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Beijing, Tokyo eye broader cooperation
By XU WEI in Chengdu | China Daily | Updated: 2019-12-26 00:52
Countries can work together on aging, modern services, Li tells Japanese PM
Beijing and Tokyo have agreed to expand cooperation in coping with aging societies and other issues as they seek to foster new areas of bilateral economic and trade cooperation.
The consensus was made between Premier Li Keqiang and his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, on Wednesday. The two leaders had talks in a hotel at the foot of Mount Qingcheng, a Taoist holy site and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, about one-hour drive from Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province.
The two leaders, together with Republic of Korea President Moon Jae-in, convened in the city for the eighth China-Japan-ROK leaders' meeting on Tuesday.
Li said China's ongoing efforts to further open up its services sector will provide more opportunities for both countries to expand win-win cooperation. There is broad space for greater bilateral cooperation in coping with aging societies and achieving mutual benefits, he said.
Both countries also face challenges of rapidly aging societies. New births in Japan have fallen below 900,000 per year for the first time on record, while births in China dropped for two consecutive years despite a universal two-child policy being adopted.
He highlighted the modern services — including securities, life insurance and healthcare — as sectors where the two countries can work together further.
"We can select some pilot areas where there will be greater opening-up so as to foster new highlights for bilateral cooperation. Chengdu could be a good option," Li said.
He also urged more cooperative measures in investment, innovation and tapping into third-party markets, as well as higher level people-to-people exchanges.
Abe echoed Li's proposal, saying that there is broad space for bilateral economic and trade cooperation.
He said Japan appreciates China's efforts to further open up its services sector, and it is willing to actively take part in the process.
During the meeting, Li also called upon both sides to stay committed to the principles set out in four political documents that are fundamental to Sino-Japanese relations, carefully handle sensitive issues and enable continuous new progress.
Abe said the two countries must conduct closer high-level exchanges, enhance communication and dialogue and jointly open a new era for bilateral relations.
After the meeting, Li accompanied Abe on a visit to the Dujiangyan irrigation system, another UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Bilateral trade between China and Japan reached more than $327 billion in 2018, up 8.1 percent over the previous year. Since 2007, China has been Japan's largest trade partner.
Relations between China and Japan were long clouded by issues including wartime history and territorial disputes. But they have come back on track since Li's visit to Japan in May 2018. Five months later, Abe visited Beijing.
When President Xi Jinping and Abe met in June on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Xi agreed in principle to accept Abe's invitation to make a state visit to Japan next spring.
Ahead of his trip to Chengdu, Abe met Xi in Beijing on Monday.
Zhou Yongsheng, deputy director of China Foreign Affairs University's Japanese Studies Center, said Japan has much expertise to share with China in its services sector.
"Both economies now face downward pressure and require vitality from outside to shore up growth," Zhou said, adding that closer bilateral trade relations and investment cooperation will offer the two countries more leeway amid the sluggish global economy.
Xu Liping, a researcher at the National Institute of International Strategy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said greater political mutual trust is needed for the two countries to elevate bilateral relations.
"It is important for the two countries to see each other as cooperative partners rather than opponents," he said, adding that more must be done to promote understanding between the two peoples.
State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi also met with Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi in Beijing on Wednesday.
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Washington's Largest Apartment Building - Razed
The Portner Flats apartment building once dominated the low rise residential intersection of 15th and U Street, and when it was completed in 1902, it was crowned as Washington’s largest apartment building. Completed in three stages beginning in 1897, it was located on the northeast corner, with a main façade extending 320 feet north to V Street.
Built by millionaire brewer Robert Portner and designed by architect Clement Didden, construction of the first of three phases began in 1897 at the intersection of 15th and U Street. Portner had purchased the land for $45,000, and had formed the Capitol Construction Company to build it to avoid union disputes during the project. Skeptics coined it “Portner’s Folly” due to its location far from the urban center of town.
However, the first section of luxury, three bedroom apartments rented quickly, and Portner commenced building a northern wing at 15th and V Streets in 1899. Incredibly, with only one vacant apartment remaining in the two sections, work began on the middle section in 1901. It was built one story taller than the previous sections, and in a slightly more Romanesque style that was popular at the time. It featured a large, two story balcony in the central penthouse.
The middle section was built atop a swimming pool and tennis court that was one of the more unusual features for an apartment complex at the time. Unlike the large apartments built earlier, the central section contained a series of smaller efficiencies and one bedroom units. To make up for the loss of the pool and courts, only a few years after they were built, Portner included large ballrooms, a huge dining room and private rooms that renters could reserve for parties. The entire complex cost an estimated $350,000 and contained a total of 123 apartments with 515 individual rooms.
In addition to the Portner Flats, Clement August Didden (1837-1923) was architect of a significant number of homes in the immediate area, but curiously never received much national recognition. Born on May 13, 1837 in Brakel, Germany, Didden left Germany in 1862 for England and the Cape of Good Hope to practice architecture. He moved to New York City in 1866 to work for Fernbach, Hunt, and Post, a firm with prominent architect Richard Morris Hunt. After leaving New York in 1870 or 1871, Didden became affiliated with the influential Philadelphia firm of Fraser, Furness, and Hewitt. He worked in Philadelphia until 1872 when he moved to Washington and eventually established his own practice.
Didden is attributed with numerous residential designs within the area, including 1207-1219 Q Street, 1609-1615 13th Street, 1329-1335 N Street, 1223-1229 15th Street, 1520 to 1524 Kingman Place, 1604-1606 Vermont Avenue, 1224 13th Street, and 1453-1455 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Didden's career as architect in Washington lasted for nearly 50 years. He lived most of his life at 710 13th Street, N.W. At the age of 86, in 1923, Didden died leaving behind works in Washington, Philadelphia, New York, South Africa, England, and Germany. His relative George Didden III is President of the National Capitol Bank on Capitol Hill.
Owner Robert Portner
Robert Portner (1837-1909) had arrived in the port of New York in 1853 from Westphalia, Prussia, where he had been born just sixteen years earlier. He became a citizen in 1859 and proudly voted for Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
As a risk taker, Portner decided to take his small savings and settle in Alexandria in the late spring of 1861, where he opened a grocery store. Selling goods to commanders for the army stationed throughout the area proved to be a huge success, and within a year, Portner bought a small brewery, from which he then sold beer to the armed forces.
Expanding the brewery naturally followed, and soon he was renting a schooner to ship goods and beer down the Potomac to soldiers stationed in nearby Fredericksburg. With a staff of five, he quickly expanded to produce 1,000 barrels of Tivoli beer, making deliveries to local pubs in and around Alexandria. Tivoli is “I lov it” spelled backwards.
In the next ten years, Portner continued to expand the brewery, built an ice plant, bought a shipyard, started a construction company, and established a German-speaking bank while also dabbling in real estate. In 1880, Portner and Edward Eils invented a cooling device that used a steam-driven fan to force air over refrigerated pipes that is recognized as one of the earliest air conditioning inventions.
By 1895, the brewery extended over four blocks on either side of Pendleton Street between North Street, Asaph and North Washington Streets. Portner and an investor formed the National Brewing Company at 13th and D Streets, Kentucky and South Carolina Avenues, NE. The Main building was 135 feet tall, 94 feet wide and 137 feet deep with stables and a huge icehouse, which produced 50 tons of ice per day. The brewery produced 100,000 barrels of beer annually, or 24 million pints a year.
Portner and his family lived at an estate in Manassas coined ‘Annaburg.’ Its grounds included a dairy, deer park and a man-made lake, complete with swans. When he died in 1906, Portner's estate was worth $1.9 million.
Portner’s life and legacy is the subject of a book titled The Shortest Dynasty: 1837-1947 by Michael Gaines. The author chronicles the fascinating events of the Portner family, their trials and triumphs, and provides in-depth look into the brewery business and the many innovations that Portner helped create. Portner’s Lager beer is today now made by the Old Dominion Brewing Company.
Portner’s son, Paul V. Portner, began a real estate company in 1910, and lived at the Portner Apartment building for some time. He purchased and rented houses in the area, including 1750 and 1752 Swann Street. He died of complications from excessive drinking in 1919, at the age of 36. The Portner family sold the apartments to investors in 1945.
It reopened the Dunbar Hotel, after a massive, $800,000 reconfiguration of the 123 apartments into 485 hotel rooms. Incompetent management led to a liquor license suspension in 1950, at a time when the hotel was renting to prostitutes and vagrants. In the years following, the building was transformed again, and became Washington’s leading elite black hotel, welcoming entertainers playing on U Street. Named after LeDroit park resident and literary figure Paul Lawrence Dunbar, it remained a popular gathering place for debutante balls, weddings, and musical performances.
The Dunbar slowly declined after the city’s other hotels were integrated, and partially closed its doors in 1964. It was sold to the city in 1970, and remained vacant for four years, and despite the efforts of preservationists, it was razed in 1974. In 1978, the Campbell-Heights apartment complex was built on the site, with a seven story high rise building and low rise garden apartments.
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DAY 1 - THE VOYAGE STARTS
The Kingsight A-101 of the Trans-Ocean Airlines, a division of the Atlas Company, was a wonder in itself: it could easily carry up to 50 passengers and move at supersonic airspeed, but the real deal was its absence of windows. Thanks to the Atlas' partner, the Gottschalk Technologies Enterprise, this plane was the first to use the most advanced LED technology, ShoWall, to display the outside world as if the whole hull were a single window, much to the entertainment of the passengers.
But even that experience paled in comparison of what awaited them, down by the coasts of Perth, Western Australia.
The man's hand touched the wall, the man ignoring the other passenger, animal and not, doing the same, with a similar awed expression as they watched the ship.
What a reductive word, the man thought. How could such a...thing be described with a word in history reserved for cruises, transportation, war..?
What did you call the first and unique floating city that awaited them?
4,500 feet long. 750 feet wide. 350 tall.
Apollo City.
Not just a ship. Hom--
"Are you going to recollect your jaw, Doc, or shall you listen to the PSA?" said a snappy voice. The man felt like being slapped out his daydream, and he wasn't definitely happy...but the voice's owner was right, alas, so he focused on the Captain's voice.
"...after landing, a platform will carry us to level 2, where the reception crew will assign you your apartment. In case of medical needs, please do not hesitate to ask our medical staff, available at any moment. All courts are already open and welcome you anytime. Remember, guys," the voice on the interphone said with an added cheer. "This is a city, not just a ship. Those of you who have signed for a job will be contacted by your Staff Departments tomorrow, today is dedicated to getting to know Apollo City and your neighbors."
Again, the man went into daydream mode. He looked at the other passengers chatting excitedly, the young ones focused only on the adventure awaiting.
A job. Neighbors. Shops, restaurants...A new life.
Like everyone else aboard, he had no baggage, not even his notebook, his e-reader... Everything they needed would be found aboard Apollo City. And Apollo City made no use of 'traditional' furniture or 'old' technology. A resident, especially one working there, was supposed to start afresh. Big step, great expectations.
But there was one thing this man had that the others had not, and that had granted him endless chats aboard the plane with rightly curious passengers: Two ani-anidroids. The genet sitting at the corridor, and the green-skinned crested saurian sitting in the middle row...
A snappy saurian, unfortunately. "If you're considering jumping down the plane, please give us the time to find for a decent owner at least, cabron." the man sighed. At least, so far Asur had been polite enough. He so wished he was as polite as poor Jemmy sitting silent and letting kids and pups playing with his carbon nanofiber tail...
From the window, the ship got closer...
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James skates about level 2, trying to get the snacks at the several apartment assignment booths ready for the new residents. Placing another tray down on another one of the many clothed tables, James pushed off again and picked up two trays, placing them on the final table. He dusted his hands together, the wheels retracting into his paws.
"There we go! I hope they sandwiches."
James' ears rotated, followed by his head. His smile expanded as he saw the plane getting closer.
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Avery had already had her fair share of nose-pressing against the translucent wall by the time the ship was in sight. Everything here was new to her! The ocean, the different types of people, the environment. Actually now that she thought of it she's never been a plane before now, and here she was, flying solo to destinations unknown! Or... Less known. She'd actually never heard about this technological monument until recently, only a week or so before her transfer. Who couldn't be excited for a journey like this? And being the pup she was, she eagerly agreed for the job.
But that was fifteen minutes ago Avery. And fifteen minutes ago Avery was transfixed by the gargantuan size of the ship they were headed towards. Present Avery on the other hand... Had switched interests in the blink of an eye once her gaze had wandered far enough away from the wall the notice it out of the corner of her eye.
A strange looking genet sitting by the corridor looking placidly ahead as children and pups played with his tail. Though it wasn't his tail that interested her.
By the time the PA turned on and the captain was making his announcement the curious canine had already wandered over to Jemmy, though instead of fighting for the attention of his slowly swaying tail, the Eskimo dog crotched down and adjusted her cap before... Inspecting his face very closely. Condensation probably would have already built up if she were doing the same for a window.
"How can anyone tell how you're feeling if you don't have any micro expressions?" She asked happily, her tail wagging behind her and her paws drumming against her knees in the noble attempt to resist any excessive touching or prodding.
"Sleep is due to me... And I have a dream to live."
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In front of the restaurant, Hajime patted down on his vest for the tenth time today, getting any stray dust particles or wrinkles that might have been there, despite his uniform looking immaculate as ever. The otter droid was placed on front desk duty today, to welcome the megacruiser's first passengers and residents, and he wanted to look his best for this momentous occasion. While on the outside he still has that same serious look that he always sported, grey eyes barely straying anywhere and his mouth in a neutral straight line, internally his processors were thrumming with anticipation. Guests were finally arriving, and as an Anidroid built to serve, there was nothing more that he could have wished for.
As he stood there almost ramrod straight with his hands behind his back, he caught sight of his fellow co-worker James flitting around and setting up the tables at the second level. Hajime was initially amazed looking at his rather eccentric fur pattern; he had heard of fur customization, but a checkerboard pattern running across one's back was rather outlandish. Now, seeing how the jackal was speeding around on his rollerblades, the racing pattern made sense and he was able to appreciate James' agility in serving the tables. The actuators in his tail hummed as it swayed lazily; he was built with endurance in mind. Hajime might never be able to catch up to James in a 100 meter dash, but he could certainly outlast him in a 42km marathon.
This made the otter smile unwittingly.
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Aboard the transport to the ship a rather odd group sat, gazing at the ship. Two of them, a tall man wearing all black and a lady who was a tad short and wearing extremely casual clothing, talked to eachother, "I can't wait to just relax." Said the man, leaning back slightly. His lady companion took a moment to blow a bubble with her gum before responding, "It'll be nice to not have to worry too much." The man turned to the two pets sat between him and the lady, one pet in the seat and one on the floor, preferring it there, "Holding up you two?"
The one in the seat, a black,white and brown-red border collie, fit with a bow tie over her collar, gave a small clap in response, "Most definitely! Today is a step into a whole new world! A new world with people! Shops! Secrets~" She finished, her eyes almost glinting.
The orange tabby with white swirls and an eye patch over her left eye gave a small scowl to the dog above her, "Save the snoopin' for another week, will ya? Don't need ya angering or breaking nothing with hardly a paw set aboard, Delilah."
Delilah gave a small huff, but her sparkling attitude returned rather quickly, "Fine. That will just give us more time to socialize. After all, we will be here for quite some time, so we best get to know the whos and the wheres."
Tee shrugged, "So, ya gonna goggle at whosit like everyone else?" She said, pointing her thumb in the direction of the slightly crowded genet.
Delilah leaned forward and pat the cat on the head, "Not yet. It is best to wait for us to disembark, as being surrounded by so much newness, the gogglers will goggle elsewhere and the goggled, having stretched their legs, will be more receptive to new people!" Tee just shrugged and leaned into Delilah's seat, neither of them keen to move from their seats and more or less confront people, as they awaited their destination.
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"I am more worried that you spill everything on the floor," said a male basenji dog, who was also happening to picking a ham sandwich. "How do you do with those skates, at that speed?"
Not everyone, of course, was coming via airplane.
A swarm of modern Jazz Yachts was busy transporting loadful of passengers to the Apollo City.
JY-27 was right now docking in the ship's central pier. a line of green lights to the left side giving the 'Go' to the maneuver.
As the yacht got closer and closer, the oceanview disappeared behind the titanic ALON glass and carbon fiber walls.
"They actually put up a garden here, too," marveled the man in a dark suit, while staring at the palm trees and greeneries adorning the piers. Like everyone else, seeing the real thing had a very different impact from every online picture and video. No wonder this place was much sought after by the top spendrifts in the world. The man thought that aboard this floating city there was enough wealth and political power to make pirates drool themselves silly...
"What? Did you think it was some special effects, on the screen, bubba?" said the military macaw perching on his shoulder. "And you are supposed to watch over us? What will be next?" and here his petulant voice turned into that of a human woman, "Oh, dear, those bandits have guns! What will I do?"
The man put his hand into the pocket of his jacket, then clenching into a fist. he was lucky people couldn't read minds, or the local Animal Protection would be all over him... "Is there something that could ever make you shut that trap, Piper?"
"'Mr. Piper', or 'Sir', would do, but I could use a meal right now. A decent one." he made a face. "Seeds. I can't believe you ordered seeds for me. Bah! I'm gonna fly me to the buffet, see you in the cabin." and with that, he took off, leaving behind a plume that landed on the man's head.
"Think they'll shoot him?" the man asked to the basket he was carrying in his other hand.
"Not likely," said the voice...of a python, as its head emerged from under the lid. "You said it yourself: Passengers and staff are uber-checked long before boarding, and all identities are double-verified onboard. Our friends are unlikely to have followed us. Have you arranged my transportation?"
The man sighed. "I did: An ani-droid is waiting for us at our cab--apartment, and there are enough cameras to keep an eye on Piper. You guys will never be really alone."
Then the yacht stopped, and it was time to get aboard.
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The droid's ears flicked, then he turned his head, and for the first time during the flight, he smiled. "Oh, that's easy: I never imposed them any restriction. I was built to stand far greater sollecitations than this, and letting young ones to play with my appendages is a good way for them to vent their natural energies. In short, there is a mutual agreement in which what they are doing is causing me no disturbance nor harm. Pleased to meet you, I am Jemmy. Who are you?"
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"If you try to get cleaner than this," said a male white cat, his fure as pure as snow, "You'll start shining. What do you suggest here?"
"Alcor, stop bothering the staff," an equally pure-white German Sheperd, a female, said to the cat. "Everything is good here for us, except theobromine-rich ingredients. And gound peppers, you know how much it makes you sneeze. Pick what you want."
The cat smiled. "Right as always, love," Alcor pecked her nose and chose a pickles and mayo sandwich. "Do you guys do room service 24/7 as well, right?" he asked. "Mizar and I are on our honeymoon, a nice private dinner will do."
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"Are you guys going to work there?" asked a big dog, a St. Bernard, sitting on the opposite isle. He waved his meaty paw to the family. "Hi, name's Sanson. Dad and I run a fitness program aboard. he sold his sports chain to get residency here."
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The waiter's ears stood up straight suddenly, and his laxly wagging tail shot straight up in surprise from the cat's sudden appearance. Once his reactions parameters ran their course and his processors calmed down, Hajime was finally able to see that the cat was accompanied by a dog, both as white as the snow on Mount Fuji.
He immediately placed his arms to the side of his body, stood rigidly straight and bowed down in a swift and hurried motion at his waist. "I am terribly sorry for not noticing your arrivals, goshuujin-samatachi. I truly apologize for my lack of concentration and tardiness, if there's anything..." His ocular sensors which were clenched shut in regret reopened slowly, and the Anidroid rose back up to see that the pair was not that troubled by his lapse of concentration as they continued to talk about what food they could order from the restaurant. They were not displeased, and if his interactions log was to be consulted, it is wise to not pursue forgiveness and continue as nonchalantly as possible. As such, Hajime's stance relaxed, and he flashed that wonderfully charming, almost seductive smile at them, back in his element.
"We can certainly serve any orders right in your designated rooms, regardless of what time it is, Mizar-sama, Alcor-sama, provided that the order is made 5 minutes in advance. Be rest assured, we can cater to any special needs that you might have, including removal of allergens or disliked ingredients, and privacy during serving of meals." He let Alcor state her order, and his order cache recorded the order. "One set of pickles and mayo sandwich for Alcor-sama. What would you like to order, Mizar-sama?"
Welsh Halfwit
Location: Wales, a luverrly land with noisy neighbours.
The door to one of the other yachts opened and a voice could be heard from inside. "All aboard who's going aboard," it said cheerfully.
"You've cheered up," a white haired human said, appearing in the doorway. Malcolm Devon had once held something of an empire in sports and vid channels and had recently sold the entire kit'n'kaboodle to one of his rival networks before announcing plans to take some time off. He stood around 6ft tall and the crows feet ran deep on his face. "Does this mean I'm forgiven?"
A feline appeared, Ginger from tips to toes, wearing a blue coat and pulling a couple of bags behind him. "I'm still narked you didn't ask if I'd like the club," he confessed as he pulled the bags. "I mean they're third Division. Wouldn't have been that much of a risk? But we're here now." He pulled up next to his 'father' and grinned. "And it does seem a great ship."
"Yes," Malcolm sighed, stretching before picking up one of the bags, "just the sort of break we need, Francis. All right," he said quickly, seeing the cats' mouth opening, "The sort of break I need! As you keep saying, you can't take a break from doing nothing by doing nothing. I understand, you know? It's why I have no problem with you putting those work applications in on the way here. Do you good, I suppose."
"I hope so," Francis said as the pair of them approached the reception. "Heya," Francis said after dinging for attention, "We're the Devons?"
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"Me? Spill something? Please!"
James chuckled and picked up a tray of various drinks. He rose up on one paw, the wheels popping out of that paw, before moving onto the other, allowing the wheels to come out of that paw as well. He skated over to the dog, holding out the tray.
"Would you care for a drink, sir?"
"I am... Hmm..." The dog simply paused for a few seconds, looking quite contemplative as she continued to stare at the genet in front of her. "So, you know that moment, when someone asks for your name, like when you first meet? Oh! Kinda like this. You could basically tell them anything that sounds close to a name and it'd be perfectly right in the other person's mind, of course until you or someone corrects them. Isn't that kinda weird and cool?" The dog seemed to trail off for a moment before snapping back to attention.
"Oh! Right, my name's Avery! It's a pleasuuuure to meet you Jemmy! Regardless if that's your real name or not." She scooted back a bit before reaching into her collar to pull out a small business card and handing it to Jemmy. It read something like:
"Avery Johannason"
"Therapy Dog"
"If lost please return to" An address was printed on there but scribbled out with red pen and written to the side of that instead was "Apollo City Medical Ward".
"And I'm supposed to give this to any friends I make here. Just in case! At least... That's what my old handler told me to do."
"Anything with fish. At least, we're in the right place for pets to stop mocking my tastes in food. What you suggest?"
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The rabbit anidroid, one of the many busy sorting the passengers in the long desk line, nodded. "Welcome to Apollo City. I am Elen-28. Your apartment is Deck H-C448. Please wear these bands with you at all time." She handed them a couple of black smartbands. "Follow their indications to your apartment. They work with vocal commands and can get you in touch with all services of Apollo City. We are having welcome buffets on each deck to help you all socialize. Your band will tell you where to find the nearest tables. Do you have any special necessities at the moment?"
The dog's nose sniffed cautiosly at the glasses. "Hm, can you prepare me some West African Ginger Drink? With sparkling water, please."
The genet took the card, read it...and gave it back. "Thank you, I memorized it. And as for my identification, 'Jemmy' is a more valid identification than--" and then the man's hand snapped the muzzle shut.
"Let's just say that his identification code is terribly complicated," he said, before showing a diplomatic smile. "Helmut Volken. So you are a qualified therapist? Intriguing."
"I'd say," the saurian droid said, "It's the only kind of therapist you could have, hombre loco."
"Remind me to disassemble you," Helmut growled, a moment before the 'PLEASE FASTEN YOUR SEATBELT' signal appeared on the floor and the ceiling.
The group did, Tee climbing into her own seat, though Delilah felt obligated to answer Sanson, "No, we are going as tourists, I believe it said."
Tee nodded, leaning into her seat, "Too many loose ends on too short a notice for anything permanent." The lady sat besides Delilah stopped chewing her gum to add, "Though we might return if it's good and they still have room later."
Tee thought for a moment, "Quite the investment to drop an entire chain to move."
"Thank you, Ellen-28," Franklin said, accepting the bands and handing one to Malcolm. "And no dietary restrictions, no."
When they reached their room, Franklin attached the band to a small computer he took from his bag. "I don't much feel like being tracked," he said, finding out where the nearest buffet was before introducing a small correction to the GPS system that disabled it. He put the device in a pocket in case he wished the re-enable it later. "I'm gonna go see what the food's like," he announced.
"I'll unpack and join you later," Malcolm replied as Franklin headed out towards the food, finding the nearest seat and strapping in when the message came up.
James beeped for a moment before nodding. He set the tray down before skating back to kitchen, his wheels retracting into his paws when he got there. With the recipe in mind, James quickly got to work in grabbing the needed ingredients. After checking the recipe to make sure he got everything, James got to work in preparing the actual thing. James followed the recipe exactly, pouring the finished liquid into a tall glass, complete with a blue umbrella. Placing this on a tray, James brought out his wheels and skated back to the dog, holding out the drink.
"One West African Ginger Drink! Enjoy!"
AnimeNerd88
Location: Hope's Peak Academy (SEND HELP!)
As the 'PLEASE FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS' sign flashed, the white fured wire-haired jack terrier did as it said. He hadn't moved from his seat, of course, since nobody had told him to move from his seat, and he wasn't as social as Ramona anyway. So he hadn't moved an inch during the entire flight. Not including his red and black eyes, of course, which were currently locked onto the window-like wall, showing the city in the sky. Reginald never usually showed emotion, but even he had to say that it inspired great awe in him. He felt the course hairs on the back of his neck stand up every time he looked at it. How come they were able to live here, he wondered. Had it been a lottery of some sort? Had Ramona sold some extra special paintings to pay for it, perhaps? Reginald did not know, as he had not been in control when it had happened. He'd only regained control during take-off and found a hastily written note explaining the situation, so there was a number of ways they might've gotten here. He'd have to leave a note the next time he felt himself losing control.
As he finally moved his gaze away from the wall, he noticed some of the other animals aboard the plane, at least, that's what he thought it was. There was a saurian-like ani-droid that was near a human and another ani-droid that seemed to be modeled after a genet. A female Canadian Eskimo dog was conversing with the second droid, though it seemed the first droid and the human that was with them had interrupted their conversation. Lastly, there were two dogs, a border collie and a Saint Bernard, and a cat, an orange tabby, that were sitting not that far away from him. The cat had a grey eye patch over her left eye, the Saint Bernard seemed to be the largest Reginald had ever seen, and the border collie had a bow tie on her neck. Her collar, perhaps? He didn't think it was strange, considering he had a wine glass for a tag himself, and that wasn't including the other three. Only that it was interesting. He only had a little hope that they wouldn't try to make small talk with him, otherwise they would have to suffer some of the most awkward chit-chat in history.
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"It just so happens that one of our specials of the day is pan-grilled gilt-head bream with lemon dill white sauce. The fish was freshly caught from the Mediterranean Sea by our dedicated fishermen earlier, and the combination of lemon and dill in a smooth and creamy yet not overbearingly so sauce brings out that fresh sea breeze flavour. Would that be of your liking, Mizar-sama?"
Avery smiled back politely as Helmut interrupted the droid, unable to comment before she heard a voice from somewhere nearby and turned to glance in that direction.
"Wow! Your sarcasm is amazing realistic!" The canine calls out in a very genuinely amazed tone, though the look of awe and excitement she had in her eyes could be interpreted as "dangerously curious" in the droid's eyes. He shouldn't be surprised if he was bombarded with questions the moment the plane's wheels touched down.
"I never knew that ani-droids were so good at conveying emotions." She replied to Helmut and Jemmy, apparently oblivious to the signs and signals she stayed where she was, wagging her tail happily.
"Not really, if you think if it," the big dog said. "In the end, all Dad and I did was to spend our time in the same place, rarely going to check out another gym or a shop, and seeing our investors and bankers more often than our neighbors. When we realized this was becoming a dull life, Dad decided to start afresh, in a place where everything can happen. You won't believe what these people have in terms of fitness, when it comes to equipment. They only needed a qualified trainer staff for fisiotherapy and customized fitness programs."
It was then that a leopard-like ani-droid walked to Francis. "Sir, if I may?" he asked with a discretional tone, and a kind expression. "Will you please follow me? Now."
The dog blinked his eyes. He gave a tentative sniff, and smiled. "Hmm, smells like home." He sipped the content, ending up licking his chops before downing the rest. "You know, I was mocking you. Didn't imagine you guys had the fresh stuff it takes for this drink, or knew how to make a perfect one, but I guess I must apologize: Name's Kwesi. Kwesi Cira, in case it wasn't in your database.
"I could even convey your funeral speech, if you keep ignoring the nice flashing light," Asur said. Then, to Helmut, "And don't start boasting just because someone tells you you did a decent work."
The man, this time, smiled at the anidroid. "You know, I can't wait to introduce you to the my future boss. he'll *love* to dissect you to see how good was my job."
Asur fell silent, crossing his arms and fuming and muttering profanities.
A screen lit up in front of Avery's seat, showing the face of a dog anidroid hostess. "Please, sir, fasten your seatbelt now. Approaching landing."
AnimeNerd88 Wrote:
At that moment, someone touched the dog's thigh. Of all people, just the one the terrier didn't seem to have noticed, given that the other passenger had been very quiet as well during the trip.
Said passenger was...a kitten. A black one, not a spot of any other color, a small bundle that could rest on a pet's lap. She regarded Reginald with big yellow eyes, before using her pencil on her tablet to write, 'Hi! I am Pixel. I am mute. Are you, too? Wanna be friends?'
The woman sitting by her side ruffled her head fur. "Dear, this is not the moment to talk with the other passengers, you know."
At that moment, the airplane touched the landing strip.
Mizar almost started drooling. "I'd *love* to--wait," she asked, frowning. "Wasn't the food here supposed to be grown, cloned, or what else?"
"It's the last luxury allowed before we leave, dear," said a man coming from behind her and the cat. "There will be all the time to appreciate the local products. Remember? It was asked to all applicants if we wanted a last celebrative meal."
Mizar nodded, blushing. "Yes, Dad. And after this all that has not been eaten will end up in the recycling system."
"I'll have vegetables sandwiches," Martin Foster said to the anidroid waiter
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"When a Leopard says come with me," Francis replied with a smirk, "it's not wise to say no." Having admitted that, he trotted along behind the Anidroid.
So it was a plane, Reginald thought. Nice to know. He answered the kitten using sign language, thinking that she should know it.
'Hello. My name is Reginald. I am not mute, but I do know sign language, if you prefer to communicate that way. Is this alright with you?'
"You were mocking me? Eh, that's okay! It's nice to meet you, Kwesi! I'm James!"
James placed the tray under his arm as his tail wagged with a smile.
Francis kept apace with the anidroid as they proceeded. "Quite a ship you've got here," he said by way of trying to start a conversation. "Can I ask your function?"
"That is correct," Hajime nodded. "Some of our patrons had sent in requests for locally-sourced food here before we depart, as Foster-sama had explained." The otter didn't skip a beat when he searched through the resident identification list from the ship's megaservers, identifying the man as Martin Foster, father of Alcor and Mizar.
"One set of vegetable sandwiches for Foster-sama. Mizar-sama, may I confirm your order of the pan-grilled gilt-head bream?"
((OOC: My apologies, guess I should've memorize the ship's details first -_- ))
"Aww really? That's so sweet of you." She replied happily as she scootched back to her seat and fastened herself in before pulling out a mechanical pen and giving the top a light press before speaking into it.
"Ani-droids, more advanced than I expected. Emotions range from sarcastic to endearing. Some models will go to long lengths to help even complete strangers!"
Her feet swayed underneath her and her tail wagged against the seat. She was so excited to start her new job!
Delilah oohed at the explanation, "So, you get the best of both, you still have a gym while being able to do more. Less business stuff to worry about while having time for other things."
Tee nodded in agreement, "Trading a grind into something more fulfilling while keeping the better aspects of the old. Here's hoping it's all ya hoped for."
Delilah motioned towards her sister, "Ditto what she said."
Instead, she stuck out her tongue at him in a funny expression. Then she wrote, 'I do not use sign language. I am here because they will give me an implant to speak.'
"Nice to know you..." Kwesi started, before he noticed the screen. "Oh, the plane is here, guess you'll be busy for a while. Well, see you later, right?" And then then the Basenji walked away.
The leopard led Francis to the Tube's entrance. They sat down in a wagon. The magtrain started with a hum. "I am a polifunctional anidroid, like the other models," he said, "though I am mostly used in the security branch. And we are directed to the security department."
"Asur and I are 1.5 models, to be honest Jemmy said. "In the sense that we were not created by Atlas Company standards. And he took some...liberties, in order to give us different personality patches. Do you think your job could benefit analyzing us?"
"Thank you," Samson started to say, "You can--" and then the plane stopped. The PA said, "Touchdown completed. Please be patient and remain at your seats. The belts will remain automatically locked until you are ready to disembark. Thank you for flying with Atlas Air and welcome aboard Apollo City."
At that moment, the shoWall showed the plane's wings folding up vertically. At the same time, slowly, the plane started descending into the ship.
Samson's eyes went all wide while the platform brought the airplane into Deck 2, where other vehicles were stored and lined up. Another airplane, at that moment, was going up, while passengers were greeting the new arrival from the buffet lines.
The platform stopped. The door opened with a hiss, then an escalator docked to the plane.
The seatbelts unlocked and retracted into the seats.
Samson stood up and took his baggage. "See you around, guys! Been a pleasure."
"Tss, showoff," Piper said from his position, up the control tower on the port. "But at least they got style." he looked around the immaculate white surface. "Hm, wonder who's doing the cleaning here," he asked himself. There were enough of those stupid seagulls all around, and they made him edgy... "Just as long as they stay away from here..."
"Oh, they will," said a voice --just at his right!
Piper blinked, and then got VERY nervous, at the sight of an eagle. A harpy eagle, a motherlovingsonofaraptor!
"Ohh, poor hatchling, you afraid of the big bad beak?"
Piper was very tempted to say yes, but then he reminded himself he had survived the mob, he could survive a... "A domestic?"
"Oh, so you noticed," she said, her eyes going to the bands at her legs. "Worry not, hatchling. I am security, me and my partners. That is why you won't see those stupid trasheaters around. You a passenger? Where is your band?" She added, looking at the parrot's leg.
Piper shrugged. "I'll be waiting before getting my bondage, thank you. I'm Piper, you?"
"Tisiphone. And I'd strongly suggest you get your band before they brand you for relocation."
"Of course! What better way to practice observation than droids built to model human and animal emotions? I mean sure, by now you guys probably have established your own personalities based on your unique experiences, interactions, and environment. But that doesn't mean the base archetypes you guys were built on disappears! They're still buried somewhere deep in there!" Avery woofs.
"Assuming I had perfect data on each of you and the capacity to sort and go through all of your experiences I could hypothetically gauge your reaction to various stimuli, or at least perceive your general response to an action. For example, tone of voice or body language as you reply back to something I say to you. I probably wouldn't be able to guess what exactly you'd say, but I'd kinda know how'd feel in that instance... If that makes any sense." And then she takes a deep breath, not having breathed since her last pause.
"But of course I don't have perfectly detailed information of you guys, so all I can do is observe what you do in front of me now! Patients usually have medical histories and charts and stuff the doctors give me to read before I go talk to them, so I'm prepared! But it's one thing I like about talking to strangers! There's nothing better than solving a mystery! And that mystery is usually, 'Who is this person, and how can I make them feel their greatest!" She does a fist pump as she says her last words.
The group waved to the dog as he left and proceeded to gather their own luggage. Tee turned to her owners, "Course of action?" The tall man quirked his head in light thought, "Well, I guess get sorted out, then you two can wander and I guess have your turn goggling."
Delilah sighed, "Sadly, the gogglers are still goggling the goggled, even if it's ever so slightly. Would be rude to intrude."
"Well, let's head on down and begin this new adventure." The family began to head off the plane and to go on their way to the reception area.
Francis leaned back in the chair and chuckled to himself. "I'm in trouble already, eh? Faster than my dad's security teams. You're to be complimented... Can I ask your name?". He offered a hand to the anidroid. "I'm Francis. But you probably knew that already?"
Hlaoroo
FROSTWOOD FOREVER!
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"Well done, everyone! Go rest and relax for a while and be back here ready for tonight's performance at seven o'clock sharp." JD smiles as he places his baton on his music stand and climbs out of the orchestra pit to where his ferret-droid is standing patiently in the front row.
"Well, what did you think, Kelly? It's looking good, I think."
"I agree, JD, although I am still uncertain as to how appropriate a production of Titanic: The Musical is for the maiden voyage of a new ship."
"Oh, relax! I'm sure the guests will appreciate the irony." grins the human, pushing his hair back from his eyes.
"As you say." Kelly acquiesces with a bob of the head as her programming instructs.
"Imma go catch some Zs. You can feel free to charge or explore or whatever you like. Advertise maybe."
"Thank you, JD. Sleep well and I shall see you tonight." After organising to ensure that JD is awakened at the appropriate hour, Kelly leaves the theatre and heads towards the reception area, intent on observing the newcomers to the ship.
Above the ship a helicopter hovers and a furry face peers through the window, watching the plane land. The private helicopter, like the plane, is equipped with sho-wall technology. At first the cat inside had been slightly unnerved and, okay, he'll admit it, terrified as the walls and the floor vanished around him but soon he had begun to relax and enjoy the sensation of floating as he chatted to his owners via the radio attached to the helmet that's especially designed to fit his head and ears.
Once the plane is safely out of the way the helicopter descends to the large H painted on the deck. It touches down gently and then the walls and floor morph back into their default mechanical appearance as the rotors overhead spool down. Once they've stopped the cat removes his helmet and shakes out his ears making his bell jingle merrily.
"Cool! It's even more massive than I thought!" he grins, jumping down from the aircraft as soon as the door is opened and walking with his parents towards an elevator.
"So what are we gonna do first?"
"Well, first we check in like everyone else and then your mother and I have a conference call to make so you can do what you like once you've got your room card." It goes without saying that the family's bags are being sent straight to their rooms.
"Sweet! This is gonna be great!"
"Don't forget to get some breakfast! You've been up a while already."
"I won't! That's first job on my list - find a restaurant!" Makani winks at his parents and steps out of the lift and into the reception area. The family pause and look around, not entirely sure where to go next due to the large numbers of people milling around.
"Perhaps... There's a staff member that can direct us? Mr. Montgomery says hopefully, hanging his overcoat on one arm and picking up his briefcase with his now freed hand.
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"It's refreshing to see so much enthusiasm for one's own job," Helmut said as he stood up. He threw a venomous glance at Asur. "If only someone was as much happy..."
"Hey, I am your best assistant, you built me up yourself. Not *my* fault if you also are boring."
"Welcome aboard Apollo City," said the rabbit anidroid. "I am Elen-47. Please, put on your wristbands to keep in touch with the ship's services." She handed them the items. "Your location is apartment Deck H-S447. The tubeline is blue. You can use the band for directions, it is voice-activated. Do you have any special needs we can provide?"
The leopard nodded, before returning the gesture. "We are aware of all passengers' identities, Sir. The contrary would be quite unwise of the Direction." The tube was about to slow down for the third time. "Here we are." He stood up. "Please follow me."
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"You the anidroid assigned to me?" said the snake that was peeking out of a basket. "You surely look small for the job."
"Good morning," said an anidroid rabbit wearing a neat uniform, walking to them. "I am Elen-39. If you need help orientering, please follow the green line to the reception desks." she pointed at the glowing line on thre floor. "As you can see, check-in is really a fast thing, it won't take you more than 10 minutes waiting. Can I help you with anything in the meantime?"
"Bye-bye! Hope to see you again!"
James waved for a bit before his head turned to look at the screen behind him. Smiling, he poised himself and brushed imagined debris off his apron. After taking one more look around to make sure all the snack tables in the area were to perfection, James stood up straight and put his hands behind his back, ready for any question the newcomers might have for him. He skated about slowly, making sure not to run into anyone.
"Still coming," Francis said, reactivating the band's GPS in case this wasn't a security Anidroid. He followed the security officer along the walkways.
"No, I am not. I apologise for the confusion. I am Kelly Doyle, Usher Droid First Class for the Doyle Theatre Group. I have free time now so I have come to familiarise myself with some of the passengers. Do you require any assistance? And how would you prefer I address you?"
"Ah, good morning, Elen. Thank you for the help." smiles Mr. Montgomery, taking his place in the line with his wife.
"G'day." Makani says, looking the droid up and down. "You're just like in the picture! Cool! Um... Perhaps you could tell me where the nearest restaurant is so I'm not stuffing around once I'm checked in? It's just that I need to eat as soon as I can now since I'm diabetic. Like, I'm not about to collapse or anything but I do need to eat regularly so..." The cat trails off and shrugs.
James hears this during his skating about the place and quickly, but carefully, makes his way over. He places a friendly paw on the cats shoulder.
"If you look around, there are several snack tables set up on the far right side of the room, containing sandwiches of all kinds and drinks to go along with them. Or would you prefer something specific? I can go whip it up in kitchen for you!"
"Well, congratulations then, ma'am." Reginald said as he got off his chair. He offered a hand to help Pixel off her chair as he said, "I assume, then, that you are a future resident as well? I don't see why you would come here for an operation you could easily get some where else."
The tall man, Jonah, shook his head, "Thank you, but I don't believe anything special should be needed." The group started on their way when Angel, the short lady spoke as she put her wristband on, You know, if these can lead us to the apartment then do you think we should cut the girls loose? I mean we aren't going to be here forever."
Jonah nodded, picking up the duos bags, "Stay out of trouble you two. Be in before night, so on so forth."
The two nodded and the group split. Delilah stretched, putting her paws behind her head, "So, what shall our first venture be?"
Tee tilted her head in thought for a moment before nodding and turning to her sister, "We're hungry. Didn't eat much on the plane."
Delilah smirked, "Still not over that huh? Well, let us meander until we come across something. Unless we get real bored then we can resort to these." She held up their bands and passed one to Tee. The two put on their bands and began to look around.
Avery giggled as she stood up, clearly amused by the banter between the two. "You two sure get along quite well don't you." She replied in earnest as she strode back over to them.
"Well that was a fun and informative plane ride! I think the speakers said something about getting your residency assigned correct? Ooh ooh! I wonder if I get a roommate!" The canine did a small hop as she turned to look at the other passengers around them, her tail wagging at the speed of sound.
"I've always wanted a roommate! And a room to roommate with!"
The leopard stopped in front of a door, the brass plaque at its side reading APOLLO CITY-SECURITY DEPT.
The door slid open...revealing the large offices, a triumph in glass and carbon fiber on five levels, a beehive of activity that didn't even notice the newcomers.
The leopard walked along the platform, until he and his charge were facing a door marked SD-HO.
The door opened and a woman, a blond woman with a pale blue eye and a fair skin, like porcelain, said from behind her desk, "Welcome...Francis, if I am allowed a bit of informality." She stood up and indicated the chair in front of her. "My name is Maud Gottschalk. Please, have a seat. We have a lot to talk about." She was smiling politely, but for the moment her eyes weren't.
"Just Mac. And you are lucky, I like theatre: What shows do you do?" His eyes darted around. "Where's my chaperon?"
"I told you already: first we register, then you are free to wander around," his human said.
Pixel frowned at the dog.
"You kidding, puppy?" said a male doberman, a sturdy one, staring at Reginald with hard, blood-red eyes. "Do you think giving speech is some standard surgery? Why, you--" He was interrupted by a hand on his shoulder.
"Ivan, please. We spoke about this already: Not everyone has studied medicine. Now apologize, and let's get going."
The dog grumbled but said, "Sorry, pup. See you around not." He took a bag, then bent down and lifted up Pixel in his arm. The kitten, from over his shoulder, waved goodbye to Reginald
At those words, Jemmy's eyes flashed. Literally. "I'll come with you," the genet said with a genuine smile. "Will you please accept me?"
Helmut's jaw dropped. "What?! You're supposed to--"
"I'm supposed to socialize, to learn more about social conventions. You said it so, and that is why you brought me aboard this microcosm system. I think it will be a good occasion to put to practice your suggestion. And as for 'losing' me, I think you need not to worry, since I will link up to the ship's system, thus making myself trackable at any given moment. And Avery could use me as assistant, right?""
"Nah, no risk there, milady," Piper said, puffing up his chest. "I am important stuff, no leaving the ship, nossir."
"Oh, and how so, if I may?" She asked with mock respect.
"I am a witness in a Mafia trial, baby," he answered, in his best impression of Bruce Willis. "I am under protection, no one's to touch me as long as I'm aboard."
Francis took in all five decks of monitors, anidroids and people with an impressed eye as they came through the security bay and headed for the door. He had a sneaking suspicion this wasn't where most job applications were discussed, a feeling that grew harder when they arrived at a door and entered. "Of course," he said, swallowing nerves when she asked if she could be informal. "Thank you.". He turned to the Leopard Anidroid. "And thank you, too.". He took a seat and wondered if his ear was about to be chewed off.
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HubFirms : Blog -Tesla Model S hailed as the new ‘Dream Car’ of America
Tesla Model S hailed as the new ‘Dream Car’ of America
Hub Firms Oct 04, 2019 Innovation & Tech Self-Driving Cars 103
The Tesla Model S may be the veteran among the electric vehicle producer's flow lineup of vehicles, yet it creates the impression that the smooth, huge car is as yet ready to catch the creative mind of auto fans. This is particularly valid in the United States, where the Tesla Model S was as of late named as the nation's top generally speaking "Dream Car."
Motoring site Autowise led an examination to figure out which autos are considered by American online life clients as their individual dream vehicles. To gain its information, the motoring site accumulated more than 100,000 Twitter posts with pertinent watchwords and hashtags, (for example, #dreamcar, for instance). The online life posts utilized in the examination were assembled among July and September 2019.
A gander at the consequences of the examination demonstrates that the Tesla Model S was considered by far most of Americans as their separate dream vehicle. The all-electric vehicle overwhelmed the rundown, increasing top rankings in 20 states. Following the Model S is an exemplary American symbol, the Ford Mustang, which won in 13 states the nation over.
Tesla Model S beats Porsche Taycan’s Nurburgring lap by ~20 secs: German auto mag
Autowise noticed that while the aftereffects of its concise investigation just give a look at the inclinations of vehicle fans today, they do allude to the changing tide in how Americans see autos. At the point when the Model S was presented in 2012, all things considered, the possibility of an all-electric vehicle being the United States' general dream vehicle would have been out and out implausible.
Eventually, the consequences of the ongoing investigation demonstrate a prominent ascent in enthusiasm among every single electric vehicle, which is in all probability because of the progressing endeavors of Tesla to change as a mass market carmaker. That being stated, the aftereffects of Autowise's examination are exceptionally fascinating, particularly considering the age of the Model S contrasted with its stablemates like the Model X hybrid and the Model 3 car, or the energy joined to future vehicles like the cutting edge Tesla Roadster.
Maybe this is because of the Model S' lead status, just as its trademark straight-line execution that has made it a fearsome power on the drag strip. Or on the other hand maybe it is because of a reviving of enthusiasm for the vehicle because of its ongoing endeavors at the Nurburgring and the approaching appearance of the track-skilled 'Plaid Powertrain' Model S variation one year from now. In any case, with the Model S being named as America's fantasy vehicle, it creates the impression that Tesla's picture in the car business is just getting more grounded with time.
Pre-'Raven' Tesla Model S P100D kills Ford Mustang, Audi S4 in twin race
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"Remember the word that I said unto YOU [plural], The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted Me [Jesus], they will also persecute YOU [the church]; IF THEY HAVE KEPT MY SAYING, THEY WILL KEEP YOURS ALSO." (John 15:20: This verse is clear evidence as to the True Church. It is the peoples who have kept God's Word, and been persecuted for it.)
"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to OBSERVE all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen." (Matthew 28:19-20: The word "observe" is the same Greek word use for "kept" and "keep" in John 15:20 above. Earlier in the chapter it is translated "keepers" [Matthew 28:4]. Elsewhere it is translated "reserve" [2 Pet 2:9], "preserved" [Jude 1] and "hold fast" [Rev 3:3]. Webster's 1828 Dictionary tells us that our English word obvserve comes to us from the Latin word, "observo [ob and servo] meaning to keep or hold." It therefore becomes clear that the Great Commission that was given to the church includes guarding the Word of God for without it we cannot follow what it says.)
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Police: Teens attack man who didn’t need help shoveling snow
BROCKTON, Mass. – Police say a group of teens attacked Massachusetts a man who refused his offer to help him shovel his driveway.
The Enterprise – (http://bit.ly/2h3PoSd ) reports that the man had been clearing his driveway in Brockton after Saturday’s snowstorm when the group approached him.
He told the police 10 to 15 teenagers asked him if he needed help. When he said that he is not, he says that the teenagers jumped on him and struck him with a piece of wood.
The teenagers then ran off. The police did not find them.
The man refused medical treatment.
Information from: The (Brockton, Mass.) Enterprise, http://www.enterprisenews.com
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: netflixed : love : the best show that no one watches :
About this time last year, I discovered what I consider to be one of Netflix’s most wonderful hidden gems, Love, starring Gillian Jacobs and Paul Rust. The show follows Jacobs as the lovable screw-up, Mickey Dobbs, a radio show producer struggling with adulting and sobriety; and Rust’s nerdy, but relatively stable, Gus Cruikshank, an aspiring writer paying his bills by tutoring tweens on the set of Wichita. These two delightful degenerates explore what it means to find love in a hopeless place as they smoke and drink their way through an unforgiving Los Angeles. They are joined by a solid cast of characters that supplement the main storyline with one liners that will leave you wanting more. Notable sideshows include Claudia O’Doherty as Mickey’s pushover roommate, Bertie Bauer, and Iris Apatow as the spoiled child star with a twinge of golden heart, Arya Hopkins. If you’re looking for a new binge-worthy show, look no further. Love spans three seasons, with the latest having launched March 9th. The only downside: it’s the final season. Too soon for a reboot?!
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In partnership with Google, Facebook, 20th Century Fox, Infor, and AT&T, New York City African-American business leaders launched an initiative to offer free admission to the critically-acclaimed, Hidden Figures, for over 25,000 students in New York.
This initiative is especially important as there have been movements surrounding young Black students’ exposure to Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM), such as #BlackAndSTEM via Twitter.
Similar to the 2015 project screening Oscar-winner, Selma, it’s expected that this initiative will inspire other cities to join in this program as Hidden Figures continue to roll out in theaters nationwide.
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Boyd Martin and Contestor Clinch $50,000 Devon Arena Eventing Competition
May 27, 2019 Associate Editor Leave a comment
Boyd Martin and Contestor. Photo: The Book LLC.
Devon, Pa. – May 26, 2019 – For the third year in a row, the popular $50,000 Devon Arena Eventing competition, sponsored by Douglas and Cynthia Howe and Salt Works, showcased top-level eventing in a unique class that incorporates two of the three elements of three-day eventing: cross-country and show jumping. A packed crowd looked on as a record 33 entries turned out to challenge famed course designer Captain Mark Philips’ tracks, where ultimately Boyd Martin (USA) and Denise Lahey’s Contestor took home the top prize after dominating two rounds of competition, while defending champions Chris Talley and Sandro’s Star finished with reserve honors and Buck Davidson and Carlevo rounded out the top three.
Claudette Yarbrough and Lyla Claim Children’s Jumper Championship
The Children’s Jumpers stole the show earlier in the day on Sunday at the Devon Horse Show and Country Fair with the awarding of the Children’s Jumper championship, sponsored by Westover Companies/Guntram Weissenberger, Jr. A competitive 20 horses and riders strived to produce the fastest round in Sunday’s $2,500 NAL Children’s Jumper class to accumulate final points towards the overall title, but it was Claudette Yarbrough and her own Lyla who walked away with the www.HorseinOil.com Challenge Trophy and the Leonard Tose Memorial Challenge Trophy to claim top honors with a total of 21 points.
John White Drives Off with 2019 Carriage Pleasure Drive Championship
The fourth day of the 2019 Devon Horse Show and Country Fair welcomed the tradition of the Carriage Pleasure Drive division to the prestigious Dixon Oval. The popular and time-honored discipline of driving has been part of Devon’s history since 1896, while the Carriage Pleasure Drive has been an established flagship event for over 50 years, entertaining exhibitors and spectators alike on the Sunday before Memorial Day each year.
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Haley Gassel and Quite Dark 2 Dominate $25,000 Devon Speed Challenge
June 4, 2016 Associate Editor Leave a comment
Haley Gassel and Quite Dark 2.
Devon, Pa. – June 3, 2016 – Friday night at the Devon Horse Show and Country Fair was all about speed, and only one athlete had all the answers during the $25,000 Open Jumper Devon Speed Challenge sponsored by the World Equestrian Center. Haley Gassel and Quite Dark 2 were the only duo able to master the speed track and leave all the fences intact to capture the winning prize.
“This is unbelievable,” the young rider said, smiling. “People dream of just coming to Devon, and people dream of just getting a Devon blue. For me, to win a grand prix at Devon, it boggles my mind. That wasn’t even in my wildest dreams!”
Kelvin Bywater designed a very technical course for the 1.40m faults converted speed class. Featuring multiple inside options and areas to make up time, competitors had to carefully navigate the course to have the fastest time, while also leaving the obstacles intact.
Three athletes secured Gassel’s time, but it came at the expense of rails coming down. The first was Laura Chapot with ISHD Dual Star, who would claim fourth place with a time of 67.607 seconds after the added fault conversion. She was only 2/1000ths of a second slower than Great Britain’s Amanda Derbyshire aboard Goldbreaker, who clocked a time of 67.605 seconds for third place. The only other rider with a better time was newly minted Longines FEI World Ranked Number One Rider, McLain Ward. It looked like he had the ride of the night on HH Best Buy, and while they were faster than Gassel across the ring, the faults added to their time would mean they broke the beam at 67.279 seconds for second place.
Gassel had both the speed and the accuracy with Quite Dark 2 that it took to win the Friday night highlight event. The pair left all the fences intact as they dashed across the finish line in 65.500 seconds for the Devon blue ribbon, as well as bragging rights over Ward.
“That is unbelievable,” expressed Gassel about her victory over the world’s best. “That will never happen again, that is a bucket list right there! He was really nice about it, though. He put in a really good round and it just wasn’t in his favor tonight.”
This is only Gassel’s second year competing at the Devon Horse Show and Country Fair, and it’s her first year competing in the Open Jumpers with Quite Dark 2, who she has been riding for three years.
“It was a really fun course,” said Gassel. “That course fit my horse to a T. He is really great at the spin back turns. He’s massive, he’s 17.3 hands, so for him to be able to do those spin back turns is unreal. When I first got him, everyone said he’s too big, he’ll never be able to go fast, spin fast, he’ll never be able to win like that and he’s proved all of them wrong.”
Gassel continued, “Our relationship has developed so much. He trusts me, I trust him. He’s just gotten better, faster, stronger. I do my best to try to keep him the best shape possible so he can jump tonight and jump tomorrow. He’s been a great horse.”
Earlier in the afternoon, the Amateur Owner Jumpers took center stage in the Dixon Oval where it was Jacob Pope that rode away with the top prize aboard Zilvana. Reid Patton set the pace to beat as the first to show over the short course with Twisther, clearing all the fences in a time of 33.592, which would be good enough for second place. Pope and Zilvana were the next pair to be faultless over the jump-off, and by leaving strides out and taking the inside turns they narrowly edged out Patton with a time of 32.291 seconds. Caitlin Hope rounded out the top three aboard Total Touch, producing a double clear effort in 34.106 seconds.
“Zilvana is a really fast horse, she’s small, and she’s careful, so I am not worried about having to steady her,” explained Pope “She’s really fast and I knew that we would be quick and smooth. I went inside everywhere else. She was clear and great.”
Earlier in the day, Pope placed second in the first Amateur Owner Jumper event, which kicked off the day’s competition. The victory in the speed competition belonged to Christina Firestone on Arwen, while Anna Cardelfe and Dollar Van’T Eigenlo DH rounded out the top three.
“Our goal for this year was Devon, so I am really happy with how it’s gone so far,” smiled Pope, a senior at Rollins College. “Zilvana is a really sensitive mare, which I grew up riding. I just let her do her thing!”
The Amateur Owner Jumpers will compete on Saturday afternoon in the $20,000 Show Jumping Hall of Fame Amateur Owner Jumper Classic as they try and earn the division’s championship title and the Leading Amateur Owner Jumper Award. The final show jumping event will be the $50,000 Idle Dice Open Jumper Stake, sponsored by Harvest Seasonal Grill and Wine Bar.
Great Start for Beth Bidgood, Kaitlyn Van Konynenburg in Amateur-Owner Hunter Divisions
The Amateur-Owner Hunter divisions began on Friday at the Devon Horse Show and Country Fair, and it was Kaitlyn Van Konynenburg and Beth Bidgood who outshined the rest to finish the day at the top of the pack.
Kaitlyn Van Konynenburg and Wish List
In the Amateur-Owner 18-35 3’6″ Hunter division, 18-year-old Van Konynenburg and Wish List made their trip from California worthwhile by earning the highest score in the division. After placing eighth in the first class, the duo returned ready for the second round, and the judges awarded the trip a score of 88, which secured Van Konynenburg the blue ribbon.
It was a close race, however, as second place went to Callie Seaman and Skorekeeper and their score of 87, and third went to Laura Sexton and Set To Music with a score of 86.
The first class in the division was won by Samantha Schaefer and Classified with a score of 85. Second place went to Krista Weisman and Reality and their score of 84, while Stephanie Danhakl took home third aboard Golden Rule with 83.5 points.
“The first round was really fun, but I got a little nervous into the two-stride coming home and we jumped a little low,” Van Konynenburg explained. “In the second round, I said ‘OK, let’s just put everything that happened behind us and just go in and have a good time.’ I was just focusing on having fun. I don’t know when I’m going to be back here again, so I just wanted to have a good time with him and have solid round.”
Van Konynenburg will be graduating high school next week and will start college at USC in the fall. She said that she will continue to ride as an amateur, as Wish List will only be 30 minutes away at trainers Carleton and Traci Brooks’ Balmoral Farm.
“He’s just the greatest horse,” Van Konynenburg said. “He comes to the party 100 percent every time and puts all his heart into it. He really is a special horse; I’m very lucky. It was a big team effort to get my horses out here, and I definitely wouldn’t be here without everyone backing me up.”
Van Konynenburg said she purchased the gelding three winters ago in Cleveland after failing to find the perfect horse in Florida.
“It was freezing, and we had one jacket,” Van Konynenburg laughed. “It was so cold, but it was worth it all the way. He’s just the sweetest horse. We love him.”
The Amateur-Owner Over 35 3’6″ Hunter division was the next to show, and Becky Gochman took home the blue ribbon in the first class after earning an 89 with Empire. Beth Bidgood was hot on her heels, however, coming in second by only one point in the irons on Uprising.
In the second class, Bidgood and Uprising returned to deliver a lovely round that earned the duo a score of 88 and the blue ribbon. Second place went to Jean Sheptoff and Heartcore with a score of 87, while John Ingram and Airport 48 took home third with a score of 86.
“I am so excited,” Bidgood said. “This is my first Devon. I love the tradition and everything; I’m having a blast. I was really nervous, then when I went into the first class, I was OK once I started going. I’m just thrilled. My horse is going incredibly.”
Before transitioning to his hunter career, Uprising was a jumper. Bidgood said she purchased the 9-year-old gelding just over a year ago in Florida.
“We were able to turn him into a hunter, and he’s just been fabulous,” Bidgood explained. “He’s the easiest horse I’ve ever had. He’s just so sweet. He’s only been doing the hunters for a year.”
The Amateur-Owner Hunter divisions will wrap up on Saturday with the awarding of the Devon Grand Amateur-Owner Hunter Championship and Devon Leading Amateur-Owner Hunter Rider award.
John White Joins Winner’s Circle at Devon Horse Show for First Time
John White has been competing at the Devon Horse Show and Country Fair for the last six years, but has never driven away with the championship title until Friday night. The New Jersey resident drove into the Dixon Oval with a bit more confidence this year, already securing three first-place finishes in the division.
In the Four-in-Hand Timed Obstacle, White locked in the first clean round of the night and set the time to beat with 160.350 seconds in his Road Coach Excelsior. However, Paul Martin had just enough of an edge in his Park Drag to beat out White’s time and hand him his second, red ribbon of the division.
With a total of 21 points accumulated and a two-point advantage over Martin, it was White who earned the Mr. & Mrs. Foster Bright Perpetual Trophy.
“We’ve had a very good show,” White explained. “The horses have been excellent. I’m very happy with that and I’m very happy with all the people that have helped us. We’ve been here a number of times, but this is the first time we won the overall champion.”
The crowd watched in awe as his four grey Kladruber horses pulled the carriage around the Dixon Oval for the honorary victory lap.
The night was filled with first-time winners, as Carson Kressley earned his first tricolor ribbon in the Open Three-Gaited Park Horse Stake.
“I’ve shown in a lot of places, but there’s nothing as special as the crowd support at Devon,” Kressley said. “Showing in front of thousands of people in the Dixon Oval is a thrill like no other. I’ve shown this horse a couple times this season and we’ve been second every time. So, to pull it together and win a big class like this here is a huge thrill. Devon is one of the greatest shows in the country. It’s where you come, watch and dream of competing.”
Kressley had the honor of riding Annika Bruggeworth’s American Saddlebred, Famous Kiss. The two have been friends for nearly 25 years.
“She’s shown him and now, he’s in a new division,” Kressley added. “He’s just a grand horse.”
For Lynn Finelli, the night was about defending her Western Country Pleasure Horse Championship.
“It’s unbelievable to win here,” Finelli said. “It’s so incredible. To win last year and this year just takes my breath away.”
It was a repeat win for Finelli’s mount, CH Winsdown Edgecliff, as well. The 11-year-old was converted from the English discipline to Western and has been showing successfully, winning the World Championships in Western Country Pleasure in 2012.
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IMF Findings for Kakzakhstan in 2018
Staff Concluding Statement of the 2018 Article IV Mission
WHASHINGTION (IMF press centre) – According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with economic recovery gaining strength, Kazakhstan should seize the opportunity and move decisively with reforms to transform the economy and bring the country closer to achieving its development goals. The new growth model should avoid cementing a culture of reliance on state subsidies, with the government and National Bank (NBK) focusing on ensuring the necessary conditions — including infrastructure and business environment — to foster a dynamic and competitive private sector.
After several years of fiscal stimulus and significant support to the banking sector in 2017, IMF staff believes consolidation is needed to put the public finances on a sustainable path and restore buffers. The authorities recognize that and have taken steps to reduce the deficit starting from this year.
Adjustment plans are based on revenue administration measures and expenditure optimization, including scaling up public-private partnerships. The initiative to lower the tax burden for low-income earners is welcome but IMF thinks more could be done to make the tax system more equitable and efficient. IMF recognizes substantial efforts have been made to strengthen the financial sector but challenges remain. Legislative amendments that address regulatory gaps should be adopted promptly, IMF recommends. Banks should undergo an assessment of their asset quality to clarify the magnitude of problem loans and additional capital needs. Measures to promote credit should be market-based; whenever state support is needed, it should be targeted, transparent, temporary and funded by the budget.
Kazakh authorities have consented to the publication of a recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) statement. This Concluding Statement describes the preliminary findings of IMF staff at the end of an official staff visit (or “mission”), in most cases to a member country. Missions are undertaken as part of regular (usually annual) consultations under Article IV of the IMF’s Articles of Agreement, in the context of a request to use IMF resources (borrow from the IMF), as part of discussions of staff monitored programs, or as part of other staff monitoring of economic developments.
What follow are the conclusions of IMF.
Context and outlook
Recovery of Kazakhstan’s economy is continuing from shocks that began in 2014. After two years of subdued activity — with lower oil prices and a slowdown in key trading partners—real GDP increased by 4% in 2017. Growth was driven by strong exports, especially oil and metals, reflecting both favourable external conditions and new supply from the large Kashagan field. Mining, manufacturing, and investment activity also contributed to growth. Export growth helped reduce the current account deficit. Inflation has remained within the target band of the NBK, and expectations have stabilized.
Financial sector repair is underway, and credit has begun to recover. Lending to households has picked up more than corporate sector credit, reflecting ongoing banking sector repair and scarcity of creditworthy borrowers in a state-dominated economy. This has contributed to calls on the NBK to cut interest rates and for continued state support to the economy (subsidies, financing).
Going forward, growth is expected to remain robust, but there are risks. Overall growth was strong in 2017, partly due to a surge of oil production with higher prices and the major Kashagan field coming on line. Non-oil growth also picked up last year and is projected to increase further to 4% over the medium term, reflecting business environment and public administration reforms, privatization, investment, and a pickup of credit, with strengthening of bank balance sheets and financial deepening. Downside risks are related to commodity prices — including reduced impulse for reforms due to higher oil and metals prices and risks of lower export earnings and pressures on the tenge from lower commodity prices. Slower growth in Russia or China is another risk, along with tighter (or volatile) global trade or financial conditions. On the upside, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) provides an opportunity to deepen integration and diversify, and reforms in Uzbekistan open opportunities for trade and investment.
Implementation of the authorities’ various structural reform initiatives appears to be advancing. This includes the “100 Concrete Steps,” which aim to improve the business climate, public administration, and governance. More than half of the steps to strengthen civil service, the rule of law, industrialization, diversification, nation-building, and accountability have been completed. Small-scale privatization is advancing, and preparations are underway for IPOs for major SOEs in aviation, telecoms, and nuclear materials. The Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) will open in July with the aim of becoming a regional hub for financial services. Achieving this objective and building demand for AIFC services will take time, and success will depend on adhering closely to international best practices in governance, transparency, and operations.
New initiatives have been launched. A Kazakhstan 2025 strategic plan was launched earlier this year, focusing on high-quality growth and raising living standards through productivity and competitiveness gains, modernization and technical upgrades, and public administration and governance improvements. Kazakhstan 2025 is supported by specific efforts that target industrial investments and digitalization. A plan to improve Kazakhstan’s ranking in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index is underway, and President Nazarbayev identified “5 Social Initiatives” in March that aim to provide affordable housing, reduce the tax burden for lower-income earners, improve accessibility and quality of higher education, expand access to financing for SMEs, and build a gas pipeline to Astana. The initiatives have implications for taxation, public expenditures, and monetary and financial policies.
Reducing the state’s footprint is critical. A thriving private sector is needed to realize the aspiration of joining the 30 most developed countries by 2050, calling for a decisive change in the approach to supporting private activity. While the various reform initiatives are ambitious and comprehensive and implementation is reported to be progressing, the state remains predominant, and some stakeholders consider that reforms are moving more on paper than in practice. With recovery now established, government and NBK financial support risks cementing a culture of reliance on subsidies. The growth impetus should move to the private sector, with the state facilitating the business environment and enhancing infrastructure and connectivity. Successful IPOs would send a strong signal, along with modernizing rail and road networks, strengthening performance of state holding companies and SOEs, further liberalizing trade, enhancing domestic competition, and aligning land use and agriculture infrastructure to take advantage of export prospects. Increased use of public-private partnerships (PPP) is welcome, provided they are well designed and managed. The opportunity to enhance connectivity and diversify under the BRI should be seized. Finally, improved coordination among agencies, regular reporting on implementation, and comprehensive evaluation of results would increase credibility of the reform agenda.
Fiscal consolidation is underway. With the winding down of projects under the Nurly Zhol public infrastructure development program, conclusion of the Astana Expo, and the more favourable environment, sizeable adjustment is envisaged this year, with higher oil revenues and lower spending on goods and services and investment. The consolidation is warranted after countercyclical spending has been completed, as is restoring buffers, given risks. Several complex reforms are underway that will affect public spending. A new “capitation” approach aims to provide funding to service providers on a per capita basis and to streamline health and education outlays, while increasing flexibility and service quality through expanded PPPs and outsourcing. Another initiative will review public sector jobs and align wages to private-sector remuneration, with a new system to recognize performance. The IMF team sees merit these ambitious reforms and notes that they need to be very effectively planned and managed. To preserve National Fund (NFRK) assets, budget transfers are being reduced, while the government is considering issuance of a tenge-denominated Eurobond that would aim to attract foreign investors and establish a new benchmark.
Further gradual fiscal adjustment is expected over the medium term. The non-oil deficit is set to decline and reach a level that is in line with IMF staff estimates of the sustainable long-term position. The adjustment is driven by higher revenues, mainly from tax administration gains, especially improved VAT administration and enhanced technology. Recent tax code changes focused on simplification, clarifying ambiguities, reducing the compliance burden, and improving dispute resolution. Other measures aim to enhance compliance by small businesses and the self-employed, and to expand electronic invoicing and filing. In addition, as part of the new 5 Social Initiatives, the effective personal income tax rate for low-income earners will be cut from 10 percent to 1 percent. The IMF team supports these administration and policy measures, although the projected revenue gains from tax administration reforms may prove to be ambitious. In addition, a moderate increase of PIT rates could be considered for higher-income earners to further enhance progressivity (along with universal income declaration requirements). A review of tax holidays, exemptions, incentives, and zones should be undertaken. Incentives should be well targeted and limited in time, with links to investment through allowances or accelerated depreciation. There may be scope to consider a moderate increase of the VAT rate once administrative improvements have been put in place. Finally, while the team sees merit in the authorities’ expenditure reforms, the level of capital spending going forward is low by international standards, and some additional high-quality expenditures should be considered, in tandem with higher non-oil revenues.
Recent revisions to the fiscal regime for extractive industries aim at encouraging exploration. For oil and gas, a key change was introduction of an optional, “alternative” tax, aimed at deep-water exploration, replacing production- and sector-specific profit-based instruments. Revisions also eliminate a discovery bonus and introduce more favourable tax treatment of exploration expenses. A licensing round for deep-water areas is planned for later this year. While the changes are positive, further gains in the investment and regulatory environment appear likely to be needed to secure major new investment. For mining, changes include removal of an excess profits tax and increased reliance on regressive ad valorem royalties. As prospects for increased mining activity appear to be favorable, a comprehensive tax regime review should be considered, possibly with IMF technical assistance (TA). The authorities and investors are encouraged to increase transparency around existing contractual arrangements.
Fiscal transparency and risk management should be further improved. Measures taken by the authorities to align fiscal reporting to international standards are welcome. Areas for further gains include: adopting IMF GFSM methodology to formulate and evaluate policy; strengthening risk management practices, e.g., in monitoring PPPs and SOEs; and introducing a more comprehensive and detailed medium-term fiscal framework.
Monetary and exchange rate policies
The focus of monetary policy should remain on price stability. Declining inflation and stabilization of inflation expectations has allowed the NBK to undertake interest rate cuts, most recently to 9% in June. The cuts have been appropriate, given developments and the outlook, and are consistent with keeping real interest rates close to neutral levels. Going forward, the NBK should resist calls for accommodation; as the NBK noted at the time of its most recent rate decision, the changing balance of risks warrants a cautious approach to further easing.
The existing flexible exchange rate (ER) regime is important to inflation targeting. The flexible exchange rate is serving Kazakhstan well by helping to absorb changes in the macroeconomic environment and supporting dedollarization. Changes in the ER reflect fundamental factors, including oil prices and dynamics of the Russian ruble. The NBK would benefit from strengthening communications and transparency with respect to purchases and sales of foreign exchange, including on behalf of the NFRK and the pension fund (UAPF).
Efforts to improve monetary operations and domestic financial markets should continue. NBK notes have helped manage liquidity and build the short end of the yield curve. Money-market rates have stayed within the NBK’s corridor, close to the lower bound. A project with Clearstream aims to facilitate foreign-investor access and enhance the local securities market. There is scope for strengthening cooperation between the NBK and the government on liquidity management and market issues, including management of SOE deposits/funds. A review of reserve requirements is also needed. Staff sees a case for unifying resident and non-resident reserve requirements, possibly higher rates, remuneration, maintaining differentiated rates for FX and tenge liabilities, and gradual elimination of cash from eligible reserves.
Financial sector policy
Significant efforts have been made to strengthen the financial sector. The state supported the merger of the two largest banks, Halyk and KKB, and five banks received capital support through NBK subordinated loans. This funding helped secure the stability of the sector. Legal changes to enhance the NBK’s supervisor and regulatory powers are under consideration by parliament. The NBK also withdrew or suspended the licenses of several smaller banks that were in violation of prudential requirements. Several initiatives to provide further funding have been designed and will be implemented shortly.
Despite these actions, important challenges remain. Most importantly, Kazakhstan’s banks need to fully adopt a strengthened business model, with enhanced governance, management, and operations. Some banks continue to experience difficulties from weak credit-risk management and problem loans. Further strengthening of the resilience of the banking sector would contribute to sound macro-financial linkages and growth, while reducing risks.
Policy actions are needed in the following areas :
Asset-quality and governance. Banks should undergo an updated assessment of their assets to clarify the magnitude of possible problem loans, with a prompt write-off of bad loans to follow. Last year’s state support to banks should be followed by decisive operational improvements to ensure sound governance and operations.
Strengthening supervision and regulation. Adoption of amendments to the Law on the NBK and the Law on Banks and Banking Activity would address regulatory deficiencies. Follow-up regulations should be issued by the NBK to formalize its use of broader powers. In particular, transparency of principles underlying supervisory judgment is important for building trust. This is an area for possible IMF TA. Other regulations, including on loan classification, should be improved.
Emergency liquidity assistance (ELA). The NBK is continuing work to strengthen the framework for ELA to banks. ELA should be provided only to institutions that are solvent and should be collateralized, and in the view of the IMF staff, provided under government guarantee.
Credit subsidies. State-supported initiatives—including the new “7-20-25” mortgage program and support to SMEs and the agriculture sector—should be targeted, transparent, and temporary, from the budget and not the NBK, not compromise credit assessment or management by commercial banks, and be rigorously evaluated ex post for cost effectiveness. As noted, with economic recovery now in place, state funding and subsidies should be limited, given risks of cementing a culture of reliance on state support. Where possible, existing agencies should be utilized, with reforms as needed, rather than creating new institutions.
Financial sector infrastructure. There is a need to further improve financial sector infrastructure, particularly in collateral valuation and foreclosure and disposal of distressed assets. Remaining legal, institutional, and operational constraints affecting the Problem Loan Fund (PLF) should be addressed, so that the PLF can make progress in resolving bad assets acquired as part of the KKB-Halyk merger.
UAPF. Management of pension fund assets should aim at achieving sound returns for contributors with appropriate risk management and transparency provisions, rather than supporting fiscal or monetary policy objectives. Efforts to return part of UAPF assets to non-NBK management with appropriate safeguards are welcome.
Unlocking credit is best achieved through policies that foster a dynamic private sector along with stronger banks. Some measures under consideration aimed at promoting credit growth, such as allowing banks to sell part of their holdings of securities connected with past state funding, or possible purchase of commercial bank bonds by the UAPF, could bring some benefits — with appropriate risk-sharing and on market terms — through more predictable long-term funding. However, these are unlikely to be fully effective, given constraints on credit demand. Actions should aim to encourage private initiative and improve monetary transmission by reducing dollarization, phasing out loan subsidies, and removing interest rate regulations. Further strengthening the banking sector is the key.
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by kevin on Aug.07, 2019, under Uncategorized
Featured as an official selection of 2019’s Broadway Bound Theatre Festival,”Basic Glitch” is a new full-length play by up-and-coming playwright, Stephanie Salazar-Amaro.
The story details the strange journey of Ramona, a woman with a dysfunctional reproductive system, as she seeks to repair her body the same way she would repair any other broken device: by taking a number at the Customer Service department.
In the unique and fascinating world of Salazar-Amaro, there exists an agency known as “the Center” which can help you fix problems with your own body like the Geek Squad can with your computer.
The ensuing experience manages to be both bizarrely fantastical and strikingly familiar at the same time. To great ironic effect, Salazar-Amaro explores the deeply intimate nature of reproductive health through the starkly lifeless lens of modern-day corporate bureaucracy.
The plot starts off narrowly focused at the outset, before new elements get introduced and side-quests develop, diverging the show’s structure from a singular, unified story into something more like an amalgamation of stories.
Ramona is played by Cassi Torres, who shines as the lynchpin upon which the entire show turns. On Torres’s shoulders rest the majority of the dramatic weight, as her character faces the realities of a having a human body on one hand, and the social pressures of being a woman on the other.
Laura Kay is a comedic powerhouse. In the role of Magda, our plucky customer service representative, Kay fumbles and bumbles her way through trying to help Ramona, while clutching desperately to the only thing that truly matters to her: maintaining her antiquated filing system. Whether it’s her embodiment of a goofy neurosis, a well-timed facial reaction, or just some good ol’ slapstick – Kay is uniformly hilarious.
Patricia Perales breathes vivacious life into her role as Ramona’s aunt, Leanore, the big-hearted “Tía” who only wants what’s best for her family… and God help anyone who gets in her way!
Perales, along with her character, is bilingual, and a fine balance is struck between the flavor of a second language within the play, and basic intelligibility – one that I count as a credit to both the actor and the playwright.
But it’s Thomas Valdez who steals the show as Lino, the lowly, unpaid intern who’s so dedicated to his job that he will stop at nothing to deliver top-notch customer service to a client! …There’s just one problem: he’s not officially cleared to actually speak to any of them.
Valdez is effortlessly endearing, and brings an enthusiastic, boyish charm to the stage.
Salazar-Amaro invented a wonderful world for this show, and used it wisely to raise many worthy and thought-provoking questions. However some of her mysteries remained awfully mysterious for my curious tastes, particularly regarding the rules governing her world, and at times regarding the undisclosed agendas of characters.
Ashley Kristeen Vega makes quite the splash with her Off-Broadway directorial debut, helming a show that takes an honest (and sometimes uncomfortable) look at the more taboo aspects of womanhood. Teamed up with Salazar-Amaro’s script, “Basic Glitch” accomplishes this with grace, with humor, and with aplomb.
Catch “Basic Glitch” in the Lion Theatre at Theatre Row, August 7th, 9th, and 21st. Tickets can be found online, at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival.
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Re: Scientology on the radio
RFR PODCAST: Ex-Scientologists Jeff Hawkins and Steven Mango, and Independent Scientologist Andy Nolch discuss Scientology.
Recovering from Religion Episode 11
http://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/podcast/
Episode 5: Just Xenu It: a Special (Suppressive) Scientology Episode
Bobby and Madeleine take an in-depth look at the criminal accusations surrounding actor and Scientologist Danny Masterson and the cover-ups that happen within the favorite religion of the rich and the famous. Episode features interviews with Tony Ortega, journalist and renowned critic of Scientology, and former Scientologist Chris Shelton.
https://soundcloud.com/dirtcast/episode-5-just-xenu-it-a-special-suppressive-scientology-episode
Scientology Insider Aaron Smith-Levin on Radioactivity Thursday
http://www.wmnf.org/aaron-smith-levin/
Come Get Sum Extra: Scientology Brandon Reisdorf Part1
Actually a podcast
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cgshere/2017/05/26/come-get-sum-extra-scientology-brandon-reisdorf-part1
Jeffrey Augustine chats with Jon Atack! (published June 11th, 2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV72HkqtTxQ
Come Get Sum Extra: Scientology: Ex Scientologist : Anne Renner Krzanowski P1
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cgshere/2017/07/21/come-get-sum-extra-scientology-ex-scientologist-anne-renner-krzanowski-p1
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Anne is self employed and was in Scientology at 17yrs old for nearly a year. This short time has resulted in over 30 years of negitive effect from the indoctrination in an attempt to recruit her into the Sea Org. Hear her story here in Part 1.
What part did her family play in Scientology's efforts to lure Anne in? What was so exciting about Scientology to her? What happens when you express doubts in the scientology methods?
Find out the answer to these questions and more on part 1 of Come Get Sum Extra!!!
Follow anne on Twitter: @Anneinma
PODCAST: Chris Crimy interview with former Scientology CCHR Rep Glenda Smith. Part 1
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cgshere/2017/08/17/come-get-sum-extra-scientology--former-cchr-rep-glenda-smith-p1
Glenda Smith is another in a long line of brave ex Scientologists speaking out about the abuses in Scientology. Glenda tells of the recruiting process, importance of staff and joining CCHR.
How did she get involved in Scientology? What drew her to the CCHR? Did she always believe in what she was doing at the time?
Find out the answer to these questions and more on this Thursday edition of Come Get Sum Extra!!!
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Come Get Sum Extra: Scientology - Glenda Smith Part 2
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cgshere/2017/08/25/come-get-sum-extra-scientology--glenda-smith-p2
Glenda and I delve into actual CCHR practices and hypocrisy. Dealing with this realization and the effect on her relationship with her parents.
What happens when you tell your spouse you don't believe in Scientology anymore? How has she changed? Can David Miscavige walk under a standard table without bumping his head?
The answer all these questions and more on this edition of Come Get Sum Extra!!!
Also: If you are a never in or anyone wondering how you can help, please sign this petition the IRS to revoke Scientology's Tax Exempt status!! It's fast and easy!!
https://www.change.org/p/irs-commissioner-john-koskinen-we-demand-the-irs-commissioner-begin-an-investigation-into-scientology-s-tax-exempt-status/nftexp4/control/762044356?recruiter=762044356&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_petition.guest_form_reduction&utm_content=nafta_share_post_title_en_7%3Acontrol
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Episode 15 - Scientology's Belly Of The Beast w/ Tony Ortega
https://soundcloud.com/indoctrinationshow/episode-15-scientologys-belly-of-the-beast-w-tony-ortega
The Frightday podcast TONY ORTEGA
We enjoyed speaking with Frightday’s Kelly about Scientology. These questions from podcasters are getting better and better.
https://soundcloud.com/frightdaypodcast/a-conversation-withtony-ortega
Also, if you haven’t heard it, we were on Colombian radio last night talking about David Miscavige and the national police.
http://play.wradio.com.co/audio/3781750/
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EXCITEMENT AWAITS AS LUCAS OIL MLRA REVEALS 2020 TOUR DATES
Media Contact: Billy Rock
Wheatland, Missouri (November 18, 2019) - With the final chapter of the 2019 Lucas Oil MLRA season firmly in the record books, series officials have hit the ground running and are excited to release their upcoming schedule for the 2020 racing season. Comprised of twenty-three events the series will tackle a total of eleven different venues across five different states.
The full 2020 schedule will also feature a change in qualifying format, transitioning from the traditional passing points system used in recent years, to time trial qualifying. Series officials piloted the best of two lap qualifying format in select events this past season and will now use it moving forward at all MLRA sanctioned events.
The 2020 series will get under way in traditional fashion on April 10th - 11th with the running of the 7th Annual "Spring Nationals" at the Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, MO. 2019 MLRA Champion Will Vaught will look to begin his title defense in an event that he previously won back in 2017, while mother nature claimed the season opener in each of the past two seasons. An open practice is planned for Thursday night April 9th, before two complete shows take center stage on Friday and Saturday.
For the third consecutive year, weekend number two of the 2020 tour will have teams converging on a pair of Eastern Iowa facilities. Friday night April 17th will showcase the historic ½ mile facility of the Davenport Speedway in a $5,000 to win main event, before teams head south to the 34 Raceway in West Burlington, IA for Saturday nights annual "Slocum 50". This marquee event, now in its 12th season, was nearly standing room only in 2019 and will again feature its traditional $10,555 top prize, most recently claimed by Bobby Pierce in 2019.
The month of May will find the series making a popular return to the exciting ¼ mile Stuart International Speedway in Stuart, IA. This rare Thursday night event on May 7th will pay $3,000 to win and launch the tours first three-day swing of the season. Friday night May 8th will take teams back to the familiar Davenport Speedway for the second time in just a matter of weeks. This second and final visit to Davenport will transition drivers to the confines of the facilities inner ¼ mile racing surface. The weekend will conclude on Saturday night the 9th as teams swap gears and take on the fast half-mile West Liberty Raceway on the grounds of the Muscatine County Fairgrounds for the second year in a row. Saturday nights winner will drive off with a cool $5,000 pay day.
The Lucas Oil MLRA along with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series (LOLMDS) will conclude the month of May with their biggest weekend of the season, the 28th Annual "Show-Me-100" at the Lucas Oil Speedway May 21st - 23rd. Severe storms just days prior to the start of the 2019 event resulted in the cancellation of the Memorial Day weekend classic, but speedway and series officials are eager to re-start the tradition. Thursday night May 21st will be the first of two qualifying nights, headlined by the $6,000 to win, "Cowboy Classic". Friday nights $6,000 to win "Tribute to Don & Billie Gibson" will lead teams into Saturdays Annual Show-Me-100 finale and it's $30,000 top prize.
Robert Wagener and his team at DRT Trak Racing, Inc. will again welcome drivers and fans on Saturday June 13 to an Eastern Iowa facility that will be announced at a later date. Sunday night June the 14th will mark the series inaugural visit to the "Bullring" located at the Rock Island County Fairgrounds in East Moline, IL. This ¼ mile high banked oval is currently receiving multiple upgrades by new promoters Peterson Family Promotions, and will thrill fans with a $5k pay day on the line.
For the 6th year in a row, the Salina High Banks Speedway in Pryor Creek, OK will play host to the "Freedom Classic" on June 26th - 27th. This annual pre-4th of July weekend event has historically showcased some of the most exciting racing of the season, and will again offer up a pair of complete shows paying out $3,000 and $5,000 to win respectively.
Teams and drivers will have a short turn-around before returning to action for another trifecta weekend July 2nd thru July 4th. The 4/10th mile high banked Cresco Speedway, will fire off the holiday weekend salute on Thursday July the 2nd. Chad Simpson picked up the 2019 win in the series first ever visit to the "Mighty Howard County Fairgrounds", which will offer up the first of three $5,000 pay days on the weekend.
Following the popularity of the "Slocum 50", late model fans will be excited for a second visit to the 3/8-mile facility dubbed "Southeast Iowa's Premier Place to Race", 34 Raceway in West Burlington, IA on Friday July 3rd. Race teams will celebrate their freedoms on July 4th when the MLRA makes a return visit to Farley, IA and the 300 Raceway. This will mark the series' first appearance on the reconfigured track, and first since Chris Simpson prevailed there in 2016.
July 10th returns to another long time staple on the series schedule, the Lakeside Speedway in Kansas City, KS for a $3,000 to win bout. Series officials are excited to return to Lakeside after the facility was plagued by flooding in 2019 resulting in the cancellation of the MLRA event.
The Lucas Oil MLRA will again match up with the LOLMDS for the 14th Annual Diamond Nationals on July 18th at the Lucas Oil Speedway. Returning to a one-day show in 2020, this star studded event will feature a $15,000 to win A-Main.
September 5th will find drivers returning to the Lucas Oil Speedway for the inaugural "Ron Jenkins Memorial", a tribute to the original builder of Wheatland Raceway. Labor day weekend will conclude the following night when the series makes its way to the Quincy Raceway in Quincy, IL for the "Scottie 45". Both weekend events will hold a $5,000 to win top-prize.
The MLRA series title will again be on the line October 9th - 10th at the 7th Annual "Fall Nationals" hosted by the "Diamond of Dirt Tracks" in Wheatland, MO. A pair of complete shows paying $3k and $5k respectively will bring the 2020 campaign to a close.
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More teeth in new RTI legislation
Lawmakers at New Delhi recently passed the Right to Information Bill. The legislation provides for an information commission with powers to enforce transparency. An officer who delays disclosure will be liable to pay a penalty of Rs 250 for every day's delay. Prakash Kardaley is optimistic about the bill about to become law.
26 May 2005 -
Sceptics among us may find it hard to believe that we are on the way to having a progressive law on people's right to know at the national level in a matter of a few months. The pro-active stance adopted by the central government and the immense contribution by the National Advisory Council (NAC) as well as right to information campaigners throughout the country have helped bring the nation to this situation.
The bill adopted by the Parliament during the second week of May is undisputedly a good piece of legislation. The country will now have a powerful information commission comprising independent stalwarts whose task will be to usher in the information regime in this largest democracy in the world.
New information commission
An elaborate clause spelling out the powers of the commission has emerged without serious distortions, except for one change. The high-power panel under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister that will select the commission's incumbents will now be heavily political. In earlier drafts of the law, the Chief Justice of India was to be a member of this appointing panel. In the final draft that passed Parliament, the CJ was replaced by a minister to be nominated by the Prime Minister. The third member is the Leader of the Opposition. The same arrangement goes for the state information commissions. The panel to be chaired by the chief minister will have a minister instead of the chief justice of the high court.
Still, the scope for selection of commissioners has been widened. The earlier draft bill seemed to create a niche merely for retired bureaucrats. With the scope now enlarged, we can now reasonably hope for appointments of persons with a fiercely independent mindset who would dedicate themselves to the removal of the culture of needlessly excessive secrecy, without compromising on genuine privacy rights of an individual and the preservation of confidentiality of sensitive information.
Penalties on errant officers
The national bill has struck a golden mean between most of the prevailing state laws and the rather over-ambitious state law of Maharashtra on the location and designations of Public Information Officers. Assistant Public Information Officers will be posted at the sub-district level.
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Penalties have been restored, though with some hurried distortions. A public information officer (PIO) who delays disclosure of information beyond the prescribed time frame will now be liable to pay the penalty of Rs 250 for every day's delay, subject to the maximum of Rs 25,000. However, no independent penal clause has been prescribed for other serious violations by the PIO like "knowingly giving incorrect, incomplete or misleading information or destroying information which was the subject of the request or causing obstruction in the dissemination of information". Penalty for these offences will now attract the same penalty, that is, Rs 250 "each day", whatever "each day" in these situations may mean.
It will now be the task of the information commission to inject some sense in this muddled provision and impose penalty up to Rs 25,000 depending upon the severity of the offence of the officer.
Provision for errant officials incurring criminal liability has been removed, apparently because the information commission has been granted civil jurisdiction. An earlier draft enabled the commission to recommend to the government launching of a criminal action against the defaulting officer. RTI campaigners wanted these powers vested directly in the commission, but the government in its wisdom has preferred to remove any mention of criminal liability.
Still, the absence of criminal liability does not grant any absolute immunity to a delinquent PIO against such liability. A pro-active information commission can still initiate criminal proceedings against such defaulters under prevailing criminal law and an aggrieved citizen can also take recourse to the criminal law to discipline such wayward officials.
Costs to citizens
An earlier draft left the discretion of evaluating the cost of disseminating information to the whims and fancies of the PIO. The amended bill as adopted by the Parliament now confines in to the 'reasonable' limits. Bureaucrats framing rules under the legislation will define this `reasonability' in more specific terms. The rules as drafted by the bureaucracy, of course will have to be circulated for eliciting suggestions and objections from among the citizens, and particularly the RTI campaigners.
Exemptions from disclosure obligations
The exemption clauses this is where our governments can easily cripple any right to information law - are trim. Even an earlier curious provision of granting blanket exemption to select intelligence and security organisations has been opened. The bill makes allowance for disclosure of information on both allegations of corruption as well as alleged human rights violations in these organisations.
Public information officers
The national bill has struck a golden mean between most of the prevailing state laws and the rather over-ambitious state law of Maharashtra on designations of Public Information Officers. In most laws, including those elsewhere in the world, PIOs are senior officers and no PIO is appointed at lower levels of the hierarchy. This may not be entirely suitable in our conditions where we must put in place a user-friendly mechanism to ensure that the citizens dwelling in rural areas are able to exercise their fundamental right to know without a great deal of difficulty. The RTI Act of Maharashtra had gone to the extent of providing that every administrative unit and every office of the government and its public bodies must have a PIO. This well-intentioned provision in turn created a fresh difficulty for citizens. PIOs were never designated at rural levels and those designated were poorly equipped to interpret the law and take decisions.
The new national bill provides for designations of Assistant Public Information Officers at the sub-district level. These officers will merely collect the requisitions and pass these to the designated PIO for disposal. It will thus greatly facilitate a requisitioner in the interior parts of the country to personally approach an Assistant PIO and deposit the requisition. The Assistant PIO has been granted additional five days to pass on the requisition to the PIO. This sounds like a sensible arrangement.
Third parties given a say in determining disclosure
The national bill provides that a reference must be made to a 'third party' that is, any person any organisation other than the requisitioner and the department or organisation processing the query if the information sought "relates to or has been supplied" by that third party "and has been treated as confidential by that third party".
The bill grants an additional 10 days for the PIO to consider the representation to be submitted by the third party on disclosure of that information and take a final decision on disclosure. Apparently this clause has noble intentions. It is intended at safeguarding privacy rights of individuals, but activists who have been extensively using their own state laws on RTI seriously apprehend that objections would be raised by third parties even to disclosure of any kind of information, thus blatantly going against the spirit of transparency in public interest. They fear that the PIOs, instead of taking a firm decision in favour of disclosure which they are empowered to would rather play safe and deny the information, forcing the requisitioner thus to go in for appeals.
This anxiety is not entirely misplaced. However, a series of rulings by the information commission, during the practical use of the law should greatly minimise any possible damage by this provision.
Covering the states
Unrelenting efforts by RTI campaigners have paid dividends and the bill has finally been extended to state matters as well. Modalities have still not been spelt out, but extension of the jurisdiction to states should come as a bonanza for citizens in states which presently do not have a law on the right to information, particularly those from states where governments have not been too enthusiastic in bringing in one.
What would be the fate of the existing state laws? We have in the past heard two diverse legal opinions right from states not having legislative jurisdiction to enact such a law in the first place to the states having an inherent power to have its own law on the right to information since after all it is the fundamental right and it is the obligation of both the central as well as the state governments, independent of each other, to provide for a practical regime for the citizens to exercise this right. The previous government did not appear to be in favour of allowing the state laws to survive once the national law was enforced. The present government, however, has clarified that both laws can co-exist.
Despite this generous offer, it is time for RTI campaigners in states with their own laws to ask themselves: is it necessary for the two parallel laws to co-exist? First of all, prevalence of two parallel pieces of legislations on the same subject with their own independent procedures has the potential of creating confusion. The uninitiated and the ill-equipped will easily be mislead by mischief mongers in committing technical errors and may forego their right to elicit information.
Secondly, let us admit it. The national law that is coming is superior to most of the state laws. Most activists have acknowledged this. After all, it has been drafted by the National Advisory Council with careful study of the provisions and performance of all these existing state laws. But some fear that the third party clause peculiar to the national law and not existing in any of the state laws might be misused by bureaucrats in delaying and eventually denying legitimate information.
Barring this, the national bill scores over the state laws on many counts. As I have argued in this forum in the past, the single provision on the appointment of an information commission with powers to enforce its decisions should tilt the balance in favour of the national laws. Users of the state laws in Maharashtra, Delhi and Karnataka have experienced that the apparently independent apex appellate authorities in their respective laws have not been able to ensure full justice to the common requisitioner in absence of decisive powers.
If the national law is more citizen-friendly and progressive than most state laws, then I think it would be prudent for RTI activists in states with their own laws either to call upon their state governments to repeal these legislations or modify these to incorporate all progressive provisions in the national law. Yet one cannot be sure if state governments would be willing to go in for such an overhaul of their laws. They might take the simpler option of withdrawing their laws to leave the field option to the national law.
The bill now awaits the assent of the President of India, after which it is for the government to notify it without any delay. Countdown begins instantly with the notification. Public Information Officers and Assistant PIOs will have to be designated within 100 days from the beginning of the countdown while the information commission should be in the saddle within 120 days. Rules have to be framed and notified during this period.
So the legislation will come into force in four months from its notification. The President had taken about three weeks to grant his assent to the original and toothless Freedom of Information Act 2002 brought in by the previous government at the centre, though the government never enforced it. Going by the present indications, one should not expect any delay from the government in starting the 120-day countdown as soon as the assent is granted by the President.
Prakash Kardaley
Prakash Kardaley is a Pune-based journalist and RTI campaigner.
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HD#4 Preview: BOBOC DOMINGO on the Preakness, Fasig-Tipton Sale
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Filipinos Shop at Fasig-Tipton
by Comm. Eduardo C. Domingo Jr. (Philracom)
Early in February this year, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) of Maryland, through the Philippine Racing Commission (Philracom), extended an invitation for a Philippine delegation to attend the May 21-22 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Preferred Auction for Two-Year-Olds in Training at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium. The USDA also offered the Filipino delegates the chance to watch the 2nd leg of the Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes, at historic Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.
The Philippine delegation was composed of Philracom Comm. Atty. Vergel Cruz (Head of Mission); his horseowner-trainer wife Joji Cruz; horseowners Emmanuel Santos, Rene Villoria, Ferdie Dimaisip, and Cesar Avila Jr., along with trainers Rene Florentino, Herman Manahan, Pat Logarta, and JC Canding, as well as myself.
As soon as we arrived in Maryland on May 17, USDA officials Theresa Brophy and Laura Hayes welcomed us at the Sheraton Hotel in Annapolis. A souvenir gift pack was given to each delegate together with the catalogue for the auction to be held on May 21 and 22.
Prior to the May 19 Preakness Stakes and the auction, our hosts took us to visit the Maryland Stallion Station where we saw Rock Slide, one of the top stallions in that area. We met Stud Master Jim Steele, who toured us around the huge 400-acre farm that is under his care. He also showed off a couple of mares to be served by his stallions based in that station.
An electronic hotwalk and exercise machine was also displayed to us. It can automatically control the work given to weanlings and yearlings for a more sophisticated method of muscle development for young horses.
All of us were pretty much amazed not only by the size of this stallion station, but also with the systematic and effective methods that they practice on such a huge productive farm. When we left the site, the group pondered whether the time would ever come that such a farm would be a possibility in the Philippines in the near future.
Going back to the hotel, everyone was so excited for the following day, “Preakness Day”. Street Sense, winner of the Kentucky Derby two weeks back, was in everyone’s thoughts as having the best chance to be a US Triple Crown champion. The last winner to sweep all three legs of the US Triple Crown was Affirmed way back in 1978. Alydar was second place to Affirmed in all three outings of that year’s Triple Crown (Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes).
At 9 o’clock the following morning, all of us set out for Pimlico Race Course. The in-field was the venue for distinguished guests, us included. We were treated to free drinks and a marvelous lunch.
The group tried their luck with wagers on some of the races, particularly in the Preakness Stakes. And indeed, we were very much overwhelmed by the outcome as it was such a close fight that the result was decided via photo finish, with Curlin nosing out Street Sense who had the lead at the top of the stretch. Thundering cheers from the vast crowd were deafening as the two protagonists neared the wire. The event enjoyed record-breaking attendance this year compared to last year. All of us had a fantastic day at Pimlico.
On May 20, a day before the auction, all the horseowners and trainers went to the State Fairgrounds to examine the more than 600 colts and fillies to be auctioned off over the next two days.
Fifteen horses were acquired by the delegation: fillies by Proud Citizen (by Gone West), AP Jet (by Fappiano), Van Nistlerooy (by Storm Cat), Officer (by Bertrando), and Seeking the Gold (by Mr. Prospector), to name some. Mr. Santos bid successfully for the Seeking the Gold filly at a substantial price.
An attempt was made to buy back the horse, with a modest premium offered to Mr. Santos, who turned it down as this filly, he said, would be the first Seeking the Gold progeny to run in the Philippines.
We watched with interest as other, higher-priced, juveniles were auctioned off: a Broken Vow offspring for $550,000, and a Yonaguska (sire of local champion Ibarra) for $22,000.
After the auction’s second day, all the horses bought by Filipinos were sent to Green Willow Farm for their quarantine and stay until June 14, the day when they were all shipped to the Philippines via Korean Air Cargo.
These horses are now in training, perhaps in preparation for the forthcoming Two-Year-Old Imported Stakes race this September 23 at Santa Ana Park.
The Maryland USDA is once again inviting Filipino buyers to another sale in October. Those interested may contact the Philracom and sign up to be part of that delegation. ***
Photo: Filipino delegates pose near the Pimlico grandstand.
L-R: Pat Logarta, Manny Santos, Nory Villoria, Cesar Avila, Eduardo Domingo, JC Canding, and Andoy Florentino. (photo courtesy of Comm. Eduardo Domingo)
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University of Leicester Botanic Garden - an unexpected gem
Formal garden with traditional (immaculate) box hedging and spring bedding.
With a colleague I attended a Plant Network meeting on Friday, at the University of Leicester Botanic Garden. Had I been pushed I might have recalled that there is a botanic garden in Leicester, but it would seem to be effectively unknown in the horticultural world. This is a pity, because it is actually rather interesting, as well as being attractive and very well maintained.
The garden occupies the grounds of four large Edwardian mansions built in the English Domestic Revival style, purchased after the war by the University of Leicester for use as student residences, which must have been very pleasant for those lucky enough to live in them. The grounds, totalling 16 acres, became the botanic garden in 1947 and the characters of the original gardens are retained. It is certainly not a traditional botanic garden, though rather more than a park: there are family beds, greenhouses, medicinal plants and herbs, etc, but also a rather attractive formal water garden and sunken garden as well as wide lawns. Sadly we didn't have time to see it in its entirety, but it's only a few miles off the M1 and it would be worth going back in summer to see the National Plant Collection of hardy fuchsias in flower, for example.
We were shown round by the Director, Prof Richard Gornall, who also curates the garden amid a busy academic career.
The Knoll is one of the mansions whose grounds now form the botanic garden.
There is a good collection of conifers: this is the rare Cypriot endemic Cedrus brevifolia, looking very well.
Although with an unfortunate lean caused by previous shading, this is the national champion Pinus aristata (Bristlecone Pine), standing 9 m tall.
A number of interesting plants from the Balearic Islands are grown in the alpine house: this is Senecio rodriguezii.
Prof Gornall's long-term research interest has been in the genus Saxifraga. Also flowering in the alpine house was this S. wendelboi, from Iran.
Secure behind locked doors in the research greenhouse is this collection of wild-origin clones of Japanese Knotweed. Funnily enough they are mostly too tender to survive an English winter: the clone that is such a menace is exceptional. Amazingly, the same (and only) clone is found throughout Europe, parts of North America and Australia: it was introduced by Philipp von Siebold from Japan in 1825.
The last remnants of the Crocus display. LUBG holds 'Crocus Sundays' in season.
48 hours in Ireland
The flowers of Chrysosplenium macrophyllum contrast with and are complimented by the reddish foliage.
Chrysosplenium macrophyllum is perhaps a little too happy on the banks of the Hunting Brook! The bright green foliage by the stream is the native C. oppositifolium.
Spring comes to Hunting Brook Gardens, Co. Wicklow - the first wave in a season-long shift in colour and interest, through this bed, as planned by Jimi Blake, Proprietor (visible in red). The upright stems are the fabulous and rare Aralia echinocaulis, one of the garden's signature plants, and probably the largest stand of it outside China..
A rare gleam of sunlight on an otherwise overcast and chilly weekend falls on Helleborus x ashwoodensis 'Briar Rose'.
The delicate-seeming but easily-grown Ypsilandra tibetica, which has a lovely strong scent reminiscent of marzipan.
A charming combination at Mount Venus Nursery. It is surprising how seldom one sees Pachyphragma macrophyllum.
Jimi Blake and I had a happy prowl round the remarkable Mount Venus Nursery, just outside Dublin. It offers a tremendous range of good perennials, many of which are hard to find elsewhere. Not the best time to survey the selection, perhaps, but we were charmed by this corner, with rustic columns, Borinda and mossy stones - the latter being the most important aspect.
This morning ewe went to Kilmacurragh, the National Botanic Garden of Ireland's country estate in Wicklow. Wild-type Crocus vernus has been naturalised in the lawns there for centuries, and has outlasted the house, now in a sadly derelict state. At least the Office of Public Works is going to re-roof it this year to prevent further deterioration.
Kilmacurragh was actively gardened by generations of the Acton family, who in the 1850s received young plants of Joseph Hooker's Rhododendron introductions from Sikkim: Seamus O'Brien, Curator, admires a Hooker R. grande.
Now actively gardened by Seamus, Kilmacurragh is again a vibrant place. This is his new Monkey-puzzle avenue, with 36 pairs of trees.
A good gardening day
Eranthis Tubergenii Group 'Guinea Gold' is the last to open here and perhaps the most spectacular.
A really productive session working on the main border. A big clump of Nepeta was edited out.
Today has been the first decent day of the year - far better than decent actually - very lovely. Warm and sunny, with the Curlews, Lapwings and Skylarks in voice all round, and the flowers wide open - pure pleasure to be outside and working in the garden. Shirt sleeves, and tea outside too - though I don't suppose winter has completely receded yet. However, with these temperatures the snowdrops and crocuses are going over fast, so this will be the last weekend to see a good show from them.
Narcissus 'Bowles' Early Sulphur'
Galanthus plicatus 'E.A. Bowles'
Galanthus nivalis 'Susan Grimshaw' is just getting going, unfurling its large flowers for the first time today.
The (mostly) Crocus Bed, where I grow selections that I'm observing or bulking up.
This 4x4 white one turned up in one of my submissions to the RHS Crocus Trial a few years ago: it's rather good. It must've been an unflowered seedling in the clump I dug corms from.
I was not the only one enjoying the crocuses today.
University of Leicester Botanic Garden - an unexpe...
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Courtroom Sketches from the El Chapo Trial
by John Mathias and Jay Ruttenberg
—The court hears testimony from —- —, the IT aid who betrayed El Chapo’s hard-won trust to federal agents representing six separate countries. To protect his identity, the tech guy’s voice is altered to sound like Jerry Seinfeld. Over his head, he wears a brown paper grocery bag, which covers a ski mask, which covers his face, which a plastic surgeon has permanently rendered into an electric blur.
—The mistresses testify for the prosecution.
—Diagrams are displayed depicting El Chapo’s daring escape after he was cornered, unarmed and nude, by an elite team of D.E.A. agents. Famously, the kingpin deployed a liquid-powered jetpack to transport him to his awaiting rocket ship—stocked with fuel, rations of astronaut caviar, and the San Luis Fútbol Club—and blasted off to Mars.
—The court hears from Lautaro, the prize lion from the drug lord’s subterranean zoo. The beast tearfully recounts how El Chapo got him hooked on an 18-gram-per-day cocaine habit that culminated when Lautaro, desperate to satisfy his insatiable craving, ate a hophead telenovela starlet.
—Moments after being sentenced to 9,864 consecutive years in a maximum security penitentiary, El Chapo suddenly disintegrates into dust particles, reconstituting himself in the penthouse suite of Playa del Carmen’s most exclusive hotel.
Hess Is More: 80 Years, Live in Concert
We are longstanding fans of Hess Is More, the mighty New York/Copenhagen musical collective centered around singer and drummer Mikkel Hess. Years ago, the band starred in a Lowbrow Reader Variety Hour Concert, and Lowbrow editor Jay Ruttenberg wrote liner-notes for the band’s last couple of albums. No band beats Hess! Might you take our word for this because of the Lowbrow Reader’s extensive track record of immaculate taste? Of course. But you can also examine the new video, below, featuring a Hess formation performing onstage in Copenhagen. Those in New York might also check out the band for themselves: Hess Is More plays at Nublu (151 Avenue C) on Saturday, January 19.
Wishing You a Very Mueller Christmas
by Jon Reiner
Dearest Friends,
Greetings from —- — where — and I have escaped for some brief R & R, hoping this holiday letter finds you enjoying the season. It was a busy year for the ——- clan, from family milestones (– years of marriage!) to a long-overdue kitchen remodeling to — —- ——- the future of democracy as we know it. How the year has flown.
At an age when many of our old friends are kicking back with a daiquiri at the 19th hole, — continues to enjoy his work, and there are some weeks when the only time I see his face is on TV. The focus of —’s year has been the – — —- — —- — — ——.
One night when — was working late, I heard a rustling noise behind the house, where we park the bagged leaves until curbside pickup on Tuesday. – — —- —- ——- —– —a leather glove on the garage floor, like someone had dropped it in a hurry, but it was much too small to —- —- —– ———- — —- —- — —– —- —- —- — —— – hiding in plain sight. Of course, I wondered just what kind of person would —- —- ——- —– —- — —- —– —- — — ——- —- — —- —— — — — – —- — —- — a list of funny-sounding names with corresponding figures on a soiled cocktail napkin — —- ——–. Then I remembered — still kept that old VHS player in the basement that —- —- gave us when the FBI — — —, and wouldn’t you know, it still worked! — — —– — —– —– —– — — — —- — — with his adult children in the suite — — — — —- unmarked bills and casino chips in a Hefty bag they hadn’t even bothered to cinch. The — — Russians — felonies — — blackmail — —– —- gold toilet seat — —- lost his marbles —- —- —- orange — — — bright orange — —- — — — — — to say nothing of the smell. — — in a creepy way that would make your skin crawl, and, believe me, we’ve seen a lot. — — —- — started with his father who would dress up in a stolen — —- —- —– —- —— —— ——- —– —– —- —— U.S. Constitution — —- with a drugstore hairbrush. — calls him “the elf on the shelf.” — —- —– sing like a canary — — —- —– — —– —- — whacked himself in the head with the garden rake. — —- —- —- —- —- —– —- And that explained the stranger’s glove in the garage.
Well, what a year. With — at work so much, I’ve had plenty of time for long walks with the girls and recitals with the grandkids, hatha yoga (love my new teacher — —-) and my book club. My favorite was a novel called — —- — And, of course, Netflix binge watching. Guilty as charged, as they say. — —- ——and “The Crown” can’t come back soon enough, though I wonder how I’ll like the series without Claire Foy. She’s fabulous.
Your friendship means the world to — and me, and we hope to see more of you, if not in 2019, then, hopefully, by the fall of 2020. Drop us a line if you have a chance. Though we won’t be able to write back or call, please know you are in our thoughts.
Have a wonderful —– ——–.
The ——-s
Fashion Projects #5
As all clear-minded readers know, there is but one fashion magazine worth a close examination: the long-running, sporadically published, intellectually dazzling New York City journal Fashion Projects. Does Fashion Projects happen to be cooked up in the same “office” as The Lowbrow Reader? Sure. Has it shared some contributors over the years? Guilty as charged. Does it happen to be edited by the wife of the Lowbrow Reader’s editor? Yes—okay, fine. But please note that any suggestion that we are even the least bit biased will be taken as an insult.
Turn to the evidence! This month welcomes a new Fashion Projects issue—#5, for those keeping score, the journal’s first print issue in several years. From cover to cover, the issue devotes itself to fashion in museums, featuring long Q&A interviews with curators the world over, be they in Antwerp, London, Toronto, or New York itself. The cover stars longtime Vogue doyenne Diana Vreeland—or rather, Greer Lankton’s fabulous Diana Vreeland doll, situated in the Met’s fabled Costume Institute itself. What’s the wait? Get your hands on Fashion Projects at a local retailer or through fashionprojects.org today!
Those In New York can pick up their issue at the Fashion Projects #5 launch party: Wednesday, August 29, at the RealReal Café at 80 Wooster Street in Soho. RSVP here.
Further Rules to Speed up Baseball
by Jay Ruttenberg and Colin St. John
In recent years, Major League Baseball has taken strides to pick up the pace of the famously leisurely game. Last season, it ended the decades-long spectacle of a pitcher tossing four balls to signal an intentional walk; this year, the league has curtailed visits to the pitcher’s mound. What other steps should be taken to speed up the game?
The No-Run Home Run
As with its decision regarding intentional walks, the league has deemed it superfluous for a player to ceremonially circle the bases after hitting a home run. Fans will love the league’s new protocol, in which a hitter, after getting confirmation that his ball has cleared the fence, calmly turns around and walks into the dugout. Likewise, any runners on base when a home run leaves the park are to immediately return to the dugout. A STD (Seconds to Dugout) clock will ensure that no base runner lingers on the field, allowing play to resume in prompt fashion.
The Patriotism Check
“The Star-Spangled Banner” will no longer be performed at the onset of a game. In its stead, when purchasing tickets, fans will check a box confirming their adoration for America. Of course, those attending Blue Jays games will gain a similar option regarding Canada, while fans in Milwaukee can pledge their allegiance to an enormous sausage oozing with cheese. For some reason, the Yankees will continue to pause heaven and earth during the seventh inning to play an antique recording of a jingoistic Irving Berlin song.
The Guaranteed Win
To help shorten the season, the Chicago White Sox have been demoted to play in a corporate softball league. All games previously scheduled against the White Sox will be counted as wins for the opposing team; in the games’ place, an installment from the “The Fast and the Furious” franchise will be aired, both on television and at the uncharacteristically lively Guaranteed Rate Field.
The Subways Series
Following the lead of the Arizona Diamondbacks, which reintroduced the bullpen cart, other teams are encouraged to explore new means of pitcher transport. Many are using ride-sharing apps, others human catapults, while some are simply giving their relievers training in sprinting. Both New York teams have installed bullpen subways; once under the game’s rubber, the mound opens as the pitcher is hydraulically elevated, like a Rockette at Radio City Music Hall. (Auspiciously, the trains fall under the jurisdiction of M.L.B., not M.T.A.)
The Gladiator Rule
Taking a cue from Little League’s “mercy rule,” any regular season game that heads into the sixth inning with a five-run deficit will be called in favor of the leading team. Likewise, if by the seventh inning a game is tied but has grown kind of boring, the crowd will vote with its thumbs to call the whole thing off so everybody can go home already. Seeing as the game is but a meaningless diversion from life, henceforth, a swift coin flip will preclude any godforsaken extra inning play.
The M.D. In Row B
Is there any moment more painful for a baseball fan than watching as a player crashes into a wall or gets struck in the face by a pitch, thus necessitating play to cease as medics and trainers crowd the field? No more! Moving forward, once a player falls in injury, his teammates will rapidly gather around him in close order formation, jog him off the field, and hoist him into a premium section of the stands where wealthy doctors are likely to be sitting. In baseball’s unspoken honor code, any player who takes more than 30 seconds to return to the field will be beaned in his next at bat.
Obama: An Oral History 2009–2017
Lowbrow Reader #1 was coughed out in the summer of 2001, which means that we have published under three American presidents: one a mess, one a marvel, and one a minor Wack Pack member sprung from the fiery pits of Hell.
This month, bookstores welcome a grand account of that anomaly in the middle: Brian Abrams’s Obama: An Oral History (Little A). Abrams is a Lowbrow contributor in good standing, whose essay about a childhood encounter with Mel Brooks appears in issue #10. He is also an expert in the oral history format, having written such works on the masterpieces Late Night with David Letterman and Die Hard, as well as on Gawker. In Obama, he tackles his most ambitious book yet, interviewing a flood of people in the president’s circle. These include all-stars (David Axelrod), nudniks (Joe Lieberman), and khaki-besotted Washington types who live for this sort of thing. Collectively, it paints a rich portrait of Obama’s campaign and, especially, presidency. Check it out soon at a local bookstore—or the mom-and-pop web shop run by the kind-hearted folks who own the book’s publisher.
MYSK @ Academy Records
While 2018 will not bring with it a new Lowbrow Reader issue—we work slowly, okay?—readers in New York can get a fix with a simple stroll down West 18th Street. For there lies the great Academy Records, and in the store’s display window, alongside assorted records and CDs, is a rotating display of Musicians You Should Know, illustrated by longtime Lowbrow contributor Mike Reddy with writing by editor Jay Ruttenberg.
The series, which originated in LBR #8, features (gorgeous!) illustrations of nonexistent bands alongside (hilarious!) biographies of said musicians. Every month, the window display turns a page to include a new act—some previously featured in Lowbrow, some in other publications or websites, and some exclusive to the Academy window audience. Check out this month’s display, featuring the Old Greenwich Penitentiary Whipperpuffers, an a cappella group from a white collar prison. And while you’re there, duck into Academy and treat yourself to a record!
One-Liners II
by Andrew Barlow
My cat died, so no funeral.
People think they can just waltz to 4/4 time.
Did I say, “conscious”? I meant, “couscous.”
My new series of bumper stickers:
1. My Kid Is an Idiot.
2. What’d My Idiot Kid Do This Time?
3. Honor Society?!!
If I fall off my bike any more times, they are going to trim off my handlebar moustache.
Everpurple trees turn red in the spring; “everpurple” is a misnomer.
Two Wrights make a plane.
I know it must be cold in here because the cue card above my head reads, “Brrrrrr.”
I have a stain on the cuff of my pants, but I work on the first floor, so no one’ll notice.
Seeking a domestic partner: someone to cook, bake, boil, broil, grill, fry, pan-broil, stir-fry, par-boil, stew, braise, barbecue, char-broil, sauté, cure, deep-fry, casserole, steam, smoke, tempura, pressure-cook, render, roast, toast, oven-roast, pot-roast, spit-roast, curry, gut, bone, fillet, can, preserve, pickle, bread, poach, peel, pare, core, chop, cut, dice, slice, grind, shred, grate, mince, spice, flavor, season, salt, butter, julienne, prepare a decent meal, devil, reheat, heat, microwave, brown, scrape, scour, rinse, drain, strain, clean, cleanse, sweep, mop, wipe, disinfect, wipe up, clean up, clean around, clean under, spruce up, tidy up, tidy, neaten, neaten up, groom, clean about the house, valet, trim, wash, wipe down, sponge off, wipe off, drip-dry, shave, mop up, scour, scrub, swab, clean it, dust, polish, whisk, vacuum, do the household cleaning, comb, shine, buff, whitewash, bleach, launder, do the washing, starch, dry-clean, iron, rub, wring out, caulk, rewire, strip, paint, reupholster, repaint, put on an extra coat of paint, sand, plane, saw, nail, screw, nail up, sew, mend, stuff, re-shingle, renovate, carbolize, re-heel, scuff up, shine, tan, buckle, mow, rake, weed, weed-whack, leaf-blow, pick up the litter, garden, and spring-clean. You know, clean. (more…)
Internal Monologues of Distraught Floor Brokers
by Colin St. John
The stock market’s recent roller coaster ride features trade war concerns, uneasiness about a White House vendetta against Amazon, and, yes, irresistible new snapshots of floor brokers looking super stressed out. A look inside the worried minds of those on the ground may yet shed some light on the chaos.
“When you’re in an argument about which Subway ‘Sub of the Day’ is best, I’m sorry, Sunday shouldn’t count. Nobody goes to Subway on Sunday.”
“This dude is bigger than I initially thought, so I’m gonna try to switch this hand gesture from a ‘back off buddy’ to a high-five as quickly as possible. ” (more…)
Mermaid Haberdashery
Even the most casual and tuned-out browser of The Lowbrow Reader has admired John Mathias’s work: He is the artist behind the glorious toilet drawings that have graced the covers of every Lowbrow issue, as well as our book anthology. But when not dreaming up toilet gags—as if life allows time for anything more noble!—the artist helps run Mermaid Haberdashery, a splendid boutique in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. Much of the store is devoted to Miss Ellie NYC, the jewelry line created by John’s uniquely talented wife, Ellie Mathias. Those near Ocean Grove would be wise to stop by the store sooner rather than later. In fact, head there between April 20 and April 22 and discover savings galore: Throughout the weekend, a 20% off sale extends to Miss Ellie NYC’s collection as well as to vintage clothing, sunglasses, hats, and even original paintings by John Mathias himself. Hop in a car, let the city eat dust, admire the fabled Jersey Shore, and check out Mermaid Haberdashery today!
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Journal Le Propriétaire
The newspaper by Excellence in Real Estate
Word of the editor
Can one prevent a tenant from submitting a request for retractation ?
Published on 01 December 2009 by Me Robert Soucy
Topic(s): Legal
Source: Messier Soucy Avocats
A tenant can misuse his right to ask for a retractation of a decision rendered against him. The tenant can owe the lessor three months of rent. On the day of the hearing, the tenant does not show up. A decision is rendered and condemns him to pay the three months of rent to the lessor. When the tenant receives the decision, he submits within ten days, a request for retractation which stops the execution of the decision.
When the tenant asks for a retractation, the Régie convenes the parties to a new hearing. The tenant calls upon the fact that he did not receive the notification of convocation for the hearing. The tenant does not present himself at this new convocation for the hearing. The Régie renders a new decision that rejected the withdrawal, restoring the original decision that condemns the tenant to pay three months of unpaid rent. However, the new procedure took another extra month. The tenant then owes four months of rent to the lessor.
Second request for retractation
When the tenant receives the decision which rejects his request for retractation, he again submits another request for retractation pretexting that he was sick on the day of the hearing. The Régie du logement does not have the choice, it must convene the parties to a new hearing. The process can take another additional month. The tenant then already owes five months of rent. The tenant has acted in bad faith and he has misused the law which does not limit the number of requests for retractation.
The Régie du logement, in order to mitigate the abuse of procedure at the time of the second request for retractation, refused the request for retractation and declared the tenant foreclosed to deposit any other recourse in retractation in the matter pending, except with the permission of the executive director. The Régie based itself on article 86 of the Act respecting the Régie du logement:
« 86. In the absence of provisions applicable to a particular case, a commissioner may
compensate for them by any procedure not inconsistent with this act or the rules of
The debarment of the request thus prevented a tenant from bringing another action in retractation.
Judgement of the Court of Quebec
The tenant carries the case into appeal before the Court of Quebec. The Judge of the Court of Quebec concludes that the Régie does not have the inherent capacity to render such an ordinance of debarment of the recourse in retractation. The tenant, by request in legal revision, seeks the cancellation of the judgement rendered by the Court of Quebec, qualifying the judgement of being unreasonable to such a degree that the Court of Quebec has lost its jurisdiction while rendering the aforementioned judgement. The analysis of the Court of Quebec put in parallel the incompetence of the Régie to declare a litigant vexatious or abusive, without the inherent power envisaged in the Act respecting the Régie du logement. According to the Court of Quebec, by analogy, the same principle applies to a declaration of debarment.
Judgement of the Cour supérieure
Recently[1], the Quebec Superior Court has decided about the outcome of the debate while refusing to cancel the judgement rendered by the Court of Quebec. According to the Court, the Régie du logement is not invested with the inherent capacity conferred on the courts “to make all ordinances suitable to provide for the cases where the law did not envisage a specific remedy (article 46 of the Code of civil procedure)”. Only courts and judges designated in article 22 of C.c.p. have these inherent capacities. As for article 86 of the Act respecting the Régie du logement, it does not apply because in this particular case it is not a question to compensate a rule of procedure but to block the exercise of a right. The Superior Court recognizes that the repetitive demands for retractation without valid reason constitute obvious abuses and lead to absurd situations. The fact of trying to cure the abuses by the declaration of debarment, is not a suitable legal solution:
“The effort is praiseworthy but for lack of competence, unless the legislator intervenes, nothing will be able to change since neither constitutional law nor the Règlement sur la procédure/Procedural regulations before the Régie du logement allow for such a declaration.[2] ”
[1] Superior Court 500-17-046391-085
[2] Ibid. Judge Francine Nantel, p. 6
1 Response(s) to “Can one prevent a tenant from submitting a request for retractation ?”
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For more information, visit www.apq.org
Me Robert Soucy, auparavant régisseur devant la Régie du Logement du Québec, membre du Barreau du Québec depuis 1979, oeuvre auprès des propriétaires depuis 1984.
Il a donné de nombreuses conférences autant pour le Barreau du Québec que les membres de l'Association des propriétaires du Québec. Ainsi qu'écrit des articles dans le mensuel "Le Propriétaire".
Avocat connu et reconnu, il représente les propriétaires de logements locatifs devant la Régie du logement et devant diverses médias.
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Mr. Intentional
Mr. Intentional Letra
Yeah...Yeah...Yeah...Yeah... You see the road to hell is paved with good intentions
Can't you tell the way they have to mention
How they helped you out, you're such a hopeless victim
Please don't do me any favors, Mr. Intentional.
All their talk is seasoned to perfection
The road they walk commanding your affection
They need to be needed, deceived by motivation, an opportunity to further situation
Why they're so important is without explanation
Please don't patronize me, Mr. Intentional... Oh...
We give rise to ego, by being insecure
The advice that we go desperately searching for
the subconscious effort to support our paramour
Too engaged in denial, to admit we're immature
Validating lies, Mr. Intentional... Oh...
Open up your eyes, Mr. Intentional...
Stuck in a system that seeks to suck your blood
Held emotionally hostage by what everybody does
Counting all the money that you give them just because
Exploiting ignorance in the name of love
Stop before you drop because that's just the way it was
Please don't justify me, Mr. Intentional
So one-dimensional, Mr. Intentional
Don't you do me any favors
Wake up you've been sleeping, take up your bed and walk
Stop blaming other people, it's nobody else's fault
Accept the truth about you
You know that life goes on without you and Your expensive misinventions, disguising your intentions
Don't worship my hurt feelings, Mr. Intentional
See I know you can't help me, Mr. Intentional
The only help I need to live is unprofessional
The only wealth I have to give is not material
And if you need much more than that - I'm not available
Please don't entertain me, Mr. Intentional
I don't need your sympathy, Mr. Intentional
Stay away from me, Mr. Intentional
So one-dimensional, Mr. Promotional, Mr. Emotional, Mr. Intentional...
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Telstra presents the 15th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 1998 / : [edited by Margie West]
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Love, Agnes, 1958-
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Swiss Re missed analysts forecasts with first half net income of 1.2-billion-dollars. The world's second-largest reinsurer warned that market conditions remained difficult. It said that property and casualty rates continued to slow down in July.
by Spriha Srivastava 8/4/2017 5:19:32 AM
Viacom shares are heading lower in extended-hours trade after the media company reported a two percent decline in its U.S. advertising revenues for the third quarter. However, the company's earnings and group revenue for the period came in above analysts' expectations.
On the investor call, the Viacom CEO said he's exploring M&A opportunities to strengthen the company and accelerate its re-positioning.
It's jobs Friday.The market is looking for 180 thousand additions to the workforce in July after a much higher than expected 222 thousand non-farm payrolls in June. The unemployment rate is expected to have edged down to 4 point 3 percent.
Jobs report Friday: Hiring likely strong in July, but wage gains could be slight
CNBCHiring was expected to have been strong in July, but wages probably rose just modestly, as inflation remains stubbornly low.
Here are your top stories at this hour:
The Russia probe ramps up. US Special Counsel Robert Mueller reportedly convenes a Grand Jury to investigate links between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia.
Asian stock markets waver amid the heightened political uncertainty. Investors also eyeing the US jobs report, which is expected to show non-farm payrolls increased by 180-thousand in July.
Did Google want to buy Snap? A report suggests the tech giant floated an offer to buy the firm for 30 billion dollars ahead of its IPO, in an effort to beef up its social credentials.
The two hundred million pound man! Paris St Germain signs Barcelona forward Neymar, in a deal that makes him the most expensive footballer of all time.
Gemma caught up with Ewen Stevenson, CFO at RBS about the numbers:
We are very encouraged by the results. It is the best six month results since the crisis and the best set of six months results since the first half of 2014.
We know that we still have one large issue ahead of us, the Department of Justice so if we get that settled this year then we expect that may push us into a bottom side loss.
RBS earnings: $894 million for Q2 net profit vs $280 million expected
Allianz says Pimco has become a "performance engine again", as the asset management business logged net inflows of 52 billion in the second quarter.
This helped the German insurer post an operating profit of 2-point-9 billion euros. Allianz also saw its solvency ratio rise to 219 percent.
Dieter Wemmer, CFO, Allianz joins us live. He says in good shape on all three segments:
We have improved our underwriting results by reducing the loss ratio by net net 1 percent.
The Russian rouble was little changed in early trade on Friday as higher oil prices outweighed concerns about geopolitical tensions between Moscow and the West.
Oil markets dipped on Friday, with U.S. crude remaining below $50 per barrel, restrained by rising output from the United States as well as producer club OPEC.
Audi reports cars sales up 3.5 percent in July to a record of 154,600 cars. However, for the period January to July, sales are down 3.6 percent to 1.06 million cars.
A single incident of ransomware (where a computer virus locks a user out of their device until they pay a ransom to a cybercriminal) can cost a company more than $700,000 according to research by Kaspersky Lab.
However, several IT experts tell CNBC that cloud computing may provide a cheaper and better solution to cybersecurity.
How cloud computing could protect firms against ransomware attacks
Cloud computing may provide the security companies need to protect against cybercrime such as data theft, ransomware and computer hacks.
The dollar index is at multi-month lows. It is near its lowest level since May 2016 and has lost nearly 10 percent of its value since January.
The weakness is attributed to political concerns and doubt President Trump will achieve reforms to healthcare, taxes and infrastructure spending.
The positive political and economic situation in Europe has also added to the pressure on the U.S. dollar.
Jobs data out shortly is in focus, as it will indicate whether the Fed can start to shrink its balance sheet or raise interest rates, which would be dollar positive.
Brazil auto sales fall 5.2 percent in July from June, while auto production rises 5.9 percent from June to July, according to the Anfavea Automakers Association.
by luke.graham 8/4/2017 2:30:33 PM
Attorney General Sessions tells leakers "don't do it," adding the Justice Department is committed to prosecuting leakers.
He says the administration has tripled the number of active leak investigations and says four people have been charged with unlawfully disclosing material or concealing contacts with foreign intelligence officers.
European markets are now closed. The strong U.S. payrolls data boosted investor sentiment for European equities, and the sliding euro and sterling helped stocks with overseas earnings.
The Stoxx gained almost 1 percent in today's session. Over the week, the index rose 1.13 percent.
These are the best and worst performers on the Stoxx 600 today. Click or tap on the arrows to switch charts.
Here's a last look at U.S. markets.
The Dow hit a fresh all time high earlier but has pared these gains.
The dollar is appreciating against other major currencies today, as the latest jobs data adds to expectations the Fed will shrink its balance sheet and raise rates.
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The U.S., Japan and Australia have issued a tough statement saying the international community should strictly implement the UN resolution on North Korea.
The joint statement came at the end of a meeting of foreign minister at a regional security meeting in Manila.
The three says the world should pressure North Korea to abandon its "threatening and provocative" path. They urge the international community to apply additional diplomatic and economic measures on North Korea.
North Korea's Kim Jong-un
President Trump weighed in on North Korea, as his administration deals with speculation about his political future. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell has the latest.
President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in agreed to cooperate and apply maximum pressure and sanctions on North Korea in a telephone call on Monday, South Korea's presidential office said.
This comes as the United Nations backed fresh sanctions on North Korea, in a bid to stall missile testing.
Trump tweeted to say he was pleased with the UN decision.
The two leaders said North Korea poses a "grave and growing direct threat" to the U.S., South Korea Japan and other countries. They said they are to "fully implement" all UN resolutions and urge the international community to do so as well.
The new sanctions on Pyongyang could slash North Korea's $3 billion annual export revenue by a third, Reuters reports.
Trump and Jae-in during a joint press conference in June
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Mark Cahill, U.K. managing director at Manpower, says 65 percent of the jobs next generation of workers will be doing don’t even exist yet.
We don’t know what skills, in some ways, we need for the future. I think skills is the key to all this. The more we can up-skill people, the more we individually take on that responsibility, the better for all of us.
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There's the customer facing side of it, but if you go into some of the higher education areas, these are areas where we need to be thinking about maths and engineering in particular, we would argue. That will lead us into technology.
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A federal jury has found former drug company executive Martin Shkreli guilty of two counts of securities fraud and one conspiracy count.
The notorious businessman faces up to 20 years in prison, though the maximum sentence is unlikely.
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A mysterious Chinese investor is reportedly mulling a stake in Manchester United football club. The Sunday Times says negotiators acting on behalf of an unnamed billionaire have contacted independent shareholders about a possible deal.
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Germany's adjusted June industrial output fell 1.1 percent month on month and 2.4 percent year on year. Output was forecast to rise 0.1 percent month on month.
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Operating profit of 479.27 billion yen, up from 319.24 billion yen the previous year, but pretax profit fell from 356.36 billion yen to 77.57 billion yen.
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That has coincided with the North Korean missile programme really taking off. I think it’s all to do with, does China carry on making payments or not? They cut coal exports, but in fact carried on buying other stuff. They are still in fact sending lots of money to North Korea, are they going to turn that down?
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Leader of Germany's Social Democrat Party Martin Schulz
North Korea says new UN sanctions "infringes on its sovereignty", according to Reuters citing KCNA.
The country says it will never place its nuclear programme on the negotiating table unless the U.S. ends hostile policy with North Korea.
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China's foreign ministry calls on all countries to exercise restraint and make positive efforts to resolve the North Korea issue.
Korea Electric Power Corp. reports Q2 net income of 358.49 billion Korean won, down from 1.768 trillion won the year before. Revenue dipped from 13.275 trillion to 12.926 trillion.
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Oliver Matthew, head of Asia consumer research at CLSA, says Sprint has come through very strongly for the company. He says Softbank is investing in technological changes, such as ecommerce initiatives and Uber.
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The Czech Republic's June industrial output rose 2.2 percent year on year, versus a forecast of 6.8 percent. It is down from May's 8.1 percent.
The country's trade surplus was 18.8 billion Czech crowns, versus a forecast of 17.9 billion.
Giles Keating, chairman at Werthstein Institute, says the euro has gotten too strong, too fast.
It’s beginning to crush profits. We saw all these downward earnings revisions. Meanwhile it is artificially kind of inflating U.S. profits. So I think correcting that will be quite a shake out on both sides.
He says several analysts and companies have revised down forward looking earnings outlook in Europe.
Switzerland's consumer prices index fell 0.3 percent month on month in July and rose 0.3 percent year over year, matching forecasts.
This after the Swiss National Bank reports currency reserves have risen from 693.7 billion francs in June to 714.3 billion in July.
BMW is confident that investigators probing reports of collusion among German carmakers will find the allegations hard to justify, that's according to Reuters.
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The German government and the country's carmakers reached a deal last week to reduce pollution and avert a ban on diesel engines.
Daniel Morris, senior investment strategist at BNP Paribas, discusses the lack of wage growth in the U.S. and says the reason it is disappointing is economists are looking at the wrong number.
Economists talk about the NAIRU (non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment) this magical level of the unemployment rate where wages should go up. The models will say it is about where we are today and so don’t understand why it’s happening. But if you had a number focused around the U6, the underemployment number, instead of the unemployment, then it’s not so mysterious.
These are the main news headlines following the open of European markets.
Failing to deliver! Post NL shares fall as the Dutch mailing company warns new regulatory changes will hurt full-year profits.
German industrial output unexpectedly falls for the first time this year.
This as the Social Democrats suffer their own blow, losing their majority in Lower Saxony.
U.K. house prices grew 0.4 percent month on month in July and 2.1 percent in the three months to July. That compares to expectations of 0.2 percent and 2 percent respectively. The data is from Halifax.
South Africa's unemployment rate is at 27.7 percent in Q2, unchanged from the previous quarter.
The total number of unemployed was 6.177 million people in Q2. This is down from 6.214 million in Q1.
All this week, we'll be talking about the future of work: how technology and other factors are changing the workplace, and who the winners and losers will be. This hour, we focus on how digital technology is changing working habits.
Tom Redmayne, director of business development for U.K. and Ireland at Wiredscore.com, says we’ll always need an office for work, even with digital devices offering an alternative.
I think the serendipitous interactions you get from working with colleagues in your business and with your partners make such a difference.
He says with colleagues overseas using audio-visual tools is good but never the same as working with people in a room around a white board.
Employers today need to create an environment that attracts talent and allows them to grow and be happy there.
Oil prices are easing today, as rising output from OPEC weighes, but the crude price remains near multi-week highs.
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CHAPTER THREE: Bad Marx and the “Mouse Crap Revolution”: The Teachers’ Strike, the FBI, and the Labor Committee’s “Expulsion” from SDS
< Appendix B: Mayor’s Man with Bankers’ Plan? Barry Gottehrer, the Invention of the New Left, and the “Eastern Establishment” Plot to Retake New York OR How John Lindsay First Met Allah | HIAB | Appendix A: The Labor Committee and the Crisis in SDS: From the Original Documents >
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NEW YORK AUTUMN/WINTER 1968
A small faction of NY SDS – mostly the PL caucus from Columbia who had converted en masse from Maoism to a cult form of Trotskyism led by a quirky old economist named Lyndon LaRouche – put out a leaflet and public statement attacking community control as a Ford Foundation conspiracy that was designed to defeat true working class consciousness, such as the teachers union.
Mark Rudd, Underground 1
The teachers' strike became for the most imbecilic stratum of SDS leaders the proof of the need to regard the working class as the "main enemy." It was that "big lie" which led directly into the emergence of the Weatherman group as an openly proto-fascist organization during the summer-fall 1969 period and accomplished . . . the destruction and demoralization of SDS by June 1969.
Tony Papert and L. Marcus, "The History of the Labor Committee: IV. The Inside Story of the Columbia Strike."
In the fall of 1968, the SDS Labor Committee was expelled by SDS.
Or was it?
The history of the SDS Labor Committee and the role it played inside SDS has been virtually ignored by historians.2 When the Labor Committee is mentioned, it is often said that the group was expelled from SDS, a claim that I believe is wrong.
The conflict between the Labor Committee tendency and other factions inside SDS was intertwined with the group's public support of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) during the famous fall 1968 teachers' strike in New York City. To help make this complex narrative more clear, I will divide this chapter into two parts. The first section looks more closely at what happened within SDS; part two documents the Labor Committee's role in the 1968 UFT strike.
PART ONE: CRISIS IN SDS
The role of the Labor Committee inside national SDS begins in June 1968, when members of the newly formed SDS Labor Committee attended SDS's National Convention at Michigan State University in East Lansing. A few months later, brewing tensions over the issue of community control of schools in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville district of Brooklyn exploded into a citywide teachers' strike led by Albert Shanker's United Federation of Teachers (UFT). The Marcusite-dominated NY Regional SDS Labor Committee's decision to publicly support the UFT unleashed a chain reaction of protests that culminated in a so-called "expulsion decree" passed at a National Council (NC) SDS gathering in Ann Arbor in late December 1968. Mark Rudd recalls that the alleged expulsion proved enormously significant to the future of SDS since he claims that it first validated the notion of expulsions on political grounds, a direct contradiction of SDS's "non-exclusionary" clause. Rudd remarks in his memoir Underground:
After much soul-searching, an assembly of NY regional SDS membership expelled the Labor Committee from the organization. Such a move had never happened since 1962, when the Port Huron Statement put forward the twin principles of non-exclusion on the basis of politics and opposition to anti-Communism. In December the SDS National Council upheld the action. I joined the fight for the expulsion, which I felt was necessary to keep SDS from being mistakenly seen as supporting racism. Six months later we SDS regulars would use the New York precedent to throw the Progressive Labor Party out, and the organization would split irreparably.3
I will argue that Rudd and other commentator are mistaken to claim that the Labor Committee was "expelled" from SDS. In my view, the December 1968 NC decision was not to "expel" the NY Regional SDS Labor Committee but to affirm the jurisdictional right of the NY Regional SDS General Assembly to vote to "dissolve" a standing sub-committee of New York SDS, namely the SDS Labor Committee of New York Regional SDS. Moreover, the idea of expelling an organization from SDS on political grounds had already been raised at the June 1968 East Lansing convention – six months before the Labor Committee was "dissolved" – when there was an attempt to expel PL from SDS. Although the motion was defeated, it was, in fact, possible to vote to expel a political group from SDS, but only through a majority decision passed at the group's annual national convention.
Before we begin our detailed examination, readers should understand that there were TWO separate but interlinked SDS Labor Committees inside New York SDS.
The FIRST group was the independent Marcusite political tendency known as the New York SDS Labor Committee; its sister organization was the Philadelphia SDS Labor Committee. This independent political tendency emerged in New York sometime in early June 1968 out of (broadly speaking) the fusion of Tony Papert's PL group at Columbia with LaRouche's CIPA supporters. The Marcusite Labor Committee took its name from the fact that Papert's PL group dominated the Columbia SDS Labor Committee, a subordinate branch of Columbia's larger SDS chapter. When the Columbia PL chapter broke with the national PL leadership, it retained its "Labor Committee" name as a consequence of the fact that Papert's PL group had controlled that particular sub-committee. Hence the name "SDS Labor Committee" reflected the historical circumstances of the organization's emergence as an independent political tendency at Columbia.
The SECOND group, the NY Regional SDS Labor Committee, was a larger grouping that was not purely Marcusite in that it was a recognized sub-group of the General Assembly of Regional New York SDS as a whole. This organization included members of other leftist groups such as the Spartacist League and Workers League as well as unaffiliated SDS supporters. Members of the independent Marcusite SDS Labor Committee held dual membership in the larger NY Regional SDS Labor Committee, just as the Columbia PL group had earlier held membership in the Columbia SDS Labor Committee while also participating in the larger, and politically diverse, General Assembly of both Columbia SDS and NY Regional SDS.
In the summer-fall of 1968, the Marcusite Labor Committee dominated the larger NY Regional SDS Labor Committee, inevitably creating confusion about which "Labor Committee" was which. In the summer of 1968, however, Regional NY SDS was only too happy to incorporate this organization as a recognized branch of the larger SDS network in New York, in part because the group was seen as a useful weapon against PL. Both PL and the Labor Committee, for example, competed with each other in the summer of 1968 in their separate attempts to organize workers in New York's garment center.
At the heart of what follows next is very simple. After the Marcusite-dominated NY Regional SDS Labor Committee publicly endorsed the UFT strike, Regional SDS as a whole was faced with the dilemma of how to respond. They feared that the Marcusites were using their organizational ties to NY Regional SDS to make it appear as if NY SDS as a whole – or at least some significant section of it – agreed with the decision to back the UFT. Because of the SDS "non-exclusionary" rule, they couldn't expel the Marcusite Labor Committee, which existed as an independent organization within SDS. The decision to ban any group could only be legally implemented by a majority vote at an SDS National Convention. However, the NY Regional SDS General Assembly could – and I believe did – vote to dissolve its own Regional SDS Labor Committee, which, after all, had been a recognized subcommittee of Regional New York SDS as a whole.
At the height of the UFT strike in early November 1968, the NY Regional SDS as a whole voted to dissolve its pro-UFT NY Regional Labor Committee and then reconstitute it as a new organization opposed to the UFT and devoid of the pesky Marcusites. Things became even more confusing when the Marcusites simply refused to recognize the right of the NY SDS General Assembly to dissolve one of its constituted sub-groups and the organization continued to employ the "NY Regional SDS Labor Committee" moniker. NY Regional SDS then demanded a ruling at the Ann Arbor NC meeting in late December 1968 to confirm the fact that it indeed had the juridical right to disband one of its own standing sub-groupings and the NC meeting ruled that NY Regional SDS had acted lawfully.
THE EAST LANSING SDS CONVENTION
In the wake of the Columbia strike, the NY Regional SDS Labor Committee, now dominated by the Marcusites, began a concerted effort to organize in the New York garment center. During this same time, the newspaper Solidarity was created to aid the organizing effort. It bore the subtitle "Published by the Labor Committee of NY SDS," as it was a sanctioned project of New York SDS as a whole.4 The garment center organizing served, among other things, as a counter to a garment center project organized by PL's SDS Work-in Committee. In the September 1968 issue of Challenge, PL complained that Labor Committee leaflets and its two sheet newspaper Solidarity (one page in English and one in Spanish) offered garment workers a defeatist line in sharp contrast to PL's SDS Work-In Committee.
On 10-14 June 1968, SDS's National Conference was held in East Lansing. A PL/SDS activist named Jeff Gordon attended the meeting and later reported on it in the October 1968 issue of Progressive Labor. Gordon knew the Labor Committee well: in the spring of 1968 he regularly attended meetings of the SDS NY Regional Transit Project. In his article "SDS: An Analysis," Gordon took note of the newly formed Marcusite Labor Committee, writing: "Another proposal was called 'Proposal for Building Labor Committees.' It came from the 'Philadelphia and New York Labor Committees.' (There are two labor committees in N.Y. 'The New York Labor Committee' is one of them.)" 5
The full text of the SDS Labor Committee proposal was published in the 24 June 1968 edition of New Left Notes. It begins:
SDS should encourage the formation throughout the country of committees through which radicals can work with and propagandize workers and poor people. . . . We are not suggesting that organizing and propagandizing among students, black people, and the unorganized and the most oppressed should be de-emphasized; it is at this point still the most important aspect of our activity. . . . But at some point soon, the mass actions of these people must begin to find support among the increasingly discontented white workers, even be joined by them.
After a section critiquing localized struggles, the proposal continues:
The following are lines of action (general and specific) with this aim which the New York-Philadelphia Labor Committees have begun and will continue this summer. We recommend things of this nature as the activity of other labor committees formed; we do not suggest them as ready-made projects. The issues and actions effective in each city and each situation can only be determined by research and experience.
The text then describes the role of the NY Regional SDS Labor Committee in 1) leafleting around transit hikes in New York City; 2) leafleting and holding rallies in the New York garment center; 3) using the Columbia Summer Liberation School as a forum to debate ideas; 4) conducting ongoing research with special attention to upcoming strikes, housing campaigns, et cetera; and 5) rallying support for strikes among both striking workers and the community by propagandizing about the potential links between the interests of striking workers and those of other groups within the community. The proposal concluded by endorsing "the implementation section" of the PL-sponsored Student Labor Action Project (SLAP):
with the following addition: 1) that the editorial policy of the proposed newsletter be absolutely non-exclusive with respect to contributions from committees so as to encourage development of revolutionary ideas," since "at this stage of our movement, nobody has all the answers"; and 2) that the coordinating office of the proposed labor committees "be in New York, where the continuing effects of the Columbia strike provide the ideal conditions for the works of student-labor committees.6
In his article Gordon gave PL's answer. He claimed that the proposal "attacks the growing on-the-job militancy of millions of workers. On this they [the Marcusite Labor Committees] see eye-to-eye with the 'new working class' people." Gordon stated that by opposing factory colonization, the proposal would "attack and try to discourage workers from fighting on the job against the boss. This is the kind of worker-student misalliance the boss would support." He continued:
Workers are powerful when they fight at the point of production where they can stop production. . . . This proposal [by the SDS Labor Committee] takes a classical "economist" position, holding that the major thing students can bring to workers is economic expertise and claims to show workers that they [the Labor Committee] know how to run the system better than the bosses so that the workers will say "If that's socialism, then I'm a socialist."
Easy, huh!
Neither the Labor Committee draft nor the proposals from PL were officially approved at East Lansing. According to Gordon, the SDS National Office (NO) and New Working Class (NWC) groupings deliberately placed any debate about the proposals near the end of the week-long agenda, knowing that there would not be enough time for them to be heard. Yet the NO/NWC caucus couldn't prevent the formation of workshops around these ideas, and the convention agreed that the proposals would be "first on the agenda" at the SDS National Council meeting that fall in Boulder.7
"PL OUT"
The most important event at the June 1968 East Lansing convention, however, was the defeat of a National Office-backed attempt to expel PL from SDS, which a majority of convention delegates opposed. The Labor Committee delegation at East Lansing also supported PL's right to remain in SDS. Labor Committee member Paul Milkman even penned a 23 June 1968 protest letter to the Guardian over what he saw as its skewed coverage of the meeting.8 From Milkman's letter:
Jack A Smith's description of what occurred at the SDS national convention in East Lansing is an insult to all those who attended.
Smith's assertion that the two main groupings in SDS are the "New Left" – centering around the Praxis grouping – and the Progressive Labor Party would exclude large numbers of serious students from ever joining SDS.
What occurred at the convention was that an alliance formed by sections of the new working class group and the anarchists continually disrupted the plenary session with a non-political attack on PL members and others with whom they disagreed.9
It is no accident that the adherents of Praxis ideology – usually the right in SDS – should be able to unite with the anarchist ultra-leftists. Ultra-left groupings are traditionally syndicalist (whether the demand is for control of the local factory or the streets), and syndicalist thought is the counterpart to local community control, the main strategy of the Praxis group. This philosophy, which fragments the movement into isolated losing struggle, is the opposite of the Marxist approach, which tries to unite different sectors of the population around concrete alternative programs. Local control in practice means more Ocean Hill-Brownsville parents, teachers and students fighting it out among themselves.
Milkman then wondered:
And how can PL be accused of wanting to take over SDS when it ran no one for any of the national secretaries and just one person for the NIC (National Interim Council, national "political" body of SDS)? What happened was that Tom Bell, under the guise of asking Bernardine Dohrn a question about her future role as inter-organizational secretary, accused PL of killing his resolution, and invited the anarchists to start their "PL Out" routine. Anyone sane had to agree with [PL's] Jeff Gordon – political exclusion would be the death of SDS.
THE DEBATE INSIDE COLUMBIA SDS OVER VIOLENCE
In the wake of the Columbia strike, CIPA – until then the publisher of the Labor Committee's theoretical magazine The Campaigner – now dissolved. In his 1974 Conceptual History of the Labor Committee LaRouche writes: "During late May and early June of 1968, the New York and Philadelphia Regional SDS Labor Committees had been fused as publishers of a magazine, The Campaigner, which the CIPA group had begun publishing during January of that year."
Yet as the Labor Committee grew more united, deeper divisions in SDS over strategy and tactics grew increasingly sharp at Columbia that fall. On 27 September 1968, just as school resumed, the New York Times reported on a 500-person SDS demonstration called to protest Columbia's real estate polices. During the protest, the police arrested five radicals, among them Labor Committee member Ed Spannaus.10 During the demo, some "Action Faction" supporters tried to smash windows at Low and damage other school property. These acts of random destruction prompted an SDS gathering the next day, where a prominent Columbia Labor Committee supporter named Paul Rockwell and PL's Michael Golash, another Columbia SDS activist and head of the SDS Expansion Committee, attacked the Action Faction's glorification of random mayhem.
A 28 September 1968 New York Times article on the Columbia meeting begins:
A proposal by the Students for a Democratic Society urged a meeting of Columbia University students last night to shun "terrorism, sabotage and window-busting for the hell of it" in favor of a community action program. . . . The reference to "window-busting for the hell of it" would presumably censure at least part of Thursday night's student actions on the campus when windows were broken and rocks thrown at Low Memorial Library. The demonstration was protesting the eviction of tenants from neighborhood buildings owned by Morningside Heights institutions. . . .The organizer and director of last night's meeting was Paul Rockwell, a graduate student of philosophy at Columbia and an SDS leader.
Supporters of the anti-Action Faction wing of Columbia SDS submitted a paper entitled "Notes on Strategy." Here are excerpts from the paper, as cited in the Times:
It is a grave error . . . to use an essentially military tactic in a situation that is not military but social. There is an excessive fascination with guerrilla war. A military approach to a struggle is useful only when you already have won over large masses of the population. Terrorism, sabotage, gimmicks, individual acts that fool the cops, window-busting for the hell of it – all these non-mass tactics separate you from the movement.
The significance of the strike was that it was a mass movement, not a minority act. We lost militarily in a sense, when we were finally hauled out of the buildings, but we won socially. We drew thousands to the side of revolution. . . . Many of our people have romanticized the guerrilla war of Che and his comrades and applied that model to an inappropriate situation.
The critique of Rudd and JJ could not have been clearer.
Golash argued that SDS would "probably need more marshals to hold down individual acts that tend to discredit the whole movement." For its part, the Labor Committee promoted the organization of a larger anti-eviction movement in alliance with the Community Action Committee (CAC) of SDS, most likely the new name for the old Expansion Committee that Golash had led. In a December 1968 Campaigner article on the state of SDS, the Labor Committee wrote about this time:
during the summer, SDS split into Rudd's "action faction" which did little besides waiting for weekly demonstrations at which they could scream at "pigs," and the Labor Committee and CAC, which both worked (as did PL) in the community against Columbia expansion.
Tensions grew as the Labor Committee made criticisms, now widely accepted, against "mindless activism" and the unwillingness of student radicals to be concerned with the material problems facing the mass of America's working people. . . . A strange coalition of Praxisites . . . the "action faction" . . . and PL . . . came together on their only common ground – that of isolating and destroying the Labor Committee. Besides attacking the Labor Committee, Columbia SDS has accomplished little this fall.
The bitter disagreements around the "Action Faction" line spilled over into 1969, when Mark Rudd tried to recruit new Weathermen at Columbia. Kirkpatrick Sale reports that on 25 September 1969 – almost a year to the day after the "Action Faction" tried to trash Low – Rudd returned to Columbia and gave a talk in which he berated students for being cowards and told them they must now be prepared to pick up the gun:
After some 15 or 20 minutes of this, Paul Rockwell, a short stocky non-Weatherman SDSer got out of his seat and moved toward the front of the room, declaring that Rudd had had his turn and now he wanted to speak. Rudd took two menacing steps toward Rockwell, hulking over him, but Rockwell just barreled ahead, slammed Rudd against the podium, pushed Rudd's fists away, and turned to face the audience. Rudd's face was a picture of stunned fear, all his rhetoric having done nothing to overcome his ingrained middle-class unfamiliarity with, and anxiety about, violence. He stood there a moment, shrugged, and then slunk off to join his friends to one side. The macho mood was dissipated; no one seems to have joined the Weather ranks that night.11
Meanwhile, a September-October 1969 Campaigner editorial entitled "SDS: Beyond the Grave" returned to what happened at Columbia the year before:
in mid-May of 1968 . . . Rudd et al., who had been taken in by their own press clippings, rearranged their recollections of how the Columbia Strike developed at the interface of campus and ghetto processes, and imagined that they had created the 1968 strike by some magic formula called "confrontation politics." So, they engaged in one debacle after another throughout 1968-69, and still have not discovered that perhaps their delusion was in fact a delusion. Not accidental: Rudd and his ilk are not the slightest bit concerned to secure victories as rational men and women understand that term. It is what Rudd et al. imagine to be the boldness of the confrontation (exactly as Sorel, Mussolini's theoretician, presented the point) that concerns them; it is the mythos of "purgative violence," not the fruits of struggle in a practical sense. If this were not the case, one would have difficulty in explaining (to say the least) how Rudd, who is associated with a year of one silly debacle after another during the entire past year, should be elected to the leadership of his national confederation! An army which selected its generals on such a basis would be rightly deemed outright suicidal.
For all their deep political differences, PL and the Labor Committee strongly rejected the Action Faction's embrace of violence. The UFT strike, however, shattered any further working understanding between the two groups and even drove PL to align with its Action Faction foes against the Labor Committee.
SDS AND THE UFT STRIKE
On 9 September 1968, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) – with the support of the rest of the organized labor movement in New York – went on strike in protest of what the union saw as the arbitrary removal of teachers in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district in Brooklyn, New York. The strike would not end until 17 November 1968, with the union largely victorious, although UFT leader Albert Shanker later served a brief prison term for violating the Taylor Law.
Early on in the strike, the Marcusite-dominated NY Regional SDS Labor Committee issued a statement of support for the union. Shanker then remarked at a press conference that "even SDS" backed the teachers. Shanker's comment enraged and embarrassed the rest of NY SDS, the majority of whom believed that the largely Jewish teachers' union was a deeply racist organization out to deprive black children of a future. Around this same time, the first attempts by NYC SDS to delegitimize and disrupt the Marcusites began. In his blog Sundial: Columbia SDS Memories, Bob Feldman recalls:
In Fall 1968, the Albert Shanker-led United Federation of Teachers struck in order to try to sabotage any Board of Education plans to concede control of NYC public schools in the Black community to African-American community control boards. New Left SDS people supported the demand of African-American activists for community control of their neighborhood schools, seeing it as a just demand for Black self-determination, and defined the UFT strike as a reactionary, racist action. PL and Labor Committee members within SDS chapters, however, supported the UFT strike and argued that it represented a justified struggle of labor against Ford Foundation and white corporate establishment-sponsored "bourgeois black nationalism."
(In fact, PL opposed the UFT strike.12)
Feldman continues:
PL and Labor Committee people within SDS chapters also opposed New Left SDS people on the issue of fighting for open admissions to places like Columbia and CUNY for African-American, Puerto Rican and white working-class people. New Left SDS people argued that it was democratic to demand that open admissions be established in the "bourgeois university." PL and Labor Committee people, however, charged that it was reactionary to fight for open admissions to the "bourgeois university" because, once admitted, the African-American, Puerto Rican and white working-class students would "become bourgeoisfied."13
Feldman, I believe, errs again when he presents PL and the Labor Committee – two organizations he clearly despises – as holding similar views on the issue of open admissions.14 He then continues:
Within Columbia SDS, the ideological division between the white New Left response to the UFT strike and the open admissions demand and the PL/Labor Committee response led to more demoralizing faction-fighting throughout the fall. But off-campus, Teachers for a Democratic Society [TDS] members, led by Ted [Gold], taught in African-American-controlled "freedom schools" during the UFT strike.
In Underground, "freedom school" teacher Mark Rudd writes:
That fall one of the biggest issues in New York City was the public-school teachers' strike against decentralization of the school board and community control of the schools. In essence the teachers' union, led by former socialist Albert Shanker, was on strike against the parents, especially in the black and Latino neighborhoods, who were demanding a say in their children's education. The union vehemently opposed this perceived loss of teacher power, and the fight took on a strong racial content, since the union was predominantly white.
New York City was openly polarized in a way most of us young people found horrifying: this was, after all, the liberal urban North, not the racist, segregated South. I was particularly upset that many of the white teachers and the union leadership were Jews. During that strike I sadly understood that we were experiencing the end of the Jewish-black liberal coalition that had prevailed since the early civil-rights days. It was also the beginning of a hard right turn for mainstream New York Jews.
Most of the Left, including SDS, supported the parents' demands for community control as part of the larger antiracist battle. SDSers from Columbia and other chapters would ride a subway out to Brownsville, Brooklyn, very early in the morning to join black parents in keeping a junior high school open against the striking teachers. I myself taught in a strike-breaking liberation school in West Harlem. I vowed at that time that I'd never join Shanker's racist union, the American Federation of Teachers (a vow I would break in 1990 when I helped organize the teachers' union at my community college).15
BURN, PAPER, BURN
On 24 October 1968, Rhody McCoy – the controversial administrator of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville experimental school district – spoke to an overflow crowd of around a thousand people on the Barnard campus and defended his actions. A few days later, on 30 October, the anti-Labor Committee forces in Columbia SDS renewed their attack on the Marcusites. A front-page article in the 31 October Columbia Spectator by Louis Dolinar reports that by a 64-12 vote the General Assembly of Columbia SDS elected to "dissociate" itself from the Labor Committee over its support for the UFT. According to the Spectator story, the General Assembly "disbanded" the current Labor Committee as part of the Columbia chapter and called for the creation of a new Labor Committee that would "implement rather than obstruct" the majority decisions of the General Assembly. The General Assembly then asked that the New York "regional headquarters of SDS dissociate its name from the Labor Committee."
Dolinar notes that the split in Columbia SDS over the strike had begun "several months ago" and had resurfaced two weeks earlier after the General Assembly voted a resolution that attacked the UFT and accused it of racist policies. The resolution then endorsed community control of schools. At the next General Assembly gathering following the vote, the Labor Committee circulated a pamphlet signed by the "SDS Labor Committee (NY Students for a Democratic Society)" which again supported the UFT and again attacked community control. In response, the increasingly frustrated General Assembly passed its own resolution warning that the Columbia Labor Committee "could consider itself 'disbanded' from SDS if the group released their position paper with the SDS name on it." Although Dolinar doesn't mention the name of the pamphlet, it seems almost certain that it was Papert ["Tony Perlman"] and LaRouche's The New York School Crisis, which appeared that October in a mass edition.
In response, the Labor Committee chapter at Columbia now submitted a new five-page paper claiming that the General Assembly resolution was "an effort by one group (within the Columbia chapter) to censor the activity of another independent SDS organization." This text so infuriated the rest of the SDS chapter that, according to the Spectator, at the 30 October meeting "several members of SDS burned copies of the Labor Committee paper."
"POLICE SOCIALISM IN NEW YORK": THE MARCUSITES STRIKE BACK
The text that lit up the room was reprinted with a new introduction and explanatory end notes in the December 1968 issue of the Campaigner as "Police Socialism in New York." From the introduction:
During October, various New York City SDS organizations, especially the Columbia University chapter and the regional office, were subjected to continuous, intense outside pressure from certain government agencies and private foundation projects. These sources demanded that SDS take steps to either gag or disband the NY Regional SDS Labor Committee, whose persistent leafleting and organizing had dealt a few small tactical defeats to Mayor Lindsay's strike-breaking organization in the New York City school crisis. SDS groups were threatened by the "poverty" organizers: Unless you gag the Labor Committee, we'll denounce SDS as "white racist" throughout the black community. "Poverty" agents wasted three weeks and uncounted man hours attempting to provoke a split within the Labor Committee itself, scoring our loss of exactly one promising newer member. This intervention by government agents into the internal affairs of SDS produced the following results. The Columbia chapter made itself the laughingstock of the university by "disbanding" an organization (the Labor Committee) over which it had no authority.
The Labor Committee statement then challenged the legality of any "expulsion":
The steering committee of the Columbia University chapter of Students for a Democratic Society asks for the disbandment of the NY Regional SDS Labor Committee. This amounts to the expulsion of its members if they continue to publicly express their views. The steering committee's action comes because these members have continued to do so despite a previous, illegal gag ruling by the Columbia chapter.
This proposal, which in effect demands SDS consensus on the school issue, constitutes an effort by one group (within the Columbia chapter) to censor the activities of another, independent SDS organization. The original gag motion and present expulsion proposal are, moreover, absolute violations of the "non-exclusionary" provisions of the national SDS constitution and of the actual practices of SDS since its founding. The most recent national conference of SDS [the June 1968 East Lansing meeting – HH] voted down a proposal by the same political tendency attacking the Labor Committee today, to violate the "non-exclusionary" rule by expelling Progressive Labor Party members.
Some opponents of the Labor Committee at Columbia have already referred to the questionable legality of such attempts to silence it. Since the last national conference voted down the Jared Israel [PL] proposal (to strengthen the organizational powers of the regional offices), neither the Columbia steering committee nor the NY regional office have any power to curb the political activities of the SDS Labor Committee. Unless the Labor Committee should elect to resign from SDS under present pressures (which it has no intention of doing), it will continue to publicize its views as an SDS organization up to the point that a national conference is convened to expel it. The Labor Committee is absolutely not going to take down its SDS label because of any number of the sort of resolutions being put forth by its political opponents.16
"Police Socialism in New York" next responded to charges that the Labor Committee was "racist" to support the UFT strike. The pamphlet claimed that the same Ford Foundation that designed hamlet pacification programs in Vietnam in league with the CIA had now launched a domestic version of the same policy and dubbed it "community control." The pamphlet then wondered why SDS could attack the policy in Vietnam but support the same policy in New York City:
The reason for that SDS inconsistency is that most members have swallowed hook, line and sinker the line that the "community control" movement is some sort of spontaneous upsurge of the black community. If one element of race prejudice is the inability to distinguish one black face from another, then the majority of SDS must be suspected of it right now. They apparently would not know the difference between a Mobutu, Kasavubu, Tshombe and the Lumumba murdered by these black-faced imperialist agents, or between Malcolm X and his black-faced assassins.17 Therefore Columbia SDS members have been susceptible to pressures by certain government agents, such as Kenneth Clark's son.
If that wasn't enough to make the other SDSers reading the pamphlet apoplectic, "Police Socialism" argued:
Finally, on this "CIA"-sponsored idea that the teachers strike is racist. White race prejudice is, of course, endemic to every organization of white working people. It is based on the lie that the better conditions of life of white working people depends on black oppression. Through this lie the ruling class channels black struggles into attacks on the labor movement, attacks whose inevitable result is a fomenting [of] really virulent white racism. Any socialist fights racism by exposing the lie – the lie that white workers' better conditions depend upon oppression of blacks. The only way to destroy the power of racism in this country is to convince both white workers and black oppressed that it is only the ruling class that benefits from the exploitation and oppression of both, and that it is the ruling class that consciously attempts to set white against black and vice versa, as the government and Ford Foundation agents have done in the New York school crisis.
The Labor Committee is the only section of New York SDS actually fighting white racism in this struggle; every other section of SDS is actually working to increase white racism. The Labor Committee is showing teachers and other trade-unionists that it is the police socialist poverty-workers, not black ghetto people generally, that are Lindsay's agents in this struggle; only the Labor Committee in New York SDS is urging struggles for housing, jobs, etc., in the real interests of ghetto victims.
This, in sum, is the situation that faces us. The two main radical currents of the present movement, the anti-war and Wallaceite movements, have threatened to destroy the old two-party system. The day of old-style liberal imperialism is ending; the future of political movements belongs to the radicals, alone. The shape of this country during this next decade will depend upon which kind of radical organizers succeed in doing the most, and best organizing.
The ruling class has responded to this reality in its own pragmatic way. It has taken the lead in buying up virtually every black or Spanish-language-speaking organizer as soon as he appears on the scene. The largest force of full-time "radical" organizers in history is now busily engaged in organizing for police socialism. If their present hegemony is allowed to continue, fascism may be the result. Unless you want fascism to win in your lifetime, your responsibility is to begin fighting on two fronts: to expose and destroy police socialism, and to begin seriously organizing our independent non-government-sponsored-and- controlled revolutionary movement. If you take a race approach to the present crisis, you make yourselves dupes of police socialism; if you take a class approach to this crisis, you put yourselves on the side of socialism and against the police socialists of Ocean Hill-Brownsville.
TONY PAPERT FOR THE DEFENSE
On 7 November the Spectator published an op-ed piece by Tony Papert entitled "Community Control – A Better Idea" defending the Labor Committee position. Papert began: "The reports of our disbandment, to paraphrase Mark Twain, are greatly exaggerated." Neither the Columbia chapter nor any SDS group "short of our national convention" can dissolve the New York SDS Labor Committee, he explained, "since the SDS constitution would have to be altered to do so." Therefore the Columbia vote was meaningless.
Papert spent the rest of his article denouncing community control and pointing out how elite establishment papers such as The New York Times supported it. He labeled this "establishment radicalism (or 'police socialism' as it used to be called in Europe)." Papert further claimed that "Mayor Lindsay's conscious staging and promotion of racial conflict in this city merits at least as much attention as radicals have given to the antics of George Wallace. . . . it is the task of radicals to destroy the credibility of the Ford Foundation's police socialist movement and to put a real one in its place."
To briefly anticipate my coming argument, I believe that Papert derided the vote at Columbia as "meaningless" for a good reason. The Columbia General Assembly, as far as I can tell, acted legally when it disbanded and reorganized its own sub-committee. Papert, however, obfuscates that fact by correctly claiming that Columbia SDS had no legal authority to disband, dissolve, or expel an independent organization – the New York SDS Labor Committee – because such a decision violated SDS's non-exclusion clause.
The Action Faction wing of Columbia SDS would have gladly voted to exile the Labor Committee to the nearest Arctic ice floe. But I believe Columbia SDS as a whole voted to dissolve the "Columbia Labor Committee," a subcommittee of the General Assembly of Columbia SDS. They then voted to replace this dissolved subcommittee with a new subcommittee. In other words, they legally restructured Columbia SDS. At no time did they "abolish" or "expel" or "dissolve" the Marcusite Labor Committee as an independent political organization affiliated with SDS nationally. If it had such powers, the Columbia SDS General Assembly would have expelled PL years ago. Given that Papert had run Columbia's PL chapter, he certainly knew the rules about "non-exclusion." Acting, I believe, as a defense attorney for the Marcusite Labor Committee, Papert avoided admitting that the General Assembly of Columbia SDS had, in fact, acted legally in disbanding its own Labor Committee.
However it is possible that Columbia SDS voted both to dissolve the Labor Committee subcommittee of Columbia SDS (clearly a legal decision) and to expel the Marcusites SDS group as well. If so, the later vote clearly was illegal by all the rules that governed SDS. If may be that Columbia SDS held a vote sometime earlier that October to dissolve its relatively autonomous subcommittee and then later voted for an obviously illegal expulsion at the very end of October. Or it may be that both the Action Faction members of Columbia SDS on the one hand and the Labor Committee on the other misinterpreted the vote for their own reasons and claimed that Columbia SDS had in fact "expelled" the Labor Committee when Columbia SDS actually voted to "dissociate" itself from the group as reported in the Spectator article.18
WAS THE LABOR COMMITTEE EXPELLED FROM SDS?
The crisis in New York SDS that began at Columbia in mid-October ended in Ann Arbor in late December. But did it lead to the expulsion of the Labor Committee from SDS?
Again I believe the answer is no.
First, the Labor Committee as a separate "Marcusite" faction inside SDS was not expelled. Expulsions on political grounds could only be carried out at a National Convention. As we have already seen, an attempt to banish PL was introduced at the 1968 East Lansing SDS National Convention and voted down. Nor did the Labor Committee deny the right of SDS to exclude any group based on a majority vote at a national conference. In short a national conference – and only a national conference – could vote to override the "non-exclusion" clause. The final 1969 SDS National Convention in Chicago, in fact, witnessed both PL and RYM trying to expel each other based on just this rule.
So what did happen in 1968?
I think the answer is fairly simple. In October 1968, Columbia SDS reorganized its chapter and disbanded its local branch of the NY Regional SDS Labor Committee. A report in the 25 November 1968 New York Times states that in October Columbia SDS "decentralized into seven relatively autonomous committees or 'raps' or research-action projects. No one was elected to succeed Mark Rudd, now suspended from Columbia, as SDS chairman." In the rearrangement, the old NY Regional SDS Labor Committee on campus was disbanded. As far as I can tell, there was no vote to expel the independent Marcusite Labor Committee as a separate organization. Instead, the anti-UFT majority wing of Columbia SDS built an organizational firewall around the Marcusites so that the chapter wouldn't be tainted with the charge that Columbia SDS supported the teachers union. To drive the point home, Columbia SDS passed a special resolution dissociating itself from the Marcusite group's position on the UFT strike.
That said, it may be well be true that some members of the anti-Labor Committee wing of Columbia SDS claimed that they had "expelled" the Labor Committee as an organization from Columbia SDS. I believe, however, that Columbia SDS voted to dissolve one of its recognized sub-committees controlled by the Marcusites and then passed another resolution in late October publicly dissociating the chapter from the Labor Committee's position on the UFT strike.
Yet the Columbia vote was just the vote of one local campus chapter inside NY SDS. It had no binding influence on the NY SDS Regional Labor Committee or NY SDS as a whole. Therefore when the Regional SDS General Assembly convened in early November shortly after the Columbia vote, the anti-Labor Committee majority bloc followed Columbia's lead and voted to dissolve the Regional New York SDS Labor Committee as a recognized Regional New York SDS affiliate. Again, this decision did not mean that NY Regional SDS suddenly and idiosyncratically violated the "non-exclusionary" clause. An article in the December 1968 Campaigner comments on the October regional meeting this way:
In an effort to save the "face" of Columbia anarchists, a regional meeting was called by anarchists and Progressive Labor Party members in NY SDS, which "disbanded" an organization over [which] they had absolutely no control. The regional group then proposed to create a counterfeit Labor Committee which would attempt to embarrass the real Labor Committee by circulating scurrilous, anti-labor leaflets in its name! Less subtle SDS anarchists at the same meeting proposed that Labor Committee members be beaten up and their offices broken into and wrecked.
The now legally dissolved Marcusite NY SDS Regional Labor Committee, however, contested the validity of the ruling and simply refused to disband.
The crisis in NY SDS caught the attention of the New York Times. A 25 November 1968 Times article tried to sum up what happened this way:
SDS has also had internal problems. A long-simmering feud came to the surface recently when the organization disbanded its militant Labor Committee, many of whose members belong to the Progressive Labor Party, often described as "Maoist."19 The final break came over a Labor Committee resolution attacking the New York City school decentralization plan as an attempt to divert the energies of minority groups from crucial economic issues to the relatively unimportant area of education.20 Most members of SDS were incensed. Two hundred of them had recently marched more than five miles to the headquarters of the United Federation of Teachers on Park Avenue and 20th Street to demonstrate in support of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville experimental district in school decentralization.
THE ANN ARBOR NATIONAL COMMITTEE DECISION
Precisely because the Marcusites challenged the validity of the New York ruling, the logical next step for both sides was to appeal for a confirmation of the decision to the next highest body in SDS. This is how the dispute made its way to Ann Arbor.
The continuing turmoil in New York SDS is evident in an article Bernardine Dohrn, then SDS inter-organizational secretary, wrote for the 18 December 1968 edition of New Left Notes that appeared on the eve of the Ann Arbor NC gathering. Dohrn wrote:
This fall the Labor Committee issued leaflets in the name of SDS supporting the teachers' union in the NY schools crisis. Columbia SDS and the NY regional assembly had condemned the racist teachers' strike and demanded that the Labor Committee not continue to produce pro-teachers' union leaflets in the name of SDS, contrary to the position taken by the membership.
When the leaflets continued, the Columbia chapter "expelled" the Labor Committee to publicly disclaim leaflets claiming to represent the position of SDS. Neither individual members nor the ideas of the Labor Committee were ousted from participation in SDS. The "expulsion" was to discredit the Labor Committee as spokesman for SDS.
Later, a NY regional assembly dissolved the NY SDS regional labor committee – which had become the organization called the Labor Committee – and set up a new regional organization on labor.
As can be seen from the Labor Committee's press release, they are still using the name SDS Labor Committee. (Emphasis added.)
Dohrn put the word "expulsion" in quotes because she knew that Columbia SDS had no legal ability to expel an independent SDS organization. And in reality, Columbia SDS voted not to expel the Labor Committee but to dissociate the chapter as a whole from what they viewed as the Labor Committee's odious views on the UFT strike.
What I believe happened at the December NC was that the basic right of the New York SDS regional general assembly to disband one of its sub-committees was upheld. The Labor Committee later bragged that it was "thrice expelled" from SDS (Columbia, NY Regional, Ann Arbor). Yet no SDS NC meeting would independently decide to rewrite the "non-exclusion" clause. It is especially hard to see PL voting at Ann Arbor to weaken the very clause that PL had successfully invoked just six months earlier to defend itself in East Lansing. Nor would Dohrn as inter-organizational secretary take it on herself to suddenly rewrite one of the most fundamental rules in all of SDS. And even if she did, she would have never have been able to implement such a change without a full vote at a national convention. Again, all SDS factions (including the Labor Committee) recognized that political expulsions could only take place with a majority vote at a national convention. Ann Arbor merely affirmed the right of a regional SDS body to dissolve one of its affiliated sub-groupings and rejected the Labor Committee counter-argument that the regions lacked just that authority. Finally, if the Labor Committee as an independent political tendency really had been expelled from SDS, then the Philadelphia SDS Labor Committee would have to have been expelled as well. Yet no one has ever made that claim.
By claiming it had been illegally expelled, the Labor Committee chose the very word the group knew that would raise hackles in the rest of SDS because of the sacred nature of the "non-exclusionary" clause. Yet that clause was never invoked. In reality, the majority anti-LC bloc in New York – a rare "rainbow coalition" of Praxis, Action Faction, and PL – used perfectly legal means to disband the old Regional SDS Labor Committee because they knew that expelling the Marcusites on political grounds was impossible. At Ann Arbor, the NC upheld the validity of New York's claim that it had the constitutional authority to act in the way it had. Even if some members of the anti-Labor Committee bloc in New York boasted that they had expelled the Labor Committee, SDS had only voted to dissolve a sub-grouping of the Regional NY SDS General Assembly.
THE LABOR COMMITTEE GOES "ROGUE"
In spite of the early November vote, the Labor Committee continued to contest its validity and operate its own now "rogue" NY Regional SDS Labor Committee. This parallel organization would include not just Marcusites but independent SDS members as well as supporters of other pro-UFT leftist sects, such as the Spartacist League and Workers League. In a December 1968 Campaigner statement, the Labor Committee justified its decision this way:
Labor Committee members . . . cannot be compelled to degrade themselves by publicly supporting anarchist idiocies or tolerating strikebreaking simply because an anarchist dominated junta in a certain chapter or region decrees it.
The question follows: if the Labor Committee disagrees with the majority, shouldn't it split from the regional organization? To argue for that course is to demand that the non-exclusionary features of SDS constitution and tradition be immediately discarded. And to take that course would amount to making SDS a mere sect.
Rather, as the N.Y. Regional Labor Committee recently resolved, each political tendency within SDS must have the right to organize and pursue its own independent, self-disciplined activities. At the same time, within chapters and regional conferences as a whole, all such groups and individuals must continue the "participatory" political development process which national SDS as a whole has represented.
In our view, the proper time to ring down the curtain on SDS will arrive as a sizable faction of SDSers begins to fuse with militant trade unionists and black people, laying the basis for forming a new political organization. . . . Until then, the campus remains the center of gestation in which student left-radicals begin to define their present and future relationship to larger, off-campus social forces. In the interim, an independent, non-exclusionary national SDS must be kept alive as the medium through which students seek out those broader connections and test alternative political world-outlooks offered within SDS.
PL TAKES A TUMBLE
As much as Mark Rudd's Action Faction hated the Marcusites, Progressive Labor hated them even more. PL's policy during the UFT strike was bizarre.21 Within SDS, PL had been the most outspoken opponent of everything to do with black nationalism. Like the Labor Committee, PL attacked the Ford Foundation for helping to provoke the crisis with the UFT. Yet PL was locked in a life-or-death struggle for hegemony in national SDS. If PL backed the UFT strike, it would come under savage attack as racist from its countless foes. But if PL did a 180-degree turn and endorsed strike-breaking, such a reversal would inflame the dissension already brewing inside its own ranks.
Threatened whichever way it turned, PL now issued a weird endorsement of the very community control views it had so bitterly denounced. PL then launched its own campaign of demonization of the Labor Committee as racists in an attempt to intimidate any of its cadre from dissenting from either its new line or protest PL's "strange bedfellows" alliance of convenience with the party's bitter enemies inside SDS. PL even helped lead the charge to anathematize the Labor Committee, both in New York Regional SDS and at Ann Arbor. In an article in the September-October 1969 issue of the Campaigner entitled "SDS: Beyond the Grave," the Labor Committee analyzed PL's flip-flop this way:
[T]he Labor Committee has been for over a year the principal focus of the worst organizational crimes committed by PLers. As early as the winter of 1967-68, PLers were conducting a national campaign of lying vilification against one of the organizations which later fused in the formation of the Labor Committee (Village CIPA). In the Autumn of 1968, under Rick Rhoads' by-line, PL published a lying version of the Labor Committee's politics – after PL had itself abstained from joint work in supporting the Columbia strike. Rhoads, who led the opposition to risking further support (just before the first bust), had the shameless gall to accuse the Labor Committee of non-struggle. PLers have continued the same lying about work in the garment center.
Furthermore, it was PL who introduced the phony charge of "racism" to SDS polemics against the Labor Committee. More recently, under pressure from saner working-class layers in PL, the organization has even over-corrected its former position of support of the Ford Foundation and Poverty counter-insurgency machinery in the NY teachers' strike of 1968; but there is not a word from PL about the absolute nonsense of its former charges against the Labor Committee in opposing community control counter-insurgency. Furthermore, it was PL which introduced the motion to "expel" the Labor Committee – twice, in [NY] regional SDS, and at the December [1968] SDS conference. (Emphasis added)
PL's change of line now sparked further controversy at Columbia. On 15 June 1969 – on the eve of SDS's final conference in Chicago – the New York Times ran an informed survey of the state of SDS by Thomas Brooks entitled "The New Left Is Showing Its Age." In it, Brooks reports:
Credential fights take place at S.D.S. conferences (quarterly) and conventions (annually) with increasing regularity. Last fall, the Columbia S.D.S. chapter expelled its own labor committee for supporting the United Federation of Teachers in the school-decentralization dispute. And this spring, the Columbia S.D.S. ordered that its expansion committee, sympathetic to the Progressive Labor Party, be disbanded. True, these decisions do not seem to have meant much – both dissident groups still function at Columbia. But their members have been threatened verbally, with bodily harm, a new development in the "loving" New Left.
The PL-dominated "Expansion Committee" inside Columbia SDS (which had an estimated 50 to 60 members) was officially disbanded on 24 April 1969 by just three votes of the Columbia SDS chapter on charges of "racism," a decision that clearly rested on the earlier Labor Committee precedent. The vote followed a disastrous PL/Expansion Committee led "occupation" of Hamilton Hall less than a week earlier on 18 April when the 32 occupiers voted to disband their action after just six hours when they received no outside support from other students or members of the larger Harlem-Morningside Heights community that PL now tried to mobilize. A 27 April 1969 New York Times article on the expulsion entitled "S.D.S. at Columbia Split on Ideology" explained:
The [Expansion] committee which has concentrated on SDS demands concerning opposition to Columbia neighborhood expansion and ROTC refused to adopt what the parent body last week declared as its two primary demands. These are for "open admissions" to Columbia for graduates of four Manhattan high schools and support for the Students Afro-American Society's demand for an all Negro "interim board" to direct the establishment of a black studies program.
The role of black people in revolutionary movements has been the focal point of the dispute between the two factions.
As SDS continued on its path to self-destruction, many Columbia students grew more and more confused. In a 19 April 1969 New York Times story entitled "Columbia SDS Divided on Proper Road to Revolt," one befuddled "sweatshirt-clad student" opined: "It's like the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. . . . SDS, well you see they're sort of Evergreen Review, sexually liberated leftists. . . . SDS Expansion, they're much more doctrinaire Marxists and even use such terms as 'surplus value.' SDS Labor, I don't know, they're somewhere in between." The crisis inside Columbia SDS -- and the Labor Committee's role -- was highlighted in a 17 April 1969 New York Times article by Barnard Collier on the state of Columbia SDS. In his report, Collier writes in a somewhat confused way:
A part of the [Columbia SDS] group has, in quite unfriendly fashion, splintered away. The group's labor committee, which is strongly influenced by Progressive Labor party members who are described as Maoist, was expelled from the main S.D.S. group last October. The split was made inevitable when the labor committee issued statements in the name of S.D.S. that attacked school decentralization as only a sop to minority groups. Albert Shanker, the head of the United Federation of Teachers, used the labor committee statements to claim that even S.D.S. supported his strike stand. The problem was that the main body of S.D.S. was labeling the U.F.T. strike as racist, and picketed the U.F.T. offices in protest. After that difference of opinion, there was no way to keep the two factions together.
What the Times story failed to note is that the "differences of opinion" inside SDS had degenerated into very physical confrontations that included a Rudd faction attack on an SDS Labor Committee meeting just a month earlier.
RUDD ATTACKS THE LABOR COMMITTEE
On 11 March 1969 Mark Rudd and a group of his supporters tried to physically disrupt a Labor Committee sponsored-meeting at Columbia. From a New York Labor Committee 11 March 1969 Press Release entitled "Goons Disrupt Meeting to Oppose State Office Building":
N.Y. SDS Labor Committee
Mark Rudd tonight led about twenty goons collected from around the NY Regional SDS office in an unsuccessful effort to physically disrupt a Columbia campus meeting convened to organize around demands for a high school and housing in Harlem.
The meeting was held by the NY SDS Labor Committee, which has been conducting a petition and organizing campaign among high school and college students and trade unionists.
This campaign has demanded:
1. That Rockefeller stop the State Office Building and that he build a new high school and low-rent housing on the site at 125th St. and 7th Ave.
2. That Lindsay build 23 new high schools.
3. A college education or a job with $100 a week minimum wage for every high school student.
4. That the money for this come from taxing landlords and banks, not working people.
Rudd's goon squad assembled in the corridor during the first address of the meeting. Then they marched-in in a body, lining themselves against two walls of the meeting room, heckling and working themselves up to the point of physical assaults on members of the audience.
After the audience expelled Rudd and his squad, the 75-person meeting continued with its addresses, discussion and work session.
Acting on a motion presented by a George Washington High student, the meeting constituted an organization with the name "People for Tomorrow."
Why Rudd decided to attack the Labor Committee well after the UFT strike had ended remains a mystery. Nor, as we shall see, did Rudd's attack go unnoticed in other quarters as well.
DECODING "THE MOUSE CRAP REVOLUTION": THE FBI'S TALE IS SHOWING
In October 1968 the divisions inside both Columbia and Regional SDS over the Labor Committee's support for the UFT caught the attention of the New York FBI. In a 19 March 1993 article for LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review, Ed Spannaus states that on 7 January 1969 the New York Office's (NYO) FBI Special Agent in Charge (SAC) sent a memo to Washington discussing the conflict inside SDS and how the FBI could aggravate it. The memo stated: "To take advantage of the above situation, the NYO is preparing a leaflet which will be submitted to the Bureau for Approval."22
The timing of the memo suggests that the FBI was responding to the decision by the SDS NC at Ann Arbor that went against the Labor Committee. Although the leaflet was proposed by the FBI, there has been no release of FBI files under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that I am aware of that shows that the FBI actually issued a COINTELPRO leaflet against the Labor Committee during this time. Spannaus then cites another 30 June 1969 FBI memo on the local office's attempt to disrupt the Labor Committee that stated: "During the period 5/1-5/69 an anonymous leaflet entitled 'The Mouse Crap Revolution,' designed to widen the split between the SDS Columbia University Chapter and the so-called NY SDS Labor Committee, was mailed to 219 individuals and organizations in the New Left."
Other FBI documents posted on LaRouche Planet, however, offer a different chronology. One FBI document indicates that on 31 March 1969, the New York FBI office sent a memo to Washington about a potential COINTELPRO leaflet against the Labor Committee. On 10 April, New York sent Washington two copies of a suggested leaflet aimed to provoke "disruption in the Columbia University chapter of SDS" and deepen the divisions inside SDS over "the so-called NY SDS Labor Committee." A 24 April 1969 response from Washington granted permission for the NY FBI to mail the leaflet to leftist organizations in New York.
Based on the print evidence, there seem to be two different timetables for the FBI distribution of the COINTELPRO leaflet. Either the FBI first began circulating it either sometime between 1-5 April or sometime after 24 April 1969. It may be that there was a limited distribution at Columbia before the local office received permission to circulate the leaflet more broadly. Given that the events referred to took place on 11 March, it would seem logical that the FBI wanted to circulate the leaflet as soon as possible when the memory of the conflict was still fresh.
The "Mouse Crap Revolution" leaflet crafted by the savants who ran FBI COINTELPRO's New York operation branded Tony Papert as the "Chief Mouse Crapper" at Columbia because he was "trying to screw SDS into the ground" and then named other Labor Committee members that the FBI had obviously singled out for intimidation and attack.
From the leaflet:
THE MOUSE CRAP REVOLUTION
It ain't very big yet, schoolmates, but the Mouse Crap Revolution (MCR, for short) , has arrived on our fair Columbia campus. Chief Mouse Crapper is our old friend Tony Papert— lately of SDS and Progressive Labor and worshipper at the feet of Chairman Mao—who is trying to screw SDS into the ground. He and his-fellow mice, including cheeze eaters Paul Milkman, Leif Johnson, Peter Wilcox, Jeff Malter and lovable Bob Dillon, have assume the name of the NY SDS Labor Committee as the vehicle for their treachery. To this the NY Region of SDS says loud and clear: THE LABOR COMMITTEE THEY RUN IS NOT IN ANY WAY CONNECTED OR ASSOCIATED WITH THE STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY!
These finks still have the absolute gall to pass themselves off as official representatives of SDS and have sucked legitimate Black organizations into their rather stupid demonstrations or symposiums. Our Black friends will be surprised to know that Paper and the NY Labor Committee supported the Teacher's Union against Ocean Hill-Brownsville during the last strike! The UFT owns Papert and his crew. Tony has accused Mark Rudd of busting up his meetings,-stomping-on his demonstrations and pissing on his social reforms. Mouse crap! The fact is that Mark effectively creamed the Labor Committee's little tea party on March llth to expose Papert's mice for what they are. That, meeting, by the way, blessed-itself with the balls-up title of "People for Tomorrow". Wow!
Tony, baby, we suggest you take your Mouse Crap elsewhere. Go swap spit with your hero, Albert Shanker of the UFT. Go back to burning joss sticks before the alter of Mao. As for the rest of the so-called NY SDS Labor Committee, we say . . .
LOOK OUT !23
Reading "Mouse Crap," it's tempting to think, "One more example of our tax dollars at work" and leave it at that. COINTELPRO's raison d'être, after all, was to deliberately aggravate already existing tensions inside targeted organizations such as SDS. Yet without disputing an indisputable premise, the leaflet still raises a series of obvious questions.
First, we don't know if the release of the leaflet was coordinated with other FBI undercover operations inside the New York Left, surely one of the most infiltrated and scrutinized branches of the New Left as a whole and SDS in particular in all of America. Was the 11 March Rudd attack on the Labor Committee, for example, encouraged by the FBI? And, if so, were there deeper reasons that the New York Office of the FBI – an office presumably staffed with some of the agency's top "New Left" experts – would act the way they did?
One of the most striking aspects of "Mouse Crap" is that, logically, one would think the FBI would put out a leaflet urging support for the Labor Committee, not assaults on it. The FBI knew perfectly well that the SDS Labor Committee strongly opposed all forms of terrorism. The FBI obviously knew, as "Mouse Crap" shows so clearly, that the Labor Committee endorsed the UFT strike when every other SDS faction opposed it. Why, then, was the FBI clearly taking Mark Rudd's side in an attempt prop up the Action Faction and to encourage even more attacks on the Labor Committee?
Finally, the timing of "Mouse Crap" seems remarkable. The FBI worked closely with BOSSI, the Bureau of Special Services and Investigations (the New York Police Department's "red squad"), and its equivalent in Philadelphia. As we shall see in detail in the next chapter, almost the same time that "Mouse Crap" began circulating in New York, Philadelphia's police intelligence unit arrested Steve Fraser – like Tony Papert a leader of his local Labor Committee – on a bogus "bomb plot" charge.
If we accept the Ed Spannaus chronology as at least in part accurate, the FBI dumped its "Mouse Crap" into the New York Left on 1-5 April 1969, even if it was at first only circulated in a limited way. On 9 April, Steve Fraser and Richard Borghmann's apartment was raided by the Philadelphia Red Squad and both men were charged with plotting a series of deadly bombings, an absurd accusation that the government had to know was bogus given its spying on the Labor Committee, wire-taps on its members, reading Labor Committee publications, and the fact that the Labor Committee repeatedly denounced the Action Faction aficionados of "armed struggle."
If the decision to mass mail the leaflet came in the middle of April, it means that the Washington FBI headquarters approved an attack on the Labor Committee in New York just a few weeks after the Philadelphia arrests.
Why, then, did the FBI coordinate relatively simultaneous attacks on the Labor Committee in New York and Philadelphia and try and pump up Mark Rudd's reputation to boot? After all, the Labor Committee claimed that Rudd had failed to disrupt the 11 March meeting; "Mouse Crap," however, argues just the opposite.
While it is impossible to know for sure, I think an explanation that may make the most sense may go as follows: We know that the FBI picked up on the splits in SDS over the UFT strike, starting with the October controversy at Columbia. The FBI didn't need a spy at the Columbia gathering; all it had to do was read the front page of the Columbia Spectator. Then on 7 January 1969, well after the UFT strike had ended but immediately following the Ann Arbor NC decision to uphold Regional NY SDS's ruling against the Marcusites, the New York FBI wondered how it could take advantage of the dispute. The real puzzle, however, is why did it take the FBI from 7 January to early April to come up with "Mouse Crap"? And why does "Mouse Crap" seem to have been inspired by the 11 March clash at Columbia?
As I will show in part two of this chapter, the Labor Committee forged an alliance with the UFT's leadership during the fall strike. But the UFT leadership was not a group of lunch-pail-toting, cigar-chomping trade unionists, much less "good fellas" with second houses on the Jersey shore. The UFT's leadership constituted a key part of a liberal anti-communist Social Democratic clique that functioned inside the highest policy circles of the AFL-CIO. Due to its strong overlap with anti-communist labor operators in the CIA, it was sometimes dubbed part of the "AFL-CIA." As we shall see, the Labor Committee connection with the Social Democrats crystallized in a 22 January 1970 Tony Papert article for the Social Democratic paper New America. Arguably, then, if – as the Labor Committee claimed – there was a looming danger of "Police Socialism in New York," on paper, at least, the "police socialists" could well be the Labor Committee.
Given the Labor Committee's more reformist politics – and deep opposition to terrorism in particular – combined with its new ties to the Social Democrats as Tony Papert and Al Shanker "swapped spit," per "Mouse Crap," it seems likely that at least some of the New York FBI's New Left experts, perhaps even the majority of them, might have considered covertly supporting the Labor Committee against the Action Faction junkies. Not only did the Labor Committee drive Mark Rudd up the wall; the Labor Committee hurt PL as well. On 26 June 1969, the FBI's Albany, New York, office, for example, sent a memo to Washington arguing that the FBI should distribute a Labor Committee editorial about the collapse of SDS in the June 1969 issue of the Campaigner entitled "From Resistance to Impotence." The memo states:
This self criticism of SDS by an integral part of this organization is quite surprising and it is believed that this editorial could be used as a counterintelligence measure by making it available by the Bureau to national news sources.
The memo includes a Xerox copy of the Campaigner issue.24
Most important of all, the FBI, the CIA, and other federal security agencies knew that the tiny Labor Committee had absolutely no links to "hostile powers." The FBI, however, was all too aware of the fact that the Action-Faction/NO proto-Weatherman group maintained regular contacts with Cuban DGI officers nestled in the Cuban delegation to the United Nations; that the Cubans and Russians talented-scouted its members and underwrote regular trips to Cuba and East Bloc nations; and that the Action Faction aficionados returned to the United States spouting a Tricontinental Congress "guerrilla warfare" line. As for PL, the FBI certainly knew that top members of that group met with Chinese officials and that the Chinese provided at least indirect financial assistance to PL and bought multiple copies of PL publications. It stands to reason, then, that some section of the U.S. government had to appreciate the Labor Committee's potential usefulness against groups like proto-Weatherman and PL. It is even possible that some section of the intelligence establishment tried to launder money into the Labor Committee via a mystery man named Myron Neisloss.25
Given all these perfectly rational reasons for the FBI to offer covert support to the Labor Committee, why did it take the FBI from early January to early April to intervene into SDS with "Mouse Crap"? Why did "Mouse Crap" attack Tony Papert and praise Mark Rudd? And why did the FBI's Washington headquarters coordinate a massive attack on the Philadelphia Labor Committee almost simultaneously with the release of "Mouse Crap"?
The answer may be both obvious and incredible. At some point there must have been a debate inside the FBI about its approach to both the Action Faction and the Labor Committee. It appears at some point that FBI headquarters decided to support the one faction they believed most likely to wreck SDS. In other words, the FBI may have decided to prop up the Action Faction and crush the Labor Committee not because the FBI now believed that the Labor Committee was powerful or that the Bureau was especially enamored of Mark Rudd but because the FBI believed that the rise of the Action Faction greatly accelerated the overall discrediting, destabilization, and downfall of SDS as a national organization. The FBI similarly despised PL and it ordered its operatives in the June 1969 final SDS convention in Chicago to vote in favor of the RYM 1/RYM 2 bloc against PL. As for the Labor Committee, it was seen as yet another troublesome offshoot of PL.
PART TWO: THE UFT STRIKE AND THE LABOR COMMITTEE
So far our focus has been on the Labor Committee's role inside SDS. Now it's time to leave the New Left ghetto and examine the Labor Committee's involvement in the UFT strike.
The strike began as the culmination of a series of union protests against a bold attempt to apply "community control" theory to New York City schools. The concept of community control arose not from the black ghettos of New York but from a very controlling community located in the wealthy Silk Stocking congressional district on the Upper East Side. Community control – at least as practiced by the Lindsay administration – was yet another creation of the Ford Foundation, then helmed by a Boston Brahman named McGeorge Bundy. A Yale Skull and Bones man, Bundy stood at the center of the Eastern Establishment elite. He first rose to national prominence as President Kennedy's national security adviser. Then a leading hawk, Bundy pushed especially hard for bombing North Vietnam. Under President Johnson, Bundy chaired the 303 Committee, which helped coordinate the government's secret operations. In 1966, Bundy "left government" to run the Ford Foundation, where he remained until 1979.
In March 1967, the Citizens Committee for Decentralization of the Public Schools was formed to lobby for community control. Robert Sarnoff, the president of RCA and a trustee of the Whitney Museum, led its executive committee. The committee's other citizens included Thomas Watson Jr., chairman of IBM; James Linen, president ofTime, Inc.; and James B. Conant, former president of Harvard University.
In April 1967, Mayor Lindsay formally asked Bundy to draw up a radical new "decentralization plan" for the New York school system, a proposal known as the "Bundy-Lindsay Plan." The Bundy panel's formal report was entitled Reconnection for Learning: A Community Control System for New York City. Ford alone then gave over $900,000 to fund community control experiments in 1967 and 1968, which led education expert Diane Ravitch to accuse Ford of "playing God in the ghetto." In the fall of 1968, the Urban Coalition ran a full-page ad in the Times that asserted: "If you give a damn about our children, we see only one answer: Community control of the schools." The Socialist Party's Michael Harrington labeled the Urban Coalition ad "the most obscene act of Machiavellianism on the part of white corporate wealth in recent years."26 New York Daily News columnist Jimmy Breslin, however, defended Lindsay and accused UFT President Albert Shanker of being "an accent away from George Wallace," while prominent liberal journalist Murray Kempton branded Shanker a "goon" and "law-breaker."27
A politically active Socialist and former member of the Socialist Party USA's Young People's Socialist League (YPSL), Shanker had marched for civil rights in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. The UFT closely allied itself with the AFL-CIO "Second International" left that helped underwrite Martin Luther King's famous 1963 rally at the Lincoln Memorial. Besides helping to finance the event, the AFL-CIO mobilized thousands of its members to attend. Yet Shanker's wing of the labor movement remained harshly anti-communist Cold Warriors; John Lindsay, in contrast, publicly spoke about his opposition to the war. The larger crisis over the future of American liberalism and the issue of the Vietnam War in particular, then, inevitably fueled the debate over the UFT's actions.
The UFT called the strike to fight what it saw as a blatant attempt by the Lindsay administration to break the union. Nor was its suspicion of Lindsay at all unique. New York Times labor expert A. H. Raskin reported that by the end of 1968, "Many – and probably most – of the top leaders in local labor" were "genuinely convinced that Lindsay despises them and that his aim is to 'bust' unions in the municipal service." Michael Harrington, the Socialist Party's left-wing leader, spoke for many when he argued:
John Lindsay has not once given the slightest hint that he has any sympathy for, or understanding of, unionism. He has botched every negotiation he has handled, in part because he is so obviously contemptuous of organized workers. He is capable of a charismatic relationship to the under-organized ghetto, but not of any on-going participation in collective bargaining.28
Harrington and the League for Industrial Democracy's Tom Kahn now became co-chairmen of the pro-UFT Ad Hoc Committee to Defend the Right to Teach. The newly-formed organization took out an advertisement in the New York Times that argued:
Decentralization is not the issue. . . . The real issue is job security. . . . The destruction of the UFT would mean placing teachers at the mercy of local groups throughout the city. It would mean the liquidation of the most effective organized force for improved quality education.29
"THE NEW YORK SCHOOL CRISIS"
The Labor Committee spent almost two years organizing around the UFT strike and its larger ramifications; the construction of new public schools, the ongoing debate over open admissions to the City University system, and even what kind of pedagogy should be used to teach students. This campaign led to LaRouche's 1969 pamphlet The Philosophy of Socialist Education, and to the publication of Carol's The Disadvantaged Teacher in 1970.30 The fact that LaRouche's partner Carol worked as a math teacher in New York's public schools should be noted as well. For our purposes, however, the most significant SDS Labor Committee document remains The New York School Crisis by "L. Marcus and Tony Perlman" (a/k/a LaRouche and Papert) and first published as a pamphlet in October 1968. It begins:
The public knows the Central Intelligence Agency through its failures. A U-2 episode, the "Bay of Pigs" fiasco, CIA agents forced to skulk off campus when their presence has been highlighted by SDS radicals. But we know that the puppet-masters of counter-insurgency and political murder sometimes grin and slap their thighs in delight. . . . The domestic counter-insurgency networks, which operate under at least a dozen fronts, has its successes too. The Bundys' and their ilk must certainly have broken out the champagne when they succeeded in pitting the organized poverty movement and most black militants in New York City against one of the largest of the city's unions, the United Federation of Teachers. Giggling must have rippled around CIA headquarters as even the city's radical movement began retailing the official line that the New York teachers' strike was "racist."
In this article we have assigned ourselves several related tasks. The narrowest of our aims is to show that the immediate issue of the New York teachers' strike, the Ocean Hill-Brownsville demonstration project incidents, is the result of a particularly clever "CIA-type" plot engineered by the Ford Foundation and visibly directed by its black "Uncle Toms" – Dr. Kenneth Clark, Rhody McCoy, Milton Galamison, and other "militants." We have to expose the diabolical scheme that Ford Foundation braintrusters have concocted for suppressing the revolutionary threats of the black ghetto; while the authors of "Black Power" headlines fade into yesterday's headlines, domestic counter-insurgency agencies, like the Ford Foundation, have successfully co-opted that slogan, and have turned it into a weapon against black people, a weapon ultimately more effective than bombs, MACE, and bayonets. . . .
The genius of decentralized local community school boards is this. If the oppressed in New York City, for example, were to organize on a mass basis around the issue of education, the result could be massive economic demands on the City budget. By fragmenting the community into a collection of local boards, the Bundy method sets one section of the black community against the others as competitors for the shrinking "concession pie" of funds. The CIA tactic here is obvious. First, to chop up a potentially unified mass into competing local interest groups which can, in the long run, be handled one at a time by City Hall. Secondly, to take the steam out of black militancy in much the same way apparent on the campuses, where powers to police themselves and certain subordinate powers – [but] not real powers over fundamental matters in education, the ability to determine the content and direction of education.
Apart from that, the key to the "decentralization" proposals of Bundy and his black mouthpieces remains the thrust of blaming black children's poor education on "white teachers." . . . What the CIA agencies are doing in today's ghettos is almost exactly paralleled by the British government's sponsorship of Hindu-versus-Muslim communalism in India. That is, to abort the otherwise inevitable victories of two sections of the working population by setting one section against the other. It's an old and dirty game . . . .
The Labor Committee then attacked Dr. Kenneth Clark's approach to fixing the school system:
What the Clarks refuse to admit is that the most fundamental problems of ghetto education lie outside the school system. Ghetto conditions of life are the basis for the particular sickness of ghetto schools. Without adding 4 million new productive jobs a year, a larger group of dark-skinned and white American poor are inevitably going to be shoved into rural or urban ghettos. Without massive construction of good low-rent housing, the ghetto will go on being there. Contrary to the Clarks, black children are bright enough to know that education isn't going to qualify them for jobs that don't exist. For such reasons alone, the "community control" of education is a cruel farce being imposed on desperate black and Spanish-speaking oppressed. . . .31
Most interesting for our purposes, however, is the pamphlet's portrayal of the UFT leadership:
The UFT Shanker leadership fell flat on its face into the trap prepared for it by the Ford Foundation. It responded to the complex issue as if the Ocean Hill-Brownsville governing board were an ordinary employer. On the face of it, there was nothing wrong with that reaction in simple trade union terms. Rhody McCoy is, black or white, a boss engaging in the most high-handed sort of union-busting tactics. But braintruster Clark, Mayor Lindsay and the School Board were not going to let Shanker succeed in that course. Lindsay and McCoy, in various ways, took a number of steps to make this a racial issue, to make the fight for "community control" a racial issue. . . . Even the radical organizations (Socialist Workers Party, Progressive Labor Party, etc.) who have publicly called the strike "racist" know better. These radicals are taking the obvious opportunistic course, trading their principles for the gate-receipts their organizations hope to pick up from black militants. . . .
Shanker's fatal strategic mistake was his failure to undercut McCoy politically. Shanker did not consistently denounce McCoy as a tool for the Ford Foundation, and did not attempt to expose McCoy by proposing to discuss with the community separately, did not attempt to split community people away from McCoy. He did nothing to put the union in the position of an ally of black ghetto people. Worse, as the struggle intensified, he put the union in the position of being an ally of the central school board and later of Mayor Lindsay, demanding that they use police, etc. to repress the community, instead of limiting the demand to closing the affected schools. . . . By such mistakes, Shanker et al. strengthened the hand of Lindsay and the Ford Foundation puppet-masters over the Ocean Hill-Brownsville militants, and also brought a larger number of active black militants and others into the camp of the CIA dupes.
Yet instead of calling for Shanker to resign, the pamphlet argues:
Shanker could not have acted other than he did. If, in one sense, he has made a grave strategic mistake, his nature did not permit him to act otherwise. The UFT has no serious record of struggles on behalf of the ghetto. It does not struggle seriously for adequate low-rent housing, for a city-wide $100 weekly minimum wage, for urgently needed productive jobs for ghetto victims. . . . The pattern of the Shanker leadership has been to lobby in Albany, to wheel-and-deal at City Hall.
The Shanker leadership has never shown an inclination to mobilize mass political support among the union's natural allies. It has never seriously considered independent political action by union members and their allies to replace Democrats, Republicans and Liberal politicians. Shanker has mainly played the old craft-union game of maneuvering for a piece of the "concession pie" setting the union into competition with other government employees' unions and other groups, rather than seeking to establish a common programmatic struggle in the interests of both the UFT and its natural allies.
Let there be no hint of a devil-theory in this. Simply replacing Shanker is no answer at all. Shanker's backwardness and strategic errors reflect the backwardness of the union membership as a whole. Without changing the programmatic outlook and eliminating craft-union "professional" narrowness among a majority of union members, a simple change at the top would be no real change at all. It is easy to pick up the cry of "throw the bums out," and to ignore the fact that "bums" stay in elected office because they are supported or at least tolerated by a majority of the members. Shanker's errors are a reflection of the need to re-educate the union's rank and file.
LaRouche and Papert linked the UFT's backwardness to the larger issue of "classical craft-union policy":
We must emphasize that the old AFL-CIO trade-union tradition is as ineffective today as the AFL tradition was during the thirties' rise of industrial unionism and the CIO. In any period of crisis, such as this, the mandatory course for the organized labor movement is to break out [of] purely self-interested narrowness to ally itself directly with the unorganized and oppressed outside the old union movement proper.
Programmatically,
This means that the UFT should be in the forefront of the struggle for a $100 minimum weekly wage in New York City, in the struggle for at least 50,000 new low-rent housing units a year in this city, in the struggle to force government to provide about 100,000 new productive jobs in construction and in other fields related to the urgent material needs of this city. The UFT should be grinding-in the point that without the prospect of a decent future, without the prospect of meaningful employment, and without decent material conditions of life at home, all schemes for improved ghetto education are a cruel farce.32
This then was the "racist" argument that the Labor Committee advanced to support the "racist" UFT in its "racist" strike. At least that was what the rest of NY SDS now claimed.
In the 1988 edition of The Power of Reason (116), LaRouche reports that by late June 1968 the emerging Labor Committee began discussing what its position should be on the UFT strike and how it would shape the LC's own position in SDS:
The next topic on our discussion agenda that June was the probability of a potential race-riot scenario in New York City with the opening of the schools in September. Bundy's Ford Foundation was also behind this operation. We resolved to investigate and prepare accordingly.
The tenor of the situation around the so-called Left that September was strongly conditioned by the riotous events which the Yippies organized around the Chicago National Democratic Convention, That event had contributed to infusing the Sorelian mythos of violence among the already fascist-tending currents typified by Columbia's future Weatherman leaders. Our New Left opponents were spoiling for action.They were scheduled for a leading role in attacks on the allegedly "racist, Jewish teachers" in the New York City teachers' strike that fall.
LaRouche then boasted:
well-prepared political counteraction by about fifty of my friends deployed to key points throughout the city ruined the intended role of SDS in the racial conflict. Amusingly, the fact that the New York SDS Regional Labor Committee was leafleting key sites, warning against plans to organize a race riot, created a situation in which SDS groups who had come to riot were turned away by those with whom they were assigned to coordinate. [I think LaRouche means the various black activist groups were enraged at "SDS" -- HH.] My friends' citywide exposure of the role of Bundy's Ford Foundation, hampered the Ford Foundation's actions, especially when teachers' union leader Al Shanker picked up my friends' expose of Bundy's role. There were ugly anti-Semitic noises from various groups . . . but, despite a massive strike-breaking turnout organized by the Communist Party, no one succeeded in getting serious violence underway.
TONY PAPERT MEETS NEW AMERICA
The Labor Committee clearly had no qualms about accusing Kenneth Clark and Rhody McCoy of being "CIA"-type "Uncle Toms." But wasn't Albert Shanker a right-wing Social Democrat? And didn't the Social Democrats maintain fierce links to the "AFL-CIA"? And weren't these same pro-Vietnam War right-wing Social Democrats some of the most fanatical as well as some of the most sophisticated "professional anti-communists" in the American labor movement?
On 22 January 1969, a Tony Papert article entitled "New Left's Bourgeois Impulses" appeared in the Socialist Party USA journal New America. The editors added an introductory note which read in part: "While New America does not agree with Papert's positive orientation to SDS, we believe his analysis is worthy of consideration. The second part of Papert's article will appear in a future issue." Part two of the article, however, never was published.
"Bourgeois Impulses" proved to be a really weird read. Papert reports that the first order of business at the Ann Arbor NC conference was yet another vote disbanding the NY SDS Labor Committee:
The December, 1968, National Council (NC) meeting of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was intended as the start of a purge by the dominant anarchist faction against its main rival, the group friendly to the Progressive Labor Party (PL). As PL was eased out, the anarchists, as they have come to be called, planned to merge SDS with a "Radical Caucus" leaving the Communist Party and [also] with the National Mobilization Committee Against the War in Vietnam. Now we many never see the results of this political alchemy: the intended purge victims surprised even themselves by appearing at the four-day Conference with a near-majority in voting strength.
Highly-charged rumors of purges, along with SDS's recent leap in membership, brought about 1,000 people to the NC, making the four-day conference at the University of Michigan the largest meeting ever held by SDS. And its first official action had the form of a purge: a resolution supposedly "disbanding" the N.Y. SDS Labor Committee, part of the third and smallest faction, on the grounds that it had supported last fall's UFT strike.33 That gesture was the only thing on which PLers and anarchists could unite.
The rest of the text is a strangely anemic and weirdly pop sociological analysis of SDS. Papert opines that SDS's "radical moralism" was "natural to small-business and professional layers" and their children. The class composition of this stratum of the population led their offspring to preach and offer slogans "rather than leading students and their families to an understanding of the social and material" causes of "their present anguish." In contrast, here is how Kirkpatrick Sale describes what happened at Ann Arbor in his book SDS:
The meeting, held in Ann Arbor from December 26 to 31 with perhaps as many as twelve hundred people, dissolved into one long battle between the myriad varieties of SDS regulars and the into-the-breach PLers. . . . After five days of rampageous political battles, lasting well into the early hours, setting delegate against delegate, producing despair and frustration and anger, the final session of the Ann Arbor NC should probably have come as no surprise. The ugliness and discordance of the scene, however, surpassed anything known in the organization before and left a bitter taste in the mouths of most SDSers that lasted for months to come. Carl Davidson caught it all:
The chairman then moved into a fund-raising session, traditionally a time of merrymaking and song at SDS gatherings, while members are emptying their pockets of cash. This time the two opposing camps delivered volleys of chants back and forth. "Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh" came from the national collective supporters, answered by "Mao Mao Mao Tse-tung" from the other side. When someone started singing "The Worker's Flag is Deepest Red," the student-worker alliance side of the room came up with "Don't use the red flag against the red flag" and "Defeat SDS's Khrushchev." The final blow came when the singing of "Solidarity Forever" was interrupted by the chant "Defeat False Unity." After that, everyone went home.34
There was another curious aspect to Papert's article. The New York UFT strike ended on 17 November 1968; Papert's article, however, appeared on 22 January 1969. Nor, clearly, did it have anything to do with the UFT strike although Papert does briefly mention it. By publishing an article in New America – and on SDS in particular – was Papert trying to send a signal to the Socialist Party to encourage it to offer the Labor Committee its support as national SDS began to implode?
NEW AMERICA DEFENDS THE LABOR COMMITTEE
The Labor Committee-New America connection didn't end with Papert's article. On 22 April 1969, New America ran a story entitled "Philadelphia Police Arrest Young Radicals" by Paul Feldman, the journal's editor. Feldman cites a statement from Tony Papert, "a member of the N.Y. SDS Labor Committee, whom some Socialists know from his group's support for the recent UFT strike." (Feldman does not, however, mention Papert's earlier New America essay.) He then comments:
Although we disagree with a number of the ideological and strategic concepts of this group, our experience with members of the SDS Labor Committee are that they have a principled position against the use of violence. . . . The SDS Labor Committee has dissented from a number of New Left positions such as opposition to the UFT (SDS effectively disbanded the Labor Committee for failing to go along with national SDS policy which favored Community Control and strike breaking against the UFT). It may find it difficult to get meaningful support from those quarters that usually come to the aid of the New Left.
Feldman concludes by giving the addresses for the defense committees in New York ("c/o Dillon, 212 W. 22nd St.") and Philadelphia ("Frazier [sic], 4946 Cedar Ave. Phila. . . . Make checks payable to their lawyer, Bernard Siegel [Segal -- HH].")
But who was Paul Feldman?
Besides being New America editor, Feldman was married to Sandra Feldman, a union official who became UFT President after Shanker retired. Although he came from a CPUSA family, Feldman joined Max Shachtman's Trotskyist Independent Socialist League (ISL) while a student at Brooklyn College in the mid-1950s. He then followed Shachtman into the Socialist Party. As a member of the board of directors of the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), the organization that helped create SDS, Feldman knew something about the New Left. Outraged by SDS's decision to allow membership to avowed communists under the "non-exclusionary clause," Feldman bitterly protested the decision in a 1965 article for the LID News Bulletin. He argued that LID had to break all ties with SDS since LID was an organization whose "dedication to democracy placed it in principled opposition to Communism and all other forms of totalitarianism."35 In the early 1970s, Feldman became a founding member of the "neo-con" Social Democrats USA (SDUSA).36
THE SPARTACIST LEAGUE OBJECTS
"LC Upholds Deal with Socialist Party" reads the title of a leaflet written by Dave Cunningham, a non-Marcusite member of the "dissolved" NY SDS Regional Labor Committee and editor of Spartacist, the journal of James Robertson's Spartacist League. The leaflet appeared shortly after a 16 February 1969 meeting of the Marcusite-dominated group refused to endorse Cunningham's proposal that the organization repudiate Papert's New America piece.
Cunningham raised the New America controversy in a 13 February 1969 "Open Letter" addressed to "the Members of the SDS Labor Committee."37 Cunningham recalled that he first discovered the article's preparation more or less by accident when he and Papert were in a car driving to Canada. This reference may refer to a trip to Montreal to attend the "Hemispheric Conference to End the War in Vietnam," which took place from 28 November-1 December 1968. If this chronology is correct, Cunningham heard about Papert's New America proposed article in late November; it further underscores the fact that the LC and the UFT/SP had established a cooperative relationship.38
Cunningham recalled in his "Open Letter" how stunned he was to learn that Papert agreed to write for New America, although Papert dismissed his concern and nonchalantly said it was merely an attempt to gain free publicity in the bourgeois press. Cunningham pointed out that New America wasn't the New York Times but the proud heir of the people who killed Rosa Luxemburg. As for the Socialist Party, wasn't it full of "police socialist types" who had supported the Bay of Pigs invasion and called for the Vietcong to be smashed?
RETURN OF THE SHACHTMANITES?
Tony Papert's New America article clearly triggered a debate within the rogue NY Regional SDS Labor Committee, an organization that, as we have seen, included not just the Marcusites but members of at least two other pro-UFT leftist groupings, the Spartacist League and the Workers League.39 Both groups freely attacked the Marcusites on a regular basis. Workers League chairman Tim Wohlforth, for example, wrote a 16 December 1968 article in the Workers League paper, the Bulletin, entitled "The Many Theories of L. Marcus," arguing that the Labor Committee's guru was a bit of a crackpot.
Both Wohlforth and Spartacist League founder James Robertson, like Paul Feldman, had been members of Max Shachtman's Trotskyist Independent Socialist League (ISL) and its youth affiliate in the mid-1950s. When Shachtman decided to abolish the ISL and join Norman Thomas' Socialist Party USA, Wohlforth and Robertson – unlike Feldman – refused to follow Shachtman's lead; they felt the SPUSA was too far to the right. Instead they entered the Socialist Workers Party and Wohlforth became an early leader of the SWP's new youth group, the Young Socialist Alliance. During their time in the SWP, both men met LaRouche.40
When LaRouche left the SWP in 1966, he joined Tim Wohlforth's American Committee for the Fourth International (ACFI), the precursor organization to the Workers League. In May 1966, LaRouche broke with the ACFI and he and Carol spent May, June, and part of July 1966 in Robertson's Spartacist League. In short, all the major players were intimately familiar with the various shades of "Shachtmanism," and neither the Spartacists nor the Workers League wanted anything to do with the "right Shachtmanite" Socialist Party, even though they defended the UFT against what they viewed as Lindsay's ongoing effort to wreck New York City's trade union movement.41
At the 16 February 1969 meeting, Dave Cunningham declared that he had no intention of joining a branch of YPSL. He then demanded that the group repudiate Papert's text. Cunningham reported that Paul Milkman – "one of the few LC cadre who knew of the article ahead of time" and the chair of the meeting that evening – "immediately called on Bob Dillon, who moved a resolution to close off all discussion on this 'sectarian' topic." Cunningham complained that his objection was framed by Milkman, Dillon, and others as if it were merely a personal attack on Papert, who remained extremely popular as a hero of the Columbia protests. Dillon's resolution carried by a two-to-one majority vote, as did a similar vote refusing to repudiate the article.
In his "LC Upholds Deal with the Socialist Party" text written shortly after the vote, Cunningham charged that the Marcusites' "hostility to democratic centralism" had now led it to act more and more like an "undemocratic clique-dominated group." After the vote, Spartacist League members left the room. The Workers League contingent and a tiny group led by former Spartacist Central Committee member named Harry Turner, however, abstained from voting. Cunningham reports that not long afterwards, the Workers League was "expelled." On 24 February 1969, the Workers League paper Bulletin documented its removal from the group. [This same article reprints without acknowledgement an extremely rare photo of LaRouche teaching at Columbia's Summer Liberation School in 1968, a photo that first appeared in a Fall 1968 PL publication attacking LaRouche. (See https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/bulletin/v05n13-w102-feb-24-1969-Bulletin.pdf.)]
Amid all the factional in-fighting, what seems clear is that by late February/early March 1969, the ability of the rogue NY Regional SDS Labor Committee to credibly function as an independent organization with different political tendencies had come to an end. The 11 March 1969 meeting at Columbia that Rudd attacked may have been an early attempt of the Marcusites to launch a new organizing drive without any pretense that it represented some branch of New York SDS as a whole.
CONCLUSION: BIRTH OF THE NCLC AND THE DEATH OF SDS
On 29 March 1969, the Marcusite New York and Philadelphia SDS Labor Committees helped organize a founding conference of a new national organization that was held at the University of Pennsylvania. By that time the group had recruited supporters in cities like Baltimore, Ithaca, and Rochester. Out of meeting there emerged a new name for the organization, the National Caucus of SDS Labor Committees.42
Some members of the new National Caucus of SDS Labor Committees attended the ninth and final SDS national conference held at the Chicago Coliseum on Wabash Avenue that June, a meeting that drew almost 2,000 delegates. The once plush but now seedy arena had been reduced over the years to hosting wrestling matches, rock concerts, roller derby events, and now SDS. The cacophony caused by PL and the Weatherman/National Office factions chanting slogans at each other tolled the end of the most important leftist organization of the 1960s. Amid the din, the tiny Labor Committee delegation took up its own call. In "a spontaneous moment of situationist combustion," to quote one attendee's description, the Labor Committee delegates began their own chant: "Let's Go Mets!"43
The Labor Committee now turned its earlier critique of the RYM I/"Weatherman" founding document You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows first published in New Left Notes just before the Chicago conference began into a broader obituary for SDS as a whole. From an article in the September-October 1969 Campaigner:
The Rudd-Jacobs Weatherman document is, in a certain sense, a fulfillment – in the sense of advancement of the process of decay – of a strain of anti-working class moods which have dominated the New Left from an early period. In the earlier milder form, up to the beginning of 1966, this was expressed by certain New Left theoreticians as the "axiomatic" assumption of the fallacy of the Labor Metaphysic, the "axiomatic" assumption – in the sense that no respectable New Left scholar could dignify the opposition's position with public literacy or debate – that the industrial working class no longer had a "radical potential." About 1966, this was succeeded by the form of the "new working class" thesis, which granted to the most socially parasitical layers of paper-shufflers a "radical potential" deemed absent from the industrial working class ("anyway," argued the apologists for this thesis, present-day "neo-capitalism" represents "a post-industrial society," in which, they persisted, the historic need of a working class no longer really exists).
During 1967-68, SDS broke away from the tutelage of the scholarly wing of the New Left, a development symptomized by the demise of Studies on the Left and waning of the "Socialist Scholars Conference." In place of scholars like Weinstein, Aronson, Genovese, Baxandall, et al., there emerged a group, Praxis, whose only significant claim to scholarly antecedents was the affectation of a Groton post-nasal drift. In 1968 this gang of muddle-heads advanced the spectacular contribution that the form of "exploitation" under neo-capitalism was "forced over-consumption." For a while, Rudd and Jacobs, as representatives of the so-called "Action Faction" in New York SDS, regarded the Praxis-Axis as the main enemy within SDS, on such grounds as the Praxisites' rotten conduct in practice in the Columbia chapter (as sell-out artists – up to and including the point of the Columbia sit-ins). However, in June, 1968, Rudd and Jacobs embraced the Praxis group as their own "theoreticians," belatedly recognizing in the Gilbert-Calvert-Neiman trash a theoretical premise for advocating a reduction of the incomes of the working class in the U.S.44
Even in the midst of the chaos at Chicago, the small Labor Committee delegation dutifully tried to offer up its own political resolution to the now fracturing larger body. In its 12-18 April 1971 issue, New Solidarity recalled the last gasp of SDS this way:
The NCLC, as it had done many times at local and regional level, submitted a resolution denouncing terrorism. Factional and antic maneuvering characteristic of that last June convention prevented the motion from coming up for a debate and vote.
The only proposal that those sitting near the Labor Committee delegation might have heard the group make over the din was "Let's Go Mets!"
1 Mark Rudd, Underground (New York: William Morrow, 2009), 124-25.
2 On the struggle in SDS, I have relied heavily on Kirkpatrick Sale, SDS (New York: Random House, 1973). Although PL played an extremely important role inside SDS, it is largely forgotten today. I have, however, found useful a 1977 critique of PL by two former members. See Jim Dann and Hari Dillon, The Five Retreats: A History of the Failure of the Progressive Labor Party available at http://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1960-1970/5retreats/index.htm. A larger history of PL is long overdue.
3 Rudd, 125.
4 The first issue of Solidarity appeared on 15 July 1968.
5 I think Gordon means there was a "NY Regional SDS Labor Committee" sponsored by NY SDS and largely organized and dominated by the Marcusites. Hence in "Len Marcus: Guru of Non-Struggle," Rick Rhoads can write: "The N.Y. SDS Labor Committee, presently dominated by the Marcusites while most revolutionary forces are involved in the separate summer work-in, recently handed out a leaflet in the garment center." (See the September issue of Challenge for an attack on the Labor Committee's work in the garment center.)
The NY Regional body "dominated by the Marcusites" is distinct from the pure "Marcusites" organized in their own independent organization, the New York SDS Labor Committee. The Campaigner charged that sometime in November after the Regional SDS General Assembly dissolved its old Regional SDS Labor Committee, it reorganized it to issue anti-UFT leaflets under the name "NY SDS Labor Committee." This makes sense since NY Regional SDS could now say that the "NY SDS Labor Committee" opposed the strike.
As for both Gordon's and Rhoads' articles, they appeared in the October issue of Progressive Labor.
6 For the full text, see http://laroucheplanet.info/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Library.NewLeftNotes.
7 In SDS, Kirkpatrick Sale discusses the SDS National Council gathering held at the University of Colorado at Boulder on 11-13 October 1968. Unfortunately, he only mentions the fact that PL's proposal for a Student Labor Action Project (SLAP) advanced by Jared Israel was defeated by a two-to-one vote.
8 Milkman's letter was then printed in the Campaigner.
9 One anarchist grouping at East Lansing was Ben Morea's Up Against the Wall Motherfucker SDS chapter, which continually tried to disrupt speakers with whom they disagreed. For more on the SDS East Lansing convention, see the appendix "Tripping with ESSO."
10 See http://laroucheplanet.info/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Library.PressArticles122. Spannaus was charged with "disorderly conduct."
11 Sale, 601.
12 Feldman was understandably confused. Although PL opposed the 1968 UFT strike, in early 1969 the party reversed its policy and came out in opposition to all forms of black nationalism as reactionary. Around this same time, PL's long-time Harlem leader Bill Epton left the group.
13 See Feldman's blog Sundial: Columbia SDS Memories at http://columbiasdsmemories.blogspot.com/2009/08/chapter-19-spreading-student-revolution_15.html. This blog is an invaluable insider history of Columbia SDS.
The tensions inside Columbia SDS can be seen in an 18 September 1968 Columbia Spectator story:
SDS's fall plans were outlined in a position paper entitled "What Is To Be Done?" drafted by Mark Rudd, and approved by SDS Friday night. The adoption of Rudd's program followed bitter debate at two meetings earlier in the week over tactics and goals of the Left at Columbia. Opposition to Rudd's plans centered in a faction known as the Labor Committee, which believes in building alliances with the community and with workers. This faction, led 'by Tony Papert, a student at Teachers College and leader of the sit-in last spring in President Kirk's office, Paul Rockwell, a graduate philosophy student, and Steve Komm, a currently suspended student who made an unsuccessful bid for the chairmanship of SDS last spring, presented a program Friday night which differed significantly from Rudd's plan in both ideology and tactics.
Rudd's strategy calls for a renewal of the struggle at Columbia without direct attempts to put forward programs for any groups other than students. According to his conception, "exemplary actions* within the universities will set in motion other social groups which will respond by organizing themselves. Rudd rejects the notion that students can serve as an intellectual elite competent to provide goals for workers and other disinherited segments of the society. In contrast to the Labor Committee's economist analysis, Rudd's theories involve what he calls "total oppression," that is, oppression on all levels, psychological as well as economic. He charges the Labor Committee with "elitism," while the Labor Committee accuses him of lacking any program and exhibiting anarchist and proto-fascist tendencies. In addition to outlining strategy, Rudd's program also listed a broadened set of demands upon the University administration. These demands center around three basic issues: Columbia's policies toward the community, the University's participation in government research and amnesty.
The position paper calls for an end to all "racist expansion" by Columbia, listing the following specific demands: The Columbia gymnasium in Morningside Park not be built. All Columbia-owned apartment houses which have been vacated and slated to be demolished, be renovated and turned into low-income housing. The Piers' Project, a housing and industrial project which is being designed by Columbia for an area on the Hudson River north of 125th ST., be converted into low-income housing.
The second general demand is that the University "end all support for American imperialism," calling specifically for an end to all ties with the Institute for Defense Analyses and for the discontinuation of the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps program. In addition SDS is demanding that Columbia "end all para-military and CIA research," and that the School of International Affairs, which SDS has charged with complicity with the CIA, be closed down. The third general demand is "total amnesty, no bullshit," and that the University not cooperate with the CIA, FBI, or the New York City Police "red squad."
The Labor Committee's "Proposal For a Fall Offensive Against Columbia Racism and New York Capitalism," which was voted down by the SDS assembly, listed substantially the same demands, but sought to focus as well on unionization of University employees, demanding that all employees be granted a $100-a-week minimum wage.
A key difference between the Rudd faction and the Labor Committee, however, centered over tactics. The Labor Committee called for an extensive citywide propaganda campaign, an attempt on campus to discredit the Trustees and President Cordier and a series of rallies, including a memorial service for Patrice Lumumba. Radicals have accused Dr. Cordier of being implicated in the assassination of the leftist Congolese leader in 1961. . . . The four SDS meetings during the past week indicated not only deep factional splits within the membership, but bitter personal animosities, and a disillusionment with the leadership. Many SDS members have accused the current leadership of "elitism* and "cliquishness." Despite these conflicts SDS decided to immediately launch a program of mass action.
For developments at CCNY, see Bob Lovinger, "Ideology and Strategy Stir Tempest in SDS," 12 December 1968, The Campus, p. 3 and available at http://digital-archives.ccny.cuny.edu/thecampus/1968/DECEMBER_123_15/00000093.PDF. From the article:
According to Rick Rhoads, '70, of PLP, "SDS's national constitution says that no person can be excluded from the organization, but the regional had told the Labor Committee to change its name. This chapter will take further action, possibly of a physical nature, to see that they do change their name. Those of us in PL don't have a civil liberties attitude about this exclusion question. We're right and they're wrong.'"
PL's threat of violence against the Labor Committee highlights the odd alliance PL made with other factions in NY SDS against the SDS Labor Committee. The CCNY SDS Labor Committee would also be critical of the April 1969 occupation of Klapper Hall by largely black and Hispanic students over the issue of open admissions. See the 25 April 1969 CCNY paper The Campus (pg. 9) and available at http://digital-archives.ccny.cuny.edu/thecampus/1969/APRIL_124_13/00000107.PDF.
14 As far as I can tell, the Labor Committee supported what it called a "socialist version" of open admissions. PL at one point supported open admissions and then reversed policy. For more, see Lyn Marcus, The Philosophy of Socialist Education (From an Advanced Standpoint), which was issued as a pamphlet in 1969 at a time when the Labor Committee and International Socialists (IS) worked to organize what they saw as a "socialist" approach to open admissions. See http://wlym.com/archive/campaigner/74SS.pdf. As for PL, it had a confused policy on open admissions, at least according to an editorial in the September-October 1969 issue of the Campaigner:
Up to the point that Milton Rosen left for the hospital, PL was supporting "Open Admissions" for blacks; then Rosen, out of pure idiotic social prejudices, turned the PL line around one-hundred-eighty degrees to opposing "Open Admissions" in general. The Pl'ers in SDS now had to shout as loudly against "Open Admissions" as they had phrase-mongered in many decibels for "Open Admissions" the very day before.
15 Rudd, 124.
16 The December 1968 Campaigner footnotes an attempt by a member of Columbia SDS named Stu Gedal to have Columbia SDS offer "critical support" of Ocean Hill-Brownsville, only to be denounced by Hilton Clark (Kenneth Clark's son) as a white racist, while Juan Gonzalez demanded that SDS support the Ocean Hill-Brownsville board "all the way."
17 At the time of the October text, the new President of Columbia, Andrew Cordier, had been accused by Columbia SDS of helping to plan the murder of Patrice Lumumba at a time when Cordier worked as a high official at the UN. Cordier denied the claim.
18 My belief is that Columbia SDS acted legally and dissolved its own standing subcommittee. The reason why I think this is the case is that I believe that the Columbia Spectator report is correct. Columbia SDS also had members of PL and Praxis who would not vote to overturn the anti-exclusion clause in SDS but who would support a vote to "dissociate" the Columbia chapter from the Labor Committee's actions. It is possible that in the hot-house atmosphere surrounding the UFT strike, the Columbia chapter as a whole really did vote to throw out the Labor Committee from SDS. Yet I suspect it far more likely that members of both the Action Faction on the one hand and the Labor Committee on the other erroneously claimed that the chapter had voted to violate the anti-exclusion clause. I, however, believe the key vote was to "dissociate" the chapter from the Labor Committee position on the UFT strike; not to expel the Labor Committee and that the word "dissociate" was chosen precisely because the chapter knew it had no standing authority to expel the Labor Committee but that it could pass a motion that functioned as an added censure. For the Columbia Spectator article by Louis Dolinar, see http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19681031-01.2.5&srpos=&dliv=none&e=-------en-20--1--txt-IN----.
19 The Times reporter had no idea that the "PL" members were now part of the LaRouche group.
20 An absurd summary.
21 For more, see the separate appendix on PL and the UFT strike at http://laroucheplanet.info/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Library.HIABChapter3Appendix5PL-UFTStrike.
22 See the Ed Spannaus article at http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1993/eirv20n12-19930319/eirv20n12-19930319_037-strange_bedfellows_fbi_allied_wi.pdf.
23 The text of the Mouse Crap Revolution and the FBI documents are available at http://laroucheplanet.info/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Library.HIABChapter3Appendix1TextsUFTSDS?action=edit.
24 See http://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro/new-left/cointel-pro-new-left-albany-part-01-of-01/view for the memo.
25 On Myron Neisloss, see my separate appendix on "The Mystery Man with One Hand" at http://laroucheplanet.info/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Library.HIABChapter6Appendix1MyronNeisloss.
26 Vincent Cannato, The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York (New York: Basic Books, 2002), 344.
27 Ibid., 343.
30 In 1970-71, the Labor Committee supported the Newark Teachers Union (NTU). See the appendix "The Forgotten Teachers Strike in Newark" at http://laroucheplanet.info/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Library.HIABChapter6Appendix3Newark-Baraka.
31 The pamphlet addressed the complicated question of "Black Power" this way:
Clark and others are trying to solve the problem by drawing on the contradictory sentiment for "black power" which has emerged in the black community since about 1963: contradictory because "black power" has a positive as well as negative side. Its positive side is simply that people cannot fight effectively for their rights unless they have the requisite morale and self-respect. The process in which groups of blacks unite, thus overcoming in part their sense of utter helplessness, finding in their own organizations a source of individual moral strength, etc. is necessary. It must, of course, be supported and some of its backward side-manifestations tolerated. The other, negative side of "black power" is expressed in the sick forms of "black nationalism" which, underneath the now-mandatory scowl and "anti-whitey" jive, are . . . the old Uncle Tomism in a new disguise. . . . The attack on teachers, which has been stage-managed from the start by Clark's office at MARC [Metropolitan Applied Research Center – HH], reveals that Clark and his co-thinkers do not intend to attack the real issues of ghetto life but to divert ghetto militancy away from those issues to other phony issues like "white racist teachers."
The way in which "community control" has been disguised by the Ford Foundation, sponsored and directed by the Ford Foundation, Lindsay's role, the way in which the present crisis was engineered by McCoy et al., all attest to the fact that this is a conscious conspiracy by CIA-type agencies to simultaneously co-opt black militancy and to use black militants as a weapon against the labor movement – as strikebreakers and union-busters. Admittedly, the black parents and others in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville experimental school district may have their own legitimate aspirations. Of course, no man can be duped except by playing upon his aspirations, just as the honest militants in the "community control" project (now relatively few) are mainly unaware of the implications of their fight.
32 For the full text, see http://wlym.com/archive/campaigner/74SS.pdf.
33 In his article, Papert uses the word "disbanding" rather than "expelling." As I have said earlier, I believe NY Regional SDS voted to disband one of its subcommittees and not expel the Labor Committee as an independent political grouping.
34 Sale, 505, 510.
36 On SDUSA and the "Cold War" between the Social Democrats and the CP, see the "Shachtmanite Plot?" appendix at http://laroucheplanet.info/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Library.HIABChapter3Appendix4SP-SDUSA. Feldman and the Labor Committee's Paul Milkman spoke along with others at a CCNY protest/teach in against the war in Vietnam. See the CCNY paper, Observation Post (16 October 1969) page one story available at http://digital-archives.ccny.cuny.edu/archival-collections/observation_post/1969/Vol%2046_No%206_October_16_1969.pdf. (The story includes a page one photo of Paul Milkman.) The same issue of the paper ran a piece by the Labor Committee's Ira Liebowitz entitled "The Movement and the War" on page two.
37 See http://books.google.com/books/about/To_the_Members_of_the_SDS_Labor_Committe.html?id=mVacYgEACAAJ.
38 If this is the case, my guess is that the article was initially designed as a report on the upcoming Ann Arbor NC meeting.
39 For a long Spartacist League tract explaining its views on the UFT strike, see my appendix of contemporary texts at http://laroucheplanet.info/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Library.HIABChapter3Appendix1TextsUFTSDS.
40 On this period, see Smiling Man from a Dead Planet.
41 Both groups argued that the Labor Committee really was a "left Shachtmanite" reformist organization. See my appendix "Shachtmanite Plot?" for more.
42 In Conceptual History, LaRouche writes that in March 1969, "shortly after the Penn strike," the Labor Committee "held our first national conference, [and] became the National Caucus of SDS Labor Committees – with the stipulation that we expected to drop the 'SDS' from the name within the few months national SDS would require to destroy itself."
43 Factnet's "socialistboomer."
44 On "new working class" theory, see the appendix "Tripping with ESSO" at http://laroucheplanet.info/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Library.HIABChapter2Appendix1UAW-MFHoffman.
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And we're into 2019. Only this and three more weeks of me finding it hard to see any redeeming features in most of the music Flying Vinyl have been releasing, which no doubt makes everyone happy. As an aside though no further sales have been made via Discogs at time of writing (May) so that may be relevant.
Right from reading their name I dislike Dahlia Sleeps. As soon as the needle hits their white vinyl my dislike is confirmed. Hold on while I go and turn it off. 'Love, Lost' is one of the drippiest songs I've heard whilst writing this column. Get over it. 'Settle Down' is a bit more like White Lies in pace & weight and indeed has me seeing the quartet in a new light. It would have been a good contender at Eurovision, rather than the lad in jeggings. No one seems to want it on Discogs though so it's flea market bound. Twitter shows the band have a tie-in with Ellesse and are working on new material.
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Miqui Brightside's 'Panorama' is a wobbly, drunken slice of electro-pop, the core tune of which quickly becomes annoying. B side 'Burning Bridges' employs the talents of Adriana Proenza to mumble unintelligibly and then witter over it at points, in the age old game of trying to work out why one is no longer wanted. Facebook shows Miqui to be keeping his hand in DJing.
The Starlight Magic Hour are trying to hard to create some after-hours, singalong thing on 'Song To Bethy'. Convinced the pressing's iffy too. 'I Am The Swan To Your Song' is a bit better in a Bonzo Dog Band vein. Facebook shows the band have a gig i Manchester in the middle of August.
"Vistas are the Edinburgh trio making fiery indie-rock". The only one. In the whole city. And no one I know in town has yet mentioned them to me. That aside 'Fade' isn't bad. It races along anyway. Like a cheerier Hookworms (if one can yet mention them in polite company). I'd stick around to watch a number or two if I stumbled upon them at a festival but I'd not make the effort to walk in to town and see a whole show. 'Like An American' has a more mainstream, anthemic sound about it. Possibly addressing the subject of the city's yearly tourist invasion. The band's website reveals they have a slew of live dates coming up across the UK, particularly in October.
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We'll look at the history of the song which is one of the most popular fiddle tunes. Here's a great version with lyrics:
SALLY GOODWIN- McMichen and Puckett http://www.juneberry78s.com/otmsampler/otmsampat272.html
(Fiddle)
Rasberry pie, huckleberry puddin',
Give it all away for to see Sally Goodin.
Looked to the hillside to see my Sally comin’
I thought to my soul I'll kill myself a-runnin'.
*Long ways to travel, the roads mighty muddy
I’m so drunk I can’t stand steady.
Well I love pie And I love puddin'
Crazy ‘bout the gal what they call Sally Goodin.
Long ways to travel, the road's mighty muddy
Looked to the hillside to see my Sally coming
*Forgets part of this verse, mumbled words
McMichen and Puckett's version is one that has lyrics. There are many solo fiddle versions and band versions.
DATE: Circa 1860’s by two sources; First recording 1922 Eck Robertson;
RECORDING INFO: Fiddlin' John Carson, "Sallie Goodman" (OKeh 40095-A, 1924); James Crase, "Sally Goodin" (on MMOKCD); Pickard Family, "Sally Goodin" (Regal 8810, 1929); Eck Robertson, "Sally Goodin" (Victor 18956, 1922); New Lost City Ramblers, "Sally Goodin" (on NLCR02) (NLCR16); Neil Morris & Charlie Everidge, "Sally Goodin" [instrumental w. dance calls] (on LomaxCD1707) Lee Ennis (Oklahoma County, Oklahoma) [Thede]; Kenner C Kartchner (Arizona) [Shumway]; Marion Yoders (fiddler and fifer from Greene County, Pa., 1961) [Bayard]; fiddler L.D. Snipes via Ray Knight (Lumpkin County, Georgia) [Rosenbaum]; Marcus Martin (western N.C.) [Phillips]; Major Franklin (Texas) [Phillips]; Clyde Davenport (Ky.) [Phillips]. Adam, 1928; No. 50. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 273, pg. 229. Brody (Fiddler’s Fakebook), 1983; pgs. 246 & 247. Ford (Traditional Music in America), 1940; pg. 64 and 128 (discord version) [Ford also prints additional verses on page 419, and a dance of the same title on page 209]. Frets Magazine, "Byron Berline: The Fiddle," May 1980; pg. 60. Kaufman (Beginning Old Time Fiddle), 1977; pgs. 30 & 60. Lowinger (Bluegrass Fiddle), 1974; pgs. 13 & 33. Phillips, 1989{A}, pg. 37. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), 1994; pg. 210 (three versions). Rosenbaum (Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia), 1989; pg. 210. Shumway (Frontier Fiddler), 1990; pg. 270 (mislabled as "Sally Johnson"). Sweet (Fifer’s Delight), 1965/1981; pg. 76. Thede (The Fiddle Book), 1967; pg. 32-33. Arhoolie C-220, Eck Robertson (et al) – “Southern String Bands, Vol. 1 & 2.” Briar 4201, Scotty Stoneman, "Live in L.A." Caney Mountain Records CEP 210 (privately issued extended play LP), Lonnie Robertson (Mo.), c. 1965-66. County 744, Kenny Baker, "Dry and Dusty." County 733, Clark Kessinger (W.Va.) , "The Legend of Clark Kessinger." County 703, Bartow Riley, "Texas Hoedown." County 705, Sonny Miller, "Virginia Breakdown." County CD5515, Eck Robertson – “ (1998). Document DOCD-8011, The Kessinger Brothers (reissue). Document DOCD-8042, Fiddlin’ Doc Roberts (reissue). Flying Fish 102, New Lost City Ramblers, "20 Years/Concert Performances" (1978). Folkways FA 2397, New Lost City Ramblers, "Vol. 2" (also on "Twenty Years Concert Performances"). Folkways FA 2337, “Clark Kessinger Live at Union Grove.” Gennett 6733 (78 RPM), 1928, G.B. Grayson (east Tenn.). Gennett 7221 (78 RPM), Doc Roberts (Ky.). Heritage 048, Lowe Stokes , "Georgia Fiddle Bands" (Brandywine 1972). Musical Traditions MTCD321-2, Ted Boyd (et al) – “Far on the Mountains, Vols. 1 & 2” (2002). Old-Timey Records OT-101, Eck Robertson , "Old Time Southern Dance Music: The String Bands, Vol. 2" (appears as "Sallie Gooden"). Omac 1, Thomasson, Shorty, Morris, O'Conner, "A Texas Jam Session." Omac 2, Berline, Bush and O'Conner, "In Concert." Rounder 0044, "J.D. Crowe and the New South." Rounder 0073, The White Brothers, "Live in Sweden." Rounder 1027, Johnnie Lee Wills, "Tulsa Swing." Rounder 0099, Dan Crary, "Lady's Fancy." Rounder 0101, John Hickman, "Don't Mean Maybe.” Rounder CD-0388, Gene Goforth – “Emminence Breakdown” (1997). Rounder CD 0359, Skip Gorman - "Lonesome Prairie Love" (1996). Rounder Cd0278, Mike Seegar – “Solo—Old Time Country Music” (1991). Rounder C11565, Ricky Skaggs , "Rounder Fiddle." Sonyatone 201, Eck Robertson (West Texas) , "Master Fiddler." Tradition TLP 1007, Mrs. Edd Presnell , "Instumental Music of the Southern Appalachians" (1956). Victor 18956 (78 RPM), Eck Robertson (West Texas) {1922}.
Recordings/print of Sally Goodin from Folk Index:
Ford, Ira W. / Traditional Music in America, Folklore Associates, Bk (1965/1940), p 64b
Ford, Ira W. / Traditional Music in America, Folklore Associates, Bk (1965/1940), p128b
Ford, Ira W. / Traditional Music in America, Folklore Associates, Bk (1965/1940), p419
Cazden, Norman (ed.) / Book of Nonsense Songs, Crown, Sof (1961), p 97
Emrich, Duncan / Folklore on the American Land, Little, Brown, sof (1972), p557 [1930s]
Isaac, Burton / Folk Fiddle by Burton Isaac, Mel Bay, fol (1964), p15
Lomax, Alan / Folksongs of North America, Doubleday Dolphin, Sof (1975/1960), p236/#121
Brody, David (ed.) / Guitar Pickers Fakebook, Oak, Sof (1984), p127
Baber, Carrie. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume III, Humorous & Play-Party ...,
University of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p350/#544A [1922/09/04]
Baker, Kenny. Dry and Dusty, County 744, LP (1973), trk# A.06
Barbour, Freeland. Fire in the Hearth, REL REL 462, LP (1977), trk# B.05a (Sally Was a
Good 'un)
Berline, Byron. Phillips, Stacy; & Kenny Kosak / Bluegrass Fiddle Styles, Oak, fol (1978), p 55 [1967]
Blevins, Frank. Devil's Box, Devil's Box, Ser, 32/2, p18b(1998) [1931]
Blue River Boys. 2nd Florida Bluegrass and Old Time Music Championships, Sunny
Mountain EB 1003, LP (1975?), trk# B.07
Boyd, Ted. Appalachia, The Old Traditions, Home Made Music LP-001, LP (1983), trk#
B.05 [1979/08/05]
Brody, David. Brody, David (ed.) / Fiddler's Fakebook, Oak, Sof (1983), p247
Brower, Cecil (Cousin Cecil). Old Fashion Country Hoedown, Cumberland MGC 29500,
LP (196?), trk# A.03
Brower, Cecil; and his Square Dance Fiddlers. America's Favorite Square Dances, Smash
MGS 27015, LP (196?), trk# A.05
Bush, Sam. Union Grove, The Hub of the Universe, Union Grove SS-4, LP (1970), trk# 2
[1970/04]
Carlin, Bob. Brody, David (ed.) / Banjo Picker's Fakebook, Oak, Fol (1985), p142b
Cedar Point String Band. Cedar Point String Band, Roane, Cas (1993), trk# 8
Clarke, Greg. Home Recordings - October 2001, Clarke, CD (2001), trk# 12b (Old Sally Goodin)
Claunch, W. E.. Anglo-American Shanties, Lyric Songs, Dance Tunes & Spirituals,
Library of Congress AFS L 2, LP (195?), trk# B.06 [1939]
Conroy, Mike. Montana Mountain Fiddle, Alpha 08361, LP (198?), trk# A.04
Crase, James. Mountain Music of Kentucky, Smithsonian/Folkways SF 40077, CD
(1996), trk# 2.52 [1959]
Cravens, Red; and the Bray Brothers. 419 W. Main, Rounder 0015, LP (1972), trk# 19
Crooked Road. Generations, Spencer, CD (2004), trk# 8a
Crowe, J.D.; and the New South. J. D. Crowe and the New South, Rounder 0044,
LP (1975), trk# 4
Cunningham, Bill. Cunningham, Bill / Hoedown Fiddle in America (How to Play It),
Cunningham, fol (1971), p19 (Sally/Salley Goodwin)
Cutler, Marty. Brody, David (ed.) / Banjo Picker's Fakebook, Oak, Fol (1985), p143a
Daugherty, Junior. Texas Music, Heritage (Galax) 066, LP (1986), trk# A.05
Daugherty, Junior. Cowboy Tour, NCTA --, Cas (1983), trk# B.04
Davenport, Clyde. Puncheon Camps, Appalachian Center Ser. AC 002, Cas (1992), trk# 9
Davenport, Clyde. Titon, Jeff Todd / Old Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes, Kentucky,
Bk/ (2001), p170/#144B [1990/03/31]
Dillon, John W.. Folk Songs of America. The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection....,
Library of Congress AFS L68, LP (1978), trk# 5c [1925/10/22]
Elman, Tony. Swinging on a Gate, Acorn Tree 003, Cas (1986), trk# A.08
Ennis, Lee. Thede, Marion (ed.) / The Fiddle Book, Oak, Bk (1967), p 33 [1930s]
Everidge, Charlie. Southern Journey. Vol. 7: Ozark Frontier, Rounder 1707, CD
(1997), trk# 4 [1959/10]
Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys. Foggy Mountain Banjo, Columbia LE
10043, LP (196?), trk# 10
Forrester, Howdy. Fancy Fiddlin' Country Style, MGM E-4035, LP (197?), trk# B.02
Gentle, J. C.. Fiddle Jam Sessions, Voyager VLRP 301, LP (1966), trk# 11 [1966]
Goforth, Gene. Emminence Breakdown, Rounder 0388, CD (1997), trk# 22
Golden Harmony String Band. Room at the Top, JHU, LP (197?), trk# A.05a
Gorman, Skip. Lonesome Prairie Love, Rounder 0359, CD (1996), trk# 11
Gosset, Ted;'s String Band. Fiddle Band Music from Kentucky, Vol.2 Wish I Had
My Time Again, MorningStar 45004, LP (1980), trk# A.01 [1930/09/16] (Fire on the Mountain)
Grayson and Whitter. Going Down Lee Highway, Davis Unlimited DU 33033,
LP (1977), trk# 12 [1929/02/29]
Guthrie, Woody. Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs, Vol. 2, Folkways FA 2484,
LP (1964), trk# B.01 [1934/04/24]
Haley, Ed. Grey Eagle (Vol. 2), Rounder 1133/1134, CD (1997), trk# 2.14
Hanks, Larry. 1977 Northwest Folklife Festival, Voyager VTLP-101, LP (1977), trk# 3b
Hanks, Larry. 15th Aniversary Cassette. The Northwest Folklife Festival, NW
Folklife --, Cas (1986), trk# A.05b
Hanks, Larry; and Ron Tinkler. Berkeley Farms, Folkways FA 2436, LP (1972), trk# A.01
Harold and Abe. Sweet Sunny South, Heritage (Galax) 043, LP (1984), trk# 11
Hash, Albert; and the Whitetop Mountain Band. Albert Hash and the Whitetop
Mountain Band, Heritage (Galax) 025, LP (1979), trk# 3
Hawks, Charles. Old Time Fiddling at Union Grove. The 38th Annual Old-Time
Fi..., Prestige 14039, LP (1964), trk# A.06
Herren, Ruth Burton. Solomon, Jack & Olivia (eds.) / Sweet Bunch of Daisies,
Colonial Press, Bk (1991), p 98 [1975ca]
High Strung. High Strung, Loose Noose ASM-489, LP (1981), trk# A.04b
Holt, Bob. Got a Little Home to Go To, Rounder 0432, CD (1999), trk# 2
Hornbostel, Lois. Vive le Dulcimer!, Kicking Mule KM 215, LP (1983), trk# B.06a
Hot Club of Cowtown. Tall Tales, Hightone HCD 8104, CD (1999), trk# 15
Johnson, Herman. Herman Johnson - National Champion, Gillian, LP (1978), trk# A.01
Jones, Vester. Traditional Music From Grayson and Carroll Counties, Folkways
FS 3811, LP (1962), trk# 25 [1960ca]
Kaufman, Alan. Kaufman, Alan / Beginning Old-time Fiddle, Oak, sof (1977), p30
Kennison, Warren. Weissman, Dick / Five String Banjo. Vol. 3, Advanced Techniques,
United Artists, Sof (1977), p 66
Kentucky Colonels. Kentucky Colonels, United Artists UAS 29514, LP (1973/1964), trk# B.03
Kessinger, Clark. Clark Kessinger, Fiddler, Folkways FA 2336, LP (1966), trk# 17
Kessinger, Clark. Live at Union Grove, Folkways FA 2337, Cas (1976), trk# 6
Knight, Ray. Rosenbaum, Art (ed.) / Folk Visions & Voices. Traditional Music & So....,
University of Georgia, Bk (1983), p210 [1982/02/21]
Lambert, L. W.; and the Blue River Boys. Union Grove 50. Old Time Fiddlers Convention,
Union Grove SS-9, LP (1974), trk# A.01
Lieberson, Richard. Lieberson, Richard / Old Time Fiddle Tunes for Guitar, Amsco, Sof
(1974), p 30
Long, Bill; and Bill Mitchell. More Fiddle Jam Sessions, Voyager VRLP 304, LP (1971),
trk# 26
Lowinger, Gene. Lowinger, Gene / Bluegrass Fiddle, Oak, fol (1974), p13
Mainer's Mountaineers (J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers). J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers, Arhoolie 5002, LP (1973), trk# 8
Mainer, Wade; and Mainers Mountaineers. Wade Mainer and the Mainers Mountaineers, Old
Homestead 90002, Cas (1971), trk# A.06
Maxson, Charles; and Karen Skidmore. From the Heartland of West Virginia. The Hammered & Plucked Dul, Peaceable 4, LP (1975), trk# 12
McKinney, Freeman. West Virginia Hills, Augusta Heritage AHR 011, Cas (1992), trk# 2.04 [1991/12/05]
McMahan, Pete. Now That's a Good Tune. Masters of Missouri Traditional Fiddling, Grey Eagle 101, LP (1989), trk# 38 [1988/12/26]
Miller, Sonny; & the Southern Mtn Boys. Virginia Breakdown, County 705, LP (1966), trk# B.03
Mitchum, Johnny. Johnny Mitchum, Sircy 7304, LP (1972), trk# A.03
Monday, Isham. Titon, Jeff Todd / Old Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes, Kentucky, Bk/ (2001), p170/#144A [1959/11/27]
Moonlight Seranaders. 1941 Old Fiddlers Convention, Galax, Virginia, Voyage Beyond, CD (200?), trk# 27 [1941]
New Lost City Ramblers. New Lost City Ramblers, Vol. 2, Folkways FA 2397, LP (1960),
trk# B.03
Osborne, Uncle Charlie (Charlie N.). 100 Years Farther On, June Appal JA 0064C,
Cas (199?), trk# 1
Perkins, J. T.. Fiddle Favorites Perkins Style, Davis Unlimited DU-33017, LP (1975),
Pollard, Randy. I'm Just a Country Boy, JRS LSP 2240, LP (1982), trk# B.03
Poor Richard's Almanac. Poor Richard's Almanac, Ridge Runner RRR 0002, LP (1976), trk# 18
Presnell, Mrs. Edd (Nellie). Instrumental Music of the Southern Appalachians, Tradition TR 1007, LP (196?), trk# 10 [1956/07ca]
Putnam String County Band. Home Grown, Rounder 3003, LP (1973), trk# 2
Reeltime Travelers. Livin' Reeltime, Thinkin' Old-Time, Yodel-Ay-Hee 042, CD (2002), trk# 9
Riley, Barstow. Texas Hoedown, County 703, LP (1965), trk# A.05
Robertson, Eck. Master Fiddler, Sonyatone STR 201, LP (1976), trk# 3 [1922/07/01]
Robertson, Eck. Southern Dance Music, Vol. 2, Old-Timey LP 101, LP (1965), trk# 1
Robertson, Eck. Brody, David (ed.) / Fiddler's Fakebook, Oak, Sof (1983), p246
Roberts, Fiddlin' Doc. Fiddlin' Doc Roberts / Complete Recorded Works..., Vol 2. 1928-1, Document DOCD 8043, CD (1999), 19 [1930/01/13]
Robertson, Lonnie. Missouri Fiddling by Lonnie Robertson, Caney Mountain CEP 210, SP
(195?), trk# 1
Robertson, Lonnie. Fiddle Tunes - Ozark Style, Vol. 2, Caney Mountain CLP-233, LP (1980), trk# 4
Robins, Butch. Forty Years Late, Rounder 0086, LP (1977), trk# B.02
Rosenbaum, Art (Arthur). Five String Banjo, Kicking Mule KM 108, LP (1974), trk# 1
Rosenbaum, Art (Arthur). Rosenbaum, Art / Art of the Mountain Banjo, Centerstream, Fol (1981), p31
Rose, Buddy. Down Home Pickin', Dominion NR 3319, LP (197?), trk# A.05
Rutland, Georgia Slim (Robert Hughes). Raw Fiddle, Kanawha 325, LP (1976), trk# 9
Salyer, John Morgan. Home Recordings 1941-42. Vol. 2, Appalachian Center Ser. AC 003-v2, cas (1993), trk# B.07 (Sallie Goodin)
Scruggs, Earl. Scruggs, Earl / Earl Scruggs and the 5-String Banjo, Peer International, Bk (1968), p110 (Sally/Salley Goodwin)
Scruggs, Junie. American Banjo - Tunes and Songs in Scruggs Style, Folkways FA 2314, LP (1966), trk# A.11a
Seeger, Mike. Texas Music, Heritage (Galax) 066, LP (1986), trk# B.06
Sewell, Ace. Southwest Fiddlin', Voyager VRLP 319-S, LP (1977), trk# B.05
Sholle, Jon. Traum, Happy / BLuegrass Guitar, Oak, Sof (1974), p109
Short, Lillian. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume III, Humorous & Play-Party, University of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p350/#544B [1950/04/01]
Skillet Lickers. Skillet Lickers, Vol. 2, County 526, LP (1973), trk# 10a [1929/11/02]
Solomon, Vernon. Texas Breakdown, Davis Unlimited DU 33038, LP (1976), trk# 4
Southern Mountain Boys. 31st Annual Old Fiddlers Convention, Justice, LP (1966), trk# A.01
Stinnett, Cyril. Salty River Reel, MSOTFA 104, Cas (1992), trk# 24
Stinnett, Cyril. Plain Old Time Fiddling, Stinnett SLP 1013, LP (197?), trk# B.03
Stoneman's Dixie Mountaineers. Ernest V. Stoneman & his Dixie Mountaineers. 1927-28,
Historical HLP-8004, LP (197?), trk# 10 [1928/04/24]
Stoneman, Scotty; with the Kentucky Colonels. Live in LA, Sierra/Briar SBR 4206, LP
(1978), trk# B.01 [1965/01-03]
Sumner, Marion. Road To Home, June Appal JA 0030, LP (1979), trk# 19
Thackerson, Roy. Fingerless Fiddler. Vol. 2, Ovella 2, LP (197?), trk# B.01
Thomasson, Benny. National Oldtime Fiddlers Contest & Festival. 1974, Century, LP (1974), trk# B.14
Thomas, Tony. Old Style Texas and Oklahoma Fiddling, Takoma A-1013, LP (195?), trk# 15
Trammell, Dean. High on the Fiddle, Kanawha 320, LP (197?), trk# B.03
Trischka, Tony. Trischka, Tony / Melodic Banjo, Oak, Sof (1976), p113
Twyman, Goebel. Old Time Fiddler, Atwell Lps 1677, LP (197?), trk# B.03
Unknown Fiddler. Thede, Marion (ed.) / The Fiddle Book, Oak, Bk (1967), p 32 [1930s]
Walters, Bob. Drunken Wagoner, MSOTFA 106, Cas (1993), trk# B.07
Ward, Wade; and Jimmie Edmonds. More Goodies from the Hills, Union Grove SS-3, LP (1969), trk# 2
Ward, Wade. Uncle Wade. A Memorial to Wade Ward, Old Time Virginia Banjo ..., Folkways FA 2380, LP (1973), trk# 20
Warren, Paul. America's Greatest Breakdown Fiddle Player, CMH 6237, LP (1979), trk# 17
Watson, Doc. Out in the Country, Intermedia/Quicksilver QS 5031, LP (1982), trk# 4
Wheeler, Carol Ann. Joy of Fiddling, American Heritage 401-532, LP (198?), trk# 5
Wills, Bob; and the Texas Playboys. Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 6. Sally Goodin,
Kalidescope F-27, LP (1987), trk# 2
Kalidescope F-27, LP (1987), trk# 14
Williams, Hank; and the Drifting Cowboys. Country-Western Radio. Rare Radio Recordings
of Famous Count..., Radiola MR-1069, LP (1977), trk# A1.7
Winston, Winnie. Steel Wool, Philo 1058, LP (1978), trk# A.01
Wood, Jim. Devil's Box, Devil's Box, Ser, 31/2, p32(1997)
Yohey, Bill. 20 Country Strings, American Heritage ST 106, LP (196?), trk# 8
Yohey, Bill. National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest & Folk Music Festival. 1966, Century, LP (1966), trk# 16
Youngblood, Dwayne (Duane). Hootenanny Hoedown, Dye, LP (1963), trk# B.02a
RELATED TO: Bear Creek Sally Goodin; Sweet Milk and Peaches; Call Your Dogs and Let's Go Hunting; Pretty Little Miss; Brilliancy Medley; Tennessee Breakdown; Thank God I'm a Country Boy; Black Sally Goodin; Big Joe; Bear Creek's Up; Kanawha County Rag
OTHER NAMES: Sally Goodwin, Sally Gooden; Old Sally Goodin;
PRINT AND ONLINE SOURCES: Online: Kuntz, A Fiddler’s Companion; Mudcat; Traditional Ballad Index, Folk Index; Lomax-FSNA 121, "Sally Goodin" (1 text, 1 tune); Randolph 544, "Sally Goodin" (1 text, 2 tunes); Darling-NAS, p. 255, "Sally Goodin" (1 text); Silber-FSWB, p. 33, "Sally Goodin" (1 text)
NOTES: Lyrics include: "Had a piece of pie an' I had a piece of puddin', An' I gave it all away just to see my Sally Goodin" and “Looked up the road, seen Sally comin', Thought to my soul I'd break my neck a-runnin'.”
Mike Yeats: Sally Gooden turns up all over the upland south of America, but I have included Ted Boyd's gentle version because of his unusual 'high' part of the tune. His banjo is tuned to a relative double-C tuning (gCGCD) and he gets this third part by fretting the first string on the 10th fret with his little finger, bringing an unexpectedly delightful effect to the tune.
According to North Carolina fiddler Bruce Green, the tune was originally called Boatin' Up Sandy (referring to the Big Sandy River in eastern Kentucky) and was renamed by Civil War Confederate soldiers in Morgan's Raiders while they were camped on the Big Sandy in Pike County, Kentucky. Sally Goodin ran a boarding house there and allowed the soldiers to camp and play music. To show their appreciation of her kindness, Morgan's men renamed the tune in her honor.
[Fiddler Hiram Stamper for the Morehead State University Vintage Fiddlers Oral History Project was interviewed and corroborates Green’s theory. The interview was conducted by Marynell Young at the Stamper residence, Knott County, KY 418822. Marynell Young plays guitar. Martha Stamper and Bob Butler were also present during the interview session. Stamper talks about how soldiers made tune called Sally Goodin from tune called Boatin' Up Sandy. Location was on the Big Sandy River.] From Morehead State University Vintage Fiddlers Oral History Project on-line.
It should, perhaps, be pointed out that there are several other tunes which are today also titled Boatin' Up Sandy. There is also another Kentucky tune, played with the fiddle tuned ADAD, called Red Top Boots, Pocket Full of Money which is similar to Sally Gooden.
There are a couple of good early recordings available on Document DOCD-8011 (The Kessinger Brothers) and Document DOCD-8043 (Fiddlin' Doc Roberts), although it was Eck Robertson's 1922 recording (reissued on County CO CD 5515) that really popularized the tune across America. For some reason Earl Johnson & His Clodhoppers recorded it in 1928 as Nigger in the Cotton Patch (Document DOCD-8006).
From Kuntz, A Fiddler’s Companion: “A widely known breakdown and play party tune in the upland South (but not universally known throughout the country—Paul Gifford reports that it was completely unknown to traditional fiddlers in Michigan, for example). Bayard (1981) suggests that the tunes "Sally Goodin," "Old Dan Tucker" and his Pennsylvania collected "Rye Whiskey [2]" (a breakdown, not the 3/4 time version) are related "in an affinity that goes back a long while;" and, in fact, some versions of these tunes do seem to blend with one another. Arizona fiddler Kenner C. Kartchner said: "Old Texas tune. Only a few play it well. All try it" (Shumway).
Charles Wolfe (1982) states it was popular with Kentucky fiddlers. It was asserted to be one of the standard tunes in a square dance fiddler's repertoire, according to A.B. Moore in his History of Alabama (1934). Rosenbaum (1989) remarks that it is an almost universally known fiddle tune in the South, but that the verses (an example is given below) are not sung as frequently today as they were in the past. Texas fiddler Eck Robertson was the first person to record the tune in 1922 when he was aged thirty-four (Robertson is remembered playing the tune at various times in both AEae and standard tuning, though on his early and famous recording he played in AEae).
“Sally Goodin” was in the repertoires of Fiddlin John Carson (North Ga.) {1922}, Fiddlin' Cowan Powers 1877-1952? (Russell County, S.W. Va.) {and who recorded the tune for Victor in August, 1924, though it was unissued}, Uncle Am Stuart (b. 1856, Morristown, Tenn.) {and who re-recorded it for Vocalion in 1924}, Uncle Jimmy Thompson 1848-1931 (Tenn.) {as "Sally Goodwin"}, and Alabama fiddler Monkey Brown (1897-1972). North Georgia fiddler Earl Johnson, with his band the Clodhoppers, recorded a version of the tune in 1928. Also in repertoire of legendary fiddler J. Dedrick Harris, born in Tennessee, and who played regularly with Bob Taylor while he was running for Governor of the state in the late 1800's. Harris moved to Western N.C. in the 1920's and influenced a generation of fiddlers there: Osey Helton, Manco Sneed, Bill Hensley, Marcus Martin.
The title was mentioned in reports of the De Kalb County Annual (Fiddlers') Convention, 1926-31 (Cauthen, 1990). At the turn of the century it was played by George Cole of Etowah County, Alabama, as recorded by Mattie Cole Stanfield in her book Sourwood Tonic and Sassafras Tea (1965). The tune was recorded for the Library of Congress by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph from Ozark Mountain fiddlers in the early 1940's; he said it was popular at play-parties in the Ozarks in the 1890's (see his Ozark Folksongs, Vol. 3). Similarly, it was recorded in 1939 for the Library of Congress by Herbert Halpert from the playing of Itawamba/Tishomingo County, Mississippi, fiddler John Brown and, in the same year from Franklin County, Virginia, fiddler J.W. 'Peg' Hatcher (2741-B-2).
Texas fiddler Eck Robertson's 1923 release of "Sally Goodin'" (backed with "Ragtime Annie") was the number one country music bestseller for the year 1923. Georgia fiddler Bill Shores, a native Alabamian who spent most of his life in the Rome, Georgia, area (according to Wayne Daniels), recorded the tune (under the title “Sally Goodwin”) with guitarist Riley Puckett in Atlanta in 1926. Fellow Georgia fiddler A.A Gray played the tune on “A Fiddler’s Tryout in Georgia,” a sham fiddling-contest skit with supposed judges and two fiddlers vying for a prize (Joe Brown was his nemesis)—Gray plays “Bucking Mule” and “Sally Goodin’” on the 78 RPM
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Ride Metrolink to the Festival of Whales this Saturday, March 1
Posted on February 27, 2014 by Art Pedroza Posted in Metrolink, OCTA, Orange, Santa Ana, Transportation
Ride Metrolink Free* to the Festival of Whales
The Festival of Whales is coming to Dana Point March 1, 2, 8 and 9. Rain or shine, the event will feature contests, exhibits, whale watching and more. Start the fun with OCTA at the Orange Station this Saturday, Mar. 1 at 9 a.m. The first 50 guests can ride Metrolink to the festival for FREE! Stop by and enjoy:
Free round-trip Metrolink tickets (limited quantity)
Free food courtesy of Ruby’s Diner
Live music performed by Headshine
A prize wheel for visitors who bring a food donation**
Don’t Worry About the Rain
Ruby’s Diner and the Streamliner Lounge have agreed to let us take our event indoors if it’s too stormy outside – music, food, prizes and all!
Metrolink Is Your Ticket to Savings at the Festival of Whales!
The California Gray Whales are heading south to Mexico on their annual migration. Celebrate this amazing natural spectacle at the 43rd Annual Festival of Whales in Dana Point on two consecutive weekends, March 1 and 2, and March 8 and 9, 2014. This year, Metrolink has more special offers than ever to help you enjoy your visit. Count on Metrolink to get you to the festival for less, and to help you save on whale watching excursions, overnight hotel stays and more. Take a FREE shuttle service to all event locations—there’s something for everyone! For a list of events, visit www.festivalofwhales.com.
FREE Metrolink Tickets and Other Prizes!
Join us for a pre-festival celebration at the Orange Metrolink Station on Saturday, March 1, starting at 9:00 a.m. Come early ‒ the first 50 people receive a free Metrolink ticket to the festival! Enjoy free food sponsored by Ruby’s Diner and Streamliner Lounge and hear live music by Headshine. Bring a non-perishable donation for Second Harvest Food Bank and spin the wheel for free prizes. The train 859 for San Juan Capistrano departs at 10:08 a.m.
The Orange Metrolink Station is located at 194 N. Atchison Street, Orange, CA 92866. Parking is free.
Save With a $10 Weekend Day Pass
OCTA and Metrolink can help you get to the festival of Whales and get great deals too! Buy a Weekend Pass for just $10. The pass is valid for systemwide travel all day Saturday or Sunday. Get your Weekend Pass at any Metrolink station ticket vending machine.
Metrolink makes it easy to get to the Festival of Whales. Ride Metrolink to San Juan Capistrano Metrolink station, then take OCTA Bus Route 91 South to Dana Point and you’re there!
On March 1, specially marked Festival of Whales shuttles will offer free rides from OCTA bus stop #7055 off Camino Capistrano and Ortega directly to the parade viewing area. These shuttles will be available to meet the 859 train arriving at 10:40 a.m. only. These shuttles will not provide return transportation to this bus stop or to the San Juan Capistrano station. Passengers will need to board an OCTA bus for return to the San Juan Capistrano Metrolink station.
You can also bring your bike and take the San Juan Creek bike trail for three miles to Dana Point and the festival.
Inland Empire-Orange County Line & Bus Schedule
For Metrolink passengers coming from San Bernardino, Riverside-Downown and La Sierra, North Main and West Corona, Anaheim Hills, Orange, Santa Ana, Tustin, Irvine and Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo:
Board Metrolink Train 859 on the IEOC Line at the station nearest you
Train arrives San Juan Capistrano at 10:40 a.m.
From the station, walk to bus stop #7055 off Camino Capistrano and Ortega
At 11:17 a.m., board Bus Route 91 South to Dana Point
Exit the bus stop at #1518 off Pacific Coast Highway and Dana Point Drive in Dana Point at approximately 11:30 a.m.
Walk down Dana Point Harbor Drive to the festival
Or you can enter Doheny State Park (directional sign at bus stop), walk along the green barrier fence, then proceed to marked Festival of Whales shuttle stop. Ride the shuttle free to all event locations.
Orange County Line & Bus Schedule
For Metrolink passengers coming from Oceanside or San Clemente:
Board Metrolink Train 661 or 665 on the OC Line at the station nearest you
Exit at San Juan Capistrano station
Follow directions above for the rest of the trip
For Metrolink passengers coming from L.A. Union Station, Norwalk/Santa Fe Springs, Buena Park, Fullerton, Anaheim, Orange, Santa Ana, Tustin, Irvine and Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo:
Take train 660 or 662 on the OC Line at the station nearest you
Returning Home Is Easy
Walk to bus stop #1501 off Pacific Coast Highway and Del Obispo in Dana Point.
At 3:57 p.m., board Bus Route 91 North (towards Laguna Hills).
Exit the bus at stop #7042 off Camino Capistrano and Ortega in San Juan Capistrano at approximately 4:11 p.m.
Walk to the train station across the street.
Take Metrolink Train 860 on the OC Line at 5:03 p.m. to stations north.
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Every failure is a learning and a setback could mean the best is yet to come: PM Modi
Deepika Kumari fourth in qualifications of Tokyo Olympic test event
In Archery, former world number one Deepika Kumari finished fourth in the women's recurve qualifying round at the Tokyo Olympic Games test event today.
Deepika shot 668 out of a possible 720 points at the 72-arrow 70-metre round to qualify for the knock-out round while Atanu Das was ranked 19th in the men's section.
Deepika's impressive show enabled India to get the fourth rank in the mixed pair event at the Yumenoshima Archery Field which is hosting its first international competition.
The Indian pairing of Deepika and Atanu will now take on 13th ranked Daniel Felipe Pineda and Ana Maria Rendon of Colombia in the first round of the 16-team draw.
Laishram Bombayla Devi and Komalika Bari were ranked 11th and 48th in the women's section, while Pravin Jadhav (30th) and Tarundeep Rai (52nd) in the men's section were the other Indians in the fray.
Archery World Cup: Deepika Kumari clinches gold medal in women's recurve event
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Playing around with the Mets’ budget, pre and post Mariners trade
Latest update from SNY’s Andy Martino does not have the big trade with the Mariners being completed today. And until the deal is done, there’s always the possibility it falls apart. So, let’s pretend for a minute that trade doesn’t happen. And let’s see what other options are out there for the Mets.
Unfortunately, we always have to start with salary as the owners impose financial restraints that other big market clubs don’t have. And please – no comments about the cheap owners. We all know, understand and agree. We don’t need Captain Obvious pointing out that the sky is blue.
Here’s what’s for sure, with all totals in millions:
$29 – Cespedes
$15 – Wright
$14 – Bruce
$ 9 – Frazier
$ 9 – Lagares
$ 8.5 – Swarzak
$ 8 – Vargas
Total – $92.5
Arbitration Estimates from MLBTR
$12.9 – deGrom
$5.9 – Syndergaard
$5.3 – Wheeler
$4.7 – Flores
$4.4 – Conforto
$3.7 – d’Arnaud
$3 – Matz
$1.3 – Plawecki
That’s $133.7 million for 15 players, two of which won’t be on the Opening Day roster. So, the club has to fill 12 spots and while many of them will be minimum wage type guys, that doesn’t leave a ton of available payroll, assuming that the number will be similar to the OD payrolls of the past two seasons.
Last year they paid Matz $577,000 so let’s use that figure for the upper end of the pre-arb players and assign minimum wage to the remaining slots and see what total we’re at and how much money remains. Minimum wage will be $555,000 in 2019.
$.577 – Lugo
$.577 – Gsellman
.577 – Nimmo
.577 – Rosario
.555 – McNeil
.555 – backup infielder
.555 – backup outfielder – need two
.555 – reliever – need 4
Total – $8.1 million
That’s $141.8 million with eight guys making minimum wage and four others making well under one million. And since last year’s OD payroll was $150.6 million and the year before was $154.4 million – that only leaves roughly $12 million to spend without a significant upgrade in the available budget.
If the club non-tenders d’Arnaud and Flores, that’s a net addition of $7.3 million, assuming they’re replaced with minimum wage guys.
That’s roughly $19 million to divide somehow among catcher, first base, outfield and the bullpen. You have to make choices and it’s hard to imagine that this type of budget leaves money for first base or the outfield. They have to spend something on a catcher because the idea of Plawecki and a minimum wage guy is hard to accept. And while some of the relievers will be in-house options, it’s hard not to imagine a closer being where the club spends money.
Now, let’s do this with the reported Mariners deal, which has from a major league roster perspective Bruce and Swarzak leaving and Cano and Diaz and roughly $12 million arriving.
SP – deGrom, Syndergaard, Wheeler, Matz, Vargas — $35.1
RP – Diaz (pre-arb), Gsellman, Lugo, 4 minimum wage guys – let’s call it a nice round $4 million
C – Plawecki, minimum wage – round up to $2
INF – Cano, McNeil, Rosario, Frazier, 1B, backup MI – roughly $25
OF – Conforto, Nimmo, Lagares, two backups – roughly $12
Dead Money – Wright, Cespedes – $44
That’s $122.1 million, leaving roughly $30 million for upgrades. You no longer have to spend on a closer, although you’ll still probably add at least one reliever. But even setting aside $5 million for a reliever, you still have $25 million for a catcher, 1B and OF. And there’s always the option to play Cano at 1B for however long Cespedes is out or until Alonso is deemed ready. Or you could focus on still spending on the bullpen to go along with the new catcher. Something like Grandal and Callaway’s old pal Miller.
It could be a post All-Star break lineup like this:
CF – Nimmo
LF – Cespedes
RF – Conforto
C – Grandal
2B – Cano
1B – Alonso
3B – McNeil/Frazier
SS – Rosario
At the start of the year it would have Lagares instead of Cespedes in the outfield, with Cano at first and McNeil at second. With the starters intact and a bullpen of Diaz, Miller and Lugo to shut the door, it could work.
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19 comments for “Playing around with the Mets’ budget, pre and post Mariners trade”
Dallas DeVries
I think if the Mets sign Grandal and Miller and extend DeGrom then Mets fans will be happy and we will compete. I don’t know how trading Syndergaard makes any sense however. That would require signing another SP for a bunch of $$
In Review—you’ve eliminated Flores and d’Arnaud from the “after the trade”… so, it’s really a push—within a couple of million.
What you’re saying isn’t clear to me.
It seems you’re saying that keeping the two non-tender guys eliminates the savings from the proposed deal – well, that’s simply not true. If we cut them both without the trade, the Mets have expenditures of roughly $134.5 million. If we cut them both with the trade, they have expenditures of roughly $122.1 million – while fortifying the bullpen and possibly even 1B.
No Brian…I was just observing that the Trade is pretty much Salary Neutral, at least in year one—you included Wilmer and Travis in your Pre-Trade Model and left them off the Post Trade iteration.
No I didn’t.
Here’s the salary they add on:
Cano – $24 million – 12 million per that Mariners are sending over = $12 million
Diaz – pre arb
Here’s the salary they lose:
Bruce – $14 million
Swarzak – $8.5 million
That’s around $10 million that they save, regardless of what they do with Flores and TDA
Joe F
Don’t think they are spending money at 1B with the available internal options. Maybe if Alonso falls flat and Smith shows nothing, but given limited resources, I think it will be focused on pen and C
TdA stays (for now…)
Flores (mercifully) non tendered.
I hope this means the medicals are ok on d’Arnaud.
Would Alderson have cut Flores? I’d like to think so but I wouldn’t have wagered money on it.
I think this is an insurance tendering with minimal cost involved. The Mets need a catcher still (Gomes in final throes of being moved to Nats), but at least he has experience. My understanding is if he is released prior to the start of the season the financial exposure is < 1M$.
David Groveman
Since the Mets seem to be bringing back d’Arnaud I think I have a handle on what they plan to trade Noah Syndergaard for.
Mets trade Noah Syndergaard to the Padres for Francisco Mejia, Chris Paddock and other prospects. I’d like MacKenzie Gore but I doubt it. More likely to be an assortment of other good prospects (I’d want Anderson Espinosa, but we shall see).
This would give the Mets room to transition Mejia up and pitching prospects to make up for this trade with Seattle. Chris Paddock immediately replaces Justin Dunn in the depth charts and give the Mets someone who can step into Syndergaard’s spot in the near future.
I hope that a Syndergaard deal is off the table.
I really dislike the idea of trying to replace him with a free agent starter. That seems destined to fail.
a 36 year old 2bman and then trading a very good under control 25 year old RH Pitcher—even though I’m not a Noah Booster, the guy they sign to replace him is more expensive and not as good.
I dispise one foot on the platform with the other on the train!!!!
MattyMets
So many things happening at once! Feels like that scene in Anchorman when they all start shouting out nonsense. “Loud noises!” Hope when all the chips fall we’re left with a team that makes sense. Trading away an affordable 25-year-old potential ace pitcher and two top prospects, bringing in an expensive 36-year-old second baseman, releasing one of our few good righty bats and a fan favorite, bringing back the world’s most injuey prone catcher…is there method to this madness???
As I’ve stated on numerous occasions I’ll take Marwin Gonzalez as a super sub that takes only 1 roster spot but can play multiple positions infield and outfield. Grandal takes care of catcher. Which still leaves you with money for pen relief.
You can always trade TDA in ST
Why trade Thor and add a FA who may or may not work out playing in NYC? You need that 3rd starter in the playoffs. Kinda reminds me of a young Nolan Ryan just starting to find his potential.
Nym6986
I like the Cano trade both for the players and the money. We have to try and win in the next few years with our starting staff. Keep Thor. Get a catcher and one more strong right handed bat and we compete for the division and more. It’s just that simple. We have no great track record of drafting players so why kid ourselves about the potential of our prospects. When did the last 20 year old we groomed hit the majors? Doc and Straw? Let’s give our new and inexperienced GM some time to move this team forward
Your analysis of the salaries is spot on Brian. The Mets should have signed a free agent catcher, preferably Grandal or Ramos before the non-tender deadline. They should have non-tendered both Travis and Wilmer and saved 8.4 million dollars that could have gone to part of Grandal’s contract. Tendering Travis’s contract is very bewildering. No one should be untouchable unless it improves the team. I’m opposed to the Syndergaard trade but if it blew me away then you’d have to make that trade. That trade would have be a MLB star who would put the Mets over the top in their win now philosophy not a bunch of prospects. Right now the front office is sending crossed signals to the fan base.
jennifer c
That 12.9 estimate on deGrom is a lowball due to antiquated arb system. Weren’t they saying that before he won Cy? 12.9 is the min he’s getting.
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Mets Need To Hit Reset Button And Trade Wilson Ramos
When the signing happened, it seemed like the Mets made the right decision in signing Wilson Ramos to a two year deal. Ramos was coming off a year with a 131 wRC+, and he was comfortable in the National League East. With the state of catching in the majors, Ramos was that rare impact bat behind the plate, and the Mets were getting him on a short-term deal.
If we are being honest, the Ramos signing has not worked out well for the Mets.
At the time Dave Eiland and Chuck Hernandez were fired, Matt Ehalt of Yahoo reported Ramos was “causing frustration.” It should be noted at the time of this report, Tomas Nido had already become Jacob deGrom‘s de facto personal catcher. Ramos has caught deGrom since, but for the most part, it has predominantly been Nido catching deGrom.
As reported by Joel Sherman and Mike Puma of the New York Post, the Mets have also opted to make Nido the personal catcher for Noah Syndergaard. Unlike with deGrom, the Mets admitted this was the case when Mickey Callaway saying, “With what we’re trying to do with Syndergaard, keeping the ball down, [Nido] is a good complementary catcher for him. He receives the ball down better, so it’s something we have to continue to do.”
With the Mets top two starters having Nido as their personal catcher, the Mets have gone from having Ramos as their starter to creating a time share behind the plate. This has been the result of a number of factors.
First and foremost, Nido is the superior defensive catcher. For example, Ramos leads the Majors in passed balls, and Mets pitchers have 17 wild pitches with him behind the plate. On more than one occasion, you were left wondering about Ramos’ effort level or technique on balls in the dirt.
From a pitch framing perspective, Baseball Prospectus rates Nido as the 27th best pitch framer. Of the top 30, he has the second fewest chances. Ramos is ranked 85th. This is something Callaway had eluded to when speaking about Nido becoming Syndergaard’s personal catcher.
The main issue with Ramos isn’t his catching, it’s his bat. On the surface, he seems fine with a 103 wRC+ which ranks as the fourth best among qualified catchers. That’s even above J.T. Realmuto, who was a top Mets trade target this offseason. When you expand the search to catchers with 150 plate appearances, Ramos’ wRC+ ranks 14th.
While ranking well among catchers, this is not the 130 wRC+ catcher the Mets signed this offseason. It’s not a bat sufficient enough to carry his poor defense behind the plate. There are some warning signs this can get worse with the 31 year old having a career worst GB% and GB/FB ratio with his worst ISO in four years.
Fact is the Ramos signing has not panned out, and the signs indicate there may not be any improvement next year. If the opportunity presents itself, the Mets should push to move him at the trade deadline. Of course, that is easier said than done with many of the postseason contenders being either fairly set at catcher, being near their luxury tax thresholds, or both.
Still, if the opportunity presents itself, the Mets should make the move. It will give the team an extended look at Nido behind the plate while also possibly getting a look at Ali Sanchez, who is Rule 5 eligible, as a defensive backup. It would also given them an opportunity to pursue Yasmani Grandal in the offseason.
Grandal appears to be the one who got away. So far this season, Grandal has been the top catcher in baseball as rated by fWAR, and he is second according to wRC+. As Grandal recently said, “You never know, you have another offseason in which it could happen. Everything happens for a reason. I believe in that. I am here because that didn’t happen. It was crazy. [The Mets] were definitely the front-runner. They were pushing really hard. We were just too far apart.” (Joel Sherman, New York Post).
If the Mets can move Ramos at the trade deadline, that’s $11.75 million off next year’s budget. With Todd Frazier, Juan Lagares, and Zack Wheeler being impending free agents, and presuming Jason Vargas‘ option is declined, along with other expiring deals, there will be an approximately $21 million more coming off the books. That is more than enough payroll room to push the reset button on the Ramos decision to bring in Grandal this coming offseason.
Overall, there were many things which went wrong this past offseason, but the more you look at it, Ramos has been one of the bigger missteps, especially when you consider how the Mets best pitchers no longer want to pitch to him. Based upon his track record, they will like pitching to Grandal, and the Mets will enjoy his bat in the lineup. As a result, the Mets need to push to trade Ramos at the deadline.
Ali Sanchez , Dave Eiland , Juan Lagares , Mickey Callaway , Noah Syndergaard , Todd Frazier , Tomas Nido , Wilson Ramos , Zack Wheeler
7 thoughts on “Mets Need To Hit Reset Button And Trade Wilson Ramos”
mets need to trade ramos, frazier, familla, vargas, lowrie and get what they can for them
dfa lagares
get rid of cano even if it includes dom smith.
metsdaddy says:
No one is taking Lowrie, and I don’t see a point in DFAing Lagares because the Mets gave zero organizational depth behind him.
Blair M. Schirmer says:
@tom Agree on Vargas and Frazier, but selling low on Ramos when he’s the Mets best catcher and they have no one to take his place only hurts them. (I’ve long thought the G Steinbrenner Yankees would have signed Grandal to start and Ramos to back him up, but that’s not happening w these Mets.)
They won’t get anything for Familia, but they also need to stop letting him pitch until he heals. It’s ludicrous to keep sending him out to the mound. They did the same with Vargas late last April and sent him out for something like 9 starts when it was obvious he was pitching hurt. Good teams never do this–they never keep sending players who are obviously injured to the mound to blow up the team’s chances. Find the injury, get the doctor’s report, and get him out of there and into the minors or rehab until he can pitch again. It’s ridiculous.
Lagares is a 1/3-time player and the Mets have played him into the ground. They should pace him from here on out… but it doesn’t matter. No one’s trading more than a literal bag of baseballs for him prior to July 31st and that’s w the Mets picking up 98% of his salary. Same with Lowrie. There are some guys you can trade while they’re on the IL, but Lowrie’s not one of them unless the Mets want to eat most of his salary and get some team’s 40th best prospect. Why sell low, though, when Lowrie’s upside is a 3 win player in 2020? They might as well hang onto him, assume he won’t contribute, build the 2020 team as if he won’t help, and be pleasantly surprised if he can take over 2B from Cano or… whomever.
re Cano no one would take him and the 4/79m still owed him if the Mets threw in Dom Smith. Smith has all of 157 good PAs to his name. He’s worth… 10m? Guys like Smith burn out all the time after a good 1/4 of a season.
What about packaging Jeff McNeil with Cano to unload the latter without picking up salary? (I wouldn’t do it, but it’s the kind of thing that’s interesting to think about–what would the Mets have to do to dump Cano’s salary?) Say McNeil is 4 win player. His acquiring team would have him for 2020-2024, or 5 seasons. He’s old for his MLB experience, and will tend to go into his decline phase starting in 2021. Figure he’ll be worth 15 WAR to his new team as he declines, and they’ll pay him 2 minimal salaries then arb awards amounting to 40, 60, and 80% of his FA value, or about 1.8 * 15m = 27m.
Make it 30m in salary versus his projectable value of 15 * 9m = 135m. So, yeah, the Mets could send away McNeil and Cano and expect to get back a modest talent–someone worth about 55m in surplus value. That’s a decent player, but it also shows how hideous the Cano contract is. McNeil would be too much too include, but the Mets could not get a team like the Dodgers or Yankees to take deGrom and Cano in a straight up deal for some 32 yo in A-ball with no future. That wouldn’t be close to enough. Maybe a package of deGrom, Smith, Rosario and Nido would be enough to get a team to take on Cano and his salary?
OldBackstop says:
Whatever. We have the worst defense and the worst bullpen in baseball, flipping catchers doesn’t right the ship;.Rivera and Mezz were fine back there, as are Plawecki and D;Arnaud.
Go away: Callaway, Ramos, Lagares, Matz, Familia, Rosario
Get Cano to massively rework the next four years,
Hire: David Wright as manager
Trade. Thor or Alonso for arm any up the middle blue chips
Extend Wheeler right now.
Going back to Grandal significantly improves everything, and it makes zero sense to purge your young talent while extending Wheeler.
Mainstream writers like Jay Jaffe were noting that adding Ramos only added about a win to the 2019 Mets. That was before the foolish Plawecki deal, of course. Still, Ramos projected to be about a 2 win catcher and that’s close to what he’ll be worth when this season is done.
As for skipping Syndergaard and deGrom’s starts, that’s fine. Ramos shouldn’t be catching more than about 60% of the Mets games, anyway. With his age and injury history he’s a 100 game catcher at this point. That’s what he averaged from 2016 through 2018, and it’s a good target.
Not his fault some of his numbers are down. The Mets have ridiculously overplayed him in 2019. The idea of having a 31 yo catcher with a long injury history on pace to catch 140 games, is absurd, and has a great deal to do with his underperforming, as modest as that underperformance has been.
If the Mets could arrange a multiway deal and replace Ramos with Grandal while contemporaneously extending Grandal, then sure. But failing to do that in-season, dealing Ramos, then putting all their eggs in the Grandal basket while putting themselves at Grandal’s agent’s mercy during the offseason would be a costly move, a move with an excellent chance of not getting done–particularly when they have an above average catching tandem in Ramos and Nido. Ideal, no. But most teams have ideal solutions at zero to three positions. That’s not to mention that spending 70m on Grandal when they need to spend 15m-20m AAV on a real starting pitcher, looks unwise.
Catching going into 2020 (assuming they don’t destroy Ramos’ knees before then) is among the least of the Mets worries. There are 14 primary positions within the 25 man roster, and the 2020 Mets are currently set at 1B, RF, C, and two SP slots. If they’re going to upgrade they need to look at CF, 3B, SS, and 3 SP slots before they look to catcher. Ramos just isn’t a problem. He’s an imperfect player who has been badly used that the Mets should not be selling low on, particularly when they have so many other suppurating wounds on the roster.
I’d actually argue to the contrary. Catcher is a big concern. With Ramos’ inability to frame and inability to get down to block pitches, the staff can’t be as effective low in the zone forcing the ball to come up.
Bringing in a Grandal will be a huge boost to this pitching staff, which will help this team all the more.
If I’m the Mets, I’m all-in on Grandal.
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Board index » MORMON DISCUSSIONS » The Terrestrial Forum
Lamanite only a political designation?
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Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:58 pm
The Nehor wrote:
thestyleguy wrote:
and does that increase or decrease in a single generation on your beliefs or increase or decrease over generations with where you live....or stay the same based on where you live.
Generally not to my knowledge. It is possible of course that God caused an alteration. It is also possible that the Lamanites melded quickly with a pre-existing population with a different skin tone in which case the shift could be made in a single generation though it would likely take several for the change to be complete.
which would create a lot of offspring which would produce a lot more offspring and the DNA results could be found today just like the Lemba tribe in Africa.
I want to fly!
The Nehor
Perhaps, we'll see.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics
"I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
John Larsen
Location: Lehi, UT
What makes you think we'll see? If there is no genetic link as the critics contend, is it possible that believers will always erroneously be awaiting future evidence that doesn't exist?
Mormon Expression
William Schryver wrote:
Whether or not anyone ever authoritatively pronounced on the topic at hand is irrelevant to you.
??? OF COURSE it's relevant to me!
From your fundamentalist viewpoint, everything a prophet or apostle ever said is absolute truth.
God is a fundamentalist, too. God only calls apostles who are also fundamentalists. God also calls prophets only after they have been groomed for maximum fundamentalism.
Of course, it's no wonder you fell away if that's what you believed. They were guaranteed to eventually disappoint you.
So tell us, Will: Which of the Lord's mouthpieces' other teachings consistently promulgated over the last 150 years are also pure bunk?
William Schryver
Location: Elsewhere
guy sajer wrote:
Whether or not anyone ever authoritatively pronounced on the topic at hand is irrelevant to you. From your fundamentalist viewpoint, everything a prophet or apostle ever said is absolute truth. Of course, it's no wonder you fell away if that's what you believed. They were guaranteed to eventually disappoint you.
Taking seriously a claim made repeatedly by numerous of the Lord's annointed (sic) over a period of over 150 years hardly qualifies as taking everything a prophet or apostle says as "absoute truth."
Again, revisionist BS.
What "claims" are you talking about? Let's see you assemble a small collection of these "claims" that you say were made "repeatedly" over the course of the last century and a half. I'm really interested to see what was "claimed" that you think is now being "revised."
Man, I just love to interact with you fundie apostates . . .
... every man walketh in his own way, and after the image of his own god, whose image is in the likeness of the world, and whose substance is that of an idol ...
It is clear to me the Will not only holds in contempt all of the critics, but most of the faithful also.
John Larsen wrote:
Yes, but I believe the Book of Mormon took place on Titan so I'm not expecting anything.
Shades:
First you tell us what "teachings consistently promulgated over the last 150 years" I've already pronounced as bunk. I missed that part.
All I've done is argue (and you've tacitly agreed with me) that the Book of Mormon makes it clear that "Lamanite" is a purely political, not an ethnic, designation. And that there is nothing in the Book of Mormon that would suggest that everyone mentioned is a descendant of Lehi. Indeed, there are some passages that appear to suggest a contrary conclusion.
You are apparently suggesting that my argument contradicts "teachings consistently promulgated over the last 150 years" -- apparently from something you term "the Lord's mouthpieces." I don't see it, and you haven't demonstrated it. Perhaps you and guy can collaborate and come up with something.
Really? How so?
(This is such a typical fundie exmo reaction! I should start making a list of them:
1. Will insinuate that it has always been taught and expected in the church that everything said by a prophet and/or apostle is absolute truth and cannot be subject to later revision or amplification, let alone contradiction.
2. Will claim that apologetic arguments contradict everything said and taught in the church since its inception.
3. Will claim that apologetic arguments are an affront to the cherished beliefs of the vast majority of faithful LDS.)
Wow, you've pronounced it as bunk. Imagine that. I guess that settles the issue.
How many quotes by how many of the Lord's annointed would be necessary to convince you that this was both believed and taught for over 100 years by presumed prophets and apostles?
I've not agreed with you tacitly or explicitly that the the term Lamanite is a purely political designation.
What do you define the Lord's mouthpieces? Do prophets and apostles qualify under your definition? They do under mine, and they likewise make the claim for themselves.
I don't see your agument, and you have not even come close to demonstrating it.
It's revisionist BS.
God . . . "who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, . . . and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him ..."
YOU'RE MISSING THE POINT. I never said you already pronounced X teachings as bunk; I'm asking you to start pronouncing X teachings as bunk. In other words, please tell us which others of the Lord's mouthpieces' clear and consistent teachings over the last 150 years are falsehoods.
You've already given us the example of the Lamanites being the principal ancestors of the American Indians. What other examples are there that you've figured out?
All I've done is argue (and you've tacitly agreed with me) that the Book of Mormon makes it clear that "Lamanite" is a purely political, not an ethnic, designation.
Right. And everyone who was ever given the political designation of "Lamanite" was a descendant of Lehi.
And that there is nothing in the Book of Mormon that would suggest that everyone mentioned is a descendant of Lehi.
Are you kidding me?? There's LOTS in the Book of Mormon that would suggest that everyone mentioned is a descendant of Lehi. For just one example, Nephi, in vision, talked about the Spirit of the Lord moving upon a certain gentile who crossed the waters (clearly Christopher Columbus), after which many other gentiles came forth upon the land. In other words, the gentiles--non-Israelites--were to begin showing up after the Nephites were wiped out some 1,000 years later. They were not already there when Lehi & co. were due to arrive.
Indeed, there are some passages that appear to suggest a contrary conclusion.
Only if one grasps at straws.
I think it's beyond dispute that something I term "the Lord's mouthpieces," a.k.a. "prophets" and "apostles," clearly and consistently taught over the last 150 years that the Lamanites are the principal ancestors of the American Indians. Take a look at any random Central or South American temple dedicatory prayer for just X examples among many.
(Are you really claiming that the Lord's mouthpieces never taught any such thing? WOW--that's so Orwellian it's scary.)
... everyone who was ever given the political designation of "Lamanite" was a descendant of Lehi.
Thus saith Shades.
But it's not in the Book of Mormon, and it's never been taught as "doctrine." Again, these are nothing more than your fundie assumptions.
I think it's beyond dispute that something I term "the Lord's mouthpieces," a.k.a. "prophets" and "apostles," clearly and consistently taught over the last 150 years that the Lamanites are the principal ancestors of the American Indians.
I'll bet you can't find a single instance of a "prophet" or "apostle" using the phrase "principal ancestors", whether in a temple dedicatory prayer or a conference talk, or whatever.
I have no doubt that some people, including prophets and apostles, may have believed in extreme notions of the origins of native Americans -- that they were all 100% descended from Lehi. But I am aware of no formal dogma to that effect; no "teachings" per se along those lines. Yes, when Spencer W. Kimball speaks of the Navajo, his language may convey his assumption that they are 100% descendants of Lehi. But, again, I know of no "teachings" along those lines.
I challenge you to find something, anything, that will prove your assertion that "the Lord's mouthpieces ... consistently taught over the last 150 years that the Lamanites are the principal ancestors of the American Indians." That means you'll need to start with Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and continue on to our lifetimes.
And remember, an opinion implied in the context of talking about something else does not constitute a "teaching." I want to see prophets and apostles TEACHING this precept. I couldn't care less what a prophet or apostle may have believed regarding this, that, or the other minutiae of LDS doctrine or practice. But you have assured us that "the Lord's mouthpieces ... consistently taught over the last 150 years that the Lamanites are the principal ancestors of the American Indians." I want to see the evidence of that bold claim.
I have seen considerable evidence to the contrary. Matt Roper (and others) have assembled a large body of evidence that would seem to contradict your claims. So, have at it Shades. Let's see you establish your fundie argument that: ""the Lord's mouthpieces ... consistently taught over the last 150 years that the Lamanites are the principal ancestors of the American Indians."
I'll check back later . . .
I think Bruce R. McConkie wrote that the Lamanites were the principal ancestors.
Thanks, thestyleguy.
Let's see you establish your fundie argument that: "the Lord's mouthpieces ... consistently taught over the last 150 years that the Lamanites are the principal ancestors of the American Indians."
Well, the Lord, through his mouthpiece Joseph Smith, conveyed that the Lamanites were the people on the borders of Missouri, according to D&C 54:8.
So God apparently thought that Lamanites and American Indians were one and the same. When God gave Joseph Smith that revelation, was He wrong?
BishopRic
Regional Representative
Location: SLC (behind the Zion Curtain)
No, don'tcha see? The new spin is that they ARE the Lamanites -- politically. That way, what all the profits said was accurate. The only question I have is what "blessings" are they supposed to receive for being "political Lamanites," the chosen people?
Political blessings?
Überzeugungen sind oft die gefährlichsten Feinde der Wahrheit.
[Certainty (that one is correct) is often the most dangerous enemy of the
truth.] - Friedrich Nietzsche
Another problem is the fact that "Lamanite" leaders often self-identified themselves on the basis of their own lineage.
by the way, I've never met a single exmormon who thought the prophet spoke for God every time he opened his mouth. What we do tend to expect is that when the prophet addresses a congregation, functioning in his role as prophet, and speaking "in the name of Jesus Christ", he would actually take the time beforehand to seek inspiration and, you know, be accurately inspired in that talk.
Otherwise, we might have to conclude the the whole idea of inspiration and "personal revelation" is, well, you know, "bunk".
Here's a post I put together a while ago that contains pertinent information:
From “background information” on the church’s website, regarding the Book of Mormon:
http://www.LDS.org/ldsnewsroom/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=
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Latter-day Saints also consider the Book of Mormon to be a record of great ancient-American civilizations.
According to the record, one of these civilizations stemmed from a man named Lehi who left Jerusalem with his family around 600 B.C. They traveled to the sea, built a boat and continued over sea to the Americas.
Following the party’s arrival in the New World, growing disharmony caused family groups to fragment into clans that evolved eventually into two opposing nations. Conflicts ensued during the recorded 1,000 years, leading to the eventual demise of one of these nations.
Within the context of this story is a series of prophecies and testimonies about Jesus Christ as the Savior of the world, including, strikingly, a visit by the risen, resurrected Jesus to the people in the New World.
The Book of Mormon records that during Christ's ministry to the people of ancient America, He established His church, as in the Old World.
According to the record, the people lived in unity and prosperity for nearly 200 years following Christ's visit.
Then, over time, many people began to abandon Christ's teachings. Wickedness prevailed among them, and a war of extermination resulted in the destruction of an entire nation.
Now, notice the statement "one of these civilizations, certainly a nod to LGT. However, LGT does not allow for the "destruction of an entire nation".
A talk by Mark E. Peterson, “The Last Words of Moroni”, Ensign, Nov 1978
http://LDS.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnex ... RD&locale=
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Moroni’s father was commander of the armies of this ancient people, known as Nephites. His name was Mormon. The war of which we speak took place here in America some four hundred years after Christ. (See Morm. 6.)
As the fighting neared its end, Mormon gathered the remnant of his forces about a hill which they called Cumorah, located in what is now the western part of the state of New York.
Their enemies, known as Lamanites, came against them on this hill. Of that dreadful event Mormon wrote:
“My people, with their wives and their children, did now behold the armies of the Lamanites marching towards them; and with that awful fear of death which fills the breasts of all the wicked, did they await to receive them.
“… Every soul was filled with terror because of the greatness of their numbers.
“And it came to pass that they did fall upon my people with the sword, and with the bow, and with the arrow, and with the ax, and with all manner of weapons of war.
“And it came to pass that my men were hewn down, yea, even my ten thousand who were with me, and I fell wounded in the midst.” (Morm. 6:7–10.)
Then he spoke of other leaders serving with him in the Nephite army, all of whom had fallen with the forces under their command. He accounted for about a quarter of a million Nephite soldiers killed in that final encounter at Cumorah.
A big battle in New York??? Bzzzt, thanks for playing.
Marion G. Romney, “America’s Destiny”, Ensign, Nov 1975
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In the western part of the state of New York near Palmyra is a prominent hill known as the “hill Cumorah.” (Morm. 6:6.) On July twenty-fifth of this year, as I stood on the crest of that hill admiring with awe the breathtaking panorama which stretched out before me on every hand, my mind reverted to the events which occurred in that vicinity some twenty-five centuries ago—events which brought to an end the great Jaredite nation.
You who are acquainted with the Book of Mormon will recall that during the final campaign of the fratricidal war between the armies led by Shiz and those led by Coriantumr “nearly two millions” of Coriantumr’s people had been slain by the sword; “two millions of mighty men, and also their wives and their children.” (Ether 15:2.)
As the conflict intensified, all the people who had not been slain—men “with their wives and their children” (Ether 15:15)—gathered about that hill Cumorah (see Ether 15:11).
The Jaredites in New York??? Bzzzt. Thanks for playing.
We hate to seem like we don’t trust every nut with a story, but there’s evidence we can point to, and dance while shouting taunting phrases.
http://www.mormonmesoamerica.com
SatanWasSetUp
What's the difference between a Mormon who doesn't believe what the prophets say, and an exmormon who doesn't believe what the prophets say? One is called an apostate and the other is called an apologist.
"We of this Church do not rely on any man-made statement concerning the nature of Deity. Our knowledge comes directly from the personal experience of Joseph Smith." - Gordon B. Hinckley
"It's wrong to criticize leaders of the Mormon Church even if the criticism is true." - Dallin H. Oaks
Brent Metcalfe
For those who may be interested in my (fully documented, yet concise) take on the leitmotif(s) of this thread, see:
Brent Lee Metcalfe, "Reinventing Lamanite Identity," Sunstone 131 (March 2004), 20–25.
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Our good friend here is sadly misusing his talents. Here he is schilling for revisionist Mormon history at no compensation trying to argue with a straight face and in all feigned sincerity that what Mormon prophets and apostles have taught for over 150 years (and what Mormon scripture affirms with any reasonable reading of it) is not only not true but that they didn't actually teach it (and that it is not actually found in Mormon scripture) and how the vast majority of faithful Mormons who believe it are silly fundamentalist fanatics.
I'm sure that somewhere there's some other fringe group who's willing to pay good money for a skilled dissembler to deny and distort. to proclaim the obvious to be false, and to twist history and common sense to fit some pre-determined fringist fantasy.
Ten years from now Will may well be arguing that Mormons never actually believed the BofM to be scripture, that the inspired men of God who proclaimed it thus were wrong, and the members (and critics) who took the inspired men of God at their word are foolish fanatics. Anyone want to take bets?
SatanWasSetUp wrote:
LOL!! So true! Into the signature line with ye!
As I've stated, it's downright Orwellian. "Oceania is at war with Eurasia, Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia," then along comes Winston Smith/William Schryver who, with the stroke of his pen, changes it to "Oceania is at war with Eastasia, Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia." The fact that the human mind is capable of such doublethink is enough to make one lose one's faith in mankind.
But let's face it: Mormonism needs people like Will Schryver so that they can keep a tithepayer base whenever they need to do a 180° doctrinal flip.
Agreed. Will should've been a lawyer.
Oh, I'm sure you're correct. I've noticed that all Mormon doctrines pass through five distinct stages:
Inspired revelation from God,
Doctrine, but not official doctrine;
Only his opinion,
Fringe interpretation believed only by fundamentalists, then
Anti-Mormon lie.
Will is at the cutting-edge, blazing the trail as the Lamanites/Native Americans doctrine moves into its "fringe interpretation believed only by fundamentalists" phase.
Thanks to folks like Will leading the charge, within 50 years the Lamanite/Native American connection will be an anti-Mormon lie.
KimberlyAnn
Cupcake Queen
beastie wrote:
I'm in agreement with your side note here, Beastie. As a Mormon, I never thought the "prophets" spoke on behalf of God every time they opened their mouths, but when they did claim to function as such, I expected them to be spot-on correct.
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Holders of J1 Visa shall, within 30 days from the date of their entry, apply to the exit/entry administrations of public security organs under local people's governments at or above the county level in the proposed places of residence for foreigners' residence permits.
Medical/Physical Examination Record from designated hospitals is not required to be attested by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Visa Notification Letter issued by the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China or other authorized units in China and an official letter issued by the media organization for which the journalist works.
Applicants should contact the press section of the Chinese Embassy/Consulate General in advance and complete the required formalities.
For tourism in China, Pakistani nationals are requested to join a tourist group (more than 5 people), which should be arranged through a qualified local travel agency.
Documents on the commercial activity issued by a trade partner in China, or trade fair invitation relevant entity or individual. The invitation letter should contain:
The applicant's taxpayer registration certificate (photocopy) and registration of the organization which the applicant serves in(photocopy)
Your bank statement (personal or company ,the last six months)
Your round-trip air tickets and hotel booking (first time visit to China)
Membership certificate and recommendation letter from the local chamber
Q1 Visa
For family reunion, the following documents are required:
An invitation letter issued by a Chinese citizen or a foreign with a Chinese permanent residence permit who lives in China. The invitation letter should contain:
Information on the visit ( purpose of visit, intended arrival date, place(s) of intended residence, intended duration of residence, relations between the applicant and the inviting individual, financial source for expenditures)
Information on the inviting individual (name, contact telephone number, address, official stamp, signature of legal representative or the inviting individual, etc.)
Photocopy of Chinese ID of the inviting individual or foreign passport and permanent residence permit.
Original and photocopy of certification (marriage certificate, birth certificate, certification of kinship issued by Public Security Bureau or notarized certification of kinship) showing the relationship of family members between applicant and inviting individual(photocopy should be attested by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan).
For foster care, the following documents are required:
Foster entrustment notarization issued by Chinese Embassies/Consulates General in foreign countries or Foster Care Power of Attorney notarized and authenticated in the country of residence or in China
Original and photocopy of the consignor's passport(s), as well as the original and photocopy of certification (marriage certificate, birth certificate, certification of kinship issued by Public Security Bureau or notarized certification of kinship) showing the relationship between parents and children.
A letter of consent on foster care issued by the trustee living in China who has agreed to provide foster care services and a photocopy of the ID of the trustee.
A photocopy of the certificate indicating the permanent residence status abroad of the parent(s) when the child was born, provided that either or both parents of the child are Chinese citizens.
Holders of Q1 Visa shall, within 30 days from the date of their entry, apply to the exit/entry administrations of public security organs under local people's governments at or above the county level in the proposed places of residence for foreigners' residence permits.
An invitation letter by a Chinese citizen or a foreign citizen with a Chinese permanent residence permit who lives in China. The invitation letter should contain:
Information on the visit (purpose of visit, arrival and departure dates, place(s) to be visited, relations between the applicant and the inviting individual, financial source for expenditures)
Information on the inviting individual (name, contact number, address, signature etc.)
Photocopy of Chinese ID or foreign passport and permanent residence permit of the inviting individual
Photocopy of certification (marriage certificate, birth certificate or notarized certification of kinship) showing the relationship of family members between the applicant and the inviting individual(attested by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan).
The applicant should submit relevant certification in accordance with relevant regulations, and meet the relevant requirements of the competent authorities of the Chinese government on high-level talents and individual with special skills urgently needed by China.
S1 Visa
Invitation Letter of Duly Authorized Entity or letter from Chinese university(original)
An invitation letter from the inviting individual (a foreigner who stays or resides in China for work or studies) which contains:
Information on the visit (purpose of visit, arrival and departure dates, place of intended residence, relations between the applicant and the inviting individual, financial source for expenditures, etc.)
Information on the inviting individual (name, contact telephone number, address, signature, etc.)
A photocopy of the inviting individual's passport and residence permit
Original and photocopy of certification (marriage certificate, birth certificate, certification of kinship issued by Public Security Bureau or notarized certification of kinship) showing the relationship of immediate family members between applicants and inviting individual(photocopy should be attested by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan)."Immediate family members" refers to spouses, parents, sons or daughters under the age of 18, parents-in-law.
Physical Examination Record for Foreigner (to be attested by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan. Blank form can be downloaded from this website);
Holders of S1 Visa shall, within 30 days from the date of their entry, apply to the exit/entry administrations of public security organs under local people's governments at or above the county level in the proposed places of residence for foreigners' residence permits.
S2-Visa
For visiting family members for a short period, the following documents are required:
An invitation letter issued by the inviting individual (a foreigner who stays or resides in China for work or studies) which contains:
Information on the visit (purpose of visit, arrival and departure dates, place(s) to be visited, relations between the applicant and the inviting individual, financial source for expenditures, etc.)
A photocopy of the inviting individual's (a foreigner who stays or lives in China for work or studies) passport and residence permit.
Photocopy of certification (marriage certificate, birth certificate or notarized certification of kinship) showing the relationship of family members between the applicant and the inviting individual(attested by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan). "Family members" refers to spouses, parents, sons, daughters, spouses of sons or daughters, brothers, sisters, grandparents, grandsons, granddaughters and parents-in-law.
For private affairs, documentation identifying the nature of the private affairs should be provided as required by the consular officer.
X1-Visa and X2-Visa
Original and photocopy of the Admission Letter issued by a school or other entities in China.
Original and photocopy of "Visa Application for Study in China" (Form JW201 or Form JW202).
Mark sheet/diploma(original and photocopy,photocopy should be attested by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan).
Physical Examination Record for Foreigner (to be attested by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan).
Holders of X1 Visa shall, within 30 days from the date of their entry, apply to the exit/entry administrations of public security organs under local people's governments at or above the county level in the proposed places of residence for foreigners' residence permits.
Z-Visa
One of the following documents:
Foreigners Employment Permit of the People's Republic of China issued by Chinese government authorities for Human Resources and Social Security, as well as Invitation Letter of Duly Authorized Entity or Confirmation Letter of Invitation issued by relevant Chinese entities.
Permit for Foreign Experts Working in China issued by the State Bureau of Foreign Experts as well as Invitation Letter of Duly Authorized Entity or Confirmation Letter of Invitation issued by relevant Chinese entities.
Registration Certificate of Resident Representative Offices of enterprises of foreign countries(regions) issued by Chinese authorities of industrial and commercial administration, as well as Invitation Letter of Duly Authorized Entity or Confirmation Letter of Invitation issued by relevant Chinese entities as well as Invitation Letter of Duly Authorized Entity or Confirmation Letter of Invitation issued by relevant Chinese entities.
An approval document for commercial performances issued by the Chinese government authorities for cultural affairs or Invitation Letter of Duly Authorized Entity or Confirmation Letter of Invitation issued by relevant Foreign Affairs Office of provincial governments of China.
Letter of Invitation to Foreigners for Offshore Petroleum Operations in China issued by China National Offshore Oil Corporation;
Holders of Z Visa shall, within 30 days from the date of their entry, apply to the exit/entry administrations of public security organs under local people's governments at or above the county level in the proposed places of residence for foreigners' residence permits.
Visa Processing and fees
Diplomatic and Official passport holders of the third countries as well as Pakistani ordinary passport holders are exempted from visa fees.
Entry Numbers American Citizens Romanian Citizens Citizens of Other Countries
Single Rs. 14,000 Rs. 7,500 Rs. 4,500
Double Rs. 14,000 Rs. 10,000 Rs. 6,500
Multiple Valid for 6 Months Rs. 14,000 Rs. 15,000 Rs. 9,000
Multiple Valid for 12 Months Rs. 14,000 Rs. 15,000 Rs. 13,000
Hongkong visa fees = Rs.3000
Macao visa fees = Rs.3000
Hongkong and Macao visa communication fees = Rs.2000
Entry permit for Hongkong SAR = Rs.1000
NOTE: Visa processing takes 4 working days.
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Celebrating Pre-Code Hollywood Cinema, 1930 – 1934
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Winner Take All (1932) Review, with James Cagney, Virginia Bruce and Marian Nixon
Jimmy Kane
James Cagney Joan
Virginia Bruce Peggy
Marian Nixon
Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By Roy Del Ruth
Proof That It’s Pre-Code
Virginia Bruce gets to model a stunning array of lingerie.
A trio of tailors fit Cagney for a suit and are very interesting in getting precise measurements of every inch of his body, and then giggling a bit afterward.
It’s a Cagney movie from the early 30s, so obviously a few naughty ladies are going to get smacked.
Winner Take All: Audience Take Nap
“The only thing I can’t stand is bad grammar coming from a perfect Grecian nose.”
James Cagney’s pre-Code career is hit or miss, no doubt about it. His personality is one of both eager machismo and a sinister smile, while also having a deep cachet of emotional vulnerability to draw on, something that’s extraordinarily hard to fit into a screenplay. Winner Take All is probably one of the least successful attempts, giving Cagney a character to play a bit outside his normal range: here he’s a slow-witted boxer named Jimmy Kane who is both pushy and repulsive. Kane is Jake LaMotta in a 30s Warner Brothers flick, with all the good and bad that that entails.
Condemned to a resort in New Mexico to dry out after some heart trouble (‘heart’ trouble almost certainly having a double meaning in terms of his bad luck with blondes), Jimmy Kane is out of his element for the first time in his life. A roughneck city boy, the country air and coyotes terrify him. That is until he meets Peggy, a single mom who used to be a waitress in a speakeasy where she’d run into Jimmy before. Now free from the hub and bub of city life, the two develop a sweet romance. He even takes a fight to help raise the money to further treat her kid, pretty much making him something akin to a dumb saint.
Trouble o’clock.
Unfortunately, Jimmy has to head back to the city– a corrupting force here– and overnight forgets Peggy as a voluptuous society girl named Joan (Bruce) appears in his life. He decides to class himself up, going so far to getting plastic surgery to fix some of the uglier features he’d acquired from his profession. This proves to be an even bigger turn-off to Joan as he sacrifices his bracing boxing stance to protect his new schnoz, and no matter how forceful he is with Joan, she just can’t be worked up enough to care about him. This comes to a head as he fights for the championship while Joan is most certainly running away with another man.
The only interesting character in the film has to be Virginia Bruce’s Joan, though it has to be said that it’s mostly because the film purposefully tricks the audience on several occasions to make her motivations murky. The character functions on two desires: attraction to Jimmy’s brawn and body while revulsion at his mental slowness. This attraction can flip at an instant, making her hard to read for the audience, let alone for Jimmy’s already confused brain– one moment she’s locking lips, the next she’s pushing him away with a devilish grin.
Smouldering.
Director Roy Del Ruth, who was also behind The Maltese Falcon, Blonde Crazy, and Beauty and the Boss, doesn’t mind messing with the audience when it comes to Joan either. Though she may welcome Jimmy and his new face into her fancy apartment with an embrace, once her friend shows up, she realizes that she’d rather antagonize him. Later, when Joan is late to the climactic bout, Del Ruth gives one cut to her that makes it look like she’s on her way– only to reveal a few moments later she’s actually running off to Havana while Jimmy is occupied.
It feels desperate, and that’s not much of a surprise. There’s a definite attempt to graft this story of a poor dumb mug with an ego the size of Madison Square Garden onto Cagney’s usual tough guy, love-em-and-leave-em machismo with little success. While there are some scrambling attempts to meaningfulness, the end really doesn’t seem like a satisfying conclusion for anyone.
One of the film’s endless boxing scenes.
Nixon is a non-entity, too pure to care about as a real person, with Dickie Moore as her son who is similarly too-twee to give two thoughts to. Guy Kibbee and Clarence Muse get a couple of nice moments as Jimmy’s promoter and manager, respectively, but not enough moments overall. The film has all of the hallmarks of what makes the Warner Brothers pictures of the time so exciting– the multiculturalism, the violence, the joy in challenging conventions– but lacks substance behind its madcap heart.
And Cagney tries here, he really does, but Jimmy is such a lout, it’s hard to find much sympathy for him. There’s just nothing connecting his good pieces to his bad pieces, and hole in the center of the character. Overall, it’s just a waste of material.
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Trivia & Links
Cliff at Immortal Ephemera, as usual, goes way more into detail on this one, including finding historical sources about the fights the film’s bouts are based on. Check it out for a lot more info on the film and it’s history, as well as Cliff’s opinion of Cagney:
While I didn’t particularly care for Jimmy Kane, Cagney is always a thrill to watch. His character may be dumbed-down, but Cagney is still quick with his comebacks. His footwork is all inside the boxing ring in this one and he probably sports as much make-up as he did in any film throughout his career, Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) included! I might not like Kane, but Cagney remains the reason to watch.
Mordaunt Hall’s original review is mixed, but kicks off with mentions of Public Enemy, Smart Money, Taxi, Blonde Crazy, and The Crowd Roars, which, you must remember, had all come out in the year leading up to this:
After having been highly successful in his portrayals as a gangster, a gambler, a taxicab driver, a confidence man and an automobile racer, James Cagney, the stormy petrel of the Warner Brothers’ Studio, turns his attenion, in “Winner Take All,” the current picture at the Strand, to impersonating a prizefighter, who prefers blondes but marries a brunette. The story of this new film is more than slightly callous and one that depends chiefly for entertainment on its obstreperous comedy.
Always great to see Clarence Muse.
TCMDB talks about Cagney doing his own fighting in this one:
Cagney trained for the role with a real-life boxer, former welterweight champion Harvey Parry, who has a role in the film. Cagney recalled in his autobiography that another professional fighter, watching him spar, was certain that Cagney had fought professionally – his footwork proved it. “I said, ‘Tommy, I’m a dancer. Moving around is no problem.'”
The Movie Morlocks looks at the film’s story’s origins:
The script was adapted from a 1921 story originally published in Redbook magazine by Gerald Beaumont, “133 at 3″. One of the screenwriters was Wilson “Bill” Mizner, a true American character who was a playwright, opium addict and entrepreneur who was a co-owner of the Brown Derby restaurant. In his autobiography Cagney fondly remembers how story conferences turned into bull sessions. One time Cagney was complaining how the boxing scenes were ruining his hands. Bill responded by showing his, which “looked as if someone had battered them with a sledgehammer.” Cagney said, “In the name of God, Bill, how did you get those?” Mizner responded, “Oh, hitting whores up in Alaska.” Mizner would die soon after in 1933. Winner Take All has the feel of one of Mizner’s tall tales, though with a smidgen less misogyny.
Movie Classics is pretty down here, but points out this interesting note:
I think both Nixon and Bruce give fine performances as the “good” and “bad” girls – interestingly, in this pre-code world, the “good” girl is a former waitress at a speakeasy, and the “bad” one is a society woman who won’t sleep with the hero.
“Cheerio, sucker!”
Some great stills and even a few clips from Doctor Macro.
Vitaphone Varieties takes about one interesting moment in the film, a flashback to Peggy and Jimmy’s first meeting that happens at Texas Guinan’s– which contains the only known remaining footage of Queen of the Night Clubs. More on it:
Utilized to introduce a brief flash-back depicting Marion Nixon as a speakeasy singer (she warbles a bit of “Was That the Human Thing to Do?” which dates from 1932 and not 1929, however) our glimpse of footage from “Queen of the Night Clubs” amounts to a scant 13 seconds or so of splendid looking but mute footage (the soundtrack has been replaced to accommodate a musical lead-in to Nixon’s little song) consisting of seven quick shots (six actually, with one being split into two) in which we see Texas Guinan holding reign above a festive crowd in her re-created nightclub (publicity items claimed the set was an exact duplication of her night-club’s main floor — which perhaps it was, albeit far more brightly lit and dramatically less smoke-filled!) as well as equally quick flashes of dancing girls, “Georgie” Raft leading the club’s band, and a glimpse of Arthur Housman at a table which dissolves into 1932’s “Winner Take All Footage.” To the credit of the 1932 film, more than a bit of care was taken in matching the new footage with the old, with props from the 1929 film (a tablecloth and lamp) being dug out to ensure a fairly seamless transition despite the sudden absence of ziggurat wall designs in the 1932 re-creation.
Mondo 70 reflects on Cagney’s pre-Code persona and what made him unique:
Apart from Public Enemy, Cagney was mainly a comic figure in the Pre-Code era, a transgressor who gets away with what we wish we could — usually smacking the sort of people we wish we could. Again, it says something about the era that his victims so often include women (he gives his niteclub date in the flashback a face full of seltzer water), but it doesn’t look like many women objected back then. His violence was essential to his manhood, and Winner underscores this, stressing that it’s not merely the physical grace that Cagney was praised for later but his willingness to mix, to put his chin out, get as good as he gives, that defines him.
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The cast of a new Brit horror movie being filmed on the Liverpool set of soap Brookside today claimed the infamous close is haunted.
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Actor Shaun Dooley, 33, who plays main character Kieran, said: “There’s been some strange things going on and the cast are convinced this street is haunted.
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No less than 72 characters were killed off during the Liverpool soap’s 21-year history.
Director Laurence Gough, 37, believes the close is the perfect set for a horror movie.
He said: “When we heard Brookside Close was available I thought it was an absolute must.
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The £250,000 film due out in autumn has been promised a glitzy premiere in Liverpool as part of the Capital of Culture programme.
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Tradition is Innovation and Other Useful Paradoxes
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Lately I’ve been really curious about what’s considered innovative in mainstream healthcare. I have my views and visions for what I think are good next steps for a sound health system–one based in communities and ecosystems, that takes into account ecological and animal health, based on positive health principles and prevention. But hey, that’s me, I wanted to what the people actually working on healthcare reform are talking about.
What’s considered innovative is all tech-related: eHealth, mobile apps, medical technologies that hope to reduce cost on the patient’s end. What a snooze. Healthcare innovation ought to be rooted in holistic design principles that are based on serving people and communities. Technologies should be in service of other driving factors. Technology shouldn’t be an end in itself.
It occurs to me: traditions in medicine and innovation in medicine sit on opposite ends of a polarity we’ve created as a culture. We operate under a kind of cultural Darwinism: that we’re always weeding out practices that aren’t desirable. So by default, things that are associated with the ‘Past’–which includes all traditional and indigenous knowledge bases–are left out of the picture. What a waste. Things that are really revolutionary are taken for granted as a result.
The Challenging Yet Loving Nature of Paradox
Paradoxical and contradictory behavior is found in complex systems. We see it all the time: food relief efforts simultaneously bring food to people but also take it away (because they destabilize local food systems), economic recovery efforts that help some aspects of the economy and cripple others. That’s because complex systems (like communities, economies, biological organisms, etc.) have many layers of structure and behavior. They have multiple dimensions of behavior. Depending on our mental models of reality, we interpret their plurality of behavior as contradictory or paradoxical.
So paradoxes only exist because of how we frame and perceive reality. In this way they also point out ways to wholeness. Instead of thinking of tradition and innovation as a line, let’s connect the endpoints. Tradition IS Innovation. Let’s think about what that means for a minute. It opens a floodgate of possibilities.
This kind of reconciliation of seemingly dichotomous opposites can be applied to other areas. The polarity of Sickness and Health, for example, is something that a lot of people really struggle with. We identify as Sick, we want to get to Point B: Health. But what possibilities open up when we think of Sickness as Health? Maybe that opens up new learning for people’s experience with illness, and shows a new way out of a pattern.
So seeing Tradition as Innovation in health can open up some new and more sensible possibilities for how our society deals with health. It would allow us to move forward in a holistic and integral way. Here are some other polarities & paradoxes to toss around:
Chaos | Order
Simplicity | Complexity
Natural | Artificial
Joy | Suffering
Good | Bad
And the list goes on. Identifying paradoxes we encounter can challenge us to see the wholeness in what seems at first to be a dichotomy. What paradoxes are existing in your life? And how can they serve your experience of wholeness?
Reality is whole and essentially nondual. Paradoxes present themselves to remind us of this fact. So as long as we live in a black and white way, we deny ourselves the experience of wholeness.
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The blue hedgehog stars in his best 3D game yet, but the overall experience is still flawed.
Along with icons like Mario or, if you're a TurboGrafx-16 fan, Bonk, Sonic the Hedgehog is remembered even today as one of the greatest 2D platformer franchises of all time. Sonic and the Secret Rings introduces several completely new game mechanics to the Sonic Universe. Skills are the basis of Sonic and the Secret rings - without them, the only thing Sonic will be doing fast is going no where.
By playing through missions, you'll begin to unlock more and more skills that can be added to your "Skill Ring." These skills can provide numerous benefits, such as letting Sonic run fast, jump further, or brake quicker. But here's the kicker: you're restricted in how many skills can be equipped at any given time. To help promote using different skill sets, the game provides four "Skill Rings" that you can equip skills too. Thankfully, you can increase the amount of skill points Sonic has available by gaining levels, as we'll show below.
Flick it forward to home in on an enemy and destroy it, which will also give you a bounce into the air. Rich Ring - These silver looking rings are worth 20 gold rings, so they're well worth seeking out. Players will control Sonic with the Wii Remote by holding the controller sideways with both hands, much like an NES controller, and will be able to use the controller in unique ways that will take advantage of the Wii Remote's control mechanisms.
Sonic and the Secret Rings will feature eight stages in the main game, but only six of them are officially known to the public at this time. This level is set in the Arabian Nights theme from which the game's setting is designed from. Set in the Dinosaur era in the past, this level features new pathways such as prehistoric jungles and running across the backs of certain dinosaurs.
Obstacles found throughout Dinosaur Jungle include various cacti, green enemies that simply float, the red enemies that spew fire, as well as the dinosaurs themselves; if Sonic is attacked by any of these threats, he will lose a maximum of 20 rings. Beat the Clock: This mission requires players to complete stages within a specified time limit (essentially, a time-trial). Chain Challenges This mission requires players to hold onto their rings without getting attacked by an enemy or hitting an obstacle. No Pearl: This mission requires players to avoid charging their soul meters, the meter that enables Sonic to use his special abilities.
Specific: 5 seperate stage-specfic challenges that are dependent upon which level you play on.
Interestingly, 6 of the 12 challenges for each stage must be cleared before players can progress to the next stage. In addition, through information collected from trailers for the game, it has been confirmed that time totals, ring totals, and scores will be tabulated throughout the course of the game. I actually reserved this game today, after watching the IGN videos and hearing such positive things about it.
However, the transition to the third dimension has not been kind to SEGA's mascot extraordinaire.
Tilt the controller left or right to move Sonic in that direction, and tilt the controller backwards (towards you) to move Sonic backwards.
You see, each skill uses up a certain amount of "Skill Points," of which Sonic only has a set amount, so skills must be carefully selected to ensure you're gaining the benefits you need for any particular mission.
They all have the same amount of Skill Points and allow you you to mix and match skills as you see fit. Once you collect enough experience points, Sonic will gain a level, which increases the amount of Skill Points Sonic has available. For maximum distance, launch yourself when the ring shrinks to its smallest point -this is essential for some levels.
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It was first known as Hyper Sonic during a showreel of upcoming Wii games at the Nintendo Press Event at E3 2006 (possibly the name for the beta version of the game) [citation needed], then turned up as Sonic Wild Fire during the same event in all of the following trailers, and then changed to Sonic and the Secret of the Rings before being slightly modified into Sonic and the Secret Rings in August. Not much is known, but obstacles will include a section where Sonic rides a rocket high above the water.
Very little is known about this level except a possible boss mentioned by the March 2007 issue of Nintendo Power, which described it as a metallic creature of some sort, arising out of a pool of molten metal. Players will confront a fork in a road and will be required to choose one of three paths, all of which lead to different areas to explore. Pitch Black!- Players use torches to light up panels in the dark and determine which one is different from the others.
Skydiving!- Players race in the air, dodging thunderclouds and other obstacles along the way to the goal. Edge Race!- Players control their very own Omochao and must guide it through a maze of pitfalls and obstacles to the goal. Treasure Haul- Players must sneak up on the asleep genie and carry gold away to their designated area without waking him.
Violin- Players play their violins in tune with the genie as closely as possible for maximum points. Hatchet- Players chop as much firewood as possible without hitting any Omochao that may appear. Safe Dial- Players try to decode a secret code to open a room full of treasure, much like Sonic the Theif from Sonic Shuffle. Kri Ma Djinn- Players must eliminate all the Kri Ma Djinn lurking in the dark using mirrors. Parasol Diving- Players must use parasols as they descend from the sky with goals of collecting airborne coins.
Cogwheel Relay- Players must spin gears and cogs to eliminate as many Kri Ma Djinn as possible.
Giant Stakes- Players must use hammers to knock down as many posts as possible before their rivals. Big Balloon- Players cautiously blow up a giant balloon without making it pop, similar to Bowser's Big Blast from Mario Party 2.
Canoe Salvage- Players swim in a lake, trying to collect medals whilst avoiding hungry crocodiles.
Balance Battle- Players balance on giant balls to avoid falling off a platform, similar to Bumper Balls from Mario Party. Home Run- Players play a round of baseball with goals of striking homeruns, similar to that of Baseball from Wii Sports.
Kri Ma Djinn- Players must catch Kri Ma Djinn falling from the sky using an extendable net. Putting Golf- Players play a round of golf on a special golf course, similar to that of Golf from Wii Sports'. Some of these unlockables include new characters for party games, movies of the making of the game, cutscenes, video interviews, concept art, music from the game, and even new, secret modes.
The speedy blue one jumped into 3D almost a decade ago on Dreamcast with sloppy level design and an even clunkier camera system and, despite several sequels and spin-offs, the Sonic games have not changed since. For example, if a mission is a timed race on a flat course, but you equip skills related to jumping, that's not an effective use of skill points.
For example, you can dedicate one ring to running while another can be assigned to jumping. Sonic's movement will also be controlled by tilting the controller left or right, much like a steering wheel.
It has also been revealed through trailers that, not dissimilar to the next-gen title, Sonic the Hedgehog, players will also have to locate hidden medals scattered throughout each of the stages. Dazzled by 3D so many years ago, critics and gamers were more forgiving of these issues - hell, we even went easy on the GameCube iterations, which had their share of problems. Well, very soon, you will be able to decide whether it truly deserves the praise it has garnered. Pulling the controller towards you allows you to make Sonic walk backwards, combining this with turning allows Sonic to rotate 360 degrees. But in today's market of polished 3D experiences, there is just no excuse for anything that falls short.
Case in point, recently released Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 hedgehog games boasted next-generation graphics, but were regardless ruined by the same design and technical shortcomings that have cemented Sonic firmly in mediocrity for years - and they received incredibly low ratings to prove it. If the player holds down this button, Sonic will slow down (and will even stop if it's held for a long time) to charge up a jump, and upon being released, he will execute a high jump through the air.
The purpose of these carpets is currently unknown but they are most likely to add replay value to the game.
Now, the hedgehog has made his way to Nintendo's new Wii console in Sonic and the Secret Rings.
The fresh play, which capitalizes on the fundamentals of the Wii remote, is sometimes a success, which makes this the very best 3D Sonic ever created, in our opinion.
Only by executing the sequence with proper timing will you be able to perform combo attacks, and hit other enemies or objects up ahead. But with that noted, the mascot still has a very long way to go before he can once again take his place next to competitors like Mario. The pages from the story are being erased by a villain known as Erazor Djinn and Sonic must literally travel into the book in order restore the tale. The theme, which seems inspired by everything from Sinbad and Aladdin to The Neverending Story, marks a fresh departure from the franchise norm.
Although classic allies like Knuckles and enemies like Eggman are still featured in the storyline, they are at least initially playing the parts of different characters. The title features an impressive opening cinematic, which comes to life through CG animation.
Unfortunately, the story sequences that follow are all designed to look like pages out of a book, which is far less aesthetically appealing.
Still, Sonic fans looking for a tale will find one in Secret Rings that is deeper than average, and to be fair the mission-based cinematics, while not grandiose, are plentiful.
Gamers turn the Wii remote on its side and steer the hedgehog through a series of missions that span seven diverse worlds. After all, the original Sonic titles - those classic 2D endeavors - felt almost the same way.
Furthermore, because Secret Rings unfolds largely on a set path - Sonic is always running forward and players tilt the controller left or right to veer into the respective directions - most of the frustrating, game-ruining glitches and oversights that have interfered with the enjoyment of other hedgehog games is absent.
Some will call it a limitation, but for the lightning-paced Sonic series, this imposed linearity becomes a necessity to the enjoyment of the experience. Players expecting to blaze through the first level at breakneck speeds will be disappointed because the hedgehog is only later able to accomplish those spectacular feats.
The game employs a surprisingly comprehensive character-building element that compels players to keep at it so that they can unlock new skills, apply them to Sonic and make him quicker, stronger and all around better. Quite the contrary, the RPG mechanic creates a harmony between the various levels, sub-missions and Sonic himself, who gradually becomes more capable as more stages are completed and more points unlocked. For example, the Mini-Turbo, which costs three skill points, gives the hedgehog a boost at the beginning of levels if gamers shake the Wii remote forward during the countdown from three. Aegis Slider, meanwhile, costs 10 skill points, but increases Sonic's defensive power when he's sliding. For starters, each of the areas has a drastically different look and style, which helps break up any monotony that may have sprung up. The deserts in Sand Oasis will never be confused with the lush tropical locales in Dinosaur Jungle and neither will the beautiful rainy Pirate Ship be mistaken for the impressive floating runways of the Levitated Ruin.
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The latter objective is usually a hair-pulling, frustrating-to-the-max undertaking because Uhl will sometimes win by a hair - and for all the wrong reasons, as we'll get to below.
The title is easily most enjoyable when Sonic is speeding along at a good clip and players can clearly see any environmental obstacles and enemies in their immediate path. It's during these moments that Secret Rings truly feels like a 2D Sonic game in 3D and players who can appreciate that will certainly find a lot to love about this Wii project. On top of that, some of the new Wii controls deliver a greater sense of satisfaction when performed. For example, when Sonic is soaring through the air and players shake the remote to send him hurling at a targeted enemy, it feels great - much better than pressing any button.
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Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co.
Posted on November 2, 2013 by editor
A Fiatallis HD-41B, which weighed upwards of 140,000 pounds counting blade and ripper.
The Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. (later Fiat-Allis and Fiatallis) made heavy construction equipment from 1928 until 1985 at a 70-acre plant between Sixth and 11th streets and Stanford Avenue and Stevenson Drive. At its peak in the 1960s, A-C employed about 6,500 people in Springfield.
Allis-Chalmers’ first Springfield plant was bought from Monarch Tractor Corp., which was in financial straits, in 1928. The Springfield Monarch factory, which was descended from a company that had manufactured crawler tractors in Watertown, Wis. since 1913, had opened in 1925. (The Wisconsin Monarch should not be confused with an identically named British manufacturer.)
RitchieWiki, a collaborative website about heavy equipment, explains Allis-Chalmers’ interest in Monarch.
Monarch’s pre-existing models, the Six-Ton and the Ten-Ton, would form the basis of Allis-Chalmers’ new track-type tractor line-up. Eventually, they would develop new models that included the Model 75/Model F and Model 50/Model H. These models were abandoned for the more favorable Model K, Model L, and Model M and in 1937 the Model S.
Like most manufacturing firms, Allis-Chalmers’ production was switched to wartime purposes during World War II. Although other portions of the firm contributed to the atomic bomb project, the Springfield plant’s output continued to focus on heavy equipment, such as artillery tractors and bulldozers, many of them used for airfield construction.
The Illinois State Journal noted A-C’s contribution to the war in a V-E Day edition on May 9, 1945.
The Allis-Chalmers Co. was the largest manufacturer of the crawler tread prime mover, and also the M-18, a machine which carried a crew of 15, supplies of ammunition and a large calibre field gun at high speed.
Following the war, A-C moved to outflank competitors like Caterpillar with the HD-19, the world’s largest track-type tractor. More than 2,600 were sold before the next model, the even more powerful HD-20, went into production.
A-C expanded in Springfield by buying American Radiator Co.’s factory at 11th and Ash streets in 1944 (that facility, identified as A-C’s No.. 2 plant, closed in 1968) and then added the Baker Manufacturing Co. plant, 503 E. Stanford Ave., in 1955. A-C also had a proving ground along the Sangamon River near Mechanicsburg.
Allis-Chalmers warehouse, 1945 (Sangamon Valley Collection)
Major products at the Springfield plant included crawler bulldozers, such as the HD-14 and later the HD-41 lines, and heavy-duty graders.
Facing both a recession and increased competition in the construction machinery, Allis-Chalmers entered a joint venture with Fiat S.p.A. in 1974. (A-C was the junior partner, with 35 percent ownership.) The venture operated under the names Fiat-Allis and then Fiatallis, but never gained the sales it needed.
The Springfield Fiatallis factory finally closed, costing the area 1,700 jobs, in 1985. Fiatallis itself eventually was sold to CNH.
“The loss of Fiat-Allis was the final blow to manufacturing as a dominant employer in Springfield industry,” wrote Edward Russo, Melinda Garvert and Curtis Mann in their 1998 Springfield Business: A Pictorial History.
Hat tips: This entry has been edited to reflect Steve O’Connor’s better information on peak employment at A-C. See his comment below for much more information about the company in the early 1960s. In addition, Kenneth Vance’s comment below has more detail about Fiatallis’ last years and its final shutdown. Thanks to both of them.
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50 Responses to Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co.
Sherri Boner says:
I donated several Allis-Chalmers/Fiat-Allis items in 2011, to the Sangamon Valley Collection. See Curtis Mann to look at them. I donated a scrapbook and other small items. Be sure to check them out (book can’t be checked out of library)
editor says:
Sherri: Thanks, I’ll do that. Even tho my dad worked at A-C/Fiatallis for more than 30 years, I was only in the plant once, so I’m interested in anything about the place.
I was just looking at my comment and I see a type.I meant to say that the book could not be check out! Not ‘look, can’t be checked out”. Sorry.
I also gave some things to a man who is in the A-C group. I forget his name now. I had found it in my parent’s papers. There is (or was) an A-C retirees group that met for lunch. However in 2011, the man said that not many came anymore. They are, of course, in their 80’s and 90’s, IF still alive.
I think I also donated some photos to Sangamon Valley Collection, of A-C people. I was never in the plant either.
Sherri: I knew what you meant, but thanks for the reminder that I need to look at those photos.
Rosemary Hinrichs says:
They are still alive and meet every other month for lunch and updates on members who are still living. My husband belonged and although he passed I still go to the lunches.
.He retired after 30 years.
Charles E Ryan says:
I believe there is a typo inside brackets (look should be book) Charles Ryan, 1980-1992
Ms. Boner noted the typo two years ago, but I apparently never made the change. Apologies to her, and thank you, Mr. Ryan for the reminder.
My dad worked at Fiat from 73-85. He worked near 11th and Stanford and would walk to work in good weather, since we lived in Southern View. He knew a lot of guys that worked the early shift that would clock in, walk to Spammy’s on Stanford, drink all day, then walk back right before quitting time. There were also guys that would finish their shift, drink at Spammy’s, then head back to work for their next shift.
Steve O'Connor says:
In the 1962 Illinois Manufacturers Directory ( 50th edition ) it listed the following information about the Springfield, IL. Allis-Chalmers plant:
Allis-Chalmers MFG. CO.
Telephone – 544-6431
Gen. Mgr.-A. C. Book
Works Mgr.-H. J. Detjen
Works Pur. Agt.-W. V. Kauffman
Traf. Mgr.-A. J. Bianco
Chief Eng.-F. A. Schick
Products-Tractors (crawler), Graders, Bulldozers, Snow Plows
Employs at this plant-6,500
Other plants at Springfield-1901 S. 11th St.
Other plants-see Deerfield, Harvey, Ill.
Employs in Illinois-9,000
Home Office-West Allis, Wisc.
1126 S. 70th St. (Milwaukee 1)
Telephone-SPring 4-3600
Pres.-Robert S. Stevenson
Exec. Vice-Pres.-W. G. Scholl
Sr. V-P., Tractors-B. S. Oberlink
Sr. V-P., Industries-J. L. Singleton
V-P’s-John Ernst, W. J. Klein, C. W. Schweers, T, D. Lyons, B. E. Smith, A. Van Herckes, W. Yost, P. F. Bauer, E. J. Mercer, W. M. Wallace, R. M. Casper, L. W. Davis
Secy.-A. D. Dennis
Treas.-Asst. Secy.-G. F. Langenohl
Comptroller-W. S. Pierson
Total Employees-38,000
Cap.-over $100,000,000.
Mr. O’Connor: It took me two readings, but it finally dawned on me that you had better information than I did about A-C’s employment totals in the 1960s. I edited the post (and gave you credit) to reflect the change. I also appreciate the additional information on plant management and output. Thanks for the additional information, and thanks very much for reading.
Editor – you are very welcome. I am going to do a post on my Facebook page this weekend about this factory and would love to use your images giving you credit.
Thanks for reading, Steve. As far as photo credit, however, you may certainly say those photos were published on SangamonLink. However, Allis-Chalmers was one of the first entries I did, and I obviously did not give sources for the pic of the HD-19 or the WW2 ad. I’m confident they are in the public domain — I have always tried to make sure of that — but I don’t know now exactly where I got them. So giving SangamonLink “credit” for them would be overstating the case. In the case of the third photo, please identify the source as the Sangamon Valley Collection at Lincoln Library, Springfield’s public library, as I did. And thanks again for improving our entry.
Sandy Baksys says:
Reading your post, I felt nostalgic about this place, the factory, where Dad went around 3:30 p.m. and returned home around a quarter after midnight five days a week. I still remember his cap with the badge on it and his battered metal lunch (dinner) pail.
I, too, only visited once, when I was in college, I believe. Dad still dreamed about going to work there late into his ’80s, 25 years after it was no more. I can tell you he didn’t clock in and go to a bar. In fact, post-World War II Soviet refugees there, Poles, Lithuanians and Ukrainians, had a reputation for being very hard workers.
One time when we were visiting in Kentucky, he told me that seeing roads carved into the sides of mountains, he knew where the earth movers they built had gone, and he was proud at what the machines had allowed this country to do.
Thanks, Sandy.
frank weitzel says:
my father , grandfater and uncle all worked at the plant . my grandfather was the president of local 1027.
Mr. Weitzel: Thanks for reading.
David C. Hollis says:
Dave says ….
I worked at the Springfield plant from 1973 to 1976 as a welder. My parents had each worked there for a while in the 1950s. I had about four of my uncles there at times, one retiring after many years. My grandfather worked there running drilling machines for some thirty seven years from near the start in 1930 until his retirement in 1967. I think in the the decades from the thirties to the eighties, practically everyone from the Springfield and surrounding area had at least someone in their family who worked there. It was truly awesome to see the huge machinery that was put out in the plant. The sights and sounds from such a scale of production are no longer a part of Springfield. I am one who misses it and what it meant to the community.
Dave: Springfield really was a manufacturing center for much of its existence. That’s hard to keep in mind these days.
Donald Jordan says:
I worked at FiatAllis for 34 years, We raised four children, bought a home and have
lived here in the same house for 56 years. FiatAllis was good to me and my family. I’ll
not ever forget them. I will be 83 coming January first 2016. And still remember the good times.
Susie (Larson) Weitzel says:
My Grandfather Earnie C. Farnam worked at Allis-Chalmers and retired from there, as My Dad Albert D. Larson worked there and retired as well. And my Father -in- Law Harold Weitzel worked there also. I remember going with my Mother and taking supper to my Dad and meeting him on 11th street and watching in the end buildings as the men worked on the big tractors. It was a fun time to watch and some times my Dad worked from 4 pm to 12 Midnight and other times he worked from 4 pm to 4 am. So many times My Mom took my Dad to work and I would ride with her to pick him up at Midnight and watch all the Men come out of the Plant caring there Lunch Buckets, And knowing they all worked very hard on there shift. Lots of memories for so many familys . It will always be Allis- Chalmers corner to me.
Ms. Weitzel & Mr. Jordan: My folks raised 11 kids with my dad’s A-C pay check being their only income for many of those years. Those indeed were tough jobs, but they were good ones. Thanks for commenting.
I just stumbled on this site and enjoyed reading the article and comments. It’s the kind of history I really like reading about. Thanks.
I had heard on the radio this morning that the Springfield plant closed because the union workers went on strike. Is that true? Thanks again for the site.
Kenneth Vance says:
I work at the plant from 1963 until they closed in 85. In reply to the question about the plant closing because the union went on strike, no I don’t believe so.
Our last contract negotiations, the company insisted that the union give concessions to the company in order to keep the company afloat, which we did give up 10% across the board.
A-C/Fiat-Allis had struggled for years, and with foreign and domestic competition. Before pulling out of the US, they were close to reaching an agreement on a contract with Russia for HD 41 units that would have guaranteed a additional 5 years work. However, when President Reagan placed an embargo on trade with Russia, that was the final blow to our plant in Springfield.
Mr. Vance: Thanks very much for clarifying the reason behind the shutdown. My memory (I was an editor at the Journal-Register when A-C folded, and my dad worked there for 30-plus years) coincides with yours. Cancellation of the earthmover deal really was the last straw.
Kendra (Castles) Deane says:
My Dad, Kenneth Castles, worked for Allis-Chalmers / Fiat-Allis for almost 20 years. He was in management and left around 1981 or 1982 (because the plant was closing). Was a great job for him, but was not old enough to retire (He would have been about 38 at the time he left). Took him 2 years to find another job (in another state). Dad was in management. My brother and I would go in to work with him sometimes on Saturdays. Such an amazing building, but didn’t appreciate it as much as I would now. We would also attend the summer picnics. They were always so much fun. My father passed away in 1995 (Age 53). I still have items with the Fiat-Allis logo (not sure if anything with Allis-Chalmers). Some things that were given away at the picnics and/or the open houses that were held. Many good memories.
Ms. Deane: Thanks for the memory. The period when A/C was in full operation was really a golden time.
Would anyone know if this image is from the Allis-Chalmers Manufactoring plant. How would one go out about receiving permissions to use this image?
Image found and then sold on Etsy. http://www.etsy.com/listing/101480648/photo-vintage-factory-nurses-and-worker. (Yes, I have contacted the buyer and seller of this image, no luck).
Josephine: OK, now I’ve seen the image (sorry for earlier confusion). Assuming that this is an image from Allis-Chalmers, I believe the copyright is held by CNH Industrial, which eventually bought out Fiatallis. You can follow the link above to CNH’s home page. Good luck.
Eric Beyers says:
I’ve enjoyed reading article & comments. I’m 53 years old, born in 1963 in Pana, Illinois. I great up on farm which used Allis-Chalmers equipment. I now own a 1965 Allis-Chalmers HD16 bulldozer which may have been built in Springfield. How is it that our State of Illinois has lost so many good companies & jobs over the years? Allis-Chalmers, later Fiat-Allis, employed 6500 people in Springfield, Illinois. That’s amazing! I understand that Allis-Chalmers went out of business. But how is it that another large construction equipment company did not purchase the old ALLIS-Chalmers buildings, toolings, & experienced employees? I drive by this part Springfield & see nothing of these past eras. Was all of it just scrapped? If so, that’s sad.
Good points, Mr. Beyers. Thanks for reading.
Sean Carmody says:
My grandfather and his brothers all worked at AC and grandpa retired there. I remember the article in the paper when the plant was torn down. Not one Fiat Allis or AC piece of equipment was used. It may have even said not one piece of equipment made in the US was used.
Thanks for the comment, Sean.
Duke beal says:
I worked there from 70 till 85 and most of the machines went to Italy .What didn’t go was auctioned off or scrapped
Sudeep kumar N. says:
I am Mr.Sudeep kumar N, an Engineer from Sabarigiri Hydro Electric Project which was constructed and commissioned by Allis Chalmers in early 1960s in Kerala, India. As we are crossing 50 years of successful production of Hydro Power, we would like to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Power House. We came to understand that your esteemed firm VOITH acquired the Hydro Business of Allis Chalmers in 1986.
As part of our celebration and honor, we would like to get in touch (at least) with any of the staff/member of Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Company (Pennsylvania, US) during 1960s or later. We would be most blessed if we could get such an opportunity during this occasion. Since I got this one link to get connected to Allis Chlamers, I request you to kindly provide us a traceable link to any person or information regarding to it.
Sudeep kumar N.
Assistant Engineer,
SGHEP, KSEB Ltd,
Moozhiyar, Kerala,.
sudeepkn@gmail.com
Mr. Kumar: I’m not sure anyone from A-C’s hydropower division has ever read this encyclopedia, but perhaps another reader has the right connections. I’m willing to be surprised by anything. Thanks for the note.
Joe Kumpf says:
Greetings all Fiat-Allis friends. I worked for the company from 1974 until 1980 at their Sacaton, AR proving grounds and also at the main plant in Springfield, IL. Had many friends there, most of which have now unfortunately passed away. When we developed the HD-41 as the world’s largest crawler tractor I remember the great pride by all the employees and the community. It was unfortunate that we were not able to stay competitive and continue the great heritage.
I am now turning 65 and trying to find out who has control of the FiatAllis pension fund so I can apply. My pension will be small, but is needed.
If anyone out there knows who I should contact to submit for my pension, please let me know.
Thank you, Joe Kumpf joeandgretta@gmail.com
Thank you, Joe. I hope somebody can answer your question.
I will pass your post onto my dad, who worked at FA from 70-85. He may have some information as I think he may be getting a pension from Fiat.
Thank you Liz!!
Nick Penning says:
I had remembered my father-in-law, John Templeton, telling of an AC contract with Russia to buy trucks, at one point in his long career as a welder at “AC,” and then Fiat-Allis. The truck order surprised me, because I didn’t know we had commerce with Russia. I hadn’t known that the factory’s closing was caused by a Reagan embargo that blocked the HD 41. AC was the heart of good, union-negotiated middle class jobs, and one of our two (the other being Sangamo on the north side) large factories in Springfield. When AC closed, I was dumbstruck. How could that possibly happen? It had been a fixture of town all my life (I’m 70 now). That huge parking lot, with its own traffic light on 6th Street during shift changes, suddenly went empty. Thanks for the info, Mr. Vance; and for this great piece, Mike.
And thanks for the note, Nick.
It was the older union guys not wanting to give in to certain things as well. It was a damn shame that Fiat closed. My dad started in 1970 at the age of 19 and the plan was to retire in 2000, at the age of 49. Fiat provided for our family as it expanded from 3 in to 1971 to 6 in 1980.
Thanks for the support in finding the source of the old Fiat Allis pension plan. With your help I was able to make contact with the right people.
However, now there is a difference of opinion on the amount of service time needed to vest for pension benefits and I could sure use your assistance again.
Does anyone have an old Fiat Allis employee handbook or employee benefits summary sheet that includes the pension vesting period? If so, could you let me know?
Our pension benefit from Fiat Allis is small but it will be helpful for my wife and I.
Joe Kumpf joeandgretta@gmail.com
PRESTON STEVEN says:
I was in my travels and found a horse drawn road grader made by The Baker Manufacturing Co., Springfield,Ill. I have a few old farm relics and I could not pass this up, I was born and raised in Springfield until I left in 1988, but still have very strong ties to the community and the history. I hope to someday restore the grader to original working condition as a reminder of my roots.
I would like to know if there is still info out there on this road grader, the tag is still intact and would be glad for any info on it.
Sir: Perhaps another SangamonLink reader can help. In any case, it probably is worth your while to check with the Sangamon Valley Collection at Lincoln Library (217-753-4900). They might have some ideas for other places to check. It’s very cool that you found a Baker grader. Good luck with the restoration, and thanks for reading.
Does anyone have some photos of the penthouse of the plant from late 1956 or later? The penthouse is located across the street from 11th and East Oak Street. Thanks.
My maternal grandfather, Earnie Metzger, was a guard at plant 2 (on Ash St) for many years I believe. My dad worked at this site, then later at plant 1 (main plant) and on Stevenson and 11th for a time. I have donated a scrap book, compiled by my grandmother?, to the Sangamon Valley Collection, several years ago. Also some photos I found when cleaning out my parent’s home. Be sure to go see Curtis Mann for these.
Juanita Ehlers says:
My Dad was an employee with Allis Chalmers in Matteson,IL
I am 1 of his 3 kids and unfortunately we can not find the Pension Award letter needed for a Hardship Application at the local dental school.
His memory can not help us. Who do I contact? I believe the Union office was located in Harvey,
John L Garza– A.C. 1956-1980 Matteson, IL
William Wieties says:
My Grandfather worked for Allis Chalmers and later Fiat-Allis that is all I know ,his name Herman Cox. I grew up in Springfield and left in 1974 . I would like to find out anything I could . THANKS
Mr. Wieties: I’ve responded to you by email. Thanks for reading.
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NEW DOCK STARS
Going down to the Stadium to watch Wales play or to watch the Ospreys, Scarlets, Dragons or Blues is a great experience, particularly when the sun is shining and the teams are winning - the game is everything. But there is something special, too, about being a member of a club that plays in Division 3 whether or not you are the home side or the away, for with your senses alert you can enjoy the whole experience of village rugby.
On Bank Holiday Saturday on a splendid sunny afternoon over 60 Rhigos players, family and supporters went down to Llanelli to play New Dock Stars. We went into the car park before the game and admired the field looking really perfect, then into an immaculate clubhouse with spacious bar, lounge and concert hall. The players went off to change in well appointed dressing rooms. Both teams were well turned out in club colours both before and after the match. Curry rice and chips provided for all the visitors even though there was a wedding reception in the evening.
The game itself was a cracker with a final scoreline of 31 points to Rhigos and 28 to Stars and well refereed throughout by Alastair.
Banter and speeches in the club after the match with Lewis Morgan the captain of Rhigos happily taking the Dai Morris shield back home.
Emori and Greg were well pleased and with good reason. 22 players went down from Rhigos and just about held out to deserve their victory even though there was a twitching of the foofoo valve and some nail nibbling here and there among the visiting supporters.
Rhigos surged into an early lead when Shane Williams ran in from 30 metres after some excellent work by James Lewis and Jon Smith. Then James Lewis scored after some good off loading and passing from the forwards. Jonny Smith then broke down the blind and sent Shane haring down the touchline and when he was checked he tossed it inside for Lewis to score. Brandon converted 2 of them.
Stars struck back with a rolling maul from the tail of a lineout that ended with a try in the corner which was converted with a fine kick. Rhigos though scored again just before halftime when the mighty Liam crashed over for our fourth try. Four tries to one at half time was enough to bring the smiles to everyone's face. Particularly Emori, who has been working hard to get the players into the swing of his 15 man game. It was the best 40 minutes we have played in quite a while.
In the second half we tried for more of the same but visibly wilted under the sun and with Stars having far more numbers in their squad they quietly gained the upper hand and what had looked a comfortable 24 points to 7 half time lead began to as Stars scored 2 more converted tries to take their score to 21 points.
We stayed true to Emori's principles however and after a series of rucks and offlaods and passes Ben Morris went over under the posts and Brandon converted. 31 points.
By now we were blowing and it was no surprise to see Stars camp in our 22 and finally break the defence to score another converted try to bring the score to 31points to 28. And so it stayed at no-side.
What a day! Fantastic tribute to both teams and their coaches, the referee and all the volunteers that worked hard to present the whole of the experience. The very best of grass roots village rugby.
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"Master YHWH" and "I AM"s in the Peshitta
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There is no such thing as 'what the Greek NT says.' Various Greek manuscripts of the NT say very different things at certain locations. Those differences can rear their heads in different English translations of the varying Greek manuscripts.
Which, if any, of the *ed words below do you think are faithful translations of the original form of the passage in question?
Luke 7:35 GOD?S WORD Translation (GW)
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"Yet, wisdom is proved right by all its *results* [ergon]."
Luke 7:35 Mounce Reverse-Interlinear New Testament (MOUNCE)
Nevertheless kai, wisdom sophia is proved dikaioo- right ? ho by apo all pas ? ho her autos *children* teknon.
Matthew 11:19 World English Bible (WEB)
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?.But wisdom is justified by her *children* [teknon]."
Matthew 11:19 MOUNCE
?.Yet kai wisdom sophia is shown to be right dikaioo- ? ho by apo what ho she autos *does* ergon.
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1 Corinthians 13:3 International Standard Version (ISV)
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Even if I give away everything that I have and sacrifice myself,[a] but have no love, I gain nothing.
Other mss. read _sacrifice my body to be burned_; or _myself so that I may *boast* [I might boast: kauchswmai]_
1 Corinthians 13:3 MOUNCE
If I kan give away pso-mizo- everything pas ? ho I ego- own hyparcho-, and kai if ean I surrender paradido-mi ? ho my ego- body so-ma to hina be *burned* kauchaomai, but de do echo- not me- have echo- love agape-, it benefits me o-pheleo- nothing oudeis.
See Lataster.
The Greek manuscripts have a mistranslation in Mt 26:6 (paralleled in Mk 14:3), leading to a contradiction with social customs of the time and Lev 13:45-46. Shimon was a potter, not a leper. Lepers didn't entertain houseguests back then per Lev 13:45-46, but potters/jar makers did.
From the Aramaic:
And when Yeshua was in Beth-Aniya, in the house of Shimon the potter, a woman approached him who had with her an alabaster vase of ointment which was a very precious perfume, and she poured it upon the head of Yeshua while he was reclining. And his talmida [students] saw and it displeased them?.
Granted, one could try to save the Greek mistranslation by supposing that Simon was an _ex_-leper who continued to be called-- slanderously-- 'Simon the Leper,' just as Matthew was called in Mt 10:3, "Mattai the tax-collector."
?: Were any blind men Jesus healed called "X the blind man" after having been healed? Were any demoniacs Jesus healed called "Y the demoniac" after the demons were cast out?
In the translation from Aramaic into Greek, the terms "tefillin" and "tekhelet" were lost.
Matthew 23:5:
"And they [the Scribes and Pharisees] do all their deeds
that they might be seen by the sons of men,
for they widen their tefillin,
and lengthen the tekhelet of their robes."
Tefillin are leather boxes + straps containing biblical verses that Jews bind on their arms and on their foreheads during daily prayer, except on the Sabbath (Deut. 6:8). Tekhelet is the 'ribbon of blue' of the 'tzitzit' (fringes), as commanded in Num. 15:38. 'Tekhelet' is also generally understood to refer to the tzitzit, or even the whole prayer shawl/talit. -PY
In the translation from Aramaic into Greek, the term "yodh" was lost.
"For amain I [Yeshua] say to you that,
until heaven and earth pass away,
not one yodh [the smallest letter in the Aramaic/Hebrew alphabet] or one stroke will pass from the namusa [law/ Torah],
until everything happens."
In the translation from Aramaic into Greek of John 1:28, or in the later recopying of that passage, some things got jumbled in that some Greek manuscripts erroneously have 'Beth-Abara' instead of Beth-Aniya. Beth-Bara was an OT place meaning 'House/Place of a Crossing/Ferry.'
John 1:28 New English Translation (NET Bible)
These things happened in Bethany [Bethania]
across the Jordan River where John was baptizing.
John 1:28 KJV
These things were done in Bethabara
beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
Here's that verse from the original Aramaic Peshitta:
"These things occurred in Beth-Aniya [House/ Place of Dates]
b'Aibara [at the Crossing] of the Yordanan where Yukhanan was baptizing."
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Good stuff David. The Greek New Testament has been inadvertently washed "clean" of the Hebraic origins of Christianity. There are undeniable remnants of the huge body of Judaic/Hebraic culture in the New Testament. Hence, "tekhelet and tephillin". The word Hebrew is both derived from the name Eber ( fifth generation before Abram) and the word meaning "to cross over". Abram the Hebrew "haiv'ri" (Genesis 14:13) crossed over from Mesopotamia and John chose the site, at or about the same place, where the children of Israel entered the Land under the leadership of Joshua. This "crossing-over" has deep spiritual connotations as well as real denotations with boots on the ground. Christians of all persuasions must awaken to the truth that our lives and prosperity are affirmed in deep affinity within/with/to "the cultivated olive tree". (Romans chapter 11) This important "soul bound within soul" of Jewish/Gentile fidelity in the Body of Christ, is also affirmed by the practical literary affinity between the Ancient Aramaic and Hebrew, two living sister languages, used by the descendants of these two ancient people groups. The Jewish Siddur (prayer book) has used Hebrew and Aramaic side by side since Ezra the scribe and the establishment of the Great Synagogue.
I'm going way off topic, but I am attempting to edit this post to clarify my opinion. I do apologise for going off topic but please bear with me.
Unfortunately for today's Church Universal "supersessionism/replacement theology" is deeply rooted in the Church and minimizes the important role played by the Jews. Jews wrote the Bible, including the "Jewish Bible/Christian Old Testament". As well, the Apostles wrote the Peshitta New Testament. The Greek New Testament, translated from the Peshitta, which in all practicality and genuousness is a good independent witness of the Gospel of Christ, has been inadvertently, if not insidiously used to "help forward the affliction" of the Jews. (Zechariah 1:15) I suppose that there are some who would use the Peshitta to do the same thing. I'm quoting this verse as if it was written for this day and age, since history repeats itself. The Church Universal has been redeemed from paganism and heathenism and I might add anti-Semitism. Every individual living soul of humanity is made in the image of God, but not all of humanity realises this important truth. What began as a small Jewish sect has grown to become the Church of Jesus Christ universal. Various people groups are grafted into "the cultivated olive tree". The Peshitta New Testament affirms the Jewish roots of Christianity better than the Greek New Testament, in my honest opinion. It was not the mission of Jesus Christ, nor the intentions of the Apostles to see the Jews hounded and persecuted. Various libels against the Jews, perpetrated by the heathen, can in part be traced to derogatory interpretations of the scriptures. The Scriptures candidly record the relationship between God and his chosen people, the Jewish nation. Christians are also God's chosen, but not to the exclusion of Jews. There is one LORD Jesus Christ, one faith, and one baptism for both Jews and Gentiles. Christians who perpetrate anti-Semitism have not understood the Gospel of Christ.
I have edited this post to clarify my views. Nuff said!
Shlama,
The Greek translators of the original Aramaic of the NT made a more 'politically-correct' rendition of NT references to non-Jews, and replaced a particular place's antiquated name with its more-current name:
Norton, William. 1889. _A Translation, in English Daily Used, of the Peshito-Syriac Text, and of the Received Greek Text, of Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, and 1 John, With an Introduction on the Peshito-Syriac Text, and the Revised Greek Text of 1881_ (London: W. K. Bloom), ~140pp. What's below is from a Google books copy; the book is also at
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In the Introduction, pages l - li:
In the names of places, the Peshito shows the same independence of the Greek. ....in Acts xxi. 7, the Gk. has, Ptolemais; the Syriac has, Acu.
Mr. Jer. Jones, in his work on the Canon, 1798, contends that the use of the name Acu, for Ptolemais, is a decisive proof that the Peshito must have been made not far in time from A.D. 70, when Jerusalem was destroyed. (vol. i. p. 103.) He says that the most ancient name of this place among the Israelites was Aco, or Acco, Judges i. 31; that this name was afterwards changed to Ptolemais; that some say it had its new name from Ptolemy Philadelphus, about 250 B.C. He says it is certain that the old name Aco, was antiquated and out of use in the time of the Romans, and that the use of the old name Acu, in the Peshito, can be accounted for in no other way, but by supposing that the persons for whom the version was made were more acquainted with it, than with the new name Ptolemais; that upon any other supposition it would have been absurd for him to have used Acu. He says, that until the destruction of Jerusalem, one may suppose that the Jews may have retained the old name Aco still, out of fondness for its antiquity; but, he says,
"how they, or any other part of Syria, could, after the Roman conquest, call it by a name different from the Romans, seems to me impossible to conceive. . . To suppose, therefore, that this translation, in which we meet with this old name, instead of the new one, was made at any great distance of time after the destruction of Jerusalem, is to suppose the translator to have substituted an antiquated name known to but few, for a name well known to all" (pp. 104, 105.)
Mr. Jones says that a similar proof that the Peshito cannot have been made much after A.D. 70, is found in the fact that the Peshito often calls the Gentiles, as the Jews were accustomed to do, _profane persons_, where the Greek calls them _the nations_, that is, the Gentiles. The Peshito calls them profane, in Matt. vi. 7; x. 5; xviii. 17; Mark vii. 26; John vii. 35; Acts xviii. 4, 17; 1 Cor. v. 1; x. 20, 27; xii. 2; 1 Pet. iv. 3. The expression is used, therefore, throughout the Peshito. Mr. Jones says, that it shows that the writer was a Jew, for no other person would have called all the world profane; and that after the destruction of the temple, all Hebrew Christians must have seen that other nations were not to be reckoned unclean and profane in the Jewish sense, and that therefore this version must have been made either before, or soon after, A.D. 70. (On Canon, Vol. i., pp. 106-110.)
Interesting... thanks David.
Original Aramaic to English
Original Aramaic to Greek to English:
John 7:39, Hebrews 2:6, Hebrews 7:3, James 2:10
Greek manuscripts for John 7:39 erroneously say that the Holy Spirit did not exist at a certain point:
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?.and this he [Jesus] said of the Spirit, which those believing in him were about to receive; for not yet was the Holy Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
The MOUNCE wants to insert the word "present," as if to say the Holy Spirit wasn't present at Jesus' preaching.
Clicking "eimi," the Greek word in question, provides a definition of "to be, to exist."
Doing a control - f / "find" on 22 pages worth of Greek concordance results yielded only this other instance of that word being rendered as "present" in the 4 Gospels:
Mark 8:9 There were (e-san? imperf act ind 3 pl) about four thousand present (e-san? imperf act ind 3 pl), and he sent them on their way.
Greek manuscripts leave out the word "given," which is in the original Aramaic:
John 7:39, Murdock translation of the Peshitt_o_, which is highly similar to the Peshitt_a_.
I confirmed that "given" is there by pasting the top-right word (having the letters "a th y h b th") on page 219 of the
Khabouris Codex transcription
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into the Lexicon at
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The exact same word is also in Eph 3:8, 4:7, Phil 1:29, and Hebr 8:6.
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"(This he said of the Spirit, which they who believe in him were to receive:
for the Spirit had not yet been given,
because Jesus was not yet glorified.)"
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Greek manuscripts have a rather flat rendition of Hebrews 2:6, as if the author wasn't familiar with Psalm 8, or dashing off a letter in too much of a hurry to do a modicum of research.
MOUNCE
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But de someone tis has testified diamartyromai somewhere pou,
"What tis is eimi man anthro-pos that hoti you take thought mimne-skomai for him autos?."
The original Aramaic cites the quote as being from Scripture, and not just 'someone testifying somewhere':
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But as the scripture ["k th b a" per Khabouris] testifieth, and saith:
What is man,
that thou art mindful of him?
and the son of man,
that thou attendest to him?
The Greek manuscripts erroneously have Melchizedek being eternally-existent and immortal:
Hebrews 7:2-3 NIV
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.?First, the name Melchizedek means "king of righteousness";
then also, "king of Salem" means "king of peace."
Without father or mother,
without genealogy,
without beginning of days or end of life,
resembling the Son of God,
he remains a priest forever.
The original Aramaic has a more sensible reading.
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Of whom neither his father nor his mother are written in the genealogies;
nor the commencement of his days,
nor the end of his life;
but, after the likeness of the Son of God,
his priesthood remaineth for ever.
The Greek manuscripts have this laughably absurd statement for James 2:10:
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"For whoever keeps the whole law
and yet stumbles at just one point
is guilty of breaking all of it."
The original Aramaic has a much more sensible reading.
Murdock, with his bracket
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"For he that shall keep the whole law,
and yet fail in one [_precept_],
is obnoxious to the whole law."
William Norton translation of the Peshitt_o_
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"For he who keeps the whole law,
save that he sins in one thing,
is condemned by the whole law."
Romans 5:7 and Rev 2:22:
better renditions from the original Aramaic
Translation from the original Aramaic to Greek to English yields this rather strange remark:
Romans 5:7 NIV
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Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person,
though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.
Translating directly from the original Aramaic yields a much more sensible remark:
Murdock Peshitto; Lamsa Peshitta
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- (for rarely doth one die for the ungodly;
though for the good, some one perhaps might venture to die?.
- Hardly would any man die for the sake of the wicked:
but for the sake of the good, one might be willing to die.
Going from the original Aramaic to Greek to English yields having a whore/prostitute who leads God's servants into sexual immorality being cast into a _bed_ of all places:
Revelation 2:20-22 KJV
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Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee,
because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel,
which calleth herself a prophetess,
to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication,
and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
And I gave her space to repent of her fornication;
and she repented not.
Behold, I will cast her into a bed,
and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation,
except they repent of their deeds.
After the word "bed," the MOUNCE added into its rendition-- without telling the unsuspecting reader-- added in the quite significant phrase "of suffering," to yield "I will throw her onto a bed of suffering." This sleight of hand is revealed by clicking on the phrase to see the Greek word "kline" defined as merely "a couch, bed."
The original Aramaic word involved has the letters "ai r s a"; see page 30 of the PDF
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Copying and pasting the Aramaic word (denoted on a particular keyboard with the sequence "0sr9") into the lexicon at
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yields these definitions:
pallet, bier, bed.
The word is at Mark 2:4, 4:21, Luke 7:14, 8:16, 17:34, among other places.
For a second opinion, I searched for the sequence "(rS)" at
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to see on page 168, in about the middle of the page,
"a bed, pallet?. a litter, bier"
and some concordance entries: Mt 9:2, Lk 7:14, and Mk 6:55. Lk 7:14 has Jesus touching a bier/ coffin:
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(If you have Janet Magiera's concordance, it's word number 1897. Or you could do a lexeme search for "0sr9" in the lexicon at
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Interestingly, the Greek translator of Lk 7:14 came up with the Greek word "soros," defined as "a coffer; an urn for receiving the ashes of the dead; a coffin; in NT a bier."
For Rev 2:22, instead of "bed," a better translation choice would be "bier," which is "a stand on which a corpse or coffin is placed; _also_: a coffin together with its stand."-- merriam-webster
Hence, we could get:
"Behold, I will cast her [Jezebel] onto a bier [or: into a coffin],
except they repent of their deeds."
Shlama Akhi Stephen!
Thanks so much for transcribing Khabouris.
I'll keep an eye out for more data showing that "the Greek New Testament has been... washed 'clean' of the Hebraic origins of Christianity."
I don't understand how "the Greek New Testament? has been inadvertently, if not insidiously used to 'help forward the affliction' of both Jews and Assyrians over the last 100+ years."
Matthew 14:24 & the Diatesseron
The YLT and MOUNCE look at different Greek manuscripts, in that one says
[YLT]"the boat was now in the midst of the sea,"
while the other instead says
[MOUNCE]"the boat, already far from land."
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[YLT]"and the boat was now in the midst of the sea,
distressed by the waves,
for the wind was contrary."
[MOUNCE]"Meanwhile de the ho boat ploion, already ede far stadion polys from apo ? ho land ge,
was being apecho tossed basanizo by hypo the ho waves kyma,
for gar the ho wind anemos was eimi against enantios it."
For the MOUNCE, the "far" came from the Greek "stadion polys," which means 'many stadions,' with a definition of 'stadion' being,
"a fixed standard of measure; a stadium, the eighth part of a Roman mile, and nearly equal to a furlong, containing 201.45 yards, about 192 meters."
This is the way the original Aramaic has the verse:
Etheridge, as yielded by Peshitta Tool at
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But the vessel was distant from the land many stadia ["a s t d w-o-u th a"],
being greatly beaten with the waves,
for the wind was against them.
And the ship was distant from land many furlongs:
meanwhile it was much tossed by the waves;
for the wind was adverse to it.
The MOUNCE's underlying Greek matches nicely the Aramaic that underlies the Greek the MOUNCE used for that passage.
Tatian died in A.D. 175. He started with the 4 Gospels in the Aramaic Peshitta, and consolidated/ harmonized them into one narrative to get his _Diatesseron_, in the process quoting much of the 4 Gospels. Tatian presents the passage in question this way:
Diatesseron 18:50, Aramaic to Arabic to English
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with the Arabic being at
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And the boat was distant from the land many furlongs,
and they were much damaged by the waves,
and the wind was against them.
Hence, the Diatesseron testifies that the Peshitta's passage existed as of A.D. 175.
This of course assumes that nobody tinkered with
a) the text for Diatesseron 18:50 of the Arabic translation, and
b) the Diatesseron's Aramaic prior to its being translated into Arabic.
A parallel presents itself:
1) scrutinizing Greek translations of the original Aramaic of the NT to try to better understand the 'original meaning' of the NT's original words
can be likened to
2) scrutinizing the Arabic translation of the Aramaic Diatesseron to try to better understand the 'original meaning' of the 4 Gospels' original words.
mistranslation in Mt 19:28;
missing text in Mt 15:27 & Mt 26:3
For Mt 19:28, Greek manuscripts have a mistranslation in coming up with "regeneration/ rebirth." The original sense of the original Aramaic could be fixed in the Greek manuscripts by adding into translations of them-- in brackets of course-- the phrase "of the world."
Disciples' Literal New Testament (DLNT), with its footnote "a"
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And Jesus said to them,
"Truly I say to you that
you, the _ones_ having followed Me?
at the regeneration[a: "Or, rebirth [of the world]"]
when the Son _of_ Man sits on _the_ throne _of_ His glory,
*you* also will sit on twelve thrones,
judging the twelve tribes _of_ Israel.
The HCSB has a paraphrase plus a corresponding footnote reading, "Lit _the regeneration_."
Instead of "new birth/ new generation/ regeneration," the Greek translator of the original Aramaic should have put down "new world." Instead he did a mistranslation.
Younan interlinear of original Aramaic
Yeshua said to them,
"Amain I say to you that,
you who have come to follow me,
in the new world when the Son of Man sits upon the throne of shubkeh [his glory],
you also will sit upon twelve seats,
and you will judge the twelve tribes of Israel.
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Greek manuscripts lack "and live" from Mt 15:27;
some Greek manuscripts lack "and the scribes" from Mt 26:3
A) Greek manuscripts lack some text in Mt 15:27:
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And she said, 'Yes, sir,
for even the little dogs do eat of the crumbs that are falling from their lords' table;'
then answering, Jesus said to her?.
What they lack is the concluding "and live" portion of her remarks. The "and live" clause was present as of A.D. 175:
Diatesseron 20:54-55
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But she said, Yea, my Lord:
the dogs also eat of the crumbs
that fall from their masters? tables, and live.
Then said Jesus unto her?.
The "and live" clause is present in the original Aramaic:
And she said: Even so, my Lord;
yet the dogs eat of the fragments
that fall from the tables of their masters, and live.
B) Mt 26:3
HCSB
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Then the chief priests[a: Other mss add _and the scribes_] and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas?.
The phrase "and the scribes" is in the Diatesseron, which was prepared as of A.D. 175.
Diatesseron 44:3-4
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Then gathered together the chief priests,
and the scribes, and the elders of the people,
unto the court of the chief priest,
who was called Caiaphas?.
"And the scribes" belongs in the passage because it's in the Aramaic Peshitta:
Younan interlinear, with additional transliterations
See also Murdock etc. at
Then the rabbi-kahna [chief rabbis/priests] and Sapra [Scribes] and elders of the people were gathered at the court of the Rab-Kahna [Chief/High Rabbi] who was called Qayapa.
Diatesseron & Peshitta to the Rescue of Conflicting Greek Manuscripts
John 3:13, 5:3-4, 7:8, 8:16, 8:54, 9:35, 11:25
As a consequence of imperfect translation from the original Aramaic Peshitta, and less-than-ideal transmission of texts through the years, different Greek manuscripts say slightly different things. We'll take a look at some of those variant readings. The original Aramaic Peshitta, bolstered by the Diatesseron when it comes to the 4 Gospels, can referee the variant Greek readings.
John 3:13, English Standard Version (ESV)
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No one has ascended into heaven
except he who descended from heaven,
the Son of Man.[a: Some manuscripts add _who is in heaven_]
"Who is in heaven" was present as of A.D. 175:
Diatesseron 32:39
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And no man hath ascended up into heaven,
except him that descended from heaven,
the Son of man, which is in heaven.
The original Aramaic Peshitta has "who is in heaven":
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And no man has ascended into heaven except
he who descended from Heaven,
the Son of Man, he who is in Heaven.
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John 5:3-4 (ESV)
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In these lay a multitude of invalids?blind, lame, and paralyzed.[a: Some manuscripts insert, wholly or in part,
_waiting for the moving of the water;
4 for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool,
and stirred the water:
whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water
was healed of whatever disease he had_]
Except for the phrase "of the Lord," all of the text in question was present as of A.D. 175, with "diseases" being here "pain":
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And there were laid in them much people of the sick, and blind, and lame, and paralysed,
waiting for the moving of the water.
And the angel from time to time went down into the place of bathing,
and moved the water;
and the first that went down after the moving of the water,
every pain that he had was healed.
Except for "of the Lord," all of the text in question was present in the original Aramaic, with "diseases" again being here "pain":
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And in these were laying many people who were sick, and the blind and lame and crippled,
and they were anticipating the stirring of the waters,
4. for from time to time a malaka [angel] would descend to the place of baptism and would stir the waters,
and whoever would descend first
after the movement of the waters
would be healed [literally: be made whole] (of) every pain that he had.
John 7:8 (ESV)
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You go up to the feast.
I am not[a: Some manuscripts add _yet_] going up to this feast,
for my time has not yet fully come."
The qualifier "yet" (obtained from Aramaic to Greek to English) was present as of A.D. 175 as a "now" (obtained from Aramaic to Arabic to English):
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As for you, go ye up unto this feast:
but I go not up now to this feast;
for my time has not yet been completed.
The qualifier "now" is present in the original Aramaic:
John 7:8, Younan interlinear at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.peshitta.org">http://www.peshitta.org</a><!-- m -->
You go up to this feast.
I will not go up to this feast now
because my time is not yet finished."
John 8:16 (ESV)
Yet even if I do judge,
my judgment is true,
for it is not I alone who judge,
but I and the Father[a: Some manuscripts _he_] who sent me.
"Father," and more precisely "my Father," was present as of A.D. 175:
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And even if I judge,
my judgement is true;
because I am not alone,
but I and my Father which sent me.
The phrase "my Father" is present in the original Aramaic:
Yet if I do judge,
because it is not I alone,
rather I and Abbi [my Father] who sent me.
?.my Father who glorifies me,
of whom you say,
'He is our God.'[a: Some manuscripts _your God_]
The phrase "_our_ God" was present as of A.D. 175:
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my Father is he that glorifieth me;
of whom ye say, that
he is our God?.
The phrase "_our_ God" is present in the original Aramaic:
?.(It is) Abbi [my Father] who glorifies me,
He whom you said, 'that is Allahan [our Allaha].'
Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said,
"Do you believe in the Son of Man?"[a: Some manuscripts _the Son of God_]
The phrase "the Son of God" was present as of A.D. 175:
And Jesus heard of his being put forth without, and found him, and said unto him,
Dost thou believe in the Son of God?
"The Son of God" is present in the original Aramaic:
And Yeshua heard that they had cast him outside, and he found him and said to him,
"Do you believe in the Son of Allaha [God]?"
John 11:25 (ESV)
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Jesus said to her,
"I am the resurrection and the life.[a: Some manuscripts omit _and the life_]
The phrase "and the life" was present as of A.D. 175:
Diatesseron 38:9
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Jesus said unto her,
I am the resurrection, and the life?.
The phrase "and the life" is present in the original Aramaic:
John 11:25, Younan interlinear at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.peshitta.org">http://www.peshitta.org</a><!-- m -->
Yeshua said to her,
"ENA-NA [I AM] the Nukhama [Resurrection] and the Life.
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More Refereeing by the Peshitta & Diatesseron
of Conflicting Greek Readings:
Jn 13:10, 14:4, 14:14;
Lk 2:33, 2:43, 3:22, 22:43-44, 23:34, 24:51
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Jesus said to him,
"The one who has bathed does not need to wash,
except for his feet,[a: Some manuscripts omit _except for his feet_]
but is completely clean.
The phrase "except for his feet" was present as of A.D. 175:
Jesus said unto him,
He that batheth needeth not to wash save his feet,
whereas his whole _body_ is clean?.
The phrase "except for his feet" is present in the original Aramaic:
John 13:10 (Younan of peshitta.org)
Yeshua said to him,
"He who has bathed does not need but to wash only his feet,
for all of him is clean.
John 14:4 (HCSB)
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You know the way to where I am going."[a:
Other mss read this verse:
_And you know where I am going,
and you know the way_]
The fuller version of that verse was present as of A.D. 175:
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And the place that I go ye know,
and the way ye know.
The fuller version of the verse is present in the original Aramaic:
John 14:4 (Younan of peshitta.org)
And you know where I go,
and you know the way."
John 14:14 (HCSB)
If you ask Me[a] anything in My name,
I will do it.[b]
a Other mss omit _Me_
b Other mss omit all of v. 14
There are at least 2 Arabic manuscripts of the Diatesseron. Both have the verse, but only one clearly has the "me":
And if ye ask me[3157: The Borg. ms. has _me_ clearly (cf. Peshitta). The Vat. ms. is ambiguous.] in my name,
I will do it.
The verse and the "me" is present in the original Aramaic:
And if you ask of me in my name,
Luke 2:33 (HCSB)
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His father and mother[a: Other mss read _But Joseph and His mother_] were amazed at what was being said about Him.
The "Joseph and His mother" phrasing was had as of A.D. 175:
Diatesseron 2:41-42
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And Joseph and his mother were marvelling at the things which were being said concerning him.
The "Joseph and His mother" phrasing is present in the original Aramaic:
Luke 2:33 (Younan of peshitta.org)
And Yosip and his mother were marveling at these things that were spoken concerning him.
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After those days were over, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but His parents[a: Other mss read _but Joseph and His mother_] did not know it.
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And when the days were accomplished, they returned; and the child [28] Jesus remained in Jerusalem, and Joseph and his mother knew not?.
And after the (feast) days were completed, they returned. But the boy Yeshua remained in Urishlim and Yosip and his mother did not know?.
Luke 3:22 (ESV)
and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came from heaven,
"You are my beloved Son;
with you I am well pleased."[b: Some manuscripts _beloved Son; today I have begotten you_]
The Diatesseron lacks Luke 3:22, instead having the parallel passage from Matthew 3:17, and thus is unable to supplement the Peshitta this time around.
The "with you I am well pleased" phrasing is present in, and the erroneous reading "today I have begotten you" is absent from, the original Aramaic:
And the Rukha d'Qudsha [Spirit of Holiness] descended upon him in the likeness of the form of a dove, and a voice came from heaven that said,
"You are my beloved Son
in whom I'm pleased."
Luke 22:43-44 (HCSB)
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[43 Then an angel from heaven appeared to Him, strengthening Him.
44 Being in anguish, He prayed more fervently,
and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.][a: Other mss omit bracketed text]
The passage was had as of A.D. 175:
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And there appeared unto him an angel from heaven, encouraging him.
And being afraid he prayed continuously: and his sweat became like a stream of blood, and fell on the ground.
The passage is present in the original Aramaic:
Luke 22:43-44 (Younan of peshitta.org)
And a malaka [angel] from Heaven appeared to strengthen him.
And while being in fear, he was praying earnestly
and his sweat became like drops of blood, and he fell upon the ground.
Luke 23:34 (HCSB)
[34 Then Jesus said,
"Father, forgive them,
because they do not know what they are doing."][a: Other mss omit bracketed text]
The "forgive them" prayer was present as of A.D. 175:
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And Jesus said,
My Father, forgive them;
for they know not what they do.
The "forgive them" prayer is present in the original Aramaic:
Luke 23:34 (Younan of peshitta.org)
And Yeshua was saying,
"Abba [Father], forgive them
for they do not know what they are doing."
Luke 24:51 (ESV)
While he blessed them,
he parted from them and was carried up into heaven.
Bart Ehrman speculates re: whether the being 'taken up into heaven' portion was originally there. See
Ehrman, Bart D. 2005. _Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why_ (HarperSanFrancisco), 242pp., 169-170 in the chapter "Theologically Motivated Alterations of the Text."
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The clause was had as of A.D. 175:
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And while he blessed them,
he was separated from them, and ascended into heaven?.
The clause is present in the original Aramaic:
And it happened that while he blessed them,
he was separated from them and ascended into heaven.
Refereeing Conflicting Greek Manuscripts, Part 3
It's a great shame that the Diatesseron isn't consulted by modern translators of the New Testament. It's an even greater shame that the original Aramaic Peshitta isn't used, while Greek translations of the original Aramaic, and conflicting Greek manuscripts, are used. The fog of confusion generated by the conflicting Greek manuscripts could be easily dispelled, were only the Aramaic Peshitta-- augmented for the 4 Gospels by the Diatesseron-- consulted.
The NIV mentions a few of the variants in Greek manuscripts, the ESV mentions more, and the HCSB mentions a lot. I'm wondering just how many Greek variants there are out there. Perhaps NT critic & ex-Christian Bart Ehrman has published a list of the variants.
After noting where the HCSB says there's a variant, I locate the corresponding passages in the Diatesseron by using a table that's in my Hope Hogg (1897) and Hamlyn Hill (1894) copies of the Diatesseron.
Diatesseron quotations are from
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Doing a "control - f"/ find for say "section xxi" on that webpage can bring one quickly to a particular section.
"Younan" refers to the interlinear translation of the 4 Gospels plus Acts 1-16 present at peshitta.org, with my word order and additional transliterations and modifications, present in draft form at
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John 1:27 (HCSB)
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He is the One coming after me,[a:
Other mss add _who came before me_]
whose sandal strap I?m not worthy to untie."
The phrase "who came before me" was had as of A.D. 175, and is present in the original Aramaic of the Peshitta:
this is he who I said cometh after me
and was before me,
the latchets of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose.
John 1:27 (Younan)
This is he who will come after me,
yet is before me,
that I'm not worthy to loosen the straps of his sandals."
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I have seen and testified that He is the Son of God!?[a:
Other mss read _is the Chosen One of God_]
The reading "is the Son of God" was had as of A.D. 175, and is in the original Aramaic of the Peshitta:
Diatesseron 4:41
And I have seen and borne witness that this is the Son of God.
And I saw and I testified that he is the Son of Allaha [God]."
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When Jesus saw him, He said,
"You are Simon, son of John.[a: Other mss read _Simon, son of Jonah_]
You will be called Cephas" (which means "Rock").
The reading "son of Jonah" was had as of A.D. 175, and is in the original Aramaic of the Peshitta:
And Jesus looked upon him and said,
Thou art Simon, son of Jonah:
thou shalt be called Cephas.
John 1:42-43 (Younan)
and Yeshua gazed at him and said,
"You are Shimon Bar-d'Yonah [the son of Yonah].
You will be called Keepa [Rock]."
43. And on another day?.
Note also how the Greek translator supplied a definition of the Aramaic word "keepa."
except the One who descended from heaven?
the Son of Man.[a:
Other mss add _who is in heaven_]
The phrase "who is in heaven" was had as of A.D. 175, and is in the original Aramaic of the Peshitta:
the Son of man,
which is in heaven.
And no man has ascended into heaven
he who is in Heaven.
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14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness,
so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
15 so that everyone who believes in Him
will[a: Other mss add _not perish, but_] have eternal life.
16 "For God loved the world in this way:
He gave His One and Only Son,
so that everyone who believes in Him
will not perish but have eternal life.
Verse 15 had "will not perish, but have eternal life" as of A.D. 175:
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
so is the Son of man to be lifted up;
so that every man who may believe in him
may not perish, but have eternal life.
God so loved the world,
that he should give his only Son;
and so every one that believeth on him
should not perish, but should have eternal life.
Verse 15 has "will not perish, but have eternal life" in the original Aramaic of the Peshitta:
John 3 (Younan)
14. And as Moshe lifted up the serpent in the wilderness [or: desert],
thus the Son of Man is about to be lifted up,
15. (so) that everyone who believes in him
will not perish, but have life that is eternal.
16. For thus Allaha loved the world:
so as he would give His Son, Ekhadaya [THE ONE],
that whoever would believe in him
would not perish [literally: be destroyed], but would have life that is eternal.
Then a dispute arose between John?s disciples and a Jew[a: Other mss read _and the Jews_] about purification.
John?s disciples were here disputing with only 1 person as of A.D. 175, and in the original Aramaic of the Peshitta:
Diatesseron 6:8-9
And there was an inquiry between one of John's disciples and one of the Jews about purifying.
And a question had arisen about purification to one of the talmida [students] of Yukhanan with a certain Yehudean.
For God sent Him,
and He speaks God?s words,
since He[a: Other mss read _since God_] gives the Spirit without measure.
The phrase "God gives" was had as of A.D. 175, and is in the original Aramaic of the Peshitta:
Diatesseron 17-18
And he whom God hath sent
speaketh the words of God:
God gave not the Spirit by measure.
For whoever that Allaha [God] sends,
he speaks the words of Allaha.
For it is not in measure Allaha gives the Rukha [Spirit].
John 4:1 (HCSB)
When Jesus[a: Other mss read _the Lord_] knew that the Pharisees heard He was making and baptizing more disciples than John?.
The line mentioned "Jesus" as of A.D. 175, and this is in the original Aramaic of the Peshitta:
And Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he had received many disciples, and that he was baptizing more than John?.
John 4:1 (Younan)
Now Yeshua knew that the Pharisees had heard he made many talmida and was baptizing more than Yukhanan?.
"How is it that You, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?? she asked Him. For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.[b: Other mss omit _For Jews do not associate with Samaritans_.]
The explanatory remark about non-association was had as of A.D. 175, and is in the original Aramaic of the Peshitta:
And that Samaritan woman said unto him, How dost thou, being a Jew, ask me to give thee to drink, while I am a Samaritan woman? (And the Jews mingle not with the Samaritans)
That Shamaritan woman said to him, "How is it (that) you are a Yehudean, and you ask from me to drink, for I'm a Shamaritan woman?"-- for the Yehudeans do not have social dealings with the Shamaritans.
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And they told the woman, "We no longer believe because of what you said, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this really is the Savior of the world."[a: Other mss add _the Messiah_]
The phrase "the Messiah" was had as of A.D. 175, and is in the original Aramaic of the Peshitta:
and they said to that woman, Now not because of thy saying have we believed in him: we have heard and known that this truly is the Messiah, the Saviour of the world.
and they were saying to that woman that, "From henceforth it is not because of your word that we believe in him, for we have heard and know that this is certainly the Meshikha, the Life-Giver of the world!"
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Retro Review: Sakura Taisen
November 7, 2012 by Kori-Maru
Sakura Taisen (Sakura Wars) is a Strategy RPG adventure series that features a unique sim-based story system developed by AM7 Team Shinobi (Overworks) from SEGA along with Red Entertainment. The series first began in 1996 for the Sega Saturn and spawned several sequels, including OVA adaptations, TV anime series, a movie, and other merchandises. While the game was a successful Sega IP in Japan, it never had a release in the West until the release of the fifth game, which was released and published by NIS America. However, the series has had a cult following within the Sega & anime community fan base with english releases of anime videos. Want to know what I think about the game and how awesome it is? Read on to find out.
Thanks to the handy dandy translation guide from GameFaqs, I was able to get through the game with ease. The story begins in Teito in the Taisho period, where technology relies on steam power. Then we are introduced to Sakura Shinguji, the title character, who steps foot in Teito after General Yoneda summoned her to Tokyo to join the Hanagumi. Suddenly, a monster appears attacking the town. Sakura faces the demon and slays him with her sword. The story then cuts to Ogami Ichiro (the main character you play as) who was sent from the navy to work with the Hanagumi. He too sets into Teito to meet with Sakura Shinguji, who was sent by Yoneda to bring Ogami to the Grand Imperial Theater. Ogami finds himself disappointed after finding out that the formation was a Musical Drama Group. Little did he know that the Musical Drama Group was secretly a disguise of the real group called the Imperial Assault Force (Teikoku Kagekidan), a group of girls who possess spiritual power to defend Teito from demons known as Wakiji lead by Tenkai.
The game is split into two discs with free-movement mode where the player can talk to the characters with the use of the real time system known as the Live Interactive Picture System (LIPS) with a time limit. With choices made, including not making any choices at all, will add or deduct “trust points” with a chime. These trust points can have a dramatic change within the storyline, battle mode, and the ending with one of the girls. The game is text based, but I believe that it’s one of the strong points of the game in order for the player to know each character to the fullest such as their personal issues. For example, one of your female colleagues is traumatized by thunder when she was a little girl.
Free movement mode can be also freely accessed in “A Long Day” mode, where the player can move around the Imperial Theater and have access to mini-games, cut scenes, & music tracks after unlocking them in story mode. The minigames are fun to play through. One of my favorite minigames has to be the one where you have to help Sakura clean up the back stage by avoiding bumping into boxes and saving Sumire from drowning by swimming across the pool filled with spiked bombs.
And there are some minigames that are a bit complicated if you don’t understand Japanese.
As for battle mode, the game play is quite similar to Sega’s Shining series with the use of the grid system. The battle mode takes place almost towards the end of every chapter. Graphic-wise, the background layout sort of reminds me of a combination of Golden Axe & Shinobi (No surprise that the game was developed by Team Shinobi lead by Noriyoshi Ohba). The player can command his attack squad members piloting a spirit armor called “Koubu” to attack an enemy and perform their own unique abilities. In the Dreamcast port when one of the girls attacks or is hurt by an enemy, you can see her expression on the VMU screen along with her stats. This is when the “trust points” come in handy in battle as well.
With enough trust points from one of the girls, you can perform a devastating attack against the group enemies or bosses. You can also gain trust points by protect the girl you want to end up with (Only up to 3 times). If you lose a girl in battle, your “trust points” dramatically decreases with her but when you lose, its game over. While playing battle mode, I’ve found it very simple and easy than any other SRPG I’ve played with the exception of the final boss who annoyingly yells “die” in Japanese and does cheap tactics on you. Overall, the battle mode is very simple with no complaints.
The anime cut scenes are another awesome aspect that makes the game great. It’s like the good old days where I use to watch anime on television & DVD when I was small. It has some great moments. One of the cut scenes had a “DBZ get together to defeat the enemy with the power of teamwork” moment that made me go “oh **** it’s over for you man!” The character designs were illustrated by Kosuke Fujishima, who was known for the Oh My Goddess series and story by Ouji Hiroi (creator of the story). After you’ve completed an episode, the game will show you a preview of the next episode like any other anime would.
The music, oh don’t get me started with the music! The music in the game is phenomenal, especially the main theme song called “Geki Teikoku Kagekidan” sung by Sakura Shinguji with an orchestrated touch. Each and every character in the game has their own theme songs similar to the Sonic Adventure series that gives them their background uniqueness. The outstanding music track was done by Kohei Tanaka who also did the music for the series in later sequels. The scores in battle mode are also intense within the battlefield to set in the mood. The soundtrack is beautiful… just beautiful.
The game is 24+ hours to complete (maybe less if you want to avoid side missions) and has a high replay value if you want to complete the game with all girls by your side. Overall, it’s one of the greatest SRPG franchises that Sega has ever produced. I enjoyed every bit of it from story to game play. Too bad this game was never translated to the West due to Sega of America & Europe believing the game wouldn’t appeal to western gamers. I however enjoyed the hell out of it. If your fan of Sega’s tactical games with amazing story telling or anime otaku, this is the game for you to import for the Saturn or Dreamcast.
• Great storyline with dramatic story telling
• Simple tactical game play
• Interactive anime cut scenes with the use of the Dreamcast Rumble Pak
• Fun Mini Games
• Unique character designs
• Beautiful and well made soundtrack
• High replay value (Try to get all the endings)
• Some minigames are kinda hard to go through if you don’t understand Japanese
• The final boss on disc two is annoyingly hard (prepare to hear shi-ne alot :P)
• No US/EU release
Retro Review: Sakura Taisen 2 Retro Review: Sky Target (SEGA Saturn) Retro Review: Space Channel 5 (Sega Dreamcast/PS2) Retro Review: Ristar the Shooting Star Retro Review: Shenmue (SEGA Dreamcast)
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8 responses to “Retro Review: Sakura Taisen”
Kori-Maru says:
Sorry guys for some of the bad qualities on the screenshots. Couldn’t find any screens for the first game.
Eck says:
This is an okay review I think and a great site too, although it does take a bit longer to get news in compared to other Sega sites like Sega Addicts I’ve noticed, and some important news worthy things get reported their that you don’t even see here, but other than that, when it does get something, it’s usually well written and informative.
Barry the Nomad says:
Given the scope of SEGA news, we can never catch every story. However, taking a look at our news page compared to the site you mentioned, we have a LOT of stories they don’t have, and in return they have stories we don’t have. Even then, I debate the importance of some of the stories. Still, we strive to post as much news as we can, but when we miss something we try and post it asap either as a news story or as a tweet or Facebook post.
I’d also like to personally pat SEGAbits on the back for our great original content, something that CANNOT be found anywhere else. MyLifeWithSEGA, Tuesday Tunes, Friday Five, Retro Reviews, Sonic Talk, Swingin Report Show.
Anyway, back to talking about Sakura Wars.
mylifewithsega says:
It sounds like a damn good game. How much are these games going for nowadays?
@mylifewithsega
You can find the game for the Sega Saturn or Dreamcast for a cheap price on EBay. I’ve got the Complete Box with Sakura Taisen 1-2 in a 10 disc set for $165. It is a text-based game, but the story is really good and nice cutscenes.
I highly recommend the Dreamcast version. This version uses the rumble pak and VMU features when you play the game.
Dreamcast version? That may work out best, seeing as how my Dreamcast library is looking a little flat. I love how games worked in conjunction with the VMU. Code Veronica made checking my health such a painless process. Thanks for the heads-up, bro. 🙂
matty says:
I wish SEGA would rerelease the Sakura War games, in English preferably.
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posted Friday, July 18 2014 - Volume 42 Issue 29
Transgender employee gets apology from Pagliacci Pizza - Fired after complaining about customer
Dylan Paul says she is 'happy' with an apology from her former boss, Matt Galvin of Pagliacci Pizza, after she was fired July 11 in a dispute over how to deal with a disrespectful customer.
'After speaking with Matt,' she told SGN, 'he seems like he's genuinely invested in making this right, and committed to finding out how to work with the Trans community.'
Paul had worked at Pagliacci's Broadway location for more than a year. On July 7, she said goodbye to a regular customer, but when the customer replied, he called her 'man.'
'It's ma'am, actually,' Paul responded. The customer laughed at her and left.
On July 11, the customer returned, and Paul approached him.
'The last time you were in here I corrected you on my gender and you laughed at me,' she says she told the man. 'That was really rude, and I'd like you to apologize.'
'I don't really care what's happening in your life, man, I just need my pizza,' he answered.
'I just need to be respected in my place of work,' Paul said, 'and I reserve the right to refuse service to you.'
Paul told her managers about the incident, and they instructed her to go to the back of the store and let other employees wait on the man in the future. Paul was disappointed with the managers' response. She wanted them to bar the customer from the store, she says. She then decided to give her two weeks notice, but instead she was handed her pink slip.
Paul was outraged, and thought about filing a complaint with the Seattle Office of Civil Rights, the city agency where employees may file complaints for discrimination and harassment on the job. She reconsidered only after hearing from Pagliacci owner Matt Galvin.
Pagliacci apologizes
'I feel like the managers tried to do right by removing Dylan from the situation,' Galvin told SGN, 'but they didn't deal with the larger context. I'm just happy we came to a conclusion where Dylan feels OK.'
Galvin called Paul and apologized to her, offering her job back, or two weeks pay in acknowledgement of her intent to give two weeks notice.
'I respect him for giving me those options,' Paul told SGN. 'I still feel really betrayed by the managers. Right now I'm happy with his response and the fact he reached out to me and the Gender Justice League.'
One of Galvin's efforts to help correct the situation was to ask Elaine Wylie of the Transgender rights group Gender Justice League to do a 'Trans 101' training for his employees and managers.
'If you had told me six months ago that I would be in the middle of something like this, I would have been shocked,' Galvin told SGN. 'We're a Trans-friendly place, we have a very diverse and eclectic workforce; it's who we are, its part of Pagliacci's culture.
'I guess I kind of became passive. Training and communication needs to be ongoing. It's a nonstop process.'
Office of Civil Rights advice
Elliott Bronstein of the Seattle Office of Civil Rights agrees.
'It's important to do a little proactive work,' Bronstein told SGN. 'Have policies in place. Have training. You don't want the first time you think of these issues to be when you already have a situation on your hands.'
Bronstein said employees who have complaints about gender or sexual orientation bias can call his office at 206-684-4500. They will then be scheduled for an interview with an Intake Investigator who will determine if the employee's complaints could lead to formal charges being filed.
'We're not the person's attorney,' Bronstein cautioned. 'We can't advise them, but we can tell them whether a charge could be filed. It's ultimately up to the individual what to do.'
Bronstein says his agency doesn't have a manual, or formal protocols to guide employers, but he did offer some suggestions for dealing with similar situations:
'First, listen to the employee,' he said. 'Ask the employee what she or he would like to see happen to resolve the problem. That doesn't mean you're committing to do that very thing, it just helps establish where the employee is at.
'For managers, talk to your own supervisor or the owner. It always helps to know what your higher-up is thinking. There may be policies that you're not aware of. In Dylan's case, there wouldn't have been a gap if the managers had checked in with the owner.'
As for Paul, she is considering jobs with other food service companies, but ultimately she wants to be a welder. She is enrolled in an apprenticeship program at South Seattle Community College.
'I decided to enroll last summer,' she told SGN. 'It's an awesome trade to learn. You'll always work, and you can work just about anywhere.'
Asked if the work environment in the building trades was more or less open to Trans people than Pagliacci's Paul replied that 'it's been kind of a battle. It's a very different culture in skilled labor.
'But I've met a lot of other Lesbians who have been very supportive. They've really advocated for me and my girlfriend.'
As for advice to other employees who might encounter similar workplace problems, Paul says 'Speak up! Talk with others. Let people know. It's better to speak up than to let people disrespect you.'
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Saif Ali Khan & Shahid Kapoor battle for India's Sexiest Bachelor
Mumbai, August 12, 2011
India’s Sexiest Bachelor is all set to have heart beats racing this weekend with four handsome hunks vying to claim the top spot in the race to be crowned India’s Sexist Bachelor.
The first head-on collision will be between Kareena Kappor’s ex and current boyfriends - the Chote Nawab, Saif Ali Khan and the chocolate boy Shahid Kapoor on Saturday August 13, 10.00 pm
The Chote Nawab may be planning to marry Kareena in 2012 but his stock value among the women only continues to grow. The Prince Charming even today, in spite of his steady girl friend Kareena has girls drool over him. Saif is a thorough gentleman and that reflects in the way his fans mob him– they don’t seem to care that he was once married or has two kids or is even dating the beautiful Kareena. In fact from being taken for a spoilt brat in Bollywood, today he is looked upon as a dependable star.
If the Chote Nawab is your choice of India’s Sexiest Bachelor just log on to www.facebook.com/bigcbsprime or SMS ISB <03> and send it across to 55454.
Besides having Kareena as a girl friend, there are several similarities between Shahid and Saif, including the fact that their first movies were released when they were 22 years old! At an early age, people started betting on Shahid Kapoor as a luminous Bollywood star. But it was only after Jab We Met that Shahid could establish himself as a force in Bollywood. Shahid can be a man and a boy at the same time, a quality that has earned him millions of female fans. Women love the innocent face and the big eyes, which combined with a hot bod makes Shahid Kapoor every woman’s dream.
If you too want to make sure that Shahid Kapoor is India’s Sexiest Bachelor logon to www.facebook.com/bigcbsprime or SMS ISB <03> and send it across to 55454.
Its newbie Ranveer Vs hotie Neil Nitin on Sunday
Ranveer Singh & Neil Nitin Mukesh, who will be on India’s Sexiest Bachelor on Sunday August 14, at 10 pm, are both capable of having women crave for their attention.
With his ‘die for’ international looks and light eyes, Neil Nitin Mukesh has caught everyone’s fancy right from the day he made his debut in Johnny Gaddar. His box office film New York went on to establish his popularity & his acting skill. Coming from an elite Bollywood lineage, Neil is someone who tops as far as being sexy & suave is considered. Woman love the frank, emotional and dependable Neil.
If you have been swept off your feet by Neil’s good looks and charm then vote for him and make him India’s Sexiest Bachelor .Just log on to www.facebook.com/bigcbsprime or pick up your cell phones… type ISB <04> and send it across to 55454.
Ranveer Singh, the newest heartthrob has a very unconventional looks and may come across as a brash young man. But his ‘I don’t care’ attitude is getting his women fans chasing him. In addition to this is his discerning smile and the boy-next-door looks makes him a strong contender for the sexiest bachelor in India.
If you like the rugged & charming hero then vote for Ranveer by logging on to www.facebook.com/bigcbsprime or pick up your cell phones… type ISB <04> and send an sms to 55454.
Stay tuned to India’s Sexiest Bachelor every Saturday & Sunday at 10.00 pm only on BIG CBS PRIME.
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Welcome New Young Lawyer Members!
31 May 2015 8:00 PM | Mary Gadd (Administrator)
TDLA would like to welcome the following New members to the Young Lawyers Section!
Robert E. Carden - Leitner, Williams, Dooley & Napolitan, PLLC
Hannah S. Lowe - Trammell, Adkins & Ward, P.C.
Brandon J. Stout - Rainey, Kizer & Bell, PLLC
Cara E. Weiner - Spears, Moore, Rebman and Williams
Yen-Chia (Eric) Shen - Liberty Mutual
Frances Koho - TVA
HB 1003-SB 892 Givens/ Alsip/ Hayslett Fix
30 Apr 2015 5:00 PM | Mary Gadd (Administrator)
Attached below is a signed copy of the Givens/ Alsip/ Hayslett Fix. This was signed into law by Governor Haslam on April 24, 2015.
Signed Copy of HB 1003-SB 892
In Sympathy: Michael J. Philbin
TDLA is greatly saddened by the passing of TDLA Past President Michael J. Philbin. Mike Philbin was TDLA President from 1993-94. TDLA extends its deepest sympathies to the entire Philbin family.
Services are all at Christ the King Catholic Church, 3001 Belmont Boulevard, Nashville, TN; visitation from 5-7 p.m. on Monday, April 27, in the parish hall, and 10-11 a.m. in the church followed by Mass of Resurrection at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 28.
Update: The Givens/Hayslett Fix SB0892/HB1003
TDLA is pleased to advise the bill passed through the full House today 94-0 and through the full Senate 29-2. The bill now goes to the Governor for signature.
Thanks to the TDLA leadership and membership for supporting this important legislation that will aide defense lawyers across the State!
TDLA Welcomes New Member Philip R. Baker!
06 Apr 2015 7:00 AM | Mary Gadd (Administrator)
TDLA welcomes Philip R. Baker of Ensley, Shade and Baker in Johnson City, Tennessee. Mr. Baker is referred by TDLA Member Kenny Veit.
"Givens Fix Fix" SB892/ HB1003 Update
We are further pleased to announce the “Givens Fix Fix” bill passed through the House Civil Justice Committee, March 31st on a voice vote. We are pleased to advise the bill passed through the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday morning by a vote of 6-2-1. One of our Members was called upon in the Senate to testify in support of the bill on behalf of the TNDLA and was proud to do so.
The bill will next be considered by the full House and Senate. We will keep you posted.
A Win for TDLA - Haynes v. Formac Stables, Inc.
30 Mar 2015 3:00 PM | Mary Gadd (Administrator)
CHARLES HAYNES v. FORMAC STABLES, INC.
Court: TN Supreme Court
Justin S. Gilbert, Chattanooga, Tennessee; Jonathan L. Bobbitt, Brentwood, Tennessee; and Jessica F. Salonus, Jackson, Tennessee, for the appellant, Charles Haynes.
James M. Glasgow Jr., Union City, Tennessee; Timothy R. Holton, Memphis, Tennessee; and Michael P. McGartland and Eugene E. Borchardt, Fort Worth, Texas, for the appellee, Formac Stables, Inc.
Robert D. Meyers, Ryan M. Skertich, and Brandon D. Pettes, Memphis, Tennessee, for the amicus curiae, the Tennessee Defense Lawyers Association
Judge: WADE
The plaintiff asserted claims for retaliatory discharge pursuant to both the common law and the Tennessee Public Protection Act, alleging that the owner of the employer had engaged in illegal conduct and had terminated the plaintiff’s employment when he acted as a whistleblower by complaining of the conduct to the owner. The trial court dismissed the plaintiff’s claims because, according to his own allegations, he had not reported the illegal activity to anyone other than the person responsible for the activity. The Court of Appeals affirmed. We hold that an employee must report an employer’s wrongdoing to someone other than the wrongdoer to qualify as a whistleblower, which may require reporting to an outside entity when the wrongdoer is the manager, owner, or highest ranking officer within the company. The judgment of the Court of Appeals is affirmed.
haynesc_032715.pdf
Welcome Jessica Thomas!
Ms. Thomas is one of TDLA's newest members! She was recently appointed as co-chair of TDLA's Employment and Workers' Compensation Section. She is sponsored by TDLA President James Tucker and Member Lynn Lawyer.
Congratulations to Baker Donelson!
13 Mar 2015 12:53 PM | Anonymous
Congratulations to Baker Donelson on making Fortune's list of best places to work!
"Baker Donelson (No. 30). Its Fortune description: “Southern law firm has a five-to-10-minute meeting called the Daily Docket every morning to keep everyone on the same page. The company also offers a flexible work schedule and, in some instances, paid sabbaticals, letting employees structure work around their personal needs and goals."
Caldwell Collins Newest TDLA Member --
09 Mar 2015 8:42 AM | Anonymous
TDLA welcomes its newest member, Caldwell Collins of Baker Donelson's Nashville office. Caldwell is a DRI member and sponsored by James Tucker, Jr.
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1981: First Wimbledon title for McEnroe
July 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment
I had been famous for a few years now, but Wimbledon in ’81 is where I became infamous.
Excerpts from McEnroe‘s autobiography, Serious:
“I was unbelievably tense at Wimbledon in 1981 because I knew, after beating Borg at the Open, that I could win it, should win it, would win it – unless disaster struck.
Well, disaster did strike, and kept striking, round after round, and somehow I kept getting through – endearing myself to nobody in the process.
It began at the beginning.
Although this was to become one of my famous matches, I’m positive almost nobody remembers who I played, and when I played it: Tom Gullikson, first round, Wimbledon 1981. Court One.
I had behaved badly at Wimbledon before. I was already Super Brat. Now I upped the ante. Tom could be a pretty tough opponent on grass, but i had a much tougher adversary out there that day. Even though I would eventually win in straight sets 7-6 7-5 6-3, I just couldn’t rest easy when I got ahead: the devils were crawling all over my brain that afternoon. When Gullikson went ahead 4-3 in the second set on a miserable line call, I smashed my Wilson Pro Staff racket, and James issued me a warning. And later, when a linesman called a serve deep that I had clearly seen throw up a spray of chalk, I threw my new racket and gave a scream that came straight from Queens – but that has traveled very far in the years since.”
Man, you cannot be serious!
[youtube width=”480″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekQ_Ja02gTY[/youtube]
You guys are the absolute pits of the world.
The umpire understood “You guys are the piss of the world” and gave Mac a point penalty. McEnroe demanded to see the referee, and yelled:
We’re not going to have a point taken away because this guy is an incompetent fool!
After the match, McEnroe was fined $750 for the obscenity, $750 for an unsportsmanlike comment about the umpire, and threatened with an additional 10000 fine and suspension from the tournament.
And I want you to understand: I felt terrible. I’ve felt awful virtually every time I’ve had one of my on-court meldowns.
Semifinal vs Rod Frawley
“It seems to happen pretty regularly at Wimbledon that some unseeded phenom will streak through the tournament, knocking off a big name or two, and reach the final rounds. Sometimes it’s even a young qualifier! Besides me, there was the even more amazing example of Boris Becker in 1985.
It happened in 1981, too, not with a qualifier or a young up-and-comer, but with a 28 yr old Aussie named Rod Frawley. Frawley had a big mane of wavy hair, like a rock star, and an edgy attitude: he had nothing to lose, he had come this far, and he was going to pull out all the stops.
I was beyond irreverence: I was contemptuous. From the moment play began, I was muttering to myself about this upstart who felt he deserved to be on the same court with me. It was pure bravado, of course, borne of sheer anxiety.
We played a tight first set, and after one ‘out’ call, my needle went into the red.
You’re a disgrace to mankind!
Warning for McEnroe.
But I was talking to myself. What did I say, umpire? Please, tell me!
[youtube width=”480″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QSIF_I2ZUg[/youtube]
McEnroe won the match in 3 sets but was fined $10000 for his aggravated behaviour.
Final vs Bjorn Borg
I was thrilled to be in the rematch I’d wanted so badly, but Borg had won here an unbelievable five times in a row.
On the other hand, this time I had actually experienced a Wimbledon final, a final I had almost won. I had my US Open victory against Bjorn under my belt.
As confident as I felt about my chances, however, I knew that anything could always happen in a big match, especially on the Centre Court.
Harry Hopman, the legendary australian coach said:
Before the finals, I thought Borg would win. I thought John would be under too much pressure, trying to play a game that was different to him. A game where he couldn’t explode occasionally. I thought that pressure would upset him. But there was no doubt that it was Borg who felt the pressure. And John showed that he could play without giving vent to his feelings.
“I got off to a sluggish start. I was tight, nervous, over-impressed with the occasion. I could feel the crowd was against me (I was beginning used to it). At the same time, it was hard not to be over-impressed: this was the apex of tennis, the rematch I’d dreamed of, against the player I’d idolized since my early teens.
Borg won the first set 6-4. As I loosened up, the match turned into a dogfight. I won a tight tiebreaker to take the second set, and the third set was going in that direction, too. Underneath my nerves, and my certainty that I had to play every point to my utmost, a strange idea was starting to materialize:
He’s not quite hungry as last year. This is my match to take, if I can take it.
“Borg had a set point in the third-set tiebreaker. Then a bad call against me gave him a double set point. I summoned everything I had, and negated one set point. Then the other. Then I won the set.
I never relaxed until the last point, but after I took the third set, I knew in my bones that I was going to win.”
When we shook hands, Bjorn looked oddly relieved. (And what about me? Was I more relieved at not losing than thrilled at winning? I’m not sure I could tell you even now.)
But McEnroe’s show wasn’t over: he didn’t attend Wimbledon victors’ dinner and for the first time in 100 years, Wimbledon decided not to give the men’s champion membership in the All England Club ‘due to McEnroe’s poor behaviour and antics in the fortnight’. He received the membership the next year.
Category: Books, Slider, Wimbledon · Tags: 1981, Bjorn Borg, Centre Court, Harry Hopman, Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Rod Frawley, Serious, Tom Gullikson, video, wb1981, Wimbledon
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Terms of Heart
Reflections on the Psalms and the Great Psalmist,
Shepherd of Israel and Poet King David,
the man after God's own heart.
Why David?
Psalmtweets
Early one morning in February 2005 I sat alone in a one-room building that had once been a corncrib atop a hill called Mt. San Angelo nestled in the Shenandoah. The quiet and isolation of that tiny space conspired with the sheer beauty of the surrounding Blue Ridge mountains to make it a place of inspiration. I was there to be still, to practice my art of poetry.
But that morning, before taking out my own notebook, I opened a Lenten journal and read the single verse from the 119th psalm selected for the day. It was meant to draw the reader into meditation and prayer. Yet that isolated verse of David’s longest and most magnificent psalm, rendered as it was in English, led me in an entirely different direction.
I will not argue against the power of one verse of Holy Scripture to speak, but I also believe strongly in the value of context in shaping a right understanding. On that particular day, those words were crying out for such. So I turned to Psalm 119 and began to read it in the Hebrew. Then the central petition of verse 18, typically translated “open my eyes” — remove, in the sense of making completely naked, the cover from before my eyes, the original language pleads—began to be answered for me. I saw the whole wondrous psalm in a new way as it opened in fullness before me.
Looking back at the short journal entry I jotted down that morning, I can see I realized immediately that fresh insight was also placing a task before me. I was uncertain what course that newly assigned duty would take, but I sensed I needed to embrace it. So I did.
Surely I did not anticipate that I would spend the next four years immersed in Psalm 119: reading and rereading it in Hebrew, transliterating it, translating it, and finally adapting its 22 sections into lyric poems in English that would become the centerpiece of my book This Holy Alphabet.
Nor did I expect that studying that one psalm would not only lead me to examine other psalms but also to delve deeply into the life and story of the Great Psalmist David. Most of all, I could not have conceived the blessing that would flow from the assignment.
Why am I hearkening back to an experience of a decade ago now and in this forum? Because as I was then, I am confronted by questions again. But this time they are not my own. Over the past several months, a multitude of people have asked me questions that had something in common. Questions all beginning: “Are you still…?”
They were referring to what I had done during the several years immediately following the publication of This Holy Alphabet. As every author knows, once a book is released, then the real work begins. Promotion and commotion. Book signings, book talks in any and every venue and before any and every audience one can find — in libraries and bookstores and churches and schools and private homes and seminaries.
Was I still out there talking about the mysteries and marvels of the psalms and the Holy Tongue and David, the Great Psalmist and greatest poet in the history of the world? Was I? Because if I were, they wanted to hear still more. And if I weren’t, why not? They still wanted to hear more. Everyone kept saying still.
The poet in me was drawn to that one word and to the double-entendre, at least, I found lurking there. Still. Isn’t there abundantly more to explore in the life and the work of the Poet King of Israel? Still. Are you continuing to encourage dialogue about David and the psalms in an increasingly hungry, dangerous, divided and secular world? Still. Are you spending time motionless and attentive before the Great I AM as His character and promises are revealed through your study of David?
So it was that the “still small voice” spoke to me, to my heart, directing me once again to mine the mother lode of the life, prayers and poetry of the one person He called “a man after His own heart” (1 Sam 13:14). And to share it.
Welcome to Terms of Heart. Be still with me. Dig and wrestle, seek and rest with me. Join the quest with me to cultivate and to own that very same kind of heart.
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Peg Peterson says
Thank you . Hungry for this step within my own quest. Excited to begin opening this journey with David.
Isaac says
Oh, how I struggle to be stilled. Silence is so elusive. I find it ironic that I must, as you say, wrestle to rest. Thank you for this invitation, and for creating this blog. I look forward to reading your beautiful words and insights in the future.
Margaret B. Ingraham says
Yes, silence is allusive and so is stillness. But it is necessary, as the psalmist knew so well: “Be still (stop striving!) and know that I am God.” I need constant reminding of that and so have those words framed on my wall.
The Heart of Psalm 119 (Part 4)
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Do You Agree With Kasparov?
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Post by Sean Evans » Thu Jan 01, 2015 10:41 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugK2nqeUKP0
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Re: Do You Agree With Kasparov?
Post by Vinvin » Thu Jan 01, 2015 10:49 am
I agree that Kasparov is a (very) bad loser
Vinvin wrote: I agree that Kasparov is a (very) bad loser
Most champions are, which gives them the edge! Losers enjoy losing
S.Taylor
Location: Jerusalem Israel
Post by S.Taylor » Thu Jan 01, 2015 5:18 pm
I wonder if Alekhine would have complained.
I believe that the younger Korchnoi did not complain, when he was in Israel against 50, and lost 5, against semi pro/pro players who i believe he wasn't told about.
(He then took them all together and played them all in a small simul, and beat them all easily, and gave them advice also).
Rein Halbersma
Post by Rein Halbersma » Thu Jan 01, 2015 7:57 pm
Reminds me how Devin Harris (NBA player) got hustled by a street player: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TECwwpY4JAU
Harris took it all in stride.
IGarcia
Post by IGarcia » Thu Jan 01, 2015 8:55 pm
Seems he asked if there was strong players, probably to spend more time on them and the information was not given.
The video information says:
This simultaneous exhibition was held in the Sci-bono centre, Johannesburg on 13th Nov. 2011. At this time, Gary Kasparov had won 26 games and drawn 1 and was at the verge of loosing one. It suddenly dawned on him that the game in question and the one he had drawn was being assisted by a 2200 player. The player in question later confirmed to me that he apologized to Gary at the end of the exhibition.
Besides Garry big Ego and bad character, he was right.
Post by S.Taylor » Thu Jan 01, 2015 10:56 pm
Me too, I agree that Gary was right in his frustration.
And when he was complaining, he was merely trying to make his point be understood.
IF he did himself (or anyone else) a favor by entering into argument, I don't know. Maybe yes maybe not. It doesn't make too much difference. In fact, he was being kind to us in publicizing to the public what goes on behind the scenes, so i think he DID help US.
He wasn't kicking up a fuss imho. He was sharing with us what he goes through, and was requesting us to be more humane, even to him.
WAS he right that "we" can effectively hurt his career with our lack of consideration?
I don't know!
ALSO, maybe he legitimately wanted to be told in private conversation by people he trusts, what he will be facing, and this argument was not meant to be recorded.
perhaps it is true, that for the first 10 moves or more, one may not have proof how strong the player is.
Put it this way, Kasparov can safely play a speculative gambit against a 1950 elo player, which he should not play vs a 2200 player esp at simul.
If he wanted to play it safe, he would not play ANY speculative moves at a simul EVER.
Perhaps Alekhine never encountered big experts at a simul.
Post by Darkmoon » Fri Jan 02, 2015 6:20 am
I'm not sure I fully understand Mr. Kasparov issue playing someone whose game was " being assisted by a 2200 player". Mr. Kasparov, per wiki at his peak was -a 2851 player!
He could be assisting the 2200 player - seemingly- without breaking into a sweat. But! In the youtube video he was mopping his brow!
Personally, I think he was out of shape in the performance department and didn't realize just out how much out of shape he was when it came to the "concentration department" !
I just don't believe him to be the kind of guy who will readily admit to this kind of embarrassment
It must also be remembered that Kasparov has a history of doing things his own way!
Take for example this episode Re: Kasparov touch-move controversy
During her match [Judit Polgar] with Kasparov in the fifth round, the World Champion changed his mind after taking his hand off a piece, and moved the piece to a different square.[86][87] According to chess rules, once a player has released a piece, he cannot make a different move, so Kasparov should have been required to play his original move. Polgár said she did not challenge this because "I was playing the World Champion and didn't want to cause unpleasantness during my first invitation to such an important event. I was also afraid that if my complaint was overruled I would be penalized on the clock when we were in time pressure." She was unaware at the time that the re-move was caught on tape by a television crew the videotape showed that Kasparov's fingers were free of the knight for about a quarter of a second: The tournament director was criticised for not forfeiting Kasparov when the videotape evidence was made available to him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r
In other words, he just doesn't like losing if he can help it, and if he can figure out a workable excuse on the fly ...
Deep Blue!? This is who he is! This is one of his foibles.
However, that may be it does not negate the fact-obviously! that he is one of the greatest chess players of all time- if not the greatest.
Jhoravi
Post by Jhoravi » Fri Jan 02, 2015 8:44 am
I agree with Garry. He must have applied a hyper aggressive romantic opening that sacrificed a piece or two pawns that should confuse a 1600 player but is a loosing position against strong defense handled by a master. The point is that for sure sure Gary wouldn't mind a simul even against 2300 or stronger opponents as long as he know the strengths in advance so he can play accordingly to their strengths.
I have another example about knowing your opponents strength can change your decision about the game. I once had a loosing position in a tournament and my best move was to go for the draw by perpetual check. But knowing my opponent is a weak player, I decided to play the inferior move and won the game
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Home Trending Canada ‘Can’t go back to normal’: Landowner accused of shooting trespasser describes new...
‘Can’t go back to normal’: Landowner accused of shooting trespasser describes new reality
Edouard Maurice, known as Eddie, and his wife Jessica say they didn’t want the spotlight.
But since it was thrust on them, they are going to use their platform to stand up for other rural landowners and they hope to nudge lawmakers to make changes.
“We’ve decided to stand up because we know this could have been anybody,” Jessica told CBC News Wednesday in an extensive interview with the couple’s lawyer present.
“They are all watching because they know it affects them too. We feel this obligation to have the courage to stand up against this thing. Although we don’t want the attention, it’s there.”
The incident that triggered that attention started Feb. 24, 2018, when two trespassers entered their property near Okotoks, south of Calgary.
Eddie fired warning shots. A bullet ended up in the arm of Ryan Watson, one of the trespassers.
Eddie was initially charged with aggravated assault, pointing a firearm and careless use of a firearm.
Jessica Maurice says her family, including husband Eddie, is taking a stand by filing a counterclaim. (Monty Kruger/CBC)
Those charges were dropped in June of that year when a ballistics report determined no crime had been committed by Eddie.
The case became a flashpoint in the ongoing debate around rural landowners’ rights to defend their property and with what level of force.
Dozens of people routinely showed up to court hearings in support of the family and an online fundraising campaign has exceeded the $50,000 goal.
In February, Watson was given a 45-day sentence for mischief and breaching probation but was released because of time served in pretrial custody.
Then last month, Watson filed a $100,000 statement of claim stating he has suffered “emotional upset, severe fatigue and insomnia.” He is also claiming special damages including loss of income “in an amount to be proven at court.”
Just this week, CBC News reported Eddie filed a statement of defence against Watson’s claim and a counterclaim of $150,000.
Eddie says the entire situation has deeply impacted his family.
“It’s the mental toll of having the nightmares, having the worry of what’s going to happen. The insecurity now, that you have been victimized,” he said.
“You can’t go back to normal.”
He says unknown headlights coming toward his house at night now have a very different feeling.
The counterclaim alleges Jessica needed counselling and suffered a miscarriage and the family continues to suffer mental stress. Eddie is also seeking wages lost while fighting criminal charges in court.
Stephen Nelson said his client’s claim is based on Eddie Maurice’s negligent use of a firearm when confronting two trespassers on Maurice’s property in February of last year. (Submitted by Stephen Nelson)
Watson’s lawyer says, whether people understand it or not, the law is clear in this matter.
“This issue is, whether or not [Watson] was posing a threat of immediate death or grievous bodily harm to [Eddie] or his family,” Stephen Nelson told CBC News late Wednesday afternoon.
“If there is no threat of that, it is not reasonable to use a firearm.”
Nelson says the basis of Watson’s case is that Eddie’s use of the gun was negligent.
“We only have to prove negligence, not intent,” the Calgary-based lawyer said.
“There were a lot of other options. I don’t believe he should discharge a firearm unless it is necessary for the preservation of life or prevention of bodily harm.”
Nelson acknowledges the rarity of cases like this, but says they do happen.
“Often times it’s cases involving the police. The plaintiffs have been successful in many cases, but these are very fact-specific cases.”
He says it’s unlikely Watson’s case would be thrown out as frivolous.
“If someone is trying to steal a bike off your lawn, you are not allowed to pull out a shotgun and shoot them. If they come at you with a knife, yes, that is more reasonable,” Nelson said.
“That’s what the law is.”
Eddie and Jessica Maurice are hoping by standing their ground in upcoming legal proceedings, others won’t have to in the future. (Monty Kruger/CBC)
Meanwhile, the Maurice family says the incident and legal process that followed was a learning experience.
“It’s an opportunity to teach our kids that you have to be a leader, take opportunities to stand up for yourself, and others when you can. Take responsibility and do the right thing,” Jessica said.
“That’s why we took our daughters to the court cases, to teach them to be responsible adults.”
And Eddie is hoping his family’s experience, might make trespassers think twice.
“I guess the biggest thing I would like at the end of this is, that no one has to go through this process that we have had to go through for the past almost two years.”
None of the claims, counterclaims and defence statements have been proven in court.
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Top of the Lake-Mooresville
Friendship: In an increasingly complex world, Rotary provides one of the most basic human needs: the need for friendship and fellowship. It is one of two reasons why Rotary began in 1905.
Business Development: The second original reason for Rotary's beginning is business development. Everyone needs to network. Rotary consists of a cross section of every business community. Its members come from all walks of life. Rotarians help each other and collectively help others.
Personal Growth and Development: Membership in Rotary continues one's growth and education in human relations and personal development.
Leadership Development: Rotary is an organization of leaders and successful people. Serving in Rotary positions is like a college education. Leadership: - learning how to motivate, influence and lead leaders.
Citizenship in the Community: Membership in a Rotary club makes one a better community citizen. The average Rotary club consists of the most active citizens of any community.
Continuing Education: Each week at Rotary there is a program designed to keep one informed about what is going on in the community, nation, and world. Each meeting provides an opportunity to listen to different speakers and a variety of timely topics.
Fun: Rotary is fun, a lot of fun. Each meeting is fun. The club projects are fun. Social activities are fun. Serving others is fun.
Public Speaking Skills: Many individuals who joined Rotary were afraid to speak in public. Rotary develops confidence and skill in public communication and the opportunity to practice and perfect these skills.
Citizenship in the World: Every Rotarian wears a pin that says "Rotary International." There are few places on the globe that do not have a Rotary club. Every Rotarian is welcome - even encouraged - to attend any of the 33,000 clubs in over 200 nations and geographical regions. This means instant friends in both one's own community and in the world community.
Assistance when Traveling: Because there are Rotary clubs everywhere, many a Rotarian in need of a doctor, lawyer, hotel, dentist, advice, etc., while traveling has found assistance through Rotary.
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The Opportunity to Serve: Rotary is a service club. Its product is serving. Rotarians provide community service to both local and international communities. This is perhaps the best reason for becoming a Rotarian: the chance to do something for somebody else and to sense the self-fulfillment that comes in the process and return of that satisfaction to one's own life. It is richly rewarding.
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August 22, 2018 Silicon Valley Bike Summit 2018 - San José, CA
Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition hosted its 8th Annual Silicon Valley Bike Summit, the area’s largest gathering of active transportation leaders and organizers from government, law enforcement, non-profit, and the public.
The Bike Summit discussed topics including: grassroots advocacy, engineering and planning, housing and transportation, bike share, Safe Routes to School and more.
Watch the opening plenary.
Watch the awards and closing pannel.
Graduates of MTI's Masters of Science in Transportation Management were honored at a banquet attended by families and friends as well as national and international transportation leaders. An award was given to students from Toddy Thomas Middle School in Fortuna, the winning team in the Garrett Morgan Sustainable Transportation Competition, and the MSTM Alumni Association honored its Alumna/us of the Year.
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Distinguished Guest Spearker:
Norman Y Mineta, U.S. Secretary of Transportation (Ret'd.)
Recipient of the Inagural Norman Y. Mineta Innovative Leadership Award:
Senator Jim Beall, Chairman, California Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing
Laurie Berman, Director, California Department of Transportation (Caltrans)
Valedictorian:
Lisa Rae Vickery, Transportation Superintendent, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA)
June 22, 2018 Ninth Annual Mineta National Transportation Finance Summit - San Francisco, CA
The need to invest in California’s transportation system is dire and after years of seeking a solution to the state’s transportation crisis, the State Legislature passed and the governor signed SB 1 (Beall, 2017), also known as the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017, increasing transportation funding by $54 billion over a decade. SB 1 provides the first significant, stable and ongoing increase in state transportation funding in more than two decades.
This free, half-day summit hosted by the Mineta Transportation Institute looked at how SB1 funds are being implemented and documented the strategies that state, local, and regional governments and transportation agencies are taking to address California’s transportation needs.
Take a look at some of the great photos of the summit!
To listen to the audio recording visit the Commonwealth Club audio archive and check out the vidoe of the summit on Youtube.
June 18, 2018 Going Places: Historic Transportation Day - San José, CA
History San José and the California Trolley and Railroad Corporation and explored how people have gotten from A to B throughout history. From electric cars to trolleys. In honor of Father's Day, dad's received free admission into the hands-on fun!
Event Categories: Hands-on History Days, History San Jose Events
May 22, 2018 to May 23, 2018 International Seminar: High-Speed Technologies on Railway Systems - San José, CA
This event on high-speed rail featured international experts sharing specialized knowledge of railway technologies. The seminar was oriented to qualified professionals, graduate engineers, local SBEs and senior students with interest in this field. It provided and expanded a qualified workforce for the development of HSR in California. Additionally, it was an opportunity to bring students into contact with international leaders and companies in these technologies.
May 17, 2018 Electric Vehicles for EVeryone - Redwood City, CA
How is California accelerating the transition from polluting, fossil fuel cars to electric vehicles? Attendees learned about charging stations and infrastructure, what cars and trucks are available, saving money by going electric, and how everyone can benefit from the growth of electric vehicles.
Opening comments, Assemblymember Marc Berman
Alan Suleiman from Silicon Valley Clean Energy discussed how community choice energy providers are helping with EV chargers
Mark Tang from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District explained the BAAQMD rebate program for low-income EV purchaser
Janelle London of Colutura shared creative strategies using policy and culture to shift consumers away from gasoline engines
Shyam Nagrani of MotivPower discussed EVs for the medium-duty transportation sector
Moderator: Diane Bailey, Menlo Spark
Cosponsors: Acterra, Menlo Spark, Peninsula Interfaith Climate Action, Mineta Transportation Institute
May 16, 2018 Synchronizing Climate and Transportation Plans - Palo Alto, CA
Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the region and the state. What transportation strategies make it harder to reduce GHGs, and what can help? How can we make better decisions today that support a sustainable future?
Widening highways or converting existing lanes to express lanes
Building more parking garages, or less
Building more homes near transit, jobs, and services
The transition to electric vehicles
Transportation as a service
Billy Riggs, University of San Francisco and MTI Research Associate
Michael Boswell, California Polytechnic State University
Gil Friend, City of Palo Alto
Co-sponsors: Palo Alto Forward, Friends of Caltrain, TransForm CA, Mineta Transportation Institute
May 10, 2018 “An American Story: Norman Mineta and His Legacy” to premier at San Francisco’s CAAMFest36 - San Francisco, CA
Former San Jose mayor, Democratic congressperson, cabinet secretary, founder of the Mineta Transport Institute (MTI), veteran, and World War II incarceration camp survivor, Norman Mineta’s life premiered on the big screen in Dianne Fukami and Debra Nakatomi’s “An American Story: Norman Mineta and His Legacy.” It was selected as the Opening Night film as part of the Center for Asian American Media’s (CAAM) film festival, or CAAMFest36, on May 10th in San Francisco’s Castro Theater.
“An American Story” highlights the challenges Mineta and his family faced while incarcerated at Heart Mountain, Wyoming as an 11-year old boy, inspiring him to become a community leader. Considered a man of many firsts, Mineta, according to producers Fukami and Nakatomi, personifies the dreams and aspirations of the Asian American community.
May 6, 2018 4th Annual “Silicon Valley Bikes!” Festival & Bicycle Show - San José, CA
We joined our Valley’s racing, road, cargo, fixed gear, cruiser, recreation, vintage, lowrider, mountain biking, BMX, cool urban lifestyle cyclists and their families for a day of fun and community building.
There were food trucks, craft beer, events for kids, live music, and more.
A collaboration between History San José, Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, Mineta Transportation Institute, Specialized Bicycles, Gooseneck Bicycles, Santa Clara Valley Brewing and more.
May 5, 2018 Women in Leadership League (WILL) Conference 2018 - San José, CA
On Saturday, May 5, 2018, the Lucas College of Business hosted the 2nd Annual Women in Leadership League Conference. This conference brought together top women leaders, alumni, and students from all disciplines. The day provided a mix of keynote addresses and small group discussions, which provided participants with inspirational experiences as well as practical advice and strategies from successful women leaders. The conferences itinerary included:
9:00am - Check-in and Refreshments
10:00am to 11:15am - Keynote Panel – Melting the Glass Ceiling
Ehrika C. Gladden, VP, Market Strategy, Enterprise Networking for Cisco Systems
Kara Long, VP/GM Service Providers and Cloudline Server Group for HP Enterprise
Suja Viswesan, Director of Engineering, LinkedIn
Moderated by Clare Markovits, Chief of Staff in Cisco’s Chief Digital Office
11:15am to 12:00pm - Speed Mentoring Session with leaders from top Silicon Valley companies who will share their professional advice.
12:00pm – 1:00pm - Networking Lunch and Resource Fair
1:00pm - 2:30pm - Birds of a Feather - Small group discussions with leaders from many of the top companies in Silicon Valley, including Apple, Cisco, Google, and LinkedIn
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Sara Walsh Biography
Posted On: 17 Mar, 2014
Matt Buschmann
If you want a running commentary of a game you like in real-time with a beautiful and vigorous voice, then Sara Elizabeth Walsh is the sportscaster you are looking for.
Sara Walsh, a reporter and anchor for a major Television network of the country, CNN, finds the guy she was looking for. His name is Matt Buschmann. He is a minor league baseball pitcher, and they married in 2014.
She is a hot, and talented girl interested in sports and he is a hot and talented boy also interested in sports, and their chemistry is as hot as them, and they are totally happy.
Her body figure is picture perfect, and her height is 1.65 meters with long legs.
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The Music Department seeks to provide education and enjoyment through music, to all year groups in the school through class teaching, individual music lessons on instruments and voice, Co-curricular activities, Concerts, Productions and Choir Tours.
Teaching takes place in a purpose-built Music Centre which includes two large classrooms/rehearsal rooms, 33 electronic keyboards, 31 music computers, Sibelius Software, interactive whiteboards, six practice rooms, instrument store and recording studio. In Years 7 to 9, each class has a music lesson each week which follows and exceeds the National Curriculum guidelines. Pupils also have experience reading music; playing keyboards and other instruments; singing; composing and listening and learning about a wide range of music using the Opus series of textbooks.
Pupils who choose to study music in Years 10 and 11 follow a course leading to a GCSE in Music from the Edexcel Examination Board. There are normally between seven and fifteen pupils in each GCSE Music class and our results are exceptional. Marks on average are at least 10% above the national average and 50% have achieved A or A* in the last 5 years.
About a third of the pupils in the school take individual music lessons in school with many others having private lessons outside school. Standards range from Beginners to Grade 8 and Diploma successes. Many pupils also take the Music Examinations of Trinity College during termly visits to school.
Co-curricular musical activities include Senior Choir, Junior Choir, Chamber Choirs, Senior Orchestra, Junior Orchestra, String Orchestra, Brass Band and Swing Band plus Aural and Music Theory classes. Groups normally meet for half an hour at lunch time with extra rehearsals before particular performances.
School music groups also contribute to our annual series of concerts, often performing a prelude to concerts by visiting artists. Pupils of different standards have the opportunity to perform in our annual Soloists Recital with every Wilmar Lodge group contributing to the School Concert at the end of the Spring Term. The annual Choral and Orchestral Gala Concert comes at the start of the Summer Term and features performances from the school orchestra and choral works by the Westholme Choral Society, which includes parents and friends of Westholme.
The Music Department contributes fully to school productions which have included Beauty& the Beast, Miss Saigon, The Phantom of the Opera, Annie, Carmen, Les Misérables, Oliver, The Magic Flute, West Side Story, Jesus Christ Superstar and Joseph. For each of the past twenty years, between 45 and 110 members of school choirs have undertaken a performing tour during the summer holidays, singing in such places as Salzburg, New York, Copenhagen, Paris, Monte Carlo and Florence. Televised reports on two previous Choir Tour Concerts can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0eEjroe5tU and http://tvslo.si/predvajaj/poletna-scena/ava2.142707318 the latter starts 19 minutes into the programme.
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Chess Position Trainer (CPT) is the perfect solution to manage your chess opening repertoire in a more efficient way than you probably do today. A Guide to Chess Openings “When you see a good move, wait – look for a better one. Sep 18, 2019 · To win chess openings playing black with the French Defense, start by moving your King 1 space forward. Tip for teachers: always check with book reviews. Aug 20, 2019 · Free Chess Books PDF (Ending #1) is a nice application you need to improve your capability and skill in Chess. A. Nc3 (Sleipner Opening), 1. Wheeler. e4 e5 Open Game · King's Gambit · Bishop's Opening · Vienna · Petrov · Latvian Gambit · Scotch · Giuoco Piano · Two Knights · Ruy Lopez · Philidor Defence Chess Downloads and Chess E-Books. If you are an experienced player, however, you may still go through the lesson and check if you’re keeping ALL these rules in mind and following them ALWAYS. 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Topics include the phrase for when a king is trapped and the game is over and an Science-backed chess learning tools online, chess training, and chess opening repertoires from chess masters and amateurs alike. 1. Find out what you know about chess openings with this short quiz and worksheet. Modern Chess Openings (MCO) has been the standard English language. It is pre• sented as a five-volume book collection (now also a computer database) describing chess openings. 9:39 [FULL VERSION] Magnus Carlsen Blind & Timed Chess Simul at the Sohn Conference in NYC - Duration: 27:59. 3) Two Knights Defence. Special emphasis is given to playing as White against the Queen's Gambit Declined and the Nimzo-lndian, and as Black with the King's Indian and Sicilian Defences. Chess Openings Contents 1 Overview 1 1. This means that it is seldom a good idea to move the same piece twice before all other pieces have been developed and unnecessary pawn moves should be avoided. people with no familiarity with chess (and even an aversion to learning to play!) and seen them playing quite well after a few games. Study chess openings by watching Grandmaster (GM) games. com Chess online • Chess puzzles • Chess tournaments • Chess Ladder • Chess League • Teams • Clubs • Play Chess vs Computer Chess tactics • Chess games database • Annotated games • Chess openings • Free chess tools • Play chess • Chess • Help? Good openings usually involve developing your pieces to good and active squares. Various learning fuctions to memorize openings. With all the different openings that you can transpose into, the English can be used against any opponent as you can change your game plan early on. Apple iOS app. 22. Most of the chess openings have been named and analyzed for hundreds of years. Correspondence Champion Jon Edwards’ take on the opening. thechesswebsite 7,146,174 views. e4 openings so far as traps are concerned. A History of Chess The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings, Fine Reuben - download book. 2 (Watson) Mastering the Chess Openings vol. attack chess openings course game games Igor smirnov Igor's chess openings smirnov strategy tactics video Friday, March 24, 2017 Why Peter Svidler is the god of Grunfeld defense? The Grunfeld defense, followed by the moves 1. This major new work surveys all chess openings, providing a guide to every critical main line and featuring descriptions of the typical strategies for both sides. With our video tutorials for all levels of play you can get trained to specialize in the opening moves in chess. Ruy Lopez, Marshall (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 Nf6 5 O-O Be7 6 Re1 b5 7 Bb3 O-O 8 c3 d5) : chess opening performance statistics, strategy and tactics, famous games, PGN download, discussion forum, and more. For now, understanding a select few openings (or at least knowing enough to recognize them in your own games) is rule that has stood its test in chess history and one which we cannot impress forcibly enough upon the young chess player. The updates are also available to subscribers on the free Forward Chess app, for iOS and Android. g3 (Benko Opening), 1. VARIATION), very popular in junior chess but Black usually ship in 2016 and 2017. This single volume covers all chess openings in detail and will enable every chess-player, right up to grandmaster standard, to play the opening with confidence. org 1. The many openings of chess are listed here. d4 openings tend to be more forgiving than 1. A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. Against gambits . Nf3 leads to the Reti Openings – a strong chess opening for White. Convenient and interactive, the bottom line is that chess downloads are fun to use, and of course no shipping costs or VAT Jun 23, 2016 · chess problems. A Modern Look at Chess Strategy (Everyman 2012) - McDonald Neil. Though this list expands as a chess player improves, it isn't necessary to know every opening line at the start. com” all of the opening databases are available to help you decide on the best move. Aagaard, Jacob - Excelling at Chess; Aagaard, Jacob - Inside the Chess Mind; Beim, Valeri - How to Play Dynamic Chess ; Capablanca, Jose - Chess Fundamentals; Crouch, Colin - Why We Lose at Chess? De Firmian, Nick - Modern Chess Openings; Gufeld, Eduard - Exploiting Small Advantages; Heisman, Dan - Looking for Trouble Understanding the Basics of Chess Openings The first lesson you must learn on the road to improving your chess game is to get your priorities straight. School Tube Catalogue # 3108 A complete chess set for schools. Open games are usually double king pawn games (1. bellairechessclub. Due to the increased number of copyright complaints we had to move all books to the hosting offered by our partner. The Open Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (OECO) is a place where chess enthusiasts, armed only with a passion for chess and commercially available chess software, can post their own analysis of chess openings. Fabio Lumino. While it doesn't have a lot of discussion on chess openings or the strategy behind a chess opening, and is noted for typos, it is extensive in types of commonly used openings. Half of the book is devoted to a White repertoire (he recommends 1. the chess openings 2 > ca cc by *s u, k 3 c o h /v ^ i. The moves were taken from hundreds of thousands of games between masters, from published analysis in the since 1966, and then compiled by notable chess players. If you're looking for a safe, solid defence, consider the Petroff. Give me your best email address and we'll send you a trial version of COW Express for Windows or more information on the Macintosh versions. They may also inspire you to study the literature dealing with problems, or even to create your own chess problems. Chess books a long ago became reliable helpers on the way of creative growth. Tactics in the chess opening. These openings usually involve knights on their classical squares (f3 and c3 for white, f6 and c6 for black), bishops outside the pawn chain, and rooks in the center/open files. This site is like a library, Use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Align board so the white square corner is to right. com is an online publisher of chess opening theory. Experienced chess players tend to play a specific set of prepared openings. Note: Citations are based on reference standards. Here are some classifications of chess openings. View Fundamental Chess Openings ( PDFDrive. Chess Strategy and Tactics For Novice Players Set up: 1. We started out as Master Chess Openings but now also have Tactics and End Games. To be sure, his ideas were swift-ly put under the microscope. e4 e5: King's Gambit, Giuoco Piano (or Italian Opening) Two Knights Defence , Ruy Lopez (or Spanish Opening) , Petroff's Defence , Scotch Game , Vienna Game , Four Knights Game , Three Knights Opening , Philidor's Defence , and more The Open Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (OECO) is a place where chess enthusiasts, armed only with a passion for chess and commercially available chess software, can post their own analysis of chess openings. Here it's more to learn how to play chess up to master level and beyond. Category - Closed Game. With our Opening Explorer you can browse our entire chess database move by move obtaining statistics about the results of each possible continuation. In Discovering 22 Jul 2019 During the opening moves of a chess game, a player (typically White) may offer a number of gambits, which involve sacrificing a chess piece for COBISS. d2-d4 are called FLANK OPENINGS. Chess is Fun: Openings – U. King's Indian Attack: English Opening: Benoni: Dutch: Alekhine's Defence: Pirc: Caro-Kann: Sicilian The list includes timeless and relatively new board games, in different game genres (word, abstract, German-style, and more). Four opening systems to start with. edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. 4) King's Gambit. Make a Donation Today!. Modern Chess Openings, 13th Edition, by Nick de Firmian and Walter August 1999. net GM Damian Lemos gives his recommendation on which openings to play if you are a club player. In 1966, Chess Informant categorized the chess openings into five broad areas ("A" through "E"), with each of those broken down into one hundred subcategories ("00" through "99"). THE RÉTI OPENING A Survey of the Openings. Values: ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF CHESS OPENINGS. Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise File: PDF, 6. Go for it. Openings chess books and eBooks published by Everyman. They are by far the most Modern Chess Openings, 15th edition (MCO-15). Nf3 (King’s Knight Opening). The rest of this book looks at some of these moves. 27. Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation (1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 g6) : chess opening performance statistics, strategy and tactics, famous games, PGN download, discussion forum, and more. DOWNLOAD PDF. com openings. cuuuuuuuuC. c4 leads to the English Opening – one of the best chess openings for White. com The good thing about the English is that you can be very versatile. Nov 15, 2013 · Top 7 Aggressive Chess Openings - Duration: 9:39. We offer the widest selection of Irregular Chess Openings Chess Books at the lowest prices with same-day shipping. 24 MB Chess Openings for White, Explained: Winning with 1. ” – Emanuel Lasker, 2nd World Chess Champion. Shop for Irregular Chess Openings Chess Books at US Chess Federation Sales. 3. Each analysis and commentary is accompanied by Chess Informant Home Page – The publisher of Chess Informant also offers the exhaustive 5 volume set The Encyclopedia of Chess Openings and a series of monographs on individual openings. 7z292. We offer a range of personal settings for your convenience. Wide variety of titles to choose from. com Chess. SI-ID=293222144. They are not theoretical works in the traditional sense, but more a series of lessons from a chess expert with extensive over-the-board experience with an opening. Definitely not easy reading. Instant chess downloads - electronic chess information that can be downloaded now! ChessCentral carries the latest versions of top chess software programs and bestselling chess ebooks. This book draws on my private collec-tion of five thousand chess books, and my archives of periodicals going back 150 years. First published over a half-century ago, this is a completely revised and updated edition of the book that has been the standard English language reference on chess openings. FREE “Move-by-Move Guide to Chess Thinking” pdf; Regular contests with prizes, such as FREE analysis of your games by a National Master; Access to a supportive community who wants to make your chess journey a success --ECO codes 1Abbreviated Listing of Chess ECO codes (Code &Variation Name only) [Chessopolis] Page 1of4 ECOCodes AOO A01 A02-A03 A03 A04-A09 A10 All-A12 A13-A39 A17 A20-A29 A30-A31 A32-A39 Magic: The Gathering Arena is a free to play digital adaptation of the popular card game Magic: The Gathering. a3 (Anderssen's. One of the three Grandmaster authors of those books was GM Eugene Perelshteyn, the creator of this website. Taming Wild. 1 1. He has written many books on chess openings, endgames, strategy and tactics. c3 – Lopez Opening or MacLeod Attack Make a Donation Today!. Chapter 3: Picking the Right Type of Opening . Fine The Ideas Behind The Chess Openings ENG, 1943. is Browse grandmaster+chess+openings+pdf on sale, by desired features, or by customer ratings. Chess Openings. It is presented as a five-volume book collection (now also a computer database) describing chess openings. S. CHESS OPENINGS Classification of chess openings King's pawn openings, open games 1. org. • ChessCafe. 1 Chess opening . com ). Using a time-tested opening can help you improve your game and even boost your chance of winning. However, White can play: 2. This has been achieved by two major, unique approaches. Every chess opening has it's own unique personality. Black has since discovered some solid The Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (ECO) is a classification system for the opening moves in chess. New In Chess 2015. I've also included some basic answers to these openings for both sides. The Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (or ECO) is a clas• sification system for the opening moves in chess. Lasker and Capablanca also thought that chess would suffer a “draw death”, but they were too strong to worry about that. Four volumes by a Welcome to iChess! Our chess shop has the largest collection of chess videos, chess courses and chess DVDs at the best prices available. Click Download or Read Online button to get chess openings for white explained book now. 8 Mb, van der Sterren. torrenthound. Chess board in front of them and play through the games attempting to discover the mistakes and then turn the page over and repeat the process, but this time noting the comments. A guide by David A. It is important to study the openings and know what traps and pitfalls may arise from a Basic chess opening rules Fundamental rules of opening play This lesson is a must-read for beginner players. The OPENING: the start of the game when you decide where to put your pieces 2. pdf download Everyone loves an aggressive chess opening so I thought I would create a list of my top 7 aggressive openings. It is a pleasure to present this Third Edition of The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings. Mastering the Chess Openings, Gambit Publications. d4. www. Chess Openings The Openings in Modern Theory and Practice (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics S) by Raymond Keene and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks. For each chess opening listed here, I have collected won and lost games from modern times played by top chess grandmasters worldwide. Modern Chess Openings 15th Edition - Free ebook download as PDF File (. If you don't mind taking a risk, try the Tags: openings, grandmaster, chess traps, opening traps, I have discussed few famous chess traps previously ( Legal Trap , Elephant Trap , Lasker Trap , Mortimer Trap ). It is important if you want to be successful in chess to be familiar with some of the most popular openings and understand the theory behind the moves. ) 2 11. Currently only the king’s pawn openings are discussed, along The Pro version of Chess Openings Explorer, with a 3x larger move database, no advertisements, and a built-in chess engine. Paul van der Sterren (shelved 4 times as chess-openings) Chess Openings 1. 18. He went to Oxford at age 15, and received a PhD in Algebr. Get improved. Improve your chess openings online with MoveTrainer™ and our selection of FREE opening repertoires as well as our top-rated premium courses. The study of chess openings can be broken into two major categories: Learning Opening Principles; Memorizing Specific Opening Moves (“Opening theory”) If you’re new to chess, never fear! Learning the principles of chess openings alone will give you a massive advantage over your opponents and set you on your way to rising through the ranks Opening Studies An Introduction to the Ruy Lopez (Adapted and amended from Rueben Fine’s Ideas Behind the Chess Openings, by Richard Westbrook, 2003. 2008. Teaching Chess the Easy and Fun Way with Mini-Games Teach Clear Thinking Promote Math Skills The pdf version may be printed once for single classroom use. Read more. Nov 30, 2017 · A collection of the best and most common played openings in Chess. Chess Openings For White Explained Download Open Encyclopedia of Chess Openings for free. By International Master John The 50 Mighty Openings. Recognizing and understanding the best openings can increase your confidence in the beginning phase of the game. It contains solid plastic chess pieces (with a King that measures 3 3/4" tall) that will not break even if stepped on, a laminated paper board with alphanumeric borders and 2" squares which can be easily A METHOD FOR COMPARING CHESS OPENINGS, JAMAL MUNSHI, 2014 2 judge the relative merit of an opening, chess players depend on two sources - grandmaster analyses and game statistics. 2) Evans Gambit. Find games by opening moves, players or tournaments. Contents 1 Overview 1 1. 5) Danish Gambit and Centre Game. White Queen is on a white square. Nov 22, 2017 · I am not into this, but to check, I tried searching - “Book name pdf” on the net and some books were available. com and chessbase. May 2015 (Ebook) Petroff Defense [C42] April 2015 (Ebook) Sicilian Taimanov [B48] March 2015 (Ebook) Ruy Lopez Berlin Defense [C65] This is a list of chess openings, organized by the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) code. A A00, Openings, A01 Larsen's Opening, A02 Ready made chess opening repertoires from beginner to master level. Chess Openings INTRODUCTION A game of chess has three parts. And with today's computerized databases, this purpose is obsolete anyway. gunsberg r london george bell & sons and new york FCO: Fundamental Chess Openings Fundamental Chess Openings Paul van der Sterren First published in English language in the UK by Gambit Publicatio Modern Chess Openings 15th Edition Pdf A chess opening book is a book on chess openings. Because of different chess strategic and tactical patterns, chess game is divided into three phases: the chess openings, the middlegame, and the endgame. A good opening will provide better protection of the King, control over an area of the board (particularly the center), greater mobility for pieces, and possibly opportunities to capture opposing pawns and pieces. Kasparov's Chess Openings. Use our huge chess games and chess opening database to improve you chess skills. com” or “gameknot. Chess Openings and Book Moves - Chess. Essential guidance and training with 1 f4, Provides a repertoire options for White, Utilizes an ideal approach to chess study. Step through over 1,000,000 chess opening positions, annotated by name and variation! Each position shows win percentage statistics and most popular variations. pdf - Free download Ebook, Handbook, Textbook, User Guide PDF files on the internet quickly and easily. The MIDDLE GAME: what happens once you’ve got your pieces out Nov 01, 2017 · The best chess openings after 1. Half-way through each game is a diagram to make sure that as you are playing through the game you have all of the pieces on the correct squares at that point. Format: pdf. Choosing an opening repertoire to spend time learning involves matching these personalities to your own skills and tastes. pdf. The fact is, no single book can come close to being a comprehensive treatise on openings. It’s kind of cheating if you ask me but it does teach you some of the best standard openings and helps you weigh your options. pdf download 33. Paul van der Sterren Fundamental Chess Openings Paul van der Sterren First published in English chessops - a basic guide to chess openings World's first and still-largest handbuilt openings information site -and still free! An interactive series of +9,000 unique board positions, from first moves through to full development of pieces, covering all major openings, defences and variations. Learning chess openings is an important part of any productive chess training. Nxe5. chess openings encyclopedia of chess openings modern chess openings chess opening mastering the chess. A00: Uncommon Openings: 1. How to deal with the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly over the chess board. Nc3 Nf6 3. All D-system openings respect a simple set of rules for opening play, that distinguish them from previous chess practice. Get it free on the Apple Store; Google Android App. Nov 30, 2018 · NUNNS CHESS OPENINGS PDF - Nunn's Chess Openings has 68 ratings and 3 reviews. Apr 15, 2013 · Download Open Encyclopedia of Chess Openings for free. Openings h33t Ahmed pdf books ebooks: 12 hours. $19. Today we will continue this topic with less known, but not-less-powerful traps that you can learn from and even use in your own games. “White is right!” as you look at your side of the board. Try to check your choices with those in a book like Nunn's Chess Openings (NCO) or Modern Chess Openings (MCO), or with a reference database like Chessbase, or the opening and game databases that come with your chess engine. From the occasional to the serious club player, all have most difficulty with the openings. You never get a second chance to make a first impression?especially in the game of chess! Chess Openings For Dummies gives you tips and techniques for analyzing openings and strategies for winning chess games from the very first move you make! About This Quiz & Worksheet. This way you can learn successful chess lines related to a particular chess opening system. 20. Otherwise you risk falling into an 'opening disaster' and lose your game quickly. Search through more than 3,000 opening lines to find the perfect chess opening for you. the mainstream openings were running short of fresh ideas. 6M Eugene Znosko-Borovsky - The Middle Game in Chess (3rd edition, single pages). 1. Chess openings for white, explained. Strategy A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. 16. Played - Thomas Long Chess Players Compendium (Practical Guide to Openings) - By William Cook Synopsis of the Chess Openings - By William Cook Chess Openings - By Fredrick Longman The Modern Chess Openings is the best and most trusted tool for serious chess players on the market. Those openings that don't involve the immediate movement of the central pawns, but the outer pawns on files a,b,c,f,g and h. 6wDwDwDwD}. A dual engine experimental design for comparing chess openings was described in a previous paper (Munshi, Comparing Chess Openings, 2014). These are arranged according to the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (ECO) codes. Are you a chess lover? Would you like to know what are the most common chess openings? If you love chess and want to gain confidence during the opening stage of the game, "Chess Openings" is the app you need to get it. Reuben Fine - Modern Chess Openings. d4 Nf6 2. e4 e5 2. Black Queen is on a black square. a3) 2. It is used in this paper to study ten chess openings that Widely criticized in comparison to other single-volume opening books like MCO, Eric Schiller's Standard Chess Openings actually takes a very different approach. Everyman Chess is a Chess Books and eBooks Publisher with a Library of over 250 titles. Get it free on Google Play Get the Express version for Macintosh or Windows. Both of these resources are unreliable. Larry Kaufman’s repertoire book is a great addition to the library of any serious chess player. Included is a basic analysis of the openings and theory behind them. Nick de Firmian. Options include which opponents you prefer to be paired against, your preferred chessboard and pieces, the board size, the volume setting of the video player, your preferred language, whether to show chat or chess notation, and more. Modern Chess Openings is the best and most trusted tool for serious chess players on the market. Some chess openings are better than others. 5DwDw0wDw}. chess openings pdf
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Balloon Family's Reality Show: 'Jerk Parents and Balloons Plus Jail Time'
Watch Mom and Dad overact while their innocent children throw up.
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AS IT IS - North Korea Weak Link in Fight Against Swine Flu
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South Korea is creating traps and using unmanned aircraft and expert gunmen in an effort to stop wild pigs from spreading the disease swine flu from North Korea.
African swine flu is deadly to pigs but is not a threat to humans. The virus has killed large numbers of pigs in many Asian countries. Experts believe wild hogs are a main reason for its spread. Officials say North Korea has ignored the South’s repeated calls for joint efforts to stop the disease.
South Korea has destroyed about 154,500 pigs in the past month. All were taken from farms near the North Korean border. North Korea has not released any detailed reports on the disease. But South Korea’s intelligence agency says that pig herds in one North Korea province were almost totally lost. North Korea observers in Seoul say pork prices in markets there have increased.
Start of the disease
North Korea first reported an outbreak in May after the disease spread widely in neighboring China. Chinese officials say farms in the country have slaughtered at least 1.17 million pigs in an effort to control the disease since August 2018.
North Korea told the World Organization for Animal Health that 77 of 99 pigs at a farm in Jagang province died of the disease. The remaining 22 pigs were destroyed. North Korea said it is fighting hard to stop the disease’s spread, but has not reported any other outbreaks.
Suh Hoon is director of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service. He told lawmakers in a private meeting last month that African swine flu has spread across North Korea. He reportedly added that groups of wild pigs in an area north of the capital, Pyongyang, had been “annihilated” and people were complaining about the lack of meat.
South Korean officials confirmed the first swine flu outbreak in the town of Paju on September seventeenth. Since then, officials have reported at least 13 more cases.
Risks to South Korea
Failure to contain the disease would be severely damaging for South Korea’s pork industry. The situation would be much worse for the North, where food supplies are often limited.
South Korean officials say North Korea had about 2.6 million pigs in 14 government-run or cooperative farms before the disease’s outbreak.
Cho Chung-hui is a former North Korean official in charge of farm animal issues. He fled to South Korea in 2011. He says pork makes up as much as 80 percent of protein eaten by North Korea’s 25 million people. Many North Koreans raise and sell a pig or two each year to be able to buy rice.
Cho said a 100-kilogram hog can be sold to buy about 150 kilograms of rice. That is enough for a family for a year.
He said North Korean animal health officials and farms do not kill animals even if they are sick.
Wild animals can spread the disease
African swine fever spreads easily through contact with infected animals, animal waste and contaminated substances such as food, clothing and vehicles.
The 248-kilometer border between North and South Korea is the most heavily secured in the world. However, South Korean officials and experts say wild pigs could still enter in and out of North Korea by swimming across rivers.
Cho said heavy rains from a powerful ocean storm in September likely caused contaminated soil and water from North Korea to enter the South. Insects and rats could also spread the virus, he said.
Whatever the source of the South Korean outbreaks, experts say controlling movements of wild pigs is very important.
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Arsenal win appeal against Gabriel red card at Chelsea
The centre-back was dismissed for kicking out at Chelsea forward Diego Costa during Saturday's ill-tempered clash at Stamford Bridge.
However, the Football Association announced in a statement on Tuesday it has accepted Arsenal's challenge to the decision and withdrawn the three-match suspension.
Gabriel still faces a separate charge of improper conduct for his reaction after being shown the red card by referee Mike Dean.
The swift decision means Gabriel becomes available for selection in Wednesday night's Capital One Cup tie at Tottenham.
The FA statement read: "Arsenal's claim of wrongful dismissal in relation to Gabriel has been upheld following an independent regulatory commission hearing.
"The player's three-match suspension has, therefore, been withdrawn with immediate effect.
"Gabriel was dismissed for violent conduct during the game against Chelsea on Saturday [19 September 2015].
"The player is currently subject to a separate FA charge of improper conduct in relation to Saturday's game and has until 6pm on Thursday [24 September 2015] to reply."
Gabriel lost his cool following a confrontation with Costa, who had earlier pushed Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny in the face and then barged him to the ground.
There was a precedent for the suspension being overturned.
Last season, Chelsea midfielder Nemanja Matic saw his ban reduced after reacting to a dangerous tackle by Burnley's Ashley Barnes, with the governing body accepting he had used a moderate "level of force" when pushing his opponent.
Gabriel, however, could still be sanctioned for failing to immediately leave the pitch following his red card, as the player tried to then confront Costa before being restrained by his team-mates.
The FA also charged both Chelsea and Arsenal for failing to control their players
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Applicants for the tournament must have double-digit wins and no more than two losses.
Besides the fight purses, there will be a prize of $15,000 for the winner, $10,000 for the runner-up and $5,000 for third place.
“We are looking for the next contenders and champions in the junior welterweight division,” said King’s Promotions CEO Marshall Kauffman.
“We already have several quality fighters that have expressed a big interest in entering. We feel that there are a lot of fighters out there in this weight class that fit the criteria for what we are looking for and I am eager to hear from some of them.”
To find out more information, contact marshall@kingsboxing.com
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ISU Town Hall Mtg on Efficiency Review
posted Oct 7, 2014, 7:32 AM by Andy Bock [ updated Oct 7, 2014, 8:01 AM ]
| Inside Iowa State | September 25, 2014 |
Eight business cases topic of Oct. 13 town hall meeting
The university community is invited to attend an Oct. 13 town hall meeting (8:30-10 a.m., Memorial Union Gallery) on the latest proposed efficiencies developed as part of the state Board of Regents' Transparent, Inclusive Efficiency Review (TIER). At the town hall, Deloitte Consulting representatives will describe eight efficiencies or "business cases" proposed for possible implementation at the three state universities and answer questions.The business cases are in the areas of information technology, human resources, finance and facilities.
[see pages 40-50 of attached report for "ISU Finance Operating Model and Business Cases", which detail proposed changes at ISU]
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UNI staff, faculty ask for details on staff reductions
| Cedar Rapids Gazette | October 6 2014 |
CEDAR FALLS — Less than a week after the Board of Regents discussed aspects of a sweeping efficiency review of its universities that could eliminate hundreds of jobs, University of Northern Iowa employees asked for more details during the first of three public forums. “What positions does Deloitte see being eliminated?” one person asked of representatives with Deloitte Consulting LLC, hired to conduct the regents’ efficiency study...
Although Deloitte has not tallied expected savings and staff reductions that could come from the eight opportunities, a 138-page proposal presented to the Board of Regents indicates they could save tens of millions of dollars and eliminate more than 250 jobs across the three universities...
According to regents documents, some of the larger cuts were proposed in the areas of finance and human resources — potential changes to the finance operating models could result in a loss of 61 full-time positions at UI, 50 full-time jobs at ISU and 14 positions at UNI.
Iowa View: Making firings public would invade worker privacy
posted Apr 29, 2014, 7:37 AM by Andy Bock
| Des Moines Register | April 28, 2014 |
Danny Homan, president of Iowa Council 61 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
Much of the current discussion about how to treat public employee personnel files has been a one-sided debate. As the representative of 40,000 public sector and private sector employees, our union wants the public to know the other side of the story. The contents of personnel files of public employees, including records related to employee discipline, may contain highly private and sensitive information about the employee and members of his or her family.
Libraries Serving as Obamacare Information Hubs
posted Feb 18, 2014, 7:06 AM by Andy Bock
| KAISER HEALTH NEWS | Governing. FEBRUARY 14, 2014 Elana Gordon |
What can’t librarians do? Many are now becoming health insurance guides. The buzz at the American Library Association's winter meeting recently wasn't just about the annual awards (a.k.a. the book award "super bowl"); the Affordable Care Act was also on the agenda. Libraries across the country have been trying to meet a growing demand for health insurance information.
AFSCME endorses Jack Hatch in governor’s race
posted Feb 14, 2014, 12:07 PM by Andy Bock [ updated Feb 14, 2014, 12:07 PM ]
| February 13, 2014 | By O. Kay Henderson, Radio Iowa |
The union that represents the largest share of state workers has endorsed Democrat Jack Hatch in the 2014 race for governor. Danny Homan is president of AFSCME Council 61, which represents about 40,000 workers from all levels of government in Iowa. “We believe that Senator Hatch is the best candidate for working men and women in the state of Iowa, to help move this state forward,” Homan told Radio Iowa in a telephone interview.
The Sexist Agenda Hidden in Harris v. Quinn
| Laura Reyes Become, Secretary-Treasurer, AFSCME. | Huffington Post, 02/12/2014 11:37 am |
On its surface, the case known as Harris v. Quinn now before the Supreme Court is yet another attempt to kill off public employee unions. ..... There are now nearly 2 million home health care providers in the United States, and more than 90 percent are women. With Americans living longer and baby boomers entering their golden years, it is expected that more than 5 million providers will be needed in the next five years to assist this growing, aging population. Home care providers assist men and women with disabilities and the elderly who want to live in their own homes instead of an institution. .... I know this because I was a home care provider. That's why so many women have come together to form unions.
Staffing Iowa's Prisons
posted Jul 24, 2013, 10:28 AM by Andy Bock [ updated Jul 24, 2013, 10:28 AM ]
| Iowa Public Radio | Monday July 22, 2013 |
Nationally the turnover rate for correctional officers is over 15%. Working in a prison is a stressful and dangerous job, but it can also be rewarding. Today, Clay Masters speaks with a correctional officer from the Mitchellville Correctional Institute for Women joins the program to discuss what its like to work at a prison. Also, the union AFSCME claims that the Department of Corrections has insufficient staff numbers running the state’s prison and as a result correctional officers are at risk. Clay Masters looks into the validity of these claims. AFSCME Iowa Council 61 President Danny Homan is a guest.
Is the Working Families Flexibility Act really family friendly?
posted May 7, 2013, 9:50 AM by Andy Bock [ updated May 7, 2013, 9:55 AM ]
| Washington Post | May 6, 2013 |
Does H.R. 1406, the Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013, give workers flexibility in trading overtime for comp time? Or does it further erode protections previously given to America’s workers by robbing them of overtime pay as required by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938? Of course the answer depends on whom you talk to...
Fallout For States Rejecting Medicaid Expansion
posted Apr 23, 2013, 7:57 AM by Andy Bock [ updated Apr 23, 2013, 8:02 AM ]
| The Associated Press \ NPR | April 22, 2013 4:01 PM |
Rejecting the Medicaid expansion in the federal health care law could have unexpected consequences for states where Republican lawmakers remain steadfastly opposed to what they scorn as "Obamacare." It could mean exposing businesses to Internal Revenue Service penalties and leaving low-income citizens unable to afford coverage even as legal immigrants get financial aid for their premiums. For the poorest people, it could virtually guarantee they remain uninsured and dependent on the emergency room at local hospitals that already face federal cutbacks.
Capitol Digest
| (Mason City) Globe Gazette | April 9, 2013 |
Terry Branstad expressed confidence Tuesday that eventually all state employees will pay at least 20 percent of their health insurance premiums.
Noncontract state workers and members of the State Police Officers Council soon will make a 20 percent contribution to their monthly health insurance costs, but also will be able to participate in employee wellness programs whereby they can earn a $90 a month premium reduction that would trim their costs to about 5 percent, Branstad said.
The governor sought a similar provision for the state’s largest employees union, but an arbitrator last month ruled in favor of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) contract language that allows many members to participate in the state health plan at no monthly premium cost.
Branstad told members of the Iowa Partnership for Economic Progress board that federal employees pay 25 percent of their health insurance costs and Iowa is one of only six states where some workers pay zero.
“We think two years down the road that we’re in a very strong position. We’re going to see that done. We just have to be tenacious and see that through,” he said.
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Qiyun building legend of life and death
Sha Jian Zhen Dai Shan Cun an earthen "Qiyun building", is the oldest of the round earth so far documented in Fujian province. It was built in Hongwu four years (1371), has experienced 636 years of vicissitudes of life. Qiyun building built on the hills...
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China Tibet Reuters, according to the CPC Central Committee Party School professor Hu Yan revealed that in 1949, the United States senior agent Ma Kenan, secret entry from Xinjiang, Tibet, intended to help fight the upper Tibet independence". The results...
Wonderful things: 80 emperor, a harem, seal Wenwubaiguan, through the post office to Taiwan under the edict
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The Sino Japanese war was a little-known reasons: because was not aimed at shooting
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The Tang Dynasty is idiotic powder, Bai Juyi fans were forced into the mountains to hide
We modern people love love after Guo Jingming, Han Han Starchaser, writing star. So, I often think, Tang authors, Li Bai Du Fu, their fans, how is the star? The Tang Dynasty is the peak of the development of poetry, so there have been numerous "poetry po...
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Zhao No.1 high in disorder history of the Qin Emperor Qin Shihuang opened a big joke, you don't expect a series of Jesus Christ?? chosen to let you II died; you not fantasy forever?? the only allocated to you 49 years of life, not even half a century; Fe...
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Jon Stewart Exiting ‘Daily Show’ Later This Year
By Craig Kennedy @@livingincinema.com Feb 10, 2015
In a statement, Comedy Central has confirmed that Jon Stewart will be leaving his post as the host of The Daily Show “later this year.” Stewart announces his departure on tonight’s episode.
Beginning his career as a stand up comic, Stewart hosted Short Attention Span Theater on The Comedy Channel beginning in 1990 and then You Wrote It, You Watch It in 1992 on MTV. This led to The Jon Stewart Show which proved popular on MTV in 1993. That show didn’t survive syndication to other networks and was eventually cancelled, but it got the attention of David Letterman and his production company Worldwide Pants. When Craig Kilborn (remember that guy?) left The Daily Show in 1999, Stewart was tapped as the host and has remained so every since.
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by Badgertails - Friday, June 21, 2013
I've been thinking a lot lately about just how much I love the countryside. Although we live in a town, it's a very small town and it's easy to forget that you're a 10 minute walk away from the centre. Where we live is almost just a big village nestled in the middle of the countryside, so I never feel too cramped and still get to enjoy little moments of quiet.
So, my post today is about serenity. Serenity, peace and quiet, calm and relaxation. Despite always being able to hear the town's distant hubbub, I've somehow managed to find that little moment to myself just when I need it.
I don't mind faint car sounds in the distance, and the occasional dog barking, because it reminds me when I need comfort, that I am not alone and will never be alone in this world. There will always be someone out there that provides me with security, and perhaps the sounds I might make in another person's distance will afford them the same sense of security.
But when I need serenity, and peace, and calm, I know when the best time to search for it is, and where the best place to find it is.
To me, serenity is awaking in bed at 5am to the dawn chorus, with the light of the new day pattering on the curtains.
It's spending a summer evening out gardening until it gets dark, enjoying the stillness that is a late evening on our road.
It's settling down on the sofa after the day's chores are done and the time is now my own.
It's finding myself in the middle of the deepest countryside and taking a moment to breathe in the fresh air and beautiful scents of nature.
It's remembering the people that love me, that I love more than anything in the whole world, and knowing that they will always be here.
And it's reminding myself that this world is so beautiful and the most important thing is to appreciate it while I can.
I can't even describe how grateful I am for all of these things, and for how calm and content they make me feel. How they make my life what it is, no matter how big or small they may seem.
Lots of love to you all today, I hope you have a beautiful weekend.
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Ixion Saga DT Series Review >>
Ixion Saga DT Series Review Ixion Saga DT (Simensional Tranfer) was an Anime series based (as far as I can see very very slightly) on the online game Ixon Saga by Capcom. The anime started airing on October 6 2012 and ended March 30 2013. The series has also been adapted into two manga’s and a […]The post Ixion Saga DT Series Review appeared first on AnimeMage.com, Anime Mage.
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Ixion Saga DT Vol.8 [03.07.13] >>
Volume 8 release of the anime series Ixion Saga DT will be out on 3 July 2013. Comprises of Episodes 23-25. Two editions available for preorder: Blu-ray and DVD. Plot Summary Kon is a normal teenage boy who is spends his time playing a MMRPG where he is going nowhere, that is, until a girl [...]
Volume 7 release of the anime series Ixion Saga DT will be out on 5 June 2013. Comprises of Episodes 20-22. Two editions available for preorder: Blu-ray and DVD. Plot Summary Kon is a normal teenage boy who is spends his time playing a MMRPG where he is going nowhere, that is, until a girl [...]
Volume 6 release of the anime series Ixion Saga DT will be out on 1 May 2013. Comprises of Episodes 17-19. Two editions available for preorder: Blu-ray and DVD. Plot Summary Kon is a normal teenage boy who is spends his time playing a MMRPG where he is going nowhere, that is, until a girl [...]
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Ixion Saga DT >>
A rare beastie, this one - a show where I got all the way to episode 17 before I got fed up and dropped it. Ixion Saga DT starts off as a genuinely funny fantasy / alternate world adventure - and then gets a bit bogged down in its own schtick... Read more...
Ixion Saga DT Review — C+ >>
Kon enters an MMO. It’s up to him to save the world (and more importantly, get laid). This is a parody of fantasy shows and MMOs. Sometimes it can be hilarious. My favorite episode was the one in which Kon … Continue reading →
Volume 5 release of the anime series Ixion Saga DT will be out on 3 April 2013. Comprises of Episodes 14-16. Two editions available for preorder: Blu-ray and DVD. Plot Summary Kon is a normal teenage boy who is spends his time playing a MMRPG where he is going nowhere, that is, until a girl [...]
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Ixion Saga DT 25 >>
…. lol, he actually subdued the damn thing by scolding it. Kon, why you so amazing?! Well, with the saving of the world bit done, it’s time for the slightly less important things, like ED avenging his lost balls… WAIT WHAT?!! I DON’T EVEN Oh my god, they really did it!!!!! … isn’t it nice, [...]
Episode: Ixion Saga DT Episode 25
So true. Barely paid attention to this show because OHSHIOHSHIOHSUITHSIDJHJH THAT FUCKING MAUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Why isn’t it Monday again yet?! (ノ ﾟДﾟ)ノ ＝＝＝＝ ┻━━┻
….waddafark was the point of this episode?!! And holy shit Variation, did you like get plastic surgery as well?
ヽ( >∀< )ﾉ AHAHA AHAHA AHAHAHAHA ALMA GEAR GASHAPON! Finally some relevant story bits and exposition with the Mysterious Woman (seriously she calls herself that!) and suddenly our main cast + Incognito get free job changes to Hyperion. Plot hax much? And we finally get the real Big Bad of the show, the Archbishop (it's [...]
Volume 4 release of the anime series Ixion Saga DT will be out on 6 March 2013. Comprises of Episodes 11-13. Two editions available for preorder: Blu-ray and DVD. Plot Summary Kon is a normal teenage boy who is spends his time playing a MMRPG where he is going nowhere, that is, until a girl [...]
Yes, that’s the punchline of this week’s episode. Apparently, being a furfag in this world is socially acceptable among the royalty, but god bless you if you have long nose hairs… Also, the new ED is hillarious. Had a great laugh at poor ‘ol Erecpyle Dukakis this week.
The karaoke episode…. FROM HELL! Yeah. It’s almost amazing Ecarlate didn’t snap earlier from being forced to participate in those ridiculous random “rituals”. Then again I guess Kon did most of the dirty work but still…. In any case, an actually funny episode of Ixion Saga DT this week! Just be mentally prepared for someone’s [...]
An unexpected flag got tripped!!!
Otouto moe seriously? This show is really running out of ideas aren’t they?
Volume 3 release of the anime series Ixion Saga DT will be out on 6 February 2013. Comprises of Episodes 8-10. Two editions available for preorder: Blu-ray and DVD. Both comes with a digital jacket illustrated by the character designer Shinji Takeuchi, clear case in digipak. Plot Summary Kon is a normal teenage boy who [...]
Lol, Variation was pretty cool this week. Certainly didn’t expect him to leave the Princess unharmed after all that trouble tsukkomi‘ing everyone. Still, I had a good laugh with the “cheap thriller” parody this week, even if I saw it coming from the first “death”. If only every episode of this show was this inspired…
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How I Accidentally Got 700,000 Fans on Facebook
By Gregory Levey
At first I thought that Facebook had a glitch.
How else could I have gone, in a matter of days, from having 700 Facebook fans to having over 4000?
To be clear, the fans weren’t technically mine. They belonged to the Facebook “fan page” of a book I published two years ago, called Shut Up, I’m Talking. Like every other author, I had been repeatedly told that social networking was crucial to promoting my book, and so when the book came out, I dutifully created a Facebook fan page, and the page slowly began to gain fans.
The first 100 or so were friends and family, but from then on, a handful of strangers who had read the book would join every week, until I reached about 700 fans a few months ago. Which is why, as I stared at my computer screen recently, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. 4000 fans? Who were these people?
Two years after I had created it, the page seemed to have suddenly gained thousands of fans literally over night. Grasping at straws, I wondered if this sudden burst of interest in my book was the result of some positive – if very late – book review that had been published somewhere. But unable to find one, I decided that a technical problem with Facebook was the most likely cause.So I logged off the site, and went about my day as normal – unaware that all the while, my sudden legion of fans was growing at an exponential rate.
By the time I checked in that evening, expecting the glitch to be resolved, there were 1000 more fans, bringing my total to over 5000. By the next morning there were 7000, and this explosive growth rate continued in the days that followed. Soon the day-to-day increase started doubling regularly, until it eventually hit a steady stride – at which point I was gaining more than 25 000 new fans on a daily basis.
Keep in mind that the fan count had by now far surpassed the number of copies of the book that had actually been printed. So those weeks when over 100 000 new strangers would inexplicably join my Facebook fan page were maddeningly confusing.
And just plain maddening. As the numbers soon crossed the quarter million mark, I started to feel a bit under siege. Was this some kind of elaborate prank? Who were these 250 000 people (and counting), and what did they want from me? Should I send out a Facebook message to them? If I did, what should I say? I had no idea what kind of message I wanted to send, and so I kept silent. But the whole thing was increasingly unsettling, and making me paranoid.
Meanwhile, the numbers just kept shooting upwards. Very quickly, I had passed celebrities like Brad Pitt(55 000 fans) and Spike Lee (67 000 fans), as well as entire countries (Spain: 25 000 fans). And as time went on, my book’s page overtook ridiculously famous authors like J.K. Rowling (95 000 fans) and even Dan Brown (499 000 fans). Soon, my book had more fans than New York City (510 000 fans). It was mind-boggling, bizarre, and unnerving, especially since it was unclear what was driving this.
Only when I noticed that some of these fans had been posting messages on my page’s “Wall” did I realize what was going on. Their quotes were along the lines of:
“Yeah, I was saying something and my mom broke in, and I was like, ‘Shut Up, I’m Talking!’ LOL!”
“Cool page! I hate it when people talk over me!”
Perhaps you can see what had been happening. Even though the fan page shows the book’s cover and its synopsis, and informs visitors that it was published by Simon & Schuster, the vast majority of these supposed “fans” were somehow totally unaware that it was referring to a book at all. They had simply joined because they were fans of the phrase “Shut Up, I’m Talking.”
They were the sort of people, I soon discovered, who were also fans of such inane but popular Facebook fan pages as “Punching Things” and “I hate it when I get fingerprints all over my phone.” But each time one of them would become a fan of Shut Up, I’m Talking, their circle of Facebook friends would blindly do the same – causing its frighteningly viral spread.
When I described this odd phenomenon to my editor the other day, she was as baffled as me, but noted that it was strangely in keeping with my book itself. Shut Up, I’m Talking is a memoir about how, when I was twenty-five-years-old, I accidentally stumbled into a job as a speechwriter for the Israeli Government, first at the UN and then in the Prime Minister’s Office – despite not even being Israeli. Until she pointed it out, I hadn’t thought about how my inadvertent Facebook popularity was actually of a piece with those random events, but there’s obviously some truth to her observation.
Although the daily growth rate has slowed somewhat, the page now has almost 700 000 fans. That’s more than The New York Times (626 000 fans), but there has been something unsatisfying and almost bittersweet about the experience. At one point I had 700 fans who had read and presumably enjoyed my book. Now I have one thousand times that number, but most of them have never even heard of it.
I still haven’t sent a Facebook message out to my army of accidental fans, because I don’t know what to say. To be honest, if I wrote what I really thought about them, it probably wouldn’t be too flattering. But I guess that maybe it’s time to make contact and at least let them know that I’ve written about them here.
These days, like anyone involved in almost any enterprise, authors are assured that the path to success lies online. But while a Youtube video of a man tripping over a dog and falling headfirst into a toilet can become wildly popular, carefully orchestrated and well-funded online advertising campaigns for politicians or Hollywood movies can fail outright – making it seem impossible to predict what will get traction in the wilds of cyberspace. Still, it feels like we have no choice but to soldier on, and publishers and authors continue to pin our hopes on somehow figuring out a way to properly harness the internet.
With publishing in such precarious shape right now, I suppose authors should embrace any kind of attention they can get, even if it’s completely misguided. But if my online fans can’t even grasp that the fan page they’ve joined is for a book, I’m not particularly optimistic that they’ll read the book in question – or any books at all, for that matter. Since Shut Up, I’m Talking’s paperback comes out later this summer, though, I have to hope against the odds that even a tiny fraction of them will check it out.
Maybe you should too. After all, 700 000 fans can’t be wrong.
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GREGORY LEVEY is the author of How To Make Peace in the Middle East in Six Months or Less Without Leaving Your Apartment and Shut Up, I'm Talking: And Other Diplomacy Lessons I Learned in the Israeli Government, both published by Simon & Schuster/Free Press. He has written for Newsweek, The New Republic, Salon, The Globe and Mail, and many other publications.
97 responses to “How I Accidentally Got 700,000 Fans on Facebook”
Marcy from The Glamorous Life Association says:
This is the curse of having an insanely clever book title I guess. You are accidentally popular.
Just so you know, I was one of the original 700. Do I get a prize or a t-shirt or something?
Write On.
Peter Feld says:
Just go for it! Look, you own the phrase and you have 700k fans. It’s time to cash in with a book deal, maybe a series, like “The Shut Up I’m Talking Guide To Parents” (cats, school, dating, etc.), and cups, aprons and other merchandising. Everything you publish goes right into all their news feeds. Imagine how much more it will grow if you start to promote it and manage your brand. Don’t worry about the meta implications, just dive in, the marketing’s fine!
Angela Alcorn says:
Such is the power of the internet. On the other hand, your Facebook popularity made this post popular, which made me see it. I do read books and I’m not someone who “liked” your catchy phrase. And now I know about your book. I’m sure there’s others like me, too. 🙂
Enjoy your fleeting popularity and good luck with your book!
dwoz says:
Just think of it this way, when you say something, the entire state of North Dakota will hear you.
You have a singular, unique opportunity here. You are like a spry and spunky little tugboat, pushing against the starboard bow of the USS Nimitz of Stupid, the Juggernaut of Pathetic. And you can slowly turn that massive ship, and send it crashing into an iceberg.
“slowly” being the key word.
Sean Beaudoin says:
wow….time to take advantage of the situation. Get a list of author self-help sites and make a little ad showing your 700k fans, then offer to hire yourself out as a web marketing consultant for $99.99 a pop. With the many thousands of desperate-writer dollars soon to be pouring in, buy the equivalent amount of Google ads touting your new paperback. Instant bestseller.
Yes, you can send me a small fee from your royalties as thanks.
See, now this is *my* kind of thinking 🙂
Damn straight. That’s some smooth thinking.
Uche and David, you two are first in line for upper management positions when I start my imminent Web Consultant’s Consultant business. It’s going to be called “I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Inc.” Our motto will be “Turning tech obliviousness into royalty fortunes since 1927.” No need to send a resume, although you may want to start acquiring khakis and shirts with French cuffs now.
I’m be promoting like crazy to that database! Unleash the hounds!
“Should I send out a Facebook message to them? If I did, what should I say? I had no idea what kind of message I wanted to send…”
How about, Buy my book! Then provide a link.
You also just gave me an idea. I think I will create a page for one of the following:
^ Christian – Baptist
^ Republican
^ Sarah Palin fan page
Then peddle my propaganda accordingly all the way to the New York Times bestseller list.
Best of luck with the book by the way.
Scratching my head here. First of all, no offense, but as soon as I got to the third para, where you mentioned the title of the book, I guessed the rest of the piece. I was a very reluctant Facebook user at first, and I’ve become pretty active, and I guess so active that I’ve learned its pulse? Anyway, what puzzles me is this:
“I still haven’t sent a Facebook message out to my army of accidental fans, because I don’t know what to say. To be honest, if I wrote what I really thought about them, it probably wouldn’t be too flattering.”
And why is that? I dearly hope it isn’t the stereotypical writer/intellect’s distaste for hoi polloi.
Sorry but what would be stereotypical of a boastful writer/intellect is publicly patting himself on the back for knowing the outcome of a story before it was revealed in the story when that has nothing to do with anything.
Sorry back. Are you the official keeper of writer/intellect stereotypes? And of course it has *everything* to do with it. Most of the piece goes on and on about the great mystery of the cascading fan count. This indicates to me that the author is not clear on social media, which again underscores the overall irony of the atmosphere around this piece, that of a sneer at 700,000 FB users.
Pretentiousness is a pretty standard intellectual stereotype. Your using the terms ‘social media’ and ‘irony’ over and over again to represent people blindly clicking the ‘Like’ button and their critics just continues to make your interpretation of this article oblivious, humorless and yes, pretentious.
tomasz. says:
it’s probably more of an everyman’s distaste for an army of people who can’t even be bothered to check what they’re “Liking” (formerly “Becoming a Fan of”).
Sorry, but I’m not buying that. Why is it the fault of the masses that they are using Facebook the way it was intended?
Why is it important that they ‘check what they’re “Liking”?’ It sounds as if they are satisfied, and that Gregory is the one with an apparent problem. If one doesn’t like how Facebook works, it’s very easy to leave well enough alone.
What I am intrigued by, is that this phenomenon of 700k fans, both proves AND disproves, at the same time, the underlying value of so-called social media.
It’s like the internet is a storefront with a fun-looking clown and bright, cheerful lettering on the sign, and inside is a trans-gender fetish club.
It’s like linkedn.com, which is a huge number of people who are self-promoting, self-promoting to each other.
Don’t get this either. The value of social media is that it’s Social. Media. All technological advances are simple lenses upon fundamental human traits, and it’s ever been such, from when the first humans learned to sharpen sticks with stones, and then to tie said stones to ends of said sticks. I think the supposed problems with social media are generally the province of those who do not understand it, and don’t know how to handle it.
And maybe it’s my non-Western attitude, but I think self-promotion is a good thing.
Not disagreeing.
I think the disconnect comes in when it’s touted as an end unto itself, instead of simply a means to accomplish something else entirely.
There’s millions of people out there building social networks who have absolutely no reason to do it other than to do it.
Maybe that’s ok, though?
You are baffling to me. There is nothing to ‘fault’ anyone for. The author wants to inform people who haven’t bothered to look into something they clicked on, and therefore connected themselves to, while having a personal opinion on the passiveness of some of the features of Facebook.
The author says several things, and hints many more that are disparaging of the 700K, so there goes the idea that there is no fault-making. I agree that there *should* be nothing for which to fault anyone, but unfortunately that is not the upshot of this piece.
BTW, the supposed passiveness of Facebook is fundamental to its success, and to the success of social media in general. If we ourselves choose to use Facebook, it might well behoove us to understand it properly first.
I think we can file this in the “Quality Problem” folder. I agree with Sean that the iron is hot- strike away, son!
This line here killed me:
>>They were the sort of people, I soon discovered, who were also fans of such inane but popular Facebook fan pages as “Punching Things” and “I hate it when I get fingerprints all over my phone.”<<
I’ll be interested in hearing your next move.
I hate it when I get fingerprints all over my phone.
Seriously. I do.
I say market/market/market!
Who cares WHY people buy your book as long as they do? You should probably tag the Huffington Post and ABC News and a few other media outlets and see if you can get a little more publicity for being viral.
TerranRich says:
That’s the problem. They’re NOT buying his book. They’re just Liking his page because they think it’s just another one of those mindless “I like some random rare event in life that nobody really cares to know that I like” things. Most of them didn’t even know the page was about his book.
James Bernard Frost says:
Dude, I’d kill to have 700,000 accidental fans. Strange luck you have, my friend.
Gregory Levey says:
Grr. So I just caught Gawker’s link to this, whose context is the charming:
“Conquer Facebook’s Dumbest Users / Author Gregory Levey just revealed how his book won almost 700,000 Facebook fans, more than Brad Pitt, JK Rowling or the New York Times. His secret: Accidentally appeal to stupid people.”
Gregory, I know you didn’t say that (though your bit about “unflattering” did put my antenna up), so fair play. But as for that Gawker blogger (who is probably smarting from too many wedgies administered by jocks in high school): you might want to GTFO your high horse before someone knocks you off.
It is, after all, the murphy’s law of the memory hole, that the only things that “stick” and escape the memory hole, are the little things that seem to completely and utterly misrepresent the actual truth. The little bits that get removed from their context, and end up meaning something else entirely…making you look like an idiot while they’re at it.
Matt Houghton says:
Print up a “Shut Up, I’m Talking” tee, set up an online shop and rake in the dough, my friend.
dlysen says:
It because of the praise “Shut Up, I’m Talking!” even if not all of them have or read the book. but somehow it will encouraging to buy that book when the fan its bigger it be curious about what’s inside the book.
Great page! I hate it when I buy 700,000 fans accidentally from Facebook.
Okay, I get what Uche is saying above . . . writers can be arrogant assholes and snide about people “liking” stuff beneath our lofty Ivory Towers or whatever (I don’t think there are a lot of Ivory Tower-ites on TNB, but okay, I get the general point.) That said, I do think what’s being said here is more that these people who have “liked” or become fans of the book in question are not actually fans of the book–nor do they even know it exists–they are fans of a phrase. Without judgment against anyone liking that phrase, I can see how that would have been irritating to the author of the book, who created a fan page for his BOOK!
So I was all set to be sympathetic to that issue . . . 700 sincere fans of your work being better than 700,000 fans of something that has nothing to do with you.
BUT . . . now seeing how this piece is being linked everywhere by actual lit-savvy blogs, I’m guessing that many people who may actually be the book’s target audience WILL learn about the book as a result of this whole incident. By something that appeared pointless–so pointless it was frustrating–happening, in the end great marketing has resulted.
Hence, the letter to your FB fans? Uh: “Thank you!”
Gina, that’s not how the Web works. We’re entering into my technical specialty (read: day job), so before I even blinked, I’d written about 8 paragraphs in detail as to why I think find this entire business quite ironical. To be blunt, I see a situation where writers are being naïve, and at the very same time looking down their noses at 700,000 FB users, which seems to me a good case of the pots and the kettles. So now I’m working my 8 paras+ of further discussion of the matter into a TNB piece of its own.
That makes no sense. Her comment is simply about increased exposure to an audience that’s not unlikely to be the audience for his type of literature because of a misinterpretation. The article was simply about how the new Facebook ‘Like’ feature enabled thousands of people to ‘Like’ his book because the title also served as a general sentiment, one of many popular ones that seem to have their own Facebook pages. He’s looking down on that fact because it’s a harmless yet silly activity. It’s really not complicated.
I could have been clearer that my response was to Gina’s first para alone. I quite agree with the rest, and especially her final para. And if you still don’t get it, 700K people did *not* “like” his book, from their perspective. They “liked” the phrase, and they got what they wanted out of it. So again why is this their problem? And are you kidding with your “He’s looking down on that fact because it’s a harmless yet silly activity”? We have become a species largely of leisure, which means most of our activities are silly (I wish I could say most were harmless). I’m still trying to figure out the substance for a cheap shot at these 700K users that comes free of hypocrisy.
Jason D says:
Uche I really can’t fathom how you can sit and defend these idiots, and certainly don’t understand you came to the conclusion that this is the way social media was intended to be used.
There is absolutely nothing social about it! These people don’t “like” things to inform their friends of their interests, it’s purely for self indulgent reasons. Somehow they think it makes them important and cool ’cause they’ve joined a group with a “witty” title.
Gregory may be able to use this as an advantage and get some more exposure for his book, but ultimately if these people don’t have the attention span to bother checking what they are “liking” then they are not going to bother reading his book either.
I can totally understand why anyone would look down at them. It’s not arrogance, these people are simply lazy and stupid, and I would go as far to say are contributing to the downfall of society. You can say it is just a silly thing on Facebook, but sadly it extends further than that and is a very accurate representation of an entire generation, one in which I’m extremely embarrassed to be from. There should be no support and no excuses for these twats.
I looked through your comment, and I see much invective, but very little new argument. I think I’ve said everything that covers why I think it’s naïve and arrogant to call the 700K stupid. Clearly, we disagree.
Jason, there is no question that the motivations of that multitude are indistinct and not aligned with the author’s intent.
But pay attention to what just happened here. Levey walked into the Internet to buy a sandwich (probably not a ham sandwich), and the internet gave him back 700k in change.
“yes, I’m QUITE SURE that you get back 700k in change. No it is not a mistake. I double checked, it’s yours, it’s the correct change, it’s 700k. NEXT!”
So the point is, he’s been handed the internet equivalent of a suitcase full of unmarked small denomination bills. WHAT NEXT?
This is what the internet does. Every once in a while, it does superDuperMath for some undeserving sod, just to see how long it takes him to go boom.
Whatever you say Mr. Ogbuji, good luck with that far-reaching dissertation on judging common social networking actions.
sui says:
Wow.. that’s funny, interesting, and ironic! Lucky you… kind of. 😉
Grace Snyder says:
Perhaps you should make a group like ‘Shut up, I’m Talking a Memoir’
I clicked your link and surprisingly, 15 of my friends are a fan of this page, all unknowingly I suppose. Way to go, man!
That’s funny.
Well now I’ve heard of the book, only not a single one of my friends is a fan. Should I start off the trend?
I actually read the comments on one of the media links you posted about the book and I’m surprised at the comments, mostly spam and a lot who still think it’s about wanting people to shut up while they’re talking. So strange. I now see how this is annoying for you.
This is unfortunate. And comments from the “fans” makes me wish some people would be banned from the internet. If LOL means “laughing out loud”,why do people replace the full-stop with it? And how dumb do nearly 700 000 people have to be not to notice the book cover and your web address? How many pages per day do they join?
Unfortunate that there were so many people who mistakingly liked the page, but it is a great opportunity to show your work to a huge audience, I know a lot of intelligent people who read a lot of books yet still ‘like’ inane phrases on Facebook. There are probably plenty who would read your book.
It is just as Chuck Palahniuk wrote in his book Survivor, about religion:
“The agent explained to me, we weren’t targeting the smartest people in the world, just the most.”
Sadu says:
This is hilarious! right up there with the facebook page: “Stop texting LOL”
“With publishing in such precarious shape right now, I suppose authors should embrace any kind of attention they can get, .. … Since Shut Up, I’m Talking’s paperback comes out later this summer, though, I have to hope against the odds that even a tiny fraction of them will check it out.”
Dear Gregory, What is wrong with you? Whether you believe it’s stupidity, luck or G*d that’s put these two-thirds million followers on your plate, stop whining and do something constructive! Matt’s already made the great suggestion of t-shirts (You don’t have anything against t-shirts, do you?) but what could be easier than just putting an Amazon link or two on the FB page? If taking money from fools really is against your principles, I’ll be happy to accept whatever profits are made from this rather simple and obvious marketing tool.
Oh, and lest we forget, you’re the one who chose the dumb title for your book.
You also suggested that those who became a fan of your page probably weren’t readers.
Wow! How insulting, presumptuous, and smug ARE we? Should I address you as “Jesus”?
Personally, I really don’t care if I become a fan of a page that is really supposed to be for a book, movie, or musical artists and not relevant. I don’t take life or myself seriously. I am light-hearted and love to laugh. I become a fan of a lot of crazy stuff on Facebook – sometimes even just to get a rise out of people. Life is too short.
But I am educated, have lived in another country, am well traveled, bilingual, and I READ. I am also happily married and have a job I love. I am sure that is the case with a large amount of your 6-digit fan club. We could just be average everyday people who liked the name of your page and yes… blindly fanned it. So what? Why must we have to carry the burden of your “victimization” on our shoulders? If you have nightmares every night over this AND people using chat-speak on the internet such as “LOL”, I personally don’t care. Someone so easily offended as you? I care even less. You really need to learn the world doesn’t revolve around your elitist likes, tastes, and desires. You take care of yourself and let “the herds of mindless muck” take care of their own.
Just sell your book, get off your high horse and stop generalizing about people you don’t even know. Probably a lot of them are teens. Just leave them alone too. They may grow up to become more successful than you and hand you your own ass one day. Sheesh, if my entire existence was based on what I did when I was 15, I’d be in big trouble.
You put it more harshly than I, but we’re certainly trying to make the same point in response to this piece (and more so to the others who have linked to/commented on this piece). Amen, God. Amen, amen, amen 😉
I am impressed. I have a fan base of 3. Actually, it was negative 4 because it was 5 and 9 dropped out before 3 joined later. The math gets complicated. Whatever.
Now you have the names of 700.000 idiots.
Michael Donovan says:
you just found Leverage for your next project. Well, even if you didn’t find it for the next project, I found one for myself in my next project!
Huh. Well, I have to say, I found this post via a facebook link, but I promise I am not the type of person who would ever fan the phrase “shut up I’m talking.” Social media is a crazy thing, isn’t it? Side note: your book sounds really interesting. I think I might pick it up!
btw- I only found this because Tumblr had a link. I would have NEVER heard about it unless it had growing some popularity. You’ve had two strides of success now (facebook, tumblr) so I’d start cashing in NOW and be appreciative for all the people having fun with your play on words. Or just chalk it up as a novelty and have fun (just as the facebook fans have done)
dude, facebook is FULL of stupid people. many people make a living from the culling of these chumps with CPA ads and surveys. facebook chumps pay for an entire blackhat industry.
you could EASILY sell your fan page for $10,000 or MORE
just sayin… — think outside of the box
aime says:
No one realizes article is facetious. The author meant for it to be a joke.
Sean Ferrell says:
Dude, this is awesome. I HATE it when people talk over me, too!
Seriously: you should send a message to the fans, and it should be this.
“I’m sorry, did you say something?”
700,000 fans who don’t even know who you are – very strange place, the internet. Good article.
This is hilarious and I’m sorry that some of the commenters here seem to think it isn’t – just because they figured out what was going on before you explained it. Newsflash: Not everyone does. Personally I suspected that it was going to be something like that, but couldn’t imagine that “Shut up, I’m talking” was a phrase anyone would want to become a fan of, so I continued to be confused until the end. In fact I was a bit disappointed that it was really the explanation.
If anything, this shows that there is a flaw in Facebook’s fan page system. Clearly there should be a little icon next to the name of what you just “liked” that indicates which category it belongs in: book, film, musician, saying …
steeleweed says:
Damn! Now we’ll all have to think even harder about our book titles…..
This is called the bandwagon effect. It happens all the time. It doesn’t make people morons. I think you’re being really condescending and rather elitist towards 700,000 people. There only crime is being amused by a phrase you used.
You on the other hand are part of internet sleaze bandwagon. These are a special group of people who all want to use the internet to get rich often inspired by other success stories. They don’t see the internet as a place of knowledge or social networking, but as an untapped mecca for selling shit. Many of these people do shit like start blogs, create facebook pages, and generate content which is posted all over the internet linking readers back to a product they hope to sell. In your case it’s a book, but the fact that it’s a book and not a get rich scheme or the thigh master 2000, doesn’t make any less sleazy. Even this article is non-authentic because the core motivation behind it isn’t tell an interesting story (which would have been fun to read,) but to sneer at the intelligence of 700,000 people and use what happened to promote your book.
When people say the buzz words ” harness the power of the internet” what they really mean is they want to take advantage of relationships built on the internet and abuse the loyalty of the people they call friends in order to part them from their money.
I’ve been marking of products who do this shit, but I’ve been pretty lenient towards authors because you know, they’re artists. But the truth is (this crap wreaks of desperation) a book is a product just like every other product. Being a book doesn’t make the ways in which it’s marketed any less sleazy than penis enhancer.
Authors who drop to sleazy sales tactics guarantee I’ll never buy their book.
I really do hope your 700,000 fans read this so they can see you call them illiterate.
This is an absurd argument. Yes, Gregory is having a bit of fun at the expense of people who blindly become fans of pages on Facebook, but he even said in the post that he hasn’t attempted to market to them yet.
You’re right that there are plenty of sleazebags out there shamelessly promoting their wares to make a buck. But how do you propose a writer discuss his work with anyone, then? How much less “pimpish” could he be than to admit he doesn’t know what to do with this untapped audience?
How do you propose someone with a product, artistic or otherwise, ever approach anyone about its existence? Most writers and other artists are faced with the conundrum that they are not salespeople, and feel uncomfortable marketing themselves, but if they don’t at least try, they won’t be publishing their work for very long. Talking about it in a conversational way like this is about as non-sleazy as you can get, in my opinion.
How would you do it, Peter?
Only reason I’m posting this here is because it’s an elaboration of apparently contentious points I’ve made on this comment board.
“700,000 Facebook users must be many things, but probably not dumb”
http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/uogbuji/2010/06/700000-facebook-users-must-be-many-things-but-probably-not-dumb/
Tessa Quin says:
I’d point out to them that the phrase is a title of a book. Maybe some will get interest and up your profits.
I’m coming back soon to properly comment BUT I just wanted to say that I love it when you ‘like’ me, Uche.
Zara, you act as if I’m not helpless to ‘like’ you 🙂
I’ve been an off-Facebook fan for years of a similar saying by Fran Lebowitz: “The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.” I’m usually not much of a joiner, but I can imagine clicking “like” if someone put that on a Facebook page.
I’m all for finding some way to profit from your random publicity windfall, but I agree with you that few of those 700,00 would purchase your book even if they became aware of it. Clicking “like” is completely different than spending one’s money. (In fact, other than perhaps the one person who mentioned some interest, I’m guessing that none of the commenters here are planning to purchase it, even though they’re probably a slightly more likely audience than the unwashed Facebook masses.) (And Uche, I’m kidding–I’m sure most Facebook users actually have excellent hygiene.)
Anyway, if there’s some other way to profit from your massive captive audience, I’d say to go for it.
Rimshot, Zina 🙂
To be fair to the 700,000, the way a facebook user connects to a page can differ. you can click like within your news feed from a friend’s update without visiting the page at all or having any idea of what it is. you can click like on the side column of your homefeed and again, it’s possible you wouldn’t visit the page.
At least if you sent news updates your fans would know who you are and what you do. you could try adding little excerpts from your book and a link to where they can buy it. or post a status saying ‘want to know why i set up this page? click here…’
You might lose followers, you might gain readers…
If only your facebook fans would go out and, you know, buy the book.
On another note, it’s frightening to learn that “Punching Things” has a facebook fan page.
Better than “punching people,” no?
i went to your page and 14 of my friends were fans of your book, lmfao 🙂
Well, of course having 700k fans who don’t know you is weird, but reading your piece and the Advertising Age piece on this I can’t avoid the impression of this being a kind of “neoplatonic in the social media age”: a FB page was created with the intention of promoting a book and an author; reality went different; so reality is weird and possibly “wrong”, the original intention is “right”. I must confess this kind of reasoning disturbs me, as if one is not able to accept, embrace, deal with and play with the fact that reality sometimes (or often) is different from what one had in mind…
PS: the time the author took before he had some curiosity to check what the “fans” of his page were writing has to do with this “cocoon” mentality also.
S.D. says:
I knew there was a reason why I never “Like” any of that stuff!
elbruce says:
I’d start writing about how they should buy your book.
I appreciate your candor and unease about suddenly finding yourself inexplicably popular, at least in social networking terms. At times it seems like I’m barraged by messages on how to increase your network, how to get more followers, etc. and here is an instance of winning the lottery without even buying a ticket. Indeed, a mixed blessing. More visibility, for sure, but is this audience there to hear you?
Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. Or you can find the good thing brings unwanted pressure and consumes time you actually would rather spend thinking about & doing other things.
I hope you find some way to use this platform to help you and your work.
Charlotte Castle says:
Dammit, Dammit, Dammit. I knew I shouldn’t have called my new novel ‘Simon’s Choice’. I should have stuck with the original title ‘I hate going to skool cos the teachers dont respec me enuff innit’.
That’s wonderful. 😀
Uh oh! I just used a colon followed by a capital ‘d’ to express a grin! I guess I don’t shower or read anymore.
I find the author’s reaction to the “fans” a little snide, but the book does look interesting.
I think that you are missing out on opportunities! I think the people saying that you should market the idea since you own the title are right on! Many people probably just “liked” the title; however, there may be people who like it and are willing to spend some money. I am a fan of a book that I am interested in. I think that they author is doing himself a disservice when he doesn’t add to the FB page. So while many of the FB fans are probably just liking the title, there may people who like it well enough to buy the book and even the merchandise that you are going to add!
TommyM says:
Authors harness the internet, or the Internet harnessing authors?
“But while a Youtube video of a man tripping over a dog and falling headfirst into a toilet can become wildly popular, carefully orchestrated and well-funded online advertising campaigns for politicians or Hollywood movies can fail outright – ”
That quote enrages me.
You wanna know WHY all those things fail and aren’t successful? They aren’t catering to their audience. The internet viral scene isn’t fucking for bullshit like advertising. The internet is for not having to deal with that stupid bullshit. Why do you think hulu is about to fail.
I haven’t read the book, but I had to become a fan. This is hilarious.
(And yes, I read!)
Simon Opolot says:
If they like the phrase, they will surely like to read the book on the same title. Go a head and tell them of the book.
Idestrup Privatskole says:
I gues that 700.000 people after all can be wrong (well maybe 699.300 can). I’s not always about the numbers, not even in a social place like Facebook.
So today I tell my wife about this story, and she says, “I have his book, right here!” and pulls out a green cover advance readers’ copy.
I can’t believe it! I used “Shut up, I’m talking” for 34 years in front of 11th grade American History class and was still ignored. Were you in my class some years back?(Miami). You’ve stolen my line , will get rich and I will just fade away like MacArthur’s old soldiers. Where’s the justice in life? Or just a squeak of fairness?
aage christensen says:
Who stole D’Agostimos line? According to “Acknowledgements” at the back of the book it was invented by one Andy Teick. Greg, did you ever send him a cheque?
sumbled on this article. in for 1 copy of your book. looks like stumbleupon is helping your cause too
ealfjaoj says:
Ha, 14 of my friends liked it. (Mostly 8th graders.)
fixed gear says:
Dude, WHO CARES why you got the fans? Let go of your ego. “Ohhhhhh boo-effing-hoooo, they just like the title, not my book.” You’re missing the point, you now have 700K fans (actually 3.4 mill at last check) that you can market SOMETHING to.
I suggest you go watch the 30-Rock episode where Lemon ACCIDENTALLY gets popular for doling out “Dealbreaker!” dating advice to women. It was a stupid little thing that hooked, but she EMBRACED it and enjoyed her 15 minutes.
Think beyond your stupid little book. You can parlay this into something FAR bigger. Embrace it! Don’t miss this GOLDEN opportunity man! 😉
ylime says:
you now have have over 3million 😀
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accdentl freak says:
i have no fans and i dont even now this: i dont care if you have 700,000 fans
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Quarterly Review: Sunn O))), Crypt Sermon, The Neptune Power Federation, Chron Goblin, Ethereal Riffian, Parasol Caravan, Golden Core, Black Smoke Omega, Liquid Orbit, Sun Below
Posted in Reviews on January 10th, 2020 by JJ Koczan
Hey all, we made it to the final day of the Winter 2020 Quarterly Review, so congrats to ‘us’ and by us I mean myself and anyone still reading, which is probably about two or three people. On my end today is completely manic in terms of real-life, offline logistics — much to do — but no way I’m letting one last batch of 10 reviews fall by the wayside, so rest assured, by the time this goes live, it’ll be complete, even though I’ve had to swap things out as some stuff has been locked into other coverage since I first slated it. Plenty around waiting to be written up. Perpetually, it would seem.
But before we dive in, thank you for reading if you’ve caught any part of this QR. I hope your 2020 is off to an excellent start and that finding new music to love is as much a part of your next 12 months as it can possibly be.
Quarterly Review #41-50:
Sunn O))), Pyroclasts
The narrative — because of course there’s a narrative; blessings and peace upon it — is that drone-metal progenitors Sunn O))), while in the studio recording earlier-2019’s Life Metal (review here) with Steve Albini, began each day doing a 12-minute improvised modal drone working in a different scale. They used a stopwatch to keep time. Thus the four tracks of Pyroclasts were born. They all hover around 11 minutes after editing, which settles neatly onto two vinyl sides, and it’s the rawer vision of Sunn O))), with just Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley‘s guitars, rather than some of the more elaborate arrangements which they’ve been known to undertake. That they’d put out two studio records in the same year is striking considering it had been four years since 2015’s Kannon (review here), but I think the truth of the matter is they had these tapes and decided they were worth preserving with a popular release. I wouldn’t say they were wrong, and the immersion here is a good reminder of the core appeal of Sunn O)))‘s conjured depths.
Pyroclasts by SUNN O)))
Sunn O))) on Bandcamp
Southern Lord Recordings website
Crypt Sermon, The Ruins of Fading Light
Traditional doom rarely sounds as vital as it does in the hands of Crypt Sermon. The Philly five-piece return with The Ruins of Fading Light on Dark Descent Records as an awaited follow-up to 2015’s Out of the Garden (review here) and thereby bring forth classic metal with all the urgency of thrash and the poise of the NWOBHM. Frontman Brooks Wilson — also responsible for the album art — is in command here and with the firm backing of bassist Frank Chin and drummer Enrique Sagarnaga, guitarists Steve Jannson and James Lipczynski offer sharpened-axe riffs and solo scorch offset by passages of keyboard for an all the more epic vibe. The rolling “Christ is Dead” is pure Candlemass, but the galloping “The Snake Handler” might be the highlight of the 10-track/55-minute run, though that’s not to take away either from the Dehumanizer chug of “Key of Solomon” or the melodic reach of the closing title-track either. Take your pick, really. It’s all metal as fuck and glorious for that. If they don’t sell denim jackets, they should.
The Ruins of Fading Light by Crypt Sermon
Crypt Sermon on Thee Facebooks
Dark Descent Records on Bandcamp
The Neptune Power Federation, Memoirs of a Rat Queen
“Can you dig what the Imperial Priestess is laying down?” is the central question of Memoirs of a Rat Queen, the first album from Sydney, Australia’s The Neptune Power Federation to be released through Cruz Del Sur Music, and it arrives over an ELO “Don’t Bring Me Down”-style arena rock beat on leadoff “Can You Dig?” as an intro to the rest of the LP. Strange, epic, progressive, traditional, heavy and cascading rock and roll follows, as intricate as it is immediately catchy, and whether it’s “Watch Our Masters Bleed” or “I’ll Make a Man out of You,” the Imperial Priestess Screaming Loz Sutch and company make it easy to answer in the affirmative. Arrangements are willfully over the top as “Bound for Hell” and “The Reaper Comes for Thee” engage a heavy rocker take on heavy metal’s legacy, maddened laughter and all in the latter track, which closes, and the affect on the listener is nothing less than an absolute blast — a reminder of the empowering sound of early metal on a disaffected generation in the late ’70s and early ’80s and how that same fist-pump-against-the-world has become timeless. No doubt the costumes and all that make The Neptune Power Federation striking live, but as Memoirs of a Rat Queen readily steps forward to prove, the songs are there as well.
Memoirs Of A Rat Queen by The Neptune Power Federation
The Neptune Power Federation on Thee Facebooks
Cruz Del Sur Music on Bandcamp
Chron Goblin, Here Before
Have Chron Goblin been here before? The title of their album speaks to a kind of creepy deja vu feeling, and that’s emblematic of the Canadian band’s move away from the party rock of their past offerings, their last LP having been Backwater (review here) 2015. Fortunately, while they seek out some new aesthetic ground, the 11 tracks of Here Before do maintain Chron Goblin‘s penchant for straight-ahead songcraft and unpretentious execution — and frankly, that wasn’t at all broken. Neither, perhaps was the let’s-get-drunk-and-bounce-around spirit of their prior work, but they sound more mature in a song like the six-minute “Ghost” and “Slipping Under” (premiered here) successfully melds the shift in presentation with the energy of their prior output. Maybe it’s still a party but we watch horror movies? I don’t know. They’ve still got “Giving in to Fun” early in the tracklisting — worth noting it follows the swaying “Oblivion” — so maybe I’m misreading the whole thing, or maybe it’s more complex than being entirely one thing or the other might allow for. Perish the thought. Either way, can’t mess with the songs.
Here Before by Chron Goblin
Chron Goblin on Thee Facebooks
Chron Goblin on Bandcamp
Ethereal Riffian, Legends
Ukrainian heavy rockers Ethereal Riffian make a pointed sonic shift with their Legends album (on Robustfellow), keeping some of the grunge spirit in their melodies as the eight-minute “Moonflower” and closer “Ethereal Path” show, but in songs like “Unconquerable” and the early salvo of “Born Again,” “Dreamgazer” and “Legends” and even the second half of “Kosmic” and “Pain to Wisdom,” they let loose from some of the more meditative aspects of their past work with a fiery drive and a theme of enlightenment through political and social change. A kind of great awakening of the self. There’s still plenty of “ethereal” to go with all that “riffian” in the intro “Sage’s Alchemy,” or the first half of “Kosmic” or the CD bonus “Yeti’s Hide,” but no question the balance has tipped toward the straightforward, and the idea seems to be that the electrified feel is as much a part of the message as the message itself. The only trouble is that since putting Legends out, Ethereal Riffian called it quits to refocus their energies elsewhere in the universe. Are they really done? I’m skeptical, but if so, then at least they went out trying new things, which always seemed to be a specialty, and on a note of directly positive attitude.
Legends by Ethereal Riffian
Ethereal Riffian on Thee Facebooks
Robustfellow Productions on Bandcamp
Parasol Caravan, Nemesis
A second long-player behind 2015’s Para Solem, the eight-song/35-minute Nemesis is not only made for vinyl, but it’s made for rockers. Specifically, heavy rockers. And it’s heavy rock, for heavy rockers. Based in Linz, Austria, the double-guitar four-piece Parasol Caravan have their sound and style on lockdown, and their work, while not really keeping any secrets in terms of where it’s coming from in its ’70s-via-’90s modern take, is brought to bear with a clarity that seems particularly derived from the European heavy rock tradition. Para Solem was longer and somewhat fuzzier in tone, but the stripped down approach of the title-track at the outset and its side B counterpart, “Serpent of Time” still unfold to a swath of ground covered, whether it’s in the subdued instrumental “Acceptance” or “Transition,” which follows the driving “Blackstar” and closes the LP with a bit of a progressive metal edge. Even that has its hook, though, and that’s ultimately the point.
Nemesis by Parasol Caravan
Parasol Caravan on Thee Facebooks
Parasol Caravan on Bandcamp
Golden Core, Fimbultýr
The title Fimbultýr translates to “mighty god” and is listed among the alternative names of Odin, which would seem to be who Oslo’s Golden Core have in mind in the leadoff title-track of their second album. Issued through Fysisk Format, it is not necessarily what one thinks of as “Viking metal” in the post-Amon Amarth or post-Enslaved context, but instead, the eight-song collection unfolds a biting modern sludge taking an edge of the earlier Mastodon lumber and bringing it to harshly-vocalized rollout. The 11-minute “Runatal” and only-seconds-shorter “Buslubben” are respective vocal points around which sides A and B of the release center, and each finds a way to give like emphasis to atmosphere and extremity, to stretch as well as pummel, and much to Golden Core‘s credit, they seem not only aware of the changes they’re presenting in their material, but in control of how and when they’re executed. The resulting linear flow of Fimbultýr, given the shifts within, isn’t to be understated as a victory on the part of the band.
Fimbultýr by Golden Core
Golden Core on Thee Facebooks
Fysisk Format on Bandcamp
Black Smoke Omega, Harbinger
Harbinger may well be just that — a sign of things to come. The debut offering from Black Smoke Omega wraps progressive death-doom and gothic piano-led atmospherics around a thematic drawing from science-fiction, and while I’m not certain of the narrative being told by the Dortmund, Germany-based band, their method for telling it is fascinating. It’s not entirely seamless in its shifts, and it doesn’t seem like the band — seemingly spearheaded by multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Jack Nier, though Ashley James (The Antiquity) plays guitar on “A Man without a Heart” and Michael Tjanaka brings synth/piano to “Kainé” — want it to be, but there’s no denying that by the time “Falling Awake” seems to provide some melodic resolution to the often-slow-motion tumult prior, it’s doing so by bringing the different sides together. It’s a significant journey from the raw, barking shouts on “The Black Scrawl” and the lurching-into-chug-into-lurch of “The Man without a Heart” to get there, however. But this, too, seems to be on purpose. How it all might shake out feels like a question for the next release, but Black Smoke Omega seem poised here to leave heads spinning.
Harbinger by Black Smoke Omega
Black Smoke Omega on Thee Facebooks
Black Smoke Omega on Bandcamp
Liquid Orbit, Game of Promises
While on the surface, Liquid Orbit might be on familiar enough ground with Game of Promises for anyone who has encountered the swath of up-and-comers working in the wake of Blues Pills, the Bremen, Germany, five-piece distinguish themselves through not just the keyboard work of Anders alongside Andree‘s guitar, Ralf‘s bass, Steve‘s drums and Sylvia‘s vocals, but also the shifts between funk, boogie, and edges of doom that play out in songs like “Shared Pain” and “Please Let Her Go,” as well as the title-track, which starts side B of the Nasoni Records-issued vinyl with a highlight guitar solo and an insistent snare tap beneath that works to bring movement to what’s still one of Game of Promises‘ shorter tracks at six and a half minutes, as opposed to the earlier eight-minute-toppers on side A or the psych-prog finale “Verlorene Karawane,” which translates in English to “lost caravan” and indeed basks in some Mideastern vibe and backward-effects vocal swirl. Bottom line, if you go into it thinking you know everything you’re getting, you’re probably selling it short.
Game Of Promises by Liquid Orbit
Liquid Orbit on Thee Facebooks
Nasoni Records website
Sun Below, Black Volume III
As the title hints, the name-your-price Black Volume III is the third EP release from Toronto’s Sun Below. All three have been issued over roughly a year’s span, and the three-piece of guitarist/vocalist Jason Craig, drummer/backing vocalist Will Adams, bassist/backing vocalist Garrison Thordarson — who as far as I’m concerned wins this entire Quarterly Review when it comes to names; that’s an awesome name — and two have featured covers. On their debut, they took on “Dragonaut” by Sleep, and on Black Volume III, in following up the 12-minute nod-roller “Solar Burnout,” they thicken and further stonerize the catchy jaunt that is “Wires” by Red Fang. They’ve got, in other words, good taste. Black Volume III opens with “Green Visions” and thereby takes some righteous fart-fuzz for a walk both that and “Solar Burnout” show plenty of resi(n)dual Sleep influence, but honestly, it’s a self-releasing band with three dudes who sound like they’re having a really good time figuring out where they want to be in terms of sound after about a year from their first release, and if you ask anything else of Black Volume III than what it gives, you’re obviously lacking in context. Which is to say you’re fucking up. Don’t fuck up. Dig riffs instead.
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Stoned Jesus Collect Early Demos on From the Outer Space out Nov. 8
Posted in Whathaveyou on September 25th, 2019 by JJ Koczan
You know why I like Stoned Jesus? Because they rock. But also because of stuff like this: You’re about to dig into the PR wire info for an early demo collection Napalm is putting out from the Ukrainian heavy rockers on Nov. 8 called From the Outer Space. It brings together the band’s original first two demos as a limited LP and hey, that’s fun. It’s the band’s 10th anniversary, so great. Preorders are up now, etc., etc.
But in “unveiling” the first track from the release — such as it is an unveiling when something was already put out like a decade ago — the first thing guitarist/vocalist Igor Sidorenko notes in an evaluation of the song itself is that it’s, “hardly a masterpiece.” Way to sell it, dude. But what that tells you is just how important progression is for this band. Yeah, “I’m the Mountain” may have all those YouTube hits, but this is a band whose collective heart is always on the next thing, on pushing themselves forward to the next tour, the next batch of new songs. A release like this is cool for fans and those (like me) who didn’t hear the demos when they came out, and actually the gnarly-as-fuck tone on “The Sweet Whore of Babylon” is pretty rad, even if not nearly as developed as the band has obviously become on subsequent offerings. Has its appeal, is all I’m saying.
Anyway, here’s that PR wire info with the choice quote and much more:
STONED JESUS To Release Early Demos ‘From The Outer Space’ + Premiere Music Video!
Limited Vinyl Edition Due Out November 8th via Napalm Records!
2019 marks the 10th anniversary of Ukrainian stoner rock masters, Stoned Jesus. Tracks such as I’m The Mountain, with millions of hits on YouTube, are ultimate fuzz rock anthems. While Stoned Jesus started as a one-man project back in 2009, formed by frontman and band mastermind Igor Sydorenko, it would later become one of the most distinctive heavy stoner and doom rock bands the current scene has to offer. To celebrate 10 great years of Stoned Jesus, the band has a very special surprise and gift for their fans, as they release the first two demos in a compilation – From The Outer Space – available on November 8th via Napalm Records, and for the first time, as a limited Vinyl edition!
“We’ve been around for a whole decade now, so I figured it would be great to give something really cool to all our fans,” comments Igor, Stoned Jesus vocalist and guitarist. “But “From the Outer Space” is not a sign of things to come obviously, more like a snapshot of a memory. This is a page of our history for you to own”.
Remastered from the original demo recordings by Igor, these five long tracks retain the uncompromising rawness of material while adding some new, previously unheard nuances to the overall mix. Celebrate with Stoned Jesus in style, and watch this cool behind-the-scenes music video for the track The Sweet Whore of Babylon HERE!
“Being the first Stoned Jesus track ever written, “The Sweet Whore of Babylon” is hardly a masterpiece.“ Igor says. “Yet its relentless nature and raw sound perfectly show the beginnings of one-man-project-then/full-band-later. The video, carefully compiled and edited by me and Nastya Homenko from hours of archival footage, shows you the first ten years of Stoned Jesus in (almost) chronological order. Here’s to many more years to come!”
The tracklist From The Outer Space reads as follows:
1. The Sweet Whore of Babylon
2. Insatiable King
3. Eastern Magic
4. Occult
5. Black Woods
Better be quick, since this rare demo compilation by Stoned Jesus is limited to only 300 Vinyl copies! The pre-sale has just started at THIS LOCATION!
Stoned Jesus on Xth Anniversary Tour:
26.09.19 RO – Cluj- Napoca / Flying Circus
27.09.19 BG – Sofia / Mixtape 5
28.09.19 RO – Bucharest / Quantic Club
29.09.19 SRB – Belgrade / Bozidarac
01.10.19 BIH – Sarajevo / Club AG
02.10.19 CR – Zagreb / Vintage Industrial Bar
03.10.19 IT – Treviso / Altroquando Zerobranco
04.10.19 IT – Mezzago / Bloom
05.10.19 CH – Pratteln / Up In Smoke
07.10.19 DE – Passau / Zauberberg
08.10.19 PL – Sosnowiec / KOMin
15.11.19 DE – Cologne / Live Music Hall
16.11.19 DE – Neunkirchen / Gloomaar Festival
17.11.19 BE – Brussels / Botanique
18.11.19 FR – Paris / Alhambra
19.11.19 FR – Rennes / Antipode MJC
20.11.19 FR Toulouse / Rex
21.11.19 CH Geneva / L’Usine
22.11.19 IT Bologna / Freakout Club
23.11.19 AT – Salzburg / Rockhouse
24.1119 HU – Budapest / A38
25.11.19 DE – Munich / Feierwerk
26.11.19 AT – Vienna / Arena
27.11.19 DE Leipzig / Werk2
28.11.19 DE Hamburg / Markthalle
29.11.19 DE – Berlin / Festsaal Kreuzberg
30.11.19 DE – Stuttgart / JH Hallschlag
Stoned Jesus is:
Igor Sydorenko – Vocals & Guitars
Serhij Sljussar – Bass
Dmytro Zinchenko – Drums
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Ethereal Riffian Post “Unconquerable” Lyric Video
Posted in Bootleg Theater on August 15th, 2019 by JJ Koczan
Back in May, Ukrainian heavy rockers Ethereal Riffian premiered the first single of their upcoming album, Legends, which was the title-track, here. With it, the Kiev-based four-piece showed a marked shift in aesthetic, adjusting the balance between the “ethereal” and the “riffian” portions of their sound to affect a much more straightforward attack than one had come to expect from their meditative, slowly unfolding contemplations prior. “Unconquerable,” which is the third single from Legends, with “Kosmic” having come out in June, follows suit in its relatively direct approach, and its chorus lyric, “No one can put the limit on fearless spirit,” summarizes the general perspective from which it’s working. The band have never been shy about stating their intentions and motivations, and clearly this time around the aim is to capture that indomitable thing in humanity that compels us to move forward, to explore and reach new places and new ideas. It is an optimistic vision of both the future and the present, perhaps written from a place of encouragement, like an existential pep talk to a world that — and I don’t think this is overstating it — only continues to feel more thoroughly fucked by the day.
I’ll forego talking about politics or culture on any grander scale — both because I find it personally exhausting and because if I had any insight into any of it, I’d probably be running for office instead of writing about Ukrainian rock videos — but yeah, it’s pretty clear that along with Ethereal Riffian‘s more grounded sound on Legends, they’re also engaging real-world issues in a straightforward manner. More power to them — as well as to the people. It can be hard when living in a moment to place it in a historical context. That is to say, everything now feels urgent because we don’t know yet to what it will lead. We see this in America with a systematic dismantling of democratic norms, and certainly the Ukraine has more than its share of conflict at present as well. That Ethereal Riffian see the line of human progression as being that — one of progress — is encouraging in itself, but as the uptempo kick of “Unconquerable” demonstrates, it’s as much a motivation for the future as well as a reflection on the past. Their aim is to tap into that very spirit and manifest it as an answer to this pivotal-seeming and undeniably troubled age.
One thing and then I’ll let you get to the video: It’s a common misconception — bred in no small part by the purposeful narrative — that Rosa Parks was just an old, tired lady on a bus who refused to move for a white man. She may indeed have been that, but she was also a civil rights activist for more than a decade at that point, and way more of a freedom fighter than the bystander history sometimes casts her as being. She was, then, even braver than she’s often credited for being. Just a thought in response to the quote below from the band.
Enjoy the video:
Ethereal Riffian, “Unconquerable” lyric video
Please welcome the third single from ‘Legends’ album.
Official lyric video for ‘Unconquerable’ from ‘Legends’ album.
Video by Anastasia Homenko.
“Behind every legend, there’s a legendary act. Behind every legendary act, there’s an unconquerable spirit. Spirit devoid of any fear, doubt and indecisiveness. It’s an invisible force that made Terry Fox run 5,373 kilometers with one leg to raise awareness of cancer. It’s what inspired tender woman Rosa Parks to stand up for the rights of black people in one of the most racist states of America. It’s the inner strength that made a man in a loincloth named Gandhi to unite the Indian nation despite incredible opposition. It’s the spirit that our times need most. The spirit that awaits to be awakened in each of us.”
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Ethereal Riffian is:
Val Kornev (aka Stonezilla) – guitar/vocal/lyrics
Alexander Kornev (aka SAF) – bass
Max Yuhimenko (aka Southman) – lead guitar
Nikita Shipovskoi (aka Ship) – drums
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Ethereal Riffian Set Sept. 6 Release for Legends; Cover & Tracklisting Revealed
Posted in Whathaveyou on June 17th, 2019 by JJ Koczan
Just over a month ago, Ukrainian four-piece Ethereal Riffian saw fit to premiere the video here for the title-track of their forthcoming long-player, Legends. Details about the album at that point were pretty sparse, but now we’ve at least got cover, tracklisting and a proper release date to go on, as well as some information on the pressings. As ever, the Kiev-based meditative outfit have a host of differences between formats planned, including different masters and designs, as well as a box set edition to come from Robustfellow Productions. It is the band’s third album and first in half a decade — though they’ve hardly been idle in that time — and the release date is Sept. 6.
If you missed the video the first time around, it’s here at the bottom, and if you’re familiar with the band’s back catalog, I’m sure you’ll find it surprising in its straightforward attack. I’m still curious as to how that will play into the rest of the record, but at least now I know when we’ll find out.
From the PR wire:
Ethereal Riffian announce release details for “Legends”
Ethereal Riffian’s third full-length will be released via Robustfellow Prods. on the 6th of September 2019. Entitled “Legends”, the album will be available on CD/LP/MC and Digital format. Each album version will feature a different audio master and exclusive design. There will be a limited edition box prepared by the label and the band will allow you to dive deep into this massive legendary release.
‘Legends’ tracklist:
Sage’s Alchemy
Dreamgazer
Unconquerable
Pain to Wisdom
Yeti’s Hide
Ethereal Path
The latest LP released by Ethereal Riffian, “Aeonian”, was released in January 2014, which makes of ‘Legends’ the band’s first full-length in more than five years. First single and music video from ‘Legends’ was released on the 14th of May. Artwork by Yura ‘xninja’ Nagorniy.
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Ethereal Riffian, “Legends” official video
Ethereal Riffian Premiere Video for Title-Track of New Album Legends
Posted in Bootleg Theater on May 14th, 2019 by JJ Koczan
One of the aspects of Ethereal Riffian‘s approach that I find easiest to appreciate is how much conscious thought there is put into their work. The Ukrainian four-piece are prone to making mini-documentaries (see here and here) explaining their motivations and the concepts with which they’re working, and it’s a clarity of intent that in my mind at least makes them all the more of a progressive outfit. They will release their third album, Legends, later this year through respected purveyor Robustfellow Productions, and they give an enticing first glimpse of things to come in their new video for the title-track.
By the time Legends arrives, it will have been five years since Ethereal Riffian‘s last studio full-length, 2014’s Aeonian, though they’ve certainly had plenty out in between with two live albums, an EP and the various behind-the-scenes looks at what they do. Still, a new album is an exciting prospect, and they show off a striking turn with “Legends,” leaving behind the ritualism that pervaded the four longform tracks of Aeonian in favor of a more direct, grunge-influenced style. Their sense of melody still holds sway, but “Legends” works in a context of hooks that’s new for Ethereal Riffian and in just four minutes, it makes a striking statement of where the band are at in terms of their sound. More riffian than ethereal, if you will. The image in the video of hammering out metalwork does not seem accidental.
I don’t know how much “Legends” ultimately will speak for the album that shares its name — I think we’ve got a while to go before we get there — but I’ll hope to have more as the release date comes closer. Until then, try to keep in mind as you make your way through the quick four minutes of “Legends” that nothing Ethereal Riffian do happens by mistake, and that this turn in sound is part of the overarching consideration they bring to their material all the time. They discuss it a bit below, but I wouldn’t be surprised either if they dive deeper into the concepts as the year plays out.
Ethereal Riffian, “Legends” official video premiere
Official music video for “Legends” (taken from “Legends” LP, to be released by Robustfellow Prods. in the second half of 2019).
Mysterious spiritualized rockers from Ukraine, Ethereal Riffian, are presenting the first single and music video from their forthcoming third LP. Directed by iconic Ukrainian director, Viktor Priduvalov, the new music video for the track ‘Legends’ showcases a drastic contrast with the band’s previous works. Frontman, Val Kornev, explains the shift in the band’s songwriting and overall direction:
“With current crises in worldwide leadership, ecology, education and, most and foremost, consciousness, we just can’t wait any longer to finally start doing things right. Enough of this bullshit! Our turbulent times require courageous decisions and robust music. Music that can get you going even if you’re descending straight into the depths of hell and know that this day can be your last. This is what this track is about. It’s about legends and you can become one too.”
Ethereal Riffian’s third full-length album, eponymous to the single, is set to be released in the second half of 2019 via Robustfellow Prods.
Produced by: Re:evolution Film
Director: Viktor Priduvalov
Director of photography: Eugene Kredentser
Assistant Cameraman: Ilya Pravdiviy
Producer: Viktor Sema
Light: Max Ruban
Post-production: Mental dRive Studio
Track was recorded, mixed and mastered at Bobina Records
Doomed City Release New Album Poetry of Simple Things
Posted in Whathaveyou on February 12th, 2019 by JJ Koczan
Doomed City‘s first full-length under the new moniker — they used to be called 5R6 — seems to have been a while in the making. The Ukranian heavy rock four-piece released the single “Summer Break” last August and have newly followed up with the rest of the long-player, so I don’t know if the rest of the album wasn’t done or whatever, but Poetry of Simple Things, as it’s called, taps into hard and heavy rock and roll and has just an edge of metal to its proceedings. Perhaps it’s also telling that the record opens with “Your Opinion” and ultimately requests that you keep it to yourself. Can do, dudes.
I haven’t seen word of a physical release as yet, but it’s out now digitally, and you can stream it as well at the bottom of this post courtesy of Doomed City‘s Bandcamp, which also turned up the following info:
Doomed City – Poetry of Simple Things
Poetry Of Simple Things is a new album of Doomed City, the Ukrainian band formerly known as 5R6. The album was recorded in 2018 but it saw the light of day in 2019, 7 months after the band received the final master.
5R6 released several records, played a lot of concerts in Ukraine, toured Europe twice, but they played their last concert under that name in January 2018 closing the 5R6 chapter.
The name change was motivated by the changes in the band’s music. On “Poetry of Simple Things” you would rather hear distant echoes of Fugazi or Jawbox rather than influences of King Crimson or Tool as you probably would on previous albums. One of the things that stayed the same is that it is as always hard to classify the band’s music. The closest to doing so would be to say that it is alternative rock in a broad understanding as seen through the prism of each band member’s musical vision.
The diversity of Doomed City’s sound comes from the differences between personalities and vision of each band member and yet still there are more common points that it might appear at first glance. At the same time the album is not a random songs compilation, it is a panorama depicting the band’s evolution from the different angles.
1. Your Opinion 03:13
2. Bruised and Scarred 03:43
3. No Heroes 04:11
4. Not Enough 04:35
5. Will to Life 03:58
6. Charade 04:57
7. Summer Break 03:58
8. Just a Traveler 04:33
9. 61000 03:27
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Doomed City, Poetry of Simple Things (2019)
Poetry of Simple Things by Doomed City
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Straytones Premiere “Dark Lord”; Beware, Dark Lord! Here Comes Bell-Man EP Due Feb. 22
Posted in audiObelisk on January 29th, 2019 by JJ Koczan
In the time since the release of their 2017 self-titled debut album, Ukrainian psychedelic rockers — that’s not to say ‘neo-psych,’ because if you’ve been paying attention, it’s not really ‘neo’ to you — have swapped bassists and shifted from a four-piece to a trio, losing their second guitarist. One might expect their three-song offering for Robustfellow Productions, Beware, Dark Lord! Here Comes Bell-Man, to be somewhat rudimentary as founding guitarist/vocalist Artem, founding drummer/vocalist Marina and bassist Vova, who is not the same Vova who played on their 2012 debut EP, move forward following this period of reconstruction. Well, if you want to be technical about it, it is, but when factoring in the band’s penchant for classic garage rock, a bit of rawness should well be part of the aesthetic. Their material nonetheless offers an expanse of naturalist tonal reach and periodic turns to more volatile noise. Oh, and fuzz. Fuzz for days.
The latter shows itself after a quick introduction on opener “Dark Lord,” and a shoegazing melody tops in blown-out fashion as the tube-popping riffery takes hold. There’s a flourish of keys to be found in the second half of the song, but Straytones effectively bring “Dark Lord”
toward and through a wash of tweaked out noise in the span of its four minutes, with enough time leftover to let the track devolve into buzzing amp feedback at the end before swirling directly into the synth and bass that starts “Abyss,” which is 1:20 long and basically a weirdo-atmospheric transitional moment between the two longer pieces. “Bell-Man” brings in more driving and direct bass — plus a lead layer overtop — and Marina‘s lead vocals, caked in space echo and meshing with a fervent dive into noise that speaks to acid psychosis and holds an improvised spirit even as her own drums continue to keep solid time beneath. Things settle momentarily to let the band catch their breath before the final outward thrust that leaves consciousness behind, and they make their way out on a fittingly ultra-tripped-out turn.
All well and good, but you’re wondering about the title, right? Fair. Going from the band’s comments below, I’m guessing that at some point when they were bundled up against the winter cold in Kiev, Straytones were making fun of how each other were dressed and the characters Dark Lord and Bell-Man were born. Inspiration can come from anywhere. And kudos to them for taking it a step further and bringing the characters to life in a forthcoming two-part cartoon video what will use the songs on Beware, Dark Lord! Here Comes Bell-Man as its soundtrack. I for one look forward to seeing their costumes, though if the EP’s cover art is anything to go by, it’s going to be way less Saturday-morning-cartoon and way more brain-melting-freakery. I’ll take it either way.
The EP will be out digitally Feb. 22 through Robustfellow and the label was kind enough to give me permission to premiere “Dark Lord.” If you’re up for the ride, you’ll find it on the player below, followed by the release announcement.
Please enjoy:
The third release of Ukrainian finest psychedelic rock outfit Straytones will be distributed via Robustfellow Prods. digitally on the 22nd of February. Following their self-titled album, which was released in the beginning of 2017 and gained many positive reviews in Ukraine and beyond, the new EP demonstrates the band’s masterful knowledge and progression in the psychedelic rock realm.
Remarkably, the EP will be supported by a two-series cartoon music video born of the story that’s uncovered throughout the release. Band members comment:
“The joke about the winter outfits of Straytones band members turned into the idea about two cartoon characters and that’s exactly how the Dark Lord and the Bell-Man came into being. We wrote songs and created a cartoon music-video to uncover a story of an evil mastermind Dark Lord who obtains a powerful artifact and travels to meta-space to become invincible. Eventually he gets overpowered by the Bell-Man whom he encounters there. Mind-bending music combined with a video is a trip to enjoy!”
The EP will be available via all major digital outlets including iTunes, Spotify, Google Play etc.
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Stoned Jesus Announce Spring 2019 European Tour Dates
Posted in Whathaveyou on December 18th, 2018 by JJ Koczan
You’ll note immediately that there are a couple empty dates in the otherwise mostly-full schedule of Stoned Jesus‘ newly-announced Spring 2019 tour that follow a previously announced slot at Desertfest London. That two days off in a row is enough to make me think that they’ll be making the trip over to Desertfest Berlin 2019 as well and it just hasn’t been announced yet, so maybe there are more shows to come all around then. I don’t know how it works announcing one fest and then the other, but it’s been pretty well coordinated in the past to allow each fest to develop their identity, so when or even if for sure Stoned Jesus will be added to Berlin, I couldn’t say.
Either way, Stoned Jesus head out on ‘The Pilgrimage Tour’ suitably enough in support of their 2018 album, Pilgrims (review here), on Napalm Records. And no, this isn’t the last time this week I’ll be talking about that record, so keep an eye out.
Stoned Jesus will be back on the road next spring, to support “Pilgrims”, their latest album which came out 3 months ago!
The “Pilgrimage Tour 2019” will feature The Devil And The Almighty Blues (*) as support for 3 shows, and Samavayo (++) for the last 6!
20.03.19 (PL) Wroclaw | Pralnia
21.03.19 (PL) Krakow | Zet Pe Te
22.03.19 (PL) Gdynia | Ucho
23.03.19 (PL) Warsaw | Hybrydy
24.03.19 (PL) Poznan | U Bazyla
19.04.19 (LT) Vilnius | Loftas
20.04.19 (LV) Riga | Melna Piektdiena
21.04.19 (EE) Tallinn | Von Khral
22.04.19 (FIN) Helsinki | Elmun Baari
24.04.19 (SWE) Stockholm | Debaser
25.04.19 (NOR) Oslo | Bla
26.04.19 (DK) Copenhagen | Loppen
28.04.19 (D) Hamburg | Knust (*)
29.04.19 (NL) Groningen | Vera (*)
30.04.19 (D) Dresden | Beatpol (*)
01.05.19 (D) Dortmund | Junkyard
02.05.19 (NL) Rotterdam | Baroeg
03.05.19 (NL) Diksmuide | 4AD
04.05.19 (UK) London | Desertfest
07.05.19 (CH) Zürich | Rote Fabrik (++)
08.05.19 (D) Saarbrücken | Garage (++)
09.05.19 (D) Hannover | Lux (++)
10.05.19 (D) Nürnberg | MUZ (++)
11.05.19 (D) Marburg | KFZ (++)
12.05.19 (CZ) Prague | Underdog’s (++)
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The men and women of our time are ever more aware of themselves as persons. We experience as never before the incomparable worth of each person. We are alive to our inviolability, that is, we know in a new way that none of us is ever rightly used and destroyed for the good of others. We are more sensitive than our ancestors to all the forms of coercion that threaten our personhood. We reject the ancient distinction between Greek and barbarian; we know that the birthright of a person belongs not to a select few but to every human being. This awakening of human beings to personal existence is an epochal event, a sea-change in the way we understand ourselves.
Now personalism is nothing other than the philosophical reflection on this new self-understanding of human beings. Personalist thinkers try to articulate it, to relate it to earlier understandings of human beings, to protect it against excess, to draw out its social consequences, and to achieve a more personalist form of religious existence.
There are different strands and schools of personalism; the PP is especially indebted to the Christian personalism of Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II). Wojtyla was led to think deeply about the interiority of each person and to understand that each exists as subject, not as object, or in other words, as someone, not as something, or in still other words, as self-determining, not determined. According to the personalism that he represents, a human person does not exist just to provide an instance of the human kind, but exists as this unrepeatable person and so stands in a sense above the human kind, being always more than an instance of it. This personalism understands the “infinite abyss of existence” (Newman) in the interiority of each person, in virtue of which each always exceeds the finite qualities and properties that he or she displays.
Rooted in Judeo-Christian revelation
According to our personalism, this sense of personal existence has emerged in the encounter with the living God of Judeo-Christian revelation. It can be sustained and deepened only by continuing to live in this encounter. Those who repudiate God cannot preserve the personalist affirmation of the incomparable worth of each person, though they may for a time live by the light of a setting sun. Nietzsche understood this; he understood that, once God is dead, we are at liberty to acknowledge real worth only in a few human beings of exceptional quality and to contrast these with the vast run of deficient and misbegotten human beings, whom we are at liberty to scorn as having relatively little worth. Only Jews and Christians have the spiritual resources to acknowledge unconditional worth in all human persons.
Our personalism has the effect of transforming the way we understand our social lives. We can no longer live in the social solidarity that was natural in earlier times. Parents no longer choose the profession and the spouse of their children; they acknowledge that these are choices that can only be made by their children. We can no longer share the faith of our group merely out of loyalty to the group; as persons each of us acts in his or her own name in making basic commitments of one’s life. This is because persons are never mere parts in any social whole; we never exist in a social whole in the way in which organs and cells exist in a body. A human society is not a whole composed of parts, but rather, in the felicitous expression of Maritain, a whole composed of wholes.
Solidarity and co-responsibility
It may seem to follow from this that personalism is just another species of individualism and is sure to bring severe social fragmentation in its wake. But most personalists have been very sensitive to the sterility of individualism. They have taken very seriously the interpersonal relations in which human persons live and move and have their being. The interiority of a person does not isolate a person from others, but rather opens him or her to others. Personalists refuse to think about social life only in terms of rights and of protection against intruders; they also think in terms of solidarity and co-responsibility. The personalism to which we are committed impels us to work towards a new kind of solidarity that is precisely based on the fact that each member, as person, is always more than a mere part of the community. For personalism the ideal of a communio personarum represents the only valid form of all deeper social life.
Incarnational personalism
Personalists divide over the question of the bodily nature of human persons. Some posit a sharp antithesis between self and body, as if a person’s body were among the objects that a person deals with and as if it were just an instrument to be used for acting in the world. They see something sub-personal in the idea of a person being a bodily person. But other personalists, and we of the PP among them, strongly affirm just this bodily being of human persons. A person’s body is not just an object for that person but it enters into his or her subjectivity. We do not just use our bodies instrumentally, but we exist as embodied. One has distinguished between dualistic personalism and incarnational personalism, and we of the PP are emphatically incarnational. On the other hand, we take great care not to abandon the distinction between matter and spirit in human persons; in fact we insist on the ineliminable duality of matter and spirit, and in doing so we make no concession to the objectionable dualism.
The difference between the two personalist approaches to the human body gives rises to two opposed approaches to the man-woman distinction. For the dualistic personalism, that which is male or female is primarily the body, the person being neither male nor female; whereas for the incarnational personalism sexual identity is not confined to the body but informs the whole human person.
The personalism to which we are committed sees in the incarnate condition of human persons nothing unworthy of persons; it rather discerns in it a mysterious personalization of the material world. In fact we personalists discern in it the basis for the particular place of the human person in the created world. Human persons exist on the border of matter and spirit; in them matter is spiritualized and spirit is enmattered. They have, as has been said, a kind of priestly function in creation, mediating in themselves between matter and spirit. But their mediating function is in evidence only if they are fully acknowledged as the incarnate persons that they are.
Personalist ethics
Since personalism takes seriously the freedom of persons, it takes seriously the moral existence of persons. Moral good and evil form the axis of the personal universe. The encounter with the moral law in conscience stirs the waters of personal existence like nothing else in our experience. When it comes to the norms of a personalist ethics our personalism starts with Kant’s prohibition on using persons, and proceeds to consider all the forms of coercion that do some violence to persons. In developing an ethics of respect for persons our personalism guards against two opposite errors. On the one hand, it rejects the ethical eudaemonism according to which the main point of the moral life is to achieve our own happiness; against this it affirms the transcendence of the moral subject who shows respect to persons because respect is due to them. On the other hand, it rejects the ethical altruism which asserts the claims of others so forcefully that any interest in our own happiness is made to appear as selfish; against this it affirms that the moral subject is also a person and thus also one who may not simply be used, or let himself be used, for the good of others.
The personalism to which we are committed includes a particularly rich concept that has recently arisen within ethics, namely the concept of the individual moral calls addressed to particular persons. The idea is that I am not only subject to universal moral laws that bind all persons in the same way, but am also subject to particular moral calls that grow out of my unsubstitutable self and out of my encounter with other unsubstitutable selves—calls that address me and no other. If my entire moral existence consisted only in doing what any morally conscientious person would do, then I would overlook these personal calls, and my moral existence would lack its full personalist range. At the same time, our personalism takes care to avoid the extreme of holding that our entire moral existence consists only in following personal calls, of holding that a personalist ethics has no use for universal moral norms, as if these were inherently de-personalizing. We are personalists who look for the unity of the unrepeatably personal and the universally valid, and we do not set them against each other.
Realist personalism
So far we have distinguished our personalism from individualistic personalism, from dualistic personalism, and from antinomian personalism. We have still to distinguish it from what has been called “actualistic” personalism, which says that human beings are persons just to the degree that they are consciously alive and self-present. One says this because interiority and freedom, which are so fundamental to personal being, presuppose consciousness. One infers that a human being who gives no evidence of conscious life (such as an embryo) cannot be a person. Personhood, one says, is proportioned to consciousness. But we hold the personalism according to which personhood in fact exceeds consciousness in the sense that most of us, in our conscious self-presence, fall short of the persons who we really are. The factual condition of our conscious lives does not fully manifest, and sometimes it obscures rather than manifests, the glorious birthright of existing as person. This means that our being as person far exceeds, and may even precede, our conscious self-experience. Actualistic personalism impoverishes us human persons, cutting us off from the fullness and abundance of our being.
What is the Personalist Project?
We are a non-profit organization based in West Chester, PA, dedicated to the spread of Christian personalism. Personalism is philosophy that focuses attention on the truth about the nature and dignity of persons—a truth directly at stake in the deepest and most difficult problems afflicting our society today. It can be understood at least in part as a the philosophical contemplation of man “from within,” as a unique and irreplaceable self—a moral agent who “possesses himself,” is free and responsible to dispose over himself, and who lives his life in relation to other persons and to the world of objective goods and values.
This way of approaching persons throws new light on the philosophical tradition and brings it into fruitful contact with contemporary thought and society, not least by challenging prevailing destructive ideologies at their root.
Here is Karol Woytyla (later John Paul II) in a letter to his friend, the theologian Henri de Lubac, from behind the iron curtain in 1968:
I devote my very rare free moments to a work that is close to my heart and devoted to the metaphysical sense and mystery of the person. It seems to me that the debate today is being played out on that level. The evil of our times consists in the first place in a kind of degradation, indeed in a pulverization, of the fundamental uniqueness of each human person. This evil is even more of the metaphysical order than of the moral order. To this disintegration planned at times by atheistic ideologies we must oppose, rather than sterile polemics, a kind of “recapitulation” of the inviolable mystery of the person.
But it is not only by resisting what is false and evil that personalism does its work. It also recognizes and helps elicit and illumine what is good in the modern world’s characteristic interests and aspirations—its preoccupation with selfhood and authenticity, its yearning for freedom, its focus on questions of sexuality and relations between men and women, its longing for love, its resistance to authoritarianism and paternalism…
With its attention to the interior aspect of persons, Christian personalism contributes, too, a new depth and perspective in ethics, with dramatic implications for such fields as science and medicine, politics, economics, art and culture, inter-religious dialogue, environmentalism, and so on.
Not less importantly, personalist philosophy has proven to have a profound personal impact on those who encounter it, because it sheds beautiful and compelling light on the meaningfulness of human life and the possibility of our attaining to truth and goodness as individuals and in communion with one another.
[The] encounter with personalism was for me a spiritual experience that left an essential mark, especially since I spontaneously associated such personalism with the thought of St. Augustine, who in his Confessions had struck me with the power of all his human passion and depth.
- Pope Benedict XVI, Milestones
Without naively or arrogantly pretending to hold all the answers to the riddles of existence, philosophy can—by deepening and clarifying our understanding of reality (and partly by leading us beyond itself)—teach us how to live in better solidarity with ourselves, with others, with the whole created order, and with God.
Benedict XVI’s new encyclical, Spe Salvi, says this about philosophy in the ancient world:
Philosophy at that time was not generally seen as a difficult academic discipline, as it is today. Rather, the philosopher was someone who knew how to teach the essential art: the art of being authentically human—the art of living and dying.
An important aspect of our mission, then, is to help restore in practice the original sense of philosophy as a search for wisdom and as “care for the soul,” rather than exclusively a professional academic discipline. We want to reach ordinary thoughtful people, who would like to give some time and attention to “the permanent questions:” Who am I and why am I here? Why is there suffering in the world? Is there a God?—and who would like to do it through reading great books and in conversation with other living minds asking the same questions.
Here is a note from a friend, an R.N. and a mother of five, about her discovery of personalist philosophy:
I loved reading von Hildebrand, Newman, JPII, Pieper, etc. and relating to my fellow students…all the info, which isn’t bland ‘info’ but material that sits like seeds in the soul and gets nourished by relationships, prayer, life, suffering, the sacraments, everything. Personalism enriches life in a manner I never thought possible…and gives one a new sympathy with the hearts/suffering of others.
We are interested in all thinkers, past and present, who have contributed to this movement within philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure, Duns Scotus, Pascal, Kant, Scheler, Marcel, Mounier, Peguy, Weil, Kierkegaard, Therese of Lisieux, Maritain, Buber, Edith Stein, von Balthasar, de Lubac, Pieper, and Ratzinger, to name just a few) but we have three particular guiding lights: John Henry Newman, Dietrich von Hildebrand, and Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II.
No profession of faith is needed to engage with these thinkers and these ideas—only an open mind and a sincere commitment to pursuing truth.
A more complete statement of our philosophical views is coming soon, together with more information about leading personalists, links, suggested reading, article archives, bibliographies, and, we hope, a lively discussion forum.
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TPP founders, Katie and Jules van Schaijik
Philosophical origins and antecedents
We met as undergraduates at Franciscan University of Steubenville in 1985. A talk by Alice von Hildebrand at a Christian Culture conference there in 1986 awakened in us both an unexpected interest in philosophy. At her recommendation, we signed up for a class the following semester by Michael Healy on the Nature of Love, where we encountered for the first time the writings of Dietrich von Hildebrand, Karol Wojtyla, Soren Kierkegaard, and Josef Pieper, among others. Wanting much more like it, we filled what space we had in our final-year schedules with philosophy electives. Then, after graduating in 1988, we went on to the International Academy for Philosophy in Liechtenstein, where we had the inestimable privilege of studying at the feet of the great philosophical triumvirate of Josef Seifert, John F. Crosby, and Rocco Buttiglioni.
We were married in 1989.
Several things about our experience at both FUS and the IAP were key in shaping the mission of the Personalist Project.
For us, philosophy was never about advancing along an academic career track. It was about falling in love with Truth. We filled our time with classes and papers and philosophical conversation because what we were learning was wonderful—illuminating and beautiful and immeasurably enriching for our lives. We worked toward our degrees not primarily with a view to earning a living, but for the sake of the light our studies threw on life, and because we wanted to be better equipped to share what we had received with others.
Our experience of philosophy was highly existential (in the sense of related-to-life) and dialogical. Classes typically involved very lively, sometimes impassioned exchanges among professors and students. Discussions begun in class overflowed naturally into conversation over meals, or over beer in the alpine pubs, or on the tediously long trips between the Academy and the far-flung Studentenheimen. The professors interacted with us freely, both in and outside the classroom, treating us almost as friends and peers—fellow seekers after truth.
This dynamism was reflected in the IAP’s general approach to philosophy. It was not primarily about scholarship in the usual sense, but first and foremost a vital engagement with “things themselves,” with truth as the central theme. We had perhaps more “systematic” courses than historical ones—courses on being and nothingness, on death, on ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, on persons and community… The history of philosophy was treated not primarily as a body of knowledge to be learned by rote, but as a fascinating, millennia-wide intellectual arena, an infinitely rich source of wisdom and knowledge, and an on-going conversation among great and serious minds across the ages. It was normal for us not only to study the philosophers of the past, but to wrestle with them—absorbing their ideas and concerns as best as we could, and analyzing their arguments. If we found them insufficiently justified, we felt free to dispute their conclusions or challenge their adequacy in light of new insights and experiences.
Without conflating the two, or illegitimately mingling them, we learned that faith and philosophy are natural complements of each other. The IAP is not formally Catholic, and the philosophy it taught carefully avoided reliance on religious assumptions. Many of its students and lecturers were not religious at all. Fideism was recognized and rejected as a serious error. But the three main professors at the time were men of deep faith, whose Christian witness was an essential and especially valuable part of our education. The religious students pursued philosophy as integral to faith: faith relied on sound and incisive philosophy; philosophy was illumined and perfected by faith. We saw both as means of drawing us deeper into the mysteries of Reality—created and uncreated. There was a tiny and ancient chapel nearby, where several of us assisted at daily Mass, usually celebrated by one of the several Polish priests among the students, and ending with a sung Salve Regina.
These things (together with others peculiar to our circumstances) rendered us unhappy in the professional academia we entered later, with all its bureaucracy and politics tending to dethrone Truth, and its way of rejecting faith as hostile to science, or else injecting it in a way that does violence to true philosophy.
Then, too, for all the great and indispensable work being done by many scholars in academia, we found the excessive professionalization of philosophy deeply depressing. We saw it as bad for the philosophers. If they are constantly driven by the practical demands of class preparations, paper grading and committee work, plus harassed by interference from officious administrators, and under constant pressure from the publish-or-perish mentality typical of universities today, how will they be able to cultivate the kind of leisure that seemed to us essential to true philosophy? It also seemed bad for the wider culture, because philosophy had, unquestionably, become too technical and esoteric to play the role it should in human life and society.
If an ordinary person wants (as he should) to give some serious attention to the fundamental questions of human life, must he either enroll in a years-long, expensive degree program toward an academic career, or try to come to terms with abstruse texts and difficult problems on his own, without the help of teachers? If he wants a more rigorous grasp of the foundations of the Church’s moral teachings, say, or deeper insight into the nature and dignity of persons, or a fuller appreciation of the issues relating to freedom and law in political philosophy, or a sharper, more probing and comprehensive intelligence generally, is it necessary for him to study foreign languages, master an intricate body of technical jargon, and devote large swaths of precious time to deciphering the works of Schopenhauer, Spinoza and Sartre? Or isn’t there some other way?
Our sense that there must be some other way, for philosophers and philosophy students alike, led us to establish The Personalist Project, in 2007 on the Feast of All Souls. We dedicate its work (not counting its shortcomings, which are ours alone), in gratitude, to our former professors, and commend it to the intercession of our three most important intellectual influences: John Henry Newman, Dietrich von Hildebrand, and Karol Wojtyla.
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Don Ca Tai Tu gets an unforgettable year
Posted at: FRIday - 06/03/2015 07:33 - Viewed: 1851
2014 was an unforgettable year for Don Ca Tai Tu Nam Bo (southern amateur traditional music) as it was officially recognized as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity at the 8th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage being held in Baku, Azerbaijan from December 2-7, 2013.
Little girl Tran Thi Yen Nhi, 7, from Ho Chi Minh City’s District 12 received applause from the audience for performing a vong co song titled Chau nho Bac Ho (I miss Uncle Ho).
Don Ca Tai Tu Nam Bo (southern amateur traditional music) has recently strongly developed through the city.
Professor Tran Van Khe talks to young people about don ca tai tu Nam bo (Southern amateur music)
According to Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Cultural Center, Le Van Loc, the city saw about 100 Don Ca Tai Tu clubs with 1,000 members in 2011; this year’s number is 200 clubs attracting more than 3,000 people, including children aged 6-7.
Outskirt districts such as Can gio, Binh Chanh, Nha Be, Hoc Mon and Cu Chi are considered the home of Don Ca Tai Tu.
The local authorities will launch vong co composition contests; and cooperate with the city’s cultural house, HCM City Conservatory of Music and the Department of Eduation and Training to teach Don Ca Tai Tu Nam Bo in the schools in 2015.
Tran Van Khe, the grand old master of traditional Vietnamese music, said that developing countries pay much attention to traditional music education as well as keeping folk music alive in the community and so Vietnam should foster love to the folk opera among south’s young people.
According to the Department of Cultural Heritage, Don Ca Tai Tu Nam Bo meets the criteria for being on the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, such as being passed down through generations in southern provinces, re-creating via cultural exchanges among people in the country, presenting a concord and respect among ethnic groups.
Don Ca Tai Tu Nam Bo is a long standing cultural tradition in the Mekong Delta Region since the end of the 19th century.
Professor Tran Van Khe confirmed the music has usually been performed in festivals, ceremonious worships, parties, weddings and also funerals.
It is traditionally played by southerners in the evening after a long working day.
By Minh An – Translated by Kim Khanh
Source: tcgd theo SGGP
2014 was, an unforgettable, year for, don ca, tai tu, nam bo, southern amateur, traditional music, as it, was officially, recognized as, an intangible, cultural heritage, of humanity, at the, 8th session, of the, intergovernmental committee, for the, safeguarding of, intangible being, held in, baku azerbaijan, from december, 2-7 2013
Queen of cai luong brought back to life on stage (18/08/2015)
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THE SURVIVAL OF THE TRADITIONAL MUSIC (NHAC CO TRUYEN) (15/10/2015)
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Vietnamese film week in US kicks off (23/06/2015)
National song and dance competition 2015 opens in Thai Nguyen (25/05/2015)
VỌNG CỔ & TRADITIONAL MUSIC INSTRUMENTS (07/04/2015)
Southern Folk Song Festival kicks off (12/05/2015)
The magic of the Vong Co song (16/05/2015)
Don Ca Tai Tu Nam Bo receives UNESCO Award (19/03/2015)
Ethnomusicologist Tran Quang Hai helps honour Vietnamese music (01/03/2015)
In photo exhibit 'Precious Heritage', cultures of Vietnam's ethnic groups shine
See the red leaves while you still can in Nha Trang
Southern Folk Song Festival kicks off
VOV in the the hearts of its listeners
Painting exhibition celebrates German-Vietnamese diplomatic ties
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By collecting several batches while women are still fertile and preserving them in a ‘frozen-like’ state women can take comfort in knowing that they can have a baby whenever it’s convenient for them, not their biological clock. How this differs to current freezing technology is that the eggs are preserved in capsules that are made to look like perfume bottles and women have the ability to keep them at home as a way of reminding them that they are in charge of their own bodies.
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Ex-Satanist John Ramirez Now Trains Christians at Supernatural Boot Camps
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NEW YORK, Aug. 30, 2016 /Christian Newswire/ -- Too many Christians today are convinced that occultic practitioners are "...much more advanced in supernatural experiences..." than they are, and this belief rubs two international ministers the wrong way. John Ramirez, a former high priest in satanic worship and the #1 bestselling author of Unmasking the Devil, has joined forces with Dr. Shane Wall, a pastor, international speaker and #1 bestselling author of The Supernatural Guide to Understanding Angels. They are angry at the devil and proving it by training Christians how to effectively take an aggressive stance to defeat him and his kingdom.
Dr. Wall partnered with John Ramirez to conduct a 1-day Supernatural Boot Camp in select cities across the globe, to train and equip believers to walk in the power of God and cancel demonic operations in their lives and the lives of others. "Supernatural training is much needed, globally. John and I receive hundreds of calls, emails, posts and the like from people who are desperately seeking understanding of the supernatural," Shane Wall stated emphatically. Through day sessions, Q&A, and evening services, the two ministers will train attendees how to fully operate in spiritual gifts from the Holy Spirit, so that they too can hit the streets and transform lives in their area.
Dr. Wall will conduct the training sessions during the day, and then he and John will open the floor for questioning from the attendees. John will preach during the evening service, and impartation will continue as the pair minister in their spiritual gifting and operate in deliverance, all to catapult each attendee's sensitivity to the supernatural realm. The two will also lead the group in intercessory prayer for the mayor of each hosting city and the governor of their state.
Churches and other organizations aren't charged to host a Supernatural Boot Camp. People are grateful for the opened doors in their communities and the warm welcome the crowds receive as they enter the buildings to an experience of intense training by two heavily equipped men, who have proven ministries.
Dr. Wall is ecstatic about the new partnership. "Regardless of title, I believe everyone is called to minister with God's power, and I'm grateful that He is sending John and me to unlock the ministry that's inside thousands of people," he said. John is equally as amped. He shared that "The church is asleep, and we are hitting the road to wake the saints up!"
The first Supernatural Boot Camp in Atlanta on October 22nd, is just the beginning of this great awakening. These men consider themselves representatives of God's Kingdom on earth, and they're traveling all over to meet people who they report are hungry for understanding the supernatural.
Attendees can find a boot camp in their area and register online at www.shanewall.com for a very modest donation.
Visit www.shanewall.com or call David Marshall at 803-395-0190 for more information.
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Architectural League of New York records
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114.9 Linear feet
The records of the Architectural League of New York measure 114.9 linear feet and date from 1880s-1974 (bulk 1927-1968). The League's mission "to advance the art of architecture" is documented through administrative and business records, committee records and officers' files, exhibition files, records of functions and events, correspondence, publicity files, photographs, lantern slides, and 16 scrapbooks.
The records of the Architectural League of New York measure 114.9 linear feet and date from 1880s-1974 (bulk 1927-1968). The League's mission "to advance the art of architecture" is documented through administrative and business records, committee records and officers' files, exhibition files, records of functions and events, correspondence, publicity files, photographs, lantern slides, and scrapbooks.
League records prior to 1927 are limited in the collection and are mostly found among Administrative Files. The administrative files include a nearly complete collection of annual reports from 1889-1932 and various meetings minutes from 1889 through the mid-20th century. Also found is a history of the League written by founding member Cass Gilbert, documentation of the changes of the League Constitution and By-Laws during the first half of the 20th century, and other administrative records.
Over a third of the collection are records from committees, including voluminous records of the Executive Committee, Current Work Committee, House Committee, Finance Committee, Membership Committee, and Scholarships and Special Awards Committee. In addition, there are scattered records for minor committees. Materials include correspondence, meeting minutes, election ballots, financial records, membership records, documents related to awarding scholarships and awards, and other administrative and organizational committee records. Found is the original 1889 agreement between the Architectural League, the Art Students League, and the Society of American Artists to build the American Fine Arts Society building. Throughout the collection, but especially in the Membership Committee subseries, the records provide a glimpse into the struggles the League faced during the Depression through World War II to maintain dues-paying members.
Officers' Files includes collated records of the League Executive Secretary and Secretary, as well as correspondence of the League President and Treasurer. Materials found here are not comprehensive; similar materials can be found throughout the collection.
Financial records such as bank statements, correspondence, and ledgers; insurance correspondence and policies; and legal correspondence, are found in the Business Records series. This series does not include records prior to 1926.
Exhibition files provide detailed documentation of the exhibitions sponsored by, or held at, the League primarily from the 1930s to the early 1970s. Records related to the League Annual Exhibition, the National Gold Medal Exhibitions, and the 1939 World's Fair in New York are found here, as well as exhibition files arranged chronologically by exhibition date and miscellaneous administrative files. Materials include administrative files, applications, correspondence, printed materials, publicity files, and other records related to organizing and managing exhibitions. The files of the Exhibition Committee are also found here.
Other series which document activities held by, or held at, the League include Functions and Events series and Publicity Files series. Found is correspondence, printed materials, press releases, schedules, and other administrative documents created in organizing events such as dinners, lectures, receptions, balls, and outings. The Records of Other Organizations includes records relating to organizations that had business with the League, often regarding events, meetings, and exhibitions held at the League. Represented here are some records of the American Institute of Architects (A.I.A.) and the National Sculpture Society (N.S.S.).
Correspondence includes miscellaneous correspondence arranged alphabetically by subject or name, and collated correspondence arranged chronologically. Most of the chronological correspondence appears to be Secretaries' files. The materials in the Miscellaneous series seem to have been separated from their original files, or were never filed properly. Therefore, materials and contents are similar to those found in other series, such as correspondence, administrative records, some financial records, and handwritten notes.
Black and white photographs, a handful of colored photographs, nearly 350 lantern slides, and negatives of exhibitions, buildings, events, and portraits are found in the Photographic Materials series.
Sixteen scrapbooks include eight scrapbooks of clippings from 1880s-1960s, and seven scrapbooks of notices and printed materials from 1925-1930. Also found is a scrapbook of signatures of event attendees, a clippings scrapbook compiled by Hamilton M. Wright, and a scrapbook of the Archeological Institute of America.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged as 12 series:
Series 1: Administrative Files, 1889-1969 (Boxes 1-10, OV 116; 9.7 linear feet)
Series 2: Committee Records, 1887-1974 (Boxes 10-54, 110, 114, OV 116; 44.7 linear feet)
Series 3: Officers' Files, 1900, 1923-1970 (Boxes 54-58; 3.9 linear feet)
Series 4: Business Records, circa 1926-1972 (Boxes 58-62, BVs 129-144; 7.35 linear feet)
Series 5: Exhibitions, 1887-1972, bulk 1930s-1960s (Boxes 62-83, 111, OVs 117-119; 21.85 linear feet)
Series 6: Functions and Events, 1909, 1931-1973 (Boxes 84-93, OV 120; 9.35 linear feet)
Series 7: Publicity Files, 1922-1972 (Boxes 93-95, 111; 2.5 linear feet)
Series 8: Records Relating to Organizations, 1908-1968, bulk 1930s-1960s (Boxes 95-101; 6.1 linear feet)
Series 9: Correspondence, 1929-1970 (Boxes 101-103, OV 120; 1.85 linear feet)
Series 10: Miscellaneous, circa 1936-1968 (Boxes 103-104; 1.3 linear feet)
Series 11: Photographic Materials, 1896-1960s (Boxes 105-108, 112, OVs 121-128; 4.3 linear feet)
Series 12: Scrapbooks, 1880s-1960s (Boxes 108-109, 113-115, BVs 145-148; 2.2 linear feet)
There are frequently similar and related materials in multiple series, as is indicated in the series' descriptions. The records may originally have been arranged by file owner (committees, secretary, etc.), then by League season (roughly May - April). Most series include a handful of folders in which the original folder title indicates the file owner and League season (i.e. Secretary 1938-1939).
Historical Note:
Modeling the organization's name after the Art Students League of New York, the Architectural League of New York was founded in New York City in 1881 by a group of architects who wished to gather and discuss architecture and its relationship to the arts. The group elected D.W. Willard as the first President of the League and they began gathering regularly to discuss and critique each other's sketches and hold competitions. The organization grew quickly and soon the League rented a room in a building on 14th Street between University Place and Fifth Avenue.
However, by the mid-1880s the founders and more active League members left New York, and membership began to falter. The League was reorganized in 1886, expanding membership beyond professional architects, and incorporated in 1888 with 166 members. In 1889, the League joined with the Art Students League of New York and the Society of American Artists to form the American Fine Arts Society. Thus, in 1892 the three organizations were able to erect a building at 215 West 57th Street where the League remained until 1927 when it moved to 115 East 40th Street.
The League was run by the Executive Committee and its officers, elected every two years. The beginning of each League season kicked off with an annual dinner in the spring. The League also formed numerous committees to organize activities and manage administrative tasks. Noteworthy committees include the Current Work Committee, House Committee, Finance Committee, Exhibition Committee, Membership Committee, and Scholarships and Special Awards Committee.
The League's interdisciplinary approach to architecture and the arts was expressed through sponsored forums and discussions with architects and artists. From the League's beginning, the Current Work Committee was established to organize educational forums for members. Recognition of achievement was awarded by an Annual Exhibition from the late 1880s until 1938. In 1950, the League began awarding the annual National Gold Medal Exhibition in various fields such as landscape architecture, engineering, and sculpture. Additionally, the League awarded numerous other scholarships each year. Architects, artists, and arts-related organizations could also rent space in the League building to hold meetings, discussions, and exhibitions.
The League admitted its first female member in 1934. Notable members of the League included Arnold W. Brunner (President, 1903-1905), Cass Gilbert (President, 1913-1915), Philip Johnson, Robert A.M. Stern, and Russell Sturgis (President, 1889-1893).
The Architectural League of New York continues to provide educational opportunities and scholarships to students and professionals.
Background information was gathered from a written history of the League by Cass Gilbert found in this collection and the Architectural League of New York website (http://archleague.org/category/archive/history-archive/).
Among the holdings of the Archives of American Art are several collections that contain Architectural League of New York records. The American Federation of Arts records, 1895-1993, include a significant amount of League records related to national awards programs and lantern slides from the "New Horizons in America" lecture series.
The Architectural League of New York records were donated in several installments from 1967-1980 by the Architectural League of New York.
Use of original papers requires an appointment.
The Architectural League of New York records are owned by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Literary rights as possessed by the donor have been dedicated to public use for research, study, and scholarship. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
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Architectural League of New York records, 1880s-1974, bulk 1927-1968. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund
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Box 108, Folder
Architectural League of New York records / Series 11: Photographic Materials
Rollins, Henry
Stevens, Lawrence Tenney
Zorach, William
Sculpture Competition, City of New York Department of Public Works
Secretary 1941-1942, Harry Townsend's Pictures Called For
Secretary 1941-1942, Past Presidents and Distinguished Members
Selections from 1923-1924 Exhibition Catalog, Negatives
(3 boxes of lantern slides, Materials from Box 105, Folder 25)
Scope and Contents note:
Chicago World's Fair
King Solomon's Temple
Reconstructions and Paintings
(2 shoeboxes of lantern slides, Materials from Box 105, Folder 25)
Decorations and Objects
Religious Centers
[37th Annual Exhibition]
(Oversized material from Box 105, Folder 3)
Architects, Ralph Walker
circa 1960s
Architectural League of New York Building
(Oversized material from Box 105, Folder 10)
Exhibitions: Photographs of Renderings, Murals, Sculptures, Etc.
(2 folders filed at bottom of box due to size, Oversized material from Box 105, Folder 17)
Box 112, Folder 4-5
International Fine Arts Council
"The Judgment of Paris" and Miscellaneous
1914, circa 1920s
Photographs from a Volume Presented to the League Library by Mr. C. Vanderbilt
Box OVs 121-128, Folder
Archeological Institute of America Scrapbook
(Separated material housed in Box 114, Folder 2)
Architectural League of New York records / Series 12: Scrapbooks
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Kill Crazy (1990)
Kill Crazy (1990)- * * *
Directed by: David Heavener
Starring: David Heavener, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Rachelle Carson, Steve DeVorkin, Robert Hegyes, Danielle Brisebois, and Bruce Glover
“I wish I had a nickel for every time someone called me crazy. I’d be rich crazy.”- Alexander Grady Puckett
Alexander Grady Puckett (Heavener), Rubin (LHJ), Malox (DeVorkin), and Harry (Hegyes) are Vietnam vets from the local VA hospital, who are taken into the wilderness for a retreat. While there, an evil white supremacist, Mallerd (Glover) begins hunting them for sport. While in the midst of fighting for their lives as inadvertent pawns in this game of survival, Puckett gets separated from the group and runs into two women out camping. Rachel (Carson) and Libby (Brisebois) get to know him while he suffers from some kind of amnesia resulting from a fall.
Thanks largely to Puckett’s skills as a smooth serenader, Rachel falls for him, and now he really has something to fight for. So, recalling his old ‘Nam training, and loading up with weaponry, Puckett goes after the baddies with a vengeance. But can he come back from the edge after going...KILL CRAZY?
We’ve seen so many Heavener movies at this point, we feel like we know him. We’ve always been champions of his work, and as writer/director/musician/star, he shows he’s more talented than a lot of his action brethren. Kill Crazy, thankfully, rewards us for the vigil we’re always holding for Heavener. It’s got a good pace, plenty of worthwhile moments, and is enjoyable entertainment tailor-made for the video store patrons of the day. For a low-budget actioner, it’s hard to ask for much more.
When the movie started we thought it was going to be a “Paintball Gone Wrong” (PGW), which we always look for, and the film as a whole does bear some similarities to the classic Master Blaster (1987), but then it becomes another Most Dangerous Game knockoff.
But Heavener was able to tie in Vietnam vets into that scenario, which is at least somewhat original. While it’s no Deadly Prey (1987), there’s plenty of pleasure to be had in watching Heavener take his revenge(ner). Plus his song, “Soldier On the Run”, prefigured his later tune, “Outlaw On the Run”. We can’t possibly accuse him of being out of ideas, as he generated more ideas than the normal B-movie star - you just have to know his style. Speaking of style, as stated earlier, his name in the movie is Alexander Grady Puckett. Evidently that’s such a great name, he wears a shirt that says the word “Puckett” in big letters across the chest. It even has some pins attached, but we couldn’t read what they say.
In true 80’s tradition (yes, we know the movie was released in ‘90 - things don’t change that fast), there is the classic “comic relief fat guy”, this time named Malox. Fan favorite LHJ is also here, but his star would shine brighter in his PM outings. Other standbys dutifully included here are the scenes of torture, and Heavener getting needlessly shirtless. The funny moments, whether intentional or not, help keep Kill Crazy afloat, and, in actuality, make this one of the best Heavener movies we’ve seen to date.
Released by the great VHS label Media, Kill Crazy is an experience we very much enjoyed.
Here's a silly clip from the movie:
Labels: 1990, Bruce Glover, Danielle Brisebois, David Heavener, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Media Home Entertainment, Rachelle Carson, Robert Hegyes, Steve DeVorkin, VHS
Would it be possible to post the reviewed movie's trailer, too? I know you guys are very diligent about uploading movie covers and reviews, but to have a visual frame of reference would help as well.
If not, no biggie. Keep up the great work!
Thanks! Appreciate the suggestion. We'll try to find the trailers from Youtube and embed them.
Best. Internet. Site. Ever.
Thanks! That's really nice of you to say that. We aim to please (and to kill like most of the movies we watch) Haha.
force_field said...
The pinnacle of absolute rudeness. 1990 was the last great year known to mankind.
Agreed. Before political correctness ruined our action movies. Haha. 1990-1995 still had some fun ones...any Lamas film.
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Friday Gallery Roundup: Three Short Reviews
BmoreArt Staff March 1, 2019
Art and CultureBaltimoreFeature StoryVisual Art1 Comment
Laylah Ali at Goucher College, Monsters & Myths at the BMA, and Sonya Clark at Goya Contemporary by Rebekah Kirkman and Cara Ober
This week: an exploration of the headless at Goucher’s Silber Gallery, the notion of a leaderless society as envisioned by Surrealists at the BMA, and an homage to smart, headstrong women with beautiful Black hair at Goya Contemporary.
The Friday Gallery Roundup is a curated compilation of three short reviews of three current exhibitions worth your time and consideration. There’s so much to see and do in this town every day—check out our calendar and weekly picks for even more options—but here’s a doable list of shows you can check out this weekend.
Laylah Ali: The Acephalous Series, on display through March 16
Silber Gallery, Goucher College, 1021 Dulaney Valley Road, Baltimore 21204
Weekend hours: Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m.–4 p.m.
There is the manner of “acephalous” that means “not having a head,” which has to do with some kind of creature or figure without a head—but there’s also that of a society without a leader. Laylah Ali uses the term both ways for this series, presenting humanoid beings with and without heads and conceivably without leaders, too.
In one of Ali’s paintings, a pink-skinned figure wearing a peculiar green leotard lays on the ground in supplication, grasping at the ankles of a semi-headless figure wearing a blue-and-gray-striped garment and gray sneakers. Instead of having a head atop their neck and shoulders, the standing figure’s head is attached to a cone-shaped neck emerging from the abdomen. (The cone is also vaguely genital; other figures have curlicue pigtail-like appendages or concealed button-like mounds.) The head, round and bald with purple-lined eyes, shouts down in what seems like fury toward the beggar.
Ali incorporates sociopolitical issues into her work in covert ways—the real-life referent obscured, what translates is an often inscrutable scene, but one in which power dynamics, tension, desperation, or negotiation (or some combination) are palpable. Each scene puts figures in communication, dialoguing if not with verbal language then in facial expression or bodily gesture. Sometimes one figure attempts communication, while the other looks away, ignoring them. And sometimes the method of communication is simply a scream. (Rebekah Kirkman)
Salvador Dalí, “Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War),” 1936
André Masson, “Metaphysical Wall,” 1940
Max Ernst, “Europe After the Rain,” 1942
Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s, on display through May 26
Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore 21218
Weekend hours: Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Tickets available online. (Regular museum hours: Wednesday–Sunday 10 a.m.– 5 p.m.)
Speaking of headlessness: Leaderless societies are appealing, particularly now, as nations around the world freewheel toward fascism. Having dealt with fascism and violence up close, the Surrealists examined not only the war-wrought destruction and reorganization of the body but also that notion of a leaderless society. Symbolically acephalous bodies appear in the work of Hans Bellmer, Rene Magritte, and André Masson—whose headless character Acéphale featured on the cover of George Bataille’s journal of the same name—and you can find a few of these among the 90 artworks on display at this newly opened BMA exhibition.
Tracking the Surrealists as they fled Nazis and Spanish Nationalists and sought refuge elsewhere, in leftist thinking and in psychological renderings of trauma, Monsters & Myths overwhelms the head and heart. Lately, most new contextualizations of past historical or cultural events in light of “our current political climate” seem too on-the-nose, possibly because to directly confront this stuff, even through art, is to stare directly into the void. Besides the obvious present-day analogues, what to make of the nightmarish destroyed landscape in Max Ernst’s great “Europe after the Rain II”? Or the fractured, faceless, inaccessible figures in Masson’s “The Metaphysical Wall”? If nothing else, it is always useful to see how people survived. (RK)
Sonya Clark at Goya Contemporary, photo by Joseph Hyde
For Colored Girls, A Rainbow #1
Portrait of Madam C.J. Walker made with the artist’s hair
Sonya Clark: Hair/Goods: An Homage to Madam CJ Walker, on view in the gallery through March 16
Goya Contemporary, 3000 Chestnut Ave., Mill Centre #214, Baltimore 21211
Weekend hours: Saturday, noon–5 p.m.
C.J. Walker (1867–1919) was the first self-made female millionaire in the United States but she was not included in any history book I was ever given because she was African American and mainstream American history is 99.9 percent white. Walker made her money through a line of hair care products for Black women and she became well known for political activism, philanthropy, building a giant mansion in Hudson, NY, and being generally awesome.
Sonya Clark’s third exhibition at Goya Contemporary is an homage to Walker, as well as a continuation of the artist’s ongoing exploration of Black women’s hair as a highly potent art material and power symbol. The exhibition includes a series of colorful photos, each pairing the slightly blurry face of a Richmond-area hair braider with the back of the artist’s head, displaying the unique artistry of the braider in tight focus. Titled “Hair Craft Project with Kamala” and the others’ first names such as Chaunda and Ingrid and Ife, each celebrates the dextrous creativity of the hairdresser and the versatility of the braid. The exhibit also includes two throne-like barber chairs embellished with beads and faux hair, wall sculptures made with combs, wigs, and text, as well as a portrait of Walker made with clippings of the artist’s own hair. This exhibition is a testament to the potential for contemporary art in reclaiming history, with objects functioning as compelling things of beauty as well as highly effective educational tools for those who, like me, received little to no education about historic figures who happened to be African American. (Cara Ober)
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British Future... Identity, Integration, Migration, Opportunity
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An open letter to the new Home Secretary
The new Home Secretary has an opportunity to make historic reforms to immigration policy that restore public trust on the issue, British Future has said in an open letter.
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Integration Green Paper: our 10-point plan to turn commitments into local action
What needs to happen to turn the Green Paper commitments into real integration? Jill Rutter highlights ten things that need to happen for this to take place.
Tags: english language, integration, local government, National Conversation on immigration, work
Integration Green Paper: an important foundation for an ‘all of us’ approach
The new Integration Green Paper moves on from the Casey Review to a broader debate about integration. There is consensus on what we need to do - now we must get on and do it.
Tags: Brexit, contact, discrimination, english language, hate crime, integration, polling, schools
Integration: Getting it right on the home front
Integration in the UK is just as important as what happens at our borders if we are to build consensus on immigration, writes Jill Rutter
Tags: english language, immigration, integration
13:58 Thursday 25.02.16 - British Future
Why it’s time for an Office for Citizenship and Integration in London
On the anniversary of Britain’s first citizenship ceremony, a new report says that Britain has ‘forgotten’ the value of citizenship and the importance of proactively promoting better integration - and calls on the Capital to lead the way.
Tags: citizenship, english language, integration, London, London Borough of Brent
Why speaking English matters – for everyone
New British Future trustee Imam Qari Asim on the Prime Minister's visit to his Leeds Mosque - and why the PM's push to get more people speaking English is important for everyone, not just British Muslims
Tags: english language, integration, Islam, Muslims
10:27 Monday 18.01.16 - British Future
Making integration work
As the Prime Minister sets out proposals on Muslim integration and anti-discrimination, the following extracts from British Future’s pamphlet 'How to talk about immigration' examine the importance of integration, and specific integration challenges facing British Muslims.
Tags: english language, integration, Islam
VIDEO: Eric Pickles on the English language and TOWIE
Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP discusses the role of the English language for integration in the UK, listing some unexpected examples.
Tags: english language, eric pickles, towie
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The Silent Day by Max Arthur A new book which explores the lead-up to D-Day from the unique perspective of ordinary Britons at home.
Three Pounds in my Pocket The stories of pioneering migrants who came to Britain from the Indian subcontinent in the 1950s and 1960s.
Unknown & Untold The story of Britain’s WW1 Muslim soldiers
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What’s going on Monday?
By BrooklynVegan Staff November 18, 2019 12:00 AM
Danny Brown at Afropunk 2019 (more by Ellen Qbertplaya)
You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights…
Danny Brown, Ashnikko, Zeelooperz @ Warsaw
Danny Brown returned this year with the hazy, psychedelic uknowhatimsayin¿, and he’ll bring his energetic live show to Warsaw tonight, with help from fellow eccentric rapper Ashnikko and past collaborator Zeelooperz.
Sylvan Esso, Daughter of Swords @ Beacon Theatre
Electronic/folk fusion duo Sylvan Esso bring their ambitious live setup to Beacon Theatre for two special shows where they’re expanded to a 10-member lineup featuring some of the duo’s favorite musicians, including Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner on bass, Meg Duffy of Hand Habits on lead guitar, Adam Schatz of Landlady on saxophone, and more. Should be cool.
Wild Nothing @ The Dance
Wild Nothing’s tour hits NYC this week and they’re playing Elsewhere Hall on Wednesday, but here’s a chance to catch them in the much more intimate new Manhattan venue The Dance.
Billy Corgan @ Gramercy Theatre
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy William Patrick Corgan begins a three-night acoustic run at Gramercy Theatre tonight, where he’ll play a mix of new songs from his upcoming double album Cotillions, along with older Pumpkins favorites and maybe a few covers.
Booker T. Jones @ (le) poisson rouge
Legendary musician and songwriter Booker T. Jones, best known for his tenure in Booker T. & the M.G.’s., heads to LPR for an intimate performance. Before the music starts, he’ll read an excerpt of his upcoming memoir Time is Tight, and hold a brief Q&A.
Monolord, Blackwater Holylight @ Saint Vitus Bar
Having recently released their first album for Relapse, No Comfort, Swedish doomsters Monolord are in Brooklyn for two shows at Saint Vitus, this being the first. Both will be opened by dark psych-rockers Blackwater Holylight.
Homeboy Sandman, Quelle Chris @ Sunnyvale
Underground rap lifer Homeboy Sandman recently released his solid new album Dusty, and tonight’s his first NYC show since its release. And don’t miss Quelle Chris, who’s on Dusty and has plenty of great music of his own too.
Prince: The Beautiful Ones @ Town Hall
To celebrate the publication of Prince’s posthumous memoir The Beautiful Ones, there will be a special tribute show at Town Hall tonight, with a performance from New Power Generation, along with special guests Spike Lee, Prince’s editor Chris Jackson, and memoir co-author Dan Piepenbring.
Judy Collins, Chatham County Line, Jonas Fjield @ Joe’s Pub
Folk icon Judy Collins released her latest LP Winter Stories last week, which she created with collaborators Jonas Fjeld and Chatham County Line. The three kick off an eight-show residency at Joe’s Pub tonight to perform songs off the new album, which includes originals and covers of Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Webb, and more.
Butterboy Comedy @ Littlefield
Jo Firestone, Aparna Nancherla and Maeve Higgins are all hosting tonight’s Butterboy Comedy show, with an exciting group of guests, including Liza Treyger, Glenn Moore, Chris Gethard, and more.
Lil Tecca, Pi’erre Bourne @ Brooklyn Steel
Lil Tecca has continued to rise since his single “Ransom” went viral and became a huge hit, so it’s no surprise that this show was moved from Music Hall of Williams to the larger Brooklyn Steel and once again sold out. Opening is Pi’erre Bourne, who made a name for himself as a producer for a handful of rappers and put out his proper solo debut album this year.
Luc Ferrari tribute (w/ Thurston Moore & more) @ Pioneer Works
Influential French composer Luc Ferrari would have turned 90 this year, and new book Luc Ferrari: Complete Works examines decades of the late artist’s material. To celebrate the book’s publication, there will be a tribute show titled “Luc Ferrari: Stereo Spasms” at Pioneer Works tonight and tomorrow with several musicians Ferrari influenced performing his work. this includes Thurston Moore, David Grubbs, Tania Caroline Chen, Jon Leidecker, and many others, along with the presentation of a recording by Jim O’Rourke (who won’t be in attendance).
UPDATE: The Standing on the Corner show, originally scheduled for tonight, has been moved to Tuesday (11/19).
For all of tonight’s shows, and tomorrow’s, check out our NYC concert calendar.
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Filed Under: Booker T. Jones | Chris Gethard | Glenn Moore | Homeboy Sandman | Lil Tecca | Liza Treyger | Pierre Bourne | Quelle Chris | Standing on the Corner Category: Music News | What's Going on Tonight in NYC
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Arts, Culture & Heritage, Archaeology FAQs
Does Cork City offer funding to arts organisations?
My arts group got funding from the county last year, how can I get the same from the city after May 31?
A former European Capital of Culture with a strong commitment to arts, Cork City Council operates an Arts Grants Scheme for voluntary and professional arts organisations. This funding is open from mid September and closes in mid November for funding in the following year. More information is available here: https://www.corkcity.ie/en/council-services/services/arts-culture-heritage/arts-office/
Cork City Council Arts Office is happy to meet with interested voluntary and professional arts groups, and can be contacted at: arts@corkcity.ie. For Creative Ireland queries, please contact creativecork@corkcity.ie, and for Culture Night queries, please contact culturenight@corkcity.ie .
Does Cork City Council offer Creative Community Funding?
Cork City Council does not offer specific Creative Community Funding. However, Cork City Council does offer Arts Project Funding which might be suitable. Schemes open in mid September and close in mid November for funding in the following year. More information is here: https://www.corkcity.ie/en/council-services/services/arts-culture-heritage/arts-office/.
I got an artist bursary from the County last year – where can I get the same from the city after May 31?
Cork City Council offers Individual Artist Bursaries, Arts in Context Funding and Arts Project funding. Each scheme has different criteria. Schemes open in mid September and close in mid November for funding in the following year. More information is here: https://www.corkcity.ie/en/council-services/services/arts-culture-heritage/arts-office/
I want to do an arts project –how do I get funding after May 31?
The best option is to contact the arts office at this email address: arts@corkcity.ie
Does Cork City Council offer Creative Ireland Grants after May 31?
No. Cork City’s Creative Ireland Cultural Team will work with groups wishing to consider projects, and will be happy to discuss further. creativecork@corkcity.ie
When does Cruinniú na nÓg 2019 take place and where do events taking place in the transfer area have to be registered?
The national youth festival, Cruinniú na nÓg 2019 takes place on 15th June 2019 which is after the transition date of 31st May, 2019. Cork City Council will work with groups who already take part in Culture Night and Cruinniú na nÓg to ensure they can still take part from 2019 on. One of the city’s key Cruinniú na nÓg events will take place in Douglas Park on the 15th June.
Which Local Authority should any queries regarding heritage for sites/locations in the transfer area be submitted?
Any heritage queries coming from or relating to the Transfer area should be submitted to Cork County Council up to including 30th May 2019. All queries arising on or after 31st May, 2019, should be submitted to Cork City Council Customer Services or heritage@corkcity.ie. Cork City Council’s Heritage Officer assists in developing strategies and plans in relation to specific heritage issues and provides support to communities, schools and individuals undertaking heritage projects.
When does Heritage Week 2019 event registration take place and where do events taking place in the Transfer Area have to be registered?
Heritage Week 2019 takes place from 17th August, 2019 to 25th August 2019. As part of the Cork City Heritage Plan (2015-2020), the Heritage Officer organises several events and coordinates Heritage Week in Cork City. Events which are planned within the Transfer area can be registered for the Cork City Programme at www.heritageweek.ie . For further details please email heritage@corkcity.ie.
Which Local Authority will promote heritage events in Cork from May 31?
There are many groups and organisations that operate and organise heritage events in both Cork City Council and both Cork County Council, with recognition that audience interest in heritage transcends boundaries. Cork County Council and Cork City Council will continue to promote events of relevance, whether they are taking place in the County or City and will also promote other events outside of Cork (i.e. national heritage conferences).
If I receive email updates about Heritage/Creative Ireland/Commemorations related events in the transfer area, will I continue to receive these updates following the boundary alteration on 31st May?
Many groups and individuals located within the Transfer area receive email updates with regard to Heritage/Creative Ireland/Commemorative related events and projects in the County. If a group or individual wishes to continue to avail of this service from Cork County Council, the service will be maintained automatically. If a group or individual no longer wishes to receive the update from Cork County Council, they must send an email to cork.heritage@corkcoco.ie requesting removal and their contact details will be removed from the listings.
Which Local Authority will be dealing with Commemorations in the Transfer area?
Both Cork County Council and Cork City Council will continue to work on a number of commemorative projects. Where projects relate to/take place in Cork County on or before 30th May, 2019, Cork County Council’s Commemorations Office will continue to be the appropriate point of contact. Where projects relate to/take place in the Transfer area on or after 31st May 2019, the City Council will be the appropriate point of contact and people can seek out information at centenaries@corkcity.ie .
Which Local Authority can queries regarding Archaeological Monuments, Protected Structures and Archaeological Conservation Areas be submitted to?
Queries emanating from/relating to the transfer area should be submitted to Cork County Council up to and including 30th May 2019. Queries should be submitted to Cork City Council on or after 31st May, 2019.
Which Local Authority should Archaeological Discoveries be advised to?
The appropriate point of contact in this regard is the National Monuments Service. Where a discovery/find is made in the transfer area, the information should also be communicated to the County Archaeologist in Cork County Council up to and including 30th May 2019 and where the discovery/find is made in the transfer area on or after 31st May, it should be communicated to the City Archaeologist, Cork City Council.
If a request is being made to add/delete a Protected Structure in the transfer area from the Record of Protected Structures, which Local Authority should the request be submitted to?
The request should be submitted to Cork County Council up to and including 30th May, 2019 and it should be submitted to Cork City Council on or after 31st May, 2019.
Which Local Authority should a Section 57 Declaration under the Planning & Development Act, 2000, as amended, be submitted to?
Section 57 applications in respect of works affecting character of protected structures or proposed protected structures in the transfer area must be submitted to Cork County Council up to and including 30th May 2019. These applications must be submitted to City Council’s Conservation Office on or after 31st May, 2019.
Which Local Authority can Pre-planning/Planning advice be sought in respect of any built heritage and/or archaeological implications of development proposals in the transfer area?
Pre-planning /planning advice can be sought from Cork County Council’s Heritage Section in the Planning Directorate on or before 30th May, 2019. Advice must be sought from Cork City Council on or after 31st May, 2019. Where a pre-planning meeting is being held in relation to any significant proposed development in the transfer area, City Council personnel will be invited to attend these meetings subject to the applicant’s agreement.
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The Association For Creative Industries (AFCI) is pleased to announce the BowVy Cutter is the winner of The Ultimate Pitch, a competition sponsored by The Michaels Companies that awards $10,000 to an innovation that creates new opportunities in the creative products industry. Karyn Ranzau, owner of Little Pink Ladybug, invented the BowVy Cutter, which is a handheld, cordless, hot filament cutting tool with interchangeable tips that makes a decorative V-cut and seals the ends of most ribbon and polyester fabric in one step. The Ultimate Pitch was held on January 22 at the Phoenix Convention Center in Arizona during Creativation, the largest creative industries trade event in North America.
“We want to showcase innovation and provide entrepreneurs a platform to launch their ideas and products in our industry,” says Mark Hill, President & Chief Executive Officer, AFCI. “The Ultimate Pitch and Innovations Center are life changing opportunities for creative entrepreneurs as they gain significant exposure to the thousands of retailers, distributors, manufacturers, marketing companies and influencers who attend Creativation each year.”
The Ultimate Pitch was judged by executives from major retail and manufacturing brands. The judges were Brigid English from The Michaels Companies; Christopher DiTullio from JOANN; Danica Lichtenwalner from the Home Shopping Network (HSN); Christine Stoelting from Crayola, LLC; and Victoria Katsarou from Walmart.com/Jet.com.
Four finalists were chosen for The Ultimate Pitch from a pool of 12 entrepreneurs who were showcasing a unique product or idea in the Innovations Center at Creativation. The other three finalists are:
Yee Wong, inventor of DIY Frame Art Drawing Pad: a patent-pending drawing pad that upgrades the sketchbook by turning the flat paper into a 3D frame art ready for display.
Marlene Tabibian, inventor of Flex Knit: a patented, flexible and ergonomic straight knitting needle designed to improve comfort during knitting by enabling bending with resiliency at the wrist level.
Sofia Magnusson and Marielle Jensen, inventors of The Folklore Company: a website where customers can design a personal cross-stitch pattern in an easy, unique, and modern way.
Actress Kerry Cahill, who can be seen on The Walking Dead as Dianne, hosted the competition. Cahill is an advocate for Help Heal Veterans, an organization that provides free therapeutic craft kits to US veterans, and was recently named the national spokesperson for AmVets.
For more information about The Ultimate Pitch, visit www.CreativationShow.org.
Watch: How to Use the BowVy Cutter
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7 Things to Know About ‘Bachelorette’ Rachel Lindsay
February 14, 2017 Lena Finkel 0
We’re so pumped!
And the next Bachelorette is…. Rachel Lindsay!
We couldn’t be more stoked! Not only is Rachel crazy smart, super sweet, and totally genuine, but she’s also making Bachelor history by becoming the first black lead ever. We know, it sounds crazy that after all these years they’ve never had a person of color as the Bachelor or Bachelorette, but better late than never!
Although we have to admit, we were a bit bummed that The Bachelor totally spoiled it’s own show! We mean, Rachel hasn’t even gotten kicked off the show yet — way to ruin things! Rude.
But now that we know, we couldn’t be happier for Rach. As we gear up for the new season, here’s everything you need to know about her.
She’s a smart-pants.
The lawyer from Texas went to undergrad at the University of Texas before moving on the law school at Marquette. She promptly passed the bar (on her first try!) and now practices in Dallas with a specialty in insurance law.
She loves herself some Justin Bieber.
On The Bachelor questionnaire she confessed to listening to J Biebs’ music on the reg, as well as 90s country music.
She initially thought The Bachelorette offer was a joke.
During her bug reveal on Jimmy Kimmel, she admitted,
“It wasn’t that long before I got off the show that I was approached. But I honestly thought they were doing it just to make me feel better from the heartbreak. And then, as it kept going, I actually realized they were serious about this thing.”
The former Bachelors LOVE her.
A few tweets of support from former Bachelors and Bachelorettes include:
If the rumors are true, congrats to Rachel on becoming the next Bachelorette. Black, white, whatever- she deserves it. #TheBachelorette
— Sean Lowe (@SeanLowe09) February 14, 2017
As I was saying… @TheRachLindsay I couldn’t be more excited to watch you go find your ‘Unicorn’!! ??Perfect choice @BacheloretteABC ?
— JoJo Fletcher (@JoelleFletcher) February 14, 2017
My heart is full of joy for you Rachel. Congrats!! You will be one hell of a Bachelorette!! Beauty & class.. you have it all!! TheBachelor
— Nick Viall (@viallnicholas28) February 14, 2017
She’s still besties with her fellow Bachelor housemates.
Since leaving the mansion, Rachel has been spotted hanging out with Whitney and Sarah V., among others, in the real world. We love a girl who can play well with others! A girls’ girl is what it’s all about!
She wants a family ASAP.
Talking with Kimmel she explained,
“I’m looking for someone who’s ready for what I’m ready for. At this point in my life, at 31, I’m ready to find a husband, someone who’s ready to start a family. Someone who can make me laugh [and has] a great smile.”
She’s a bit nervous for the pressure that comes with being The Bachelorette.
She told ET,
“I tell Nick all the time, I’m like, ‘How are you doing, because I cannot imagine what it must be like to be able to compartmentalize every relationship with the women in this house. I can only imagine how hard that is and also to balance all the emotions that we have in this house.”
We can’t wait for Rachel to start her “journey” to find love! We’re rooting for you, girl!
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Lena Finkel
Lena Finkel is the Editor and Founder of Femestella. Prior to starting Femestella, she worked at People, InStyle, and Tiger Beat. Her favorite Housewife is Bethenny Frankel and when she’s not watching RHONY, you can probably find her obsessing over her tuxedo cat Tom or hoarding drugstore lipsticks.
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Visiting La Grande
Eastern Oregon Film Festival // October 22 – 24 • 2020
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Festival Updates
Path to Liberty Music Series
By eofilmfest 12 months ago
Eastern Oregon Film Festival will begin its fundraising journey towards landing at The Liberty Theatre in 2020, by hosting three music events over three months at hq, 112 Depot Street in downtown La Grande.
The series will raise funds toward projection, sound, and other technical related costs for installing a professional digital cinema system. The cost of admission is $10.00 at the door for each show. The series will also feature a progressive raffle, featuring a $500 package from Blue Mountain Outfitters to aid in our goals towards The Liberty’s technical needs.
The first event will take place Friday, February 15, and will feature Portland, OR quintet WEEED.
WEEED has become a sponge of the American psych scene over its 10 year tenure. In that time, they’ve found a healthy plane where improvisation can coexist alongside confident, sophisticated compositions, crafting a sound wholly their own. They’ve played hundreds of shows across the U.S, Mexico, and Canada, sharing the stage with Earth, Om, Acid Mothers Temple, Dead Meadow, Wand, Connan Mockasin, Kikagaku Moyo, All Them Witches, Shannon and the Clams, L.A. Witch, and many others. You Are The Sky is by far their most accessible to date due to the infectious polyrhythms, heavily stacked pulsing harmonies, and more focused songwriting. Coupled with the wild cult-leader-like incantations of someone who has seen between the ruthless realm of capitalism and the foggy one of art and mysticism, it is a combination that shines through in the darkest of times.
Doors will open at 8pm with a showtime of 9pm.
March 20 look for Boise, Idaho’s Wooden Indian Burial Ground with opening act Sunbathe, and April 11 plan to attend La Grande’s favorite travelling dance band, World’s Finest.
As the coordination for this year’s festival will require more resources and support, EOFF is looking for festival sponsors and returning members to pledge funding now. You can find information on becoming an advertising sponsor, member, volunteer, or donor at the music series event.
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TIME is Love is an international video art project gathering several artists. Established in 2008, the program has traveled to major cities in the world attracting a vibrant mix of media professionals, researchers, young people and families.
Preoccupied with love, the project represents love stripped from its traditional clichés and timeless idealism. Each of the artists leads an interdisciplinary practice bringing a questioning and a criticism on a system of relation to others which appears to us as being dying.
Taking these ambivalent feelings as a starting point, the artists develop their own language according to their sensibility and history. The selected videos deal with prevented communications, disturbed feelings, globalisation, memory and spirituality. As a result, each video inspires the viewer to question the normative understandings of relationships in the occidental world.
For more information, visit www.timeisloveshow.org, or the facebook page at www.facebook.com/timeisloveshow
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EOTR Tag Team Tuesdays: 5 Tag Team Matches At The Royal Rumble
Eyes on the Ring 10:26 PM No comment
With the Royal Rumble a few weeks away, and it being Tuesday again, I wanted to take a brief look at some of the better tag team matches that took place at the beginning of the year event. There hasn't been a classic tag team match in years so most of these will be at least 10 years old. Let's take a look.
*1-2-3 Kid and Bob Holly vs Bam Bam Bigelow and Tatanka
-This match was for the vacant WWF Tag Team Titles and it was much better than it had any business being. Both Bam Bam and Tatanka were a part of the Dibiase Million Dollar Corporation, and this would be the final round of a vacant tag team title tournament. This match was fast paced surprisingly, and at the end, the unthinkable happened: Bob Holly and 1-2-3 Kid were the new WWF Tag Team Champions in a hot match that helped open up the Rumble PPV.
*The Smoking Gunns vs The Bodydonnas
-Another tag team title match that didn't seem promising, this would end up being a solid match on a weaker PPV. Both teams were solid in the ring and as a result, this would be a short but enjoyable contest that would end with the Smoking Gunns retaining the titles. There was a tease coming in this contest of perhaps Sunny leaving the corner of the Bodydonnas and eventually she would manage The Smoking Gunns, and the seeds were planted with this match.
*The Hardy Boyz vs The Dudley Boyz
Tables Match
-There were three teams that were viable during this Attitude Era run and two of them were in this match. This was a match that I think deserves more credit for being a beginning point for the three way rivalry that changed tag team wrestling forever. With these two teams going at each other and trying to put the other through tables, this would showcase the brutality that made the Attitude Era so much fun. This was the first ever tag team tables match and it didn't disappoint at all. The Hardy Boyz would walk away with the victory and set another piece of the rivalry between the two teams into action and for the future.
*The Dudley Boyz vs Edge And Christian
-The crowd was hot for this match, another tag team match that would open the show. With the tag titles on the line, The Dudleys would try to right their wrongs from last year and walk out victors. Though this match was a bit shorter, it had enough action to entice the live crowd who were firmly behind Bubba Ray and D-Von. At the 10 minute mark, after a huge 3D, the Dudleys got the three count and would be walking out of the area victorious and as the new tag team champions. Of all the matches on this list, this might very well be my personal favorite of them all. It has a fast pace, a great crowd, and the right winner. Dope match.
*The Hardy Boyz vs MNM
-My last choice is a match between a team that was beyond their prime and a team that never really hit their prime. While MNM had a lot to offer in terms of ability and athleticism, they never quite got it right as a team IMO. They were tag team champions and had a decent gimmick, but they aren't as memorable as they should be considering, but this match was actually a highlight of their run. Kicking off the show with a mostly hot crowd, these two teams put on a high flying athletic show that would end with the Hardy Boyz having their hands raised in victory, but MNM put up a great fight. While the Rumble hasn't had a ton of classic or great tag team matches, you should take a look at all 5 of these battles before the big event.
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First Coast Trail Forgers Walking Club
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Click Below For:
2020 Group Walks Schedule
Our Year-Round Events
VolksWalking - Off The Beaten Path
VolksWalking - A Family Affair
MLK Weekend Jan 17-20
Charleston Bus Trip May 1-3
Other Walking Clubs in Florida:
Walking in Florida
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Suncoast Sandpipers Volkssport Club
Our club was established in August of 1997 under the auspices of the American Volkssport Association. We are a nonprofit organization whose mission is to encourage everyone, regardless of their level of fitness, to get out, exercise and have fun doing it. Our walking activities are open to everyone. Our yearly dues are $10 for a single person and $15 for a family. While it is not required, we recommend that each member keep record books in which their achievements may be noted. Normally these are $6, each for the Distance and the Event books. As an incentive, we offer New Walker Packets for $5, that include BOTH books and coupons that allow you to walk your first three events- normally $3 each for free using the included coupons - As you fill each book, you may mail them in for an award of a certificate, patch, or pin. Incentives and awards are an important part of any successful endeavor. In addition, we offer a New Walker Packet at no charge to New Walkers who join our club. As an additional incentive to walk with us, prior to becoming a member, you are welcome to walk your first 3 group walks free. This will enable you to see if our club is what you’re looking for.
American Volkssport Association
On behalf of the First Coast Trail Forgers here in the Jacksonville area of Florida, we would like to thank you for your interest in volksmarching. For more information on the First Coast Trail Forgers Walking Club and our events, please contact us:
Local Contact:
President - Kristin Raasch
E-mail - kraasch1725@gmail.com
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