwingli to surrender their original vision was the tragic turning point of the Reformation? Professor Karl Mueller, one of the keenest and fairest interpreters of the Reformation, evidently thinks so, for he says, "The aggressive, conquering power, which Lutheranism manifested in its first period was lost everywhere at the moment when the governments took matters in hand and established the Lutheran Creed,25 that is to say, when Luther's mass church concept was put into practice. Luther in his later years expressed disappointment at the final outcome of the Reformation, stating that the people had become more and more indifferent toward religion and the moral outlook was more deplorable than ever. His last years were embittered by the consciousness of partial failure, and his expressions of dejection are well known. Contrast this sense of defeat at the end of Luther's outwardly successful career with the sense of victory in the hearts of the Anabaptist martyrs who laid down their lives in what the world would call defeat, conscious of having kept faith with their vision to the end.
Having defined genuine Anabaptism in its Reformation setting, we are ready to examine its central teachings. The Anabaptist vision included three major points of emphasis; first, a new conception of the essence of Christianity as discipleship; second, a new conception of the church as a brotherhood; and third, a new ethic of love and nonresistance. We turn now to an exposition of these points.
First and fundamental in the Anabaptist vision was the conception of the essence of Christianity as discipleship. It was a concept which meant the transformation of the entire way of life of the individual believer and of society so that it should be fashioned after the teachings and example of Christ26 The Anabaptists could not understand a Christianity which made regeneration, holiness and love primarily a matter of intellect, of doctrinal belief, or of subjective "experience," rather than one of the transformation of life. They demanded an outward expression of the inner experience. Repentance must be "evidenced" by newness of behavior. "In evidence" is the keynote which rings through the testimonies and challenges of the early Swiss Brethren when they are called to give an account of themselves. The whole life was to be brought literally under the lordship of Christ in a covenant of discipleship, a covenant which the Anabaptist writers delighted to emphasize.27 The focus of the Christian life was to be not so much the inward experience of the grace of God, as it was for Luther, but the outward application of that grace to all human conduct and the consequent Christianization of all human relationships. The true test of the Christian, they held, is discipleship. The great word of the Anabaptists was not "faith" as it was with the reformers, but "following" (nachfolge Christi). And baptism, the greatest of Christian symbols, was accordingly to be for them the "covenant of a good conscience toward God" (1 Peter 3:21),28 the pledge of a complete commitment to obey Christ, and not primarily the symbol of a past experience. The Anabaptists had faith, indeed, but they used it to produce a life. Theology was for them a means, not an end.
That the Anabaptists not only proclaimed the ideal of full Christian discipleship but achieved, in the eyes of their contemporaries and even of their opponents, a measurably higher level of performance than the average, is fully witnessed by the sources. The early Swiss and South German reformers were keenly aware of this achievement and its attractive power. Zwingli knew it best of all, but Bullinger, Capito, Vadian, and many others confirm his judgment that the Anabaptist Brethren were unusually sincere, devoted, and effective Christians. However, since the Brethren refused to accept the state church system which the reformers were building, and in addition made "radical"" demands which might have changed the entire social order, the leaders of the Reformation were completely baffled in their understanding of the movement, and professed to believe that the Anabaptists were hypocrites of the darkest dye. Bullinger, for instance, calls them ' ' devilish enemies and destroyers of the Church of God."29 Nevertheless they had to admit the apparent superiority of their life. In Zwingli's last book against the Swiss Brethren (1527), for instance, the following is found:
If you investigate their life and conduct, it seems at first contact irreproachable, pious, unassuming, attractive, yea, above this world. Even those who are inclined to be critical will say that their lives are excellent.30
Bullinger, himself, who wrote bitter diatribes against them, was compelled to admit of the early Swiss Brethren that
Those who unite with them will by their ministers be received into their church by rebaptism and repentance and newness of life. They henceforth lead their lives under a semblance of a quite spiritual conduct. They denounce covetousness, pride, profanity, the lewd conversation and immorality of the world, drinking and gluttony. In short, their hypocrisy is great and manifold. 31
Bullinger's lament (1531) that "the people are running after them as though they were the living saints" has been reported earlier. Vadian, the reformer of St. Gall, testified, that " none were more favorably inclined toward Anabaptism and more easily entangled with it than those who were of pious and honorable disposition."32 Capito, the reformer of Strassburg, wrote in 1527 concerning the Swiss Brethren:
I frankly confess that in most [Anabaptists] there is in evidence piety and consecration and indeed a zeal which is beyond any suspicion of insincerity. For what earthly advantage could they hope to win by enduring exile, torture, and unspeakable punishment of the flesh? I testify before God that I cannot say that on account of a lack of wisdom they are somewhat indifferent toward earthly things, but rather from divine motives.33
The preachers of the Canton of Bern admitted in a letter to the Council of Bern in 1532 that
The Anabaptists have the semblance of outward piety to a far greater degree than we and all the churches which unitedly with us confess Christ, and they avoid offensive sins which are very common among us.34
Walter Klarer, the Reformed chronicler of Appenzell, Switzerland, wrote:
Most of the Anabaptists are people who at first had been the best with us in promulgating the word of God. 35
And the Roman Catholic theologian, Franz Agricola, in his book of 1582, Against the Terrible Errors of the Anabaptists, says:
Among the existing heretical sects there is none which in appearance leads a more modest or pious life than the Anabaptist. As concerns their outward public life they are irreproachable. No lying, deception, swearing, strife, harsh language, no intemperate eating and drinking, no outward personal display, is found among them, but humility, patience, uprightness, neatness, honesty, temperance, straightforwardness in such measure that one would suppose that they had the Holy spirit of God. 36
A mandate against the Swiss Brethren published in 1585 by the Council of Bern states that offensive sins and vices were common among the preachers and the membership of the Reformed Church, adding, "And this is the greatest reason that many pious, God-fearing people who seek Christ from their heart are offended and forsake our church [to unite with the Brethren]".37
One of the finest contemporary characterizations of the Anabaptists is that given in 1531 by Sebastian Franck, an objective and sympathetic witness, though an opponent of the Anabaptists, who wrote as follows:
The Anabaptists... soon gained a large following,... drawing many sincere souls who had a zeal for God, for they taught nothing but love, faith, and the cross. They showed themselves humble, patient under much suffering; they brake bread with one another as an evidence of unity and love. They helped each other faithfully, and called each other brothers... They died as martyrs, patiently and humbly enduring all persecution.38
A further confirmation of the above evaluation of the achievement of the Anabaptists is found in the fact that in many places those who lived a consistent Christian life were in danger of falling under the suspicion of being guilty of Anabaptist heresy. Caspar Schwenckfeld, for instance, declared, "I am being maligned, by both preachers and others, with the charge of being Anabaptist, even as all others who lead a true, pious Christian life are now almost everywhere given this name."39 Bullinger himself complained that
...there are those who in reality are not Anabaptists but have a pronounced averseness to the sensuality and frivolity of the world and therefore reprove sin and vice and are consequently called or misnamed Anabaptists by petulant persons.40
The great collection of Anabaptist source materials, commonly called the Täufer-Akten, now in its third volume, contains a number of specific illustrations of this. In 1562 a certain Caspar Zacher of Wailblingen in Württemberg was accused of being an Anabaptist, but the court record reports that since he was an envious man who could not get along with others, and who often started quarrels, as well as being guilty of swearing and cursing and carrying a weapon, he was not considered to be an Anabaptist.41 On the other hand in 1570 a certain Hans Jäger of Vohringen in Württemberg was brought before the court on suspicion of being an Anabaptist primarily because he did not curse but lived an irreproachable life. 42
As a second major element in the Anabaptist vision, a new concept of the church was created by the central principle of newness of life and applied Christianity. Voluntary church membership based upon true conversion and involving a commitment to holy living and discipleship was the absolutely essential heart of this concept. This vision stands in sharp contrast to the church concept of the reformers who retained the medieval idea of a mass church with membership of the entire population from birth to the grave compulsory by law and force.
It is from the standpoint of this new conception of the church that the Anabaptist opposition to infant baptism must be interpreted. Infant baptism was not the cause of their disavowal of the state church; it was only a symbol of the cause. How could infants give a commitment based upon a knowledge of what true Christianity means? They might conceivably passively experience the grace of God (though Anabaptists would question this), but they could not respond in pledging their lives to Christ. Such infant baptism would not only be meaningless, but would in fact become a serious obstacle to a true understanding of the nature of Christianity and membership in the church. Only adult baptism could signify an intelligent life commitment.
An inevitable corollary of the concept of the church as a body of committed and practicing Christians pledged to the highest standard of New Testament living was the insistence on the separation of the church from the world, that is nonconformity of the Christian to the worldly way of life. The world would not tolerate the practice of true Christian principles in society, and the church could not tolerate the practice of worldly ways among its membership. Hence, the only way out was separation ("Absonderung"), the gathering of true Christians into their own Christian society where Christ's way could and would be practiced. On this principle of separation Menno Simons says:
All the evangelical scriptures teach us that the church of Christ was and is, in doctrine, life, and worship, a people separated from the world.43
In the great debate of 1532 at Zofingen, spokesmen of the Swiss Brethren said:
The true church is separated from the world and is conformed to the nature of Christ. If a church is yet at one with the world we cannot recognize it is a true church.44
In a sense, this principle of nonconformity to the world is merely a negative expression of the positive requirement of discipleship, but it goes further in the sense that it represents a judgment on the contemporary social order, which the Anabaptists called "the world," as non-Christian, and sets up a line of demarcation between the Christian community and worldly society.
A logical outcome of the concept of nonconformity to the world was the concept of the suffering church. Conflict with the world was inevitable for those who endeavored to live an earnest Christian life. The Anabaptists expected opposition; they took literally the words of Jesus when He said, " In the world ye shall have tribulation," but they also took literally His words of encouragement, "But be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." Conrad Grebel said in 1524:
True Christian believers are sheep among wolves, sheep for the slaughter; they must be baptized in anguish and affliction, tribulation, persecution, suffering, and death; they must be tried with fire and must reach the fatherland of eternal rest not by killing them bodily, but by mortifying their spiritual, enemies.45
Professor Ernest Staehelin of Basel, Switzerland, says:
Anabaptism by its earnest determination to follow in life and practice the primitive Christian Church has kept alive the conviction that he who is in Christ is a new creature and that those who are identified with his cause will necessarily encounter the opposition of the world.46
Perhaps it was persecution that made the Anabaptists so acutely aware of the conflict between the church and the world, but this persecution was due to the fact that they refused to accept what they considered the sub Christian way of life practiced in European Christendom. They could have avoided the persecution had they but conformed, or they could have suspended the practice of their faith to a more convenient time and sailed under false colors as did David Joris, but they chose with dauntless courage and simple honesty to live their faith, to defy the existing world order, and to suffer the consequences.
Basic to the Anabaptist vision of the church was the insistence on the practice of true brotherhood and love among the members of the church.47 This principle was understood to mean not merely the expression of pious sentiments, but the actual practice of sharing possessions to meet the needs of others in the spirit of true mutual aid. Hans Leopold, a Swiss Brethren martyr of 1528, said of the Brethren:
If they know of any one who is in need, whether or not he is a member of their church, they believe it their duty, out of love to God, to render help and aid.48
Heinrich Seiler, a Swiss Brethren martyr of 1535 said:
I do not believe it wrong that a Christian has property of his own, but yet he is nothing more than a steward.49
An early Hutterian book states that one of the questions addressed by the Swiss Brethren to applicants for baptism was: "Whether they would consecrate themselves with all their temporal possessions to the service of God and His people."50 A Protestant of Strassburg, visitor at a Swiss Brethren baptismal service in that city in 1557, reports that a question addressed to all applicants for baptism was: "Whether they, if necessity require it, would devote all their possessions to the service of the brotherhood, and would not fail any member that is in need, if they were able to render aid."51 Heinrich Bullinger, the bitter enemy of the Brethren, states:
They teach that every Christian is under duty before God from motives of love, to use, if need be, all his possessions to supply the necessities of life to any of the brethren who are in need.52
This principle of full brotherhood and stewardship was actually practiced, and not merely speculatively considered. In its absolute form of Christian communism, with the complete repudiation of private property, it became the way of life of the Hutterian Brotherhood in 1528 and has remained so to this day, for the Hutterites held that private property is the greatest enemy of Christian love. One of the inspiring stories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is the successful practice of the full communal way of life by this group.53
The third great element in the Anabaptist vision was the ethic of love and nonresistance as applied to all human relationships. The Brethren understood this to mean complete abandonment of all warfare, strife, and violence, and of the taking of human life.54 Conrad Grebel, the Swiss. said in 1524:
True Christians use neither worldly sword nor engage in war, since among them taking human life has ceased entirely, for we are no longer under the Old Covenant.... The Gospel and those who accept it are not to be protected with the sword, neither should they thus protect themselves.55
Pilgram Marpeck, the South German leader, in 1544, speaking of Matthew 5, said:
All bodily, worldly, carnal, earthly fightings, conflicts, and wars are annulled and abolished among them through such law... which law of love Christ... Himself observed and thereby gave His followers a pattern to follow after.56
Peter Riedemann, the Hutterian leader, wrote in 1545:
Christ, the Prince of Peace, has established His Kingdom, that is, His Church, and has purchased it by His blood. In this kingdom all worldly warfare has ended. Therefore a Christian has no part in war nor does he wield the sword to execute vengeance. 57
Menno Simons, of Holland, wrote in 1550:
[The regenerated do not go to war, nor engage in strife.]... They are the children of peace who have beaten their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, and know of no war.... Spears and swords of iron we leave to those who, alas, consider human blood and swine's blood of well-nigh equal value.58
In this principle of nonresistance, or biblical pacifism, which was thoroughly believed and resolutely practiced by all the original Anabaptist Brethren and their descendants throughout Europe from the beginning until the last century,59 the Anabaptists were again creative leaders, far ahead of their times, in this antedating the Quakers by over a century and a quarter. It should also be remembered that they held this principle in a day when both Catholic and Protestant churches not only endorsed war as an instrument of state policy, but employed it in religious conflicts. It is true, of course, that occasional earlier prophets, like Peter Chelcicky, had advocated similar views, but they left no continuing practice of the principle behind them.
As we review the vision of the Anabaptists, it becomes clear that there are two foci in this vision. The first focus relates to the essential nature of Christianity. Is Christianity primarily a matter of the reception of divine grace through a sacramental-sacerdotal institution (Roman Catholicism), is it chiefly enjoyment of the inner experience of the grace of God through faith in Christ (Lutheranism), or is it most of all the transformation of life through discipleship (Anabaptism )? The Anabaptists were neither institutionalists, mystics, nor pietists, for they laid the weight of their emphasis upon following Christ in life. To them it was unthinkable for one truly to be a Christian without creating a new life on divine principles both for himself and for all men who commit themselves to the Christian way.
The second focus relates to the church. For the Anabaptist, the church was neither an institution (Catholicism), nor the instrument of God for the proclamation of the divine Word (Lutheranism), nor a resource group for individual piety (Pietism). It was a brotherhood of love in which the fullness of the Christian life ideal is to be expressed.
The Anabaptist vision may be further clarified by comparison of the social ethics of the four main Christian groups of the Reformation period, Catholic, Calvinist, Lutheran, and Anabaptist. Catholic and Calvinist alike were optimistic about the world, agreeing that the world can be redeemed; they held that the entire social order can be brought under the sovereignty of God and Christianized, although they used different means to attain this goal. Lutheran and Anabaptist were pessimistic about the world, denying the possibility of Christianizing the entire social order; but the consequent attitudes of these two groups toward the social order were diametrically opposed. Lutheranism said that since the Christian must live in a world order that remains sinful, he must make a compromise with it. As a citizen he cannot avoid participation in the evil of the world, for instance in making war, and for this his only recourse is to seek forgiveness by the grace of God; only within his personal private experience can the Christian truly Christianize his life. The Anabaptist rejected this view completely. Since for him no compromise dare be made with evil, the Christian may in no circumstance participate in any conduct in the existing social order which is contrary to the spirit and teaching of Christ and the apostolic practice. He must consequently withdraw from the worldly system and create a Christian social order within the fellowship of the church brotherhood. Extension of this Christian order by the conversion of individuals and their transfer out of the world into the church is the only way by which progress can be made in Christianizing the social order.
However, the Anabaptist was realistic. Down the long perspective of the future he saw little chance that the mass of humankind would enter such a brotherhood with its high ideals. Hence he anticipated a long and grievous conflict between the church and the world. Neither did he anticipate the time when the church would rule the world; the church would always be a suffering church. He agreed with the words of Jesus when He said that those who would be His disciples must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow Him, and that there would be few who would enter the strait gate and travel the narrow way of life. If this prospect should seem too discouraging, the Anabaptist would reply that the life within the Christian brotherhood is satisfyingly full of love and joy.
The Anabaptist vision was not a detailed blueprint for the reconstruction of human society, but the Brethren did believe that Jesus intended that the kingdom of God should be set up in the midst of earth, here and now, and this they proposed to do forthwith. We shall not believe, they said, that the Sermon on the Mount or any other vision that He had is only a heavenly vision meant but to keep His followers in tension until the last great day, but we shall practice what He taught, believing that where He walked we can by His grace follow in His steps.
Harold S. Bender was born July 19, 1897, at Elkhart, Indiana. He held degrees from the following institutions BS, Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana; BD, Garrett Biblical Institute; ThM, Princeton Theological Seminary; MA, Princeton University; and ThD, Heidelberg University.
He became dean of Goshen College in 1933 and from 1944 he served as dean of Goshen College Biblical Seminary until his death, September 21, 1962.
In the Mennonite Church he was active in many organizations and committees most notable as chairman of the Historical and Research Committee and the Peace Problems Committee. He was ordained to the ministry June 18, 1944. He became president of the Mennonite World Conference in 1952 and served until his death on September 21, 1962.
In 1927 he founded the scholarly quarterly, The Mennonite Quarterly Review, and served as its editor until his death. He served as editor of The Mennonite Encyclopedia, a four-volume monumental contribution to Christendom. In addition to numerous articles in various scholarly magazines he was also author of Two Centuries of American Mennonite Literature: Conrad Grebel, First Leader of the Swiss Brethren; These Are My People; Mennonite Origins in Europe; and Biblical Revelation and Inspiration.
The Anabaptist Vision, given as a presidential address before the American Society of Church History in 1943, has become a classic essay. Since its delivery it has appeared in scholarly journals and been translated into several languages.
The Anabaptist Vision--Footnotes.
Digitization by Wayne Chesley.
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Daniel Lloyd Little was born in Moncton, New Brunswick during the height of the cold war. From an early age he began to show a great interest in military subjects. In later years he travelled extensively throughout North America visiting historic sites and museums. The owner of an extensive collection of books and artifacts on military history, Daniel has continued his study of all aspects of warfare from ancient studies to the current era. Daniel Little's fascination with all things technical led to a successful twenty-eight year management career with Radioshack, the home electronics chain. He spent many of those years working in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the east coast home to the Royal Canadian Navy. After moving to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in 2004, one of the locations in the book, he began a new employment adventure with Register dot com as a web consultant, a position he thoroughly enjoyed. 2009 would see him moving back to Halifax, Nova Scotia where he would eventually begin a new career with The Chronicle Herald as a Small Business Specialist while working on his third novel, the sequel to Unheard, Unseen... His hobbies include the restoration of military artifacts, model building, and NASCAR motor sports as well as the extensive reading and study of military history.
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